"Don't get me wrong, All Might, this information is valuable, but it's a shame to receive it from a vile murderer like Stain, but, Tartarus' systems are cut off from the outside world and thus completely isolated. There is no way that we would've been able to receive this information normally." Officer Tsukauchi noted. "It doesn't help that the systems were heavily damaged from the inside and out during the villain attack thanks to Shigaraki's Radio Waves causing all of the systems to go down."
"All For One residing within Shigaraki formed a perfectly connected consciousness which explains why they were able to conduct such a perfectly synchronized attack." Officer Sansa added.
"That's the thing though. He was able to share his thoughts with Shigaraki back and forth between himself and Shigaraki's body due to the shared consciousness between them. But while I had a similar experience within One For All I wasn't able to communicate both ways." Toshinori Yagi, the Former Symbol Of Peace All Might explained. "The 'Me' that is me is able to transmit my thoughts synchronously within the consciousness dwelling within One For All but I have yet to receive any synchronicity from the 'Me' within One For All. However, when I touched Young Midoriya while he was recovering, something changed. My spiritual self washed over me and I began receive my spiritual form's memories. There were no words. It was as if pure emotion washed over me. If All For One was able to do the same, if he had an equal or greater rate of synchronicity, then I predict that he would have been able to transmit and receive thoughts between himself within Shigaraki and his physical body despite his imprisonment which he used to send instructions to Shigaraki."
"Spooky."
"Indeed. However this time they utilized Radio Waves. In which case they would've been able to utilize both methods to communicate with himself and receive instructions. However it's because of that same Quirk that we were able to record the radio waves. They left a waveform and we've been able to analyze and parse the data."
"Great! What does it say?" Officer Sansa asked.
"It's not good. Tomura Shigaraki's body will be completed within 38 days."
"W-WHAT?! TH-THAT'S NOT WHAT HEADQUARTER'S DATA SAID! They said we had two months left!"
Toshinori sighed. "Regrettably, the results of researching and analyzing all of that will lead to nothing significant. If All For One and Shigaraki can communicate with each other in such a manner, if believe that the hidden medium between Shigaraki's body and the consciousness really does exist, then our timetable has moved up considerably. It's likely that Shigaraki's body, now no longer than a vessel, will be completed within 3 days."
"I heard about it personally from All Might....but to send reinforcements by tomorrow is impossible! The foreign Heroes who can be dispatched tend to not follow orders when they are called for help internationally. For the time being the best course of action is to deal with domestic affairs directly using the heroes you already have in your own country. Regretably the more Heroes we dispatch from our own countries the less of a deterrent they are in maintaining a carefully balanced equilibrium between the criminal elements of the world and the remaining heroes and civilians. All For One isn't the only threat to the world and every time we dispatch large amounts of heroes overseas it does nothing but revitalize the criminal syndicates who come back out of hiding."
"It's odd however isn't it? How every country is just suddenly dealing with villain outbreaks all at once."
"According to ICPO, All For One has slithered his tendrils into practically every nation. Still, if Hawks, Endeavor and above all, All Might, ask for aid, how can we refuse? It's Salaam is practically ready to hijack a jet and go there himself and he keeps talking about how All For One is growing."
"Our countries' Red Dot is in a similar predicament. He continuously asks us: "Why do we need permission to help out a friend?"
"Truly they are Heroes to the bone. We shouldn't expect anything less from them."
"True enough, however, She has already done so and is on her way to Japan now."
"Her?"
"She's...one of ours. Our #1 Hero. Our own Symbol Of Peace."
"You're not suggesting who I think you are, are you?"
"I admit she can be a bit...eccentric but she's reliable, if not entirely controllable, but she's a pure hearted Hero down to her core. She's going there to blow everything away." Cyril Centurion explained.
"But wouldn't that leave you vulnerable as well?"
"She isn't the only gun we have. Battalion will be coordinating the efforts of the Heroes in reigning in the villains for the time being."
"It's good to know that you're covering your bases but I'm concerned. With everything we've analyzed on Shigaraki's current capabilities what do you think will happen if he should confront Stars&Stripes?"
Cyril quietly considered all of this. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have long prided myself on my ability to understand the outcome of events and predict action and reaction by seeing the variables of any situation and predicting the outcome. However, while I can estimate a complete victory for Stars&Stripes based on his capabilities demonstrated so far the problem arises from the fact that we are not yet completely aware of the sheer number of Quirks he has stored inside of him and it's hard to come to a proper decision without all of the data. What I can say for certain is that we are about to witness one of the greatest battles of our time."
The Jets soared over the Ocean traveling to Japan while Stars&Stripes cape and hair blew backwards in the wind. She stood on top of one of the jets with a big smile on her face and her body hungry for action. "What did they expect? If Master All Might is in danger, I can't exactly sit around all day waiting for orders. I'm going charging in at full speed!" Cathleen Bate, Stars&Stripes, the No.1 Hero In America, declared boldly. Cathleen Bate is a tall woman with a well-muscled build. She has elegant facial features, narrow eyes, and long flowing blonde hair with eight distinct tufts swept backward and fashioned in a similar manner to the ones All Might possessed in his empowered form. Her hero costume is a high-collared skin-tight bodysuit with shoulder pads, boots and gauntlets. Fitting to her home country and hero name, the upper torso was decorated in stripes, and her gauntlets and collar are studded with metal stars. Completing the outfit was a long, striped cape that resembles of the U.S. flag.
EVIL LAIR!
All For One let the machine and breathing mask handle his breathing while he monologued to Spinner to the League Of Villains about his current plan and go
"A crucial moment is nigh. The escaped convicts and their antics have provided the perfect distraction for keeping the short-staffed police and heroes from devoting their full attention to us. We have played a game of hide and seek on this small island nation and we have won. Winning this little match was the short-term objective and obtaining one for all is the midgame goal. Taking that Quirk back is the next step."
"That isn't the final step?" Spinner asked. "And wouldn't escaping overseas be our victory anyway?"
"My end goals are a bit different than that. You see I've laid out plans that span lifetimes so that if one plan gets screwed up I have another path to victory and a few others as backup plans. Now, as we wind down the clock on my greatest plan, we are approached by both our greatest hurdle and our greatest opportunity. I have friends all around the world in various criminal empires. Over here in Japan, All Might singlehandedly suppressed organized crime almost completely. But this isn't the case overseas. If those people were left unchecked too it's almost certain the countries would fall to ruin and turn on themselves and each other. Yet there are Heroes whose powers rival that of All Might and Endeavor. Even myself. One of them is on her way here to Japan to provide assistance to the Heroes. Stars&Stripes. The World's Strongest Woman hailing from The Home Of Heroes, The Land Of The Free, The United States Of America, and stands at the Zenith of Power among the World's Heroes. Our usual underhanded tactics won't work on her. I must admit. If someone like her were to intervene, or worse team up with One For All's Heir, we would certainly be in trouble." All For One admitted. A wide evil smile spread across his face. "But! But if I or Tomura were able to get our hands on her Quirk. The rest would be history. There would be no one to stop us!"
Hawks and Best Jeanist drove across the highway in an advanced black armored car while Endeavor shot through the air beside them wreathed in a ball of flames. Within the vehicle Hawks was looking at a monitor. "Alright we're set. She'll be entering our airspace soon and we can meet up at the rendezvous point. Once we're all together we can begin planning our countermeasures." Hawks explained and rested his hands on his legs. "Hey, Jeanist? I know how powerful she is and it's honestly reassuring to have her on our side, but...will she be okay in this situation?"
"Don't get me wrong, Hawks, I'm still rattled after the war as much as everyone else, but her power is off the charts and she's cool under pressure. That's exactly what we need at the moment. If she, Midoriya and Endeavor team up they'll be able to handle Shigaraki and AFO."
"Lets hope so. After that last battle we need all of the firepower we can get. Especially with Eraser out of commission."
"There's still the possibility of Monoma copying his Quirk to make up for it but we can wait to strategize until we return home with Stars in tow." Jeanist reminded him. "I'd much rather wait to make a plan until we have all of our cards on the table."
Their conversation was interrupted by Tsukauchi calling over the radio and their comms. "This is Tsukauchi! Heroes do you copy?! We've got a problem! There's someone else in the airspace around 50 KM from the rendezvous point! IT'S HIM! HE'S WAITING FOR THEM!"
The wild winds whipped at Shigaraki's black cape and hair as the High-End Flying Nomu flapped its wings to bring them closer to Stars&Stripes. Their eyes locked and she laughed. "You must have quite a lot of free time to be able to come all the way up here to meet me!" She called out to him. "So tell me, Krusty, are you All For One or Tomura Shigaraki?"
Shigarki smirked. "Well. Good question. Who am I really?" He pondered.
"That's Tomura Shigaraki ma'am! We're puttong on shielding to protect our ships from his Electromagnetic Pulses!"
"Rodger that! Take your formations and prepare for an asskicking! It's time to exterminate a villain! If anybody dies I'll send your bodies back to your families!"
"YES MA'AM!" The fighter pilots cried out in unison and spread themselves to prepare for the battle.
"Who am I?" Shigaraki wondered. "I've been feeling like this ever since I woke up. It's weird but while I can truthfully state that I am Tomura Shigaraki I can also state for certain that I am Him simultaneously. How weird." He shrugged. "Ahhh screw it. I'm just going to focus on the here and now and vaporize her." Shigarai knelt forward and began coiling his muscles akin to a coil spring while black lightning sparks with red outlines crackled around him. "Lets clear this level!"
[Springlike Limbs + Air Cannon + Radio Waves + Heavy Payload!]
Springlike Limbs allows the user to store and release force by coiling their muscles, akin to a coil spring.
Radio Waves allows the user to disrupt radio waves and cause communicators to malfunction. The Quirk can also be used to transmit waveforms through an induced current, allowing for communication, as well as a way to directly awaken and control the Nomu.
Air Cannon allows the user to release an air shockwave from their arms. The shockwave can manifest in different forms, depending on the motion the user's arms follow when releasing it. The blast's shape can range from a straight, concentrated air shot to a wide, crescent-shaped air blade.
Heavy Payload increases the damage output of the user's attacks.
"Obliteration Cannon!" Tomura called out and released a massive energy blast of dark electricity, energy and air towards her from his outstretched hands while the jets split up and parted while Stars dodged out of the way and landed on one of the jets and balanced on it and she turned her head and watched it fly away for a considerable distance!
She whistled. (Yeah. I expected at least that much firepower but holy shit! The reports about him weren't exaggerated in the least. I'm definitely going to need to kick into high gear to gets this done!)
Stars turned her attention back to Shigaraki.
"Ohhhh BABY that was a fun one!" Shigaraki laughed and lowered his hands. "So tell me Miss America! Which of us do you think is going to get the first touch in?!"
"Heh. Even if I don't know all of your Quirks it still won't change anything! That's what it means to have power, kid!" She called back and raised her hand and grabbed the air.
"NEW ORDER: Atmosphere! The atmosphere here in front of me 100 meters away will cease to exist!"
"Wha-" was all Shigaraki managed to get out before the atmosphere immediately surrounding him vanished and the air was violently ripped from his lungs, the small blood vessels in his eyes, lungs, damaging them even further, and the blood vessels on his skin ruptured while his eyes and mucus membrane surfaces boiled off like water vapor, nitrogen came out of his blood, he threw up, his eardrums popped, his saliva began to boil, his skin dried out, his lungs ruptured due to the lack of equilibrium of gas exchanges, his body inflated, the gases in his body left him, and he began suffering a heart attack and cerebral hemorrhaging (Brain vessel circulation may be influenced by atmospheric variables such as air pollution and weather changes, generating intrinsic changes in the intima of the vessels which leads to vasospasm and with comorbidities associated may develop SAH.) as his vestibular system suddenly went out of whack!
"JUDGMENT ATMOSPHERE!"
The result was Tomura Shigaraki and his Nomu were now floating weightlessly in an atmosphere-less airless void with blood and fluids floating around them unable to make a sound with no sound around him with Tomura's Quirks desperately trying to regenerate his failing body. Meanwhile all she had to do was sit back and watch him suffer in his cycle of of regeneration and suffocation.
Last Edit: Jan 13, 2024 1:11:04 GMT by superkamiguy1
"Don't get me wrong, All Might, this information is valuable, but it's a shame to receive it from a vile murderer like Stain, but, Tartarus' systems are cut off from the outside world and thus completely isolated. There is no way that we would've been able to receive this information normally." Officer Tsukauchi noted. "It doesn't help that the systems were heavily damaged from the inside and out during the villain attack thanks to Shigaraki's Radio Waves causing all of the systems to go down."
"All For One residing within Shigaraki formed a perfectly connected consciousness which explains why they were able to conduct such a perfectly synchronized attack." Officer Sansa added.
"That's the thing though. He was able to share his thoughts with Shigaraki back and forth between himself and Shigaraki's body due to the shared consciousness between them. But while I had a similar experience within One For All I wasn't able to communicate both ways." Toshinori Yagi, the Former Symbol Of Peace All Might explained. "The 'Me' that is me is able to transmit my thoughts synchronously within the consciousness dwelling within One For All but I have yet to receive any synchronicity from the 'Me' within One For All. However, when I touched Young Midoriya while he was recovering, something changed. My spiritual self washed over me and I began receive my spiritual form's memories. There were no words. It was as if pure emotion washed over me. If All For One was able to do the same, if he had an equal or greater rate of synchronicity, then I predict that he would have been able to transmit and receive thoughts between himself within Shigaraki and his physical body despite his imprisonment which he used to send instructions to Shigaraki."
