War Rages On! Leonidus Arrives!

News of Star and Stripe's death hit America one day after her death at the hands on Tomura Shigaraki. Mikey began packing his things as the TV blared the tragic death to him. The streets were littered with memorials to Star and Stripe, Mikey walked passed a building that had her likeness graffitied onto it. He pulled out his phone and called Sheyenne.

"Hey, I'm leaving, make sure everyone stays safe. Got it?" Mikey ordered.

"Leaving? Where the hell are you going?"

"To give that piece of shit Tomura Shigaraki my goddamn mind. His head's gonna be mine, that much is certain."

He hung up without saying goodbye, he flew into the sky, making the long trip towards Japan. At U.A. High, Class A had begun training for the final battle against Tomura and All for One, noticing that they were three people short. Leonidus had been inside the Seventh Plane for a total of 16 years, while only being gone for a little over a couple weeks in the real world.

"Leonidus, sir, you've been going nonstop since you've been here. You should take a break, yes?" She advised.

"Take a break? I'll take one when I die."

"I... I suppose I could..."

Alyx stopped training and looked at her, "Your father is the supposed creator of life, ruler of Reality, and you... You were my 'sworn protector', but you couldn't save my family? All because of the so called 'rules' you both can change whenever you want? My family is gone because of those inactions, something you knew ahead of time, but didn't change. Why?"

"...I can't answer that I'm afraid. I'm sorry."

"You can't answer that? I'm going to die soon, and you can't answer anything I have to say? I've been here for 16 years, 16 fucking years, trying to slow everything down and hope to God I don't vanish before they fight Shigaraki. You know, I was right all along, I should've died back then. Because no matter what happens, it'll just be me all by myself."

Amaterasu began to walk away from him, "Fine! Be that way! Just know this, my death is gonna be fantastic, just like how you and your father wanted it to be!"

She disappeared into the white void, leaving Leonidus alone. He returned to his training, unaware of the events taking place outside in the real world. Each of his strikes were stronger, faster, more precise than ever before. His smile was no longer there, only a chiseled, hardened look resided on his face. Several days later, something crash landed in front of Heights Alliance, the students and heroes surrounded the crater in the ground. The smoke cleared and everyone had blatantly confused looks on their faces.

"I'm here to see the idiot, Alyx? Brown hair, annoyingly positive, I'm assuming he's here and not dead, right?" Mikey sighed.

"W-Well, he is but, not really." Mina responded.

Mikey raised an eyebrow at her, curious as to what she meant. As the tension decreased as quick as it rose, Class A led Mikey up to Alyx's dorm room.

"He's been in the Seventh Plane training for quite some time now. Hopefully he'll be out soon, we're getting ready to face off against Shigaraki and All For One." Yaoyorozu informed him.

"I see, well, I'll be more than enough for him. If Leonidus ever does decide to show his face, Tomura's gonna be long gone. My... Our Master, Star and Stripe, she needs to be avenged. Alyx definitely feels the same I would think." He replied.

"He doesn't know about her death, young man." All Might spoke up.

Mikey turned to see All Might standing behind him, "He doesn't? How come?"

"I hate to say this, but his anger is our greatest weapon. Without a shadow of a doubt do I believe it'll defeat All For One. I came up here to tell you all that we're almost ready, and that you need to pack temporary bags for the next few days." All Might confessed.

"He's almost here, isn't he?" Izuku asked.

All Might nodded at him, Midoriya glanced towards Alyx's door, the note still attached to it. Later in the evening, Yaoyorozu found Mikey staring down at the city below him, she walked over and stood by him.

"May I talk to you about something?" Momo inquired.

"What do you want to know?"

"Has Alyx been this way all the time?"

"Hmph, to be honest, that idiot hides himself under that veil of positivity. Underneath all of that is an empty, cold hearted, ruthless man with nothing left to lose. But he strives away from it, not wanting to be like how his Father was. Hearing about everything he's done here, how there's still a small glimmer of hope left in this place, it makes me wonder... What's next for him?"

