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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter eighteen: Total War part one- The hordes of Hirajo

The morning started off well enough for the students of U.A. High School's class 1-A. The twenty students all sat at their desks or were milling about the classroom, as just two seconds after Aizawa started the first class of the day (literally just two seconds after), he was called out by an emergency call from Principal Nezu's office, with said call likewise going out to every other teacher at the school. This meant that the kids of 1-A had some free time.

"So I was thinking, girls," Mina began in a casual, conversational tone as she spoke to Tsuyu, Uraraka, Kyoka, Hagakure and Yaoyorozu, "After Aizawa-sensei gets the okay from Principal Nezu to hold that vote to let us determine whether or not to kick Mineta out of U.A., that the six of us ought to get together to celebrate not having that perverted bastard in class anymore." The pink-skinned girl clapped her hands together as she said, "I was thinking we can host a party in the common area of our dorm building and invite everyone to celebrate. We should also invite all of 1-B, the Big Three, and I was even thinking of getting both Hatsume and Shinso as well."

Nodding in agreement, Yaoyorozu said, "I'll be more than glad to pay for the catering for the celebratory party." Giving her fellow 1-A girls a thumbs up, the rich girl continued, "We'll all be eating like royalty, or my name isn't Momo Yaoyorozu."

"I, too, dream of a day where there is no Mineta do deal with at U.A.," Tsuyu remarked dryly, "But there's always a chance that Principal Nezu will not approve Mineta's expulsion kero."

Mineta, over where he sat, called over to the 1-A girls in a sad tone, "I can hear you girls."

"As you should, Grape Head!" Bakugo scolded, pointing an accusing finger at the infamous pervert, "Believe you me, if the principal does decide to bring Christmas to us early, we all will vote to yeet your sorry ass out of U.A! And we will be fucking laughing the whole damn time!"

"Bakugo," Tenya began in a scolding tone, even doing his noted hand-chopping gesture, "As much as such drastic actions against our fellow classmate may be warranted in this situation, given what all he did while we were all on our field trip over in the United States, it does not set a very good standard to rub it in the face of said classmate." Stopping it with the hand-chopping gesture, Tenya used the respective hand to push his glasses up the bridge of his nose a bit as he added, "And regardless of what decision the school staff ends up making in regards to Mineta's punishment, we have to accept it."

The explosive teen crossed his arms over his chest as he scoffed in an annoyed tone, turning his head to look away from the new Ingenium. "You just have to be a buzzkill, don't you four-eyes?" Bakugo asked, the annoyance in his tone shining through some more.

"Every party needs a pooper that's why we invited you," Kaminari said in a sort of sing-song tone as he gestured to Tenya, "Party pooper!" Kaminari's little bit there got some of the other boys in class, such as Bakugo, Sero and Kirishima, to laugh along with the electric quirk boy. Mina also laughed a bit, as did Hagakure and, surprisingly enough, Shoji; in fact, Dark Shadow came out from Tokoyami just to join in on laughing along with Kaminari, although Tokoyami himself did not laugh (not that he didn't find Kaminari's song unfunny, mind you).

Tenya growled a bit, more annoyed than embarrassed. As for Mineta, he went down in the dumps even more since it was clear that he was being taunted by his fellow classmates, not that he doesn't have said taunting coming for the stunt that he pulled while he and the rest of 1-A were over in the United States. After all, not only did the infamous pervert do what amounts to sexual harassment, but he also very nearly got seven of his classmates killed due to pissing off someone with a Sacred Heritage quirk.

How could Mineta do all of that and not be considered for expulsion from U.A.?

As the students of 1-A were talking and laughing amongst themselves, the door to their classroom was suddenly thrown open, drawing the attention of everyone. When they all turned to see what was going on, the students all saw Aizawa and Hizashi walk into the room together. The class would have settled down and all gotten to their desks when Aizawa walked in, but since he came in with Hizashi as well, the 1-A kids all knew that something had to be up. In fact, it was Izuku who first noticed the looks of resigned worry on the faces of the two U.A. teachers.

