Chapter 23
"Shit" "Shit"
The black mist opened up, revealing a group of villains over 200 strong, with a man that has multiple hands on his face at their head and the man made of the same black mist that brought them there, and behind all of them, a large disgusting being with a beak appeared. With strong arms, an exposed brain and scars all over it.
Eraserhead quickly checked his earpiece, "Hello?" the other end responded, seeing it not jammed, yelled into it. "This is not a drill! They are here, the tip off was right! Move in!."
"Students! move back to the buses this instant! Those are actual villains!" Thirteen yelled. The students start to run back towards the entrance, but was stopped when the mist man appeared in front of them, through a portal.
"Hello students of UA, I am Kurogiri and we are here to kill All Might, has there been a mistake? Why isn't he her-" Before he can even finish that sentence, Thirteen already unleashed her quirk on him, sucking in the mist, revealing Kurogiri's metal frame. Kurogiri reached out to summon a portal in front of him and one behind Thirteen, Seeing this, Eraserhead immediately jumped in and activated his quirk, the portals disappearing immediately, Thirteen stopped her blackhole, allowing Eraserhead to deliver a hard kick towards his metal frame, causing him to yelp in pain, then putting the quirk suppressant cuffs on him, immediately stopping him in his tracks.
"What the? How do you know about that!" Kurogiri yelled in a panic tone, a clear contrast on his calm demeanor moments ago.
"Run now!" Thirteen yelled to the students, "No! We can't just leave you two alone! Especially you Aizawa Sensei, didn't you say you specialize in one on one fighting? We can help!" Kirishima exclaimed. Bakugo on the other hand had a manic grin "Yeah! Let us fight those bastards!"
"No hero is a one trick pony, me and Thirteen got this! we have other heroes on the way! Just go!". Eraserhead yelled back, his earpiece beeped. "Heroes arriving soon, ETA 9 minutes."
"God damn it..." Eraserhead muttered.
"Kurogiri! What the hell is taking so long!" Shigaraki yelled from below. Kurogiri was about to answer before getting multiple hard kicks to his metal body from Aizawa and Thirteen, while having his quirk disabled, making him on the brink of going out cold,
Hearing no response, Shigaraki assumes he has been captured. "God damn it! There goes our escape route, well, if All Might isn't here, then I guess we can kill some students!"
A majority of the students, made their ways to the entrance by now, hearing this, Bakugo yelled, "In your dreams asshole! We aren't going!" Bakugo yelled. With that done, Bakugo immediately jumped and flew forward using his hands to cause explosions, seeing this, multiple others who were just hesitating before, including Kaminari, Kirishima, Sero, Todoroki, Mina and Iida rushed forward, some not wanting to leave Bakugo in danger, some wanting to dish out justice themselves. The others stood there, unsure of what to do.
"Stop!" Eraserhead released his capture weapon and activated his quirk on all of them, but the rumbling steps towards the entrance, snapped him out of it, the villains were running towards the entrance, not wasting another moment Eraserhead rushed in to protect their students, Thirteen stayed behind to protect the students that didn't rush in, seeing their efforts to stop students from fighting foiled. Eraserhead started to fight the villains, to hold them off, until the heroes arrive, Thirteen and the students who didn't rush in try to hold their ground as a big group.
Todoroki started by releasing a sheet of ice across the floor, freezing many of the villains in place, The rest of the students try to take care of villains on their own, Kirishima punching through hordes of villains, Mina sliding left and right and spewing acid, Sero taping up villains and sending them towards Kaminari which then shock them, Iida started running around the villains, kicking them down one by one.
"Nomu! kill them all! That explosive piece of shit first!." With that, the Nomu rushed towards Bakugo, raising his fist, Bakugo, about to land another explosion, flinched after seeing the beast run at him, Thirteen, seeing this, did the only thing she could think of out of desperation while not harming Bakugo. She blew on the whistle given to her. At that moment, the Nomu's arm was suddenly pierced with multiple daggers and knives stabbing out of it, making it screech in pain, gun shots rung out, glows and sparks appeared amongst the villains, One of them, with a falcon quirk flew up and started flinging his sharp feathers at the group.
As the villain group dispersed, they could see it, the people with the sigil on their hips, All of them were masked, all with some type of armor, some were mutants and some looked normal, one led a group of people armed with weapons, one swung his katana, cutting a villain across the chest, some wore knuckle dusters as they fought, one of them even had a rifle. shooting at fleeing villains' legs.
Some of them had animal mutation quirks, one person with a crocodile mutation bit hard on a villain's leg, multiple people with mutations such as ants, gorillas, bears started to fight the villains with ferocity, beaks, paws and claws were thrown, with feathers from above, staggering them, some of the villains seemed to have entered into some kind of trance looking on to the distance, different projectiles rang out, cannonballs, acid, goop, what seems like parts of bone, the villains start to be push back.
The Nomu, however, immediately recovered from the attack and grew back his arm.
