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Chapter 95:

"You really surprised me," Ashido said while stretching her arms up over her head. She leaned back to stretch more, then she leaned forward and touched her toes, bouncing her flexible body a few times to flatten her palms out on the floor between her feet. "I wasn't expecting this at all."

"Well I know your internship with Rainbow Sparkles doesn't start for a few more weeks," Hanta Sero called over across the basketball court the two of them were standing on. It was an overcast day so the park was empty as some people thought there might be rain and it was just not a great time to go out, which was good for the two heroes in training as it meant no one was around to tell them they couldn't train their Quirks. "And, you were like the only person I saw on the bus who didn't look totally… well," Sero sweatdropped and lowered his arms that he was stretching out in front of his chest.

"Yeah!" Ashido called out. She didn't want to say anything first in case she had read his expression wrong, but she was glad he had seen her too. "I like don't even know who else in the class I can talk to about him right now. Kyoka was super mad when I tried talking to her before she left, and Momo… well," Ashido shut herself up and then shook her head a few times before smiling again as she did not want to get all depressed when she had just gotten excited in the first place. "But yeah I'm glad you called me!"

Sero nodded and then grinned some more while adding, "Plus, figure it could be a good way to bring up my Tape's strength."

"Oh I'm gonna melt through it in no time flat!" Ashido countered in a competitive way. "Hope no one sees us fighting out here though," she added sheepishly, glancing to the sides of the park again. A gust of wind flew through the area and blew around the long grass that had not been cut for a few days, leaves blew on the trees on the far side from the basketball court, and Ashido just smiled as they seemed pretty isolated. "I like this park," she said with a smile while turning back to Sero, and then she finished stretching and lifted her hands ready to fight.

The two of them made some quick ground rules, and then they started sparring for the first time. Sero was glad he had so many good reasons to call her up, though he was actually more focused on those reasons than the smug inner thought he had that he was hanging out alone with one of the cute girls in their class. He wrapped her up with some tape after she avoided him with gymnastics for a few seconds at first, but Ashido secreted Acid from her arms and broke out of the tape in no time flat. She slid up towards Sero, only for him to shoot tape out of his left elbow and to a basketball hoop's pole.

Sero shot over towards it and then fired another thing of tape behind him at Ashido who landed where she tried kicking the boy who moved too fast and dodged her. She opened her eyes wide for a second and got caught by his tape, but this time before she could melt through it she was already being tugged to the other side of the court. It would have pulled her off her feet, but she secreted her Acid out the soles of her feet to slide across the floor without friction and make it easier to control her own movements. Sero grinned as she started sliding though, and he yanked his arm twice as fast which made Ashido's eyes bulge as she had not realized he was moving slow on purpose. The extra speed mixed with how she was sliding made her zip across the pavement way too fast.

Sero broke off the tape out of his right elbow, right as Ashido melted through the other end anyway. She tried swinging some Acid towards him, but she was off-balanced and sliding way faster than she was comfortable with though somehow managing to stay on her feet. Then she hit the edge of the pavement, and her Acid did not let her slide on grass well at all. Ashido fell backwards and rolled a couple of times on the grass. "Whoa, hey!" Sero started running towards her with a worried look on his face as the girl who hit the ground called out 'Ow!'

Ashido sat up and she looked down at her forearms she had put in front of her while rolling. She glanced to her right and saw a stick barely poking out of the untrimmed grass, and she pouted at it considering she had just been cut and had some blood on her right arm below her elbow. "You alright?" Sero asked as he jogged up to her, slowing down since it seemed from her look that she was fine. He reached out a hand and Ashido grabbed it so he could help her up.

"Yeah," Ashido said slowly. "Though I'm realizing we might under-appreciate Recovery Girl," she added and then started rubbing up and down over her cut to wipe the blood. "It's not deep though," she added as Sero looked down again to see if she was good.

"Maybe we should stick to just training, without sparring," Sero suggested.

Ashido got a pout on her face that confused Sero, though the taller boy smirked after a second. "Oh yeah," he said, just realizing it then though Ashido thought he had known all along. "Guess that means I'm undefeated-"

"I would totally win the next round," Ashido said. "And we'll see, soon as we get back to school," she added, agreeing despite wanting to show him she'd win that they probably should wait for a better time. She was still a bit worried someone would see them fighting out there after all.

