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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter thirty-one: New staff on campus

The combined fifty students of class 1-A and class 1-B were all waiting around in the large classroom where they (well, most of them) took a recent big joint math exam. Izuku, along with his friends Uraraka, Tenya, Todoroki and Shinso (who had just joined the other four) were all wondering just what it was that the senseis wanted to go over with everyone here. As of the moment, only Aizawa was present, waiting by the front of the classroom behind the one desk but in front of the board, so things were going to have to wait until Hizashi, Sekijiro and Nemuri all showed up.

"I still can't help but worry about what our teachers have to tell us," Tenya remarked in a worried tone as he looked down at the floor while holding his right index finger and thumb to his chin in a gesture that showed contemplation. Looking up at his friends, the class 1-A rep was not able to hide his worries. "U.A. has already had to make some changes due to recent events, so I certainly hope that this isn't a meeting to discuss more changes."

"We ought to trust Aizawa-sensei and the other teachers to know what they are doing," Shinso remarked calmly, getting the others to turn to face him. The brainwasher of 1-A nodded once in an assured manner as he crossed his arms over his chest. "They wouldn't be here as teachers at U.A. if they weren't good at what they do."

Izuku and the others looked on at Shinso as they generally agreed with him. Todoroki, nodding once, remarked as he gestured to Shinso, "Well of course you'd vouch for your father over in the front of the classroom."

Shinso, knowing that the dual-natured quirk boy was getting at, only gave a mildly amused smirk. "…He's only been at the job for less than one day so far, and yet Aizawa-sensei is already doing far better than the sorry sack of shit that was my last male parental figure." Izuku nodded once after Shinso responded to Todoroki's remark; just a few moments ago, right after he had entered the classroom with the underground hero, Shinso explained to Izuku and the others that, due to recent things that weren't exactly easy to talk about, Aizawa had taken him in as his foster son. Given Aizawa's current ongoing success with Eri, he was approved to take in Shinso.

Izuku, although he was upset to hear of the abuse his friend had gone through, was glad to hear that not only was said abuse now over for good, but that the brainwasher was now in the capable hands of Aizawa, who by the way had already worked extensively with Shinso even before he took him in as his foster son. The green-haired cinnamon roll would have gone on, but before he could get the first word out, the door leading into the classroom opened.

Everyone turned to see Hizashi, followed by Sekijiro and Nemuri, walk into the classroom. They went right up to where Aizawa was waiting for them at the front of the classroom. The four U.A. teachers had a bit of a group huddle as they talked amongst themselves to decide who would be the one to lead the meeting. Evidently, the job was given to Nemuri, given that the eighteen only hero moved to stand in front of the desk at the front of the classroom.

"Okay children, let's take our seats," Nemuri began as she gestured for the combined fifty students to all sit. She waited to continue until everyone in 1-A and 1-B were seated. "Now, as I am sure a lot of you are aware, there's a greater need for heroes now more than ever, what with all that has happened as of late."

Hagakure's invisible hand went up, and Nemuri called on her. "Did something bad happen again, and that said thing will affect all of us here?"

"Luckily, that's not really the case," the eighteen only hero replied as she pointed to the invisible girl. Gesturing to around the gathered students, Nemuri explained, "Part of what that increased need entailed was boosting the number of students in both of the first year hero course classes, but something that we on the staff here failed to take into account from the get-go was that, when we had to increase the number of students, we also should have gotten a few more staff members to help handle everything."

This prompted a number of hands to go up, so Nemuri called on the first one that caught her eye, that being Omono Tanaka of class 1-B. "I'm assuming that this means we're getting some new teachers here at school?"

"Right you are, Tanaka," Aizawa spoke up from where he leaned with his back to the board behind the desk in the front of the classroom. Getting up, the underground hero walked a bit to stand next to Nemuri. "This decision was made a few days ago, but wasn't going to take effect until today as there were some issues involving the proper paperwork that had to be taken care of first. But yes, starting today there will be four new members of U.A.'s staff. I'm sure that I speak for Nemuri and the others here when I say that we all expect the lot of you to respect the new staff members as much as you respect those here already."

A few more hands went up this time, and Aizawa, after looking over the sea of hands, picked on one. It was Goukazaru Tsukasa, another one of the new boys in class 1-B, that the underground hero called on. "I assume that part of this gathering is to go over who exactly the new additions to the staff here are going to be?"

"Right you are, Tsukasa," Sekijiro said as he walked up to join Aizawa and Nemuri, "And we were actually getting to the point where we were going to introduce them."

