Chapter 10: Mayhem All-Around

A/N: Well here it is, the tenth chapter! Thank you all for your support and for helping me get over 50 followers and favorites for this fanfic! Enjoy!

Aizawa was once again at UA's staff room, his colleagues, nowhere in sight. Quietly he sipped his coffee. His fellow teachers had been coming in late the past few days, being stopped by reporters whenever they are seen in public. While he did not reveal his opinion on the article in front of his colleagues, the pro-hero was deeply interested in the article and the rampaging damage it had caused till now. Unlike most heroes, Aizawa didn't believe Nedzu had written the article. After all, Nedzu had denied writing the article when he had asked. And, while Nedzu might be chaotic and sadistic, he never outright lied. He might just beat around the bush or simply choose to misdirect and Nedzu had done just that during their meeting. However, Aizawa was 100% sure that Nedzu knew something about the original writers of the article.

Nedzu had been dropping hints left and right... The question was what Nedzu knows and why he is giving only Aizawa the clues. Aizawa has known Nedzu long enough to know that he always has something deep planned and that he only drops clues to those he deems worthy of being his partner in chaos. But not knowing what Nedzu has planned, annoyed Aizawa greatly. All Aizawa could do for now was wait before the plan revealed itself. Sighing, he got up to head to his class when he stopped cold.

None of the teachers had still arrived, and there wasn't any commotion of the students outside in the hall either. There was an eerie silence over the empty school. Aizawa speculated whether he should head into Nedzu's office but decided against it. If there was any problem, Nedzu would have let him know. Considering he hadn't gotten any messages, it was unlikely something had happened and Aizawa was sure, Nedzu had planned for this. Sighing, Aizawa decided to take a nap on the staffroom couch.

It was about half an hour later that the teachers arrived. Aizawa woke up with a start as the teachers entered, lead by Vlad King. Aizawa sat up and began to listen to their conversation to try and understand what had happened.

"It's a disgrace!" Vlad King exclaimed.

"Calm down. You are needlessly taking out your anger on us," Snipe said.

"I take down villains! Strong villains! Yet I have to get escorted by the police to get to UA 'safely'. What the hell?" Kan said ignoring Snipe.

"Well, the public is backing police and underground heroes highly at present because of the quirk discrimination article. Nothing was mentioned about the unfairness against the police and underground heroes directly in the article, but with that Q/A with Endeavour, the authors pointed out the things that everyone missed. They just needed the forums to fill in the blanks for the public." Midnight explained.

"Exactly," Mic said in his loud voice, "They took advantage of the fact that people get bullied in school and discriminated against in adult life too. So why can't it happen in the hero society or law enforcement? The writers know exactly what they are doing."

"Honestly, these events are making me want to shift to being an Underground hero like Aizawa," Vlad King said. "You're lucky your costume makes you look like a hobo and not a hero. Do you have any idea how bad it is outside all the hero schools? Most of the hero schools had to cancel school after students were barred from entering by protesters."

"Speaking of, I saw no message about UA canceling classes, but there aren't any students inside or outside. Why is that?" Thirteen asked Aizawa who shrugged.

"That's because I sent out a message to only students telling them that today UA will be closed," Nedzu said walking out from the kitchen scaring all of the teachers.

"Why only students?" Aizawa asked, being the only teacher who had not given an external expression to Nedzu's jumpscare.

"Ah, that's because I wanted the teachers to come. I know," Nedzu continued seeing his teachers' mouths open, "that you would have come if I had given notice that the school was closed only for students but I was pretty sure that Aizawa would end up coming in at midday then,"

The teachers snickered at the response while Aizawa twitched and gave an annoyed grunt. Nedzu smiled before continuing, "I am sure you are all updated on the news but in case a few of you have missed out on some things, I will be holding a briefing in a staff meeting that starts now. If you could all take a seat?"

All of the teachers sat down and faced Nedzu who smiled and started speaking, "Ok, first, yesterday on the forums, many people came together and started talking about how schools discriminate. Inevitably, people also connected the fact that hero schools are doing the same thing. They realized that underground heroes and police also pay an immense contribution to enforcing the law and helping society. This led to police getting huge support from the public. On the other hand, due to the regrettable actions and stance on the article by daylight heroes, their popularity has taken a hit, to say the least." Nedzu's eyes twinkled as he went on, "Only heroes supporting the article and pushing for reforms like All Might and Best Jeanist among others are still trusted by the public. Now, I gave the day off to students of UA because it was clear as daylight that public outcry or some other form of backlash would force hero schools to close today. My deduction was right as you have already seen that many protesters have barred students from entering their schools and urged them to boycott. Are we clear so far?"

The teachers nodded but didn't dare ask any questions. They knew better than to interrupt the principal before he had finished speaking.

"Alright," Nedzu said, "Here's the tricky part. Almost the entirety of the public agrees that hero schools are discriminating. They have even gathered evidence that the entrance exams are discriminatory, catering to those with strong quirks and neglecting those with weak ones, be it because of the exam format or not proper conditions. At present, they are pressuring all hero schools to respond to their accusations. There is also talk of a law-suit against the hero schools, too pressurize the hero schools further."

"That's why I have always been saying that the UA entrance exams need to be changed! But you keep refusing! Now, what are you going to do?" Aizawa asked agitated.

