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"I don't think they'll ever recover from this," All For One says as they rewatch Horizon's conversation with President Pantu.
He was connected to a dozen tubes, feeding him special medication in preparation for his procedure, and while Dr. Ujiko hastily works around him, Dabi stands behind him.
Now showing off his natural white hair and a matching outfit, Dabi looks entirely bored by all the TV theatrics.
"Should we attack now?" Dabi asks. "Shigaraki just went under, we can probably—"
"Absolutely not!" Ujiko glares at him. "Tomura only just began the procedure to prepare his body, waking him at any point before the five months are over will kill him…and the only useful thing about him is his unusual desire to live, this is the best way for him to be of use to Master."
Dabi rolls his eyes. "It's a miracle you worked with us for so long, considering how much you hate Tomura."
"Not a miracle, loyalty."
"Tch, then put me under too, give me enough to rip my siblings into pieces while my old man watches, then I need to finish him too."
"Is that all?" All For One asks, signalling Ujiko to continue his work. "The power to kill a mere Pro Hero?"
"That's everything."
"I can easily give you Quirks that can help with that, but your body can't handle that much power."
"Doesn't matter. I just need to live long enough to see the misery on his face as I cremate him."
"Fine, but you must wait."
"And if I don't want to wait?"
"Then your Quirk would be better suited to a Nomu."
"Why wait? Why give them time to get stronger?"
"Stronger?" All For One gets out of his seat, much to the annoyance of Ujiko, and puts on his visor. "Why would they get stronger?"
"They'll rally. Horizon just told them you're alive."
"Yes, and the fact that he abandoned them will only worsen that. Not to mention the new terms he set, we can't act recklessly and have anything happen to Pantu."
"So we wait?"
"No, we give them time, to truly despair what is to come next."
All For One walks past Dabi, towering above him at 7ft5 -222cm-, wearing his formal black suit and visor.
"Remain here. Help Ujiko prepare for the procedure. It is time we made them aware of what shall happen next…"
---Hero Public Safety Commission Kyoto HQ…
Sitting in a conference room, President Pantu is wrapped in a straight jacket as a team of government officials question her.
For the past few hours they'd been wringing every bit of information they can out of her, ensuring that should anything happen, the delicate infrastructure of the HPSC won't entirely crumble.
The questions fade to the back of her mind while she stares down at the table, barely listening as they cover the same thing over and over.
Another country is angry at Japan.
They blame her and Japan for everything.
They blame her for losing Horizon.
They have cut all trade with Japan.
Over and over, a hundred times, the same story, drilled into her ears.
But no matter how many times she tries to fall on the sword, to take all the blame, Japan is inseparable from her guilt.
As yet another round of interrogations begins, a blaring alarm echoes through the building.
The officials in the room groan, more annoyed than anything else.
"How the hell do protesters keep getting past the Pro Heroes?!" One of them rushes to the door and steps into the hallway, only to see armed guards rushing through the building. "What the hell is going on?"
One of the guards shoves him back into the room. "Stay in here until it's safe. All For One is attacking."
That garners a curious look from Pantu, not understanding what this could do for All For One, until she remembers where they are.
"All of you need to get out of here, now," she says.
"We aren't taking orders fro—"
"Shut up and listen!" she snaps back with the authority they'd all been trained to obey. "All For One will piss off Horizon if he kills me, so that's good for us. But all of you dying is bad. Japan will be left headless. Go, now."
---Moments Earlier…
'No symbol, no leader, no Horizon. Sheep with no direction,' All For One thinks as he stands on a building a few city blocks away from the Kyoto HPSC building.
In front of the reinforced gate and large wall that protects the building is a swarm of protestors, ants huddled together.
Scared and confused by all that's happened. Everything he wanted.
He smiles and uses a Flight Quirk to glide over to the crowd. "Is this how far you've fallen?" his grating voice is amplified so everyone can hear him.
All focus, from the people and the news crews nearby, turns to him, paralyzed by an aura of dread and pure evil.
