Oneshot Title: Open Debate— Staff Style

Oneshot Summary: Before Chiron was hired, Nezu called a meeting and let the staff have an open debate on why or why not he should hire the man. Of course, it didn't matter— Nezu already had decided at that point. He just wanted to see what would happen.

So I'm getting started on posting these oneshots I made. Sagittarius is coming to a close and Grave Keeper will be starting soon. Paladin, in the meanwhile, will be where oneshots for the Sagittarius series will be posted.

To say that Aizawa Shouta was excited when he got an email from his boss saying that a surprise meeting was being called would be like saying that the world was better off without Quirks.

Illogical and impossible.

Aizawa hated that he was being dragged out of his apartment at ten o'clock on a weekend just so that Nezu could give them another briefing on how to deal with All Might.

Shuffling into the meeting room with a mug of coffee and a half-eaten protein pouch, Aizawa didn't spare the Principal or All Might— Yagi, Toshinori, he had to remember— a second glance. He sat in silence as the other staff members dragged themselves in. Ishiyama and Thirteen seemed more awake than Kan and Kayama, Yamada looked just as unkempt and tired as he did, the blonde knocking back coffee like it was his lifeline. Snipe and Ectoplasm were just as unhappy, though Ryo didn't seem much different than he normally was. Majima was the last to arrive and Aizawa was pretty sure he just went to sleep in his chair.

No one could tell with his helmet on anyway.

"So why did you call us all here, Nezu?" Kayama asked as everyone settled. The mammalian principal hummed, adjusting some papers before he spoke.

"As I'm sure you're aware, there are going to be some new changes to the staff when the next school year rolls around," he told them and Aizawa sighed internally.

If this was just going to be another meeting about how to keep All Might's secret he was going to nap like Majima, job be damned.

"Aside from All Might, I would like to ask how you all feel about another new hire," Nezu continued and Aizawa's eyes snapped over to the principal, a brow raised. His confusion and shock were mirrored in his coworkers' eyes as they gazed at Nezu.

Nezu only smiled and Yagi seemed to be the only one who wasn't shocked, the skeletal man's face not changing at all to reflect shock or anything else.

Did he already know?

"What do you mean, Principal? I thought that almost everything was finalized for the next year," Thirteen asked, head tilted. Nezu nodded.

"'Almost everything'," he agreed, "But someone last minute sent their application in. In fact, I almost trashed it before I realized who it was."

The principal hit a button before the lights dimmed and the presentation screen lit up. Aizawa shifted as he was handed a stack of papers, taking the first packet on top before handing it off to Yamada.

The screen matched the first page of the packet— an application.

It wasn't the picture of the brown-haired man on the front that caught his attention, but rather the bright red symbol for 'International Hero' that was stamped where the license type would have been written.

"An international hero?" Ryo asked, ears swiveling as Ectoplasm flipped through the packet next to him.

Nezu nodded. "Philyra, Chiron. One of the most well-kept Greek secrets of the Hero World. And one of two International Heroes that Greece can proudly state is their own."

"That explains why none of us know who he is," Majima grunted, setting the packet down. "But certainly he's gotta have better things to do than teach kids, ones in Japan no less. Why not his own country? Surely Greece's got schools he can teach at."

Nezu only hummed before he pulled up another sheet, this time with staggering statistics that none of them had ever seen before.

"Japan's crime rate is at an all-time low because of All Might here," he said, "But Japan has never been at the top of creating successful, international heroes. In fact, All Might is our only international hero officially."

Yagi nodded, arms folded on the table as he gazed at the screen. "As you know, an International License is a rare and very special permit. As of right now, there are only seven of us, two in North America, myself, one in South America, and Europe has three— two of which are Greek. The other is from the Scandinavian region, I think. Granted, these heroes are only international via the UN Standard, there seems to be a subset of international heroes on the rise in Europe." the Number One hero said, coughing into his fist.

"You said that this was Greece's biggest secret, Principal," Ishiyama said, glancing over the papers again. "Both the American continents like to show off Alloyman, General United, and Aquamarinea, why wouldn't Greece want to do the same?"

"Because Archer of Black is their most successful teacher," Nezu said simply. "He was granted international status for reasons unknown by the Greek Government and approved by the UN. There's a reason why the Iroas Institution for Heroics has risen so rapidly in successful graduates. The Institute already gets enough traffic, I'm sure that they didn't want more."

Aizawa leaned back, listening as he thought. The charts showed that Europe as a whole was a hotbed for villainy and crime, but that was an entire continent. Alone, almost every country had very low percentages. Japan's minimal of a six-percent Crime Rate was slowly being encroached on by Greece, Norway, and Italy's lowering rates— Greece's seven percent, Norway's nine, and Italy's eleven. A large majority of Europe's nations had crime rates under forty percent.

