Chapter Text
All's well that ends well For One
Distorted/Loud
Thoughts
Recollection
[OfA Speak]
-Then-
"Oh fuck off!" The weird creature said as my eyes began to make out shapes. Last thing I remember was feeling a lot of pain I'm my head as something hit it… Fuck I got kidnapped.
"No, you didn't." The being said without turning around, "No you fucking hack, stop adding drama for the sake of it! I literally gave you the tools to not fuck up!" Whatever was bothering the creature was none of my problem so instead I asked,
"Excuse me, but did you read my mind?" I ask, though I can barely hear my own voice.
"No. I don't read minds, I listen to them and your's is loud. Anyways, here's the deal, you died." The creature said without turning around, though I could feel its gaze on me. I turned my head and the walls sprouted eyes. "Yeah, don't try to make sense of this place, my office isn't something that mortals are supposed to behold for long."
Office? This place looked like a college student's bedroom! There was trash on the floor, the ceiling was several shades of dust, moss, and… I felt something grab my guts and yank. I felt like something was torn from me. What was my name again?
"Dumbass, I am a god. The fact that you can't see the glory of my office is not my fault," the creature turned. Its face was a whirlpool of stars, that blinked in and out of existence, "Listen up, you died. You weren't meant to die there, so it falls to me to transfer you, all you gotta do is a small thing for me. I need you to help a kid, I want to see a different story."
"And what do I get in return?" I asked and felt an unnatural pressure wash over me.
"You think you'll get something? You think you have a choice? Dumb mortal, if I say jump you jump. If I say sit, you sit. So when I say go and change things, you will do so. Or I'll just drag someone else to do it, maybe torture them in front of you. You have some family that's still alive, no?" The monster said callously, I tried to charge at him, I knew I had moved and yet the distance hadn't changed.
"Yes, that's it! Good mortal. Fight, scream and die for my entertainment." It laughed in a cacophony of sound and I was forced to kneel as its seven fingered hand grabbed my throat. I hadn't seen him move, the stars swirled on its face as I sank beneath the floor. I glared at it and it smiled, a mouth that split in half with sickly green blood dripping into my eyes. The agony was worse than slamming my face into the sidewalk.
"Mortal, change the world and I will grant you boons when we next meet." The monster said at the last possible second.
-Now-
"Fuck." I muttered, my voice wasn't my own, my head was killing me and I was pretty sure I was in danger. Instinctively I rolled to the side as a very angry Nana Shimura stared at me. Okay staring might've been the wrong word to use, it was more like trying to flay me alive with her gaze. She charged at me again, this time I didn't dodge in time and she tackled me into the ground. Her fists felt like jackhammers on my face, constantly and painfully trying to break my skull. Still… not a fan of getting my ass beaten within a minute, so I smash my forehead against her knuckles. I hear a crack and she screams in pain.
Taking advantage of the breather I push her off and begin to run. The empty white void gives me no cover, no chance to rest and I hear more footsteps. I see a slim figure in the distance, I can recognize him, after all not that many white haired lanky guys inside a void.
"Brother." Yoichi Shigaraki says with a sad tone. I suppose that I'm supposed to be surprised or even stunned, yet I keep moving. He isn't my brother or even my main concern.
"Nope, not him." I reply, cocking my fist back and swinging hard on the second user of OfA. To the man's credit he does block, however information flows into my mind, I could steal his quirk here. But I also know that it won't do any good, so instead I tackle him to the ground and use him as a meat shield as the third user tries to smack me.
"What do you mean, brother?" Yoichi asks bewildered as a wave of anxiety hits everyone inside the quirk. Izuku must be taking the written test…
"Exactly what I said. I ain't All for One, unlike him I have no intention of being a demon king or whatever his shitty chuuni mind came up with." I reply as the second breaks my hold and drives his elbow into my rib cage. Fuck that hurts, coughing away the pain I get kicked in the stomach by Banjo who helps the second get back up.
