**Floating Fortress**

Shigaraki's arms were still going on a rampage, the heroes were doing their best to dodge them as well as land attacks on Shigaraki.

"Are you scared? Why're you running away?" Shigaraki asked mockingly, his mutations smacked down Amajiki.

"Suneater!" cried Nejire, she reacted using her energy waves to block mutations from getting her, just to get knocked from the other side. Lord Corpse swung his arms down and then pointed them out, lightning shot along the mutations, cutting off multiple fingers, but it seemed to have no effect on Shigaraki in terms of pain.

"Don't get distracted!" urged Best Jeanist sliding down wires. "Stay in motion! If you hesitate even a moment, this assault will swallow you up. Get close to his main body! These growths look overwhelming, but it comes at the cost of his mobility.  How are you doing, Izumi?"

"Just dandy!" responded Izumi as he jabbed pinecones into a particular spot one of the mutations, making it go limb and break off. Red lines wrapped around a mutation.

"Ninpo. Pulo-Thread Throttle!" exclaimed Edgeshot breaking off a mutation, they quickly recovered, and he turned into a red line again. "It's difficult to believe this is simple growth and not the effect of a Quirk. How's that possible?

"As All Got One's stolen Quirks take root, my body adapts to take on the physical form most suited for the powers stored inside me," Shigaraki began to explain while standing on one of his mutations. "At the same time, external environmental considerations affect my evolution. Shinya Kamihara." He held up an arm. "With this new body and these powers, the whole world will be in the palm of my hand. A new world. One even I can't fully anticipate. This society that divides us based on appearance, form, and ability is failing. It will crumble. Extinction and destruction cannot be avoided. Ever-growing disparity has resulted in widespread misunderstanding. Misunderstanding leads to fear and rejection. Such as the broken world we currently inhabit. But when I can take control of it, everyone on Earth will be exploited equally! Don't you think that gets us one step closer to the peaceful existence you heroes always say you want?"

"Yeah," grunted Katsuki blasting his way through. "Blah, blah, blah! I don't care if you're Shigaraki or All For One at this point." He began running on a mutation. " Ever since Kamino went down, you keep yapping. It's getting old!" His feet landed on the ground. He activated the new gear that the support course made, it was a huge thing filled with lots of sweat. "I'm about to fill you with holes. That oughta shut you up." He blasted up and activated the gear, many blasts went off. "We'll blasts through to your main body. Come on, guys! Eva's cousin!"

"Aye!" shouted Izumi as he flew forward, darkness forming around his hands. "Lord Corpse!"

"Hm," sounded Lord Corpse as he flew as well.

"We're teamin' up now?" asked Miriko with a smirk. 

"Disparities that are too big," said Katsuki. He thought of Izuku punching him during the final exams. "Misunderstandings." He recalled when he cried to Izuku and Eva about it being his fault that All Might lost his power. "And fear." He thought back to when he apologized to Izuku, every time Eva grabbed onto him due to fear of something she was unfamiliar with. But, still proceeded cause she had him and Izuku. "I came to terms with that crap a long time ago!"

"Bakugo!" gasped Best Jeanist. 

"You may not have noticed, but I've seen people take big steps toward progress and a better world," said Katsuki. "It may take some time, but there are those who are trying to push us forward, changing things for the better! So die! We don't need any meddling from nutsack-face's lackey!"

"Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight!" sounded Best Jeanist. 

'Young Eva sure knows how to pick a best friend,' smiled Lord Corpse smiled. 'You win Sora, you knew what you were doing by not letting her turn her back on mankind.'

Katsuki began to spin from his blasts. "Howitzer Impact, Cluster!" He blasted through the mutations, colliding with a force field that Shigaraki put up at the last second, Katsuki's attack overpowered shooting out the perimeter.

"Stay strong!" Aizawa urged Monoma who was groaning. "Do not close your eyes!"

The smoke started to clear.

"You concentrate your explosions so they don't injure those around you," said Shigaraki. "And doing so, you also raise the strength of your attacks." He had a hold on Katsuki's right arm. "Impressive. And annoying." Shigaraki crushed his arm making Katsuki groan in pain. "So fragile." Blood spilled out of Katsuki's mouth and arms, his mask was torn. One of Shigaraki's eyes was burned. "Sorry to break it to you, but I have no interest in this path towards progress you speak of." He raised his other arm letting out more mutations. "Or your journey."

"Dynamight!" sounded Best Jeanist as he slid forward. 

