The next day
The two best friends walked out the dining hall, "I can't believe we nearly missed breakfast!" Mira said with an annoyed look at his friend.
"I can't believe we have to get up so early" Hayate yawned, "just for a bite to eat."
"Well maybe you should have, I don't know... GOT UP AT THE RIGHT TIME!" Mira exploded at the boy.
"Dude chill, unlike you I don't usually wake up at 6 in the morning" Hayate replied shrugging a cheeky smirk.
"Really dude?" Mira groaned, "let's just hope we aren't late to class."
"Erm... excuse me?" an unknown voice spoke up from behind the duo.
He was a tall kid, about 6'2", with dark brown hair, and dark brown eyes that gave a warm glance through black spectacles. "Do either of you know where the classroom for 1-A is?" He inquired with an accent foreign to the two.
Mira and Hayate gave the guy a confused look, "yeah... we're on our way there now" Hayate replied.
1-A Classroom
As the three entered the classroom, Mira asked, "did you need to speak with Ms Hydra? You could have just gone to the faculty office."
But before the kid could reply, Ms Red said abruptly, "there he is! Here's our second 'missing' student!" She shifted to Blue, who stared at Mira and Hayate blankly, "nearly starting a fight on your first day, and tardiness on your second boys? You need to pick it up, get to your seats then."
Once sat down, Mira noticed the other student standing before the class. She was about the same height as Ms Hydra, with dark blue hair, thought her stare was a cold as ice with her royal purple eyes. Scorn was spread across it, as though she hated everything, Mira could feel her contempt from near the back of the class!
"Alright you two" Ms Red began, "introduce yourselves to your new classmates!"
The boy stared first confidently, "sup everyone! I'm Kye Ignatus, a recommendee, you can tell from my accent that I'm not from here like you lot... I'm from the U.K, so coming to a school in Japan is pretty awesome to me! I hope my three years here will be full of great memories!" After his quick introduction he walked over to his seat in front of Mira.
'His Japanese is pretty good for a foreign student" Mira thought watching his new classmate, 'he seems cool - but what about her...' her turned to the girl still standing.
"I'm Kori Esupa" she stated apathetically, and made her way to her seat.
The entire class was shocked 'really? That's all?!' They thought.
Now class 1-A was complete, their education could commence. The typical day was quite simple:
They had 2 hours of general studies, like learning English with Present Mic or reading literature with Ms Red and doing tons of boring maths equations with Ms Blue or watching Ms Yellow conduct crazy experiments (most of which ended with explosions of course). And an hour of creative studies like art, music even sports!
But after a lunch break, the real learning began...
Hero training!
U.A Boys Locker Room
Mira opened his costume case. An eager grin spread on his face as he stared at his own hero costume. It was black boots with a grey jumpsuit, which had light armour under it for decent defence, with metal strips spread across the arms, chest and legs, 'they got the right colour, I asked for a sturdy, light and flexible material for those strips' Mira thought as he slipped on his suit. He stretched and did a few small jumps, 'It's a good fit, not that heavy and the strips don't obstruct any movements!' he smirked flexing his arms, "it's perfect!" He stated.
"Looking good hero!" A friendly voice said behind Mira, it was Hayate. He was wearing an orange gilet, over a black long-sleeved T-shirt with black baggy pants and black and orange boots, and a utility belt. His gilet had a logo on the top left of a H going through a portal.
"Not bad yourself Hayate" Mira replied, "the support companies got my costume down to a tee!"
Hayate smiled warmly at his friend, "woah I never thought I would see the day! it's good to finally see a big, stupid grin on your face dude."
Mira looked at him shocked, and then replied with a short laugh, "yeah... I guess it is."
"Nice 'costume' Mira" Okoma sneered walking over to the two. He wore a bodysuit along his collar that appeared to be made out of lion pelt, with a large gap down the centre of his torso show off his massive muscles and lion fur lining the edges of the suit and collar.
Hayate was going to confront the bully, but Mira put an arm out, and chuckled at Okoma's sarcasm, "oh, you haven't seen nothing yet..." as his Shadow Matter formed around himself lengthening and hardening into a knight's armour. Okoma stared, mouth agape at the dark figure, who stared back at him with a smug grin.
U.A Campus Grounds
The two halves of the class had met up again and Angel approached the two in her own costume:
She was wearing a bright white and gold breastplate with chainmail at her lower torso and golden feather-like shoulder-guards, with a pair of golden bracelets. She had a long white skirt that hid the bright white armour that she was wearing on her left leg but showed off the armour that she was wearing on her right one.
"Guys!" Angel said sweetly as she ran over to the two, "you both look amazing!"
"And you look just as stunning as always, my Goddess!" Hayate flirted, reaching in for a kiss and getting knocked out again my Mira's swift neck chop.
