The Last One

Toshinori Yagi POV

The phone call had turned my blood into ice, and here I was, in a mad dash towards my goal. Tartarus.

All For One was attacking Tartarus, and Tartarus was falling. I had warned the hero commission that this would happen, and what did they say?

They said that the heroes needed a win after Jaku, and attacking All For One? If it was only him it would be a risk not worth taking, but with the Shadow Queen serving him? Almost impossible. As impossible as breaking in or out of Tartarus.

It doesn't matter that the heroes weren't the ones too kill thousands, no, the onlookers didn't care, and to them it was the heroes fault that thousands died.

It made me a bit more resentful then it should have, because it made me unable to hunt down All For One with the resources of the government on my side.

Last time I knew that I had no allies in the government, and that they would fall over each other to give me to All For One if they could.

They never could.

But their heel face turn after All For One "died" shocked me back then, and so many of them said they were in fear of their lives.

I realize now that it was a lie. These politicians won't help me fight All For One, but, luckily, they won't help him either.

Because if they help me, All For One will take away all he has given to them, and if they help All For One?

God have mercy on their souls.

The rage made me push One For All harder.

I remember the last time I was in Tartarus.

Five years ago, when the villains muscular and one with knifes for teeth (moonshark I think he was called) had gone on a rampage, killing heroes and civilians left and right.

They wanted to take their little piece of the world, and they were not afraid of murder.

So many dead.

Ending Moonshark's life, however much of an accident that was, didn't make me feel bad.

It just felt as if I did justice to the world.

Especially now, when All For One will have one less monster on his side.

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Kurogiri POV

Escaping Tartarus was easier than I expected and harder than I hoped.

Getting allies by myself? It would be easy, or at least rather simple.

Getting allies while allied with Muscular, who is famed for killing those he works with? Not so simple.

But the fact was that if I abandoned Muscular, there was no guarantee I would be able to recruit, or work together with, another person with the pure power to rip Tartarus guards to shreds with ease.

So I simply had to run with what I had until Sensei showed himself, or rather, until I got to where Sensei is waiting.

Because he is here now, and now the world will start to change again.

Because he is Sensei.

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Togata Mirio POV

I was not meant to be here, I knew. But after Jaku, a few weeks ago, the hero commission suddenly needed more and more new recruits, and they needed them fast, because of the casualties.

Because All Might hadn't won. He hadn't lost, mind you, but he hadn't won.

The distinction didn't seem to matter to the eyes of the public, and all of a sudden the unbeatable All Might didn't seem so unbeatable.

Of course, those villains lost all confidence the moment the man in question actually showed up, but until they they huffed and puffed and ruined lives.

Because they thought that they could win against All Might.

It was ridiculous, and would've made me laugh if it wasn't because of the fact that lives were being lost, and villains were gaining in power.

It almost made me laugh because I had felt the power of One For All course through me, and while my strength was not as great as All Might's it was still large.

Sir theorized that All Might is so much stronger than his teacher, and me, not despite his lack of a quirk, but due to his lack of a quirk.

One For All didn't split it's power strengthening both his quirk and strength, but only his strength, which put him in a league above my own.

A league beyond anything I could reach my self.

But despite that, I still had that power in me. I could feel it course through my veins, and the mere thought of a villain being able to beat that sent shivers down my spine and made laughter bubble up in my chest.

It was both terrifying and laughable.

I arrived to Tartarus before All Might, me bursting as a missile from the main land, propelled by both One For All and permeation, and I was waiting for All Might to drop down from the sky like a bomb.

For a second while in the air, flying forth, my surrounding blurred even with my quirk, but then I was there, face to face with a monster.

Muscular. A mad murderer that tried to fight All Might, and failed miserably, mind you, but he still tried.

We lunged at each other at once, almost like an unspoken command, an unheard starting shot, and we slammed into each other.

There was no grace, no elegance, just One For All and Muscular.

At least until he started shredding, ripping and being torn apart faster than he could fix himself.

Until he broke, and I stood tall, over a defeated murder, triumph clear on my mind.

Triumph that scattered like a candle would blow out in these heavy winds, with the water pelting down on us all. Triumph that faded from me with nothing but a childish giggle, and a deep chuckle, both leaking malevolence and mocking distaste.

All For One, and the Shadow Queen.

"Well then, my dear," said All For One in a pleasant baritone voice, as if he was discussing the weather, "would you like the ninth or the eight? I am somewhat partial to the eight, but if you truly want him..."

"No no," said the monster wearing the skin of a child, a monster that had been that child once, twisted by the power of All For One until nothing was left but hatred, "you can have him. I will satisfy myself with the ninth."

She turned towards me and smiled, and I knew that if I walked away alive, she wouldn't.

Then she stopped, and turned back to face All For One. "Would you like to take One For All back, or should we simply let it fade from this stage?"

All For One smiled at that, before he began to speak. "Thank you for the consideration, but I think it's time to leave this stage, so to speak, has come."

The Shadow Queen turned to me at the same time as All Might dropped down next to me, like a particularly angry bomb.

And the next second she was on me like a shadow, and All Might was on All For One like the man in question's cloak of malevolence.