Let's get this show on the road then, eh? This one is a bit of an odd one, as it's a bit of a rewrite of an earlier crossover idea called (Not) Used to the Darkness. That idea wasn't really good, and it was something that I had made in a bit of a rush, so here's a proper idea for you all!
Into the Light
(Inspired by Destiny and Class (2016))
When Izuku first uses One for All, the quirk that he had been given, gifted, by All Might, when he first uses it to smash the Zero Pointer machine to pieces, he is assaulted by visions of pyramids and spheres, of life and death, and of a garden cloaked in red flowers and darkness. When he talks to All Might after the Entrance Exam into U.A., he asks him about the visions, but to his surprise, his mentor is just as confused as Izuku is, as he never experienced any kinds of visions as well.
And so, for now, the two of them decide to put it off for now to focus on getting Izuku through U.A. and getting him used to One for All. The next time he uses it, during Aizawa's quirk assessment, Izuku receives no visions, and One for All acts the way that it usually does in canon, even during the Battle Trials later against Bakugo and Iida.
However, after the Battle Trials, Izuku ends up being approached by one Reiko Yanagi from Class 1-B, who has taken a strange interest in the boy.
A few days later, Izuku and the rest of Class 1-A arrive at the USJ and are confronted by Shigaraki and the League of Villains, as per the usual.
However, this time, the Nomu that the League brings with them has been modified, altered to carry a black triangular obelisk on its back, leaking unholy golden energy and black tree roots wherever it went. Shigaraki and Kurogiri refer to it as their Locus of Oppression.
And their minions, the villain thugs, are carrying smaller triangular shards as well, empowering them with a dark power that they call Stasis.
The League of Villains attack, and the students are forced on the run as Kurogiri scatters them across the USJ. This time, despite their supposed advantages against the early rendition of the League, the students are beaten back by the League's empowered thugs, themselves continuously being overpowered by the icy Stasis powers that the villains now possess.
The only reason that they are not killed is because the black shards that those same villains possess seem to be corruptive and are prompting the villains to continuously battle each other to try and take more of the shards for themselves.
Soon enough, the students begin to take advantage of these divisions and fight back against the League and can use their infighting to disarm them. Izuku finds himself being untrusting of the black shards that the villains are using, and most of the students find themselves staying away from the shards as well.
However, Momo finds herself fascinated by the strange technology that they are wielding, and a whisper in her mind prompts her to take one of the shards and pocket it, promising herself to investigate it and then hand it back later.
But she isn't the only one that is dealing with whispers. Several of the students, and even the teachers, begin to hear whispers from the black obelisk on the Locus of Oppression's back, and many of the students who are more thrilled by fighting than others, particularly Bakugo and Kirishima, or have some sort of lingering anger and resentment in themselves, such as Todoroki, find themselves to be more receptive to those whispers. Even Aizawa is being affected by those whispers, as they acknowledge him and his viewpoints, and encourage him to be stricter and push harder on those views, and to make sure that only the strongest in his class can prevail.
Plus ultra, after all.
But on the other side of the USJ, Ochako has begun to hear her own whispers as she finds a shard of bone, one coloured a greyish blue and with white spikes running across it, buried in the dirt, and something within her convinces her to take it and keep it for herself.
But soon enough, All Might arrives to battle against the Nomu, and using his blinding power, he is able to defeat the Locus of Oppression, clearing the USJ of its whispers and forcing the remaining members of the League to retreat.
Back at their home base, Shigaraki is furious and drags the only USJ thug to escape with him and Kurogiri over to a black statue underneath the bar, a giant statue in the shape of a veiled woman, and kills him, using the fresh death to bring a connection to the mysterious benefactor that has helped to not only strengthen the League, but also bring All for One back to full strength. Shigaraki is furious at their benefactor, demanding to know why his minions lost and why the black pieces of technology that they had been given weren't enough to defeat not just All Might, but a bunch of children as well. The voice, shrouded in darkness, tells them that if they had been defeated, they deserved it. All that had been proven was that the heroes were too powerful for him, and that now he needed to learn from his mistakes and become more powerful in turn.
Shigaraki asks for more of the black devices, but the Voice in the Darkness simply tells him no. Those first devices were a gift, nothing more. Now, Shigaraki had to prove that he deserves their assistance. The next time he comes to find power, he can no longer wait for himself to be given it. He must prove his worth. He must take it.
The voice fades away with the ashes of the corpse that it was used to communicate with, and All for One advises Shigaraki to bide his time and build up his strength once more. There will be time for him to strike again soon. Shigaraki is reluctant to do this, still filled with rage, but is forced to capitulate and go to rest...
And meanwhile, All for One communes with the Voice in the Darkness as well, where it is made clear who that All for One is the servant, and the Voice in the Darkness is the master. All for One resents this, but the Voice in the Darkness is aware of this and does not care. In fact, it encourages All for One to try and usurp it, as it would prove that All for One is stronger than not just Shigaraki, but also the Voice itself, and therefore would prove the Sword Logic true. The Voice in the Darkness leaves All for One by himself, and All for One continues to plot and scheme, eager to take his place as the strongest being Earth, and soon enough, beyond Earth as well, as one of the Darkness' greatest Disciples.
But elsewhere, other forces are afoot, as the leaders of the Meta Liberation Army begin to experience haunting nightmares and red phantoms, and strange little worms begin to appear across Deika City. Strange little worms that whisper into the ears of the people of the Meta Liberation Army and promise power and thrones beyond their understanding...
Meanwhile, a girl known as Ibara Shoizaki tends to her garden, listening to the gentle whispers of a woman in her dreams, and then calls Reiko, telling her that this world's winnowers are coming to reap of their garden.
Later, Izuku continues to train with All Might, but finds that One for All is reacting strangely with him. Where once there was green electricity covering him when he used his quirk, now that electricity was a striking blue, accompanied by flickers of sparks and flame and violet pulls in the air like gravity. Whatever is happening with One for All, it has been acting up since the USJ, having seemingly reacted to those strange black shards that the villains had brought with them. All Might himself is confused by all of this, as all of this never happened during all forty years of his time with One for All. As such, he decides that it is time to speak with Gran Torino about this and get him onto training Izuku as well.
But that will have to wait, as the Sports Festival is to begin, and Class 1-A is sent right into the fight as they battle against their fellows in Class 1-B and the other courses. However, during the first event, the obstacle course, Class 1-A is picked off by each other and everyone else due to being more simplistic and aggressive in fighting and competing to get to first place, leaving only their strongest members left in the competition. By comparison, Class 1-B end up outnumbering Class 1-A in the second round due to cooperating with each other and helping pull off complex maneuvers and plans to claim victory.
