Home seemed far away for them, but it could have been worse. The clones, senator, and jedi were enjoying the undercover work. Some was tedious like Kix filling out paperwork Recovery Girl assigned him to do while she tended to kids. But it was all worth it when he got to observe the woman kiss wounds to heal the patients. He might have seen her do it to Tup already but it was still magnificent and to a point magical.
Padme continued to breeze through the lessons given by Principal Nezu. Given the woman was a fast learner, she had effortlessly convinced the students and staff she had been studying the world's governments for years.
The happiest of the bunch was Ahsoka. To her it felt normal attending school. This civilian lifestyle was a great step away from the battlefields of the galaxy to relieve the stress of war. No longer was she surrounded by sick, aggravated, and dying clones but by young men and women filled with aspirations and determination.
Though it was to early to say, she thought they may have considered her a friend by now. And knowing Ahsoka, she definitely needed people her own age to talk to not just about war and politics.
That night Anakin and Obi-Wan were asked to meditate by All Might and Naomasa. It was about the ever so suspicious drop in crime rate. At this point, the two were willing to take answers from the supernatural. The jedi did what was asked feeling around for answers hoping the force was being kind tonight.
It only took a few minutes for Obi-Wan to see a vision. A young green haired boy with a face of fright tattooed onto him. It was Midoriya! But why?
As the vision became clearer, Kenobi noticed him jumping with a railed back ready to destroy something or someone in his way. He needed to know what.
Sadly that's all the force felt like showing. Faces without answers. Obi-Wan relayed the information gained back to All Might in a vain attempt to see if he would understand.
"I couldn't tell you why young Midoriya would have a connection to low crime rate. Seems very odd indeed.
"Maybe it's a sign." Naomasa said. "What are the students doing tommorow?"
"Headed to USJ." All Might replied.
Naomasa stuck a hand under his chin thinking. "They wouldn't go to that building. There's nothing of value to steal. The kids should be fine. The force can be wrong sometimes right?"
"Depends, it isn't something we can fully understand ethier." Anakin said.
The detective turned back to the others in the room. "I recommend bringing Rex and his men along on the field trip. Better safe than sorry. Also I'm sure they would make fine teachers in the training."
"Great idea. I'll talk to them when we get back home." Obi-Wan said.
That night, it was nothing but careless and sweet dreams through the house. There were no enemies for them to worry about making everything was perfect the way it was.
The sun rose up over the nation leading to another busy day for everyone in the city. The clones and jedi ate breakfast together with Obi-Wan explaining in more detail to Rex what to expect on the trip to USJ. The captain assured him the students were going to be under great care and that his squad could handle any emergency.
"I'm more so sending you there to assist the hero by the name Thirteen in the rescue training, not for fighting. But yes, I am confident in all of your men." Obi-Wan replied.
Later everyone left heading to the school for their jobs. Anakin was going to continue his metal shop teaching while Kenobi hoped to have success with Class 1-B in the trap exercise. Padme was to continue to teach in government studies as the students seemed to rather enjoy the young teacher.
Ahsoka walked into class feeling a pair of eyes on her. It didn't take long for her to notice Bakugou in the back of the room, arms crossed, feet on the desk in front of him with the usual "I want you to die" look.
Tano felt pressure seething from her arm as she gripped the corner of the desk next to her. This boy was annoyed by everything she did. she had barely known him but the way he carried himself like a demigod amongst men was annoying as hell now.
"Hey Ahsoka, why are you breaking my desk?" Sero spoke up.
She removed her hand feeling a stinging pain from squeezing the table to hard. "Oops my bad."
On queue, Mr. Aizawa walked in looking slightly less depressed than usual.
"Hello class."
"Good morning Mr. Aizawa!"
"Today's lesson plan is special. Were going on a field trip off school grounds. I expect everyone to be not on their best behavior, but on my standards of what is best behavior. Do I need to explain them?" the teacher asked
"No sir!" the class shouted.