"Spooky."
"Indeed. However this time they utilized Radio Waves. In which case they would've been able to utilize both methods to communicate with himself and receive instructions. However it's because of that same Quirk that we were able to record the radio waves. They left a waveform and we've been able to analyze and parse the data."
"Great! What does it say?" Officer Sansa asked.
"It's not good. Tomura Shigaraki's body will be completed within 38 days."
"W-WHAT?! TH-THAT'S NOT WHAT HEADQUARTER'S DATA SAID! They said we had two months left!"
Toshinori sighed. "Regrettably, the results of researching and analyzing all of that will lead to nothing significant. If All For One and Shigaraki can communicate with each other in such a manner, if believe that the hidden medium between Shigaraki's body and the consciousness really does exist, then our timetable has moved up considerably. It's likely that Shigaraki's body, now no longer than a vessel, will be completed within 3 days."
"I heard about it personally from All Might....but to send reinforcements by tomorrow is impossible! The foreign Heroes who can be dispatched tend to not follow orders when they are called for help internationally. For the time being the best course of action is to deal with domestic affairs directly using the heroes you already have in your own country. Regretably the more Heroes we dispatch from our own countries the less of a deterrent they are in maintaining a carefully balanced equilibrium between the criminal elements of the world and the remaining heroes and civilians. All For One isn't the only threat to the world and every time we dispatch large amounts of heroes overseas it does nothing but revitalize the criminal syndicates who come back out of hiding."
"It's odd however isn't it? How every country is just suddenly dealing with villain outbreaks all at once."
"According to ICPO, All For One has slithered his tendrils into practically every nation. Still, if Hawks, Endeavor and above all, All Might, ask for aid, how can we refuse? It's Salaam is practically ready to hijack a jet and go there himself and he keeps talking about how All For One is growing."
"Our countries' Red Dot is in a similar predicament. He continuously asks us: "Why do we need permission to help out a friend?"
"Truly they are Heroes to the bone. We shouldn't expect anything less from them."
"True enough, however, She has already done so and is on her way to Japan now."
"Her?"
"She's...one of ours. Our #1 Hero. Our own Symbol Of Peace."
"You're not suggesting who I think you are, are you?"
"I admit she can be a bit...eccentric but she's reliable, if not entirely controllable, but she's a pure hearted Hero down to her core. She's going there to blow everything away." Cyril Centurion explained.
"But wouldn't that leave you vulnerable as well?"
"She isn't the only gun we have. Battalion will be coordinating the efforts of the Heroes in reigning in the villains for the time being."
"It's good to know that you're covering your bases but I'm concerned. With everything we've analyzed on Shigaraki's current capabilities what do you think will happen if he should confront Stars&Stripes?"
Cyril quietly considered all of this. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have long prided myself on my ability to understand the outcome of events and predict action and reaction by seeing the variables of any situation and predicting the outcome. However, while I can estimate a complete victory for Stars&Stripes based on his capabilities demonstrated so far the problem arises from the fact that we are not yet completely aware of the sheer number of Quirks he has stored inside of him and it's hard to come to a proper decision without all of the data. What I can say for certain is that we are about to witness one of the greatest battles of our time."
The Jets soared over the Ocean traveling to Japan while Stars&Stripes cape and hair blew backwards in the wind. She stood on top of one of the jets with a big smile on her face and her body hungry for action. "What did they expect? If Master All Might is in danger, I can't exactly sit around all day waiting for orders. I'm going charging in at full speed!" Cathleen Bate, Stars&Stripes, the No.1 Hero In America, declared boldly. Cathleen Bate is a tall woman with a well-muscled build. She has elegant facial features, narrow eyes, and long flowing blonde hair with eight distinct tufts swept backward and fashioned in a similar manner to the ones All Might possessed in his empowered form. Her hero costume is a high-collared skin-tight bodysuit with shoulder pads, boots and gauntlets. Fitting to her home country and hero name, the upper torso was decorated in stripes, and her gauntlets and collar are studded with metal stars. Completing the outfit was a long, striped cape that resembles of the U.S. flag.
EVIL LAIR!
All For One let the machine and breathing mask handle his breathing while he monologued to Spinner to the League Of Villains about his current plan and go
"A crucial moment is nigh. The escaped convicts and their antics have provided the perfect distraction for keeping the short-staffed police and heroes from devoting their full attention to us. We have played a game of hide and seek on this small island nation and we have won. Winning this little match was the short-term objective and obtaining one for all is the midgame goal. Taking that Quirk back is the next step."
"That isn't the final step?" Spinner asked. "And wouldn't escaping overseas be our victory anyway?"
"My end goals are a bit different than that. You see I've laid out plans that span lifetimes so that if one plan gets screwed up I have another path to victory and a few others as backup plans. Now, as we wind down the clock on my greatest plan, we are approached by both our greatest hurdle and our greatest opportunity. I have friends all around the world in various criminal empires. Over here in Japan, All Might singlehandedly suppressed organized crime almost completely. But this isn't the case overseas. If those people were left unchecked too it's almost certain the countries would fall to ruin and turn on themselves and each other. Yet there are Heroes whose powers rival that of All Might and Endeavor. Even myself. One of them is on her way here to Japan to provide assistance to the Heroes. Stars&Stripes. The World's Strongest Woman hailing from The Home Of Heroes, The Land Of The Free, The United States Of America, and stands at the Zenith of Power among the World's Heroes. Our usual underhanded tactics won't work on her. I must admit. If someone like her were to intervene, or worse team up with One For All's Heir, we would certainly be in trouble." All For One admitted. A wide evil smile spread across his face. "But! But if I or Tomura were able to get our hands on her Quirk. The rest would be history. There would be no one to stop us!"
Hawks and Best Jeanist drove across the highway in an advanced black armored car while Endeavor shot through the air beside them wreathed in a ball of flames. Within the vehicle Hawks was looking at a monitor. "Alright we're set. She'll be entering our airspace soon and we can meet up at the rendezvous point. Once we're all together we can begin planning our countermeasures." Hawks explained and rested his hands on his legs. "Hey, Jeanist? I know how powerful she is and it's honestly reassuring to have her on our side, but...will she be okay in this situation?"
"Don't get me wrong, Hawks, I'm still rattled after the war as much as everyone else, but her power is off the charts and she's cool under pressure. That's exactly what we need at the moment. If she, Midoriya and Endeavor team up they'll be able to handle Shigaraki and AFO."
"Lets hope so. After that last battle we need all of the firepower we can get. Especially with Eraser out of commission."
"There's still the possibility of Monoma copying his Quirk to make up for it but we can wait to strategize until we return home with Stars in tow." Jeanist reminded him. "I'd much rather wait to make a plan until we have all of our cards on the table."
Their conversation was interrupted by Tsukauchi calling over the radio and their comms. "This is Tsukauchi! Heroes do you copy?! We've got a problem! There's someone else in the airspace around 50 KM from the rendezvous point! IT'S HIM! HE'S WAITING FOR THEM!"
The wild winds whipped at Shigaraki's black cape and hair as the High-End Flying Nomu flapped its wings to bring them closer to Stars&Stripes. Their eyes locked and she laughed. "You must have quite a lot of free time to be able to come all the way up here to meet me!" She called out to him. "So tell me, Krusty, are you All For One or Tomura Shigaraki?"
Shigarki smirked. "Well. Good question. Who am I really?" He pondered.
"That's Tomura Shigaraki ma'am! We're puttong on shielding to protect our ships from his Electromagnetic Pulses!"
"Rodger that! Take your formations and prepare for an asskicking! It's time to exterminate a villain! If anybody dies I'll send your bodies back to your families!"
"YES MA'AM!" The fighter pilots cried out in unison and spread themselves to prepare for the battle.
"Who am I?" Shigaraki wondered. "I've been feeling like this ever since I woke up. It's weird but while I can truthfully state that I am Tomura Shigaraki I can also state for certain that I am Him simultaneously. How weird." He shrugged. "Ahhh screw it. I'm just going to focus on the here and now and vaporize her." Shigarai knelt forward and began coiling his muscles akin to a coil spring while black lightning sparks with red outlines crackled around him. "Lets clear this level!"
[Springlike Limbs + Air Cannon + Radio Waves + Heavy Payload!]
Springlike Limbs allows the user to store and release force by coiling their muscles, akin to a coil spring.
Radio Waves allows the user to disrupt radio waves and cause communicators to malfunction. The Quirk can also be used to transmit waveforms through an induced current, allowing for communication, as well as a way to directly awaken and control the Nomu.
Air Cannon allows the user to release an air shockwave from their arms. The shockwave can manifest in different forms, depending on the motion the user's arms follow when releasing it. The blast's shape can range from a straight, concentrated air shot to a wide, crescent-shaped air blade.
Heavy Payload increases the damage output of the user's attacks.
"Obliteration Cannon!" Tomura called out and released a massive energy blast of dark electricity, energy and air towards her from his outstretched hands while the jets split up and parted while Stars dodged out of the way and landed on one of the jets and balanced on it and she turned her head and watched it fly away for a considerable distance!
She whistled. (Yeah. I expected at least that much firepower but holy shit! The reports about him weren't exaggerated in the least. I'm definitely going to need to kick into high gear to gets this done!)
Stars turned her attention back to Shigaraki.
"Ohhhh BABY that was a fun one!" Shigaraki laughed and lowered his hands. "So tell me Miss America! Which of us do you think is going to get the first touch in?!"
"Heh. Even if I don't know all of your Quirks it still won't change anything! That's what it means to have power, kid!" She called back and raised her hand and grabbed the air.
"NEW ORDER: Atmosphere! The atmosphere here in front of me 100 meters away will cease to exist!"
"Wha-" was all Shigaraki managed to get out before the atmosphere immediately surrounding him vanished and the air was violently ripped from his lungs, the small blood vessels in his eyes, lungs, damaging them even further, and the blood vessels on his skin ruptured while his eyes and mucus membrane surfaces boiled off like water vapor, nitrogen came out of his blood, he threw up, his eardrums popped, his saliva began to boil, his skin dried out, his lungs ruptured due to the lack of equilibrium of gas exchanges, his body inflated, the gases in his body left him, and he began suffering a heart attack and cerebral hemorrhaging (Brain vessel circulation may be influenced by atmospheric variables such as air pollution and weather changes, generating intrinsic changes in the intima of the vessels which leads to vasospasm and with comorbidities associated may develop SAH.) as his vestibular system suddenly went out of whack!
"JUDGMENT ATMOSPHERE!"
The result was Tomura Shigaraki and his Nomu were now floating weightlessly in an atmosphere-less airless void with blood and fluids floating around them unable to make a sound with no sound around him with Tomura's Quirks desperately trying to regenerate his failing body. Meanwhile all she had to do was sit back and watch him suffer in his cycle of of regeneration and suffocation.
"Sooo we're just sitting here watching this?"
"Correct, Iceman, no need to do anything else. Just let my Quirk work its magic."
"Well this was easy." Escobar commented. "I didn't expect him to go down that easily."
"Really it's fortunate that we were able to fight him out here without anybody else around. If we were fighting him in a city setting it would've been problematic." Stars&Stripes admitted as they simply watched Shigaraki's body shutdown.
The Nomu was already dead. Leaving your brain exposed to the air was already a major design flaw and now it's hemorrhaging while exposed to the air on top of everything else? The Nomu was dead and Shigaraki's regeneration was the only thing keeping his body going but the longer he spent in the atmosphere-less 'zone' was getting worse for him.
Whatever Shigaraki was right now, his body, his flesh, had a human enough base that the damage was catastrophic. She didn't know the limits of his regeneration but based on the information they received from his fight with the Heroes, his regeneration still had a limit somewhere. He was able to handle attacks from Endeavor, Ryukyu and the hardest hitting Heroes that Japan had on the scene thanks to his durability and regeneration, but he WAS slowing down during that fight even if his regeneration was keeping him alive and in the fight.
According to intel, his Master, All For One, had that crazy scientist heavily modify his body on top of dumping hundreds or even thousands of quirks to choose from and yet Shigaraki was able to, mostly, handle them with his enhanced body and regeneration. Buuuuut his incomplete body couldn't keep up with the combined strength of the stolen quirks in All For One. As a result, Shigaraki’s body would tear itself apart if he pushes himself too hard and his regenerative powers slow down significantly.
And right now his body was, essentially, undergoing constant damage. The human body, his base, was simply not meant to survive in an atmosphere-less environment. His regeneration could simply put him back together but then he would just die all over again and due to the damage to his internal organs and, most importantly, his brain, he wouldn't be able to think to use his Quirks. The brain's motor system is contained mostly in the frontal lobes. It starts with premotor areas, for planning and coordinating complex movements, and ends with the primary motor cortex, where the final output is sent down the spinal cord to cause contraction and movement of specific muscles.
