Location: Shizuoka Prefecture – Grandma Saki's House
Ti: T-Plus 20 Minutes (After the Global Raid Began)
RUMBLE.
RUMBLE.
CREAK. CREAK.
The thick, reinforced walls of the house is shaking.
The teacups on the wooden coffee table rattled hard, spilling hot matcha onto the saucers.
Grandma Saki sat on the heavy living room couch, keeping her back straight despite the violent shaking beneath her feet.
The living room was completely packed with people.
Kimiko sat on the floor, holding a crying baby Emi tightly against her chest. Her husband, Kenji, wrapped both of his arms around them, using his body as a shield.
Right next to them, Shoko Haimawari was gripping the hand of Kazuho's mother. Both won looked absolutely terrified.
In the corner, O'clock's wife and his teenage daughter, Tamao, were huddled together, staring at the television screen.
WEE-WOO. WEE-WOO.
A loud, piercing tsunami siren started wailing from the city speakers outside the window.
"Why are we just sitting here?!" Kazuho's mother yelled, her voice cracking with pure panic.
She looked toward the front door. "The siren is going off! We need to get to the high-ground shelters! If a wave hits, this house will be buried!"
"We can't leave," Makoto Tsukauchi said firmly.
Makoto was pacing near the hallway, gripping her smartphone tight. She stopped and looked at the panicked mothers.
"The shelters aren't safe," Makoto explained, trying to keep her own voice from shaking. "Rember? Koichi called Shoko-san. Kazuho called you. And Iwao called his family."
Makoto looked around the room.
"They all gave the exact sa instruction," Makoto reminded them. "They said, 'Do not leave Grandma Saki's house under any circumstances. Stay inside.'"
Shoko wiped a tear from her eye and nodded, squeezing the hand of Kazuho's mom. "My Koichi sounded completely serious. He was asking to stay put. We have to trust our kids."
Grandma Saki and Makoto shared a brief, knowing look.
The families in the room didn't know Kaito was Hero X, but they trusted the their families. They didn't know this house was a fortress reinforced by Kaito.
On the massive flat-screen TV, the regular broadcasting was totally hijacked.
*-*-*-*
Location: Tokyo – Sato X News Headquarters
"Keep the feed live! Do not drop the signal!" Hideki Sato scread across the control room.
The CEO of Sato X News was sweating through his expensive suit. The entire studio was shaking from the aftershocks.
His assistant, Nagi, was frantically typing at the main console, pulling data from whatever international news agencies were still online.
"Boss, it's not a localized attack!" Nagi shouted, his eyes wide as he looked at the seismic readings. "The villain's broadcast wasn't a bluff! The sensors are maxing out. The Cascadia Subduction Zone in Arica, the Gibraltar Strait... and the Nankai Trough right off our coast. The bombs actually went off!"
Hideki grabbed a headset and slamd it over his ears.
"Override channel four!" Hideki ordered. "Pull up chopper feed alpha! Show the people the Shizuoka coastline right now!"
CLICK.
The massive screens in the studio changed.
It showed a live view from a news helicopter hovering over the beach.
The ocean was just... gone.
The Pacific Ocean was visibly and rapidly drawing back.
The water had retreated miles away from the shoreline, exposing the bare, muddy seabed.
Fish were flopping uselessly on the wet sand. Abandoned ships were tilted over in the mud.
There was an eerie, unnatural silence coming from the ocean. The normal roar of the waves was completely missing, leaving only the sound of the wailing city sirens in the background.
Down on the coastal highway, people were abandoning their cars, using their quirks in panic.
Drivers were sprinting on foot, staring in absolute, paralyzed horror at the empty ocean.
A ga-tsunami was forming in the deep water, and it was only minutes away.
Hideki grabbed his microphone. "If you are anywhere near the coast, drop everything and run! The water is pulling back! Get to high ground imdiately! Use your quirks to escape. This is not the ti to follow the laws of Hero society."
*-*-*-*
Location: Global Broadcast Feed
The screen switched again.
Hideki didn't do it. All For One did.
The villain was still forcing his own live feed onto every television and smartphone on the planet, making sure the world watched his victory.
But it didn't look like a victory.
The cara showed a completely unrecognizable wasteland. Stadium-sized craters scarred the broken earth.
All Might stood in the center of the destruction.
He wasn't bleeding. He wasn't losing.
He looked like a terrifying, enraged monster. His yellow suit was torn, but his body was glowing with raw, untethered power. The internal Blackwhip cables pulsed dark red under his skin.
All Might was going completely all out. He didn't care about the collateral damage anymore. He was furiously bulldozing through the Seven Crowns.
BAM.
All Might smashed the Speed clone into the dirt, entirely ignoring the attack from the Strength clone.
The fight was a brutal, terrifying stalemate.
Every ti All Might crushed one of them, the Healer clone instantly put them back together.
But All Might refused to yield a single inch.
Floating high above the craters, All For One looked down.
He already activated the detonator in his mind. He triggered the apocalypse. He thought it would break All Might's spirit.
Instead, it just pissed him off.
All For One looked genuinely frustrated. He realized he was locked in a cage with a monster he simply couldn't kill.
*-*-*-*
Location: Shizuoka Prefecture – Grandma Saki's House
The mothers in the living room were openly weeping.
They watched the news footage of the retreating ocean, knowing the giant wave was going to hit the city in less than ten minutes.
Step. Step.
Grandma Saki stood up. Her knees popped, but she kept her back completely straight.
She stepped away from the crying group and walked into the hallway. Together with her was Makoto who was also anxious.
She reached into her pocket and pulled out her smartphone.
Her hands were shaking badly now. The tough exterior of the Arisaka matriarch was cracking under the weight of the end of the world.
She dialed Kaito's personal number.
RING.
RING.
Click.
Kacha.
"Kaito?" Grandma Saki asked, her voice cracking.
There was no background noise on the other end of the line. No screaming, no sirens, no panic.
Just calm, steady breathing.
"I'm here, Grandma," Kaito answered.
"Kaito, the ocean," Saki whispered desperately, looking back at the TV in the living room. "The water is gone. The news is saying the tsunami is coming. The heroes are trapped fighting those monsters on the TV. They can't stop the water."
She held her breath, waiting for him to tell her it was a mistake.
"What should we do Kaito?" Makoto on the side also asked.
Kaito's tone completely shifted. And gave them a huge reassurance that everything is going to be fine.
"Tell everyone in the room to sit down and watch the screen, Grandma," Kaito replied. "My other vacation is over. It's ti to work overti."
*-*-*-*
WEE-WOO. WEE-WOO.
Location: Kawasaki Heavy Industrial Zone
Ti: T-Minus 32 Minutes (Before Global Raid starts)
Pitter-patter.
Pitter-patter.
The rain was coming down in sheets, flooding the gutters and soaking through everyone's clothes.
The main street was packed shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of people. It was a chaotic, noisy ss.
"I left my stove on! Let go back!" a guy in a dirty chanic's jumpsuit yelled, shoving a police officer's riot shield.