The man smiled what must have been for a half a second. "Probably still a record." Ahsoka thought. "He must have been thinking about how he was getting through to his students and only now taking a liking to them. Well guess what. I think your still way to much of a downer to properly teach a class."
It didn't take long for the padawan to start resenting her new teacher. He wasn't rude like Bakugou but he didn't have an all that well teacher personality. Or a decent dress code for himself.
"Now get dressed ready to head outside and get on the bus." he said pushing a button revealing the heroes suitcases.
While in the ladies room, Ahsoka quickly put her lightsabers back in her suitcase so no one would suspect she had been stealing them every night before coming home. If caught with her gear outside of school, she would be severely punished. But these blades meant to much to her.
A few minutes went by and every woman was geared up making final adjustments before heading out.
"Hey Ahsoka can I ask you a question?"
"Sure." the padawan said turning around to see Mina standing before her with a smile.
"You don't have to if you feel uncomfortable, but may I hold your laser sword?" Mina asked in a kind hearted voice.
"Uhmm.." is all she could say. Her lightsabers were her most important possession. To be handled by someone else other than a fellow Jedi or one of her close clone friends was non-existent. But then again, why? These people seemed trust worthy with good intentions. Surely nothing bad could happen from it.
With one last look around, the padawan surrendered to the question. "Okay. But just for a minute."
Upon hearing this, the other girls gathered around as Ahsoka removed the saber on her right hip. The girl was a little nervous being the center of attention, but it was only for a moment after all. She carefully handed it to the pink girl making sure the blade was pointed away from anyone.
"Wow that's way lighter than I thought it would be." Mina said gripping the metallic hilt in her hand. It couldn't have weighed more than two pounds with how effortlessly she was able to hold it.
"Push the button right there to turn it on, but be careful." Ahsoka warned.
Mina looked to padawan with an expression in awe. "Really?"
"I trust you not to do anything stupid with it." she responded.
The girls spectating were joyous to here this, especially the ones who had not witnessed the blade firsthand yet.
Mina pushed the button and the blade ignited. The vibrant and beautiful green sword shined back at her with a small buzz. Holding the lightsaber was exhilarating. She felt powerful holding the elegant weapon giving it a small circular wave towards the ceiling. As she did it, the lightsaber made more tiny buzz sounds with the motions.
"I don't know why, but this feels right." Mina smiled.
"Understandable. It's a powerful weapon that makes me feel safe when holding it too." Ahsoka said. "Perhaps we should get a move on."
"She's right. I hate to hear Mr. Aizawa complain more." Tsuyu said.
"Alright." Mina said sounding kind of downed. She was having fun with the lightsaber but needed to remind herself it wasn't hers. She turned it off making the blade shrink quickly back to the hole which it came from.
The ladies headed outside to be met by a control freak Iida frantically trying to put the heroes in his order. Nobody cared and boarded the bus at their own free will. A moment later, the squad of clones climbed aboard in intimidating fashion. One of the men had a single blue line run down the middle of his helmet with shorter ones that started below his eyes and ran down almost to the bottom edge of the helmet. On his back was but a massive minigun that was casually slung around him like a backpack. Everything about the men was strange and almost frightening. How could these guys be considered heroes?
Towards the end of the trip Bakugou started stirring up a raucous after Denki and Tsuyu made comments directed toward him that he found offensive. That was put to a stop as Rex stepped in and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Why don't you calm down." he said in a stern harsh tone to the furious teen.
Bakugou looked up toward the man who seemed unfazed. On this ones helmet, above the eyepiece, mysterious blue markings shaped like cat ears confused the boy. What did they mean?
"Fine." Bakugou scoffed angrily.
A few moments later the bus arrived at USJ. The building towered over any others in the area with its enormous size. It was a phenomenal feet of engineering ingenuity to build something so massive.
The group walked through the huge doors and met a familiar face.
"Hello, my hero name is Thirteen. Glad to be in the presence of teenagers that will one day take my place."
The heroes were exited to meet the rescue hero that many of them looked up to. Ochako looked especially happy as she jumped up and down like a dog seeing its owner for the first time in awhile.
