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Civil War Arc
Plenty of the Government district’s attack aftermath, including reactions from all major factions. Hokkaido (NVA) decides to strike while it’s hot and accelerates its march south, towards Tokyo. Mindscape discusses using the data obtained from Mera to strongarm the Tokyo Gov into allowing the evacuation of Naruhata while Crawler is recovering.
Revenant’s counter-intelligence department head (Mastermind) notifies him that there were certain movements from the people belonging to the list of potential Entropy supporters in the PLF that he provided around the time that Armageddon happened, the two of them agreeing that Entropy isn’t fully dead and is planning something.
Lemillion, Monoma and Mindscape finally come together, with Monoma being nice enough to provide the others with Eri & Co. Lemillion and Mindscape have a long talk with the kids, concerning what happened to them and what caused the war in the first place.
Monoma permits it because he used one of his many quirks to alter their memories, removing the memories concerning his second identity of Haze (and his quirk evolution).
Intelli almost has a brain aneurysm after discovering that all of this started because of the HPSC doing an oopsie. Lemillion instead has his own, quiet BSOD moment, followed by a decision - they are giving the kids back to Revenant, because it’s the right thing to do and because the last thing they want is Revenant continuing to lose it.
Intelli doesn’t like it. Monoma doesn’t like it a lot. The argument between Lemillion and those two grows pretty intense, which lasts until Eri the Demon Princess unleashes her secret plan that she prepared ever since her captivity in Monoma’s lair - the rest that she did back then being her lulling Monoma into false sense of security.
She expected him to alter their memories to remove the knowledge of Haze, so she left behind a little tell for herself - a small cut on her finger marked M for memory - she remembered that it meant suspecting memory alteration. Even after Monoma removed Haze memories, the ones for that little tell remained.
Mid-talk she powers her quirk and rewinds the Shimano siblings to the time before the memory alterations, making them shout Monoma’s dirty laundry at him, including the quirk and the fact that he was kidnapping and killing people. Mindscape is appalled - Lemillion is pissed off.
It almost ends in murder, except Monoma can’t help but back down because Itsuka is still a part of Shizuoka and if they go down, she goes down - but he has another flare of his compulsive hoarding instincts that makes him briefly consider altering memories of everyone in the room, maybe even look for something to permanently take control of Shizuoka from the backseat, but he once again restrains himself .
He ends up having to agree to severe restrictions in using his quirk and is pretty much grounded wherever Lemillion and Intelli are - acting as additional, very powerful combatant/bodyguard. If he breaks, the details about his quirk and what he did as Haze will be revealed to the world and he’ll be hunted down by everyone.
In the meantime, in Kyushu, Revenant and Tsuyu have the moment of great discovery. Uraraka barges into the room and tells Izuku - with a very excited voice - that he wants her to tell her to do something. And so he does.
And she tells him no.
Five seconds later Revenant is all but emotionally collapsing. He starts crying for the first time in Deika, Uraraka grabbing him into a hug and - answering his half-formed words - tells him that even if she hated him when she learned that he was connected to All for One, this feeling has disappeared years ago, after she saw him care for her parents, hunt for everyone who did that to her and make her mochi once a week without fail because he knew that she loved it. And just in case there was something left of Uraraka inside, he wanted to - maybe - make her feel better in any way he could.
Tsuyu cries too, the three of them hugging each other and crying pretty much. Uraraka explains what happened in the Marukane Ward and how she spent the time afterwards wrestling the collapsing mental conditioning until she finally shook it off.
There is a problem, though. She’s nearly certain that with so much time without maintenance her body will inevitably fail her. She remembers Garaki mentioning something about conditioning being foolproof unless everything else is breaking apart, and that it would only be a problem for a few months.
When Izuku wants to look for any data left behind in Jaku (even down to sending the now immortal Overhaul after Cognitovore), she very adamantly refuses - this means spending resources needed elsewhere for something which will almost certainly not work. They don’t know if it’s even possible to reverse the damage at this point, and if Entropy had a copy of Garaki somewhere, the last thing they want is make themselves predictable as after what happened in the Marukane Ward, Entropy’s faction - if it still exists - will definitely expect them to go after Garaki’s noumu data.
From that point, Revenant seems to become slightly less… cold to people aside from Tsuyu and probably Tomura if he was still around. He is functioning a bit better and is a bit less self-destructive in the long term.
What follows is a series of diplomatic overtures happening largely off-screen. Tokyo is busy trying to slow down Hokkaido’s march southward and agrees to a temporary truce with Shizuoka (alongside the threat of a lot of blackmail material that Mera gave Intelli) while permitting evacuation of Naruhata.
In the west, the PLF continues to advance towards the western holdout of the Tokyo Gov loyalists. More diplomacy there - Intelli contacts the PLF leadership while hinting at Eri being with them and wanting to have a meeting about it with Revenant. Shizuoka’s goal is to give her back to Revenant in exchange for the captive loyalist heroes, soldiers and law enforcement officers from Kyushu being returned to Shizuoka, to boost its numbers.
The final diplomatic exchange consists of unofficial, under the table agreement of everyone involved in the civil war (at least the Tokyo, Shizuoka, Hokkaido and Kyushu governments) to not touch the nuclear power plants or resorting to weapons of mass destruction in exchange for the final stage of the Sword of Damocles not being used against anyone.
This is because Tokyo is afraid of the PLF using Cloud’s quirk to raid power plants behind Tokyo’s lines and start causing reactor meltdowns left and right.
Eri is asked to heal Wildstar, who remains unresponsive. She ends up waking up, but refuses to cooperate with Shizuoka (even if she has no loyalty left for Tokyo). Intelli notices that something is amiss in her behaviour and that she isn’t saying anything not because she doesn't want to but because she cannot.
Intelli at this moment realizes that the MLA’s loyalty contract quirk owner is unaccounted for after the war, and connects the dots - someone is keeping Wildstar from being able to divulge information with his quirk. She suspects either Mera or the Prime Minister, but none of them really fit the bill.
Days pass. The meeting between Lemillion, Intelli and Revenant is about to be agreed upon. This is when shit hits the fan and Entropy finally makes her move.
Titan’s Fall Arc
The arc starts as AFO is contacted by Doctor Garaki. He starts recounting the almost two centuries they’ve spent together. AFO isn’t really moved by it, at least until Garaki tells him that he regrets that it took him 180 years of fighting heroes beside AFO to realize that they could never win - not because of heroes being strong but because of All For One being absolutely terrible at his job.
All For One has his own moment of mental bluescreen while Garaki continues to rant through the internet connection. He accuses him of wasting decades of preparations only to have to rely on Re-Destro’s own preparations to actually fight the heroes on the battlefield and not lose terribly, with Entropy and Midoriya picking up what was left of his assets and being closer to victory than AFO ever was.