Aizawa and Hizashi both stood in front of the class over in front of where Aizawa's desk was located, with the underground hero gesturing for all of his homeroom brats to settle down so that he could begin. Aizawa let out a sigh before he said, "Alright, brats, listen up. Hizashi and I have a few announcements that we need to make concerning what all will be going on today." Once everyone in the classroom were quiet, Aizawa began, "First off, classes here at U.A. are going to be canceled for the day. Sec-"

The underground hero found himself cut off suddenly when most of his students all cheered at the top of their lungs; only Izuku and other intelligent members of the class, such as Yaoyorozu and Tenya, did not cheer as they noticed that the teachers were both not exactly thrilled about something. Either way, it took Hizashi shouting with the use of his quirk to get everyone in class to settle back down.

Giving a nod of thanks to his co-worker and fellow pro hero, Aizawa then turned back to face his students and explained, "As…I was trying to say, there's a reason why classes were canceled for today, so don't go thinking that you all can goof off as you'd like today. You're still going to be needed, and to do some rather serious work, no less."

It was Yaoyorozu who raised her hand first, and after Aizawa called on her she asked, "What exactly are we needed for, Aizawa-sensei?"

Aizawa let out a resigned sigh, a sign that he was not looking forward to what he had to tell his students. "…Here's the thing, Yaoyorozu," Aizawa began as he faced his students while gesturing to Hizashi and then himself, "The two of us here just got back from something of a staff meeting with the rest of U.A.'s staff, as well as some…special guest visitors…"

(FLASHBACK)

Aizawa and Hizashi, along with a lot of the U.A. staff, were all seated around a large round table in a private meeting room, with Nezu sitting at a sort of leading spot, if that made any sense. The quirked animal principal was accompanied by two men and a woman that seemly had mutation quirks that allowed them to assume some manner of humanoid animal forms, with the first man being a humanoid rat, the second being a humanoid weasel, and the woman being a humanoid boar; Nemuri was surprised that the humanoid boar woman was notably slim, as humans that had pig-like features tended to be rather on the plump side of things.

"Sorry that I had to call as many of you all in for this meeting on such short notice," Nezu apologized as he gently sat some forms he had out to the side; these forms varied ranging from one that would adjust the size of classes via increasing/decreasing student count, one that would fast track the creation of a department to help special needs students, and a few forms that were needed to enroll some students into the school. There was also a form for expelling a student, but nothing was written on that form as of yet.

Gesturing to his boss and good friend, Toshinori remarked, "Well from what I heard through hearsay on my way to the meeting, there's something of an emergency going on."

"Can I assume that the emergency has something to do with the trio of guests that you have here, Nezu?" Sekijiro asked as he gestured to the three people that were standing behind the quirked animal principal.

Nodding twice in the affirmative, Nezu proceeded to explain, "Yes, the emergency very much has to do with our guests here. You see, they are…how should I put this…" With a bit of thought, Nezu turned to face Snipe and said, "You have a handheld quirk detection scanner on hand with you, don't you? Please use it on our three guests."

Snipe, with an air of mild confusion as well as curiosity, took out a small device roughly the general size and shape of the average smartphone, aimed it at the three guests, and proceeded to activate the device. Snipe had the device pointed at the three guests for a good solid minute before he lowered the device as he gave off a genuinely confused air. "…All three of them are quirkless," the marksmen hero said, drawing looks of surprise out of everyone in the room aside from Nezu and the three guests.

"How can all three of them be quirkless?" Ectoplasm asked the rest of the staff in the meeting as he gestured to the three guests, "I mean, look at them! They all very obviously have mutation quirks that give them humanoid animal appearances! How can all three of them be quirkless?"

"Because quirks are not a monster thing," the humanoid weasel man said as he took a step forward. Gesturing to himself and his fellows, the humanoid weasel person continued, "And Hamato, Soma and I are all monsters, not humans." The humanoid weasel man's words only drew further confused looks out of the members of the U.A. staff.

Waving his right paw-hand in the air to get everyone's attention, Nezu said, "Chozei is right. He, as well as his companions here, are all monsters. You know, like the ghosts and goblins from the various fairy tales that parents read to their children."

