And now we have chapter 23. This here is the start of the USJ Arc. Now let's reply to a few reviews.
keno02013: All I'll say is that they'll get back together towards the end. But Yang will make an appearance in the main canon sooner.
AshRuleZ: That is something I'll be exploring with Adam. All I'll say is, that anger doesn't simply just vanish when the source of said ire is gone.
With that out of the way, let's get onto the chapter.
USJ Arc
Chapter 23: Cool Down and Ramp Up
Inko was busy preparing dinner for their guests. Eri had been bouncing with excitement when she heard Izuku and his friends were coming over.
"Mom! We're here!" Izuku shouted as he came through the door and it the living room followed by everyone else.
"Hey Inko." Ruby greeted.
"Izu! Big Sis!" Eri cheered.
"Salutations Mrs. Midoriya thank you for allowing us to convene here." Tenya expressed.
"Iida you seriously need to learn to lighten up." Nora stated.
"Ten Ten! Norie!" Eri cheered.
Suddenly a heavenly smell hit Nora's nose.
"MMmmmm… that smells good." She moaned as she drooled a bit.
"Iida needs to learn to loosen up and you need to learn some manners." Itsuka expressed with a sigh.
"To be fair to her, it does smell reeeeally good." Ochako noted.
"Itsu! Chako!" Eri cheered.
"Well nothing like good food and good company to help relax after a long day at school." Ren pointed out.
"Yeah no kidding." Jaune added.
"Ren Ren! Jaune!" Eri Cheered.
"Wait why don't I get a nickname?" Jaune questioned.
"Who's da cute kid?" Splinter questioned as he hopped on to Eri's head.
Eri looked up to try and see Splinter, who looked down at her. Slowly she raised up her hands. Quickly she brought them towards Splinter to try and catch him. However, he quickly hopped out the way and on to the floor. Eri turned towards him, leapt to try and catch him, but he moved out of the way too fast.
"Is that the rat friend you were talking about?" Inko asked as Eri continued to chase him around.
"Yep, his name Splinter." Ruby stated.
"Like from that old movie?" Inko asked.
"Yeah… by the way, how did the medical evaluation go?" Izuku asked.
"Everything went well, though we had a close call on the way home." Inko stated.
"What happened?" Ruby asked.
"We meet that Cinder Fall woman, though she was in disguise." Inko replied.
"What/Really?" Izuku and Ruby questioned.
"Luckily I don't think she knows about Eri. I was able to get her off our tail." Inko expressed with sigh. "Anyways how was your day."
"Good, we had battle simulations today." Izuku stated.
"And me and Deku kicked Bakugo's butt." Ochako chimed in.
"Oh, you had to fight Katsuki?" Inko expressed worriedly.
"Yeah, him and Iida. It was hard but we won. And I didn't break any bones." Izuku pointed out.
"That's good, though I'm still upset you didn't use the hero costume I got you." Inko expressed.
"M-mom I wanted to use it b-b-but." Izuku began.
"NO! I worked hard to help Izuku with his costume, he's using it!" Ruby declared.
"In all honesty it worked out for the best." Ochako noted. "Izuku's costume ended up destroyed through, the, whole… thing…"
Memories of Izuku being shirtless started flooding Ochako's mind causing her to blush. Oh I think I like where this is going. I can already see the grand babies. Inko thought to herself. They suddenly heard a thud as Eri again failed to catch Splinter.
"Come on Mousy, let me catch you." Eri stated with a pout.
"Actually Girly I's a rat." Splinter corrected.
From her position on the ground looked up and saw Izuku and Ochako talking with each other. She noticed how well the two seemed to get along. This caused her to think back to a conversation she had with Inko.
Two weeks ago…
"Hey Ms. Inko…" Eri began.
"I told you Eri you need to start calling me Mama, so you remember when we're in public." Inko corrected.
"R-right… uhm… M-mama, what's marriage?" Eri asked.
