"If only I were there today," All Might mumbled, as he supervised the teens as they trained in his personal gym. It was a massive space, with rooms full of gym equipment, medical rooms, showers, and breakrooms off to the side, while the main space was occupied by giant rock-like formations, pits, and other sorts of obstacles, with a flat space nearby for combat training, and a track around it all. It would've been excessive it weren't meant for a juggernaut like All Might in his muscle form. They were in one of they gym equipment rooms, the teens dressed in all sorts of sportswear, while All Might had been sitting on a bench in front of them, dressed in a red-and-white tracksuit much like coaches in boxing movies.
"I don't think things would've been any different," Hiroshi said, dabbing a towel on his face after finishing lifting some weights. He was dressed in a form-fitting green muscle shirt and purple athletic shorts with gray tennis shoes. "Bekarus's appearance could've just been a cosmic coincidence, right?"
"Coincidence or not, someone still threatened UA by disintegrating the gate," All Might said gravely. "If I had been there, maybe they would've been dissuaded..."
"It's alright, All Might!" Setsuna said, smiling after finishing her sit-ups. She wore a blue sports bra and gray yoga pants with white sneakers. "In the end, everything turned out fine. The teachers didn't need to fight, the students calmed down, if only to see Hero defeating Bekarus, and pro heroes, police officers, and rescue workers were fast to respond thanks to the Tyrannion incident!"
"Still, we must be vigilant!" Tenya said, having entered the room after finishing a few laps around the track. He was dressed in a tight form-fitting blue shirt and shorts with black and white markings that showed off his muscles, and was made specifically for running at high speeds. "If someone was so brazened enough to disintegrate the front gate, we should be prepared for them to come back!"
"Yep, no sense in waiting doing nothing," Fuka answered, as she hang from a pull-up bar. She wore a lime green tank top with dark green yoga pants. "Heroes need to be prepared for anything!"
"Gotta get fit!" Pony shouted in English, as she pushed her arms against the bars of the weight lifting machine. She wore a red midriff-baring top and blue yoga pants with white stripes, with a red, blue, and yellow sweatband around her head. She was really getting into the spirit of working out, as sweat soaked her sweatband. "Gotta get buff! Gotta get tough!"
Momo finished her jumping jacks, grabbing her water bottle to drink and a towel to dry off the sweat on her body. She wore a black sports bra and black yoga pants that had gray cuffs around her ankles. Kyoka stared at her, having been on a water break with Ochako. The two were dressed similarly with off-white tank tops and black tracksuits with the jacket opened, though Ochako's was white around the shoulders and collarbone, while Kyoka's had salmon colored cuffs and zippers.
"You alright, Jiro?" Ochako said, looking at her from her phone, having read several news articles about Hero and Hiroshi (though no one seemed to have gotten a good picture of him on account of him being a good distance away from the news crews, not to mention the light surrounding him obscured any identifiable features, and that no student around had thought of taking a picture of him in the midst of the panic).
"Y-yea, I am," Kyoka replied.
"You sure? You've been looking at Yaoyoruzu for a-"
"I said I'm fine!" Kyoka insisted, her face getting slightly red.
"Alright, I think it's time for a little Quirk sparring," Hiroshi said, as he stretched a bit more. "After all, we're here to also help Midoriya with One for All. Plus, we might figure out some of our own weaknesses that we can work on."
"Y-y-yea!" Izuku replied, nodding. He wore a mint green tracksuit which had torn-off sleeves for whatever reason.
"So why are you wearing that tracksuit, Midoriya?" Fuka said, dropping from the pull-up bar. "Who'd make them with torn-off sleeves?"
"O-oh, um... the truth is that this was what I wore to the practical for the Entrance Exam," he explained. "I... ruined the right sleeve when I used One for All for the first time, and well, I hadn't thought of buying a new one for a while, but when we agreed to train together, I realized I never replaced it. And it looked weird with just one sleeve, so I... tore off the left one to make it match."
Fuka stifled a laugh, while Setsuna and Pony snickered a bit. Tenya and Ochako also chuckled, though a little more nervously as they remembered seeing Izuku's arm and legs flopping around in the air. Momo and Kyoka didn't laugh, though they did grin a bit at the silly idea that Izuku was obsessed with keeping things even.
"So what will you be doing instead of Quirk sparring, Hiroshi?" Pony asked. "Are you gonna turn into Hero and practice some cool moves?"
"More like seeing what we can do while he's possessing me without transforming," Hiroshi said, shrugging. "We figured that when he does, I get a boost to my strength and speed, as well as durability. But to what extent, I'm not sure. Definitely nowhere near what we can do when I change into Hero. Probably no beams or anything."
"Oh, if you do that, you could probably save a lot of energy fighting villains and criminals!" Izuku said.
"That's the idea. Hero and I need to save using him for alien threats, since they're typically way more durable than humans," Hiroshi said. as the teens walked out to the combat area. "Alright, so who wants to go first?"
Izuku stretched his arms as he and the others got to school, sore from training from Saturday night to Sunday night. It was productive, though they still haven't quite figured how to help him not shatter his bones (Recovery Girl was there to at least fix any of his injuries, but she wasn't happy about it). The news was back there again, this time trying to get information about Hero, since they were quite a distance away from him that they couldn't get any clear pictures or footage of him, especially since the light that surrounded blurred him completely. Not to mention that the Hero Hand's silver color blended together with the gray of the UA uniform. And there wasn't any cellphone footage since the students were more occupied with getting out or in the cafeteria.
"Do you know which one of you is the red giant!?" one of the reporters shouted, as the police came to escort them all away since they were blocking the entrance to the school, and the gate had yet to be fully repaired. "Is UA harboring a vigilante!? Just what is the red giant!? How does his Quirk work!?"
"Man, they're really ravenous for info on Hero and Hiroshi," Kyoka said, her hands behind her head. "You're lucky that none of them recognized you."
"Yea, but I think every other student knows who I am now," Hiroshi said, spotting all the stares students were giving him as they walked. "So, eh, it's-"
"YOU!"
"Oh great."
