Later That Night.
All For One.
"So... hero, who do you work for? Because it's certainly not the Commission..."
An analysis Quirk... and a potent one of that. One that let Atlas craft the perfect team to not only take down Number Six, but to push him so close to death... that All For One just had to intervene.
RADIO WAVES!
At his command, Kurogiri appears by his side. All For One puts his hand on the mist's shoulder.
FORCED QUIRK ACTIVATION!
Kurogiri's mist appears before him, guiding him to the back of Atlas's head.
But just as he was reaching out his hand—!
'Something's off,' All For One thinks... and he couldn't be more right.
For the last twenty minutes, Konan had slowly but surely covered All For One's tux in slips of herself. But... because these slips were not "her," they did not contain the part of the Quirk that All For One could innately sense.
His final sensory ability discovered, all without his knowledge.
And instead of subtly reaching out of Kurogiri's portal, he's pulled all the way through.
The same slips pulling Atlas out of the way.
All while Rinka slams through the warehouse wall, deadset on killing Kurogiri, who is now suffering under the after effects of Forcible Quirk Activation...
And then... before All For One can even realize what is happening...
He cannot feel his Quirks.
Life Force shuts off. He immediately starts to wither.
Super Regeneration— as well as all of his passive mutation Quirks— continue to function, but he cannot toggle their active effects with All For One. Leaving him exactly as he is.
He cannot see. He can barely breathe.
He coughs up blood.
But... despite everything...
All For One feels just one of his emitter Quirks roar back to life.
One that, when put up against Erasure, is simply defiant.
A Quirk that cannot be exhausted, because it shunts off its exhaustion onto others. A Quirk that has always spoke to him in odd and fascinating ways.
Forcible Quirk Activation— the Quirk to forcibly activate Quirks— cannot be forced to stop.
A nuance that All For One never even realized existed, because just like Seiki, he had always been far too afraid to meet Eraserhead face to face.
And Forcible Quirk Activation... can forcibly activate a single Quirk.
RADIO WAVES!
He knocks out all the electronics in a three block radius. Kurogiri does not respond.
And while he panics... All For One has been alive for hundreds of years.
He has plans upon plans upon plans.
RADIO WAVES!
He knocks out all the electronics in twelve blocks. And then, one of the Nomus that Garaki created, springs to life— "Johnny."
Activating Warp.
But he's too far from Hosu Hospital for the Nomu to warp him... under normal circumstances. Thankfully, All For One had ordered the Nomu to be set to receive a Trigger Injection... and even if it will die... it will still be able to manage one last Quirk activation. An activation that spans nearly all of Japan.
Grey goo erupts out of his mouth, swallowing him whole, clothes and all.
But not Konan's slips, because of Warp's own built-in limitations.
The Nomu, Johnny, does not "know" Konan. So not only can Johnny not warp her, the Nomu cannot even warp a single part of her.
And then he's in Hosu.
Escaping without the Titan that All For One faces unknowingly, knowing where he could be.
But... All For One still cannot feel his Quirks. He grits his teeth in both pain and anger as he continues to wither all while Super Regeneration continues to hold him together. Because Shota Aizawa's eyes are still open... and Erasure will not shut off without Aizawa's permission.
No matter how far the opponent flees, once he lays eyes on them, they will suffer from their lack of Quirk— or Quirks— until Eraserhead blinks.
There's a reason Titans fear him.
But before All For One can wither any further... he uses a single Quirk. LIFE FORCE!
And under FQA's command, Life Force forcibly roars back to life.
"That... was far too close," All For One growls. Angry, and despite it not showing on his permanently disfigured face, afraid. Because this is the first time in his life that he had ever been predicted to such a frightening degree.
He reaches the only plausible conclusion.
"Nighteye..."
But despite it all... All For One's face morphs into a crazed, wicked grin.
Because now, now he knows that even with Erasure active... he can use a single emitter or transformation Quirk. And that so happens to include his base Quirk, All For One. So as soon as he recovers... he will finally take Erasure for himself. Personally.
And after he acquires Erasure, he will go after the other Titans of the world.
However...
Erasure has already been acquired by someone else. Acquired by the Titan currently looming in the shadows, the Titan hiding in All For One's very own backyard.
All because All For One couldn't face the mortal they both feared first.
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Seiki.
"I thought you took care of the teleporter," Eraserhead remarks... finally blinking.
Seiki throws his hands up into the air. "Well, I didn't expect him to have another one! Fucking christ! And... it's not a telepathy Quirk that he's using, but some sort of electronic communication Quirk. A Quirk that just so happens to short out any tracking device that we can put on him. God fucking... what the fuck is that bullshit," he rambles, annoyed beyond belief.
And Seiki cannot locate All For One with the resources that he has.
As far as the world is concerned, this is checkmate.
LOAD1.
But Atlas can undo any move he makes, letting him cheat just as much as All For One.
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Mid Afternoon.
"So... did we kill him?" Eraserhead asks, seeing Seiki's eyes swirl. "Or... I guess not," the hero amends, seeing the annoyance seeping off of him.
"No... because not only does he have another fucking teleporter in his pocket... he was still able to use his Quirks, even with you staring right fucking at him," Seiki groans... and then it hits him. "No... just... just a single Quirk. He... he was able to forcibly activate a single Quirk."
"Aaaaah. To think his natural counter for you, would also be his counter for Aizawa," Nezu comments, leaning back in his chair.
Because in the world of Quirks, every battle is a game of rock, paper, scissors.
