The USJ, a one billion, one hundred seventy-two million, eight hundred seventy-nine thousand, nine hundred and nineteen Yen facility. It had boasted not only state of the art natural disaster simulation capabilities but like all of UA it had top-notch security, yet this had been bypassed by nothing more than someone with a warping quirk, the onsite monitoring devices had been jammed by a simple electrical quirk. For Nezu and by extension UA as a whole this had been nothing short of an embarrassment and overall sign that the heroics industry in Japan was weakening when its top Heroics academy could be so easily attacked and with little to no arrests of those who had carried out the attack to show for it.
It had been three days since the USJ incident, three days in which Nezu had spent reviewing all available information and above other things running damage control from the fallout of what had happened. A Pro-hero, one of his teachers, had suffered major injuries and would be out of action for several weeks, if not a couple of months, while they recovered. Anan Kurose or as they were more commonly known 'The Space Hero: Thirteen' had been saved by the quick thinking and actions of the first-year students, however, Anan had not been the only casualty from the USJ. Aizawa had also suffered several minor injuries that while not life-threatening would keep him on bedrest and light duties until after the sports festival.
Nezu knew Aizawa would likely not wish to stay inactive for the recommended recovery time he'd need from his injuries, especially the quirk-exhaustion related dry eye. If Aizawa did try to return to work then Nezu would have to put his foot down on the matter as not letting that particular injury heal could lead to blindness and the loss of the use of his quirk, so Nezu was prepared to play Aizawa's own 'logical choice' card against the man.
Yet his teachers were not Nezu's biggest concern, the injured students were. while most had escaped with nothing more than quirk exhaustion related injuries and some minor cuts and scrapes that recovery girl had treated with no complication, Two students had not been so lucky but for vastly different reasons.
First was Minoru Mineta, a student that had suffered severe first and second-degree burns from a case of arguable 'friendly fire' courtesy of Katsuki Bakugo, from what little information Nezu had available thanks to a statement from the only other student that had been present at the time, Tsuyu Asui, and the resulting interrogations from the captured villains that had been present at the flood zone Nezu could make an educated guess as to what had likely happened.
It was more than likely that Bakugo had focused more on defeating villains than paying any attention to where his classmates were inside the flood zone, this would have led him to build up an excess of sweat to store within his arm-mounted gauntlets, and based on the basic psych profile that had been compiled in the aftermath of the USJ incident showed that he was aggressive, driven and singular minded on winning. So when several villains had begun to board the sinking boat in the centre of the flood zone, Bakugo had most likely fired off a blast from one of his gauntlets to drive off the villains and in doing so had caught Mineta in the blast. While Bakugo's actions ha been highly aggressive, and had led to another student needing to be hospitalised it could, and likely would be argued such an action was the result of panic and stress brought on by the villain attack should any punitive action be taken by UA. At most Nezu reasoned from this they could remove the gauntlets from Bakugo's costume, set him up with counselling with their on-staff Guidance Counselor to help deal with his clear aggressive attitude and lack of care for the consequences of his actions.
This however paled in comparison to what had happened to the other severely injured student, it was almost as if fate itself had transpired to make Nezu's life from the moment she stepped foot into his school a living nightmare. From the reports given by the students who had seen what she had done as well as Aizawa's and Toshinori's reports from when had eventually arrived at the scene. The resulting Injuries Izumi Midoriya had sustained from her prolonged fight for her life, not just with the trio of robotic assailants that had made every attempt to kill her but from taking on the large purple backed villain that had been identified as 'Nomu'. The report delivered by Toshinori had been the must gut-wrenching to read, when coupled with the medical report Chiyo had been able to obtain from Shizuoka Prefectural General Hospital was what filled the back of his thought with the taste of bile.
Looking down again at the report Nezu reread over what Toshinori had witnessed, from what he had submitted after entering the USJ and subduing the last few inconsequential villains, who from Nezu's analysis were little more than extra muscle hired to distract heroes from the villain's main objective, the main villain running the show had bellowed for this 'Nomu' to come and deal with Toshinori. The report detailed how the Nomu had let out an ear-piercing scream from the ruins zone before attempting to leap back towards the central plaza.
Yet mid-leap it had been intercepted by a spread of eight high explosive missiles, knocking the Nomu off course and into the dirt, these missiles were followed up by Midoriya hurtling towards the slowly recovering Nomu. Her body was littered with bruising, burn marks and a mounted amount of geasles, the rupturing of capillaries along the body as a result of high-g turns. The fact that every visible part of her skin was covered in them to the point she looked almost red was not a good sign of the likely other stresses her body would be under internally.
Roaring towards the Nomu suffering from what was one of the more common effects of vertical g-forces, tunnel vision, Midoirya failed to notice the signs of a black mist portal spring into existence from her left and expand across in front of her. The exit portal being opened inches from the ground led her to slam directly into the ground at near-supersonic speeds.
