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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter twenty: Total War part three- The dawn of victory

Over at Azu-Daioh High, while Izuku, Bakugo, Todoroki and Kirishima were all fighting warmongers in front of the main school building, a few of their classmates, those being Tsuyu, Uraraka and Kaminari, were fighting warmongers in the back area of the school, where the track field and other places for Physical Education were located. Kaminari fired a beam of electricity at a warmonger that hit him with such force, that the warmonger's chest ended up being pierced by the beam.

"Hot damn!" Kaminari exclaimed in surprised amusement as he brushed the side of his nose with his right thumb, "Did anyone else see what I just did right now?!" Pumping a fist into the air, the electric teen cheered, "Come on, people! You have to admit that was awesome!"

"What was with the name you gave that attack, Kaminari?" Tsuyu asked as she sat crouched in a frog-like position on the body of an unconscious warmonger that she had defeated.

Pointing to Tsuyu, Kaminari explained, "I was just trying out the 'Kaminari Beam', Tsuyu. It's kind of like the Kamehameha, except I replace the syllables of 'ka-me-ha-me-ha' with those in 'Ka-mi-na-ri-beam', and I use electricity instead of chi." Giving the frog-like girl a self-amused look, Kaminari asked, "What do you think?"

Holding a finger in front of her mouth in the physical tic like manner that she is known for, Tsuyu replied, "There are worse names that you could have come up with kero."

As Kaminari merely chuckled a bit at Tsuyu's dry response, the two of them heard one of the warmongers that was attacking Azu-Daioh High cry out in a freaked out tone. Looking over, both Kaminari and Tsuyu saw one such warmonger floating straight up into the air. Following the reverse path the floating troll must have taken, the two U.A. students saw that Uraraka was looking right up at the warmonger as he floated up into the air. It was clear to Kaminari and Tsuyu that the gravity girl had used her quirk on the monster that was floating in the air.

Bringing the fingerprints of her fingers together, Uraraka said, "Release." Suddenly, the floating warmonger shot straight down to the ground, landing in such a way that made his neck jerk and snap, resulting in his death.

"Damn, Uraraka!" Kaminari exclaimed, laughing a little bit in amusement, "That was one hell of a move you just pulled!"

Uraraka looked a bit exhausted, as well as guilty. To her fellow classmates, Uraraka said, "But it still doesn't change the fact that I just took a life."

"Kaminari here pierced the chest cavity of one of these evil monsters just now with a high-powered blast of lightning," Tsuyu pointed out to the gravity girl.

"And Aizawa-sensei told us that those monster government people that are worried about the attack on this city said that they have no problem with us using fatal force on these large hulking monster dudes," Kaminari added.

Gently shaking her head, Uraraka said, "But I still took a life." With a guilty expression, Uraraka said, "I just…I just can't help but wonder what…what he would think about it…"

…

"DETROIT SMASH!" Izuku exclaimed as he punched a warmonger monster square in the jaw with an uppercut so fierce that it actually smashed his (the warmonger's) face in, knocking him over onto the ground where he laid very still. The fighting at Azu-Daioh High's front gate was still going on, and Izuku, along with Bakugo, Todoroki and Kirishima, were fighting all of the warmongers as the spilled in.

Looking over at where Izuku was standing over the orc he had just taken down, Bakugo let out a bark of very amused laughter. "Well fucking A, Deku! It looks like you just killed that one!" the explosive teen exclaimed, clearly amused.

"I…I still don't quite feel at ease with the idea of killing all of these guys," Izuku remarked in a concerned tone, "Even though they are monsters."

"They're a paramilitary group bent on wiping out the rest of their world, then going on to do the same to humans," Todoroki pointed out in casual calmness as he froze another warmonger in a large solid hunk of ice, "Their world's government is short-handed in dealing with them, so that's why said government's leaders came to request aid from us humans." Straightening himself out a bit, Todoroki continued, "Although I still have no way of knowing why, when the monster world's government came to U.A., all of the school's staff agreed to send as many of us as possible to help quell the paramilitary monster group."

"I think that Higari-sensei said something about the monster world's government putting a bounty on some guy named Hirajo?" Kirishima said, sounding like he was trying to remember details that were somewhat fuzzy to him. Kirishima said that as a warmonger was punching him in the back, quickly and repeatedly, but making no progress. In fact, Kirishima looked like he wasn't even aware that he was being punched in the back by that warmonger. But then again, he had his quirk active, so that probably helped.

