Tokyo Central Park.
Seiki.
"RRraaaahhHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!"
Seiki's eyes snap up to see the Titan as he rises above the trees, covered in scales, chitin, and numerous eyes... eyes that cannot see. He watches as it grabs Deathclaw by the ankle and lifts her high above his head, only to slam her against the ground. Then he watches as Rinka just barely manages to escape its grip and starts running away— a decision he supported whole heartedly.
And he continues to watch as it attacks its surroundings wildly, tearing up infrastructure with every step.
"So... some sort of berserker state?" Seiki wondered aloud. "If All For One were smart— or even just coherent— he would've just held on to Rinka and pulled her in half..."
"T-That's, uh, a little cruel," Mandalay muttered. "Isn't she your friend?"
"She's far more than that. And that's why I will always protect her, from here until the end of the time. Something that we both know very well... something that was explained to you when we first met at Yuuei, I'm pretty sure."
"Well... I guess since I can't time-travel, I can't think like that..."
"Well, you're gonna have to start thinking like it."
"Uh, what do you mean?"
"Because some lopsided, makeshift teamwork between me and mine, and some heroes that only reluctantly follow my orders isn't going to cut it here."
'Load2.'
*
Earlier That Day, Yuuei Conference Room.
"So we're ready to get this party started?" Azula asked, barely restrained glee. Always itching for someone to mutilate... and this plan happens to start with her mutilating someone.
"Almost," Seiki interjects. "But we need to change things a bit. I'm in control of this operation, no one else. So if I order you to do something, you do it. Immediately. No questions asked."
"Uh... you're asking quite a lot of us," Mandalay says. "And well, even if you look like a teenager, you're not even 12 yet."
"I'm probably somewhere in my 20s," he corrected. "But that's not the point. The point is that this fight can easily result in death, and I can't be bothered to explain to you how not to die all the way back here. It'd be much easier if you just let me guide you to safety."
"Look... we know what we're up against, but—"
"Then you're not here."
"I'm sorry?"
"You heard me. Any of you dying will be a hassle. A hassle that I am going to do my best to prevent. And if you aren't going to listen when a time traveler tells you to do something, then you're going to force me to babysit you and all of your actions so you don't get swatted to death. So you better have a good fucking reason for it, or I'm just going to go back to this morning, and have Nezu call for the Wild Wild Pussycats... excluding you."
"But, but you need me—"
"Yes, I need you to speak to everyone present simultaneously. Because All For One loves to spam his anti-electronics attack whenever he can. But... I can just have Konan attach herself to everyone present, and guide them that way. Which will only annoy me further... something that you won't ever know about."
>Are you... threatening me?< Mandalay asks, her Telepathy grating on his mind slightly.
"No..." he trailed off, eyes going cold. Then he looks over to Pixie-bob. "But I can make your life very, very annoying."
And before Mandalay can ask him to elaborate... "I'll fuck blondie here so good that she won't be able to shut up about it, let alone forget about it. And then I'll do everything in my power to ignite that ridiculous baby fever of hers... and then I'll make sure to drop her off at your place every time she gets clingy."
"O-Oh... you've..." Ragdoll trailed off, cringing. "He's already had sex with Ryuko... repeatedly..."
Then Seiki deliberately activated his Quirk. Both of his eyes, red and blue, swirling.
"H-H-He... he, um, he just had sex with her a-again, r-r-right now..."
Messing with Ragdoll was way too fun.
"Hey! If you're gonna seduce and fuck me in your fake timelines, you better get around to pampering this kitty in real time too!" Pixie-bob growled as she pouted, swiping at the air in his direction angrily... cutely. 'Yeah, she's mine now.'
"Don't worry, Ryuko. As far as I'm aware," he leered, "you already belong to me."
Despite eyeing up Seiki without a hint of shame earlier, Ryuko couldn't help but shiver.
"F-F-Fuck..."
"So," Seiki continued. "What's it gonna be, kittycat?"
And Mandalay, after looking back and forth between Seiki and Ryuko, finally had an answer.
"Please, please don't do that..."
*
Later That Night.
Rinka.
"Fucking Christ," Rinka muttered, sprinting on all fours away from that.
"As soon as he spots you, run. It'll reach for your left ankle."
She barely manages to dodge his opening attack... "rrRRARAAGGHHH!!!" something that the fucker really didn't seem to like. Sprinting through the forest, branches snapping against her, she's slowly starting to lose ground. Because All For One is not only taller, faster, and stronger, but even the very trees are just snapping against him, as he not so much as breaks a sweat.
And right when he's about to close in...
"EARTH... FLOW!"
