The Plan

Alright time to end this", Tomura smirked.

"Yes, let's finish him" Izuku chuckled clicking a button. They were currently playing a video game called 'Blood Rage', a multiplayer game based in a post-apocalyptic society. Izuku and Tomura were still on the final boss of the game after dying several times to it.

It took about a month for Tomura Shigaraki to become comfortable with Apotheosis. Comfortable enough to discuss ideas and strategies with each other. Usually over the video games they played together. His strategy was always to go for the weak points of his opponents while Izuku preferred to create an opening or weak point himself most of the time. For example when they discussed how to beat Allmight, Shigaraki wanted him to be beaten down by a special creature that Izuku had yet to meet called Nomu, but Izuku argued that it would be better to wait it out until the hero reached his limit then crush him.

Izuku found Tomura Shigaraki easy enough to get along. Unlike Kacchan who despised everything Izuku did and said, Tomura actually listened most of the time. Under Sensei's orders, he was told to learn everything he could from Apotheosis.

At first Izuku thought Tomura was the leader of the League of Villains, until he met the mysterious figure through the monitor screen that Shigaraki revered above everything. That man asked to be called Sensei, so like Tomura he too called him that. Other than a few minor orders and advice, the man left him alone.

"Dammit!" Tomura growled, disintegrating his controller after they died to the boss again.

"Hm. Don't worry we'll get him eventually", Izuku said cheerfully.

"What makes you so hopeful?" The irritated villain asked.

"When you live in a world where everything is against you. Then you have to remain optimistic, even if everyone tells you to give up. I should give up!? No you should give up!", Izuku said in one breath. "Sorry did I go off again?" He sometimes had moments while hanging out at the bar, certain topics would trigger him and he would go off on rants about how this world's hero society was so unfair. Being around Shigaraki always brought out the worst in him for some reason. Not that the older boy minded.

"I need to get back to work and you need another controller", Izuku stood up and walked over to bar. "Kurogiri-san could you please send me to the lab?" The villain bartender nodded his mist covered head and opened a portal for. "Bye Tomura!" He waved as he walked through the portal.

"What is he always working on there?" Shigaraki asked with genuine curiosity.

"I don't know myself", Kurogiri said while cleaning an empty glass. "The times I've been there I couldn't make sense of what I was seeing. Apotheosis likes to work on multiple projects at once"

THE LAB

Taking off his white hoodie Izuku placed over a chair and walked over to computer. Over the period of his first month with the league he used the money he saved up from the robberies to have equipment, computer parts and materials secretly sent to a nearby location and with a little help from Kurogiri had all of it transported to his new lab. After that it took him a week to get fully set up.

"Back to work", Izuku smiled to himself. He loved his lab. He loved finally having a place all for him, a place he could work on his all of his inventions and conduct his research. A nice little building where he could be cut off from the cruel outside world. Walking by each table he checked up on the progress of each project.

The carbon fiber armor was coming along nicely. It was a special material originally used to capture and detain villains. Izuku figured out that it could be used for a thin light weight body armor. It was also incredibly malleable making it easy to conform to the shape of his body.

Next was the power glove. A device worn on his hand that fired compressed energy waves from the palms and knuckles. It wasn't the Infinity Gauntlet, just a basic weapon to fight with until he could fashion the gauntlet. This was powered by eight battery cells that resembled canisters along the sides of the device that were designed to be immediately ejected should they run out or become damaged to prevent corrosive fluid from leaking out and causing harm to him.

The hover drones were pretty much finished. Small flying cameras that also recorded data on quirks the same way his scouter did. These drones were equipped with lightweight metals in the body and propellers to keep them silent and unnoticeable. The whole idea was to spy on heroes and any quirk user that catches his interest, but even if the drones were caught it wouldn't matter thanks to a special program that deleted all information should such a thing occur. No one would be able to trace it back to Izuku thanks to his brilliant foresight.

Sitting in a cushioned arm chair Izuku pressed a button on the side and a keyboard attached to mechanical arms rose up out of the floor, situating itself in a reachable distance in front of him. A large screen then switched on, booting up his computer.

'Files', typing away at the keyboard he brought up the theoretical formula that was the basis for all his research into quirks. According to the equations for the stones to work he couldn't just jam a bunch of quirks together. They had to fit like a jigsaw puzzle. The problem that Izuku was facing was finding the right quirks and getting a DNA sample. He did have a lead on that though. A quirk research laboratory in Hosu City. Supposedly they stored blood samples from various heroes and citizens with quirks, all of which were donated to further the study of quirks. If Izuku could gain access, he could acquire enough DNA samples to start working on the stones. He already had some ideas for type of quirks he needed.

