The Storm

Takeyama Yu POV (Mt. Lady)

I tried. I really did, but this thing, Gigantomachia, wasn't human.

It wasn't something you could simply stop, no, it was more a force of nature that bent it's knees to a larger monster.

I haven't seen hide nor hair of this Shadow Queen or All For One, and I am happy for that if this is what their pet monster is like.

It was like I was back in the orphanage again, before my quirk set it.

Back when I couldn't do anything.

But that's not me anymore, no, I am a hero now. So I had to, even if there was no one watching, because that's what a hero does.

Painfully I started pushing myself up again, and what I saw was something that would stick with me for as long as I lived.

Gigantomachia was like a mountain that moved forward with no resistance, as if his opponents weren't even there.

He had left a trail of death and destruction, hundreds of heroes, and civilians, laying dead in their attempt to stop him.

Houses had been shattered into rocks and debris, roads had been overturned and cars had been used as prjectiles, by both sides, and there seemed to be no end to the death.

Why were the rocks burning? Better question, how were the rocks burning?

I was a hero, but I knew when I shouldn't be fighting a villain that I couldn't even scratch, much less distract.

Search and rescue, on the other hand... that I could do.

Lifting houses that were crushing children was the only thing I could do now, while the monsters trail of chaos and death grew longer.

And it worked, for a while. Until I felt like I had been hit by a thousand lightning strikes (I could see electricity sparking off me) and I fell to the ground.

Who? And why would you do this at this point in time?

And no matter how hard I tried to find the person that did that, I found nothing. My eyesight growing blurrier and blurrier and with the dark encroaching faster and faster, I finally let my transformation cease.

I saw a child in the shadow of a falling building, and I could do nothing.

How pathetic. I couldn't even save this single child.

Some hero I am.

I could do nothing as the building fell, and began to float?

The child began growing less and less blurry with each step they took towards me and soon I recognized who it was.

The Shadow Queen.

The child's hand grew closer and closer to my face, and then as it touched me I felt something important give. I lost something that day, and she smiled.

"W-why?" I choked out, wondering how she could sacrifice this many lives. Wondering how she was justifying this destruction.

She seemed to tilt her head, pondering the question, before she answered in the most hideous voice I had ever heard.

"For Sensei."

So many voices spoke at once, each and every one echoing on one another, creating a horrid concert of pain and falsehoods.

My voice was in there somewhere, I knew, and it disgusted me that it was used by this thing. That it was used by this thing to spread it's madness.

A shadow grew from her, a giant one. Me.

And she looked at me with a smile as she used my quirk (MINE!) to tear this city down.

"Thank you." She spoke, and it was nothing at all like last time the monster spoke.

Last time each tone, each and every voice spoke with such worship, as if speaking of their god, their everything. As if that word "Sensei" was all that mattered to them.

Now though? When she was thanking me?

Each and everyone of them spoke in a different tone, reverberating of each other, and unlike of the concert of pain and falsehoods the last words were, this was an orchestra of chaos and death. I felt the anger, happiness, disgust, anger and so much more in those voices.

I hated it

I reached my arm out towards the giant of darkness that was killing my comrades, in some vain hope that I could stop it.

Could make it see sense.

I couldn't.

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Takami Keigo POV

Chaos was all that filled the air around me.

Chaos was what clung to each and every one of us as the monster tore a city apart.

There was no differance between villain and hero here, only us and the monsters.

Few villains are willing to kill children, much less a wholesale slaughter like this.

My feathers could do little to it, and the same could be said about many of our quirks.

For those that that wasn't the case, well, they could do nothing to it.

And at the front of my mind was only one question, even as Endevour tried and failed to burn the monster once more. Where was All Might?

I flew up, out of the range of this monster, as I started searching.

My keen eyes searched, and searched.

Then I saw them, and yes, them, moving towards the beginning of the trail of destruction and chaos left by Gigantomachia.

Why are they going there, I asked myself, as I pushed as hard as I could.

Towards the beginning of the trail of destruction, where I arrived even faster then All Might. Somehow. I suppose I really was that much closer.

Hospital wing two.

And there, on top of the body of Mt. Lady sat a young lady, no a girl, drinking tea?

She looked at me with with barely restrained amusment, and seconds later All Might was there, and swinging with everything he had towards the child.

The girl smiled at that, and dropped her teacup, and then All Might was the one flying backwards, and when the teacup impacted on the ground and broke (I could hear the sound even though I couldn't) so did All Might on house after house.