All for One regains ability to speak and tells Garaki that Entropy and Midoriya ran the PLF remnants into the ground. Garaki replies by unleashing a bomb - Entropy with Midoriya as her tactical officer and Overhaul as a co-commander were close to regaining the initiative even after Deika… only for All for One to ruin it all.
He accuses All for One of using the Mindjack quirk on Entropy when he briefly touched her during his original self’s final death throes. In that moment he copied his entire mind, ego and memories into her head, the process finishing right before All for One expired.
The quirk didn’t work immediately, though - the stronger the will of the target, the longer the process takes. The reason why Entropy went insane and ran the PLF into the ground was because the dormant All for One’s copy was slowly worming its way to the surface, damaging everything in the way.
AFO managed to resurface and fully overtake her, but it was too late and Midoriya had already invited heroes into the Haiboro Woods. AFO took the reins briefly, but realized it was too late and fired Mindjack again, targeting Nejire Hadou. But with the first Mindjack not fully complete, the result was a deranged fusion of Entropy and AFO, with the former dominating and never realizing that the latter was there.
With AFO being the one to use Mindjack again, the result was that the original Entropy had the mental tumor excised from her body in the middle of the Haiboro Woods battle. She realized what happened and - despite a likely severe brain damage from the strain and being barely cognizant - she tried to get out of the Haiboro to warn Midoriya about AFO, but Lemillion got to her first.
AFO is enraged by the accusation and tells Garaki that he will pay for this betrayal, only for Garaki to coldly inform him that he made great strides with Overhaul’s quirk pharmacology and created delayed effect targeted quirk erasing drugs.
During the most recent medical procedures he injected AFO with a drug that was tailored to erase his primary quirk, which will take effect within four to six hours. He also ensured to not give this AFO the Mindjack quirk. As a result, AFO has four to six hours before his primary quirk will vanish, which will result in his arsenal of quirks killing him instantly.
When AFO asks why they even resurrected him, Garaki tells him that they needed a good distraction. He disconnects, and a few seconds later Invincible barges into the room.
While this happens, Entropy and her sidekick group alongside a small army of noumus launch a warp quirk raid on the Citadel housing the Prime Minister. Entropy intends to use Mindjack on the Prime Minister, who will manage to miraculously survive the assault, only to get puppeted by Entropy who would thus seize the Tokyo Gov before using her knowledge of the Overlook’s location to destroy the PLF and kill Midoriya, who is the last person that in her opinion might figure out the ruse.
The attack is progressing well, and the Prime Minister’s entourage is busy trying to evacuate her as quickly as possible before Entropy gets to her. No one notices one of her personal assistants disappearing in the commotion.
When the Entropy is about to catch up, she encounters said personal assistant. It’s only when he yells at her that if their mother saw her right now she'd be disappointed if she realizes that it’s her half-brother, Asa Midoriya.
It’s at this moment that Entropy realizes the truth. The reason why Revenant was predicting the government’s actions so well - and why the government was consistently failing to counter his own operations - was that days before the war started, Asa used [Gullible] status to climb his way into the Prime Minister inner circle in record time, keeping everyone unaware that something was wrong… and then all but puppeting the Prime Minister to ensure that she was doing exactly what Revenant wanted.
The PLF’s spy in the TokyoGov - the one that Intelli spent a while looking for among the Top Heroes - was the Prime Minister herself.
Asa goes into a haughty rant, taunting Entropy about her own failings and how she’s pretty much a cheap copy of Revenant. He tells her that he assumed control of the Levellers after Deika, using their cooperation with the NVA to steal all of their secrets and keep Revenant up to date on their every operation.
He tells her that he enjoyed every second of controlling the Prime Minister, because after the nation itself proved to be unjust and quirkist, he has topped everything that Oji Harima and Mr. Compress ever did by stealing their country. He spent the last two months deciding on government policies on a whim, with no one realizing what was happening.
He could have killed the Prime Minister at any moment, but it wouldn’t mean anything - she thought she was independent, but the people around her were feeding her the information that they wanted her to know. She was just a face of the regime, kept up by countless bureaucrats, wealthy elites and military officers - to win the war you had to remove them all… and that’s what the Liberation Festival will do.
And if that wasn’t enough, he spent some of that time preparing the second greatest heist in history. He used his position and Prime Minister’s knowledge and influence to locate as many emergency funds of governmental crooks and the remaining black budgets that weren’t gutted by Mera, plus manipulate a few government agencies to ensure the right transfers of money.
Now that the Citadel came under attack, he sent the signal. As they speak, La Brava is emptying all those accounts, with the approximate total value of about 1.5 trillion yen (so, about 10 billion US dollars as they are right now).
Entropy has enough and attacks him alongside her little gang, but Asa just laughs at her. He taunts her again, by informing her that adjectives just like the rest of the words are, in the end, abstract meanings given to a combination of sounds. When enough people agree that the sound ‘powerful’ means someone being extremely strong and dangerous, that’s what it means. It's the cultural and linguistic association that gives the words power.
When she doesn’t seem to understand what he was talking about, he laughs again, before applying ‘Evil’ status to himself. In a second, his arms twist wrongly before he - with a delighted smile - copies the All for One’s quirk combination that levelled down the Kamino Ward in front of the helicopter’s camera - and through it, millions of people worldwide.
All while introducing himself as All for One… the Symbol of Evil .
Magne and Kurogiri are vaporized instantly. Entropy and Muscular try to get into the melee range, but the battle isn’t going pretty well. While Asa doesn’t have AFO’s actual quirk (he only got a number of powers that AFO showed the world) he has the full arsenal of moves that brought down All Might at his peak.
He could have killed them if he wanted, Entropy realizes, but is playing with them. But she realizes it too late. Asa thanks them for the noumus destroying the Citadel’s warp suppressors and informs them that his girlfriend - Cloud - just finished the preparations for his final magic trick. He bids the villains in front of him adieu, before her warpgate envelops him and they both disappear.
Three seconds later several thermobaric bombs taken by her from one of the Kyushu’s armories detonate, killing Entropy and her remaining sidekicks, with only Garaki remaining unaccounted for.
The arc ends with the Prime Minister watching the surviving bits of the security recordings from the now vaporized building. She knows now what Asa did to her and is utterly livid about it.
Right after that, Invincible enters the room. He is severely injured, with large areas of his skin completely vaporized and his right arm broken, bone sticking out of it. Without a word he puts All for One’s head on her desk. When asked how the fight was, he replies with a single word.
Disappointing.
Extermination Countdown Arc
This time the reactions to the attack are rather scarce, largely because the Shizuoka and Hokkaido don’t know the details. Asa arrives at Overlook and has a family reunion with Revenant.