"Quit lying brother." Yoichi attempted to order as yet another vestige attacked me, fuck En hits like a semi truck. Still I refuse to surrender or even stop, a mad smile forms in my face as I headbutt En, the Third takes another chance to hit me, but I block his kick with my elbow. Driving my fist into the man's face, I feel the Second's boot hit me in the back of the head and I'm knocked down again. Fighting several people without weapons is a pain.
"I'm not lying Yoichi." I state with blood dripping out of my mouth, "I'm not your brother, I'm just a guy that took over the remnants of his quirk inside One for All."
"That's impossible!" Several of them exclaimed. To which I replied with,
"Yeah, it is. Which is why the bastard made sure to do it just to show off. Anyways could all of you stop trying to beat the shit out of me for one minute so we can decide what to do?"
"And why should we?" The third asked, e seems to have gotten some of his anger out so at least he was willing to listen
"Because I'm not All for One. And because since this realm is literally our consciousness inside a damn quirk, nothing we do is permanent. Besides, I also want to kill All for One." I point out, and just to prove my point I forcefully heal all the damage to my very expensive suit. But not my face, I have a feeling that they'll take turns bashing it in if I bothered.
"Too late for that." Banjo snorted while glaring daggers at me.
"Nope, the bastard is still alive. And in a few months we'll see his opening hand." I replied with as much honesty as I could inflict upon my tone.
"The Eighth punched his skull in." The third mentioned as if that was enough to kill the bastard.
"And? He should've torn him in half. Look," I began saying as another wave of anxiety washed over us all. Bits and pieces of what had been happening outside flew into my mind. Fuck! "You all felt that right? The entrance exam is starting and the boy doesn't understand how to use One for All. He'll break his limbs if we don't do something."
"You're lying." Nana accused me and I sighed. The more time I waste here the less time Izuku has to learn and get a small advantage.
"Listen, I am not lying. If I was All for One I would've tried to take your quirks while you fought me. I would use what I know of each and every single one of you to make you lose control. And I certainly wouldn't be calling Yoichi anything but brother!" I snarled out, I could feel something below the surface of my skin, more than All for One's original quirk. Just itching to get out, but I push it down, I can't afford to fuck up this early.
Yagi's vestige stares at me for a second, I can feel something akin to a question emanating from him.
"Yeah, no. If this was a bit, then I would've already cast away the mask and attacked. Besides, Yagi, if I was All for One I wouldn't do anything but insult you." I respectfully pointed out. They looked at each other and started speaking amongst themselves. Hushed whispers, and glares were sent my way, I ignored them and decided to check my quirk. The spiritual body fortunately retains some instinctual knowledge and while I don't have all the quirks that AFO had while fighting All Might, I did have the ones he had when he first transferred OfA. Including forced quirk activation which should prove useful. Could I lend it to Izuku?
"And what do you want us to do?" En asked snapping me out of my musings, I had the beginning of an idea, but I would need them all to cooperate.
"We need to talk to Izuku. Second, I need you to use your quirk, increase his mental speed so we can talk and give him a heads up." I requested and they looked at Yoichi. The first user stared at me as if judging my soul and nodded. They didn't trust me, not yet but they were willing to listen.
Izuku Midoriya felt something weird the second he took a step forward, his body seemed to move slowly, too slowly and everything around him stopped.
[Hey, can you hear me? Izuku!] A man's voice echoed inside his head.
" Wha-what's happening, are you a villain? "
[No, I'm uh… Call me Atlas. Right now, I'm inside One for All, we've reached singularity so we can talk to you. All Might failed to properly explain things and the second can't keep this up for more than a few minutes without you suffering secondary effects so listen up. You need to spread the energy across your body, One for All will respond accordingly. Think of it like microwaving a hot pocket or a burger, you want that heat spread all around including on the inside of the meat. I'll try to help you by throttling the amount but I'm not sure I can do it in any significant way.] Atlas said quickly as Izuku noticed that everyone was beginning to move again. Following his instincts he began to fish for the quirk, Izuku almost cursed as he felt an ungodly amount of power hit him. For a brief moment he saw nine figures, the one in the suit was on fire blocking the waves of energy.
