Chapter 17 - Ambush

Michael, hearing Nezu's message, accepted that explanation, it made sense, you shouldn't engage with villain that are too far above your league, but if you're powerful and confident enough. Why would you let a powerful villain roam around doing whatever they pleased. He also realized Nezu probably set up the reset pointer because of him. There was no such thing as a reset pointer in the anime and there was only a single zero pointer.

He was being a naive idiot, he took everything they said at face value, he knew their personalities from the anime, they seemed close to the same as their counterparts, as he noticed with present mic. They wouldn't treat him with a weapon anyways, they were a school not the military. They were trying to raise the best strongest heroes to defend society from villains. U.A was so much more than just training. It gave you credibility, connections as well as publicity.

He decided to arrange a meeting with Nezu, there was too much he wasn't sure about. There was the incident with Momo and the zero pointer, as well as the reset pointer, he didn't want to be treated as a weapon by the school and government. He also needed to make sure the scholarship and lodging would still apply even thought he didn't enter as a recommended student.

Michael, making his way through to U.A, he was taking the train again, after leaving it, he felt like he was being watched, it wasn't the normal feeling however, whenever fans noticed him, it felt more... Malicious. He couldn't notice anyone nearby however, he was taking a shortcut towards U.A, one he found when going to the entrance exam. He knew he was a possible threat to villains, one they would try to get rid of before it grows, especially with his sheer potential.

"Well, Michael Steele, your quirk is simply too appetizing, so many different powerful abilities, all in a single quirk. If I didn't know as much about you as I did, I would've ȧssumed you had a quirk similar to mine. Stealing the quirks of others, it's quite like picking vegetables in the market, always picking the best of the best, and yours Michael, is probably the best I've ever seen, other than mine of course. I think i'm going to take it for myself."

Michael turns around to see a head leaving a portal, dark, black and purple. He realized this was All for one near instantly, most likely using Kurogiri to create a portal to him, he wasn't actually sure if All For One could steal his sunlight quirk, even if he could it might not help All For One much, but it would harm Michael's growth massively. Without saying a word Michael sent a ray of heat vision towards All For One, through the portal.

All For One closed the portal and opened another to avoid it. "Now wasn't that rude, seeing it in person's really different from the video, it's much more powerful than I thought. Must've grown since your fight with Muscular."

Michael was formulating a strategy, he knew from the anime that All For One was blind and used heat vision to see, he could make use of this. Michael sent as rays of heat vision everywhere, as hot as he could make them, he was filling the area with heat to mess with All For One's heat vision, he had the same power, he knew he wouldn't be able to see him as well as he could previously, he decided to take it a step further however, and used his super breath to generate cold air inside him to make his own heat signature dissapear from All For One's vision.

"Interesting strategy." By this point All For One had already left the portal, he multiplied his arms, enlarged them and was sending spear like bones all around, Michael realized this was his chance to attack All For One before he could find him. He flew silently towards All For One, still holding in his super breath, sending a punch towards All For One.

The Impact was sent right back towards Michael, his own kryptonian strength working against him, the bones that were being sent all around turned out to be setting up to attack him all at once, he moved as fast as he could to try to dodge them, but they were blocking all the possible escape routes. He was attacked by the bones, they were able to pierce his skin, most likely due to the sheer amount of quirk multipliers and enhancers All For One had. But they couldn't pierce into his vital organs, not yet at least.

"That was a smart strategy, however the lack of a heat signature is what gave you away, you were the only spot without a heat signature, human shaped and moving towards me, it was kind of obvious, had you not used your breath to erase your heat signature, I may have fell for it. Your intelligence has impressed me, thinking of such a strategy on the spot, if I didn't already have a successor, and if you didn't have such a tempting quirk. I might've offered you a spot as my successor."

Michael realized he was in a bad spot, he tried to look at All For One with his X-ray vision but what he saw horrified him. "How are you even alive!"

"Hm? You can see it can't you? A form of X-ray vision, or something similar maybe."

All For One's skeleton was shattered, almost every bone was broken, torn, or wasn't even there. His skull was almost nonexistent, the sheer amount of damage he had taken and survived shocked Michael senseless, anyone else would have died countless times already.

All For One pressed his advantage, sending air blasts at Michael at close range, with more spear like bones still attacking Michael. Who was quickly doing his best to dodge, jumping and flying in between the bones, using the air blasts as momentum to move further.

Michael decided to shoot a ray of heat vision into the sky, then shot himself through the bones, grabbing one to use as a weapon along the way, breaking it off the rest of the bones. He threw it towards All For One as a Javelin, before using Super Breath to boost it's speed. All For One, who thought he had already won, was hit in the shoulder, thrown towards a wall.

"Now that.... has pissed me off" All For One grabbed that same spear bone out of his shoulder before sending it flying back towards Michael, boosting its speed with an air blast. It was aimed for his heart, but hit the exact same spot All For One was hit, because Michael had attempted to dodge.

"Now, that was satisfying, where was I again. Oh, the stealing your quirk part." All For One sent a black void covered hand towards Michael, who was nearly defeated, Michael sent a super breath towards All For One however and pushed him away, but because of the spear already in Michael's shoulder, his lungs took damage because of this. All For One sent an air blast towards Michael, who still hasn't had the chance to remove the bone spear.

All For One once again attempted to steal Michael's quirk. Sending the same dark hand towards him.

"Hm, can I not take it? Is it like One for all?"

[Error, soul #1830583791, power's given by the Rebirth Station cannot be Taken or Given away]

'The Rebirth station? It just spoke to me again, maybe it's a fail safe to make sure people who are reincarnated aren't hunted by incredibly powerful beings for their gifts and powers. The fact it's still here has me worried though.'

"No matter, getting rid of a threat to my successor is still a good outcome."

At this moment, a wall is created between Michael and All For One.

"All For One?" Says All Might, who noticed him from behind the wall, as well as his injuries.

"Wait, that's him!" Say's Vlad King.

"Well hello heroes, It seems I won't be able to accomplish my goal this time, Goodbye." Says All For One, who created a portal and was going through it.

All Might sends a punch towards the portal, while Vlad sends a blood spear towards it, Cementoss tried to stop All For One from going through the portal by pulling him back with the cement, but it was all too late, All For One had managed to escape.

"Wait, That's Michael, quick bring him to Recovery girl, he's injured." Says All Might