"Come on in, ladies!" Hizashi shouted at the top of his lungs in an excited manner, startling many of the students and even making Eunice immediately throw her noise-cancelling headphones on before she scrunched up into a fetal position out of panic. As Tsuyu turned to try and calm the autistic girl down, assuring her that Hizashi-sensei didn't mean to startle her and just got a bit too excited, the door leading into the classroom opened, drawing the attention of most all of the gathered students.

Many of the students were surprised to see four well-known female pro heroes walk into the large classroom, heading right for the front to join up with the pro heroes that were already on the staff for U.A. The 1-A and 1-B kids were all surprised to see that Mirko, Mt. Lady, Ryukyu and Pixie-Bob, all currently wearing casual/civilian outfits, were apparently joining the school as staff members. Nemuri, who was behind the four female pro heroes, walked around to stand next to them, gesturing to them while facing all fifty of the first years.

"I'm sure many of you all already recognize Rumi Usagiyama, Yu Takeyama, Ryuko Tatsuma and Ryuko Tsuchikawa," the eighteen only hero began, "Or as they are respectively also known as Mirko, Mt. Lady, Ryukyu and Pixie-Bob. As of today, these four will be joining the staff here in temporary auxiliary roles until more permanent solutions can be found."

"You know, I personally wouldn't mind it if I ended up becoming one of the 'more permanent solutions'," Yu remarked when she turned to regard Nemuri. The collateral damage hero gave Midnight a somewhat amused smirk. "I've been wanting to do more than just be something pretty for others to look at. I want to have a bigger, more positive impact on the hero community as a whole, and working to prep the future generation of heroes sounds like a good way to do it."

"Yeah, I can't wait to take a crack at whipping the kids here into shape," Pixie-Bob remarked as she pounded her right fist into the palm of her left hand. Some of the students, such as Izuku who remembered when Pixie-bob grabbed his face and scolded him by saying she was still eighteen at heart, and some of the newer students in 1-A and 1-B like Habuko and Omono, paled a bit at Pixie-Bob's eagerness to get cracking on work, picking up a bit on some sadistic pleasure that would only come from running them all through the wringer.

Aizawa walked around to stand in front of the four new staff members, getting their attention as a whole. "Yes, yes, I'm sure you all want to get to work." Pointing to Pixie-Bob, Aizawa added, "You most of all." Aizawa lowered his hand he was pointing with before he went on. "But there are still a few things that we still need to go over before we can turn my brats and Sekijiro's brats over to you ladies. First off, Ryuko."

"Yes?" both Pixie-Bob and Ryukyu said in unison, then when they realized they both spoke at the same time they turned to look at each other.

The underground hero let out a troubled sigh as he realized what was going on. "That's right, the both of you have the same first name as each other." To the two similarly named ladies, Aizawa said, "Okay, new rule. If anyone wants to talk to one of you and you're both in the same room as each other, the person who wants to get your attention has to use your hero name instead of your first name. Sound good?" Both Ryukos, as well as Yu, Rumi and all of the current U.A. staff that was in the room, all nodded in agreement.

Satisfied with that, Aizawa turned to focus on Ryukyu. "Okay, Ryukyu, this one here is for you."

"What's up, Aizawa?" the Dragoon Hero asked, a look of curiosity on her face.

"Nezu was made aware of how you're properly trained and licensed to teach and help look after special needs students, particularly those that have autism," Aizawa began, "That being said, he's asked that you go see Hound Dog to help him get up to speed on the matter himself, as he's been put in charge of U.A.'s recently established special needs department."

"I can see him as soon as this meeting is finished," Ryukyu replied.

Aizawa nodded once in acknowledgement, as well as a bit of thanks. Although Hound Dog is also currently studying to get the same training and licensing that the Dragoon Hero has, he still has a bit to go. With someone like Ryukyu helping to get Hound Dog caught up and to get the ball rolling for the school's special needs department, the underground hero felt much better about how U.A. can better help its special needs students. …Well, just one student right now.

Pointing to the other Ryuko, Aizawa said, "Pixie-Bob, I do intend to have you work with my students at the very least in the immediate future, but Sekijiro may also want to grab you as well to give his students a workout." A nod from the class 1-B homeroom teacher confirmed that he intended to have his brats work with the Wild, Wild Pussycats member.

Speaking of said member, she gave a somewhat toothy, eager grin. "Yeah, I can't wait to take a crack at seeing what these kids can do, especially the ones that I don't recognize from the Forest Training Camp trip you guys all took to my team's turf." Suddenly, Pixie-Bob's eyes fell on where Sakaki sat in the classroom. "Ooh, who's that new girl sitting next to the tired-looking boy with the purple hair? She looks like a fun one to work with."

