"Man, I thought we'd never get off that train," Hiroshi sighed, as he and the other walked in the rain from the train station. Hiroshi in particular had a giant umbrella that covered him, Fuka, and Setsuna, while the others had their own smaller ones. Pony was wearing a big poncho that had special holes for her horns and big galoshes, since using an umbrella was difficult with her horns around. "All those people just kept swarming me and asking questions and for autographs."

"Can't blame them. Not only did you win the UA Sports Festival, you just defeated a giant alien robot and an actual alien yesterday!" Kyoka pointed out, as people stared at Hiroshi. "Everyone's gonna talk about that."

"It was weird to get recognized also, though," Pony said, as they approached the gate. "I didn't even get past the first round."

"You were on Hiroshi's team, though, and you were his first opponent," Fuka pointed out. "That's probably why they knew you."

"Y-yea, it was really crazy that people are recognizing us," Izuku said, thinking back to how during his train ride people kept congratulating him and praised him for being able to go toe-to-toe with an actual alien like that. "Is that how it feels like for you, Hiro-"

"What are you all dillydallying for!?"

The SiDE Team teens turned around and saw Tenya speeding by them as he crossed the gate. "We mustn't be late for class!"

"Late? We're like, ten minutes before the first bell," Setsuna pointed out.

"UA students must make it a habit of arriving to class fifteen minutes early!" he stated, as they all rushed inside the school to get out of the rain, stopping by the shoe lockers.

"... Hey, Iida-" Izuku began to say.

"If you're worried about my older brother, you don't need to be," Tenya said, turning to face them. "I apologize if he and I gave you any undue concern."

"'Undue concern'? Iida, we've been trying to contact you since the beginning of the break," Hiroshi pointed out. "I completely understand how you're feeling, so you don't need to pretend that everything's fine. We're here you for you like how you were here for me and Fuka."

"I can assure you, I am fine-"

"Hey Hiro!" "Sup Hiro and his gal pals!?"

Tenya and Izuku looked behind them, and saw a man dressed in a janitor's uniform and a black mask with a white top that stopped underneath his eyes.

"Hey, Mr. Bubaigawara," Hiroshi said, giving the man a fist bump. "So how's getting used to working at and living in UA?"

"It's great! The room I'm staying in is way nicer than my old place!" "It's a pain to walk all around this big ass school!"

"Hiroshi, who's that?" Izuku asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh right, you and Iida hadn't met him yet," Hiroshi said, motioning to the man. "This is Jin Bubaigawara. I met him on Sunday, and, well, I helped him get a job as a live-in janitor at UA."

"Jin Bubaigawara... why does that name sound familiar?" Izuku muttered.

"Oh, that's probably because I was in the news for a while." "I robbed a lot of places!"

"What!?" Izuku and Tenya said, eyes wide.

"Yea, Mr. Bubaigawara's here as a sort of paid community service," Hiroshi explained. "I talked to Principal Nezu, Hound Dog, and Detective Tsukauchi about this, and it was pretty much decided that he needed to be here."

"Excuse me, but Midoriya and I need to talk to Hiroshi in private for a bit," Tenya said, gravely serious.

"Alright with me." "Just don't monopolize our friend, okay!?"

"But why!?" Tenya whispered as soon as they were out of earshot. He glared at Jin, who was busy talking to the girls. "If he robbed places before, he's a villain! He should be in jail!"

"Y-yea, don't you think that this might not look good for UA?" Izuku added.

"Iida, you see how he's acting, right?" Hiroshi said. "There's a lot that happened to him that just... changed him. He needs therapy, not jailtime. And people deserve second chances, right? Even Bakugo's getting a second chance of sorts, and you all know how I feel about him."

"I- Alright, I guess I see your point," Tenya said, sighing. "I don't personally approve of it, but if the police and faculty thinks that this is the correct course to take..."

"If you think that this is what needs to be done, then I'll back you up on it," Izuku nodded, as the three boys went to rejoin the others.

"Hey Mr. Bubaigawara, we'll catch up later, we gotta get to our classrooms right now," Hiroshi said. "We'll talk during our lunch break or after school, alright?"

"Yea, of course! Though I'll probably be busy with cleaning this place up." "Have a good time, kid!"

"There were so many people that talked to me over the break!" Toru said, as Hiroshi and the other settled into their seats. "Especially on the way here, since I was in a UA uniform!"

"Yea, me too!" Mina said, smiling. "Even if I didn't get that high, a lot of people were impressed with me!"

