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"Should have stayed dead!" Dynamight screams while spinning, gathering the air around him as minor explosions are released from different parts of his body, increasing his momentum.
"Little bug," Shigaraki casually turns to face the Pro Hero, stretching his arms and lowering into a deep crouch. "You'll die first!" he rockets into the air, the power of his legs pushing off the ground shatters the earth beneath him.
In an instant, he's in front of Dynamight, his face inches from a pair of glowing palms as a massive explosion rocks the area.
The explosion is heard for miles, drawing the attention of the precious few survivors of the decay wave, launching Shigaraki into the ground and Dynamight into the air.
'Damn it,' Dynamight stabilizes himself in the air, arms trembling from the strain of the attack while staring at the dust cloud below him. 'Where the hell are you—'
His eyes widen as Shigaraki leaps out of the cloud at an absurd speed.'Shit!' Dynamight uses an explosion to push himself aside, watching as Shigaraki ascends hundreds of feet above him. 'He can't fly!' he updates Mandalay, who shares the intel with everyone.
But to his horror, Shigaraki punches the air and pivots, moving through the atmosphere in the same manner as Deku and All Might, directly toward Dynamight.
Seeing the clear attack vector, Dynamight dodges him once again.
"Try this!" Shigaraki opens his palm toward Dynamight while rushing past him and releases a bolt of lightning directly at the Pro Hero.
Dynamight avoids the first bolt, but in that time, Shigaraki landed on the ground and leapt toward him again.
"Gotcha," Shigaraki rears back his fist to decapitate Dynamight, only to be knocked aside by a translucent blue energy ring slamming into him, sending him tumbling across the crater as Dynamight blasts him with an explosion.
"What the hell took you so long?" He turns in mid-air, speaking to Majestic.
Beside him, the Pro Hero, Majestic, was standing in the air on a ring of blue energy created by his Quirk. Alongside him was Gang Orca on an identical ring.
Majestic glares at Shigaraki as Mandalay updates them on everyone's positions. "This is the thing that killed Genesis…I'll make him pay for what he did to my sidekick," he grinds his teeth in frustration.
Dynamight hears that, and it takes all his self-control not to charge at Shigaraki in a blind rage.
"We need to keep him off the floor," Dynamight says.
"I know. My energy rings can handle that. We need to get him in position for Gang Orca to shake him up."
"I'll conserve my strength until then," Gang Orca says.
"Then let's start before he gets bored and leaves," Dynamight rushes toward Shigaraki as Majestic struggles to keep up.
"Of course, ants swarm," Shigaraki mutters before rushing forward, running across the battlefield as Dynamight is now flying low enough to effectively fight on the ground.
'Fast,' Dynamight barely dodges one of Shigaraki's punches, pushed back by the air pressure of his limb moving, and almost blown away.
He uses explosions to get around Shigaraki and blast the side of his face, but the villain doesn't even flinch, much less take any visible damage.
Shigaraki kicks forward, and Dynamight barely dodges, again. 'If I weren't training with Deku, that would have killed me,' he thinks as Shigaraki frowns.
'My body is sluggish to respond. Did they wake me up that early?' he wonders while quickly overwhelming Dynamight. He moves to launch another kick, but the moment he raises his leg, a blue energy ring appears under his foot. 'Huh?'
The energy ring explodes, launching him into the air for Dynamight to brace himself against the earth and points both palms up, releasing another massive explosion at Shigaraki point blank.
Shigaraki is sent tumbling through the air, and the moment he catches his bearings, an immense heat overwhelms him.
A beam of white-hot fire slams into him and pushes him into the earth, melting the ground around him and burning away his skin.
The muscle beneath his skin is charred as his eyes boil and explode, only to be healed just as quickly as they're destroyed.
It lasts for all of ten seconds before the heat and bright light subsides, and they turn to Endeavor, who'd just arrived with Shoto.
"Seriously?" Endeavor asks after landing, Shoto already cooling him off as they all watch Shigaraki get out of the molten pool, spitting up some melted rock and shaking some out of his regenerating white hair.
"Number one, you're here already," Shigaraki smiles at them. "Now it's a party."
He tenses his muscles, ready to charge at Endeavor, but glances to the side, noticing the other Top 10 Pro Heroes approaching the battlefield.