"I have built this facility to train you all to be better heroes and control your quirks. For example my quirk is extremely powerful and can make a threat for innocent people if used incorrectly. The same dangers can go for all of you too." the space hero explained.
Thirteen rambled on for a few more moments giving a few more pieces of useful information that the students absorbed with a bored expression on their faces.
"Alright, now that that's over, we should get started. Hopefully All Might can get here later too." Mr. Aizawa said knowing that the fool was resting from using up all his power.
(X)
"Are we ready?" Tomura said.
"Ready as ever." Kurogiri replied.
Tomura bent his crusty chapped lips into a smile before putting on his mask. "Then it's game on. Let's kill that blond bastard."
Kurogiri opened the portal and the villains stepped through ready to make history.
(X)
The lights flickered for a few moments catching the attention of the group.
"Did you pay the electric bill?" someone said.
The teachers had no idea what was going on. They were just planning on showing the kids how to properly rescue citizens, not put on a light show.
Meanwhile, the fountain in the center of the arena flickered on and off a few times before a portal opened up. It swirled menacingly seemingly saying only one thing to them. "I bring evil with me."
The first three figures that stepped out were Tomura, Kurogiri, and a massive muscular bird like creature. Its brain exposed to the world and zombie like facial features screamed horrors down the spines of everyone watching.
"Everyone stay back!" Aizawa shouted.
"Is this not part of the drill?" A shaking Midoriya asked.
"No! Those are real villains! That's why we need to get you all out of here!" Aizawa shouted.
After saying this the unthinkable happened. Metallic bodies stepped out of other portals that formed. They kept on coming until a hundred robots armed with rifles filled the area. Their heads and bodies were shaped almost identical to that of a regular human. They had a silver color to them but also tons of black scorches in places that were welded, meaning they were thrown together quickly.
"Clankers!" Rex shouted to his men. "Prepare to engage!"
The men who were standing behind the students moved themselves up to front and adjusted their weapons in preparation for the onslaught.
"None of the communications are working. They must be blocking our signal." Fives said.
"Thirteen! get the students out of here! You guys come with me!" Aizawa shouted.
"But Mr. Aizawa, you're better in one on ones, not fighting large groups with your quirk!" Midoriya said.
"That's why I'm not a one trick pony." he said before jumping off the stairs into the attackers. The clones followed behind firing the blue bolts of energy from their firearms.
Once they got to the bottom, the clones and robots fired at one another while Aizawa used acrobats to destroy the enemies. The rifles carried by the robots were thankfully single and not rapid fire. The only logical reason that could be thought up was that automatic would have been hard for the poorly put together bots to control.
The clones put themselves to work easily cutting them down with well placed shots. While Rex barrel rolled killing two robots in the process, he spotted the massive creature standing still paying no mind to the battle erupting in front of it. The captain aimed his dual pistols and fired expecting to get the easiest kill in his life.
The bolts smashed into the creatures face but didn't seem to harm it in the slightest. If anything it seemed more pissed than hurt. Still, it didn't make moves toward anyone whatsoever.
"Be careful guys." Ahsoka whispered under her breath. It pained her that she couldn't join the fight at the plaza and help her friends, but disobeying an order from her superior could have put her undercover operation into jeopardy.
"Come on students! The exit is that way!" Thirteen yelled out getting everyone's attention to start sprinting toward the door they entered.
Out of the blue, the mist villain appeared in front of them putting himself between them and the door.
"I hope you all are leaving to soon." it said.
While he talked on about hoping to find All Might here to kill him, Thirteen decided it was a good time to attempt to use her quirk. But before she had the chance, Kirishima and Bakugou threw themselves foward to punch him. The mist took an explosion to the face but shook it off like nothing happened.
"Now it's time to scatter you all to die!" Kurogiri shouted with a touch of joy in his voice.
Purple clouds hit the students making them unable to see. Most were swept up through portals but a few were still in the storm.
