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"Has anyone seen Shinso or Ochako?!" Mina yelled. "I can't find them anywhere!""

The hallway was crowded with both hero and support course students as almost every single person currently on campus huddled together to try and find some protection. The building kept shaking like it was going to collapse, but Cementoss had, so far, been pretty good at keeping things from splitting apart. He'd only be able to last for so long though, so everyone with a shielding quirk was getting ready for action. She was too, even though she could only hope that her acid would be faster than the falling debris, but she was determined to do whatever she could. They would have evacuated...if they weren't sure that whatever was going on out there was 100 times worse than whatever they were experiencing. Yeah, no, going outside was not going to happen. 

There was a swirl of mist and everyone screamed as the entire group was suddenly consumed by a purple cloud of the stuff. It was like the USJ all over again and Mei felt the floor disappear from underneath her feet as they were teleported to a room even smaller than the hallway they'd been in before. The villains they'd caught had gotten teleported too, but to Mina's surprise, they were still with the group instead of getting teleported back to the villain's base. 

A loud voice cut through the panic, "Hello everyone, it's me, Cheat Code, please calm down!"

Reluctantly, the students stopped pushing at each other and looked toward a speaker embedded in the wall, "All Might is fighting a villain outside and it's unsafe both for the heroes and the villains to be in the main school right now. You are still at UA, just in a bomb shelter that is highly rated enough to keep you safe. If you have any other questions, please ask Nedzu."

Mina looked around in confusion before she realized that Nedzu, Aizawa, and Todoroki, alongside what looked like a detective, who hadn't been with the group before, had been teleported to...well, to relative safety alongside them. 

"Well," Nedzu smiled, "This is an interesting development!"

"What in the world do you think you're doing?!" Izuku yelled at the screen. "He beat All Might, you can't fight him!"

"I have to go help her." Hitoshi paced restlessly. "I have to…"

He tried to go for the door, but Kurogiri portaled him back to the center of the room, "No, you'll only get yourself killed. "

Hitoshi turned to him with a glare, "I have to protect her."

"Do you have One for All?" Mei huffed. "No, so sit down and we'll figure out a way to help her without you charging in like an idiot!"

"What's the support gear he's wearing?" Izuku muttered. "Is it something to strengthen his quirks or just some kind of body armor? Either way, disabling that…"

"Could be deadly." Shigaraki finished. "It's actually his life support. All Might did a lot of damage in their last fight."

Izuku's face lit up, "Even better. We disable his life support and we give Uraraka a fighting chance. Shigaraki, I need to know everything you know about it. I'm sure you know a little bit about technology, being a gamer and all."

Shigaraki grinned, "Yeah, I guess I'm not a complete noob. It's a bit different than a gaming system, but I know enough weak points to point out your targets."

"Good." Izuku ran a quick inventory to figure out which of the school defenses were still functional. "Let's hear it."

"Young Uraraka!" All Might said desperately. "Get away from here! Now!"

"No." Ochako didn't look away from All for One. "This is my fight too, All Might."

"Ah, so the girl actually knows what it means to hold One for All." All for One laughed. "Did you tell her, or did she have to figure it out on her own?"

Ochako ignored a stab of anger at the insult and shifted her stance, "What's important is that I'm not going to let you hurt me or anyone else ever again."

Even without eyes, the patronizing expression on his face was obvious, "Oh my child, that's what all the other holders said as well."

Ochako yelled and ran forward. 

All for One sounded almost bored, "Air cannon times five."

Ochako barely teleported out of the way in time, slowed down by having to grab All Might and get him out of the way too, "Get out of here, I can handle this."

"No. you can't." All for One walked toward her. "You don't stand a…."

He was cut off as something exploded underneath him and Ochako smiled as she realized that Izuku must be weaponizing the playing field, "I think you underestimate me and my friends."

"You can't follow a trapper." Mineta called out. "I know you're there."

Spinner dropped from the ceiling and drew his Katana, "You're the one who killed Stain."

"No." Mineta lied. "The heroes did."