It ends with him telling Izuku that he’s planning to flee the country alongside the Levellers and all the money they just stole, but that he also finished his side of the preparations for the Liberation Festival, and for as long as the Prime Minister doesn’t realize that his manipulation of her was the secondary goal of his infiltration, they’re good to go.
Izuku tells him that he plans to follow them with Eri once the Liberation Festival ends.
One week later, the meeting with the Shizuoka finally happens. Lemillion has plenty of words to say to the man who killed Sir Nighteye, but keeps most of them to himself as now that he knows what broke Midoriya he also knows what would be the reply to that.
Part of it is rather awkward, the rest of it involves Midoriya sharing a number of missing information concerning his family life with AFO and how AFO ended up dying. The only thing that Lemillion feels after all of that is pity combined with a feeling of loss. He tells Midoriya that if not for AFO attacking the school and the HPSC doing their usual quirkism, he would have loved being his supportive senpai back at school, which actually floors Midoriya for a few seconds.
He ends up admitting that while he could have taken the hero license now that he is de facto controlling one of the few governments here in Japan, he feels that he simply doesn’t deserve that.
There is a brief moment after that when, to Intelli’s barely concealed shock, they end up talking together about All Might and how much of an inspiration he was to them both back when they were attending the UA.
Eventually, though, Eri and her two sidekicks are reunited with their father, although he immediately tells her to follow Singularity as he still needs to do something. When they leave, he informs Intelli that the captives from Kyushu will be delivered to Shizuoka through Cloud’s warpgate, and that they shouldn’t underestimate the Prime Minister.
They didn’t learn of the attack and mind control, and they don’t take it seriously.
Before Revenant can teleport back, Miruko - now evacuated from Naruhata - barges in and demands that he takes her with him. When he asks her what she is doing, she tells him that she’s done cleaning up other people’s bullshit and that Shizuoka will do fine, but she just doesn’t belong there - she’s a relic of a completely different era and none of that makes any sense to her.
And that after spending some time seeing what the country turned into, she realizes that when Lady Murder told her off about not knowing shit about what her life was and how the mutants are now treated outside she was absolutely right about it and that while she doesn’t plan to fight for the PLF, she has apologies to make.
Despite the hole that it’d make in their forces, Lemillion cuts Intelli off and wishes Miruko good luck. Revenant also agrees and they teleport back to the Overlook (although she is first teleported elsewhere for a tracking devices check).
Shortly after, Eri is back with her father in their new home in Overlook. She is calm and collected, glancing at Tsuyu and demanding to be told why she is here. Revenant replies that after she kept telling him to find a woman who could stomach him for years, he finally did that and that she can trust her.
The moment he says that, Eri runs into his arms and starts crying into his shoulder, telling him how scared she was the whole time, how scary it was to have people’s life depend on you, how she kept pretending that she was calm, confident and had an idea what to do, but she was just pretending all along.
Revenant pats her back and tells her that he’s proud of her and that she did great, but now that they’re together, she won’t ever have to do this again. He then motions over her head for Tsuyu to come closer and join the hug, and while clearly worried about rejection she does that, Eri immediately turning around just to hold her to and cry into them both.
Once Eri recovers, she gets immediately interested in Tsuyu and while she doesn’t like the idea of her seeking death, she decides that she likes her and is looking forward to getting to know her closer. Which almost makes Tsuyu cry again.
In the meantime, Miruko has a second meeting with Lady Murder which doesn’t end in murder, but mostly because Stain is there to try - very awkwardly - to arbitrate. Miruko is conditionally accepted around and invited to a match in the ring, but thus far that’s it.
There is a short briefing scene between Revenant and Mastermind, in which the former admits that he’s currently advising Kouta on the plan to break Landslide out of a prison as a part of his mastermind classes. The latter updates him as to the war progression.
There isn’t a lot of it - while the PLF is trying to press east it doesn’t gain a lot of ground, Shizuoka is still busy surviving while trying to take over Yokohama in order to secure a position at the entrance to the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
The greatest gains right are made by Hokkaido which is steadily approaching Tokyo, with the last attempt to slow them down failing due to Reiko Yanagi revealing her status as part of the Ascending Path by entering the northern front headquarters and blowing it up alongside herself with a suicide vest, which Midoriya suspects was caused by the loss of Tokoyami, whom she was close with.
Mastermind also mentions how Yaoyorozu doesn’t seem to be doing a lot right now, which annoys him but Midoriya waves it off.
Soon after that he’s invited to the Shikoku’s laboratory (the one that formerly housed Armageddon) by Overhaul, who informs him that with his newest shipment of Eri’s blood (that he could now be mass replicated thanks to one of the quirks that he got through Midoriya’s channels) he has managed to create a permanent quirk erasing drug and can now reproduce it in any number given the time and resources.
Midoriya admits that he has great plans for it, but doesn’t elaborate quite yet. On his way home he asks Uraraka if she wants it, but she refuses, saying that he needs her with all her quirks to finish his job, and she might consider it afterwards.
He returns home just to a small drama, as Eri finally admits that the Shimano siblings are now in relationships with her, and that makes her parents have some real emotional crisis mode that ends with them deciding that whatever she chooses, they’ll support it (except for becoming a villain like them).
Eri decides to push the envelope further and asks to receive a dose of the quirk erasing drug, because her quirk has already made her a target for her whole life and that she’d rather have something useful, preferably something very special, but her father cuts her off, pointing out that he’d rather not follow in All for One’s footsteps.
Now that the war is more or less under control and Eri is back, Revenant decides that it’s time to start preparing his wedding with Asui (that she enthusiastically agreed with, and Uraraka immediately seized the spot as the bridesmaid). To some grumbling from Mastermind who is increasingly annoyed that Midoriya is focusing on things that aren’t war.
Price of Determination Arc
Kouta finally launches his assault on the prison where Landslide is being kept, alongside a group of operatives from the MLA and ISP, Fleshwarp, Red Fang, Quicksilver, Ragdoll and Cloud to provide attack vector, with Revenant monitoring the situation and keeping a sizable unit to intervene if needed.
The initial attack goes well, with two groups - commanded by Red Fang and Jetstream (Kouta) respectively - managing to overwhelm the forces guarding the entrance while Quicksilver ravages the defenders by running through the corridors of the facility and dropping firebombs, stolen grenades or even just shooting people, all while making sure to open up as many cells as possible.
Unfortunately, just as the two assault groups are making gains into the prison complex, she ends up suddenly dropping off from the network. Soon afterward, it turns out that the reason for that is that the Prime Minister foresaw the chances of Ragdoll and Kouta trying to break out Landslide and just in case stationed Black Knight in the prison.
Revenant doesn’t like the fact that the Prime Minister has enough high value assets to send one off to such a distant place, unless he was just being punished for something he did during the vigilante’s assault on the Government.
