*plays You Say Run*

*thinks of an action sequence*

*fails and writes this*

~O~

The green haired boy took out those two cyan blue orbs.

All For One too prepared for an attack using a combination of his quirks.

Midoriya threw the two orbs in the air above him. All For One had a blast of infrared rays combined with an enhanced push of an air cannon, ready to attack the boy from the distance.

The two orbs fell down back in Midoriya's right hand and then he threw up seven such orbs from his left hand, used Kurogiri's quirk and warped those seven orbs around the area where All For One was standing, in a circular shape. The quirk's effect wore off and turned out that Midoriya had stored gas bombs. The bombs blew up and within a moment, that part of the mountain was covered in strange white smoke completely.

No one could see what was happening from outside the smoke until it had disappeared completely.

And as for All For One who already used a quirk to support his vision based on heat signatures, the gas bombs had a certain chemical mixed in them that reformed the heat signatures of various beings, including insects, microorganisms and plants. As of right now, All For One was catching heat signatures similar to Midoriya's from all around him. He didn't know where the boy was.

But since when did he care about keeping the environmental destruction to a minimum?

All For One blindly shot off his attack.

And to his luck it got Midoriya's left leg.

The boy — after throwing up the gas bombs — immediately started running downhill to achieve a closer and shorter distance between him and All For One because in all honesty, he wasn't going to be able to hold up for any longer than ten more minutes. He might drop dead. His vision was already getting blurry due to the fatigue he was experiencing from the constant pain of using all those quirks.

Now his vision was almost completely out but he just had to do that. He didn't want a single person to get between his final move. When he would move the queen. Plus he thought he could just use Hatsume's quirk to see the details of the shadows in the white smoke, he already had goggles to prevent anything going in his eyes. But right now he just wanted to close his eyes. But he couldn't.

And sheer dumb luck was now switching sides!

His left leg was injured no differently than he does it himself. The only thing that was new was that it was also burned due to the rays. His ankle was twisted in a direction it shouldn't have been, clearly breaking the bone... Or bones.

Midoriya stumbled down to the lower ground on impact, coughing up more blood as he supported his weight with his hands and stood up, ignoring everything that was going on in his body. Before All For One could randomly attack him again, Midoriya took out the orb he dubbed as the rook. He removed the effects of Mr. Compress' quirk.

There were two guns loaded with quirk-erasing bullets.

Oh, this boy wasn't going to kill All For One...

He was going to make him suffer through the life of a Quirkless.

Amazing, right? A man who needed a quirk to live through all these ages would now get a taste of a life spent completely and utterly powerless.

The rook was two silent guns while the queen was twenty plus quirk-erasing bullets.

He used Hatsume's quirk to perfect his aim and shot All For One in the right shoulder and on the left one. Thank goodness this gun didn't make a sound and was a different one that cancelled out the noise.

According to the research Midoriya had conducted in the whole past month, including the time he played as Shigaraki, he came to learn that All For One had a total of twenty something quirks. No more than that.

And that's where he he used the quirk they had him duplicate; Multiplier. He had a super easy access to the quirk-erasing bullets in his disguise as Shigaraki. And he was easily able to create about twenty-four of those bullets. He just had to reload both of the guns once and that's it. If he did this right, All For One would be arrested and would remain quirkless forever.

The Symbol of Evil would face it's end. Or Midoriya would end up dead for real.

But as for now, All For One was down on two quirks. To his dismay, Midoriya had no idea which ones they were.

Getting close to him was risky because All For One could still have closed range fighting quirks. It was a shot in the dark. But Midoriya preferred not to use that Duplicate quirk anymore, he didn't want to deal with his own body going down before he actually won.

He was going to win this fight and he was going to win using as minimum quirks as he could.

While All For One needed to use everything he had.

Midoriya grew up knowing how to put up a fight without a quirk. And All For One was someone who was completely dependent on quirks for everything.

It wouldn't take a genius to know who had the upper hand here.

All For One as well knew something was up when he suddenly wasn't able to use Rivet and Warping at all. The man sensed what was coming. He realized what the boy had in store for him. He saw what the boy was planning. And it all wasn't very pleasing to him. No, it wasn't pleasing in any way... It was... It gave him a sense of... Terror. Midoriya had done nothing but succeed so far. If he won again... It would be the fall of the Symbol of Evil.

All For One scoffed and used the Infrared rays and shot continuously, spiralling around so he wouldn't miss a single direction. And with his other hand, he kept attacking with the Air Cannon. He needed to kill the boy right now.

But luckily, Midoriya ducked under the rays and escaped the blast of air barely. He ran forward and shot again, using both of the guns.

That's four quirks gone!

All For One lost Impact Recoil and Springlike Limbs in addition to the last two.

All For One cursed under his breathe and took to the air using Air Walk, in an attempt to reach a high altitude where the gas wasn't present and he could determine Midoriya's position properly. He was going straight up with a reasonable speed.

Midoriya, on the other hand, immediately used Rewind for a fraction of a minute and fixed his leg. Then he jumped towards the point where All For One was recently standing and landed on his back as he closed one eye and used the other to set an aim towards the man moving vertically up in the sky with Hatsume's quirk. He shot twice with both guns, resulting in the villain's lose of four more quirks. That made eight quirks gone in total.

Midoriya rolled and tried to stand up once again, supporting his body with his arms. He fell back to the ground a few times before making himself sit up. For someone like him going about a few days with this amount of constant pain in his whole body, Midoriya was reaching his limit of pain tolerance. He felt something cold at the back of his throat, his head felt extremely light, his eyes were drowsy, blood was trickling down his mouth and his nerves were telling him to stop and rest.