"And we'll be back... later... you do look good though!" Mira yelled, dragging the collapsed Hayate off the bathroom.
"...thanks" Angel muttered, a tiny blush appearing on her face.
U.A Training Ground Alpha
Class 1-A walked proudly towards their hero course mentor through the disaster zone, wearing their incredibly awesome hero costumes! Satori made her way over to Sei, slightly red, "Erm, Sei?" She asked, "I was Just wondering... where's your costume?" the entire class stopped and looked at the two, many of them surprised that they never noticed!
"Well... I'm a robot" Sei replied nonchalantly standing free with his steel body gleaming in the bright sun, "I don't have any 'features' that require obscuring with clothing, so I just decided to go with this! Trust me, I'm sturdy enough. Though my creator, Dr Sakusei, did give me this neat retractable mouthplate!" He pointed to his mouth and two sheets of steel slid across his jaw and covered his mouth, to most of the classes amazement.
The hero course mentor for 1-A was a man, around 6 feet in height with messy long dark hair, unkempt facial hair and half-opened black eyes; he looked pretty exhausted, like he wanted to be somewhere else right now - wearing a black long sleeved shirt and pants that were tucked in to his boots. However, everyone knew exactly who he was just by noticing the grey scarf that was wrapped around his neck. It was Shota Aizawa, the Erasure Hero - Eraserhead.
"You all need to get here sooner, wasting even minutes is highly irrational, especially in a rescue or combat setting" Aizawa stated, receiving a "yes Sir!" from the class. "Introductions are also a waste of time, however the Principal wants me to... I'm Mr Aizawa and I'll be your Hero Course mentor for your three years here." He mumbled.
'He sure is enthusiastic about this' Mira thought to himself.
"Now that intros are done" a chilling smile appeared on Aizawa's face, as he took a remote out of his pocket "how about I throw you all into the deep end already?" He pressed a button, and sirens began to screech! Soon, the ground began to shake violently, dirt and rocks started to jut out of the ground and buildings toppled over.
"It's an earthquake!" Taro exclaimed. Soon after the devastation, a large stampede of small blue robots started to make their way to the group of young heroes. Everyone got ready to defend themselves, taking up their battle stances - but the bots scattered!
"Not everything coming towards you is always out to attack you" Aizawa said, reprimanding the class for that action, "I don't want to see that happening again, it's highly irrational. You might as well drop out right now if you think you'll do it again, even on reflex" he pointed to one of the blue robots still fleeing the area . "Those are 'Civ-bots' and it's your job to get them all to safety..." a loud thumping noise arose from where the Civ-bots were running from, "from them" Aizawa finished, as he pointed behind him to tons of Ultrabots coming round the corner and making their way to 1-A.
"The 100 pointers?!" Many from the class exclaimed. Mira and Hayate were the only students that took one of those down, so a lot of the class were thinking 'could I do the same?'
"Heroes faces trials like this on a daily basis" Aizawa informed the class, "now... it's your turn."
"Angel, lets form an aerial team and search for some of the Civ-bots from the skies" Sei requested, Angel nodded and both took flight, with Sei blasting up into the air with his rocket feet.
Hayate, Taro, Oma, Satoru, Daigo, Kusaki and Shin formed a ground team to help look for more Civ-bots. Kori ran off to deal with it on her own, and the rest charged into the fray - ready to fight.
Yokina webbed the legs of the Ultrabots with her launchers and stuck them together; Okoma and Satori broke through them all with terrifying strength; the new boy, Kye flew through with his feet ablaze! Melting the giant robots with spiral flames jetting from his palms.
One bot was about to slam its arm right down on Satori, but before it could an arrow whizzed through the air, embedding itself in the robot's arm joint and detonating! "Thanks!" Satori yelled at the distance Fukuro, who responded with a thumbs up.
Mira grabbed a broken piece of railing, creating a black longsword out of it. He leapt up at an Ultrabot, his blade glowing a dim purple, "Half Moon!" He yelled as he slashed the blade vertically, and the mega-robo split in two with a perfect slice. As he jumped through he moved towards the others, halving them all with his special move. After the fifth slice, he landed and ran round a corner to take a quick breather, "so my limit with 'Half Moon' is only five" he said to himself panting.
He looked up and watched his classmates take down all the bots. Okoma was monstrous, in form and mind, and was easily ripping through them all. However, in his frenzy, he didn't notice the Ultrabot right behind him, sending both its machine arms down at him. Mira tried to run over as fast as he could, "Okoma, watch out!" He screamed.
A red blur raced towards the scene, "HIGHFIRE... SMASH!" slamming right into the attacking robot, and punching straight through it! "Full power!" A flaming Kye yelled, successfully saving Okoma from a crushing strike. He landed, molten metal flying everywhere as the robot melted into a gross clump. His flames vanished from his body as he made his way to Okoma, "you alright man?"