"Where do you hear about marriage Eri?" Inko asked.
"I-I saw it in a book." She answered.
"I see, well… marriage is what two people do when they're in love with each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together." Inko explained. "When people get married it means they become apart of each other's lives and family."
"So if Izu got married then I'd get another big sister." Eri asked with sparkling eyes.
Inko chuckled at this.
"You'll have to wait till he's older but that's one way of looking at it, sure." Inko replied.
"YAAAY!" Eri cheered.
Suddenly a while light began to come from her horn.
"Huh?" Both Eri and Inko expressed as the light enveloped both of them.
"OH MY GOODNESS!" Inko exclaimed.
"waaaaah" Eri cried.
Present…
Izu and Chako seem to really like each other. Maybe they could fall in love and then I'd get another big sister. Eri thought to herself. She took on a serious face. Operation get a new big sister is a go. Splinter suddenly hopped on to her head.
"I knows what ya dink girly and I's in." Splinter declared.
Eri and Splinter smiled at each other. Now how do it get them together maybe… Unbeknownst to Eri, she had begun to mutter up a storm, much like Izuku.
"Looks look Midoriya's already having an influence on her." Itsuka noted.
"Yeah," Ruby sighed.
"Why do you make it sound like that's a bad thing?" Izuku questioned.
Elsewhere…
A lifeless body fell flat on the ground in an alleyway. Stand over it was Neo who, with a slight smirk, twirled the knife used to kill the man who had attacked her. Wiping the blood off the knife she put it way and proceeded to pick him for money or anything of value. Finding nothing more than a few yen she sighed and went about her way.
"Hey get this I heard some big wig in the underworlds gathering up a bunch of villains for something big." She heard from behind a building.
Slowly she made her way and peeked around the corner to see two villains.
"Nah man, haven't heard. What are they doing?" One villain stated.
"Get this, their gonna launch an attack on UA and to kill All Might." The first villain stated.
UA… That's that hero school. Knowing Ruby she's probably there.
"What, that's insane! What idiot thinks a bunch of us goons are gonna take down All Might of all people. We'd barely be able to hand Midnight if she's there let alone All Might." The second on pointed out.
"Yeah but get this they got this huge beast made specifically to take down All Might. And let me tell ya I think that thing can do it if we're there to back it up." The first one stated.
"I still think it's crazy, you can do it, I'm out." The second on replied.
I'd have to agree. I've seen All Might in action it'll take a lot more than some bioengineered monster to win that's for sure. Neo smiled lightly. But even still I can spin this in my favor. I need people on my side. And since they'll only be captured, I'll be able to grab a few for my own from the police. And if Ruby is their all the better. Either 'A', I find her and kill her or 'B', ensure their attack is ruined. Can't have her dying before I get my revenge.
She steps out to face the two villains now aware that she's there.
"Who are you?" The first one asks.
She smirks.
The next day…
It was a beautiful day. The sun was high in the bright blue sky. Clouds were sparse, birds were singing, and there is a gaggle of reporters in front of the gates of UA.
"What's it like having All Might as a teacher?" One reporter asked.
"Is All Might a good or bad teacher?" Another reporter asked.
"How hot is his assistant." A perverted reporter asked.
Both Ruby and Izuku had microphones shoved into their faces from a multitude of reporters.
"Uhm… well… uh… you see uh…" Izuku stuttered.
"H-h-h-hey can you back off we've only had one class with the man!" Ruby shouted.
"How would you rate his first day, good or bad?!" One reporter shouted.
"Did you find his lessons interesting or not?!" Another reporter shouted.
"On a scale from one to ten how hot is his assistant?" Another perverted reporter asked.
"Assistant, Prof. Goodwitch isn't… you know what plan B. Hang on Izuku!" Ruby shouted.
"Hang on to whaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Izuku exclaimed was Ruby burst them up and over into school grounds.
Ruby landed gracefully while Izuku, caught off guard by suddenly being flown up, plopped onto the ground with a groan.
