"Deku-kun! You're wearing your gym clothes?" Ochaco asked as she and Neon walked over to MIdoriya. Both of them, along with the rest of their class, were in their hero suits. They stood in the school's parking lot and were waiting for the bus to come and take them off campus for their latest hero training exercise.
"Yeah," Midoriya said with a sheepish grin, "They got ripped up during the combat training, so I'm waiting for the support team to fix it."
Beeeep!
"Who gave that guy a whistle?" Neon said with a scowl towards the class rep that was hidden behind the tinted visor of her helmet.
"Class 1A!" Tenya shouted, using succinct and stiff arm movements that would put an air traffic controller to shame, "Form two lines by your student numbers in order to make boarding the bus go smoothly!"
Beep beep!
"Iida-kun's going full throttle," Midoriya said.
"The bus isn't even..." Kirishima complained just as the bus pulled up at the exact spot Tenya was standing in front of, "...Here yet?"
"TWO LINES!" Tenya shouted.
Neon sighed and got into place with the rest of her class. Todoroki was at her front and Hagakure stood behind her.
"I wonder what kind of rescue we'll be doing. What do you think, Nishiyama?" Hagakure asked excitedly, her gloves gesturing wildly in the air, "Do you think we'll be working individually or as teams?!"
"I hope it's a team exercise..I don't know how well my Quirk would be by myself. If it's a natural disaster type of scenario, it would be best to be paired with Momo for the sake of adaptability," Neon said, "Although if it's a landfall or a cave in, Noisy Boy's Quirk would be useful too...And also if it's a hostage type of rescue and we need fire power..."
"Like I'd ever team up with you, Dye Job! You're not even good enough to be a sidekick!"
"EEK!"
The hostile bark of Katsuki made Hagakure gasp and jump away from him instinctively. It caused her to push up against Neon, who in turn bumped into Todoroki. He lurched one foot forward but managed to stabilize himself enough so none of them would fall to the floor.
"Ah! Sorry, Todoroki! Nishiyama!" Hagakure squeaked and Neon felt the pressure relieve from her back.
"It's okay," Todoroki said as he stepped back into place.
"Sorry, Todoroki," Neon said and did the same. She then turned to glare at Katsuki. Behind him, Midoriya's eyes were as big as dinner plates, which subsided her annoyance. Did Midoriya think a war would break out between her and Noisy Boy?
The line started to move and when Neon stepped onto the bus, she couldn't contain her amusement and she laughed. Tenya sat at the very front of the bus with his head between his legs. The seating arrangement on the bus was not what he had planned. Instead of rows of two on each side of the bus, the first half of the bus had seats that lined up against the wall.
"Just...sit anywhere you want," Tenya said defeatedly.
Neon shrugged and then when she got on board, she promptly sat down next to Todoroki. He looked at her in surprise since there was a full row of empty chairs next to her.
"You're not the chatting type," Neon said with a shrug.
"I see…" Todoroki murmured. The bus revved off and they sat in silence the entire time, which Neon appreciated even more so when Noisy Boy started yelling at people towards the front of the bus.
It took them about half an hour to get to the training course, which was was held inside a large building with a glass dome as the roof. In front of the gates rested golden letters - USJ. Beneath it stood the legendary hero, Thirteen. He was clad in his usual puffy spacesuit with a spherical helmet over his head.
"Everyone. I have been waiting for you," he rasped through the speakerbox in his suit.
"Wow! It really is the Space Hero: Thirteen!" Midoriya exclaimed, "The gentlemanly hero who has rescued tons of people from disasters!"
"Oh! I love Thirteen!" Ochacho cheered.
"Come. Let's go inside without delay," Thirteen said as he walked up the front steps of the building and into it's vast open door.
The students entered the building with Aizawa Sensei in the back. The front door was actually elevated to the second story and the entire building was just one big open space. They could see down below on the ground level that there were various disaster simulation zones set up and at the ready.