"Not me. All I got were little kids telling me they were sorry I got frozen in Todoroki's iceberg," Hanta lamented.

"Yea, and everyone kept telling me good job," Eijiro said, flinching at the memory of what had happened to him during his round.

"Good job," Tsuyu playfully joked, as Eijiro held back a sniffle.

"I am so sorry again, Kirishima," Momo apologized again, blushing.

"Just to think, one event, and we've got the whole world's eyes on us!" Denki said, leaning back against his chair.

"You mean on Furinji and Hero," Rikido joked. "Dude was already a celebrity before he got here."

"Yea, yea, don't rub it in," Hiroshi chuckled. "It's not like you guys didn't show off, either. I'm sure a lot of heroes got their eyes on you."

Katsuki growled as he shifted his eyes to the ground. As much as he didn't care about what others thought about him, the annoying babble people would say about him under their breath was annoying. The plan for weekly sessions and remedial rescue training lessons was also still frustrating, thanks to Furinji and his family imposing that punishment onto him.

"Settle down, people," Aizawa said, opening the door only to see that everyone was in their seats already. "Good, none of you wasted time."

"Good to see that you're healed, Mr. Aizawa," Tsuyu said, noticing that the man was no longer mummified.

"Recovery Girl's treatments worked, though she was overzealous with the bandages," he muttered, touching his now scarred cheek. "But never mind that. Today you're having your Hero Informatics class, and it's a special one."

"Oh no..." Eijiro muttered. "Hero law... my worst subject..."

"Please not a pop quiz, please not a pop quiz..." Denki pleaded under his breath.

"You'll all be making your hero aliases," Aizawa said, as the room erupted into a cheer.

"HERO NAMES!? YEEEEEA!" many of them yelled, with Mina literally jumping out of her chair in excitement.

"Calm down," Aizawa, as the room went quiet again. "Before that, we'll be discussing the hero drafts for your workplace training. It's all based on who pros think will be ready for hero work after 2 or 3 more years of schooling. You could say that it's a way for them to show interest in you. However, there's enough time that any interest they have might wane before you graduate. Any and all offers you get can be arbitrarily revoked. This happens quite often."

"Curse those adults and their fickle minds!" Minoru muttered, annoyed that any offers he could get would be rescinded at any moment.

"So this means that if we're picked this year, that next year it'll be an even higher hurdle to impress them?" Toru asked.

"Exactly. Now, as for the draft picks-" Aizawa pressed a button on a remote, showing everyone the total number of draft picks the class had gotten, "- normally, there's a wider spread, but as you can imagine, one of you had certainly stolen the spotlight."

Hiroshi Furinji: 2,188,000
Izuku Midoriya: 5,135
Shoto Todoroki: 4,172
Tenya Iida: 1,904
Momo Yaoyoruzu: 743
Fumikage Tokoyami: 401
Denki Kaminari: 42
Eijiro Kirishima: 28
Hanta Sero: 14
Katsuki Bakugo: 1

"I got over 2,000,000!?" Hiroshi said, completely caught off guard by the number as everyone stared at him.

"Technically eligible ones, at least. A number of overseas hero agencies sent some as well," Aizawa said, plainly. "We got rid of the ones that would require too much money to spend on travel for what would be a week long field training for you. Ones from the Americas, Europe, Africa, most of mainland Asia, and Australia were tossed aside. We don't expect you to be able to go through all of them. I wanted to trim the number down even more, but Principal Nezu and All Might thought it would be a nice surprise to show you how many agencies want you."

"Wait, I had even more!? And ones from overseas!?"

"Not surprising, since you are the world's first alien hero-in-training," Mashirao said.

"Yea, who wouldn't want you to be working with them!?" Toru said. "You'd be like, the ultimate intern!"

"I ONLY FUCKING GOT ONE!?" Katsuki yelled, as everyone shifted their eyes away.

"That's not surprising, either," Tsuyu said, as the class went back to ignoring him.

"I'm surprised that he got one at all," Hanta muttered.

"I'm surprised that Todoroki got so many, since he wasn't in the Top Four," Denki said.

"Most of them are probably because of my father," Shoto grumbled.

"This doesn't mean that only those with draft picks will be participating in field training, as you'll be all picking one out of 40 hero agencies who've agreed to take on those who hadn't gotten any offers. You and Class 1B may be more experience with dealing with villains more than most Hero Courses do in your year, but working alongside pros will let you get some valuable experience."