In case anyone had any doubts about the reason for Quicksilver’s silence, Black Knight answers it by throwing her head at Ragdoll the moment they encounter each other, leading to a pitched battle where he manages to hold back Kouta’s entire group. Revenant considers intervening, but the fact that the Red Fang’s group was getting closer makes him give them a chance to solve the problem.
This turns out to be a wrong decision, as the Black Knight was a mere distraction. One of the copies of Spider Web’ begins to warp in governmental reinforcements, one of the now dead heroes defending the place having a long-distance telepathy quirk and managed to call in reinforcements despite the communication blackout.
Uraraka ends up leading the counterpush to repel the reinforcements and let Kouta and Red Fang’s groups retreat - this includes Lady Murder having a duel with Black Knight, one that ends with her being defeated but not killed when she’s surprised by Miruko and Stain charging, especially the former wanting a second round with Black Knight (and, obviously, constantly arguing with each other).
In the end, Black Knight disengages again. Fleshwarp is also reported KIA afterwards, and Uraraka only survives thanks to a Hyper-Regeneration quirk. It’s a chaotic clash that is rapidly becoming worse.
During the battle it becomes obvious that Yaoyorozu and Todoroki for some reason cannot be contacted. Revenant sends Mastermind off to figure out what was going on while he focuses on the unfolding battle.
They are, unfortunately, too late.
The PLF’s leadership realizes where Yaoyorozu is when the first news of chemical bombs detonating across Shibuya arrive at Overlook, with Yaoyorozu openly admitting to being the one responsible for the attack on the internet. Revenant realizes that they were betrayed - something he didn’t foresee.
Worse than that - he realizes that Yaoyorozu just pulled a Haiboro Woods on him. The reason why Black Knight was in that prison and why reinforcements arrived so fast was because Yaoyorozu sneaked the warning to the Tokyo Government. Both to make the latter commit their elites elsewhere and to hopefully decimate the League of Villains (that was led to this battle by Uraraka)... and kill Ragdoll, who could track her down.
Revenant acts fast. Ragdoll is immediately evacuated from the prison battle. Then, instead of letting the battle turn into a rout, Revenant sends Overhaul after Yaoyorozu. And Overhaul’s not the one to play around - instead of fighting the duo, he sends a quirk suppression gas bomb through Cloud’s warpgate and has it detonate, robbing everyone near of quirks, before sending in QLF operatives.
Yaoyorozu and Todoroki are brought back to the Overlook. Mastermind is tasked by overseeing the retreat from the prison battle while Revenant immediately moves to interrogating those two.
It’s when Yaoyorozu has a breakdown and yells at him that the government took Jirou from her does Revenant realize that he severely misjudged her. He thought that Jirou was her bodyguard with benefits and an attack dog let loose on her enemies. Instead, she was her Uraraka - the person she failed and that she kept taking care of in hopes that maybe one day they’ll get better.
Unfortunately for herself, Yaoyorozu keeps her rant and lets something else out. The gas bombs she cooked up in private were a distraction. She detonated them to kill or injure thousands and have others rush into the hospitals.
Too late would the Tokyo government realize that some of the bombs instead sprayed biological material around. Biological - as in Red Death virus in aerosol. The ones injured in the attack would spread the disease around the hospitals (including the ones who would be airlifted elsewhere due to nearby hospitals being overcrowded), not to mention people fleeing the detonation zone and infecting the rest of Tokyo.
Red Death being one of the great pandemics of the Dawn of Quirks, which Midoriya - after reading up on the subject following Mastermind’s early rant about mutants being potential disease vectors - is almost certain to be a canine parvovirus that managed to jump species, likely through an unfortunate wolf/dog mutant.
Back then, it killed up to 50% of the infected, but only due to lack of vaccines and the population being exhausted by famines and wars. Today, it should be much less deadly - but even 20% death rate in Tokyo before the vaccines could be mass produced again is disastrous.
And all of that because Yaoyorozu realized that viruses - who are pieces of genetic code that isn’t technically alive - could be, with some extreme degree of research put into it, replicated by her quirk.
To say that the news is met with shock in the PLF’s leadership is to say nothing. Revenant considers killing both of them, but decides against it at the last moment. Instead, he has Overhaul sever Todoroki’s spinal cord, rendering him paralyzed from waist down. Yaoyorozu’s screams are cut short when he then has Overhaul lobotomize her (with an option to reverse that whenever needed.
Todoroki is told that if he doesn’t cooperate, Yaoyorozu will stay like that forever.
He then immediately contacts the Prime Minister and tells her of the biological attack while offering temporary ceasefire to deal with the problem. She doesn’t believe him in first, but after offering to send her Yaoyorozu’s corpse (that he later does, although it’s just her body’s perfect body copy, made through the same quirk as the Todoroki’s decoy body left in Tartarus when he was originally broken out) she realizes the urgency of the situation and institutes total lockdown on most of the Tokyo, while contacting Shizuoka and Hokkaido.
Red Death is really scary for everyone involved.
It’s only afterwards that Revenant, when in his own apartment, admits to Tsuyu that he arranged for Songbird and Toxicity to be killed by the heroes because Yaoyorozu’s lack of emotional connection to the cause was a threat to her loyalty - one of his life’s greatest lapses of judgment.
She slaps him, before telling him that if he ever acts like Entropy again, there’ll be consequences. He thanks her for that.
Approaching the End Arc
The arc starts after a two week long timeskip, with the ceasefire already having ended while the Red Death epidemic seems to have been suppressed thanks to emergency deployment of vaccines (to the point where even the foreign countries are sending them in, because no one wants that thing to be back), and while they are still minor outbreaks here and there.
Tsuyu and Izuku are finally having their well-earned wedding, which is interrupted right after the vows are exchanged rather brutally when the news came that Tokyo began to move against Hokkaido.
It quickly becomes clear that the Hokkaido’s lines north of Tokyo are in total disarray due to a missile strike that destroyed the regional headquarters of Hokkaido and a number of other deep strikes using Spider Web copy’ teleportation points hidden behind the lines. The status of the NVA’s leadership remains uncertain, but it’s clear that their forces are in disarray and Yo Shindo is confirmed dead.
Mastermind has a lengthy talk with Midoriya about this. The latter points out that playing dead and pretending to be blind in order to surprise her enemy is the Prime Minister’s MO.
Revenant ends up describing the case of Strategist, a former mastermind-styled hero working for All for One who was overseeing his intelligence sources in the HPSC and the government. After Lady Murder’s rampage, the predicted heirs to the throne were all dead, leading to an unexpected raise of the current Prime Minister.
She has pretended to be bad at her job and completely unaware of AFO’s infiltration after the men she trusted finished locating two spies working for Strategist. She used them to get to the Strategist, surprising him - and by extension, AFO - completely and giving him a choice .
Stay defiant and face AFO’s wrath for his failure or take a generous payment in money and be allowed to flee the country while the HPSC would fake his death in exchange for a full list of spies he was overseeing.