"Shit! that didn't work!"
"It seems to have regeneration, just take care of the grunts, and run around, the heroes are coming soon!"
Eraserhead's and Thirteen's earpiece beeped again in their ears. "Hello hello? Can you hear me?" A robotic voice spoke.
"Who are you?" Eraserhead asked.
"Some agent, I established connection, you can talk to everyone, and everyone can talk to you, everyone say hi."
"Hi!" a cacophony of voices responded.
Eraserhead slightly winced at the voices. "Alright, the heroes are coming soon, at this point ETA 2 minutes, whoever yelled out to take out the grunts and distract has the right idea, but take care of the students that ran in! Get them far away from here as possible!"
"Yep!" "Yes Sir." "Gotcha man" "Squawk!" "Fine..." the cacophony of voices responded.
A voice came through the earipiece, "All right, we have just the tool for the job! Two of you, come quickly, come to the east side, near the railings above, you know who you are, I got some things for y'all! Falc! Landslide!"
Two engineers have retreated to a vantage point, a place slightly higher and aimed a rifle at the students, "Test for Prototype 1432 initiate!" they aimed carefully and the rifles fired a white pellet attached to a cord, and when close to the students, they opened to reveal a tightly woven net almost like a semi translucent bubble, ensnaring Kirishima and Bakugo and they were pulled back, towards the engineers, who carried them on their back like a sack of potatoes, both of the students struggled, Bakugo cursed the whole way through trying to blast the net but to no avail. The shirts of the engineers weren't harmed either, "Wow, the material Tinker made works really well huh." One of the engineers remarked. "Well, only the best for Broccoli!" They carried them both to a different spot before firing the cord again towards the entrance where Thirteen was before pulling another switch to unweave the net,
Soon after, Falc, a man with a falcon mutation with brown and white feathers and a bird head with hands on the end of his wings and sharp talons on his feet flew near, the other man, Landslide sprung up from the ground next to them, he had brown hair that sweeps back, a lean athletic build and wore goggles, jumpsuit and a bandana while wielding a bat. They were handed two pistols each, alongside a knife made of some special metal.
Falc started swooping in and shooting at multiple students, after ensnaring them, they started picking them up starting with the ones that seem smaller, and flying towards the dome roof of the USJ, to get up high before flying downwards towards the entrance, using his hands to pick up Kaminari, Mina and using his talons to pick up Todoroki getting screams from them, but he didn't fly for long as Todoroki mistaking him for a villain froze one of his feet, however he held on and then cut them loose when it was a safe enough distance away from the villains.
Landslide, jumped in and out of the dirt and the structures, as if it's water, he would jump out, shoot at the students, grab them when they were ensnared and dove back into the ground putting both his hands up from the soil, carrying them since the students couldn't go with him into the dirt. He intercepted Iida mid run and Sero mid swing and shot at them, carrying them towards the entrance where Thirteen was still fighting villains, while carrying a limp Kurogiri and slowly backing towards the exit, fighting alongside the initial students who held back, loud shockwaves, canon balls, laser beams, scales and what seems like a bunch of grapes were fired at the villains, he dropped them off next to Thirteen, releasing them before running back into the fight.
"All the students that rushed in are safe!" Falc and Landslide spoke to their earpieces. "He's right all twenty are here!" Thirteen confirmed.
"Thank you, the heroes should be here in around-" before Eraserhead can continue, a booming voice came from above.
"WE ARE HERE!" the dome of the building shattered, All Might jumped in with Nezu on his shoulder. Kamui Woods and Mt Lady soon came through as well, the UA teachers arrived at the entrance, pushing the students back onto the bus, Ectoplasm made a clone to drive the bus back to campus, and five clones to watch over the unconscious Kurogiri before rushing in with the staff.
"What the hell? How did they know! You! Didn't you jam the signals?" Shigaraki pointed to a timid man with vibrating hair, "I-I-I did I swear!" To the side, an agent quietly tucked into his pocket a tablet he was messing with.
"GAH! No matter, kill them all! Especially the traitors!" the villains, rushed in once again, only to crouch in agony and started to faint one by one under a screeching yell by Present Mic. The people of the network moved out of the way, and took care of the villains who didn't get caught in the yell.
"My god, these people are actually good..." Vlad King muttered to Eraserhead, getting a nod from him in response. The heroes made quick work of the remaining villains, either getting chained up by Kamui Woods, stomped by Mt Lady, put to sleep by Midnight, shot by Snipe, trapped in cement kicked by Ectoplasm, or get stuck in thick blood by Vlad King.
"NOMU KILL ALL MIGHT!" the moments those words left his mouth, the nomu rushed forward, All Might intercepted the beast immediately, punching it in the gut, only for nothing to happen, the beast wasn't even fazed, "What the-"
"ENJOY MY SURPRISE SYMBOL OF PEACE? THIS THING HAS SHOCK ABSORPTION! YOUR FISTS WON'T DO ANYTHING TO IT!"
