Episode II

The Rise of New Heroes

Having accepted their fate of being trapped on the planet

Earth our heroes have begun to settle into their new roles,

seeking ways to continue on with helping the innocent and

the defenseless.

Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi has become the new Heroics

Professor at UA and has already sought to make changes

to help the school raise a new kind of hero. And Padme

Amidala-Skywalker works in secret with All Might in

preparation to take his quirk, One For All.

As for Ahsoka Tano, padawan of Jedi Knight Anakin

Skywalker, she begins her own journey: to be

a student at UA and become a full fledged hero…

"There is no emotion, there is peace," Ahsoka whispered. "There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity." She took several calming breaths… and realized that she was utterly failing at releasing her emotions into the Force. Honestly she had a feeling she was about 10 seconds away from falling to the Dark Side… all because of her Master.

"One more picture," Anakin pleaded, holding up his phone.

"Master, please!" she begged, adjusting the strap on her backpack. "You've already taken 48 pictures. Yes, 48… I counted."

"But in those ones you weren't wearing your shoes!" Anakin complained. "The outfit wasn't complete!"

Ahsoka glowered at the school uniform she was wearing. "And believe me, Master, I am not thrilled in the slightest that it is complete." She tugged on the sleeves of her jacket, wanting to do nothing more than to rip the offending apparel off. "Ugh, how can you stand wearing things like this?"

"You wear gloves all the time," Padme said from the kitchen counter, sipping her caf while she watched on with a bemused look. The traitor was doing nothing to stop this and when Ahsoka became a Sith she would be the second to fall.

"Yes but those are different."

"…of course," Padme said with a smile before looking over at Anakin. "Leave her alone and let her head off to school."

"But all the child rearing books say that the first day of school is important and I need to make it a celebration," he complained before his brow rose up. "OH! I almost forgot!" He dashed off to the kitchen and after a moment returned… holding a pink plastic lunch pail with horned equestrian animals on it. "So I made your favorite-"

Ahsoka's eyes began to twitch but checking the Force she confirmed that no, her Master wasn't screwing with her or playing a joke… he honestly thought this was how he should behave.

"Ani," Padme said, "I think I need to look over those child care books you're reading. I think you might have grabbed the wrong ones."

As he squawked in protest Ahsoka decided to make her escape, grabbing the lunch pail and hurrying out of the door, calling out a goodbye to all of them…

…only to race towards the stairs as she saw Obi Wan's door begin to open.

"Bad enough I have to dress like this and there's a good chance my master is going to try and sneak into the school to check in on me," she muttered as she entered the stairwell and used her Jedi skills to begin leaping from floor to floor. "But I am NOT walking to school with one of the teachers!" because she could just HEAR Master Obi Wan stating that it was only logical for them to go together and she should join him on the walk.

The journey to UA didn't cause any problems though she did get a lot of people looking at her. At first she thought it might have been because of Anakin's stupid lunch pail but after the first one wished her good luck she realized it was because they knew she was a UA student and they were memorizing her face and looks… because one day she might be a famous hero and they would be able to tell their children of meeting her.

It was an… odd feeling. Jedi did not crave such attention which was great because as the War had truly swung into full gear they hadn't received it. Oh, they were noticed… but not for the ways Ahsoka would have preferred. But here? Here she was a potential hero, one that might save all the people around her… and they in turn would be buying shirts with her face on it.

She shook her head. "Focus on today," she reminded herself as she got to UA's gates and stepped through.

"Hey!"

Ahsoka turned and smiled as she saw Ochaco and Izuku hurrying to join her.

"So you got in too?" Izuku exclaimed, utterly beaming as he gripped the straps of his backpack.

"Yeah… 1-A."

"Us too!" Ochaco exclaimed. "This is so great! We'll be able to be study partners!"

"It'll be nice to have people in class that we already know," Izuku said as they continued up the steps and into the school itself. "I was worried I wouldn't know anyone…"

Ahsoka sensed a bit of a lie in his words and that wasn't even from her prodding the Force for his intentions. She knew that Izuku was quirkless and that in this world the quirkless were discriminated against and treated like garbage… so she could see why he would have had no problem being able to fade back into the crowd and not face people who knew who he was and were ready to judge him.

Of course that just made her all the more determined to stand at his side.

"Do you know where we need to go?" Ochaco asked, pulling out an old fashion paper map of the school. "I tried to look last night but couldn't make heads or tails of it…"

"I know where to go," Ahsoka assured her, turning down a hall. The First Year homerooms were all on the first floor and close to the entrance so it was a short walk. "I've been here before."