"Shigaraki!" shouted Miriko as she bounced around to get closer to him, she blasted attacks at him.

"Oh, yeah," sounded Shigaraki. "Someone said you needed to focus on attacking my main body. Are you starting to question that strategy?" He lifted off the ground. "You're not thinking about the consequences." He tossed Katsuki away from him as the mutations continued to give him height. "I'm more powerful up close." Fear engulfed everybody. " What will power that's comparable to All Might's do to your bodies?" There was a bright light as the incoming got blasted away, Katsuki bounced and rolled for a bit.

"Your aims. Your views on the world?" questioned Shigaraki. "Please. Katsuki Bakugo. If there's a single thing I'm interested in when it comes to you...it's him. You're the person here, who's closest to Izuku Midoriya. That's perfect. Because it means he'll definitely be here. Izuku Midoriya and One For All.

"Damnit it!" growled Aizawa. "Mandalay. Is Midoriya close? Is Midoriya close?"

"I can't reach him," said Mandalay.

"You could earlier!" exclaimed Aizawa.

"Even without the electromagnetic barrier, radio waves disrupt my power," explained Mandalay, as she looked at her device. "I've heard nothing but static for a while now." Aizawa looked back at the field. "My student is hurt. Jeanist! Mirko! Edgeshot! Lord Corpse! You have to protect Bakugo!" Shigaraki started to walk over. "Please! He has big plans to graduate from UA and ultimately to become the number-one hero." Lord Corpse gave a thumbs up to Aizawa,which means Midoriya was close, then Lord Corpse thumb went down, they still needed to hold off Shigaraki till Deku got here. 

A bit away, Amajiko regained consciousness.

"Oh, man," breathed Amajiki looking at the building. "Our school." He looked forward grabbing his hood. "You know, Hado." She stepped forward. "I, um, was looking forward to our graduation ceremony."

"Then we'll have one," sounded Togata

"Should you be up here?" asked Amajiki.

"Just following the instructions they gave me!" exclaimed Togata. "When this is over let's talk Principal Nezu into having a bonkers graduation party for us! A real rager!"

"That'd be fun," smiled Hado.

"Can we win this?" asked Amajiki. 

"We can at least protect everyone until Midoriya gets here," said Togata as he finally revealed himself. Hado clenched her fists as Amajiki ate something. "So, put a smile on your face. Let's show this guy the power of the Big Three!"

Over on the open field. Shigaraki was kicking around Bakugo.

"Sounds like Izuku Midoriya was supposed to be warped here. Excellent," said Shigaraki. "No doubt he'll be making his grand entrance sometime soon." His mutations grew more as he stared down at Katsuki. "Now, that I think about it, it's kind of my good thing my Quirks aren't working."

Katsuki started to get up. "Shut your--" He got cut off by a kick from Shigaraki destroying his gear, some of it blasted off. Shigaraki held him by his throat.

 "He'll arrive to find your corpse, instead of a pile of dust. That boy got so angry when I skewered you last time. Which means you'll be the perfect present to toss at his feet. You're a zealot obsessed with All Might, if I recall. So, here's a reality check, Katsuki Bakugo. No matter how high you attempt to fly, you'll always be garbage compared to One For All." Katsuki let out a gasp as Nejire came in to attack.

"Nejire Pike!" She exclaimed, Shigaraki spun around using Katsuki as a shield, she quickly detoured the attack, Shigaraki went to attack her when Amajiki stuck two scorpion tails in his shoulder. 

"Vest hybrid," said Amajiki on all fours, while on camoflaugish. "Octupus Mirage. With added Scorpius Toxin." Venom was injected, and a mouth formed on Shigarakis' arm to spit it out, this made the villain laugh.

"Was that your secret weapon?" laughed Shigaraki. More mutations and giant mouths shot out, and many dodged. "My body continues to adapt. If you keep up these weak attacks, you'll be dead in no time. Don't you have anything stronger?" Mirio appeared grabbing hold of Bakugo, this surprised the villain. Mirio's eyes darted to a guy who appeared out of nowhere leaning on Shigaraki.

"Hope you don't mind me dropping in to help," said a voice, the fae's heads snapped in a direction as Shigaraki put out the fire looking in the direction of the voice. A fae, a tall man muscular man with four arms, short dark brown hair, and two red eyes. He had markings along his face and body, he wore black pants with a black belt and black sandals. 

