Chapter 9: A Peaceful Protest and Catching Up
In case you didn't read the entire author's note last chapter, Todoroki is younger than Midoriya in this, so Todoroki will be turning eighteen soon...
By the way, this protest is a complete mess and totally not what a GOOD protest would be in real life. I would like to remind you that... THIS WAS PLANNED BY TWO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THE DAY BEFORE. So yea. Their protest does pretty much nothing...
It was now 8:59. Bakugou woke Midoriya up, and Midoriya had bustled about.
Now, Midoriya was shooting giddy hormones all over the place, and he could barely hold still as Bakugou explained what we were gonna do.
He finished explaining exactly at 9:00, and we headed in.
"QUIRKLESS BRAINWASHING NEEDS TO STOP! SLAVES NEED TO BE SANE AND HAVE SOULS!" every single one of us chanted, and it was exhilarating to be part of that loud, single voice.
All of us were of one mind and body, and it was amazing to experience.
We yelled at the top of our lungs, and Bakugou and Midoriya were opening every single door that we came across. It was barely noticeable, but Midoriya was leading us through; it wasn't Bakugou and Midoriya. ASASO was at the front, just behind them, and a few of us were holding Midoriya's bags of cups and whatnot. Kirishima was holding the water machine.
The teachers and students alike poured out of the classrooms instantly after their door being opened. The students in the rooms we opened were all gaping at us. The teachers were screaming at us, telling us to be quiet and stop disrupting the classrooms. Bakugou flipped the bird in response. Others of us responded as well.
We had entered through what I assumed was the front, and there was a rather small entrance section. We had passed the first four doors without opening them, and now, those doors were opening on their own, and a bunch of teachers were coming out. Actually, maybe those aren't teachers... Were those three doors offices?
"The Principals are out!" Midoriya called over to Bakugou.
"Good! Those motherf*ckers can have a front row seat!" he replied, glancing behind us all, "And the f*cking counselors, too! They can all f*ck off!"
So, the Principal's Office and the Guidance Office, probably... Maybe the Attendance Office is the other door? And the last one... maybe a Teacher's Lounge, or something...
One of the adults ran up to us and was screaming, "You are disrupting class time!-!"
"That's the point," Bakugou replied.
"Leave, or I will call the cops!-!"
"Go ahead!-!" Kirishima shouted at them, "You're the ones doing wrong in the first place!-!" The other members of ASBO roared at his statement, pumping their fists in the air.
"We are protesting, Dr. Maruki," Midoriya explained, "We do not like the way you teach."
"!-! Midoriya Izuku?!-!" Dr. Maruki apparently recognized Midoriya easily, "What are you doing with these delinquents?!-! What happened to you?!-!-!"
"Nothing happened to me, Dr. Maruki," Midoriya hissed, opening one more door that led to a classroom, "I'm just how I've always been."
"This is preposterous!-! Do I need to put you in rehabilitation, Midoriya?!-! Do I need to revoke your diploma?!-!" Dr. Maruki shouted.
"F*ck you! Deku already graduated your sh*tty school, and he isn't going back! He just barely made it out with his f*cking sanity! And he's not going to rehab either! Since he's my slave, I get to choose what he does or doesn't do! You have no say in the matter! If I don't want him going in rehab or redoing your sh*tty school, then you can't make him do that sh*t!" Bakugou refuted.
Dr. Maruki gasped, "This is your Master?!-! No wonder you've turned into such a delinquent!-! If you had a proper, adult Master-"
"Proper, my *ss!-!" Bakugou interrupted.
"I'm calling the cops!-!" Dr. Maruki snapped at Bakugou, pulling out his phone.
"Go ahead, but we aren't doing anything wrong!" Midoriya replied, "This is a peaceful protest!"
"Peaceful?!-! You are interrupting students' learning time!-!" Dr. Maruki replied as he brought the phone up to his ear, glaring at Midoriya.
"More like interrupting their sh*tty brainwashing!" Bakugou quipped.
"Yes, hello? I am Dr. Maruki, the principal of Quirkless High School 3. There is a crowd that is disrupting the students' learning time. ... Yes, please. ... Thank you." He put his phone away, staring Midoriya down, "The cops-and Heroes-are on their way, Midoriya..."
Midoriya had already opened a few more doors, and a few more classes were pouring out of their respective classrooms. Midoriya stared Dr. Maruki down.
"They can handcuff me if they want, but I haven't done anything wrong," he shrugged, "I've just been opening doors and walking through a hallway."
"Hey, hey, can I have some of that water please?" a woman with a baby in her arms walked up to Kirishima.
"Huh? Oh, uh, sure. I think there are cups somewhere around here..." Kirishima glanced around ASASO's members. Tokoyami was holding the bag with the cups, and the woman got a cup of water as we progressed down the hallway.
"Thank you so much!" she smiled at him and vanished back into the crowd. Others walked up grabbing a cup from Tokoyami's bag and getting water from the water machine. Some grabbed food from the bag that Ojiro was holding.
