Artificial Human Izuku
Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia
Chapter 25: Back into the Swing of Things
Izuku put his black bag over his back. While the hero class A wasn't going to U.A for a few days to the death of Iida, that didn't mean he couldn't go.
Sure he was spouting blood, but he couldn't stay away for so long. Would someone eventually connect the dots? Hopefully not, they only knew his sickness was something serious.
How can he prove it? Fake doctor's notes and certificates of course!
He made sure his eyes were purple as his hair was in the form of his other persona Izuru Yamikumo.
His villain activities were going to be put on part-time. Right now, he needed to play the part of the student during the day and only acting in his villain persona out of those hours.
He entered onto U.A grounds and it was oddly quiet when he passed the hero classrooms. Class 1-B being the only first year class in at the moment, he continued on as he proceed to 1-H.
"Sorry I'm late." He apologized as he entered the classroom looking like he came from a zombie flick. The amount of blood hitting the floor was quite impressive.
"Kumo! Are you okay! That's way more blood than usual!"
"Are you sure you should be here?" Midnight asked. "Your guardian told me about your illness acting up and your doctor also rang."
"Guardian? Thanks for the save Sensei!" the teen inwardly smiled. "I-I see…and I went out of my way to get the doctor's note and certificate too…"
"If you're truly fine, please take a seat."
"Got it…"
Midnight smiled as she gestured to the board. "As you can see. We have planned for you to have work experience at different hero offices." She revealed. "Because of you working in the support course, you could go into multiple branches of hero type work. For example, you could work as a teacher for the next generation of support course kids, or perhaps you'll go straight into costume support."
"You might be contracted for other work outside of the hero business. But, the one thing you could end up working for selected hero branches!" Midnight threw her arms to the sides as the board was more focused on hero offices. "You could work for multiple hero offices, or only work for just one! Many heroes would love to have a personal costume and gadget support team member in their office. Especially due to low members the support group produces."
Midnight lost her smile as she began to say something else. "…Sadly, as you may be aware, Hosu was attacked by the League of Villains and the Hero Killer Stain…and as a result…a student was killed."
The whole class stayed silent.
No one said a word.
It was silent respect for the dead.
"We we're planning on sending you all to hero offices, but now we are holding back with that plan for now." Midnight told them all. "Especially when so many hero offices from Hosu are now off limits."
"Then what do we do?" asked Joker.
"I'm glad you asked! We're still going to send you to hero offices! But, we are going to send you to ones that aren't in Hosu!" Midnight revealed yet again. "However, unlike what we had planned, you won't choose who you will go to, but who will pick you!"
"Ah, so heroes will come around and choose us?"
"That also allows us to potential work out of our comfort zones."
"I wonder what heroes will pick us…"
"Okay, calm down now." Midnight clapped to get her class' attention. "We will be talking with potential heroes and discuss who should go with who. However, heroes including myself and other teachers, including All Might, will not be taking you in…sadly."
Izuku raised an eye at that…albeit she did whisper it under her breath as she had turned around.
"Anyways…" she began to clean the board for whatever next lesson they had next. "As we speak, we are searching for your potential hero office workplace. Until then continue as normal."
"Yes sensei!"
As the day progressed, the class was dressed in their P.E uniforms. They all waited outside and Mei seemed to already be suffering from withdrawal symptoms.
She just wanted to make babies.
"I see you're all ready for P.E class." The teacher said as he came over. "Sorry I'm late."
"Thank god you're here Echo-sensei!" Yamikumo called out. "Hatsume was-no is suffering from withdrawal symptoms!"
The teacher who turned out to be known as the hero Echo, sweat dropped. "I-I see…" he then coughed into his hands. "We will continue class as per usual."
Echo was a man with straight blonde hair that wore a purple sleep mask that covered only his eyes as his hair covered a small part above the sleeping mask. He wore a long sleeve white shirt with some thin vertical black lines, mainly on the inside of the arms and his sides and he wore some matching pants with the same patterns.
Much like his hero name implied, his quirk was related in some way. The quirk he had was called Echolocation.
Echolocation allowed Echo to 'see' objects and people by reflected sound, kind of like a bat or a dolphin.
It was the reason he wore the sleep mask. It was to boost the effectiveness of his quirk. No one could hide from Echo with a quirk like that. The quirk mainly relied on his ears mainly and his mouth, but he was skilled even to just use breathing to send sound out, he was a pro hero after all.
He was their PE teacher.
"…" the class shared a look before Echo had walked to an area near a shed. "Don't worry. I have plans to make it somewhat different."
After pressing some buttons, he opened the shed. "You have ten minutes to prepare yourself with these gadgets." He told the class as Mei came back to life at the mention of those gadgets. "After those ten minutes are up, it's up to you to prevent me from either finding you, or if I find you, avoid me."
Echo then waved his hand as the students left. "Oh! And remember you can go solo or in a group!" he said as the students practically raided the shed and spread out.