"Yeah, back to school," Sero repeated. He leaned his head back and scratched it while walking back towards the pavement. He picked up some tape as he walked and wrapped it around his arm, just to gather it all since he couldn't leave it there and litter which wouldn't be very hero-like. "You hear about the reviews they've been doing?"

"Already?" Ashido asked in surprise while walking back onto the court with him, though she smiled after asking. "Hey, pile it all up in one place." She turned and started running across the court, and Sero nodded at what she was trying to do. This is about as far as usual… so why not farther? Ashido ran a couple of extra steps until she was at the far side baseline from the three-point-line on the other side Sero started piling his used tape on.

"Think you can hit it from that far?" Sero teased over.

"Oh I'll hit," Ashido said. She started aiming carefully, and Sero backed up a bit from the pile in case she did miss. That made Ashido frown a bit, and she called over to him, "But really, what have you heard about the reviews?"

"Sounds like all the teachers are being cleared," Sero said. "I heard from Kirishima, that Midoriya told him, that All Might said even he got off with barely being scolded for coming up with the idea."

"So you think it's just a formality?" Ashido wondered.

"Might be," Sero replied. "The news is still just talking about Zach, but have you heard the amount of villains caught the last couple days?" Ashido shook her head and looked away from the pile of tape in confusion. The only things she had been seeing on the news were Zach related, and her eyes widened as Sero continued, "It's been crazy. They caught some guys who admitted this morning to being at the 'Lifebringer Incident,' with Kami- Raijin and Dabi."

"They did?" Ashido asked in surprise, continuing quick so Sero wouldn't get hung-up on almost saying 'Kaminari' instead of 'Raijin' which it looked like he was about to. She turned back to the pile of tape and said, "Why is that not like, the biggest thing right now?"

"It's not just them," Sero added, leaning back and interlocking his hands behind his head. "A bunch of other villains got captured in the two days after, and I'm thinking the heroes must have known where a bunch of them already were. Big shots too, lots of League of Villains guys." Ashido wanted to focus on the tape but she kept getting distracted by all this stuff that was not Zach-related which was all she had been watching the news for recently. "I'm betting the heroes were trying to make sure they had these perfect plans to avoid Kurogiri showing up and getting them out, wasting the opportunities. The heroes can't make a big deal about attacking them all of a sudden though, or everyone would talk about why it is they're suddenly able to move in without worrying as much about the villains getting away."

Ashido smiled, and she pushed her fingers together closer in her hands she held out in front of her. She made a small funnel, and she fired a blast of Acid out towards the pile of tape Sero made for her. It looked like it was going too short for a second, but when the Acid hit the pavement it splashed out forward into the pile and started seeping through it. Sero sweatdropped though and got a bit of a nervous look on his face as he saw the Acid Ashido fired made a little dip in the basketball court. "Um, let's move this to the grass," Sero suggested. He had started on the pavement in the first place because he wanted to do less damage, plus the basketball hoops he thought could be used with his Tape. A few patches of dead grass did not seem like much now though compared to a ruined basketball court.

"Oops," Ashido said, and she stuck out her tongue playfully with a laugh before running over to the grass herself. She was suddenly in a much better mood, and she accounted her hitting that tape pile from a far distance to it though her mood was even better after. Sero glanced at his remaining tape in the pile hesitantly, then he just turned and walked back onto the grass thinking, I'll get it later. He didn't want to touch the tape that could still be covered in Acid though it was not really dissolving anymore. Ashido called over to the black-haired boy walking over to the grass, "So what you're saying there is, Kurogiri being gone, might be a good thing?"

Sero glanced over at her with a less sure look on her face about how to respond to that. Ashido lowered her own smile, but Sero lifted the corners of his lips after a second. His smile did not cover half of his face as per usual, but he did nod with a small grin. "I think so." Ashido sighed in a bit of relief that they were still on the same page. Then Sero continued while walking towards her, so he could speak in a softer voice, "You hear about Zach?"

"Uh huh," Ashido said, as that was part of the news she had been listening to closely. "Last night?" She asked, and Sero nodded his head too as that was what he was referring to. Ashido smiled and then said while stretching her arms again though this time in front of her body like she saw Sero doing before. Pushing her arms out in front of her like that pushed her chest together in her t-shirt, and Sero had to try hard to keep looking at her eyes though the girl who started looking up did miss some quick peeks down. Ashido smiled while her gaze was lifted to the clouds, "I'm really glad he got out of the country. I wasn't expecting to hear that out of nowhere though. I nearly spit out the snack I was eating. Haha," she looked down, and Sero nodded in agreement with her while feeling a bit of relief that he got his eyes up before she got hers down to meet his gaze.