For the space stone he needed teleportation quirks. Unfortunately for Izuku, warping quirks were very rare and hard to come by. Luckily for him Kurogiri-san had such a quirk, his DNA would be a prime candidate for that stone.

The time stone would be a challenge. Izuku had yet to come across a quirk that could manipulate time in any way. Until he could get into the Hosu lab and find out for himself, he had no leads on that one yet.

The power stone, like the time stone, Izuku had yet to find a good lead on. There were plenty of candidates, but none that fit the requirements of creating an all-powerful quirk. Perhaps he would have to combine a few if it really came down to it.

The reality stone was…complicated. This is where his formula would be put to the ultimate test. For this one Izuku needed multiple quirks that allow for the manipulation of matter. There were many quirks out there with various degrees of power and range. Even his own mother had a low level telekinesis. Once he had the DNA samples, he just had to extract the components from their genes that allowed them to bend matter to their will and mesh them together to create an all-powerful quirk.

As for the soul stone, he honestly had no idea what to do. There was no measurable science that could determine what a soul was. Are the soul and mind the same thing? Just what is a soul anyway? Until he came to a conclusion, he would put this stone on hold.

There was also the issue as to what to make the gauntlet out of. Regular titanium wouldn't cut it. In fact any material he could think of wouldn't be strong enough to house the stones. Something else was required, something new.

"Enough of that", He had to get his gear ready, he'd worry about the stones later. Izuku wanted to be fully prepared for what Tomura Shigaraki had planned. In case he had to tag along.

FLASHBACK

"Kill Allmight?" Izuku stated with raised brows. "You were serious about that?"

"Of course I was", Tomura glared at him past the fingers that hid his face. "Are you in or not?"

"Why do you want to kill him?" Izuku asked.

"He's the symbol of peace, the pillar of heroic strength. If I topple him the rest of the hero society will follow", Shigaraki explained gleefully.

"That's not enough", Izuku said interrupting whatever rant he was about to go on.

"What did you say!?" Shigaraki growled. How dare this little bastard disagree with him?

"I'm just saying it will take more than that to destroy the hero society", Izuku chewed on the knuckles of his leather gloves as he paced the bar. "You told me that you wanted people to lose faith in heroes right? But people don't lose hope just like", he snapped his fingers to emphasize. "It takes a while, trust me I know. You have to wear them down Tomura, break them down little by little then deliver the final blow in one big blast that crushes any and all hopes and dreams!", Izuku yelled thinking about how for years he was told by everybody that he couldn't be a hero, then the final nail in the coffin cemented it when the number one hero himself said the same thing. That's right he knew how to absolutely crush someone's spirit. The same way the world did to him.

"Then what do you suggest Strategist?" Tomura sneered at him.

"Well since you're so dead set on killing Allmight go ahead and do that" Izuku went on. "You'll also have to take out Endeavor after that, since he'll be taking Allmight's place as the next number one hero. Then the next and the next and the next", Izuku repeated it a few times to make a point. "It will take some time, but eventually the hero society will crumble like a house of cards"

"I don't care how many heroes I have to kill", Tomura spat.

"That's my advice to you, I am the strategist as you said", Izuku would have smirked at him if the scarf wasn't hiding the lower half of his face.

END FLASHBACK

'Oh Tomura. You can't destroy this hero society no matter how hard you try your just one person with one league', Izuku smiled to himself thinking about how pointless Shigaraki's goal was. Why destroy society? Why not change the current society for the better? That's what Izuku Midoriya planned to do. Make a new better world that would never look down on the weak and quirkless like himself.

As for killing Allmight. He didn't really want to do that either. He would assist Tomura as best he could, but he really didn't think anything they did would work. The only thing powerful enough to beat him would be his Infinity Gauntlet once it was finished. Izuku wouldn't kill him though, he'd let him live to watch him win. He wanted Allmight to see how wrong he was about him. That a quirkless boy could become a hero. Not just a hero, but also the most powerful being in the world.

'I really hope the gauntlet works. It has to. The universe robbed me of a quirk, it can't take this from me too'

A FEW MONTHS LATER

School had started and he finally moved out of his apartment and into the dorms of his new high school. He received a very tear filled goodbye from his mother with another promise to visit on weekends and holidays. The arrangement he had with the league worked out really well. After classes he would receive a text giving him a nearby location within walking distance. Once there Kurogiri would warp him to his lab or to the bar if he was needed for a meeting.

Right now the meeting was currently running late with Tomura having failed to show up for the past thirty minutes. Getting bored Izuku took out his computer and began going through his data on quirks until he arrived.