"Where the hell did you come from?" demanded Shigaraki, jumping back and swiping his arm. The man easily dodged. A line of mutations shot down at him, and the man held his hand, palm open facing the attack, a ball of fire in his palms. He swiped his hand as he was brushing away a fly, and the mutations got cut off, simultaneously lighting on fire on the remaining end as the other fell to the ground.

"Kaiza!" shouted Lord Corpse. "You are supposed to be protecting the village!"

Kaiza looked at Lord Corpse holding up his hands. "Old man, we have more than enough hands for this, let me have some fun. Help protect Bakugo a little until Deku gets here."

"Hey!" exclaimed Izumi. "You know you aren't supposed to be listening!"

"Welp, too late, I'm here," smirked Kaiza, he suddenly kicked Shigaraki in the stomach sending him flying back, Shigaraki coughed out blood as Kaiza looked at him. "Looks like you're not thinking of the consequences this time, trying to attack my body."

Shigaraki shakily got to his feet in surprise, the other heroes were unsure what to do.

"Why are you protecting that garbage?" asked Shigaraki. "He's weak."

"Because he means everything to Eva," said Kaiza standing in front of Katsuki protectively, the injured boy was surprised. He has never seen this guy in his life. "I am aware that she got with you two got close. That will never change how devoted she is to that one. He taught her how to smile again, and for that, he is a diamond. That boy is anything, but weak, and he is everything to her. I promised that I would never interfere or harm the ones she loves, which means I am obligated to protect them." Kaiza turned his palm up letting another ball of fire form, while shoving the other in his pocket."

"Just who the hell are you?" asked Shigaraki.

Kaiza smiled wickedly. "Kaiza...Melipus's Demon."

Best Jeanist slowly looked at Lord Corpse.

"Demon?" 

"Young Bakugo has murder in his hero name," said Lord Corpse.

"Point taken," said Mirko as they looked back at the fight. "All that matters is that he is on our side and can kick ass." She punched her hand with a big smile. 

"TWO HITS AND YOU GO BACK TO THE VILLAGE!" shouted Lord Corpse as Shigaraki charged at Kaiza while growing mutations. In the blink of an eye, Shigaraki's mutation got cut into chunks of six, and he was in front of Shigaraki with a ball of fire in his hand. Kazia took a minute to whisper.

"You are lucky I am allowed two hits," said Kaiza. Shigaraki's eyes darted to the side to look at him. "The things we do for the people we love is stronger than the things we do out of hate. Eva is the gentle one, but I'm a killer." He slammed his hand into Shigaraki's core, and the fire burned right through him, making Shigaraki groan, his eyes twitching, inside his head, All For One was beginning to tweak after coming across paths with Kaiza. Kaiza grabbed Shigaraki by the throat holding him up, looking back at Togata, he immediately knew. 

"Heads up Jeanist!" shouted Togata tossing Katsuki down to Best Jeanist. He used a thread to grab him quickly. "Nice catch!" He looked at Kaiza. "We appreciate your help." Kaiza sent a wink before disappearing, dropping Shigaraki who was hunched over and coughing. "He is seriously so cool."

"Such brutality of that man," said Best Jeanist looking down at Katsuki. 

"He's highly respected by all in our village," said Lord Corpse. 

Shigaraki slowly got to his feet, body regenerating from the attack, his mutations going through Togata. "I know you. You're another one of their pawns. We met in Jaku. You've got that stupid face."

"The name's Lemillion," informed Togata. "I'm on double duty as messenger and guard today. My job's to intercept any villains other than you who crash the fight and to make sure information's flowing smoothly between all parts of the arena. It's a perfect gig for me since I get around so fast." He got to his feet fully. "But now, I gotta fight. I can't just watch." He dodged mutations. "Why are you so destructive?"

"I don't like our current society," answered Shigaraki, his mind to Kaiza for a second, the fae was way stronger than him, and if he stayed on the battlefield, Shigaraki was sure he would lose. "It's failed us on every level." 

Nejire used her waves to search and fly around. "There you are!" She shot energy waves at Shigaraki.

"Oh. I get it," said Mirio jumping up. "You're upset because you've never had any friends." Mirio let his arm be engulfed by the waves as Shigaraki paused. The energy wrapped around his arm like a brace. "If you had people you cared about, you'd see things differently." He hit Shigaraki on the head. "There are a million things in this world you shouldn't destroy!" The attack slammed the villain into giant mutations. 

Outside the fight, Bakugo began to twitch.