"They're not going to catch him," Sero said, and Ashido smiled big as he said what she wanted to say to others but could not without sounding like she wanted it to happen. She nodded in agreement with him, and Sero continued, "He got in a fight with some Filipino heroes, but none of them got hurt."

Ashido lifted her hand quickly but then lowered it slow as Sero added the part about no one getting hurt so she did not have to argue about it herself like she had to with her parents. "Then that fisherman who saw them getting on the boat at a port near Manila, he said Zach and them were heading west. You think he's in China right now?" Ashido asked. "He had been there before, at least, to Shanghai." She lowered her smile a bit as she said that, thinking about Zach talking about a drug deal he had gone to with Dabi. You told us back when you came back from saving Kaminari from… you made up that whole lie about your confidential informant. The junky. That whole story about him that I didn't doubt for a second. You even got defensive over protecting his identity, and you looked like you felt bad about him. But those drugs you said the guy- who didn't even exist, came to buy. You were selling… is that why you looked like you felt bad at the time? Were you thinking about how you had sold drugs yourself?!

"Yeah," Sero agreed quietly. "But he had to, to get the villains' trust so he could make his escape at VTS." He tried to raise Ashido's spirits by saying why Zach might have done those things he shouted in the forest, but then he pulled his head back and got a much bigger look of regret on his face. Me and my big mouth.

"And you, pulled me back through that portal at VTS. You brought me back when I just wanted to run, and you tortured me! You forced food through portals and down my throat when I wouldn't eat, and you dripped water on my face for hours- DRIP DRIP DRIP-" I didn't do a thing. You got pulled through the portal, and all I did was yell at you for scaring- for killing Kirishima. I actually thought you had. And you got dragged away-

"There's no way Zach's in China though," Sero said. He said it assuredly and chuckled while shaking his head.

Ashido lifted her head and got a semi-confused look on her face. She tried thinking more about Asian geography which was not her best point. "Vietnam? Thailand?"

"I'm betting he's already halfway across the Pacific," Sero said.

Ashido got a lot more confused, and for a second she started questioning whether she knew east from west. She shook her head as she definitely knew which was which. "But the guy who saw them said-"

"You really think Zach didn't know that fisherman was watching?" Sero asked. A smirk spread over his face, while Ashido's eyes opened huge and her bottom lip lowered.

"You're totally right!" She shouted, though up until that moment she had not even considered it. She leaned back and smiled at the tall boy in front of her who was grinning that she agreed and that he was able to flip that look on her face that had seemed close to tears. Ashido hummed to herself, then she shook her head and said, "But even if he knew, he wouldn't be in the middle of the Pacific." Sero got a confused look on his face, only to laugh as Ashido called out, "I bet he's already in America!"

"I'm, sorry, Ballerclava," Momo Yaoyorozu held her phone up to her right ear and tried to keep her voice steady as she spoke into it. "I am just, unable to-"

"Do not give me that," a stern voice cut in over the line. "And do not act like I do not know why you are trying to cancel your internship. Shiro Swan got you to talk. I know you cared for that boy." Momo held her mouth shut on the other side of the line, and she started shaking her head in a pained voice as Ballerclava saying "cared for" meant she did not understand her feelings at all. "Lifebringer is gone now, and you must accept that. He is not dead, so I am not going to just wait for you to mourn. Buck up, Creati."

Yaoyorozu's eyes opened wide and she stared towards the glass doors of her huge bedroom that led onto her balcony. She was sitting up at the head of her bed, a box of tissues next to her that she had created after the last one ran out. Hearing her hero name made the girl with long black hair falling messily behind her head stare out into the nice sky outside. She stared out into the blue sky, as it was midday though she was still in bed. Ballerclava continued as she stared out there, "And I expect to see you at my agency on the first Monday of what should have been U.A.'s summer vacation. I passed up other young heroes' requests when you applied for this internship. Denied them in favor of you. So you don't get to pull out now."