"That son of a bitch has regeneration as well, cut off his hand earlier, jack shit! It's like he has multiple quirks!" A man from the network yelled out as he knocked someone out with a bat.
Multiple quirks? It can't be...
The nomu wailed on All Might, throwing punch after punch, and over and over, All Might blocked them blood spewing out of his mouth.
All Might winced at the impact, before reaching out, grabbing the nomu by it's hips and performing a German suplex, then throw him upwards.
"Well! Your quirk is shock absorption, not nullification. So that means you have limits! If you were made to best me, then I'll just have to do better than my best! Beyond 100%!"
"PLUS ULTRAAAA!"
With a one final battle cry, All Might unleashed a barrage of punches at the nomu, the punches releasing small shockwaves with each hit.
The nomu started to stagger mid air as it was punched, All Might could feel the strain in his body, but he pushed forward.
"Yo, you seeing this?" A man with a bear mutation asked, the woman beside him with slit shaped eyes and a long tongue, replied "Yessssss." before pulling out her phone and then whacking someone with her tail, bewildered at the sight before them, as the villains dwindle down, the rest of the support network looked on in awe and amusement, some wincing at the blows All Might was giving the nomu. "Ooh, that's gotta hurt, thank god I got out of the business when I did huh." One of them quipped.
"RAHHHHHHHH!" With one final cry, All Might punched the Nomu outside the dome of the USJ, everyone was amazed.
"What! That's cheating! Our intel said you were weake-" Shigaraki didn't manage to finish that sentence before getting smacked in the back of the head with a metal bat.
"Well that's dealt with." Tetsuchi huffed as he lowered the bat, slightly readjusting the mask.
The entire group looked at the carnage around them, countless villains laid unconscious on the ground, and there they were standing in the middle of it.
Ectoplasm receives a signal from his earpiece.
"The students are all back at campus, the mist man is still at the entrance, it's done."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Nezu approached Tetsuchi.
"I must apologize sir, it seems our trust was not misplaced." Nezu bowed slightly.
"No worries Principal I know it's easy to have doubts with people like us, but rest assured, we had no ulterior motives."
"Well, I just had to take your word for that, so I assume you prefer cash? If so, where would you like it picked up?" Nezu asked
Tetsuchi wrote down an address and gave it to him, along with a list of names, "Here, and the people here are the ones we want records cleaned, they have shown no misconduct for the past 5 years and did not commit any serious crimes that put others in fatal danger."
Nezu nodded. "Very well, I must say, all of you are very adept at fighting, comes from training?"
"Training and experience!" someone from the back exclaimed, receiving many murmurs of agreement.
"We thank you very much for this service to us, rest assured our deal will go through, and perhaps a partnership could be on the table?" Nezu proposed.
"Hmm... Maybe, let's see how we go eh!" Tetsuchi reached out his hand which Nezu gladly took.
"Once again thank you all, we owe you a favor, our students are safe because all of you. I look forward to working with you, perhaps in the future." Nezu grinned widely.
"Of course, we'll let you know, well, in that case, everyone move out!" Tetsuchi yelled.
"Squawk! Is it just me or is All Might steaming? Cause I could really use some heat right now." Falc pointed a feather at the symbol of peace while breaking the ice on his leg by stomping the ground.
The rest of the network looked and there he was, All Might having steam come out of his entire body. The UA staff looked horrified.
Nezu quickly dialed a number and then rushed to the agents. "Well, let's get going! I have already arranged multiple cabs for you all!" As he approached the agents and ushered them out, alongside some teachers, Cementoss created a wall to shield All Might, at that moment, All Might coughed blood. Reverting to his scrawny skeletal form.
"You blonde oaf! We were literally tipped off! You know there's a good chance that there will be an attack and you're the target! What were you doing! Why didn't you save time?" Eraserhead asked exasperatingly.
"Sorry..." All Might sheepishly apologized.
"God damn it that was close..." Present Mic muttered.
Class 1A sat on the buses on the school parking lot, still reeling from the fact that they were just attacked by villains, soon, Aizawa came on.
"Look, I'm dead serious when I say this, does anyone here want to quit heroics? That is a glimpse on what you need to do on a day to day basis. If you're here just to wear the costumes and do the flashy moves, then leave." He says as a look of stern concern comes to his face.
No one on the bus spoke, although they had pensive looks, all had an underlying intensity in them that seemed to spark determination. Seeing this Aizawa nodded "Good, you guys have bit more grit than I thought, All of you handled yourself really well out there, and I know this isn't like me, but I would like to say I am proud of all of you."
The bus full of students looked up at him, some with bewildered looks but most with surprised smiles. Not expecting their stoic and sleepy teacher to speak something so heartfelt.
"As a teacher, I must apologize on behalf of the school, that we allowed such a thing to happen, if you have any problems, or need counselling, on anything, not just heroics, you can come to me or go to Hound Dog, is that understood?"
"Yes sir."
