That time I was reborn as a warrior princess
Chapter 10 - Internships
Lucina felt like crap. It was no wonder because she used a lot of her mana energy at the Sports Festival, something she had not planned to do. She only did it because she wanted to help Todoroki and his issue with the fire quirk. She just hoped all her efforts were not in vain.
"Oh, good morning Lucina-chan!" Midnight greets her, smiling. " How are you feeling?"
"Like crap…." she moans as she sits down on the table for breakfast.
Midnight just chuckles as she offers some orange juice and french toasts to her. Lucina thanks the heroine for the food.
"No wonder, you used a lot of mana in the event. I hope it was enough to get Grima's attention." Noire says.
"Me too, Noire. Me too." Lucina says as she drinks some of her orange juice.
"Oh, by the way girls, I have some news; Nedzu told me the dorms system will be soon complete. I think in a couple of weeks you can move to the dorms."
Lucina and Noire are happy by this news; that means they can live along with the boys. With them together, they can make many plans when Grima attacks them. Midnight also mentions she had a present for them.
"Tadah! I am giving you the latest models of SammySang universe cellphones." Midnight smiles, giving the boxes that contained the cellphones.
"Oh, these are the small magic mirrors everyone uses to communicate, right?" Noire asks as she opens the box to take the cellphone out. "The girls showed me theirs back at school."
"No dear, they are not magic mirrors, they are devices for communication, even if they can be used as mirrors as well. But with these devices, you can be able to communicate with us and with your classmates for information and emergencies. They are going to be very useful for your internships."
"Internships?" Noire and Lucina looked at Midnight with confused faces.
Midnight only drank her coffee and told them Aizawa was the one to explain them about the internships and she was going to help them with something else. She won't tell them because she wanted to keep this as a surprise.
They only looked at her with a suspicious look in their faces. Midnight was a nice woman and they were grateful for her hosting them in her house. But sometimes she can do a little too much for them.
Lucina turns her attention to her new cellphone. She smiles; how nostalgic she thought. It has been years since the last time she had a cellphone in her possession. She remembers her time when she was Izuku; Izuku would use his cellphone to search all the videos about pro-heros, especially about All Might for his quirk notebook. She may do the same but with less fan-ish. Lucina would also use her new cellphone to investigate the latest events since Izuku's death. Then, Lucina remembers her past mother, Midoriya Inko. Sometimes she wonders how her mother is doing. She wants to see if Inko was alright but her better judgment is against it. Inko was not her mother anymore. And it is for the best for everyone; the past should stay in the past.
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They finally have arrived in their classroom. Everyone greeted them with smiles in their faces. Kaminari even called her Blue Dragon. Lucina was confused; why would he call her such a name. The blond boy just smirked and yielded up his phone for her to see the tweets about all her matches through his twitter account. Lucina took Kaminari's cell phone and looked closer to the tweets.
BLUE IS THE NEW HOT COLOR!
GIRL POWER IS SHOWN IN UA'S SPORTS FESTIVAL!
THE ASCENDANCE OF THE BLUE DRAGON!
UA'S BLUE DRAGON IS AMAZING!
BLUE DRAGON WINS THE FESTIVAL!
WHO IS THIS BLUE DRAGON GIRL?
And it keeps going. Most of the tweets are calling her Blue Dragon. She knew she would get some attention from the media but she did not expect this much! And she is now embarrassed. Gerome just places his hand on her shoulder and says she wanted attention and she just got it.
Then, Aizawa just entered the classroom. Everyone sat down on their seats. Aizawa explained about the internships and how the sports festival was to show their quirks for the pro-heroes to see and to determine which ones suited better for their agencies. Lucina remembered Endeavor's words about the Sports Festival being the best place to look for new interns.
"These are all the students who were nominated by Pros who thought they performed well during the Sports Festival."
Her attention was brought back to the board as Aizawa brought up a list of students who had been offered week-long internships from their showings at the event. Shoto and Lucina were at the top by a huge margin, followed by Bakugou, Fumikage, Iida, Kaminari, Momo, Kirishima, Ochako, and Sero. Aizawa jerked his thumb towards the results. "It's usually more balanced than this, but this year all the attention went towards those two at the top."
