As soon as his fists impacted the hard body of the villain Toshinori Yagi knew he was in for a tough fight. The body of the evildoer near absorbed the entirety of his punch. While he made it a point to never attack with full force on the first punch, in order to prevent a messy death to villains, there would normally still have been more of a reaction than that. Maybe he had gotten sloppy over the last couple of years when there were no more villains that could challenge him or maybe this monstrous looking man was simply a truly terrifying villain. At first glance it seemed his quirk had something to do with shock-absorption which made him a truly poor match up for him but looking deeper his body was also incredibly strong. Those two traits combined made him somewhat of a counter to him.

The black monster retaliated with a massive punch that impacted his chest and even caused him to stagger slightly, but he didn't retreat one step before bursting forwards with all his strength and launching punch after punch into the villain's body in the hopes of overloading his shock absorption quirk. Ten punches impacted in the blink of an eye and the villain went flying backwards and crashing through one of the nearby walls. Without so much as a breather Toshinori used his momentum to move towards the nearby villains and incapacitating. While they were by no stretch of the imagination threatening he couldn't rule that they could cause some damage to the students behind him and that was one thing that he could not tolerate.

In less than the blink of an eye a dozen of the villains were incapacitated. Toshinori didn't plan around their quirks or concoct a battle plan or anything. In the end he simply fed massive amounts of energy from One for All into his immensely powerful body and used it as a pinpoint weapon to incapacitate his foes before they could even react. Suddenly a black light caught the corner of his eye and he whirled around in time to see a black ball of mist envelope the kids before disappearing.

His heart felt like it jumped out of his chest as he stood there watching the spot where the future Pro Heroes of Japan should be standing. Fear, rage, pain and despair bubbled up and were forced down immediately as he focused on what was important right now, namely saving his students. Ignoring the remaining villains for now he left crossing the distance in no time…

Or at least that's what he intended. What actually happened was very different as a massive black fist impacted his side and this time he was the one that crashed into the dirt. Pain greeted him like an old friend that he had not seen for a long time but he hardly had time for a reunion after such a half-hearted blow. Standing up and giving no sign that he was affected in any way he watched with some satisfaction that the villains took a step back. While he did not like to be feared, it was unfortunately a necessary role that the symbol of peace had to play.

The one villain that did not step back was the original one that he engaged. With pitch black skin and a beak like mouth and an exposed brain the thing seemed inhuman beyond any mutagenic features caused by its quirk. Unlike before when the thing seemed fairly mindless, it now stood frozen still and staring directly at All Might.

"Standing between me and the safety of my students is really not a good place to be," All Might said slowly and letting his smile drop as he felt fury rise up from inside him. "If you're not going to move then forgive me if I'm a bit rougher than usual."

"I've seen exactly how rough you can be, All Might," the villain said. Its voice was harsh and grating, as if its mouth was not made for speech, but its words were spoken with a sophisticated, almost aristocratic manner in contrast to its outward appearance. "Believe me when I say that soon enough those laurels you wear will soon adorn your grave."

"You would not be the first to say something like that," Toshinori said deciding that enough was enough and letting his fists do the talking. This time he didn't hold back at all, but also this time as he went in for the punch he found something very odd going on. The villain's muscular right arm bulged, becoming a coil, before colliding with All Might's own sending out massive shockwaves through the area that decimated the surrounding area and flung all the other villains like ragdolls. Both All Might and his opponent were forced backward by the combined force of the blow and the two slid backwards dozens of metres before stopping.

"Tomura," the beaked villain started and Toshinori saw that there was one solitary villain that hadn't been flung away, a white haired man with hands that gripped his entire body. "Go have fun with the students. I'll take care of the 'Symbol of Peace'." Those last words were said with contempt and despite the lack of facial expressions Toshinori got the feeling that he was looking down on him.

"If you think I will let you…," he started.

"I don't expect you to let me do anything," the villain said making a noise that could have been laughter. "You simply cannot prevent me from doing what I want. Not this time at least."

"We've never met before," All Might refuted immediately. While he had fought hundreds of criminals over his time, he would certainly have remembered fighting such a powerful, unique-looking foe.