Izuku, with a mildly curious look on his face, pointed to the warmonger standing behind Kirishima while saying to his fellow classmate, "Umm, Kirishima…"

Curious, the red-haired boy turned around and saw the warmonger trying to punch him, but doing so to no avail. "Oh, that," Kirishima remarked in an almost bored tone as he pulled his right fist back and threw it right at the warmonger's face, striking him with a devastating punch that sent him flying back. After the warmonger crashed into the wall surrounding the front area of Azu-Daioh High, it was clear that he had been knocked out cold. Turning back around to face his fellow classmates, Kirishima asked as he jerked a thumb over his shoulder to the knocked-out monster, "What do you guys think of that move just now, huh?"

Smirking a bit, Bakugo said, "I think that I am really going to enjoy today."

Minoru Mineta knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was going to be expelled from U.A.; his fellow classmates in class 1-A, as they were going to be given a very strong say in the matter, have all already made their intentions clear that all of them would vote to kick him out, with all of the girls (who Mineta still had the lewdest of thoughts towards) being particularly vindictive towards the infamous pervert, even thought Mineta had no idea why the girls all hated him as much as they did.

He had no clue about that at all.

Figuring that this monster attack on the city would be his last chance to have his last hurrah as any sort of hero, Mineta decided that he would go all out in being heroic. Using his sticky balls, Mineta was able to stick multiple warmongers in place to allow civilians to flee, or in the one case where he happened upon Fourth Kind and Edgeshot fighting a few warmongers, pin the monsters in place to give the pro heroes an edge in the fight.

At one point in his random running around, Mineta saw a few of the warmongers charge into what looked to the infamous pervert to be a large and fancy office building of some sort. Mineta figured that important people were in there thus would be targets for the attacking monsters, so the short-statured teen boy, despite how the coward part of his personality has been screaming at him nonstop ever since he was air-dropped into the city to run and hide until everything was over, ran right into the building, aiming to save those that he could.

…

The president of the Public Hero Safety Commission was attending a meeting with a few other notable persons of the Japanese populace, including the Prime Minister of Japan himself, when the monster attack happened. It was right when the President was reconsidering her decision in having turned down what all of the members of her advisory panel were telling her about having heroes look into investigating non-criminal and non-villain cases when a large group of nine warmonger monsters all stormed into the meeting room.

"Well, well, well!" the first warmonger said in clear amusement, "What do we have here? It looks like a get-together of all of the biggest human names in Japan!" Turning to face his fellow warmongers, the first monster said, "What do you say, boys? Should we hold them hostage for ransom, use them as bargaining chips in getting our hands on that bastard Hatsuharu and his family, or just straight up kill the humans?"

"I say we just kill them," the second warmonger to speak up said, "After all, I'm-GAHHH!"

The second warmonger was cut off when he felt something smack into his right foot. Looking down, he saw a bunch of purple sticky balls. Looking over, the warmongers saw Mineta come running into the room. "Stand down, foul monsters!" the infamous pervert declared as he pointed at the monsters with his right index finger while holding a sticky ball in his right hand "I, The Fresh-Picked Hero Grape Juice, am here to stop you!"

Mineta, to the bewildered surprise of the other humans, rushed in to confront all of the warmonger monsters. Mineta threw a lot of his sticky balls all over the place, striking a few of the monsters in the chest or on the sides of their arms. Sure, it did no real damage, but the sticky balls were something of a nuisance. Mineta was actually on something of a role, up until he was kicked in his hidden treasure by the first warmonger.

The kick actually sent Mineta flying, and as he flew the second warmonger threw a kick himself, which also struck the infamous pervert in his little Mineta. Mineta turned around as he flew through the air, and the third warmonger, with an amused smirk on his face, swung his right foot up, striking Mineta's manly assets with a third kick in about roughly as many seconds. Mineta ended up being kicked by each of the warmongers, who were using him as something of a Hacky Sack, as he flew around from monster to monster.

…Also, each kick from the warmongers just so happened to end up striking Mineta in his coin purse. There was the first kick, then the second, then the third. The fourth kick, the fifth, the sixth…each of the human men in the room winced in sympathy as they heard each thwacking kick from the warmongers to Mineta, each pained squeal from the infamous pervert. It wasn't until Mineta had been kicked in his manly assets nine separate times, and in roughly as many seconds, that he had flown at the Prime Minister himself, being caught by him.

"Young man!" the Prime Minister exclaimed out of concerned worry for Mineta, "Are you going to be okay?" The only response Mineta would give was a squeaky, pained squeal.

"Feh, stupid humans," the first warmonger said as he tried to move forward, "You all will-" The first warmonger, as well as his fellows, all stopped when they tried to move but were held back by some manner of force. Looking down, the warmongers all saw that their feet were all covered in piles of purple sticky balls, which kept them all pinned and unable to escape, or in their case, move to go after and kill the big wig humans.

