A/N: Edited my author's note at the end of this chapter.
Chapter 9
Plus Ultra
When all hope was lost, a miracle happened and ignited the hope in the young minds that day.
It was going to be a normal training lesson for me, my class, and the other hero course, Class 1-A. However, a group of villains infiltrated before we even began the training. Then, I got separated from my class and fought some villains. Rest of my classmates were in the same situation, like me. I never, ever thought something like this would happen to us. Then again, we were all here to become a pro-hero someday, but as for me….it was the last thing I want to ever happen in my life!
Tomura Shigaraki, Kurogiri, Zap, and other villains saw the two pro heroes who appeared before them. Most of the villains looked afraid and concerned, but for Tomura and Zap, they were somehow delighted and excited to see them.
"Ho, so you did arrive!" Tomura said. "Just as expected from Number 1 Hero, the Symbol of Peace, the trash of society….All Might!"
He looked at Speed Girl who stood next to the hero. "And you also brought a sidekick with you? Who the hell is she?"
"Speed Girl!" Zap yelled aloud. "Long time no see…old friend!"
"Friend?" That's the word that the students present thought.
"Zap!" Speed Girl yelled she than ran over to him, beating up the common villains in the way, and then landing a punch at him, but he blocked it as if on cue.
"Ribbit!" Tsui gasped.
"Wow!" Mineta astonished.
"Speed Girl's Superspeed!" Izuku mumbled.
"Say! Your punch got a little tougher!" Zap commented. "You've been working out?"
Just then, All Might moved Izuku, Asui, and Mineta to a safer place. Mineta looked confused, questioning how they moved out of the water to stand on the ground. He soon realized it was All Might. Though he wasn't as fast as my sister, Speed Girl, he was still very fast, faster than a normal human without a Quirk. Not only them, but he also saved their homeroom teacher, Aizawa with them.
"Everyone! Take your teacher and get out of here! Hurry!" All Might ordered.
"All Might!" Izuku exclaimed. "Be careful! That villain, who defeated Mr. Aizawa, somehow took my punch and it didn't hurt me when I did, but he didn't twitch either! He's danger….!"
"Do not worry, Young Midoriya!" All Might replied as he gave him the usual, proud smile with a peace sign. "It's fine!"
"All Might…" Izuku said softly as he gave him a reassured grin. He and his classmates carefully took their teacher to safety.
Tomura grit his teeth. "Man, you're just cool as ever but weird. You aren't fast as I thought you would be. That means…. the rumor is true. You are getting weaker!"
"You villains will not get away with this! Scaring the students and hurting my fellow faculty and juniors! I won't accept this! We will stop you, villains!" All Might called out strongly.
"Hey, Zap," Tomura said. "You handled that woman. Nomu, you handle All Might."
The creature with the exposed brain, known as Nomu, gave a strange, eerie roar as it ran toward All Might. All Might got his fist ready and gave the incoming villain a punch, but it countered with its own punch.
"Ready to dance, dear?" Zap asked, clearly mocking or annoying my sister.
"Oh, this time…you won't get away!" She and Zap began their fight as they did in superfast speed.
Everything and everyone around them moved so slow that she and Zap were moving normally. This was happening when someone with superspeed or similar Quirk showed.
In their perspective, they see objects and people moving slowly because they are moving so fast, that the time around them is too slow to move along with them.
It was a weird feeling, but in the eyes of the speedster hero, it is plain normal. What was not normal is when they go beyond that.
In the eyes of my classmates, all they heard was a loud boom sound, almost like a speaker's noise. That was the sound of two fists colliding each other at a superfast speed.
Just then, my two classmates and I arrived at the scene. I noticed the situation at hand and it was horrified to see.
All Might, the Symbol of Peace, was in the middle of a fight. He was in a suplex position, but that villain who uses the black mist to warp my classmates to other areas had warped the dark-skinned villain that All Might just suplex on and grabbed him on his side, crushing him as All Might bleed from his mouth and the side where the villains grabbing.
"All Might!" I gasped.
"Huh? More students?" I looked at the young boy with a bunch of hands on him. He looked like around my age or maybe older.