Hiroshi turned around, and saw the three students who confronted him on his first day at UA. "Can I-"
"What vigilante bullshit are you pulling, you fucking cheat!?" Kosuke screamed, grabbing Hiroshi by the collar. "What makes you think that you're so special that you can go out and fight as if you're a licensed hero already!?"
"Like I said, just got in on unusual terms and with a lot of strings attached," Hiroshi said, shrugging. "I also told you that I got possessed by an alien."
"Bullshit! Aliens don't exist!" Daichi shouted, grinding his teeth.
"Then tell me, how do you think I have such unusual powers unlike any Quirk ever seen, and that I admitted that I'm Quirkless?"
"Th-that's because you're a liar!" Kirika accused. "You're lying about being Quirkless to hide the fact that you're ho- I mean, to impress people by selling it as a marketing point!"
"Seems kinda pointless to lie about being Quirkless and then show people that I have powers, doesn't it?"
"YOU- YOU! I'M GOING TO TEAR YOU APART!" Kosuke screamed, as the fangs in his snout grew larger and larger. Hiroshi kept his cool as Tenya, Setsuna, and everyone got ready to get someone when a familiar voice shouted.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!"
Kosuke's teeth suddenly shrank back to normal size, as the three turned around and saw Aizawa coming in, his hair standing on ends as he glared at the boy while using his Quirk. "I suggest that you three cut it out, since you've sent appeals to Principal Nezu to be moved into the Hero Course. This behavior is completely irrational, and shaking down a fellow student like this is inappropriate anywhere. If I was allowed to interfere with General Studies, I'd make sure that you three were expelled."
The three shrank at the teacher's presence, and Kosuke reluctantly let go of Hiroshi's collar before they all ran off, though Kirika looked back at the boy, seemingly impressed.
"And as for you, can you try to stay out of trouble?" Aizawa grumbled, reaching for his eyedrops and putting some in his eyes. "At least until Principal Nezu has finished his preparations for the press conference he plans to have later."
"More like trouble found me, but yea, I'm sorry for needling that a bit," Hiroshi said, sighing.
"I suppose that's as acceptable an answer I'll get about this," he grumbled. "Now get to class, and don't waste time."
"Yes sir!" the teens said, as they rushed to get to class, ignoring all the stares they were getting courtesy of Hiroshi.
Hiroshi walked out of the lunch line after getting some katsudon, and searched for the table the others were sitting at, when a rose-haired girl and a boy with vampire fangs approached him. "Um, can I help you-"
"You're the red giant, right?" the rose-haired girl asked.
"Oh no, not more people who have-"
"You're so cool!"
"Huh?"
"Yea!" the fanged boy said, grinning. "The way you just jumped through that window and used your Quirk to turn into your red giant form was so cool! It's no wonder why UA's letting you do vigilante work to beat those giants!"
"Oh, um, it's a little more complicated than just a Quirk and vigilante work-" Hiroshi said, when more people started to surround him.
"Hey man, thanks for saving the city a second time!" a 2nd year with a square nose said, patting Hiroshi on the back. "Thanks to you, my parents' store was safe from that bird guy!"
"Oh that's good-"
"I saw you talk to those three General Studies students!" a girl with bee wings and a stinger interrupted, sparkles in her eyes. "Those guys were in the top 40 from what I heard! And you weren't afraid of them when they were mad!"
"It's really nothing-"
"Hi!"
Hiroshi turned around, and saw a short girl with long light blue hair that twisted around at the bottom, who was followed by a tall, muscular boy with blonde upturned hair and very round oval-shaped eyes like an old cartoon character, and another leaner boy with dark purple cockatiel-like hair who had a slight slouch, and an intense glare. For some reason, Hiroshi felt like he recognized them, though he had no idea why.
"Whoa! The Big Three!" one of the people around Hiroshi said, their bug eyes bugging out.
"Of course they'd be interested in talking to him! We should get out of their way," another said, as the group of people dispersed.
"Uh, hi?" Hiroshi said, completely confused by what just happened. "Thanks for getting rid of that crowd, it was getting kinda hard to breath-"
"So you're that red giant?" the girl said, her smile wide as she walked over and started to pat Hiroshi on the head, shoulders, and back.
"Um-"
"How you do it? Is this arm thingy related to it?" she kept on talking, holding the Hero Hand and poking at it.
"Y-yea, but-"
"Ha, don't worry about her!" the blonde guy said, grinning. "She's just super curious about everything!"
"I can see that," Hiroshi said, as she kept poking at him. "So who are you guys?"
"Hahaha, that's right! You're just a first year, right? I'm Mirio Togata!" he laughed. As he did, Hiroshi felt like he was listening to a young All Might.
"Nejire Hado!" the girl said, her hands still on the Hero Hand.
The leaner boy was silent, as he stared intensely at Hiroshi. "Is... is something wrong, um-"
"Don't worry about him, he's just shy!" Mirio stated, patting the leaner boy on the back. "He's Tamaki Amajiki!"
"... Hi," Tamaki finally said, making a face that looked like an attempt to smile, but instead came off as a frightening grimace.
"... Hi. I'm Hiroshi Furinji. So, what did they mean when they said 'The Big Three'?" Hiroshi asked again.
"Oh, that's because we're considered the best out of our year's Hero Course!" Mirio explained, laughing.
"... Come again?" Hiroshi stared at the three third years, as Mirio laughed nonstop like All Might, Tamaki sulked and shifted his gaze away, and Nejire kept poking at the Hero Hand's H.
"Why aren't you changing into that red giant right now?" she asked, as she insistently pressed on the Hero Hand's H.
"I have to do it willingly and consciously, and right now, I don't think it's appropriate, since there are a lot of stipulations about Hero's presence here."
"Oh, so that's what you call that giant of yours? Very straight to the point, I see!"
"Well technically his name is Ultraman Hero, it's just easier to say Hero..."
"Hey, Hiroshi, what's taking you, everyone's at the table-" Setsuna said, walking towards him, before stopping in her tracks. "Whoa! The Big Three!?"
"Wait, you know these guys?" Hiroshi asked, pointing at them.
"Don't you remember watching last year's Sports Festival for the second years? I mean, sure, they didn't win too many times, but they left wild impressions on everyone!"