"So that's why we're coming up with hero names!" Rikido said, smiling.

"This is gonna be so fun!" Ochako said, ready to come up with her name.

"But man, only having 40 choices doesn't seem nearly as impressive as over 2,000,000," Kyoka said.

"They're only tentative names, so you're likely to change them later on. Still, you should choose something appropriate-"

"Or you'll know true hell!"

The door slid open, and Midnight strutted in, hips swaying as she brushed her hair back with her hands. "The name you pick now, may be the name that the world knows you by! That's happened to plenty of pros!"

"Miss Midnight?" Hiroshi said, raising an eyebrow.

"She'll be supervising and judging the names you choose," Aizawa stated, as he pulled out his sleeping bag. "I'm no good with that."

"Yea, Present Mic had to be the one who came up with his," Midnight said, shaking her head. "Anyways, we'll be heading to a bigger room to meet up with Class 1B so we can all share what names you'll pick!"

"Regardless, what future do you see yourselves having? Choosing a name is a step to solidifying your identity and a certain image, as they can reflects a person's true character," Aizawa said, as Midnight motioned everyone to follow her. "Like 'All Might'."

Izuku honed in on those words. "A name that reflects a person's true character, huh..."

Setsuna Tokage: 2,743
Fuka Furinji: 1,526
Pony Tsunotori: 93
Itsuka Kendo: 4
Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu: 2

"So we only got four students who got draft picks?" Sen said, his chin on his left hand. "Figures, since you three were the only ones from our class to get into the tournament at the end."

"Those accursed Class 1A students! Stealing the spotlight and hogging it all to themselves!" Neito said, as Itsuka chopped him on the neck.

"Personally, I'm surprised I got four to begin with. Wonder why," Itsuka said, thinking to herself aloud. "I didn't even do that much in the Cavalry Battle..."

"I bet the one who got the most is your brother, Furinji," Kosei said, looking at her. "There's no way that no one wouldn't want him at their agency."

"Yea, probably," Fuka said, shrugging. "It'll probably be a lot more than normal."

"Well, any agency that gets Hiroshi is gonna be a real popular one!" Setsuna said, grinning.

"So is coming up with our hero aliases related to the drafts and stuff?" Kinoko asked.

"That's right," Vlad King said, opening the door. "We'll be going to a bigger room with Class 1A so that everyone can share the names they decide to use. Midnight will be supervising and judging the names you choose while Eraserhead and I observe."

"Oh boy, can't wait to see what wild names everyone else is gonna come up with," Setsuna said, as they got up and walked out of the classroom. "I know what I'm going with."

"I'd be surprised if you went with anything but the name you've wanted to use since we were little," Fuka said, smirking.

"Hey guys," Hiroshi said, as they all sat picked their seats in the bigger classroom. "You ready for your hero names?"

"Yep!" Setsuna said, grinning. "So how many draft picks did you get?"

"Yes! For our dear Tokage has gotten 2,743 offers!" Neito said, gloating for her. "I have no doubt that she has the most offers!"

"Please don't gloat for me, Monoma," Setsuna chuckled, shaking her head.

"... Igotovertwomillionoffers," Hiroshi said, shifting his eyes away.

"What?" Fuka said, trying to hear him.

"I... got over 2,000,000 offers," Hiroshi repeated, slightly embarrassed. The jaws of everyone in 1B dropped at the number. Even Fuka's and Setsuna's, the latter's in a more literal case as she detached her mouth from her face.

"2,000,000 offers!?" Kosei said, his elliptical eyes turning circular.

"The number's actually 2,188,000, and that was after they removed all the ones that would've required me to go to entirely different continents, but all of the nearby countries were included..." Hiroshi admitted.

"You mean you had more!?" Yosetsu cried out.

"Hey, I'm as shocked as everyone else here! I knew I was going to get a lot, I just didn't think it'd be in the millions and from all around the world!"

"Damn, Hiroshi! That's incredible! How are you going to be able to choose any of them!?" Setsuna said, raising her eyebrows so high they detached from her head.

"Principal Nezu and All Might apparently thought it'd be a nice surprise to see how many agencies would want me and Hero, so they're actually not expecting me to be looking through all of them," Hiroshi explained. "Still, you're pretty much on the nose with that... I'm gonna have to really, really speed read through a lot of them."