"Nobody goes back!" the cop yelled, slipping a little in the mud. "Keep moving to the designated shelter! Don't push the people in front of you!"
"This is bullshit! We're going to get soaked!" a woman carrying a crying toddler scread at the cops. "Where are the buses?!"
"Damn! I haven't deleted my browser history" another one yelled in the back.
Tetsutetsu wiped the rain out of his eyes, his silver hair completely plastered to his forehead.
He was getting shoved from all sides by panicked factory workers and irritated locals.
"Dad, I'm telling you, this is completely stupid," Tetsutetsu yelled over the noise of the sirens.
He grabbed his dad's heavy suitcase to help him carry it over a puddle. "Chemical spill? Really? I literally have steel inside my nose. If there was a gas leak from the plant, I would sll the sulfur. There's zero sll!"
"I don't care what you sll, Tetsu!" his dad grunted, pulling his collar up against the cold rain. "Look at the cops. Look at the heroes. Do they look like they're running a drill? Shut up and walk!"
Up ahead, the crowd bottlenecked near the massive steel doors of the underground evacuation do.
"Ahh! Damn." A guy in a business suit slipped on the wet asphalt and went down hard, dropping his bags.
The crowd behind him didn't stop, they kept pushing forward, almost trampling him.
THUD.
A massive, furry hand grabbed the businessman by the collar and yanked him back to his feet like he weighed nothing.
The Lion Hero, Shishido, stood in the middle of the chaos.
He wasn't doing his usual loud, confident laugh for the news caras. He was completely drenched, his fur matted down with rain and sweat.
He already had two elderly won tucked securely under his left arm.
"Watch your feet!" Shishido roared. His voice was completely hoarse, like he'd been screaming for an hour.
He pointed a massive claw at a guy trying to carry a huge flat-screen TV into the do.
"Drop the TV! Drop the luggage! You are taking up space for people! Get inside the blast doors right now!"
Tetsutetsu stopped complaining. He looked at Shishido's face. The pro hero looked so serious.
*-*-*-*
Location: Yokohama Comrcial Ward
Ti: T-Minus 28 Minutes
CLACK. CLACK. CLACK.
The sound of hundreds of rolling designer suitcases and high heels echoed down the upscale shopping district.
The sky was clear here, but the tension was thick enough to choke on.
"I am not leaving this bag! Do you know how much this costs?!" a woman in a fur coat scread at a local sidekick.
"Ma'am, unexploded bombs don't care about your bag! Move!" the sidekick yelled back, trying to herd the crowd toward the subway entrance that led to the local do.
"This is so annoying," Neito Monoma whined, kicking a crushed soda can down the sidewalk.
He kept checking his expensive watch. "An unexploded bomb? Really? They couldn't find it on a Monday? They had to ruin my entire weekend for a piece of rusty tal?"
"Neito, please stop talking and keep up," his mother sighed, rubbing her temples. "Don't cause a scene."
"I'm just saying, the Pro Heroes are so dramatic about everything," Monoma scoffed, dodging a businessman who was running blindly down the street. "They just want to look good on the evening news."
A few feet behind them, Itsuka Kendo walked quietly.
Her dad, a broad-shouldered martial arts master, had a tight grip on her arm, steering her through the pushing crowd.
"Hey, watch your elbows!" Kendo's dad barked at a teenager who shoved past them.
"Dad, sothing is wrong," Kendo whispered, looking around. "Look at the sidekicks. They aren't looking at the ground for a bomb."
Kendo looked toward the main intersection.
Pro Hero Midnight was standing on top of a parked police cruiser, holding a gaphone.
She had completely dropped her usual flirty, playful persona.
Her face was dead serious.
A rich guy in a tailored suit tried to force his way past the barricade, dragging a massive tal trunk that got stuck on the asphalt, blocking the entire line of people behind him.
"I said, leave the heavy bags!" Midnight yelled through the gaphone.
"I'm not leaving my inventory!" the guy yelled back.
CRACK.
Midnight didn't argue. She swung her whip. The leather snapped instantly, slicing the heavy tal latches off the trunk.
"...."
The trunk burst open, spilling clothes and watches all over the street.
The crowd went dead silent for a second.
"Move!" Midnight scread, her voice cracking. "Move now!"
Kendo felt a chill go down her spine. Midnight's eyes weren't looking at the crowd.
She was constantly darting her head toward the rooftops and the dark alleyways.
*-*-*-*-*
Location: Tokyo Historic District
Ti: T-Minus 23 Minutes
SHUFFLE. SHUFFLE.
The dirt path leading up the mountain shrine was packed shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of locals.
"My cat! I can't find my cat!" an old woman cried, trying to turn around against the flow of the massive crowd.
"Ma'am, you can't go back down! It's not safe! I'll find your cat." a young guy yelled, trying to hold her up so she wouldn't get crushed by the moving bodies.
Ibara Shiozaki walked in the middle of the crowd.
She was carrying a heavy backpack for an older man walking next to her. She kept her free hand clasped near her chest.
"Please protect us," Ibara prayed softly under her breath, ignoring the shouting and crying around her. "Please watch over the people."
"Everyone, please remain calm. Do not push the person in front of you."
The voice didn't co from a speaker. It echoed directly inside Ibara's head, and the heads of everyone else on the mountain.
Mandalay, one of the Wild Wild Pussycats, was standing high up on a massive wooden torii gate.
She was using her Telepathy quirk to broadcast to all ten thousand people at once.
"The underground shelter is fully stocked," Mandalay's voice echoed smoothly and calmly in their minds. "You are completely safe. The danger is contained. Keep walking forward."
The telepathy worked.
The soothing tone in their heads made the crowd stop shoving. People took deep breaths and started walking in an orderly line.
But Ibara looked up at the gate.
Mandalay look so serious. Next to her, Tiger was holding a military-grade police scanner, pointing down at the city.
Tiger leaned in and whispered sothing to Mandalay.
Mandalay's eyes went wide and whispered sothing back while looking at the device in her hands.
Ibara could see the truth on the hero's face. Sothing big is going to happen.
*-*-*-*
Location: Deep Underground (Sector 4 Subway Tunnels)
Ti: T-Minus 15 Minutes
DRIP. DRIP.
Foul-slling water leaked from the cracked concrete ceiling of the pitch-black subway tunnel.
It was completely dead silent down here.
Shota Aizawa crouched on a thick water pipe. His capture scarf was wrapped tightly around his neck, and his yellow goggles were pulled down over his eyes.
BEEP. BEEP.
He pressed two fingers against his comms earpiece. The radio channel was filled with heavy static.
"Eveyone. What's your status?" Aizawa whispered. His voice was flat, totally devoid of emotion.
"Kawasaki do doors are closing now," Shishido's gruff voice crackled over the radio, breathing hard. "It's a ss, but we got them in."
"Yokohama is locked down," Midnight replied. She sounded completely exhausted. "Blast doors are secure."