Ahsoka had made a barrier using the force which helped push away the mist trying to snatch her up. It was hard to concentrate with people screaming and the wind being extremely loud, but she managed somehow to make it through.
Once the deafening noise and wild winds ceased, only a few students remained in the area.
"Hahaha! I've scattered your friends all over this arena only to be killed by our friends. Ironic." Kurogiri laughed.
"Whatever, our friends can handle your bumass robots." Shoji said as a rebuttal.
"Oh no. Those robots are for your teachers down there. Your friends will be ripped apart by the violent criminals of this city." Kurogiri almost said with a chuckle.
"Well your about to be torn apart by this!" Thirteen shouted raising her finger revealing the black hole quirk within. It started sucking bits of the purple mist as he struggles to get away from the enormous force of Thirteen's finger.
Meanwhile at the plaza below, The teacher and clones kept on fighting the mass of robots that had come through. Aizawa might not have been able to use his quirk, but that didn't stop him from dodging bullets swiftly as he leaped in the air and kick off the enemies bodies breaking the bots into several pieces.
Rex and his men were still cutting down the robots thinning them out like a school a fish being eaten by a shark. Hardcase was going insane wielding his minigun with fearless ferocity. The robots were faster than the droids back home as they seemed to sprint like an actual person instead of a slow robot. Sadly for them, it didn't stop Hardcase from mowing them down still.
"I've never seen those men before in my life." Tomura scratched his neck talking to himself again. "Even the bullets that do hit them are bouncing off their armor. Dammit! Guess we'll have to deal with them Nomu.
At the top of the stairs, an idea hit Kurogiri on how he needed to get out of his predicament. While Thirteen was distracted, Kurogiri placed a portal between him and behind the hero. This caused a ramification that made it where the rescue hero starting destroying themselves. The back of Thirteen's suit ripped off and destroying it.
Thirteen fell to the floor in agony fighting to stay conscious and keep protecting the students.
"Iida you need to get out of here! Go grab pro heroes so they can help us!" Sato yelled.
As much as it pained Iida to leave them all here, the sugar boy was right. With that, he sprinted towards the exit with nothing in his way. Or so he thought.
Kurogiri might not have looked it but he was fast, catching up to Tenya in no time.
"BEGOOOONE!" the villain bellowed with intent.
"Not so fast sucker." Sero yelled shooting tape in his direction. By some miracle, the tape stuck holding onto something solid that could not be seen.
This however didn't stop the villain as he dragged Sero along for the ride. A moment later, Sato grabbed the tape making sure Kurogiri was stopped from getting any closer to Iida. He pulled on the tape like a dog tied to a tree, desperate to find some way get loose and halting the engine boy's escape.
Uraraka and the rest knew that if they didn't act fast, Kurogiri would break free. Ochako looked back at the end of Sero's tape seeing glimpses of a piece of metal that was attached to the maniac. His body!
Seeing it made a light bulb go off in her head. "Ahsoka, get me up to him, I got an idea."
The two ran towards the mist with Ochako leading the charge. "Now!" the brown haired girl yelled giving the signal.
Ahsoka lifted her upward using the force and maneuvered her towards the midsection where Sero's tape was wrapped. With a touch of her fingers, Kurogiri started floating upwards like a helium balloon.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" he yelled out in anger watching Iida pry open the double doors then run like lightning out.
Ochako eventually had to let go of the villain freeing him from floating torture. Instead of attacking them he disappeared from sight making the students question why he didn't want to fight.
"Thirteen! Are you going to be alright?!" Mina asked as a look of concern moved across her face.
"I'll be fine." Thirteen said with a feeble response. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you all. This is my fault."
"That's not important right now. What is important is that we can get you medical attention."
"How are we going to do that?" Sato said.
"One of the cl-heroes down below is a medic. His names Kix, he can help." Ahsoka said.
"Wait! You know those guys?" Sero said raising an eyebrow in surprise.
"Yes. It's a long story that I'll tell later. For now, stay here and keep Thirteen safe." Ahsoka said starting to run off.