A brain hemorrhage is bleeding in the brain that occurs when blood vessels inside the skull are damaged, for instance due to a major head injury. Other causes include problems with blood clotting and/or damage to the blood vessels in the brain – due to thickened and hardened artery walls (arteriosclerosis) or high blood pressure, for example. The bleeding is often caused by a ruptured (burst) brain aneurysm. A brain aneurysm is a bulge in an artery in or near the brain.
If a brain aneurysm ruptures or an artery that passes over the surface of the brain bursts, blood flows into the fluid-filled space around the brain. Doctors call this area the "subarachnoid space." Bleeding into this space is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Blood can then quickly spread in this space and put pressure on the whole brain. This means that even parts of the brain that aren't very close to the bleeding blood vessel are damaged. The bleeding quickly causes a severe headache. Left untreated, it often leads to unconsciousness and life-threatening complications like an irregular heartbeat and respiratory arrest (where you stop breathing effectively, or at all).
The brain damage can cause long-term or permanent problems in everyday life, or lead to the need for nursing care – for instance because of speech problems or paralysis.
Which was all a long winded way to explain that even if Shigaraki wanted to use one of his countless Quirks to fight back he wouldn't be able to. He wouldn't even be able to form the coherent thought to think to use a Quirk in the first place due to the damage his body was taking. His brain was such a mess now even with his regeneration his body couldn't make a move.
So all she had to do was sit back and wait him out until his regeneration started falling apart.
"It's a shame to snuff out the life of one so young but considering all of the damage you've caused, the innocent people you've killed, the cities you've destroyed, I don't have a lot of sympathy left for you. If you really thought you could rampage around Japan and the world and threaten everyone's lives like they were your playthings you were wrong. Everything comes around, kid, and right now you're experiencing the same feeling of helplessness and horror your victims must have felt as you destroyed their lives and disintegrated their cities around them. The destruction of the cities and the energy blast you released at the start of our fight were enough for me to tell that if I hadn't stopped you here and now you would've gone on to devastate not just Japan but become a threat to the entire world." She sighed and rubbed the back of her head. "I know you can't hear me right now but it feels good to vent anyway. To be honest I'm not sure if All Might would necessarily approve of these methods but sometimes you just have to take the most pragmatic option availa-huh?" She stopped mid-sentence and stared at him as she noticed his body ripping open in bloody sutures around while his body also began grotesquely mutating as a mass of fingers and arms began growing out of his limp bleeding limbs.
"Okaaaay....what the hell is that?!" Stars asked and took a step back on the jet. His body was shaking and trembling as his body was simultaneously mutating out of control and trying and failing to regenerate. The blood was drifting up out of his body as holes and tears ripped open and closed around his body with body parts growing out of his body and dropping dead.
"Hey Stars! I think it's working! His regeneration must finally be failing him!" Iceman informed her.
"Yeah....but that would mean that...his body is...oh. Ohhhhhh. I get it." She ran her fingers through her hair and regained her composure. "Ohhh I get it. Yeah that makes sense. He had a few metric tons of Quirks pooled into him along with whatever Frankenstein Modifications they put him through. Probably the same thing they did to the Nomu's. In other words....his regeneration wasn't just to make him harder to defeat! It was a stabilizing agent! His body can't handle all of the countless Quirks throughout his body without it! The damage is accumulating and he's falling apart and his body is trying to mutate to adapt to the damage!" She blew out her breath. "In other words...he's going to mutate into something horrible if I don't destroy him now. Best to be on the safe side before he gets out of control or adapts to the vacuum." She reached out her hand again.
"NEW ORDER: Atmosphere! The Air In Front Of Me To The Full Volume Of Fifty Football Fields Is Now Filled With An Equal Volume Of Plasma As Hot As Possible, All Heat Focused Inwards. A Thousand Suns!"
Shigaraki just barely managed to lift his head before he was promptly incinerated in a flash of fire! With his body already failing from everytihng else she'd done, his regeneration failing and his body a complete mess, he was basically flash fried in an instant! The temperature at least initially, wasn't as hot as The Sun per say but it was as hot as a raging inferno from a pissed off Endeavor or Dabi but far more intense and rapidly increasing in heat! It was like he was standing in the middle of a star! A star that suddenly collapsed into his chest and then exploded out of him! Shigaraki never had a chance to fight back. He burst into flames with the Nomu's corpse and opened his mouth in a silent scream as he was cremated and burned to ashes leaving nothing left of him.
Stars watched all this happen and then she raised her hand and returned the atmosphere to normal. The embers that had been Shigaraki drifted down to the sea where they were snuffed out.
Tenko Shimura, Tomura Shigaraki, All For One's Vestige and his Original Quirk had been erased.
"Well holy shit. It's over. Just like that. Damn girl."
"You okay Cathleen?"
"...I'm good. It had to be done. Come on. Lets move on to the rendezvous point and give them the news."
"YES MA'AM!"
The Jets flew forward and onward to Japan.
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"Say, Cathleen?"
"What's up, Cheeseburger?"
"Wasn't he synched with the original All For One or something?"
"Ohhhh yeeeaaaah. Something about them being synchronized through their Quirks or communicating with the Radio Waves?"
"Yeah that's it. How do you think he's taking this news?"
"About as well as super-villains usually take it when you screw up their big dramatic evil plans. Maybe a bit more considering they must've poured....what? A few billion dollars and thousands of Quirks into him? I'd imagine he's probably feeling more than a little pissed after a loss like that."
"Don't get me wrong, All Might, this information is valuable, but it's a shame to receive it from a vile murderer like Stain, but, Tartarus' systems are cut off from the outside world and thus completely isolated. There is no way that we would've been able to receive this information normally." Officer Tsukauchi noted. "It doesn't help that the systems were heavily damaged from the inside and out during the villain attack thanks to Shigaraki's Radio Waves causing all of the systems to go down."
"All For One residing within Shigaraki formed a perfectly connected consciousness which explains why they were able to conduct such a perfectly synchronized attack." Officer Sansa added.
"That's the thing though. He was able to share his thoughts with Shigaraki back and forth between himself and Shigaraki's body due to the shared consciousness between them. But while I had a similar experience within One For All I wasn't able to communicate both ways." Toshinori Yagi, the Former Symbol Of Peace All Might explained. "The 'Me' that is me is able to transmit my thoughts synchronously within the consciousness dwelling within One For All but I have yet to receive any synchronicity from the 'Me' within One For All. However, when I touched Young Midoriya while he was recovering, something changed. My spiritual self washed over me and I began receive my spiritual form's memories. There were no words. It was as if pure emotion washed over me. If All For One was able to do the same, if he had an equal or greater rate of synchronicity, then I predict that he would have been able to transmit and receive thoughts between himself within Shigaraki and his physical body despite his imprisonment which he used to send instructions to Shigaraki."
"Spooky."
"Indeed. However this time they utilized Radio Waves. In which case they would've been able to utilize both methods to communicate with himself and receive instructions. However it's because of that same Quirk that we were able to record the radio waves. They left a waveform and we've been able to analyze and parse the data."
"Great! What does it say?" Officer Sansa asked.
"It's not good. Tomura Shigaraki's body will be completed within 38 days."
"W-WHAT?! TH-THAT'S NOT WHAT HEADQUARTER'S DATA SAID! They said we had two months left!"
Toshinori sighed. "Regrettably, the results of researching and analyzing all of that will lead to nothing significant. If All For One and Shigaraki can communicate with each other in such a manner, if believe that the hidden medium between Shigaraki's body and the consciousness really does exist, then our timetable has moved up considerably. It's likely that Shigaraki's body, now no longer than a vessel, will be completed within 3 days."
"I heard about it personally from All Might....but to send reinforcements by tomorrow is impossible! The foreign Heroes who can be dispatched tend to not follow orders when they are called for help internationally. For the time being the best course of action is to deal with domestic affairs directly using the heroes you already have in your own country. Regretably the more Heroes we dispatch from our own countries the less of a deterrent they are in maintaining a carefully balanced equilibrium between the criminal elements of the world and the remaining heroes and civilians. All For One isn't the only threat to the world and every time we dispatch large amounts of heroes overseas it does nothing but revitalize the criminal syndicates who come back out of hiding."
"It's odd however isn't it? How every country is just suddenly dealing with villain outbreaks all at once."
"According to ICPO, All For One has slithered his tendrils into practically every nation. Still, if Hawks, Endeavor and above all, All Might, ask for aid, how can we refuse? It's Salaam is practically ready to hijack a jet and go there himself and he keeps talking about how All For One is growing."
"Our countries' Red Dot is in a similar predicament. He continuously asks us: "Why do we need permission to help out a friend?"
"Truly they are Heroes to the bone. We shouldn't expect anything less from them."
"True enough, however, She has already done so and is on her way to Japan now."
"Her?"
"She's...one of ours. Our #1 Hero. Our own Symbol Of Peace."
"You're not suggesting who I think you are, are you?"
"I admit she can be a bit...eccentric but she's reliable, if not entirely controllable, but she's a pure hearted Hero down to her core. She's going there to blow everything away." Cyril Centurion explained.
"But wouldn't that leave you vulnerable as well?"
"She isn't the only gun we have. Battalion will be coordinating the efforts of the Heroes in reigning in the villains for the time being."
"It's good to know that you're covering your bases but I'm concerned. With everything we've analyzed on Shigaraki's current capabilities what do you think will happen if he should confront Stars&Stripes?"
Cyril quietly considered all of this. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have long prided myself on my ability to understand the outcome of events and predict action and reaction by seeing the variables of any situation and predicting the outcome. However, while I can estimate a complete victory for Stars&Stripes based on his capabilities demonstrated so far the problem arises from the fact that we are not yet completely aware of the sheer number of Quirks he has stored inside of him and it's hard to come to a proper decision without all of the data. What I can say for certain is that we are about to witness one of the greatest battles of our time."
The Jets soared over the Ocean traveling to Japan while Stars&Stripes cape and hair blew backwards in the wind. She stood on top of one of the jets with a big smile on her face and her body hungry for action. "What did they expect? If Master All Might is in danger, I can't exactly sit around all day waiting for orders. I'm going charging in at full speed!" Cathleen Bate, Stars&Stripes, the No.1 Hero In America, declared boldly. Cathleen Bate is a tall woman with a well-muscled build. She has elegant facial features, narrow eyes, and long flowing blonde hair with eight distinct tufts swept backward and fashioned in a similar manner to the ones All Might possessed in his empowered form. Her hero costume is a high-collared skin-tight bodysuit with shoulder pads, boots and gauntlets. Fitting to her home country and hero name, the upper torso was decorated in stripes, and her gauntlets and collar are studded with metal stars. Completing the outfit was a long, striped cape that resembles of the U.S. flag.
EVIL LAIR!
All For One let the machine and breathing mask handle his breathing while he monologued to Spinner to the League Of Villains about his current plan and go
"A crucial moment is nigh. The escaped convicts and their antics have provided the perfect distraction for keeping the short-staffed police and heroes from devoting their full attention to us. We have played a game of hide and seek on this small island nation and we have won. Winning this little match was the short-term objective and obtaining one for all is the midgame goal. Taking that Quirk back is the next step."
"That isn't the final step?" Spinner asked. "And wouldn't escaping overseas be our victory anyway?"
"My end goals are a bit different than that. You see I've laid out plans that span lifetimes so that if one plan gets screwed up I have another path to victory and a few others as backup plans. Now, as we wind down the clock on my greatest plan, we are approached by both our greatest hurdle and our greatest opportunity. I have friends all around the world in various criminal empires. Over here in Japan, All Might singlehandedly suppressed organized crime almost completely. But this isn't the case overseas. If those people were left unchecked too it's almost certain the countries would fall to ruin and turn on themselves and each other. Yet there are Heroes whose powers rival that of All Might and Endeavor. Even myself. One of them is on her way here to Japan to provide assistance to the Heroes. Stars&Stripes. The World's Strongest Woman hailing from The Home Of Heroes, The Land Of The Free, The United States Of America, and stands at the Zenith of Power among the World's Heroes. Our usual underhanded tactics won't work on her. I must admit. If someone like her were to intervene, or worse team up with One For All's Heir, we would certainly be in trouble." All For One admitted. A wide evil smile spread across his face. "But! But if I or Tomura were able to get our hands on her Quirk. The rest would be history. There would be no one to stop us!"
Hawks and Best Jeanist drove across the highway in an advanced black armored car while Endeavor shot through the air beside them wreathed in a ball of flames. Within the vehicle Hawks was looking at a monitor. "Alright we're set. She'll be entering our airspace soon and we can meet up at the rendezvous point. Once we're all together we can begin planning our countermeasures." Hawks explained and rested his hands on his legs. "Hey, Jeanist? I know how powerful she is and it's honestly reassuring to have her on our side, but...will she be okay in this situation?"
"Don't get me wrong, Hawks, I'm still rattled after the war as much as everyone else, but her power is off the charts and she's cool under pressure. That's exactly what we need at the moment. If she, Midoriya and Endeavor team up they'll be able to handle Shigaraki and AFO."
"Lets hope so. After that last battle we need all of the firepower we can get. Especially with Eraser out of commission."
"There's still the possibility of Monoma copying his Quirk to make up for it but we can wait to strategize until we return home with Stars in tow." Jeanist reminded him. "I'd much rather wait to make a plan until we have all of our cards on the table."