"Alright you fledglings, let's get started on making your hero names!" Midnight said, as she and Vlad King handed everyone a dry eraseboard and marker, while Aizawa went off to the side in his sleeping bag and fell asleep. "And Hiroshi, I'd like to see Hero come up with one for himself! Well, at least an epithet, since I guess Ultraman Hero would be his hero name."

"So, hero aliases, huh? Have you ever thought of what you want to go by?" Hero asked.

"No, never really got the chance to imagine what I'd go with. And I can't just go by your name, it'd be weird since we're two distinct entities, you know?" Hiroshi thought.

"True. We'll have to think thoroughly about what names to go with."

After 15 minutes or so past, Midnight clapped her hands. "Alright, I think that's enough time done for some people to have come up with their names! For the people who've yet to come up with theirs, don't worry, you can still come up with them while your classmates are sharing theirs! Who wants to go first?"

Setsuna was about to raise her hand when Yuga got up first. "I shall go first, mademoiselle."

"My hero name... Is 'I Cannot Stop Twinkling'! Fabulous, is it not?" he said, holding up his dry eraseboard.

"Aoyama that is a full sentence, not a name," Hiroshi deadpanned.

"What is that, a light novel title?" Setsuna snickered. "No one's gonna wanna say the whole thing."

"Hm... it'll be easier to say if you leave out the 'I' and contract 'Cannot' to 'Can't' instead," Midnight said, a little amused by the choice in name.

"I see. A fabulous suggestion, mademoiselle!" Yuga said, snapping his fingers.

"... I guess that works..." Fuka said, unsure how to process the name.

"Me! Me! Me! I wanna go next!" Mina said, trotting over to the front. "I'm Ridley Hero: Alien Queen!"

"As in that freaky alien from that retro movie?" Denki said, before realizing what he said. He turned to Hiroshi. "Not that aliens are freaky, not at all!"

"No, there are some very odd aliens out there," Hero said. "There's an alien race called Giragas where the males are all giant humanoids that look similar to us Ultras, but the females are symbiotic wing-like beings that latch onto their male partner's back."

"You can't use copyrighted names like that," Midnight said, shaking her head. "The legal trouble is a long and frustrating path to deal with."

"Oh..." Mina said, instantly deflating.

"Hmph! As expected of 1A, setting up an odd atmosphere!" Neito said, getting up as Mina went back to her seat to work on a new name. "Let me show you all a real name!"

"My hero name is 'The Magnificent Master of Mimicry, the King of Copycats, the Imitator of Talents, the Man of a Thousand Quirks, the Copycat Hero: Phantom Thief'!"

"Monoma that's almost nothing but epithets!" Itsuka scolded.

"Indeed. You probably want to just go with 'Copycat Hero: Phantom Thief', since very few people say the full epithet to begin with," Midnight said.

"I see," Neito said, as he wiped the dry eraseboard, leaving only 'Copycat Hero: Phantom Thief' on it.

"What very imaginative names they've come up with," Hero complimented.

"Yea, but the mood's all weird now thanks to how outlandish we started," Hiroshi replied.

"May I go next?" Tsuyu asked, raising her hand as Midnight nodded. She walked up to the front, and propped her dry eraseboard up. "I've had this one in mind since elementary school. I want to be 'Rainy Season Hero: Froppy'."

"A very cute name! It makes you sound like a good person to approach for when you need help!" Midnight approved.

"Oh! I wanna go next!" Setsuna said, skipping to the front as Tsuyu returned to her seat. "Just like Asui, I've had this in mind since I was in elementary! Call me 'Dino Hero: Lizardy'!"

"Very similar to hers, but with a slightly sharper edge to it! Very good!" Midnight said, as Setsuna grinned widely.

"I'll go next," Fuka said. At the front she held up her dry eraseboard. "I'm gonna be 'Hurricane Hero: Airuka'!"

"Ooooh, combining the English word 'air' with your real name! Very classic, as well as sounding like similar to a different real name! Clever!"

Eijiro ran up to the front as Fuka sat back down. "This is who I am! I'm 'Sturdy Hero: Red Riot'!"

"Oh? Red Riot? Is that homage to Chivalrous Hero: Crimson Riot?" Midnight asked.

"Yea! I know he's like, a very old hero, but he's the type of hero I want to be!" Eijiro explained.

"Heh, just so you know, bearing a name honoring a personal hero of yours can be a big burden," Midnight said, touched by his choice in name.

"I'm prepared for that!"