Okoma shoved him onto the floor, "WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT?!" He roared, with an intense fury in his glowing eyes, locked right onto Kye, "I COULD'VE HANDLED IT! I DON'T NEED ANYONE'S HELP - EVER! ESPECIALLY NOT FROM A FLAMING BASTARD LIKE YOU!" He swung his massive dark blue fist at the still completely shocked Kye on the ground - but before the fist could make contact, Okoma immediately reverted to his normal form! Grey cloth wrapped around him, subduing the furious boy, "Grr! What is this? Why can't I use my quirk?"
Eraserhead walked towards the mess holding his grey scarf, his now glowing red eyes staring at Okoma with the same ferocity that Okoma gave Kye. "Our first lesson and you're already making me use my quirk?" Okoma turned to glare at the one responsible for his situation, instantly switching to terror once he realised who did it, "Highly irrational. Don't you know I have dry eyes!"
Meanwhile, the ground and aerial teams were doing a good job rounding up most of the Civ-bots. They split into groups of 4 and 5 with Angel helping out Hayate, Oma and Kusaki - while Sei aided Taro, Shin, Daigo and Satoru.
Angel spotted a group of Civ-bots moving through a block of broken buildings. "Found three more over here!" She called out to her group, and the 3 started to follow her. She dove down into the alley where the bots were moving. "Gotcha!" She said smiling as she scooped up the three bots. Their flashed red screens changed to a calm light green, as they made happy beeping noises, "awww, that so cute."
"Nice! I think those are the last ones!" Hayate stated, "lets get back to the-" but before he could finish, a piece of wall from a building next to Angel broke of and fell towards her! "Angel! Look out!" Hayate yelled pointing above her head. She look up, and put a wing up in front of herself...
But it never landed. Angel opened her eyes and removed her wing to see the section of wall floating in midair!
"Move." A cold, commanding voice ordered from Angel's left. It was Kori, her arm outstretched and her dark blue lenses on her purple mask glowing. Angel moved out of the way, feeling like some unknown force was pushing her to a new position. The glow in Kori's eyes disappeared and the rock suspended in the air dropped quickly.
Kori walked silently through the group, emotionless. As she passed Angel she spoke up, "erm.. thanks Kori!" But Kori gave no response, not even acknowledging Angel's gratitude.
"Huh... wonder what's her problem" Hayate asked.
"It must have something to do with 'them'" Kusaki replied.
"'Them'?" Hayate asked confused.
"You've never heard of the Esupa Cult?" Kusaki answered, surprised at her classmate's lack of knowledge, "while everyone in the cult adopted the surname 'Esupa', the only two in the cult that had telekinesis quirks were the leaders, Kara and Konnor. The Esupa Cult was notorious for doing terrible 'battle rituals' to produce members with powerful quirks. Eventually the leaders disappeared." her attitude saddened, "if she really was their daughter, it must've been a terrible childhood. And I can only imagine how it must of felt to be label as a 'child of villains'."
"Woah.." both Hayate and Angel muttered, shocked and amazed at Kusaki's surprisingly large knowledge of such a macabre topic.
"The mission is complete" Aizawa voice rang through the speakers around the training grounds, "all of you make your way to where we started."
"For your first time doing anything like this, you all did pretty decent, I definitely saw the teamwork that Ms Hydra told me about. Well done" the class lit up after receiving good feedback, but immediately died back down as Aizawa continued, "but... that doesn't mean that you don't have room for improvement."
"Okoma, Satori" the two jumped as Aizawa's tired eyes locked on to them, "you both have amazing power but that doesn't make you invincible, be more aware of your surroundings, you're not always gonna be in a situation were someone has your back."
He then switched over to Angel, "same goes for you" to which Angel apologised, slightly red with embarrassment.
"Kye, I saw you use up all your power with that one attack. A highly irrational strategy, even if it was to protect someone" Okoma shook with anger after having to remember the moment, "heroes always try to avoid putting themselves in compromising situations whenever possible, so try to tone it back a bit." Kye nodded confident, taking his mentor's advice to heart.
"And what I've said applies to all of you. Now that you've had your first taste of hell, you can all make your way back to your dorms now." Aizawa stated, and the class made their way out the training grounds, successfully completing their first hero course lesson.
As Mira began to exit, he felt a hand land on his right shoulder, belonging to Aizawa, "actually, I have something I need to talk about with you specifically." The two made their way to one of the alleys. Aizawa began, "Mira, the way you dealt with the Ultrabots, was with your special move right?" Mira nodded silently, wondering where this was going, "well, I'm gonna be blunt with you. A move like that, will never work in the hero world."