Nodding in confirmation, the humanoid boar woman said, "You all know what a werewolf is, right? Well, Hamato, Chozei and I are all lycanthropic monsters, just like werewolves. Hamato is a wererat, Chozei is a wereweasel, and I am a wearboar."

"And lycan-type monster are far from the only ones out there," Hamato the wererat remarked, "There are demon-types such as Yasha and Succubi, undead-type such as Vampires, Zombies and Jiang-Shi, Sacred Animal-types such as Crow Tengu, and so-forth." Letting out a troubled sigh, the wererat added, "There are also warmonger-types, such as Trolls, Ogres and Orcs."

"Those warmonger-types are the reason why our monstrous guests are here, everybody," Nezu explained to his staff, "You see, Hamato, Chozei and Soma are all leading members of the monster world government, and as such it is their duty to run things to ensure the safety of the monster populace. Sadly, something has popped up on their radar that required them to seek out the help of others that are outside of the monster world."

The other U.A. staff members, despite being confused, still decided to roll with things. "And I can only assume that these…warmonger-type monsters…are the reason why these monster government people here came to seek out our aid?" Higari asked.

Chozei nodded once in the affirmative before he proceeded to explain things. "You see, humans," the wereweasel began, "There is this one fellow called Hirajo. He is a member of one of the warmonger-type races, and he's managed to gather a large army of other warmonger monsters. We received word that Hirajo plans to lead his massive warband in attacking one of the areas in town later today." Upon hearing that there was going to be a large attack of monsters in town sometime today, the U.A. teachers all became alarmed.

"We have reason to believe that a business office building called Shirayuki Offices, which is located in the business district, is the primary target," Soma the wereboar said, "As Hirajo and his warband seek the head of Hatsuharu Shirayuki, as well as the heads of his wife Tsurara and daughter Mizore. The warmongers claim that the ancestors of Hatsuharu drove the warmongers of the past off of land that was original belonging to the warmongers themselves."

"As such, they aim to not only kill the Shirayuki family, but also the whole of the Snow Fairy race, as well as any of their Mage allies that get in the way," Hamato remarked. With a gentle shake of his head, the wererat continued, "We also have reason to believe that any and all civilians that are caught up in the crossfire will get killed by the warmongers as well. It's part of why monster world government decided that the best thing that we can do is seek out the help of notable humans, such as you heroes."

"Huh, interesting," Aizawa remarked, "I never would have guessed that monster world history was so complicated of an affair." Gesturing to the trio of lycan-type monsters, the underground hero continued, "And the talk of civilians getting killed if caught up in the crossfire is something that heroes such as the lot of us here at the meeting can't stand for." Crossing his arms over his chest, Aizawa added, "I take it that part of the reason you sought out our help is because you all lack sufficient power to counter the oncoming threat?"

"Monster world government has virtually zero military presence in the area that Hirajo and his warband will be attacking," Chozei explained, "The most that the monster world can claim to have in that area are the students from Yokai Academy that all had to transfer over to Azu-Daioh High since the academy had to be evacuated. And those are just high school students."

Shrugging, Soma said, "Sure, all of the Yokai Academy students are monsters, but they are all still civilian students." Gently shaking her head, Soma said, "We monster world government folks would rather not put civilians on the front lines of what is practically a straight-up war against the hordes of the warmonger Hirajo."

Nodding once in understanding, Hound Dog, as he sat in his chair with his arms crossed over his chest, remarked, "That's fair. Although I'm not quite sure why you all would come here to U.A. instead of seeking out the help of the Hero Public Safety Commission." Giving a shrug, Hound Dog continued, "I mean, they're the ones who are the true managers of all of the pro heroes, so if it was an army of heroes you wanted to help combat the warmonger monsters, then the good folks at the commission are who you should have-"

"About that, Hound Dog," Nezu said with a troubled sigh, cutting off the guidance counselor of U.A. As he gently shook his head, the quirked animal principal explained, "The president of the commission already spoke with the monster world government and had declined their request for aid, as the problem does not involve criminals or quirked villains." Turning to regard Aizawa and Sekijiro, Nezu said, "I believe you two know some of this from discussions that you both had with Loukar Raioh, the chief of the commission's president's advisory panel."