Seeing that the monsters were unable to go after them, the big wig humans all proceeded to run out of the meeting room, with Prime Minister personally carrying Mineta, as the short statured hero-in-training had made the ultimate sacrifice in order to incapacitate the monsters and allow him and the others in the meeting room to get away. The group of big wigs, about six in total, all entered a private elevator, quickly closing the door behind them.

The elevator took them to a private garage that the monsters failed to find. They all got into some cars that were tended to by valet drivers. The Prime Minister, who was accompanied by the President of the commission, got into his limo, and together the leader of Japan's government, the head of the Hero Public Safety Commission, the limo driver and the wounded Mineta all took off from the government meeting building.

In the back of the limo, the Prime Minister laid Mineta down next to him, allowing the brave hero-in-training to rest his (Mineta's) head on his (the Prime Minister's) lap. The infamous pervert had long since passed out from the pain of the punishment his scrotum had taken in his efforts to carry out his last hurrah as a hero. As Mineta laid there in the limo unconscious, the Prime Minister, with the look on his face showing his immense gratefulness to Mineta as well as concern for the damage the short-statured boy had suffered, gently stroked Mineta's forehead.

"This boy…" the Prime Minister said, his solemn tone showing how serious he was, "…He truly is one of the greatest heroes of this day."

"I'm curious," the President of the commission said as she leaned forward, reached into one of the back pockets on Mineta's pants, and pulled out his wallet. The President checked the wallet, and found Mineta's Provisional Hero License. She also found his U.A. High School student ID card. "…So he's a U.A. student," the President said as she put the cards back into Mineta's wallet. Placing the wallet back into Mineta's rear pocket she got it from, the President said to the Prime Minister, "I know Principal Nezu of U.A. I will surely bring to his attention what his student here did to save the two of us, as well as those were in the meeting with."

The Prime Minister nodded in agreement with the President as the limo sped off to take the two biggest names in Japan to safety. For his part, all Mineta did was moan in pain every so often as he was unconscious.

Enji Todoroki, also known at the current number one pro hero Endeavor, was surprised when a bunch of large, hulking muscular brutes were attacking the city, but his surprise stemmed solely from the fact that said hulking brutes were not nomu, and in fact were never human at any point at all. Keigo Takami, also known as the current number two pro hero Hawks, flew overhead, firing a few feathers from his wings at some of the warmonger monsters, laying down support fire to back Endeavor up in the heroes' struggle against the monsters.

"This is totally unreal!" Hawks exclaimed, sounding more than a little surprised, as he and Endeavor fought the warmongers, with help from a few other heroes such as Kamui Woods and Gang Orca.

Striking a warmonger in the face with a Prominence Burn, Endeavor yelled back, "Tell me something I don't know!" Endeavor turned his attention back to look at the oncoming horde of warmonger monsters; the current number one pro hero was the only hero present actively trying to kill the warmongers, even though all of the present heroes are aware that monster world government is okay with the warmongers being killed by any heroes helping out with driving back the hordes.

Due to the reluctance of the other pro heroes to take lives, even the lives of literal monsters that are aiming to kill, Endeavor saw that he and the other heroes that were on the scene were getting a fair bit close to being overrun. The current number one hero blasted out a large volume of his fire, striking multiple warmongers and sending them reeling back. The group of five monsters ended up laying about a dozen feet away, all of them on fire.

"Grr…" Endeavor growled in annoyance. Turning to look at the other pro heroes that were on scene, the current number one shouted, "Come on, everyone! We have the go ahead to use lethal force on these monsters! So quit holding back and cut loose already!"

"Any killing, even if its of a dangerous monster, is something that I cannot bring myself to do!" Kamui Woods shot back, "It is not something that can be described as heroic!"

Endeavor could only growl once more, annoyed that this fighting was going to take forever since his fellow pro heroes that were with him were trying to be by-the-book types, especially in a situation where such examples aren't exactly needed. "I just HAD to get stuck with goody-two shoes types, didn't I?" Endeavor thought in annoyance.

Back over at Azu-Daioh High, the fighting in the front of the school was still ongoing. "Damn it, these fuckers just won't stop coming, will they?!" Bakugo yelled as he killed his nineteenth warmonger (yes, he's keeping count, and he's slightly annoyed that Izuku has twenty-one kills).

"Well we can't stop, Baku-bro!" Kirishima yelled, "We can't let these monsters overrun the place and get to innocent civil-" The red-haired hardening quirk boy was cut off when one of the warmongers came up and grabbed him around his body, pinning his arms to his sides.

"Ha!" the warmonger who had Kirishima laughed, "About damn time that one of us managed to get the drop on-GACK!" Suddenly, the warmonger that was grabbing Kirishima let go of him in order to grasp as his throat, finding trouble in drawing breath. He felt as if something solid was suddenly filling of his throat, filling up his lungs. He was choking, gasping for whatever breath he could get, but none would come.