The phone call cut off, and Yaoyorozu turned her head to her phone in shock that the hero did not even wait for a response. She frowned and wanted to call back right away that the woman could not tell her what to do, but she pursed her lips instead thinking about other students like her who must have lost an opportunity so that she might have it. Can I perform my hero duties to a full capacity as I am now? That, that is an excuse, that I wanted to tell her. I just don't want to… Momo reached for her blanket to pull up her knees and close to her chin, but her hands shook before grabbing it. No. I, I must. I cannot shut down. Zach would hate himself if he knew- but he should- no he shouldn't. She started shaking her head and closed her eyes tightly for a few seconds.

Then the girl scooted over to the edge of her huge bed and stepped off for the first time all morning. Mother is right. Ballerclava too, and Jirou… "Forget him." Not Jirou. But she is right, at least a little. Yaoyorozu shook her head around while walking towards her closet and opening up a room as big as her dorm back at U.A. I must push you from my mind, at least enough that you do not take up every waking minute… Momo lowered her gaze from the clothes she was about to start going through for an outfit. I will not forget you. And, I will not lose hope that one day, you'll return. That was not, as you said, "Goodbye." But if you do not wish to be found, I do not believe anyone will be able to find you. So until that time when you return, I, I must… I must move on.

"…and in recent news from the Middle East, the ISK Hero Group in Gorran has recently unearthed a huge weapons' smuggling ring. Literally unearthed, as in the guns they found were in an underground bunker. The amount of weapons they confiscated meant for trade overseas was staggering, however they were only able to capture a few of the villains involved. Small protests in the towns of Jabba and and Rotta occurred this weekend in Saudi Arabia, and a new Turkish president was elected. In Europe, the KLB Corporation has consolidated a…"

"Deku!"

A boy with curly green hair standing in front of a tv in a skyscraper in Osaka spun around and looked across the office towards SkyLord. The overweight hero with big yellow wings sticking out of his back motioned towards himself before turning and jogging away, and Deku sprinted across the office of one of the top heroes in the city. A couple other sidekicks in there and a large number of staff on the floor watched as the boy and top prospect of U.A. Class A ran by them.

"We have a hit and run downtown. A car chase on the freeway headed east away from the city through Nara. An anonymous tip just came into the police department that there's cock-fighting in the basement of a Chinese restaurant on 34th and Jimmu Ave. We have to be careful about that one. If the tip is wrong, we could have a huge mess on our hands for discrimination. Don't mention anything about cock fights unless we see it ourselves. Tip might not pan out."

"Where are we going first?" Deku asked.

"Your decision," SkyLord replied while jogging towards the stairs to the roof. They were already on the top floor of his agency's building that he shared with a few other heroes on lower floors, and the hero glanced over his shoulder while running towards the roof exit. He looked into the surprised boy's eyes, "Which is most important? Where is the most immediate need for our presence?"

"Are there already heroes at the car chase?"

"Only police."

"Do we have the hit-and-run car's license plate?"

"Yes."

"Let's go to the car chase," Deku said quickly.

"Alright, sending orders for the others to take on the other tasks. Can't have the perp ditching the car, as it might not be theirs, so even with the plate it's not a sure thing to go after it later on. The owners of the restaurant could scrub the place of feathers and blood if we wait too long for that too." SkyLord walked out on the roof that was illuminated with bright lights on the sides all pointed in. The roof had a red glowing circle in the middle of it with a yellow bird with wings outstretched painted as a symbol in the center that could only be made out well from a bird's-eye view.

Midoriya nodded at each thing his pro hero said and jotted them down as tips to remember in his head. Then he bent his knees while SkyLord threw his wings out to the sides, and they shot up in the air to the east together.

In late July, Kirishima Eijiro walked down a street with a buddy of his and senpai at the hero agency he was working at. The other hero was a fully licensed one, though they had both gone to U.A. together when Kirishima was still a freshman. The two of them were working for Fat Gum like they had the fall of Kirishima's first year, and though Kirishima was doing a summer internship he considered himself a sidekick of Fat Gum just like Suneater, or Tamaki Amajiki, who walked next to him.

"Hey Suneater! Great work yesterday!"

The two heroes looked across the street and saw some older guys a couple of years older than Kirishima gathered on the front porch of an apartment complex. Kirishima smiled big at the group of them and opened his mouth to respond to the guy at the bottom of the steps who was smiling over in a friendly way. "Don't say anything," Tamaki said quietly.

Kirishima glanced at the older boy next to him in confusion, then he heard the same guy call out, "You too Red Riot! Nice job!"

