Nana's POV (The fateful day: The beginning of the 2nd War)
Around 10 AM this morning, Midoriya and I made our way toward an abandoned city outside UA to meet up with Aoyama. When we finally reached the designated spot, we found our blonde friend standing alone in the middle of a huge parking lot in front of a shopping mall.
"Thank you for coming..." Aoyama greeted us in a quiet yet monotone voice with a dull look in his eyes as Midoriya and I flew down from the sky and landed just a few feet away from him on the ground.
"Why are you out here, Aoyama? Weren't you being detained?" I asked, raising an eyebrow in confusion.
"My parents' lawyer got me released..." Aoyama replied and this brought a big smile to Midoriya's face.
"We gotta tell everyone!" Midoriya stated in relief, turning around to leave. "We can rejoin the search effort and-"
"Wait..." Aoyama spoke up again, causing Midoriya to halt on his spot while I stared at the blonde boy with a skeptical look. "I'd like to speak to you two. It's almost funny... That courts and the illegal system still exist despite Japan being in ruins. With society as it is now, would the old ways of living really get you anywhere?"
"What do you mean Aoyama?" I asked with furrowed eyebrows, crossing my arms over my chest.
"Let me tell you All For One's real goal..." Aoyama continued and this got our full attention. "With the state Japan's in... do you know what's become of the rest of the world? The sudden crash in the value of the Yen... forced Japanese corporations into bankruptcy. That, plus the coordinated uprisings of villains caused the damage to spread worldwide. Now the world faces a crisis much like the Great Depression or the period around the advent of quirks. Record unemployment, loss of faith in currencies... an era of total chaos."
"What are you talking about, Aoyama?" Midoriya asked, getting a bit uncomfortable with this talk.
"Lacking the strength to implement long-term policies, Japan's society devolves into one scrambling for short-term safety. While the nations who have abandoned Japan prioritize their own stability. In such a world imagine a country lacking potable water. Imagine if a quirk capable of producing that water were to suddenly appear. Or electricity or gas. Or strength. As the world is plunged into this state of chaotic decline, we suddenly have an arena ripe for a certain remarkable individual to take the initiative. he would become the world's arbiter; its very own Demon Lord. He only had to rock that balance somewhere. It didn't matter how." Aoyama added.
AFO's ultimate plan is... Capitalism... To become a World Bank?! Like seriously?! You gotta be fucking kidding me!!
"I don't think so... The world would never go along with that." I countered back in a strong tone.
"Nana-chan's right. Besides the world still has us!" Midoriya added.
"True. Which is why it all has to end here." Aoyama stated with a saddened face and teary eyes, his voice cracking in the end as a certain someone emerged from behind him. "I'm sorry. Alas, I had to protect Mama and Papa."
"All For One!!" Midoriya and I gasped out in unison, shocked, our eyes widened in the process.
"Splendidly done, Yuga Aoyama." AFO stated and clapped his hands, who was in formal attire with a black skull mask covering his whole head. "How terrifying it must have been to turn on your friends like this. How heartrending, to betray someone who put their faith in you. But you overcame the fear and pain! And that speech about my ultimate goal? Wonderful! Wrong in some of the details but that's fine. Did your parents explain it all to you?"
"Yes..." Aoyama replied in a trembling tone with tears rolling down his cheeks as he held a remorseful look on his face. "They said you promised us a blessed existence in your new world."
"Aoyama, did you really betray us again?!" I yelled out through my gritted teeth, clenching my fists in anger and frustration. "How could you?!"
"We believed in you dammit!!" Midoriya cried out, panicking.
"My pain cannot be measured..." Aoyama trailed off before suddenly he turned around and blasted AFO with his Navel Laser. "By that singular word 'uncle'!!"
And right on cue, Midoriya immediately let out a large amount of his smokescreen to block AFO's view, and taking the chance, Aoyama quickly moved away from his previous spot and hid behind me for protection. AFO was caught off guard by the sudden attack before he figured out what just happened. It was just all a fake play to lure out the Demon Lord from his hideout.
"Ungrateful little..." AFO grumbled out through his gritted teeth.
"That was such a believable performance, Aoyama!" Midoriya praised the blonde boy.
"Yeah, excellent job!" I added with a wide smirk on my face, coming out from my previous facade as I stood protectively in front of him. "You're gonna win an Oscar for this Aoyama!"
"I had no choice! Otherwise, we could not have lured him here!" Aoyama cried out from behind me, still trembling in fear. "And I must say, both of your actings were tour-de-force as well!"
"We couldn't help it once your tears started flowing." Midoriya chuckled as he and I got into our fighting stance once the smokescreen started to dissipate.
