Chapter 23: The Reverse Fireworks

Many had asked the question: If the strongest spear meets the toughest shield, which will win? No matter how anyone argue I will say the outcome is irrelevant, since both will lose in face of a rocket launcher.

Now if I were to change them to the fastest man and a literal monster, how would you argue that. Well both will probably also die to rocket launchers. But it's still fun to think about a fight between the fastest man and a monster.

Which is exactly what is happening right now.

Hitoshi is fighting a hopelessly one sided fight against LOVE.

That monster had buffed his maxed out defence to even greater heights with an additional layer of battle armor. Combine that with its absurd offensive ability, you have a threat that can rival the entire country of Japan all at once.

Katsuki was the person who had fallen first. With his aggressive fighting style, it was easy for LOVE to find an opening and send him straight to Mars with a single punch. Katsuki tried to block it, but his mechanical arm couldn't support the overwhelming destructive power of LOVE.

Hitoshi took over from there as he just tried to stall time until backups arrived. At least he thinks Toshinori called for backups.

Needless to say, Toshinori is quivering in his boots. Not only did most of the heroes he brought along die, but the new Big 3 is also very close to becoming the former Big 3.

Nearby, Izumi is going head to head with Tomura. It's not that she can't beat him, it's more like Tomura is also trying to stall time for LOVE to finish Hitoshi.

Thus, this battle is stuck in a stalemate until a third party arrives.

Scene change to Izuku

Izuku: Hi hi, this your friendly neighbourhood third party here! I am here to bring death and hatred to the world!

Dabi: What are you doing.

Izuku: Doing a scene.

Dabi: I won't ask.

Rigel: Relax guys, it is only a monster of many quirks that also has supreme martial arts skills with addition to very tough armor. You got this.

Dabi: I don't even feel superhuman anymore...

The 3 of them are waiting for the perfect opportunity to jump in and save Hitoshi's ass then teleport out immediately. They can't recklessly jump in since even Izuku is unsure can he beat the monster.

Izuku/Dabi: Hitoshi hang in there.

Scene change to Nezu

Nezu: Yes, come right now, we need the help over every hero/ you go to group alpha 2/ yes we need your firepower/ attack from the west will be favourable/ bring along a lot of medical supplier.

Nezu is currently speedrunning recruiting as many heroes he can and giving some a briefing on the strategies.

Using his 1 billion IQ, he has divided his brain process power to multi task and multi think. It is like having parallel brains working all together.

Being short on time is an understatement, since the fight has started already. He can't even lose a single second.

Needless to say, he will be bringing an army to confront Tomura.

Scene change to Izumi

Izumi: One for All, 80%, Blackwhip and Telekenesis!

Izumi concentrates her OfA power as she lifts up the surrounding debris. As if like a blizzard, she hurled everything he had to surround Tomura.

With much speed and power, she had created a tornado that sucked in even more debris. The pressure of the tornado crushed even concrete and turned all of it to dust.

The blackwhip wrap around the tornado as if like tethers, they gave the compressed air a physical existence, causing anything which touched it to be absorbed into the tornado.

Tomura stood still and watched in amazement and partially because he was also quite exhausted.

Izumi: Combined technique! Black Tornado!

Izumi launch the tornado forward as it heads straight for Tomura. As it travels, even more debris got absorbed and even more dust had scattered.

Tomura saw impending doom arrive as he quickly tried to run away from it. But like a homing missile, the tornado kept following him, and it's catching up.

He needs a plan and fast.

Tomura: Bingo!

Tomura stop in his tracks as he turn to confront the tornado head on. He jumps towards the tornado as the force sucks him in.

Tomura: DECAY!

Tomura touches the blackwhip surrounding the tornado as the blackwhip begun turning into dust. The pressures air inside begun to escape through as the tornado began to fade.

With a single touch, Izumi's normally killer technique has gone to ruins. She looks in shock as Tomura grins.

Tomura: Game over.

Tomura rushes Izumi with all his speed as Izumi tries to back away.

Izumi: Float and telekinesis.

With the combination of both those quirks, she can perfectly control her movement in the air, allowing her to fly.

Tomura: Wait wait, that's cheating!

Izumi: Do I look like I care?

Izumi didn't hesitate as she began to rain rocks down on the grounded Tomura. She did it with such power that even a single rock can crush his skull and then some.

The power was comparable to a rocket launcher and the speed was comparable to a machine gun. Tomura really was at the end of his line this time.

???: No you don't.

Suddenly, purple mist appear as all the surrounding rocks disappeared.

Tomura: Kurogiri!

Kurogiri: Yes sir, and ready to serve.

Izumi: It's you!