"Dynamight!" Best Jeanist gasped as knelt down him. "Let me see your right arm. I'll stitch you up. Quickly! We're still in dire need of your firepower." Tears dropped onto Bakugo's hand, causing the pro to gasp. "Let me get you first aid. We can handle the rest ourselves. Shigaraki is operating on a level we couldn't fathom, and Kaiza is back in his village. You're here because you fought him before despite only being a student. But that prior experience isn't going to be of any more help to us. Take time to recover. You did an excellent job, Dynamight. More than enough. Rest now." 

"He is too stubborn to do so," said Lord Corpse going to Bakugo. "That is the Taurus in him." Katsuki wanted to smile a bit, Eva would have said something similar a long time ago, adding more to wanting to take down Shigaraki.

"Right side," breathed Katsuki. "Fingers. Pattern. Feint. Right. Time it. Wrap around. Back."

Lord Corpse put a hand on Katsuki's arm examining the damage, Best Jeanst looked to see a green spread through Bakugo's arm.

"Completely crushed," reported Lord Corpse. "I can only stop the internal bleeding for right now."

"That'll have to do," nodded Best Jeanist.

Back in the fight, Mirio landed another hit.

"If you did have friends, there's no way you'd be doing this! You'd want to protect them. Destruction would be the last thing on your mind. 

*** Deep inside Shigaraki's core.

Little Tenko looked at the hands he was surrounded by. "Friends ?"

***Back at the fight**

"I've got friends!" said Shigaraki looking up. "MIKKUN AND TOMO SAID I WAS REALLY NICE, AND MON ALWAYS BARKS TO GO ON WALKS WITH ME! SO THERE! YOU'VE GOT NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! YOU DON'T KNOW ME! I'VE GOT PLENTLY OF FRIENDS!" They paused. Shigaraki himself was surprised with what came out of his mouth.

"Whoops," breathed Togata. "Sorry." He almost got swept away by the mutations. Shigaraki stepped back, Togata gasped as the mutations parted giving him a path to Best Jeanist and Katsuki. "Hey, wait!" 

"No more distractions," said Shigaraki pushing away Togata. "I've got work to do."

"Come on," said Best Jeanist standing in front of Katsuki protectively. "Do your worst, you walking atrocity!"

"Don't push yourself," said Shigaraki as his cape got pulled back. "I got a pretty solid hit in earlier." He undid the cape. "In fact, I'd bet you're barely able to stay conscious right now."

"I won't let you hurt anyone else!" shouted Nejire throwing down energy waves. 

"It seems like in actuality," began Shigaraki as he looked back. "You designed your own coffins. It's time to lie down and close the lid." Nejire continued to blast at the mutations aimed at her. One of the energy waves was being directed into an attack that Amajiki was storing up. He held back a lobster claw and then stuck it in, the attack went from Nejire's yellow energy color to a light blue.

"MORE PETTY TRICKS!" roared Shigaraki facing Amajiki. His attack shot out, ripping through the waves of fingers, and hitting Shigraki.

"GET WRECKED!" shouted Amajiki.

Shigaraki growled. "WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?" Mutations shot through, the beam of light shot out of the barrier, across the sky. Everyone paused for a second, as Shigaraki's hands shot back faster than ever, more angrier.

"It didn't work?" asked Nejire in disbelief. 

"Not strong enough," said Shigaraki as the smoke started to clear. "Think about it! Would Golden Age All Might have died from a measly attack like that? Of course not. Why are you people so dense?" Amajiki stepped back thinking of his next move when Katsuki got on his feet, blood dripping.

"Use your first aid on the others," requested Katsuki as he slowly started to approach Shigaraki.

"Wait!" cried Best Jeanist, but Katsuki ignored and Shigaraki growled.

"Make sure Eva keeps smiling," said Katsuki. "I don't want her to lose it again." Shigaraki had another moment. "I've gotta defeat him." Shigaraki went back to growling. "Right, Izuku? Make him pay for touching Eva."

"No, please," said Best Jeanist. "Don't do this!" Katsuki shot forward making it seem like Best Jeanist threads moved in slow mode. Katsuki's hand appeared in front of Shigaraki's face, letting off a giant cluster attack. Then went past Shigaraki.

"Right side," breathed Katsuki, he dodged Shigaraki's arm, landing a good distance away, he was panting heavily. Everyone was surprised. Katsuki dodged another attack, appearing right behind Shigaraki with a blast ready to go, while upside down. 'Everything hurts. Fighting while in pain. Trying to spot an enemy's tell. You're ready an old pro at this, aren't you? Hey. Izuku. Can I still catch up to you? Eva, please keep smiling for me, soon we will smile together again.'