One day later, all of the AFO’s spies in the government were wiped out in one night before Strategist’s body (fake or not) - carrying signs of torture was found out in some dark alleyway. This broke his control over some parts of the government, undoing decades of work and allowing HPSC to seize the initiative, which led to All Might being even more successful in dismantling his organization.
Mastermind chuckles and tells Midoriya that he’s almost certain that Strategist was his father, something Midoriya didn’t know.
Now the Prime Minister spent the last three or four weeks tracking the headquarters and sneaking it a radio beacon that - when activated - allowed the missile strike to be so precise and instantly decapitate the enemy leadership.
The conclusion of the meeting is that unless Spyglass, Ryukyu and Gang Orca come out right now and start trying to reorganize the mess that the Hokkaido/Tokyo frontline became, the Hokkaido Gov is going to be knocked out of the war in short order.
Since Spyglass and Ryukyu are fished out of the rubbles a few hours later, both of them dead, with just Gang Orca remaining due to not even being on the mainland at the time, the NVA-remnants begin to collapse and rapidly lose ground. The next target of Tokyo will definitely be Shizuoka - and then, once the Kyoto and Tokyo enclaves will be reunited, the PLF.
This, to Midoriya, is the sign that the PLF has to accelerate the Liberation Festival timetable, and not even by far as they’re approaching the 100 day mark he promised during the Revival Celebration.
Before that happens, he, Tsuyu and Eri spend a day indulging in the most mundane of things - such going to a park somewhere in Kyushu together, and in general acting like a normal family would.
This is Tsuyu and Izuku’s honeymoon.
Two days later, as Hokkaido loses half of the territory it once gained on the mainland, Gang Orca is forced to beg Shizuoka to push eastward as hard as they can just to delay the inevitable and the pressure on Shizuoka from the west is growing, Revenant does the next step of the Liberation Festival plan.
He has Cloud warp the world’s first Quirk Erasure bombs into the downtown Kyoto, instantly and permanently rendering more than one hundred thousand people quirkless, while announcing in the media that the PLF has more of them and they will soon be exploding everywhere throughout Japan.
But that isn’t all.
He has Overhaul upload the full scope of his research data to the internet while sending hundreds of samples of both the quirk erasing drug and Eri’s replicated blood everywhere throughout the world, sending them to numerous research facilities (including I-Island).
Soon, everyone in the world will have their own quirk erasing (or quirk deescalating in smaller doses) drugs. The Twilight of Quirks will officially begin, as many powerful quirk holders will resist the attempt to avoid the Quirk Singularity. The era of heroes will soon come to an end, as the quirks will become rarer and rarer and police will be able to simply depower any criminal too rowdy with their quirks.
Midoriya asks Overhaul if he feels any satisfaction at finishing his work. Overhaul admits that at this point, it doesn’t make him feel anything. He went too far to achieve it, down to rendering himself into a living quirk. He is just tired of it.
Revenant ends up deciding not to kill him and instead lets him go. Overhaul seems to barely feel anything about that either, and becomes the second quirk scientist villain to vanish in the course of this war, after Dr. Garaki.
Once that is over, Revenant makes an open announcement to everyone in the Overlook. Telling every villain present inside that soon there’ll be a governmental assault on the fortress - and whoever remains behind will die. However, in their death they’ll cause the war to end and Tokyo to fall - becoming part of the greatest act of villainy in the history, one that will likely never be repeated now that the Twilight of Quirks is beginning.
Majority decides to stay - the exceptions are mostly people like Kouta and Red Fang, the future generation intended to lead their organizations. Skeptic and Hatsume evacuate because they’re noncombatants.
Eri and Shimano siblings are made to evacuate to the US and join Tomura and Awoo there, with Asa and his team members following suit. She doesn’t like it, but wants the government to burn just as much as he does. He promises her that he’ll do everything he can to come back to her.
Miruko stays, prompting Stain to call her a tsundere for the PLF (as she is very vocal about how she isn’t and will never be a part of it, despite staying behind for the final battle alongside it) which ends up causing another fight, one that Lady Murder joins just for the hell of it.
There are plenty of other scenes like that, but most of them I didn’t get to plan quite yet.
Once the preparations are done, Midoriya activates the first stage of the Liberation Festival plan - leaking the location of the Overlook to the Tokyo Gov, knowing full well that while the Prime Minister knows that it’s a trap, she has no other way than to walk into it in a desperate attempt to destroy the quirk erasing drug arsenal before Midoriya can depower everyone in the country that isn’t working for him.
Liberation Festival Arc
Final stretch of preparations for the battle, with Cloud warping ammunition and equipment into the Overlook while evacuating non-combatants and non-volunteers back to the lands controlled by the Kyushu Gov, with Mastermind and Revenant discussing the remnants of the Japanese Navy that are being mustered by Tokyo, no doubt for an assault on the Overlook, which is located on a small island elevated by a nearby volcanic eruption during the Dawn of Quirks.
Mastermind asks Revenant about being allowed off-island, but Revenant is rather serious about this not being an option - they need sub-commanders for the three potential routes into the island. Mastermind shrugs and says that with so many CRC operatives back in mainland, he has trust in his organization’s survival and he, too, wants to see the Government burn.
He ends up using his last dose of Overhaul’s quirk left to him to delobotomize Yaoyorozu and heal Todoroki’s legs, both of them given explosive collars and forced to take one of those three command posts under the threat of immediate death.
The last teleportation out before the battle has an unexpected passenger involved: Lady Murder finds herself paralyzed by Stain’s quirk and carried by him and Miruko into the warpgate, both of them insisting that they aren’t letting her die so young.
Before being thrown into the warpgate she yells at Stain, calling him a motherfucker - this, in turn, makes him grumble a variant of ‘god, I wish’, prompting Miruko to laugh and tell him that if he kills more dogs of the state than she does and there’s a moment of break in the attack, they can talk about that.
There are three approaches to the Overlook. One to the north and one to the south - both of them rather short but narrow, with only a few hundred meters wide break in the cliffs, allowing one to get deeper into the island without quirk to overcome a sheer cliff face.
Those two are left to Mastermind in the north (with QLF and CRC members) and Miruko & Stain to the south (ISP and some remaining Ascending Path cultists).
The western approach is a bigger problem, as it’s much more open, but also more distant. It’s several kilometers away from the main base, with a secondary, smaller underground base located there, connected with the main one with a lengthy underground corridor with multiple bulkheads.
Yaoyorozu is tasked with defending it, alongside the MLA members, who are still the majority of the PLF, especially now - plenty of them lost people in Deika or had no time to recover their life after Tartarus, so they volunteer for the battle.
