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Chapter 22 - Unchained

*ALLMIGHT POV*

Allmight had been fighting Mammoth for about an hour. The veins surrounding his puncture wounds on his legs were now black, and he was finding it harder to stay on his feet.

He was more skilled than his opponent but any damage he dealt was almost instantly regenerated or shrugged off. He was running out of time both from the poison and his ability to use OFA.

Mammoth: "Come on!!! At this rate you'll drop dead before the fight is over."

With a roar Mammoth charged at Allmight only to be met with a tree that was uprooted. Allmight had been using said tree and other items such as cars and streetlamps to keep his distance.

Using the base of the tree he slammed down repeatedly onto Mammoth. The roots either broke or tore at the villain's chest as it was slammed into. Allmight was stronger than Mammoth but didn't have a way to put him down for good. Any blows that would have killed or crippled him were undone in a matter of seconds.

Having to stop due to shortness of breath Allmight took a few steps back. His vision was blurring, and his breath was ragged. This fight was coming to an end he just wasn't sure it was a good one.

Watching as the villain began to get back up, Allmight readied himself. This might be his last fight, but he would face his end with a smile. He had a successor; he had helped train the next generation and while he did fail in killing All for One, he knew no matter how dark the future will be there will always be a light for those in need to go to.

As Mammoth was on his way to finish the fight with Allmight a blur of red feathers surrounded the villain and began slash viciously at his eyes and vital organs.

Hawks: "Whoa!!! You don't look so good Allmight."

Allmight: "What are you doing here? U.A is under attack; you should be heading there."

Ragdoll: "We were on our way when we felt the shock waves from your fight. We figured that if someone was able to hold you up then we should see what we could do to help."

Hawks: "U.A is in trouble, and it needs Allmight you can't be there if this asshole is in your way."

Mirko: "Shut it!!! We are here and if we want to take out this freak and help everybody else then we should hurry up!!"

Rushing towards the villain the feathers parted for Mirko so she could safely land a blow on Mammoth's head. While the blow made him stagger it ultimately did nothing. The cuts on his body began to close and previously missing eyes reformed and stared in glee at the new commers.

Mammoth: "Hahahaha And here I thought my fun was coming to an end!!!"

Allmight: "Be careful, his claws are poisonous, and has a regeneration quirk. He also seems to be more durable. He has shaken off everything I throw at him." 

Allmight's warning got the attention of the newcomers. Somebody that can hold his own against Allmight is somebody to be weary of. 

Hawks: "So we either go for the head or burn him to ashes? I come by this place every so often there is a gas station near here."

Allmight: "Thats not enough. If we burn him it would need to be a long and hot fire. As for destroying his head...I'm not sure how his regeneration would hold up, he has managed to recover from any injury I gave him so far."

Swallowing hard Ragdoll spoke. "I'm not sure how much help I could be here, but I can go to the gas station and gather anything remotely flammable/combustable. If he is as durable as you say and based on what we just saw he is, we should try to take him out in one go.

Hawks if you could try to do as much damage to his brain as possible and Mirko and Allmight could push him to the gas station then it could prove to be too much for his regeneration."

They could hear the shakiness in her voice. She was out of her league, and truth be told so were Hawks and Mirko. Right now, their strongest fighter was being held up by this freak, and no matter how much they don't want to admit it the villain was winning. 

Mammoth: "Are you done? because if you need another minute I don't mind waiting."

The blood thirsty smile that was on his face despite the fact that he was being cut to ribbons showed how little he thought of the new arrivals. With a nod Ragdoll left as Allmight charged at Mammoth followed closely by Mirko. Hawks took to the sky and started to focus his attacks on the villain's head and neck, on occasion he would swoop down to slash at him. 

While the attacks from Hawks and Mirko didn't do much in terms of damage they did serve as a decent distraction so Allmight could land more blows. Mammoth had been put on the defensive occasionally swiping where he thought his attackers were. While Allmight could clear the wild swipes with relative ease despite his injuries Mirko and Hawks had more close calls and in the case of Mirko nearly got hit if one of Hawks feathers hadn't redirected her midair.

For twenty minutes this carried on hit and go tactic and the occasional crippling/would be fatal blow was dealt. The hero's had noticed that the regeneration had slowed down some but nothing of note. Allmight was meeting his limit when Hawks swooped down to let him know that Ragdoll was ready for them. After getting a rough estimate of where the gas station was Allmight charged at Mammoth.

Ducking under several blind swipes Allmight hit Mammoth with an uppercut that sent him flying into the air. Jumping after him again Allmight hit Mammoth again finally losing his muscle form and falling down. Hawks used his feathers to catch Allmight and carry Mammoth towards the trap. 

Jumping above Mammoth Mirko kicked the villain down the feathers that were attacking him were used to accelerate his decent. The resulting explosion was rather large, but Yagi knew it wasn't enough.