Aizawa nodded once in confirmation. "Yes," the underground hero began, "Loukar mentioned something along those lines when Sekijiro and I last spoke with him. He didn't sound all that fond of the commission's president turning down said request since it lacked any concerns of criminals or quirked villains." With a mildly growling expression of annoyance, Aizawa added, "But I think that this 'Hirajo' fellow may qualify as a criminal, as it sounds to me like he's about to commit a major war crime by waging war in an area populated by innocent civilians." Leaning back in his seat, Aizawa continued, "But that still doesn't explain why folks from the monster world government would come here to U.A. and tell us all about-"

"Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me!" Ken Ishiyama practically exclaimed, slamming his large, gray hands on the surface of the meeting table where he sat, a look of alarmed realization on his square face, "There is NO WAY that we can agree to-"

"Cementoss, calm down," Nezu said, cutting the modern lit teacher off. With a troubled sigh, Nezu said, "I have already met with the officials from the monster world government, and have already agreed to have U.A. led them what aid that we can provide."

Hound Dog, with a confused look on his face, asked in a likewise tone, "We're…going to have the whole staff of U.A. help the monsters fight back the hordes of that Hirajo fellow?"

"Not just the staff," Nezu said with a gentle shake of his head. Sighing in a resigned manner, the quirked animal principal explained, "Due to the severe lack of available heroes, as well as what manner of dire consequences will occur if Hirajo and his hordes are not stopped, I failed to find any other choice than to pledge not just the support of the U.A. staff, but that of all of the U.A. hero course students as well."

This time, it was Toshinori who exclaimed in objection, even shooting up into his hero form temporarily. "Are you serious, Nezu?!" the former symbol of peace exclaimed, "We have to send our students out to fight a horde of warmongering monsters?!"

"The stubbornness of the commission to lend aid in any matters that don't involve stopping criminals or quirked villains left us with no other choice," Nezu explained, "And U.A. isn't the only hero high school that's sending students to fight." Toshinori deflated back down into his true form as he flumped back down into his chair, letting out a troubled, annoyed and notably worried sigh.

Gesturing to the U.A. staff, Chozei said, "It's not just you heroes that we from the monster world government sought aid from. We also sent word to that mages' guild over in Magnolia Town, and we petitioned the government of Konohagakure for aid as well. We have yet to receive word from either of them, and if our intelligence is correct than the attack of Hirajo's horde is going to be commencing in less than one hour."

"It's bad enough that we're going to have to lead the hero course students of U.A. into war against hordes of monsters," Nemuri exclaimed, wide-eyed with shocked-surprise as she stood up while slamming the surface of the table she sat at with her hands, "But we were given less than an hour's notice before we had to do so?! Are you fucking kidding me?!"

Both Aizawa and Sekijiro, whose sentiments were shared by Hound Dog, scoffed in bitter tones. "It's just like what Aizawa's friend Raioh said," the pro hero Vlad King remarked, "This is all because the commission president doesn't view problems not involving criminals or quirked villains as issues that pro heroes should be called up to help resolve." Aizawa and Hound Dog both nodded in agreement with the homeroom teacher of class 1-B.

Looking over to Nezu, Toshinori asked, "How many of U.A.'s hero course students are going to be needed for this, Nezu? If we absolutely have to send some of them, at least send as many of the oldest ones from the third year classes as can be spared." Gently shaking his head, the former number one pro hero said, "The younger ones from the first year classes should be spared from having to take part, if at all possible.'

"Sadly, it is very much impossible," the quirked animal principal of U.A. explained in a mildly resigned tone, "We have to lead pretty much every hero course student, regardless of year, in the efforts to help the monster world government." Looking through a vanilla folder that had some files, Nezu continued, "It would also help if notable students here at U.A. that aren't in the hero course, such as Hatsumi and Shinso, were also sent out."

"I was afraid that would be the case," Higari said, crossing his arms over his chest. Letting out a resigned sigh, the pro hero Power Loader continued, "Well, at least Mei has built a lot of support gear that should be sufficient to help fight the warmongers."