The assault begins by the Japanese Navy performing missile barrage on the island, only for the secret, automated ground-to-sea missile batteries (AFO had places fortified and hidden, but he never got to outfitting it with weaponry - that one’s on Hatsume). Two destroyers are damaged, but some of the batteries are knocked out.
The aircraft are also attacking the island, with its AA defenses trying to repel the attack, but it becomes clear that they’re much stronger than the sea defenses, so the casualties are heavy.
The clash continues, with Tokyo not gaining much ground, but managing to slowly knock out the coastal defense batteries. The casualties are substantial - once the aircrafts are repelled, the AA defenses get to focus on the incoming missiles, worsening their accuracy.
The result is the fact the attackers only manage to remove the batteries by getting their destroyers close enough to use their artillery. Most of the remaining Navy destroyers are at least damaged and two are sunk, but the defenses are knocked out, allowing the ground forces to land.
The strongest assault is targeted at Yaoyorozu, though with numerous bunkers and prodigious use of defense quirks (plus a lot of temporary drug injections), the attack is largely stalled.
ISP/AP forces are hit by what’s only a diversionary attack at first, which is why they’re holding back, with Mastermind going further than that and managing to push the attackers back to the beach and inflict severe casualties.
The way out is blocked, though, as now that the coastal batteries were silenced, the Government deployed several ships with the powerful warp quirk suppressors - they’re all expendable hulls that are quickly sunk so close to the beach that most of them are above the sealine, making them impossible to sink with a lucky shot.
The initial attack turns out to be a ploy. The attacking forces involved some people with copies of Spider Web quirk, allowing Tokyo to directly warp their reinforcements to the island - the warp suppressor only stops ‘outlying’ teleportation, making it a one-way street.
The strongest assault comes from the west side of the island, MLA forces being steadily dislodged from their fortifications, despite many of them deciding to go out with a bang and blowing their bunkers’ ammunition stocks when the heroes were finally storming in.
Todoroki ends up leading the counterpush, only to encounter Martyr and Flamebreath - two of the original pre-war Top Heroes. Martyr’s forcefields prove largely resistant to his flames. Flamebreath can ignore them completely. Todoroki is forced to resort to using ice for combat (for the first time since the death of his family) just to hold them back.
The southern push against the ISP/AP turns out to be led by Black Knight, who ends up having his third confrontation against Miruko, this time with Stain at his side. The fight is surprisingly short - Black Knight noticed too late that Miruko got inspired by her daughter and put some small spikes on her leg armor, her kick shredding part of his clothes and flesh underneath. Stain just ignores Miruko’s jokes about it and licks a bit of blood from her knee, knocking Black Knight out.
He’s promptly stabbed to death, and the southern attack is stalemated again.
Todoroki’s fight against Martyr & Flamebreath ends in defeat, as Todoroki is beheaded by an invisible forcefield. Yaoyorozu starts losing it and the MLA is in total rout. When the two Top Heroes barge into her now abandoned command center, she yells at them that she’s going to kill them while looking emaciated. Martyr tells her that they have the orders to bring her in alive, for questioning, and that nothing but a nuke could go through his forcefields… which prompts Yaoyorozu to give him a deranged smile.
Three seconds later, a 5 kiloton warhead that she used most of her body fat to create detonates, obliterating most of the forces still active on the western approach. Martyr and Flamebreath die with a lot of soldiers and heroes plus of course MLA members caught in the blast. The explosion collapses the bulkheads in the underground tunnel connecting it with the main Overlook.
Midoriya understands at this point that Yaoyorozu just screwed him over one last time. The explosion collapsed the two evacuation tunnels that started in the same level of Overlook. This is a problem, as his original plan was to wait for the Liberation Festival to conclude, before fleeing through the underwater tunnels to go outside of warp suppression range and have Cloud warp him out, with everyone thinking that he died in battle.
The heroes are absolutely done with their bullshit. Invincible is committed to the battle, approaching from the North. Mastermind’s best attempts at delaying him are a total failure, with Invincible barging into his command center before he can retreat into the main Overlook.
Mastermind pushes his quirk to an absolute limit, desperately looking for any way to escape him. When he finds none, and realizes that he’s going to either die or be captured and interrogated, he decides to go out on his own terms and puts a bullet in his brain a second before Invincible can grab and immobilize him.
Invincible doesn’t wait for the heroes to catch up to him and instead moves forward with maximum speed. Revenant sees the southern attack as being completely routed and sends Stain an order to rush north as quickly as possible to delay the heroes there. All while he, Uraraka and Asui get ready to face Invincible.
Invincible consistently ignores every villain in his way, except for one or two that he grabs and shakes them around to tell him where Revenant is. Revenant ends up deciding not to let him waste more people and tells him through the base’s intercom where to go.
Stain moves fast, and Invincible takes a while to get there, so by the time Invincible reachers Revenant, the counterattack is already happening and without Invincible to give them a backbone, what’s left of the PLF ground forces stops the assault dead in tracks and even starts pushing them back.
Invincible stands in front of Midoriya, Uraraka and Asui… and does nothing, prompting Revenant to chuckle (and the other two to be very confused). When he asks Invincible if he wants to say it first, Invincible shrugs and tells him to do it.
Revenant lists off Invincible intentionally sparing some of the people while fighting off his failed ambush in Marukane (such as only knocking out Miruko, whom the Prime Minister definitely wanted dead). He then goes over him reaching the HPSC too late to save Mera despite having no reason to be, with Lady Nagant having no way of delaying him as much as she did. He ends by saying that Revenant has nowhere to run, and that Invincible could save a lot of hero and soldier lives if he didn’t rush on ahead.
When Uraraka asks him what it all means, he tells her that Invincible was never on the Prime Minister’s side. And that he wasn’t here to lead the heroes loyal to Tokyo to victory - he was here to make sure that the largest army that Tokyo managed to put together would achieve a mutual kill with the PLF.
Invincible confirms it. The Prime Minister thought that he was under a quirk-enforced loyalty contract, remaining blissfully unaware that Chronostasis sabotaged her work by secretly giving Invincible a minor quirk that allowed him to resist hostile quirk effects of such nature.
He spent the last two years slowly finding allies among the Top Heroes such as Wildstar, all while using Crusader to feed NVA the intel in order to influence their operations. By his calculations, when the Second Paranormal Liberation War started, they were about midway into being ready to launch their own coup, taking down not just the Prime Minister but also most of her cronies in one fell swoop.
When Midoriya asks him if that was all his plan, he admits that it wasn’t. He came into contact with Nedzu after he narrowly survived the assassination attempt and went into hiding, then using his leftover notes once Nedzu finally succumbed to his injuries.
The only thing that he couldn’t predict was the nature of the Liberation Festival plan. Midoriya tells him (though it’s not written down in text yet, it’s just the ‘And then, Midoriya tells him the plan.’ type of line).