"Tokyo mountain shelter is sealed," Mandalay added, her voice tight. "God, I hope we're fast enough."
"Kanto is also done."
"Here in Nagasaki. People were evacuated."
"All done in...."
"...."
Every pro hero reported.
Huff-puff.
Aizawa let out a slow, quiet breath. He stared at the tir on his phone. 14:59.
"Alright," Aizawa said into the mic. "The civilians are safe. We have exactly fifteen minutes before the Operation Blitzkreig starts. Report to the vanguard teams assigned in your area for follow up and support... Get ready to raid."
*-*-*-*
Location: Chiba Prefecture – Undisclosed League of Villains Warehouse
Ti: 0 Minutes (Global raid starts)
"Hey, watch where you're dropping that crate, man! If this stuff blows, we're all dust."
"Relax, it has a failsafe. The boss said it won't explode unless they wanted to."
"I don't give a damn about it. My shoulder has been burning like crazy since morning. Look at this purple crap."
"Don't touch it. The guy with the face-mask said if we ss up, this mark turns us into a pile of ash."
"Fuck this. I just want to live. I thought when we finally escaped that damned Tartarus we can do things we like. And now we beca disposable to others."
"Hopefully, the League will finally create the new era they promised to us."
CRASH
The corrugated tal ceiling panels tore completely off the fra.
Concrete fragnts and jagged glass rained down onto the warehouse floor.
SWISSH.
Through the rising dust cloud, Hawks dropped into a low crouch.
His golden eyes were lethal under his yellow visor. He didn't look like his usual lazy self from the news interviews. He was here to kill.
"What the—?!"
"It's Hawks! The bird guy from Kyushu!"
"Shoot him! Shoot him now!"
A villain with a spiked-arm quirk lunges forward. Two others level their automatic rifles.
BAAM. BAAM.
Hawks didn't even move his arms. He flared his wings once.
SHINK
Hundreds of red feathers instantly detached, hovering right behind his back like a wall of swords.
With a slight tilt of his head, the feathers shot forward.
SWISH-SWOOSH.
They didn't fly straight, they weaved and slipstread off each other's wakes, cutting out all wind drag and doubling their speed.
THWACK
THWACK
THWACK
"DAMN YOU HER~" The screams cut short.
The feathers pierced right through their throats and chests, pinning them to the walls and wooden crates.
"UGH!!"
Blood spattered the concrete.
The spiked-arm guy dropped instantly, a feather driven clean through his forehead.
"Finished. Another location." Hawks didn't flinch as he looked at the location that was marked on his device.
These guys were dead the mont they failed anyway. The mandate from the HPSC was clear.
Zero survivors, eliminate the Tartarus escapees.
But.
"Heh. Look at the little governnt puppet."
A heavy voice rolled out from behind a stack of industrial containers.
Mario Kugutsu stepped out.
He looked at his dead crew pinned to the walls and shrugged his normal shoulders.
"You got a lot aner since Fukuoka, Little Bird. Did that manager guy teach you how to murder people?"
"Mario," Hawks said, his voice flat. "You're a long way from ho."
"I stayed alive just to find you," Mario said.
He didn't reach for a syringe this ti. His eyes flared with a bright, corrupted purple light. "The Master gave sothing better than Trigger."
CRACK
CRACK
CRACK
Mario's body ripped open. His blue overalls shredded to pieces as his flesh mutated and expanded.
Jet-black, leathery skin covered his body as he shot up to fifteen feet tall. Two massive extra arms ripped out of his ribcage, flexing with thick, pulsing black veins. He looked like a massive, four-ard demon.
"Haha! Die" Mario laughed, a deep, earth-shaking rumble.
BOOM
He stomped forward, shattering the concrete under his massive boots. He didn't wait.
He flicked the fingers of his bio-engineered arm from nomu.
VZZZT
Dozens of microscopic, invisible Micro-Silk strings scread through the air, targeting Hawks' blind spots from the left and behind.
"Tsk." Hawks didn't even turn around.
Around Hawks, a permanent two-ter radius of tiny, soft down feathers was constantly floating.
The second the strings entered the zone, the shift in air pressure triggered the system Kaito designed.
SWISH
The tiny down feathers instantly snapped together on their own, clumping into a dense, solid red shield behind Hawks' head.
CLANG
The invisible strings hit the feather shield, throwing sparks but failing to cut through the condensed down.
Hawks smirks, stepping forward. "Kaito's automated defense. Works like a charm."
"Let's see you defend against this!" Mario roars.
WHOOSH
Mario swings two giant fists horizontally, ripping the air apart.
The shockwave itself shatters the nearby crates into splinters.
Hawks dropped his stance, using slipstream drafting to slide right under the massive fists.
He moved like a bullet without wind resistance, completely bypassing Mario's reach.
He flicked his hands, sending five thick primary feathers straight at Mario's eyes.
SLASH
SLASH
Mario jerks his head back, the feathers slicing deep cuts across his black cheeks. Black blood sprays out.
"You little bug!" Mario yells in rage.
He began a savage, four-ard assault.
He slamd his fists into the ground, pulling down steel support pillars, hurling chunks of concrete the size of cars at Hawks.
CRASH
BAM
THUD
Hawks weaved through the chaos. His brain was locked into the frequencies Kaito taught him last ti.
He could hear the exact vibration of the air pressure, the seismic hum of the concrete cracking, the beating of Mario's heart.
He used the acoustic resonance to dodge every flying boulder without even looking at them.
But as Hawks flew around the warehouse, his ears picked up a high-pitched, vibrating buzz.
Every ti Mario missed a punch or slamd a pillar, his nomu arm was secretly spinning invisible lines. The wires were attaching to the roof, the walls, and the floor.
The whole warehouse was turning into a giant, razor-sharp wire cage.
"Gotcha," Mario grins, his four giant hands gripping the master threads. He yanks them tight.
ZZZIP
The entire grid closed in. Hawks tries to loop upward, but an invisible wire catches his shoulder blade.
RIP
Blood sprays from his back as the wire cuts deep into his wing joint.
"Ugh" Hawks grunts, dropping altitude. He can't fly freely anymore; the space is totally choked with steel-hard silk.
"Now die!" Mario screams, lunging forward, all four fists wound back to crush Hawks into paste.
"Not happening," Hawks growls. He lands hard on the floor and sweeps his arms in a violent, massive circle. "Friction cage!"
WHOOSH
Thousands of his remaining feathers swarm around Mario in a roaring, red tornado.
The wind speed inside the vortex goes vertical, dropping the atmospheric pressure to zero.
The vacuum sucks the oxygen straight out of Mario's giant lungs.
Mario stumbles, his face turning purple as he gasps for air. "Can't... breathe...This move again..."
But Mario's 1000% Covenant boost flares.
The purple mark on his shoulder burns furiously.
With a mad, bloodshot glare, Mario forces his muscles to move through the vacuum.
He hurls his giant lower right arm straight through the swirling feather wall, completely ignoring the razor cuts slicing his skin to the bone.