Hiroshi took another look at the three eccentric older teens, scanning them from head to toe (Tamaki walked off a bit, planting his face against a wall), until he finally came to the realization.
"You're the guy that lost his pants!" Hiroshi said. Mirio laughed at him. "Hahaha, I guess I did!"
"S-so why did you want to talk to Hiroshi?" Setsuna said, nervously as she stood in the presence of the three.
"We just wanted to know a bit more about him and the red giant, that's all!" Mirio explained. "So is it true that you're Quirkless? I've heard around from people about that."
"It is," Hiroshi replied. "Hero's an alien. So were those other giants, but they were more like animals with instincts that drove them to destruction. And I'm his host. Principal Nezu should be planning a press conference for sometime this week to reveal more about it."
"I see," Mirio said, before breaking out into laughter again. "I think I like you! You're going to make for an interesting hero, Furinji! And Hero too, if he can hear me!"
"He can."
"Nice! We've kept you from your friends and lunch for long enough. Come on, Hado, Tamaki, let's let them eat!" Mirio said, patting Tamaki's back as Nejire released Hiroshi's Hero Hand. "Good luck, Furinji!"
"... I don't get it," Hiroshi said, as he and Setsuna waved the three off. "If they didn't place high in any of the events in their Sports Festival, why are they the Big Three?"
"I heard that months after the Sports Festival, they got some proper training and internships, and just got crazy strong afterwards," she said, as they walked to their table. "I got this all from Kendo, she has a friend a year above her in the Hero Course, too. She showed us pics, which was how I recognized them."
"Hey Hiroshi, what took you so long?" Kyoka said, as the two finally got to the table.
"Just... a lot of accosting," Hiroshi shrugged. "A lot of people thanking me and asking about Hero. Even third years."
"Wow, we're only in our first year in UA, and you're already a celebrity!" Ochako said. "I guess the way you showed Hero off would get a lot of attention from other students!"
"Yea. Hopefully I'll get to keep my personal space, though, that was kinda suffocating," Hiroshi laughed. "Let's stop talking about me and Hero, 'cuz that's getting weird. So what do you think we'll do for hero training today?"
"Well, judging from the fact we focused on doing combat training," Momo said. "I feel like the next part would be-"
"- rescue training," Aizawa said, finishing telling Class 1A about today's hero training. "Vlad King, All Might, myself, and a fourth teacher will be supervising this exercise. You can chose whether or not to take your hero costumes, as some parts could be ill-suited to rescue. And the training site is a distance away, so we'll be taking buses."
"Seems like your prediction is right, Yaoyoruzu," Hiroshi said, as he watched everyone go and get their costumes. He picked up his bag, and looked at the old gym outfit he brought this time. It was a gray shirt with a white circle on the center, a white jacket, and black pants. "I should really get to working on that hero costume soon..."
"You want some ideas?" Izuku asked, as they all headed to the locker rooms to change. "I have some unused sketches that I could lend you-"
"Nah, it's alright. I got some concepts I wanna draw myself, just hadn't found the time to do it, yet," he answered, shrugging. "Hopefully we'll have some time to do that after this exercise."
"Hey guys! Still rockin' the casual look, huh?" Setsuna said, as Hiroshi and Izuku joined their friends. For the most part, everyone seemed to have some missing bits of their costumes, mostly headgear it seemed, as everyone appeared to have forego their masks and helmets for today. Katsuki in particular had only chose to wear one of his grenade-shaped gauntlets. For Izuku, he has his hood down and mask hanging his neck. Luckily his hero costume was in tact, with only him needing to replace the gloves since the right one had been shredded to bits during the Heros vs. Villains exercise.
"I'll get to work on the designs eventually," Hiroshi said, shrugging. "Hopefully it'll be completed before like, the next big hero training thing and such."
"Alright, people! Form a line by seating order, and get in on the bus in an orderly fashion!" Tenya said, motioning to Class 1A. Setsuna and Fuka snickered before heading to the 1B bus with Pony, waving Hiroshi and the others goodbye when they got on.
"Why are you giving commands? You're not even the vice class rep!" Minoru said.
"He's a part of the mini student council, so why not?" Hiroshi said, deciding to take a peek into the bus.
"That includes you, Furinji!" Tenya said, pointing at him.
"Um, Iida, I don't know how you're gonna take this, but-"
"So it was this type of bus," Tenya grumbled, his head lowered in shame. The bus, as opposed to the normal type he expected, had two rows of four seats facing each other on the sides of the bus, while the back of the bus was more like the normal type. Tenya, Denki, Mina, and Yuga sat on one row, with Izuku, Tsuyu, Eijiro, and Rikido facing them, while Momo and Ochako shared a row in the back with Hiroshi and Kyoka behind them. Katsuki was at the front of another row in the back, sharing a seat with Minoru to his displeasure, with Shoto and Toru behind them. In the very back was Fumikage, Koji, Mezo, Hanta, and Mashirao. "My seating arrangement, ruined..."
"Don't worry about it, Iida," Hiroshi said, as he held his hands behind his head. "I wouldn't have expected this, either."
"Hey Midoriya," Tsuyu said, turning her head to face Izuku, who was sitting next to her. "I've been meaning to say something I noticed since the Heroes vs. Villains exercise."
"Hm? What is it?" Izuku asked.
"Your Quirk... it's like All Might's, huh?"
Izuku froze slightly as his smile turned slightly strained with shock, with Ochako, Tenya, Momo, and Kyoka nearly making the same sort of face before Hiroshi came in with the save.
"Isn't that like saying Kirishima's and Tetsutetsu's Quirks are alike, Asui? Sure, they're similar in base function, but they're still pretty different, right?" he said, the redhaired boy tearing up slightly.
"Don't remind me," he said, shutting his eyes as he remembered how similar he and Tetsutetsu are. "I still need to settle who's the manliest man with him!"
"Hm... I guess you right," Tsuyu said, looking at the blue-haired boy, not noticing the small breaths of relief the five made. "But please, call me Tsuyu."
"Alright, Tsuyu," Hiroshi replied.
"If we're talking about Quirks, I think my Navel Laser is the most dazzling of them all!" Yuga said, resting his head on his hands with his elbows on his lap.