Yaoyorozu leaned over a railing, taking in everything Mikey told her, she looked at the place she once called home before it was destroyed.

"I can see why he likes you so much." He continued.

Momo looked over at him, "You remind him of Laura, albeit you aren't as half-witted as she was at times. I should be thanking you for allowing him to keep that veil up."

"Oh... I see... But what do you mean by 'keeping that veil up'? What would've happened if nobody did?"

"None of us would be here right now, that's what would've happened."

He walked away from her, leaving her in shock, Momo thought back to the times that Alyx let loose his anger. She pulled his Hanafuda earrings out of her pocket.

"Why would you give me these, Alyx? Is something wrong?" Momo pondered.

The day finally arrived, Leonidus was still in the Seventh Plane, working himself down to the bone. Mikey had made his way to the battlefield to see that Katsuki was in Tomura's clutches! Langlitz threw a ball of light right into Shigaraki's back, it drilled right through him and passed Bakugo. Tomura threw Katsuki aside, turning back around to see Mikey in a fighting pose. Meanwhile, Amaterasu phased into the Plane behind him, Leonidus stopped his regimen to see what she needed.

"The battle is going on, Alyx. They need assistance." She noted.

"Hand me my kimono, please."

His hero suit formed around him as Amaterasu gave him his kimono. Leonidus made sure his sword was sharpened up before he began to leave the Seventh Plane.

"I'll be watching you, Leonidus." Amaterasu called out to him.

Alyx smiled at her before leaving the Plane, "Thank you, Amaterasu. Before I go, I'm sorry."

Leonidus opened his eyes, leaving his dorm room through the balcony door. He looked up to see a giant floating fortress in the sky, hearing an ongoing commotion.

"So, that's where you are, Tomura? Good." Alyx mumbled.

He disappeared within the blink of an eye, in the floating fortress, Shigaraki had lined parts of it with a disgusting amalgamation of flesh and fingers. Mikey jumped out of the way of them as some charged towards him.

"Is this all you've got?! Don't make me laugh!" Mikey grinned.

Langlitz maneuvered around the flesh mounds, ramming his fist into Shigaraki's face. Tomura slid back, licking the blood off of his face, right as the heroes used a combined attack alongside Mirio, Nejire, Amajiki, Mirko and Bakugo. Leonidus appeared in the far distance, behind Best Jeanist and Katsuki after they finished their combined assault against Shigaraki. Alyx walked over to them, he stopped in his tracks as he saw Katsuki on the ground, bloody, battered, and lifeless. An All Might card laid next to him, Alyx knelt down and used his Overdrive to at least take away the blood off of him.

"Hey, Alyx." Bakugo spoke up.

Leonidus opened his eyes, seeing a white void around him, Katsuki standing in front of him in his school uniform.

"Bakugo, you're... No... You can't..." Alyx faltered.

"When you get back, could you tell All Might to sign my card for me, please? I love you, brother."

Katsuki began to fade away like smoke, "KATSUKI WAIT!!"

Alyx's hand reached out towards him, but went right through as he went up in smoke, his eyes stayed widened as they filled with tears of anger. His breathing made his entire body shake, seething with a rage he couldn't comprehend.

"𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘶𝘬𝘪 𝘉𝘢𝘬𝘶𝘨𝘰. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦, 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭. 𝘔𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯... 𝘔𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦..." He thought.

He took his kimono off and laid it across Bakugo like a blanket. Best Jeanist couldn't take his eyes off Alyx, he could tell he held an otherworldly wrath within him.

Mirio looked over towards them, "Vanguard! You're... Here..."

Tomura stared Leonidus down, freezing in place as he made eye contact with him, the face of sheer rage was on Alyx's hardened face.

"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵..."

Leonidus' mind went blank as his anger took over, every particle in his body was jumping around with blinding speed, his heartbeat going faster than ever before.

"No more... No. More." Alyx muttered.

Leonidus' body began to vibrate as his Overdrive enveloped his hands and arms. Soon, it covered his entire body, his eyes glowing a bright violet purple. Tomura began to laugh as he pointed at his appearance.

