MHA : Shoto Todoroki - Modern-day Terrorist

All for One's crazed, bloodshot, manic eyes, snapped to the titanic lava hand shooting up from the ground.

First a fist, the fingers unfold, a gigantic hand reaching to grab him.

Fiery red rocks were held tight by luminescent lava veins, which twirled from the fingertips down the growing forearm, spreading in the flat, burnt ground, like roots.

The forearm grew with the might of a skyscraper sprouting from the soil, the open palm a canon ball rising higher and higher.

All for One barely escaped in time.

Scorching air caused by the lava hand's movement hit All for One like a burning tornado, drying his eyes.

He blinked repeatedly, horrifyingly in awe of the gigantic hand. Lava pulsed beneath the skin, red and fiery yellow that looked like blood.

He'd never seen anything like that.

The forearm swayed to the left, the palm attempting to grab All for One.

He flew back, let the fingers brush right past him.

Some of the rocks making the structure were on fire.

The arm twisted abnormally, elbow spinning 360° so that the fingers, previously facing the blackened beach, were now facing him.

All for One flew around, dodging the hand that snapped and jolted and made to crush him.

It wasn't only large and dangerous, it was also fast.

Wind swished in his ears.

He tried to catch a glimpse of the ground in between two thick vapor clouds that were scattered by the giant hand moving around, yet whitish fumes coming from the hot sea quickly filled the holes.

Enji must've been down there, controlling the hand from the ground.

The lava hand shot past him – he'd sidestepped it easily.

It may have been fast but its movements were rather primit-

A shadow loomed over him : All for One shot back as fast as he could as the hand closed on him.

The wrist – had it been a man's – would've broken from bending down flat against its forearm.

The hand was an uncoiling snake, snapping decisively to swallow All for One whole.

He flew faster, and the extended fingers lost ground on him before they suddenly elongated, growing meters longer in half a second.

The hand fastened on All for One.

He was encased in a dark prison, the very air so dry it felt like drinking fire, his skin sandpaper and his eyes like they were hot charcoal.

The fingers smoothly transitioned from catching to pulverization.

Black lightning exploded from All for One's chest like a sonic wave.

The lava fingers disintegrated, blasted away, burning rock crashing like meteorites all over the beach and sea.

All for One shot off the destroyed hand, his skin blackened.

Ashes were raining.

Black smoke billowed from the titanic hand, not merging with the whitish vapor under but rising to form ominous clouds.

The rising sun could not pierce them.

All for One coughed, still flying.

There was an ominous crack, and then, in front of his dumbfounded gaze, the hand rekindled herself.

Lava blood went from the ground up the glowing forearm to the broken phalanx, lava tendrils – then pillars, then fingers – replacing the previous appendages.

A booming noise echoed throughout the beach.

Lava hands sprouted like mushrooms, a monstrous forest of gigantic hands shooting to get a hold of All for One.

He flew around like a bullet, his protection field activating to save him from the direst situations.

There were too many of them, and he was getting tired.

He needed to find Enji and-

A fist flew past All for One's head.

He'd dodged it thanks to pure instincts.

He spun, grabbed the fist that would've hit him, burnt his hand in the process, and-

It wasn't Enji. It wasn't even a man.

The thing before him was a humanoid made of pure, fluorescent lava.

It exploded right between his hands.

All for One disengaged and flew back, his skin painfully melting over his brittle bones, burnt chunks dripping to the ground. Beyond his wrists there were no hands left - only bare, pointy bones, cooked flesh sticking to some crannies, blood gushing out of his stumps.

He cursed and focused first of all on healing his eyelids and eyeballs, praying that it hadn't damaged the eyes.

Similar knights rose from the top of the lava hands, jumping on All for One simultaneously.

All for One tore through them with his lightening, one hand hastily mended to fight them while he focused on the thinner parts of healing his eyes. Breathing ragged, he was forced to heal the damage he suffered to stop them from killing him even though it was energy-consuming.

They were not sentient creatures ; they had no eyes, no mouth, no ears. This meant that the one controlling them was Enji, and for him to do so he must've been able to see them.

All for One left himself be thrashed by the lava knights, flying as far away as he could and noting in which direction the knight pushed him.

After a few more exchanges, All for One had a rough idea of Enji's location.

His lightning-covered hand went through the lava creature's chest as if it were butter.

He burnt most of his hand but it was still usable.

All for One spun around, faster than ever before, and shot through the lava pillars.

Lava knights tried to stop him, but smaller, longer hands shot up from the lava forearm to grab him.