Placing Toshinori's report down as from there it went on to detail his engagement with the Nomu, while a joint effort of some of the students in the plaza moved to hold off the villain with the hand based costume and attempt to get Midoriya out of the line of fire. Once again Nezu turned his eyes back to the medical report, he needed to fully memorise it as the moment she'd been rushed to the Shizuoka Prefectural General Hospital Intensive Care Unit where the doctors had faced nothing short of a mammoth struggle to stabilise the girl.
Over 60% of her bones had suffered stress fractures as a result of the constant changing g-forces they had been subjected to, internal bleeding as a result of a kidney rupture from the impact with the ground, burst blood vessels in both eyes, a collapsed lung, complete fractures in both her arms and legs, a vast majority of the surface capillaries of her skin burst. This was all on top of the bulked wing growths, crushed engines and other untold breaks and shorn off parts of her quirk related growths.
The volume of injuries Midoriya had suffered would be enough to end her chance at a heroics carrier, how was Nezu going to break that news to the girl's mother? it was why he had spent the last two days since he had been able to collate all this information together simply trying to figure out if there was anything that could be done so he would not have to deliver such shattering news. But from what both Chiyo had reasoned and his own deductions thanks to his quirk there was nothing that could be done.
Broken from his musing by a knock on his door Nezu took a single breath to steady himself. "Come in" His voice devoid of the normal chipperness it often held as he watched now standing in the doorway was Ryo Inui, the Hunting Dog Hero: Hound Dog and the school's guidance counsellor. "Ah Ryo," Nezu smiled at the gruff counsellor giving him a welcoming nod, "I take it Mrs Midoriya has arrived?" while he would have preferred to have this meeting under better circumstances and when it had originally been organised now was as good a time as any.
Ryo nodded stiffly before growling out, "she isn't alone." Now that was a shock to Nezu, from what he had been able to find out about the Midoriya family, while Mrs Midoriya was here in Japan, her husband worked overseas and rarely returned home so it was not likely to be Mr Midoriya with her.
"Oh?" Nezu questioned looking into Ryo's eyes "Then who is with her, I thought Mrs Midoriya would be attending alone."
"He said he was here at the request of Mrs Midoriya's husband," Ryo growled out occasionally reducing to near intelligible words mixed with canine barks, "Only gave his Hero name and title, called himself the Convict Security Hero: Bandog."
Nezu blinked slowly, his face remaining as impassive as he could. That name he had heard about that particular hero and what they did for the IASHF, he was a unique hero not just by IASHF standards but by the standards of local heroes. Bandog specifically dealt with 'villain rehabilitation' but not in the conventional sense, as instead of having villains serve their time in prison under guard Bandog instead managed and controlled an IASHF backed 'penal team'.
Known to both IASHF forces and localised HPSC's as the four-forty-fourth squadron, or 'Spare Squardron', Bandog kept them under a tight leash with his quirk, 'Confinement' that allowed him to restrict nad when required outright nullify anyone quirk of who he had a hair sample from for as long as he wanted. A truly powerful quirk that being in the hands of someone working for IASHF was a double-edged sword, as while Bandog was using his quirk for an arguably heroic means and purpose working for IASHF in the way he did gave them a much greater ability to hold and manage some of the worst villains to ever exist. Nezu could easily see the ease of which the IASHF could use Bandog and his quirk to offer various nations the service of holding their worst criminals all while charging a nominal fee to do so, a legal extortion racket.
And now Nezu had Bandog here, in his school at the behest of a student's parent not the most ideal circumstance by any stretch but perhaps Nezu could work this situation now to his advantage. A small smile spread across his lips as he kept his gaze on Ryo.
"Thank you Ryo, Please show them in." Nezu gently wrapped a paw on the table as he watched a relatively short emotional woman enter, clearly Mrs Midoriya, dressed in the typical outfit one would expect of a middle-class stay at home parent.
Behind her walked in a man taller by at least a foot with his chestnut hair sporting a crew cut, he was dressed in a dark grey flight suit sporting various datapads and readout devices, the only visible markings besides the ISAHF logo on the breast poke was a diagonal cut white and black shield with the image of a snarling blue rottweiler dog emblazoned upon it, if Nezu had to guess these devices were likely linked to tactical readouts and vital signs from whatever IASHF heroes were linked to them. The serious expression on the man's face told Nezu all he needed to know, while Mrs midoriya sported a look of concern and panic over her child's condition and fate, this man the 'hero: Bandog' was here for one thing and one thing only. An explanation of what happened and any relevant information to the villains responsible.
Gesturing for the two to take a seat and as they did so Nezu decided to begin with his normal form of greeting, a jovial way to break the ice. "Hello, I am Nezu, the one who could be a dog or a mouse or a bear, but more importantly... I'm the principal!" He ended with a smile hoping he had broken the ice.