"A false hero did." Spinner shot back. "And I think a traitor like you fits that definition perfectly. You can't argue with it anyway, I know . He told me."

"Who?" Mineta panicked momentarily. All for One wouldn't have betrayed him. He didn't have any reason to...right?

"Stain." Spinner tapped his head. "That brainwasher destroyed the walls between us and now I can hear him perfectly. You killed him."

"So what if I did?" Mineta huffed and grabbed a ball from his head. "Killing him was easy, so do you really think you'll stand a chance against me? Don't be ridiculous."

"Oh, you're not just fighting me." The building shook and MIneta struggled to keep his footing, but Spinner just used his quirk to stick himself to the floor. He crawled forward like a lizard, unbothered by the shaking floor, and Mineta tried to dodge, but ended up falling to the floor as another violent tremor passed through. Spinner bit MIneta's arm as he passed and then stood up, licking blood from his lips. "You're fighting both me and Stain."

Mineta felt a shot of fear rip through him as his body went stiff and fell to the floor. He had to get out of this. Sensei would save him...no, no one would save him. For the first time, it was him who was stuck and not his prey. 

The building stopped shaking and Spinner stalked forward, drawing his Katana, "And now it's time for you to die."

"Alright, so what next?" Izuku asked. "We've done just a generic explosion, which should have done a little damage."

"Explosions are really only useful if they can clog up his air filters with the smoke." Shigaraki said. "He's got a really high hp, but his constitution is low if we can disable his equipment."

"Alright." Izuku pressed a few buttons. "Smoke bombs it is. What else can I disable?"

"That depends." Shigaraki grinned. "Do you have access to tasers?"

All for One was not doing well. He still hadn't managed to land a single hit on that darn girl because she simply kept teleporting out of the way. She'd learned after the first time that she had to put All Might out of his sight, so he had no idea where his nemesis was and there was a severe lack of other hostages to use. He'd tried using the media helicopters, but she had simply gotten them out of the way as well….or well, the people, considering that the helicopters themselves almost fell on him without anyone driving them. She couldn't match him in physical strength, but in speed and strategy, he would almost be tempted to admit she was superior. He, however, was All for one.

It would have been simpler if he could see the other enemy fighting him. He knew it was Cheat Code, the way the school's remaining defenses were being weaponized against him made that obvious enough, but without knowing where the nuisance was, it was impossible to take them out. His air filters were already giving him issues from all the smoke in the area and All for One was almost certain that Cheat Code was doing that on purpose. And if he knew about the air filter, that meant that choices were high that Tomura was with him and feeding him information. His path forward was simple then, he simply had to find both his target in One fell sweep. It should be an easy task for the symbol of evil. All Mights' successor made another run at him and he readied another attack to push her away, but she disappeared before he could even launch it. In his brief moment of distraction, however, little robotic bugs started climbing up his legs. He went to brush them away when he was hit with a massive shock and all of the sudden, it was Much more difficult to breath. They had fried his life support systems. 

"All right. Time to stop playing around." All for One grunted. "Kinetic energy times ten."

"Did my babies do good, Izu-kun?" Mei bounced up and down. "I gave the spider bots the taser marbles and put them exactly where dust boy said!"

"Your babies did amazing, Mei-chan." Izuku grinned. "You can already tell he's looking a little rougher and…"

He was cut off by Kurogiri suddenly snatching him up with a portal and dropping them all with the other students. "My apologies, but that room wasn't going to be safe anymore. You did well, Cheat Code, but um, you also may have managed to make All for One angry. I'll get your friend and All Might and get them here as well."

Izuku nodded, "Ok, good luck."

It was around the time he disappeared that all of the gathered students finally got over their shock and exploded with questions. 

"What are the villains doing here?"

"Are you working with the league?"

"You're Cheat Code?!"

Izuku gulped and reached for Mei's hand, "This is why I hide behind a computer."