"Oh really?" the creature said as it abruptly stopped its laughter. "You would think that you would remember the person whose entire empire you destroyed, whose comrades you crushed and who you left to die buried beneath the ruins of their own home."

"No," Toshinori said as he felt his world crumble around him. His refutation was more a product of instinct than a genuine reflection of the possibility. In his shock he didn't even realise that the white haired young man had disappeared. While he had indeed taken down countless criminals over the years, there was only one possible villain that fulfilled all of those criteria. The one villain that he never hoped to fight again, the one villain who had very nearly killed him and had in fact critically wounded him to such an extent that he had thought he would never be able to be a Pro Hero again. The one villain who had forced him to break his rule and attack with lethal force.

"All For One," Toshinori spoke through gritted teeth.

"Oh it seems you do remember the person who killed your teacher," the monster said. "Like the changes I've made."

"What have you done?" Toshinori asked trying to figure out how his time arch nemesis. The man who he had spent much of his life training to defeat had not only somehow survived but ended up as this monstrosity.

"I will admit that my current form is not quite up to the standards of my old body but that just leaves a lot of room for improvement." His voice gradually took on a menacing tone as he spoke until every word seemed to contain hatred. "As I lay dying beneath the ruins of my empire I came to the realisation that the fault for my defeat laid itself solely on my own shoulders. I could have done so much more in my time to turn Japan and eventually the whole world into my utopia."

"Do you really think that somebody like you will ever be able to take over the world," Toshinori scoffed at the thought even through his shock. The world was an incredibly large place filled with incredibly powerful people.

"Alactrity Light perished at the hands of the Blood Beast," All For One began raising a finger. "Destro died and his merry band scattered," he continued raising another. "Primordius is wracked from illness from what I've heard and he won't be escaping death's grasp much longer. Victor Zhuding met his end at the hands of Izuku Midoriya. I could continue but I think you get the gist of what I mean when I say that now would be the perfect time to make a play for the world."

"You will never succeed as long as I'm here," All Might said shaking off any wavering doubts. He had never truly regretted All for One's death before considering the man's nature and while he was never one to advocate fatal force he would rather have All For One dead than here in front of him.

"But you won't be here," All For One said. "I don't know if you've realised this but I truly hate you. When you destroyed my criminal empire and arrested all of my associates you lit a burning flame of hatred in my heart, the like I've never felt before. Right now my only desire for you is to take everything from you like you did with me, starting with your mobility." As he spoke a robotic spider tore from the ground and crawled up the body of One For All.

"I still think you should go for a lower dose," the spider said before six needles sprung from six of its feet and all of them pierced the black body of his nemesis.

"This concoction is a drug called Trigger," All For One said ignoring the voice of the spider. "It's been imported and is of a higher quality than the trash that they sell locally." The black body started to steam and Toshinori watched as the muscles further expanded until they reached ridiculous size and at this point he decided to act.

"Texas Smash," was the words he used as he put full force behind the blow and he watched as his enemy responded in turn, instantly ripping the spider off and lunging forwards with a rebuttal. Under no illusions that it would be an easy fight, Toshinori Yagi once more leapt into battle with his hated foe.

xxx

Shoto Todoroki rubbed his right side, warming it up incrementally as he strode across the iced surface of the lake. Behind him walked Mashirao Ojira carrying a sleeping Tsuyu Asui in his tail. The girl's frog quirk apparently gave her a weakness to low temperatures, which would have been really helpful to know before he froze the lake and the villains inside. That mist had deposited the three of them above the ocean and he had been briefly rescued by Asui before he had chosen to freeze all the villains. It was actually disappointing for his first real villain fight. None of them were able to even offer any noteworthy reaction before he froze them and the surface of the lake together until they were sticking out of the icy lake like particularly ugly flowers.

Annoyance struck him as he looked at his phone, somehow survived the water they were dumped in and yet still no signal. Ojira had a similar problem leaving the two of them no way to call for help. Still there should be other students and hopefully at least one of them would be able to get through. The villains obviously came prepared to tangle with All Might and while he was definitely the strongest hero they wouldn't have come if they didn't have a plan that countered him.

