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Master Control

Chapter 74

The report had come in late at night, long after he had gone to sleep. In the solitude of his bedroom his hand reached out from the covers to his work phone, the screen's brightness blinding him when he tried to read it. The alert came again, but it didn't come from his phone, it was something else.

Still groggy and his mind a daze, the muscular titan of a man fumbled in the dark with his arm towards the red flashing object. When his wide fingers finally found the small metal badge, a jolt of adrenaline shot through his head. Decades of being a hero trained him to wake up at any moment, finding strength and energy no matter how much sleep he got.

The only reason he hadn't trained his mind to identify the alert from Providence, was because he never got one before.

"This is All Might." The man leapt off of his bed and over the awaiting costume next to it, placing his feet in the boots and hoisting the outfit up in one movement. "Reporting in."

"Multiple nomu and villains are attacking the training camp." Nezu relayed. "Respond immediately."

His mobile went off, giving an emergency alert. He assumed this could be the same case, but this was a personalized tone that he didn't expect to hear again. Mirai wouldn't dare abuse this privilege.

"Go ahead." All Might was already leaping out the balcony window of Might tower, jumping from one rooftop to the next as he went to provide aid to the students.

"All Might, I received a vision while following a lead for a drug bust." His former sidekick said in a still voice. "One hour from now, Kamino ward is destroyed and the destruction keeps on spreading."

His legs softened the landing atop of one of the many apartment buildings he just happened to land on, the number one hero looking off to where Kamino was now. If he was going to dare abandon those kids he taught, he better have a damn good reason. "What causes it?"

"One man, I couldn't see much but his laugh was the same."

No, not now.

Not him.

"All for One." All Might gritted his teeth, cursing himself for the decision he was being forced to take. His students managed to survive before, and this time they had the help of many other heroes. Would they be able to hold out tonight? "What makes you sure your vision can be changed?"

"I've only ever been wrong once. I'm willing to be wrong about this but if nothing is done the outcome will be the same."

If Mirai could put aside his pride for the chance that things could be changed, All Might would have to take that risk. But that didn't mean he would do nothing for those being attacked now.

Changing his course towards Kamino, All Might put out an alert for the top ten heroes, requesting their aid to fend off the attack the nomu attack happening off in the woods. Next, he needed to call in a little more help from-

"All Might!" Before the man could think of the name, Izuku Midoriya had already contacted him over the security badge. "All for One is acting now! He's taken my sisters and if he knows what Eri's quirk can do then everything is in danger!"

It got worse, so much so that All Might knew that right now he couldn't allow All for One to continue his plan any longer. Hopefully his students would forgive him, but the best way to keep them and everyone else safe was to stop that monster now. The fear gripped his heart, because even though he knew little of what Eri could do he heard enough to know that if she chose to do so she could travel through time.

At its basics, her quirk could even restore All for One to full strength again. That fight nearly cost him his life, and while All Might had regained his health his quirk was significantly weaker than when he was in his prime. All for One wouldn't underestimate him again, the fight would be completely one sided.

"I think I know where they might be young Midoriya." Already bounding through the sky towards the area, All Might prayed they would stop this in time. As he forwarded the basic information that Nighteye was compiling on the estimated event point, All Might had a few more calls to make.

Tomura couldn't help it, humming along as he shifted the figurines on the map he drew out. Everything had been moved into place, all of his party characters and stats accounted for. Even with a couple of bad roles, they should last long enough to clear out a good chunk of the heroes before any backup arrives.

The moment that happens, they have Kurogiri on standby ready to extract them. Plus, even if they figure out their main goal all they needed to do was pull them back here and start going for civilians. Then they'd have to respond, because no small fry heroes would even last a few seconds before being crushed into a pool of-

The swirl of a dark portal opened up near the bar, Kurogiri stepping out of it in a rigid manner. He seemed lost for a second, looking around before making eye contact with himself.

"When did you leave?" Tomura questioned the man, who he thought was grabbing some finely aged drinks for the inevitable victory just in the next room over.

"I, uh, just needed to grab something." Kurogiri went over to the end of the bar, fiddling with the half door for the longest time before undoing the lock. He seemed to avoid looking at him, but as for everything else it all seemed like he was taking a tour of a house.

Did he break?

"Remind me." Kurogiri asked, still not looking at him. "Where did we place our guests?"

"Did you hit your head or something?"

"...I'm afraid so."

Dammit, guess a thing or two would have to go wrong. Though for only a bump in the head that was a minor inconvenience. "The streamer is in the freezer, don't know if sensei is finished with the kid or not."

It was hard to determine the expression of someone who had the face of a void, but the way his body flared made Tomura question if somehow Kurogiri was upset. If he even could get upset.

"Understood." Kurogiri growled before striding out of sight.

Returning to his board of players, mobs and NPC's, Tomura double checked his laptop sitting nearby to confirm whether or not any more heroes had been summoned to the fight. Oh, looks like a lot. But the only ones who would arrive soon would be the hot head and the bird brain. Well, he could have the new nomu intercept them since they'd be immune to their attacks and-

The creaking of a wooden door near the bar got Tomura's attention out of the corner of his eye. Kurogiri had returned with the drinks with none of the flare from earlier.

"Did you go behind the counter?" The wispy man questioned.

"No." Tomura uttered as he began typing out a message to the rest of his party for an update on their situation. "You just did. Where did you go anyways?"

"Only to the cellar to grab the drinks."

"No, I mean where did you teleport from just now?"

Kurogiri set the drinks down, actually questioning his whereabouts as of late. Yet no matter how much he backtracked he couldn't think of the answer Tomura was looking for. "The last portal I opened was to return us here."

"Both of us?"

"Yes, approximately fifteen minutes ago."

Ugh, her head.

Everything felt sloggy, froggy, no those weren't the right words. Whatever the word for feeling like she was thrown through a blender stuck in a trash compactor rolling through an old car wash that kept leaking oil and grease.

Her head sluggishly lifted up from a pool of purple mud, only a lump with two indents serving as eye sockets forming. Control over her own body felt slow, like it took a good three seconds from her telling her body to move until it actually did.

Was she sick? Could she even get sick?

Groaning as she stuck out two arms from her puddle of flesh, Himiko tried to push herself up and back onto some real feet. Nope, her arm fell apart and made her fall back over to splat against the cold floor. Too cold, like she was stuck in the blubies freezer room.

Hold on, was that blood?

Getting her sight back was a struggle, the world around her still hazy and blurred by a frosty later. But, after a few times of trying she managed to make out the red splots along the white paper bags. The sacks of red, the metal racks carrying different plastic containers.

Holy shit she was in an actual meat locker like in those serial killing shows.

Wait, how did she even get here?

The answer was opening the door, urgency scrambling through Himiko as she willed herself back into a humanoid state. Her concentration was muddled, so much so that she couldn't even change her color, just a purple mud print of her more human-like self.

The heavy metal slab scratched against the floor, Himiko climbing up one of the racks of meat in order to actually stand up. Her legs were quivering, barely supporting her weight as she realized she was screwed. Would they have their way with her? Would they do sick experiments on her?

A life of being a brat to her family and friends danced across her mind, reminding her how many times she just loved making problems. Helping them, occurred here and there and she always complained while doing it. She just wanted a chance, one chance to say she was sorry.

A blackened smoky hand pushed the door the rest of the way open, Himiko staring into those wispy eyes. It was him, the portal villain. Was he here to finish her, sell her, cut her into pieces and do whatever he pleased?

No, instead he ran into the room and wrapped his arms around her. "You're alive, thank All Might you're alive."

Thank All Might?

"Izuku?"

He pulled away, letting the cloudy part of him around his chest dissipate to reveal on his outfit the green hourglass shining out in the dim room.

"H-how?" Himiko stammered out of her half frozen lips.

"When I got close enough to Kamino, this form let me feel previously opened portals. This was one of the most visited places." Izuku provided his answer, which seemed really convenient. "Come, let us depart."

Gesturing ahead, a hole in space opened up for the two of them, Izuku helping to carry his sister as he approached. The portal wavered, a foreign interference collapsing it before they could escape.

On the other side, was the original Kurogiri with Tomura furiously clawing at his own neck. Izuku tried opening another portal, only for the experienced user to negate it immediately.

"You, of course you'd be here." The pale, cracked and fuming Tomura took a step forward. "Such a pain."

"Izuku." Himiko latched onto her brother's shoulder, whispering quietly to him. "Just teleport us out."

He technically could, just a short flash and bam they'd be gone. Though there was one thing Himiko wasn't aware of, he didn't come alone.

*CRACK*

An eight ball cracked against Kurogiri's head, knocking the villain unconscious as Tomura spun to face the intruder.

An army of heroes flooded into the room, breaking through the ceiling, the walls, and the front door. Leading the charge was the person who managed to bring them together on short notice, the hero that many others were indebted to, who contributed directly to their community and was impossible to forget.

Cueball arrived with everyone that still had a tab open.