Mira stood there completely stunned! 'Half Moon', a move he had worked hard developing and mastering with Lt Kebou had been shattered to pieces by a single comment. "B-but... why?!" He sputtered.
"Well an obvious reason is, it's too lethal. If that move can cut 3 tons of steel like butter, then imagine what it would do to a human."
"Why does that matter?!" Mira replied angered, "the people I'd use it on are bad anyways! Rapists, murderers, terrorists... THEY ALL MAKE ME SICK! If they're ready to take lives from innocent people they should be ready to lose their own!"
Aizawa gave Mira a very stern look, instantly silencing the fuming child, "they may commit many disgusting atrocities... but they're still human. And if we start taking lives, we become no better than the people we spend our time bringing to justice. If you truly believe a move like that will bring any justice to this world... then you might as well pack up your things right now." Aizawa walked off, finished with his feedback. 'He's definitely 'his' son alright' He thought.
Before the exam
Kebou Household
"Hey Mira, how much do you know about physics?" Lt Kebou asked.
Mira replied confused, "not that much, but I get by in school."
Kebou chuckled, "really? I thought you would've loved it, since it applies so much to your quirk."
"Eh? How so?" He asked.
Lt Kebou thought, placing a hand on his chin, then replied, "well if you think about it, solid matter is just energy in a condensed state. Therefore, you must be condensing energy from your surroundings to produce Shadow Matter!"
Mira stared at Kebou, dumbfounded that he never thought of why his quirk works the way it does. But then an idea popped into his head. "Hmm, what if, I can find a midway, between energy and Shadow Matter?! Surly that'll power up my quirk even more!"
Lt Kebou smiled, "we've got two weeks, better get to practicing then."
U.A Training Ground Alpha
Mira stood their for a few minutes, reflecting on Aizawa's words... and snapped.
"DAMMIT!" He screamed, slamming his fist into a broken wall, causing it to crumble before him - and he walked back to his dorm, utterly defeated.
Heights Alliance
After cooling down a bit, Mira returned to see most of the class chilling in the living room. Most of the girls were chatting with each other, Oma and Taro were in the middle of an intense game of chess, Okoma was probably brooding upstairs and the rest were sitting round the TV. Hayate noticed him coming and yelled, "dude come over! Its the Superball National Championship Final!" Mira raced over to get a seat. Superball was Mira's passion, he absolutely adored the sport.
Superball was a recently new sport, that set itself apart from the classics by being one of the only sports out there that gave the players full usage of their quirks. The court was small and boxed like a squash court with one large hole on two opposite sides and a big red line that halved to two areas.
The rules were simple - it was teams of 4, you scored points by throwing the ball into the opponents goal or by hitting one of the opponents body, a body-shot earned 2 points and a goal earned 5 points. After 20 minutes whoever had the most points won. The ball was extremely bouncy and fast, so it was really hard to see or catch without accidentally getting hit by it and conceding a point.
Though quirk usage wasn't completely limited, there were rules on it: you couldn't use them across the red line, or to block up the goal so the ball can't land in it, if you can cover your body with your quirk it will prevent the receptors from triggering but you can only cover up two parts of your body (each leg and arm each counted as one).
Everyone in the dorms were rooting form their city's team, the Musutafu Minotaurs, as they faced off against their rivals, the Fukuoka Falcons in the finals.
The group watched on, both teams gracefully evading and deflecting the ball with their quirks and physical strengths. The lead went back and forth, at one point the Falcons were in the lead, then the Minotaurs - 5 seconds later, Fukuoka had gained a 10-point lead on Musutafu! Fukuro, who was with them, looked at Kye, "Is Superball this awesome back in the U.K Kye?" She asked.
"Well, football will always be our national sport but, I'd say Superball's a close second nowadays!" Kye responded.
The game was close, but the Minotaurs landed an impressive quadruple body-shot in the last few minutes and had won the National Championship. They all celebrated "Haha!" Hayate laughed, "Fukuoka didn't stand a chance!"
"Everyone!" Satori announced, gaining everyone's attention, "some of us are gonna be going to the mall tomorrow, so I thought that maybe it'd be a good idea to get everyone to come, you know, to get to know everyone a bit more!" Almost everyone (except Okoma, who was upstairs) agreed to come. Tomorrow was the weekend, so they were free to do whatever they wanted (as long as they got back before their 8 o'clock curfew). Everyone, except Kori, who just sat there on the couch, quietly reading her book and ignoring everything and everyone around her.
"Kori? You're gonna come too right?" Kye said, placing a hand on her right shoulder. Instantly Kori turned, her royal purple eyes glowed as she looked at him - soon, Kye was flung across the room! Though he wasn't touched by anything, it was like a force had just grabbed and chucked him towards the stairs!
'Guess that's a no...' the rest of them thought.