"That's right!" Izuku exclaimed. "Rex was telling me how you and your family stayed at UA for a little while when you first arrived here."

"Why did you have to stay here?" Ochaco asked.

Ahsoka opened her mouth to begin telling one of the many lies she and the rest of her group had created to cover their tracks when it came to their otherworldly existence, only for a loud stern voice to give her an out from having to explain things.

"There is only one way to properly sit at a desk and I assure you that kicking your feet up on it is NOT how to do so properly! How can you hope to be a proper hero when you can't even respect the furniture?"

"Its fucking furniture, dipshit!" another voice snarled and Izuku tensed as he realized it was Kaa-chan. "Furniture doesn't have feelings!"

"They might," Ahsoka said with a smirk as she entered the classroom, Ochaco and Izuku right behind her. "People didn't think animals could get quirks… yet the principal shows that was wrong. Trees were living things… its possible one had a quirk that allowed it to remain sentient even when it was turned into a desk. You never know."

"What kind of idea is that, Shithorns?" Bakugo demanded only for the guy who had been lecturing him to spin around and zip right over to the three newcomers. "Hey!" he shouted, not used to being ignored.

"I must apologize to you at once!" Tenya said rather loudly, giving a quick bow. "I scolded you for your actions at the exam but it is clear you understood better than I what the teachers were looking for. Team work, saving others… a hero must remember these things always! I allowed my quest for points to blind me to what it means to be a true hero. I am sorry I did not see what you saw!"

"Uh… no problem," Ochaco said with a cheerful smile. "Uraraka Ochaco."

"Ashoka Tano." She paused. "Or Tano Ashoka. Sorry, still learning how you guys do names here."

"Ah, you are a foreigner!" Tenya said, having finally risen from his bow and adjusting his glasses. "It is no problem. If you have a question about customs please feel free to ask… it is the only way we learn. Oh, and I am sorry, I am Ida Tenya." He turned to Izuku. "And you are?"

"Oh! I'm-"

"DEKU!"

Izuku blanched as Bakugo leapt from his seat and charged at him, explosions popping from his hand. "What are you doing here?! I thought I wouldn't ever have to see you again after I left that shit school we went to! Are you fucking stalking me, you little creep?"

"N-no!" Izuku exclaimed, waving his hands in front of him rapidly. "I did the entrance exam-"

"How could you get in here without a quirk?" Bakugo demanded. "Did you have one and hide it, to show me up? Is that it? Are you trying to make me look like a fool?" Izuku winced as Bakugo brought his fist up to Izuku's face and he could feel the heat of his explosions, knowing that his friend was preparing for another one. Rex's training kicked in and he prepared to leap back, shifting his weight while preparing to pull Ochaco away-

Ahsoka grabbed Bakugo's wrist and twisted it hard.

"It's called personal space," she warned, bending Bakugo's hand away from Izuku's. "Ever hear of it?"

"Hey!" Bakugo roared, swinging a punch at Ahsoka who dodged it. "This is between me and Deku!"

"And I don't care," Ahsoka said, jerking his arm downward before bringing her knee up to slam into his face. But Bakugo had been training since he was 4 to be a hero and one simply hold and a reverse weren't going to take him down. He easily dodged the blow and moved to strike Ahsoka in the side only for her to block the hit with a stiff forearm before going for a leg sweep.

"Enough!" Tenya shouted, trying to get between the two of them. "This is not the way one should behave in class!"

"Stay out of this, Four Eyes!" Bakugo roared, moving to try and blast Ahsoka with his quirk only for her to spin around his arm before grabbing him just above the elbow, forcing his hand back so that his hand was right in his own face. While his quirk made him resistant to his own explosions it didn't protect his eyes from the light he generated and he cried out as he was hit with the equivalent of a flashbang.

"Four Eyes? Shit Horns? Deku?" Ahsoka asked with a taunting smirk before throwing Bakugo back towards his desk. "I'm sure villains are going to cower when it comes to your wit."

"You…"

"Ahsoka, please!" Izuku begged, stepping in front of her and trying to get her to back away from Bakugo. "That's just how Kaa-chan is…"

"Then he needs an attitude adjustment," Ahsoka said. "I've fought Sith that were more pleasant than him."

"Did you just say the Shit you've fought is better than me!?" Bakugo roared.

"Sith," Ahsoka stated. "Sith. And yeah."