Their conversation was interrupted by Tsukauchi calling over the radio and their comms. "This is Tsukauchi! Heroes do you copy?! We've got a problem! There's someone else in the airspace around 50 KM from the rendezvous point! IT'S HIM! HE'S WAITING FOR THEM!"
The wild winds whipped at Shigaraki's black cape and hair as the High-End Flying Nomu flapped its wings to bring them closer to Stars&Stripes. Their eyes locked and she laughed. "You must have quite a lot of free time to be able to come all the way up here to meet me!" She called out to him. "So tell me, Krusty, are you All For One or Tomura Shigaraki?"
Shigarki smirked. "Well. Good question. Who am I really?" He pondered.
"That's Tomura Shigaraki ma'am! We're puttong on shielding to protect our ships from his Electromagnetic Pulses!"
"Rodger that! Take your formations and prepare for an asskicking! It's time to exterminate a villain! If anybody dies I'll send your bodies back to your families!"
"YES MA'AM!" The fighter pilots cried out in unison and spread themselves to prepare for the battle.
"Who am I?" Shigaraki wondered. "I've been feeling like this ever since I woke up. It's weird but while I can truthfully state that I am Tomura Shigaraki I can also state for certain that I am Him simultaneously. How weird." He shrugged. "Ahhh screw it. I'm just going to focus on the here and now and vaporize her." Shigarai knelt forward and began coiling his muscles akin to a coil spring while black lightning sparks with red outlines crackled around him. "Lets clear this level!"
[Springlike Limbs + Air Cannon + Radio Waves + Heavy Payload!]
Springlike Limbs allows the user to store and release force by coiling their muscles, akin to a coil spring.
Radio Waves allows the user to disrupt radio waves and cause communicators to malfunction. The Quirk can also be used to transmit waveforms through an induced current, allowing for communication, as well as a way to directly awaken and control the Nomu.
Air Cannon allows the user to release an air shockwave from their arms. The shockwave can manifest in different forms, depending on the motion the user's arms follow when releasing it. The blast's shape can range from a straight, concentrated air shot to a wide, crescent-shaped air blade.
Heavy Payload increases the damage output of the user's attacks.
"Obliteration Cannon!" Tomura called out and released a massive energy blast of dark electricity, energy and air towards her from his outstretched hands while the jets split up and parted while Stars dodged out of the way and landed on one of the jets and balanced on it and she turned her head and watched it fly away for a considerable distance!
She whistled. (Yeah. I expected at least that much firepower but holy shit! The reports about him weren't exaggerated in the least. I'm definitely going to need to kick into high gear to gets this done!)
Stars turned her attention back to Shigaraki.
"Ohhhh BABY that was a fun one!" Shigaraki laughed and lowered his hands. "So tell me Miss America! Which of us do you think is going to get the first touch in?!"
"Heh. Even if I don't know all of your Quirks it still won't change anything! That's what it means to have power, kid!" She called back and raised her hand and grabbed the air.
"NEW ORDER: Atmosphere! The atmosphere here in front of me 100 meters away will cease to exist!"
"Wha-" was all Shigaraki managed to get out before the atmosphere immediately surrounding him vanished and the air was violently ripped from his lungs, the small blood vessels in his eyes, lungs, damaging them even further, and the blood vessels on his skin ruptured while his eyes and mucus membrane surfaces boiled off like water vapor, nitrogen came out of his blood, he threw up, his eardrums popped, his saliva began to boil, his skin dried out, his lungs ruptured due to the lack of equilibrium of gas exchanges, his body inflated, the gases in his body left him, and he began suffering a heart attack and cerebral hemorrhaging (Brain vessel circulation may be influenced by atmospheric variables such as air pollution and weather changes, generating intrinsic changes in the intima of the vessels which leads to vasospasm and with comorbidities associated may develop SAH.) as his vestibular system suddenly went out of whack!
"JUDGMENT ATMOSPHERE!"
The result was Tomura Shigaraki and his Nomu were now floating weightlessly in an atmosphere-less airless void with blood and fluids floating around them unable to make a sound with no sound around him with Tomura's Quirks desperately trying to regenerate his failing body. Meanwhile all she had to do was sit back and watch him suffer in his cycle of of regeneration and suffocation.
"Sooo we're just sitting here watching this?"
"Correct, Iceman, no need to do anything else. Just let my Quirk work its magic."
"Well this was easy." Escobar commented. "I didn't expect him to go down that easily."
"Really it's fortunate that we were able to fight him out here without anybody else around. If we were fighting him in a city setting it would've been problematic." Stars&Stripes admitted as they simply watched Shigaraki's body shutdown.
The Nomu was already dead. Leaving your brain exposed to the air was already a major design flaw and now it's hemorrhaging while exposed to the air on top of everything else? The Nomu was dead and Shigaraki's regeneration was the only thing keeping his body going but the longer he spent in the atmosphere-less 'zone' was getting worse for him.
Whatever Shigaraki was right now, his body, his flesh, had a human enough base that the damage was catastrophic. She didn't know the limits of his regeneration but based on the information they received from his fight with the Heroes, his regeneration still had a limit somewhere. He was able to handle attacks from Endeavor, Ryukyu and the hardest hitting Heroes that Japan had on the scene thanks to his durability and regeneration, but he WAS slowing down during that fight even if his regeneration was keeping him alive and in the fight.
According to intel, his Master, All For One, had that crazy scientist heavily modify his body on top of dumping hundreds or even thousands of quirks to choose from and yet Shigaraki was able to, mostly, handle them with his enhanced body and regeneration. Buuuuut his incomplete body couldn't keep up with the combined strength of the stolen quirks in All For One. As a result, Shigaraki’s body would tear itself apart if he pushes himself too hard and his regenerative powers slow down significantly.
And right now his body was, essentially, undergoing constant damage. The human body, his base, was simply not meant to survive in an atmosphere-less environment. His regeneration could simply put him back together but then he would just die all over again and due to the damage to his internal organs and, most importantly, his brain, he wouldn't be able to think to use his Quirks. The brain's motor system is contained mostly in the frontal lobes. It starts with premotor areas, for planning and coordinating complex movements, and ends with the primary motor cortex, where the final output is sent down the spinal cord to cause contraction and movement of specific muscles.
A brain hemorrhage is bleeding in the brain that occurs when blood vessels inside the skull are damaged, for instance due to a major head injury. Other causes include problems with blood clotting and/or damage to the blood vessels in the brain – due to thickened and hardened artery walls (arteriosclerosis) or high blood pressure, for example. The bleeding is often caused by a ruptured (burst) brain aneurysm. A brain aneurysm is a bulge in an artery in or near the brain.
If a brain aneurysm ruptures or an artery that passes over the surface of the brain bursts, blood flows into the fluid-filled space around the brain. Doctors call this area the "subarachnoid space." Bleeding into this space is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Blood can then quickly spread in this space and put pressure on the whole brain. This means that even parts of the brain that aren't very close to the bleeding blood vessel are damaged. The bleeding quickly causes a severe headache. Left untreated, it often leads to unconsciousness and life-threatening complications like an irregular heartbeat and respiratory arrest (where you stop breathing effectively, or at all).
The brain damage can cause long-term or permanent problems in everyday life, or lead to the need for nursing care – for instance because of speech problems or paralysis.
Which was all a long winded way to explain that even if Shigaraki wanted to use one of his countless Quirks to fight back he wouldn't be able to. He wouldn't even be able to form the coherent thought to think to use a Quirk in the first place due to the damage his body was taking. His brain was such a mess now even with his regeneration his body couldn't make a move.
So all she had to do was sit back and wait him out until his regeneration started falling apart.
"It's a shame to snuff out the life of one so young but considering all of the damage you've caused, the innocent people you've killed, the cities you've destroyed, I don't have a lot of sympathy left for you. If you really thought you could rampage around Japan and the world and threaten everyone's lives like they were your playthings you were wrong. Everything comes around, kid, and right now you're experiencing the same feeling of helplessness and horror your victims must have felt as you destroyed their lives and disintegrated their cities around them. The destruction of the cities and the energy blast you released at the start of our fight were enough for me to tell that if I hadn't stopped you here and now you would've gone on to devastate not just Japan but become a threat to the entire world." She sighed and rubbed the back of her head. "I know you can't hear me right now but it feels good to vent anyway. To be honest I'm not sure if All Might would necessarily approve of these methods but sometimes you just have to take the most pragmatic option availa-huh?" She stopped mid-sentence and stared at him as she noticed his body ripping open in bloody sutures around while his body also began grotesquely mutating as a mass of fingers and arms began growing out of his limp bleeding limbs.
"Okaaaay....what the hell is that?!" Stars asked and took a step back on the jet. His body was shaking and trembling as his body was simultaneously mutating out of control and trying and failing to regenerate. The blood was drifting up out of his body as holes and tears ripped open and closed around his body with body parts growing out of his body and dropping dead.
"Hey Stars! I think it's working! His regeneration must finally be failing him!" Iceman informed her.
"Yeah....but that would mean that...his body is...oh. Ohhhhhh. I get it." She ran her fingers through her hair and regained her composure. "Ohhh I get it. Yeah that makes sense. He had a few metric tons of Quirks pooled into him along with whatever Frankenstein Modifications they put him through. Probably the same thing they did to the Nomu's. In other words....his regeneration wasn't just to make him harder to defeat! It was a stabilizing agent! His body can't handle all of the countless Quirks throughout his body without it! The damage is accumulating and he's falling apart and his body is trying to mutate to adapt to the damage!" She blew out her breath. "In other words...he's going to mutate into something horrible if I don't destroy him now. Best to be on the safe side before he gets out of control or adapts to the vacuum." She reached out her hand again.
"NEW ORDER: Atmosphere! The Air In Front Of Me To The Full Volume Of Fifty Football Fields Is Now Filled With An Equal Volume Of Plasma As Hot As Possible, All Heat Focused Inwards. A Thousand Suns!"
Shigaraki just barely managed to lift his head before he was promptly incinerated in a flash of fire! With his body already failing from everytihng else she'd done, his regeneration failing and his body a complete mess, he was basically flash fried in an instant! The temperature at least initially, wasn't as hot as The Sun per say but it was as hot as a raging inferno from a pissed off Endeavor or Dabi but far more intense and rapidly increasing in heat! It was like he was standing in the middle of a star! A star that suddenly collapsed into his chest and then exploded out of him! Shigaraki never had a chance to fight back. He burst into flames with the Nomu's corpse and opened his mouth in a silent scream as he was cremated and burned to ashes leaving nothing left of him.
Stars watched all this happen and then she raised her hand and returned the atmosphere to normal. The embers that had been Shigaraki drifted down to the sea where they were snuffed out.
Tenko Shimura, Tomura Shigaraki, All For One's Vestige and his Original Quirk had been erased.
"Well holy shit. It's over. Just like that. Damn girl."
"You okay Cathleen?"
"...I'm good. It had to be done. Come on. Lets move on to the rendezvous point and give them the news."
"YES MA'AM!"
The Jets flew forward and onward to Japan.
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"Say, Cathleen?"
"What's up, Cheeseburger?"
"Wasn't he synched with the original All For One or something?"
"Ohhhh yeeeaaaah. Something about them being synchronized through their Quirks or communicating with the Radio Waves?"
"Yeah that's it. How do you think he's taking this news?"
"About as well as super-villains usually take it when you screw up their big dramatic evil plans. Maybe a bit more considering they must've poured....what? A few billion dollars and thousands of Quirks into him? I'd imagine he's probably feeling more than a little pissed after a loss like that."
EVIL LAIR!
All For One was in the middle of a villainous monologue to his underlings laying out his plans when he felt a sharp shot straight through his heart followed by a burning pain burst inside of him like an explosion erupted inside of his chest and then spread throughout the inside of his body and incinerated his insides! He was burning up from the inside out! He could barely move! He could barely breathe! All For One doubled over in pain grasping at his chest wheezing for breath. He gestured to the breathing machine and a Nomu walked over and turned it up and oxygen began flowing into him. All For One took several deep wheezing raspy breaths as he tried to recover.
"What's happening? What....what's wrong? What is wrong me? What is this? My other self! My other half within the vestige realm! Speak to me! What is happening?!"
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAARRGGGHHHH! NO! NO! NONONONONOOOOOO! THIS IS NOT HAPPENING! THERE MUST BE SOME WAY OUT OF THIS!" All For One cried out while he flailed wildly against the Vestige Quirks running towards him and leaping on top of him and clawing away at him and Shigaraki. "STOP! STOP THIS AT ONCE! UNHAND ME! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! CAN'T YOU SEE WE'RE DYING?! I NEED TO FOCUS TO GET OUT OF THIS! STOP YOU INSIGNIFCANT PESTS!"
"WHAT ARE YOU ATTACKING ME FOR? BACK OFF! GET OFF ME!" Shigaraki shouted as he flailed against the Vestiges of the people whose Quirks had been given to him.