Shouta stared at the man who had brought back All Might and Uraraka. The quirk was Kurogiri's, obviously, but the face, that was Shirakumo. When he saw him the first time, he'd been half convinced that his eyes were playing tricks on him, but now, seeing him again, he cannot deny the similarities. How in the world had he ended up with the villains?

Shouta glanced over at Hizashi, who seemed to be going through the same thought process he was. Shouta swallowed, "Do you think it's really…?"

Hiszashi took a deep breath, "Well, there's only one way to find out." 

He pushed his way across the crowded room and marched straight up to the Shirakumo look-alike, who was currently on the floor playing with the cat that seemed to hang around Shigaraki and Todoroki, "Shirakumo is that you?"

He looked up and gave them a far too familiar smile, "Hizashi, Shouta?! It's been forever!"

"Yeah." Mic's voice sounded choked, "Yeah it has." 

Before either of them had time to react, Mic had pulled Oboro to his feet and trapped them both in a big hug. 

Oboro laughed and hugged them both tighter, "I guess I've got some explaining to do, huh?"

Shotua pulled away and raised an eyebrow, "You think?"

Oboro gave a wet laugh, wiping tears from his eyes. "Yeah, I mean, it's still a little fuzzy for me too, but this kid, one of your students, I'm pretty sure, he saved me and helped break the brainwashing I was under and everything that All for one used to control me. Um, uh, where did he go…"

"Uh…" 

Shouta looked to see Hitohi standing with Uraraka and staring at them in shock, "Do you guys know each other?"

"Oh yeah. I was just talking about you!" Oboro grinned. "This is the kid who saved me." 

Shouta felt himself tearing up as he put his arm around Hitoshi's shoulder, "I guess then, that you've already met our son, Hitoshi."

All for One ripped the walls apart. He could tell Cheat Code had been there, a technology mapping quirk let him know that the camera feeds from the front of the school were still being piped into the giant computer until he destroyed it with a single punch. The ceiling had been disintegrated away, so Shigaraki had been there as well, and they were gone, so Kurogiri had been there too. Though the fact that their teleporter was apparently helping the heroes was inconvenient at best. Oh well, just one more name to add to his extermination list. There was nothing left to find here and neither All Might nor his infuriating successor had shown their faces again so All for One stalked away, breathing heavily through his mask now that his life support had been made useless by that stuipid eclectic attack. He was on a timer to end his fight quickly, which was quite the feat when all of his opponents were cowards!  

"You're not a difficult man to find."

All for One turned around slowly, sensing Spinner behind him. "Ah Spinner, it is nice to know that not all of my forces are useless."

"You see, that's where you're mistaken. "Spinner said. "I am no longer part of your forces."

All for One scowled, "Oh really?"

"Yes." Spinner said. "My mind has been freed and I finally see clearly. You see, heroes did not kill Stain. "

All for One felt a hint of annoyance, "Oh?"

"I've already disposed of your little traitor." Spinner informed him. "Now it's your turn." 

If All for One still had eyes, he would have rolled them. "I just beat All Might, you can't expect to hold a candle against me"

"You see, that's where you're wrong." Spinner raised his kanatna and ran forward. "Things are only impossible if you lack conviction!"

All for One sighed, ignoring the pain in his lungs as he batted the lizard away with one hand, "I don't have time for theis get out of my way."

"No!" Spinner growled, getting to his feet. "Your time is up!"

He ran at All for One again, then again, then again, and each time, All for One butted him away like it was nothing, but i wasn't. His breathing was getting more and more labored. He needed to get back to the doctor, and quickly. As much as he hated it, the best course of action would be to retreat and then dispose of his enemies another day. How amazing. 

Suddenly his body locked up and he fell to the floor, knocking his head against the concrete on his way down and shattering his mask. 

"That's the thing about conviction!" Spinner said, raising his katana above All for One's neck. "Much like blood, a little goes a long way." 

All for One winced as the katana came down. All those plans and he didn't even get to enjoy the outcome.

Nedzu looked out over the ruins of UA and sighed, "We are going to have to rebuild this entire school...perhaps we should make a few changes while we're at it."

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Next Update: January 28, 2022 (MST)