Kurogiri: Indeed, and may I serve you some of our special ice water.

Just then a portal opened above Izumi as water gushed out. It knocked Izumi back onto the ground as fishes also come out of the portal.

Kurogiri: Fresh from the Arctic Ocean.

Tomura: Now, let's begin round 2.

Izumi gets up as she dreads what's to come.

Scene change to Dabi

Dabi: Wall of fire!

A tide of ranging flames erupt from the ground as it separates Hitoshi from LOVE.

Izuku: Go! I'll distract the thing.

Dabi rushes forward as he grabs Hitoshi by the waist and sprints away.

Hitoshi: Huh? What!

Hitoshi was so focused on the battle that it took his mind a few seconds to process that he was being carried by Dabi.

Dabi: I'll explain later, right now we are getting out of here.

Hitoshi: I can run myself.

Dabi: Dont bother lying, that dipshit of a hero put you in a hopeless fight and due to that, you are injured all over.

Hitoshi: Tsk. Can't get one pass you.

Dabi: Izuku is buying me some time, then after that we are teleporting the hell out of here.

Hitoshi: I guess my disguise is getting blown now.

Dabi: Honestly, I don't even know what was the point of you infiltrating UA, you did like nothing.

Hitoshi: I guess Izuku didn't get the finish his plan.

Dabi: Probably.

Scene change to Toshinori

Toshinori: WHAT! IS THAT?

Toshinori adjust his glasses as he squints his eyes.

Toshinori: BLOOD TYRANT!

He immediately take out his communicator and change his channel to all.

Toshinori: Blood Tyrant is here, do not let him run!

The message was delivered to everyone in a 500m radius, which just happen to include Nezu.

Scene change to Nezu

Nezu: Wait this is not good...

Nezu just heard the message from Toshinori and realised that his current team really isn't suited to fight 2 of the strongest villains at once.

Most of the heroes he got can't even match up to the UA big 3 in terms of power. There is no way they can even put up a match for the Blood Tyrant.

They were specially designed to counter Tomura thus the heroes have very niche quirks.

If it was just Tomura, they will somehow find a way to win, but if both the Blood Tyrant and Tomura target the heroes, it may be the end of hero society.

As Nezu calculates the odds of winning in his head, the radio broadcast suddenly interrupts.

Radio: Breaking news! Century year old villain All for One spotted in Deika City. I repeat, century old villain All for One spotted in Deika City!

Nezu: You have to be joking...

Scene change to All for One

AfO: Greetings, All Might. I will say you are quite the idiot, wasting your last embers of One for All on some small time villain. Have you forgotten your root? Or have you used gone senile.

Toshinori: You bastard. I was sure you will stay in your stasis chamber for at least another hundred years.

AfO: What? Nooooo. I made some special arrangements to meet you today. You see, when you attacked me around your prime, you barely dealt any damage to my lab, so I was able to regenerate pretty quickly.

Toshinori: Stop bluffing, you look more hideous now than ever.

AfO: Tsk. You can thank your son for that, oh wait you disowned him, because you are a terrible father. How does it feel that a person you neglected was closer to accomplishing your goal than you ever was?

Toshinori: Alright I've heard enough. Get him heroes!

Silence...

Silence...

Silence...

Toshinori: Heroes?

Toshinori turned behind to find all the backup heroes he had lying on the ground, with their head separated from the bodies.

AfO: Oh do you mean them? Did you not notice? I killed them before we even spoke! HAHAHAHA!

All for One burst out in a crazed laughter as Toshinori turns pale.

AfO: How did you turn out to be this much of failure! How did the 7th choose you? You know what as a tribute to your stupidity, I will kill you the same way I killed the 7th.

All for One grab Toshinori by the throat as he lifts him up, flying higher and higher into the clouds. Toshinori can barely gasp for air as he began to rise.

AfO: The 7th had another quirk am I right. If I remember right, it's called float. Now you see, there's  a major weakness of float that she didn't know about.

AfO mutates his hand into that one a blade as he slashes at Toshinori's legs, cutting it straight off. Toshinori shout in pain through the throat grab.

AfO: The weakness is that float doesn't work without legs.

Toshinori began feeling the wind a bit too much. It was then, he realise he was falling. AfO had dropped him.

AfO: Bye bye hero.

The sight of AfO began becoming further and further as he loses altitude.

The life of Yagi Toshinori flashes before his eyes. From the first time Nana talked to him, to him spending time with Izumi, to him fighting Izuku.

In his final moments, only one thought stood out to him.

Toshinori: I'm sorry, both of you...

Splat.

A reverse fireworks show happen right on the ground as flesh and blood scatter. Yagi Toshinori has been eliminated.

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