"Gotcha..." Kye replied, half-dazed, "don't make contact with Kori... ever."
Mira's room
The bright moon illuminated Mira's dark, dull room. He lay on his bed, absently staring at his ceiling and listening to the cicada's midnight chirping. He mind wondered, and he reflected back at his confrontation with Eraserhead. 'If you truly believe a move like that will bring any justice to this world... then you might as well pack up your things right now...' he couldn't stop thinking about it.
'I worked so hard on that move!' Mira whined to himself, 'and there's no way I'm gonna just abandon it, so that leaves me with two choices: leave... or improve it.' He sat up, staring hard at himself, "errrgh! But how do I do that?!" He exclaimed, scratching his head frantically. He sighed, "guess I gotta do what I'm good at... train!" He smirked eagerly.
The next day
Kori, Sei, Shin and Hayate came down to get some early breakfast. "Mira, are ya down here? You weren't in ya room" Hayate yawned, "I got up early this time, so let's go ea-"
"Wait!" Sei interrupted, "who's that outside?" He pointed to the back yard, where Mira, wearing his U.A gym kit, was currently striking at a black training dummy with a dark sword, the way he struck it seemed weird though, it appeared as though his slash had missed but the dummy still got hit by something, they couldn't even see the blade after he swung and a strange sound could be heard faintly even though the group were a good distance from Mira.
"Hey! Mira! What're ya doing?!" Hayate yelled, but Mira was in mid swing! The sudden yell from Hayate threw Mira off, and his outside swing with this blade released a dark, shadowy energy in a crescent-like shape, and it was making its way over to the spectating four.
"Oh shit!" Mira yelled, completely stunned at the situation that had arose, "look out! Get away from it now!" He warned. The crescent zoomed across the air, closing in quick on the others. Instantly Kori stood in front of the other 3 and activated her quirk, halting the attack. Suddenly the shadow bursted, with a BOOM! Kori winced a bit, the glow in her eyes instantly fading - and the four were pushed back to the glass door that split off the backyard, with the resulting intense air pressure from the explosion!
Mira ran over flustered, "crap! Kori I'm super sorry, it was an accident - please don't punt me like you did with Kye yesterday..."
"Hey! You nearly killed us too!" Hayate added pointing at himself and the other 2. Mira braced himself, ready to accept Kori's wrath - only to hear the glass door slide open, and she left the dorm in her usual no-response attitude.
"What was that?!" Taro yelled, as he and the rest of the class ran into the living room panicked.
All of 1-A's eyes were on Mira, as he ran his hand through his hair and looked up into the sky, he smiled a bit, "well... I just got stronger."
Kiyashi Ward Shopping Mall
The mall was immense. An outside mall with 3 levels which held hundreds of shops. The majority of them sold items that were specifically made for mutants, which made it a highly populated area all year round. The place also had tons of places you could go to have a good time, cinemas, arcades, restaurants and even karaoke!
Class 1-A (minus Kori and Okoma) moved along the busy crowd on the long yellow bricked walkway, excited for the day. Kye looked around in wonder, he seemed more like a tourist than a foreign exchange student.
"Okay! Let's all meet back at the entrance before we leave." Taro ordered.
"Woah, what are you - Class President?" Hayate joked, receiving a smug smirk from Taro.
"Actually... I am!" Taro exclaimed, pushing his glasses up in pride, "me and Vice President Sei must've been the only ones who paid attention to Ms Blue when she told us to apply."
"Dang!" Hayate muttered clenching his fist hard, "her voice is just so... boring! Pay attention? I can't even stay awake in maths!"
The class split up: Angel, Satori, Yokina and Shin were going clothes shopping (though Shin was shopping alone since 'no-one can bare to witness his true elegance for too long'); Taro and Satoru were heading to the bookstore; Oma, Daigo and Fukuro bolted straight to the arcade and the rest, carried on looking for fun.
"So what's the plan bro?" Hayate asked, getting bored from just walking, "maybe we should've just joined Oma and Fukuro."
"We can do that later" Mira replied, "how about a movie guys?" He asked, Kye and Sei gave Mira the 'sure!' shrug, and Kusaki zoomed right up to him.
"A horror movie! That would suffice" Kusaki exclaimed, Mira could see she was really hyped up for this, "we have a multitude of options: 'The Silencing', 'Bump in the Night 2', 'Murder Storm'!" As listed she counted the movies, getting more and more excited after each movie.
"Wait they made a sequel?!" Kye stated shocked, "'Bump in the Night' was sooo good! Let's go watch that!"
"Hmm" Sei was wondering, "Dr Sakusei never let me watch horror movies, though I found trailers on the internet and they looked fascinating! So sure!"
"I really don't mind" Mira stated, "I haven't watched a horror movie in years, let's hope there all still decent, you two will have to give us a quick rundown on 'Bump in the Night' though."