"Eijiro's got that sort of confidence, huh..." Izuku thought, as he kept running through all the names he thought of before. "Before meeting All Might, I just kept making homage names after homage names... but now that I'm his successor, none of them feel... right. Even if I've improved a lot in such a sort amount of time thanks to everyone, the gap is still so big between him and me..."

"Aw man, this is way harder than I thought it would be," Denki grumbled, scratching his head.

"I know man," Kosei said, biting his thumb. "Nothing's coming in my brain!"

"Hey Kaminari, how about Jammingwhey?" Kyoka said, with a grin.

"Oh, like an homage to Ernest Hemmingway, the writer of A Farewell to Arms? That's a cool idea!" Denki said.

"Pft, no it's about how your brain jams when you use your powers and go 'whey'!" she responded, covering her mouth to hold back her laughter.

"Hey, that's uncalled for, Jiro!" Denki shouted, as Kyoka went up to the front, showing off her name.

"I'm 'Hearing Hero: Earphone Jack'," she stated simply, smiling.

"Simple! Using your Quirk name as your hero name, there are plenty of pros who do the same!" Midnight said. Very soon, the speed of hero name reveals picked up.

"'Tentacle Hero: Tentacole'," Mezo said plainly holding up his sign.

"Simple and to the point!" Midnight said.

"I'll be 'Taping Hero: Cellophane'," Hanta said, nervously.

"Very straightforward! I like it!"

"It's a little simple, but I'm 'Martial Arts Hero: Ta-tailman'," Mashirao said, scratching his cheek and stuttering his name, unsure of his name.

"'Dirt Hero: Mudman'," Juzo stated, holding his sign up.

"I'm 'Manga Hero: Comicman'!" Manga cried out, proud of his name as an exclamation point appeared on his face.

"You all copied me! I'm the 'Sweet Hero: Sugarman'!" Rikido said, annoyed that he was the fourth in a long string of adjective men.

"Classic naming scheme you four!"

"PINKY!" Mina shouted, after spending so much time trying to think of a name.

"I'm gonna be 'Fungirl Hero: Shemage'!" Kinoko said, a bit nervously but also excited all the same.

"Clever epithet and clever hero name pun!"

"It's time for 'Stealth Hero: Invisible Girl' to take the stage!" Toru said, holding her board up high.

"'Stun Gun Hero: Chargebolt'! It's from the English words 'charge' and 'lightning bolt'! How's that for a name, Jiro!?" Denki said, slightly glaring at Kyoka who just snickered.

"I'm the high flying 'Rodeo Hero: Rocketti'!" Pony said, puffing her chest out in pride.

"Going in on your Texan roots, I see!"

"I will be 'Beastman Hero: Gevaudan'," Jurota said, adjusting his glasses.

"Ooh, a reference to the Beast of Gevaudan? Very interesting choice!"

"'Drilling Hero: Spiral'," Sen said, straight-faced.

"I hope to do everything justice to the name 'Everything Hero: Creati'," Momo said, showing hers.

"Very creative!"

"Shoto," Shoto said, plainly.

"Just your name, huh? Well, plenty of heroes do that, too," Midnight said, shrugging.

"I am the shadow in the dark, the 'Jet-Black Hero: Tsukuyomi'."

"I am the black of the night, the 'Midnight Hero: Vantablack'."

"Very similar, but also so different!"

"You best beware the sticky balls of 'Freshly Picked Hero: Grape Juice'!" Minoru said, having to hold his dry eraseboard over his head so everyone could see.

"A good emphasis on the appearance of your Quirk!"

Koji stood in front of the class, silently fidgeting in place as he held up his dry eraseboard, revealing his name to be 'Petting Hero: Anima'.

"A cute name to go with!" Midnight complimented.

"Mm..." Yui said, holding up her sign, showing her name as 'Size-Changing Hero Ultragirl Rule'.

"I see you're choosing to homage Hero!" Midnight laughed, as Yui blushed a bit.

"That makes sense, since your Quirk can change the size of objects," Hiroshi laughed. "Gotta say, Hero and I are a little flattered."

"Mm!" Yui said, smiling a bit. Setsuna raised an eyebrow at the name, unsure of what to make of it, while Fuka chuckled at the sight. Itsuka, Manga, Kinoko, and Toru all gave her thumbs up on successfully getting Hiroshi's approval.

"'Slashing Hero: Jack Mantis'," Togaru said, slightly glaring at everyone.