As Tomura was distracted by the break-ins all around, Izuku switched to something else that was eager to put the boy in a headlock. Orange furry arms latched around the lanky villain, a sharp black claw pushing up against the bottom of his chin as he faced a snarling predator.

"Let me tell you something Tomura Shigaraki." Rath growled out as he squeezed the villain tighter. "If you don't tell Rath where Eri Midoriya is, Rath is going to chew every bone in your body until you're nothing but a pile of toothpicks!"

Something rose up Tomura's throat, not a confession, not a plea, not even a threat. It was a garbled laugh with a gray ooze spitting out from his teeth. It consumed him, no matter how tight Rath clinged to him he slipped right out of his grasp alongside the prone form of Kurogiri taken over by the same substance.

A battle raged on in the distant woods, life and death hanging by threads with blades and fire flying around them. The heroes kept fighting, focusing on defense as much as they could until back up arrived. It was becoming more difficult, because just when they managed to beat one another copy took their place.

Given their circumstances, they were desperate enough to ask the enhanced students to help.

A red diamond fort was carved around them, shielding them from any frontal attacks as Pixie-Bob continued to send out an army of creations to assault their invaders. Ragdoll and Mandalay working in tandem to keep track of everyone around them.

'You're getting closer Eraserhead!' Mandalay's voice rang through the hero's mind. 'Ragdoll says that's where the villain has Yanagi.'

An earsplitting beam shot down from above, Eijiro leaping in front of it and reflecting the attack right off his body. The nomu soared overhead, close enough to be visible. Big mistake.

Four of Kyoka's copies let out a shriek, delivering pain to the creature and forcing it to crash down into the Earth. Once down, it was prey to Present Mic who rushed in to deal a deadly howl at point blank.

Midnight kept soaring above, trying to keep as many nomu distracted while briefly diving down to release another wave of sleeping powder over the current location of the villains. Trouble was they kept moving.

Inside their protective castle Vlad King was doing his best to treat the many students with Mrs. Waterhose, both of them trying to clear out their system of whatever had infected them.

*ZAP*

One of many Denki's engaged Moonfish, the jaws that carried so many daggers lashing out to cut them.

"Over here!" One of them taunted out in the open.

*SLASH*

The taunt worked, a silver blade slicing the boy right in half, and from two halves grew two wholes, grinning as they gripped the metal leading to the villain's head and pushing a paralyzing amount of volts into their target. Finally, after dealing with so many versions they found the original.

"Don't get distracted!" Tiger yelled out to the boys as he engaged with two Spinners.

Somewhere farther out the ground was constantly ripped up, from the battle of Muscular and Power Loader, and the two massive titans throwing fists. Way Big threw a harsh uppercut into the flat jaw of Gigantomachia, the foe growing larger and larger as their battle plowed through the fields of trees. Kota wasn't feeling too challenged, but his opponent kept taking his hits and only growing stronger from them. If this kept up, he would time out or the villain would manage to get strong enough to over power him.

"Last chance!" Way Big boomed as he locked hands with his opponent, standing three heads taller than him. "Give up!"

The only response was a roar, to which Kota replied with one of his own as he gripped tighter. Way Big swung his arms to the side, bringing Gigantomachia with him and using the beast to keep his momentum. Round and round he kept spinning and spinning in place, until firmly planting his foot and launching the murderous villain into the stratosphere, continuing on until he became nothing more than a distant speck.

Before Way Big could catch his breath something small was launched up towards his head. He easily caught it, thankful that he didn't decide to slap it when peering down to the beaten Power Loader in his palm. "Are you ok?!"

All the hero could do was cough, turning over in Way Big's hand as he tried to work himself to get back into the fight. A pain rushed into his ankle, Way Big wincing as he took a step back to see what caused it. A glob of muscles soared up to his face, slapping his cheek and messing with his balance.

"Man, you are one big sucker ain'tcha?" Muscular fell back to the ground, breaking a tree on his way down. Despite the huge size difference, the villain still picked a fight with him.

Recognition hit Kota's mind, the emotions from back then rushing back to freeze his body. "Y-you."

"Oh? You know me? Good!" Muscular kicked back up, flying back up with a fist primed with layers of muscles bulging out of his skin. "After this, you're never gonna forget me!"

That face, the serial killer who broke his mother and killed his father was hurtling back to him. The memory burned through Kota with fear, and his massive body responded the same. Way Big dodged, stepping out of the way and keeping his distance.

"Oh come on!" Muscular dug his hands into a boulder, yanking it out from the dirt and lobbing it forward. "I thought you were supposed to be strong!"

Way Big brought his arm up to deflect it, the rock breaking against his durable skin. The pebbles flew past his face, Way Big following them with his eyes. Any one of those could have killed him, the shrapnel plowing through any child and turning them into a red smear. Children were weak, humans bags of blood that could pop at any moment.

But he was ok, it shattered against him and didn't break his skin.

Being ignored, Muscular decided to fling himself back up to the sky to make Way Big pay attention. "Where are you looking?! The fight is right here!"

Muscular was successful, getting the skyscraper sized alien took another look, from a much bigger point of view. Muscular, was a human. A very, tiny human.

*POW*

Way Big delivered a devastating back hand towards the villain, smacking him right back down to where he came from. The impact smashed a crater around his body, Muscular's mind reeling from the blow. There were stars across his vision, bones ached, but he was still alive.

Choking out a short cough, the villain lowly chuckled to himself. Oh man, he was really going to enjoy this figh-

Knuckles larger than semi trucks plowed into the man, ramming him further into the pit. As Way Big lifted his hand out, Muscular was pulled back out from the whole until his body plopped back down. Blood was rushing down his face, his only good eye only showing a blurry image of a furious mountain.

The alien gently slid the hero in his hand off to a nearby cliff, before giving the attention that Muscular was practically begging for earlier.

He brought his foot up, ready to crush the pest under his foot that caused so much pain to his life. Muscular's vision drooped, his hazy thought barely registering that he might have finally picked a fight he couldn't win.

*BEEP BOOP BWOOO BWOOSH*

*pap*

A shoe stepped on Muscular, a rather small one too. The broken villain managed to bring his half crushed hand to wipe away the red out of his sight, to see a kid in front of him. The bones in his body were already bruised and snapped in several places, his heaving chest stinging with every attempt to breathe. It had been a while since he felt this kind of pain, it only made it more exhilarating.

Pushing his quirk to wrap his body in strands of muscles all over, he pushed himself up despite the way his limbs snapped under his will. The kid before him scattered backwards, smacking the watch on his wrist in desperation.

"Hey, boy." Muscular croaked out to the kid. "Where the hell did that big guy go?"

Kota refound the fear he had earlier, but he also had the righteous anger to glare at the murderer. "L-like I'd tell you!"

"Fine, I'll just squeeze it out of you." Muscular snatched his left arm, bringing Kota up to his eye as the boy clawed and kicked at his hand. "I normally get a kick out of killing kids, but I'm sort of pissed that my opponent just kicked me around and left. So, I'll give you one chance to wake up in a hospital instead of a morgue."

The man tightened his grip, Kota screaming out and fighting more desperately to break free. His trapped hand began to leak water, Kota trying to wriggle himself free as he soaked his arm.

Muscular took another look at his features, cracking out a short huff of laughter when he recognized the face. "Oh don't tell me, you're the brat of the hero that took my eye! Wish I got both of them, but I think turning you into a cup of watered down juice will break them better than I ever could. Well I'll still be breaking you so I guess I can take the credit! Ha hA!"

Kota fought even more desperately to free himself, punching, kicking, biting, anything he could do. It felt useless the moment Muscular flexed his grip, threatening to break his arm. Kota just kept screaming out in a sudden desperation, that's when something sparked.

Teal light seeped out from the monstrous hand confining his arm, until it exploded out alongside Muscular's arm.

"AAHH!" The man yelled as Kota dropped back down, the boy scrambling back to his feet and seeing the villain holding his stump. Muscular glared towards the boy, silently promising him sudden death.

Kota reacted immediately, throwing his hands out and shoving streams of water towards the man. If he hadn't been heavily injured, if he hadn't been continuously bleeding, if he wasn't barely clinging to consciousness then perhaps he could have brushed off the attack.

No, Kota's desperate use of his quirk forced his young body to push out enough pressurized water to mimic a fire hose, slamming into Muscular and pinning him against the edge of the fist sized crater. Kota kept yelling, kept pushing as much water as he could out towards the man to keep himself alive.

He wouldn't die!

"Kota!"

He wouldn't let Muscular kill him!

"Kota!"

Not like his Dad!

"KOTA!"

His mother rushed down the dirt incline, wrapping her arms around her panicking child. Taking off his hat, she smoothly ran her fingers through his hair, soothing him with soft reassuring words. "You're ok, you're ok now."

His quirk finally relaxed, his aching arms and hands lowering to his sides as Kota quivered in place. He latched onto the source of comfort, Kota burying himself into the embrace as he did his best not to cry. Mrs. Waterhose peeked back out to what Kota was desperately attacking, and felt her heart clench.