"Lighting up like some sort of glowstick won't help you. With this body and this power... I'll be able to create a new world! A world where I'm a God ruling above my disciples. A world so divided that standards cease to exist for human bodies and their abilities. One that is doomed to collapse and disappear... Those growing gaps give rise to misunderstandings, those in turn give rise to fear and rejection."

His body regenerated completely from the previous attack, "This little quarrel of ours is a direct product of that world! Under my control, I can assure that you all will be equal in oppression! Is that not the peace you heroes are striving for?! Do any of you truly believe you can kill me?!?!"

"Fucking can it." Leonidus monotoned.

Within the span of a slight inhalation of air, Leonidus had rammed his foot into Tomura's stomach, sending him flying into the destroyed U.A. High building. He crashed against a blackboard, Alyx appeared with a desk in his hands, smashing Tomura's skull with it. A pipe from inside the walls exploded, sending flames into the dusty classroom. Alyx hopped away from Tomura as he sent his growth of fingers after him, unsheathing his blade, he burst through the flames surrounding Shigaraki. His Nichirin Blade using the remainder of the fire as fuel for his Hinokami Kagura. Alyx's blade changed from it's bright blue to a deep crimson red.

"That peace... Those misunderstandings are what we learn from! There's no such thing as a perfect world, you can't make one! If you're going to shape the world in your image, I would rather die then live a day in your twisted reality!!" Leonidus fumed.

A marking appeared on his left eye, his scar lit up with flames from his Hinokami Kagura technique.

"Hinokami Kagura!! 13th Form!!!" Leonidus yelled.

Leonidus proceeded to cut through Tomura's rapid growth of fingers, performing each form with repetitive succession, steadily improving his accuracy and agility with every one of his forms. Leonidus saw as Mikey tried to move in without Tomura noticing. Mikey tore past them, blowing straight through the fleshy blockade, Shigaraki ducked out of the way as Leonidus attempted to cut his head off.

Mikey shot dozens of Light Blasts towards Shigaraki, "This guy just doesn't know when to stay down! How are we gonna deal with his regeneration!?"

"You aren't going to, boy." Tomura whispered in his ear.

Mikey quickly turned around to see Tomura's hand reach out towards him, Leonidus cut off his hand before Shigaraki even knew he was coming.

"Faster than before? I'm curious about this skill of yours, Leonidus. How well would it compare to my Quirks?" Tomura pondered.

"I'm getting tired of you, Tomura. Your smell annoys me, more than what you could ever perceive, you've caused nothing but pain and suffering to those around you. No wonder you're motherless."

Tomura scowled at him, screaming as he lunged forward, Mikey threw a high kick into Shigaraki's jaw that sent him flying out of the school building. Leonidus placed his blade back into it's sheath, following Mikey out onto the school courtyard.

"Damn it, we've lost them! They're deeper in the school, we won't be able to see them from there." Aizawa fumed.

Alyx and Mikey landed down in the courtyard, Tomura pulled himself from out of the ground, wiping blood off his chin. Leonidus noticed a change in his scent, he had access to his Quirks!

"Tomura's able to use his Quirks, we gotta be quick about this, Mikey!"

"Right, you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Leonidus gave him a sly smirk, "I am now!"

The two thought back to their final test with Star and Stripe, how they had to last as long as possible against her, and do as much damage as they possibly could. The two stood in similar poses to how they started the test. The boys raced towards Tomura before he had a chance to think, Leonidus hit Shigaraki in the face with a spinning kick as Mikey rammed his elbow into his stomach. Alyx lifted his fist into the air and brought it down towards Tomura's face, however, it was easily caught by Shigaraki. Alyx grinned as he realized that he grabbed a ball of Overdrive instead of his hand. It detonated right in Tomura's face, revealing parts of his skull.

"Perhaps what that teacher of yours told me is true!" Shigaraki grinned.

Leonidus' fist clashed against Tomura's forearm, "What!? What do you mean?"