Nedzu smiled, "The answer's still no, Aizawa. I know what I am doing and I have a plan. What I wanted to say is that I am sure most of the schools will cave in by today and hold press conferences. However, we will be doing it tomorrow. Otherwise, other hero schools will take UA's lead if we give our statement today and that will lead to no reforms. That's all dismissed!"

"Wait, that's all? Don't you need our help with the press conference or something?" Mic exclaimed.

"No,"

"B-but, what was the point of this then!?"

Nedzu smiled, "So that you don't say anything at all to the press today. DO NOT talk to them. I have a plan for the press conference."

"Well, my opinion is different from yours, so I will talk if the media asks me," Aizawa said.

"Really you are going to talk to the media, Aizawa?" Midnight guffawed as the other teachers laughed lightly.

Nedzu smiled again, "I am sure Aizawa, that by the end, your qualms will be settled too. If not, I promise I'll hold another press conference afterward, if needed. That's all, you can go home now, or stay... Your wish."

Nedzu exited the staffroom. Aizawa's scowl deepened, "There's nothing he could say that would make me change my opinion on the entrance exam."

Mic gave his best friend a reassuring smile, "You said it yourself the other day, Nedzu outright told he didn't write the article so he didn't. Well, now he's outright saying that he'll fix your issue. Let's just wait and see till tomorrow, deal?"

Aizawa's scowl grew deeper but he nodded, "Fine,"

"Has UA released their statement yet?" Shiketsu's principal asked his assistant.

"No, not yet."

The principal gritted his teeth, "That Nedzu always has something planned. If we address the public now, we'll have to address them like the other schools did. There isn't much choice on how to respond. All we can actually say is we're sorry and we'll try harder. Whether we mean it or not is something that will matter further down the road. But if we say this now, the number 2 hero school will be made to look like any other school. Our reputation will be tarnished!" The principal growled to himself. He snapped his head upwards and stared intently at his assistant who seemed to want to melt into the ground. "Listen," he commanded, "If any news about UA releasing their statement comes, I want you to tell me at once, got it!?"

"Y-yes, sir!"

"I know it wasn't our intention but I'm really liking how things are going because of our article," Watanabe commented. The two cousins had finished their morning training for the day. They had met up with Kaminari and had eaten lunch together before heading home. Kaminari and Izuku were really getting together and Watanabe was happy that his cousin finally had an actual friend beside him. Presently they had just come back from night training with All Might and had freshened up.

"Yup. The social stance on both heroes and police have changed so drastically." Izuku replied.

"You know, if we weren't so invested in becoming heroes, I'd have just gone into being a police and then I'd have kept bashing heroes,"

Izuku laughed, "No reason why we can't still. The more we bash, the more things get fixed, right?"

"Yeah, but after school starts, we'll be pretty busy. I'm actually surprised you haven't asked anything about his quirk yet or gone into analyzing mode already,"

"I already have some ideas but I was planning on talking about that after we start school together. It seems sorta rude otherwise,"

Watanabe nodded, "Good choice but Kaminari really won't mind. He isn't that sort of person. Your choice though."

"Now about the hero schools' statements..." Izuku addressed.

"They're shit obviously," Watanabe groaned. "All of them basically said, we're sorry, we'll do better. I mean they didn't even bother setting up individual press conferences."

"Still, UA and Shiketsu haven't given their statements yet, so we'll see what happens then." Izuku pointed out.

"Fair enough. I haven't seen the forums yet though," Watanabe said and got on the computer.

I can't believe the gall of the hero-schools! They didn't even bother giving a separate statement! Just one statement to address everyone. Seriously.
~Imjustonegal66

I missed the interview, why what happened?
~TahminaIslam

They didn't sound very convincing or apologetic. They just said We are sorry and we will try to do better.
~Sanjna_23

And that's after sugarcoating it.
~KIRA

I don't see the point of even waiting for UA or Shiketsu's press conference anymore, it'll probably just be some sort of copy of this.
~Guest

I can see why you'd think that but you're wrong
~StarryDreamer101

Huh? Why?
~Guest

UA is the number 1 hero school and Shiketsu the number 2. Don't you think they have some reason to not yet hold press conferences? They are smarter, so they have some sort of plan.
~Starrydreamer101

Yo Chaos, Storm! What do you think of that?
~Randomguy1

They aren't gonna answer man. People have been trying for two days now
~Zoro0905

Selfish pricks. I mean we're just fans
~Randomguy1

"Selfish pricks! We gave you an article that has helped society and we're selfis-"

"That's enough Watanabe," Izuku said, "I have a nice revenge plan,"

"Oh, so my sadistic chaotic nature is rubbing off huh? Do tell!"

"Right well it's nothing big but I was thinking I could say one word of our response, you can write the second, and so on." Izuku said, "I know it's a bit lame but-"

"No, no" Watanabe interrupted, "Psychological warfare, I like it! The readers have no clue who we are, so this will mess with their minds because they'll think we rehearsed this just for people pestering us. I mean they wouldn't expect us to live together,"

"Right," Izuku said, "So what should we write,"

"Something cliched"

Hey guys look, Chaos and storm are typing!
~Randomguy2

Everyone shush!
~Randomguy1

The hunter
~Storm ✔

always waits
~Chaos ✔

for the right
~Storm ✔

moment.
~Chaos ✔

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