Mina puffed up her cheeks in indignation. "You know, I thought I did pretty good! Stupid adults…"
For once, Aoyama agreed with her. "Those professionals have no eye for talent~"
Kyoka had an eyebrow raised at the results. "Todoroki was not even in the finals and he still got the first place in the offers while Lucina, the champion, is in second place? Why?"
Todoroki grimaced. "A lot of those are probably because of my father…"
Lucina just hopes most of those offers are not about getting her to be the bride to some son of a pro-hero. She still shivers whenever she remembers Endeavor was trying to convince her to be Todoroki's bride. She takes a quick look at Todoroki; she is surprised to see the burn mark is gone and she feels he is now ok.
"Regardless of whether you got a nomination or not, I'll be having you all go get some "work-place experience" with pro heroes," Aizawa went on. "But if you're all gonna hit the streets with pros and work with them, you'll need code names. That's what you'll be doing until lunchtime- come up with your hero names. You don't have to decide on something permanent now, but you better start thinking about it."
"It'll be a hassle to deal with later if you don't!"
All eyes flew to the door as Midnight walked in, flashing Aizawa a grin. The male hero grunted in agreement. "The image you project to the public will depend a lot on your names. If there's something in particular you want to symbolize, pick a name to match it. For example, All Might."
They spent the next fifteen minutes coming up with names and ideas. Lucina remembered her time when she was Izuku; Izuku's hero name always involved All Might. But she knew what her hero name would be. She admired this hero more than All Might himself and she will take his name once more. Once the fifteen minutes were up, the students were surprised when Midnight announced they'd be presenting those names to their class.
The first one to go was Aoyama.
"The Shining Hero: I Can Not Stop Twinkling!"
That's a full sentence! The thought of everyone
After Midnight made it shorter ( Can't Stop Twinkling), she approved the name. Laurent was dumbstoke; he could not believe Midnight had approved such a ridiculous name. Neither did Lucina. She thought Midnight had more sense than this. Then it was Mina's turn; she chose "Alien Queen" which was reproved on the spot. Lucina knew it must be to do with the movie they watched a couple of days ago. Midnight hated horror movies and the Alien movie scared the shit out of the older woman and Noire. And unfortunately they both had nightmares which did not make Lucina's sleep any better that night.
But things returned to normal once Tsuyu introduced her hero name; Froppy. After this, most of the names flowed smoothly. Red Riot, Earphone Jack, Tentacole, Cellophane, Tail Man, Sugar Man, Pinky, Chargebolt, Invisible Girl, Creatie, Tsukuyomi, and Anima were all approved by the class and Midnight.
Todoroki opted for just his first name. He hadn't been able to think up a name that really suited him, and so kept his everyday name instead.
Then Bakugou Katsuki came along…
"King Explosion Murder," Katsuki announced with a diabolical grin.
Needless to say, that was shot down immediately. His revision, "Lord Explosion Murder" was also rejected ( Byleth who was invisible to everyone just sighed in disappointment. She had warned Katsuki the name would be reproved and the blond did not listen to her.).
Iida introduced his hero name.
"The Speeding Hero: Senna!"
"Oh Senna? Is there any chance you're talking about Ayrton Senna? The Pilot racer from the pre-quirk era?" Midnight asks, curious
"Yes ma'am. " Iida nods "When I was training to get better control over my speed in some situations like bad weather, my brother suggested that I should watch some old pre-quirk racing videos. Ayrton Senna had caught my attention because even when the rain was bad, he still managed to win the race. And he even managed to win a lot of races while using a racing car less developed than his rivals."
"Senna was a great racer in his time. I approve. You better to live up this name,"
"Yes ma'am!"
Now it was their turn. Laurent was still asking why they were doing such a silly thing. Lucina just chuckled and told him to just get along with this. They were not in their world anymore, so they needed to follow their rules. Yarne was the first one to go
"My hero name is Bunny." he says, a little embarrassed.
Lucina smiled sadly. It was that nickname that person used to call him. Looked like Yarne wanted to use it as a way to homanage her.
Midnight approved the name.
Laurent's hero name was Wizard, which is what he was, a wizard. Noire came up just as Archer Girl. Gerome came up with Wyvern Rider. Lucina could not help, except for Yarne, they all used their classes as their hero names.