Tomura smiled as he finally caught up to Leonidus' speed by observing his movements. Mikey tried to fly in but was knocked through the U.A. High building by Shigaraki's Air Cannon Quirk.

"No! Don't you dare jump in! This is between me and the boy!" Tomura barked.

Tomura missed a strike as Leonidus backflipped away from him, Alyx jumped up into the air, clasping his hands and clubbing Tomura's skull. Tomura retaliated by grabbing Leonidus' leg and slamming him into the ground, Alyx blasted him back into the building before following him into it. Tomura tumbled across the ground as he flew out onto the other side of the fortress. Leonidus hopped down and ran towards Tomura as he recuperated. He shot out dozens of Air Cannon blasts at Leonidus, he dodged each of them as he made his way closer to Tomura. Leonidus rammed a knee into Tomura's stomach, the two the collided with their headbutts, repeating it over and over until Tomura ran an appendage into Leonidus chest.

Shigaraki floated up into the air, a huge wave of decay in his hands, he chucked it down to Alyx as he stood there and stared up at him. The wave of decay exploded on contact, Aizawa and Monoma tensed up as they witnessed it.

"Is he... There's no way he didn't move out of the way in time, right?!" Monoma panicked.

As the smoke cleared, Tomura gave off an extremely disgusted look, seeing that Alyx was still standing with a grin on his face.

"What's the matter? You don't think I have tricks up my sleeve too?" Leonidus smirked.

Meanwhile, at the Gunga Mountain Ruins, All For One's huge flame wall was absorbed by an unseen force.

"Uh... Tsukuyomi, what was that?!" Jiro panicked.

"Sorry to drop in, you guys!" Joshua called out.

"What? Who are these children?" All For One questioned.

Joshua grabbed his Hell Scythe as Sheyenne used her Quirk to levitate the two in the air.

"Mierda... That fucker's pretty intimidating." Sheyenne mumbled.

"We're the Leonidus Defense Squadron! You must be that AFO guy, right?" Joshua smiled.

He pointed his scythe at All For One, "We're gonna kill you."

Sheyenne changed the landscape of the world to help Joshua fly through the air. All For One sent a plethora of Rivet Stab tendrils towards him. Joshua ducked, dodged and sliced through the oncoming attack. His scythe slammed into a piece of All For One's mask, shattering it into pieces, Joshua pushed down with even more force than before. He sent All For One spiraling down to the ground, Hawks floated next to Joshua as he looked at the ground. Sheyenne flew towards All For One, hammering down with her Guardian Spirit, drilling All For One into the dirt.

"How'd you like this, puto?!" Sheyenne screamed out.

All For One burst out of the ground, knocking Sheyenne into the air, Joshua caught her before she collided with Tokoyami.

"Hey, kid, thanks for your little bit of help but it's gonna be needed elsewhere. You both need to head out of here and towards U.A. High, it's just east from here, it's in a giant floating fortress. Leonidus is in trouble!" Hawks instructed.

Sheyenne nodded at him, "Right! Let's go!"

The two took off eastward as Hawks readied himself, back at the fortress, Alyx slid across the ground as Tomura knocked him away with an Air Cannon blast. He deflected back Tomura's Rivet tendrils as he powered up into Gear Six.

"You asked earlier what I meant about your master? I personally talked to her, it was riveting!" Tomura laughed.

Alyx clasped his hands with Tomura's, "Y-You're lying! If she did, you'd be dead! She's the strongest person in the world! There's no way that she's not on her way here! Star and Stripe told me so!"

"Tomura Shigaraki isn't my real name..."

Alyx flew backwards, taking in what he just said, realizing that Tomura was telling the truth. He eyes were slightly widened with disbelief and sorrow.

"As matter of fact," Shigaraki continued, "I managed to obtain her Quirk for a slight second before she tried to destroy me from the inside out. You wanna know what I did? Notice how your happy little family isn't here with you?"

"You did... What..."