"Shipwreck...A landslide...an urban fire...a windstorm...and many other scenarios," Thirteen said as he spread his arms out, "It is a specialized training ground that I designed with different types of accidents and disasters. Welcome to the Unforeseen Simulation Joint."
"Whoahhhhh!" the students gasped as Aizawa walked to the front.
"Thirteen...Where's All Might?" he asked, "He was supposed to meet us here."
"About that…" Thirteen said in a hushed voice that made Neon's ears perk up, "It looks like he did too much hero work on his way to work and ran out of time, so he's resting in the lounge."
"That is the height of irrationality," Aizawa sighed, "But it can't be helped. Shall we begin?"
"Let's see...Before we begin, let me say one thing...er..maybe two...make that three...Or four?" Thirteen started to say, "Five? Six? Seven?"
Neon's eyes widened along with the rest of her classmates. How many warnings do they need for this place?
Thirteen raised his hand. "Everyone, I'm sure you are aware of my Quirk, Black Hole. I can suck up anything and turn it to dust."
"Yes," Midoriya said while Ochaco nodded emphatically next to him, "You've been able to use that Quirk to save people from all kinds of disasters right?"
"Yeah but it is a power that can kill easily," Thirteen warned, "Some of you also have Quirks like that, right? In today's society, personal Quirks have been certified and stringently regulated, so that doesn't seem to be a problem at first glance. However, please do not forget that there are many Quirks that can easily kill with one wrong step. With Aizawa-san's physical fitness test, you found out about the possibility of your own hidden powers and with All Might's person-to-person combat training, I think you experienced the danger of using those powers against others. This class is a fresh start. You shall learn how to use your Quirks to save people's lives. You do not have powers so you can harm others. I hope you leave here with the understanding that you have powers in order to help others."
Thirteen bowed. "That is all. Thank you for listening."
"That was inspiring!"
"Bravo! Bravo!"
The students clapped and cheered at his speech and even Neon couldn't help but feel moved by his words.
To help others…
"All right then...first-" Aizawa started to say.
Eeeeeee!
Neon flinched at the faint but high pitched tone. It was barely there but it was sharp enough to be annoying.
"What is that?" Neon asked.
Mina, who was standing next to Neon, looked at her curiously. "What is what?"
Suddenly, the long strip of lights that lined underneath the dome flickered and sizzled with energy. Then it powered off casting a shadow in the room with only the sun left as a source of light. A fountain at the center of the building began to sporadically spray out the water and when it finally returned back to normal, a dark, black hole emerged from the curtain of water. Then the blackness turned even bigger until it became a black wall right in front of the fountain
"Gather together and don't move!" Aizawa shouted as people began to emerge from the black wall, "Thirteen, protect the students!"
"Is this like the entrance exam where the lessons' already started?" Kirishima asked.
"Idiot. Sense the tone!" Neon yelled as she pulled Kirishima back so she could take his place at the front to see better, "Those people are-"
"Don't move, even you, Nishiyama," Aizawa ordered as he put on his goggles, "Those are villains."
"What?" the class gasped.
"The trespassing the other day was the work of these scumbags after all, huh?" Aizawa murmured as his scarf billowed out and his hair waved up into the air.
At least thirty villains emerged from the black curtain with two hanging back at the fountain. The curtain started to condense until it formed a smoky black figure with narrow yellow eyes.
"Villains? How is that possible?! There's no way they could get into a hero school!" Kirishima demanded, coming up next to Neon.
"Sensei! What about the trespasser sensors?" Momo asked.
"There's something jamming it," Neon said as she poked a finger into her ear to stop that irritating tone even for just a minute, "Jiro. Can't you hear it?"
"Faintly but my hearing works better when my ears are plugged into something, like the wall."
"Did they only appear here or around the whole school?" Todoroki asked, "Either way...if the sensors are not responding, that means they have someone with a Quirk that can do it. An isolated area separated from the main campus during a time when a class is supposed to be here...They might be fools but they're not dumb. This infiltration was planned with some sort of goal in mind."