THUMP
His giant hand bursts through the tornado and wraps around Hawks' ankle.
"What?!" Hawks' eyes go wide.
"Haha! I'm way stronger than last ti. Now I got you!" Mario laughs hoarsely, spitting black blood.
FWOOOP
He yanks the thread violently, slamming Hawks into the ground and dragging him straight toward his four massive, wind-up fists.
Hawks is being pulled at terminal velocity into a face-shattering strike. His wings are mostly stripped. He has one shot.
"All of them," Hawks whispers, his face turning dead serious. "Every single one."
SWISH-SWOOSH.
SWISH-SWOOSH.
The thousands of feathers in the tornado instantly stop spinning.
They snap backward, flying straight to Hawks' body. They don't form a shield.
They wrap around his torso and condense entirely along his right hand, molding his dual feather-blades into a single, massive, blinding red sword form.
A giant pair of red energy like wings erupts from his back.
Red Emperor Sword form.
"Let's finish this, Four-ard freak!" Hawks screams, launching himself straight up the wire, thrusting the massive red feathery blade directly at the center of Mario's chest.
"DIE!" Mario's four giant fists co crashing down at the exact sa mont.
BOOM
The two forces collide, blinding light filling the entire warehouse as the concrete foundation splits in half—
*-*-*-*
Location: Sowhere near Kamakura Prefecture
BOOM.
A heavy thud rolled through the ground from the north.
The deep puddles scattered across dark asphalt rippled violently.
Koichi balanced on the footpegs of the idling black bike.
He checked the glowing monitor on his wrist.
"Man, the other cities just got real loud. You think other pros already found their targets?"
"Doesn't matter," Iwao grunted, tightening the dirty gauze wrapped around his knuckles. "Keep your eyes on our grid, kid. We miss this, the whole district goes up in smoke."
"I know, I know," Koichi sighed, rolling his shoulders. "I'm just glad we got the families out first. I called my mom earlier. She and Grandma Saki and the others were locked down in Kaito's house in Shizouka. I honestly think that house could take a direct hit from a missile right now. After all Hero X, I an Kaito should have enhanced it right?"
Iwao let out a short, rough laugh. "Kaito doesn't do anything halfway. They're safe. Now get ready, the sensor is going crazy."
"Yes, I can't believe that guy also escaped from Tartarus. For the past months, the governnt keot silent about it. If not for this operation, I wouldn't know."
CHIRP. CHIRP. CHIRP.
The wrist-monitor wailed.
A massive red line shot up on the digital display, screaming straight down the main boulevard right at them.
"He's moving way too fast! Hold on!" Koichi yelled.
SCREEECH.
The AI motorcycle's heavy tires tore up the wet street, automatically pivoting its thick fra to block the intersection.
CRACK.
The corner of the brick building down the block completely disintegrated.
"Hmm?" Number Six exploded into the alleyway. He was moving so fast the pure air friction turned the wet asphalt under his heels into white-hot dust.
He stopped dead.
His skin was pulled tight like a corpse, and the purple Abyssal mark burned like a torch on his shoulder.
He locked his bloodshot eyes on Iwao, and a ragged, unhinged laugh tore out of his throat, glitching with high-pitched static.
"Hahaha... Oh man... you gotta be kidding !" Number Six shrieked, spit flying from his mouth. "I was just heading out to smash so random targets, and God drops you two right in my lap? The old bastard and the little bastard who threw in that hole!"
"Six," Iwao growled, dropping into a low stance. "You look like garbage. We'll help you go back to where you belong."
"I'm ten tis the man you are now, old tir!" Six roared.
SWOOOOSH.
He didn't just run. He shattered the ground and vanished.
"Sky Crawler: Fly High!" Koichi shouted.
FWOOSH.
Koichi didn't slide on the street.
POOF. POOF. POOF.
He launched straight into the dark sky, using his perfected mobility to fly completely free. He adjusted the repulsor rings on his hands and feet, pivoting instantly in mid-air.
Six appeared right where Koichi had just been. A jagged, calcified bone-blade shot out of his wrist, slicing empty air.
"Shooter: Knuckle Style!" Koichi barked from above.
THWIP. THWIP. THWIP.
Highly condensed, bullet-fast kinetic blasts fired from Koichi's fingers, slamming Six dead in the chest.
The blasts forced the speed-monster to take a step back, his boots digging trenches into the pavent.
"You annoying little fly!" Six scread, his body vibrating as his copied 1,000% speed flared.
He bent his knees, ready to jump and tear Koichi out of the sky.
CLANG.
The AI bike moved entirely on its own from his blind spot. It slamd its heavy engine block directly into Six's ribs.
It didn't break his bones just ruined his jump, forcing his bone-blade to spark uselessly against the tal fra.
"Overclock!" Iwao roared.
SNAP.
The alleyway went dead silent. The falling rain froze, hanging in the air like thousands of tiny glass beads.
Iwao lunged through the frozen space.
As his legs ate up the distance, there was no fatigue. His chest didn't tighten. His lungs weren't burning for air.
The old, suffocating limit of his Quirk was... gone. He realized it in the past, the mont when he just got back from pro-hero business.
Kaito must have secretly rewired his biological limits without him knowing. And connecting it to Kaito revelation as Hero X. Then everything make sense.
SWISH-SWOOSH.
Iwao shifted into high-gear. He left static afterimages in the frozen rain, closing in on Six's left side.
He drove a massive, brass-knuckled hook straight into Six's jaw, followed by two brutal body blows.
CRUNCH. CRUNCH.
But Six wasn't normal anymore. Even inside the hyper-accelerated frozen ti, Six's bloodshot eyes slowly shifted to look at Iwao.
"Useless!"
The Abyssal Covenant instantly kicked in. Cellular Recovery and Kinetic Absorption triggered on their own. Most mbers in the thrid covenant not only beco stronger but can also use quirks, the Charity clone has but with limits of two.
The shattered jawbone snapped back into place instantly, and his pale flesh hardened like iron to soak up the force of Iwao's punches.
Six grinned through the frozen ti. His bone-blades whipped around in a deadly counter-slash, forcing Iwao to duck backward just to survive.
BOOM.
Ti snapped back with a deafening sonic boom.
The shockwave blew the glass out of every apartnt window on the block.
Number Six was an absolute juggernaut.
SWOOOSH.
He moved so fast he created a localized hurricane, ripping loose fire escapes off the brick walls.
"You can't hurt anymore, old man!" Six laughed through the static, swinging a lethal, air-splitting cross-slash straight at Koichi's midsection.
"Koichi, drop!" Iwao yelled.
Iwao streaked in, grabbed Koichi by the jacket, and ripped him out of the path of the blade.
They moved so fast they completely vanished from Six's sight, leaving a loud vacuum pop in their place.
The second their feet touched the ground, Koichi dropped low, placing both hands flat on the asphalt right behind Iwao.
"Sky Crawler: Repulsion Runway!" Koichi scread.
FWOOSH.
A massive cushion of compressed air blasted out beneath Iwao's boots.