"This is not the time for jokes Principle," The stern commanding voice of Bandog cut across the room putting an end to Nezu's attempt to lighten a heavy discussion, "The daughter of one of the IASHF's best ground support operatives, and a man I consider a friend is currently lying in an ICU bed due to a villain incursion on your school grounds." There was some anger in Bandog's voice as he spoke. "At the very least her mother is owed a justification for this."
"My daughter came here to learn to be a hero," Inko spoke her voice quiet, holding back the emotion that was bubbling to the surface. "How could something like this happen?"
Nezu sat there taking in the words of Inko Midoriya, how her voice had wavered and nearly broken with emotion the watery look in her eyes that showed tears threatening to spill-free. He still found it hard to read human emotions but knew the telltale signs of a distressed parent, Nezu hoped that the news he would deliver would not make things any worse.
Yet it wasn't the body language or voice cues from Inko that Nezu was truly concerned about but the harsh tone and military straight posture from Bandog. Where most would simply see a naturally aggressive and abrasive man Nezu saw a well-trained predator, a man who embodied the canine decal used as his personal emblem, it was a worry to Nezu that the parent of one of his students would in their sted ask such man to be present. Something to ponder about at a later date, right now he had to keep his full attention on the task at hand.
"From what our initial investigation has been able to piece together with information gathered using interrogations of the captured villains, the students who were able to give statements and the teachers present, we have been able to determine that the self-proclaimed 'League of Villains' chose to attack UA for the sole purpose of making an attempt on All-Might's life." Nezu paused watching as Inko's eyes rose in shock, yet Bandog's did not instead his narrowed in what could either be disbelief or anger. "This entire event was nothing short of an accident due to All-Might not being present at the lesson."
"An accident?" Bandog snarled out, while Inko looked horrified, "So you are saying due to All-Might's high profile now being tied to a single location and his incompetence in arriving to perform work he has been employed to do, this is the reason Izumi is in the ICU?"
Nezu could only respond with a single nod before Inko cut in stopping any response he could give. "What does this mean for my daughter's future place here?"
"With the injuries, she has sustained, we at UA feel it would be best if Midoriya Izumi is withdrawn from the heroics course." Nezu kept his voice calm bracing himself for the likely breakdown of a parent. Yet surprisingly that didn't happen, while Inko's eyes were still watery they now had an edge of hardness to them.
"You want," Inko's voice had gained a hard edge to it as she stared down Nezu her stare sending his natural survival instincts into overdrive, "To remove my daughter from her dream school for something that happened to her while she was under your care, does that about sum it up?"
Bandog snorted in clear disgust before leaning forward resting his elbows on Nezu's desk a clear act of dominance to position himself above Nezu. "You believe she will be unable to make a recovery well enough to return to your heroics course?"
"It is not something I wish to advise but from what our one staff medical professional indicated while it is possible she'd recover the injuries sustained would be career-ending for a pro-hero let alone a hero-trainee," Nezu remained calm as he explained this point, surely Bandog would understand this as a pre-hero himself yet he watched a smirk appear on the man's lips as he lent back.
"Once Izumi is cleared to move with Mrs Midoriya's permission she will be relocated to the IASHF medical facility in the Chiba prefecture, where one of our medical teams will see to her recovery to return to continue her heroics training." His voice was even and calculating. "Our team specialises in the reconstruction of heroes suffering career-ending injuries."
That was a shock to Nezu, the IASHF had a team most likely with specialised healing quirks that could bring Izumi back to having the full use of her body and quirk, how did no government know about this. Then it struck Nezu it made perfect sense the IASHF would keep these specialists as a closely guarded secret, but why would Bandog let such information slip surely the IASHF were not hat invested in a single girl and her growth as a hero. But if what Nezu and All-Might had suspected about Izumi MIdoriya's lineage was true and her relation to the infamous 'Ribbon Reaper' had some traction, the IASHF would be planning for the next generation's most lethal hero. Yet what was the reason for mentioning their specialist team, surely it wasn't common knowledge for the IASHF that Nezu knew Toshinori could make use of their team to return to his full strength, that had to be the reason for mentoring this use the offer of giving Toshinori access to the specialists in exchange for keeping Izumi in the heroics course.
"How long would Miss Midoriya be out of action while your specialists treat her?" Nezu asked evenly, knowing now that a long back and forth discussion was about to begin.
"She will probably be ready to return to the heroics course a few weeks after the sports festival you hold," Bandog responded calmly as he glanced over at Inko for her input.
"I think we have quite a few things to discuss Principle Nezu," Inko spoke wiping her wet eyes. "You wanted to speak about my daughter a few days ago, I think I now know why."
Nezu nodded knowing that what was to come would be a long conversation, but something that would lead to some shock revelations about the IASHF and who Izumi Midoriya fit into whatever their plan was.