The ground drags Rinka forwards, drags her up... all while a tidal of wave of forest rises behind her, slamming down on Japan's crippled Titan. A small mountain of dirt, rocks, and uprooted trees swirling around the buried demonlord.
But just a few seconds later...
FQA! GIGANTIFICATION!
The demonlord bursts out of the ground, going from an intimidating 19 feet... to nearly 80 feet in height. Taller than any tree in Tokyo Central Park, taller than the surrounding buildings. His dull-grey eyes all staring around him blankly, unable to see... they still focus on the pebbles in his path. His other countless mutant senses cluing him on the exact location of the ants spread through out the forest.
With Ragdoll and Mandalay, Seiki and his girls, now in arms reach...
He swipes.
>DROP US!<
His massive clawed hand, nearly the size of a truck, briskly swipes across the top of Tokyo Central Park... only for the ground to immediately liquify, his targets sinking beneath his claws at the very last second.
Ryuko Tsuchikawa. Quirk, Earth Flow.
Under normal circumstances, Pixie-bob would never stand a chance against All For One.
But not only is the earth itself her territory... All For One's been reduced to that of a cornered rat, relying on Quirk's he cannot properly use. To that of an animal running on instincts.
But instincts can be just as deadly.
FQA! LIFE FORCE!
And now, Gigantification starts to quiet down without FQA's support. The demonlord slowly starts to shrink under the eyes of Erasure, all while his withered scales, chitin, and spikes slowly return to a more youthful state.
Ragdoll, Mandalay, Seiki and friends pushed back to the surface just seconds later.
"He's... he's getting y-younger," Ragdoll said, gasping for air as they resurfaced. "It's like a temporary fountain of youth. An emitter Quirk that can be set to constantly activate, but as soon as it deactivates— he'll immediately start to wither again. And if he really can only forcibly activate one Quirk at a time, Life Force will eat into that activation window."
And while normally... Ragdoll would not be able to see the demonlord's Quirks, All For One hiding its hoard from the eyes of Search...
Forcible Quirk Activation has always interacted with other Quirks in fascinating ways.
And while FQA itself was still hidden beneath the hoard that is All For One, it pushes others to the very top. Forcing Quirks to erupt with loud, vibrant life.
Life that Search can see.
Life that Search can pick apart, that Search can tell its user just how to defeat.
And as soon as All For One, the man, approaches his prime...
FQA! MOUTHS!
Hundreds of gaping mouths erupt on his body, each one lined with thousands upon thousands of crooked, violent teeth.
But the more widespread the effect, the longer it takes Erasure to neutralize it. Something that even the mostly mindless All For One can take advantage of. So before Erasure can suppress the hybrid transformation-mutant Quirk, something that always takes the mortal at least a few seconds to accomplish...
FQA! OOZE!
Liquid, black tar that eats into everything it touches erupts from All For One's many mouths, only for them all to be forced to close by Erasure moments later. Ooze continuing to pour out of his single massive, open maw as he attacks everything around him... and even then, All For One has already generated enough liquid death to cover most of the forest.
>LIFT US!<
And just in time, a moat of life rises to the top, liquid death spreading throughout the trampled trees and dirt around them.
The ooze All For One generated now all the way up to his knees, eating away at the demonlord's own skin— albeit very, very slowly. So slow that it'll never truly damage him, thanks to Super Regeneration.
"He, he can't keep this up for long, maybe... maybe 8 minutes," Ragdoll says.
FQA! ENERGY SAVER! ENDURANCE! LIFE FORCE!
FQA! ENERGY SAVER! ENDURANCE! LIFE FORCE!
"Shit... 12 minutes... 18 minutes..." Ragdoll grimaces. "An energy saving Quirk, one that basically maximizes energy consumption to an insane degree. And a goal-oriented endurance Quirk, generating energy as much as it needs to. He's swapping between those two as well as Life Force, keeping himself from falling apart. But unless he can use FQA forever, then we just have to keep pushing him to heal himself... because All For One steals Quirks, and each and every Quirk has a base supply of energy. Energy that has to run out eventually."
But Forcible Quirk Activation will not run out.
It never will.
Because FQA is almost as greedy as All For One, using the energy of the Quirks it forces to activate to sustain itself indefinitely.
And now... now they have to try to survive, to run out the clock.
To outlast a Titan.
*
Eraserhead.
"I'm gonna have to blink soon," he mutters, running through the edge of the forest. Leaping from tree to tree as even the very edges of the park start to warp under Earth Flow's power, as the massive pool of ooze starts to reach him... only a few inches deep, but Aizawa would very much like to keep the skin of his feet.
All in all, he's very, very glad that he isn't at the center of... that.
And the single slip of Konan flush against his skin, just a few inches beneath his ear, listens to him, and reports back to Seiki.