Gently shaking his head, Aizawa said, "Yeah, I'm just going to have Shinso focus exclusively on getting civilians out of harm's way while others focus on the fighting, because there is no way in hell that am I going to have him fight a bunch of monsters in a practical war." The underground hero's statement, which sounded more like a demand than anything else, was met with a nod of agreement from Nezu.

"Yes, it's best if those who aren't actually heroes or heroes-in-training focus more on auxiliary roles such as leading civilians out of harm's way and avoid the actual fighting," Nezu said, "I wouldn't even have students like Hatsumi or Shinso take part at all if it wasn't for the fact that there is that much of a need for as many people as possible." Looking around at all of the U.A. staff members at the meeting, Nezu said, "Well, it's best that you explain the situation to as many of the hero course students as possible."

The rest of the staff all agreed, albeit reluctantly, with their boss as they all stood up from the meeting table, knowing full well that they were about to lead the hero course students on what is by far the most dangerous thing that any of them has had to deal with to date. Before they all left, the teachers were all provided with flash drives containing info that they had to share with the students before they led them off to war.

"There's…one more thing to consider," Chozei said, a look of mild concern on his face, "The warmongers in Hirajo's horde will not hesitate to kill. After all, as warmongers it is in their very blood." With a single nod, the wereweasel said, "That being said, if you or any of the other heroes that you manage to round up to help out find it necessary to do so, don't hesitate to kill any and all warmongers that you all come across."

The staff members of U.A. all went wide-eyed with surprise, given that they were more or less being given orders to kill. Even so, they were orders that they could understand, even though all of them wished that their students weren't among those receiving said orders. Regardless, the teachers and pro heroes of U.A. knew that there really wasn't much of a choice in the matter, as this was war that they were talking about.

A war that was about to see U.A. students as soldiers.

(FLASHBACK OVER)

"…And that pretty much sums everything up," Aizawa said as he finished showing the students in his homeroom class the info on the flash drive he was provided with, which had info on the various warmonger monsters that they had to keep their eyes out for. Throughout all of what the underground hero said, all of what he was showing them from the flash drive, not one student in class 1-A said even a single word.

There were worried looks all around the class, worried because they not only found out that monsters from fairy tales were actually real, but that they were about to go out and fight a bunch of said monsters. Even the 1-A students that craved combat were caught off guard and were worried about what was to occur. The first student that dared to break the cloak of silence that had fallen over all of 1-A was Tokoyami.

When Aizawa called on him, Tokoyami crossed his arms over his chest before he asked, "So we're about to go fight as many of these 'warmonger-type monsters' as they are called as we can all manage, otherwise said monsters will destroy everything and kill as many innocent civilians as they can get their hands on?" His gaze narrowing a bit, the bird-headed shadow wielder added, "And we've also been given permission to kill if necessary?"

"Are heroes even allowed to kill kero?" Tsuyu asked as she raised a hand, the barest hint of concern seeping through her otherwise unreadable tone.

Pointing over all of the 1-A students, Hizashi said, "Aizawa and I would rather that none of you were to actually kill anyone, and if you can avoid doing so then do so." Sighing once, the pro hero Present Mic continued, "But yes. If any of you are in a situation during the upcoming conflict were you're dealing with some warmonger monsters, don't see any other choice when dealing with said monsters, then you are allowed to kill them."

Suddenly, most of the 1-A students in the class all turned to look at Bakugo. Seeing that all of the eyes were on him, the explosive teen said, "What the fuck is your guys' problem?"

Aizawa clapped his hands together a few times to get all of his homeroom brats to turn to face him and Hizashi. "Everyone, go get changed into your hero costumes now and as quickly as possible, we're shipping out in t-minus fifteen minutes," the underground hero commanded. A single resigned sigh escaped from Aizawa before he said, "As much as I would never wish this upon any of you, you brats are about to get your first taste of war."