"What is this?" Izuku was sitting at the bar looking over some files on his lap top when Shigaraki appeared through a portal and slapped a phone in front of him. "Is this why you called me here?"

"Just look at it!" Tomura hissed. Picking up the phone he noticed a photo on it. It looked like a class schedule. "That is next week's schedule for U.A. Look! Allmight will be leading a class of wannabe heroes in a rescue exercise in facility called the Unforeseen Simulation Joint"

"I take it you want to use this as an opportunity to mount an attack and kill him?" Izuku asked with a sigh at his colleague's impatience. "Alright I'm getting the board"

"You're getting the board?" Kurogiri asked.

"I'm getting the board", Izuku reaffirmed.

"What the hell is the board?" Tomura asked. Izuku went behind the bar, into a cabinet and pulled out a Japanese version of the board game Risk and placed it on the counter.

"This is the board. Sensei asked me to explain things in a simpler way to you, so this is as simple as I can get", He asked Kurogiri to draw a map on a large sheet of paper of the U.S.J facility based off the info that Shigaraki photographed. "Hey where did you even get this info?" Izuku questioned while they waited for Kurogiri to finish.

"I snuck into U.A" The pale blue haired young man stated like it was no big deal.

"How? Even I wouldn't dare attempt that", the quirkless boy responded.

"I broke the defenses and let the eager media reporters in", Shigaraki chuckled.

"Look at you Tomura-san, you're learning", Izuku beamed proud of him.

"Shut up and get to work Strategist", Tomura glared at him harshly. Once Kurogiri finished drawing the map he set it down on the counter.

"These twenty blue soldiers will be the class 1-A students, and these sixty red pieces will be the league", placing the tiny plastic men on the map he dug out the special gold piece. "This gold one will be Allmight and this green one will be that Nomu guy who you still won't let me meet"

"Its best you didn't", Kurogiri knew Apotheosis was still just a kid and probably wouldn't have the stomach to see that thing and better he not know how it was made.

"So Tomura, you first", Izuku handed the reins to him. "What's your plan?"

"Why you asking me? You're the strategist", Shigaraki snarled at him furiously.

"Yes, but Sensei wants you to learn and I agree", the green haired boy pointed at the tiny men and silently asked him to come up with his best plan.

"Allmight's the final boss so we wear him down with the forces and then Nomu delivers the final blow", Izuku just shook his head negatively.

"Your forgetting something, class 1-A isn't just going to sit there and there's probably other pro heroes teaching there besides Allmight", The boy chewed on his gloves again, a bad habit he was starting to develop with all these challenges the League of Villains threw it him. "I recommend dividing our forces, set some aside to deal with the students and teachers"

"Fine then I'll save Nomu for Allmight", Tomura said while lightly scratching his neck.

"Good idea, keep our best card for the big man", Izuku began moving the pieces on the map around. "Kurogiri can warp large amounts of people, so let's have him split the students up. Send them to the different disaster zones of the U.S.J", he looked at the dark misty man expectantly.

"I can do this", the bartender responded.

"Then while your forces keep them busy, Nomu takes on Allmight", chewing on his fingers a thought occurred to Izuku. "I'm not a hundred percent sure this will work though"

"Why not?" Shigaraki asked. It sounded good to him.

"There's still too many unknown variables", Izuku looked at the map and all the plastic men set up around it. "We don't know what type of quirks the students have. We also don't know for sure if Allmight will be there"

"Yes we do" Tomura argued. "He's on the schedule"

"But schedules can change" Izuku replied. "Look you said Allmight has a limit right? Well if that's the case he might change his schedule around depending on his hero job and if that's the case he will probably be swapped out for a different teacher. We could be doing all of this for nothing"

"Slow down", Kurogiri told him. The boy went off speaking too fast again.

"Sorry, but you get my point", after a long awkward silence Tomura Shigaraki finally spoke.

"We're still mounting the attack. We won't get another opportunity like this again", he said with finality.

"Okay suit yourself" Izuku shrugged and stood up from the bar stool. He wouldn't even be there during the attack any way. Just when he thought that, the monitor screen came on signaling that 'Sensei' wanted to have a word with them.

"A decent plan, but should things change like you said Apotheosis it would be best if you were there to advise Tomura", of all the luck. Sensei just had to be listening in on their conversation and now Izuku was pretty much ordered to go along with this attack.

"Of course Sensei", Izuku nodded to the mysterious leader of the league. Oh well, at least he could collect data on quirks and test out the hover drones. Who knows? Maybe one of the students would have a viable quirk that could be used to create his stones.