Morning was coming, the first rays of the Sun broke through the hot mountains and began to warm the scorched earth, on which most likely nothing would ever grow again. Neither birds nor animals were heard, and the trees, whose leaves had burned out, would soon fall. After all, an incredibly large fire was approaching them. However, the fire quickly died out, and the heat was directed by a heated beam at Ash, who had been trying to somehow injure All For One for 3 hours, a couple of times the really heated air turned out to be faster than teleportation and the accelerated reaction of All For One. This was a battle of attrition, it was unknown who would win.
It seemed that no one was paying attention to a battle of such a scale, only in the morning did the movement begin. Even at night, the battle moved to the highway, across which a truck was passing. He was carrying some goods to the large city of Musutafu, but fate had other plans. A tired but smiling All For One flew in front of the truck, trying for an hour to get as close to Ash as possible to steal the quirk, but he was getting burns of varying degrees when he couldn't get away from the hot air. It was not yet time to use a couple of trump cards that he had in store.
The driver, by the way, survived and was very scared, called the local police. They arrived at the scene of the battle, and in the past the village of Shitara, of which only a name remained. They called the heroes, yes, probably everyone they could. The battle gradually moved beyond the road and crossed over the ocean.
All For One, using an unknown water quirk, splashed several thousand tons of water on Ash - Cool down! - The water immediately began to evaporate, a steam shock occurred, which threw Ash to the ground. The energy continued to flow, so the overheating was approaching its peak due to the increased intensity of solar heat. Ash was a sentient, yet silent and corrupted creature, born from its own power. Like a parasitic form of quirk. Previously, many human emotions were alien to it, but now for the first time it learned the fear it felt from the boy, Ash felt the approaching end. The fight does not end, and the enemy continues to press. And all sorts of annoying flies fly over the ear.
Helicopters, on which journalists and cameramen were located, they were afraid to fly close, since several of them had already been shot down, so they could not recognize the faces of the two silhouettes. One of the silhouettes was smaller, which caused them some confusion. The fight caused a sensation in the media, unusually little was known about it. Many even doubted whether such a village actually existed. Every time the heroes tried to intervene, they flew away. Not because they did not want to hurt the heroes, All For One and Ash simply had an enormous movement speed. Even with cameras, it's hard to see what was happening. The accidental and careless heat from Ash melted some heroes, cars, trucks, even buildings.
Once back on the ground, Ash was ready to finish, all or nothing! What happened next was unclear even to the author of this work, until he came up with it. In a split second, All For One teleported right behind his back, resolutely trying to capture the quirk, playing on the reaction, and also chasing and weakening the enemy for hours. A very good tactic against such a quirk. That's why he initially saved his strength for the last spurt.
All For One knew that now all the heat would be thrown into his release, so he used the quirk "Absorption and Release" to suppress the heat generated to protect Ash, and then he would be defenseless for a very short moment, and then he could be immobilized and the quirk taken away.
All For One absorbed all the heat, which began to gradually destroy his body, burning his insides, he had a couple of seconds while Ash was disoriented and in a misunderstanding of what was happening. He could withstand such pain if only he had time to take the quirk. His hands reached Ash's head and All For One's finger touched his forehead. Activating his main quirk - All For One (quirk), he concentrated all his consciousness on his finger. Ash, in turn, felt how he was losing control over Nobu's body and did not have time to do anything, but All For One did not expect to feel the resistance of a third party, it was another person - Ash.
Losing control over the body, Ash loosened his grip and Nobu seized the initiative over his body. Nobu was afraid and barely had time to react. He instantly heated and surrounded All For One with heated air. And then he simply sent all the crumbs of his remaining power into him, while he was digesting Ash's resisting personality and most of his power.
Nobu, with all responsibility, was forced to consciously attempt to kill this man. He was ashamed, scared and uncomfortable. He was forced to do it. Fortunately for him, the attack damaged, but did not kill All For One.
The villain began to feel tremendous pain and was getting burns in a few seconds of fighting. He was able to absorb the boy's quirk, and Ash moved into his mind and gradually gained the upper hand, but for a split second, All For One lost control of his main quirk. He decided to use Rollback so as not to die and not lose consciousness from the pain. Then he activated Absorption and Release to dissipate all the excess heat.
Ash transferred Rollback and several other quirks to Nobu so that All For One could not use them. In fact, Ash realized that this was most likely his end, because All For One's personality was not as weak and childish as the boy's, he would not be able to absorb it, and he could not return back to Nobu's body due to All For One's resistance (quirk).
Ash decided to dissipate and release the energy from his power using Absorption and Release. He hoped for luck. But before that, he teleported Nobu somewhere. Nobu disappeared, he could calmly sink into the summer and dissipate the energy. Ash released a small beam of plasma into the sky, which then scattered in different directions. All for One finally overcame Ash's will, regaining control of his body. He was left with charred clothes, the Rollback healed all the wounds he received before using it. The burns he received after remained, they will be difficult to heal, such complex burns that in some areas the skin became inflamed and peeled off.
It happened too quickly. All for One realized only after a few seconds of thought. Only then did he disappear, completely exhausted, disappointed, humiliated. He lost his synthesized quirk and several other junk, and Ash's power was completely lost, dissipated in the sky. This beam was seen by all of Japan, how high it was, and many media showed it. The helicopters with reporters were left helplessly flying, and the professional heroes who arrived realized too late that the battle was already over.
All For One moved to the laboratory to Dr. Ujiko. This scientist had already begun preparing to create the first Nomu squad from the material he had received. Prisoners and tranquilized people.
- Is someone in a bad mood? ... Oh.. - asked Ujiko, only too late seeing the burns, the vein on VZO's forehead, as well as his clenched fists from anger.
- ... - he only remained silent, realizing that this child had outsmarted him, brazenly deceived him and disappeared. He could not even imagine that Ash was such a deep quirk with its own "I". - "Now it does not matter anymore." - All For One needed to heal his wounds and rest, as well as time to figure out what to do next.
- "I still have Absorption and Release and Skeletal Muscle Coil. I need to find that kid." - All For One had learned a lot in his long life, and he knows how to keep his composure in the face of adversity, but even a situation like this where he was outplayed was shocking to him. This boy, Nobu, took away not only his quirks, but most importantly, his respect and hurt his pride. He didn't know where to look for him, because at that moment, the teleportation quirk was beyond his control. - "I hope I can find something with my connections in Japan. That's the best case scenario, and at worst... Well, it could take many years."
- Nobu Himura... I hope that the next time we meet, you can give me a show no worse than this one. - All For One said, smiling at the end. Since several more were stolen in addition to the Recoil, they were weak and unnecessary when he first tried it, so he was worried about losing only the Recoil. All For One didn't realize that he had lost his inactive Quirk Synthesis either.
An uncontrollable release of Ash, Absorption, and Release abilities, as well as Rollback, Muscle-Skeleton Spiral, and Teleportation, the latter, by the way, was weakened for strange reasons, possibly due to this release, which blew away everything within a radius of five hundred meters. In the future, it will become known as the Curvature of Space. The media called this village a ghost village, since few people knew about it, which is strange, officials were cold and did not comment. Almighty could have intervened in this, but he himself was busy with many things, continuing to rise to the top of the world. He has already become the top one in Japan, and very soon all eyes will be turned to this country, because of the professional hero with the provocative name "Almighty" who will soon become the top of the world - the Symbol of Peace.
Ashen Qiurk (lost) - the quirk self-destructed, dispersing its energy all over the world. What happens next?
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End of the first arc
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