It was Muscular, or what was left of him smeared onto the other side of the crater.

This was it, this was finally it. All Might kicked off the air to propel himself faster, to a fight that he intended to finish for good. He might not be as strong, but neither was All for One as long as he wasn't too late. One way or the other, one of them would fall and he did not intend to burden anyone else with his own failure.

Though he wasn't stupid enough to risk All for One getting away on the chance that he lost, the chance that increased every second he wasn't there. All he would do was intervene immediately, and then the rest would follow soon after to cover any angles.

There, it was in sight now. No time to wait for any reconnaissance, any waiting was putting the world at risk.

Bursting down through the rusted roof paneling, All Might's boots cracked the cement pavement underneath him. He took in as much as he could in a second, sweeping the dim room under his gaze.

There were multiple empty tanks of some strange fluid, all containing sparkling shards of crystals. From the left to the right, they had more and more pieces floating inside until the last one-

"Young Aoyama." The hero uttered, barely recognizing the hollow face of the young boy floating, torn apart with barely anything left of his torso.

The horror he saw, only infuriated him further.

*Clang*

Something was thrown near his feet, All Might reacting quickly in case it was some sort of weapon. It wasn't, it was some sort of dark helmet with a breathing apparatus attached.

As he questioned what it was, something in the dark answered for him. "A pity, I quite liked the design. Though I suppose it's no longer needed."

That echoing voice, that choking atmosphere that snuffed out hope, and the clapping steps approaching with lethal intent belonged to only one person.

Stepping into the moonlight leaking in from the hole above, was a man in a finely tailored midnight suit with crimson trims. The shirt matched his fair but sharp complexion, starch white hair neatly combed to the side, and a jagged horn stretching from atop his forehead to serve as his crown.

All for One, with no scars or injuries gleamed at All Might's frozen expression. "Though it was worth seeing your face. Not that it will be around any longer."

Far across the world, relaxing in the comfort of her home and lazing across the couch, Pony was scrolling through her phone and reflecting back upon the many images. Back when Izuku and her first started hanging out, the beach party where they got accepted into UA, first day of hero class, helping the Midoriya family move, all those adorable blubies, visiting Might tower, and the trip to Hawaii.

Lifting up the stub of her leg, she sighed as she recalled the news she was given. Apparently the measurements for her prosthetic were off, again, because whatever the flower at the tip was doing her leg was growing. They predicted that if it continued at the current rate, she would have her leg back in four years.

That was four years of living with one leg, four years of being unable to be a part of a heroics class.

It sucked being so far away from them all, and any video chats or phone calls only made her want to visit even more. Izuku every now and then came over, but she missed living in Japan, she missed going to school with them. Even when things got scary sometimes, she missed being involved and feeling like she was making a difference.

Her phone pinged, an alert from her heronet app alerting her of All Might's latest sighting. This late at night?

Connecting her phone to the television in front of her, she pulled up the live stream that a Japanese news station was currently broadcasting.

"K-Kamino citizens are being told to immediately evacuate!" The startled reporter stammered out, Pony sitting up immediately upon seeing plumes of smoke and debris across the city. "All Might is engaged with the villain, b-but he's barely holding his own! We fear this might be a repeat of the blue incident just months prior!"

Not again, not another attack. Because she knew when it got this dangerous, Izuku would immediately rush in to help.

"Please keep yourself safe."

Move!

All Might leapt above the whirlwind, spinning around to deliver another smash towards the man who just blinked away from the attack.

Move!

Kicking off the corner of a rooftop, the number one hero dodged the shattered space he was just at.

MOVE!

A vacuum in the air began pulling All Might back, the man digging his heels into the ground and flaring what was left of One for All into his legs. The embers, as brightly as they burned, were running out, so much so that he couldn't hope to match the strength or speed he once had.

MOVE!

He was too slow, metal veins from the ground spearing out and spreading through his calf. Dammit! With a swift chop All Might broke himself free, just in time to be rammed by a crane swung into his back.

The man tumbled through the air, rolling across the chunks of debris and dirt until landing where the fighting started. Shattered glass dug into his mortal skin, All Might pushing up on his knuckles as he glared towards the man who casually floated above the destruction.

"How long can I prolong your suffering?" All for One mused. "I have so many quirks and I'm pained to admit I haven't had much practice with most of them. Even in solitude, most of my time was spent trying to recover. Shall we discover what my new favorite will be together?"

An earsplitting noise assaulted All Might's head, ringing loudly and drowning out anything else.

"Or how about this one?"

Nausea forced itself into the hero's gut, forcing itself out through his nose and mouth.

"Hmm, maybe something more discomforting?"

Just as All Might stood up a flash of heat came over him, his body recoiling from the sudden change in temperature that his vital organs were not prepared for. His mind swam, but he refused to fall back down.

"Oh, but how could I neglect this one?"

A helping hand came into All Might's recovering vision, the hero immediately recognizing the yellow glove. Daring to glance up, he saw the proud, smiling face of his mentor.

"Come on, get up." Nana Shimura told her apprentice. "It's far from over-"

Spears of glowing red blades pierced the woman's gut, blood erupting from her body and dripping over All Might.

"Such a fragile thing, memories." All for One taunted as the body began to dissipate. "Which would be worse? To lose your memories or to relive them over and over again."

"Y-you bastard!" All Might threw his fist towards the man, his tight knuckles plowing through All for One's torso. The man vanished, just as the walking memory of his mentor did earlier.

"GRK!"

All Might glanced down, seeing an invisible set of fingers digging into his side. Clamping onto the unseeable arm, All Might refused to let All for One's hidden form get away. Fueling every last ember he could into a burning flame, the hero channeled it into one final smash and swung it into All for One's body.

The villain reeled back, his spine bending at an awkward angle as he became visible again.

There, finally, All for One got too playful and-

"Ha, ha ha, hahahahaHAHAHA!" All for One began laughing aloud, the horn on his head flashing shortly as his body corrected its posture. "It's comical really! I waited so long for a chance to meet you on the battlefield, to taunt you to the point of breaking, and forcing you to use up the rest of One for All. Originally I didn't believe I would be able to restore myself to even escape, plan after plan just to pass on the rest of my strength to someone else to finish you and everything. But, all this time a better option was tucked away from my notice. I was so obsessed with the intertwined fate of our quirks, that I failed to think there could be anything else to tip the scales of our conflict."

A small amount of movement alert All Might, the man glancing past the villain towards the partial remains of the warehouse he landed in just earlier. There, a small girl in tattered clothing barely keeping her balance stepping out from the dark. Her hand went up to her head, gasping in shock as she failed to find what she was looking for. Eri Midoriya! She was alive!

All for One reached down to his own leg, grinning towards All Might with a flash of purple coming across the villain's eyes. With a resounding crunch, All for One snapped his own leg, All Might suddenly falling back as his own leg broke the same way.

"Normally I wouldn't think to use this quirk." All for One taunted as his own leg healed, while All Might's didn't. "But I can handle a small moment of displeasure if it means crippling you."

"If you think I'm crippled, that I'm useless-." All Might pushed himself back up, daring to stand on one good leg as he tried to search for any spark left inside himself. There wasn't, it was just his quirkless self against the villain he had fought so hard to stop. "-you're wrong. So long as I can stand, so long as I can breathe, I will never give up, never give in. I will give it everything I have and go beyond."

All for One's amusement began to dwindle, his expression falling as he stared lifelessly at the man before him. "You disappoint me. I expected more from you, looked forward so much to a rematch against the only person to actually wound me. How I have wasted so much of my time cursing your name."

In a sigh of boredom, All for One flicked his wrist out to the side. A surge of two piles gray ooze began to materialize in the air, from one Tomura Shigaraki fell out onto the ground, and the other Kurogiri falling onto his face.

Once Tomura was done coughing out the slime, All for One proudly presented the injured hero to the young man. "A gift, though I'm afraid I played with him a little too hard."

Wobbling back onto his feet, Tomura looked over to All Might, the broken man who still defiantly held up his fists. "Where's your smile, All Might? I thought you were supposed to be a symbol of peace, hope? Where is any of that now?"

Reaching down to the ground, Tomura splayed his fingers against the broken remains. He cracked a smile, as the ground lifted up into a tidal wave of spikes flowing right towards the hero.

A bright star warned them of the imminent heat, All Might jumping back as a swirling pillar of fire slammed into the attack and melting it instantly. The flames continued to pour out from the sky, until they swirled back into its source standing before them.

Heatblast, burning hotter than ever glared towards the villains. His fiery sockets narrowed as he saw the horn atop All for One's head, shifting to see Eri hiding back behind the scenes. "All Might, Let me handle this."

"Oh?" Tomura waltzed closer, uncaring for his eyebrows to be potentially burned to ash. "You're awfully confident for a quirkless brat."

The head of fire flared, Heatblast holding out his palms and pushing his heat into tightly packed orbs. All Might, regrettably had to back down, but for once he took some pride in being quirkless. He felt like a coward as he reached for the emergency Providence badge, but knew that so long he was here Midoriya wouldn't fight to his fullest. "I'll leave it to you."