"The great Hero Public Safety Commission," he says while descending, coughing and wheezing every few words. "Oh, how far you've fallen. No general, no champions, no trust…"
"Everyone get out of here!" Fourth Kind commands as All For One stands on the wall between the building and the crowd.
The Pro Heroes in the courtyard rush forward and form a line as the people haphazardly flee, and All For One seemingly pays them no mind.
Instead, he turns to look at the Pro Heroes.
'Fourth Kind, a man with four arms, excessively redundant. Death Arms, a man with a stupid construction-themed suit and a simple arm-strengthening Quirk. A reject that wouldn't even make it into a children's book.
Mr. Plastic, a transformation Quirk that makes the user into an action figure, could be fun. Mr. Brave, removing and hardening hairs, born to be a B-lister.
Backdraft, his water Quirk could be useful, but I have enough of those as is. Toy-Toy, not bad, but the drawback of her energy beams is annoying. And Saguri-Chan…worthless.'
All For One opens his palm, revealing the hole in his hand for his Air Cannon Quirk, and all the Pro Heroes leap into action.
They launch their attacks, only for a Forcefield Quirk to project a blue shield in front of him, harmlessly stopping them.
He coughs a few times, then lowers his hand, pointing his palm backward at the crowd and releasing a gust of wind.
Using Wind Blades, he slashes the crowd into pieces with the invisible blades, and in the same instant drops his Forcefield.
He points at the Pro Heroes with the index finger of his right hand and releases a golden laser, piercing Toy-Toy through her left hip.
Then simply moves his finger to the side, slicing all the Pro Heroes in two.
'A Demon Lord stooping into the trash to collect such Quirks is unseemly,'
All For One ignores the men firing their weapons at him, allowing his combination of Reflect and Amplification to send the bullets back with double the force, killing them all.
The gunfire eventually stops as he swipes at the side of the building, using a variation of Cementoss's Cement Quirk to tear away the entire front wall of the structure, allowing him to see inside and find his prey.
'So annoying,' he thinks while stepping onto the 7th floor, seeing a few men in the hallway with guns pointed at him.
They all fire at him, only for the bullets to be reflected and shred them, but one of the men survives even this.
'Interesting,' All For One sees the man's body becomes a hardened stone form, with the bullets stuck in his skin.
Out of curiosity, he rests a hand on the wall, and uses his Cement Quirk to launch a piece of it at the man, breaking the stone shell around his body and bruising the flesh beneath.
'Ahh, just another shell-type Quirk.'
All For One uses his Life Mimicry Quirk to shift the hallway, creating a large stone mouth on the floor that swallows up to the man's waist before protruding up.
It raises him so that the identical mouth on the ceiling can do the same. Then, with a thought, they bite the man in two.
He steps away from the wall, causing the Quirk to deactivate and leave the area in that horrific form, no longer able to mimic his body parts without his active contact and concentration.
Stepping through the blood and guts, he rounds the corner to see a Pro Hero, one he didn't expect to be here.
One of the last people he wanted to encounter in this state.
"Shouldn't you be out unblocking a road?" All For One asks, entirely focused on Pro Hero Thirteen.
Thirteen raises her hands, pointing all ten of her fingers at All For One.
He takes a step back, understanding the power her Black Hole Quirk commands, not wanting to test the suction force in even one of her fingertips, much less all ten.
"I don't like fighting, so please just leave now," she says. "The last thing I want is to unleash this Quirk in here."
"Then don't. People should always and only do what they want to do. Why must you be any different?"
"Because I'm a Hero."
"Yes, you are."
"Argh!" Thirteen gasps as sharp pain and heat flow through her chest and limbs.
Before she can look down to see the black and red tendrils skewering her, they move and slice off her arms at the shoulders, disabling her Quirk.
"Hero training is why you gave me a chance, and that was the death of you," All For One commands his tendrils to break through the floor, revealing that they burrowed through the ground, into the lower floor, and got behind her.
With a thought, they bring her toward him, allowing him to more easily shatter her visor and place a hand on her head, stealing her Quirk.
"Such wasted potential," he says before holding her by the head and throwing her out the 7th-story window. "Now, where are you…"
A few more minutes of slaughter, and he finds his prize, tearing the door away to reveal former president Pantu and a group of scared officials.