"Kurogiri, you and Nomu handle All Might while I handle the brats," Tomura ordered.
"Just as I sensed." Yuki Drago spoke up as I turned to him. "These three are the true threats, and this one is the leader."
"Hoo, aren't you an interesting looking?" Tomura eyed on Yuki Drago. "I've never seen a person with Dragonborn Quirk before. Are you that pro hero's kid?"
Yuki Drago's eyes widened as if something clicked in his mind, turning his normal human eyes into a real reptilian one.
Suddenly, I saw Deku running just past me and going to throw a punch at the villain, but in reaction, the black mist villain appeared in front of him.
"Not so fast!" Kurogiri stated.
"Hey, watch out!" I yelled, but it was already too late. Suddenly, an explosion happened. Bakugo appeared and stopped Kurogiri with his Quirk. Then, the villain holding All Might had half of his body frozen in ice. It was the work of Deku's classmate, named Todoroki. Then, Kirishima jumped in as Tomura dodged.
"Kacchan!" Deku exclaimed. "And everyone!"
"Shut up, Deku!" He yelled back as he held on Kurogiri to the ground.
"Eli!" I exclaimed.
"Yo, Kai! You're alright!" He replied as he gave me a thumbs-up.
"Glad we came in just in time!" Kirishima said.
"I had a talk with your lackey. You guys are here to kill All Might," Todoroki stated. "Thugs like you won't pull off that easily."
The four members of Class 1-A stood together, united to fight the villain and assist All Might. Yuki Drago joined in while I just watched and still carried my other classmate, Junko Neru on the back. I still found it surprising that she was still sleeping even right now in this predicament we were in and frankly, I am happy that she didn't have to see all of this.
Just why…. why are these guys still fighting? They were all in the situation I was a moment ago. We were separated by the villain's Quirk, fought the villain lackeys, and managed to survive. Yet, what they were doing now was something I didn't understand. Why were they risking their lives to help All Might? I mean, it is normal to help others and outnumbering the villain is better than just fighting alone, but still, this was ludicrous! We were still students, not pro heroes.
I thought to myself that it is smarter to run away and let All Might take of this. He is the number 1 hero, after all.
"No!" All Might said to us. "It's fine! You guys go to safety! Speed Girl and I will take care of this!"
"Wait…my sister?" I thought aloud.
"Speed Girl is here!?" Kirishima said. "But, where is she!?"
Suddenly, we felt a shock wave in the air.
"What the hell!?" Bakugo yelled.
"There's something in the air, moving…very fast," Yuki Drago commented.
Meanwhile, about 30 seconds ago before even I arrived, my sister was fighting against Zap.
My sister or Speed Girl threw a lightning charged punch at her opponent, but Zap dodged it well and showed her a counter. She got hit and fall over herself, but recovered her feet, and strike back. Just for the record, they were still doing this in normal speed, but to our naked eyes, they were doing this at a very fast, unimaginable speed.
"I admit, doll face! You got stronger, but not quite enough to beat me!" Zap remarked.
"This is just a warm-up!" She replied as she punched him back.
He moved to the side, but then got punch by her other fist.
"Blah!" He threw up saliva from his mouth and somersaulted away from her to keep distance.
He wiped his mouth clean, giving a smirk at her. My sister looked a bit out of breath.
"Isn't this weird, doll face?" He asked. "Even though time around us is moving slower than us cause we're super fast and all, it feels like we're running out of breath. Oh, wait! Of course, we are! We're moving faster than how much our body can stand it!"
"What are you babbling about!?" She yelled. "You always like this. Making jokes to distract your foes. Well, I won't fall into your stinky tricks!"
"Ho, so you learned since the last time we encounter," Zap said. "Too bad for your seniors. They could've learned a thing or two from you."
My sister widened her eyes and gripped her hands tighter to the point it felt pain. Her blood boiled.
"You don't have the right to talk about them like that!" She screamed as he ran toward him. Zap dodged and kicked her in the shin, recoiling her.
She hit the ground and then everything began moving normally.
"Hey look!" Kirishima pointed. "It's Speed Girl!"