The hero disappeared in a short beam of light, and as soon as Izuku saw the slithering snake of purple mud make it over to Eri, coaxing her to follow, Heatblast began to turn up the heat.

"Izuku Midoriya." All for One stepped towards the boy, unaffected by the intensity flowing out from the child. "Such a mystery, but not one that can't be solved. Now, will I have to take the omnitrix from your corpse or will you give it to me willingly?"

Heatblast brightened his body, his anger fueling the flames around him. "What do you think?"

He knew this would be a difficult fight, All for One had generations to collect who knows how many quirks. Izuku had access to millions of aliens, each with their own set of powers. If he wanted to get the edge on the villain, he would have to be just as unpredictable.

With a mental command, he set the omnitrix to the randomizer function.

All for One's excitement sparked back to life, the man's muscles twitching in anticipation. "I was hoping that would be your answer."

Heatblast made the first move, pushing out a wide ring of fire to encompass everything around himself and evaporating anything that it touched.

Tomura acted quick, throwing his hand down onto the ground and carving a deep tunnel for himself and Kurogiri to fall into. The wave of heat washed over the entrance, Tomura digging deeper and faster to avoid being burned. After pushing down for what was probably a mile under the surface, he stopped to catch his breath as he gazed back up to the battle taking place above him.

Sensei would handle it, and afterwards they would go onto bring a disaster that man had never seen before.

"Hey."

A playful voice called out from the side, Tomura slowly glancing over to see just who had managed to follow him all the way down here. It was a hero, a young one that had a head of blond hair, small blue eyes, a flowing cape, and '1000000' stamped onto his chest.

START MASSIVE FIGHT SCENE, ACTION MUSIC RECOMMENDED

All for One summoned hundreds of dark tendrils that ignored heat out from the ground to ensnare Heatblast, who changed before he could be caught.

*BWOOSH*

Wildmutt swung between the limbs, flexing out his claws and cutting through the hoard as a wall of needles flew towards him.

*BWOOSH*

Diamondhead didn't blink as the sharp objects bounced harmlessly off his skin, the alien plunging his arm into the ground and sprouting towers of green diamond towards All for One. The man responded with a harsh clap, the sound amplified and shattering the crystals.

*BWOOSH*

XLR8 ran across the remains mid air, All for One charging a dangerous orb of crackling energy upon his approach.

*BWOOSH*

All for One lost track of where the boy went, Gray Matter flying past his vision until he was right behind the man.

*BWOOSH*

Four Arms brought all of his fists high above his head, flinging them down towards All for One's head. The villain managed to blink out of the way, reappearing back on the ground above where a large pipe was pouring water into a pit the size of a large pond.

*BWOOSH*

Stinkfly came in from above, assaulting the villains with several globs of slime. All for One easily swatted them away, clenching his hand and yanking the bug down into the water to drown.

*BWOOSH*

Ripjaws launched out from the pool, his mouth stretching wide as he chomped down on the man's leg. It popped off, All for One sprouting out a new one instantly as he magnetized the nearby construction equipment to the fish himself.

*BWOOSH*

Upgrade took hold of the machines, reassembling them to become the biggest mech the world had ever seen. Dozens, if not hundreds of guns and missile pods opened up on the metal body and shot out towards the villain. All for One held his hands forward, a mirror materializing before him and reversing the direction of the attack.

*BWOOSH*

Ghostfreak flew right through them unharmed, but All for One's thermal sensory detected the invisible approach as he created a funnel of space to suck the boy through and launch him between the metal beams of an unfinished skyscraper.

*BWOOSH*

Cannonbolt bounced between them, building up speed and flinging himself around the villain until his path intercepted the man and knocking the air out of him.

*BWOOSH*

Wildvine wrapped himself around the villain, hoping to entrap him long enough to disable his quirk. All for One slipped out of his grasp like he was covered in butter, saw blades erupting out of his arms and flinging out to the weed.

*BWOOSH*

Blitzwolfer howled towards the blades, knocking out their momentum as the wolf man grabbed one of them and launched it back at the villain. All for One let it hit his chest that contorted like rubber, sending it back to the boy.

*BWOOSH*

Snare-oh opened his body to let the weapon harmlessly pass through him, spreading himself out to try and capture All for One again. All for One landed on part of the metal structure, sending out a flick with his finger to blow away the boy.

*BWOOSH*

Frakenstrike caught himself on another part of the half finished building, sending a paralyzing amount of electricity into the entire frame of the skyscraper. All for One gripped onto the lightning like a rod, hurling it back to the alien.

*BWOOSH*

Upchuck swallowed it, leaping towards All for One and spitting it back out again. The man floated backwards to dodge it, turning the building into a sudden obstacle course.

*BWOOSH*

Dozens of Dittos ran through it, going through each path until one of them found the exit where All for One was gaining his distance.

*BWOOSH*

Eye Guy tensed his torso, until the center eye unleashed a powerful beam that All for One blocked by turning the air in front of him into sand. When the attack hit the sand became glass, hiding the boy from immediate sight.

*BWOOSH*

Way Big punched right through the wall, hitting All for One back to the ground in an instant. Crossing his arms, Way Big unleashed a powerful cosmic blast that forced All for One to try and dodge, losing almost half of his body in the process. With a flare of his newly acquired quirk though, he was rewinded back to his previous state.

*BWOOSH*

His feet touched down onto a pile of foul liquid that Spitter had gushed out from his mouth-

*BWOOSH*

-that Buzzshock lit up in a zap of lightning. All for One channeled it through himself, redirecting the energy from electrical to heat and threw it at the boy.

*BWOOSH*

Arctiguana chilled it before it could reach him, both the hero and villain staring off against one another momentarily before going back at it. All for One charged, his arm turning into a fleshy culmination of rebar that speared towards the boy.

*BWOOSH*

Swampfire took the hits straight on, unleashing seeds to grow under the man with plants that released a noxious fume. With the methane ignited by the alien's palms, All for One was caught in a quick explosion. The man healed himself, his legs swelling up before he stomped. The ground rippled, throwing Swampfire into the air.

*BWOOSH*

Copies of Echo Echo rained down from above, screaming at the villain to disorientate him.

*BWOOSH*

The gigantified Humungousaur slammed his fist down onto All for One, who threw out an airblast that lifted the giant off his feet and higher into the air. The villain followed, gripping onto the clouds and pulling them into a thunderstorm.

*BWOOSH*

Jetray weaved through the crashes of lightning, shooting lasers from his eyes towards the villain until he got close enough.

*BWOOSH*

Big Chill phased through the man, freezing him in a block of ice shortly before he broke out in an array of bright beams.

*BWOOSH*

Chromastone absorbed the attacks as he got back in closer, letting out a blinding beam from his fist as it came into contact with All for One. The villain rolled across the ground for a few seconds before his feet locked themselves into an upright position.

*BWOOSH*

Several chunks of debris around the man began floating around him, Brainstorm descending with a telekinetic grip on all of them. All for One's body pulsed, a shockwave blasting all the materials away from his and knocking Brainstorm off course. Sending his hand forward, sharp red circuits came rushing to the alien.

*BWOOSH*

Spidermonkey weaved through each of them, sending out a line of web from his tail to reel himself closer to the action. All for One sprouted several metal clawed arms from his back, intending to capture the boy.

*BWOOSH*

Goop let them latch onto his body, melting them instantly as he traveled down to their source. All for One looked over to a nearby water tower atop of a building, swiping his arm to cut the structure at an angle.

*BWOOSH*

Lodestar gripped onto it with his control of magnetism, altering its course from the streets and back to the villain. All for One, responded by simply blowing it away with a devastating attack. Grabbing a rock below on the ground, a fuse sprouted from the piece as the villain lobbed it at the alien.

*BWOOSH*

The detonation of the improvised grenade didn't harm Rath. The alien rushed to close the distance, All for One flexing his greater power before rewinding the destruction around him to reform back into a whole building right on top of the alien. Rath caught it, splitting it in half in one strike before hurling them back to the villain.

*BWOOSH*

They turned to dust before they could reach him, All for One trying to search through the cloud to relocate the boy. His sensory quirks picked up on a small buzzing, the man locating Nanomech inches from his chest. All for One's skin flashed into becoming a strange metal that began to radiate heat, hoping to burn the insect.

*BWOOSH*

Water Hazard doused him in cold water, All for One's new body armor cracking under the quick change.

*BWOOSH*

Ampfibian electrified what remained of the metal, frying the man underneath.

*BWOOSH*

Partly paralyzed and stuck in an unmoving shell, Armodrillo cocked his piston arm back and delivered a powerful blow to shatter the shell, only to find it empty. All for One sprung out from the ground, clanging his deformed fist into Armodrillo's armor and sending him spinning into the air.

*BWOOSH*

Terraspin reorientated himself, before locking back onto his target.

*BWOOSH*

NRG released a full blast of radiation down below, All for One glowing as a response and smiling at the change.