We were reaching the edge of the hallway. Only two more doors were left to open. Bakugou opened up one door, and Midoriya threw open the other door. Midoriya headed in that door, and the rest of us followed. I glanced in the door that Bakugou opened, and it appeared to be a cafeteria. Few adults were in there and looking at us strangely before pouring out. I entered the door Midoriya had opened, and I gulped at what I saw.
"DANCING TIME IS OVER!-!" Midoriya shouted over the music. Everyone in the room stopped and stared. {Oh my ghouls, if Stop and Stare (that I don't own) was on, that would be f-ing beautiful.}
The room appeared to be a gymnasium, littered with students. The students all had tight-fitting black clothes on. Some of them were in the air with thread, and silver poles littered the place. There were quite a few teachers in there that had been scolding students on something or other.
"Midoriya Izuku?!-!" one student with serious, heavy bags under his eyes shouted in disbelief as he rushed over.
"Rick!" Midoriya ran over to meet him halfway.
"What the h*ll are you doing here, man?" Rick blinked, "You graduated! Why would you ever wanna come back here?-?"
"We're holding a protest," Midoriya replied, "You and your friends can join in if you want."
"Holy sh*t, man," Rick chuckled, "You, holding a protest? That's crazy, man. So f*cking mad." He held up his fist, "Give me an arm bump, man. This is hardcore."
Midoriya laughed in response, bumping his forearm against Rick's, "It's nothing much, really."
"You're crazy! Whoever knew?!-! You'd always refuse to join the group of rebels!"
"Of course I did. I wanted to get out of here as soon as possible, with as little punishment as possible."
"Yet here you are. You always were a little, unpredictable squirt, huh?" Rick ruffled Midoriya's hair {that is a mess. Trust me; I've drawn it a few times, and holy crud...}.
"So, you in or no?"
"Of course I f*cking am!" Rick rose his arm again, "Getting busted with my boyfriend ain't gonna make me a senseless zombie like the rest of them! Come on, Midoriya; you know me better than that! I'ma go tell my buds what's up, a'ight?" Rick hurried over to apparently recruit his "buds."
"'that the little sh*t you danced with the one time that kept pestering you to rebel?" Bakugou inquired as Midoriya turned back around to us. Midoriya nodded to Bakugou's question.
"His name's Rick, Kacchan. He's an Alpha, which is rare for a Quirkless."
"Che," Bakugou scowled at Rick in the crowd of students. I detected dominant hormones starting to ease off of him. "He acts like the two of you are closer than you are. Ticks me off."
Midoriya appeared to want to say something, but he immediately shut his mouth tightly after Bakugou's statement. He was even staring at his shoes and emitting submissive hormones.
Rick was already back with a bunch of different guys and a few girls, "? What's with the submissive hormones all o' the sudden, Midoriya? Aren't you leading the riot?"
"No, I'M leading the protest, sh*tface," Bakugou stuck his face up, secreting dominance hormones. Rick stared at Bakugou. "Deku's just my slave."
Rick bared his teeth at that, snarling, "Oh, so you're the piece of sh*t that got him? You clearly don't deserve him. Midoriya shouldn't be f*cking enslaved, *sshole."
Bakugou bared his teeth in return, "F*ck you. I'm his Master, so I get to decide what Deku gets and deserves and what he doesn't."
"P-Please stop fighting both of you!" Midoriya's gaze kept flipping from the two Alphas to his feet, "Rick, I'm Kacchan's slave... Nothing will change that. I've already accepted it. So please..."
"Yeah, so screw you," Bakugou snarled at Rick, grabbing Midoriya's hair. I hissed at that. "Deku f*cking wants to be my G*dd*mn slave, don't you, Deku?"
"Yes..." Midoriya had his eyes covered behind his fluffy hair.
"Let go of him," Rick seethed before referring to Midoriya, "Come on; you're not gonna just take this sitting down, are you, Midoriya?!-! Don't tell me this pr*ck brainwashed you!-!"
"Rick, please just be quiet. We're in the middle of holding a protest, so please just stop arguing."
Rick seemed concerned, his eyes flitting back between Midoriya's, but he backed down.
But Bakugou was completely furious, "Don't compare me to those motherf*ckers!-! Deku isn't f*cking brainwashed!-! He came out with his sanity and soul in tact, no thanks to you, you piece of sh*t!-! Back the f*ck off!-!" Bakugou let go of Midoriya's hair to shove Rick. Fury fluttered in Rick's eyes at that, dominance hormones mixing in the air, but he seemed to have more control over himself and his hormones than Bakugou did.
"Sorry..." he ground out, "I guess if you're leading this protest, you can't be all that bad..."
Midoriya heaved a sigh of relief.
"Che," Bakugou spat. He glanced around the room as the dominance hormones faded out. I calmed down and eased as well, hoping that Bakugou wouldn't punish Midoriya later for speaking out but knowing to leave that for later, after the protest. "I'd really like to rip those f*cking poles down to h*ll..." he muttered under his breath.
