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All Might pounded the earth, bento pieces scattered on the ground, and tears flowing down his face. The Midoriya-level waterfalls gushing across his face were caused, ironically, by a certain green-haired successor of his.
'I don't need you anymore, All Might.'
These were the words that were rattling around his head, accompanied only by the sheer pain of seeing his successor, his boy, using Nana's Quirk to leave him, his hand too far to reach.
Why could he never reach the people he cared about?
No.
No More! From now on he would grasp that hand, he would reach those he loved, even if they soared away!
His mind made up, he rose and began walking toward the nearest comic book store, leaving the remains of his bento on the ground. As he walked, he reached into his pocket and withdrew his phone: he would need back-up.
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Deku was prowling around the city, searching for villains when he spotted the fireball that was shooting up through the sky.
'..... That was suspicious,' he internally mused, before leaping over to the park it had came from.
Upon land he quickly glanced around the deserted park, looking for the source of the flame. What he found instead was much more important than finding All for One and saving Tomura.
He saw a signed All Might comic, collector's edition, American style costume and many more features his unstable, fanboy mind recognized. He saw the obvious snare trap in front of the treasure, though.
Looking around he saw the obvious culprit, a bush with purple horns, red wings, pointy ninja hair, pointy branches and blond hair tufts sticking out the front. Also, it was a little on fire.
'Really', he thought, 'it was honestly insulting that they thought he would fall for such an obvious trap'.
Step-Woosh!
As Deku struggled to understand the cause of his new orientation, the Bush spoke.
"I can't believe that worked."
Endeavour turned to look at Edgeshot before speaking. "This was just the easy part, now we make sure he can't escape."
Behind him, All Might chuckled. "I've already taken care of that, Enji."
Deku took in his position, upside down, hanging from a rope tied around his ankle, and comic gently clutched in his hand.
'I-I moved without thinking?'
Looking down, or really, up, he considered the simple, yellow rope trapping him. An easy fix. Bringing his free hand to bear, he began flicking Air Blasts at the rope. All of them missed the stupid rope, hitting the tree instead.
As leaves and branches began falling, he switched to trying to hit the vile, villainous rope with Black Whip instead. And still he missed, and struck the tree! Honestly, it was like his body wouldn't allow him to destroy it.
Suddenly, he noticed something about the rope. It was autographed by All Might! His eyes trailing higher, he started seeing other names on the rope, each a top 10 hero. Fine, if he couldn't destroy the rope he'd scale another way! Looking at the tree he was that the rope was loosely attached to a branch he had broken.
A grin appeared under his mask as he activated Smokescreen.
Blasting smoke from his back, he began swinging lightly, but slowly picking up speed until he was spinning like a demented pendulum.
Mountain Lady would like to say she was pretty good at understanding kids, but after watching that Midoriya kid turn himself into a wild, smoking, wrecking ball, she no longer had that delusion. And that was before Small Might ran out of the bush to hug the Havoc Bunny of Death.
'Maybe One for All made it's users have no care for when they got hurt? Yeah that checked out.'
Deku felt an impact on his back from where a small form was hugging him, before heading his mentor's voice
" It's okay to slow down, it's okay to stop, just please trust me. " All Might pleaded.
No, he couldn't. He couldn't stop! But immediately he began feeling the aftereffects of his oh, so long search for Shigaraki. As sleep began overtaking him, he asked, " All Might, I can keep the rope, right? "
As he tried to contain his laughter, All Might responded " Of course, my boy, or course. "