"The tears are real! I truly am scared! In fact, I think I may have wet myself!" Aoyama cried again.
"You did great, Aoyama!" I reassured him once again, my eyes now locked on the floating form of AFO.
"This is for Mama and Papa! For all of my friends and for myself! I shall fight AFO!" Aoyama declared with all his determination.
"Disappointing." AFO sighed in annoyance before taking off his coat and just then using his Warping quirk, he began to summon the League of Villains, Paranormal Liberation Front, and Nomus all at the same time which included Touya, Tenko, and Toga. "Trap or not, Ghoul and One For All is here within reach. The Search quirk tells the user the location and weaknesses of those they see. And heroes Tomura saw in the previous conflict are deployed and dispersed across the country. They will not make it in time to assist you. They didn't happen to notice that my people were drawing near! And now I'm afraid they are entirely too late!!"
My heart skipped a beat when I locked my eyes with Touya who just walked out of the gooey warp gate and landed on the ground.
He's here... Touya's here... He's finally here...
His beautiful bluish-turquoise eyes went wide open a bit upon noticing my presence while his instant sorrowful expression didn't go overlooked by me when we gazed at each other from afar before he decided to turn his head away from me and break the eye contact. As I continued to stare at Touya with hope and yearning, I noticed the new outfit he was wearing at that moment; a tattered overcoat, boots, and pants all colored white, with bracers on the sleeves and a belt on his waist. His new outfit also lacked a shirt underneath which caused him to expose his chest.
"What act of sluttery is he wearing?" I mumbled to myself, a small blush appearing on my cheeks as I scanned Touya from head to toe, trying hard not to facepalm. "Did he seriously decide to walk into this war like a whore?"
Although my words didn't go unheard by Midoriya and the poor green-haired boy tried his best not to burst out into a fit of laughter. I also noticed Tenko looking the same, not to mention even worse; completely topless, in a pair of black pants, his traditional red shoes, and a long ragged-looking cape hanging on his shoulders.
What the hell is up with these villains and their fashion sense these days...?
"Mama and Papa told me something else..." Aoyama spoke up again, causing me to snap out of my trance. "They told me what it is you fear most, AFO. You fear the world learning that Japan isn't finished yet. You feel the light and hope that will come with recovery. And you fear Japan inspiring the world to unite once more. So today is the day and this is the place where you fall!!"
Just then AFO got alerted when he suddenly noticed a black mist appearing behind Midoriya which happened to be Kurogiri's quirk, confusing the Demon Lord to no end, and soon realized who it actually was; it was none other than Monoma from Class 1-B who copied the misty warping gate quirk and now using it to bring out the heroes from our side.
"Didn't see that coming, huh AFO?! Suck, doesn't it?!" I taunted him as Endeavor, Mirko, Fat Gum, Edgeshot, Tamaki senpai, Nejire senpai, Gang Orca, and the others appeared by our side.
And so the rumbling begins!!!
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!! The man behind the curtain!!" Monoma laughed hysterically, being all full of himself like always, as he brought out more and more heroes from the warp gate.
"Just as expected, he's brought his army along!" Detective Tsukauchi stated out through the comms from the headquarters (The Central Hospital). "All squads, take action!"
"If he steals Ghoul and OFA, he'll have no need to run and hide ever again! They'll attempt to bring it all to an end right now!" All Might pointed out from beside Tsukauchi.
As we the Heroes and Villains all charged toward each other, Tenko touched the ground, only to notice something peculiar, so commanded Touya to attack.
"Dabi..." Tenko called out.
"You ain't the boss of me, leader!" Touya shouted back before he dashed straight toward Endeavor, his hands already ignited with his blue flames. "Fancy running into you here, dear old dad!! Come to watch your pals get cremated?!"
Touya was prepared to burn everyone with his fire and as soon as he shot out a huge gush of his flames toward the heroes, a large explosion of ice appeared from the misty warp gate and canceled out his fire; emerging from another warp gate, Shoto and our whole Class 1-A just joined the battle.
"Not on my watch, Baka Aniki!!" Shoto yelled out.
"Shoto!!" Touya yelled back in excitement, getting all pumped up.
"Like cockroaches..." AFO groaned out in annoyance and just then, among the sea of villains, I noticed the ones I needed to go up against; Shuu Tsukiyama and Rize Kamishiro, all decked up and ready to fight like always.
"It's been a while, Nana-kun!!" Tsukiyama shouted out with a huge grin on his face as he and Rize dashed their way toward me.
"How many years now?! Almost 3 years, right?!" Rize added, unleashing her Rinkaku kagune from her back.
"Oh, how I've been itching all these many years just to finish you guys off!" I taunted back and immediately unleashed both of my Rinkaku and Ukaku kagune while bringing out my scythe. "Time for payback for what you guys did to me 3 years back!!"