"'King Explosion Murder'," Katsuki said with gritted teeth, to the silence of the combined class.

"Hard no," Midnight said, shaking her head.

"Why not!?" Katsuki yelled.

"Figures he'd go with something uber-violent like that," Denki sighed.

"H-how about Mr. Explosion Guy?" Eijiro said, trying to lift the mood up a bit.

"Maybe 'Overkill Hero, Zero Restraint' would be up his alley?" Hiroshi grumbled, turning his head away, to the concern of his friends and sister. Even if he had gotten his 'revenge', it seemed like there was still some lingering resentment.

"You can go ahead and tell us what name you'll use later. For now, let's keep the name train going!" Midnight said, as Katsuki sulked back to his chair. Ochako decided to take her turn to help lighten the mood again.

"This is what I came up with," she said, slightly blushing. "I liked the name that Present Mic gave me at the Sports Festival, so I chose 'Gravity Girl Uravity'."

"A very cute pun! Well done!"

"The world's gonna know who 'Fusion Hero: Welder' is!" Yosetsu said, holding his dry eraseboard up while pointing at himself with his thumb.

"I'm the 'Hard Hero: Real Steel'!" Tetsutetsu yelled, slamming his right hand onto his chest.

"'Karate Hero: Battle Fist'! Would've used 'Martial Arts' since I know more than just karate, but Ojiro took that, and it'd be weird if we repeat epithets, right?" Itsuka chuckled.

"My bad."

"No worries!"

"I shall be known as 'Praying Hero: Vines'," Ibara said, nodding as she showed them her name.

"'Double Hit Hero: Mines'."

"'Scale Hero: Dragon Shroud'."

"'Glue Hero: Plamo'."

"'The Spectral Mistress, Emily'."

"Very good names you kids!" Midnight said, clapping for them. "Now excluding Bakugo's revision, we only have Iida, Hiroshi, Tsururaba, and Midoriya to see."

"Gaaaah! Forget it! Can I hold off on mine!?" Kosei said, the frustration finally getting to him. "I can't think of anything!"

"Of course, but that means you'll have to go by your real name for now," Midnight answered.

Tenya stared at his dry eraseboard, as he dragged the marker across its surface, remembering his conversation with Tensei over the break.

"You know, if I really did end up getting crippled by Stain, I was totally prepared to give you my hero name," Tensei said, to Tenya's shock. "Probably would've been pretty likely in the first place if he wasn't interrupted."

"But I couldn't-" Tenya began to say.

"I know. Which is why I'm ready to help you come up with your own," Tensei said, smiling. "After all, if I'm gonna be here for a while, why not spend it brainstorming with you? How about Ingenium 2.0?"

"Tensei, that's-"

"I know, it's a joke," Tensei laughed. "But for real, I think a good name for you would be-"

"I... I'm 'Acceleration Hero: Sigma Speed'," Tenya said.

"Interesting choice!" Midnight complimented.

Izuku took a deep breath, as he watched Tenya walk back towards his chair. He looked at his name. It had to be this. Everything about it changed for him.

He walked up to the front, and showed everyone his name.

"Really Midoriya? Are you sure that's a name you want to go with?" Mashirao asked, surprised by the choice.

"Yea, I'd thought you'd hate the name," Denki added.

"At one point, I did... but then, someone came to me and made me see it in a new light," Izuku said, smiling as he held his name up. Ochako smiled at the choice, while Katsuki glowered at him while still thinking of his name. "It took me by surprise, but I was happy... so now, I'm the 'Can Do Hero: Deku'!"

"Appropriating what you used to hate to make it your own? Intriguing!" Midnight said, clapping her hands.

"Nice choice, Midoriya," Hiroshi said, as he got up and walked past him. "Honestly that's the same sort of thought process I went through with mine."

Hiroshi turned his dry eraseboard over, revealing his name. "For a long time, people called me this when I was growing up. They thought it was funny 'cuz of the irony. But now that I'm here, I'm going to show the world who I am. My name is 'No Quirk Hero' Hiroshi!"

Hiroshi closed his eyes. "And I as well. My own name is Alien Agent Ultraman Hero!"

"Excellent choices you two! Now Bakugo, have you come up with an appropriate name?" Midnight said.

Katsuki stormed up to the front. "Lord Explosion Murder!"

"Nope. Still no good," Midnight said, straight-faced.