Bakugo glared at her before finally twisting away. "Whatever… I don't have time for you if you think Deku is someone worth defending. Just another extra I'll have to crush."

"Great to be in class with you too," Ahsoka snarked before taking a seat.

"That… was amazing!"

Ahsoka turned to see a red-haired boy had entered the classroom with a few others and all of them were looking at her with stars in their eyes.

"So manly!" Eijiro declared, both fists clenched and close to his chest while he flashed a sharp smile. "Those hits… the way you countered… I've never seen anyone move like that!"

"It was nothing," Ahsoka said smugly.

Denki shook his head. "No way! That was just… wow! It's like you already have hero training!"

"I do, actually," Ahsoka admitted. "Izuku and I have been trained by my family."

General introductions were made, names flying around Ahsoka that she knew she was going to struggle to remember for a while, but eventually more students began to come in and Izuku and Ochaco took seats beside her while the rest of their class filtered in. Ahsoka studied them, trying to determine their quirks and their training but unlike back in her galaxy she had no prior research on species to fall back on, making it honestly impossible for her to tell what they could do.

'Someone might look utterly intimidating,' she thought as she glanced at one tall young man with 2 sets of arms and a mask that covered the lower half of his face, 'but have a really gentle personality while the softest speaking person could have a deadly quirk.' She thought of Ochaco who looked utterly bubbly and soft, reminding her of some of the crèche masters she'd had… but had shown that with her quirk she could easily take out an army of droids if given a bit of cover fire. 'I need to keep my senses open and not let my judgment cloud-'

She blinked as she saw a sleeping bag slither into the classroom.

The rest of the class kept talking and goofing around but Ahsoka was focused on the new arrival and soon Izuku and Ochaco were as well. A few others, such as a young man with a lizard-like face and pale green fur on top of his head, noticed her gaze and soon half the class was focused on the sleeping bag.

"Well," Aizawa said, uncurling himself and standing before his desk, "that was quicker than previous classes. Not good enough though… if I had wanted to kill you I could have gotten half of you dead before you'd realized it. Hope for you… but not much." He stared at them with tired eyes. "Not much at all."

"Excuse me!" Tenya said, raising his hand even as he spoke. "But who are you? Why are you here?"

"I'm Aizawa Shota and I'm your homeroom teacher. Now put that hand down you're going to strain something." He let out a sigh as half the class let out gasped of shock though he did notice that Ahsoka was rolling her eyes; this was why he hated meeting students before the first day of class; ruined his mystique. "Now then every seat is full so that means all of you are here so I'm not going to waste my time taking attendance. Instead I want you each to head to the locker rooms and get your gym uniforms."

"Sir?" Ochaco said, raising her hand nervously. "According to the handout we all go we're suppose to go to the orientation-"

"You will find that the teachers at UA are giving a lot of leeway when it comes to how they handle their classes. I don't have time to let you waste an hour doing the school cheer. You're here to be heroes so we're going to see if you have any potential."

He stared at them.

"Go."

The class scrambled to their feet and hurried out the door.

~MC~MC~MC~

Obi Wan frowned when he noticed a certain group of seats empty in the auditorium. "Principal Nedzu," he said softly as Hizashi, in the opposite of 'soft', greeted all the students and welcomed them to another year at UA. "We seem to be missing an entire class."

"Ah yes," Nedzu said calmly from his seat. "Aizawa's class. He never has them attend."

"Never?" Obi Wan asked, brow furrowing. "But every student must attend. We provide them important information."

"Shota feels that it's a waste of time," Nemuri whispered.

"And you just allow this?" Obi Wan pressed the principal.

"I believe in allowing all teachers to have room to educate their students in their own way. I trust Aizawa to help mold his class into the best heroes possible and as such I do not wish to stand in his way."

"…very well then," Obi Wan said. Nedzu smiled… only to blink as Obi Wan stood up and walked away.

"Where is he going?" Nemuri hissed, the other teachers glancing up as Obi Wan strolled past them.

"If I had to guess I'd say he's going to confront Aizawa. My comment about allowing teachers to do as they wish clearly has influenced him to do as he wishes!"

Nemuri shivered at just how DELIGHTED Nedzu seemed by all of that.

~MC~MC~MC~

"Now then…" Chiyo Shuzenji, the woman known as Recovery Girl, said with a bemused smile on her face, "I must admit this is unusual for me. Normally I have to drag heroes into my office for a physical… you come here of your own free will? Oh ho ho ho! I think I like you, Padme!"

The woman in question smiled at that, bowing slightly. "Thank you, Shuzenji."