"I'LL OBILERATE YOU!" yelled Shigaraki as he directed an attack as Katsuki's attack went off, before he blacked out, Eva's face flashed before his eyes. Not recently, but way back to that night on the carousel, her smile.

***

In his conscious, Katsuki saw yellow swirling around, he looked back to see an sillehoute of All Might. 

"Oh. That's right." He put a hand behind his back. "I, um. Well. Whenever I finally got to meet you, I was, uh...I was kind of a punk. Because of that, I never really saw the right time to bring this up, but..." He reached into his pocket, pulled out a card and smiled down at it. It was an All Might card. "Man. You have no idea how much I wanted your autograph."

****

Outside, Mirko, Togata, Amajiki, Nejire, and Izumi struck Shigaraki along with Katsuki. Shigaraki struck Katsuki in the heart. Bakugo flew back just out of best Jeanist's reach, he spun in the air, landed on the ground, and tumbled a bit landing on his back. An All Might card fell next to him, along with a picture of Eva. He was devoted to her just as much as she was to him. Thunder clouds and rain started to come in.

"You thought you could catch me off guard by replaying our fight earlier," taunted Shigaraki. "Even though you've seen how well I adapt?" Everyone that went in was now down and coughing blood. "We came prepared for anything. The demon lord's body is a marvel." Lord Corpse knelt by Katsuki's head, placing his hands on his chest to observe the damage, he glanced at Eva's photo, it was back at the beginning of 8th grade, Katsuki had taken her on a hiking trip from the looks of it. "Don't you get it yet? Your part is over." The mutations revealed Shigaraki smiling as before. "From now on, this is our story."

"Hang in there," said Best Jeanist as he looked at Katsuki. "This might hurt, but you'll be--" He gasped getting a closer look at the wound. Everyone was beyond shocked not sure how to process what just happened. "His heart." The storm came in, Monoma shakily put his hands to his face as fear filled his eyes. 

"No," breathed Monoma weakly. "He--this can't be happening." His voice wavered more. "Please get up. You can't die! You can't let it end like this!"

"There's no pulse," said Best Jeanist as Lord Corpse's palms started to glow green. "He hit him in the heart."

"We still have time to save him," said Lord Corpse calmly, he looked over to see Izumi was getting back to his feet and heavily injured. Togata looked back at Shigarkai in disbelief with tears as the villain just smiled.

"This time, he's truly dead," gleamed Shigaraki. "You shouldn't have left this to your students. It's your fault, Eraser. I'm disappointed." Aizawa on the other hand was staring at Katsuki. "Who's next? I'm ready! I wanna have more surprises waiting when Izuku Midoriya gets here." He used his mutations to bring Mirko closer to her, she was hanging upside down. 

"If only I'd been able to kill you back then," growled Mirko. "If only I'd been one hop faster!" She bit on the flesh. 

"Poor Rumi Usagiyama," taunted Shigaraki with a smile. "Lots of heroes failed that day, so don't feel bad. It was a pathetic operation from top to bottom." Best Jeanist was directing threads into Katsuki's body, as Lord Corpse began to stop the internal bleeding again. "And since then, your numbers have dwindled. In fact, the situation's become so dire that you've put a bunch of children on the front line." He laughed. "It's only natural that some of them will die. You made the first move. You prepared as best you could. But that clearly wasn't enough. You needed more numbers, a better plan. Izuku Midoriya was impatient, but he had the right idea. My current only regret is not being able to kill that fae girl, that little monster, I know the other me will finish the job. You can't hope to win if you give villains time to scheme. His efforts were doomed from the start, though. Surely even he knew that, deep down. " 

**Bakugo's mind**

At the sound of another breathing; he looked to see someone familiar, someone he has never met. 

"Ka Suki as my daughter called you," said Lia. "We finally meet."

Katsuki tilted his head; then looked at the All Might vestige.

"Yes, Yagi; my oldest sister spoke of him; helped him out here and there for her sake."

Katsuki looked at her in surprise. "Ms. Moonbloom...why are you here?"

"Because your time isn't over, just hang in there," said Lia.

Katsuki walked over to her; she truly looked like Eva a lot; it brought him comfort. "There is a lot I want to know." 