*BWOOSH*

Fasttrack had to dodge the sudden onslaught of mini nuclear orbs that All for One threw out, zooming around until he saw he was surrounded in them with no gap to escape.

*BWOOSH*

Clockwork rewound time around himself, enough to reopen the gaps between the attacks and slip right through. He saw how All for One reacted, the horn tingling under the time alien's use. No, he couldn't give him a hint on the potential that quirk held.

*BWOOSH*

Eatle shoveled the broken road before him into his mouth, powering his horn to shoot the one on All for One's head and snapping his head back. The man lost his focus on the peculiar sensation, returning his focus to the battle.

*BWOOSH*

In a short moment, Jury Rigg had constructed a maddened machine cobbled together out of broken cars. It launched flaming engines that targeted All for One, their parts barely held together as they soared towards him. All for One snapped his fingers, sparking the gasoline inside of them and detonating them early.

*BWOOSH*

Feedback jacked his head plugs into the improvised machine, sucking out all of the energy and throwing it towards All for One. The man held out one of his arms, reaching out with two of his fingers to allow the current to flow through him and out towards the sketchy contraption under Izuku.

*BWOOSH*

Bloxx erected a barrier with his plastic body, halting the current his his non conductive body. All for One bounded towards the boy, both of his arms swelling with dozens of quirks.

*BWOOSH*

Gravattack caught All for One into a tight orbit, swirling the villain around himself. All for One did not wait to see what his plan was, and waved his hand to make everything within a hundred feet of them stand up tall, including the shredded metal underneath the alien.

*BWOOSH*

Crashhopper leapt between the pieces, kicking them towards All for One to encircle him in the trash.

*BWOOSH*

Ball Weevil spat out a glob of plasma, quickly encasing the pile of objects and making a large sphere to push towards the villain. All for One's breathe cracked with sparks, a stream of plasma igniting both his quirk and the improvised bomb.

*BWOOSH*

Walkatrout squeezed between two slabs of concrete, avoiding the blast altogether. Though All for One received many burns from the blast, a simple rush from his horn rejuvenated himself as he sought to locate the boy.

*BWOOSH*

Kicking aside the piece of a rooftop, All for One spotted Pesky Dust waiting for him with plenty of powder to throw at his face. Seeing the attack coming, he used a quirk to close off every poor, every orifice of his body as he immunized himself to the sleep dust.

*BWOOSH*

Mole-Stache pushed up with his elongated mustache, wrapping them around the villain as he hoped to get enough time to take his quirk away. Quills emerged all around All for One, cutting past the hairs and about to pierce the boy.

*BWOOSH*

The Worst took the blow, the poisonous darts unable to penetrate his skin but leaving all of the pain. He rolled back-

*BWOOSH*

-as Kickin Hawk took his place and kicked up a fire hydrant to crack hard towards All for One. The pillar of water came showering down around them, All for One hissing through his teeth and turning it to steam in case the boy was going to try and use it.

*BWOOSH*

A shadow moved forward through it, the mask around Toepick's face lifting up to expose All for One to his horrors. The man closed his eyes, erased the memory, and reversed the gravity around them.

*BWOOSH*

Astrodactyl flew around the villain, whipping at him with his laser whips which the man caught. Before being pulled in the alien released a blast of star power from his back to knock the man off himself. All for One hovered in the air, rolling his shoulders in mock exhaustion.

*BWOOSH*

Bullfrag took the challenge, lashing out with his tongue which All for One caught and began spinning him around. There were enough muscles for the frog man to contract it, giving enough momentum to get close.

*BWOOSH*

Atomix charged his arms, pushing more energy than he ever used with this alien and plowed into the man. An atomic blast filled the sky as All for One's charred body flopped into the Earth.

*BWOOSH*

Gutrot landed next to him, filling the air around them with a mix of gaseous concoctions that would knock out anything that caught a whiff of it. While dispensing the toxic air, believing the man to be slowing down, the alien was in for a rude awakening.

END MASSIVE FIGHT SCENE

*CRACK*

Gutrot took a hit straight to his face, one that would've made Eijiro spit out a tooth. If he was in a few of his other alien forms, he could have shrugged it off and gotten right back into the fight. Gutrot wasn't noted for durability, and his body was sent flipping over itself as he skipped across the pavement until nearly snapping in half when his back hit a street light.

The bruised alien was barely clinging to consciousness, the exhausted alien reverting back to Izuku with a nasty black eye and a split lip. The randomizer function switched off, leaving him to deal with his own issues.

"My oh my, how entertaining." All for One gave a few claps before lowering himself down from the sky, any injuries he had vanishing. "So many forms with so many uses, but unfortunately you need to switch every time to have access to a new strength. I, on the other hand, am beyond strength."

"Really?" Izuku gritted his teeth as he tried to sit up, the man slowly coming closer to him to hear the insults. "Then, how did All Might hurt you so bad?"

Stepping down to the ground, All for One stalked over the boy. "It wasn't strength, it was luck. Something you've run out of."

Ignoring the pain it caused to let out a chuckle, Izuku saw the spark of pink rocketing down from the sky. "I think I have just enough."

*CRASH*

An object plummeted into the street ahead of them, bringing a delayed sonic boom with it to crack the air. All for One completely dismissed Izuku as he sensed the raw power emanating from the light ahead of him. It was tainted, but his brother's quirk was too unique to miss. It was woven with something else, something that was connected to the building blocks of the universe.

Rising from the ashes of her outfit, the cosmic being that was Itsuka Kendo met All for One's gaze.

"One chance." She offered as her power flared with her hair, taking hold of every loose bit of rubble around her as she hovered away from the ground. "Surrender."

All for One had his confidence shaken, the man questioning whether or not he could face this, this thing that didn't seem to be human. Whatever had become of One for All, whatever powered this young girl, he coveted it.

The moment his fingers twitched as he activated one of his thousands of quirks, Itsuka took that as an immediate no and snapped towards him. Her fist shattered his ribcage before he could even process her movements, his quirks barely holding him together as he was shot out of the country.

Itsuka didn't stop there, zipping right back to his limp body and lashing out with a swarm of blades that were sharper than obsidian. All for One was butchered, limbs and chunks of flesh flying off of him until a stump of his body remained.

Gripping it in her telekinetic hold, Itsuka boiled his skin and flesh, lighting his nerves on fire and making sure they didn't burn out. Further and further she carried him into space, letting only one of his eyes remain intact as she became a stream of pink energy that flew him towards the sun.

They reached it in a blink, Itsuka dragging him through the flares riding along the surface of the stellar furnace until they encircled the star hundreds of times in a few seconds. Once she was done, she kicked his body back towards Earth's direction and chased after it.

All for One's body slammed against the atmosphere, Itsuka soaring in from above and shoving him through it to flare from the speed. They crashed into the remains of Kamino, blowing away any lose particle and leaving a smooth pit in their landing zone.

She glared down at the barely breathing form of the man who had done so much damage to her mentor's life, and his mentor, and every other spirit that resided within herself that had told her of his evil works. Standing as the last holder of One for All, the culmination of the strongest race of energy beings and of quirks, Itsuka Kendo had brought his punishment and made sure he was aware enough to feel every bit of it.

"Itsuka!" Izuku came running up to her, the girl looking away from the defeated lump under her. She gave a smirk of victory, of relief to the boy who-

-was desperately calling out to her.

"Don't let him touch you!"

The warning came too late, All for One sunk his broken jaw around her ankle, and activated rewind.

Itsuka felt her body BURN all over again, the girl screaming as her shedding of mortality was reversed. The sensation returned as atoms bonded themselves together to cage her, her heritage stripped back down into its more dormant form as flesh retook her very soul. Itsuka kept screaming, the injuries, the pain, everything she ever felt within the last year returned in a tidal wave that was drowning her within.

All for One's skeletal face surged in maniacal laughter as the horn connected to his skull continued to wash its energy over himself and the girl, returning both of them to whatever previous state he commanded. As soon as his arms returned he gripped around Itsuka's throat, silencing her cries as he could hear One for All screaming within.

He kept pulling her farther into the past, pushing her down as he could sense the tension that One for All had on her shrinking body. The training she went through, the muscles she developed, all of it was being ripped apart by the past taking over her present. One for All remained, swelling her weakened body to where she could barely house it in her body.

Tick tock brother, if he goes any further back One for All will rip her apart from the inside out.

The villain's quirk, All for One opened up to receive it, having no need to reach within as he forced only one path for the quirk to go. Finally, after returning Itsuka to her preteens, One for All left its host lest it kill the girl.

All of it happened so fast, Izuku sliding to a sudden halt as All for One dropped the eleven to twelve year old redhead down to the barren Earth. Itsuka quivered, shaking as she tried to comprehend how little control she had of anything, how little she could sense, and how fragile she had become. She glanced up to the teen, fighting back a sob as she took responsibility for delivering All for One the quirk he so desired.

"I'm sorry." She choked out, All for One stepping on the girl's back to grind in her failure.