"Oh, that's Sakaki Yamamaya," Aizawa replied, "And given the nature of Yamamaya's quirk, I can see why you, Pixie-bob, would be interested in working with her specifically." A few more formalities were taken care of before Aizawa, Sekijiro, Hizashi and Nemuri all addressed the combined fifty students of 1-A and 1-B.

"Listen, kids," Hizashi began, "I know that this change to the school staff here may come as a shock to all of you, especially considering how many things have happened as of late. But I speak for the rest of the staff here when I say that we assure you it's only to make sure there are a sufficient number of teachers here to look after and train all of you. It's just a side-effect of how we had to increase the class sizes for your respective classes as of late."

A lot of the students, who had previously looked concerned with the changes that were being made, looked to have calmed down a lot, as if their worries about why there were more pro heroes working at U.A. now had been put to rest. In fact, Tenya raised a hand, wating until he was called on by Hizashi before he spoke. "This is a reasonable act to address the increase of students in our classes, and I for one am a bit surprised that none of us realized it until now."

"We can go over the finer points later as they become relevant, Iida," Aizawa remarked, gesturing for the class 1-A rep to sit down. After Tenya obeyed the silent command from his teacher, said teacher turned to look at all of the gathered students as a whole. "All of you will work with our new staff here at least once each, so you all better get ready for what they can and will do, especially considering the fact that two of them are in the current top ten."

The combined fifty students in Aizawa's and Sekijiro's respective classes all responded in the affirmative in unison, with some even looking forward to what the new staff members had in store for them. Mineta was particularly happy, as all of the new staff members were women, and women with…notable features…no less. Once all of the new staff members had introduced themselves, they were given the cue by Aizawa and the others already working at U.A. to get right to work, although Aizawa and Sekijiro took Pixie-Bob to the side first and quietly discussed something with the Wild, Wild Pussycats member.

Izuku, as well as Tenya and Yaoyorozu, all noticed this, and could not help but wonder what their teachers were discussing.

"I have to say, I'm rather impressed," Nezu remarked as he held a smaller meeting with only a few of U.A.'s base staff; counting Nezu himself, there was only Aizawa, Sekijiro, Hound Dog, Hizashi and Toshinori present. The quirked animal principal skimmed through a brief report file that he had at his place at the meeting table before setting it back down. "Our 'recent hires' have taken to the U.A. atmosphere quite well, and we haven't even gotten them to work on their true reason for being here yet."

The other staff members at the meeting all agreed with their boss's remark, with Sekijiro even raising a hand to speak. "I'm particularly rather fond of how well of a job Mirko's done at helping to whip the brats into shape, or otherwise keep them in line. She's certainly proven to be rather useful in making sure the kids learn discipline."

"And Ryukyu has proven invaluable in helping me get things for U.A.'s special needs department up and running," Hound Dog commented, "Not to mention she's agreed to help me study so I can get the necessary training and licensing that part of my new job here requires."

The others nodded, and Toshinori let out a mildly resigned sigh. This caught the attention of the other men at the meeting, and Aizawa was a bit surprised when the former symbol of peace turned to face him specifically. "…Have we gotten things ready so that the children can begin their training under Pixie-Bob?"

Aizawa's eyes widened a bit, to show a hint of surprise, before they returned to the dry, tired look that they always had. "…Sekijiro and I already covered that," the underground hero replied, "First thing tomorrow morning, our combined fifty students will be going into Ground Omega where they will begin their sparring with Pixie-Bob so as to get ideas on how to best fight against people with earth manipulation quirks." Sekijiro, wearing a grim look of resignation on his face, nodded solemnly twice as he crossed his arms over his chest.

The other men at the meeting table all had grim looks on their faces as silence hung thick in the air, silence derived from worries about something that may end up coming to pass. Even Nezu, who normally looked happy, could not help but feel a bit of dread. However, Nezu quickly got himself back into his usual demeanor in short order by briskly shaking his head. He cleared his throat before he began addressing the rest of the staff at the meeting.

"There's no need to be so gloomy, men. After all, the chance that she may be part of the group slated to visit us in a few weeks is very low, so it's rather likely that all of this worrying may all be for nothing." The others at the meeting seemed to take their boss's word for it, and their worries eased somewhat. Even so, none of them, even Nezu himself, were able to completely get their worries out of their mind.

…Which was all the more reason why the U.A. staff, Aizawa and Sekijiro especially, were looking forward to tomorrow, where their respective classes will begin their special training under Pixie-Bob.