"Dammit! You shitty quirk, don't kill your fucking host!" He screamed as the other figures moved to his side. Black lighting danced around all of them and spread towards Izuku. He screamed in pain for a moment, then he was back in the entrance exam. Small bits of green lightning danced along his body, as he found himself face to face with a robot.
[Don't hesitate, aim for the neck.] A woman's voice echoed in his mind, he nodded and charged, he felt strong and he punched the robot's chest. He expected pain, or something stronger than tissue paper, yet his entire body went through it with no trouble. He could've sworn that for a moment he flew due to how far he flung himself.
[Get up, keep moving. You need more points!] A gruffer man said inside his mind, he felt a pull on his palm and saw a single strand of black energy rise and fall as green lightning overtook it. Izuku clenched his fist and decided to follow the voices.
Every inch of me felt like it had been run over by several stampedes. How the fuck had Izuku dealt with it? I'm barely a ghost and this pain is enough to make me wish for death again. But fuck meeting that guy again, I intend to make sure Izuku lives a long life.
"I'm alive." I manage to say while groaning.
"Unfortunately." The second user says, though hsi glare has lessened. I suppose getting hit by that wave of power was worth it in this instance. However,
"Without me singularity would've taken months, so shut it second." I snarked back slowly standing up, "Right if everything goes well Izuku should be meeting the zero pointer soon."
"Wait, isn't that a giant robot?" Nana asks, her eyes glazing slightly as the memories from Izuku play on her mind.
"Yup, Second, Banjo, I'm going to need your help. Izuku shouldn't have to break every limb for this."
"You do know Blackwhip isn't the easiest to direct right?"
"I know, but I have a plan." I state with confidence, even if it's 70% bullshit.
Izuku stares at the incoming giant, and he begins to turn away when he hears a scream. The brown haired girl was trapped under the rubble. He dips again into the power and dashes towards her, his body aching with the strain. He grabs the slab of concrete and lifts it, but the girl is still stuck beneath more rubble. Another pull happens and Atlas's voice echoes in his mind.
[Right on time. Izuku I need you to listen well, One for All has around 8 quirks inside it. We are using one of them to talk, but we don't have much time. Banjo and I are going to help you use Blackwhip. It's an energy emitter that can be used like rope or webbing to grab things, or a spear to attack.]
" That sounds useful, how do I use it? "
[Izuku, you need to use your emotions. Preferably anger to fuel it, so I need you to focus on my voice and feel this situation: Before you stands a small child, say around 5 or 6 years old. She's heavily scarred and scared, a villain has been hurting her for months if not years. This villain can break things with a touch.] Atlas said as Izuku felt anger, not only his own but from One for All. It was like watching a storm from a nearby shore, you saw the waves rise and crash, lightning danced across the sky and hit the sea. The earth shakes as the nearby trees are ripped by the winds. Images of a little girl in a hospital gown began to flood his mind, he could see she needed help.
[If you approach him, you will die. But you need to save her. Feel that rage within you Izuku, the anger at your helplessness, the fury over her pain.] Izuku felt another pull a black tendril grabbed several pieces of rubble and tossed them towards the incoming robot, the machine didn't even flinch as concrete broke against its armor. The girl beneath him was safe, but Izuku was still feeling the anger. Turning towards the zero pointer Izuku planted his feet on the ground, cocked back his right arm, formed a fist as All Might's advice came to mind.
"Clench your buttcheeks and yell with all your heart…"
"SMASH!!!!!!" Izuku yelled as a mass of tentacles shot out of his arm. He heard several bones break. The pain was almost blinding, but someone was keeping him awake and focused. He saw a giant of a man muscular and bald with black tendrils on his side, and next to him a man with a suit, his face was bruised and yet he smiled even as more black tendrils flew out of his outstretched arm.