"Good, now to something a bit more serious." Aizawa's face turned into a scowl. "Bakugo, Iida, Mina, Kirishima, Kaminari, Sero, Todoroki, all of you need to write a 5000 word essay on reckless behavior and the implications it could have on civilian lives."
The selected students groaned in despair, some chuckled at their misery.
"WHY DO WE HAVE TO WRITE SOME STUPID ESS-"
"Bakugo... You're already on thin ice for many things, I'm just going to chalk this up to shock from a villain attack, but what you people did back there was incredibly reckless! You were goaded into an attack! I understand the desire to help, but there were heroes on the way to the USJ, it is our responsibility as teachers and heroes to ensure your safety, if you jump in, you become a liability, something we have to worry about other than apprehending the villains! Why do you think heroes secure the perimeter before fighting a villain in the streets! To prevent people from jumping in! With that said that goes to all of you as well! Do you understand!"
"YES SIR!" The bus exclaimed.
"Good, dismissed I have a meeting to get to."
The staff are currently in the staff room, all looking towards All Might.
"Well, first things first, I contacted the HPSC and they have said they will organize a task force to track down the Nomu and it's makers, if there are more of them, their science branch are working overtime right now to figure out what exactly it is, but the most concerning fact, is that it has multiple quirks. All Might, do you have anything to add?" Nezu shot him a knowing look
All Might looked down, "I killed him, I swear upon it! I saw his body, they took his body, Tsukauchi saw to it that it was burned, He's dead!"
"Then how the hell did that thing have multiple quirks!" Present Mic asked.
All Might slammed the table in frustration. "I don't know! I don't know..."
Nezu intervened, "We don't know enough about the Nomu to say anything about it. There's a chance All For One had nothing to do with it. What I'm concerned is the successor. All Might? Have you given your quirk to someone?"
"N-Not yet, but I do think Mirio is a good choice. I'm planning to give it to him, I'm training his body up now."
"Well, you better train him up fast, do you understand how concerning this news is to people. People look towards us, and see a symbol of hope, our students are the future protectors, thankfully, we had some help, no one was injured, but we can not allow something like this to happen, people will lose faith in us, our society."
The rest of the teachers nodded solemnly, as Nezu continued. "Because of how important and concerning this event is, the HPSC has organized a week long seminar, for some of the most prestigious hero academies across the land, all of us will attend, to send a message to the rest of our counterparts, that UA is still the best, and we will strive for better, and discuss the safety and future of our students. Understood?"
"Yes sir."
"Good, now onto other business... Campus safety, the dorms are coming up nicely, the project finally seeing the end after two years, when do you think is an appropriate time?"
Blood smith:
THEY'RE DEALT WITH! WE'RE GETTING PAID BABY!!! GET READY TO USE GRAND BLANC OR WHATEVER WINE IS EXPENSIVE!!! IT DON'T MATTER WE RICHHHH $$$
Izuku looked at the text and smiled, he was in the free period studying his many subjects, he was looking over more of his notes. When a tired looking Vlad King came through the door.
"Sit down all of you."
The entire class quickly returned to their seats, the ones writing and reading tilted their heads up.
"Before you all go to lunch, there's something I need to say, just an hour ago, the USJ was attacked by villains."
The entire class gasped. Izuku simply remained calm.
"No one was injured, we received a tip off beforehand so we were ready, no students were harmed, I'm telling you this now because you guys have a right to know, and also, it will be a wake up call, that the hero business is tough, villains could appear at any moment, if you have any doubts or worries about the heroics course, know you can come to me or go to any other UA staff, counseling sessions with Hound Dog are free as well, so do not hesitate if you are struggling with doubts. Any questions?"
"How did the villains get into here in the first place?" Nirengeki asked
"One of them had a warp quirk and simply warped them all in."
"Who were the ones to have enlightened you to this ambush?" Yanagi asked
"Wha- Oh, yes I'm afraid that is confidential information, the staff don't know much about them either."
"What were their motives?" Kuroiro asked
"They wanted to kill All Might, tried to find ways to match his strength, only of course to fail, thankfully."
The entire class started murmuring to each other, thinking of the audacity and how crazy someone must be to even try to kill All Might. Izuku wasn't fazed, knowing the crisis was averted.
"Now of course, I can't tell you the whole thing since I was part of the reinforcements and confidentiality reasons, you could ask 1A but you shouldn't push it, it is a very traumatic experience, even if no one was hurt so if they don't want to talk about it, don't push your luck."
The rest of the class nodded.
"One last thing, given this incident, we will have to revise a lot of things about UA, so you guys get a one week break starting next Monday."
Some of the students wanted to cheer before shutting themselves up given the situation that caused the break.
"That's all I have to say for now, please wait for the bell to ring then go to lunch."
Izuku made his way to the cafeteria alongside Kendo both holding trays of food.
