Covert Operation and Aftermath
In the meantime, in the car...
'Hey Harry-kun, you're staring into space.' Midoriya noted.
'Well, as team leader, our lives, never mind our success, is in my hands.' said Harry. 'Before, I would have dashed in, guns ablazing if someone important to me was taken. I would have been running on fumes and emotion with no plan whatsoever...but being raised by Aizawa, I think I grew up...I think? But this mission still worries me. Moreover due to checking if our classes are clean, I didn't tell him a thing he'll be real mad with me later...' he sighed. 'Expelled and chewed out aside I'll be grounded till kingdom come.'
'I think that's what our parents will all do, lock us up in a safe and home-tutored for life.' said Hagakure in a nervous laugh.
'Yeah, that's what they'll do alright...' said Iida nervously.
'That's only appropriate reaction and you know it.' said Mezo wryly.
'Maa maa, I'll vouch for you guys later~' said Ragdoll in nervous reassurance while driving. 'Don't you worry nya~so temp boss, what's the plan?'
'We go as planned but when Bakugo er, explodes, we go ad lib. Our goal is to get the hell out with him so Heroes can rampage all they like when they have nothing to worry about. Yaoyorozu, make some blowdarts with drugged needles for Hagakure's use. About 20 needles, tops and make the drug super-potent to knock out a whale.'
'Hey, I know I studied but I haven't gotten THAT far!' Yaoyorozu's eyes bulged at him in freak-out. 'My parents will never let me anywhere near those concoctions!'
'Awww...' "At least your parents are reasonably responsible while Hogwarts teachers makes us dabble in dubious concoctions that chucks us to the nurse!" Harry's mind thought mutinously.
'Awww indeed but I wouldn't want to go anywhere near that either.' Yaoyorozu sputtered. 'And there's no drug that can put out a whale YET! I'd be the first to know given my father's connections if there was and even then, a drug that can knock out a whale will kill a human!'
'Sigh, I guess I gotta separate fiction from reality...where I'm from, the future is all about space travel and things humans can only dream of...'
He earned deadpan stares.
'Maybe in year 10000 Potter. Maybe.' Mezo said wryly. 'And we're long dead by then before we can enjoy living in space colonies and stuff.'
Ragdoll parked their car in a public parking lot and they took a bullet train to go to Kanagawa Prefecture.
'Well, this is it nya, no turning back now.' said Ragdoll as their appearances were altered, courtesy of Harry.
He claims its his Quirk when this time...he used his magic. He was no longer in the Underage Radar as in records, he was dead a millennium ago.
'Yeah...they'll know its us because of our Quirks but changed hair and faces sounds good.' said Iida.
Upon arrival, their scouting team scouted out the place with Yaoyorozu.
They got a grim reality later.
'A Nomu Factory?!' Iida, Harry, Midoriya, Kirishima and Todoroki choked, pale-faced. One was bad enough and now there's a factory of them?!
'Y-yeah, I snuck in to confirm the brains we saw from our scoping place, they really all are Nomu!' Hagakure cried in fear. 'If they're awakened...'
'I'll kill them first.' said Harry angrily. 'Offense Team, bodyguard Ragdoll now. I'll destroy the Nomu.'
'How? They'll notice you for sure!' Midoriya protested.
'In Alchemy in magic books in fiction of old, Alchemy has three steps. The second step is Deconstruction.' the students knew what THAT can do. 'I can do this stealthily. Prioritize Ragdoll. Now.' they quickly left and Harry snuck in...
By the time his classmates left, he was almost done...and something crashed onto the roof.
'So this is the Nomu Factory?' Best Jeanist mused and they saw him. 'Who're you?' he asked, quickly binding Harry with his strings.
'Oi oi, I just destroyed the Nomu to make our lives easier.' Tiger choked at this.
'Potter-kun?! Why are you here?! You're supposed to be back at the Lodge!' Tiger sputtered out. 'Best Jeanist let him go, he's a student.' Best Jeanist let him go and Harry took off his head cover from his spandex suit and shades to confirm his identity.
'We're here on a Covert job to use the chaos to rescue Bakugo so you guys can go wild without worrying for a hostage. In effect, we're prepared to get chewed out later and a possible expulsion from UA but someone in our team said, if we can't even save a friend, a single person closest to us...how do you expect us to be able to save someone else when we can't even save one of our own?'
'You're prepared, you and your team.' Best Jeanist mused, approving of Harry's resolve and acknowledging of what is to come.
'Yes. We're on standby until we get our chance...and run like hell.' and Harry sank back into the ground.
'I guess there's nothing for us to do...look at this! Gross!' Mt. Lady wailed as there's only brains and slimy-sludge matter inside the tanks. 'Just what did that kid do here?' she asked with a look of utter disgust.