Hayate looked at each of them as they talked about how pumped they were for the movie, with Kye and Kusaki giving a short synopsis as they made their way to the cinema. 'Crap! I hate horror movies, and from how those two are describing it, there are probably gonna be tons of jumpscares too! I've gotta persuade them to watch something else!'
"Wait guys" Hayate said interrupting Kye and Kusaki's summary, "what about that new 'Quick and the Quirky' movie? Car chases, explosions and superheroes! Can't say no to that."
The four in front turned with a skeptical look on all there faces, "you wanna watch a trashy car action movie that has way too many sequels, over the sequel to a literal masterpiece of horror media?" Kye asked completely stunned.
"Nah, Hayate's just scared of horror movies" Mira replied with a smirk directed at Hayate.
"NO I'M NOT!" Hayate reacted, "ahem, I mean, you have no way to prove that's true."
"Yeah I do" Mira replied, his smirk turning into a cunning smile, "let's go watch the movie guys! Oh... you don't have to watch if you don't want to dude, but you said you ain't scared, so it shouldn't be a big deal."
'Crap! He's got me!' Hayate thought panicking internally, 'I can't back down now!'
In the meantime, Angel, Satori and Yokina were whizzing round a boutique, trying on tons of new outfits and helping each other find clothes that were cute and chic.
They had just finished and were changing back into their casual clothes in the changing rooms, and were chatting through the thin walls that divided them.
"Aah! That was great!" Satori sighed, "I haven't gone shopping with friends in a really long time."
"Yeah, I barely ever used to go clothes shopping back home, let alone with friends - I didn't think it would be so fun!" Yokina replied.
"And we all found stuff we liked" Angel replied, "we had to through so many other places though!"
They all laughed, "but it was worth it, this place's clothes were all so cute I couldn't decide!" Yokina added.
"Yep, and a girl needs to look cute... especially you Angel, if your gonna wanna impress Mira." Satori joked.
"Eh?!" Angel replied red in the face, she forgot that when Yokina ran out on the two that one time, Satori (Angel's room neighbour), was leaving her room as well and heard what Yokina said about Mira and Angel being a couple. "Satori!" She whined.
"Sorry, sorry" Satori replied as the two laughed and left the rooms, "I think Yokina's already waiting outside, so let's go and catch up with her."
As the two made their way towards their friend outside the boutique, they noticed another person, wearing a hoodie, jeans and trainers all black, with his face obscured by the hood. The figure bumped right into Yokina, knocking her over as she quickly looked over and apologised, "sorry, I-"
"You should watch were your walking... freak." The hooded man stated in a nasty, belittling tone, staring down at the spider girl as if she was literally an insect.
"HEY!" Satori yelled at the man, "don't you dare talk to our friend like that!" The man turned to the two girls, giving them a good look at the face that was hidden under the hood, he had a large scar across his face, from the top of his face that crossed his left eye, something about him seemed - off. Or even...
Villainous.
"Heh" the man sneered, "this is a free country, I can say whatever the hell I want, and I definitely ain't gonna stop just because some high school bitch told me not to."
"You bastard..." Satori mutter, she was absolutely ready to deal out an amplified punch straight to this man's filthy mouth - but Yokina intervened.
"Satori, don't." Yokina stated, placing a snow white hand in front of Satori, "let's just leave him alone."
"Heh, smart choice" the man replied, and slinked off quietly.
"I hate asshats like him" Satori said, glaring daggers at the hooded man.
"Are you alright Yokina?" Angel asked.
"Yeah, don't worry" Yokina replied, "it's nothing I can't handle."
"Well, we aren't gonna let that guy ruin our day!" Satori exclaimed, to the other two's confusion, as she pointed to a text on her phone, "the rest of the class are having an okonomiyaki party!"
Glasses clang, as the class sat round a giant frying table, where a large robot stood round the stove and prepared the huge pancake. Taro talked about an interesting book on quirk genetics he found with Satoru, while Oma and Fukuro talked about their hellish endeavour beating a decade old high score. Mira joked about how his group were nearly kicked out of the cinema cause of Hayate's screaming (to Hayate's displeasure), and the three girls talked about their encounter with a 'creepy hooded figure' before they came over.
The massive okonomiyaki was complete, and the entire class enjoyed their feast, ripping it to pieces in minutes. "Huh, I didn't think this could be so tasty! With the whole 'fried cabbage pancake' thing you guys told me about. Man, Japanese food is awesome." Kye said, munching contently on his piece of the meal.
"You really are a tourist aren't ya" Daigo joked.
"Speaking of which, how come your Japanese is so good Kye, I wouldn't expect that many people in the U.K to be speaking the language in day-to-day life." Yokina inquired, as the entire class focused on him, interested in their foreign friend.