"Alright so the plan is to talk to the class reps, and ask how they're doing, if they don't want to talk about it then shift it to inter-class diplomacy because needless to say after Bakugo and Iida we are not on the nicest terms." Izuku said
"Yeah, that works, might hit a snag since Iida is class rep so I think approaching their vice first would be a better idea, Yaoyorozu right, black hair, tall girl- There she is." Kendo pointed to a table where Yaoyorozu was sat with a purple haired girl with ear jacks, a frog girl, a boy with his hair in a small braid and a large boy with multiple arms coming out of him.
Izuku approached the table, adjusting his tie before slightly bowing "Hey there, Midoriya Izuku, class rep of 1B, Kendo Itsuka vice rep, Can we talk with you guys?"
The table shared a questioning glance but Yaoyorozu replied first "Why sure, please sit, what would you guys like to talk about?"
Izuku thanked her before sitting across from Yaoyorozu next to the frog girl. "Well, It's about the USJ, as fellow students here, we just want to ask, you guys ok? And also we want to know what exactly happened, you don't have to talk about it if you don't need to though!"
Yaoyorozu pensively nodded "Thankfully no one was hurt, we were supposed to do a simple rescue exercise with Thirteen, but suddenly this black purple mist appeared, it was some portal, some like 200 people came through, then there was this big bird monster, it was black, had an exposed brain, it was horrifying ! then the mist which was somebody's quirk appeared right in front of us then the quirk user came out, he was made of mist! However, before he can do anything, Aizawa-sensei and Thirteen-sensei were already apprehending the villain, stopping him, when they tried to evacuate the students some didn't listen and jumped in anyway, just to fight. There were some close calls but then Thirteen-sensei blew on a whistle and then some of the villains started to fight, they turned out to be double agents and the teachers were tipped off! Then the rest of the teachers arrived along with other heroes! The students who ran in were pulled back to the rest of us, Kamui Woods, Mt Lady was there, but we didn't see the rest given that we were evacuated back to campus in buses by then."
Izuku nodded "I see, how are you guys feeling about it?"
"Well, when it happened I wasn't dumb enough to just rush in so I stayed behind and fought some of the villains that got close, but there were so many of us they didn't stand a chance. Honestly, I think no one felt too bad about it since no one was hurt and we were evacuated early on before things could get too serious, so yeah, I think our class in general feels a bit shocked by it but nothing too serious, it made some of us think about the hero business of course, we realize we need to be better since that stuff can just happen. Hiryu Rin by the way, Chinese exchange student, call me Rin, it's easier."
"I see well that's nice to hear Rin, what are your names?"
"Asui Tsuyu, call me Tsu though kero."
"Jiro Kyoka" the purple hair girl answered while twirling her earjacks
"The large boy made a mouth from on of his arms, "Shoji Mezo. Nice to meet you"
"Well met, I'm glad you guys are safe." Izuku smiled. Jiro chuckled "Yeah, it wasn't hard, just don't rush in like an idiot and stick to more experienced people, the heroes, too bad some of them didn't listen, they got ripped a new one by Aizawa sensei when they got back."
"Who rushed in? Why would they do that in the first place?" Kendo asked.
"Well, it all started with Bakugo, one of the villains, the leader I think, yelled about something about fake heroes or something then he just rushed in, some followed his example, I'm still not sure why? He isn't the type I would trust to lead anyone." Rin snickered
"He's a really hot headed and aggressive person kero. I'm not sure how anyone would find him pleasant. During our first battle trial, he could have really hurt me and Yaoyorozu with one of his attacks."
The rest of the table shared a look of disdain before Jiro suddenly sat up straight.
"Wait, a minute... You! You saved me from the entrance exam!" Jiro pointed at Izuku, "Me?"
"Yeah you! No wonder you looked familiar, I almost fell off the building and you caught me!" Jiro exclaimed with a look of realization.
"Oh well, nice to see you here!" Izuku smiled.
"Wait, does that mean you're the guy that got 142 points?" Rin asked
"Well yeah..."
Rin whistled, "That's hardcore man, good on you!"
"Thank you Rin!"
"Dude! You were just zooming! You pulled me up and then you were gone! Thanks for that man, Uraraka said she still hasn't thanked you for that zero pointer!" Jiro exclaimed. "Uraraka... Oh was she the brown haired girl that got stuck in rubble when the robot appeared?"
"Yeah! She said she still hasn't thanked the plain looking one!" Jiro snickered, Izuku sighed and chuckled sarcastically "Ah, nice to see that I'm making rounds amongst the ladies, tell her don't sweat it, just doing what I was supposed to be doing during the exam and all."
"Weren't you the one Bakugo needed to write an apology letter to?" Shoji asked. "Yeah, in my opinion a spider jumping into vat of ink and dancing on the paper would have been better, he attacked me for no reason, but I remembered him growing up so I'm not surprised this is what I got." Izuku sighed.