By the time of the second round, that being a new part of the tournament that plays out like a raid encounter in Destiny, in that the remaining contestants are paired into teams of four and placed within one of the industrial training grounds of U.A.'s campus, and given objectives similar to that of raid mechanics, in that they must collect a specific amount of dummies in the place of civilians and deposit them into a bunker, as well as complete certain objectives such as collecting fake money stolen from a bank and so on, all the while being hounded by villain pointer robots that serves as enemies to clear out, as well as larger robot mini-bosses and a central robot that serves as the encounter boss. All of this must be completed within a time limit, and if the time limit is reached and none of the objectives are reached, then the entire team is disqualified, labelling a party wipe.
For this activity, Izuku is placed in a four-man team with Reiko Yanagi, Ochako Uraraka, and Fumikage Tokoyami (and Dark Shadow), and they get to work on completing the objective. In fact, it is Reiko herself who takes command of the group, assigning them all roles based on their strengths, with Reiko herself in charge of moving the civilians, Ochako in charge of handling the second objectives, Tokoyami (and Dark Shadow) to deal with clearing out the mobs of enemies that are harassing them, and Izuku to take out the mini-bosses. Soon enough, they all complete their objectives, and team up to take down the main boss of the event, which they do in just the nick of time.
Their team ends up passing the second event alongside four other teams, one composed of Bakugo, Yaoyorozu, Kirishima, and Todoroki, who came out first. Just after them is the team made up of Kodai, Ibara, Kendo, and Tetsutetsu, followed by the third team, made up of Shinso, Ojiro, Hatsume, and Kamakiri. Izuku's team ended up in fourth, rounding out the competition.
However, suddenly, Ojiro and Kamakiri end up dropping out of the tournament due to not remembering what happened during the round and not feeling that they deserved to pass, and as such their places are automatically given to Komori and Monoma, leading them to pass on to the next phase of the competition.
Soon enough, the next phase of the tournament begins, where this time it is structured more like the Crucible or the Trials of Osiris. Instead of each match being a 1V1, this time they will be working in teams of four for the first rounds and will be placed in two matches against each other. Once one team is taken out from each match, the two winning teams will be placed against each other. Once a winning team emerges from that match, the winning team will be split up once more into four individual members, and then will be placed into two individual matches. The final match will be decided from the winner of those two matches, which will then decide the winner of the Sports Festival.
However, because Iida was unable to enter the third round, Tensei ends up leaving Hosu to go to the stadium to cheer up his little brother, sparing him from meeting and being crippled by Stain.
Meanwhile, the first match begins between Izuku, Ochako, Reiko, and Tokoyami, and the opposing team Shinso, Hatsume, Monoma, and Komori. However, before their battle, the team is warned about Shinso's quirk by Ojiro and Ashido, and as such go into the fight aware of Shinso's power.
However, even that forewarning isn't enough, as Shinso gets the chance to use his quirk on Izuku-
When suddenly they are both assaulted with visions. Izuku of black pyramids and rotting gardens, of simple life living short, simple lives, of seas of screams, of cutting blades, and a figure in black. Shinso of spheres and lush meadows, of endless life living in endless complexity, of a Black Garden filled with Light and Life, of the insides of a sphere that smells like vanilla, and of a woman in white.
And in both their visions, they stand at the foot of a tree of silver wings.
And then, the visions begin to speak to them.
The figure in black speaks to Izuku. Speaks to him of swords and blades and the simplicity they bring. Speaks to him until his ears bleed. Speaks to him until his mind is overwhelmed by the desires of the strong to cut away the world until only the perfect, final shape remains.
The woman in white speaks to Shinso directly. Speaks of him and the power of his words and wisdom. Shows him visions of a forgotten past, an uncertain future, and the hope that maybe, just maybe, their little lights could prevail against the encroaching darkness.
Then, the visions ended, and both Izuku and Shinso were rocked back, just as the rest of Izuku's team finished mopping up the rest of Shinso's team and were declared the winners.
And so, as Bakugo's team battles against Ibara's team during the second round, Izuku is sat down with the rest of his team, them asking him what happened when he was under the effects of Shinso's quirk, and why it had such an effect on both himself and Shinso. Izuku himself is unsure but decides not to bring up the vision that he saw, believing it to be something to do with One for All.
(During all of this, it should be noted that Dark Shadow, who is a girl in this story, speaks in metaphors and poetic language, and says some things that imply that she may know more than she's letting on. Reiko is quick to notice this.)
Soon enough, Bakugo's team wins the second round handedly, using brutal tactics to incapacitate and cut down Ibara's team. When the dust clears and the field is repaired, Bakugo's team takes to the field again, and Izuku's team follows shortly behind.
The two teams go up against each other, giving it their all...
And Bakugo's team won.
His, and the rest of his team's, brutal and simplistic tactics overwhelm Izuku and his team and any plans that they lay for themselves, and they lose. Hard.
(This is kind of my response to all the fanfics where Izuku wins the Sports Festival. There are so many of them out in the wild now that it's become cliche, and this is just my way of saying that he doesn't need to win the Sports Festival to have character growth and development, or just to show off how awesome he is or whatever.)
Izuku leaves the field in a stretcher, dejected, feeling terrible about losing the Sports Festival, especially having lost to Bakugo and being affirmed by the bomber boy of his supposed place underneath him. His teammates are quick to assure him that his failure is no fault of his own, as is All Might later, but Izuku doesn't feel the same. All he feels inside him is a well of pain, and a candlelight of anger at this loss.
Meanwhile, Bakugo's team is split up into their matches, and Bakugo and Todoroki win against Kirishima and Momo respectively. Quickly, Momo and Kirishima are given a match for third place, and Kirishima comes out of that match the victor.
Then Bakugo and Todoroki begin the final match, and because Todoroki hasn't told Izuku about his issues and about why he refuses to use his ice, he loses against Bakugo, who is furious at his opponent for not coming at him with all his strength.
But regardless, Bakugo is declared the winner, with Todoroki coming in second, and Kirishima in third.
However, it isn't as good of a victory as the winners would like. As it turns out, many pro heroes are not approving of their methods in winning the Sports Festival. During the various matches, Bakugo and his teammates, even Momo, hadn't been working well together and using simplistic brute force to win their battles, making them seem battle hungry and reckless.
By contrast, Izuku's team, though they had lost the Sports Festival, had worked well together and showed support for each other during each event, accomplishing objectives and showing great synergy with each other in more complex maneuvers and displays. This ends up impressing the pro hero audience more than Bakugo's team did, and nets them more in the way of offers.