A sudden shockwave hit all three of them with no warning causing the trio to go sliding back along the ice. Emanations of sound and air echoed from the middle of the park, the area that All Might was in.

"So that's probably their plan," Shoto said to himself. Those kinds of impacts could only be All Might and he wouldn't go all out to that extent if there was not a villain that warranted it. Whoever the villains were they had one hell of a trump card behind them.

"Are we going over there," Ojira said and there was a tangible reluctance in his voice; a reluctance that Shoto could both understand and appreciate.

"No," he said. "If we were to go we would get in the way and possibly cause All Might to lose focus." He had heard from his father multiple times that weaker heroes and civilians getting in the way were the bane of existence and while All Might may be politer about it he probably still wouldn't appreciate the unnecessary complexity that they would add to the battle. The fight was also between them and the original place entrance with the spiders so he couldn't return there either.

Suddenly an explosion rang out, distinct and smaller than the ones near All Might and with far more flame. While Shoto could hardly be considered an expert on explosions it wasn't easy for him to forget the same kind that had led to his defeat just yesterday.

"That's Bakugou," Ojira said coming to the same conclusion.

"Stay here," Shoto said whirling around and looking him dead in the eye. "Protect Asui until she wakes up." Maybe it was irresponsible of him to leave them and maybe he was being too presumptuous in leaving his Ojira but he was still one of the strongest students and even if he couldn't help in All Might or Aizawa's fights he could definitely help to protect the other students.

"Stay safe," Ojira responded. "When she wakes up we'll come and help."

Shoto nodded. He had no real authority to inform his decisions. After a brief moment he handed his phone over to his tailed classmate. "Try dialling the number under Father. If you can get through just explain the situation to Endeavour. He will definitely show up if only to try and show up All Might."

"Okay," his classmate said and Shoto gave the two one more look before he dashed off in the direction of another one of Bakugou's explosions.

xxx

Aizawa opened his eyes again to find out black mist villain had finally managed to use that brief moment of blindness to escape. Sweat ran down his brow as a bullet whizzed past his head, barely missing his ear by a millimetre. The spiders had quickly employed a strategy of attacking his blind spots and they quickly proved themselves the perfect counter to him, possessing no quirks and a hard shell that there was no way to damage. It was genuinely unnerving just how much force the spiders could shrug off. Their design made the robots that U.A uses, which granted were not the strongest due to their use against students, seemed like toys made out of tinfoil in comparison. While he could keep up in the beginning the robots had not only gradually increased their speed but had also started countering his manoeuvres. Steadily the robots decreased from twelve to six as they collectively became more deadly in their attacks.

If he were to continue at this rate he would certainly lose and there was no possible way he could pull off a victory. Another robot launched itself at him with blades extending from its legs and he ducked to the side catching it with his scarf and slamming it into the ground. He paid dearly for his brief counterattack as a dart from his blindspot dug deep into the left of his back and he felt a burst of electricity course through his body.

Gritting his teeth and fighting through the lightning coursing through his body he reached behind him and yanked out the dart tossing it away. This fight wasn't going his way and he resolved to visit the support department afterwards… if he survived.

"I'm getting a bit tired of this," the voice of the Deus In Machina spoke up for the first time since his students were teleported and Aizawa watched in horror as the minigun extracted itself from the spider before reassembling itself and focusing on him. He focused shifting his weight as he took his placed his full concentration on the gun's trajectory and he observed as the weapon spun up before it turned and locked onto him.

"BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ," was the sound that hit his ears as green light obliterated the space that the spider stood in. Scarcely half of the offending arachnid was available as its attempts to dodge proved only half successful. Even the other spiders stopped momentarily as the damaged robot dragged itself up on its remaining limbs.

"I was waiting for you," the voice of the infamous inventor said speaking to thin air. "I saw you weren't gone but to think it would take the imminent death of your teacher to force you to come out. Don't you think you're being a bit lazy for such a young man?"

A spot not far away was torn asunder by green lightning and then Masaru Tenchi surfaced literally tearing through the ground like it was paper. Crackles of green lightning discharged from his body and he looked deadly serious compared to the usual lackadaisical attitude that he had.