"Well, if it counts for anything I want to say that it doesn't represent class 1A as a whole and I sincerely apologize for his behavior-" Momo was cut off by Izuku raising his hand. "No, it's unneeded, you weren't the one who attacked me, if I want an apology I'll get it from him, besides I'm not shallow enough to judge all of you because of one guy, you people seem nice so far. Though some people in my class needs some convincing though."
"Well Green, you seem great so far. If Bakugo hates someone then that probably means they're nice people." Jiro quipped "Thanks Jiro." Izuku chuckled
"Damn looking good there red he-"
An earjack extended past between Izuku and Kendo. They looked behind to see a slumped boy with purple orbs as hair. "That's Mineta, please pay him no mind... So much for making a good impression to the other class..." Jiro furrowed her brows.
Kendo sighed "Ah I see one of those "flirty" ones that think they're smooth." "Ah seen a lot of them in my time." Izuku chuckled
"Oh wait, have you all informed your families yet, our teachers have already informed them of what happened, we should probably tell them we are well!" Momo exclaimed.
"Oh right!"
"Yup... On it, my dad is gonna kill me...."
"對了!老家要知道! (Oh right! The folks back home need to know!) They're probably worried!"
"Kero... My siblings are probably crying right now, I need to call them!"
Izuku's mind wandered to someone.
Himi
Oh lord.
Himiko was at a corner at a training room tapping her foot, she knew all was well, given the text Tetsuchi gave her, but she still hasn't heard from Zuku wh-
A notification,
Himiko immediately checked her phone.
Zuku<3:
Everything's settled, no villains attacked the campus, everyone's safe! Sorry I didn't text earlier!
Himiko pouted, and sent her response
Himi<3:
I was so worried dummy!!!! Why didn't you text me earlier! (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )
Zuku<3:
Sorry! ( ˶•ᴖ•) ! The teachers were talking to us!
Himi<3:
Ok... I forgive you... this time...
Love you...
Idiot!
Zuku<3:
Love you too Himi!
Himiko slightly pouted at her phone, thankful that everything went well, before she can go further though, a voice called for her.
"Chizue! Come on show me what you can do!"
Alright break time's over, kick some ass!
This was her first private lesson with Onimaru, or Phantom, his hero name he said he wanted to asses Himiko's abilities to fight, and Himiko was going to show him how a daughter of the cove does it.
"First, very well designed hero costume, practical and dapper, now you told me your preferred weapon of choice are sais and throwing knives?"
"Yes sir!"
"Very well, I brought some dummies from our support department, 20 of them, I want to see you dispatch them, they have turrets as their eyes and they move around. So show me. I want a good idea of your skills."
Oh, just like Zuku's first day! He told me about dummies like this!
"Ok then! I'm off!" Without a word, Himiko rushed in and pulled the sais out, two of them locked onto her and prepared to fire, Himiko threw two knives that perfectly blocked the barrel of the turrets, jamming them. Before cutting their legs with the sais in a quick cross cut, then reversing her grip on them so that the blades are on the back of her forearms, she jumped on one of the falling robots into a group of three, nailing one in the head with a mid air roundhouse kick before freeing her sais and then stabbing the next two in a downward motion. She dodged a hail of BB bullets fired by a group of five robots by ducking to her side, then jumped up and towards them, letting go a few knives and nailing three of them in the head. One tried to punch her but she simple caught the dummy's hand in the guard of her sais and yanked it, with such force, causing it to fly towards the other dummy crumpling both of them. She ducked a punch from another dummy while delivering a sweep kick.
She was starting to get more into it now, with a manic grin, she ripped the head off the dummy and hurled it across the room, nailing another one on the shoulder, with such force, making it's arm fall off. Then grabbed the headless body of the dummy and charged forward, blocking all the bullets. When she was close enough, the dummies initiated close combat mode, but with a flick of her wrist, the sais will come out, parry, attack and return under her forearms like hidden switchblades, all the attacks of the dummies do no damage, in fact the more they attack, the more of their attacks get parried and slowly they went down one by one, a stab wound to the stomach, a slash to the throat, and a quick jab to the cartoid artery, until there was only one left, she leapt on it's shoulders then stabbed it's head with two sais from two sides before twisting the neck off and jumping off the shoulders, she raised one of her sai, still having it's head on it and grinned.
Phantom on the other hand was at first very pleased and now absolutely terrified.
Where the fuck did this girl learn how to do that!
Himiko pulled the head off the sai before looking at Phantom. "So sensei, how did I do?"
"Very well! Very well indeed... Can I ask though where did you learn that?"
Himiko now realizing what she just did would be very brutal if it was a human being, quickly composed herself. "Training sir! Very intense training!"
I need to speak to her sensei ASAP this is not normal!
"W-Well, Chizue, now onto the assignment I want to give you. Taiki! Come in!"
Taiki Fukurou, the owl headed teacher came in, "Gento wanted me here I don't know what he needs."