The extre pressure launched the veteran hero forward at triple his normal speed.
Iwao rode the runway and drove a maximum-force, straight right punch directly into the center of Six's face.
BANG.
The boosted strike finally broke through the absorption.
CRACK-Thud.
The impact sent the giant flying backward, smashing clean through a thick brick wall and burying him under tons of crushed concrete.
Koichi dropped to one knee, panting hard, his hands glowing with fading blue energy. "Did... did that do it?"
"Don't count on it," Iwao spat blood onto the pavent, his eyes glued to the rubble. "Keep your quirk active. He's just warming up."
CRACK.
BOOM.
The pile of concrete exploded. Number Six stepped out of the dust.
The utility quirks were visibly knitting his torn skin back together as he stood up.
"Haha! Nice attack... Now it's my turn..." He laughed hoarsely, his purple Abyssal mark flaring with energy.
His eyes darted rapidly, computing their speed patterns.
SWISH-SWOOSH.
Number Six blurred, launching straight at them for a dual-target counter-blitz—
*-*-*-*
Location: Italy
BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.
The blinding flash ca from the sky.
Three laser-guided missiles ripped straight through the Italian mountainside, blowing the reinforced roof of the Gollini Underground Base wide open.
Sunlight and thick smoke poured into the massive cavern.
SWIISH-Thud.
Cathleen Bate free-fell through the smoke, her boots hitting the cracked stone floor hard. She didn't bother dusting herself off.
"Touchdown," Cathleen said into her comms. "Bros, how's the airspace?"
High above the crater, a squadron of Arican fighter jets banked in a tight circle.
"Airspace is clear, Cassie," Ethan Drive voice crackled over the radio. "But... uh, looking at the thermal caras. Is that guy down there wearing a black suit Hero X? Why is he connected Mafia? Shouldn't he be in Japan?"
"No, you made a mistake. Look carefully, this guy is the opposite of Hero X in Japan." Kishiko replied.
"Don't forget guys, the leader of the Gollini Mafia has a quirk called Alchemy according to the intelligence reports. He must had changed his appearance." Timothy answered.
Cathleen looked up at the main balcony. Valdo Gollini stood there, glaring down at her.
"Yeah," Cathleen grunted, cracking her neck. "Looks like a cheap knockoff. Edgy, too."
"Man, that's just insulting," another pilot laughed. "You want us to blow him up for copyright infringent?"
"Hold your fire on the bros," Cathleen grinned sharply. "I'll handle the fanboy. Keep the grunts off my back."
"You think you can just drop into my house?!" Valdo roared. His hands glowed with a sickening, corrupted light.
"I don't think. I just do," Cathleen shot back.
She raised her hand. "New Order! If an attack enters a ten-foot radius around , the kinetic vector is reversed; Else, the air around remains a dead vacuum!"
PZZZT.
She compressed the absolute defense and the vector-reflection into a single, brutal logic loop.
Valdo pointed at her. "Flect! Your turn!"
"It's been a long ti, I actively attacked soone." Flect Turn sprinted forward. His skin shimred with the 1,000% God Serum boost.
He slamd right into the invisible edge of the vacuum.
"Hmm?" He didn't choke.
His eyes widened for a second, but then his veins glowed a deep, bruised purple.
The Abyssal Covenant's kicked in automatically. Using two quirks from Charity's utility types.
His cells shifted, adapting to survive without oxygen in a fraction of a second. He grinned, winding up his fist, and punched her invisible barrier with everything he had.
KRAKOOM.
Flect's 1,000% Reflect clashed directly with Cathleen's If/Else vector reversal.
The air between them literally cracked, sending a massive shockwave tearing through the bunker walls.
BAAM. BOOM.
The shockwave blasted straight back toward Valdo on the balcony.
Valdo raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
SNAP.
The massive, invisible wall of kinetic energy instantly flattened.
It fell to the floor like a piece of paper, turning into a harmless 2D drawing of a shockwave on the concrete.
"Kill her! Now!" Valdo scread.
The 1,000% boosted Capos didn't wait.
"Cover!" Ugo stepped out.
CRAACK. SWIISH.
He threw his hands up, ripping massive, ten-ton concrete pillars straight out of the cavern walls and hurling them at Cathleen.
Bruno slamd his palms onto the dirt. "Delay Spot!"
Giant, glowing bubbles of warped ti erupted from the ground, trying to trap her legs.
Kamile casually swiped his hand through the air, tearing open spatial portals right behind Cathleen's blind spots.
"Here's Daddy." Simon slamd his fists into the ground, and a dozen three-story-tall, jagged shadow-beasts lunged out of the portals, roaring loud enough to shake the teeth in Cathleen's head.
ROAAR. RAAAGH.
"Cassie! The guy in the back!" Admiral Agpar yelled over the radio. "He should be the one with the Erasure quirk!"
Paulo was hiding behind a rock, aiming his hands directly at Cathleen to wipe out her If/Else rules.
"Not on our watch. Light him up!" Ethan commanded the rest of the pilots.
BRRRRRRT.
Heavy, concentrated laser-fire rained down from the jets above, blowing the ground to pieces around Paulo.
"Damn!" Paulo cursed.
SNAP.
"How the hell, these Aricans located this place precisely? They even have all of our information correctly. What the hell is happening!?" Valdo cursed, forced to snap his fingers rapidly just to turn the incoming lasers into 2D lines so his n didn't get vaporized.
Down on the floor, Cathleen was standing.
Holding the massive logic loop was burning her muscles. She pulled her heavy combat knife.
"New Order!" Cathleen said, locking eyes with the shadow beasts. "If this blade cuts a Quirk construct, it shatters; Else, the blade cuts physical space!"
She swung the knife.
SHINK.
She didn't hit the beast. She slashed the empty air in front of it.
The conceptual sharpness triggered, dragging through Kamile's portal and Simon's monster simultaneously.
BAAAM.
The spatial tear completely shattered like glass, and the beast dissolved into dust.
Cathleen pushed forward, hacking through the Delay Spot bubbles, moving like an absolute bulldozer through the mafia's frontline.
Flect Turn stood back, watching her tear through the 1,000% boosted capos.
He wiped blood from his mouth. He looked at Valdo, who was completely focused on the sky, then looked at Cathleen's glowing knife.
Flect Turn didn't care about camaraderie. He didn't care about the Gollini family. His job was to help develop disaster bombs and now that this place was compromised, retreating is the best option.
He took two steps back into the shadows.
While Valdo was screaming orders, Flect turned around and silently bolted down a dark maintenance tunnel, abandoning them all to save his own skin.
"Damn! this guy's useless!" Valdo complained, realizing Flect was gone.
Crack.
He was furious. He ripped the black glasses off his face and crushed them in his hand.
"I don't need him! I'm enough for you, Aricans!" Valdo roared.
He slamd both of his hands directly into the floor of the cavern.
RUMBLE.
The entire mountain shook. Cathleen lost her footing, dropping to one knee.