"Looks like we got some more late submissions for the First Years' draft picks," Cementoss said, checking some messages. "Some more international ones for Furinji and Hero, as expected... Oh, another one for Midoriya? Now that's new. Wait, actually it's one submission for Furinji's and Midoriya's entire group of friends."

"Really?" All Might asked. "I'm curious as to who would want them all-"

All Might's jaw dropped upon seeing the email address. That was a name he hadn't seen in a long, long while.

"T-T-That man-"

"I can't believe they seriously gave me a tablet containing all the information I need to know about all of the offers I got," Hiroshi said, scrolling through the tablet that Aizawa handed him at the end of class. Everyone in the Hero Course was chatting about their possible choices of what agencies they were going to, looking through the list of the 40 agencies that would take on the students without draft offers.

"It's very organized, though," Hero replied. "I suppose they spent a good chunk of the break working to make sure it was understandable."

"But how am I supposed to choose before the end of the week?" Hiroshi muttered.

"I'm going to go for Mt. Lady!"

Hiroshi perked his head up from his tablet, and looked at Minoru.

"Same!" Denki said, flashing a thumbs up like the grape-haired boy.

"I'd be crazy not to try!" Kosei added, following the other two.

"You three are thinking lewd thoughts, aren't you?" Tsuyu.

"Are not!" they replied, hurt.

"What about you, Deku?" Ochako asked, looking at Izuku.

"So I'm going to have to divide each agency based on what their specialties," Izuku muttered, as he looked through his list of draft offers. "Then I'll need to look up the number of resolved incidents each hero had made since their debut up to the present, then decide which attributes would best work for me... not to mention I'll need to observe what they'll do when not engaged in heroics, so I'll be busy with that... and I'll need to make that decision fast, otherwise I-"

"Wow, you're really thinking hard about how to go about your drafts, huh?" Hiroshi said, snapping Izuku out of his muttering. "What about you, Uraraka? Who're you thinking of going with?"

"I'm gonna go with Battle Hero Gunhead!" she said, doing some boxing moves.

"Gunhead? But isn't he a rough-and-tumble scrapper!?" Izuku said, eyes wide.

"Yea, I thought you of all people would've gone for Thirteen's agency," Setsuna said, crossing her arms.

"Maybe, but the fight I had with you, plus what happened yesterday, really opened my eyes about what I could learn," Ochako said. "Like I still wanna be a rescue hero, but if I broaden my skills, I'll be able to do so much more, right?"

"That makes sense," Fuka said, looking through hers. "Oh great, Hayate and Kana gave me a draft offer. I don't know if I should go there or not, since it'd be a little tacky to go to your family's agency, right?"

"Oh yea, I got theirs, too," Hiroshi said, pulling up the draft offer he got from their older siblings. "First one I checked for, actually."

"So what about you two?" Fuka said, looking at Momo and Setsuna. "You guys got any ideas?"

"I was thinking of going with Snake Hero: Uwabami," Setsuna said, looking through her draft offers. "I know she's not got a high rank and all, but she's popular, smart, and like Uraraka said, it'd be a good idea to broaden my skills and-"

"It's because she's a reptilian-based hero too, isn't it?" Hiroshi deadpanned.

"You know me so well," Setsuna said, feigning hurt that he predicted one of her big reasons.

"Oh, I got her as one of my draft offers as well," Momo said, looking at her list. "It might be interesting if I join you with her."

"Hey, same here," Itsuka said, seeing one of her few draft offers. "Huh, I wonder why she picked me."

"Ooooh, it'll be fun if we do go to the same agencies!" Pony said, bouncing up and down. "I got Gunhead as a draft offer, too! So I think I'll join you too, Uraraka! Especially since I couldn't really do anything once Hero and Hiroshi stopped my horns from growing out."

"Hey Iida, who are you thinking of-" Ochako started to say, before seeing the bespectacled teen leaving the room. "I... guess he still needs some time to himself."

"We'll talk to him later," Kyoka said, before noticing that Hiroshi was deep in thought again, as he scrolled through the tablet he was given. "You got an idea, Hiroshi?"

"Yea... I'm actually thinking of going with Mt. Lady too," Hiroshi said, as he landed on the draft offer he got from Mt. Agency.

Everyone stared at him in silence, as if time had frozen.

"What!?" nearly everyone collectively shouted. Even Shoto and Katsuki were shocked by his choice.

"Why Mt. Lady!?" Fuka asked, boggled at her brother's pick.