Lia leaned over with a smile, putting a hand on his head, and ruffling his hair. "We got the time, Ka Suki." He stared at her for a second before returning the smile. Lia's smile had more wildness to it than Eva's.

***

Over in Kamino Toya was back on his feet, fire raging more fiercely, he was using Shoto's phosphor's move. 

"Seeing how this worked out, I'm actually grateful that I got to fight you first," said Toya. Shoto stared at his brother in shock, as Dios worked rapidly to redirect Toya's flames from those trapped in it.

"Get out of here, Shoto!" urged Burnin. The heat was so intense, that it was pushing back large amounts of hair, Toya laughed.

"It really hits different when you feel it for yourself," laughed Toya. "A little intuition and you start to get the hang of it. Right before you iced me, I took a chance and tried to copy your big move. Well? Am I doing it right?" Flames went across Toya's chest in an 'x'. His eyes were gone. "What do ya think?"

"No! Onima!" shouted Shoto in distress.

"Don't worry about him, Shoto," said Dios keeping his eyes on Toya. "I will look after him." A blue giant blue fire hand had grabbed Onima, and placed him by the others, but it did not look like he was getting hurt by the flames.

'Eva is a lot like her brothers, kind in every move,' thought Iida.

" WHERE IS HE?" cried out Toya. "SKEPTIC?"

A nomu started to get up, with a voice coming out of it. " I'm busy right now. Lay off me, Mr. Daddy Issues! You want Endeavor? He should be at Gunga Villa fighting All For One...just so you know your Love Bug is there too."

"That's fine," said Toya. "I'll get to see her again...is she hurt?"

"Don't worry about her!" shouted Dios in annoyance, Toya looked at him. "Keep my sister out of your head!"

***

Over at the floating fortress, Skeptic was hacking into the system

*** Over at Gunga

"Seems you put our forces on the defensive during the last battle," recalled All For One. "They weren't able to accomplish much of anything from what I hear." He was almost done completely rewinding. 

"What has he done now?" asked Hawks. 

"This time will be different," assured All For One. "Heroes should be the ones that defend, after all." His body was fully regenerating. "Villains are the ones who violate. We must push toward our dreams with no remorse. You should be proud, Endeavor. I knew I might have to play this card, but I thought it would be the fae to push me far, never I need it to beat the likes of you."

Endeavor panted. "He's becoming younger."

"That is either good or bad," said Eva. "He might as well have just checkmate himself."

"Where's the checkmate part, Violet Gust?" asked Hawks. "I am not seeing it."

"May not be for us to see," said Eva. 'He may just rewind himself into nothing, but fighting is definitely a key to that.'

"His body," said Endeavor. "His body is in perfect condition."

"It can't be," said Tokoyami in disbelief, he held up Jiro. "Is that Eri's quirk?" 

"A copy of it," confirmed Eva. "Little Eri still had hers when we left." He started to descend to the others.

"Oh, no!" gasped Hawks, shooting down with Eva following.

"How incredible," said All For One. "My body feels light as air!" The minute he touched the ground, he zapped through a bunch of people, grabbed a woman by the neck, taking her quirk.

"I can't use my Quirk!"

"I'll take your cape as well, while I'm at it," announced All For One standing in new clothes.  "Fighting in the nude would be a bit uncouth...wouldn't you agree Violet Gust?" All for One got kicked hard in the back and a spot by his ankle. He went flying forward, landing on his face, and rolling into a boulder, a point hitting his back, and blood spat out of his mouth with his eyes wide. He slowly looked at his leg, to see his ankle was gone, he slowly looked forward, in front of him stood Eva, behind her is where his foot remained. A bit behind the foot was Hawks who had grabbed hold of the woman that All For One grabbed, Hawks had his eye on Eva and All For One. 

"Remember to keep a leveled head," urged Hawks, he was secretly highly impressed, never seen someone kick like that, not even Miriko. 'To be able to kick someone with the outcome of severing their foot is crazy calculations. Violet Gust is impressive, she calculates to not put attack to much force to cause extreme injuries most of the time. It's a humane tactic. To hold back, but also defeat. I can't wait to see how she prevails once she becomes pro.' Eva just gave him a thumbs up, keeping her eyes on All For One, and he got back to his feet with a smile. 

"This Rewind Quirk may have saved my life, but it will continue to de-age me till I vanish from existence completely," said All For One. "Something you were right on thinking, fae." He stepped forward as leaves in odd spaces swirled around all of them. "That's fine. I've passed the baton to Tomura Shigaraki, so my dream will live on. I have, but one remaining duty. I must rescue him from the trap you set. A bold move, but useless in the end. Now, if you will excuse me."