"Operation Troy-Tempt and Trap!! Activate!!" All Might commanded through the comms.
Upon his commands, suddenly, the ground beneath us started to shake violently before cages emerged from beneath the battlefield, surrounding all the villains in individual metal containers, and as soon as the villains were trapped in those metal cages, Monoma began to summon several more warp gates around the cages while we the Heroes prepared ourselves to shove them all in, to split up the villains.
"Cages? They can't be serious!" Touya commented before getting trapped into one of the cages.
"I'm pulling these strings!! Everyone now! Shove them in!!" Monoma ordered us before looking over at me. "Osaki!! Use your repulsive force now!!"
"Roger!!" I replied and started to use the Repulsive force technique of my Gravity Manipulation quirk to push the metal cages into their respective warp gates.
"This cage is moving?! They really think this tin can is gonna hold us?!" one of the villains cried out.
"Break it open! Quickly!" Toga screamed out from inside her cage.
As I continued to push the cages into the warp gates, Touya suddenly used his flames to melt down the metallic container he was trapped in before trying to get out from there.
"Your pathetic cages didn't even last three whole seconds!" Touya mocked and just then Shoto and his gang appeared in front of him to push him into their respective warp gate.
"3 seconds is all we needed!" Shoto countered back as the two brothers began to attack each other with their flames while submerging into the gate.
"Lock them down for an instant! Break them into smaller groups! Seize the slightest advantage! All of this to shove you into those warp gates all at once and split you up without fail!!" All Might continued through the comms once again.
"Deku!" Bakugo called out to Midoriya as he headed toward Tenko.
"Yep!" Midoriya responded and began to follow the explosive blonde.
"Ahahahahaha! I'm the mover and shaker!!" Monoma continued to laugh while still keeping Kurogiri's quirk activated.
Among us heroes, Uraraka and Tsuyu headed towards Toga's direction while Kaneki and Ayato joined by my side a few seconds later to go after Rize and Tsukiyama. Just as we all were about to enter our respective warp gates, an unusual occurrence happened. From two different warp gates, two whips came out and grabbed me and Midoriya individually by our wrists. And before we could even realize what was happening, we were being pulled away from our respective comrades.
"What the?!" I gasped out in shock.
"Huh?!" Midoriya gasped out as well in confusion.
"Nana!!" Kaneki called out in worry as he tried to reach out and grab me but failed.
"Nana-Nee!!" Ayato called out as well in concern.
"Huh?! Oi, Deku!!" Bakugo called out to the green-haired boy but it was already too late.
Both Midoriya and I were pulled into two separate warp gates which we weren't supposed to enter. After entering the unknown scene, I immediately landed on the ground as soon as I passed through the gate and began to look around to see where I actually was; Ground Zero in Kamino Ward.
What?! Ground Zero?! Why am I here?! Shit!! I was supposed to be on the other side of Kamino City with Ken and Ayato, facing off against Rize and Tsukiyama!!
"They are divided! Now we shift to phase two!" All Might commanded through the comms again.
"Nana?!" familiar voices called out my name in shock, causing me to turn around and face them; it was Shoto and Endeavor's sidekicks (Burnin, Kido, and Onima).
"What are you doing here?" Shoto asked in surprise. "Weren't you supposed to be with Kaneki and Ayato?"
"I was, but..." I trailed off in confusion before looking down at the wrist where the whip was still wrapped around.
"Sorry, Babydoll." a familiar deep masculine voice spoke up from just a few feet away from us and we all looked over at the man himself; Touya, smirking down at me while firmly holding the other end of the whip. "Couldn't let you go so easily, you know... You're just too precious."
"Touya... but how?" I asked in confusion, furrowing my eyebrows a bit.
"That crazy woman gave it to me and said it might come in handy. Hate to admit it, but she was right." Touya replied, referring to Toga as 'the crazy woman', causing me to click my tongue in frustration as I unwrapped my wrist from his whip before the news was sent to us by Tsukauchi through the comms that Midoriya was warped to an aquarium, alongside Gang Orca, Uraraka and Tsuyu by Toga using her whip.
"So, Izuku isn't with Katsuki and Jeanist at UA High right now, huh? That sucks." I stated in a calming tone though I was kinda panicking from the inside before I looked back at Touya and locked gazes with him. "Looks like I'm stuck here with you, for now, Touya."
This wasn't supposed to happen... I wasn't supposed to fight Touya... What should I do now?!
"Indeed, Doll-face..." Touya agreed in a mocking tone as he climbed up on the All Might victory statue before unleashing his blue flames around us, causing us to get into our fighting stance at once. "So, now... where were we?"