"W-well" Kye replied getting slightly red in the face, "I... really like anime."
'Eh? That's it?' Everyone thought, surprised at the response.
"Really!" Daigo exclaimed, his eyes sparkling, "which ones? I'm a huge JayJays fan."
"I've heard of JayJays but I've never really watched it" Kye replied, "I really love shows like St. Seiya and Dragonorb though."
"Watch it." Daigo commanded, with a fiery glow in his eyes.
"Hehe, I'll get to it eventually" Kye responded, "but yeah, I spent a lot of time learning Japanese because I eventually wanted to be able to watch it raw, also I wanted to visit this country for a while and I felt that learning the language would be important."
"So how long have you been learning for?" Yokina asked.
Kye's face went even redder, as he scratched the back of his head and looked down, "5... years."
"What! You started when you were ten?!" Satori exclaimed.
"Japanese is not an easy language to learn, you must've learnt how to read and write in kanji and hiragana too, it would've taken an extensive amount of time... impressive" Taro commended.
"Well I had a lot of time to practice - most kids my age were outside, practicing with their quirks... but, I was quirkless for a while." Kye added, "I actually only received my quirk when I was 13!"
'What!' Mira thought, 'he only had 2 years to work on that quirk and he's already gotten it to that level of power! No wonder he's a recommendee'. He thought back to Kye's Highfire Smash, 'he's probably even more amazing than a typical recommendee'.
"What training did you do to get your quirk to that level?" Taro asked staring intensely at Kye.
"Oh, it was insanity! My uncle and auntie put me through hell. You see, they're both heroes that are really famous around the country, the Storm Hero: Tempra and the Red-Hot Hero: Magma. All that quirk and combat training we did helped me whip my quirk into tip-top shape!"
'So cool!' The class thought as they stared at the boy, starry eyed.
The sun was coming down, painting a bright orange in the sky as the class began leaving the mall, "Phew" Hayate sighed, "I'm stuffed, we even have leftovers for the two 'edgy' ones."
Mira and Kye were walking out, behind to rest of the class, when all of a sudden, a loud scream could be heard behind them. They turned around and spotted a man dressed in all black, running from a woman who was flat on the ground, with a purse in his hand.
"Oi!" Kye screamed, "get back here you purse-snatcher!" He began to give chase to the hooded man.
"Hayate!" Mira yelled, instantly getting his attention, "Kye's chasing a criminal, I'm gonna go help him, you help that woman and call a security guard!" Hayate nodded, and Mira dashed off.
Kye had chased the assailant, zooming through the hundreds of people still swarming the area, the hooded man turned into a dark alleyway with no one around, Kye ran in...
THWACK!
Kye laid on the ground, completely dazed from the surprise attack. "Heh." The hooded man chuckled, as he and two other similarly dressed henchmen made their way over to the downed student, "You ain't safe now. Ya know, kids these days are getting way too arrogant, thinking they're superior to everyone around them! Guess we gotta discipline ya and teach ya to keep the hero stuff to the heroes!"
THWACK!
Instantly the hooded man fell to the floor, his large left-side scar on his face revealing itself under the black hood. He looked up to see the one who dared to attack him. "Like hell you will, asshole." Mira said, cracking his knuckles and taking up an offensive stance.
The other two came in to strike at Mira, but the blows were being evaded easily, as she side-stepped each attack, parrying one and dealing a powerful punch to the stomach of crony no. 1.
Kye came too, and saw Mira protecting him from in front. He was getting pushed back, the remaining two both used their quirks, both bulking up into goliath-like physiques. The punches were much harder for Mira to avoid, and hurt much more when he did get hit. The larger of the two landed a hit that almost broke Mira's arms as it flung him into a pile of trash. "Just give up! If ya back down now and ditch ya friend we won't have to pummel ya into the ground!"
Mira rose up from the trash pile, "No way, I'll never back down." He was in enormous pain, but he knew things could end up much worse if he gave in now. 'Let's put what Kebou taught me into practice again!'
He brought his right fist back, and charged dark energy around it. The one of giant goons pressed forward, ready to crush him. Mira ran towards him with, getting closer to the monster before he could bring his arms down, Mira slammed his dark fist into the goliath, a wave of darkness flowed around Mira as the giant got blasted straight into the wall at a turn in the alley. Mira stood there for a second, completely stunned, panting and exhausted. But he returned to his fiery determination. "As long as I'm standing, and my arms are working, I'll defend anyone who needs my help!"
"Heh, I'll commend ya resolve kid. But, you're way too weak to beat me now!" the scar-faced man bellowed as he charged Mira. A stream of flames zoomed past Mira and engulfed the villain.