"You can blink in 20 seconds," Konan answers him.
And then... right as he jumps to the next tree. Halfway across Tokyo Central Park.
All For One wildly slams his mutated fists into the ground.
FQA! VIBRATION!
FQA! KINETIC BOOSTER! KINETIC BOOSTER! KINETIC BOOSTER!
Aizawa flinches at the sound, barely managing to keep his eyes open. But right before he steps on the tree branch in front of him... a slip of Konan slides underneath his foot.
The vibrations spread throughout the forest. Every blade of grass violently shredding itself under the attack. Tree bark cracking again and again as All For One ruins Tokyo Central Park. And Aizawa watches out of the corner of his eye, as a squirrel that just so happened to be perched on the other side of the tree, the same tree just inches below his now hovering foot...
Exploded into a shower of gore.
"Seiki-dono just saved your life," Konan told him. "You should be grateful."
"Y-Yeah..." he mutters, trying not to think about the implications of that statement. Because Seiki wasn't a precog, but a time traveler, so... yeah, better not to think about it.
"I'm lifting you up now," she says. And Eraserhead tenses as slips slowly slide under him, lifting him just above the trees.
He sees it.
"Blink," Konan says.
And so he blinks.
*
All For One.
In the haze of angry, rage, and lust... he feels himself resume control.
All For One, the Quirk, no longer suppressed. All of the rampant instincts of his mutation Quirks no longer controlling him.
But...
Even without those instincts, All For One is angrier than he's ever been before.
"Hehe, fucking hell, what an idiot,"
"Who falls for such obvious fucking bait? To think that you're an agent of All For One."
"Not that that rotten old sack of shit matters anymore."
"And as soon as I lay my eyes on him, I'll know exactly how to counter every Quirk in that crusty old fuck's arsenal—"
The blatant disrespect rankles him to his core.
Not to mention... this. All of this. This trap was all because of him.
"ATLAS!!!"
OMNI-FACTOR UNLEASH!
0.8 seconds pass. Flesh erupts out of his body in every direction. He reaches 40 feet.
1.2 seconds pass. His skin starts to vibrate, starts to glow. Dozens of emitter Quirks activated simultaneously. He reaches 85 feet.
2.2 seconds pass. Five large, prismatic rings appear behind him. Tomura's original emitter Quirk, the one he had before All For One replaced it with Decay, boosted to ridiculous heights. Intent on multiplying the force of an attack, that would not only kill all of the Pussycats, as well as Atlas and his crew... but would take out a third of Downtown Tokyo.
Killing more people than even the Killer Frost ever did.
He now towers at 120 feet.
But right before he unleashes death itself...
ERASURE!
He cannot feel his Quirks.
All of his Quirks recede under Eraserhead's glare, and his mutant Quirks are now overwhelming him once more. But now, now he has a new target for his anger. His blind, dull-grey eyes look around frantically, his other senses helping him hone in on his targets. Locking onto the mortal man he fears as he slips back beneath the outer trees.
His unseeing eyes locking onto Atlas, Deathclaw, Ragdoll, Mandalay, Pixie-bob, Azula, Tiger, and Eraserhead.
FQA! LASER VISION!
*
Eraserhead.
"I think he might've seen me," he mumbled to himself, now running along the ground. Ooze slowly eating through his shoes, but he'll manage. None of the surrounding trees are still stable to leap across anymore anyway. And just a few seconds after reactivating his Quirk...
Razor harshly yanks him down into the ground.
Ooze burning through his clothes, eating at his skin.
Only for a massive beam of bright red death, nearly 5 feet in diameter, to burn a hole through the air above him, before wildly swinging out to the left and right. All while he groans in pain, just barely managing to keep his eyes from snapping shut.
And as soon as the laser dissipates, Razor immediately lifts him off the ooze covered ground.
"Seiki-dono just saved your life once more."
"Ugh... how much longer?" he groans in annoyance, sore all over. Ready to get right back to running away.
"Seiki says All For One can last, at most, two hours like this," she says.
"How long has it been?"
"It's been 6 minutes, 22 seconds," Konan informs him.
"Shit..."
And while the situation seemed almost hopeless, it wasn't.
They didn't need to last nearly that long.
Because just like the Quirks mattered in every fight... so did the minds of who used them. And even more so, the situation the Quirk users found themselves in, all the way down to the time, the location, and even each individual motivation.
Tokyo Central Park. There was a reason Seiki picked here of all places.
It was just a twenty minute drive from Minato Tokyo, All Might's home turf. And no matter how tired Toshinori Yagi was from a day of heroing...
This was a fight he simply could not ignore.
The wind whistles.
"UNITED STATES... OF SMASH!!!"
And the third Titan arrives.
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