All for One gazed at his own hand, his veins brightening with a raw power that amplified his own hundreds of times over. This quirk turned a quirkless boy into a demigod. Imagine what it did to someone who held thousands of quirks.

Izuku stood in horror, his hairs standing on edge as he saw what had happened, what must not be. He failed, All for One was the undisputed most powerful being on Earth. What could he do? There was no chance of him being able to get close enough now to remove his quirk, no chance in overpowering him, no chance at winning.

Unless, he risked it.

"I really don't need the omnitrix." All for One rose his hands out to his sides, showcasing his newfound strength by turning a couple of simple weather quirks into a raging storm filling the sky, lightning striking down and decimating entire city blocks on impact. "But, I did promise to give it as a gift to a student of mine. If you surrender it now, I promise to let one person of your choice live. Only one though, and I can't guarantee I won't get bored."

He had to, he had to risk it. Out of any of the transformations he had, only one of them did Azmuth and Ben agree should never be accessed. It wasn't just the power, the versatility, or even the invulnerability.

It was the price, one that he would have to pay whether or not it worked.

"Oh?" All for One amusingly smirked, giving another stomp on Itsuka's small body. "Do you have any more that you want to try? Show me, I want you to know that you've witnessed the birth of a god today."

Izuku knew what would happen if he didn't, so if there was a chance then it was worth it. Holding the omnitrix up, he dared to look down at the dial rising from the device and the figure displayed in the hourglass.

It was the only choice he had now.

Slamming his hand down on the omnitrix, Izuku closed his eyes as he embraced the change. Only he didn't feel it, he didn't feel anything really. Just a floating sensation, like he was hovering through-

His eyes snapped opened, seeing that he was in space. He was still wearing his clothes, he was still wearing the omnitrix, the only reason why he knew he transformed and didn't just teleport was the two great faces of the infinite cosmos looking down at him.

All for One eyed the humanoid formed of space, the only distinguishing feature besides being made of stars were the three small horn-like protrusions. The omnitrix rested on his bare chest, and didn't show any signs of movement. Stepping off of the child, All for One strolled through the broken city towards the alien.

"What does this one do?" He stated curiously, noting how the boy hasn't even looked up at him. Was it deaf to the world? This was more boring than anticipated.

Itsuka's grunt to get back up reminded All for One that there was still other matters he was eagerly looking forward to. The man held his hand out, slowly levitating the girl off the ground and pulling her towards his awaiting grasp. She weakly fought him, trying to dig her fingers into his wrist as he gave a short choke to remind her of her fragile form.

He watched Izuku as she squeaked in pain, still getting no reaction. "Are you in your own little world right now? Can you see me as I strangle this girl?"

Itsuka's face gaped, her mouth moving but no air able to travel through her tightened throat.

"She is one of your friends, not to mention All Might's pupil." All for One taunted, having learned what a fan the child was of the self proclaimed hero. An idea sparked in his mind, a sadistic grin forming as he tested a new combination with One for All.

Using the transport quirk from earlier, paired with a stock pile that could enhance quirks, he could bring anyone in the world to him.

All Might gurgled out from the air, spitting up the gray slime as he fell back on his rear with a temporary cast over his leg. He only had a moment to growl out half a threat before All for One latched his fingers around his throat too. Holding the girl and the hero up before Izuku, both of them uselessly trying to escape his grip while silently apologizing to one another, All for One savored their dying expressions as he swung them together, with twelve strength enhancing quirks.

*SPLAT*

The two heads broke, flattened between his hands in a single clap. Blood and brains slid down his hands, joining the bodies lying at his feet. Taking a deep, satisfying breath, All for One tried to find any hint of a reaction from the boy. No? Well then, maybe one more time.

Reaching down to the husks of meat, All for One let his horn glow and pour its essence into the bodies, just enough to rewind them one minute.

Itsuka and All Might gasped for air, life returning to them shortly before All for One snuffed them out again with a swift stomp of his heels that shattered their bones.. He loved this quirk.

Glancing back up to the still unmoving alien in front of him, All for One let his smile overtake his face. Nothing, he would do nothing to stop him. No one could anymore, he had ascended to a plan beyond human limitations. Once upon a time, he ruled from the shadows. Now, he would shroud the entire planet in his ruthless will.

Far beyond the known universe, past the edges of reality and further into the void, there resided beings of infinite power and potential. Only a few knew of their rumored existence, and even fewer had ever met them. Two voices, each with reasoning that were impossible to fully understand were trapped in a prison of their own making, debating to the other about the necessary course of action.

Now Izuku Midoriya had intruded on their privacy, becoming part of the cosmic balance.

The kind, gentle one reacted pleasantly to his arrival. "Look Bellicus, Izuku has finally joined us."

The more aggressive, harsh one elected to ignore the boy. "He's no different."

"I need to use Alien X!" Izuku begged before them. "Ben said I get a freebee, right?"

"I'm sorry." Serena earnestly apologized. "But Ben already used that one."

Izuku glanced downwards, his one ounce of hope to undo the immediate damage falling. "Then, I propose-"

"Denied." Bellicus interrupted.

"Bellicus, Izuku hasn't even finished making his motion."

Instead of acknowledging the statement, Bellicus went on. "I motion that we fill his mouth with a hundred jellyfish and seal it shut."

"Denied." Serena playfully shot the motion down.

"Hey!" Izuku waved in the dark void to get their attention. "Look, I can only imagine how hurt you felt that after eons-"

"-Eternal." Bellicus corrected him.

Doing his best not to let his thinning patience run out and lose his chance, Izuku tried to appease the voice. "Sorry, that after eternal argument that once you got someone to finally serve as a tiebreaker he only cared about a problem he was facing and didn't want to stay with you. But we're not like you, we're humans, we're mortal."

"Not anymore you're not!" Serena cheerfully informed the boy like it was the best thing ever. "Though I do feel sorrow that you had such a hard life, even for a mortal."

"It's not the worst life." Bellicus retorted. "He could have been turned into a lifeless cyborg stripped of emotion."

"Look." Izuku tried to get them back on track. "How about we make a deal, you help me with the immediate threat, and I'll help you in your arguments for a month."

"A month?!" The raging voice threw his face in front of the child. "You expect us to just put aside our tabled motions that have piled up for eternity only for you to deliberate with us for a month?!"

"Well." Serena came to Izuku's defense. "That is much longer than Ben ever offered us. I think it's rather kind of Izuku to offer his assistance."

"Sure." Bellicus rolled his eyes. "Like how we helped Ben solve the first one, but then it just went to another one, and then more problems kept happening and he refused to accept that anything other than his were more important. It all became a waste of time."

Izuku felt himself on the brink of snapping, only imagining what was going on back on Earth while he's been here. " We only live for a hundred years at best, and you think of us as a waste of your time?! How can you waste eternity?!"

"By not having a tiebreaker." Serena answered, believing herself to be useful to him. "But now that we have you, we can finally begin to resolve our arguments."

"Take it." Bellicus sternly informed Izuku, who had nowhere to escape to. "Because you can't leave it."

How many seconds are in eternity? After living for so long, doing so much, being immortal taught him to keep track of time not by the clock but by the events that transpired. Things had been exhilarating in the beginning. From the days he discovered he had one of the most powerful meta abilities, to having a squabble with his brother that brought about another quirk to rival his own, a smiling buffoon who was the only one to get a lasting hit in.

Then again, a few years of hiding was nothing compared to the empire he had built.

All for One paced through his towering castle with a strut, moving past the many paintings over the eras of the events that took place around the beginning of his life. It almost came off as tales from scripture, how fitting considering he was the only human to achieve godhood.

The real turning point, his return to the world to openly rule it and taking back his brother's quirk. While the tale left out how close he was to losing, the end result was the same.

The mascot of America with a beautiful quirk sought to avenge All Might, only to meet the same fate.

It repeated, when I-island did away with any regards to public safety and developed a nanite super weapon that if completed would rival his control over creation. The island sank, along with the daughter of Shield.

A young lad with another omnitrix resurfaced, and while the device did keep him alive longer than All for One predicted he came close to stealing the device. Only for a self destruct to initiate and erase the young man from the world.

Oh how fun it was to have rebellions rise and fall in those early centuries, all clinging to the hope that they could develop a quirk powerful enough to stop him. Little did they realize, the longer time passed the stronger his own quirks became. But after a time where his pupil had died fighting them once too many, All for One put an end to it.

He took control of it all, sending out his waves of nomu with All for One occasionally stepping onto the field of battle. Now whoever remained bowed to his presence, professing his name and his rule. Every generation, All for One traveled the globe to search out for any new entertainment, which came in collecting quirks.

He would rapture the holder, stealing their quirk and making a copy to return before stuffing them into the quirk farms with the rest of the humans that stood out. After three hundred years, something amazing happened.

Life from beyond the stars sought to invade underestimating the planet, underestimating their ruler. With a show of force, All for One took control of the invasion and put them into servitude. Harvesting their intelligence, their resources, and their technology All for One equipped starships with armies of high end nomu and sent them back into the galaxy.

