"This specimen is barebone and has nothing beneficial to our cause, Master. I don't understand why you ask me to study her, someone who has her quirk taken by you. She is just a quirkless child."
"... Thank you for satisfying my curiosity, my friend. You can ignore this specimen and return to your work of improving the Nomus. It's such an ingenious idea of yours to create a template before mass producing. I have never seen someone factorized life in such a manner before. Truly befitting of your genius."
"Thank you, Master! Let me go back to work to bring you more result."
"I always await such that from you, Doctor. Let me help you remove the garbage."
The silent girl on the operation table was lifted using quirk before being diced into millions of cubes and burned to gasses. All For One teleported back to his main base where the real Ina remained. He had tested whether or not the connection to a a god was formed with the body or the soul. The answer was the soul. The energy radiating from this chain of a contract was simply the energy fueling quirks, something All For One could mold for his benefit.
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The Tokyo city, most known for its constant liveliness as the capital city of Japan, had gone quiet. Unlike less crowded area across Japan, evacuation for Tokyo's population underwent a different path. Even now, people were still following their habits and responsibilities with the tension burdened by the heroes. The police officers here were not trained as much in combat but rather in panic control and acting.
All Might, situating in his tower at the highest floor, was receiving real-time updates for all regions through his system. Screens and information streams plus some AIs helped him determined the weakest link in the defense against the monstrous enemies before heading there to back them up.
Sitting and playing a story game on a nearby bean bag was his transporter, someone who was trusted to be his transporter and whom All Might could trust to not share his real appearance. With a business suit and a specialized helmet to protect against psychic attacks, the transporter sat ready to bring All Might to places that needed him immediately. The man had utilized a bare wall of All Might's base to hammer in hundred of pictures of landmarks and locations all over Japan.
The two of them had been informed of the attacks against urban shelters and how the defense was winning against the coming tides. Analysis of the enemies had concluded that they lacked cooperation or team work, often attack on their own timing and could harm each other in the process. The behaviors of these clay-like things after cutting someone down was to collect the corpse and bringing it underground.
"The first attack is to tire our resources. Tell everyone to prepare for other villains to join the fight. We still need a few more hours."
One of the general responsible for the defense in Hokkaido said, his colleagues with the same perspective. Among the world of Japanese villains, over half of the lower caste had sided with All For One with the benefits they would have compared to the benefits they did not have currently. The majority of the remaining villains had chosen to be neutral, only protecting their bases and sites while continuing transferring operation overseas, a trend that had begun ever since All Might's coronation of the strongest hero.
"Nezu-san, about the UA dorm, is your project ready?"
"It's already complete, Takane-san. And final preparations for All Might have finished as well. Only the World Government is the one still building for another 8 hours."
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On the black vessel outside of Japan's international water, the reactor fueling the ship had been running at maximum output to funnel power to two things: the armor forcefield and the dimension isolation actualizer (DIA). The progress was delayed by attacks from villains arriving through purple portals but fending off the falling villains were simply targets for the auto turrets but some slipped through the cracks and landed onto the vessel, slipping inside with the aid with a villain with phasing quirk bypassing the outer shell.
The phasing villain managed to steady his stance and crouched. His bare hands touched the surface and he let gravity pulled him through the floor. The infiltration was naked but he had gotten used to it. At least the tutorial of weapon sheathing inside the esophagus from India did not leave him defenseless. Before he could make his way around to find a map of the place, a loud bang reverberated through the air and floor. Someone had broken in directly, a good distraction for his cover.
"Kurogiri, do your part and ... META LIBERATION ARMY!"
"YES!"
The united shouting of thousands of soldiers following the leader of the Meta Liberation Army." Beside him were a few direct generals with potent quirk, aka "meta ability." The Deika city center shook with excitement and pride in their ideology of freedom of quirk usage as a fundamental right of human. The people there, drenched in the belief of intrinsic rights to using their "meta abilities", had honed their quirks and were ready to unleash it onto their oppressors. Compatibility was taken into account and the brains behind the operation were on life support due to exhaustion. That turned the operation into a limited free-for-all.
The squadrons awaited as portals opened beneath them and brought all of them to their targets.
'The future is cut off. The divisionary team of them really works fast.'