"It's called reconnaissance," he said and a bolt of lightning tore from his finger only to be dodged by one of the robots. He frowned and stepped forward as lightning seemed to bounce around his limbs. "Teacher where is Katsuki," he said ignoring the robots that had given the older hero such a hard time and focusing on Aizawa.

"She was attacked by a spider," Aizawa said deciding not to obscure the truth. His student was probably the one who was best able to fight against the lifeless robots and right now he was pretty grateful that he was the one left behind. "It seemed to…"

"Control all of her muscles, nervous systems and quirk factors while rendering the victi… patient in a semiconscious state," Deus In Machina said as the broken spider making disturbingly lifelike motions. "Believe it or not I originally intended to use it on people experiencing partial or complete paralysis, as a manner of improving their way of life. Isn't if funny where life takes you."

Masaru Tenchi was very still for a moment and then he turned to Aizawa. "You need to stop her," he said gravely staring at him. "Katsuki's quirk is exceptionally dangerous and if she's used against the other students there could be injuries or even fatalities." Every word he said was true and rational which made it much harder for him to refuse. "You're useless in this situation," Masaru said and his voice held none of his usual mirth.

"So this is your true face," Aizawa muttered to himself before nodding his head in confirmation. While it went against every instinct he possessed as a teacher he couldn't ignore the fact that he had an incredibly poor match-up while Masaru would be excellent against his opponent. While he would hate himself if Masaru died, he would also never forgive himself if his doubts prevented him from saving even one of his students.

"Cover me then," he said before, receiving a nod in return before he took off running forward directly for the edge of the stairs. The sound of bullets stung his ears but green lightning flashed in front of them, posing an impenetrable shield against the metallic death. Reaching the edge of the platform he was hit by scenes of conflict between the villains and his students, and sitting square in the middle of the park like two titans of old were All Might and the black bird-headed villain that he had originally attacked. Waves of rubble and dust flew with each punch from where the two of them fought and he almost considered assisting his comrade for a moment before he decided to trust in All Might's strength and prioritise the nearest fights. He took one more last glance at his student and the spiders, now increased to eight, before he leapt off the stairs and into the fray.

xxx

"So what's a world famous weapon designer doing in a little town like this?" Masaru said keeping calm. Katsuki would survive, from the beginning this opponent did not appear to employ deadly force and even if she did… well Izuku would never let his best friend go gentle into the good night.

"Little town?" the spiderbot said questioningly. "Can you really call a city containing the world famous U.A High School little?" The robot let out a laugh but the audio must have been distorted by the damage and the noise grated the skin. "Musutafu has a lot to be proud about as a tourist destination, a centre of research and a longstanding exporter of famous heroes. Besides," the robot said in a tone that could be called conspiring if the audio wasn't so screwed up. "Did you know a lot of people believe this city to be the birthplace of Izuku Midoriya?" Masaru kept a calm expression as the robot appeared to adopt a thinking pose. "If he was born I mean. For all we know he could have hatched, or germinated or popped into existence."

"You seem rather fascinated by him," Masaru commented idly, or at least his comment appeared to be idle. Deus In Machina singling him out was unlikely to be just a whim from the eccentric inventor.

"Well I am more so than recently," the spiderbot admitted. "Did I tell you I met him?"

"We haven't spoken nearly long enough for you to be giving out little anecdotes," Masaru replied calmly as he kept an eye on the spiderbots. Despite their numbers they were deliberately not flanking him and he was easily able to keep all of them in sight.

"No, it's not a long ago story," the spiderbot started. "I met him just yesterday when I broke into U.A High. I was so shocked when an invisible man followed me and even more so when he was able to cut through my Carbonic Iron." Masaru admired his restraint in not reacting to that stupidly poor, if accurate name. "I was shocked and I even started to doubt my robots a little bit. How could I call myself the world's number one roboticist if my robots can't even take one single hit?"

"Maybe the standards for this planet are just incredibly low?" Masaru offered.