Invincible is horrified. He tells the three that he’s going to stop that and then go to Tokyo and remove Prime Minister’s limbs from her body, but Revenant tells him that while he would paid to see the latter, Invincible won’t manage to stop anything. Because Revenant got inspired by Mr. Compress, and learn a lesson from here about concealing your strength until the final moment being the ultimate magic trick - and besides, he didn’t consider himself worthy of using it, but it’s not like it matters anymore.
Before Invincible can ask about it, he received a blow to his chest powered by a combination of Mastery, One For All, Fa Jin and Gearshift. Only the last one manages to actually get through, sending Invincible into the wall behind him.
He recognizes the quirk thanks to Nedzu, Midoriya telling him that he took one of All Might’s hair strands when he was visiting him in the hospital after Kamino. All Might was unconscious, and he had no idea if it would work (he only had a vague understanding of the OFA transfer mechanism learned from All for One).
The fact it did was probably due to All Might considering him a candidate, but never fully committed to that. He isn’t sure if this is a reason why the Vestiges never talked to him, despite AFO believing that they should have. Personally, Revenant thinks that they never considered him worthy, and for a good reason.
Before Invincible can attack back with Flect Turn’s quirk, Midoriya uses one of the other quirks stockpiled in OFA, which pulls them all into a pocket dimension where their fight cannot destroy Overlook completely (while preventing Invincible from trying to fight past him to destroy the communication systems of the base), a quirk that I’m totally calling the Domain Expansion.
The story cuts to Stain and Miruko’s group - bolstered by some surviving CRC members and even MLA that fled far away from Yaoyorozu’s command post before it blew up - attacking the heroes and pushing them back, before turning it into a rout. With the heroes pushed back to the beaches, it becomes clear that the ground assault on Overlook has failed (which Revenant stated to be a necessary prerequisite for the Liberation Festival’s success).
Uraraka relays Revenant’s orders from the Overlook’s command, telling everyone to retreat into the main facility.
The fight between Revenant and Invincible is coming to an end, both of them are heavily injured and exhausted. Domain Expansion thanks to OFA and Mastery boost can also alter the flow of time - it was ten minutes on the outside, but almost two hours on the inside.
Midoriya asks Invincible how many quirks Chronostasis actually gave him, because he counted at least seven that weren’t on the list, Invincible merely replying ‘a lot’, making Revenant muse that Chronostasis’ revenge for Overhaul’s death was a truly terrifying one.
They charge at each other one final time.
As the Domain Expansion closes, Asui gets to see Invincible lying on the floor, with a hole in his chest. Revenant appears to be merely severely beaten up. When she asks him how he was doing, he lets out a morbid laughter.
He then tells her that Invincible killed him.
The hero abandoned all defenses at the last moment and fired off yet another quirk that had to stockpile a percentage of incoming kinetic energy. He was gathering it up for the whole fight, before - like Revenant did with OFA - surprising him with an unexpected power at the last second.
He fired it point blank at Revenant, trying to take him down with him, and succeeding. The only reason why Revenant wasn’t dead - despite most of his bones turned to dust and most of his organs shattered beyond repair - was because he was kept alive by yet another OFA’s stockpiled quirk, originally called Ignore.
Originally, it allowed the user to operate at their peak capacity despite exhaustion, but under OFA’s influence it grew up to allow the user to fight while remaining immune to the effects of his injuries. He has about twenty minutes before it burns out, and then he’ll drop dead instantly.
Eri and Overhaul could heal him, but neither of them were there, and he doesn’t have any quirk injection from the latter on him.
It seems that he’ll die together with Tsuyu after all. She says that she would prefer him to live on with Eri, but it’ll be great to not die alone. They quickly move to the Overlook command center, where Asui updates Uraraka as to what happened while Revenant sits on his throne.
He tells everyone in the Overlook to head to the nearest place with TV screens to witness what was going to happen next, and the conclusion of the Liberation Festival. Then, after a few more minutes, he contacts the Prime Minister.
He informs her that Invincible is dead, and their forces are routed. The missile silo on the island (that doesn’t actually exist) remains operational, and soon they’ll start launching their quirk erasing missiles towards the mainland, taunting her about Invincible fighting with Revenant just to decide who was going to be the one to have her head.
She is enraged, and tells him that she has one final arrow in her quiver. With a worryingly deranged smile she motions at someone off screen to give her something - and it's the Japanese equivalent of the nuclear suitcase.
Revenant looks shocked, shouting at her that she was a mad bitch to resort to that, but she ignores him. She quickly goes through the procedure before informing Revenant that the final stage of the Sword of Damocles was just launched - and that in her eyes, it was the PLF that broke the ‘no mass destruction weapons’ deal thanks to Yaoyorozu’s actions in Shibuya and the threat of quirk erasing drug that he just threatened to unleash.
Midoriya has Uraraka go through the incoming data to confirm the launch. And then, when she does so, he looks at the Prime Minister on the screen… and laughs.
When she asks him if he finally lost his mind, he says that no… and that she has just acted exactly like he wanted her to. Asa did more than just get information out of her - he also got physical access to her nuclear suitcase. They couldn’t sabotage it with no one noticing it, and they didn’t find a way to exclude targets from being fired upon or by making launches happen without her authorization, but they found a way to add additional launch orders that would happen the moment the suitcase would be used.
And, of course, scramble the deactivation codes. Meaning that once fired, there was no way of stopping them.
With Prime Minister floored with the news, he grins at her one last time and asks her if she knew how easy it was in the end to have her herd heroes, law enforcement officers, soldiers, bureaucrats and influential civilian supporters of her regime into her precious Citadels, located as far away from population centers as possible.
(he also briefly muses on dealing with Cognitovore finally as he had added Jaku to the list of targets after Overhaul share its description with him)
She panics and looks at the side, demanding someone to confirm it - and a few seconds later one of her aides shouts back at her that the Satcom confirms twenty-five launches and that they cannot control any of them - and that they’ve quickly disappeared from the systems completely, making tracking and shooting them down impossible.
When she looks at Revenant, her face white as paper, he tells her that he found the Liberation Festival gloriously karmic after what she did to Deika, and having her to be the one to kill everyone responsible for it - including herself - was always the plan.
He then tells her that her own Citadel was in Tokyo, and he decided not to hit it due to the collateral damage - but with her faction in shambles, she would be the target for everyone in the country. He then tells her that he’ll be waiting for her in hell, before disconnecting.
Once that is over, he speaks on the base intercom again. He tells the remaining PLF members than in a better world, he would have been the one who would send them all to jail, but in this world, it was an honor to be their Grand Commander, before telling them that they have about ten minutes until the nuke impact and to do with that time whatever they see fit.
When he asks Tsuyu and Uraraka what they want to do now, Uraraka tells him that she would like to see the stars one final time… and Asui agrees to do that. They make way for the elevator to the surface.