Try as they might however it was useless. Shigaraki might be powered by hatred but he was struggling within a dying body while his absorption into All For One was being disrupted which weakened both of them and they were drastically outnumbered by the massive mob of people swarming over them like a tidal wave. All of them leaping on top of and scratching and clawing and biting and punching and striking the both of them. The soul remnants of All For One's past victims had felt the weakness washing over Shigaraki's body and they were taking this chance to exact their revenge and tear the two of them apart. Ordinarily, All For Shigaraki would have overpowered them all with ease but with the devastating damage the body was currently taking they couldn't fight properly.
"STOP THIS! UNHAND ME! GET OFF! GET OFF! BACK AWAY FROM ME! I HAVE TO GET US OUT OF THIS OR WE'LL ALL DIE DO YOU HEAR ME?! WE'LL ALL DIE! YOU'LL ALL DIE WITH US! STOP THIS! STOOOOOPP! DON'T YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER IN THIS PERFECT BODY WITH US?! THIS IMMORTAL PERFECT BODY! IT'LL BE TORN TO SHREADS WITH US! WE CAN'T FIGHT LIKE THIS! STOOOOOOOOOOOPPPP!"
"We've had enough of you!"
"We won't let you use us anymore!"
"We won't let you use our Quirks to slaughter the innocent again!"
"You have no power over us anymore!"
"Your reign ends here!"
"NEVER AGAIN!"
"NO MORE!"
"YOU DIE HERE!"
"NGAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! WHAT THE HEEEEEEELL!? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I AM THE GREAT DEMON KING...! I AM THE GOD OF THIS WORLD! I AM ALL FOR ONE DO YOU HEAR ME YOU INSECTS?! I REJECT THIS OUTCOME! I REJECT IT! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS EVEN HAPPENING? I CAN'T MOVE! MY BODY WON'T LISTEN TO ME! I CAN'T FIGHT! MOVE! MOVE BODY MOVE! MOVE MY BODY! WHAT'S HAPPENING? I-I FEEL SICK! I FEEL STICK AND AND WRONG AND GROSS! I CAN'T MOVE! WHAT'S HAPPENING? WHAT IS SHE DOING TO ME?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHH!"
All of the Quirk Vestiges of the countless Quirks that had been plugged into Shigaraki For One's body crashed over them in a wave and they collapsed. Crushed under the weight of their past victims as the Vestige World began to collapse and burn around them. The flames consumed the Vestige World even as it was breaking apart and disappearing. Soon the body of Tomura Shigaraki would be dead and burned to embers and then disappear into nothing along with his countless Quirks and this world would disappear with all of it.
Little Tenko Shimura hugged his knees to his chest as he watched the world disappear. "So....this is it huh? At least....at least I won't hurt anyone again. At least I won't hurt anymore." Tenko sniffled and rested his head against his knees. Tears began flowing down his face. "I...I'm going to die...aren't I? We both will. Tomura and Tenko will disappear and never hut anyone again." The world continued to disappear as the screams of All For One and Tomura Shigaraki grew weaker. "At least...I'll be able to see everyone again. Mommy and Daddy and Hana and Mon and everyone else. We'll....f-finally...f-inally...b-be...together again. It's all over. I won't hurt anyone anymore." The noises died down and Tenko was left alone in this vanishing world. There was one last thing to do though. With his last breath. Tenko stood up and rubbed his eyes with his arm and shouted at the top of his lungs. "DEKKKUUUUUUUUUUUU! KICK ALL FOR ONE'S BUUUUUUTTTTT!"
The last of Tomura Shigaraki's body burned away along with his Quirks. The Vestige World vanished with everything else. Tenko smiled. Knowing everything would be okay.
All For One was left sitting there on his throne breathing into the oxygen mask. His expression unreadable without a face but it was clear from his slight tremble and twitches that the news wasn't good.
( ...It's gone. It's all gone. My original Quirk...my other half...the countless Quirks I spent over a century stockpiling....all of the research I put into him...the time I spent on him....the years I put into this plan....it's gone. All gone... )
"Uhhhhh boss? Boss is something wrong?" Spinner asked. "What happened? Is Shigaraki okay?"
Dabi grabbed the Lizard Man's shoulder. "We should probably step outside."
"Yes. Spinner. Please. Step outside with the others would you?" All For One asked in a quiet monotone voice. The League immediately ran for the door.
There was a long sullen pause inside before All For One took a deeeeep breath, sloooowwwly blew it out, removed his mask for a moment and then screamed.
Izuku Midoriya was in the middle of a conversation with his friends when a sensation shot through his mind and he ran towards the window. "What...was that?"
Bakugou stood up and walked up to the window with him. "What's going on? Is something wrong? Are they here?"
Ochako shot up from her desk. "What's wrong? Should we go on alert?"
Mineta jumped on his desk and pulled two sticky balls off of his head. "I-I'm...I'm n-not s-scared! Bring it on you s-stupid villains! LETS RUMBLE!"
Yuga Aoyama turned in his desk.
Izuku rubbed the side of his head. "N-no...i-it's not that...it's something...else. It's like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can finally relax. Something's changed out there. I don't feel as on edge anymore. I know they're all still out there...but...something just changed." He rubbed his head and blew out his breath. "It's like the biggest piece was just taken off the gameboard." He turned around to his classmates. "Guys...I-I think something just took out Shigaraki!"
Yuga bolted upright. "Are you serious?!"
"AFTER EVERYTHING WE THREW AT HIM LAST TIME?" Bakugou shouted in disbelief. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT POWERFUL?!"
Deku bit the tip of his thumb and ran down a mental checklist of every single Pro-Hero he knew about. Nobody in Japan had enough power to do that alone with Shigaraki's current level of power, not even Endeavor could defeat him alone and Eraserhead was both here and still out of commission. So he went international and ran down a mental checklist of Heroes from different countries before he finally landed on the one with the highest chance of beating him. "I can only think of one possibility. The #1 Hero from The United States Of America and The Strongest Woman, The Strongest Hero, In The World: Stars&Stripes."
"Who?" Ochako asked.
"Stars is coming here?!" Momo asked in shock. "Are you serious? I've heard the stories about her. She's supposed to be on the same level as All Might!"
"WHO THE HELL?!"
"I don't know much about her myself but Momo's got it. Just from the videos I've seen of her in action All Might level is about right. If anybody could beat him it would have to be her."
"Stars&Stripes, huh?" Shoto crossed his arms. "Dad talked about her once or twice. Her power is...well lets just say it's rather uniquely terrifying."
"So spill it Shoto. What is it?" Baku asked him.
"From what I understand, her Quirk allows her to change and alter the natural laws of this world to suit her wishes."
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"Correct, Iceman, no need to do anything else. Just let my Quirk work its magic."
"Well this was easy." Escobar commented. "I didn't expect him to go down that easily."
"Really it's fortunate that we were able to fight him out here without anybody else around. If we were fighting him in a city setting it would've been problematic." Stars&Stripes admitted as they simply watched Shigaraki's body shutdown.
The Nomu was already dead. Leaving your brain exposed to the air was already a major design flaw and now it's hemorrhaging while exposed to the air on top of everything else? The Nomu was dead and Shigaraki's regeneration was the only thing keeping his body going but the longer he spent in the atmosphere-less 'zone' was getting worse for him.
Whatever Shigaraki was right now, his body, his flesh, had a human enough base that the damage was catastrophic. She didn't know the limits of his regeneration but based on the information they received from his fight with the Heroes, his regeneration still had a limit somewhere. He was able to handle attacks from Endeavor, Ryukyu and the hardest hitting Heroes that Japan had on the scene thanks to his durability and regeneration, but he WAS slowing down during that fight even if his regeneration was keeping him alive and in the fight.
According to intel, his Master, All For One, had that crazy scientist heavily modify his body on top of dumping hundreds or even thousands of quirks to choose from and yet Shigaraki was able to, mostly, handle them with his enhanced body and regeneration. Buuuuut his incomplete body couldn't keep up with the combined strength of the stolen quirks in All For One. As a result, Shigaraki’s body would tear itself apart if he pushes himself too hard and his regenerative powers slow down significantly.
And right now his body was, essentially, undergoing constant damage. The human body, his base, was simply not meant to survive in an atmosphere-less environment. His regeneration could simply put him back together but then he would just die all over again and due to the damage to his internal organs and, most importantly, his brain, he wouldn't be able to think to use his Quirks. The brain's motor system is contained mostly in the frontal lobes. It starts with premotor areas, for planning and coordinating complex movements, and ends with the primary motor cortex, where the final output is sent down the spinal cord to cause contraction and movement of specific muscles.
A brain hemorrhage is bleeding in the brain that occurs when blood vessels inside the skull are damaged, for instance due to a major head injury. Other causes include problems with blood clotting and/or damage to the blood vessels in the brain – due to thickened and hardened artery walls (arteriosclerosis) or high blood pressure, for example. The bleeding is often caused by a ruptured (burst) brain aneurysm. A brain aneurysm is a bulge in an artery in or near the brain.
If a brain aneurysm ruptures or an artery that passes over the surface of the brain bursts, blood flows into the fluid-filled space around the brain. Doctors call this area the "subarachnoid space." Bleeding into this space is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Blood can then quickly spread in this space and put pressure on the whole brain. This means that even parts of the brain that aren't very close to the bleeding blood vessel are damaged. The bleeding quickly causes a severe headache. Left untreated, it often leads to unconsciousness and life-threatening complications like an irregular heartbeat and respiratory arrest (where you stop breathing effectively, or at all).
The brain damage can cause long-term or permanent problems in everyday life, or lead to the need for nursing care – for instance because of speech problems or paralysis.
Which was all a long winded way to explain that even if Shigaraki wanted to use one of his countless Quirks to fight back he wouldn't be able to. He wouldn't even be able to form the coherent thought to think to use a Quirk in the first place due to the damage his body was taking. His brain was such a mess now even with his regeneration his body couldn't make a move.
So all she had to do was sit back and wait him out until his regeneration started falling apart.
"It's a shame to snuff out the life of one so young but considering all of the damage you've caused, the innocent people you've killed, the cities you've destroyed, I don't have a lot of sympathy left for you. If you really thought you could rampage around Japan and the world and threaten everyone's lives like they were your playthings you were wrong. Everything comes around, kid, and right now you're experiencing the same feeling of helplessness and horror your victims must have felt as you destroyed their lives and disintegrated their cities around them. The destruction of the cities and the energy blast you released at the start of our fight were enough for me to tell that if I hadn't stopped you here and now you would've gone on to devastate not just Japan but become a threat to the entire world." She sighed and rubbed the back of her head. "I know you can't hear me right now but it feels good to vent anyway. To be honest I'm not sure if All Might would necessarily approve of these methods but sometimes you just have to take the most pragmatic option availa-huh?" She stopped mid-sentence and stared at him as she noticed his body ripping open in bloody sutures around while his body also began grotesquely mutating as a mass of fingers and arms began growing out of his limp bleeding limbs.
"Okaaaay....what the hell is that?!" Stars asked and took a step back on the jet. His body was shaking and trembling as his body was simultaneously mutating out of control and trying and failing to regenerate. The blood was drifting up out of his body as holes and tears ripped open and closed around his body with body parts growing out of his body and dropping dead.
"Hey Stars! I think it's working! His regeneration must finally be failing him!" Iceman informed her.
"Yeah....but that would mean that...his body is...oh. Ohhhhhh. I get it." She ran her fingers through her hair and regained her composure. "Ohhh I get it. Yeah that makes sense. He had a few metric tons of Quirks pooled into him along with whatever Frankenstein Modifications they put him through. Probably the same thing they did to the Nomu's. In other words....his regeneration wasn't just to make him harder to defeat! It was a stabilizing agent! His body can't handle all of the countless Quirks throughout his body without it! The damage is accumulating and he's falling apart and his body is trying to mutate to adapt to the damage!" She blew out her breath. "In other words...he's going to mutate into something horrible if I don't destroy him now. Best to be on the safe side before he gets out of control or adapts to the vacuum." She reached out her hand again.
"NEW ORDER: Atmosphere! The Air In Front Of Me To The Full Volume Of Fifty Football Fields Is Now Filled With An Equal Volume Of Plasma As Hot As Possible, All Heat Focused Inwards. A Thousand Suns!"
Shigaraki just barely managed to lift his head before he was promptly incinerated in a flash of fire! With his body already failing from everytihng else she'd done, his regeneration failing and his body a complete mess, he was basically flash fried in an instant! The temperature at least initially, wasn't as hot as The Sun per say but it was as hot as a raging inferno from a pissed off Endeavor or Dabi but far more intense and rapidly increasing in heat! It was like he was standing in the middle of a star! A star that suddenly collapsed into his chest and then exploded out of him! Shigaraki never had a chance to fight back. He burst into flames with the Nomu's corpse and opened his mouth in a silent scream as he was cremated and burned to ashes leaving nothing left of him.
Stars watched all this happen and then she raised her hand and returned the atmosphere to normal. The embers that had been Shigaraki drifted down to the sea where they were snuffed out.
Tenko Shimura, Tomura Shigaraki, All For One's Vestige and his Original Quirk had been erased.
"Well holy shit. It's over. Just like that. Damn girl."
"You okay Cathleen?"
"...I'm good. It had to be done. Come on. Lets move on to the rendezvous point and give them the news."
"YES MA'AM!"
The Jets flew forward and onward to Japan.
-
"Say, Cathleen?"
"What's up, Cheeseburger?"