"Thanks!" Kirishima called back, and he flexed his right arm and grabbed his bicep.

"I didn't say it because I don't want the attention," Tamaki said as they continued walking down the sidewalk. Kirishima was stuck staring around at the porch behind the guy who called to him, because as that friendly guy waved his buddies were all standing up around him. They looked after the heroes, and then they turned to each other and started talking while the guy smiling after Kirishima started to grin in a different kind of way.

"You think they're villains?" Kirishima asked, looking back to his fellow sidekick in confusion as to what was happening and why they just kept walking if there really was something going on. "I thought that guy was just being cool."

"Maybe," Tamaki said. Suneater wore his hero costume of a white cloak with the hood up even though it was a sunny day, he had purple pouches all over his costume under the cloak, and he lifted a hand to one and pulled out a crab claw he ripped some meat out of with his teeth. "Or maybe they're testing how alert we are." Kirishima just realized why it was his senpai had gotten such a serious look after the older teen across the street had called out to them, a look that Kirishima was used to seeing but must have looked intimidating to those others. Then he thought about how he just smiled himself and called out to them, and it made him frown deeply while darting a glare back at the porch.

As Kirishima glared back, a couple of the guys gathered there were looking down the sidewalk after them. Their eyes widened and they turned away quickly to start talking to each other again, and Kirishima grinned but felt an odd sensation in his chest. "Feels kind of weird, intimidating people on the street like that."

"They're a prime age for villain recruitment," Suneater said softly. "I could see a villain walking up and offering them a job, and many of them look willing to accept. That is why we must win every fight here in town, and not let any villains escape unlike yesterday. They must see it is not a good choice."

"Yeah," Kirishima said in a determined voice. That's why we go on patrols like these. Show them they can't get away with stuff! Better not get into any crime… I wonder how effective this is?

Crime had been rising fast over the past month. All over Japan crime was at its highest point since right after the Sports Festival. The League of Villains who had been so prominent and acting out in big ways in June, May, and April, had vanished from the spotlight entirely after what was now known around the country as the Lifebringer Incident. Kirishima started grinning as he thought about these things though, because for the past couple of hours there had not been any crime reported around them. He thought back on what his comrade just mentioned about villains recruiting off the streets, and it reminded him of a certain final report back at the end of his first year at U.A. He shook his head quickly after thinking about that, and he stared forward in a determined way with a smile on his face again for the citizens to see if they looked his way.

Tamaki glanced at the younger boy next to him, and he frowned a little deeper under his hood before staring back forward. Don't say anything. Confrontation is bad. I'm not good at bringing up stuff too- "Are you thinking about Lifebringer?" Why do I do stuff like this?

Kirishima turned to his older friend in surprise, then he frowned and looked back forward. "I was," Kirishima admitted. "How'd you know?" He asked.

"You're not usually one to be gloomy," Tamaki replied. "It messes with our dynamic-"

"Haha!" Kirishima laughed and leaned his head back with a grin of sharp teeth covering his face. It sounded to him like his senpai was making a joke, though Tamaki had been pretty serious right there and just sweatdropped at Kirishima's loud laughter. Kirishima kept grinning while turning back to his always gloomy comrade, and he said, "Who's gloomy? I was just annoyed I haven't heard anything about him for a while."

"Oh," Tamaki said. He looked ahead as they started crossing a street together, and the eighteen year old boy with pointy ears and spiky dark blue hair nodded his head once in understanding.

How do you just vanish off the face of the Earth? Everyone was looking for you! How'd you even get out of the country, let alone… Kirishima shook his head around and then started smiling again as he saw a group of people walking down the sidewalk in his and Suneater's direction. He smiled wide for them and the people looked towards one of the famous students of Class A with smiles forming on their faces too.

Tamaki looked out the left corners of his eyes as Kirishima started talking to the people they walked near in a carefree and friendly way. People are only really excited by young heroes. New heroes, in their generation. The ones who didn't let this situation happen but are the ones going to have to fix it. I hope they don't consider me too old. Please don't look at me.

"Welcome back, everyone."

"Welcome back Principal Nezu!" A few hundred students and the faculty called out before the short mouse man could continue what was about to be a very long speech.