I saw my sister down, looking in pain as she tried to get up. Her enemy, Zap appeared before her.
"Woah! Dude, your big sis and our Teach are in trouble man!" Eli pointed out. "Hey Kai, we got to help her! Kai!?"
I only stood there and just watched, not moving at all. Not to do with fear or anything, though not sure I was afraid to, I didn't.
"You know. Another weird thing I feel about whenever we fight, or I fight with someone who has Quirk like ours is that somehow, I skip over time. In my mind, I know that we just started fighting about less than a minute or two ago, and everything around me moved slower than me. Yet the time still moves forward normally, and the fight we just had lasted much longer than I thought as if the time was moving faster than us. It is like time travel. If I didn't decide to become a villain, I would've become a great scientist in Quantum Mechanics or something."
"Shut…UP!" Speed Girl grabbed Zap and pushed him at supersonic speed. She ran fast, but we were still able to see them fight.
She rammed and slammed Zap through the wall. Zap elbowed her, making her lessen her grip on him. He grabbed her by her collar and threw her so fast that she threw like over 20 feet at 50 miles or so in a mere second.
"Haruka! Sisssssss!" I yelled.
She was thrown all the way to the forest area. She slowly opened her eyes and slowly stood back up. Zap ran over to where she crashed.
"Oh good! You're still alive!" Zap praised. "But, just as I expected. Of course, you wouldn't die so easily just by throwing you like that."
"You….I should thank you right now," she said.
"Huh?" He looked at her with a confused look.
"I can see that nobody else is around, so that gives me a…." She spits out some blood out and wiped it off from her mouth. "A chance to go all out!"
Zap gave a big, maniacal smile. "Oh! So, are we going to do this!? Right here and now! I like for you to try!"
She screamed at the top of her lungs and ran forward. Zap ran toward her, too. Their punch hit each other, creating a powerful shock wave that blasted all the trees away. They punched each other as if they were in a boxing match, and it was sort of like that while they fought.
They were moving so fast that they were floating in midair inside a tornado caused by their movement. At the same time, All Might just defeat that villain called Nomu. He warned the villains to stop and go away (even though it was all just a bluff), but that was when my sister's fight caused a huge gale storm-like winds inside the building.
"What the heck!?" Kirishima cried. We all grabbed onto something, so we wouldn't be blown away.
"Tomura Shigaraki!" Kurogiri exclaimed. "We must go now! The situation is now out of our hand!"
"But, the Nomu!" Tomura complained.
"It's alright! The boss will create more and provide you more, but we must escape now! Zap's taking his fight too long! We must go now!" Kurogiri opened a warp gate.
Tomura grit his teeth but sighed as he jumped quickly into the warp gate. He and Kurogiri escaped, leaving Zap with handling my sister in their fight.
The powerful wind destroyed through the roof while debris and other villains that were left behind or ones we fought flew away.
"Aaaaaaaaaaahhh" That was all I can hear from them.
"Everyone hold on!" All Might yelled.
We all held on to something as the winds tried to pull us in. It was literally a tornado trying to suck us into it.
Uraraka, and rest of Class 1-A who didn't get warped were hanging on for their deaf life while protecting the injured teachers.
"Why does this happen to us!?" Mineta cried hysterically.
Asui held on with her tongue while Mineta held on by her foot.
"Hang on, everyone!" She stated.
"We are!" Rikido Sato exclaimed while he was holding on with Sero as everyone other than Asui used his tapes to hang on.
Suddenly, one of us couldn't hold on longer. Izuku's hand slipped, causing him to be fly away by the winds.
"Midorya!" Kirishima yelled.
"Guys!" Izuku screamed.
'Oh no!' I thought. Without thinking, I let go of myself.
"Hey, what are you doing!?" Kirishima yelled.
"Young Uno!" All Might let go, too, going after us to save us.
I flew around in a circle as I grabbed Midoriya. He grabbed my hands as we flung around in the air higher and higher.
"Kai-Kun!" He cried.
"Hang on!" I said. 'But to what!? We were high up in the air and there was a chance that we might get hit by one of the debris or something! Just exactly what am I doing and why!?'