"I won't accept that bullshit kind of default victory," Deus In Machina immediately rebuffed, the voice sounding just a bit angry for the first time. "Wait I'm getting off topic," the anger died down immediately and the robot twitched for a bit before it started speaking again. "Anyway as I was saying; I was looking over the final feeds from the cameras and I was stunned to see that the silhouette matched perfectly with his body outline."

"Basic outline of a human body can't be accurate," Masaru gently rebuffed.

"It helps the picture when the person has both invisibility and super-strength," Deus In Machina defended. "And I know it wasn't that invisible girl. The silhouette back then didn't have such impressive boobs."

He almost facepalmed at that stupid logic; although in practice her judgment was certainly not unfounded. That girl more than anybody else in the class had given him troubles. Even when disguised as Masaru he retained his ability to see in a wider spectrum than an ordinary human and thus he had forced himself to speak with Katsuki for the entirety of her fight lest he find himself indulging in unintentional voyeurism. The robot was still looking at him expectantly; at least that's what he thought considering his ability to judge the body language of human entities was only barely perfect.

"Okay I'll bite," he said, never once removing his eyes from her. "Whose silhouette was it?"

"Why the God Child himself, Izuku Midoriya," the robot said tilting its head inquisitively after a few seconds of silence. "You don't seem very surprised. Could it be that you already knew of his presence here?"

'Yup this girl definitely suspected something,' Masaru thought to himself. 'She's either very observant or I've overlooked something.' "I will confess to being a bit surprised," he said out loud and he was definitely not lying. "I never thought I would hear such heresy against Izuku Midoriya right in his supposed home town. You actually had the gall to imply that his breasts were not perfect; that some mere mortal had better set of knockers than him."

Suddenly the sound of a particularly deafening explosion rang out and Masaru's head whipped around towards the landslide zone. He would recognize those nitro-glycerine explosions anywhere. He had been hit by them a few times, but none of the students down there had his durability, not even that hardening kid. He wasn't worried though, considering that the spiderbots seemed to show little interest in killing their opponents, which was a small mercy he supposed.

"Your friend has quite an impressive quirk," the spiderbot said and the voice sounded just slightly more embarrassed as if even it wanted to change the subject. Masaru frowned to himself at the thought of Deus In Machina using Katsuki's body. While rationally he knew that Katsuki wouldn't die he also knew that the girl would be upset after this. An upset Katsuki made him upset.

Green lightning flared from the tips of his fingers and a nearby spider was obliterated with no warning. Putting one of his hands in his pockets he walked forward towards the robots. He heard the robot start to speak but all of his cheer had been properly run out. The spiders started to multiply further and further as the air began to crackle with green lightning.

xxx

Tenya Iida ducked behind the remains of the building as searing winds nearly scorched his back. Next to him he saw Uraraka as she touched a large piece of the destroyed surroundings before hurling it at their foe. Unfortunately their opponent this time proved to be far beyond that of the initial villains who they had easily dispatched en masse. Yaoyorozu lay unconscious on the ground where she fell after a single exchange and all that happened was her foe stepped over her insensate body.

The large block of rubble that could probably kill a normal person was vaporised by one thrust from Katsuki Bakugou causing shrapnel to ricochet throughout the area mercifully missing their unconscious classmate by what seemed like pure luck and Uraraka winced having picked up how reckless that attack had been.

"We need to get her away from Bakugou," Jiro said to Iida as the girl crouched down behind the same piece of rubble. "We don't know what kind of quirk is controlling her so right now our first priority should be getting Momo to safety. If I distract Bakugou can you grab Momo?"

"Yes, but are you sure you should try and go up against her now?" Tenya said cautiously. "You saw what happened to Yaoyorozu?"

"I can distract her with sound," Jirou replied as the earphone jack that comprised her quirk plugged themselves into her boots. "She shouldn't be able to resist the sound at least for a short while. If you can use that time to grab Momo then I can try to crank it up louder and we can try retreat for now."

"I've got it," Tenya said as he peeked over the rock at the unconscious form of his classmate. Bakugou stood there motionless seemingly unconcerned with all the madness that went on around her. Jiro didn't hesitate further springing out from behind the rock and he felt his teeth buzz as pure focused sound hit Bakugou causing the girl to collapse in pain. He brushed off his concern for his classmate for later instead activating his quirk and moving forward towards his injured classmate. His focus shrank to a needle as he inched out every ounce of power, leaving only a seconds warning as he caught the predatory gaze of Bakugou as she glanced up from her hunched over state directly at him.