Hawks was in a ready position putting his arm over his eyes. He heard the sound of a boulder breaking, he moved his arm to see the boulder All For One was leaning against broken, the man on the ground and Eva standing over him, she brought her foot down on the guy's other ankle, and loud sounds of the bones being crushed and blood spurted up. Up in the sky, Endeavor, Tokoyami, and Jiro were in pure shock by what they had witnessed.

"She's not holding back," said Dark Shadow. 

"No," confirmed Tokoyami, he gulped. 

"Punk rock," said Jiro. "It's no wonder Yuki chooses to hold back. She knows her own strength, she knows how much to put forward without going overboard."

"Basically, she is reign free with All For One," said Tokoyami. "She's letting loose."

Down below, Eva smiled down at All For One, he stared up at her terrified, have not felt this way since he faced Eumelia 10 years ago. He stared up at her, and he saw Lia staring down at him with that same demon smile. He watched a leaves the leaves flutter around them, Eva swiped her hand, and All For One let out a cry of pain, as Eva kicked him again, with his right foot severed.

"She's controlling the leaves," said All For One, the fae had used a leaf to sever the man's foot.

"Your dreams," said Eva, she got pulled back by Hawks, but she did not fight him on it.

"I've been wondering what you plan to do once you steal One For All," admitted Hawks. "Could you enlighten me? Just for funsies?"

"It's quite simple," answered All For One getting back up, he was using one of his quirks to create yellow energy in order to stand, blood dripped and spilled from his legs. "I got the inspiration from comic books."

"So, he's a bit of a geek," commented Eva grabbing her staff. 

Hawks looked at her quickly. "Geek tyrant."

"The big, bad villain is always feared by the people around the world," explained All For One. "Why do you think that is?"

"Because what they do is evil?" asked Hawks. 

"And what counts as evil?" asked All For One, he pointed to Eva. "Does that demon count as one?"

"You can't be mad if I hold back, and then be mad if I don't," said Eva. "Choose one to be annoyed about." Hawks laughed a little, he glanced at her. Still annoyed she never agreed to his agency. All For One continued to open his mouth.

"In this world, with its endless number of cultures and values, what is the one thing that is universally loathed and feared? The death of a dream. Having the future you always envisioned snatched away from you. So that's what I plan to do. Take away the future of everyone in this world. That's all I've ever wished for, from the very beginning."

"Raving nutsack lunatic," said Eva while everyone else was stunned. "You shall fail in the game you started." She took a step forward, and All For One took a step back. 

"Keep a leveled head," grunted Hawks looking at her. 

Up above.

"So, Bakugo truly did rub off on her," said Tokoyami. "Foul mouth like him."

Jiro nodded. "Now that you mention it, I've never seen her get mad, this is kind of exciting."

***

At the floating fortress, Best Jeanist and Lord Corpse worked endlessly to keep Bakugo alive, Lord Corpse's eyes kept shooting over to the picture.

"I remember the first time she spoke of him," said Lord Corpse, Best Jeanist looked at him. "I was heavy against her going to the human world, wished that she would give it a bit for her father's sake and turn her back on mankind like the rest of us. To my surprise...three weeks after the move...she said Lord Corpse, I've made a friend...he is loud, but kind...he does not make fun of my accent...and then months after that she decided to keep living among the humans cause she didn't want to leave his side...When I asked why, she said he does not treat her like a monster like the rest of the kids besides Zuku." 

"I do envy not being able to see him through her eyes," said Best Jeanist.

 Edgeshot walked over to Best Jeanist and Lord Corpse as they worked on keeping Bakugo alive. 

"Edge Shot," breathed Best Jeanist. 

"Don't worry," said Edge Shot as his body started to turn to red strands. "There's nothing I can't infiltrate. I am the Ninja Hero. That includes the human body. I have plenty experience in that regard." He began to infiltrate into Katsuki's body. "We must never abandon hope." He looked at the fight. "MIRIKO! BARE YOUR FANGS!" He saw Shigaraki fighting with Mirio and Izumi. "TEAR HIM APART WITH YOUR TEETH, IF YOU MUST!" She growled angrily.

Shigaraki looked back. "Senseless bravado."