Tomura began laughing as Alyx stared at him, completely blank and emotionless, Langlitz stumbled out of the U.A. High building seeing a motionless Leonidus.

"You've been awfully quiet, Leonidus. Are you trying to process what I told you earlier?" Shigaraki wondered.

Alyx didn't respond to him, Tomura kept laughing at him, eventually sighing as he shook his head.

"You truly should've been there, Leonidus... It was quite the spectacle." Tomura smiled.

A clone of Tomura appeared behind Alyx, Mikey flew in and punched the clone in the jaw before it could touch him. He panted as he landed on the ground next to Leonidus, clearly exhausted from the strain of his Quirk. Mikey saw Alyx's face, even though it was a content, serious look, he could tell that Leonidus was angered beyond belief once again. Alyx fell to his knees, Tomura took it as a sign of weakness, preparing to strike again.

"Worn out already? I'm surprised you even lasted this long. Despite everyone being wiped out, you all thought you could take me on in this prime body of mine? Now that we're alone... How about I show you two something before you die..." He continued.

He unraveled Star and Stripe's cape, "Does this... Look familiar to you two?"

Alyx looked up at him, his eyes slowly widening as images flashed in front of his eyes, he was witnessing the death of his own master. Her last request from New Order was to make sure that Leonidus sees everything. Tomura dropped the cape and began stomping it into the ground, scrapping his feet all over it. This enraged Mikey, he stumbled up to his feet gritting his teeth.

"H-How... Dare you! Don't you ever... INSULT OUR MASTER!!" Mikey roared.

A huge pillar of light surrounded him as he entered his Quirk's final phase, "Golden Array", covering all but his face with golden light. Leonidus was still staring at Shigaraki, tears built up in his eyes. Tomura planted both of his hands on the ground with a smile on his face.

"Oh? Just you? Did Leonidus give up already? How unfortunate, I can tell he wasn't mentally ready for this. Oh well, I guess this is it!" Tomura deadpanned.

Mikey smirked at Tomura which made him raise an eyebrow, "Give up? Oh, buddy, he didn't give up. He's just letting me by him some time!"

Mikey tore off towards Tomura, inside Leonidus' mind, the world around him was black. New Order showed him all of the memories that Cathleen had with him. They all were around him, one in particular was right in front of him, from when he was but an infant.

"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴... 𝘞𝘩𝘺... 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵... 𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘮𝘦? 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵! 𝘐'𝘮 𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘨𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰." Leonidus lamented.

He closed his eyes as he heard Cathleen's voice, "𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆!"

"𝘚𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘦? 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵? 𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥? 𝘐 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘐 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘋𝘦𝘬𝘶'𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘶𝘴, 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘰𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐..." Leonidus thought.

A fire began to spark deep within Alyx's heart, its intensity grew higher and higher, his hands went limp. Tomura looked down at them before laughing at him as he held Mikey by his throat.

"I-Is that seriously it? Did he pass out or something?" Tomura cackled.

Tomura suddenly vomited blood and dropped Mikey, Amajiki had stabbed through Shigaraki's stomach, he picked him up with his swordfish arm and slammed him into the ground. Alyx stood up, tears no longer in his eyes, but a defiant look instead. Mikey rolled over to see his expression as he stared Tomura down.

"I'm sorry, all of this is my fault, I should've killed him when I saw the chance to. I'll defeat him at any cost, he's not gonna get away with destroying our home." Alyx vowed.

Tomura zoomed into the sky after mercilessly demolishing the heroes, Mikey sat up with curious eyes, seeing an ice white aura outline Alyx's body. His eyes became an ice white and a huge wave of Overdrive shot up into the sky.

"There it is! He's done it!" All Might exulted.

Alyx's piercing ice white eyes were glowing through the monstrous aura, Tomura looked on, feeling the same fear he felt with Bakugo. It shrank as it came back to Leonidus, revealing his ultimate form, Infinite Mode! Mikey looked on with awe at Alyx, observing the pulsating red markings on his face and body.

"Sorry we're... Late?" Joshua hesitated.