Monstrous laughter came from the dying flames as a figure began to rise from the ashes. The laughter quickly turned into screams as the previously dying flames quickly became an inferno that domed around the villain turning him to ashes. Silence came over the hero's as they looked on at the remains of Mammoth.

Hawks: "W-What was that?"

Allmight: "I-I don't know."

*KEN'S POV*

Ken stood in pitch black full body armor that had several words written on the armor each in different languages. Hieroglyphs, Kanji, German, Spanish, English, Code the list of different words and meanings seemed endless as they covered the armor. On his back were metal wings with blades for feathers. Glowing red eyes stared blankly ahead.

Ken was lost. He could feel everything, the elements around him were begging to obey his will. If he wanted, he could create the right combination of quirks and have the ocean swallow Japan in a matter of seconds. He could create storms that could wipe continents off the map. He could alter the tectonic plates of the earth, he could increase gravity of the entire planet to crush everybody.

All he needed to do was combine a simple quirk and amplify it with as boosters and use some energy that he has stockpiled, and boom something as simple as the ability to shoot small bolts of electricity out of your fingers becomes a lightning storm that's strong enough to wipe out a cluster of islands.

Nobody should have this kind of power.

Taking a breath Ken closed his eyes. There was a lot of fighting going on in Musutafu one of the first things he took notice of was the battle of Allmight, Mirko, Hawks, and Ragdoll against someone with multiple quirks. He could tell that they were trying to burn him based on the sudden increase of thermal temperature in the area. He could also tell based on the quirks that the villain had that it wouldn't be enough.

Raising his hand Ken took control of the flames despite the fact that he was nowhere near the fight. Slowly tightening his fist, he made the dying flames int a raging inferno that burned the villain into nothingness. 

Stopping for a moment he turned his attention to his clones. There was a quirk called hive mind that he tried to use before but ended up with a headache and a bloody nose. It was basically the dollar store six paths, but his mind wasn't able to handle the rush of info from different sources at the same time. Now however.

Kens vision split but through different eyes he saw the same thing. All for One held Eri by her neck.

AFO: "So...do we have a deal?"

Ken was livid as he spoke so did his clones all as one. "Oh you're so fucked."

With a thought a portal was made in front of him and behind All for One. Kens armored hand gripped the arm that held Eri and it decayed under his touch. As the arm fell apart in his grasp an additional arm came from Kens side and grabbed Eri, it extended and brought her safely to the ground. 

As Ken pushed AFO into another portal that led to a clearing multiple blades left his back and shot towards the different villains that littered U.A. Before the portal that Ken made could close his clones came through. As soon as they came through the other side of the portal the clones dispersed. Ken didn't need them, his feather blades were taking out the villains at U.A, and they wouldn't serve any purpose here. He could have left Senju there but Eri, Recovery Girl and several doctors and first responders were there. They could handle the injured he had more important things to do at the moment.

Looking down on the crippled villain Ken thought about all the different ways he could kill this man. Should it be long and painful, short and sweet cut off his head and burn his body? What to do.

Ken watched as AFO staggered to his feet and began to speak. He wasn't listening, the dude was dead he just didn't know it yet. His thoughts drifted from killing AFO to what he was going to do after. Eri was ok physically that's why he took his clones with him when he left. He wanted to tell her the truth about his clones and who they really were and having one just disappear in front of her probably wasn't good.

While Ken was stuck in his thoughts AFO had been charging his attack. His arm grew and morphed into a grotesque excuse for a limb. As his arm jutted forward a massive amount of air pressure sped towards Ken.

Without even thinking Ken's armored hand shot out and took control of the air and began to condense it. A horrible screeching sound filled the clearing as the air blast was shrunk down to the size of a marble.

With a flick of his finger the ball of condensed air shot towards All for One and obliterated his legs.

Ken thinking was cut short when he heard the screams of the old villain. He had further crippled AFO without even realizing it. It was hard to focus in this state the shear amount of information that he got and how fast his brain processed said info made it hard to focus. Thoughts came into focus and left twice as quickly. Ken was still human in the end and while his brain could handle the information, he had a hard time to truly grasping it.

Taking a deep breath Ken did his best to focus on AFO. He needed to kill this man and then... no he needed to do this first then he could think. Raising his right arm what looked to be mini suns surrounded AFO. The heat that the spheres produced made the very air catch fire, AFO screams became louder as he began to be cooked alive.

AFO was about to activate a short-range teleportation quirk when a black katana with what looked like blood red veins ran along the blade stabbed into his back. This sword had two quirks Eraser and Blood curdle, one stopped any usage of a quirk and the other stopped kept the body paralyzed as long as the wound made by the blade bleed.

Arms spread apart Ken clasped his hands together in a prayer like manner. He needed to end this while AFO was down, he would feel pretty stupid if he let him get away now. 

Looking down as the mini suns converged on their location AFO and Ken's eyes met. A low and dry rasp escaped the soon to be dead villain's lips.

AFO: "Who are you?"

Ken: "The end."