Bakugo's team and their simplistic, devastating methods had granted them victory in the short term, I.E. winning the Sports Festival, but Izuku's team and their more complex tactics, and taking each other into consideration, had netted them the long-term, more sustainable victory.
(In case you couldn't tell, the entire Sports Festival arc is me comparing Sword Logic and Bomb Logic against each other.)
These circumstances only serve to enrage Bakugo, who is furious at this, whilst Momo is saddened and frustrated at her loss and how she had fallen off the wayside so close to achieving victory.
Then, she remembers the black shard that she had pocketed from the USJ and goes to Hatsume to ask for help in trying to understand the strange device and how it had granted the villains their Stasis powers.
Meanwhile, Ochako goes back home and studies the strange spiked greyish-blue bone that she had taken from the USJ as well and begins to hear whispers in her head as she hums an eight-note tune to herself.
And Aizawa, meanwhile, begins to experience dreams. Dreams that affirm his methods of teaching and encourage him to be more affirming about it, to be more brutal. If he really wants to see his students survive the cutting of the blade, then he needs to carve away their weaknesses himself until nothing but strength remains.
Sometime later, the internships begin, and Izuku is sent off to Gran Torino to train with One for All. However, Gran Torino finds himself unsure of how to train Izuku, as One for All is acting differently to how it had done with All Might, leaving him unsure of what to do with him.
Izuku, meanwhile, is dealing with feelings of self-deprecation due to his loss at the Sports Festival and not feeling worthy of One for All. His confusion at the visions that he has experienced thanks to One for All doesn't help in this as well.
Meanwhile, Ochako takes her internship with Mirko, who tries to help her unlock her anger and fighting style and get her to start being a much more aggressive fighter. Ochako, meanwhile, has taken her shard of bone with her, and has begun to draw a strange language into her notebook. A language that is almost infectious...
And elsewhere, Momo finds herself deeply unsatisfied with her internship with Uwabami, and once again considers the black shard that she has on her.
But then, suddenly, the attack on Hosu begins, and because Stain never attacked Tensei, Iida had no incentive to go after him, and as such the Hero Killer can go about murdering other pro heroes with no trouble. However, Shigaraki, who is still pissed at Stain having rejected his offer to join the League of Villains and having attacked him, sends out several Nomu to go and attack Hosu in response, mostly to make the public think that the League and Stain are in lockstep, but also to kill Stain and as many heroes as they can.
Reminder, the League has access to several Nomu right now. Several, not just three. All for One's benefactor, the Voice in the Darkness, had provided them with the means in which to recreate a form of advanced cloning technology, the blueprints of which the Voice claimed to have taken from 'The Leviathan'. Worse yet, all these Nomu have those same black obelisks on their back, which begin to spread strange devices known as Suppressors, which have the stranger property of being able to negate and shut down people's quirks as the Nomu's obelisks began to spread a foul growth called Egregore around the city.
Soon enough, Hosu was covered in growths of Egregore, releasing their dark spores into the air that served to drown the city in more of their cancerous growths. Now with the Egregore linking their minds together, the Nomu suddenly became even more effective as their tasks, killing every hero that they come across and locking down the area, each death serving to strengthen the Egregore further. Worse still, the Egregore began to affect the remaining pro heroes in the area, the spores in the air infecting and expanding their minds and linking them with the Nomu, driving them mad and/or leaving them in a state of near-brain death, turning them into mindless puppets to be directed against other heroes.
Hosu is turned into the equivalent of a patrol zone, with darkness empowered Nomu and corrupted heroes battling against their brothers in arms for control of the city. During this time, Stain would end up teaming up with the heroes that he hates to combat the League of Villains, his publicity and popularity amongst the criminal underworld turning many against the League, much to Shigaraki's frustration.
However, during this time as well, Izuku would end up in Hosu as well, and found that One for All, whilst being muted by the Suppressors, could dispell the Egregore and clear the streets, allowing the heroes a better chance against the Nomu and their corrupted minions. What's more, when he interacted with the Suppressors, Izuku found that he could drain the energy out of them with One for All, rendering them useless and allowing the heroes to use their quirks again.
Meanwhile, Tokoyami would find himself trapped in Hosu as well, and would end up slipping into a portal made by the Nomu's obelisks...
Right into the Ascendant Plane.
Tokoyami would be lost for a long time lost in the Ascendant Plane, jumping over obstacles and trying his best to avoid the strange shadowy beings that always tried to kill him. However, soon enough, he would reach a strange structure in the middle of the grey, otherworldly landscape, guarded by more Nomu, and all of them led by a dark, hulking monster wielding a massive scythe.
A Tormentor.
Through the visions and portals around the inhuman creature, thanks to a strange power that Dark Shadow refers to as his Deepsight, Tokoyami realises that the Tormentor is the one coordinating the attack on Hosu and attacks him, supported by Dark Shadow as he battles against the beast and its Nomu guards.
The Tormentor strikes back by stabbing Tokoyami in the chest, killing him.
Tokoyami dies... but then Dark Shadow gives off a flash of light, and Tokoyami suddenly returns from the dead, confused of what just happened, only to realise what is going on at the moment, put it out of his mind, and then get back to work in taking down the Tormentor and its minions.
The Tormentor puts up a good fight, but Dark Shadow ends up casting a strange set of powers for Tokoyami, beams of electricity from his hands, and lands the finishing blow on the Tormentor, killing it and its Nomu, and crippling the attack on Hosu as Tokoyami flees through the portal and back into Hosu, where the remaining Nomu's attacks have weakened in coordination.
Soon enough, with Tokoyami crippling the Nomu leadership and Izuku draining the Suppressors and purifying the Egregore with One for All, the heroes are able to cleanse Hosu of its invasion and defeat the Nomu, capturing their corrupted brethren and forcing the League of Villains into a retreat once more.
However, all isn't quite as well as the heroes would like. Ochako has been cradling her shard of bone close to her, and it has been whispering to her. It has been talking to her about the flaws of hero society, about how it exploits her, about how it only allows those with the strongest, flashiest quirks to thrive, how not all men are born equal, and that it is commercialised injustice, a commodification of the meaning of the word 'Hero'.
The whispers point out all the flaws in hero society, and Ochako cannot bring herself to think that they are wrong.
Then, the bone whispers secrets to her. Secrets about her friends, secrets about Izuku and One for All and things that not even her friends know about themselves.
And so, she hears the whispers. And she listens.
And then she begins to whisper back.
And then, at the end of her internship, she shows Mirko her notebook, and the viral language inside it makes Mirko just that little bit more agreeable as she whistles an eight-note tune to herself.