"I will not accept defeat," said Edgeshot, Miriko began to yell. "This heart may have stopped, but it will beat again! I'll make certain of it. It's not too late, I can replace what's missing and get his blood pumping again." He looked at Lord Corpse. "I will pick up where you are at."

"Kamihara," breathed Best Jeanist. "There's no coming back from that."

"Perhaps not," smiled Edgeshot. "I'll leave the rest to you..." Soon he went into Bakugo's body, he saw parts that were stitched by Best Jeanist, and parts fixed by Lord Corpse. Edgeshot began to mend the organs from the outside and inside after he started to perform internal CPR. On the outside, they watched as blood shot up from Bakugo's body on repeat. 

"What are you doing?" asked Shigaraki, as he walked forward. "I destroyed the boy. You're wasting your time." His veins started to pop up. "I ALREADY FINISHED THE JOB!" Best Jeanist got to his feet. "DID YOU HEAR ME?" Multiple mutations shot forward, Miriko broke free slamming her leg into his chest, yelling loudly. More mutations went around her. "You want me to kill you that badly?" She kicked him again, biting off bits of her arm, he got back up confused, grabbing his eyes, confused on why he staggered. 

"Miriko!" shouted Best Jeanist, he used threads to pull her toward him.

"Still standing for me?" asked Miirko landed on her feet, she launched toward him. "How kind of you, Demon Lord!" He shot mutations toward him, Mirio shot up, putting his hands over Shigaraki's eyes, and as Izumi put his hand into Shigaraki's back, blood spilled. "EYES ON ME, BUDDY!" Shigaraki gasped. "I'll fight until it's my time to die! But I've got too much work to do. I'm not layin' down yet!" She jumped up. "When I leave this world, it'll be with no regrets!" She kicked him in the face, in the chest. "LUNA RUSH!" Landed multiple kicks causing blood to gush through his face. 

***

Deep down in the surrounding hands

"Even though I destroyed them, I wasn't broken back then."

Tenko thought to the people on the streets when he was a kid. To Hana, his grandparents, and his parents. He scratched.

"But no one reached their hand out to me. No one cared! No one would even look at me whenever I needed them!

***

Back outside, Shigaraki's body went through mutations, in the form of fingers around the torso and limbs, and faces on the nubs, and everyone watched unsure how to feel. Hands formed over his face, both eyes glowing white. Shigaraki jumped back, landing on all four, he was giant than before.

"I have had enough of you!" growled Miriko, she ran forward, and Shigaraki moved fast punching her hard.

"Miriko!" cried Mirio.

"Mirio!" cried Amajicki backing up before he got hit, Izumi got hit right after that, but not before piercing a bit into Shigaraki making him cry. Nejire used her waves.

"NO!" cried Mirio when Shigaraki jumped up. "STOP IT!" She got hit hard, dropping to the ground. 

"You're nothing," said Shigaraki. "Not worth my time." He began to walk toward Jeanist and the others, he grunted in pain, he looked to see when Izumi bit him...poison from fairies...his body was not spitting it out...he was going to go mad..."You don't get to fix what I've already broken." Mirio tried to get in between Best Jeanist and Shigaraki, but he got pushed back, Best Jeanist was bleeding heavily. Lord Corpse got to his feet, he got in front of Best Jeanist and clapped his hands together, lighting from his body and sky struck Shigaraki all at once, making him freeze in the air screaming in pain

"The barrier!" sounded Mandalay, causing Lord Corpse to release his attack. "I'm deactivating it for a bit!" Shigaraki dropped to the ground he was smoking. "Hang on for two seconds!"

"He's the village leader for a reason," said Izumi with a smile, he was going to be fine, Lord Corpse was using magic to heal him at the moment and stitch his wounds. Definitely gained some scars from this...'scars of battle are nothing to be ashamed' of Great Pa Go would say. Shigaraki got his feet again, he leaped with a punch ready to go, Lord Corpse stood with zero fear and a smile, it made Shigaraki feel uneasy. In those two seconds, to Lord Corpse's surprise, Mirio appeared out of the ground, with his butt being shown to Shigaraki in tears. 

"Hey, you. Brought a peach for ya!"

This made Shigaraki stop in his tracks. "Huh?"

Lord Corpse on the other hand laughed, putting a hand on his stomach, he grew quiet, and everyone looked up to see Izuku, his eyes locked on Shigaraki. 

"Izuku Midoriya," greeted Shigaraki, Izuku shot forward he hit Shigaraki hard making him spin. Izuku had finally joined the group in the coffin in the sky.