章 1205: 55
How could they all do so much?
Individuals with multiple quirks were incredibly rare, largely it was limited to special cases, such as himself or the bearer of One for All, with some quirk-bred exceptions such as that Todoroki girl. So he could understand two of his opponents doing random fucking bullshit.
But there was a fucking limit to it!
A blast slammed into his back, forcing him to take a step forward; that blue haired shape changer was a huge problem. Her blasts might not hurt too much, but her hit and run abilities made trying to get any form of advantage a problem! What's more was her ability to change into a robot, which changed how her attacks worked and how fast she could fly, switching her spiralling blasts for directed ones.
That, and she was the fucking tit-bus that brought all the heroes here!
Before he could counter attack her blast, that black-haired woman appeared in front of him. The black smoke she emitted was dangerous; just the slightest breath of it could force him to cower in front of her. A sparking javelin appeared in her hand as she stabbed forward. He blocked, hardening his skin with one of his many quirks to reduce the damage. Blocking it was like putting a pane of glass in front of a canon. His arm shattered, sending sinew and bone into his face and the javelin into his shoulder.
Thunderstruck, he was forced to gasp in pain. The smoke filled into his mouth as though there was some malicious sentience that desired to suffocate all.
Fear.
He had been the fear of others for so long that he had forgotten the sensation.
She appeared in front of him, her black hair flowing like death as her eyes glowed with the call of the void he had been avoiding for so long. A shining silver sword appeared in her hands.
Less than an inch spared him from his hand being chopped off.
He pushed himself back, stumbling and nearly whimpering in fear.
And then he found himself inside of that Todoroki girl's quirk. She was supposed to have fire like Endeavour, and ice just as strong.
Not so much stronger!
A bolt of ice tore through the air, a wolf-like head emerging from its edge and biting down with fangs of fire that both burned and froze his skin, sending a numbness through his entire body and forcing a scream from his mouth. A second frost wolf appeared and grabbed onto his other shoulder.
And then there was her.
The carrier of One for All.
Itsuka Kendo.
There was something so brutish about the way Itsuka wielded One for All. It made All Might's wild swings almost seem tame. But she could strike hard, fast, and where it mattered. She was still young, green, and inexperienced, but she just might be the most terrifying wielder of One for All he had ever met.
She pulled her palm back, cupping the air ever so slightly. He saw the image of the attack before it actually struck. It was a pillar of compressed air being shoved at him with all the terrifying strength One for All could muster, being multiplied by Itsuka's own quirk, or rather quirks. Her endurance alone would be an amazing quirk.
He saw her palm flash towards him, expanding faster than his brain could comprehend and making it seem like she was actually going to strike him. Then he felt the impact. His enhanced muscles and joints snapped in just about every painful way possible as the ground beneath him buckled, and the entirety of I-Island shook.
He stared at the sky for a moment, just an ounce of regret flooding into him as he thought about those kids that were giving him such a hard time. If he had his crown, they'd be dealt with already. Or would they? How did they survive that first activation? The reality warping powers were great, and he could only do so much without destroying everything. That was why he had simply defeated those heroes.
Were they not heroes? Did he get stuck in a loophole with them technically being students? No. That didn't feel right.
That girl, Itsuka, had vanished right before he had activated Overhaul's quirk. And come to think of it, those girls did keep vanishing and reappearing. But how? And why?
They kept appearing next to that boy. The one with the clipboard.
Now that he thought about it, didn't that boy have the laptop a moment ago? How could he simply let that boy continue like he was just supposed to be there?
A smile grew on his face as he touched his own leg.
In a flash, his body was restored, his suit completely undamaged. It didn't matter how much they assaulted him. It was all for naught, and now he had a target.
XXXX
[Boss: All for One. Lvl ?
Health: A lot/still a lot + full heal for touching himself.
Stats
Strength: Can carry his massive ego without snapping in two
Dexterity: Believes that getting hit in the face is a successful block
Constitution: How the fuck is he not dead?
Wisdom: If old people really are wiser, this stat is probably really high.
Intelligence: The stupid kind of genius that lacks the ability to be happy. Like, he could have lived forever being a good person! But no, he had to try and take over the world.
Charisma: Looks like he trades stocks for a living.]
This was going about as well as he could have hoped. Itsuka, Momo, Nejire, and Shoko were all acting in nearly perfect synergies. The improvement to his tactical skills had made their natural teamwork blossom twice over thanks to his skill of Intent Share allowing the girls to know what the others were about to do.