"Wasn't he synched with the original All For One or something?"
"Ohhhh yeeeaaaah. Something about them being synchronized through their Quirks or communicating with the Radio Waves?"
"Yeah that's it. How do you think he's taking this news?"
"About as well as super-villains usually take it when you screw up their big dramatic evil plans. Maybe a bit more considering they must've poured....what? A few billion dollars and thousands of Quirks into him? I'd imagine he's probably feeling more than a little pissed after a loss like that."
EVIL LAIR!
All For One was in the middle of a villainous monologue to his underlings laying out his plans when he felt a sharp shot straight through his heart followed by a burning pain burst inside of him like an explosion erupted inside of his chest and then spread throughout the inside of his body and incinerated his insides! He was burning up from the inside out! He could barely move! He could barely breathe! All For One doubled over in pain grasping at his chest wheezing for breath. He gestured to the breathing machine and a Nomu walked over and turned it up and oxygen began flowing into him. All For One took several deep wheezing raspy breaths as he tried to recover.
"What's happening? What....what's wrong? What is wrong me? What is this? My other self! My other half within the vestige realm! Speak to me! What is happening?!"
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAARRGGGHHHH! NO! NO! NONONONONOOOOOO! THIS IS NOT HAPPENING! THERE MUST BE SOME WAY OUT OF THIS!" All For One cried out while he flailed wildly against the Vestige Quirks running towards him and leaping on top of him and clawing away at him and Shigaraki. "STOP! STOP THIS AT ONCE! UNHAND ME! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! CAN'T YOU SEE WE'RE DYING?! I NEED TO FOCUS TO GET OUT OF THIS! STOP YOU INSIGNIFCANT PESTS!"
"WHAT ARE YOU ATTACKING ME FOR? BACK OFF! GET OFF ME!" Shigaraki shouted as he flailed against the Vestiges of the people whose Quirks had been given to him.
Try as they might however it was useless. Shigaraki might be powered by hatred but he was struggling within a dying body while his absorption into All For One was being disrupted which weakened both of them and they were drastically outnumbered by the massive mob of people swarming over them like a tidal wave. All of them leaping on top of and scratching and clawing and biting and punching and striking the both of them. The soul remnants of All For One's past victims had felt the weakness washing over Shigaraki's body and they were taking this chance to exact their revenge and tear the two of them apart. Ordinarily, All For Shigaraki would have overpowered them all with ease but with the devastating damage the body was currently taking they couldn't fight properly.
"STOP THIS! UNHAND ME! GET OFF! GET OFF! BACK AWAY FROM ME! I HAVE TO GET US OUT OF THIS OR WE'LL ALL DIE DO YOU HEAR ME?! WE'LL ALL DIE! YOU'LL ALL DIE WITH US! STOP THIS! STOOOOOPP! DON'T YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER IN THIS PERFECT BODY WITH US?! THIS IMMORTAL PERFECT BODY! IT'LL BE TORN TO SHREADS WITH US! WE CAN'T FIGHT LIKE THIS! STOOOOOOOOOOOPPPP!"
"We've had enough of you!"
"We won't let you use us anymore!"
"We won't let you use our Quirks to slaughter the innocent again!"
"You have no power over us anymore!"
"Your reign ends here!"
"NEVER AGAIN!"
"NO MORE!"
"YOU DIE HERE!"
"NGAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! WHAT THE HEEEEEEELL!? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I AM THE GREAT DEMON KING...! I AM THE GOD OF THIS WORLD! I AM ALL FOR ONE DO YOU HEAR ME YOU INSECTS?! I REJECT THIS OUTCOME! I REJECT IT! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS EVEN HAPPENING? I CAN'T MOVE! MY BODY WON'T LISTEN TO ME! I CAN'T FIGHT! MOVE! MOVE BODY MOVE! MOVE MY BODY! WHAT'S HAPPENING? I-I FEEL SICK! I FEEL STICK AND AND WRONG AND GROSS! I CAN'T MOVE! WHAT'S HAPPENING? WHAT IS SHE DOING TO ME?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHH!"
All of the Quirk Vestiges of the countless Quirks that had been plugged into Shigaraki For One's body crashed over them in a wave and they collapsed. Crushed under the weight of their past victims as the Vestige World began to collapse and burn around them. The flames consumed the Vestige World even as it was breaking apart and disappearing. Soon the body of Tomura Shigaraki would be dead and burned to embers and then disappear into nothing along with his countless Quirks and this world would disappear with all of it.
Little Tenko Shimura hugged his knees to his chest as he watched the world disappear. "So....this is it huh? At least....at least I won't hurt anyone again. At least I won't hurt anymore." Tenko sniffled and rested his head against his knees. Tears began flowing down his face. "I...I'm going to die...aren't I? We both will. Tomura and Tenko will disappear and never hut anyone again." The world continued to disappear as the screams of All For One and Tomura Shigaraki grew weaker. "At least...I'll be able to see everyone again. Mommy and Daddy and Hana and Mon and everyone else. We'll....f-finally...f-inally...b-be...together again. It's all over. I won't hurt anyone anymore." The noises died down and Tenko was left alone in this vanishing world. There was one last thing to do though. With his last breath. Tenko stood up and rubbed his eyes with his arm and shouted at the top of his lungs. "DEKKKUUUUUUUUUUUU! KICK ALL FOR ONE'S BUUUUUUTTTTT!"
The last of Tomura Shigaraki's body burned away along with his Quirks. The Vestige World vanished with everything else. Tenko smiled. Knowing everything would be okay.
All For One was left sitting there on his throne breathing into the oxygen mask. His expression unreadable without a face but it was clear from his slight tremble and twitches that the news wasn't good.
( ...It's gone. It's all gone. My original Quirk...my other half...the countless Quirks I spent over a century stockpiling....all of the research I put into him...the time I spent on him....the years I put into this plan....it's gone. All gone... )
"Uhhhhh boss? Boss is something wrong?" Spinner asked. "What happened? Is Shigaraki okay?"
Dabi grabbed the Lizard Man's shoulder. "We should probably step outside."
"Yes. Spinner. Please. Step outside with the others would you?" All For One asked in a quiet monotone voice. The League immediately ran for the door.
There was a long sullen pause inside before All For One took a deeeeep breath, sloooowwwly blew it out, removed his mask for a moment and then screamed.
Izuku Midoriya was in the middle of a conversation with his friends when a sensation shot through his mind and he ran towards the window. "What...was that?"
Bakugou stood up and walked up to the window with him. "What's going on? Is something wrong? Are they here?"
Ochako shot up from her desk. "What's wrong? Should we go on alert?"
Mineta jumped on his desk and pulled two sticky balls off of his head. "I-I'm...I'm n-not s-scared! Bring it on you s-stupid villains! LETS RUMBLE!"
Yuga Aoyama turned in his desk.
Izuku rubbed the side of his head. "N-no...i-it's not that...it's something...else. It's like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can finally relax. Something's changed out there. I don't feel as on edge anymore. I know they're all still out there...but...something just changed." He rubbed his head and blew out his breath. "It's like the biggest piece was just taken off the gameboard." He turned around to his classmates. "Guys...I-I think something just took out Shigaraki!"
Yuga bolted upright. "Are you serious?!"
"AFTER EVERYTHING WE THREW AT HIM LAST TIME?" Bakugou shouted in disbelief. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT POWERFUL?!"
Deku bit the tip of his thumb and ran down a mental checklist of every single Pro-Hero he knew about. Nobody in Japan had enough power to do that alone with Shigaraki's current level of power, not even Endeavor could defeat him alone and Eraserhead was both here and still out of commission. So he went international and ran down a mental checklist of Heroes from different countries before he finally landed on the one with the highest chance of beating him. "I can only think of one possibility. The #1 Hero from The United States Of America and The Strongest Woman, The Strongest Hero, In The World: Stars&Stripes."
"Who?" Ochako asked.
"Stars is coming here?!" Momo asked in shock. "Are you serious? I've heard the stories about her. She's supposed to be on the same level as All Might!"
"WHO THE HELL?!"
"I don't know much about her myself but Momo's got it. Just from the videos I've seen of her in action All Might level is about right. If anybody could beat him it would have to be her."
"Stars&Stripes, huh?" Shoto crossed his arms. "Dad talked about her once or twice. Her power is...well lets just say it's rather uniquely terrifying."
"So spill it Shoto. What is it?" Baku asked him.
"From what I understand, her Quirk allows her to change and alter the natural laws of this world to suit her wishes."
"Wait...she can...vocally manipulate the laws of reality? Vocal Reality Manipulation? As in....her vocal chords generate enough power to manipulate the natural laws?" Momo asked. "I mean...I'm sorry to pull a Bakugou here-"
"HEY!"
"But how the hell does that even work?" Momo questioned.
"I don't know. I've never met her personally. I only know what I learned my dad. Midoriya? Do you know anything about her?"
Izuku was already rapidly thumbing through his book but he came up blank. "Well, there's nothing in this book. There might be some details in another one. I've never heard the details about her Quirk either. All I know is that she's basically the American equivalent of All Might. She's the biggest gun they have. The Heavyweight Hero Champion of America. If she's as powerful as you say then she'd probably be strong enough to take on Shigaraki but even so, it seems weird that a big battle like that wouldn't be noticed by anyone until after one or the other has already won."
"No kidding. We had to throw everything at him last time."
"So. Shigaraki had a metric fuckton of Quirks shoved into him, pumped up with what had to be all of the world's steroids, was damn near fucking immortal and had his Super Decay on top of all of that AND had All For Cunt in his head and she still beat him?" Bakugou asked incredulously. "What kind of Eldritch Horror Cosmic Magic Super Crack is she ON? What even in the hell is she?!"
"That's what I'm sensing but if she was somehow able to defeat him that easily she really must be on a completely different level than anything else." Izuku commented.
"So, what? I can shoot tape from my elbows and she's a Physical God? How's that fair?" Sero joked.
"Speak for yourself. I've got a tail, bro." Ojiro chuckled.
"I think your Quirk's are cool, guys!" Toru chimed in.
"Thanks, Toru!" Sero replied.
"Your Quirks are fine." Bakugou chimed in. "Don't go comparing yourselves to some Cosmic Magic Eldritch Whateverthehell she is."
"Wow. Thanks Katsuki." Ojiro replied.
He gave them a thumbs up.
"Calling her an 'Eldritch Being' seems a little uncalled for, Kacchan."
"You heard Frosty, Deku, her Quirk is literally bullshit magic!"
"Not quite in those terms but yeah." Shoto admitted.
"But...this is good, right?" Ochako asked. "He was our biggest threat. Like, THE biggest problem. All For One, Gigantomachia, and Shigaraki. Those were the biggest monsters on the League's side, right? If HE's gone, that's a significant part of their manpower gone. He was, what, at least 50% of their manpower?"
"Approximately yeah. If All For One and Gigantomachia were the rest of it, approximately 22.5% of it, then 50 + 45 would put the three of them as 95% of their firepower with the rest of The Villains making up the remaining 5%."
"And she eliminated him." Izuku sighed. "It's blowing my mind. So I'm going to go ask All Might. Odds are that if she's this big of a deal then there's a significant chance that All Might knows about her. Come on guys." He stood up and ran to the door with the others following after him. While he was running through the hallways in the physical world Izuku also went into his mental world to speak with The Vestiges of One For All to speak with them about the situation with Shigaraki and Stars&Stripes. Izuku wasn't entirely sure what to say to them or what he was expecting to see but he was immediately greeted with the sight of Nana holding back her sobbing surrounded by the others: Yoichi, Kudo, Bruce, Hikage Shinomori, Diagoro Banjo and En.
-
"Tell me...is...is it true?" Nana asked Izuku. "Is Tenko finally free from that monster's shackles?"
"I...I don't know yet, not for sure, but that's the sensation I'm getting so far. How are you holding up?"
"Alright, not great, bad, I don't know." She sniffled. "I-I'm just...I'm glad...I'm glad Tenko doesn't have to suffer anymore." She wiped her eyes. "I'm-I'm sorry...Izuku...I-I know that you wanted to at least try and save him for real."
Izuku walked up to Nana and placed a hand on hers. "You have nothing to be sorry about, Miss Shimura, you never did anything wrong. None of you did. This has always been All For One's fault. Lets not start blaming ourselves for the fact that he's a complete madman." He assured her. "You're right, I did want to try and reach out to that innocent side of Shigaraki, to try and bring Tenko out of him, but I also acknowledged that killing him might be necessary. And I can't blame Stars if she did kill him. She didn't have access to the Vestige World, I assume, I don't know what we're dealing with here, so she wouldn't have had the same insider information we would. At the very least, if he is in fact...gone...then we can be rest assured that Tenko is finally at peace and the threat is over. Now we just have to defeat the rest."
All For One was in the middle of a villainous monologue to his underlings laying out his plans when he felt a sharp shot straight through his heart followed by a burning pain burst inside of him like an explosion erupted inside of his chest and then spread throughout the inside of his body and incinerated his insides! He was burning up from the inside out! He could barely move! He could barely breathe! All For One doubled over in pain grasping at his chest wheezing for breath. He gestured to the breathing machine and a Nomu walked over and turned it up and oxygen began flowing into him. All For One took several deep wheezing raspy breaths as he tried to recover.