Later, Izuku leaves his internship, even more confused about One for All and the powers that it has given him. Even worse is when he talks to All Might about it, All Might is utterly flummoxed, as One for All never did any of this stuff for him before. All it ever did was give him super strength and nothing more. Not even his mentor, Nana Shimura, had this kind of reaction from One for All. These new esoteric abilities that One for All is giving Izuku, and the previous visions that have come with it... this is something beyond All Might's capabilities.
This is confounded even more by Shinso approaching him, telling him that he has been having strange dreams ever since he used his quirk on him, dreams of gardens and gardeners and spheres and so on, like Izuku's own dreams of pyramids and final shapes and figures in black.
However, the two wouldn't have much time to think about the strange events that they have been experiencing, as the end of term exams has begun, and the students are placed against the teachers for their exams.
However, some of these tests have been changed, as the mechanics and objectives of each individual exam have been changed to resemble that of a dungeon from D2. Now, they don't just have to run to the exit to pass. Now, they must complete a random objective during the exam to pass too.
What's more, Aizawa has begun to put more emphasis on the students using all their strength and power to pass. He has become slightly more intense in his tests and lessons, continuously pushing the students to try and get them past their weaknesses and come out of his increasingly ramped up training stronger than ever. The students and teachers put it down to Aizawa being annoyed at how, save for Izuku's team and the most powerful members of 1-A, his class had found themselves pushed out of the Sports Festival by members of Class 1-B and is seeking to bridge the supposed gap between them.
However, none of them hear the increasing whispers in Aizawa's head. Nor the whispers in several other classmates as well.
Soon enough, the exams begin, and Izuku is placed with Bakugo, who abandons him to go fight against All Might, leaving Izuku to complete the objective on his own. Izuku ends up managing to complete the objective, and the rest of the exam plays out much of the same as in canon. However, this time, because he abandoned Izuku to go fight All Might, leaving the green-haired boy to complete the objective on his own, Bakugo ends up failing the exam, angering him even more than before.
Meanwhile, Momo is even more frustrated than before. Todoroki refused to listen to her during their exam (remember, Todoroki hasn't had his talk with Izuku at the Sports Festival, meaning that he still isn't using his fire at all), and her hesitance had cost her the exam as well.
The black shard that she had picked up continues to whisper to her, slowly growing louder and louder.
And elsewhere, Ochako finds a friend in Tsuyu, and hums an eight-note tune to her as she goes to hang out with Izuku once more...
But that will have to wait, as Izuku and Shinso are suddenly approached by Reiko, who invites them to Ibara's home to find the answers they seek.
Meanwhile, All Might meets with Nezu and Naomasa as they discuss the events of Hosu and the USJ, and everything that happened there. All Might is disturbed to learn that all the Nomu were made from different people and quirks, and even more so when it is confirmed that some of them are identical to each other and only seem to be a few days old, as if they were clones of each other. However, what confuses them is the Egregore that the Nomu had been spreading across Hosu, as well as the strange black obelisks that they had been wearing, on top of the quirk-surprising devices that they had been spreading across the city, which seemed to be a similar type of technology to the Stasis shards that the villains at the USJ had been using to empower themselves.
However, what flummoxed the forensics in the police department the most was that all these devices and obelisks had no internal wiring to them. No circuitry, no electrics, no nothing. They just seemed to be useless clumps of solid metal. And yet they had been able to project power onto the world. Like someone had infused them with a quirk.
Or with something supernatural. Or paranormal.
With no other way of chasing up leads, the authorities decide to send the strange obelisks and shards of black technology to I-Island for them to analyse and decipher further. There, David Shield and his daughter Melissa have amassed several black obelisks and Egregore samples which they begin to study and try to deconstruct and even replicate.
However, Sam Abraham soon contacts them, telling them that something had popped up on their radar. Something suddenly appeared right under I-Island. Something that shouldn't exist.
And meanwhile, Hatsume is becoming obsessed with the shard of black technology that she was given, its latent corruption slowly beginning to infect her.
Meanwhile, at the day's end, Izuku and Shinso are led by Reiko to Ibara's house, said girl having collected Tokoyami as well. The three boys are confused as to why they are there and what is going on, with Tokoyami haunted by something that happened to him in Hosu, but Reiko and Ibara are silent for the time being, leading them into Reiko's home...
And into a lush garden, patterned by pictures of spheres and trees and wolves and women in white veils covering the walls.
Izuku, Shinso, and Tokoyami are surprised by the garden and the pictures on the walls, and Reiko and Ibara respond by handing them a book. A book that they've labelled Encounters (a lore book, essentially), which details the long list of events and recounts of people who have encountered strange instances of seemingly supernatural activity, some of them featuring visions and dreams of women in white, of spheres and gardens, and others of figures in black, obsidian pyramids, horrors beyond the comprehension of man, and endless, eternal darkness. Reiko and Ibara refer to them as visions of Light and Darkness respectively.
Ibara and Reiko finally begin to explain themselves, with Ibara stating that a long time ago, something happened. Something in the past, before the Great Disaster. It is revealed that, a thousand years ago, something happened in the past. Something that wiped away all of humanity's previous history and slowly began to bring quirks into the world, an event known as the Great Disaster. No one knows what happened during the Disaster, and no one knows what happened before it. Nothing about humanity's history or culture survived the Disaster. Not any previously existing religions, not any cultures or practices, nothing at all. The slate had pretty much been wiped clean, and mankind was left to pick up the pieces.
Ibara's family has been trying to make sense of the mysteries of the past for all its existence. However, what they considered to be their true mission was the one that visited them in all their dreams, from the first member of her family all the way down to her. A sacred mission, to protect those that were touched by their Goddess of Light, their Gardener, so that on the day that she returns, they can be ready and waiting to combat the Winnower, the Devil of Darkness, that will come chasing after her.
And now, that time is fast approaching. And they, all five of them, are to be the ones to see mankind through into the new world.
Tokoyami doesn't have any patience for it, though. In an uncharacteristic move for him, Tokoyami drops all his fanciful, artistic language, and demands to know what the hell is going on. Because he died, in that other world. He died. He remembered dying, then he remembered waking up and killing that Tormentor with a new power, something other than his quirk.
He died that day.
But Ibara refutes that. Tokoyami didn't die that day. He's already dead. He's been dead for a long time.
Tokoyami died a stillborn. It was his Ghost, Dark Shadow, that brought him back.
Tokoyami doesn't believe it, calling her a liar. But then Dark Shadow appears over his shoulder, dissolving her shadowy form and revealing herself to be a little one-eyed drone.
A Ghost.