"Thirteen. Evacuate the students and try calling the school," Aizawa instructed, "These villains even had something to counteract the sensors. It's possible someone with radio-wave-type powers is interfering. Kaminari! You try contacting the school with your Quirk, too!"
"Sensei! With that many people, even if you can erase their Quirks...A frontal battle would be…" Midoriya said worriedly.
"You can't be a hero with just one trick," Aizawa said, "I'm leaving it to you, Thirteen."
With that, he flew down the stairs with his scarf whipping behind him towards the mob of villains. Neon and the rest of the class watched with mouths agape as their teacher took down the villains one by one and sometimes even three at a time. Whether it was long distance or close hand-to-hand combat, Aizawa had a countermove and offensive move for every villain that got in his path. WIth his goggles on, none of the villains could tell who's Quirk he was erasing, which made them hesitate to move in and in turn, made it harder for them to work together. He was nullifying their advantage in numbers.
"Come on. Follow me," Thirteen said as he rushed back towards the front door, "Everyone. Listen to your teacher. We must evacuate!"
"Y-Yes!" Tenya said as he and Momo jumped into the role of class reps and started to move the class forward, "We need to hurry up and take shelter! This is not a time to spectate!"
Suddenly, a black warp sprouted in their path and the shadowy figure emerged out of it. "I won't let you," he boomed as he stretched up several feet in the air, "Nice to meet you. We are the League of Villains. It may be presumptuous of us, but we have invited ourselves in to the home of the heroes, UA High School."
Thirteen took a step back and used his arms to push the students behind him.
"We are here in order to have All Might, the Symbol of Peace, take his last breath," the shadowy figure stated, "I believe All Might should have been here. Has there been some kind of change?...Well...that is neither here nor there. This is the part I am here to play."
Thirteen flicked open the top part of his glove but just when he was about to take aim at the figure, Katsuki and Kirishima leapt in front of him and charged at the villain.
"HYAAAAAH!" they yelled.
The explosion from Katsuki's Quirk sent a large smoke screen that covered everyone's sight.
"Betcha never thought you'd get beaten before you got to do anything," Kirishima laughed.
"Heh," the shadowy figure chucked and then re-emerged within the smoke, "That's right. Even if you are students, you are excellent golden eggs."
"No! Move away, you too!" Thirteen yelled as plumes of black smoke came out of the villains body and surrounded the group.
"My job is to scatter you all and torture you to death!" he shouted as his black smoke consumed the class.
"Nishiyama-san! Get out of there!" Neon heard Tenya cry out just as she felt herself get sucked into darkness and then, just as quickly, dumped out into what felt like the inside of a smokebox.
Neon was sprawled on top of hot, wooden floorboards inside a room that was getting clouded with smoke.
What? What happened?!
She got up to her feet and took off her helmet in order to see clearer. She instantly regretted her decision when she was hit with a coughing fit from the thick smoke. She dropped her helmet and ran to the sole window in the empty room.
"Oh my god," Neon coughed when she got a view of the outside. She had somehow found herself in the middle of an empty but burning cityscape.
"Got ya!" a man shouted as he charged into the room with a gas mask over his face and a knife in hand.
"Nishiyama-san! Get away from the window!"
Thwack! Crash!
Ojiro appeared from behind and he jumped up, grabbing the door frame and swinging his legs forward. He kicked the man in the small of the back. Neon jumped to the side as Ojiro sent the man flying right through the window, bringing a gust of warmed air into the room.
"Th-Thanks," Neon said as she picked up her helmet, "Where are we?"
"I think we're still in USJ...Thirteen Sensei mentioned an urban fire as one of the scenarios, right? This must be it."
"Yeah. I think you're right."
"Come on. We need to get out of here," Ojiro said.
"Ah."