"What's happening? What....what's wrong? What is wrong me? What is this? My other self! My other half within the vestige realm! Speak to me! What is happening?!"
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAARRGGGHHHH! NO! NO! NONONONONOOOOOO! THIS IS NOT HAPPENING! THERE MUST BE SOME WAY OUT OF THIS!" All For One cried out while he flailed wildly against the Vestige Quirks running towards him and leaping on top of him and clawing away at him and Shigaraki. "STOP! STOP THIS AT ONCE! UNHAND ME! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! CAN'T YOU SEE WE'RE DYING?! I NEED TO FOCUS TO GET OUT OF THIS! STOP YOU INSIGNIFCANT PESTS!"
"WHAT ARE YOU ATTACKING ME FOR? BACK OFF! GET OFF ME!" Shigaraki shouted as he flailed against the Vestiges of the people whose Quirks had been given to him.
Try as they might however it was useless. Shigaraki might be powered by hatred but he was struggling within a dying body while his absorption into All For One was being disrupted which weakened both of them and they were drastically outnumbered by the massive mob of people swarming over them like a tidal wave. All of them leaping on top of and scratching and clawing and biting and punching and striking the both of them. The soul remnants of All For One's past victims had felt the weakness washing over Shigaraki's body and they were taking this chance to exact their revenge and tear the two of them apart. Ordinarily, All For Shigaraki would have overpowered them all with ease but with the devastating damage the body was currently taking they couldn't fight properly.
"STOP THIS! UNHAND ME! GET OFF! GET OFF! BACK AWAY FROM ME! I HAVE TO GET US OUT OF THIS OR WE'LL ALL DIE DO YOU HEAR ME?! WE'LL ALL DIE! YOU'LL ALL DIE WITH US! STOP THIS! STOOOOOPP! DON'T YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER IN THIS PERFECT BODY WITH US?! THIS IMMORTAL PERFECT BODY! IT'LL BE TORN TO SHREADS WITH US! WE CAN'T FIGHT LIKE THIS! STOOOOOOOOOOOPPPP!"
"We've had enough of you!"
"We won't let you use us anymore!"
"We won't let you use our Quirks to slaughter the innocent again!"
"You have no power over us anymore!"
"Your reign ends here!"
"NEVER AGAIN!"
"NO MORE!"
"YOU DIE HERE!"
"NGAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! WHAT THE HEEEEEEELL!? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I AM THE GREAT DEMON KING...! I AM THE GOD OF THIS WORLD! I AM ALL FOR ONE DO YOU HEAR ME YOU INSECTS?! I REJECT THIS OUTCOME! I REJECT IT! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS EVEN HAPPENING? I CAN'T MOVE! MY BODY WON'T LISTEN TO ME! I CAN'T FIGHT! MOVE! MOVE BODY MOVE! MOVE MY BODY! WHAT'S HAPPENING? I-I FEEL SICK! I FEEL STICK AND AND WRONG AND GROSS! I CAN'T MOVE! WHAT'S HAPPENING? WHAT IS SHE DOING TO ME?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGHHH!"
All of the Quirk Vestiges of the countless Quirks that had been plugged into Shigaraki For One's body crashed over them in a wave and they collapsed. Crushed under the weight of their past victims as the Vestige World began to collapse and burn around them. The flames consumed the Vestige World even as it was breaking apart and disappearing. Soon the body of Tomura Shigaraki would be dead and burned to embers and then disappear into nothing along with his countless Quirks and this world would disappear with all of it.
Little Tenko Shimura hugged his knees to his chest as he watched the world disappear. "So....this is it huh? At least....at least I won't hurt anyone again. At least I won't hurt anymore." Tenko sniffled and rested his head against his knees. Tears began flowing down his face. "I...I'm going to die...aren't I? We both will. Tomura and Tenko will disappear and never hut anyone again." The world continued to disappear as the screams of All For One and Tomura Shigaraki grew weaker. "At least...I'll be able to see everyone again. Mommy and Daddy and Hana and Mon and everyone else. We'll....f-finally...f-inally...b-be...together again. It's all over. I won't hurt anyone anymore." The noises died down and Tenko was left alone in this vanishing world. There was one last thing to do though. With his last breath. Tenko stood up and rubbed his eyes with his arm and shouted at the top of his lungs. "DEKKKUUUUUUUUUUUU! KICK ALL FOR ONE'S BUUUUUUTTTTT!"
The last of Tomura Shigaraki's body burned away along with his Quirks. The Vestige World vanished with everything else. Tenko smiled. Knowing everything would be okay.
All For One was left sitting there on his throne breathing into the oxygen mask. His expression unreadable without a face but it was clear from his slight tremble and twitches that the news wasn't good.
( ...It's gone. It's all gone. My original Quirk...my other half...the countless Quirks I spent over a century stockpiling....all of the research I put into him...the time I spent on him....the years I put into this plan....it's gone. All gone... )
"Uhhhhh boss? Boss is something wrong?" Spinner asked. "What happened? Is Shigaraki okay?"
Dabi grabbed the Lizard Man's shoulder. "We should probably step outside."
"Yes. Spinner. Please. Step outside with the others would you?" All For One asked in a quiet monotone voice. The League immediately ran for the door.
There was a long sullen pause inside before All For One took a deeeeep breath, sloooowwwly blew it out, removed his mask for a moment and then screamed.
Izuku Midoriya was in the middle of a conversation with his friends when a sensation shot through his mind and he ran towards the window. "What...was that?"
Bakugou stood up and walked up to the window with him. "What's going on? Is something wrong? Are they here?"
Ochako shot up from her desk. "What's wrong? Should we go on alert?"
Mineta jumped on his desk and pulled two sticky balls off of his head. "I-I'm...I'm n-not s-scared! Bring it on you s-stupid villains! LETS RUMBLE!"
Yuga Aoyama turned in his desk.
Izuku rubbed the side of his head. "N-no...i-it's not that...it's something...else. It's like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can finally relax. Something's changed out there. I don't feel as on edge anymore. I know they're all still out there...but...something just changed." He rubbed his head and blew out his breath. "It's like the biggest piece was just taken off the gameboard." He turned around to his classmates. "Guys...I-I think something just took out Shigaraki!"
Yuga bolted upright. "Are you serious?!"
"AFTER EVERYTHING WE THREW AT HIM LAST TIME?" Bakugou shouted in disbelief. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT POWERFUL?!"
Deku bit the tip of his thumb and ran down a mental checklist of every single Pro-Hero he knew about. Nobody in Japan had enough power to do that alone with Shigaraki's current level of power, not even Endeavor could defeat him alone and Eraserhead was both here and still out of commission. So he went international and ran down a mental checklist of Heroes from different countries before he finally landed on the one with the highest chance of beating him. "I can only think of one possibility. The #1 Hero from The United States Of America and The Strongest Woman, The Strongest Hero, In The World: Stars&Stripes."
"Who?" Ochako asked.
"Stars is coming here?!" Momo asked in shock. "Are you serious? I've heard the stories about her. She's supposed to be on the same level as All Might!"
"WHO THE HELL?!"
"I don't know much about her myself but Momo's got it. Just from the videos I've seen of her in action All Might level is about right. If anybody could beat him it would have to be her."
"Stars&Stripes, huh?" Shoto crossed his arms. "Dad talked about her once or twice. Her power is...well lets just say it's rather uniquely terrifying."
"So spill it Shoto. What is it?" Baku asked him.
"From what I understand, her Quirk allows her to change and alter the natural laws of this world to suit her wishes."
"Wait...she can...vocally manipulate the laws of reality? Vocal Reality Manipulation? As in....her vocal chords generate enough power to manipulate the natural laws?" Momo asked. "I mean...I'm sorry to pull a Bakugou here-"
"HEY!"
"But how the hell does that even work?" Momo questioned.
"I don't know. I've never met her personally. I only know what I learned my dad. Midoriya? Do you know anything about her?"
Izuku was already rapidly thumbing through his book but he came up blank. "Well, there's nothing in this book. There might be some details in another one. I've never heard the details about her Quirk either. All I know is that she's basically the American equivalent of All Might. She's the biggest gun they have. The Heavyweight Hero Champion of America. If she's as powerful as you say then she'd probably be strong enough to take on Shigaraki but even so, it seems weird that a big battle like that wouldn't be noticed by anyone until after one or the other has already won."
"No kidding. We had to throw everything at him last time."
"So. Shigaraki had a metric fuckton of Quirks shoved into him, pumped up with what had to be all of the world's steroids, was damn near fucking immortal and had his Super Decay on top of all of that AND had All For Cunt in his head and she still beat him?" Bakugou asked incredulously. "What kind of Eldritch Horror Cosmic Magic Super Crack is she ON? What even in the hell is she?!"
"That's what I'm sensing but if she was somehow able to defeat him that easily she really must be on a completely different level than anything else." Izuku commented.
"So, what? I can shoot tape from my elbows and she's a Physical God? How's that fair?" Sero joked.
"Speak for yourself. I've got a tail, bro." Ojiro chuckled.
"I think your Quirk's are cool, guys!" Toru chimed in.
"Thanks, Toru!" Sero replied.
"Your Quirks are fine." Bakugou chimed in. "Don't go comparing yourselves to some Cosmic Magic Eldritch Whateverthehell she is."
"Wow. Thanks Katsuki." Ojiro replied.
He gave them a thumbs up.
"Calling her an 'Eldritch Being' seems a little uncalled for, Kacchan."
"You heard Frosty, Deku, her Quirk is literally bullshit magic!"
"Not quite in those terms but yeah." Shoto admitted.
"But...this is good, right?" Ochako asked. "He was our biggest threat. Like, THE biggest problem. All For One, Gigantomachia, and Shigaraki. Those were the biggest monsters on the League's side, right? If HE's gone, that's a significant part of their manpower gone. He was, what, at least 50% of their manpower?"
"Approximately yeah. If All For One and Gigantomachia were the rest of it, approximately 22.5% of it, then 50 + 45 would put the three of them as 95% of their firepower with the rest of The Villains making up the remaining 5%."
"And she eliminated him." Izuku sighed. "It's blowing my mind. So I'm going to go ask All Might. Odds are that if she's this big of a deal then there's a significant chance that All Might knows about her. Come on guys." He stood up and ran to the door with the others following after him. While he was running through the hallways in the physical world Izuku also went into his mental world to speak with The Vestiges of One For All to speak with them about the situation with Shigaraki and Stars&Stripes. Izuku wasn't entirely sure what to say to them or what he was expecting to see but he was immediately greeted with the sight of Nana holding back her sobbing surrounded by the others: Yoichi, Kudo, Bruce, Hikage Shinomori, Diagoro Banjo and En.
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"Tell me...is...is it true?" Nana asked Izuku. "Is Tenko finally free from that monster's shackles?"
"I...I don't know yet, not for sure, but that's the sensation I'm getting so far. How are you holding up?"
"Alright, not great, bad, I don't know." She sniffled. "I-I'm just...I'm glad...I'm glad Tenko doesn't have to suffer anymore." She wiped her eyes. "I'm-I'm sorry...Izuku...I-I know that you wanted to at least try and save him for real."
Izuku walked up to Nana and placed a hand on hers. "You have nothing to be sorry about, Miss Shimura, you never did anything wrong. None of you did. This has always been All For One's fault. Lets not start blaming ourselves for the fact that he's a complete madman." He assured her. "You're right, I did want to try and reach out to that innocent side of Shigaraki, to try and bring Tenko out of him, but I also acknowledged that killing him might be necessary. And I can't blame Stars if she did kill him. She didn't have access to the Vestige World, I assume, I don't know what we're dealing with here, so she wouldn't have had the same insider information we would. At the very least, if he is in fact...gone...then we can be rest assured that Tenko is finally at peace and the threat is over. Now we just have to defeat the rest."
Nana Shimura needed a moment to gather herself before she raised her head and smiled at Midoriya.
"Yes, yes, of course, you're right. You're right. He's free now. And besides which? We've ruined All For One's plans for Tenko and dealt a serious blow to him and the rest of the Villains. It's alright now. We're fine. Right now, we just need to focus on the last remaining threats. Namely, All For One and his remaining lieutenants. If we can defeat him the Villains will be left without a leader and we can finish them off." She took a very deep breath, held it in momentarily and then she slowly blew it out to calm herself down. "We can do this. With you and the others working together? We can do this. Together. We can finally end this nightmare. Go forth, Young Midoriya!"
"-Earth To Midoriya!" Bakugou finished saying to him.
"What was that?" Izuku asked him. "Sorry, I was talking to the Vestiges. What were you saying?"
"I was saying that if Crusty's really dead and buried does that mean we just have to worry about All For Cunt, Jumbo and Barbecue Face?"
"Barbecue Face being Toya, right?"
"Naturally."
"Right. Well, he's definitely their third biggest gun right now but that's a family matter. We'll let the Todoroki's handle him. Gigantomachia is currently incapacitated and we have him under lockdown but we shouldn't cross out the possibility of him getting free so we'll prepare properly. We'll have to take out the ground beneath his feet and have sedatives prepped ahead of time and that's just the start of preparing for him. As for All For One...hmmmm..."
"You have a plan?"