Tokoyami is shocked by this, and Reiko approaches him and tells him not to worry. That she died a stillborn too, and summons a Ghost of her own, one named Porter. Turns out that Reiko had been using her strange powers in what she calls the Light, or more specifically what she calls Void, to simulate a quirk, just like Dark Shadow had been using a cloaking mechanism and gravitational shrouds to mimic a quirk for Tokoyami as well.
Tokoyami is shocked by all of this, and Ibara continues. Over the years, her family has prophesised, from their dreams, that one day these strange little Ghosts would return, and with them would come the forces of Light and Darkness. And that with their return would come another disaster, another Collapse, and when that came, they would need to protect their people and survive them, in the name of the Gardener, their goddess, and the Light.
Tokoyami is still in shock, Izuku is confused as to what to think about all this, but Shinso doesn't believe any of it for a second, demanding to be shown proof that anything that they are saying is true. Ibara nods, commenting on things in Shinso's dreams that she never told her or anyone else, freaking him out even more...
And then she summons forth a strange ornate device, something she calls an Awoken Beacon, and summons from it a portal to the Ascendant Realm, beckoning them through and travelling across what she and Reiko call a Ley Line, all the way to a strange realm of gardens and spheres.
Ibara calls it a Throne World. Her Throne World that she called New-Riis. One that her family has made with the use of what she calls Bomb Logic.
And it is a realm populated by four-armed creatures that Ibara and Reiko refer to as the Eliksni, as the House of Light.
Izuku, Shinso, and Tokoyami are amazed by what they see, and shocked by the Eliksni creatures that have made their home in this place, and Ibara and Reiko, as well as an Eliksni female known as Eido, Kell of House of Light, who has no memory of what happened before the Great Disaster, along with all the Eliksni that were hiding out in the Throne World, show them a vast library of photos, accounts, and recordings of information relating to the past, to the dreams of those who have seen the Light, and to even a few surviving records from before the Great Disaster. Turns out that the Encounters book was just the tip of the iceberg.
Shinso, still uncertain of what to make of all this, asks what his place in all this is, and if he is supposed to have a Ghost as well. Reiko chimes in, and says no.
The Speaker has never had a Ghost before.
Shinso is even more confused, and Reiko continues, saying that whilst Ibara's family have been having dreams of the Gardener and the Light for all their lives, they have always dreamed of the one who would be touched by their Goddess, the one whom would be spoken to directly, the one whom could communicate her words to them. And that person, the Gardener's Speaker, matched Shinso's description to a T.
Shinso was to be the Speaker, to be the Gardener's messenger.
And Izuku? Izuku was something else. Something made of pure Light.
Izuku was a conduit for the Light, something empowered by All Might's gift. Izuku is shocked to know that they know about One for All, but they reveal that the reason that One for All is acting differently to him than it did with All Might is because it is reacting to the well of Light that is inside of him. It is effectively enhancing and growing the well of Light inside of him.
Izuku is a well of the Light, a conduit for it to manifest and blossom into the real world. One for All merely serves as a way of amplifying it.
Izuku is surprised by this, thinking that he has had a quirk this whole time. Reiko simply says that the Light isn't a quirk. It is so much more than that, and Ibara speculates that quirks themselves are simply slivers of the Light, aspects of it.
This proves to be too much for Izuku, Shinso, and Tokoyami, and they demand to go back home. Ibara acquiesces without argument, recognising that they have undergone a lot of revelations in the last few hours and that they need some time to process everything. However, in a fit of anger over such a drastic revelation being hidden from him, Tokoyami demands that Dark Shadow leave him, forcing his Ghost to stay behind in New-Riis and leaving him on his own as Izuku and Shinso leave after him.
Later, Izuku is left shaken by Ibara and Reiko's revelations, and he starts going out of his way to avoid both Shinso and Tokoyami as a reaction, as well as Ibara and Reiko themselves, his mind just as consumed by thoughts of what he has been told as the other two boys.
But all that is put to the side as he goes to I-Island, and is greeted by Melissa Shield, who decides to show him around the artificial island. Whilst he is there, he is surprised to find Tokoyami and Shinso there as well, on top of Momo and Ochako from his class too.
Meanwhile, All Might goes to talk to David about what he has found out about the League of Villains' technology and is shocked to hear that David knows next to nothing about it all, same as the forensics back home. However, that is when David leads All Might down to their latest discovery, something that appeared in a massive cavern underneath I-Island that shouldn't have existed at all. Something that suddenly came into existence a few weeks ago, when All Might sent them that strange technology, and something that bears a remarkable resemblance to all that weird tech.
A massive black Pyramid.
And from this Pyramid, David, Sam, and the rest of I-Island's staff and scientific community have been pulling out alien corpse after corpse, all of them bodies of creatures with four arms, some of them removed, and others grown into massive, grotesque forms. Some of them were held in glass/marble cases, others simply strewn across the ground, but all of them were long dead in the haunting architecture. Not only that, but they have begun to bring some of the artifacts from the top to the Pyramid and have found out that they react to each other. David and Sam suspect the artifacts summoned the Pyramid into existence instead of being under I-Island the whole time.
At the same time, a portal opens in the outskirts of I-Island, and a cadre of four-armed creatures stepped out, all with a green glow around them.
They are Fallen. Wrathborn Fallen, led by a deranged, mutated Captain known as Once-Tyriks, Darkness Conduit, and driven by the Voice in the Darkness to take the artifact that they are carrying to the Black Fleet Pyramid ship down below that the I-Island staff had uncovered for them.
Meanwhile, Izuku would continue to tour the artificial island alongside Melissa but would find himself growing ill as the Darkness artifacts stored within I-Island's vaults would continue to interact with the Pyramid down below. Elsewhere, Shinso's visions would begin to get worse, and Tokoyami would wonder about the island on his own, followed in secret by his Ghost, Dark Shadow.
Then, the three boys come across the Wrathborn Fallen, and are attacked by the mad Eliksni. At first, the three boys are confused as to why they are being attacked by these Eliksni, and why some of them, the Captains specifically, are wielding Stasis powers like the villains from the USJ, believing that Ibara and Reiko have betrayed them. However, they notice the green glow around them and their general insanity and realise that something is deeply wrong with them.
As such, the three boys try to fight back against them in any way that they can manage, and Melissa would try to activate the island's security network, only to find that the relics and obelisks that had been sent to them from the mainland was messy with their systems. Even the Pyramid down below seemed to be generating interference.
Soon enough, she is able to activate I-Island's security systems, only to find that they have been subverted by both Pyramid influence and Wrathborn corruption to lock down the island and attack the heroes, taking All Might, David, and several others hostage and attacking and killing anyone who would try to attack them in turn, turning I-Island into a demented hell house.