Thought All For One as attempts after attempts of prying into the future possibilities all returned a meaningless nothing. His favorite tactic of scrying the branches of time to find clues or outright details about the plans of his enemies. Since he had not received a backlash from viewing too many paths at the same time (something that should not have happened due to his quirks network bearing the burden and training his mental fortitude to cope with the information volume), the only possibility left is an unknown Singularity uniting all branches into one singular node, a nexus result in timeline, or a joint effort placing a blindfold over his sense.
All For One was loving every moment of the game. With enough power in your palm, something that could affect millions became insignificant. He could be prideful with what he had going on at the moment but why stopped there, why cowered and be satisfied with this amount of power he had amassed.
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It was nighttime but not the usual urban nighttime when shops and stores shifted their earlier professional mood to a more tone-down, jazzy one. In fact, there was no activity except for a gunfight.
"12 o'clock, Kira!"
"On it!"
A man, whose red hair had hardened and pierced the ground like stabilizing pillars, swung his left arm forward and drove a pilebunker through the black monster. The supersonic explosion following the piercing of the monster' armored head shattered the few remaining windows around there. Not faraway from there, one of the team member, a petite man from whose elbows grew long blade of grasses, brought his hands to opposite elbows and pulled. The trained upper body provided enough power to rip the head off, despite how jagged the injury looked.
"Return to your pokeball, Bullbasaurous."
"Bullbasaurous grows vines, not grasses, and from the back, not elbows. But is that every enemy here? I was expecting a flood."
"Don't jinx it. The flood is not heading here. Remember the idiots entrusted with I-Island gears? They have pulled the short end of the straw."
"To hold back that? I would not want to even see such horrid being."
"Get ready! Another five coming from 8 o'clock. I have sniped the biggest one in the head but the remaining pin pointed us too fast." Said the sniper on the tenth floor of the abandoned hotel. Using a pulley system to control her fall, she landed, rip the pulley system into her backpack in one whoosh and rushed behind the pilebunker man.
"Think of this as us pulling the pressure off the main team!"
"I will get them to pay for a full dining set of shellfish and beef!"
"That's the spirit, Bullbasaurous!"
"Watch your back when you are alone."
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The biological march of countless monsters had not been eye candy to any observers, especially close-up ones. But the monotonous nature of any job rendered any horrific aspect of the scene lackluster.
'Hasn't there been report of adaptation quirk among the monsters? Why are they not adapting?'
Thought the military company leader. The tsunami before him often crushed one member of the tide before the mangled parts were pulled into the void and reabsorbed to create more monsters. The quirk analysist beside him furrowed his brows.
"They only have high vitality, regeneration, and no future planning as of now. Compare that to the first report at the Hero fest, this wave is but a decoy. Takeru-san, what is the situation back at headquarter?"
"The heroes are keeping a surveillance perimeter 10 km from the center. The aerial detection system is working overtime to prevent suicide bombing or radio interferences from the villains."
"Leader, there are villains approaching from behind!"
Just as he registered the scream, a metal pipe, the size of javelin used in spear throwing, cut his left ears and ... pierced something invisible, black blood flowing out of a hole in space.
Then, the camouflage turned off. The hulking mass shrieked before pummeling the man in front of it. Three more pipes came and stabbed the downward limbs in place.
The leader whipped our a pistol with capsules acting as bullets. A single pull and half of the flesh tank vaporized. The muzzle was then aimed at the villains.
"Who are you?"
"We are not the same side as these monsters! We are villains, we need shelter and medical aid."
Said the man who was carrying the metal pipes looted from a construction site. Their appearance was shabby and dirty, four people and two were already on death bed if continued without medical care. Every hesitation disappeared as urgent requests for help came from the radio. Over half of the personnel had been compromised by the sudden strike from the front and only some of them could retreat.
"How can you see them?", Asked the military leader.
"I-I can see more wavelengths! That is my quirk. I'm a civilian and they saved me.", said a woman, her iris white.
"They are thinking that they are telling the truth. My sense told me. We need more manpower."
Beside the operation leader and the quirk analyst, there had been a team working around the clock to foresee and to plan around the biological tsunami. The woman leading the communication team had removed any doubts on the leader's mind.
And from the radio came a welcoming news.
"Negotiation has worked. Full military operation is allowed by World Government. France bombing in 5 minutes. Then other countries will followed. Mark the target."