After having demonstrated my quirk I qualified to take dual-enrollment hero courses at my home school. My quirk is called storage, I can touch any object and make an exact duplicate of it by tapping the bottom of my fists together. I really don't know how much I can store with my quirk, or what's the biggest object I can store. I never figured to experiment with it, as I only have a few items I regularly use. I'm surprised that I ended up with such a cool quirk, my mom's is that she's really charismatic, it's more of a personality trait than a quirk, but it's strong enough to be classified as one. She's a teacher at the same school I go to, and she's even used it once or twice on me. My dad's is called Green Thumb, he can accelerate the growth of plants by stimulating nutrient flow to them, but it makes him really tired, even if he is a farmer. He passed some of this down to my sister, who also got a part of mom's power too. Her quirk is Attune, where she can manipulate the energy of plants and animals around her. She was offered the choice to take hero classes too, but refused and instead opted for a dual-enrollment support pathway instead. My school was able to enter into a foreign exchange program with UA, and I was recommended by one of my teachers as my school's exchange student, and after passing the UA quirk assessment test and a written test I was chosen to represent my school at UA. I took a deep breath and paced forward through the gate and onto UA school grounds for the first time. UA High was famous across the world for its top-notch hero course, and I would get a taste of what it was like for myself. I liked the way UA uniform was tailored to me, and if there was anything that I looked good in, it was a uniform. I was assigned to Class 1A, which I quickly found in the midst of the morning rush before first period. A tall, dark haired boy with glasses strode up to me as I came in through the door.
"Hello there, my name is Tenya Iida, class representative for Class 1A." He introduced himself, bowing. Out of respect I bowed in return, then I extended my hand.
"Hey, howya doing? I'm Chris Haetch, they call me 'Siege' back where I'm from." I replied. Iida was a proper and respectable individual, and had already made a good impression on me. He seemed to like my hero name that I had given myself. Truth be told, my parents actually came up with what would be my hero name. I call myself 'Siege' because my first two initials, C and J, when pronounced makes that sound, pronounced as ceejj. All of my friends were coming up with flashy names like Red Wave, Songbird, and Lady Chicken Nugget (I kid you not, a girl in my class actually chose that as her hero name!) I had the idea to just use ceejj as my hero name, but spell it as s-i-e-g-e. The class seemed to like it, and if someone can wake up in the morning and picture themselves shouting "Don't worry, Lady Chicken Nugget is here to save you!" to a city being attacked by a villain, I can wake up and do the same and call myself Siege. I took my seat as the bell rung and our homeroom teacher appeared from behind his desk in in a yellow sleeping bag. He took off the sleeping bag, revealing his head of long, black hair and an odd looking grey scarf wrapped around his neck. His face was pale, his eyes sunken in and baggy. It appeared that he shaved sparingly, as he had a visible five o'clock shadow with a little soul patch on his chin and a short mustache over his chappped lips. He wore a dark grey sweatshirt with matching pants and black shoes to compliment his hair. The class settled as he spoke in a dull voice.
"Good morning, class I have a quick announcement. As you can see, we have an exchange student from the United States." Everyone turned around and their eyes were all on me. I was a little bit nervous with all of these new faces looking at me. Nonetheless I stood up and introduced myself to the class.
"Hey, y'all. I'm Chris Haetch...I'm the exchange student from the US, as Mr. Aizawa-did I pronounce that right?-said. I'm from Roshnell, Georgia and I grew up on our family's farm." I said, sheepishly. Before I could explain my quirk, a pink skinned, pink haired girl with horns asked from across the room.
"It's nice to meet you, Haetch, I'm Mina Ashido!" She introduced herself. The rest of the class, with the exception of Iida, who I had met earlier, introduced themselves to me to make me feel welcome. They told me about where they were from and what their quirks were. I liked Eijro Kirishima's quirk where he can turn his body into solid, unbreakable mass, or Shoto Todoroki's ice and fire quirk (I liken him to a backhoe loader, where he's got two specialized capabilities in one! He reminds me of one of my friends' quirk back home. His quirk is called half wet, half dry, and when he combines both he can shoot mud), though he struck me as a rather reserved and calm type. Todoroki was someone I could relate to on many levels. My favorite, however, was Momo Yaoyorozu's creation quirk, which was a lot like mine, and man is she hot, though one more individual caught my eye. Towards the back left corner was Izuku Midorya, who sat with Minoru Mineta to his rear and Katsuki Bakugou in front. I had heard a lot about Midorya and Bakugo's rivalry beforehand, though I can't remember where. I knew that Bakugo referred to Midorya as 'Deku', as they both grew up in the same neighborhood, though he adopted this derogatory label as his hero name and it became his close friend, Ochako Uraraka's more affectionate nickname for him. What stood out to me the most was that Deku was reluctant to share the specifics of his quirk, not that it mattered very much. He described it as simply 'super power',where he could channel immense amounts of energy into specific body parts for powerful attacks, though he would often always end up breaking bones in the process. With the exception of breaking my bones while I used my quirk, I could relate to another of my new classmates. I felt right at home already. Our classes were easy, at least to me. All of the core classes were in the morning, like English, math, and science. I especially enjoyed lunch. Normally I don't care for rice that much, I prefer mashed potatoes, though decided to make an exception. I had a plate of teryaki beef, and soon enough I found Uraraka, Iida, and Deku sitting together.