Suddenly, something grabbed us. I looked up and noticed it was All Might, and felt the blood tickling on my costume.
"All Might!" Deku said.
"Don't worry, Young Uno and Young Midoriya! We'll be fine!" All Might said as he reassured with a smile, but as I looked at him, he looked like he was in great pain and trying to hold onto himself for some reasons.
Inside the tornado, my sister and Zap were still fighting despite the mess they were making.
"You are always like this, Speed Girl! No matter how hard you punch me! No matter how many times you catch up to me! You never beat me! Ever!" Zap yelled.
"Maybe so…. but, as long as I live, I will stop you!" Speed Girl jumped toward him with her final punch.
"Why so, Speed Girl!? Is it because I hurt your seniors, your comrades, your students!?" Zap asked.
"It is so that you won't hurt anyone I hold dear anymore!" My sister jumped from platform and platform, bouncing one to another quickly to gain momentum.
As she did, she was able to control herself even in the tornado. She hit Zap one, twice, triple, and eventually multiple times at the same time. The only thing he could do was to block her every attack, but the attack was overwhelming him.
"And this time!" She jumped high above the tornado. Zap looked up as the force pulled her down due to gravity. She spun herself with her feet out, like a drill.
"YOU WILL BE DONE!" Speed Girl yelled. "PLUS ULTRA DRILL KICK!"
She kicked him right in his face like a missile target, dropping fast and hit the ground so hard that it created a huge explosion of dust and smokes, almost like a nuclear bomb exploded.
About 10 seconds later, the teachers and the police arrived at USJ. USJ was officially announced to be closed for the day for the investigations. Mr. Aizawa and Thirteen were sent to the hospital for a medical emergency. Despite their heavy injury, they will be saved and live.
An investigator named Mr. Tsukauchi explained to me, my class, and Class 1-A informed all of us that other than Midoriya, none of us had any heavy injuries, physically speaking. I wasn't sure for mental state, but from the look of it, everyone looked well and relieved that all of us made it alive. Mr. Tsukauchi also informed us that the villain named Nomu was found and arrested. The other villain, who my sister fought and defeated, Zap was arrested and sent to the prison hospital first due to the heavy injury caused by my sister.
He informed me privately that my sister will be alright, but she will be questioned by him and the rest of the UA faculty. I didn't like the sound of that. Because of what happened today, we were dismissed to go home early, but as for me, I waited for my sister just outside the school.
"Hey!" I looked up while sitting on the nearby bench on the school ground.
"Oh, Uraraka and Tenya, right?" I remembered their name.
"Hey, what are you doing?" She asked.
"Shouldn't you be at home, Uno-kun?" Tenya said.
"I'm waiting for my sister," I answered.
"Oh, right. Miss Speed Girl…She is your sister and homeroom teacher, right?" Uraraka and Tenya joined me while we waited. They explained to me that they were waiting for Deku.
We talked while we waited even though I really didn't want to talk much, but I did explain to them that my sister is my homeroom teacher.
"I see! Your sister is quite admirable, kind, and very caring person!" Tenya commented. "She is like my older brother, who happens to be a pro hero, too."
"Oh really?" I asked. "Well, I guess they are alike. Though, I am not sure if my sister will be here any longer."
Uraraka and Tenya gasped a little and looked worried.
"Hey Kai," Uraraka said, giving light smile. "Don't worry. I'm sure that your sister will be fine. Besides, like Mr. All Might, she saved us."
"Indeed! Even if she loses her position as a teacher at here, UA, she will be just fine!" Tenya assured me.
Just then, we saw Deku approaching us. Uraraka and Tenya looked relieved and happy to see them as he was, too.
"Hey, Kai!" He greeted. "Are you OK?"
"I'm fine. It looks like Recovery Girl and Miss Heal did the trick," I said. If you don't remember, I mentioned Miss Heal, the nurse assistant for Recovery Girl. We will meet her soon eventually.
Are you waiting for Speed Girl, I mean, your sister?" He asked.