'Beats me and I don't want to know.' said Best Jeanist, looking at the sludge worriedly. 'At any rate, he did our job for us so let's go back to All Might or Endeavor's Team...'
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The team was pale-faced.
'Y-you got back just in time...' Ragdoll whimpered as the others were cowering away as Harry got back.
'What happened?' Harry frowned, wondering why his team is a wreck of fear, quivering on their knees and crouched down to make themselves smaller.
'Be careful, but look.' Hagakure squeaked. 'Seconds after you left, the Warehouse was goners, and the Heroes that just went in are all injured and some guy in a suit came out.'
'Report on the situation.'
'The Heroes came barging in after pretending to be pizza service.' said Mezo weakly. 'Arbor Woods got everybody...until black sludge started appearing all over the place and Nomu came out, causing the place to be thrown in confusion...and Bakugo's transported to the wreckage just now with the Villains.'
'Its now or never.' said Harry. 'Prepare for one hell of an extraction. Yaoyorozu, make Hakagure and Ragdoll a light machine gun loaded with BB Bullets with spare magazines. They will ride on Mezo's back. Given capacity limits, you'll have to run with them and arm yourself as well. Mezo Tank Team and Yaoyorozu will cover Iida's escape after I mummify Bakugo. As for us...we throw our brand of chaos in a protective formation. We win if we get away but I'm gonna take the injured heroes with us for a bit!'
They enacted the plan...with great difficulty as they used Harry's ability to get around.
'What the?!'
'Oi?!'
'OK All Might, let loose, we got this!' Midoriya cried as they ran for it with Bakugo on tow and the injured heroes.
'H-hey! Let me out!' Bakugo protested as he got into a metal cocoon courtesy of Harry who bound him to Iida, backpack style. 'I can fight too!'
'Our priority is getting away because what we did is super illegal!' Hagakure cried. 'We cannot fight or we'll get in worser trouble! I want a light sentence, thank you!'
'Exactly! So sit tight and we keep running!' said Yaoyorozu as they covered their escape, guns and quirks ablazing.
'Those kids are getting away!' Shigaraki swore angrily as the kids got their new pawn, 'After them!'
'No you don't!' All-Might growled, blocking the other Villains, prepared to fight all of them AND All For One.
Todoroki made a huge ice wall that helped.
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'Phew...mission success, nobody saw us, I'd say our first self-imposed job is a success.' Ragdoll sighed as they were far enough away to treat the injured, but Best Jeanist was prioritized since he has a literal hole in his body his intestines were shot.
'Nobody's around?' Midoriya asked Ragdoll.
'Yup! We're safe~'
'But for how long which is why I'm rushing.' Harry swore. 'All-Might and that masked man...his mere presence froze all of you up and that's a bad sign by itself. We have to get farther away from here as soon as everyone's accounted for! This area won't last for long!'
'I-it can't be that bad, right?' Kirishima asked Harry nervously.
'He's a natural disaster by himself if he went all out. We got a taste of it in our Final Exams.' said Harry stiffly as Midoriya and Bakugo winced, knowing the pain TOO well as he knows how strong One For All is when he was healing All-Might. He also poured his magic to extend One For All's capacity in All Might's body to last at least by the end of the school year and that was all he could do unless All Might used it all up. 'Combine that with that big bad boss, this ward will cease to exist in a short while...!' he said bleakly. 'Nevermind expulsion, we gotta worry about us first.'
'Yikes...'
'FAWKES!' Harry called out, causing the flaming bird to appear. To the others, he was a beautiful, swan-sized red and gold bird with black eyes, and tail feathers as long as a peacock's. 'Heal the injured others so I can prioritize my critical patient! We're kinda scrapped for time!' Fawkes began singing his beautiful song that soothed their frazzled nerves as he set alight to do his work.
'Uhm, what's it doing?' Gang Orca's sidekick asked weakly.
'His tears can heal. That's his quirk along with appearing if called by those he acknowledges as friend. He won't answer to anyone else who hasn't gotten his approval.' said Harry. 'Let him do his job.'
Soon, Fawkes assisted Harry in healing Best Jeanist.
'My thanks.' said Best Jeanist as he got up, but shaky. 'You children get out of here if what your friend says is right. Leave the rest to us but...can we borrow that bird of yours?'
'Fawkes, I ask of you to assist, OK?' Harry told Fawkes. 'For tonight, follow the requests of the Pro-Heroes in healing the casualties.' Fawkes nodded as he looked at each Hero in the eye before vanishing in a burst of flames.
'Hey, he's gone.' Mt. Lady complained.