"Cassie, what is he doing?!" Ethan yelled, the jets banking hard to avoid the shaking peaks.
Valdo wasn't just flattening things into 2D anymore.
He was using the 1,000% Alchemy to assimilate.
CRACKLE. VOOOM.
The concrete foundation, the steel beams, the dirt, the heavy mining equipnt, everything ripped out of the walls and sward toward Valdo.
It rged with his body. He grew.
Twenty feet.
Fifty feet.
A hundred feet.
The stone and steel molded into a colossal, pitch-black chanical golem.
"RAAAGHH!"
The giant ch let out a deafening, tallic roar that blew the remaining capos flat onto their backs.
Cathleen stood up, wiping sweat and dirt from her forehead.
"This is huge." She stared up at the chanical titan blocking out the sun.
"Ethan," Cathleen said, her voice dead serious. "Drop the heavy payload. Right on my coordinates."
"Cassie, that's danger close! You'll get caught in the blast! And we're in the mainland. You can't use your Keraunos and continental punch."
"Just drop it!" Cathleen yelled, gripping her knife with both hands as the colossal ch raised a fist the size of a battleship. "I'll make a new rule!"
*-*-*-*
Location: Japan (Near Might Tower)
CRACKLE. CRICKLE.
All Might stood outside the blast doors of the underground base. He took a single, heavy breath.
HUUF-PUFF.
He didn't manifest a dark exoskeleton on the outside.
Kaito's training kicked in automatically.
Blackwhip shot inward, wrapping tightly around his ribs, organs, and spine, locking his bones together like a titanium sh.
Fa Jin prid deep inside his muscle fibers, ready to absorb the massive recoil of his own power.
PSSSH.
Thick, purple smoke vented rapidly from his pores.
It clung to his skin, acting as a high-pressure coolant to stop the sheer air friction from burning his flesh right off his bones.
"Nevada Iron: Overdrive."
All Might triggered Gearshift.
SWOOSH. SWOOOSH.
He vanished. He deleted his own inertia.
Zero to Mach fifty in a single microsecond.
All Might completely skipped the visual fras of reality.
Deep inside the dark underground office, All For One was sitting in his high-backed chair.
He had a calm, chilling smile on his face. He viewed everyone except Hero X as desert, and he was planning on how to directly kill that blonde oaf without alerting Hero X. After all last ti in Ota Ward, his fight with All Might was interrupted by him.
"Hmm?" All For One then noticed sothing terrifying.
BOOM. BOOM.
All Might didn't use the door. He appeared instantly right in the dead center of the room breaking all obstacles directly, his fist already fully extended.
"UNITED NATIONS OF SMAAASH!"
All For One's smile didn't drop, but his eyes couldn't even track the movent. The speed was completely beyond human comprehension.
But All For One didn't need to dodge. He let his Seven Crowns work.
WARP.
Temperance, the Transportation Crown, triggered its passive survival loop.
In a fraction of a microsecond, it swapped All For One's physical position with Patience, the Pure Defense Crown.
CRACKLE-CRICKLE.
Patience crossed its giant arms, stacking hundreds of kinetic-reflection, shock-absorption, and impact-nullification quirks all at once.
KAA-BOOOOOOOM.
The impact was apocalyptic.
It was like watching a teor slam into a diamond wall.
Patience didn't just take the hit. Its stacked defense quirks completely failed under the raw, singular vector of the Mach fifty strike.
The clone's arms were instantly pulverized into literal dust. The massive chest cavity caved in entirely, snapping the spine in half.
The Mach fifty strike completely crushed the clone. It was dead on its feet.
But the quirk combo worked just enough in its final microsecond to violently reflect fifty percent of the damage back out.
"It can reflect back?" All Might's Danger Sense spiked.
STOMP. STOMP.
He didn't hesitate. Kicking the empty air hard enough to crack it, sidestepping the returning blast.
CRASH.
The deflected shockwave blew the entire underground base wide open.
It shot straight up through hundreds of feet of dirt and steel, splitting the clouds and parting the sky clean across the Japanese horizon.
"Very impressive." All For One floated up into the open air through the massive crater. He brushed a layer of grey dust off his tailored suit.
He looked down at the mangled, pulverized corpse of his ultimate defense clone. His arrogant smile completely vanished.
His face went cold and sharp. He realized right then that if he hadn't linked Temperance to a passive trigger, his head would currently be a fine red mist and would be forced to transfer body to one of the clones.
"You've learned so terrifying new tricks, Toshinori," All For One said. His voice echoed through the ruined crater, devoid of his usual mocking tone. "How did you find this place? No, did you really plan this attack? This is the sa thing that happened last ti right? HPSC? Global raid again? WHA? Well, whatever I was about to look for you but you ca into my doorstep. An appetizer before the main course work too."
All For One raised his hand.
WARP. WARP.
Temperance instantly pulled the rest of the Crowns to his side from the shadows.
Chastity, the Healer Crown, dropped down and placed its hands on the pulverized remains of Patience.
The pulverized bone and crushed chest rapidly stitched back together. Blood flowed backward.
FWIIP. FWOOP.
Muscle re-attached. In three seconds, the dead clone stood back up, completely fully healed.
Charity, the Utility Crown, all the way from Italy together with Kindness, Stealth Assassin Crown, stepped forward and flooded the entire group with massive amplification buffs.
"This is a tough fight." Might cracked his neck.
He rembered Kaito's briefing perfectly. Humility for strength. Diligence for speed. Charity for utility. Kindness for assassination. Patience for defense. Chastity for healing. Temperance for transport.
Inside his head, the Quirk Realm was loud. The Vestiges weren't just watching, they were working.
'Look at their eyes, Toshinori!' Banjo yelled, pointing at the shared visual feed across the clones. 'It's a network! If one sees you, they all see you! Don't let them box you in! Use your mobility."
Kudo, the Second User, narrowed his eyes, analyzing the formation like a warti general.
'Forget the big ones right now,' Kudo commanded sharply. 'Look at the back line. That Healer clone. As long as Chastity is standing, you can smash that defense clone into paste a million tis and they'll just keep getting back up. You need to kill the Healer first.'
'He's right,' Yoichi agreed calmly. 'But you can't reach the Healer while they share vision. Blind them, Toshinori.'
"I hear you," All Might muttered.
PSSSH.
All Might didn't En's Smokescreen exactly how Kaito taught him.
He hyper-compressed the smoke. It was a thick, heavy, almost physical mass of deep purple clouds, expanding rapidly like a living thing.
It flooded the entire crater in seconds, completely cutting off the clones' shared line of sight.
All For One narrowed his eyes in the smoke. "Cheap tricks."
All Might didn't stay on the ground. He activated Nana's quirk.
Float.
SWISH.
He defied gravity entirely. He took to the sky, flying freely through the air.
With Float erasing his weight and Gearshift erasing his inertia, he moved like a golden flash of lightning.
SWISH-SWOOSH.
He zipped through the air, taking sharp, ninety-degree turns without slowing down, treating the empty sky like a solid floor.