To the surprise of the hero course students, they were all loaded into planes that flew over the city, with the intent to deploy them from the air and into the fighting zones straight away. Some of the students in 1-A were in one of the planes that was flying over the city; specifically, that plane was carrying Bakugo, Izuku, Todoroki, Kirishima, Yaoyorozu, Sero, Mina, Kaminari, Tsuyu and Uraraka. Looking out the windows, the 1-A students could see that there was already some fighting going on, and some of them were a bit rattled to see the warmonger-type monsters that they had to keep an eye out for in real life.

"Okay, Aizawa's kids," Higari said, getting the 1-A students in the plane to turn to see the pro hero Power Loader, already in his hero outfit. "We're currently flying over the area where one of the local non-hero high schools, a place called Azu-Daioh High, is located," Power Loader told the 1-A students, "A lot of warmonger-type monsters were spotted making their way in the direction of that school, so you all will be air-dropped over Azu-Daioh High to fight the warmongers."

"I take it that planes carrying the rest of our class," Yaoyorozu began as she raised a hand, "As well as planes carrying students from other hero course classes, are flying over various other areas in the city, and everyone will be air-dropped over there?"

Power Loader nodded in the affirmative to the rich girl's question. Gesturing to the students, the tech-based hero continued, "The ultimate goal is to find that Hirajo fellow, as he the ringleader here, also the monster world government put a bounty on his sorry ass. The teachers and any other pro heroes that get in on this will be focusing on trying to track down Hirajo, so you kids just focus on fighting off the warmongers that will be trying to attack Azu-Daioh High. Do I make myself clear?"

The 1-A students all nodded in the affirmative before Power Loader said, "Good." With a smirk, Power Loader slammed a big red button on the wall inside of that room on the plane that he and everyone else was in. When that happened, the floor under the students gave way, air-drooping all of them over Azu-Daioh High below them. "Try not to die, kids," Power Loader said right as the students of 1-A began to fall out of the plane.

TO BE CONTINUED…

END, CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Author's notes;

Just so we are clear, I am endeavoring to make a point on how the heroes would rather avoid killing, if at all possible; they are heroes, after all, and they have to set an example. However, there are some times where things pop up for them that throw things so far out of left field that there's not much of a choice in the matter. One of the purposes of this mini-arc is to show what exactly the heroes are capable of when they aren't being given the choice that they prefer to make. Things are going be getting a bit…ugly…over the next few chapters, but it's to help me make my point on why I agree with the heroes' idea of refraining from killing if it can be helped.

(As a side note, I know that in the most recent chapters (this chapter went up 1-27-2020), there's a really big battle between the heroes and the villains about to go down; I wrote this chapter sometime ago, back around the point where Shigaraki was given a four-month period of needing to train or whatever before he was ready to do his dank shenanigans. That 'four month' period will be coming up later on down the line in some form; think of the first bulk of this story as a sort of filler that goes on since the time Shiggy got that four month wait time and the time where he finishes the four months. I also have a plan for a lot of guys later on down the line as well; this story may, in fact, end up going down the path of becoming an AU all of its own in that case.)

…Anyway, if you're interested in seeing some of the 1-A kids in action, then stick around to see them fight alongside/in defense of characters from other manga and anime. The real fighting is going to be kicking off, and some of it can be seen from other angles in some of my other works, if any of you all are interested in checking things out. But if it's just the BNHA angle that you want to look at things at, then I won't hold it against you.

In fact, you all will be in for a treat next time, as I can guarantee you that the very first scene of the next chapter will see Izuku, Bakugo, Todoroki and Kirishima jumping down in front of some monsters that are charging at Azu-Daioh High to intercept and fight them. I will also show a few scenes that take place in other parts of the city, where a few pro heroes that aren't part of the initial defense force deployed to fight the warmonger monsters end up getting dragged in to help fight off the warmongers anyway.

In fact, one of said pro heroes that I will be featuring in the next chapter is actually a personal favorite of mine. I won't say straight up who she is, but I will hint at her; one, it's a female pro hero (obviously since I'm using female pronouns), and two, she appeared in this story already. Good luck trying to guess; the first person to correctly guess (assuming they make only ONE guess) who the hero in question is will get a shout out in the next chapter.