'He looked at you so he knows your presences.' said Harry. 'You can then call him, but only for tonight. He judges those he wants to call 'friend'. Only friends can truly call him. For now its barely past ten people he actually likes and most of them in UA.' he said. 'If he gave you a golden feather after a period of scrutiny, that means he likes you.'
'Very well, we'll take what we can get, we'll get your statements later.' said Gang Orca as the Heroes left and the students left with Ragdoll back for the lodge.
Sure enough, the police knows that Bakugo was rescued with a handful of students who came covertly and willing to risk consequences to save their own and upon acquiring their objective, fled for safety than stick around.
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Pussycat Lodge, Hours Later...
'You guys made it back!'
They got quite the welcome.
'Do we have to worry about kidnappings?' those who stayed behind, clearly haven't gotten much sleep.
'Not anymore...the teleporters are KO by the Heroes and are carted off. We can relax now nya.' said Ragdoll much to their relief. 'Everyone go to bed nya because tomorrow, everyone else will be back.'
The kids gulped.
'Everyone Else' would mean...their angry teachers.
Yeeeah...
And indeed, the next day, their teachers, the other cats, and the Police are there...to know who the students who came last night, other than Harry, Todoroki, Hagakure, Midoriya and Mezo whose identities All Might verified despite being in black suits and he can't miss a floating machine gun...and the others thus outed themselves as well.
'You...' Aizawa twitched as he glowered at the students who were nervous, but openly defying while Harry was full-deviant force with no sign of fear at all. 'We heard from Best Jeanist that you're fully-prepared for the law and expulsion to get one of your own back and run like hell as you put it...all matters considered as all of you got out unharmed with objective in hand instead of being idiots like most students in Hero Courses would do in your situation...for now, you're forgiven. For now. If not for All Might's retirement, I'd have expelled all two classes.' he said sternly. 'Harry, as leader of this ragtag team of misfits, what do you say as you didn't even tell ME? I expected better from you.'
'I take full responsibility as Leader.' said Harry with no hesitation in a cool voice. 'I have prepared them and made sure they know the objective and the consequences. We made sure there's no dicking around either. We completed our objective harmlessly and the team showed great maturity in this covert mission.'
'Moreover we have a bonus objective...clearing Classes A and B that we have no traitors among us who sold out vital UA Information.' the teachers and police stiffened at his declaration. 'Ragdoll being with us to increase mission success despite being a target would mean if the traitor is among us, the Teleporter would be tracking us down. Yet none came. So that leaves UA itself and that's an even bigger garden to look for a single weed in or multiple, who knows? I cannot told you because by logical reason you'll tell everyone, including our secret mole.'
With a logic like that, Aizawa sighed.
'Very well. There was chaos in school as well about this...mole issue of ours.' said Aizawa with the teachers grimacing as if in pain. 'Fingers began pointing but no other way to prove our innocence as well. At least our Hero Students are clear, that's what matters. Leave the main problem to us, you damn troublesome brats, and for this conspiracy that everyone is in on...Kan-sensei and I have decided, in place of expulsion as they agreed to sweep this under the rug...' he said in a menacing face and aura as much as possible. '...triple homework and training till Winter Break!'
'EHHHHHH?!' the students whined.
'Quiet! Be lucky we went easy on you!' Vlad King snapped. 'You kids could have been killed and everyone else agreed with this! That's the full extent on how nice we can be in a situation like this! Be lucky you're not hurt or worse, ahn?!' he growled, hands on his hips. 'Training Camp will continue as planned...TIMES THREE!'
Needless to say, they all suffered on that one.
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'So problem child, what do you think?' Aizawa asked as Harry was with the teachers in the makeshift faculty room. Except, Mandalay wasn't there as she went to talk to Kota about his issues.
Harry was with them, being the most mature of the lot.
'Well, everyone tried their best in this kill or be killed scare...and they got the bitter taste of reality.' Harry began. 'What a Villain attack feels like and facing seasoned criminals who have blooded hands at that. While Class A mostly got morons back in USJ, Class B tasted real villains in our second training course that tested their mettle.' said Harry with a thousand-yard stare.
'With that Night to Remember Incident, they know now that being a Hero, isn't as easy as comic books or media propaganda make it out to be. And they know full well screwing around means they lose a friend. They will grow from this experience since considering last night, nobody broke and nobody begged you for a classroom transfer. If ever, this strengthened their resolve.'
'I suppose that's a good thing.' said Vlad King happily, his inner one-sided rivalry beaming in pride.
'Mm. That's respectable so as teachers, we respond in kind.' said Aizawa with an evil smile that made the other cats feel sorry for the Hero Course.
'Oi, you already tripled us!'