"It's ti to end you annoying One For All users," All For One said.
SWOOSH.
The Speed Crown stacked a hundred velocity and jet-propulsion quirks and shot straight up into the sky, chasing All Might into the clouds. The sky turned into a massive, chaotic web of sonic booms.
BAM. BAM. BAM.
They traded heavy, blurring blows mid-air. Shockwaves shattered the remaining glass in the ruined city blocks below.
Right in the middle of the high-altitude clash, a shadow lted out of the smoke directly behind All Might's neck.
Kindness, the Assassin Crown, swung a fatal, bone blade laced with poison quriks aid right at his spinal cord for a one-hit kill.
"Stealth?" But All Might's perfected Danger Sense didn't just tingle. It was pure precognition.
In his mind, he saw the red blade piercing his neck exactly two seconds before it actually happened.
He tilted his head.
SLICE.
The blade sliced through empty air, missing his skin by a single milliter.
"Got you... PLUS ULTRAA!" All Might reached out and tapped Kindness lightly on the chest.
He used Fa Jin, storing a massive stockpile of kinetic energy from the continuous usage of Detroit or United States of Smash for months directly inside the clone's body.
Then, he shifted gears.
BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.
The stored energy released instantly from the inside out.
Kindness was blown completely in half. Blood and black suit fragnts rained down through the smoke.
'Nice!' Banjo cheered in the Quirk Realm. 'Now push for the Healer!'
But All For One just watched calmly from the ground.
WARP.
Temperance swapped the broken upper half of the Assassin back down to the ground.
Chastity imdiately placed its glowing hands on the pieces.
'Dammit!' Kudo cursed. 'He swapped it out before you could finish it! It's healing again!'
"Enough gas," All For One's voice echoed, booming with authority. "You want to play in the sky, Toshinori? Fine. Let's elevate the stage."
All For One placed his hand on the shoulder of Humility, the Strength Crown.
He combined Humility's raw, continent-shaking power with a half-dozen gravity and anti-gravity quirks.
RUUUMBLE.
The ground tore open.
A massive, mile-wide chunk of the earth, the entire ruined underground base and the surrounding bedrock ripped violently free from the crust.
Gravity inverted.
The colossal island of rock and dirt floated straight up into the sky, carrying All For One and his clones all the way up to the cloud line.
All Might hovered in the high atmosphere, his cape snapping violently in the freezing, thin air.
He looked at the floating battlefield.
Humility stepped to the edge of the floating rock, cracking its giant knuckles.
Chastity stood safely in the center, flanked by Patience and Temperance.
It was a complete deadlock.
All Might couldn't touch All For One or the Healer because of the endless revives, the shared vision, and the instant teleportation swaps.
All For One couldn't land a single fatal hit on All Might because of his Mach fifty aerial mobility and the absolute future sight warning him of every trap.
"Co down here, Symbol of Peace," All For One taunted, his voice echoing across the high-altitude winds. "Let's see how long you can keep that speed up before your body gives up."
All Might's blue eyes flared with raw power. The Vestiges stood silently behind him in the mist.
"As long as it takes to end you, ALL FOR ONE!" All Might growled.
SWOOSH.
He triggered Gearshift again, diving straight down toward the floating island like a golden teor.
*-*-*-*
Location: Ruined Highway Overpass
Miles away, the fight was bloody street brawl.
"This guy got way stronger than before. Kaito's information was really correct." Captain Celebrity wiped thick blood from his mouth.
His suit was badly burned.
His aerodynamic shield was cracking under the pressure.
Swish. Swish.
Nine hovered above him.
The purple Abyssal Covenant mark burned brightly on his chest. 1000% stronger than the last ti.
He wasn't coughing up blood. His cellular disease was completely gone. He was using five quirks at the exact sa ti.
CRACKLE.
SWISH. SWISH. SWISH.
Three massive tornadoes tore up the highway concrete. Solid lightning bolts crashed down from the dark clouds, and thick laser beams shot from Nine's fingers.
"Just give up, Arican," Nine laughed loudly over the roaring wind. "You're just a guy who flew around like a bird. I am a natural disaster!"
"This guy is more annoying than ." Captain Celebrity gritted his teeth.
He rembered Kaito's brutal gym sessions .
Flashy dodges didn't work against a guy who could level a city block with a thought. You had to take away his environnt.
CC dropped his defensive stance.
He charged straight forward.
ZAP. SIZZLE.
Lightning blasted him directly in the chest. Lasers burned deep cuts into his arms.
He completely ignored the pain. He pushed straight through the center of the storm, closing the distance before Nine could even blink.
"What?!" Nine yelled, his eyes going wide.
Captain Celebrity grabbed Nine directly by the throat and the belt.
"Shut up villain!" CC roared.
He didn't drive Nine into the ground. He pointed his head straight up.
FWOOSH. Swoosh.
CC focused every single ounce of his aerodynamic field behind him, acting like a massive rocket thruster. He launched them both straight up into the sky.
They broke the sound barrier instantly. They tore through the dark storm clouds, flying higher and higher until the sky turned pitch black and the air beca freezing cold and incredibly thin.
"Damn! I was careless." Nine gasped, his eyes wide in panic.
Up here in the upper atmosphere, his tornadoes had no air to spin. His lightning had no storm clouds to draw from.
"Let go of !" Nine choked, struggling wildly to break CC's iron grip.
"Taking away your toys! You lacked conviction kid." CC spat blood, his face locked in pure, savage focus.
At the peak of their climb, CC flipped them completely upside down.
He aid Nine's back directly at the earth miles below.
CC didn't just let planetary gravity do the work. He used his aerodynamic shield to completely remove the wind drag underneath them, creating a perfect vacuum chute to fall through.
Then.
WHOOSH.
They dropped.
They fell like a literal teor.
The sheer, unrestrained velocity caught the thin air around CC's shield on fire.
CRACKKLE-BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.
They turned into a massive, blazing fireball screaming down from the edge of space.
"FUCK!" Nine scread in absolute terror, firing lasers blindly into the sky, but he was completely pinned by CC's brute strength and the crushing G-force of the drop.
"HAHA! Welco to the ground!"
"C.C. Express teor Delivery." CC yelled.
KRAK-BOOOOOOOM.
*-*-*-*-*
Location: High Atmosphere – Floating Bedrock
Ti: T-Plus 17 Minutes
BZZZT. KRRSH.
A frantic, high-pitched static buzzed directly into All For One's earpiece.
"Master! It's a disaster!" Dr. Garaki's voice scread over the encrypted channel. He sounded completely hysterical. "They knew everything! New York, Italy, France, Egypt, Germany... the Top 10 Billboard heroes breached the warehouses simultaneously! They captured everything! Even Star and Stripe locked down Italy! We lost it, our global infrastructure!"
"...."
All For One casually leaned his head back, letting the Speed clone take a massive, compressed shockwave from All Might.
He hovered in the freezing air, his face turning completely cold.