They managed to find a fire escape and they got a good look of their surroundings once they were safely outside. The buildings around them had fire sprouting out from it's windows and balconies at almost every level. The streets and shrubs were ablaze as well.
"We should find an exit out of this place and get back to the others," Neon said and she eyed the boy's karate gear, "Ojiro...your strength is close combat?"
"Yes," he said, "I am skilled in various practices of martial arts."
"Okay...Okay...I can work with that," Neon murmured as she sent her bubbles to hover in front and behind them at a 20 foot radius. At the same time, she also put up a bubble barrier that contained her and Ojiro.
She grabbed Ojiro by the arm and ran down the burning streets. It didn't take long for Ojiro to recover from her sudden action and to keep up with her pace. "Nishiyama-san...do you have a plan?"
"A vague idea…," Neon said, "I mean...you heard what that shadowy guy said, right? They're after All Might..and to do so this boldly, they must have a way to actually kill him. Or at least, something strong enough for them to believe they do."
"So we should definitely escape, right?" Ojiro asked.
Pop!
"Ring the alarm / I been through this too long / But I'll be damned if I see another chick on your arm!"
Neon whirled around just in time to see three men running after them. "Shit! Ojiro-"
"Leave it to me!" Ojiro said as his tail smacked through the sound barrier and he launched himself at the three villains. In mid-air, his tail knocked down one villain while he kicked down the other two with his legs. Then, his tail wrapped around one of the villains and flung him far off into the distance.
"Whoa...Ojiro...You're kind of a bad ass, aren't you?"
Ojiro almost tripped on his feet at Neon's words and he blushed. "Thanks…"
Neon grinned and looked up at the rooftops. "Come on..We need to get to higher ground to look for a way out."
"Wait. Nishiyama!" Ojiro yelled as Neon raced into a burning building.
Wub wub wub wub wub wub wub!
He barely got through the front door when a deep bass resounded through the building, quelling the fires in the lobby enough for it to clear a path that led straight to a door with "EMERGENCY EXIT" labelled at the top.. Neon had the palm of her hand out with her other hand pressing down on one of the buttons on her suit. Lights flickered up her arms and helmet while sound came booming out of her glove.
"Soundwaves can displace oxygen," Neon said as she rushed to the emergency exit door and kicked it open, "Come on. To the roof!"
They ran up the stairs with Ojiro being one step behind her. Neon knew he could easily overtake her but she was also the one with the fire extinguishing ability. She was lucky that she ended up with someone so level headed and congenial.
"Nishiyama...When we find the exit, what do we do next?" he asked.
"Get back to the others and get at least one of us out the door to get help," Neon said.
"Eh? Just one? Not all."
"You heard Aizawa Sensei, right? The villains chose to attack here, when we're isolated away from the school. They might have enough power to take down All Might but it's not enough to take on multiple pro heroes. They deliberately jammed our sensors, which shows the last thing they want is for the other teachers to get here," Neon said, "So as long as one of us leaves and contacts the school, their plan would be thwarted and we have a chance of them retreating."
"That's true..," Ojiro said as they got to the roof. Now that they were on higher ground, Neon could get a closer look at the roof over their head. They were in an enclosed simulation that kept the smoke and fire contained and away from the other areas. It was a metallic roof, too hard and too high for either Neon or Ojiro to break.
"Look for an exit," Neon said as she ran to one side of the roof. Ojiro nodded and went to the opposite side.
"Thirteen Sensei didn't hold back, did he? This is as real of a disaster zone as it gets," Ojiro said as he squinted to get a better look, "I can't see anything through this much fire and smoke. Nishiyama, can you see anything?"
He turned to look at his classmate and then was shocked to find her looking at him with widened eyes and mouth agape.
"What?" Ojiro said.
"That's it, Ojiro! That's it!" Neon yelled.
"What? What do you mean?" Ojiro asked.
"This is a disaster zone!" Neon said.
Ojiro blinked. "So?"
Neon grinned. "So...let's create a disaster!"