Except All Might was back in less then a second, and then he was gone again, as the earth rose up to meet him in an enormous wave that buried blocks.

And then the concrete around her rose to crush her, before it was ripped out, both to defend against my hail of feathers and to attack someone.

Until it froze it midair, something that seemed to annoy Midoriya, the Shadow queen.

The shadow that was responisible for the concrete and the earth vanished, replaced by a larger one, that sent a storm of lightning away from her.

And whoever was responisble for the spikes of concrete trying to impale Midoriya was most likely hit, as shown when she pulled a smoking body towards her.

It died, impaled on spikes of it's on making.

And while this had been happening, All Might had broken free, ripping himself from the mud that had been holding him in place with ease now that there was no one controlling it.

And me?

Well, I rushed away.

What could I have done? Fed the monster?

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Toshinori Yagi POV

Young Hawks made the right decision.

If you can't beat the quirk thief, you run.

That's the mistake people made against All For One, they fed him until he was an uncontrollable monster of anger and arrogance.

A voice that's almost as horrid as All For One's greeted me from the child.

"So, Bird has left, hm?"

So many voices at once, and each of them wanted a different thing. Each of them wanted to run.

"It's a pity that Growth Control's time on the stage has been cut short, but it is what it is."

This... this wasn't the kind girl Inko had spoken off. This wasn't a child that was trying to become a hero, and being misled by All For One.

Maybe she had been once, but not anymore.

She is an evil on par with All For One himself, that I could feel, a thruth ethched into my very soul, and it felt as if One For All was agreeing with me.

"Young Midoriya, surrender and you will be spared."

She tilted her head and her lips quirked up, the perfect picture of a confused child.

Well, it would have been, if not for the burning city around us.

And when she spoke it wasn't in her confusion echo of thousands of emotions, no, it was with cold anger. The same cold anger I always saw in All For One, as he tore humans apart with his hands and a smile on his face.

The echoes were still there, and many, but now they were united.

They felt one thing, cold and dead anger.

"Call me Shigaraki."

It felt right, fitting even, for this monster.

Midoriya was the young girl that tried to help everyone, and Shigaraki is the monster that only helps one person.

I am sorry Midoriya, I think that once you may have been fitting to bear the torch of One For All. I am so, so sorry for failing you.

"Now then, One For All, let's put on a good show, eh?"

And the discord in her voice was back, the chaos was there in every word, every syllable, except when she said One For All.

Then the cold and dead hatred resurfaced again.

"This ends now, Shigaraki, and so does your Sensei."

The smile vanished from her face and it set itself into a mirror of rage and anger, eyes burning with liquid fire, and her voice reflected that, being as warm as the core of the sun with anger and hate.

"You will not take a step further. You will die before touching a single hair on his head."

And so we started.

The black goat tried died stopping her from evaporating me and four blocks.

The hungry Zebra tried to take a bite out of her and payed for that with her life, spending her last time gasping in pain and for help.

I could not find a single moment to help, not a single moment to spare.

I wonder if I would have helped if it was Endeavour.

She just refused to stand down.

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Shigaraki Kyoko POV

He just refused to die.

No matter what I did, no matter how many shadows I threw at him, no matter how many estoric the quirk I was using was, IT JUST DIDN'T WORK.

When liquid fire, hot enough to evaporate stone spilled from my shadows and he simply dashed away, and when push on him with enough force to slightly influence the position of the earth and cause an earthquake?

He stood back up, looking unscathed.

And while I may not be winning, neither was he.

Until the monster of shadows and a grin of madness appeared in my view.

"80% LIBERATION!"

Stress, a nusiance at most times. But now? Here, with his forces being slaughtered, and his greatest enemy about to bring himself back into the game, with a new powerful enforcer?

Here and now he was a bit more then that, as he crushed his way towards me, and despite pushing overclock to it's limits, it wasn't enough.

I felt the pain consume me, as I gave a slight push and a pull, and the power of hundreds of enhancment types faced him, allowing me to get to safety.

How annoying, and as One For All smashed into me, sending me spiraling towards, annoyance turned to panic.

I might lose here, and if I lost?

Sensei would be found too early, and I can't let that happen.

I refuse.

Broken bones and shattered organs mended themselves as I pushed the damage into my shadows, twitching in annoyance at this development.

Stress had to die, and if he joined my forces? Well, that would help me greatly.

Or perhaps Sensei would like to have him.

No matter, that's thoughts for later.

For now? I had to win.