The following morning, the students of class 1-A and class 1-B were all in their gym uniforms over in Ground Omega as they began their scheduled training under Pixie-Bob. The students were all surprised when told by Aizawa and Sekijiro that as part of the training under Pixie-Bob, she was allowed to use her quirk, Earth Flow, in whatever way strikes her fancy so long as she stopped short of causing any really serious harm.

This meant that not only was she allowed to create avalanches of dirt that exploded all around the vast group of students that she was facing off against, but she was also encouraged by the two homeroom teachers to create as many of her Earth Beasts as she can manage. To make things even more difficult for the combined fifty students, they were told that although they were allowed to attack the conjured Earth Beasts, they were not allowed to attack Pixie-Bob herself, or otherwise use their quirks on her in any fashion.

"For your sparring with Pixie-Bob," Sekijiro explained, his left hand on his hip as he held up his right index finger, "You all are to work on being able to anticipate what someone with an earth manipulation quirk like Pixie-Bob can do in a fight and work to evade any attacks that are thrown your way. Additionally, none of you are allowed to use your quirks in any way to attack Pixie-Bob or otherwise impede her from being able to act."

"Pretend she's an opponent that nothing you can do would work against," Aizawa remarked, "Which is why using your quirks on her in any fashion is barred."

With that final bit of instruction from their homeroom teachers, the students of 1-A and 1-B began their sparring with Pixie-Bob. After all fifty of the combined students got into a good area of Ground Omega, they were surprised attacked by Pixie-Bob, who made the ground beneath their feet shift and move as mounds of it quickly rose and fell, like a wavy bouncy castle or some other similar attraction.

Those capable of getting up off of the ground in some fashion did so; Izuku was a bit amazed to see Omono's arms stretch to a truly ridiculous length as he grabbed a thick branch high up in a tree a good few dozen feet away, then pulling himself to where he was grabbing. Kurama and Goukazaru both leapt out of the danger zone, showing considerable physical prowess in the process, and Artemis seemingly surged with energy as he jumped straight up into the air and just floated there, as if he were flying.

"This is insane!" Omono cried out from the tree he was in, "Pixie-sensei is allowed to do most whatever she wants, and the most we're allowed to do is fight her conjured constructs and run around to evade her actual attacks?! How the hell is this fair?!"

"You're telling me!" Tsuyu called out to the rubber boy of 1-B while carrying an injured Habuko over her back. Using her long, frog-like tongue, Tsuyu grabbed onto the branch of a nearby tree and used that to pull both herself and her friend from their middle school days out of the danger zone that was Pixie-Bob's area of attack. Once up in that tree, Tsuyu managed to sit Habuko up on a branch and had her stay there, mostly for her safety as she was too hurt to continue.

…

At the end of that training session, most all of the combined fifty students were all roughed up to the point that they had to go see Recovery Girl, and would miss the rest of their classes for the day. Only Izuku, Bakugo, Todoroki, Kirishima, Tenya, Kaminari and Tokoyami from class 1-A, and Artemis, Tetsutetsu and Akuma of class 1-B, were in good enough shape to not require having to miss the rest of their classes for the day. "What the fuck was all of that?" Artemis said, a look of mildly rattled surprise on his face.

Akuma, his arms crossed over his chest, nodded in agreement with his exoskeletoned classmate, a grim look of suspicion on his face. "To make matters worse, our senseis told us that all fifty of us will have to do another round of that training with Pixie-sensei when everyone who was hurt recovers enough to try again." The Satanist of U.A. snarled a bit, looking very much unamused by the experiences he and his schoolmates had. "What the hell is the point of that training?"

Tetsutetsu, nodding in agreement with the new boys in his class, said, "Yeah, I have a sinking feeling that the teachers told us to not fight back and focus solely on evasion because they just wanted to see us struggle pointlessly." The steel boy of 1-B turned to face his counterpart and friend in class 1-A. "Kirishima, dude, tell me that you agree with me on that one."

Kirishima, to the surprise of Tetsutetsu (as well as Artemis and Akuma to a lesser extent), had a look of mildly resigned worry on his face, looking like he was staring off into the distance if he could. The three boys from class 1-B also saw that the other 1-A boys all had the same kind of looks on their respective faces as well. This caused Tetsutetsu, Artemis and Akuma to all look at the seven 1-A boys with curious, mildly suspicious looks.

"…You guys all know something." Akuma's remark to the 1-A boys was more of a statement than a question.