During the fighting, Tokoyami is killed once again, only for him to be revived by Dark Shadow, who apparently followed her Risen Lightbearer to I-Island to try and reconcile with him. Tokoyami would assume that Ibara and Reiko sent her there after him, but Dark Shadow responds that she followed him on her own. Tokoyami doesn't believe her, but they are forced to put aside their differences for the time being to deal with the Wrathborn Fallen.
Meanwhile, a long Wrathborn Dreg would slip through the chaos of I-Island, Darkness artifact in hand, and would begin his descent into the depths below the artificial island, straight to the sunken Pyramid.
Back up above, the three boys and their allies, including Melissa, Momo, and Ochako, would suffer a long and grueling siege against both the Wrathborn Fallen and haywire security system. However, Melissa would direct them to one part of the island that hadn't yet been compromised.
The experimental weapons storage room, where the scientists at I-Island had been developing new guns to be used in the armed forces and police markets. From hand cannons to shotguns to rocket launchers, I-Island's forges were open to them.
The students, of course, are extremely reluctant to use lethal weaponry, especially on these creatures, but they are forced to accept that the situation truly is that dire and capitulate.
With their new armaments, the group begin to make their way through the mad robots and monstrous Wrathborn, trying their best to take down the Wrathborn non-lethally as they make their way deeper into the island.
On their way down, the group end up moving through the labs within I-Island's underbelly, coming across the various artifacts and pieces of technology recovered from the League of Villains, as well as the rotting and mutated Eliksni corpses that the staff had been collecting from the site underground as well, now with the Egregore samples breaking out of their containers and growing across the entire level. The students are shocked and disgusted at the grotesque sight, and the boys sense a strange sickly darkness coming from the corpses, and it wasn't from the Egregore.
Soon enough, the group make their way to the lead Wrathborn, Once-Tyriks, in I-Island's reactor chamber, and do battle with the maddened Fallen. During this fight, Izuku finds the central servers to I-Island's and uses One for All and his latent connection to the Light to purify the Wrathborn corruption on the servers, whilst Tokoyami brings down Once-Tyriks and Shinso uses his quirk to subdue the creature.
However, this has the knock-on effect of temporarily freeing Tyriks from the Wrathborn influence, and through its pained whimpers, the lucid Eliksni reveals that they had been corrupted there not by their own choice, but by what it refers to as that which cannot be stolen from.
The Voice in the Darkness...
And his and his corrupted crew's presence here was merely a distraction to awaken the dark army below.
Down below, the last Eliksni Wrathborn makes it to the innards of the Pyramid ship and opens the dark artifact that it had brought with it.
It is an urn. A chalice containing Dark Ether.
The corrupted Eliksni then slits its own throat and spills the urn as it dies, corrupting it further and awakening all the Eliksni corpses across I-Island, including the Wrathborn.
Tyriks screams as he dies to the Dark Ether, alongside all the other Wrathborn Fallen, only for them to awaken once more, now as decaying husks, alongside all the other Eliksni corpses across I-Island, now in service to the Darkness.
Now, they were no longer Eliksni. Now, they were Scorn.
The awakened Scorn quickly floods I-Island, taking over the entire artificial city in barely an hour and cutting through any hero, robot, and fighter attempting to stand in their way. Izuku tries to use his Light to purify the Scorn, only to find it unable to work. The Scorn are too far gone. Worse yet, Izuku's powers are beginning to strain him, not helped by One for All's effects on his body. Even Izuku's purifying Light has its limits.
The rest of the group are forced to retreat, even dropping any pretenses of trying to take down their enemies non-lethally on the realisation that the Eliksni that they are fighting are already dead. Yet, for each Scorn that they kill, even more seem to take their place, swarming out of their containment pods in the sunken Pyramid to overrun the island. Not even All Might is enough to stem the rotting tide.
And that is when the Pyramid ship begins to rise to the surface, breaking through the ground and planting itself right in the centre of I-Island, allowing its Scorn occupants easier access into the city.
Soon enough, the evacuations begin, and Izuku and his group, now including Melissa, are put on one of the first ships out. However, that ship is delayed as swarms of Scorn, from Screebs to Lurkers, Raiders to Wraiths, Ravagers to Stalkers, and Chieftains to Abominations, begin to leap from high spaces onto escaping civilian boats and planes and tearing them to pieces, either sinking them to the bottom of the ocean or bringing them crashing down from the air into fireballs, killing every person onboard them.
Once again, Izuku and his group rush into the fray once more to defend the civilians against the Scorn, only to find that task made even more difficult when Scorn champions begin throwing themselves into the mix, alongside modified Pikes and Scorn Walkers. Once again, not even All Might is enough to fend off the tide of rotting and violent flesh.
However, the group, including All Might and Melissa, are able to get onto a ship, a larger ship reminiscent of a Ketch, and begin to take off from the ravaged I-Island with as many civilians as they can. However, their ship is suddenly boarded by a massive Scorn. The formerly Wrathborn Tyriks, now Once-Tyriks, the Unliving Tether.
Tokoyami would be forced to engage the undead Scorn before it tore apart the ship and is finally forced to accept Dark Shadow as both his Ghost and partner, and the Light as his abilities. Soon, with the Light at his side and with the help of Izuku, Shinso, Momo, and Ochako, Tokoyami defeats Once-Tyriks and sends the monstrous Scorn falling to the ground below, allowing their ship to escape.
But they are one of the few ships to successfully escape I-Island as it fell to the Pyramid and the Scorn. David and Samuel's ship is brought down and crashes into I-Island, and it is left ambiguous on whether they survived or not.
But then, the obsidian Pyramid sitting in the centre of I-Island began to activate. Black aura began to leak out from the Pyramid ship and cover the entire island...
And then, suddenly, the Pyramid vanished in the blink of an eye... along with the entirety of I-Island.
The Pyramid ship had just fled, along with I-Island, all the remaining scientists, heroes, and civilians, all the technology that was stored there, and a massive army of undead Scorn.
The Darkness has won this round, and Izuku and the others taste true defeat for the first time.
In the aftermath of I-Island's disappearance, hero society is thrown into a panic. Various hero agencies are put on high alert, villain activity begins to rise, and questions begin to rise about the Scorn, the Pyramid, and the new enemies that they face...
And meanwhile, All for One is angered at being supposedly upstaged by this Pyramid thing and knows that the Voice in the Darkness has something to do with it. When he does eventually get into contact with it, the Voice chides him for thinking that it wasn't going to be moving its own pieces on the chessboard. As it stands, right now All for One and Shigaraki are simply pieces on the board themselves. If they really wanted to be players, then they needed to prove that they have what it takes to be them.