"Hey, Iida! Y'all mind if I sit with you?" I asked.
"Please, we'd be happy to." Iida replied, politely. I placed my plate next to Iida, who sat across from Deku and Uraraka.
"So, Haetch, what's your quirk? You never got to explain it to us." Deku wondered. I pondered on how I could most effectively explain my quirk to Deku, Uraraka, and Iida, not that I thought they weren't intelligent enough to understand.
"Alright, so you know Yayorozu's creation quirk? Okay, so, mine works in kind of the same way, but..." I explained. "I have to touch an object to be able to replicate it, then when I tap the bottoms of my fists together, I have to focus really hard to materialize whatever it is I'm duplicating. I've been using it since I was about twelve years old when I help my dad on the farm." I explained to my three new friends.
"Hmm. The quirk use laws must be different in America." Iida replied, observantly.
"Right you are. In America, if you're under 16 and working for a family business your parents can apply for a license exemption to use your quirk when you turn 13, but it's evaluated on a case by case basis. I got my quirk exemption for farm work, as you already know." I answered.
"I see. Your quirk would be most useful for agricultural applications." Iida said.
"Oh, it is. Most of what I conjure is nails, nuts and bolts, hitch pins;small, easily lost objects, but I've got plenty of tools that I use in combat." I replied. My quirk is handy for farm work, though through the training I got with my hero classes, I managed to craft my own fighting style using my tools. Now that my new friends had gotten to know me, I finally got to eating all of my food. Soon enough, lunch was over and our class was gathered together to for hero training. We were waiting in class until a huge figure in a red, white, blue and gold costume burst through the door. He was massive and muscular and bore a striking resemblance to Donald Trump.
"I AM HERE!" He shouted, heroically. It was All Might, the number one hero in the world. I had heard tales about him when I was young, but never expected to see him in person.
"I see we have a new student. You're the exchange student, yes?" He asked. Mr. Aizawa whispered in All Might's ear. "Right. Welcome to UA, Young Haetch." All Might turned to the board to explain that day's training. All Might's briefing was concise, a simple game of capture the flag, meant to function as a team-building excercise. Two teams of ten students each would use a building in one of the battle centers as a base and neither team would know the location of the other's base. To win, one team had to capture the flag, represented by a silver or gold All Might statue or eliminate five or more members of the opposing team by wrapping them in capture tape. After All Might explained the rules, we changed into our hero costumes and made our way to Battle Center B. I was impressed to see my classmates' costumes. Everyone looked amazing. Yuga Aoyama, who was a rather extroverted type, was always infatuated with himself. I can't say I blame him, he does look exquisite in his shining sliver armor and red shades with his sparkly purple cape. Bakugou, who sat next to Kirishima, had a rather interesting costume. He wore a black tank top with a grey collar piece and two gauntlets which resembled pineapple grenades, all in a cohesive black, orange and dark green color palette. My costume is a pair of blue coveralls with and black rubber boots. I wear a blue hat with a Georgia flag shaped like a fish. I carry with me a utility belt and a vest. It's a modest costume for a modest person. Now, my hero coveralls are different from farm coveralls. What's special about the former is that these are more flexible and breathable and they also have more pockets for me to keep stuff in! We all gathered around All Might.
"Alright, kids, remember this number! It'll be the number of your team." He pointed at Bakugou and myself first. "Young Iida and Young Haetch will be the team captains of teams one and two." I was surprised to be a team captain, though leadership had become second nature to me at that point. Back home I was also a member of the Junior ROTC program at my high school. It was a military-style leadership development course, and I was company First Sergeant of C Company. I had become accustomed to leading a team, but now that our quirks were part of the equation I was interested to see how I would handle the situation. On my team was Deku, Uraraka, Todoroki, Asui (she preferred to be called Tsu), Ojirou, Sero, Aoyama, and Yaoyorozu. Opposing us was Iida, Bakugou, Kirishima, Kaminari, Jirou, Sato, Hagakure, Ashido, Mineta, and Shouji. I gathered my team together in a building in the northeastern corner of the battle center to plan out our strategy...
"Alright, here's the plan everyone..." I said as the team was huddled around.