At the battle in the plaza, the heroes were working steady. The bots were falling but the clones were starting to take a pounding as a few bullets did end up hitting them. They didn't pierce their armor but getting shot by them felt like taking a punch from a boxer. It also didn't help that thirty more had shown up as more portals appeared. Luckily for them, their situation was about to get a little easier.
Ahsoka dived into the battle chopping off the head of a bot after jumping from the staircase. Next she attempted to deflect a few shots but realized the bullets disintegrated after making contact with her lightsabers. It was hard enough using the force to block since she couldn't see them, but taking the ability to deflect was making this fight much harder.
Ignoring the lost ability, she ran up to a small grouping of five and went to work. The padawan sliced the first one in half, with a well placed stab she killed two and three, and force pulled four and five into her lightsaber.
"KIX!" she yelled toward the clone. "Thirteen is hurt and needs medical attention!"
"I'm on it!" he said sprinting up the stairs with his backpack full of medical supplies.
Now that Ahsoka was down there, the only thing on her mind was to disassemble as many bots as possible.
"Ahsoka!" Aizawa screeched while breaking the head off one of the robots. "Get out of here! I don't need you getting injured."
"Sorry Aizawa, but it's best for her to stay here and help us! We badly need the support!" Rex yelled back. "Ahsoka! Focus the right side of the squad!"
If the padawan had the time to smile at one of her best friends, she would have. Normally she would have outranked him being the commander of the five-o-first and Rex only the captain, but under these confusing times, he was in charge.
Aizawa did not agree with or relish in the idea of having Ahsoka fight at the plaza, but what could he do? He couldn't just take a timeout and drag Ahsoka back towards the top of the stairs. He also already knew that the other teachers would agree with Rex. And with them technically all being equals, Ahsoka would still be where she was now.
As the squad fought on, Kix ran up the stairs as rapidly as possible. When he reached the top, Mina was holding Thirteen's head up trying to keep the astronaut conscious.
"Flip Thirteen over. I need to inspect the damage." Kix ordered throwing his backpack off his shoulders and opening it up. Mina did flip the astronaut over but it was clear as day Kix had no idea what to do. From what he could see, Thirteen's insides was nothing but darkness.
"Is everything going to be okay?" Mina asked with a tear streaming down her face.
The clone looked up at this kid. So much hope and promise must have filled her to the brim before today. Before the portal to hell opened up and destroyed the tranquility, it must have been an electrifying day to learn how to be a hero. Now he knew what his true objective was. Bring a smile back to everyone's faces.
"Everything will be fine as long as you keep the head elevated while I sew the suit back up. I don't know Thirteen's body anatomy so it's best if I get a doctor to fix it." Kix said grabbing a needle from the bag.
While the clone medic patched up the downed hero, the plaza fight was starting to wrap up. The thirty or so bots remaining started forming a circle making sure that no one could formulate a sneak attack. In reality, it couldn't have been a more foolish mistake for them.
"Throw detonators now men!" Rex shouted. And just like that, the men of the five-o-first chucked thermal detonators toward the enemy group.
As the bombs arced across the sky, the ground shook with inordinate force. Some fell on their bottoms confused to what was happening. Looking over to the water biome silenced their query.
Water spouted in a tremendously tall splash making a boat fly in the air before gravity brought it back down. At the same moment, the detonators blew the robots to pieces leaving only a twenty or so left standing.
"Let's finish the mission guys!" Echo shouted grabbing everyone's attention away from the water show that just happened.
"No! No! No!" Tomura itched his chin peeling bits of skin off from the amount of force being applied. This made circles of blood appear from the tear wounds as the shaggy haired villain glared at the heroes.
"How dare these basterds wreck my plans to lure All Might to his doom. Why are these guys here instead of that pompous blond idiot? Actually who in the H-E-double fuck are these new heroes? It doesn't seem like they have any real powers though."
Seeing that most of the robots were destroyed, Aizawa thought this would be the best time to take care of the two standing in front of the fountain. He started a beeline toward the villians formulating a plan of attack in his head.