"Yea, but it's not much if you get a stomachache overusing it, right?" Mina pointed out. Yuga side-eyed her, his smile hiding his frustration about her point.
"I think if anyone's got flashy Quirks, it'd be Bakugo and Todoroki, right?" Eijiro said, pointing to the two. Katsuki was staring out the window, uninterested in the conversation until he was brought up, while Shoto was still uninterested.
"Yea, but Bakugo's got a bad attitude, and Todoroki's not a team player," Tsuyu added.
"What did you say about my attitude, Frog Face!?" Katsuki yelled, grabbing the railing in front of his chair.
"Hey watch it!" Minoru protested, nearly getting elbowed in the face, though Katsuki ignored him.
"Exactly," Tsuyu said, unfazed by Katsuki's anger.
"Yea man, you really gotta work on that," Denki said. "No one's gonna want to be saved by a guy who literally blows up in anger."
"FUCK YOU LIGHTNING FRINGE!" Katsuki yelled.
"Calm down, Bakugo. We don't want you to scare off anyone needing to be rescued for this exercise, would we?" Hiroshi said, glancing at the boy. Katsuki glared at him, only scoffing and returning his gaze out the window.
Rescue training, what a load of nonsense.
"Whoa, look at this place! It's huge!" Setsuna said, as she and the others walked into the training site. "It's like Universal Studios Japan!"
"Amazing!" Pony said, as most of the people marveled at the site. A voice caught their attention.
"Floods! Collapsing buildings! Fires! Landslides! And much more!" it said. Everyone turned to look, and saw a figure walking up the stairs in front of them. The figure was dressed in a large, puffy white outfit that resembled an astronaut suit with a helmet that completely obscured their heads. They wore gloves with caps on the fingertips, and on their feet were big yellow sneakers. "I designed this training site myself to emulate all sorts of disasters! I call it, the Unforeseen Simulation Joint!"
"So it is just USJ, huh?" Hiroshi deadpanned. Meanwhile, Ochako and Mina were jumping up and down in excitement, recognizing who the figure was.
"It's Space Hero Thirteen!" Ochako shouted, grinning widely. "She's my role model! She's amazing at rescue work and we both have space-themed Quirks!"
"I always loved the space aesthetic 'cuz I look like an alien! This will look like I'm in a space movie, with Thirteen as the dashing young heroine helping me, the beautiful alien girl on the run from authorities!"
"That's a very specific image you have there, Ashido," Hiroshi snickered.
"And with Furinji as the human boy who does everything he can to help us!" she added, to their classmates' confusion, especially Hiroshi's and Setsuna's.
"Wait, why me?" Hiroshi said, pointing at himself.
"Well 'cuz you got a real alien inside you, so you'd naturally feel a connection to a runaway alien!" Mina explained, grinning goofily.
"I guess you got me there with that logic," Hiroshi chortled, though off to the side, Setsuna had narrowed her eyes at the pink girl for some reason. Fuka noticed, and held back a giggle.
"Hm?" Thirteen said, noticing how Mina addressed Hiroshi. "So you're the famous Ultraman Hero that I've heard from Principal Nezu and the other teachers..."
"Y-yea, is something wrong?" Hiroshi said, noticing how serious Thirteen sounded.
"Yes, there is..." Thirteen approached him silently, as the combined classes murmured about what was going on. She reached into a hidden pocket of her suit, and pulled out an notepad and pencil. "I need to get your autographs!"
"... Huh?" everyone said collectively. Aizawa just groaned at the sight while Vlad King laughed heartily. Hero likewise was laughing in Hiroshi's head.
"You have a genuine alien inside you! I loved space since I was a kid, ever since founding out how my Quirk was similar to black holes! I've seen all sorts of movies and documentaries, read all sorts of books, everything! I always wanted to go to space, but there hasn't been a space program in centuries, so I settled on being a space-themed pro hero! And you- And you proved that aliens exist!" Thirteen said excitedly. "Sure, there've been two that were malicious, but Hero proves that there're benevolent ones as well! How can I not want your autographs!?"
"Wow, Hiroshi, Hero! You're getting all sorts of fans, even pro heroes!" Setsuna whistled. "Makes me jealous!"
"Well, when you put it like that way," Hiroshi said, chuckling. "Maybe later? I should practice my autographs first, and it seems like Mr. Aizawa is about to bust a vein."
"I need to as well," Hero replied in Hiroshi's head.
"Oh! Of course!" Thirteen said, remembering why she was here. "Ahem, I assume that you all know about my Quirk, Black Hole, right?"
"Yea, you use it to clean up debris and save people from all sorts of disasters!" Ochako answered.
"Indeed. But it can easily kill as it can save," Thirteen said, gravely. "During your training, you all must've learned how dangerous you can be using your Quirks. In this society of superpowers, Quirks are heavily monitored and usage is restricted. Even if this system might seem stable, but it can only take one wrong move from someone with a dangerous or even uncontrollable Quirk to kill dozens of people. Which is why this class will show you a new perspective on how to use them."
"You all learned how to use your Quirks in combative situations, now you'll learn how to use them to save people," Thirteen added. "You all need to understand that being a hero means that you're being trusted to use the gifts given to you responsibly to help others, and that we'll guide you to that path. That is all!"
The class clapped as Thirteen finished her speech, while she took several bows. She walked over to the other two teachers, and started whispering to them while the students all chattered to each other about this exercise, though Hiroshi and Izuku could overhear their words.
"Where's All Might? Wasn't he supposed to arrive with you?" Aizawa said.
"He's a little worn out today. Spent most of his morning commute helping people," Thirteen said, holding up three fingers.
"That idiot, he should be more careful," Vlad King grumbled.
"Well, either way, seems like we need to start class, everyone-" Aizawa began to say, when he noticed something strange in front of the fountain down near the stairs. He saw a small, shadowy portal forming near it, and a man pushed his way through it. He was dressed in all black, had sickly pale skin, and blueish gray hair, but what was more noticeable was the disembodied hand on his face. "Get back!"
As soon as the man left the portal, a swarm of people came out, all dressed and equipped with various costumes and weapons. Right next to him as a black, muscular beaked being with his brain exposed and only wore pants.