And while All For One is almost certainly a mountain... the boogeyman has been collecting hundreds, if not thousands of rocks, papers, and scissors, all to himself... for the last three hundred years.
And in a cruel twist of fate...
Seiki Yamazaki can still prevent All For One from acquiring such a wildcard.
September 29th, Year 2304.
Seiki Yamazaki registers his Quirk, Trickshot. Hokkaido Japan.
November 5th, Year 2304.
Fueko registers her Quirk, Forcible Quirk Activation. Kamino Ward Japan.
November 12th, Year 2304.
Fueko disappears, never to be seen again.
He'd only have five weeks to solve the problem... but Seiki could do it. Because Save & Load grants him infinite time. But no.
Seiki's not going back until he's exhausted every available option... and even then, he still won't be going back. All of Japan be damned.
So its time to trust his unvetted resources just a little bit more.
"Alright... Nezu. My man. My rodent bro. We need a way to track the untrackable. You got anyone in mind?"
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Earlier That Day.
Eraserhead.
Shota Aizawa looks around the Yuuei conference room.
Rinka Wolfe.
Konan.
D'Vorah.
Azula Onozaki.
Narumi Yamazaki.
Seiki Yamazaki.
Shota... doesn't actually know who any of these people are, or why all of them are here. In fact, Shota doesn't even know why he himself is here. But Nezu had told him that he'd be getting a 10 million yen bonus just to come in, so he decided why the hell not.
But that doesn't mean he isn't curious.
"So... why are we—" Aizawa starts.
"Ah, ah, ah," the rodent chides, wagging one of his adorable little fingers. "We're still waiting for one more group of guests. Then I shall explain... everything!"
Just a few moments later, three catgirls— and one catboy— burst through the door.
"Lock on with these sparkling gazes!" Mandalay starts.
"We've come to lend a paw and help!!" Ragdoll seconds.
"Coming out of nowhere..." Tiger continues.
"Stingingly cute and cat like!" Pixie-bob rounds out.
""""Wild, Wild... Pussycats!""""
Seiki claps, thoroughly amused... only for Ragdoll to glance over at Atlas.
Ragdoll freezes.
"Uh, uh-huh... AAAAAAAH!!!" and then she immediately screams and runs back into the hall, as far away from the conference room as possible.
Seiki lets out a snort.
"And THAT is why we're here!" Nezu exclaims, his head thrown back as he cackles. "All of us have gathered today, because we must help a Titan... kill another Titan!"
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Later That Night.
All For One.
But before All For One can wither any further... he uses a single Quirk. LIFE FORCE!
And under FQA's command, Life Force forcibly roars back to life.
"That... was far too close," All For One growls. Angry, and despite it not showing on his permanently disfigured face, afraid. Because this is the first time in his life that he had ever been predicted to such a frightening degree.
And something that would scare him even further... is that this is the second time this has happened to him. The first encounter happening entirely without his knowledge.
And now, there's a brilliant, shining star shining right on his location.
One that only a single person within Japan can see.
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Seiki.
"He's in Hosu, in... in a hospital..."
"Can you see his weaknesses?" Seiki presses. "I've read up on you guys, I know that that's something you're known for. Not to mention when you first laid eyes on me..." he off trailed, chuckling lightly.
To which Ragdoll pouts. "Hey! Your, your Quirk is freaking crazy," she defends. "And, while I can see his weaknesses... only those regarding his original Quirk," she says, sighing in defeat. "To which my Quirk just desperately warns me run away, and to not let him touch me no matter what.
"And yours... my Quirk not only tells me to run away, it tells me that I am incapable of escaping you. It... it tells me not to cross you, or I can only lose forever. It tells me that at any point in t-time, you can kill me w-with a single t-thought, all w-w-without me k-knowing that you even exist. And while, r-rationally, I k-know that All For One is the g-greater threat..."
"...You want to trust your Quirk." he finishes. "Well... I'll just say this. You're far too cute to be worried about crossing me," he says lightly, trying to put her worries at ease.
"It... it also s-says that you are capable of c-convincing me to do anything you want," she stutters. "W-Which includes s-s-sex."
"Oh? If I didn't know any better, I'd say you sound flustered."
"P-Please don't s-s-seduce me."
"Mmmm... but when you tell me not to do something, that just makes me—" and then his mom smacks the back of his head.
"Stop harassing her," Narumi scolds him... and yeah. He deserved that.
But to his defense, Ragdoll was just too cute not to mess with.
"I'm sorry about my son," she says. "He's a bit of a slut. If anything, he should've just fucked that blonde— oh."
Narumi brushes her hand across Seiki's arm, and then lets out an exasperated huff.
"What?" Ragdoll asks, only to use her Quirk on Narumi.
And then it clicks.
"Oh g-god, f-f-fucking... ugh..." Ragdoll recoils.
"Hey! You saw the way that Pixie was throwing herself at me earlier. You're kitty friend's got some claws on her, and she isn't afraid to use them either—"
"D-Don't tell me about it!!!"
"Fine... don't worry. I'm not gonna hurt her. I told her exactly what to expect— and blondie wanted to fuck me anyways."
"I told you not to tell me about it."
"Ignoring... that," Eraserhead cuts in. "What's next?"
"Now... we find and murk All For One's second fucking teleporter."
And then, hopefully, there is no third teleporter.
Which will then leave them with an All For One that can only use a single Quirk, Forcible Quirk Activation.
And really, how much of a threat can All For One be, with just a single Quirk?
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