Decades of hoarded wealth, blackmail, and underground networks, wiped out in exactly fifteen minutes.
He looked down at All Might.
The glowing, yellow-suited brute was currently smashing the Speed clone into the bedrock, entirely ignoring the punches from the Strength clone.
All Might wasn't getting tired. With his Danger Sense predicting every move, the man could fight for three days straight.
'How can he use all the users of these quirks that I killed in the past? Even that peashooter that rescued my foolish brother wasn't this strong? Singularity? Well whatever, it will be mine anyway' All For One hated being put on a tir. The arrogant, playful smile vanished from his face.
"So be it," All For One said quietly. "If they want to play a ga, we will change the rules."
SWOOSH.
All For One floated backward, pulling his remaining clones into a tight defensive wall in front of him.
He raised his hand, halting his attack completely.
All Might paused in mid-air, his chest heaving, his blue eyes sharp. He didn't charge blindly.
He waited, sensing a trap.
All For One willed Charity to move.
The Utility clone stepped forward, slamming both of its hands flat against the floating bedrock.
It activated a massive, continent-spanning telepathic hijack quirk, linking directly through Dr. Garaki's servers on the ground.
"Doctor, cooperate with Utility"
"Ok master."
In a fraction of a second, every single television screen, radio frequency, smartphone, and Hero comm-link on the planet went completely static.
Then, All For One's face appeared on billions of screens.
CRACKLE.
"All Might!" Madam President's voice broke through the secure earpiece from the HPSC headquarters. "He's hacking the global feed! Everyone can see him!"
All For One chuckled darkly, hovering above the clouds.
"To the world governnts currently patting themselves on the back," All For One's voice echoed across the globe, dripping with condescension. "You found my warehouses?You evacuated your cities? You actually thought you outsmarted ?"
He raised a single finger.
"Those suicide bombers from tartarus were just a necessary sacrifice," All For One stated flatly. "They were a good distraction. While your heroes spent the last few months hunting these reforrs and raiding useless warehouses, I already finished my actual project."
"....." All Might gritted his teeth, his grip tightening.
"Down in the deep ocean trenches, resting directly on your major tectonic fault lines, are the real disaster bombs," All For One explained.
He sounded like a proud professor.
"They aren't just explosives. They are a masterpiece of Quirk Engineering. My Italian associate used his awakened boosted quirk called, Alchemy, to build casings that can survive the trench pressure. We spliced fifty different amplification quirks inside the core, all surrounding an awakened Reflect quirk."
All For One smiled. "When they detonate, they don't just blow up. They multiply and violently reflect the tectonic pressure outward. They force the fault lines to slip instantly."
"..."
The Vestiges inside All Might's head went dead silent.
The global broadcast screen split in half. The right side showed a live, high-resolution feed of a small, unnad island chain near Hawaii.
"I have no desire to destroy the entire planet," All For One said calmly. "I don't want to rule over a graveyard of ashes. I just need to wash away your hope. Watch."
All For One didn't need any remote. He just linked his mind directly to the quirk-engineered core miles below the ocean surface.
RUUUMBLE. KA-BOOOM.
On the screen, the entire unnad island violently shuddered.
The ocean surrounding the beaches pulled back instantly, exposing miles of muddy seabed.
Then, the earth simply gave up.
CRUMBLE. CRUMBLE.
The entire island collapsed inward, sucked down into a massive, apocalyptic sinkhole.
Millions of tons of rock and jungle vanished under the boiling ocean water in seconds.
SWOOSH.
A localized ga-tsunami instantly ford, washing over the cara drone and cutting the feed to black.
BEEP. BEEP.
"All Might!" Sir Nighteye's voice blasted through the comms, completely frantic. "The island is gone! The seismic activity is spiking across the Pacific! He isn't bluffing!"
All Might gripped his fists so tight his knuckles started to bleed through his gloves.
"What do you want, ALL FOR ONE?!" All Might roared, his voice shaking with pure rage.
All For One looked directly at him, his red eyes completely dead.
"I want you," All For One said simply. "Surrender One For All to right now. Let take the quirk. If you kneel and transfer it, I will stop."
KRAK-BOOM.
A massive fireball shot up from the ruined city below.
Captain Celebrity landed heavily on the floating bedrock next to All Might.
The Arican hero was covered in burns and thick blood, breathing hard.
He didn't bring Nine with him; he dropped the broken villain miles away so the Healer clone from the information couldn't reach him.
"Don't you even think about listening to this freak, All Might!" Captain Celebrity roared, wiping blood from his chin.
"Choose, Symbol of Peace," All For One mocked, ignoring the Arican completely. "Your precious quirk, or the lives of millions of people. The Nankai Trough is next. It starts right off the coast of Shizuoka and runs straight to Kyushu. Half of Japan will be destroyed. You have ten seconds."
THUMP. THUMP. THUMP.
All Might froze. His heart hamred violently against his ribs.
If he gave up the quirk, All For One would beco an unstoppable villain. But if he fought back, millions of innocent people would be implicated and may die in the next five minutes.
He physically couldn't move.
'Toshinori, don't do it!' Nana Shimura scread inside the Quirk Realm, tears in her eyes. 'He's a liar! He'll take the quirk and sink the cities anyway!'
'He's stalling!' Kudo barked, his voice filled with warti grit. 'He wants you to break! We have to kill him right now!'
"Damn! This bastard All For One!" Banjo shouted angrily. He really didn't expect this monster will take the world hostage to force All Might to choose.
"Ten," All For One counted smoothly.
"Nine."
"Screw this!" Captain Celebrity roared. "We don't negotiate with terrorists! We rip his head off!"
FWOOSH.
Captain Celebrity didn't wait. He blasted forward, breaking the sound barrier, his fist aid right at All For One's skull.
SWISH. SWHOOSH.
"Eight" "Seven" "Six" " Five"
"Four," All For One sighed, shaking his head. "Ah. You lack discipline. Let force you to make a choice Symbol of Peace."
All For One's red eyes flashed. He sent the ntal command.
"NO!" All Might scread, surging forward at Mach fifty, reaching out desperately to grab him.
Deep underwater, miles off the coast of Shizuoka, the massive disaster bomb planted directly on the Nankai Trough detonated.
KABOOOM.
The earth's crust cracked open. The Pacific Ocean shifted violently. The apocalypse had officially started.
All Might felt absolute, crushing despair. He was too slow.
That maniac actually did it.
"AALL FOOR OONE!!!" All Might scread in rage. Japan was about to suffer impending calamity.
But then, a voice cut straight through the panic in All Might's mind.
It wasn't Banjo. It wasn't Nana. It was a telepathic link from the outside, overriding everything else.
'Beat him into the ground, All Might,' the voice echoed calmly in their heads. 'Let handle the rest'
All Might and Captain Celebrity both froze in mid-air for a fraction of a second.
They recognized that voice. It was the sa voice they heard back in Sky Egg.
"X?" All Might whispered, his eyes going wide.
'Ti to clock out.'
.....
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