The four class 1-A boys watched with some degree of horror as the suffocating warmonger fell to its knees before falling over onto its side. Curiously enough, mushrooms began falling out of the dead warmonger's mouth, as well as sprout out of his nostrils. The other warmongers, which were still alive, were both horrified and confused by this, but one was impaled in the temples of his head by flying, lyre-shaped horns as another was slammed with a barrage of telekinetically controlled objects, some of which were sharp and hit in the right places to be fatal.

The boys of class 1-A got their answer as to what was killing the warmongers when Itsuka Kendo of class 1-B came running up to them, followed by the rest of the girls of 1-B as well. There were also three 1-B boys, those being Juzo, Hiryu and Togaru. It was Itsuka, with a hint of amusement on her face showing some degree of smugness, who walked up to the 1-A boys and asked, "You boys need some assistance?"

"Any and all help that we can get would be really appreciated, yes," Izuku replied as he nodded twice in thanks, with the other boys likewise nodding.

"Heh, hey Explosion Boy," Togaru smirked, "How many did you take out?"

Bakugo, with a mildly annoyed scowl, said, "I just killed my nineteenth before you showed up."

"Ha! I got twenty!" the mantis boy of 1-B laughed, eager to finally have the chance to show up the explosive teen, even if it was only having one more kill than him.

Pony gently shook her head and said, "No, Togaru only got two so far. He's lying." Togaru, with a mildly stunned and embarrassed look on his face, cast a glance at Bakugo, who only smirked in self-amusement as he flipped the mantis boy the middle finger.

Sighing in a resigned tone, Togaru said, "I wish you would have let me had that, Pony…"

"Come on, everyone!" Itsuka said as she clapped her hands together, "We've got to put all that sort of stuff to the side and focus on dealing with the attacking monsters!"

Gesturing to the 1-B students that showed up, Izuku asked, "Hey, is anyone else from your class here at Azu-Daioh High to help fight the warmongers?"

"Yeah, all of 1-B is here," Juzo explained, "Sekijiro-sensei and your homeroom teacher heard that there was a particularly high number of the monsters heading in the direction, with Sekijiro-sensei having gotten word that the monsters believe they can find some girl by the name of Mizore Shirayuki here. As such, he ordered all twenty of us to come here to help with fighting off the hordes of monsters."

Izuku let out a sigh of relief before remarking, "Oh, thank goodness we got some serious backup here! I was afraid that we might have gotten overrun at some point." The U.A. students all got into various smaller groups and proceeded to go about taking out the warmongers that were all flooding into Azu-Daioh High grounds. Izuku figured that he and his fellows in class 1-A were all getting worn out, but the timely arrival of backup from class 1-B breathed new life into their efforts to protect the civilians from the hordes of Hirajo.

Either way, Izuku figured that he had some stories to tell his mom Inko, as well as his girlfriend Mitsuki, when the fighting was over.

"I was not expecting that the heroes would receive help from Special Forces," U.A. teacher and pro hero Snipe said as he and two fellow marksmen, a black-haired man wearing a southern-style cloth poncho and a woman with long bright green hair, repeatedly fired their guns at the hordes of warmonger monsters on the ground below where they stood on the roof of a corner pharmacy store somewhere in the city where all of the fighting was taking place. As the woman with long green hair scored a fatal headshot on a warmonger that yanked a mailbox out of its fastenings in the sidewalk, Snipe continued, "Especially from all the way from Magnolia Town!"

"Well when Bisca, the rest of Fairy Tail and I all saw all of the quest requests for people to come here to fight a bunch of monsters on the quest board in the guild hall, as well as how much each quest posting was offering, there wasn't much giving the guild a reason to say no!" the man with black hair replied as he fired shots from the dual pistols he was wielding, striking multiple hits on the monsters below.

With an amused chuckle, the woman with long green hair, apparently named Bisca, replied, "Alzack here is right. Besides, those quest requests all involved fighting a bunch of monsters. A lot of us in Fairy Tail can't turn down the chance to fight a bunch of enemies."

Over in that same area of the fighting in the city, a woman from Fairy Tail, with this woman wearing metal plate armor, was controlling a great number of swords that flew around her. This woman, with her long crimson hair flowing, thrusted her right hand forward, making the swords she was controlling fly right at the warmongers, impaling all of them; a particularly unlucky warmonger was impaled by three swords, with one in his gut, one in his chest and one through his skull.