"This party is a bit too crowded for my taste," Shigaraki drops to one knee and moves to touch the ground with his palms.
'Never again,' Majestic thinks as he creates a blue energy ring below Shigaraki and detonates it, launching him into the air before he can decay anything.
"Hurry and cool off," Dynamight says to Endeavor before leaping into the air, engaging Shigaraki with explosions in close range.
Shigaraki notices their plan and activates some of his mutation Quirks, hardening his skin and body with Armor and Scales Quirks, among many others.
Dynamight immediately notices this as his explosion can now barely make Shigaraki flinch, but he smiles anyway.
Shigaraki reaches out to grab his head, but Dynamight uses an explosion to propel himself downward before spinning and launching an explosion up, sending Shigaraki higher into the air.
'What?' Shigaraki looks up to see Mirko above him. Her entire body tensed into a spinning axe kick, dropping her heel directly toward his skull. He raises his palm to touch her leg, ready to decay her.
However, the moment they make contact, his powerful body stops her kick, but the decay doesn't happen.
Instead, she twists and kicks him with her free leg on the side of his head, continuing to twist her body and launch him toward the ground.
Using the recoil of that attack, she backflips and is caught by Ryukyu, who has Eraser Head on her back.
"Now get me out of here," Eraser Head says. "I don't need to keep looking at him. Just drop me off within a mile and make sure I don't have to blink."
"I'll go join the fight," Mirko leaps back off the dragon and nosedives toward the battlefield below.
'Eraser Head disabled his Quirks!' Mandalay excitedly announces to everyone on the ground as Shigaraki is sent toward them by Mirko's kick.
Endeavor, Shoto, and Gang Orca charge forward.
Shigaraki descends hundreds of feet toward the ground and slams into the stone, hard enough to shake the crater as his body bounces a few feet up from the impact.
His eyes open, processing the immense pain wracking him as his Pain Nullification Quirk is now disabled.
But the first thing he sees is a pissed off Endeavor standing a dozen meters -40ft- away, flames condensed on his chest as Shoto stands beside him.
Shoto has one hand creating powerful flames as his other hand rests on Endeavor's side, cooling himself and his father at once.
'Even with my Quirks disabled, my body is so resistant to fire that I can last long enough without Super Regen—' Shigaraki's thoughts are interrupted as his brain is put into a blender.
A wave of vibrations washes over him from Gang Orca, who was positioned to sandwich him between the Todorokis and himself.
The sonic attack rattles his brain, the stream of vibrations tearing up the ground and pushing him toward Endeavor and Shoto, who unleash hellfire upon him.
The heat they release causes so much air pressure that Shigaraki is sandwiched between a constant onslaught of vibrational shockwaves and their flames, burning him away and shaking him apart all at once.
"Arghhh—" his screams are cut short by his vocal cords being burned up.
He covers his face with his hands, desperate to protect his eyes and nose, the hot air already damaging his lungs and causing him to spit up blood, to drown in his own blood.
His minor natural regeneration is working, but not nearly fast enough to counteract their power.
They burn and shake him down until the bone under his skin is showing charred black. The side of his skull facing Endeavor and Shoto is revealed, along with much of the bones on the right side of his body, surrounded by charred black flesh.
Shigaraki feels his lips burn away next, then the blood he's constantly throwing up boils in his mouth while drowning him, causing his mind to get hazy.
'Focus,' he chants to himself, struggling to think of anything at the moment.
He takes one step forward, scaring everyone, but they keep the pressure on him.
"Don't move," Best Jeanist says, controlling the DNA Fabric of Shigarki's pants to anchor him to the ground and restrict his legs. Based on his DNA and connected to his Quirks, they're just as durable as he is at the moment.
'Fire, too much fire,' Shigaraki thinks as he fades in and out of consciousness. 'Need to decay, need to…breathe,' he feels his lungs almost full of blood before it all evaporates and expands, doing absurd damage to his internal organs.
He pivots in that moment, overcome by the absolute desire to survive above all else.
Acting purely on instinct, he moves to stop the vibrational attack, lunging at Gang Orca.
Gang Orca keeps his composure as Shigaraki rushes toward him, amplifying his attack even more as the Villain reaches out to grab his face.