'I'm sorry, did you ask for double-triple?' Vlad King asked with a dark smile and Harry gulped.
'Ahhh I gotta look at something, see ya later!' Harry fled the office in horror at the idea.
'Poor bastards.' said Tiger, shaking his head.
'Nya-nya-nya~but we gotta be hard on them anyway!' Pixie-Bob grinned. 'They DID say they're willing to pay the price for their actions, right?'
'Yeeeees...and we'll squeeze them out of their pay.' said Vlad King with a grin. 'This camp is hereby extended for one more week!'
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Meanwhile...
'Hello little one, you've gotten quite overworked back there.' Principal Nezu greeted Fawkes who came home to his office in his perch. 'You OK now?' he asked as Fawkes worked all night to heal casualties until Recovery Girl came. Fawkes let out a reassuring trill. 'I got news from the others, I'm glad the students are cleared through Harry-kun's little psychological test on his peers. What remains now is the cleanliness of our school.' he said somberly as he went to the glass window pane of his office to look outside.
'With All-Might's retirement and the world in chaos right now...we need to nurture our seeds, so that they may blossom into our next flowers of hope. But with All Might down for good and the criticism we UA get right now...we must protect our seeds...no matter the cost. They are the future and right now, we're holding the fort for them to grow.'
And he had two Dorm Proposal Pamphlets on hand.
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Hospital...
'...you're now a normal human again aren't you?' Harry asked All-Might as he paid the man a visit...armed with enough IV Drips for a dozen people.
'Yes...while I took away the mastermind, he too, has a successor.' said All-Might glumly. 'And as my successor...Midoriya-boy is destined to face him...the karma wrought by the two brother Quirks of All for One, the selfish quirk that steals for himself, and One for All, the generational stockpiling quirk that counters it.' he said.
'Quoting the Three Musketeers now?' Harry snorted in bemusement. 'Its your turn now. I gave him the basics for dummies but its truly you who knows that Quirk. And he told me that when you pointed at the cameras saying 'its your turn', while the idiot masses thought you'll be coming for the next villains, he knew better. That its truly his turn.'
'Mm.'
'My shirt was wet with snot and tears, take responsibility.' Harry chuckled.
'He cries too much if you ask me.'
'Result of society abuse towards those like him. So its your job to make a man out of him.' said Harry. 'And my job to fix you isn't over yet either. Have you gotten surgery?'
'Yeah, not long ago but I'm still super-beat-up that Recovery Girl only healed my surgical wounds...I leave the rest to you.'
'Of course.'
'...I...can no longer do anything now...' All Might said glumly. Frustrated with himself. 'But at least I fixed a loose end somehow.' he sighed. 'Midoriya-boy who can barely handle 20% without busting his arms cannot even fight All For One. I who achieved 100% potential can only be the one to match him due to our brother Quirks.'
'Even if you're Quirkless now, the fact remains that you are a skilled fighter. You'll just have to acquire new skills and master weapons and gadgets. The oldest heroes in my era uses those very things, while mastering acrobatics, gymnastics, parkour, martial arts, and tools for the job. Make no mistake, Villains will gun for you to exploit your new...situation.' Harry warned. 'Your body and your will to make it your weapon is all you have now. My job is to restore your body and that's it. Your job is to hone it well.'
'Alright.' All Might decided that he can still be of use to society and perhaps, inspire the Quirkless. 'I wonder if Tsukauchi can recommend me to something...' he mused. 'Not to mention I have to face the press about my official retirement.' he said. 'Can you...give this same treatment to Midoriya-boy as well?' he asked Harry. 'Because when you deem him in the clear...I will get serious...because this bitter fate has been inherited by HIS successor, Shigaraki Tomura...and my successor, Midoriya-boy.' he said. 'He busts his arms a lot too yet strangely does better in his legs...'
'Very well.'
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By the end of Summer...
All-Might now sembled a normal human somehow. Combined with surgery and Harry's power, he's at the peak of health with reinforced, dense bones. Without his Muscle Form to conceal his identity, he was actually, a biseinen. He was a man in his mid-fifties yet because of Harry fixing him with lots of nutrients and collagen needed to utterly restore his body, he did not look 56. At all. In fact, he looked like he was in his thirties. But stress, wrinkle and eye bag-free with glowing skin and his blonde hair very vibrant and healthy!
'Holy cow! What the heck happened to you?!' Tsukauchi gawked at him when he and Gran Torino visited him on his release day with his personal doctors and nurses who can only gape at him in shock.
'Ahahaha, a young friend happened to me!' All Might laughed. 'Its so I can do things the old fashioned way!'
'Old fashioned way?'
'Yes...you think you can recommend me to a few workshops I have in mind?'