"What's going on? Is this a part of the exercise?" Eijiro asked, seeing all the people coming out.
"I said get back! These people- they're real villains!" Aizawa said, putting his goggles on his eyes. Vlad King also prepared himself, cracking his knuckles. "Thirteen! Get the students out of here and get help! Only use your Quirks to defend yourselves if needed!"
"What!?" Neito yelled. "How they get in!?"
"I get it," Hiroshi muttered. "They must've been the people who disintegrated the wall..."
"So it was a declaration of war!" Izuku said, remembering what Principal Nezu said to them yesterday.
"Shouldn't the alarms be going off!?" Kinoko whimpered, hiding behind Jurota.
"They must've jammed them!" Fuka said. "Kaminari, try calling for help! It might be electricity based!"
"R-right!" Denki said, pressing a button on his headset. He pressed it again. "No good!"
"Hiroshi!"
"What is it, Hero?" Hiroshi said aloud.
"There's an alien among those villains!"
"What!? Are you sure?"
"No doubt about it, I can sense a powerful alien presence amongst those villains! There might be even more!"
Hiroshi stepped forward, readying the Hero Hand.
"What are you doing, Furinji!? This is-" Aizawa scolded.
"Hero sensed aliens among those villains! This is an alien threat!" Hiroshi stated, shocking everyone around him. Aizawa scowled. So the alien attack really was related after all.
"Fine, but don't resort to any dangerous moves, that's an order!" Aizawa said, as he and Vlad King leaped down the stairs, and began taking down villains.
"Hold your hand and call out-!"
"Hello."
Hiroshi and the others turned to the exit. Another portal appeared, this time reforming into a shadowy mist-like figure with yellow eyes. "Pardon the intrusion, but I believe that All Might was supposed to be here today? A shame, his death was on today's agenda, but I suppose killing these seeds before they grow will suffice for our 'Unearthly League'."
"A teleporting type Quirk!" Thirteen whispered. She was about to uncap her fingers to drag the villain in to prevent him from using his Quirk again, when Eijiro, Tetsutetsu, and Katsuki leaped at him, attacking him with their fists and explosions. "No, you three, get back!"
"Not so tough are you, jackass!?" Katsuki yelled. The mist moved, revealing that their attacks had missed.
"Oh my, how unheroic of you," the shadowy man said. "Now, scatter."
He spread his mist around the classes. Hiroshi grabbed a hold of Setsuna and Momo who were the closest to him before they all disappeared.
"Gaaaaaah! Hero, we need a little help!" Hiroshi yelled, as he, Setsuna, and Momo fell from the air. Fuka, Yui, Pony, and Kosei were falling along with them. Fuka had grabbed Yui underneath her armpits and used her Gale Breath to slow their descent down. Pony managed to launch two pairs of horns and used one pair to readjust her fall to flying by putting her feet on top of them, while the second pair caught Kosei underneath his armpits. Hiroshi maneuvered underneath Setsuna and Momo, holding them tight.
"I got it! No need to hold your hand, just call out-!"
"HEROOOOO!"
A blinding light overtook Hiroshi, and they into the dirt of the collapsed building zone, creating a small crater. In Hiroshi's place was Hero, who had taken most of the impact of the landing by growing a few sizes bigger than he usually is before shrinking down to his "normal" height. "Are you two alright?"
"Y-yes, thank you Hero," Momo said, as they all got up as Fuka and the others landed. They looked around, and saw that the area they fell in resembled a snowy mountain forest. "So it's true? You sensed an alien among the villains?"
"Indeed," Hero confirmed. "It's just as I feared with Bekarus's appearance. Someone is bringing alien threats and criminals to this Earth. For what, I have no idea..."
Kosei gulped. This was not how he imagined this day going. "S-s-so you're saying that there really might be an alien invasion?"
"Potentially. For all I know, there's only one alien working with this Unearthly League. But the name itself is concerning..."
"Hehehe, looks like we found a bunch of baby heroes!"
They all turned to the forest, and spotted a variety of villains coming out, all of whom were dressed in various kinds of costumes and all kinds of Quirks.
"Let's shred them- wait, isn't that the red giant!?" a mountain lion-themed one said, pointing a clawed finger at Hero. "Why's he so small now!?"
"Forget this, I didn't sign up to be squashed like a bug!" a woman dressed in a fur bikini and adorned with teeth-like decorations said, running off.
"Yea, I'm out!"
"Same!"
"That was easy," Setsuna said. "Didn't need to lift a finger."
"Still, we shouldn't let these villains get away," Hero said, crossing his arms into an X-position horizontally. "HERORUM-"
"Wait, what are you-"
"GUILLOTINE-"
"WHOA HERO CALM DOWN!"
"BOLAS BIND!"
Hero spread his arms apart, creating a wave of green energy that flew through all the escaping villains. Instead of bisecting them, however, whatever energy past through them turned into a sort of energy binding that pinned their arms and legs together.
"Gah!? What the hell is this!?" one of the villains cried, trying to break free of the energy binding. It only served to shock them. "OW!"
"There, that should hold them for a few hours," Hero said, as Setsuna and Fuka slapped him on the backside of his head.
"Why is that called the 'Herorum Guillotine Bolas Bind'!?" Setsuna berated. "That sounds like you're gonna slice them half!"
"It's just what the move in particular is called!" Hero explained, as the two kept smacking him on the head, Setsuna having an easier time due to using her Quirk to remove her hand and smack him without needing to tiptoe. "The movement itself is something I learned from one of my teachers, while the energy itself is from a different technique from another. I just combined them since I figured that the move would be able to spread out like that, and it would be safe on humans-"
"You can call it anything but a guillotine!" Fuka said. "That's one of the most violent names I've ever heard for an incapacitating move!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't think much about how dangerous it sounded."
Pony and Momo chuckled at the scene, watching their two friends scold a shrunken giant alien for his poor naming choice for the move. Kosei had zero idea how to process any of this, simply staring blankly at them all. Meanwhile, Yui was blushing at the sight of the alien who had not only rescued her once, but twice now.