Shigaraki's right hand breaks apart and burns away as he gets closer, the vibrations becoming more effective with each inch he closes.
But even with a stump below his elbow, he shoves it through Gang Orca's head before anyone can react.
With speed and strength comparable to All Might in his prime, they could barely even see what happened before he tore the whale-man in half.
Majestic reacts quickly, forming an exploding energy ring below Shigaraki and launching him into the air.
However, at that same instant, Shigaraki threw Gang Orca's corpse at him, crushing him.
The Pro Heroes acknowledge this, but don't lose a step as two of their friends are killed.
Mt. Lady rushes forward and raises an enlarged steel beam like a bat, knocking Shigaraki into the air for Dynamight to chase him, giving Endeavor and Shoto time to cool off.
Shigaraki flips in the air and kicks upward, completely halting his moment just above the battlefield as his eyes regenerate, much slower than Super Regeneration, but still a concerning speed for the Pro Heroes.
His one good eye locks onto Endeavor, and he kicks his feet against the air, launching himself at the man.
Dynamight notices his path and tries to intercept, but is too slow, barely recognizing a blur as Shigaraki rushes past him.
Endeavor sees the Villain coming and raises his hand to release a streak of flames, much weaker since his body is almost overheated
Shoto uses his ice to generate a wall in front of them, trying to buy any second he can.
However, none of them are fast enough to mount even a measly defense against a rabid Shigaraki.
The thin ice wall forms, and before Shigaraki can even reach it.
BOOM!
It explodes into nothing, as they're all nearly torn off the ground by an immense shockwave and draft.
Best Jeanist desperately uses his Quirk to anchor them as multiple sonic booms rock the battlefield.
"What the hell was that?" Mirko asks. Even her incredible eyes didn't see what happened.
She turns in the direction Shigaraki went and sees a massive trench carved out for hundreds of feet, hearing deafening explosions from the far end of it.
At the end of the trench, after moving at inhuman speeds and drop kicking Shigaraki across the battlefield, Deku is straddling his chest, unleashing a barrage of punches that hit like a stream of earthquakes.
His arms move like a blur as each strike connects with Shigaraki's skull, cracking it and trying to crush his brain into dust with each one.
"Just die already!" Deku screams as he keeps punching with everything he has, shaking apart what remains of the city, causing massive cracks through the region as hundreds of punches connect, nearly flattening Shigaraki's skull and brain.
Beneath him, Shigaraki is entirely unconscious, slowly dying as his brain collapses in on itself.
"SMASH!" Deku screams as he delivers the final blow to Shigaraki, shattering his skull and smashing his fist through the brain, punching a hole through him and embedding his gloved fist into the earth beneath the Villain.
Deku pants frantically, not bothered by what he'd just done, only seeing it as justified. But catching his breath after that much exertion.
'Update?' Mandalay asks as the city stops shaking.
'I think he's dead,' Deku says. 'But don't let Aizawa-Sensei blink yet, not while he's still in one pie—'
Deku's thoughts are cut off as another burst of what they believe to be a Radio Wave Quirk washes over the battlefield.
And directly below him, Shigaraki's body jerks upward and glows bright orange, a dormant Detonation Quirk activating.
Deku retreats hundreds of feet back to his allies in an instant, avoiding the blast, which causes a crater the size of a football field.
'Mandalay?' Deku asks.
'Eraser Head still hasn't blinked. It must be something else.'
Across the battlefield from them, Shigaraki is on his knees as his body slowly regenerates.
He looks up to see all the Top 10 Pro Heroes, along with Bakugo, Shoto, Burnin, and Tsukuyomi, descending upon him, led by Deku, who clearly has murder in his eyes.
'Tomura,' All For One's voice speaks in his mind.
'Master! Was that you? But, how?'
'I am still learning the limitations of what I am, or more accurately, the lack of limitations,' All For One says. 'That boy, I want his Quirk, Tomura.'
'Deku?'
'Yes, Deku. You have failed me thrice before. Do your best not to fail me again, Tomura…'
'I won't fail you, master. Never again!' Tomura Shigaraki rushes forward as his body slowly repairs itself, ready for another round against the greatest Pro Heroes of Japan.
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