It’s past nightfall right now, so they just lie down right next to each other, Izuku in the middle. They make an idle chatter, Uraraka mentioning how she hopes reincarnation is a thing so they might all meet together and maybe even be heroes as they always wanted to be. Tsuyu agrees with her, making Uraraka jokingly ask her if she would be then allowed into their bed.
Tsuyu tells her that ‘frog girls best girls’ and Izuku deserves only the best. Uraraka pouts at that, which makes Tsuyu rise up and lean over Midoriya to hold her face up to her own, before telling her that by the powers vested in her by the ‘council of frogginess’ she declares Uraraka an ‘honorary frog’, which makes Uraraka laugh uncontrollably, and even Izuku cracks a smile.
A few seconds later there’s a blinding light and then, nothing.
Fallout Arc
Less a full Arc and more like a one or two chapters epilogue to the story, plus some snippets showing what certain groups are up to.
First scene is Lady Murder throwing a fit at the news and how she didn’t get to fight while cursing their parents for what they did - only to, when she sent everyone else out of the room and told them to fuck off, start crying.
Second scene is of the Prime Minister trying to flee Tokyo, just to have her security detail and even her chauffeur desert her in the middle of the attempt, leaving her alone on the street.
She tries to flee regardless, only to be found dead hours later, hanging off a street lantern with something resembling Eraserhead’s capture scarf wrapped around her neck, with a line thrown in as to how students can sometimes inspire their own teachers (implying that Eraserhead survived but went into hiding, likely broken by his loss, only to get out and finish the job his students started).
Third scene involves Kouta having a talk with Red Fang, as to how they’ll both miss the strategy/tactics lessons with Revenant, but they’ll make good use of them. Kouta intends to become a hero (for Kyushu Gov, which is still mostly composed of ‘legalized’ villains) as the MLA is pretty much dissolving into it, while Red Fang thinks about getting Lady Murder to get a large fragment of Kyushu to be an autonomous zone for those with mutant quirks who feel discriminated against elsewhere - and seeing LM’s propensity for murder as a solution for problems, Red Fang is already getting ready to having to lead said zone from behind her back at first, and perhaps openly so once LM gets bored of it.
Kouta replies by saying that the CRC might be against it, prompting Red Fang shrug and tell him that the few trainees that Revenant brought into his mastermind school from the CRC seemed to have mellowed down from the mutant interactions and there’s a chance that unless the KyushuGov indulges them, the CRC of the next generation will mellow down from ‘kill mutants’ to ‘let them live, but not here’, which would great with her idea.
When Kouta says if it’s alright to get so much alienated while letting CRC have a free reign, she shrugs and tells him that number wise, there are more mutants than active CRC members left, so it could as well be so that the CRC will be the one forced to live in their own little mutant-free ghetto rather than the other way around.
Fourth scene would definitely involve Judgment. Not 100% sure how it would work, but I’d mention the ‘unconfirmed’ reports (happening in the aftermath of the war) of some fringe groups around the world using strange powers they claim to be magic, which seem to work even when the area happens to be saturated in quirk erasure drug.
After that, it’s Kuroiro and Komori, both of them being very glad that they noped out of the country when they did as they watched the news about the Liberation Festival from their newly bought home on the Hawaii islands.
Next scene is from Intelli/Lemillion’s headquarters, the two of them still terrified of what Midoriya just did, but also seeing the clear opportunity. Tokyo was collapsing, Shizuoka’s forces walking into the city without a problem and even the Hokkaido remnants pushing south to almost no resistance, discussing the possibility of uniting with Hokkaido while also realizing that PLF’s forces under the Kyushu Government (most of it controlled by the MLA members) are pushing east with no resistance as well.
The most likely outcome of the war is Shizuoka/Hokkaido union seizing entire east Japan, with the PLF doing the same to west Japan, with none of them ready to speculate as to what was going to happen afterwards.
Monoma isn’t mentioned in the talk, the reason for which becomes clear in the fourth scene, in which Monoma is apologizing to Kendou for a part of what Haze did. His thoughts leave no doubt as to the fact that - despite finding it distasteful - he did manage to erase the associated memories of the reveal of his quirk from Mindscape and Lemillion.
His secrets were safe once again - unless someone from the PLF who knew it survived, which would likely only be Eri and her two sidekicks. He, too, has no idea what was going to happen next, especially as all that he needed was a single dose of a quirk erasing drug to lose it all, and now that Overhaul and Revenant made them a public knowledge, it could happen at any time - and a part of Monoma can’t help but look forward to it.
Kendou tells him that she can forgive it but never forget it - and that he better be on his best behaviour from now on, or the next time he snaps she’s going to be the one to arrest him or die trying.
The final scene is Eri’s reaction to the news. She is crestfallen, of course, despite Tomura and his wife doing their best to console her. The funeral is meant to be tomorrow, even without a body to bury, and it’ll be limited to the Shigaraki’s, Asa, Eri and her two sidekicks and the few former Midoriya’s Network members (like Shiozaki) that moved to the US before everything went to hell.
Once she retreats to her bedroom, there is one final reveal.
Right before the battle started, Revenant ended up relenting and let her take the quirk erasing drug… before giving her the One For All. And she makes a vow to herself that she’ll listen to her parents’ wishes and become a hero instead of a villain - and, if needed to, she’ll definitely go back to Japan, especially if someone was needed to put fear of God in Monoma.
The final words of the fic would be as follows:
“Thus ends the story of the Cursed Class. Eleven of them died as heroes, while the other nine lived long enough to become villains.
One died carrying out his revenge.
One was put to rest.
One fell to madness.
One gave up his life to protect his goddess.
One fought for his love until the very end.
One fell to the feeling of unbearable loss.
And the remaining three passed away beside their loved ones, with a final smile on their lips.”
[There would also be an end note to it, pointing out that Revenant’s reasoning for the Vestiges being silent is wrong, on the account of him not having the full information. In All That’s Left Yoichi displayed the ability to knock out quirks of others on contact, in exchange for this knocking Vestiges out for some time.
It’s highly possible that he was forced to go hard on this in order to break All For One’s defenses in Kamino (in this timeline he faced All Might for the first time there and managed to stockpile on Shock Absorption/Hyper-Regen quirks beforehand).
Whether this wiped the Vestiges out completely or merely knocked them out for a period counted in decades is unknown. It’s possible, though, that Revenant’s Vestige will eventually arise, meaning that in the end, he kind of achieved what he wanted - everyone thinks (correctly) that he is dead, but he’ll still be there for Eri.
Though if the other Vestiges will be up again at the same time, I don’t envy that talk.
Also, I sure as hell hope that Revenant’s Vestige won’t awaken while Eri is doing Eri things with the Shimano siblings, because this is going to be a truly terrible (but funny) experience for both sides.]