Echo lifted his sleeping mask up for a second and pulled it back down. "…Ah…Peace and quiet." The hero lied on the ground, turned to the side and…fell asleep…
Oh…
A timer was set to ten minutes though…so that was a thing.
…Lazy bastard.
"So we're playing hide and seek again." Izuku mumbled. "I swear it's only for him to get some extra sleeping hours…I mean if he wanted to sleep, he could just make it a free period."
"Yeah…he's quite lazy once you see past that pro hero appearance of his." Joker sighed.
Hatsume was already digging into the machinery. "Oh how I missed you babies." She whispered like a mother to a child.
"At least one of us is having fun." Joker whispered as Izuku nodded.
"…We have around nine minutes to prepare ourselves." The currently purple haired teen brought up. "And against Echo-sensei's quirk, we can't really hide…only run."
"We need something to throw his echolocation quirk off us." Joker mumbled loudly. "Got any ideas, Hatsume?"
"About five hundred." The pink haired inventor revealed.
"Uh…"
"We don't have the time to hear five hundred, out of those five hundred, pick the top three." Izuku deadpanned towards her.
"Number one: release some of gas to stop Echo-sensei from sending out the sonar for his quirk to work. Number two: simply stay out of reach, high in the sky. Number three: just like two but underground."
"I'm taking the gas!" Joker immediately said.
"Well my babies can't do underground." Hatsume said as Izuku rolled his eyes.
"Guess I'm going under. Thanks guys." He said. "I think we should just split from each other then."
They watched as Izuru ran off…
They glanced at each other before bolting with their gear.
Echo yawned as he whacked the alarm before doing some stretches.
He didn't know why he bothered with the alarm. He was having such a nice dream…then he woke up…thirty-two seconds before the alarm went off.
Running his hand along his neck, he turned to the wide field where he students could be.
"Time to listen to my own echo." And with that, the pro hero used his quirk to find his students.
The first student he found was Hatsume…and that was because she was in the open…in a tree.
Using her gadgets that seemed to be grappling hooks to stay in the air out of reach…and when he got closer to her by going up the tree, she quickly left to another area like the side to a building.
"…Maybe I should've banned their gadgets…" the hero thought before sighing. "Hatsume! You pass!"
Hatsume grinned as the hero continued on.
The next person he came across was Joker who tried to use gas. It worked for the most part…he could send out a 'sonar' to receive sound back…but Joker himself made noise.
And when Joker realised his mistake…it was too late for the clown.
"Damn it."
"Better luck next time Joker."
"Now out of this trio…where's the last one?" he wondered as he went to find the last of the trio while catching and missing some of the other students.
Izuku yawned.
It was too dark in here. He just wished that Echo found him quickly. Why did he have to pick the last and only option?
He wasn't an underground animal.
It was dark, tight and the entrance was sealed. The only way Sensei could find it was if he took his sleeping mask off, but due to the sleeping mask helping his quirk…
Yeah…it seemed he might be here for a while.
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…
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"…I wonder if I can surrender."
And so…the purple haired teen stayed underground for the next few minutes, deciding what to do.
Echo yawned as he looked at the students. Apparently when Izuku decided to surrender, Echo had given up on searching…so they settled for a draw…for now.
But Echo wasn't done with the class yet. "We still have plenty of time left…"
"Then…what do we do?"
"I would give you free time…but that might cause more noise for me…so I want you all too…" Echo then kicked a ball. "Have a ball."
"…What?" Joker asked breaking the silence.
"Play a sport! Any sport!"
"This ball is clearly one for football or soccer depending on who you ask."
"How about this. You play a game of 'soccer' and when you're finished, you can go through the obstacle course."
"…Or we can stop immediately stop when you fall asleep." Izuku added.
"…That is true…hm…but your still not allowed to leave the grounds before the bell rings…I know! Do the obstacle course and then you have free time to play any sport of your choice or take a nap! I highly suggest the latter."
"You lazy bastard…"
"Well…night." Echo said as he was already in a sleeping position…and dozed off.
"…So do we do the obstacle course?" Joker asked.
"When has he really cared when he wants to sleep?" Izuku asked back
"…Good point…"
Meanwhile back in the main building of U.A, Midnight was sitting at her desk in the teacher's office.
She was subconsciously doing a 'sexy' leg over leg pose…despite being alone…
She looked over some of the pro heroes that were up for the Support Course Workplace Program.
It was then she stood as she held the files for her class and the heroes that chose the students to bring into their work experience.
It was time to discuss the program with the heroes…and then give the news to the class.
…She wondered…would the heroes be able to put up with her class?
Probably…probably not…who knows.
…At least she won't be the only person that would have to go through her students' antics when it came to her…a break from them was nice.
Echo is similar to Joker in this (not personality wise but based on an unnamed background character). Remember when the heroes arrived to save the students when the villains first invaded and there was one with the sleeping mask and the one that sat with All Might, 13 and other heroes watching the Sports Festival? Yeah, I'm using that guy.
But hey, Kohei could actually introduce him as a totally different character from the lazy hero that wants to sleep that I portray him as…eh.