For his part, it was taking everything he had just to stay one step ahead of All for One by directing the girls to attack at the right times, removing them the moment things got dangerous, and keeping his distance all while he moved towards All Might. He just needed a moment.
A moment.
A moment would be enough to restore All Might.
For each moment he gained, the more he would get.
Izuku ran from the battle, turning his back towards the group, and sprinted towards All Might, a golden spatula in hand.
Before he could get to All Might, the ground splinted in front of him, large spikes nearly skewering him, forcing him to his back to avoid a painful injury or death. He scrambled up to the side, avoiding another spike and running right into All for One.
He swatted his arm away, knocking the clipboard out of it.
"Ahh, so I see, that's—"
[Teleporting Itsuka Kendo]
Itsuka appeared, her fist already in motion, and slammed into the face of All for One with enough force that the entire island shook. All for One was sent stumbling backwards, his face twisted in pain. "Your fight's with me! I'm the one with One for All!"
"Hahaha!" All for One laughed, clutching his face as his body restored itself like nothing had even happened. "Oh, please, you're nothing but a brute! No, no, I've figured it out, the moment I knocked that clipboard out of your hand so much made sense!" All for One pointed at him and smiled. "You!" His arms flew wide and he spun around him. "This is all your doing, isn't it? You're why all the heroes appeared here, why so many of those heroes were stronger! I had thought they had found someone that could force a quirk evolution, but no, no, no, they found you, someone that can do so, so, so much more!"
"Tell me boy, tell me your name! Tell me about your quirk!"
"I'm Izuku Midoriya," He spat out. There was no reason to keep his name a secret; this guy already knew about Itsuka, and probably knew about Shoko and Nejire, and Momo won the sports festival. "And my quirk is bullshit."
A laugh escaped All for One. It was a deep, unsettling, and outright horrifying laugh that chilled Izuku to the bone. "Midoriya you say? Tell me, your mother, was her name Inko?"
Izuku flinched, and there was something about All for One's twisted smile that didn't sit well with him. "Yes?"
"Hahah! Oh my dear brother! How rich is this? Such a twisted sense of fate, don't you think? My dear, dear, great nephew?" All for One smiled and took a few steps back towards them. "I'll tell you what Izuku; to honor the blood between us, I will allow you to simply walk away. You can live freely in my new world, and all you have to do is leave. Leave, and leave that girl—" he pointed towards Itsuka, "—with me. I can't let One for All thrive in my new world."
Izuku narrowed his eyes. "What the fuck are you talking about?"
"We're related, you and I. Ahh, I can see it now, there's more of your mother in there than I'd care for, but you certainly did inherit his heroic spirit." All for One nodded slowly, his smile growing sad. "Through your mother's blood, you are the direct descendant of my little brother."
Izuku felt like he was going to vomit.
He was related to this villain?
"Izuku!" Itsuka's hand found his back and she got into a fighting stance. "Don't let him get to you. He's just messing with you."
"Mess? No, no, no, my dear Kendo, I don't mess." He held his hand for a moment before throwing his arms wide. "I toy with people. And I can assure you, I am being oh so truthful with some of the only family I have left. Izuku has three options: join me, run from me, or die." All for One let his arms drop and glared towards Itsuka. "Which is one more than you. You can give me One for All, or you can die clutching onto my foolish brother's hopes!"
"You can take your offer and shove it up your ass!" Izuku shouted, his stomach calming in a moment. It didn't matter if this guy was his great great great old-as-fuck uncle, that didn't mean that they were family!
He had more than enough people that loved him!
[Sys-admin: You know, this would have been a great time for your harem protagonist perk to activate and let all of you share skills.
Momo Yaoyorozu: Yeah, why isn't that activating?
Sys-admin: I have no idea! Maybe y'all need to get married or something? Maybe kids?
Nejire Hado: oooh, remind me to switch from sexing to breeding mode when we're out of this.
Shoko Todoroki: Why do I like the sound of that?
Itsuka Kendo: Is a life and death battle really the time to be horny?
Nejire Hado: That's my secret Ituska, I'm always horny!]
A shot from Momo's rifle started the second round.
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All for One!
This wasn't going to end.
No matter what they did.
No matter how hard she hit.
No matter what sort of bullshit they pulled out of their ass, All for One still stood.
Itsuka pushed herself to the limit, pouring every last part of One for All into her fist and slamming it into All for One's face for the third time that day. He went tumbling backwards and was swallowed whole by an icy beast of fire that Shoko had made. With a snap, it froze solid and shot inward with massive icy spikes.