"Sorry," Ruby expressed.
"Look out below!" They heard Jaune shout.
"Were coming in!" They heard Ochako shout.
Suddenly Jaune, who was carrying Ochako on his back, landed right next to them. As Ochako hopped off of Jaune's back, Izuku got up off the ground.
"Looks like you guys had the same idea as we did, well… Ruby did." Izuku noted.
"Actually it was Jaune's idea after we got swarmed by some reporters. Even though I already answered some of their questions." Ochako stated with a pout.
"Nice thinking now get to class." Aizawa stated behind them.
Doing as they were told the students went to class while Aizawa went to deal with the reporters. The reporters clamored to get try and get an interview with All Might.
"All Might's not in today. Leave, your disrupting our students." He dryly stated.
"We've come here for an interview from All Might so…" A female reporter began as she marched towards the gate.
"Wait!" Someone shouted.
The minute the woman tried to walk past the gate a large metal door slammed down in front of her.
"Gah! What the hell?!" She shouted as she fell to the ground.
"That's the UA barrier as we call it. The minute anyone without proper ID approaches the gate it shuts." Someone pointed out.
"This is ridiculous all we want is a simple comment and they just shut us out!" The female reporter shouted.
"It's been two days and we've got nothing to show for it!" A male reporter shouted.
Unbeknownst to them someone watch from behind. Happy at how antsy the media was to talk to All Might.
Later, in Class 1-A…
"Good work out their during yesterday's training." Aizawa complimented. "I've looked over your grades and evaluations. Some unique strategies employed which is always good to see."
His eyes narrow on Katsuki and Izuku.
"Bakugo, quit acting like a child. Your wasting your talent." Aizawa pointed out.
"Tch… got it." Katsuki begrudgingly, yet seriously, answered.
"Midoriya," Aizawa stated.
"Yes sir!" Izuku yelped.
"Good job keeping your quirk undercontrolled but you still ended up hurting yourself with it. Don't push yourself too hard, you'll be able to use more power as you practice. Got it?" Aizawa stated.
"Yes sir," Izuku replied.
"Good now I know this is sudden…" Aizawa began.
He's gonna give some sort of pop quiz isn't he? Everyone collectively thought.
"But you'll need to decide upon a class president." He explained.
Or not. Everyone again collectively thought. Immediately almost everyone raised their hands wishing for the job. This was mainly due to the prestige that the job would come with due to UA's reputation.
"Everyone calm down! This office is not something to trivialize it is a task of great responsibility." Tenya declared with even more serious than normal. "Ones ambition for the job does not translate into competence for the job. Such a position would be best decided by the democratic process."
Tenya rose to his feet and stood tall.
"Therefore I say the true leader should be decided by a vote." He declared.
"But wait Iida, we haven't known each other that long. Everyone would just vote for themselves." Tsuyu pointed out.
"True what would be the point in voting then." Eijiro added.
"The point would be whoever did get more than one vote would obviously be the best candidate since they could have such an impact early on." Tenya pointed out. "Is this alright Mr. Aizawa."
"Don't care just make it quick." Aizawa replied.
Immediately everyone got to voting. I didn't take long for the votes to be tallied and the results to come in. The results were written on the board. It showed Ruby with four votes, Jaune with three votes, and Momo Yaoyorozu with two votes. Everyone else had one or zero votes.
"Yay I won!" Ruby cheered.
"So close, yet so far." Jaune lamented.
"There there, Ren and I voted for you and that's what counts." Nora expressed as he patted him on the back.
"Wait then who was the third vote? I voted for Ruby." Jaune questioned.
"Oh that was me." Ruby answered pointing to herself.
"Oh… thanks Ruby." Jaune replied.
"No problem Jaune." Ruby returned.
Just what is their relationship? Many mentally questioned.
"Zero votes… it's as I thought. I knew with the way Ruby and Jaune had such a command over the battlefield that they would win. But reality still hurts." Tenya lemanted.