Nobody moves as he considers his next move, then he begins walking over to Pantu.
"Leave," he commands, and they don't waste a moment to flee.
"Wh—"
He grabs her by the head and takes Facade, surprised at how useful it truly was, then drops her onto the floor.
She feels a headache for less than a second, then her body is brimming with energy. "What did you do to me?"
"A trade. Your Quirk, for Super-Regeneration. I'd hate for anything to happen to you. After all, that would go against Horizon's conditions."
"Are you so scared of him that you've become his puppet?" she rises to look at him. "Letting him push you around. I thought you were supposed to be the 'Demon Lord'. Since when are you a coward?"
All For One tilts his head and grabs her, slinging her over his shoulder and walking out into the hallway.
"Taunting me into killing you won't work. I'm pragmatic, and fighting Horizon is not the choice of a person who wants to live."
Moments later, he's outside, standing in the air with Pantu on his shoulder, and sees a news van flipped on its side from the fighting earlier.
He floats over to it and uses his minor Technopathy to control it, while using his Telekinesis and Electrogeneration Quirks to power and focus the camera on himself.
The camera floats alongside him as he hovers above the destroyed building, now holding Pantu out to the side by her head.
"People of Japan. You played the Hero-Villain game well. But the game has been decided, you have lost. You have no symbol, no unity, no trust in your organizations, no hope, and no chance of victory.
What you do have, is time. The time it takes me to sleep, to recover. To prepare for my true ascension to the throne. In that time, those of you who cannot survive in my nation should flee.
If you cannot, or do not, wish to live in a land where the strong govern all. Where you can take anything you have the power to. Where you can use your Quirks freely and without restriction.
Where the only thing you have to ask yourself is, 'Who's going to stop me?', then flee.
Because when I awaken, I will ascend to my one true place as Demon Lord of this nation.
And those who believe their strength can reign supreme, I invite you to this land!
Use this time wisely, for when I awake, we will start a new game.
And it will be my turn, every turn!"
All For One drops to the ruined street below, leaving Pantu floating in the air alongside the camera that was still focused on him, and places his palm on the ground.
With a single command, he unleashes a wave of disintegration, five city blocks wide, killing everyone and everything it touches as the chain reaction spreads out.
Scarring Kyoto and destroying the little infrastructure the HPSC had here.
"Shigaraki's Quirk," Pantu says as he floats back up to her.
"Tomura Shigaraki is no more…"
---Moments Later…
After All For One's broadcast ended, the High-End Nomu in Dr. Ujiko's lab activates its Quirk, creating two balls of sludge in the air that expand, warping All For One and Pantu to its location.
A very limited form of Warping, only able to bring people to itself, but still priceless.
Pantu coughs up some sludge as the Nomu restrains her, and beside her, All For One removes his visor to vomit up blood, his pained coughs filling the room.
"Master! You must get into the chamber. The procedure has to start now."
"Lead me," All For One says, following Dr. Ujiko to the back of the lab as the Nomu drags Pantu along.
"Your plan won't work," she says. "You can't really believe a country of villains will last."
All For One laughs. "It doesn't have to. I just need a few generations of the most powerful Quirks breeding, then I'll be ready."
"Ready? For what?"
He doesn't respond as they continue walking through the lab, and she comes to the only logical conclusion.
"Horizon, that's your endgame. All of this, so you can be stronger than him."
"He is king of the world. How can I be the true Demon Lord of this world while he exists? And unlike All Might, I can't outlast him, so drastic measures are needed."
As he speaks, they arrive at a massive glass chamber, filled with glowing blue Panacea.
"And without him, this procedure wouldn't have been possible," Dr. Ujiko says as he walks over to the infusion chamber and prepares a few vials of blood. "This, the precious sample we've wanted for decades, and thanks to him, we not only have it, but he also created the Panacea."
"The only thing that could allow me to survive the procedure," All For One says as he removes his clothes, using Telekinesis to attach the tubes to himself. "Begin the infusion, and no matter what, don't wake me up until I'm ready…"
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