Three other Fairy Tail members were fighting in the same area. One had salmon pink hair and wore a white scarf, one had shoulder length dark hair and wore no shirt, and the third had long, jet black hair and he was covered with small metal studs. These three mages threw fire, ice and iron magic at all of the warmongers that they attacked, taking out scores of enemies as the three of them fought side by side against the hordes.

At one point, Snipe saw the mage with long black hair turn his right arm into a giant iron beam, raise it up into the air, then bring it swinging down on some of the warmongers, busting two shoulders and crushing at least three heads. "…Wow, and here I thought that some of what pro heroes such as myself can do is crazy," the marksmen pro hero remarked, "I think you mages have us heroes beat in the crazy department."

"Oh, this is just related to how we're specifically Fairy Tail mages," the black haired gunman, apparently named Alzack, remarked to Snipe, "A lot of the other mage guilds in Fiore are a lot calmer than us." With an amused smirk, Alzack continued, "But if you want crazy, you should see some of the other Special Forces that responded to the request for aid from the government of the monster world."

Snipe turned to face Alzack, a curious look on the pro hero's face, even though you couldn't actually see said look due to Snipe's mask. "…You mean to say that there are other forces here helping the pro heroes quell the monster attack?" Snipe asked, "Who else came?"

Back at Azu-Daioh High, in the back area of the school grounds, Uraraka, Kaminari and Tsuyu were surprised to see a lot of 1-B students flood in and join in on attacking the warmongers. "Thank you," Monoma said as he passed by Uraraka while patting the side of her face, copying her quirk before he used it on a warmonger to make him float high into the air before making him crash back down to the ground, landing in a manner that resulted in his neck snapping.

"I hope you 1-A guys weren't given too much trouble!" Shihai said to the 1-A students as he used his quirk to merge into the black-colored pants of a warmonger, popping out every so often to jab the monster with a pocket knife (black blade plus black handle) before merging back into his pants, essentially playing some morbid version of whack-a-mole that the monster was clearly on the losing end of.

Looking around, Uraraka said, "Hey, I don't see all of you guys from 1-B here."

"The girls, Juzo, Hiryu and Togaru are assisting your classmates Midoriya, Bakugo, Todoroki and Kirishima in the front area of the school," Nirengeki Shoda explained after striking a warmonger and blasting him away, "And Kosei, Yosetsu and Tetsutetsu all ran into the school after they learned that your classmates Yaoyorozu, Sero and Ashido are currently inside." The gravity girl looked around at the members of 1-B that were present; Shoda and all the boys aside from those he mentioned were somewhere else where here backing her, Kaminari and Tsuyu up, so all of 1-B was on Azu-Daioh grounds and accounted for.

Using her quirk to make another warmonger float up into the air, Uraraka remarked as she released the anti-gravity power, "I hope that the girls and Sero inside the school are okay." Right when Uraraka said the last word in the sentence she just finished, the warmonger that she was floating came crashing down, landing in a manner that resulted in his death. Uraraka was rather worried about when all of this fighting was going to end, even though the hordes of monsters seemed to be endless by this point.

After they had given the fleeing Azu-Daioh High students time to flee, Mina, Sero and Yaoyorozu were trying to find a place to either hide or wait out the rest of the fighting, mostly due to Yaoyorozu having used her quirk more than she should have by this point; her face had a slight hint of being shallow, and assets seemed to be somewhat smaller. She was also panting in exhaustion, and the way that her eyes were fluttering somewhat made it clear she was having trouble staying awake.

"Damn, Yaoyorozu's in terrible shape," Sero remarked in a mildly worried tone as he passed a glance at his and Mina's wealthy classmate.

"I'm…*huff* *huff*…fine," Yaoyorozu insisted as she tried to stand on her own. Barely able to get to her feet, Yaoyorozu continued with a hint of determination in her tone, "I can still help with fighting all of the-"

Yaoyorozu was cut off when she, as well as Mina and Sero, both cried out in surprise when the door to the classroom they were hiding in burst open, flying off its hinges as a warmonger came stalking into the classroom. Looking at the three U.A. students for a few moments, the monster pointed at them and, with a mildly confused look on his face, said, "Hey, none of you look like the Shirayuki brat that Warlord Hirajo and the rest of the horde is looking for!"

"Shit," Mina snapped under her breath as she and Sero took to standing before the warmonger, keeping the exhausted Yaoyorozu behind them, "This is a really bad time to-"

Mina found herself cut off when a sturdy, metal pipe trust through the side of the warmonger's abdomen, impaling him and making him cry out in angered pain. "You better leave Momo and her classmates in 1-A alone, you son of a bitch!" a male voice snarled, catching the attention of mina, Yaoyorozu and Sero. Looking over to her side slightly, it was Mina who spotted Yosetsu Awase, standing behind the warmonger.