"It's a good thing he ain't alone then!" Kye yelled, his body covered in bright red and orange flames, "you've pissed me off, I'm gonna scorch you!" He flew right up to the criminal, "Highfire... Smash!" His red hot fist smashed straight down on the villains head, slamming him face down onto the floor and leaving a small crater in the concrete.
Kye reverted to his normal state, now also exhausted, "crap!... Mr Aizawa told me... not to do that!"
"Ya should've listened" a menacing voice said as Kye was grabbed by a muscly arm and put him in a powerful armlock. "Ya know, I could break ya neck right now if I really wanted too, heh, guess I'll be one of the few villains notorious for killing hero students huh?" The grin he gave Kye was chilling, he was serious. Evil... pure evil, is the only word that came to mind when Kye looked at him. "Now... were's ya friend gone?" Scarface asked, looking around and noticing that Mira was no where to be seen, "heh, guess he really did give up on ya huh?!"
"Why don't you look up jackass!" A voice yelled, and said 'jackass' looked up - it was Mira above him holding something, it wasn't his usual longsword, it looked more like a...
Scythe, a black scythe with a nasty, long curved edge. Mira looked down at the criminal. "Have you a taste of my new move! Black Crescent!" He swung the scythe down and the Shadow Matter attached to the rod he was holding had flung right off! It flew straight towards the two in a glowing black and purple crescent.
"What is that?!" The shocked Scarface exclaimed, however in that brief period of fear, Kye lit up with his remaining energy, causing scarface to lose his grip on him.
"Let's end this!" He yelled as he brought his leg up to Scarface's stomach, "LOWFIRE! SMASH!" The firepower from the kick sent the villain straight up into the air, and made contact with Mira's Black Crescent, resulting a loud BOOM and the villain flew straight back down to the ground, making an even bigger crater in it.
Both boys sat on the ground, completely out of energy. "Did... did we do it?" Mira asked, stilled prepared to fight mentally, but definitely not physically. Scarface was completely unconscious back in a less threatening normal human size, the other villain Mira hit with his strange attack was also still unconscious and back to normal. But the last henchmen was no where to be seen, they both knew he must've ran off as soon as the fight got serious.
Mira pulled out his phone, making a call, "yo Hayate... yeah, we did it... bring the guard over to the alley near..."
The guards arrived, and had sent the two criminals off to the police, they also noticed that Scarface was in possession of Yokina's wallet (which she only noticed was gone once everyone was splitting the price of the meal). Mira and Hayate got a serious scalding from the guards. But eventually it was all over, and Class 1-A made their way back to U.A, their day out over.
Later in the Musutafu alleyways, the final crony was trudging along the alleys, resting behind a dumpster to hide from the police. Or maybe...
Someone else.
"Did you get an ID card?" A low, menacing, digitally vocalised voice asked next to the dumpster. He was a tall man, very stocky wearing a long black hooded robe over his body, you could only see the black mask he wore with a long yellow visors and speaker around the mouth section of it.
The henchman stood up instantly, trembling in fear, "n-n-no Master Lancer" he muttered, "th-th-they were too strong.. the other two both got caught."
Lancer was silent. The silence was tense, though the henchman was clearly breaking from the pressure, Lancer's aura was too overwhelming. "That's a shame - we lost 'three' good men for the cause" he stated coldly.
The henchman looked, fear and terror spread across his face, "t-t-three?" Instantly a large red spike extended right out of Lancer's robe, and impaled the henchman.
"Yes... three." He replied nonchalantly, walking away silently from the blood pool forming before him, as the henchman fell to the floor - limp.
"Night Hood doesn't need failures" he muttered.
A couple days later
1-A Classroom
The class had just finished an lesson with Ms Red and were leaving for lunch. "Actually Mira and Kye can you please stay here, I would like to have a word with the both of you."
"Oooh, someones in trouble!" Hayate jeered as he left the room.
"Shaddup" Mira replied.
"We'll meet you at the cafeteria later" Angel added, receiving a nod from Mira.
Once the three were alone, Ms Red came up to the two. "I'm sure you both know exactly why I'm talking to you right now. What you two did was both stupid and highly irresponsible! If you two had gone any further with that fight, we probably wouldn't even BE talking right now." Both boys apologised sincerely and told her they'd never do it again.
Ms Blue came out and sighed, "at least wait until you get your Provisional Hero Licenses first, then you can at least fight crime legally (with a hero)."
Ms Yellow suddenly appeared, "but don't think you two are completely of the hook yet, we've all got a spectacular punishment for you to reflect upon your idiotic actions! Ehehehe!"
Ms Red returned, "you two will both write a 10,000 word essay about the importance of hero laws and their impact upon superhuman society today. I want it. On my desk. On Friday. Capeesh?
"Noooooooooo!" The two exclaimed, completely defeated by their teacher.