"I simply need your absence Fuku! Chizue your task here, is to take over Taiki sensei's class, pretend to be him while teaching, he's teaching the second years "A Farewell to Arms" so that's your challenge, the longer you can hold the facade up, the better! I know you read the book front to back so I'm not worried about you!"
"Wait wait wait, you want her to teach my class? What the hell are you thinking Gento!" Taiki stammered, raising his feathered hands defensively, Onimaru simply laughed. "Come on, do me a solid you know Chizue's good for it! I mean she's the only other one reading 400 year old literature!"
Taiki slowly evened his breath and had a calculating look "Ok... I accept, however, a new challenge, if you can make them actually pay attention, then extra credit on the next assignment. I still think they're not sure on what happened in WW1."
Himiko grinned "Oh that's easy! Don't worry Sensei, I'll make sure they get it all right!" With a wink she reached for Taiki's hand, which he accepts, after a bite, a clone of the owl man was standing right there.
"Well, you look like the spitting image of Fuku here! Just put this camera on the shirt pocket, and add a lot of blandness and lack of flair then you're all set!" Phantom joked getting an elbow nudge from Taiki.
"Alright! Show time!" Himiko then did a dramatic pose that Phantom took a photo of, as Himiko left the room she could hear the squawks of an embarrassed owl.
"Why is Taiki sensei taking so long? You think we get to leave after 15 minutes?" A second year student asked
"Maybe! I'm counting down, it's been 14 minutes and 47 seconds!"
"Ok! Free period yes!"
The entire class started to count down.
"5!"
"4!"
"3!"
"2!"
"1-"
"Sit down all of you, desperate to leave are we?" ""Taiki"" (Himiko) came in at the last second extinguishing the hopes of every single hero hopeful and thus sprouting the small idea in their minds to turn to villainy and destroy the school for revenge against the time gods.
"Alright, now turn to page 98. Let's see..." Himiko looked at the seating plan and pointed to a boy with in the back, "Hayashi, read the first passage." She looked up just to see a snoring boy at the back of the class.
The entire class chuckled, some snickered and whispered out, "Taiki sensei always can't keep him awake..."
Oh that changes today.
Himiko grabbed a piece of chalk, broke off a small piece before hurling it like a throwing knife at the boy. Striking his forehead. Leaving a red mark and the boy jolting up in surprise.
"Yes Sir!"
"Unless that's a side effect of your quirk Hayashi, don't fall asleep ok. Villains would get the jump on you. Now read page 98 of the first passage."
"...."
"Did you not bring the book?"
Hayashi started to slowly nod. Himiko was feeling the literature nerd in her flare up
Sons of bitches! This book is a masterpiece and yet here you are. Not taking any of it seriously! I'm going to gut you and drin-
No Himi calm down...
Happy thoughts... Happy thoughts... Think of Zuku....
Ahh... Zuku... Much better."
"Ok, raise your hand if you don't have the book?" No one in the class raised their hands "So is it safe to assume if I tell any one of you to read the passage, you could do it?"
The entire class raised their hands.
OH! These kids are lucky I'm thinking of Zuku right now, They're LUCKY!
Himiko then rustled her feathers of her owl form and started to make hooting noises. A habit she noticed of Taiki sensei
"Do I seriously scratch my feathers like that?" Taiki asked, bewildered.
"Yes, yes you do and it's always when you're pissed so you can't even lie when one of us forgot to give you a report or something."
"Damn it..."
"Why do you not have the books?"
"W-Well sensei... You never asked us to read them out loud..."
Now that I think about it Taiki sensei never told us to do it either...
"Well, things are changing, I've been noticing you people not caring about this subject, and that ends today, but for today's lesson its' gonna be history, because I have a sneaking suspicion that you people don't pay attention when I talked to you about the background of the story. Nagai! When did World War 1 start!"
"1904...?"
Himiko flicked another piece of chalk onto her forehead. "No, it's 1914!"
"Takeda! What country invaded through what country to get to France?"
"Italy through Switzerland..."
How....
Himiko flicked another piece of chalk, "Wrong! Germany through Belgium! Switzerland was neutral!"
Himiko took a deep breath. "Ok, can any of you tell me, who got assassinated, which in turn sparked the entire conflict."
The entire class fell silent.
Himiko quickly grabbed a long piece of chalk, breaking it up to 20 pieces before letting them all loose at the students, each getting nailed in the forehead for their ignorance.
"Archduke Franz Ferdinand! Come on, even first years know about this!"
"Sensei... Why do we need to know this..." one student stammered out.
Himiko sighed, "Even if, you don't like literature, this is a part of your English curriculum, and even then, knowing a second language, especially one as widely spoken as English. Would be very helpful to your careers, besides you have applied to be here, even if you don't like this, you need to give it your all, you hear me, now let's get started."
The rest of the class groaned and slumped back to their seats.
"Alright, it first started because a driver decided to..."
"Chizue is hitting them hard!" Taiki exclaimed watching the camera.
"Well to be fair you do treat them a bit soft in my opinion."