"Yeah," I responded. "You guys can go home. I will be fine waiting here for her."
They all looked at each other and then smiled at me. "We'll stay here with you."
"Huh?" I looked at them. "You don't have to do that. I will be just…"
"Hey, you four!" We gasped and turned around. There she was, fine as a feather.
"Miss Speed Girl!" Deku, Uraraka, and Tenya were surprised.
"Whoops, did I scare you? Sorry about that," She said as she blushed.
"Hey," I said.
"Oh, Kai, were you waiting here for me even this late?" She asked before she released a waterfall of tears and bear-hugged me.
"OH, my sweet little baby brother! You're too kind!" She cried.
The trio looked at us, feeling happy and sort of worry about me now that I was being crushed by my own sister's hug.
"I…can't….breathe!" I complained.
She released me, and we went home together with the members of Class 1-A; Deku, Uraraka, and Tenya. It looked like my sister will continue working as a teacher at UA, which I felt happy about (even though I didn't express it) and sort of bummer admittedly that it also means she will continue bugging me for the rest of my high school life probably.
Though, there was still a lingering feeling inside of me. Why did Deku, and his classmates, Bokugo, Todoroki, Kirishima, and my classmate and class rep, Eli continue to fight? Yuki Drago also did the same thing when he jumped in, joining them. Exactly what drove them? If anything, I thought it was completely dangerous and crazy admittedly. They couldn't get killed, and yet…they still continued to stand up against those villains knowing how dangerous they are. Was that really what means to be a hero? To stand up against a villain even if the odd is against you? Also, why did I let go of myself that time? Is that how heroes save someone?
However, if anything came out of this horrific incident, I guess I got closer with Midoriya, Uraraka, and Tenya.
- My Hero Academia Line of Good and Evil –
About a few hours before and an hour after the incident at USJ, the faculty of UA High and my sister, Speed Girl had a private meeting.
"Miss Haruka Uno," Principal Nezu said as he was sitting in the center of the circular table. "First thing first, I am glad that you, along with All Might, stop the villains and saved the students."
"Thank you, sir," she replied calmly. Although, she didn't look proud or happy about it.
"However, by going out of your way to stop a single villain and creating that huge tornado that not only damaged one of our facilities, part of the school property nonetheless, you also endangered the students who you saved and everyone who was inside USJ and perimeters around it."
"I…I sincerely apologize for my action; sir and I will be fully held responsible for my action. Whatever the punishment will be, I will humbly accept it, even if termination of employment is required," she admitted.
"Sir," one of the faculty members spoke up. It was Kuni Honzo, the gym instructor.
"Yes, what is it, Honzo-kun?" Principal asked.
"I agree that what Speed Girl did indeed put the students in much more danger, but she only did it in order to stop the villains. According to the police, the arrested villains, claiming they are the so-called 'League of Villains' admitted that they invaded USJ to kill All Might. If anyone is here to be terminated from this school, I say it is All Might!"
"Hold on a second!" A different faculty member stood up as she slammed the desk. This person wore a very skintight white costume with red mask and had long, spiky black hair. This was the R-Rated pro hero, Midnight. This was the reasons why she is called "R-Rated Pro Hero", but I think that was something left unquestioned for the better if you know what I mean.
"All Might also save the students, too! Yes, it is true that the villains that attacked the USJ were there to kill him, but that doesn't justify the reason to fire the man!" She pointed out.
"His reputation and his own presence here endangers the very safety of the student body and the entire school itself, Midnight! Speed Girl doesn't deserve the termination! We must consider All Might for this!" Honzo argued.
"I agree with Midnight." The person who spoke up next was another Pro Hero and teacher at UA High. His name is Cementoss, who had a cement block for his head. "It is not All Might's fault for the villains to invade and attack USJ. It is the villains' action, and that is not part of All Might's responsibility, liability, or any of it."
"That is true. However…" Another faculty said. This time it was a man with a dark helmet and exposed teeth, wearing a long trench coat that covers most of his body. This man's name is Ectoplasm.