"Oh, call me Chiyo! We're both young lasses, aren't we? All that formal stuff is for old bitties!" Padme, to her utter credit, merely smiled at the 60+ woman claiming she was young; after all, there were species who lived for a thousand years. To Master Yoda everyone was an infant compared to him!"Did I ever tell you about when this fool got injured?"

Yagi, in his Small Form, grimaced. "I… don't think we need to go into that-"

Chiyo smacked him on the shin with her cane (which looked like a syringe because, as Padme was finding with Earth, when a hero picked a theme they STUCK with it) and Yagi winced. "Oh, don't act like that hurt much! All For One hurt your guts, not your legs! Unless you are hiding another injury from me-"

"NO!" Yagi cried out, waving his hands rapidly in front of him.

"Hmmm… then let me tell my story before I give you another exam!" She turned to Padme. "This big lout, after he fought All For One, had most of his stomach missing, part of his lung, and a bunch of other organs scrambled up. Now, he actually did the smart thing and came to me for help, though my quirk could only do so much."

"I know," Padme said.

"Well, first day he was perfectly fine… next day though I walk into his room and find him trying to get that stupid spandex suit of his on because he wants to help out some hero with a collapsed freeway!" She turned and shot a dark glare at Yagi who blanched. "He couldn't even bend down without half his intestines squirting out of his backside and he wanted to go fight crime and save people!"

"It wasn't that bad…" Yagi claimed but Chiyo merely shook her head and he ducked so neither woman could see his face.

"I didn't even bother startling him… I just stood there, watching him bounce around… until he tripped and fell on the ground and ended up rupturing his spleen!" She clanged her cane on ground. "That cost him an extra week in my care. It's the same with so many other heroes… thinking that everyone else needs to be wrapped in bubble wrap while they can do whatever they want because they are 'special'."

"Sounds like my friends and my husband," Padme said. "Anakin loves to throw himself into dangerous situations without thinking for a moment how dangerous things might be… or how he just got out of a dangerous situation. And Obi Wan… I swear that man is allergic to medics."

Chiyo shook her head. "Sounds about right." She suddenly grabbed Padme by her shirt, yanking her down so she was eyelevel to her. "Remember how stupid they are and don't begin thinking they are people you should model your life around, got it?"

"Got it," Padme said, finding herself squeaking out the words. She had faced down Sith Lords and maniacal generals and yet… Chiyo terrified her.

"Good, dearie!" Chiyo said, at once all smiles. "Now then, let's look you over. Already doing the smart thing, coming to me to make sure your body is ready to take on All Might's quirk. You've been eating the vitamins I gave you?"

"And sticking to the diet," Padme said. The vitamins, something that Chiyo had mixed up herself, were designed to help with her bone density while the diet had helped her already build up muscle as she had worked with Gran Tranio and Yagi. "Though I could do without what it did to my digestive track." Padme grimaced, remembering how one time a bathroom trip had resulted in Anakin going into a panic thinking the Hutts had invaded.

"The unwritten horror almost every hero faces, dearie. We need our high protein diets to build muscles… and that comes with a cost." She smiled at that and motioned for Padme to hop up onto an examination table. "You of course are having it a bit easier than most. You already have a stronger bone density than the average woman and you seem better suited to metabolize nutrients. I doubt my vitamins would work as well as they are on anyone but you."

Padme nodded at that; Nedzu had informed Chiyo about Padme's true originals, which had helped them design a nutrient routine to help her prepare to accept One For All. Nubians were well known in the galaxy for their ability to gain nutrients from their diets. Naboo, in its ancient times, had suffered many droughts and famines due to the wild weather cycles that came from her hollow core. As such the people had evolved to survive on little… and with food plentiful were able to use those nutrients even more. There was a reason why so many Nubians lived well into their hundreds and could survive injuries that would kill others. She still remembered how shocked Ani had been when, during their visit to the lake house, Padme had leapt from a second story window and landed with ease on the stone floor below, not even wincing.

"Hmmm, let me see…" Chiyo said, taking Padme's arm and examining it, wrapping a tape measure around her bicep. When they had startled Padme had thought she was rather fit but Yagi and Tranio's training had seen all parts of her explode with muscle. "Good development… muscles and veins are good…" She undid the tape though Padme couldn't help but flex a little, watching as the muscles in her arm danced. "Shirt up."