"Are you done yet?" Kosei asked, finally snapping out of his spacing out episode.
"Yea, we're done," Setsuna sighed, shaking her head.
"I'll be much more careful about what names I choose to use from now on," Hero nodded, understanding the situation now.
"I thought it was a cool name," Hiroshi said in Hero's head. "Oh well, guess we'll just have to run names through them for approval. But what really concerns me is what that portal guy said."
"Indeed, Hiroshi," Hero mumbled, as the four teens stared at him. "That man said that they're here for All Might's death. That must mean they have a way to kill him..."
"B-b-but All Might's the strongest hero ever! How could they kill-" Kosei stuttered.
"Aliens," Setsuna said, her eyes widened. "You sensed aliens, do you think-!?"
"It's possible," Hero said gravely. "I only sensed one, but it was a powerful one. I don't know what their goal is, but if they're working with the Unearthly League, chances are, they're out to kill All Might. Why? I don't know. But whatever it is, we need to stop it."
Setsuna, Pony, Fuka, and Momo all exchanged looks of concern and worry with each other, Kosei gulped nervously, and Yui gave a horrified "Mm!".
"We need to find the other students, we can't risk it if there are more aliens around."
"What do we do what do we do-" Denki said, panicking as he, Izuku, Kyoka, Tsuyu, and Reiko stayed on the boat in the flood zone. Villains had them surrounded, cautious to approach due to not knowing what their Quirks were (as Izuku theorized with Tsuyu's presence). Izuku had his hand on his chin in thought, trying to come up with a plan that can use their Quirks effectively.
"First you should calm down, Kaminari," Kyoka grumbled, covering her ears from the freaked out boy's trembling.
"I have a proposal on how we could possibly escape from this metal vessel and lake of villainy," Reiko said. She pointed at Denki, lifting him into the air, and tossed him overboard.
"What the hell are you doing!?" Denki demanded, falling into the water. In his panic over being thrown, he discharged the electricity he had in his body, shocking absolutely every single villain in the water, knocking them all out in one fell swoop. Denki floated to the top, his face blank with a dumb smile. "Wheeeeeeey..."
"So that's what happens when he uses all of his electricity," Izuku said, since none of them had really seen Denki ever go full force with his Quirk, even during the Heroes vs. Villains exercise. Kyoka snickered at the sight of this. "Come on Asu- Tsuyu, we should get him and find the others! Who knows what's happening with them!"
"Of course," Tsuyu replied, whipping her tongue out to pull the stupefied Denki out of the water. "I just hope that Furinji and Hero weren't right about seeing aliens with those villains..."
"We should ask Hero everything we can about aliens so that we can identify them later," Izuku mumbled, remembering that he needed to fill his "Ultraman Hero and Aliens Journal" with more info.
Tenya zipped around the storm zone, knocking any villains he saw down hard enough to make them lose consciousness. Meanwhile, nearby Nirengeki had beaten several villains with Sen, Yosetsu, Rikido, Itsuka, and Mashirao, a large crowd of them out cold. Fumikage and Shihai appeared from the alleyway, tossing a few villains at their feet.
"Those villains... were not prepared for what hides in the dark," Shihai said, crossing his arms.
"They thought they embraced the darkness, but we were born in it," Fumikage added, as his shadow nodded in agreement.
"Not bad, Tail Guy!" Sen said, grinning. "We should really have that rematch someday!"
"Back at you, Mr. Drill," Mashirao replied.
"Yea, you've definitely got some nice moves, especially with that tail," Itsuka complimented. "You use it pretty well."
"I'm worried about the others," Nirengeki said, nervously. "We're all spread out over this place, and Furinji said that his alien sensed an another alien. Can we even beat them if there are more around?"
"I don't know," Tenya said, coming to a stop in front of his fellow students. "What matters right now is that we find them and make sure we're all safe. We might have permission to defend ourselves with our Quirks, but we shouldn't engage in battle!"
"That'll be hard for someone like Bakugo," Rikido muttered, remembering how he, Eijiro, and Tetsutetsu leaped into action to try and take out the portal villain.
"DIE!" Katsuki yelled, as he exploded a villain with daggers in his hands, sending him flying into the wall of the conflagration zone. A crowd of unconscious villains surrounded him, Tetsutetsu, Eijiro, and Neito, who had copied all three of their Quirks.
"Hell yea! We did it!" Tetsutetsu cried victoriously, slamming his fists together.
"As much as I hate to say this, thanks, you two. For 1A students, your help is greatly appreciated," Neito said, dusting off his hands as his hardened steel body turned to normal, the time limit for his copied Quirks having ran out. "Though I do wish that you had a different Quirk than Tetsutetsu's, it was a little redundant."
"Don't remind us!" Tetsutetsu and Eijiro said, tears in their eyes.
"Well, if we're all done here, we should go and find our classmates, and-" Neito said.
"Fuck that. I'm going after the portal villain," Katsuki said, walking off.
"What!? Are you nuts!?" Tetsutetsu yelled, looking at the explosive boy as if he lost his head.
"Yea, when we attacked him the first time, we-" Eijiro said.
"You idiots! He's probably the only one who's able to warp here! If he's out, these bastards don't have a way out or a way in anymore!" Katsuki explained, when a chameleon-like villain jumped from behind him. Katsuki barely made a move when he exploded the villain with his left hand. "As far as I can tell, there were only three threats there. That hand guy, the portal guy, and that beak guy. All these guys are just small timers who can't even beat heroes-in-training."
"That's... an astute observation," Neito reluctantly admitted. "If he's incapacitated, we might have a chance of making sure none of those villains can leave before the authorities arrive, and we can prevent more from coming in."
"Wow, Monoma and Bakugo agreeing on something, I didn't expect that today," Eijiro said. The two boys whipped their heads around.
"We're not agreeing on anything!" they both shouted, glaring at the redhaired boy.
"So this is what villains are, huh?" Shoto said, having frozen the area in front of him, trapping dozens of villains in ice. Meanwhile, Manga, Minoru, Koji, and Togaru were off behind him, slightly shivering from the temperature drop. "Just a bunch of thugs. Can't even beat one teen."