The sound was like hearing lightning split a boulder, loud, wrenching and scary. Izuku could feel every bit of the robot as the tendrils tore it apart from the inside. He was beginning to lose control as the man in the suit said,
[Izuku! A hero doesn't give up! They grin and do the impossible, so focus and pull back Blackwhip.]
" How? " Izuku almost screamed in his mind.
[With your will. Izuku, One for All is your quirk first and foremost. Me and the others can guide you and even give you some help, but it all rides on your will. Now if you want my advice on how to finish the Zero Pointer? Crush it, that way there's no debris.] Atlas advised and Izuku grit his teeth, focusing on the tendrils he forced the tendrils to wrap outside the robot and imagining that they were a hand, he closed it. The tendrils mimicked the motion and a perfectly round sphere of metal with various holes was dropped in the middle of the street as the tendrils faded away. Izuku looked at his arm, everything below the elbow was purple and red lines marked his skin. He could feel the blackwhip beneath the muscles knitting together his bones and mimicking the torn ligaments so he could at least move it somewhat.
But it hurt a lot, and as he extended his other arm towards the girl, Present Mic yelled: "AND THAT IS TIME!!!!!"
The seat I was given was surprisingly elaborate, cut from something akin to marble, grooved into the seat itself were lines, it almost looked like the root of a tree, and directly across from Yoichi. The rest of the One for All users had stopped glaring at me after I had more or less fainted from the surge of power. I hadn't expected the backlash but Yoichi theorized that due to us hitting singularity we could now be affected by OfA's stockpile, which meant that if Izuku ever used All for One, we might rip more than just quirks.
But that was a problem for tomorrow, today I needed to inform and warn them.
"Right, the short story is what I've told you. I'm someone who got shoved into AfO's vestige within OfA's stockpile. I happen to know a bit of the future due to multiverse bullshit." I summed up my situation without bringing up that bastard. I could feel him chuckling as if he was listening in on my thoughts all the time.
"Assuming that you're telling the truth, what do we do?" Banjo asked, I could tell he was holding back a lot of vitriol by how tense he sounded. Maybe I should wear a fake mustache or something to make them relax… Wait, focus on the now.
"In general terms? Aid Izuku. We teach him the ins and outs of our quirks. And yes I do retain the damn quirks the bastard had when he transferred OfA originally. So far I have forced quirk activation, a set of minor resistances to heat and cold, some degree of poison immunity and All for One itself." I listed off as many as I could, the truth was that the echoes within All for One had partially faded, leaving me with less than what he had, but One for All was now powering them, so they were significantly stronger than before.
"You want to give Izuku All for One?" Yoichi asked in a stunned tone. I blinked in surprise, didn't I already prove I was willing to let Izuku have it?
"No. He already has it, what I'll give him is advice and from time to time some help." I replied somewhat dismissively. And silence reigned for a few seconds, then Nana asked,
"Why would he even use All for One?"
"One word, Noumu." I explained as in front of me the memory of the USJ Noumu appeared. I'm ever so happy that I can do this, otherwise they would've been subject to my stick figure drawings. "These are humans that were experimented on until they lost all will and turned into monsters with several quirks. The one in front of you is classified as a high end, capable of matching All Might's strength and speed. He has Shock Absorption as well as healing. Toshinori can beat it, but his time gets cut into barely an hour at most."
The vestige of All Might looked surprised and then resolute and resigned. It made sense in a way, the man wasn't an idiot. Especially not in combat, he just doesn't have the best reference for teaching, but sacrifice was something he understood. A wave of exhaustion washed over us as information flowed into my mind, the option of stealing Recovery Girl's quirk appeared for a second but I dismissed it.
Soon after a shadow formed as a new seat arose, in front of me stood Izuku Midoriya. Well parts of him, his right arm was mostly formed here, the rest of him was mostly shadows at the moment, but the top part of his face was there. I looked at Yoichi and signaled him to introduce us. He briefly nodded and mouthed his thanks. Clearing his throat, Yoichi welcomed Izuku by saying,
"Welcome Izuku Midoriya, ninth bearer of One for All. Welcome to inside One for All."
End.