Yagi turned with a blush and Padme rolled her eyes; honestly he saw more when they worked out but for some reason Yagi always reacted every time she bared her belly like a blushing school boy. She just didn't get it…

~A Few Months Ago~

"And if I catch you lusting after my wife I'll turn your remaining lung into hamburger!" Anakin snarled, using the Force to lift a terrified All Might (in MUSCLE FORM) off the ground.

"Anakin!" Obi Wan pleaded, having grabbed a hold of the Jedi to try and drag him away. Ahsoka and Rex had each grabbed an arm but were barely slowing him down. "Remember you training! Fear is the path to the dark side!"

"Like fear of men lusting after your hot wife!" Ahsoka added.

"NOT HELPING!" Rex shouted.

~MC~MC~MC~

Chiyo tapped Padme's abs. "Defined well."

That was putting it lightly. She was sure that she'd have given her old friends nose bleeds if they could see her ripped she was now.

Asfor the friends who were on Earth…

~MC~MC~MC~

"I am so training with you!" Ahsoka declared as she saw Padme come back from a run, belly exposed and shorts hugging her curves.

~MC~MC~MC~

"You certainly are showing dedication," Obi Wan said while glancing away politely, blushing slightly.

~MC~MC~MC~

"Would be proud to have you fighting beside me," Rex stated with a simple nod.

~MC~MC~MC~

"Anakin, stop!" Padme said as her husband kissed her shoulder. "I need to shower… I'm all sweaty!"

"Mmmm… I like you sweaty," he said as he ran his hands along her hips. She should have seen it coming… Anakin had grown up a slave and for slave women unless you were a Hutt's pleasure thing the ones that survived were powerful and strong.

As Anakin began to lead her to the bedroom Padme wondered just what Shmi had been hiding under her baggy clothes…

~MC~MC~MC~

"All in all… I'd say it is now a matter of when you want to actually do the transfer," Chiyo said.

"You mean it?" Yagi asked.

"Anything you do now is just going to help matters, of course. The more she works out and prepares her body the quicker she'll become used to the quirk. The choice is up to you both, of course."

Yagi turned to her but Padme shook her head. "No… not yet. While I am willing to take your quirk, Yagi, there is no reason for you to give it up to me right now. Your time limit is still several hours and the country still relies upon you. You could have several years before you have to give your quirk to me… I am willing to wait."

Yagi smiled at that. "Thank you, Padme. That… is why I know you are the perfect person to take one quirk… one day."

Padme nodded. "Besides, if Anakin can get that artificial lung and stomach working…"

The Number One Hero waved her off quickly. "Let us not dwell on that possibility until it becomes one."

She shook her head at that. Ever since her and Anakin had brought up his work in making the artificial organs Yagi had been quick to not want to discuss it; she could understand why, as false hope was a cruel poison. Still, she knew Anakin was getting closer; according to him he'd already gotten an artificial kidney made and was just waiting for final testing before releasing it onto the market.

"Well, whenever you do decide to take his quirk I would suggest-" her tone made it clear that it wasn't a suggestion at all, "-that you do it with me around, so we can make sure that it reacts properly."

"I don't think that will be a problem," Yagi said with what was, for him, a smile. "After all, when I received it from Nana I adapted almost instantly. And Padme has had the same level of training I had!"

"Yes but as Gran informed us One For All is a stockpile," Chiyo reminded him. "And you have been stockpiling power for decades. If Nana had held onto One For All until today and it was you asking for it I'd say the exact same thing." She shot him a look. "You know that it's gotten stronger, right?"

"Of course… once Gran Tranio told me." He rubbed the back of his head awkwardly. "And looking at some of the old tapes of when I started out… I just assumed it was me getting better with it. But I am stronger. Even with my injury I doubt my younger self could defeat me in a battle."

"So Padme is ready, more ready than you were, but she still could have a bad reaction."

"Padme is also in the room," the former Senator reminded the two heroes. "And she'd like it if you didn't talk about her like she wasn't."

"Heheh… sorry," Yagi said bashfully.

"Right," Chiyo said, not apologizing but dropping the topic completely. "You two better head on out. I need to be ready for Aizawa's class."

"What do you mean?" Padme asked.

"First day of school and he's first year homeroom teacher this year. Class 1-A. Someone is going to be injured. Several someones if he hasn't gotten a lot of sleep."

Padme narrowed her eyes at that. "Ahsoka is in that class."

Yagi and Chiyo both shared a look as Padme, lightning quick, pulled out her phone and dialed a number that picked up barely before the first ring went through. "I'm fine, Ani," she said. "But you need to come down to UA… I think Aizawa is going to do something stupid."