All Roads

The Second POV

Chaos surrounded me, the fires growing larger and larger, despite the best efforts of the brave men and women helping to stop this disaster.

Or, well, mitigate the casualties.

You didn't stop All For One, you pushed and pushed, tried and tried and tried, and in the end, you failed.

There was no victory for anyone standing against him. There was no happiness to be found in fighting him. No pride.

Only the knowledge that the city around me might still be standing if we just left him alone.

If we didn't poke the sleeping dragon, so to speak.

But I would still try, because a hero doesn't fight for pride or happiness, no, a hero fights so that others don't have to.

And I would like to think I am a hero.

But fighting this monster, despite what Yoshito had told me about him, was different then seeing it on the television, or hearing about it on the news.

There was no uncontrolled chaos, despite what it may look like, All For One controlled these flames and the tremors that were shaking the city.

The people that died we simply acceptable casualties. The people who's home had been uprooted were tossed aside without a second glance, because I knew All For One could kill us all without this wasteless devastation, but it would be slightly bothersome.

Something that seemed to be worse to him then the destruction of thousands of innocent lives.

But I froze when he turned on me, not because of the terror that washed over me, I could move despite that, but because All For One didn't feel as a human should, no, he felt like a jagged piece of something whole.

A shard.

But I pushed what little I had left of One For All through myself, and I punched.

I was washed away in a glare of brilliant light, that tore apart dozens of heroes, and some villains that had tried their best at fighting the greater threat, as I was thrown away in several pieces.

Not a bad end, if I may say so myself, although if I were to tell anyone of I stopped that attack alone.

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All For One POV

What was that? A feeling, a slight chill down my spine, made me turn my head towards the torn apart bodies, it was foolish to try to stop me, but I turned my head away.

It was surely nothing.

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Why am I here, inspecting a warehouse, one of many of the less legitimate sources of income I have.

Why?

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The Third POV

The one before me should have been smarter. He threw One For All at me, and told me to do good, and he went and got himself killed by All For One first thing after.

Never even told me his name.

He should have been more careful, and laid low. You can't just hit all of your problems until they go away.

Well, unless you are All For One of course.

So, here I was, about to take down another drug ring, and wondering why I passed One For All down to that child.

It was a feeling, a small part of me that whispered that I had to. So I did.

And then the shipment came, and I descended on the criminals. The villains.

The first one went down like a bag of rocks, and the same with the next two.

The fourth and fifth would be easy too I decided, bust talking to eachother.

The fourth jackass seemed scared of the fifth, the guy in the suit, so I should take him down first.

So, I struck, and the man in the suit seemed to be more amused then anything else, as he grabbed my arm and stopped me in place before I could touch a hair on him.

I jumped back with all the force I could muster, and if he hadn't let go I wouldn't be a single inch away from him.

I stood far away from him.

An enhancment type then. It would get annoying, but it is doable.

"Is that all, child?"

He wasn't amused, and sounded more bored then anything else.

"Very well then, if that is all."

And then I felt a car impact me, ripping me from where I was standing and mauling my body apart.

The last thing I saw was two cold eyes staring down at me.

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The Fourth POV

If I hadn't sensed it, jagged and broken as the feeling was, I would be spread somewhere around those houses in the distance.

Now I would be walking away, if I would walk away, with two legs less then before.

The focus of the villain whose base we were raiding was on me now, and if I still had them, my knees would have buckled down.

It was like nothing I had ever felt, jagged and broken, twisted and bent, so utterly wrong that it was right, because it was not defined by morals and laws that held us.

It did what it wanted to, when it wanted to.

All For One.

It's hand pulled me up, roughly, from the ground, where I had lain.

"So, Hero, why have you come here?" He was like nothing I was ever expecting, and my quirk, danger sense, was pinging off again and again, but I still just smiled.

Because maybe, just maybe, I could pull this off.

"One for all and all for one." It made him freeze, shocked for just a second, as I crushed it in my hand.

It being a canister filled with the sweat of ashborn, whose sweat was incredibly explosive.

A last ditch, so to speak, if we need to bury us and the villain in his base.

I didn't go out with a whimper, but with a bang.

I just hope I didn't do it for nothing.

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All For One POV

No. NO NO NO. IT CAN'T BE TRUE.

But it was. The slight discomfort, the tingle down my spine.

What made me go here.

What made me go there.

I knew it was true.

But I wouldn't allow it to be.

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Daigoro Banjo POV

I clawed and pushed with all I had, but it was for nothing.

All I could do was slow him down, and he would always catch up. It would end with me. But I wouldn't allow it to end with me.

So I didn't let it. I pushed and I clawed, even as the beast hit back harder then I could hope to hit or defend against.

I was fighting a losing battle, but I couldn't leave. I couldn't run.

And then I saw the perfect one. A dark haired little runt, that tried so so hard to save others, even when they was barely hanging on.

They wasn't ideal, but they would do.

So, I gave one great heave, and, for once, All For One was pushed across the city. It would only delay him for minutes, but thats all I needed.

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All For One POV

This was it. The was the moment I make Yoshito's death matter.

It would be glorious.

I will admit he was somewhat annoying, like a bug that just refused to die.

But, soon he will be dead. Soon all this will be over.

It ended with the fifth but another number in a stastic.

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The sixth POV

I would end All For One, no matter what it took.

Even if I had to fight togheter, as in on the same side, as Destro, the madman.

All For One had to be stopped.

The city burning around me mattered less then that. The cries for help meant nothing compared to stopping this monster.

That's what I told myself.

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All For One POV

WILL IT EVER END!?

One after another, like rats that refused to die, that refused to give up!

IT HAD TO END HERE.

Destro didn't matter, his feeble attempts to stop me not bothering me in the slightest. They say this weakling is comparable to me? I doubt it.

I brushed him aside with a fist that was bolstered by hundreds of quirks.

He flew away, bent, but unbroken.

I dropped all of those quirks, and started picking new ones.

One became two became four became eight became sixty four became one hundred twenty eight, and so on.

Gravity flipped off and on in accordance to my will, while the air around us obeyed me, as great fires and earthquakes ravaged the city.

Magma flowed from beneth the cracks forming in the ground when Destro tore in down from the sky and onto the ground, as skyscrapers became little more then projectiles.

The sixth turned even that into rubble, but waves of fire, ice, and earth pushed against them, as their senses failed them and reality warped, they bagan to fall.

Slowly but surely.

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The Sixth POV

All For One was a fool. I knew we have some sort of mental connection, and I know that he thinks that I still have One For All.

I even trained a succesor for it already. Nana Shimura.

That didn't stop the pain as I folded in on myself, my body breaking apart.

I died.

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All For One POV

Destro ran when I broke the sixth.

It had to end here. It just had to.

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Nana Shimura POV

"Thank you, for this wonderful comedy."

And with those words from a monster, I died it.

Atleast Kotaro is fine. Small mercies.

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All For One POV

WHY WONT IT JUST END!

Why do these RATS cling to life so, when all they do is make Yoshito's sacrifice mean nothing! NOTHING!

I am not stupid enough to think Shimura was the last. Not by a longshot.

Somewhere, I knew the name I was looking for, but no matter how I thought about it, I couldnt figure out what it was.

A large man dressed in a strange suit.

My enemy.

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Tenko Shimura POV

I felt so safe yet so scared in the embrace of this large man.

I don't know what to feel anymore.