And so, it tells them to prove that they are worthy of discipleship: kill All Might, destroy this world's hope, and it will grant them the gifts that they seek.
Elsewhere, Ibara, Reiko, and their allies in the House of Light are disturbed at this move and realise that with the forces of Light now revealing themselves, the Darkness is making its moves as well. Eido resolves to continue her research into the worlds that came before and try to establish communication with these Awoken people that their records speak of, whilst Ibara and Reiko travel to a part of Japan, hidden to the outside world through a combination of clocking technology, Ascendant Realm trickery, and ancient Awoken magics.
A hidden world known as the Conclave, a hidden city populated by Eliksni and Cabal, and governed by the House of Spider crime syndicate, primarily the Baron Spider and his Cabal enforcers. All of them have no memory of how they arrived in this place or what happened before and during the Great Disaster, just like Eido and the rest of the House of Light. It is revealed that Ibara's family has a long history of working with the people of the Conclave, particularly Spider's lot, in identifying sources of information and people connected to the Light and past, and that it was through Spider's contacts that Ibara was able to identify Reiko as a resurrected Lightbearer.
Ibara demands to know from Spider if he was the one who sent those Wrathborn Fallen to I-Island, and Spider simply responds that he has no desire to consort with the likes of the Wrathborn, and that those Eliksni that attacked I-Island seemed to be of old stock considering how their clothes were rotting off their bodies and their armour was pitted and rusting away, meaning that whoever sent them has a stock of Wrathborn in reserve somewhere, ready to be used. Spider, however, makes it clear that he is interested in acquiring some of those Stasis splinters that both the League of Villains and Wrathborn Fallen were using, so that he can sell them through his contacts at a high price, though Ibara is less than willing to make this happen.
Ibara and Reiko go to leave, but Spider then leaves them with one last note, telling them that the people of the Conclave were beginning to grow restless, and that Spider's enforcers could only keep them in line for so long. Sooner or later, some of them were going to start trying to wander off. Sooner or later, there was going to be an uprising, and at that point, there would be nothing that he could do.
Ibara has long been disgusted by Spider's method of keeping control of the Conclave, but is forced to capitulate to his warning, and tells Spider to get his men and the people of the Conclave ready for the future. With the Darkness finally making its moves, they would need to fight sooner or later.
Elsewhere, Ochako, who is experiencing feelings of trauma and remorse after the events of I-Island and wishing that she could've done more to prevent it, would continue to commune with the shard of bone in her possession, telling it secrets as much as it told her secrets. At the same time, she continues to talk to Tsuyu and learn all she can from her, all the while showing her parents and even the members of their construction company her notebooks with the viral language in them and humming her eight-note song to them.
Then, she gets a call from Mirko, and smiles as the bone whispers spells and runes for her to learn, the feelings of regret beginning to fade as she begins to learn how to make sure never to let what happened on I-Island never happen again.
Meanwhile, Izuku confronts Reiko about what happened on I-Island and about the Eliksni that were there, both the Wrathborn and the Scorn, but Reiko confesses that she doesn't know how they got there either. Izuku isn't sure if he should believe her, still not entirely trusting her, but is forced to put that aside for the time being as the Summer Training Camp begins, and Classes 1-A and 1-B are taken to the Wild Wild Pussycats' forest to continue their training, now with additional security there to protect them in response to I-Island's disappearance.
During this time, it is revealed that Ochako isn't the only one experiencing trauma over what happened in I-Island, as Izuku, Tokoyami, and Momo are all suffering from nightmares thanks to what happened on that day, and they are all unsure of what to do with themselves now. The whispers are getting louder in Momo's head, and Izuku is still suffering from visions and dreams of dark omens for the future to come...
But there is no time to dawdle. The League of Villains are attacking, with a small army of Nomu made once more with their procure cloning technology. Thanks to Stain teaming up with the heroes back in Hosu, the League of Villains were unable to pull the same number of recruits that they gained in canon, so instead, they filled up their ranks with Nomu.
As it stands, the Nomu, and the League of Villains by extension, are establishing themselves as the seventh Destiny enemy faction.
Soon enough, the students succeed in fending off the Nomu, but several of them are once more affected by the psychic influence of the black obelisks that they wear, with Bakugo, Kirishima, and Todoroki becoming much more aggressive than before thanks to being in their proximity, and Aizawa beginning to grow more drawn into his mindset as the Pyramid Spikes that the Nomu leave scattered across the forest grounds, even lasting after Izuku uses the Light to cleanse and destroy the Spikes.
And elsewhere, Momo would suffer a near-death experience at the hands of a Nomu, and from being that close to death, she would unconsciously commune with the whispers in her head, and suddenly learn how to create and use the black shards, the Splinters of Darkness, that controlled Stasis.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, Ochako is using her learned runes and spells to carve a path through the Nomu to Izuku and her friends, even summoning forth a pair of gauntlets and a weapon from a wall of black smoke and green fire.
They are the Weapons of Sorrow. The gauntlets, Necrotic Grip, and the gun, Osteo Striga
However, the League of Villains escape, with Izuku and Bakugo in their possession. This sends Ibara and Reiko into a panic, as Izuku is the closest ever connection that they have to the Light aside from Shinso, Tokoyami, and Reiko herself, and they contact Spider and Eido to get them the assistance they need to rescue him. As of now, the Conclave and House of Light were done hiding. Now more than ever, they needed to be ready for war.
Elsewhere, Izuku and Bakugo wake up and find themselves in the League's captivity, with Shigaraki pulling his usual schtick on Bakugo to get him to join the League of Villains, appealing to his desire to win and dominate others, which, thanks to the influence of the Darkness artifacts, Bakugo can match and listen to.
Both Shigaraki and Bakugo are, willingly and unwillingly respectively, becoming adherents of Sword Logic.
Meanwhile, Izuku is brought before All for One, who delights at finally having One for All in his grasp. However, Izuku does not feel fear at being in his presence. Instead, he feels a sort of inate terror at being in the presence of the statue of the veiled woman, whom All for One has placed a Nomu to be sacrificed to.
The Voice in the Darkness possesses the Nomu and begins to speak, congratulating him on capturing his prize, on finally getting what he wanted for centuries. All for One is gleeful at this, gladly taunting and demeaning Izuku, mocking him for his failures, both at I-Island and back in the forest, and now, finally, he will take what is rightfully his.
So All for One goes to take One for All from Izuku... but he can't. At first, All for One assumes that it is due to willpower, much like in canon, but he soon realises that there is something else there. Something deep underneath, now mixed with One for All...