"N-n-not fair! I-I-I wanted to s-s-slice them up!" Togaru bemoaned, having seen Shoto instantly take out all the villains.
"I-i-if being cold means n-n-not dying, I'll take it!" Minoru said, thankful he didn't need to do anything. This was way too scary to deal with this early in the year.
"Y-y-you freak!" one of the villains said, as he attempted to break out of the ice.
"Don't even try, you'll probably break your skin with how cold that ice is," Shoto replied, walking up to him. He put his right hand near his face, as frost started to grow on it. "Now, I'm looking to be a pro hero, and doing scary shit like this would definitely be a black mark on my record. So do us all a favor, and tell us, what you're here for."
"W-w-we want to kill All Might!" he answered immediately. "T-the portal mist guy asked us if we wanted to make waves in the crime world, and we agreed! T-that big black bird guy's supposed to be strong e-enough to take him, but-"
"But what?" Shoto said, raising an eyebrow.
"T-there's this other dude, a shadowy guy like him, but something f-f-felt off! It's like h-h-he's not human at all!" the villain said, crying. "P-please, just don't k-kill me..."
"Hm? Not human?" Shoto remembered what Hiroshi had said, that his alien sensed another one with the villains at the fountain. He guessed that was true, then.
"You, speech bubble head, grapehead," Shoto said, pointing to Manga and Minoru.
"Y-y-yea?"
"Can you make sure these villains are bound? I'll need to melt this ice so that they don't escape," Shoto said.
"R-r-right," Manga replied, as he began muttering onomatopoeias that wrapped around each villain and Minoru stuck his sticky balls on their feet to the ground, while Shoto melted the ice of the ones they made sure were captured.
"Thirteen! Thirteen!" Mina cried, as she held the injured heroine's arm. The portal man had managed to turn Thirteen's Quirk back on her by opening a portal behind her when she was pulling him in. The only students who managed to remain behind were Mezo and Jurota, who used their impressive sizes and strength to hold Kinoko, Hiryu, Ochako, and Yuga, while Hanta used his tape to secure himself and Juzo to a rail. Ibara used her vines to plant herself into the ground, with Kojiro using his glue to secure his feet as well. The portal villain stood in front of them, blocking the exit.
"This is bad..." Ochako mumbled. "If only we had Iida with us, he could make a dash for the campus."
"Shishida, you'll need to do it instead," Mezo whispered to the beastlike teen. "You're probably the fastest one of us here."
"I got it... just need to get him out of the way," he whispered back.
"Oh? Attempting to plan something? I doubt it'll be of much help," the villain said. Yuga shot his Navel Laser at the villain, distracting him for a second. But it was a second that Jurota needed to get past him. "You'll won't be getting by me that easily."
As the portal villain's mist stretched out towards Jurota, Ochako noticed something within the mist. There was a strange metal neckpiece that glistened for a second. Realizing what this could mean, she rushed towards the mist, touching the neckpiece.
"Uraraka, what are you-" Mina shouted.
"He's wearing something here, and that means-" she yelled, tossed the villain into the air. "He has to be a body in there somewhere!"
"Gah! Dammit!" the villain cursed, trying to readjust himself in the air to catch Jurota. Hanta launched a strip of tape out from his elbows, catching the neckpiece and pulling him further away, detaching it from his arm. Mezo grabbed the cut tape, and swung the villain away, as Jurota smashed through the doors, running out as fast as he could. "Tch, seems like the game is over..."
Aizawa and Vlad King managed to whittle down the villains around the fountain quite a bit. Aizawa was getting slightly exhausted. He hated fighting in crowds when it's bright. That didn't mean he was a one-trick pony, but he was out of his element. At least Vlad King was able to help out with him, making the number of villains smaller and smaller.
"Hm, useless, all of them," the villain covered in hands said, kicking one of the fallen thugs that they took with them. If only that alien bastard would've brought some alien friends of his.
"Just one left," Aizawa muttered, rushing towards the villain. "I take it that you're the boss!"
He tried to bind the villain with his scarf, managing to wrap it around his wrist and pulling him in to elbow him in the stomach. The villain managed to grab Aizawa's elbow before the impact. He winced, realizing that where the villain's fingers were touching, his sleeve and skin was disintegrating. He kicked the villain away and leaped backwards, his right arm now limp.
"Shit! Vlad King! Stay away from that guy!" Aizawa shouted, as Vlad King pummeled another round of thugs. "He's got a disintegration Quirk that he uses with his hands!"
"Hm, so I guess we know who's responsible for disintegrating the front gate," Vlad King mumbled. "Now the question remains if we'll find out who's responsible ofr the alien attack."
"Oh, that was me."
Aizawa and Vlad King looked behind the lead villain, and noticed that his shadow against a wall had changed into a different figure. The shadow stepped off the wall, changing into a tall, strange man with black spandex-like skin who wore a black trench coat, black gloves, armored boots and shoulder pads, and a strange, unearthly helmet. A second figure followed, this one more feminine, and she appeared similar to the man, though instead of a trench coat, she opted for a waistcoat-like skirt that opened at the front and chest armor that cut off at the bottom of her bust, and she wore boxy gauntlets. Both of their helmets had pitch black visors that prevented their faces to be seen.
"Let me introduce myself and my companions. I have many names, but you may call me Virus. She has many names as well, but you may call her Illne. We're both aliens, if you haven't figured out. This boy here is Tomura Shigaraki, and like what our friend Kurogiri had told your students up there, we are here to kill All Might," the stranger said, giving an insultingly polite bow with his left arm in front of his chest, with his companion doing the same. A red V flashed on his helmet, while a red I flashed on hers.
"Who gave you the fucking right to tell them who I am!?" Tomura grumbled, as he scratched at his neck with his hands, only using four fingers each. "I still don't need an alien asshole like you here!"
"Oh? But it seems like your hired help wasn't much help at all, they're all downed by just two heroes," Virus said. "Oh Illne?"
She perked her head up, the red I flashing.
"Subdue one of them for us, please."
She disappeared in a flash and reappeared right in front of Vlad King. She slammed her fist into his gut, knocking not just the wind out of him, but bile as well. He was launched backwards, crashing into the wall behind him, making a crater whose cracks spread several feet across. And in an instance, was back at Virus's side.