He went through everything like a bulldozer, refusing to leave Enji enough time to flee.

And right then, All for One rounded a corner behind one of the largest lava forearms and locked eyes with Enji's.

Vicious glee shone in All for One's eyes ; aloof and collected Enji locked gaze with him.

His skin, previously transparent, visibly cooled down as All for One negated his Quirk.

He took a step back. All for One smiled, jumping the distance separating them in one fell smooth.

Enji raised his arm, as though he wished to protect himself, yet his face remained undisturbed.

That's when All for One saw the glinting gun in his rising palm.

Something in the back of his head tingled.

If Enji Todoroki bothered to bring a firearm to fight someone well-known for being unaffected by bullets, it wasn't a blunder.

All for One came to a screeching halt, smile fading from his lips, feet leaving deep trails in the burnt ground.

"Sw-"

Enji shot at near point-blank range.

"-ap"

All for One reappeared half a meter away, the pain stopping short his escape attempt.

There was a gaping hole between his cheek and his mouth.

His skin, badly burnt, had been obliterated, speckles of flesh and blood on his nose and jaw, half of his teeth now enamel powder on his tongue.

Torrential blood flowed down his throat.

There was a gaping hole in the back of his neck, inches from his spine. He could feel the unnervingly hot breeze rushing inside him.

Enji calmly aimed and shot.

This time, All for One flew to the side, panic pumping his heart, blood rolling forward and mixing with the ashy bones in his mouth, bubbling and spilling from his tightly closed lips.

The bullet obliterated the ground where he'd been.

The hardened black ground cracked, shards flying everywhere. Then the ground broke, collapsing as if it'd always been hollow, a large hole opening on a boiling pit of lava.

All for One's eyes snapped to Enji's – he'd disappeared.

Letting him direct the flow of the fight had been a bad enough idea the first time : now that All for One knew what kind of demonic weapon – and where did he get it ? I-Island ? - he possessed, he couldn't let him hide and fight with his minions until Enji shot him down when he was focused on something else.

Already, the lava hands were coming to life once more.

All for One ground his teeth and chased after him in between the rising pillars – lava forearms.

A lava knight shot up from one of the forearms, detaching itself from its surface like molted wax coming to life.

A beam of black lightning shot from All for One's palm, annihilating everything above his stomach.

The creature fell to its knees but lava tentacles shot from the forearm, wrapping around him and filling the missing parts.

The hole at the back of All for One's throat finally closed.

He didn't bother with his cheek – he couldn't afford it.

"Todoroki !", All for One shouted, rage burning in his eyes.

Countless other lava knights were detaching from forearms.

All for One braced himself and shot up to the sky, wind swooshing in his ears, ground cracking behind him.

He flew higher than the half-reformed hands, laser-focused on spotting-

There.

All for One shoot at an angle right as a hand tried to grab him and the lava construct collapsed behind him with a splash.

The lava knights turned to red puddles.

Enji, half buried inside one of his lava pillars, spotted All for One and moved away right as his construct fell between them.

All for One abruptly stopped, forearm hiding his face from the burning drops whereas he squinted, trying to catch a glimpse of Enji.

A lava curtain was rising from the fallen pillar.

All for One flew like a rocket through it, spinning desperately as he did so to thwart off most of the lava, emerging from a cloud of vapor like a demon.

Enji's eyes were cold.

He raised his gun, and All for One broke his wrist.

The gun fell with a wet clatter.

Enji did not utter the slightest sound, though his heart thundered in his chest.

He stepped back, left hand going for his pouch, and All for One slapped his hand away, breaking his arm as easily as he would've slapped an insect.

Jolting pain darted from Enji's wrist to his shoulder.

His adrenaline spiked.

He saw everything in slow motion.

A bead of sweat rolled down his eyebrow to his jaw, glinting as it fell and hit the ground.

All for One's muscles looked in pain as his arm extended, twitching under burnt skin. A rivulet of blood ran from his shoulder to the cusp of his elbow, and it felt as if it hummed like a river.

His skin was filthy, badly burnt and molten. There was a gaping hole right next to his mouth, fleshy skin threads hanging precariously from his cheek, moving like fluttering curtains before bloody gums.

His blackened palm sprang open, fingers opening wide.

Goosebumps covered Enji's skin.

All for One's nail grazed his chest.

And then, right in front of Enji's eyes, All for One's hand fell on the sand, cleanly cut.

Enji's breath caught.

All for One turned ash white.

"Chidori"