And the Voice in the Darkness concludes that the Light within Izuku has engrained itself into One for All.
And the Light cannot be taken. It can only be given. Such is the way of the Gardener.
All for One is enraged by this whilst Izuku is shocked at the confirmation of the Gardener's existence, and that Ibara and Reiko may have been telling the truth all along, but neither of them have time to dwell on it as the heroes, led by All Might, attack both the hideout and the Nomu production facility.
But this time, there is no Rescue Squad made from students to save Izuku and Bakugo. Thanks to I-Island's disappearance, the whole of U.A. was put on lockdown, and all the students were escorted back to their homes and told to stay there, meaning that none of them could leave or go to rescue their friends.
Well, everyone except Ibara and Reiko, who use their Awoken Beacons and the Ley Lines in the Ascendant Realm to travel between their homes, New-Riis, and the Conclave to assemble their army.
But elsewhere, Ochako is almost subsumed by the whispers from the bone, is approached by one of the heroes and asked what she is doing. When she refuses to answer, the hero presses for them-
Then Ochako sings the hero a song and he unravels.
And as the hero dies, destroyed by the Deathsong, a portal opens next to Ochako, and she steps through, but not before popping into Tsuyu's home and dragging her through as well.
Back in Kamino, the battle is beginning to turn against the heroes, as All for One, in his healed form, proves to be too strong for them to counter. Worse still is the army of Nomu at his and Shigaraki's side, as their Darkness weapons and obelisks prove to be too powerful for them to overcome on their own.
But that is when Ibara and Reiko, in disguises, arrive on the scene, along with an army of Eliksni and Cabal to do battle with the Nomu and the forces of Darkness, arriving in Skiffs and Threshers and drop pods and bringing with them Walkers and Pikes and Goliath Tanks and Interceptors. Surprised at this sudden intervention, the heroes are forced to put up with it as they begin to push back Shigaraki and the Nomu, and All Might goes up against All for One once more...
And he loses.
All Might, the wounded hero, goes up against All for One, returned to his prime by the Voice in the Darkness... and the hero loses.
All for One triumphs over All Might, and then kills him.
And from the death of the number one hero, he harvests the killing energy from it in accordance with the Sword Logic, and the Voice in the Darkness congratulates him on his victory, granting him the power that he desires.
And with that power, the Pyramid ship that stole I-Island away links to him, recognising him as its newest Disciple and appears overhead, holding the entirety of I-Island with it.
And then, as the Scorn come flooding down, now under the command of All for One, the self-proclaimed Demon King shows off more of his new powers, summoning Crypoliths and the armies of Wrathborn Fallen and Cabal with them, and opening rifts in space and pulling many of the House of Light Eliksni and allied Cabal into them, turning them into Taken.
All for One no longer has just the Nomu in his corner. Now, he and the forces of Darkness have the Scorn, Wrathborn, and Taken all under their control.
The heroes and allied forces are overwhelmed, with the heroes being utterly demoralised at the death of All Might, and All for One laughs over it all, utterly convinced of his victory and savouring every moment of it...
But the Voice in the Darkness, through the eyes of the Taken, the Scorn, the Wrathborn, and the Egregore that they leave behind, spots the disguised Reiko battling against their allied forces, killing Taken and Scorn and Wrathborn and Nomu alike with the powers of the Light. It recognises her as a Lightbearer, a Guardian, and convinces All for One that it is time to retreat.
And so, All for One, in all his gravatas and dramatic flair, bids his adieu from the battlefield, and, taking his Pyramid ship and new army, retreats into his new home, his newly constructed Throne World, built on the death of All Might.
He flees, leaving the rest of the heroes and allied forces to recover and rebuild.
The forces of Darkness have won this round and fired the first shots of a new war that will consume the whole world, and it is what forces Izuku, Tokoyami, and Shinso to finally place their trust in Reiko and Ibara as they prepare for the future to come, coming together to form a new coalition for the light, juggling their alliance with Spider and the rising tensions within the Conclave, as well as the uncertainty of a hero society without All Might, the distrust between the people of the Conclave and the rest of said hero society, and having to contend with the forces of Darkness...
But that isn't the only threat.
Because Ochako is still lost in a strange new world, guided by the bone in her hand and the whispers in her head, and dragging Tsuyu around with her.
Then, they reach the centre of this new world, a strange city of Light and growth, populated by those wielding the Light, who guide them to the centre of the city, a massive temple where the Queen of Lies and Secrets sits, surrounded by thousands of Lightbearers who kneel to her in prayer...
They are the Hive. More specifically, the Lucent Brood, who spent the last thousand years swallowing entire Hive broods and growing their numbers to millions across the Throne World.
And their goddess is Savathûn, the Witch Queen, Hive god of cunning and lies.
And Ochako joins the kneeling Hive Lightbearers in worship of she whom she considers to be her Goddess, whilst Tsuyu looks on in fear and confusion.
Then, the kneeling girl looks up to see her goddess, Savathûn, standing above her, smiling a crooked smile as she welcomes her to her home, and thanks her for all the wonderful conversations.
Ochako smiles, thanking her, and telling her that everything is being prepared for her renewal, thanking Savathûn for planting that shard of bone in the USJ and granting her the power to make their dreams of a new world come true.
And thusly, Ochako is named the Witch Princess of the Lucent Brood, and Tsuyu as her executioner, ready to enact the will of the Lucent Hive.
Now, there are two major threats that the growing forces of the Gardener must contend with, not just the forces of Darkness, that being the League of Villains, the Nomu, Scorn, Taken, Wrathborn, and their master, the Voice in the Darkness trying to conquer the world and destroy everything that would stand against them, but also the armies of the Lucent Hive and their growing network of agents, working in the shadows to enact the will of Savathûn, the Witch Queen, and her newest child Ochako, the Witch Princess.
Not only that, but there is also the latent corruption beginning to fester within U.A.'s ranks, as Aizawa, Todoroki, Kirishima, Bakugo, Momo, and several others slowly begin to grow darker and more violent, the Darkness' influence taking hold over them as the threats begin to pile up...
All the while, within the Light, the Gardener, secreted away within the hidden Traveler, begins to stretch her muscles and unleash a new generation of Ghosts, giving birth to a new age of champions and Guardians to the world, as the allies of the Light, from the hidden Awoken to the recuperating Cabal Ascendancy, to the various factions of the Eliksni scattered across the Sol System and their allies on Earth itself.
The Age of Light and Darkness has begun once more.
Don't expect any updates from me for some time. I've got a university project to write, so I'll probably go dark for a while.