"So who all is Quirkless here?" Rick looked amongst the crowd of ASBO members, all hints of the argument earlier gone.
"Ah, well, I know the students from U.A. all have Quirks..." Midoriya blinked at the crowd.
"U.A.?!-!" Rick and his friends shouted in shock.
"?" Midoriya looked back at them "Ah, uh.. yea. Kacchan's in U.A., after all..."
"Holy sh*t, dude, this b*tch goes to U.A.?!-!" Rick looked at Bakugou in shock, "Like, the f*cking Hero School?!-! A Hero in the making?!-! Seriously?!-!"
"Uh, yeah..." Midoriya rubbed the back of his neck nervously.
"That's crazy!-! F*cking absurd!-! No wonder someone so young got you though!-!"
"Ahaha..." Midoriya continued to rub the back of his neck awkwardly.
"You seriously got this entire f*cking class from U.A. to join our cause?" Rick looked at Midoriya incredulously, gesturing to ASASO and Bakugou.
"Not the entire class. About half of it. And I didn't get them to join, really."
Rick whistled, "Dude, I knew you were something else, but d*mn. If I didn't have a boyfriend, I might've just asked you out!" Rick grinned at Midoriya.
"Then I would've denied.-" Midoriya got out before Bakugou was screaming sh*t about how Quirkless couldn't date, and 'his Deku' certainly wasn't going to 'f*cking date anyone, much less' Rick, or as Bakugou described him, 'you useless piece of sh*t.' He continued to rant, and I was trying to keep my snickers in. But all that said, I don't agree with Midoriya dating Rick either. He just said he'd have declined, which means he doesn't want to date Rick.
"Sheesh, man, cool your tits. I'm not going after Midoriya; I have a boyfriend."
"I was wondering. Whatever happened to your boyfriend? You were caught together, weren't you?" Midoriya spoke up, and I wasn't sure if he was trying to change the topic or not.
"Ahh, so you heard about that, huh...?" Rick gave a wry smile, rubbing the back of his neck nervously, "Yeah, we were caught together... He was a submissive Omega, a gorgeous fella, but after we got caught, well..." Rick's face darkened. "I haven't seen him since... They better not have done anything to him, or I'll have their *sses. Even if we aren't dating anymore..."
Midoriya gave a look of confusion, "You're dating someone even though you haven't seen him?"
Rick glanced at Midoriya, "Well... 'see, I got a text from him a little while after I got back... He was from Quirkless High School 2, and he was saying that he didn't want to date anymore because he wanted to graduate... He's a good kid, almost two years younger than me, so he still had the chance to graduate on time... I... don't know if that text was... coerced or not..."
"I'm so sorry, Rick..."
"Nah, don't be... He's a rule follower, like you, so I should've known we'd eventually break up... It wouldn't work between us. Better now than later, right...?" he chuckled wryly, but I think we could all see the wound that was still healing from what happened. "Dating me was an incredible risk for him. I doubt he'll ever date again... After all, Quirkless aren't supposed to date... I wish I could take it all back though... I didn't want to ruin his life..."
"I'm sure you didn't, Rick. You were good to him. I'm sure he appreciates the time you two had together..." Midoriya said.
"Heh, thanks, Midoriya..." Rick gave another wry smile, "But you never knew him... He isn't that type, y'know...? I'm not the type to let go of things either... It was a miracle I was able to date again, after... well... y'know..." he rubbed his neck awkwardly, and Midoriya's face grimmed.
Midoriya muttered something under his breath, but I didn't catch what he said.
"You done chatting, you worthless piece of sh*t?" Bakugou grabbed Midoriya's hair, growling.
"Ah, yes... I'm sorry, Kacchan. Thank you for letting me talk to him."
"Whatever, Deku," Bakugou spat, "Don't think I'm gonna let it go without a punishment."
"Of course..." Midoriya looked down at the floor.
I snarled, "Again with that sh*t?!-!"
"Todoroki-kun, please," Midoriya interrupted with determination before I was able to say much, "We're in the middle of a protest. I shouldn't have been chatting in the first place... Look, some people aren't even here anymore," he pointed behind us, and I looked. Truth be told, the crowd was thinner. Where did everybody go...?
"What did they do when you were caught?" a gruff-looking man asked Rick, seeming concerned and quite honestly, ready to enact revenge.
Rick bit the edge of his thumb, averting his eyes and saying quietly, "I don't like to talk about that..." Amazingly, I sensed submissive hormones easing off of him.
Didn't Midoriya say he was an alpha...? Alphas shouldn't have submissive hormones!
So this is what Quirkless High School does to people...
"I understand..." the man replied quietly, and the dominance hormones he was excreting started to fade out from the air, "I'm so sorry that happened to you, young man..."
And that was when sh*t hit the fan.
Because Heroes and Cops arrived alike.