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Izuku laid on the ground. Unable to move. His body breathing in and out on its own. His eyes could roll around, but his head couldn't.
He couldn't think. He couldn't move, he couldn't do anything.
The clouds were getting further away. The wind whipped around him, and the ground cracked and crumbled away.
He was falling out of the sky into the Pacific ocean, along with the rest of UA…and everyone else.
He couldn't see them from how he landed, but he knew they were there. Lying on the ground, far away from him. The only one who was close enough that Izuku could see from the corner of his left eye had white hair.
Tomu—...Tenko laid dead on his side next to him. His blood seeped into Izuku's gloves and shoes.
Izuku could just barely move his arm. That was it. Just to slide it over to the young man next to him. He felt a bump that must have been Tenko's hand.
Izuku forced his arm a little higher and dropped his hand down on top of Tenko's.
Those fingers didn't curl shut to grab him and turn him into dust. They didn't even twitch.
Izuku's vision became blurry. Hot tears fell down his cheeks and into his hair.
He messed up.
So badly.
All he could do now is wait for the inevitable crash to kill him too. If not that, then the ocean would.
Izuku stared wide eyed and blearily at the rapidly rising sky above. That's when he saw something soar pass. At first he thought it was a bird.
But then it stopped right above him, and the black form got bigger. It took Izuku a moment to realize it was diving down, and then a half a second later to realize it wasn't a bird.
It was a man, wrapped in a dark torn robe, with a pair of blood red wings sprouting from his back that looked very familiar.
Bottomless wide red eyes stared straight at him.
All for One.
Izuku knew who it was all on his own. He had never seen the man's face clearly, and even though his brain wasn't working enough to quickly string together all the evidence-he knew who it was. Somehow.
…-inth.
Nin-...
…Ninth!
Izuku!
He could hear him. The first user of One for All. He was calling for him. Trying to reach out the same time he saw a large hand with a hole in its palm get close.
The fingertips touched his face. Then the palm.
Izu—
And suddenly it was silent.
Izuku stared up through the cracks between the fingers over his face. He couldn't close his eyes.
Not even when the hand went away and he felt it slip underneath his head. The other went underneath his knees, and he left the ground.
All for One spread his stolen wings and lifted up into the sky. A large deafening sound followed a second after. Izuku felt the spray of seawater. The salt stung his eyes and made him squeeze them shut.
He wasn't able to open them again. Just didn't have the energy to.
He didn't know what happened after that. Everything went black.
Right before it did however, he saw a door. Gray and solid metal, with a heavy lock on it. He was standing on the inside of the vault, looking out.
The door was open. Bent inwards and distorted. He got a cold feeling, and then there was nothing.
Black.