The welding quirk boy of 1-B placed his hands on the back of the warmonger where the metal pipe was sticking out of. Touching both the warmonger's back and the pipe at the same time, Yosetsu used his quirk to weld the two of them together, making it so that the pipe can't be yanked out of the warmonger. It was bad enough for the monster that the pipe was impaling him through his abdomen, but he flinched in even greater pain when he grabbed it and tried to yank it out, only to fail to do so as if the pipe wouldn't so much as budge.

Looking over at the 1-A students, Yosetsu saw the terrible shape Yaoyorozu was in and said, "What the hell happened to Momo?! Is she okay?!"

"I…I just used my quirk a bit more than I should have in all honesty," Yaoyorozu replied, "I'm just really low on stored lipids right now." Yosetsu ran in to assist the 1-A students while Mina rushed past him; aiming her fist at the warmonger's head, Mina fired a large volume of her acid at the monster's open mouth, getting a lot of it in his mouth and down his throat.

As the monster fell over and thrashed in extreme pain (made worse because he fell on his side where the metal pipe was sticking out of), Yosetsu said, "I passed by the cafeteria of this school, and it looks relatively safe. You think it would help if we should get Momo there and get her something to eat?"

Sero nodded in agreement while saying, "That can't hurt." Yosetsu ended up joining Mina, Sero and Yaoyorozu as the four of them ran out of the classroom, with Yosetsu carrying Yaoyorozu bridal style as she was at that point too worn out and running low to continue effectively. Along the way, the four of them ran into Kosei and Tetsutetsu.

"Geez, she doesn't look good!" Kosei remarked as he gestured to the slimmed rich girl in his classmate's arms.

"We just need to get her something to eat is all," Mina explained to the 1-B boys, "Your bud here with us said that the cafeteria at this school is-" The pink-skinned girl was cut off when a loud crashing sound came from one of the ends of the hallway. Looking over, the U.A. students saw three early sixties persons and a large dog with an eyepatch and missing ear fight some of the warmonger monsters.

The three early sixties persons were a man with pink shoulder length hair, another man that had long blonde hair in a men's ponytail, and a woman with scruffy brown hair and red facial markings on her cheeks. All of them wore headbands that had metal plates with etchings of stylized leaves on them. "Hot damn!" the pink-haired man exclaimed as he slashed the throat of a warmonger with a kunai knife, "Wait until we tell our respective grandkids back in Konoha about how we fought against actual straight-up literal monsters in an attack on a civilian city! They will be so impressed with us!"

"Focus on fighting the monsters, Harold!" the dog with the eyepatch scolded (the U.A. students, despite how their principal was a talking animal, were surprised to see the talking dog), "We can't afford to dilly-dally around here, especially since Konoha had to spare some reserves to help with repelling the monster attack here! There's only so much Konoha presence here since we and our allies are still involved in the fifth great ninja war!"

While the three seniors and the talking dog fought the warmongers, the man with the long blonde ponytail spotted the U.A. students. "…Hey, you kids look like you're from one of the hero high schools that the bros and I were briefed about before multiple teams from Konoha were deployed to this area to assist with stopping the monster attack," the older blonde man said, "You kids are all okay, aren't you?"

Gesturing to Yaoyorozu, Mina said, "Our classmate here overused her quirk and now she's really low on lipids or whatever the fuck she calls them. We need to get her to someplace where she can get a lot of something to eat and replenish herself. We were on our way to the cafeteria when you and your pals over there came in fighting those monster."

The older blonde man nodded in understanding before he turned to face his friends that were behind him fighting the monsters. "Oi, Harold, Tsume, Kuromaru! I'm going to escort these teens to the cafeteria so their friend can get a bite to eat!" the older blonde man said.

Shooting the older blonde man a thumbs-up, the pink-haired older man, apparently named Harold if the talking dog is to be believed, said, "Go for it, Inoichi! The lads and I here can hold down the fort until you get back!" The older blonde man, now identified as Inoichi, nodded in response as he had the group of U.A. students turn around and run in the direction of Azu-Daioh High's cafeteria, running with them to keep an eye on them and make sure that they stay safe.

Outside of Azu-Daioh High, over in the front area where Izuku and the others were all fighting, they heard an excited cheer call out from overhead. They looked up, as did the warmongers in that area, only to see Mei Hatsume fly overhead with some combination of jetpack and rocket boots, as she pressed a button on a control that she held in her right hand. Mini rockets flew out of her jetpack and targeted the warmongers, hitting multiple as she flew overhead in a sort of arc-shaped curve. "Oh yeah, that was a nice one!" the eccentric pink-haired girl cheered as she flew back around to drop air strikes on more monsters.