Pain exploded as a kick to the side instantly dented his armour, struck his rib and he went flying across the sloped field, tumbling eventually to a painful stop. Without preamble the girl stood up seemingly unconcerned by the sound around her and he came to the painful realisation that he had fallen for a very simple trap.

In less than a second he was on the defenceless Jiro her defence amounting to little more than that of a lamb against a wolf. Her body hit the floor fast and hard and then she turned her sights towards the last standing. Stalking forward like some primal beast she advanced on Uraraka who to her credit was adopting some form of defence, but he had little hope that she would last against the beast that Bakugou had become.

Tenya focused his will standing up despite the rampant pain in his side and he hobbled forward immediately catching the attention of Bakugou who regarded him with some interest. At least one of his ribs were broken and if he were to use his quirk he likely wouldn't be able to sustain it for long without collapsing in pain, but he wouldn't allow himself to just lie there when he could still do something. Walking steadily towards the girl he waited until he was only ten metres before activating his quirk and lunging towards her with his full force. Raising his leg in a kick he felt his side catch fire and he changed it up into an awkward knee manoeuvre that hurt less, but didn't connect with the nimble adversary. He tried again and again, throwing punches where it hurt to kick, but with each move the pain flared up more and more until he lost muscle control and overextended at which point Bakugou stepped past his clumsy kick and punched him again in his wounded side.

He saw white and when he came to it was to the sight of Bakugou looking down at him from on high. He tried to struggle for a moment but with each movement he felt himself start to black out. In the end despite her being so close he could do nothing to affect her. She was smug in her silence as she gazed downwards but her face soon converted into a mask of pain as Tenya felt more than heard the loudest noise ever. His eardrums felt on the edge of bursting as audial pain snuck its way inside his head. The pain didn't last long as he watched Bakugou fly off into the air and it was with relief that he saw the form of Uraraka.

"Great job Iida," she said giving him a thumbs up, although he could barely hear her past the ringing in his head and she might have said something completely different. A slight turn of his head, the maximum motion that he could pull off right now revealed Jiro awake and nodding despite the rapidly developing bruise on her cheek.

"We did it," he said to himself and felt a bit guilty doing so considering the two girls did most of the work; namely Jiro distracting Bakugou and Uraraka making her weightless. The throbbing in his side reminded him of his wound and he took shallow breaths just reveling in the sense of relief.

"We did," Uraraka said smiling and then Tenya's heart started to freeze over as he saw her smile change to a look of horror. The sound of an impact on the ground cut straight through his deafness right into the heart of long forgotten instincts that had in ages past told primitive humans that their lives might be suddenly cut very short. Turning through the pain he caught a glimpse of Bakugou descending to the Earth with flames from his shoulders like some sort of monstrous angel. Despair like a physical force hit him as he looked upon him, too weak to even look away. Despite the danger his body refused to respond and his attempt to even lift himself resulted in an unhealthy sounding crack that sounded like the breaking of his hope.

"This is not a sight I was expecting to see when I came to help," the cold sounding voice was possibly the most glorious sound he had ever heard in his life as Bakugou focused on the person behind him rather than his injured body.

"Bakugou's brainwashed somehow,' Uraraka said summing up their situation to their savior.

"I don't suppose I could convince you to take this fight somewhere else," the voice said to which the only response was the persistent blank look. "I see then," the voice said and there was a note of anticipation even joy in that tone that was most unfitting for the situation. "I didn't think I would get a rematch so soon and this is not the fight I wanted with you, but I will not go easy." The very air seemed to chill as he spoke. "Prepare yourself Katsuki Bakugou," was the last words he heard before he allowed himself to succumb to unconsciousness.

Author Note: I've tried to get as many perspectives to try and imitate the original version of the manga. Please tell me how did it go. Did you like it, hate it. I should stick to only Izuku and Katsuki. I should stop writing fanfiction. Some perspective would be appreciated.