"Europe has something that Japan doesn't, though," Yagi was saying, "The reason why such a small country like Greece has such a higher success rate than we do here is because of Greece's heroes. Following the footsteps of Archer of Black and the Conquerer, Greece was able to set up a system and let their former students work internationally. Europe has the European Union. A hero from one nation can access heroic liberties in twenty-seven others."

"You're saying that this Archer of Black, that Philyra, could skyrocket U.A.'s success rate?" Aizawa drawled, a brow raised. "U.A.'s already the top school in Asia, competing only with China's Huangdi School of Heroes. I don't see what the hell else we'd need."

Nezu laughed. "I'm not saying we need to be better," he said, "But I won't be arrogant in saying we're the best, Iroas has already proven in staggering statistics that it's slowly on its way to becoming the best school in the world. They don't advertise their achievements because they don't have Sports Festivals as we do here, so unless someone looks at international statistics no one would know. Philyra would be a great asset to this school. Look at his credentials, how he listed them. I've talked to him prior and while he's a more than capable Hero, known in Greece as the Archer who shot down the Stars— though that's another story altogether— he thinks of himself as a teacher and doctor first." The mammalian principal quieted for a moment before his tone became more serious than before.

"It pains me to say this, but none of us here are getting any younger— much less Shuzenji, Yagi, Maijima, and myself. Archer of Black's forms states that he's a few years older than Kayama, Yamada, Kan, and yourself, Aizawa. There's no better time than now."

Aizawa 'tch'd, catching the implantation.

The older staff were bound to retire fully eventually. Majima seemed to be agreeing, leaning back as he glanced to the screen.

"Hey… isn't… the Study of Ancient Heroes super rare? Very few people can say they went to school for it, much less would put it on their application and credentials. No one really wants to look at heroes from First Age Quirks…" the Excavation Hero said. Thirteen seemed to be staring at the list of credentials and Nezu staid silent for a moment.

It was the Space Hero who answered instead of the principal.

"I don't think it's First Age Heroes, Majima," they said slowly. "Philyra is from Greece. My memory is foggy since it was such a long time ago and the bookstore is closed down now, but… If I remember correctly, Greece was a hotbed for Ancient Heroes. And by Ancient I mean Pre-Quirk Era."

Shocked silence settled around the room and Aizawa felt as if he had more questions than answers. Yagi didn't seem all that surprised, fiddling with a loose thread on his bright yellow suit and, of course, Nezu never looked surprised.

"Ya mean Early 1900s heroes? Armstrong, Churchill, Dalai Lama, an' Mandela?" Snipe asked, tilting his head and Thirteen hesitated.

"I mean ancient even by those standards. Over two thousand years old, rather than a couple hundred," they finally said.

Silence once again fell over the room and Aizawa scratched his head. Pre-Quirk history was a bleak part of life, wrought with so much war and indiscriminate killings, many people thought it was just downright embarrassing.

To go even farther back than the 1900s was almost unheard of.

"Okay, so he's got a weird hobby, but that still doesn't answer the initial question," Yamada spoke up, making a hand gesture as he stifled a yawn with his other hand. "Why leave Greece and come here?"

"Why do any of us do anything?" Nezu asked, humming. "He felt it was something he needed to do. Europe's ranks are skyrocketing, and while none of them are as notorious worldwide as All Might is, they're a united front. Heroes from France have teamed up with those in Germany, the Fins have saved Russians from Polish Villains while Latvian Heroes secured a place for the Villain to be sent to. Yes, one could say that Archer of Black has better things to do, but he considers himself a teacher first. We should be honored that he chose us instead of the number of other schools out there. And as teachers, we should strive to have the best for our students."

Aizawa glanced at Nezu.

"You already made your mind up, didn't you?" he asked with a brow raised and the mammalian principal just smiled.

"Guilty as charged. Philyra will be here for the scheduled staff meeting in a week."

Then why the hell bother calling this meeting?

Aizawa didn't bother voicing his thoughts, instead, he chose to get up leave when Nezu waved them off as a sign of dismissal.

Something interesting had just fallen into his lap.

He had never heard of this Archer of Black before, and to know he was behind the rise in successful heroes from Iroas Institute, it was all the better.

The Erasure hero looked down at the packet in his hands.

He would have to study what he was given in more detail.

Not too long because I just wanted to set a small groundwork. Thirteen seems like someone who would have wandered into an antique bookstore when they were small.

As for the international licenses, I read it on some wiki and shrugged. Since they're not talked about and Midoriya doesn't spaz out over them, I just decided that there were so few of them that it wasn't as exciting as the local heroes.

Alloyman, General United, and Aquamariena are all homages to our good friends Iron Man, Captain America, and Aquamaria from Marvel and DC Comics.

Take a guess who Conquerer is based on. Nidhogg is Norse for Dragon, it could be based on Siegfried, it could just be a hero with a draconic like Quirk. Europe seems more like a place where people would base their Hero Motifs around old Heroes. Especially ones from Greece, Rome, and the Nordic area.

Iroas means Hero in Greek, Huangdi means Emperor. According to translate that is.