Nezu's beady black eyes widened a bit, and then he smiled more at the lines of students gathered in front of him for the start of the fall term. "It is good to be back," he said. "Students, faculty members, today we resume classes as a fresh start to begin this fall term. Your teachers will give you some review, and at the end of the first week back you will be required to take the final exams you missed when the last term ended so suddenly. I hope you all have been studying over the summer, and to those of you in the hero courses I do hope you have not slacked on your training. U.A. is starting a new term, yet it is also a new era for U.A. in regards to its hero studies. Those of you who are second and third years will be going into the streets of Musutafu on patrol at least twice a week with your classes. Those of you who are first years will also be able to experience this though less frequently and with the guidance of your upperclassmen. Musutafu has been targeted very often by villains in this new age, and with the fall of dominance of the League of Villains, many new villains have come to take their place…"

Patrolling the streets? The first years are going to have to get their provisional licenses quick if they want to do that. Ojiro looked over his shoulder and back towards the first years who looked excited and nervous at the same time. No training forest for them, and they had less experience than we did. I wonder if they'll all be able to do it.

"I'm excited to get out there," Hagakure said, whispering it to her boyfriend she was standing next to. The muscular blond boy who bulked up a bit over the summer turned back and smiled at his invisible girlfriend, and he nodded in agreement. The two of them had stayed behind at U.A. during internships after the Sports Festival, and neither had been able to get one over the summer after passing up their opportunities and failing to make contacts. That did not mean they had not been training over the summer, and they had even met up a few times to train and study… among other things.

Those two still going strong, Sero thought while looking over to his right at Ojiro and Hagakure. He sighed with a sweatdrop rolling down his face and turned his gaze back up to the principal. Shouldn't have gone for it. There was no way that wasn't going to end badly.

Ten people down on Sero's left, Ashido darted her eyes to the right and over at the tall boy with black hair who was looking straight at their long-winded principal. Oh man. Now we have to live together. Gah, that was so stupid. It was fun though, a summer fling… Ashido darted her eyes forward fast as it looked to her like Sero's head might be turning left.

Jirou glanced to her left as she had seen where Ashido was looking, then she looked to her right and saw Sero darting a look over now that Ashido was looking away. Are those two- nope. Oh, but they were. Geez, at least they don't live on the same floor… Jirou closed her eyes tightly for a second at what immediately came to mind when she thought that. I'm over him. It's better he's gone too, because an ex in the same building would suck. Suck, even more than if he was a villain. Right? Right. Yeah sure. Jirou sighed but stopped focusing on that and just looked up at the stage the principal stood at the front of with some of the teachers lined up behind him.

"…in coordination with other schools such as Shiketsu High and Ketsubutsu Academy. It is not only an important thing to train new heroes, but also to show off the next generations of heroes who the public are most hopeful of. This requires putting a lot of pressure on you students, however we believe you understand this and are prepared for it. Enrolling in U.A. is something for only the best and brightest. Those of you in the hero course are going to be looked to more and more as you get older, and I am sure you already know that the eyes of the nation are on you…"

Midoriya Izuku took in a deep breath while staring up towards the principal. His fists clenched at his sides, and he lowered his gaze down to his right hand at a pain he felt in it when clenching it like that. As much as I try, I cannot control it all. The increments I increase are too little, too far between. I lose so much being unable to draw out this full power. One For All. The meaning of those words is that my Quirk is meant for the protection of everyone around me. I can't fail anymore. He lifted his gaze back up while clenching his right fist harder despite the pain in his scarred hand. Principal Nezu is right. The public sees us as their future. They don't expect things to just fix themselves right away, and they're upset with heroes. Other than Endeavor, and Lemillion, who are super popular…

Established elite heroes are on blast for allowing society to crash like it has, Shoto Todoroki thought on Midoriya's right side. Dad aside, and Hawks and Best Jeanist too though even they're not as popular as they used to be. Somehow Dad's popularity still goes up, though it was hard to be lower than he was when he reached Number 1. People admit that Endeavor had to step into big shoes. Some are upset he's not doing as well as All Might, but most people understand…

All Might was an anomaly, Yaoyorozu thought from in front of Todoroki a few feet. She stared towards the principal and kept her breathing calm despite the pressure he was putting on many in U.A., because she like most others in Class A had understood this pressure already. Crime has risen steadily since his retirement, and though it seemed to peak right after the Sports Festival and Tartaros escape, we were mistaken. It was because crime peaked so suddenly that it went back down, but after going down it continued to rise at the gradual pace it had been before that sudden peak. In early July we reached the same point as that peak, but it did not go back down this time. It has stopped rising after a more gradual incline over the past month however…