"I gotta learn how to throw chalk like that..."
By the end of the lesson, all the students looked like as if they were in WW1, shellshocked and with red marks on all of their foreheads.
"Taiki sensei usually isn't like this-" a girl tried to stammer out before being nailed by chalk again.
"I heard that!'
At this point Himiko was pushing on with the sole purpose of making the kids understand her love of this book, not even for the assignment Phantom gave him anymore.
A nice romance story... Like me and Izuku... hehehe...
"Alright... Mika! What territory did France want from Germany?"
"Alsace Lorraine!"
"Matsumoto, what was the assassin's name!"
"Gavrilo Princip!"
"Yoshida! What was the nationality of the main character of the book?"
"American!"
Himiko nodded approvingly. "Good, much better, keep it up, now, I do have an announcement I have to make before I dismiss you, let's see here..."
Himiko picked up a piece of paper given to her and read "Due to recent sudden events, the hero schools of this country will meet and host a week long seminar and discuss on matters considering safety and the future of our students... Schools include, UA, Shiketsu, Seiai, Seijin, Isamu and Ketsubutsu, due to this, the students, starting Monday will receive a week long break!'
The entire class cheered. Himiko groaned, needing to play the role of a teacher that needed to go to the seminar after all, but inside she knew what happened and was ecstatic as well.
"Well, you guys got lucky, study up on the material all right! Read the book! While I suffer in the seminar, Dismissed!"
When the last bell rung out, the students hurried out of the classroom, Himiko looked around, the classroom floor was filled with chalk, she slipped a note and some money onto the teacher's desk
To the janitor cleaning this, I used a lot of chalk today, Sorry! Some money for your trouble.
She made her way back towards Onimaru and Taiki.
"Hey Taiki! Wanna get a drink later?"
Himiko looked back and saw the two heroics teachers, Nariko, Akagi and Ryujin come up to her.
You know what? Let's have some fun!
"Oh you know what sure, I'll get wasted!"
The three staff members looked at the owl man in bewilderment. He was usually pretty formal, not one to use slang or words like "wasted"
"Woah, you sure you weren't drinking on the job man? Besides it's not a Friday, I was thinking more like boba or coffee." Nariko joked.
"Nope let's get a drink bro!"
"Ok, you never call anyone bro, Who are you and what did you do with Taiki!" Ryujin exclaimed.
"What do you mean let's get fuc-"
"STOPPPPP!" Yelled the actual Taiki flying towards them with a laughing Onimaru right behind him.
Taiki was absolutely red with embarrassment. "Ok... You've never seen me off hours, but I can tell you, that I don't talk like that!"
"What? Come on, you have a loose side sensei! I know it!" Himiko grinned.
Nariko, Akagi and Ryujin looked at each other, before looking back. "Ok, what the hell is going on?"
Onimaru calmed himself, "T-That HAHA! That was the funniest shit I've ever seen!"
The two heroics teachers looked at him, waiting for an explanation. "Ok, ok, I told Chizue to do an assignment, take over Taiki's last period disguised as him and you just caught her walking back to me!"
With that said, one of the owl men started to dissolve a little, revealing a pretty, grinning ash blonde girl. "Ta-da!"
The heroics teachers all burst out laughing. "OH MY GOD! No wait, please shift back, that Taiki was so much more fun!" Ryujin said in between laughs.
"So, sensei how did I do!" Himiko grinned
"Pass with flying colors Chizue! Good job! You can go now." Onimaru panted out between laughs.
"Hey next time you come back tell me how to flick chalk alright? It seemed really effective." Taiki murmured behind his hands before going back to hiding his face in shame.
Onimaru shifted to a more pensive look. "Akagi, I need to talk to you about something, do y'all have time to wait?"
The rest of the teachers nodded.
Akagi and Onimaru walked off.
"Ok so it's about Chizue, and I think your theory of a troubled past holds some water."
"What did she do?"
"She is scarily good at weapons."
Akagi furrowed her brow "I'm sorry but I'm not following, Chizue's quirk isn't combative, so wouldn't it make sense for her to have trained in weaponry? In fact, I heard from Hound Dog over at UA, they also have a kid that's good with weapons."
"No, just look at this."
Akagi watched the video Onimaru recorded.
"Ok that last one with her twisting the head off, is really concerning...I get what you mean, she is good, too good."
"Do you think she grew up in a place of violence?"
"Yes... Keep an eye on her won't you?"
"Of course. Anything for a student."
Himiko skipped along the halls of Shiketsu, kissing the vial of Izuku's blood.
Ah, can't believe we get a break because of the USJ! Now me and Zuku have an entire week to ourselves! Oh we can spend so much more time, maybe even go on a date!
Wait...
We've been dating a while but.
We've never been on a full blown date...
Date... One week....
Himiko sat down on a bench nearby and looked up, her face morphing into one of pure bliss.
Candlelit dinner? Picnic? Oh.... would Zuku say yes...
I hope he does...