One warmonger, who was holding a green metal sign post that had holes in it along the length, looked up and was aiming to throw the metal post he held to try and hit Hatsume. "Hey, big guy," the warmonger heard someone call out to him.

"What the hell do you-" the warmonger responded to the call, only to stop short as a blank look overtook his face; he stood there, looking dazed. The dazed warmonger didn't even notice it when Hitoshi Shinso, who had used his brainwashing quirk on the warmonger, came walking up to him, a look of seriousness on his face.

"Shove that sign post through the side of your neck," Shinso ordered the warmonger that was enthralled by his brainwashing. Complying, the warmonger shoved the sign post through the right side of his neck; when he did, the extreme pain of him gouging his own throat out made the warmonger exclaim and gurgle out in pain as he fell to his knees before falling over and bleeding out to death on the ground.

Shinso turned and saw a few other warmongers try charging at him. Using the skills that he learned through being personally tutored by Aizawa, Shinso jumped back while quickly taking out some caltrops and casting them in the path the warmongers were taking. A good number of them ran into the caltrops and fell back as they cried out in pain, their feet having trampled over the metal spiky traps.

The brainwasher saw one of the warmongers run around the caltrops, so he ran up to that warmonger, skillfully used his capture weapon to ensnare the warmonger and, using momentum, jumped and seemingly glided around the monster until he was behind him. Holding onto the warmonger's left shoulder from behind, Shinso took out a hunting knife, held it in his right hand and held it against the warmonger's neck. A simple, unceremonious slash across the monster's throat was all Shinso needed to do to lay the monster low.

After he killed the warmonger with his hunting knife, Shinso looked up and saw his fellows from U.A. finish off the warmongers that ran into his caltrops. "You all think that this fighting is going to end soon?" Shinso said after the monsters were killed. There was a relative break from all of the fighting at the moment, so the brainwasher was using the time to collect his caltrops.

Izuku looked like he was going to open his mouth to say something to the class 1-C student, but he was cut off when an intercom system spreading all over the city called out. "Students of U.A.," the familiar voice of Aizawa called out over the city-wide intercom, "This is class 1-A's homeroom teacher Shota Aizawa speaking. All U.A. students are being ordered to fall back to safety. The fighting is winding down, and what's left can be handled by the teachers, other pro heroes, and the various groups of Special Forces that have come in at the request of the monster world government. Repeat, all U.A. students are ordered to fall back."

Shinso let out a relieved sigh as he fell back, landing moderately hard on his butt. "Oh thank goodness we can get the hell out of here," Shinso remarked, more to himself than to anyone else, "Aizawa-sensei, you are a lifesaver."

"You can thank your father for bailing us out later," Todoroki remarked to the brainwasher as he got up off of the ground, with a hand up from Juzo, "For now, we need to regroup with everyone else here and leave the fighting to the pros and Special Forces." The group of U.A. students there got together with the rest of the U.A. students on Azu-Daioh High grounds before all of them left the fighting area as a group.

"Aizawa-sensei is not my father," Shinso remarked to the half-n-half quirk boy as all of the U.A. students that were at Azu-Daioh High left the area.

By late afternoon that day, all of the fighting all over the city had officially been ended. The teachers of U.A., when they returned to see how their students were doing, were all concerned for the well-being of the students when they walked into one of the dorm buildings and saw a lot of the participating students all laying around, moaning in exhaustion and otherwise just way too worn out from all of the effort they gave today.

Looking over to see Aizawa and Hizashi walk into Heights Alliance, Izuku said, "Aizawa-sensei, Hizashi-sensei, is everything over?"

"If by that you mean the fighting, then yes Midoriya," Aizawa replied, his tone clearly somber. Letting out a resigned sigh, the underground hero said as his students began to gather around, "I got back just now with Hizashi here from a meeting with the rest of the teachers and Nezu concerning the damages that were suffered during the attack. Thankfully, no students from any of the schools that were attacked were killed, neither were any hero course students that took part in the fighting. However…" Aizawa let out another sigh before he said, "Four pro heroes were killed by the monsters during the attack."

The U.A. students were shocked to hear that four heroes fell in the fighting, even though when Aizawa confirmed which heroes were killed, there was some amount of relief that none of those who were killed were notable, important heroes. Even so, the loss of even one pro hero was enough to lower the spirits of the U.A. students. Izuku especially so, due to how much of a hero fanboy he is; the green-haired cinnamon roll was the only one present out of the U.A. students who recognized all four of the heroes that were killed.

"A few places were likewise destroyed or severely damaged," Hizashi supplied, "At least eighty percent of the buildings over on Ketsubutsu Academy High School grounds were wrecked, meaning that the students there will have to resume classes at other hero high schools." Crossing his arms over his chest, the pro hero Present Mic continued, "I also heard it from Aizawa here that there as this one girl that was looking to enroll at Ketsubutsu, but that plan's been shot due to all of the damage the school building have suffered during the monster attack."

