It's Showtime!

"You're here after all, aren't you?" AFO said, turning to All Might, summoning the hostages by his side along with the league.

"I'll have you give everything back, All For One!" All Might shouted, landing a punch on AFO, as shockwaves blew out the nearby structures, cracking the buildings as the already evacuating residents got thrown off their feet.

"This warehouse is a little more than 5 kilometers from the bar. It was easily thirty seconds after I sent the Nomus there before you arrived here. You've gotten weaker, All Might. So tell me then, how exactly are you going to accomplish that? Are you going to kill me again?" AFO mocked.

"What about you? What's with that industrial mask you've got on? Aren't you overexerting yourself?" All Might snapped back, getting ready to launch himself at AFO.

"I won't make the same mistake I did six years ago. I'll take young Shoto back. And this time, I'll make sure to throw you in prison for good!"

"That's so much to do though! It'll be tough for the both of us!" AFO said, and raised a hand, which proceeded to swell up, arcs of red and black lightning crackling along its length.

Just as All Might shot forward, a storm erupted from AFO's hand, launching him back through a whole sandlots worth of skyscrapers, even shattering two of them.

In the distance, I could sense a news helicopter making it's way over to the scene.

"Air Cannon and Springlike Limbs. Plus Strength Enhancer times three and Kinetic Booster times four. That's a fun combination. Maybe I'll try adding in a couple more enhancer types." AFO commented nonchalantly, as Deku returned by my side.

"Deku! My mother first. I'll hold him. Go 100%." I ordered.

Deku nodded, and prepared OFA 100%, even as his muscles began to bruise visibly.

I projected my eyes onto the scene and nodded back at Deku.

With a fart like poof, Deku vanished up the building, leaving a crater on the ground.

Instantly, I immobilized the entire league, and Deku apeared beside the hostages, leaving a blazing meteoric

trail on the shattered concrete, as he came to a halt in front of my mother.

Picking her up, in a princess carry he made to leave and Shoto kicked Mineta over.

"Take him too!" He cried out.

Deku nodded, grabbing Mineta's hair, sticking him to his body, before he jumped away and back towards me.

"Take them to the hospital. I'll bring Shoto over." I added.

Before he left, Deku turned to the direction All Might had just been thrown to and gulped.

"Haru-chan, don't fight him head on. I ..."

"I know. Now go." I replied, running low, cover to cover, nearing AFO.

The black goo returned as AFO teleported everyone out of my bindings.

Even as All Might burst through the rubble across the city, AFO used his quirk, forcefully activating Kurogiri's Warpgate, attempting to teleport the league and Shoto away.

Not so fast!

I immobilized Shoto on the ground.

"Tch!" Shigaraki grunted.

"Leave. I'll bring him back." AFO said, pushing Shigaraki into the portal.

"You have to come too, sensei!" Shigaraki insisted, grabbing onto the hems of AFO's coat.

"No. Leave now. And remember Tomura. Think constantly. You still have much room to grow."

"I won't let you get away!" All Might shouted, landed a punch on the distracted AFO, sending him flying across the field, as Shigaraki jumped into the portal in a panic.

"You can't fight to your fullest while a student of yours is here can you now?" AFO taunted, rivets and bone spikes growing out of his body, as he clashed with All Might.

Punch after punch, they matched might and wits, the shockwaves of their battle ringing out across the town, shaking the very earth I stood on, bringing the building around them crumbling down.

A true clash of titans.

And yet, with each bout, All Might seemed to wane in both strength and physique, the wear on his body becoming ever visible.

"You never recovered from your injury, did you?" AFO asked.

"No wonder you're getting weaker. That and the fact that you gave away your gift to an unworthy successor, than wiry little boy."

"He is not unworthy!" All Might screamed, "He is a better man than you'll ever be!"

"Oh is he? And what about you? The great symbol of peace! You felled my comrades in great numbers, single handedly bringing an end to my rule.

But there's still one person you couldn't save!"

AFO replied.

"Do you know who Tomura is? Who he really is?"

"He is a criminal. One that you raised and lead down the wrong path!" All Might cried, uppercutting the villain.

"Oh! You didn't notice? The similarity, the relation? Ahahahahaha!" AFO laughed in his deep, booming voice.

"What relation?" All Might asked with mounting concern and horror.

"Who is that man? What is his real identity?!" He demanded.

"Tomura Shigaraki. That's the name I gave him when I found him, all alone, bloody, bruised, broken.

A pitiful child abandoned by all, no heroes to save him.

Do you know what his real name is, All Might? It's Tenko. Shimura Tenko.

The grandson of your mentor, Shimura Nana!" AFO revealed loudly, as the news crew focused in on him.

"No! You...you're lying! That cannot be!" All Might cried, faltering, falling to his knees, blood leaking from the corner of his mouth.

"Have you known me to lie?" AFO replied and in one line, nearly shattered All Might's will , filling him with regret and guilt, as he gloated.

The muscles began to fade away into steam, as his time in his muscled form was coming to and end.

Then, beyobd all expectations, he stood back up.

"Even so, even if I failed to save him, that doesn't mean I'll let you harm another innocent soul! In fact, I'll even save Tomura himself, even if it's already too late. Because I ..." All Might buffed back up, planting his foot firmly forward.

"AM ..." All Might's arm regained it's firmed, as he set his dislocated bone in place without so much as a flinch.

"A...." All Might launched himself at AFO with a massive full powered punch.

"..HERO!"

Their punches met as AFO activated Impact Recoil, crushing All Might's entire arm, being himself literally disarmed too, as his bone spikes and rivets shattered into fine dust, and his arm ripped off, flying away.

Taking this chance, I telekinetically grabbed the arm, wiping away AFO's will from it, before tucking it away in an abandoned building 4 kilometers away.

To everyone's surprise though, AFO regrew his entire arm, clearly having stolen the USJ Nomu's regeneration somehow.

He had deep pockets and even deeper connections it seems.

In this exchange, All Might came off the loser overall, despite his earlier bravado.

As he knelt on one foot, his arm 1twisted two ways off the hook, and nearly purple from bruising, AFO stood back up, exhausted and concussed, spitting out blood.

"I only came here to save Tomura, but you insisted on fighting..." he said,

"so let me see you out, symbol of peace!"

He raised his hand towards the news chopper, pulling it into position and with another, waved away the dust cloud covering All Might's decrepit figure.

In a booming voice, he shouted.

"Let the world see! This is how your symbol of peace dies! On his knees!"

He grabbed All Might by his hair and raised his hand in a chopping motion.

The reporter gasped, as did the viewers all across the city and likely the country.

I could hear their prayers and chants, telling All Might to get back up and defeat the villain like always, unfortunately to no avail.

AFO's hand fell like an executioner's blade, as the world sermed to come to a standstill.

A golden band of rings emerged around his hand, holding him in place, inches from All Might's neck.

"Not so fast villain! You forgot one crucial detail!

Where one hero falls, ten shall rise in his place!

And if our symbol of peace has fallen, then I'll just have to pick up his slack and become the next symbol of peace!" I announced, appearing between him and All Might, picking him up in my arms and moving him away from the villain.

Finally, after waiting for so long.

It's Showtime, Baby!