Then, finally came her turn. She showed her hero name with pride before everyone in her class. Gerome, Yarne, Laurent and Noire all smiled when they read the name on the board.
"The Azure Hero; Marth." she says, with pride in her chest.
"Marth?" Midnight asks, curious.
Lucina explains Marth was a legendary hero king from her realm. He was a hero who defeated an evil Dragon and he was one of the very first of Falchion's holders. He also was blessed by Naga herself. Marth was the hero she admired most and the one who gave her hope when things were bad back in their realm.
"You're taking the name of the hero you admire most. Are you ready to live up with this name in our world?" Midnight asks.
"I am, Ma'am." Lucina smiles. "I am."
The name part was easy. Now here comes with the more difficult and challenging part: choosing the Hero agency.
Lucina could not help but to groan when she saw the giant pile of offer papers on her desk. Which one to choose? She got more than 10 thousand offers! When she picked the first one from the top, she frowned when she saw the first one she picked was from Endeavor's agency. The paper soon became a pile of ashes with her fire magic.
"That one was a bad one?" asked Iida behind her.
Lucina groans in anger.
"You have no idea. This guy just wants me in his agency because he wants to convince me to be his son's bride." Lucina says
Lucina did not want to mention Endeavor's name because she did not want any troubles for her or for Todoroki from this. He already had enough problems with that man as his father.
Iida looked at her with sympathy; he knew whenever a girl gets in the top 10 of UA's sport festival, there was always the possibility most of the offers they get involve getting the girl to be the bride to some son of a pro-hero or to some son of a rich man. And poor Lucina would not know which ones were the serious ones. Then, he remembered his brother had mentioned he had sent an offer to Lucina.
"Why don't you come with me to my brother's agency?" Iida asks
Lucina looks at him in confusion. Iida explains that his brother is Iida Tensei and he is known as the turbo hero Ingenium. Lucina remembers Ingenium; he was a very popular hero when she was still Izuku. If she is not mistaken, Ingenium values teamwork, believing that having a large group where everyone serves a specific purpose is the easiest way to rescue people quickly.
"My brother is a great man and his offer is a serious one. I guarantee he sees you as a great potential being a hero. Last night he mentioned to me he had sent you an offer for an internship. I believe you will be better at Team Idaten Agency. I am going there for my internship since it was my brother who taught me everything I know." Iida says
Lucina places her and on her chin and starts to think. In fact Ingenium could be a good choice for her. Beside laying low for a while, Lucina knows his offer might be a serious one. And she gets a bonus for Iida is going to be there as well. Izuku's death may have happened almost a year ago but years passed much faster in Ylisse than in this realm. She is not used to the things of this world anymore. Iida being with her will help her a lot.
"Sure, I think it's a great idea. That way I would not be alone."
After an hour she finally found Team Idaten's internship offer. She signed the offer and she happily handed it to Aizawa. As for the other offers? Well, Lucina burned them all in the school's incinerator.
Iida was scared when he saw Lucina had a demoniac smile in her face while burning those papers.
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Manami was trembling in fear as Inko was watching her over her shoulder like a hawk. The girl was hacking UA's database to look for where Bakugou Katsuki was going for his hero internshi. And she found it.
"H-he is going t-to the Genius Office. T-the agency belongs to...to the hero Best Jeanist."
Inko smiles as her eyes had a feral look. Finally she would get justice on her son's main tormentador.
End of the chapter
A/n; And that is the ending of the chapter!
I always had this headcanon where Iida's plan was going to have his internship at Team Idaten Agency if it wasn't for Stain attacking and cripping Tensei. Since Stain never attacked Tensei in this story universe, Iida has no reason for going to Manual's hero Agency and he went to Team Idaten instead.
What do you think about Iida's new hero name? For those who do not know, Ayrton Senna was a great racing pilot in his time. He managed to win a race when the rain was really bad and with a less developed car than his other rivals. He is a national hero from Brazil and he was very loved by Japanese People. Sadly he passed away at the height of his career, on May 1st in the year 1994, in an accident that took his life during his last race. But he left a great legacy on Formula One races, not only for the inspiration of future racing pilots but also his death was responsible for the development of new safety rules, so that deaths like his never occur again in the Formula One races
And after a lot of thinking, I finally decided to have Lucina going to Idaten as well. She and Iida will have an important role for the story's next arc.
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