His stood up, defying his body's current state and pulled off the goggles. His vision was still blurry despite the fact that the smoke had faded. But the boy wondered; where did All For One go? Could he still have Air Walk or did he fell and died? Midoriya closed his eyes before opening them again, his breathing was heavy. He looked up to see if the villain was still in the sky or not. He couldn't take any chances now.

And just as the green haired boy looked up, All For One could be seen right behind him, preparing a concentrated beam of those infrared rays to attack the boy while he looked away.

All For One shot the beam and pierced through the boy's chest, probably going through the right lung as the green head wrapped his arms around his chest and fell to the ground with a silent scream. He was still. He wasn't moving. But his frame was shaking violently.

Taking the chance, All For One prepared another attack using the same quirk.

He shot.

And so did Midoriya, turning around with a swift motion.

'Going over one's limit... That is what I was taught, right? Handling a little more pain... Will be a piece of cake...!!' Midoriya smiled.

All For One got his right shoulder while Midoriya erased four more of his quirks. Twelve of his quirks gone... And Midoriya needed to reload both guns.

Midoriya grunted, trying to stand up.

"Well now, aren't you going to use your quirk to heal yourself?" All For One spoke up, his anger hidden behind a monotonous tone.

"Yeah and kill myself before you kill me? No thanks. I can go like this for way longer on my own." Midoriya weakly chuckled as he struggled to stand up on his feet properly.

And just as the boy stood up again, All For One used Air Cannon to push him back. Midoriya crashed against a slope that led one higher up the hill, making a crater. Midoriya lost his weapons.

The boy had barely even moved before All For One shot another beam at him and it pierced through his abdomen this time. Midoriya bit on his lip, eyes closed as he tried to ignore the fatigue and the pain. His back against the slope as he took deep breathes, bringing his legs close to his chest.

"Looks like the Mastermind is about to die." All For One said in a monotone voice.

Midoriya tried to laugh but that only ended up in him coughing up more blood. He didn't reply. He only gave away a painful smile.

After coming so far in the game...

After working so hard for everything...

After taking control of the situation...

After finally reaching the last phase...

Midoriya's eyes closed slowly, the smile never left as his head gradually hung low. His left hand that was covering his injury on the chest fell to the ground.

All For One stood there, observing him.

...

Nothing happened.

~O~

The heroes were finishing up their task as they have now captured all of the villains, the unfinished Nomus were all destroyed and the finished ones weren't yet spoken of. None of them had noticed anything that could've been going on away from the plant.

Sitting up all the tied and unconscious villains in a row, the heroes all met up together outside. Which was the opposite direction of where All For One was.

Shinsou still hasn't arrived out there and was in the control panel with Eri, waiting for Midoriya to come back. He assumed that he should wait for the green head to come back before joining the others because he didn't know his he was going to explain why there was a six years old child, who went missing from UA, in a Nomu plant.

Outside with the heroes,

Kirishima suddenly had a gut churning feeling.

They were winning. The heroes were winning. They captured the villains. They did what they were told. Then why...?

Why did it feel like something was wrong?

"Dude, are you okay?" Sero asked, placing a hand on Kirishima's shoulder.

"Yeah... I'm fine..." The redhead turned around. "But something isn't."

They shared a look.

Nobody spoke anything.

Now that Kirishima had mentioned it,

Something definitely was wrong.

But they didn't know what...

~O~

All For One took a few steps closer to the boy.

All other movement seemed to cease.

It was completely silent.

He checked the boy's breathing.

After about five minutes or so, All For One came to the conclusion that the boy wasn't breathing. And his body was ice cold as well.

All For One stepped back.

The boy hadn't moved once. He wasn't breathing. He was cold. There certainly was no other sound that could make All For One believe otherwise. The body didn't turn to mud so it meant that he wasn't a clone either. He was the real thing. The real Izuku Midoriya lying right before him, motionless.

So, was it safe to assume the boy was actually dead this time?

All For One turned around. His back facing the boy as he moved forward.

Absolutely not.

He turned around to attack again. Making sure it would get the vital organs this time. He shot the beam at the boy. It was comparatively more powerful than the last ones so the impact resulted in black and grey smoke rising up from the spot.

Once the smoke cleared, there was still no movement or any sound.

But Midoriya wasn't there either.

The boy appeared in mid air right behind All For One through a warp gate and the villain too turned around to face him only to get a slash from a knife across his face. Midoriya rolled over his shoulder and landed to the ground.

All For One wiped the blood from the cut on his cheek, "I usually despise everyone who interferes in my work. But there are these one's who I despise the most. The one's who just won't die. No matter what you do, how much you break them, kill them, they are still bound to be back."

"Well that makes the two of us." Midoriya smirked.

His injuries were still there, he was still bleeding and the pain never left.

But his body was completely numb by now. And he didn't care!

"You are such a trouble." All For One said before he tried to attack the boy once more.

But that never happened since Midoriya used Stain's quirk and licked a little blood off the knife.

All For One fell to his knees and was paralyzed that instant. Unable to move, unable to attack, unable to shield himself, unable to do anything at all.

"You can't hold me like this for long, you know?" All For One said.

"Hm?" Midoriya picked up his guns, "Of course, I can. You, my dear Symbol of Evil are a type B, which falls at the end of the time limit chart for this quirk. Meaning; you aren't going to do much for the next ten minutes or so."

The green haired boy tilted his head and smirked, "And that's enough time for me to deal with you... And your quirks."

Once done with the task and satisfied that the man was now Quirkless, Midoriya dropped his weapons.

After that he used Midnight's quirk on All For One, making him fall into a deep slumber.

"Good night, All For One. I hope to never see you again."

With that Midoriya fell unconscious.

In the end,

He won.