It's been a month since the big battle. All Might has been tirelessly hunting the remaining forces of All for one even with his limited time. The battle had done a number on him as he could only go into his mucled form for about 22 hour which may seem long but it is decreasing by the day. When he is not in that form he looks skinny, sickly and occasionally spits blood if he stays muscled too long. They have yet to find more villains similar to the one he had captured that day. It was mindless husk due to the host body being forced to hold multiple quirks.
Izuku was out, having dealt with another group of skirmisher on his way to the store to get some snacks. He kinda missed their little skirmishes even if they're boring. All Might had a press conference announcing his nearing retirement which caused an uproar but he calmed them down saying he will still be on the job for the next decade to allow time for more heroes to take his place.
"My time may be drawing near but I trust with my reminder of time more heroes will rise to surpass me and go even further beyond. Plus Ultra!"
The speach had a great impact on hero society. Many heroes who heard this felt a fire in their hearts to do better, to carve their name into the tapestry of history.
Izuku was walking past an alleyway when preemptive warning activated knowing something was going to fly towards his neck. He dodged but a portal appeared behind him as a metal shackle closes around his neck. He reached up to remove it but he passes out, before he can hit the ground a portal opens and he falls into it.
This incident does not go unnoticed as a few passersby began to call for heroes and police for aid. They arrived and began taking witness reports while the scene was surveyed. They find nothing but a dropped bag of snacks. The appearance of the child was sent to heroes to embiggen the search area.
Meanwhile
Inko was at home doing some chores.
'Izuku should be back by now. Did the other kids fight him again?'
She heard a knock on the door. She opened the door to Nezu with a serious face.
"Inko, Izuku has been taken."
Inko in shock goes to sit down on the couch.
"Who?"
"We believe it's was All for One's closest aids as they would've been the only ones to know of his condition."
A river of tears began to flow out of Inko as Nezu tried to comfort her.
"Don't worry All Might's already out searching along with many other heroes. We'll find him soon, safe and sound. "
Underground
The doctor began trying to study the boy's dna but progress is slow as every sample decays too quickly to get anything substantial. He tried to study his skin cells but the results were the same. He was running out of time as he knew that All Might had begun his search and the boy's quirk was adapting by the second to completely invalidate the shackle's hold. In a last ditch effort he tried to pump the boy's blood into his masters pod. The blood saturated the nutritional liquid in the pod making it opaque. After a few seconds the liquid drained from the pod revealing a fully healed but unconscious All for One.
His masters body was taken to an examination table as the doctor marveled at the sight of the heald flrsh but the doctor had forgotten one small detail, the boy's quirk was ravenous. As All for One's body began seizing and and shacking knocking over the table, the top of his head and his right arm began to slowly and painfully rip itself off. Muffle sounds of pain came from his mouth. The tendrils still stuck to his body snapping as it pulled away. The doctor looked in disgust as the final tendril snapped and the chunks of flesh splated on the cold ground. The wound on All for One's head and arm slowly closed and healed over but blood was slowly pooling in his mouth. The doctor quickly ordered the nomu to place him back into the pod.
The doctor turned back to look at the lumps of flesh. It had merged and had grown considerably larger. He watched in fascination as it writhes, morphs, and grows into a perfect copy of Nana Shimura in her hero costume. She looked around in surprise at her hand then at the doctor and seeing Izuku passed out punched the doctor launching him into the wall. As he laid there a black sluge poured out of his mouth as the was teleported away along with the body of All for One. She looked around again and sees many variants of the monster All Might had fought. Nana punched with all the power she had and blew a hole right to the sky, the opening had a few trees surrounding it. In Nana's vision was the icons Izuku had described. Ignoring that she picks up Izuku and flies out of the hole she made to an amber sky it was sunset. She admired the sky she thought she would never see again.
She then saw that law enforment beginning to converge on their location. A shockwave was heard as All Might was floating next to her a suprise look on his face.
"Master? How are you here?"
"It seems there's still much to learn of about ninth's quirk. We need to get to UA to get this shackle off him."
With a nod they both blast off in the direction of UA to the awe of the the people below who recored the whole encounter. This video cause a new wave of speculation of All Might's quirk and drew the ire of a certain bomberboy.
UA
All Might and Nana land on UA grounds where Nezu and Powerloader were standing by. They took him to the nurses office and it took 10 minutes to safely open the shackle. The shackle had many mechanisms to ensure sedation and a laser to which they assume to decapitated the victim. Nezu allowed Powerloader to study the device. As soon as the device was open Izuku woke up and looked around wearily.
"What happened?"
Inko lunged to hug Izuku with incoherent babbling of worries and fears. He consoles her while patting her back. He looks over to see All Might and Nana looking at him in relief.
"Shimura? How are you here? I thought you could only exist in the vestige realm."
"You were captured by a doctor who worked for All for One. He tried to use your blood to try on revive the corpse of All for One. Your quirk is more then we've already know."
All Might and Nezu's eyes widen. They believed that his body was properly disposed of. Now that the doctor had escaped, who knows what could be done with it. Nana touches Izuku's shoulder and her body disassembles into red tendrils with many small green eyes and is reabsorbed into his body. Izuku looks at his arms as he turns them into a writhing mass of red tendrils. He turns back immediately realising that he hadn't been paying attention to the physical aspects of his quirk.
The room was silent having witnessed the transformation. It was grotesque, the shiver inducing sound of melding flest and cracking bones terrified and disgusted them. Meanwhile Izuku was checking on the new pop ups in his vision.
[Quirk Disabled]
[Diagnosing...]
[Quirk running at 5%]
[Quirk function return est 2 hours]
[Intruder connection reestablished]
[Quirk running at 73%]
[Resuming...]
[Intruder disarmed]
[Disconnecting...]
[Complete]
[Malicious Will Deleted]
[Deleting...]
[Complete]
[Quirk Synergy : All For One, One For All, Quirk Sight, Infrared > Quirk Progenitor]
Izuku suddenly was inundated with information of the quirks around him. The flood slowly stops as the information is catalogued and stored away. Izuku opens the quirk tab to check.
Quirks
-Preemptive Warning
-Impact Recoil
-Flight
-Kinetic Booster
-Ultra Strength Enhancer
-Duel Mental Processing
-Fact or Fiction
-Quirk sight
-Regeneration
-All For One
-Velocity Manipulation
-Kinetic Stockpile
-Energy Constructs
-Smoke Elemental
-One For All
-Spearlike Bones
-Springlike Limbs
-Warping
-Air Cannon
-Rivet Stab
-Multiplier
-Infrared
-Life Force
-Radio Waves
-HardFlame Fan
-Impure Beam
-Dark Ball
-Telekinesis
-Ventriloquist
-Sickle
-Dark Cowl
-Sword
-Barbed Limbs
-Super Regeneration
-Mutilation
-Quirk Progenitor
Izuku was slightly disappointed by the amount of quirks. He expected more from the demon lord of the underworld knowing he was around since the dawn of quirks. He then relayed the list to the others in the room. Upon hearing it they knew there was much to do.
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Next time
Chapter 12 : Entrance Exam
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