"…With the collaboration of Japanese heroes with heroes from neighboring countries reaching an all time high over this past month, combatting villains has reached a stage never before seen on the international level. I presume all of you witnessed Endeavor's victory in Fiji last week. Yet it is not just Japanese heroes who have been traveling to islands around Oceania, the Philippines, Korea, and even China. Those same places have offered their heroes here in times of crisis as well. Requirements for heroes here and abroad are very different depending on the location, and we will be instituting classes based on learning rules and expectations for hero work overseas. Not only the laws of countries you may be called to, but also what support items may be illegal to bring into allied nations. Some countries prohibit items they do not want to fall into villains' hands, and you may have to have alternate costumes. Those of you in support and business classes must also account for the laws of other countries, expectations of our country for our heroes when they do go abroad, and you all must stay informed of current events around the world. Changes have been made recently in some countries revolving around laws on dealing with villains, the roles of heroes, as well as immigration and trade reforms to prevent foreign villains or their products from reaching their lands…"

Yeah, and we should be doing the same thing, Kirishima thought in annoyance while staring intensely forward at the stage. Zach was right after all. He saw stuff coming I didn't even think of. Predicted the Sports Festival. And some of the stuff he talked about changing is actually happening like those new laws in that African country…

The Congo started teaching children how to use Quirks so they could protect themselves, but the Congo also had a crime rate five times as high as Japan's, Jirou thought after what the principal just said about some countries' laws changing. The Congo was out of control, and those numbers five times higher were only what they had recorded. Things stabilized a bit when the UN sent in that Hero Brigade to train up some Congan heroes, but I wonder if things calmed down because it worked or if the villains are just laying low until the international influence has gone down? Hopefully if they do come back out, the support they got will keep it from rising that high again. And hopefully, those kids being trained don't start becoming a stronger group of villains. Jirou's expression got darker and she looked down at the floor below her feet. Though, even if they did. The others who don't become villains, will be more. There will always be more who want to do good- Damn it. Fuck you Zach. I don't want to think about, the stuff you said.

People understand that Endeavor is not All Might. They wanted him to step into All Might's shoes, but he couldn't do it. Iida stared towards the principal and then lowered his gaze down while getting a very serious look on his face. But if there is no one to take All Might's place in our current society, then the rules that kept the peace with All Might around may not be the ones that can keep it now. More often on the news now than ever before, do I see talk of changing the rules. It is not our role as heroes to change the rules though. We obey them, whatever they may be, and we carry out our duty to the full extent allowed by the law. Iida rose his eyes back up towards the principal in an intense way, And that means if someone breaks the law no matter what their intention, as a hero I must arrest them.

Class A and all the students of U.A. listened closely to their principal who continued going over U.A.'s goals for the upcoming semester. They had a long road in front of them and had to press more into a single term than ever before with the first week being used for finishing the previous term that got cut short. Internships, applications for studying or interning abroad, final exams, patrolling streets of Musutafu, new courses and many new teachers. There was a lot to explain, and the principal went on at length about it all. Midoriya stared towards the principal as the re-introduction was coming to a close, and his fists tightened with his eyes rising to the sky above. I know I need to focus. I know there are many things required of us now. But I still wish, you were here with us right now, Zach.

A/N Thanks for reading. Summer with Class A, and the students are back at the start of a new semester with their old principal returning. Hear a lot about changes in Japan and around the world this chapter, some stuff about Zach too though we don't really see him... Anyway, hope you enjoyed!

Reactef chapter 94 . 15h ago

First fanfic i have seen with a millon words. Congratulations dude.

Thanks a lot!

radoddish chapter 94 . 14h ago

AGH WHAT IS WITH THIS STORY BEING SO DRAMATIC, I LOVE IT AHHHHHHHHHHH

Drama! Action! Romance! Comedy! It's got it all! XD Glad you're loving the story! Thanks for the review!

IntricateHummingbird chapter 94 . 14h ago

And I was really hoping that camping trip would be nice lol.

Haha yeah... gotcha! Tried building it up a bit as if the forest would be a place for Zach and his friends to have an emotional moment or two and get him to trust them again- then BAM! Lol hope you enjoyed it though! And thanks for the reviews!