"Thank goodness no one over there was killed," Aizawa added, then continued with a look of mild concern on his face, "But I did hear that Emi had to be rushed to the hospital due to getting one of her legs broken during the attack." Letting out a resigned sigh, Aizawa said, "Also, one of the things that Nezu made a decision on at the meeting we just came from concerns what's to be done with Mineta's punishment in regards to his actions during the field trip we recently got back from over in the United States."

"Aww yeah!" Mina said in an excited tone, looking like she was expecting to hear some of the best news ever; the other girls in the room looked likewise expectant.

Letting out a breath, the underground hero said to his gathered students, "Nezu's decision on the matter here in final. Your classmate Mineta…" Sighing once more as he saw the looks on all of his students' faces, Aizawa said, "…will not be expelled from U.A." As Aizawa expected, a lot of the gathered students, all of the girls in particular, all cried out in complaint.

"Listen, little dudes," Hizashi began to explain, "Your pal Mineta was severely injured when he saved half a dozen civilians from being killed by monsters. If U.A. expelled him after he had done something that very much fits the bill of being heroic, then it wouldn't look all that good on the school." With a shrug, Hizashi continued, "Not only that, but two of the people who Mineta saved are the President of the Hero Public Safety Commission and the Prime Minister of Japan." Crossing his arms over his chest, the pro hero Present Mic remarked, "…Yeah, your classmate seriously saved the lives of two of the most important people in our nation. He's being hailed as a national hero on national news as we speak."

All of the girls in 1-A all cried out in annoyed complaint, as did most of the 1-B girls that were also present; Ibara even angrily exclaimed at the top of her lungs, "GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!" Although a few people turned to regard the devout Christian taking the lord's name in vain with surprised looks, given how pious Ibara usually acts, no one could honestly blame her for doing so, given what they had just been informed about the infamous pervert.

"There's…one other thing to consider here," Aizawa said to all of the gathered U.A. students. Gesturing to all of them, Aizawa said, "You kids all just got back from fighting monsters. Not nomu created by the League of Villains, not monstrous-looking quirked humans, but straight up, actually legit literal monsters, like ghosts and goblins from fairy tales that you would read when you were little brats. There are threats well beyond criminals and quirked villains, an idea that the President of the PHSC now acknowledges as a real thing that has to be dealt with, especially since a few pro heroes actually were killed by said monsters."

Lowering his arm he was using to gesture with, Aizawa said, "We literally cannot afford to lose any more heroes, pros or otherwise. We're going to be needing as many hands on deck as we can get ahold of, because who can say if this is the last major mess that we're going to have to be dealing with here?"

"Grape Head will still get punished for the stunt he pulled while we were over in the United States, right?" Bakugo asked.

Gently nodding his head, Aizawa remarked, "Don't worry, Mineta will still be punished. However, his severe injury he suffered due to being kicked in the balls nine separate times by some of the monsters, along with how he saved the PHSC president and the Prime Minister, has prompted Nezu to lower my non-expulsion punishment from extra chores for the rest of the year to just for the next seven days."

The U.A. students that were present were all annoyed that Mineta, given what he did while class 1-A was over in the United States on their recent field trip, was getting off as light as he was, holding the fact that he was a lucky son of a bitch who just so happened to save the lives of two of the single most important people in Japan as the main reason why Mineta was practically getting off scot-free. Sure, the infamous pervert still had to do a week of extra chores around the dorm buildings, and some of the students (mainly Bakugo) found it hilarious that Mineta was kicked in the balls a total of nine separate times by some of the warmongers, but all of them, even the ones in 1-B, were all banking on Mineta being kicked out of U.A.

Sighing in a resigned tone, Ibara muttered to herself as she crossed her arms over her chest, "God fucking dammit."

END, CHAPTER TWENTY

Author's notes;

And with that, the monster attack mini arc is now over, even though the 'Monster War arc' as a whole will still go one for a couple of more chapters at least. Things will be continuing on from here in the 'Monster War arc', before moving on to the fourth arc and arcs beyond that. Things are going to be coming together for something big, and the good folks of U.A. High School will be playing a notable part in all of it.

Anyway, the next chapter will see some more fallout from all of the chaos that had occurred during the monster attack mini arc, including some decisions that Nezu has made in regards to how things are U.A. will be done proceeding forward. Said decisions will include some changes to some rosters which, believe it or not, have been hinted at a few times since the first chapter of this current arc. What sort of change am I talking about here specifically, you might ask?

…Well, you're going to have to stick around to find out.