Nejire floated above, her robot skin changing her beams into straight lines so that she could push all of her power into a single point.
The sound of a cannon drew her attention to Momo, just before another massive bolt from whatever magical weapon she had made slammed into All for One's center of mass.
Shoko fell to a knee, her hand shaking as she braced herself at the ground.
Momo looked pale, and her usual glow was gone as she stumbled where she stood. Only Nejire was really still hanging on, and even Izuku was being pressed to his limits. This was a battle of attrition, something they were supposed to be good at!
So how were they losing?
Menu couldn't start a game until All for One was almost beaten, and even then it was too risky with his sheer number of quirks. The dude might even have a cooking quirk that let him out-cook Izuku! Or a fucking quirk that made him good at dancing! Or whatever the hell challenge Menu could make up.
Stupid rules!
What the hell was with that prophecy anyways?
"That which he seeks shall be his undoing."
She was starting to think that wasn't even talking about her! Every single punch felt like it did nothing, and he just laughed it off everytime he stood back up like one of those blow-up punching bags.
Maybe it was Izuku?
All for One did say they were family, right? But, it sounded like All for One knew about Inko, so he could have found Izuku at a moment's notice.
Think! She was smart! There had to be something that they were missing!
Something that they were too stupid to see!
Spikes emerged from the ground, flying up into the sky and landing a hit on Nejire. It opened a massive wound on her side that forced her out of her robot transformation, allowing blood to fall as she screamed in pain.
The ground surged, and All for One emerged, riding a wave of dirt and steel towards Izuku with a roar. Momo appeared beside Izuku, a spear of silver in her hands that glowed like the sun. She stabbed forth, piercing All for One's hand and blowing his shoulder clean off. In a moment, his hand was back.
Itsuka found herself teleported beside Izuku and Momo.
She had to act.
She had to think!
That which he seeks would be his undoing.
That which he seeks.
A voice in the back of her head roared like the sea on a dark and stormy night raging and breaking against a rocky shore.
All for One!
One for All.
It wasn't her. It wasn't her as the holder of One for All, but the quirk itself.
[Sys-admin: You really think that's it?]
She met Izuku's eyes.
"Wait!" She looked towards All for One, and pulled out one of her hairs. "I give you this, and you let us go? That's the deal, right?"
A smile appeared on All for One's face, and he held out his hand, still keeping his grip around Momo's throat. "So I was right, there is a limit to your teleportation trick."
If that's what he needed to think. Sure.
All for One!
She could feel the quirk inside of her raging. This was what it wanted.
Worse case scenario, Izuku dies and they hope they actually got an extra life or two.
Best case? This worked.
"Give it here," All for One gestured, his smile growing like mold on bread. "Give me One for All, and I will allow you to live. I'm not a fan of killing family, after all."
She stepped forward, a shaking hand holding out her hair.
Please work.
For the love of everything.
Please.
Work.
All for One!
He took her hair and opened his mouth. She had half-expected a snake-like tongue to emerge from his mouth and just make the moment feel like he was defiling her. Instead, he simply opened his mouth and swallowed the hair.
All for One!
All for One!
All...for...One…
All…
The voice vanished.
And she felt it. She felt that power leaving her body. The dam had burst, draining the reservoir and flowing into All for One.
"Ha!" He laughed, dropping Momo and walking away from Izuku. "Hahaha! Such Power! You have all been fools with this quirk! Wasting it on heroics! Using it to fight me! And I was such a fool to create it! It...It…" All for One place a hand on his stomach. A glow spread across his body. "It's… It's too much. It's. I can't… It's eating my quirks!"
He stumbled, looking at her with genuine confusion and fear. "What did you do?"
Itsuka shrugged and smiled. "I… I just gave you what you wanted."
"Oh…"
All for One ended with a pop of stardust.
Itsuka blinked. She looked towards Izuku, then Momo, then Shoko, then Nejire.
Then she looked at her hand. Her open, normal-sized hand. She closed her fist and fell to the ground.
They did it. They won.
All for One was gone.
And.
And she was quirkless.
AN: I'm kind of shaking right now.
This chapter was so hard to write for so many different reasons. But. I got to write the ending to it that I had planned since the beginning. Itsuka losing One for All and her own quirk to beat the bad guy. I know a lot of you really didn't like the whole Izuku not getting One for All thing, (I don't even know if you're still here), but, here's the pay off for that.
While this is the climax, this story isn't over. It's probably going to end in one or two chapters depending on how long the resolution/epilogue is.
I hope you all enjoyed so far.
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