Tomura noticed this and chuckled as Easerhead closed in. "Nomu, use that man for practice to warm-up before facing All Might later."
The bird creature didn't respond but started walking in Aizawa's direction with the lifeless look still plastered on its face.
(X)
Midoriya was in pain. Breaking bones was starting to become almost like riding a bike to him, but it still left its fair share of hurt.
Midoriya, Mineta, and Tsuyu had all escaped the fight waiting for them at the water biome. Now tired and broken, all Mineta and Tsuyu they wanted to do was hook back up with everyone else. Except Midoriya wanted to check on Mr. Aizawa and the others before swimming to safety incase they needed some saving at the plaza. They all agreed for it to be the right thing to do and headed off.
The three peeped their heads over the waters ledge to witness a full battle still taking place.The armored men were firing at robots as their classmate Ahsoka leaped onto the back of one stabbing it through the head with her lightsaber. Perhaps the most interesting site in the plaza was Mr. Aizawa sprinting toward the giant which was taking casual strides toward him.
Eraserhead sprung his body up into the sky and sent his scarf at the beast. What should have been a simple arm wrap maneuver sent Aizawa crashing onto the rocky ground as the nomu grabbed the ends of the scarf without hesitation. Getting back up quickly, he tried tugging the scarf free from its hands. It didn't work. "No good. I'm going to have to get up close and personal."
Again he sprinted toward the thing and kicked it in the chest three times with no avail. It felt like hitting a brick walk on his feet. To add to injury, the beast didn't do a thing but stare at him in an almost mocking way.
The nomu pulled on both ends of Aizawa's scarf making the teacher hit his chest and fall over. The pain had only begun.
It then picked up the hero and threw him onto the ground leading to a screech of bone breaking pain squeal from Aizawa's lips.
This made Rex swing his attention towards the hero in distress. "Fives and Echo come with me. The rest of you finish off the clankers."
The nomu continued to abuse Aizawa's body by slamming his head onto the ground repeatedly. Eraserhead should have known he'd have no chance in this fight, but how could it had gone so wrong so quick.
Blaster fire broke Aizawa's train of thought as volleys of blue laser spray pelted into the nomu. The men were coming to his rescue, or so they thought.
With a swift movement, Nomu sped at the clones clotheslining Echo, knocking him down with a full body backflip. Next it picked up Fives with its hands who squirmed with skittish fear. The clone fired at the nomu with his free hand hoping these shots would do something different. Slowly the bird villain blocked Fives's airways making him gasp for a breath of anything. If Rex didn't do anything soon, his brother was going to die.
The captain accepted the fact that blasters were simply not going to do anything to the beast. Using a grenade would could kill Fives faster than he was being at the moment, but letting him die was not an option in Rex's book. They had been through way to much together for the road to end here and now.
Without a second thought, Rex leaped onto the things back, pulled a knife out of his armor leg plating, and began stabbing at the animal.
This only angered the beast as he threw Fives from his hands and grabbed hold of Rex from its back. This time, instead of squeezing the enemy, the nomu slammed Rex into the ground by his neck. It happened so swiftly that the clone couldn't acknowledge the pain all over his body but rather how fast his face had met the ground.
"No. Not like this. Get up Rex." his conscious whispered.
"I can't. What your asking for is impossible. I need help. Please someone." he said back. "Please someone help. I don't wanna die to him. I need to keep my brothers safe."
The nomu did the same thing again and again lifting the body and slamming it into the ground.
Now pain was really starting to kick in. His legs and arms felt broken and bruised. Like his body had been hit by a bus, about fifteen times. The current affliction was now positively the worst pain Rex had experienced in his life by a longshot.
As the ground pounding of Rex's ragdoll like body continued, he could only think one thing, "Please someone. I want to live. Give me a hero."
"LET HIM GO!" a young voice squealed.
Coming in hot, Midoriya revved up his punch trying to imagine the egg in the microwave.
"SMAAAAAAAAAASH!"