"Yeah. I'm putting one together. I'll let you know when I have it together."
"Too slow! I'LL JUST KILL HIS ASS MYSELF!"
"Teamwork makes the dream work, Kacchan."
"I AM The Dream!" He retorted.
They continued to race through the school until they finally located Toshinori Yagi, formerly known as All Might, who was currently staring out of a window to the ruins of the city as he processed the news he'd just received about the battle between Cathleen and Shigaraki.
"ALL MIGHT!" Izuku called out. "Did you feel it too?"
Toshinori turned around to speak with the class. "If you're referring to that sense of ominous dread dissipating? Then yes. I felt it too Young Midoriya. Listen up everyone. I just received word about the altercation from Hawks and Best Jeanist: Tomura Shigaraki is indeed deceased. Stars&Stripes soundly defeated him just now."
The members of Class 1A gazed at All Might with complete shock as they processed the news of a hero possessing such immense power. Despite their gratitude for the assistance following recent events, the reality lingered that they had exhausted all their resources against Shigaraki in their last encounter. Even though he was compelled to withdraw, the Heroes were the ones who were left much worse off. However, this American Hero, Stars&Stripes, managed to defeat him effortlessly! What kind of powerhouse were they about to teamup with?
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"Wait...she can...vocally manipulate the laws of reality? Vocal Reality Manipulation? As in....her vocal chords generate enough power to manipulate the natural laws?" Momo asked. "I mean...I'm sorry to pull a Bakugou here-"
"HEY!"
"But how the hell does that even work?" Momo questioned.
"I don't know. I've never met her personally. I only know what I learned my dad. Midoriya? Do you know anything about her?"
Izuku was already rapidly thumbing through his book but he came up blank. "Well, there's nothing in this book. There might be some details in another one. I've never heard the details about her Quirk either. All I know is that she's basically the American equivalent of All Might. She's the biggest gun they have. The Heavyweight Hero Champion of America. If she's as powerful as you say then she'd probably be strong enough to take on Shigaraki but even so, it seems weird that a big battle like that wouldn't be noticed by anyone until after one or the other has already won."
"No kidding. We had to throw everything at him last time."
"So. Shigaraki had a metric fuckton of Quirks shoved into him, pumped up with what had to be all of the world's steroids, was damn near fucking immortal and had his Super Decay on top of all of that AND had All For Cunt in his head and she still beat him?" Bakugou asked incredulously. "What kind of Eldritch Horror Cosmic Magic Super Crack is she ON? What even in the hell is she?!"
"That's what I'm sensing but if she was somehow able to defeat him that easily she really must be on a completely different level than anything else." Izuku commented.
"So, what? I can shoot tape from my elbows and she's a Physical God? How's that fair?" Sero joked.
"Speak for yourself. I've got a tail, bro." Ojiro chuckled.
"I think your Quirk's are cool, guys!" Toru chimed in.
"Thanks, Toru!" Sero replied.
"Your Quirks are fine." Bakugou chimed in. "Don't go comparing yourselves to some Cosmic Magic Eldritch Whateverthehell she is."
"Wow. Thanks Katsuki." Ojiro replied.
He gave them a thumbs up.
"Calling her an 'Eldritch Being' seems a little uncalled for, Kacchan."
"You heard Frosty, Deku, her Quirk is literally bullshit magic!"
"Not quite in those terms but yeah." Shoto admitted.
"But...this is good, right?" Ochako asked. "He was our biggest threat. Like, THE biggest problem. All For One, Gigantomachia, and Shigaraki. Those were the biggest monsters on the League's side, right? If HE's gone, that's a significant part of their manpower gone. He was, what, at least 50% of their manpower?"
"Approximately yeah. If All For One and Gigantomachia were the rest of it, approximately 22.5% of it, then 50 + 45 would put the three of them as 95% of their firepower with the rest of The Villains making up the remaining 5%."
"And she eliminated him." Izuku sighed. "It's blowing my mind. So I'm going to go ask All Might. Odds are that if she's this big of a deal then there's a significant chance that All Might knows about her. Come on guys." He stood up and ran to the door with the others following after him. While he was running through the hallways in the physical world Izuku also went into his mental world to speak with The Vestiges of One For All to speak with them about the situation with Shigaraki and Stars&Stripes. Izuku wasn't entirely sure what to say to them or what he was expecting to see but he was immediately greeted with the sight of Nana holding back her sobbing surrounded by the others: Yoichi, Kudo, Bruce, Hikage Shinomori, Diagoro Banjo and En.
-
"Tell me...is...is it true?" Nana asked Izuku. "Is Tenko finally free from that monster's shackles?"
"I...I don't know yet, not for sure, but that's the sensation I'm getting so far. How are you holding up?"
"Alright, not great, bad, I don't know." She sniffled. "I-I'm just...I'm glad...I'm glad Tenko doesn't have to suffer anymore." She wiped her eyes. "I'm-I'm sorry...Izuku...I-I know that you wanted to at least try and save him for real."
Izuku walked up to Nana and placed a hand on hers. "You have nothing to be sorry about, Miss Shimura, you never did anything wrong. None of you did. This has always been All For One's fault. Lets not start blaming ourselves for the fact that he's a complete madman." He assured her. "You're right, I did want to try and reach out to that innocent side of Shigaraki, to try and bring Tenko out of him, but I also acknowledged that killing him might be necessary. And I can't blame Stars if she did kill him. She didn't have access to the Vestige World, I assume, I don't know what we're dealing with here, so she wouldn't have had the same insider information we would. At the very least, if he is in fact...gone...then we can be rest assured that Tenko is finally at peace and the threat is over. Now we just have to defeat the rest."
Nana Shimura needed a moment to gather herself before she raised her head and smiled at Midoriya.
"Yes, yes, of course, you're right. You're right. He's free now. And besides which? We've ruined All For One's plans for Tenko and dealt a serious blow to him and the rest of the Villains. It's alright now. We're fine. Right now, we just need to focus on the last remaining threats. Namely, All For One and his remaining lieutenants. If we can defeat him the Villains will be left without a leader and we can finish them off." She took a very deep breath, held it in momentarily and then she slowly blew it out to calm herself down. "We can do this. With you and the others working together? We can do this. Together. We can finally end this nightmare. Go forth, Young Midoriya!"
"-Earth To Midoriya!" Bakugou finished saying to him.
"What was that?" Izuku asked him. "Sorry, I was talking to the Vestiges. What were you saying?"
"I was saying that if Crusty's really dead and buried does that mean we just have to worry about All For Cunt, Jumbo and Barbecue Face?"
"Barbecue Face being Toya, right?"
"Naturally."
"Right. Well, he's definitely their third biggest gun right now but that's a family matter. We'll let the Todoroki's handle him. Gigantomachia is currently incapacitated and we have him under lockdown but we shouldn't cross out the possibility of him getting free so we'll prepare properly. We'll have to take out the ground beneath his feet and have sedatives prepped ahead of time and that's just the start of preparing for him. As for All For One...hmmmm..."
"You have a plan?"
"Yeah. I'm putting one together. I'll let you know when I have it together."
"Too slow! I'LL JUST KILL HIS ASS MYSELF!"
"Teamwork makes the dream work, Kacchan."
"I AM The Dream!" He retorted.
They continued to race through the school until they finally located Toshinori Yagi, formerly known as All Might, who was currently staring out of a window to the ruins of the city as he processed the news he'd just received about the battle between Cathleen and Shigaraki.
"ALL MIGHT!" Izuku called out. "Did you feel it too?"
Toshinori turned around to speak with the class. "If you're referring to that sense of ominous dread dissipating? Then yes. I felt it too Young Midoriya. Listen up everyone. I just received word about the altercation from Hawks and Best Jeanist: Tomura Shigaraki is indeed deceased. Stars&Stripes soundly defeated him just now."
The members of Class 1A gazed at All Might with complete shock as they processed the news of a hero possessing such immense power. Despite their gratitude for the assistance following recent events, the reality lingered that they had exhausted all their resources against Shigaraki in their last encounter. Even though he was compelled to withdraw, the Heroes were the ones who were left much worse off. However, this American Hero, Stars&Stripes, managed to defeat him effortlessly! What kind of powerhouse were they about to teamup with?
Stars meanwhile arrived at the cliffside where Hawks and Jeanist were waiting for her. Proudly riding tall on the jet with her cape and hair blowing in the wind while America The Beautiful played out of the jet's speakers. The Heroes got out of the car and beheld Cathleen's arrival in all her glory. They were so grateful to have her here with them in what had absolutely been their darkest hour that the sheer audacity of this didn't even bother them! The jet lowered itself and she hopped off onto the cliff and stuck the landing so she could stand tall with her hands on her hips and a big smile on her face. "HEY GUYS! Sorry I'm late! How's it hanging?" She asked as the song reached its crescendo.
"Better now that you've shown up. It's great to see you again Cathy." Jeanist admitted. "Nice entrance by the way. Did you plan that out?"
"Maaaaaybe."
"Well I can't blame you for it. Kami knows Heroes are masters of dramatic entrances." Hawk quipped before switching to being serious. "But before we proceed further I just want to clarify something: Did you defeat Shigaraki?"
"Oh, him?" She pointed her right thumb backwards in the general direction they just came from. "Yeah, you could say that....although, it would be more accurate to say that I vaped him. As in, completely vaporized." She lowered her hand and let it hang. "Turns out even his regeneration would tap out if you create a miniature supernova right on top of him."
The pair just stared at her in disbelief. "I-I'm sorry....Cathy...can you back up a bit? What did you do exactly?"
"Basically I used my Quirk to create a massive amount of plasma at the length of approximately 50 Football Fields right on top of him with all of the heat directed inwards in a designated area that he was in the middle of. All of that heat collapsed in on Shigaraki and he, for lack of a better description, went poof." She summarized. "I guess it would be more accurate to say that I microwaved him too high or dropped a star on him but...eh, supernova sounds cooler you know?"
"That's...insane...but, yeah, I-I suppose that would be enough to kill him." Jeanist admitted as he rubbed his head. (Sheeeeesh! I thought I had some cool tricks with threads and wires but this is insane! Let me see here...as I recall plasma is created when large clouds of gas in space condense due to gravity, forcing the atoms into such close proximity that they can't exist as atoms and become ionized. This process causes friction and heating, which ionizes more atoms and creates more plasma. It can reach temperatures ranging from 11,000–14,500° Fahrenheit in its core, and up to 106eV (1eV ~ 11600K) in naturally occurring plasmas. The temperature of plasma depends on the energies of its neutral atoms, electrons, and ions, and the degree of ionization of the plasma...and she just does that? She just wills that much of it into existence with a sentence? How in the...WHAT EVEN IS HER QUIRK?!)
"Well I tried to settle it peacefully but he turned that down and ripping the atmosphere away from him didn't quite do the job, he actually started mutating, so I cooked him. But that was in the past. I'd like to focus on the present right now. Which brings me to you, Hawky." She walked over to the winged hero and crouched down in front of him. "Hey man. Heard you got burned in the last battle, is that true?"
"Oh, that? Yeah don't worry about it. It's just a few scrapes and burns. You know, occupational hazards. I'm fine by the way. I'm healing. Really some of the others got hurt worse than me. Really, I'm fine Cathy." She smiled and placed a hand on his chest. "Huh?"
"New Order: The body of Keigo Takami will be healed back to his full strength." She ordered.
Hawks gasped as his body began regenerating itself! It wasn't just his battle wounds that were recovering but he even felt his feathers growing back as his wings regained their strength and then they sprung up and spread outward! "The healing process is now completed." She informed him and stood back up. "How do you feel, Wings?"
Hawks looked back as he gave his wings a few test flaps and then he flew up into the air and flew around in a few loops and around the general area and then he gracefully landed. "I-I don't even know what to say! I feel amazing! I FEEL AWESOME! KAMI IT FEELS GOOD TO BE BACK!"
"The wonders of New Order my friend." She replied and dusted off her hands.
"Same old Cathleen Bates. Never change old friend."
She turned her head to the left. "Well, well, Enji Todoroki. It's been a long time Endeavor." She responded as she walked over to him and squared up to the fire hero. They were nearly equal in height with Endeavor being maybe an inch taller but it was hard to tell with how tall they stood. After a brief staredown she relaxed and her expression softened. "I saw Toya's broadcast. Listen, I'm not here to judge your family drama, especially since I know you're trying to be better. you wouldn't have received that scar or the damage the Villains did to you if you weren't, but just know I will help you apprehend him if you want. We can sort out all of the specifics after we've saved Japan and the world."
"Always focused on the mission. That's what I respect about you. And...thank you Cathleen."
"Of course....you know I'm pretty sure I could that if you want."
"No, that won't be necessary. Trust me this is important." Endeavor ran his finger down the side of his facial scar. "I have a lifetime of regrets to atone for. The scars I've left on family won't ever heal so this one shouldn't either. I appreciate the offer but it's not necessary. Save your energy for better people than me."
She smiled. "You really have grown up since we last met. I'm impressed Enji. Okay then. I'll follow your wishes." She turned and waved to her Air Force Buddies. "Hey Bros! We're going to travel together on our way to the school. Rendezvous with us there alright? Tell Sensei and the kids about our victory out here! The tide of this war is about to change!"