They conquered on his behalf, planet after planet, star after star until the widespread governments surrendered themselves to him. What a surprise it was when Tomura, the pupil he kept alive all these years, actually rebelled against him. Not that it lasted, barely a footnote in history.

Stepping away from the portrait of having many alien races piled under his feet, All for One made his way to the balcony built into the top of the highest tower on planet Earth. This skyscraper was his castle, to oversee the empire he built in less time than it took for a civilization to settle a planet.

The land that was Japan had turned into fire and brimstone, spitting out smoke as nomu of all shapes and sizes patrolled the land, the skies, the stars and the sea. The ruins of humanity were being reconstructed by mindless beasts, broken cities cobbled together into a world he envisioned. To oversee it all, was his tower, built right atop where All Might's used to be but triple the height with blackened alien metal to probe impervious to any stray human who got carried away.

His only eternal companion, was the silent spectator who he moved here to get the best view of his work.

"Beautiful isn't it." All for One spoke to the frozen Alien X. "A testimony, to what one man can do."

The boy didn't reply, he never did. At times All for One got bored and would attempt to get any kind of reaction whether it be pain, fear, or hopelessness. No matter what quirk he used, his body remained impervious to reality. No matter who he killed in front of him, he never flinched. No matter how much he burned, he never whimpered.

"Of course, I hardly consider myself a man anymore." Holding up his palm, All for One used creation to make a simple wine glass in his hand. With the other, he squeezed the air to release a drink of his choice to fall into his cup. "Thanks to One for All fueling every quirk I have collected with All for One, Rewind from your adoptive sister, and the quirk farms scattered across the planet there is nothing I can do. Except against you."

Alien X was a mystery, no record of it in any of the DNA archives kept by the Galactic Federation or the homeworld of the omnitrix. That's right, he discovered where it came from, one of them. But this one, was from somewhere else beyond. Perhaps another galaxy.

"Perhaps you are my reminder." All for One gazed up at the sky, taking a small swig of his drink as he reached out with his enhanced sensory quirks to see farther out than any mortal. "That there will always be those to crush under my heel, more worlds to own. I have built armadas that could decimate star systems in a single moment, and I plan on going further beyond the known galaxy. 'Plus Ultra' as they say."

It would all have the same result though. After over living for seven hundred years, ruling Earth for the past five hundred and having conquered the whole galaxy in one the man had learned the truth. No one, no matter how hard they fought, how strong they were, they were all specks of mortality compared to him.

No one could dare pose a threat to his rule, his empire, his very being.

For he was the god of this universe now, and only he could tame it.

"Seconded"

A voice that commanded reality itself announced its presence, All for One freezing at the single word. Dropping the glass off of the railing, All for One felt his heart leap in his chest as he spun his face to the being next to him. He doubted it, he doubted that Izuku was capable of anything after isolating his mind for all of these centuries.

Alien X lifted his head, three voices in unison speaking out as they proclaimed their action.

"Intervention Motion Carried."

"You finally speak?!" All for One yelled out as he stormed up to the boy, unsure of whether it was excitement or the unknown that made him so emotional. "You finally decide to do something?! What could you possibly do to to me, to my empire?!'

Alien X didn't spare a glance towards the man, his mind taking in the entirety of the universe as he held one hand out, curling his fingers as if holding the bubble of creation in his grasp. Everything stopped, to listen to his command.

All for One took off his tie, throwing it to the side as he anticipated a battle he had been trying to coax for centuries. Would it be as stimulating as before? He hoped so, otherwise he would feel foolish with his heart worked up so much just for another quick death. Though Alien X still refused to aknowledge him, All for One growing a temper that could destroy worlds.

Out of the corner of his sight, he saw it, his tie was floating in the air. A terrible, dreaded fear ran though the man. All for One denied it, looking out and pushing as much power into his own senses to dismiss the potential.

No, it was confirmed. Everything he could identify, from his nomu to his battle ships. From the red seas to the factories lining the shores, everything had stilled under Alien X's control.

"I-is that it?!" All for One asked in false bravado, trying to mock the boy into giving up. "Five hundred years and that's all you can do to stop me?!"

With the entirety of reality under his control, Alien X turned his hand counter clockwise, turning it all back.

Everything.

All for One saw the light of the sun come back into view, the wrong way. The ball of fire was being pulled to the East, not the West. A thought, a fear came to his mind, one that shouldn't be possible.

He clenched his hands on the railing as he glanced down to the world below, seeing all the tiny creatures and tiny machines that were building his cities moving, in the wrong direction.

"Stop it." All for One ordered, Alien X paying him no attention as he continued to turn everything back to where it was before.

"Stop it!" The man repeated as the sun rushed back overhead. "I am not to be denied. Do you hear me?!"

The stars came over the sky, then the sun, then the stars again until they were turning into small streaks of light with the sun rushing overhead over and over until it was a solid ring of light above them.

Attempting to end this before the damage was permanent, All for One charged his arm with the stolen quirks, strengths, multipliers, damages, everything he could fit into his fist and fueling it with One for All. His knuckles cracked the alien, who did not budge from the impact.

"You are no one! Nothing!" All for One bellowed as he undid the damage to his own arm, charging up a second attack and throwing it into the alien's face. "I am the one they learned to worship! I am the one who remade the galaxy! I am The Immortal One! The Inevitable! No one can dare face me!"

The galaxy twisted backwards, worlds that were burned or carved apart were filling back with the life they once had, invading ships filling back up with their armies of nomu and returning to their source.

"FACE ME!"

Statues fell, buildings collapsed, and were restored to their rightful order.

With more desperation than he had ever known, All for One continued to assault Alien X as reality rewound all around him. Armies and monsters were flooding back towards Japan, fires racing away from the damage and leaving thousands of people alive.

Alien X saw it all, every last thing that All for One accomplished. No matter how much the villain threatened him, killed, or boasted, he could do nothing to affect the outcome.

The tower under their feet collapsed, the two returning back to where it all went down a path that never should have been. All for One bloodied his body over and over, throwing out attacks that used to shatter souls and stifle fear into those who heard of it. Not this being, not this man who could take control of everything and mold it to his will in an instant.

Kamino began to rebuild itself around them, the buildings falling back up to stand on their foundation, light posts erecting themselves and springing back to life, bodies that were burried under rubble and debris were given back their old lives from centuries ago.

All for One changed his tactics one last time, putting every ounce of stockpiled energy he had and funneled it into the only hope he had left. The horn on his head flared to life, spiraling out across the world as he attempted to undo what was being done.

It didn't work, he had no control over Alien X's actions or his power. All for One couldn't even slow it down, all the power he boasted, the feats he had accomplished, were nothing in comparison of what the

Celestialsapien was capable of.

All he could do, was hopelessly watch as the battle that gave him the strength to take over the universe was undone. All of it, from the boy's sister being remade unharmed onto the nearby stretcher to All Might being remade before his eyes. It finally occurred to All for One, that he was not being reversed like everything else.

Izuku Midoriya, Alien X wanted him to see how pointless it was to struggle against him. For all that he culminated, it would never match the power that he had. All he could do now, was beg.

"Please!" All for One fell to his knees, cowering as Alien X finally looked down towards the man. "Spare me! If you asked I could have brought anyone you wanted back! I could have given you anything you wanted!"

But he didn't, instead he spent the past five hundred years trying to break down his will only to find himself cracking at his presence. All for One realized that no words, no actions he could do would ever undo what Izuku Midoriya witnessed.

His judgement arrived, Alien X serving as his judge, jury, and executioner for the crimes he commited against the universe. The boy's hand came down, All for One squeezing his eyes and bracing himself for whatever eternal torment awaited him.

*SKREEE*

The omnitrix, reactivated itself after being dormant for centuries. Issuing the same command it was first given when it arrived in this world. Removing a single human's quirk factor.

All for One fell to the floor, coiling in on himself as he felt emptied from a fountain of quirks. There was nothing for him now, All for One had been erased with every quirk it carried. Alien X stood above him, in silent judgement, finally having carried out the wishes of one boy five hundred years ago.

Alien X released his hold, letting the universe flow as it was.

"All for One!" All Might rushed up to the scene he just arrived to, pausing as he saw the pitiful display bawling on the ground. Standing above him, was a strange human made of stars. Cautiously circling around it, All Might's eyes widened when he saw the hourglass on his chest. "Young Midoriya?"

"He did it." Eri sat up from the metal table she was carelessly placed on earlier. Without the horn on her head, and with All for One bearing no sign of it, and Izuku selecting the one alien that required the most dire circumstances to use, she could guess what transpired. "Izuku, saved us."

All Might questioned if this was all some elaborate trap, but the way the child spoke with such sadness as she stared longingly to her brother, made him believe that while the fight had been one it came at a terrible price.

Five hundred years, of arguing, of debating, of deliberating over the minute details of millions of conversations set aside, Izuku managed to get something in return. At some point, he was granted the simple wish to see what had happened after his transformation. Everything, he saw it all, and his reaction only delayed any agreement. Delay after delay, motion after motion, he had to give more if he was to get any help at all. Though the problem was, he couldn't do it in one single act.