"We…" Izuku began in a troubled, resigned tone, "…Ran into a similar situation before." Looking at the three boys from 1-B, Izuku said, "A while ago, when my class took a field trip to the United States, the guys here and I-" Izuku paused to gesture to all of his classmates that were in the locker room with him and the three 1-B boys, "-Were dragged into a rather nasty fight over in the town that we went to."

The other 1-A boys, all of them with resigned, troubled looks on their faces, all nodded in agreement with the green-haired cinnamon roll. In fact, it was Bakugo who took the initiative to carry on with the explanation. "Our perverted classmate Grape Head, because he couldn't keep it in his pants, led some samurai-looking guy with this crazy powerful fire quirk into attacking us, using us as scapegoats so his sorry ass could get way scot free. As a result, said samurai bastard completely and utterly steamrolled the seven of us here, putting us all in the local hospital for the rest of the field trip."

An expression of remembering something spread across the Satanist's face. "Ah, I believe that you guys are speaking again of that gold fire quirk fellow that you mentioned to me."

"Gold fire?" Tetsutetsu said, a look of piqued surprise on his face. The other boys all turned to face the steel boy of 1-B, giving him their attention. "Huh, that sort of reminds me of that gold lightning girl that my classmates and I ran away from during our field trip, before the two of you and the other new guys all joined us," Tetsutetsu remarked to Artemis and Akuma."

"When my classmates and I were caught up in that fight," Tenya explained, "Our opponent was completely enshrouded in a cloak of golden flames. Regardless of what we threw at him, not one effort we made had even the slightest effect." The class 1-A rep gave a resigned, troubled sigh. "I believe that the reason why we weren't allowed to fight back against Pixie-sensei, why we were only allowed to evade her attacks, is because there might be someone out there with a quirk similar to what the gold fire fellow has, but it involves gold earth instead. Pixie-sensei, with her ability to manipulate earthen material, must be prepping us for that."

Gold earth. Those words rang loudly in Izuku's mind, jogging the green-eyed boy's memory with a certain talk that he had with Toshinori a while ago, a talk where the former Symbol of Peace had trusted his devoted protégé to keep what he learned from him to himself in all but the direst of circumstances.

Any and all methods that you can think of to try to combat them can and will fail to do so. Aizawa's quirk can't erase them, your schoolmate Monoma's quirk can't copy them, that horrific Quirk-Destroying drug will have absolutely no effect on them… *** quirks even can't be stolen by All for One. And those are just a few examples.

There's only one method that I can think of off the top of my head right now. Just plain don't start anything with *** quirk users.

There was something else about his classmate Tenya mentioning gold earth that triggered something in Izuku's mind, a memory of how his late father Hisashi, while doing undercover work for his true job as a spy to bring down criminal groups from within, was killed by unknowing police over in the States, with said police backed up by a local quirked girl that had the very quirk that Tenya mentioned, an earth manipulation quirk were the manipulated earth was enveloped in an aura of brilliant gold.

"Anyway, we aren't allowed to say much of anything on the subject of those golden quirks because otherwise the teachers here will get all pissy with us," Bakugo explained to the three boys from 1-B, "But our training with Pixie-Bob just now gives me the sinking feeling that we might ending having to at some point fight someone like that gold fire bastard for real."

The explosive teen's remark at the end rattled Izuku to his core, although he did well to hide it from the notice of the others. All Might himself said that the best chance of stopping someone with a quirk of that level is to plain not start anything with them, but if what Bakugo said just now is true, then Izuku feared that he and his schoolmates may very well end up getting thrown into a real fight against someone with a quirk of that level. Remembering what happened the last time such a fight took place, Izuku silently prayed that he and all of his schoolmates weren't actually going to be made to take part in so hopeless a fight, that the teachers were all just being paranoid or whatever.

That had to be the case. …Right?

END, CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

Author's notes;

This chapter helps to lay the ground work for a number of things in the story as a whole, such as the increase of pro heroes on U.A. grounds in case there's another incident where large numbers of hostiles try to storm the school grounds; given what happened ever since the siege of U.A. during the school festival where Azu-Daioh High visited, Nezu and the teachers all believe that having additional pros at the school would be a good thing.

Something else this chapter establishes is helping to set things up for the next arc, which is still a few chapters off at a minimum. You all will be surprised with what I have in mind for what all is going to be taking place; it's not going to be what you might be expecting, so don't go making any assumptions. But that's not here and now. Anyway, the next chapter will see a bit of slice of life for a lot of characters, in order to get them some characterization. It'll have a few moments of drama and hurt/comfort, but it will overall still be a heartwarming trip.