"Vlad King!" Aizawa shouted, turning his head to look at his beaten ally.
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about him," Virus said, as a large imposing shadow loomed over Aizawa. "After all, you still haven't met Nomu."
"Oh shit," Kyoka whispered, as they keep themselves as low as they could in the water to prevent themselves from being seen, with Denki's left arm around her shoulders. They had just witnessed Vlad King getting knocked out in one hit by the female villain who just appeared out of nowhere, and Aizawa getting his elbow partially disintegrated and pinned down by that giant beaked man.
"What is the course of action we shall take to help our revered elders?" Reiko said, as she trembled behind Tsuyu.
"I don't know," Izuku admitted, his fists clenched. "This is... I..."
They went quiet again, as the portal villain from earlier appeared next to Virus and Tomura.
"Oh, Kurogiri, how are you?" Virus said, politely, though Tomura was slightly more hostile.
"Why are you here? Did you kill Thirteen and those kids?" he muttered, as Nomu casually snapped Aizawa's arm.
"I apologize, but one of the students managed to get away," Kurogiri replied. Tomura began to breathe heavily, and scratched at his neck with his hands, with only his thumbs not touching.
"You understand that this is game over here, then? We can't handle dozens of pros at once... if you weren't our way out, I'd crumble you into dust this second!" he seethed.
"Oh well, this should be a learning experience for all of us," Virus said, shrugging.
"And you! If it weren't for the fact that my Quirk wouldn't work on you two, I'd have gotten rid of you the second you joined us! You haven't even given us any aliens to use yet! What's the point of you being here if not to give us aliens to use!" Tomura snapped, facing his hated alien ally. He took a deep breath, and sighed. "Oh well... if this is game over-"
Tomura had almost instantenously appeared in front of Tsuyu and the others. "-I'll just make sure that these future seeds don't grow."
Tomura reached out to touch Tsuyu's face, to everyone's frozen shock. They trembled as his fingers made contact.
But nothing happened.
"... Goddammit," Tomura muttered, pulling his hands back and turning his head to face Nomu and Aizawa. Aizawa had managed to pick up his head just enough to stare at the hand villain, only for Nomu to slam his head back onto the ground. "I'll admit, broken and beaten, and yet you still look out for these dumb kids? You're something else, Eraserhead. Now, where was I?"
"GET AWAY FROM HER! DETROIT SMAAAAASH" Izuku shouted. He put every inch of One for All into his fist, not caring if he broke his bones. He needed to save her. A large gust of wind flew the moment he made contact, dust and dirt flying everywhere. He looked at his fist. It wasn't broken.
But it was touching the Nomu, who had just appeared in front of Tomura.
"A Smash? I guess you're a big fan of All Might," Tomura said, as everyone started to tremble, Virus, Illne, and Kurogiri off to the side. "I'll take that as free rein to get rid of you. Nomu, kill him."
Nomu grabbed Izuku's arm, ready to tear it off. Tsuyu shoved Tomura away, swinging her tongue to grab the green-haired boy, though Tomura kept reaching out to them. Everything felt like it was slowing down, when a red blur came out of nowhere, slamming into Nomu, knocking him away and into a tree. Tomura stopped reaching out, and stared at the newcomer.
"All Might!?" he growled. No. It wasn't that accursed "Symbol of Peace". It was that red giant, only he was human-sized now. "The fuck!?"
"Don't worry, everyone! Ultraman Hero... is here!"
ORIGINAL AO3 NOTES:
- Sorry if I'm reusing the similar/same description of All Might's personal gym from "Building Up A Hero!". I figured that it'd be pointless trying to give a different description when I already have an idea of how I think it'd look. If anything, I was a little more detailed with how I think it looks like now.
- Also, sorry if it's weird that I describe outfits a lot. I like describing outfits. That, and you'll probably seeing more of these exercising outfits in the future, except for Izuku's, since he's definitely going to get a new one later. That, and it helps me fill up space as I think what to write.
- I'm curious, does anyone feel like the way I write Pony in my fanfics is a bit... too silly? Like we still haven't really gotten much focus on a lot of 1B characters, and I kinda pictured her as being rather quirky for whatever reason. Though what we've seen of her, she's a lot more thoughtful and smart. I guess my depiction doesn't totally go against this, though, since she could easily still be like that, but just with some more silliness added.
- Is Kyoka jealous of Momo's figure? Or is it gay thoughts? Personally I've always imagined her as bisexual, so it could be anything really.
- I was having a little bit of trouble deciding what I wanted to do after the schoolyard incident. I played with the idea that we'd go to the classroom immediately, but I decided against that so that we could get to the USJ faster. Than I realized that it'd be fun if I introduce the Big Three early, 'cuz hey, a kid turning into the giant that fought off two giant monsters would certainly catch anyone's attention like that. Sorry if it feels kinda out of place, since it is during the lunch period before the USJ exercise.
- I personally imagine that Thirteen hadn't been a part of the meetings with Hiroshi 'cuz she was especially needed to help with the rescue work and cleanup from the first two attacks. The second one resulted in less damage, though, which is why she's able to make it for the USJ exercise.
- Also, I'll be using female pronouns for Thirteen since she was revealed to be female in a recent character book. Not that I don't dislike the idea of a nonbinary Thirteen, though. If people want to imagine her as such, they should go for it.
- And here we have the 'Ultraman Hero Academia' name for the League of Villains, the Unearthly League!
- I'm torn apart by whether to use "bolas", which is the thing you throw to entangle legs, or bolo, which is a type of tether they use for satellites. Both sound very good.
- I wanted to put in other aliens besides Virus and Illne, trust me, I tried. But nothing I wrote felt natural, and it felt more like I was trying to put them in out of an obligation to have them rather than it feeling something like I wanted. Not to mention that each attempt didn't feel like it was doing them justice, since I wanted to have Aizawa and Vlad King win against them realistically, but nothing felt right. I'll tell you now, though, we'll be having aliens appear later on and they'll have their time to shine.
- I also thought of putting Midnight into the chapter, but it also didn't feel natural, so I removed any instances of her in here out.