"Just stay back, for now, okay?" Alyx told them.

Alyx and Mikey looked behind them, seeing Joshua, Sheyenne, and Karson landing down in the fortress. They joined their side, looking at the disgusted face of Tomura Shigaraki, Joshua summoned two of his scythes as Sheyenne used her Quirk to envelope herself in a Guardian Spirit. Karson shrugged his shoulders and stood ready to fight. Back at the police headquarters, All Might watched on through several monitors, slightly smiling at Alyx.

"This is it, Naomasa, the final stretch." All Might spoke up.

"Yeah... Let's hope he's able to stop him here." Naomasa replied.

At each stronghold, the citizens of Japan looked on, holding their loved ones close to them. Izuku's mother held one of her son's gloves tightly as she saw Alyx stare Tomura down. A man quickly sat up as tears ran down his face.

"YOU CAN DO THIS, LEONIDUS!" He shouted.

"COME ON! YOU GOT IT! DO IT PLEASE!!" A woman yelled.

"Save us... Alyx Leonidus... Please..." Inko Midoriya pleaded.

Everyone hollered and screamed their pleas, the glimmer of hope that was once gone had sparked back to life! Leonidus stood in his fighting pose as Tomura began to get furious.

"All of these people... The ones you've killed... They all live on through me! I'll make sure you're nothing but ash, Tomura Shigaraki!" Alyx fumed.

"Come on then... I'd like to see you try, Alyx!"

The battle to decide the world's fate was just heating up! With Leonidus' reawakening into Infinite Mode, would this be the edge the heroes needed to finally beat All For One? Meanwhile, Izuku raced towards the fortress, hoping he'd make it on time.

"You're going after him after all of that? Shouldn't you take a breather first?" Yoichi Shigaraki wondered.

"N-No, I have to keep moving forward! Alyx still needs my help!" Izuku declined.

As he zoomed closer towards the fortress, Leonidus walked forward towards Tomura slowly, the visage of Star and Stripe behind him. Shigaraki looked startled for a minute, seeing her stare directly at him.

"What's wrong Tomura? Scared of something?" Leonidus smirked.

"I don't understand... Why people like you just won't stay dead!!"

As Tomura charged towards Alyx, everything slowed down around him, he could see Shigaraki's entire anatomy.

"𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴... 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥? 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧, 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘐 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘮."

Leonidus pushed Shigaraki's arm past him, causing him to fall forward right into a spinning kick from Alyx. The impact shot an intense amount of pressurized wind straight through the roof of the floating fortress and Tomura's skull! Down below the fortress, Yaoyorozu hurried over to Hatsume who called out to everyone else.

"Look, look! It's that white haired thingy he does! Remember?!" She exclaimed.

"You're right! There's no way that we're gonna lose now!"

Back on the surface, Tomura watched as Leonidus ignored him after delivering his devastating kick, he made his way over to Katsuki's body. He knelt down and picked up his kimono.

"I'm sorry I wasn't here sooner, friend. I'll avenge you, I promise." He swore.

Leonidus put his kimono on and put his hand out. His Hanafuda earrings phased onto his hands, he put them on, smelling Tomura's anger behind him.

"My apologies, Shigaraki. I just figured you'd wanna see who you're dealing with. I couldn't help but overhear you calling yourself 'The Demon Lord', which is pretty ironic considering that..." Alyx continued.

He turned around with emotionless eyes, "...My ancestor killed the Demon Lord of his time too. Funny, right?"

Tomura's vision flashed before him, briefly seeing Tanjiro in his place, he seized up as All For One took control once again.

"𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰, 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦... 𝘐 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘮𝘦! 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶! 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘔𝘶𝘻𝘢𝘯 𝘒𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘶𝘫𝘪, 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘦!" Tanjiro's words echoed in Tomura's mind.

"No... You can't be... T-That's... That's impossible..." Shigaraki mumbled.

Leonidus pointed directly at Tomura, "I swear, I'll be the last thing you'll see in this life, Tomura Shigaraki. You should've never been born into this world."