"Wait but weren't you the one who called for an election." Itsuka noted.
"Alright then, Class President is Ruby Rose. Vice-President is Jaune Arc. You can decide upon your staff later." Aizawa stated.
As everyone continued to chat about the results, Tenya was left to his own thoughts. I can rest easy knowing Ruby and Jaune will lead us well. I wish I could say they real reason they'd be the best. Their time on Remnant and actually having held such a position before makes them by far the best for the job. Which is why I should observe them and see what I can learn to further live up to my family's name and make my brother proud.
Later, in the Lunchroom…
Ruby, Izuku and the gang all sat at a table with each other to enjoy lunch. Around them students from the hero course, business course, support course, and general education bustled about the room.
"Man it'll feel good to really get back into the leadership position again." Ruby expressed happily.
"Yeah but now instead of a team of four, you have a class of twenty four to lead. Think you can handle it Rubes?" Jaune teased.
"I'll be fine, besides I got you to back me up." Ruby pointed out. "Which reminds me we need to figure out who we'll bring on for the other roles."
"Any ideas on who you'll pick?" Itsuka asked. "Cause if not I'd…"
"I have a few ideas I don't want to pick someone just cause there my friend though. I want to make sure their right for the job." Ruby explained.
"A wise choice all the more reason you were the right person to vote for." Iida declared.
"We'll there's my fourth vote. Thanks Tenya." Ruby replied.
"But wait didn't you want the position Iida." Nora noted.
"Yeah you've got the glasses for the role and everything." Ochako added.
"What do glasses have to do with being a leader?" Ren questioned.
"While true, I humbly decided to put aside my ambitions and choose who I believed best for the role." Iida stated in a somewhat formal way.
"There you go with the rich kid talk." Ochako blurted out.
"Was it really that noticeable!?" Tenya exclaimed.
"Eeehh… I think for Ochako it is. Though it is cool that you come from a hero family." Itsuka noted.
"I can't believe we met your brother that one time before school started and I was able to and Ingenium to my collection of autographs." Izuku fanboyed. "He's so cool!"
"He is isn't he. I hope I can one day be as great of a hero as he is." Tenya expressed.
Suddenly an alarm rang throughout the building.
"Security level three has been broken. All students please evacuate in an orderly fashion." Was announced over the intercom.
"Security level three!" Ochako expressed.
"It means someone broke into the building. I saw it in the handbook." Jaune pointed out.
Who would be crazy enough to infiltrate UA in broad daylight when it's full of pro heroes. That'd have to have some serious firepower or… Ruby managed to see outside that the press had broken in somehow. They have something to keep the heroes distracted.
"We need to go now!" Itsuka shouted.
"Jaune I need you and everyone else to figure out how to get everyone calm!" Ruby ordered.
"Looks like we're on the same page as usual." Jaune replied. "Leave it to me."
"Wait what about you Ruby?" Izuku asked.
"I'm going to find whoever broke in." Ruby stated.
"What?!" Ochako exclaimed.
"But shouldn't we let the teachers handle that." Tenya pointed out.
"The media have broken or should I say been let in by somebody and the teachers are gonna be busy handling them." Ruby pointed out.
"Doesn't that mean that they are the ones who triggered the alarm?" Ochako questioned.
"No, cause level three means they broke into the building. The media are still outside." Itsuka pointed out.
"Yeah which means there's someone else in the building, and I'm gonna find whoever our intruder is." Ruby declared
She burst away over the mob of people. Landing where it was clear, she sprinted through the building. Now where do I need to look?
Splinter: Welp since everyones busy handlin' da crisis at hand. And since da writer forgot to adds me in dis chapter, I's got dis.
Splinter: Next time Ruby tries to finds who broke in.
Splinter: Also, once everyding calms down, the class student council is full formed. And dings heat up at da first meeting.
Splinter: Next time, Chapter 24: Investigation. Catch you guys then.