"I have to admit that ever since All Might became a member of the faculty here, we've been getting more attention from the public and the media. Those attentions are a bit unwanted sometimes, and the media is particularly very unwanted and also a nuisance to the students," Ectoplasm admitted.
"Exactly!" Honzo said. "We just had that false intrusion by those lousy media! I have to deal with them almost every day, and keep them from disturbing all students who come here every morning! All Might's presence here will continue bring unwanted attention and possibly the villains may plan to attack here next!"
"Excuse me!" Everyone looked at Speed Girl. "If I may speak, I rather have myself be terminated instead of All Might!"
"What!? Why?" Midnight asked surprisingly.
"I understand all of your concern and question about Mr. All Might's reputation, but can't be a help! He is a great, valuable, and kind person. In fact, I think this school is lucky enough for him to be here, teaching the next generation of pro heroes!" She explained. "Besides, I'm the one who's at fault for putting Class 1-A and my class, 1-L into more danger than they should have! Please, Principal Nezu, if anyone deserves to be fire, it would be me."
Everyone was silent, not saying any words. Principal Nezu looked calm and sighed.
"Miss Haruka Uno, aka Speed Girl…" Speed Girl looked up and straight at her boss. "As the principal of this school and the member of the UA High staff, I declare that…"
"I AM HERE!" The door slammed open, revealing to be All Might who just interrupted them.
"All Might!?" Everyone gasped.
"My apology to barge in!" All Might said. "But, if I may humbly speak, Speed Girl here doesn't deserve the termination! I am aware that my reputation as the number 1 Pro Hero and Symbol of Peace had cause unwanted attention from the media, disturbing the students here at this proud school! If anyone here deserves termination, please don't let it be her, but instead of me and I won't argue back!"
He bowed down in front of the faculty.
"All Might…" Speed Girl looked down at him with teary eyes.
Principal Nezu sighed and then smiled. "All Might, please get up. Nobody is going to be fired today."
"Huh?" All Might and Speed Girl responded.
"Principal Nezu!" Honzo gasped.
"I was going to say that Speed Girl won't be terminated. She will continue working as the homeroom teacher for Class 1-L at this school. Under the condition that her pay will be cut by 25 percent. If she accepts that punishment, that is?" He said.
Speed Girl almost cried, but held the tear in. "Thank you, sir!"
"Principal Nezu….Thank you very much and again, my apology for my erupt interruption!" All Might said.
The other teachers looked relieved, but Mr. Honzo didn't agree with this, so he left with anger and disappointment on his face.
- My Hero Academia Line of Good and Evil –
Somewhere else, at an unknown location, a phone rang. A hand picked up, and the phone cord was pulled over to the unknown person's face.
"Yes…I see….Very well," he said before he put down the phone.
In the shadows, six silhouettes sat at a roundtable.
"Our intel just sent the information to us. About the recent incident at USJ," said the unknown man, only revealing a pair of white gloves.
"It looks like he started his move, sir," said another person. This one had a very round shape for the head. "Shall I keep on this 'League of Villains'?"
"Indeed, my friend," said the man with the white gloves. "As for all of you, our intel will continue working at UA High while we prepare things from our side. Remember your mission and our cause. All villains will be all judged by the hammer of true justice, even if it means…. death!"
Hello, guys and girls! We are here, at the finale of the USJ Invasion Arc. I just wanted to get this chapter out. Now that it is, I can work on other stories that deserve to be updated. This story will be put to rest for awhile, but it will come back not too far in the future (hopefully).
We learned couples of things in this chapter. One; Speed Girl seems to know Zap. We will see more about this later in the future (in future seasons). Two, Kai became friend with the main trio of the show; Midoriya, Ochako, and Tenya. Three, we will also see the new antagonist group in the story at the end. Who do you think they are? What do you think they will play in the story that may affect the canon story? And lastly, four, we also learn that a mole working for this new antagonist group is working at UA High. Who could that be? Only time will tell. Let me know if you have a theory for who the mole is.
So, as always, please post your review. I also updated the OC submission sheet in Chapter 6, so please use that to submit any OCs by using that form only, not the old form back in the early chapter.
Thank you and as always, have PLUS ULTRA day!