He couldn't just undo it all, he had to make sure it didn't happen again.

He needed All for One to see the alien's power firsthand.

He needed to fix everything the man had done.

Finally, he had to remove every quirk in his possession before letting the universe resume.

Without sleep, or even the need of it, he had to spend every second he was awake with only two other voices in the whole universe.

"Well wasn't that worth it." Serena spoke out in relief and pride. "Good vote."

"I still think we should have burned him for a thousand years." Bellicus differed from her feelings as always.

"We did it." Izuku observed through their omnipotent form, seeing all those worlds, all those people, safe. "We, really did it."

Floating up behind the boy, Bellicus came to reorientate Izuku. "Stop repeating yourself. Now come on, we still have thirty billion, eight hundred and seventy two million, four hundred and-"

Izuku wasn't fully paying attention to him, seeing Eri stepping up to his alien body slowly, without a smile on her face. Heroes were supposed to save people with a smile, to put them at ease and bring happiness back to the world. Eri, wasn't happy though. How many friends, family, classmates and even coworkers come up to him with the same expression.

He saved the day, but he unfortunately couldn't be as good of a hero as he hoped to be.

Serena saw the boy's solemn expression as Bellicus went on about the next order of business. Feeling his heart and hearing his thoughts, she couldn't help but feel guilty about being the one to keep him alongside so many others from being happy with their decision.

In a rare moment, the voice of love and compassion interrupted her counterpart. "I motion to return Izuku Midoriya to human, effective immediately."

"What?!" Both Izuku and Bellicus swung around to her.

"We haven't even gotten a thousandth through our motions!" Bellicus argued, as they always did.

"Izuku here has already resolved more for us than we ever could have done in an eternity." Serena reminded her lifelong counterpart, before giving a kind smile to the human. "We both know that these centuries have taken a greater toll on him than we have ever experienced."

"So?" Bellicus didn't see her logic holding up. "If he were truly human his mind would have broken within the first year."

"We do not have a life outside deliberating." Serena reminded the voice, gesturing back to the sad child looking up towards her big brother locked away with them. "Izuku does, and it's not fair that he has to spend more time with us than he would ever have back in his own life."

"He knew what he was getting into." Bellicus stubbornly stated, turning away from the girl's sad eyes.

"Bellicus." Serena gently chided him.

In a low rumbling of annoyance, Bellicus came to his final answer. "FIne."

Izuku's tired sunken eyes sparked with hope, the boy seeing something more than rage or aggression. "Thank you." He uttered.

"Don't expect us to be so lenient next time." Bellicus sternly warned the boy. "You were a pain to have."

"And I think you were an absolute delight!" Serena complimented Izuku, before Izuku felt himself being pulled away from the two.

"Thank you!" Izuku yelled out again, his soul removed from the all powerful Alien X and returning to its simple, quirkless, very mortal life that he loved so much.

As heroes began sweeping the area, escorting defeated villains and broken nomus back to their holding cells, a stillness was shared between them all. Villains, who were so close to forever tilting the balance in their own favor had been utterly crushed by the sudden defeat.

Heroes, either pro or children, had another harsh reminder tha peace was a fragile thing, and keeping it was no easy chore.

Lastly, civilians, who tried to retain their routine and normalcy would find that change would continue to sweep their world. Some good, and some bad, and sometimes just sad.

A black car pulled up to the large crime scene, a warehouse that avoided suspicion was being emptied out of all of its contents. From nomu tanks, to other defeated villains, to bystanders. Out from the passenger door stepped Inko Midoriya, a mother who had too many near heart attacks in a lifetime.

From the driver side, Naomasa Tsukauchi flipping out his collapsible cane and steadying himself as both he and his wife were quickly moving towards the line of police officers. One of them held a hand up to stop him as with any other nosy reporters, but a quick flash of his badge got them to lift the tape to let them pass.

They only heard bare parts of the news, and whether or not they were told the whole picture wouldn't stop them from rushing to the children they had helped raise together.

Tucked out of sight was an ambulance, where Himiko and Eri were both being checked over after dealing with a dangerous, stressful night. They perked up hearing the clack of their father's walking stick, both rushing forward to let themselves be engulfed in a hug.

"Himiko, Eri!" Inko sobbed as she tightly wrapped herself around them. They had been through too much for a family, everytime they were almost killed hit her heart, but the relief in seeing them fine after the fact reminded her how much she loved them.

They didn't say anything for a moment, the family just embracing one another after another excruciating trial. But someone was missing, someone who tended to be at the center of all of the danger.

"Where is Izuku?" Inko questioned, keeping any doubts she usually had of his capabilities tucked away in the hope he came out alright again. When she didn't get an answer, just an ashamed look from her daughters who were blaming themselves for something they didn't do, Inko felt the fear a mother should never have.

Naomasa, in contact with authorities both of Earth and other was on his phone, receiving the necessary information. "They haven't moved him yet, he's still in the warehouse."

"Moved?" The mother's blood ran cold, Naomasa not feeling the same dread but couldn't reassure her too well.

"He's alive." He told her, unable to approach the shaky details with certainty. "Unhurt as far as they can tell. This way."

He brought his family past the weaving heroes and police, to where All Might was waiting at the main door to the facility.

"Can we have a moment?" Naomasa questioned his long time friend, the number one hero not even needing to be asked before moving out of the way of the door and opening it for them.

Inside, the dark and dim lights of the empty building did little to settle their nerves. Only the alien standing still and tall was their only company. Inko ran ahead, wanting to speak to her son and check on him face to face. Only he was frozen, unresponsive, and seemingly vacant.

"This is Alien X." Eri shared, knowing the most about Izuku's transformations, especially the ones she had to be weary of when she had her quirk. "He, can do just about anything."

"So he saved the day?" HImiko poked the alien's side, expecting a twitch or a warning from her brother not to touch him. Nothing, no reaction, and that was worse than any scolding.

"Can he hear us?" Naomasa waved his hands in front of the alien, again getting no response.

"Only if he convinces himself to." Eri approached, walking towards her brother with heavy footsteps. "They…live forever, but they also hardly ever do anything because they're stuck arguing in their head. Not a lot is known about them, but they're hardly seen to do anything, ever."

"So how do we turn him back?" Inko gestured to the device on Izuku's chest, the one that he clung to desperately in his life despite never needing it to be loved.

Wiping her moistened eyes, Eri hated to be the one to break the news. "We can't. No one can. Only Izuku can-"

The Midoriya family shieldied themselves from a flash of green light, one that spread a warmth through their chests as they all knew it so well. Izuku Midoriya, weilder of the omnitrix, residential quirkless teen and agent of Providence had returned back to his freckled green headed self.

Before even he could reorientate himself from the change, he was already attacked by a swarm of hugs. He accepted it immediately, stuffing his head into their love as they all fell down to their knees. Thanking whatever higher power existed, Izuku could finally see their faces again with his own.

Their crying, smiling faces that were relieved to be alive, happy to be reunited.

He saved the day, and smiled with the people he managed to rescue.

Just like a real hero.

Epilogue chapter coming.

Before you ask why Whampire isn't in the big fight, there's a simple explanation. Izuku's omnitrix never got to scan the alien. It was pulled from its native universe during Alien Force, and the events of omniverse haven't happened yet.

This was a big chapter, and I found myself working on it day and night because I didn't want to delay you guys anymore from how I left things at the last chapter. This was a multi year journey, and I'll admit there were a few times I thought about dropping this story despite it being my most popular. From harassment, to threats, and plenty of people demanding that I write in transformations despite the summary I listed in the story.

I really considered having a bittersweet ending for this story, because I like those, but it didn't feel right with this one. So, here we are with a nice happy ending instead of Izuku being stuck as Alien X for eons to come.

LAST CHANCE TO ASK QUESTIONS AND GIVE RECOMENDATIONS! Hope you guys liked it, and if there's any final wrap up scene you want to see let me know and I'll see if it fits the vibe.

List of Hybrids (In order of splicing):

Eijiro Kirishima & Petrosapien/Diamondhead

Himiko Midoriya & Lenopan/Sludgepuppy

Kyoka Jiro & Sonorosian/Echo Echo

Reiko Yanagi & Ectonurite/Ghostfreak

Shota Aizawa/Eraserhead & Thep Khufan/Snare-oh

Denki Kaminari & Nosedeenian/Buzzshock

Tensei Ida/Ingenium & Citrakayah/Fasttrack

Ochaco Uraraka & Galilean/Gravattack (Alien Generated Quirk)

Yuga Aoyama & Crystalsapien/Chromastone

Mashirao Ojiro & Arachnichimp/Spidermonkey

Higari Maijima/Power Loader & Talpaedan/Armodrillo

Nemuri Kayama/Midnight & Nemuina/Pesky Dust (Alien Generated Quirk)

Hizashi Yamada/Present Mic & Loboan/Blitzwolfer/Benwolf

Any grammar errors please point it out.

Credit for helping me make this story goes to Animeguy1101