"Yea, she's not even in the Top 50 yet!" Setsuna added. "You've had to have gotten like, dozens of Top 10 Pro Heroes from different countries wanting you!"

"There's no way you could not have gotten someone in the Top 5!" Kyoka said.

"Don't you try swooshing in when you've already got a fan club of girls-" Minoru shouted, as Tsuyu whipped him in the face.

"But she's the only one with a gigantification Quirk that I know of from the top of my head," Hiroshi said, enlightening everyone on his decision. "Closest one would be Ryukyu, right? But I'm looking through the list for the Top 10 Pros who gave me a draft offer, and only she, Endeavor, and All Might hadn't given me one. I guess All Might's pretty reasonable since he's teaching us here, so it's a little redundant to pick one of us. Don't know why I didn't get one from her, though. Maybe she's just too busy with older students. And she works in a city environment, not the faroff countryside like most gigantification Quirk heroes."

"Are you sure you want to go with someone like her, though?" Momo said, raising an eyebrow. "There could be others with gigantification Quirks that are much more suited to help you and Hero."

"Yea, but they're all overseas offers, meaning I'll be spending extra money to travel," Hiroshi replied. "I don't want to spend money if I don't need to. And besides, aliens have only ever been here, for some reason. What if I go, and an alien attacks here? Hero may be fast, but it'll still take time to fly back even if we go at our fastest."

"That is true, the only times aliens have been seen and confirmed have been here," Izuku said, thoughtfully as he poked his right temple. "Do... do you think it has anything to do with Virus and Illne?"

"... Maybe," Hiroshi said, as he thought about it. "They do seem to have something planned... and now that I think about it, they seem to understand how our Earth works, so maybe they had something to do with Alien Barossa yesterday... That settles it, I'm going with Mt. Lady for my workplace study. Besides, we have two more years of this, right? I'll be able to choose someone else next time."

"If you're so sure..." Fuka said, shrugging as they got up to leave the classroom. They opened the door, and were shocked by All Might sliding in from the side bend over.

"I am here in a peculiar position!" he shouted, startling the group.

"All Might? What's up?" Hiroshi asked, looking at the man.

"I need to speak to your friend group, Young Hiroshi and Young Midoriya," All Might said. They all raised an eyebrow at this, and followed the Number One Hero to a private room. "You all have been given a draft pick by one man."

"Really? All of us? By who?" Fuka asked.

"Gran Torino," All Might said. "He was taught at UA for one year... and he was my homeroom teacher. He knows the situation about One for All, and I did send him a letter talking about Young Midoriya and you all, so that must've been why he made draft offers for you."

"Whoa, he must be really amazing if he wants to pick of us!" Pony said.

"He retired so long ago, so I hadn't thought he'd be doing something like this," All Might said, as he started to tremble. "I-I have no idea why he wants all of you, though. D-does he not think that my training is adequate? I may not have been the best teacher. S-stupid legs! Stop trembling and tensing up!"

All Might began smacking his quivering legs. Everyone stared at each other and then at him.

"Oh my god, he's scared of this Gran Torino," Setsuna said.

"What type of guy is he to scare someone like the Number One Hero?" Kyoka said, also slightly trembling.

"I guess that's why he's still in muscle form," Hiroshi said. "He must be scared shitless."

"Well, e-even if it's my duty to be your teacher, I suppose I should let him take the reins for-"

"Sorry, but I've pretty much picked mine already," Ochako said, rubbing the back of her head. "I'm going with Gunhead."

"I'm joining her, too," Pony said, a little guiltily.

"Yaoyoruzu and I are going with Uwabami," Setsuna said, Momo nodding.

"I was going with Death Arms," Kyoka said, holding up her submission for her workplace training.

"I think I'm gonna go with Hawks," Fuka said, shrugging. "He's a pretty high ranking hero, and he's probably got some tips on flying, right?"

"I'm going with Mt. Lady," Hiroshi said, as All Might raised an eyebrow. "She's the only other person in Japan who can grow giant, and I don't think I should travel out of the country for something like this, especially since all the alien attacks have been here so far, and Virus and Illne have only ever been seen here. And I could learn something from her, right? Closest option would be Ryukyu, and I hadn't gotten a draft offer from her yet."

"I-if he's gone through the trouble of sending a draft offer to us, I'll do it!" Izuku said. "I hadn't made my decision yet, so I'll go with him!"

"Well, I'm not sure how he'll like that... but considering that he's probably focusing on Young Midoriya, I think that he'll be fine regardless!" All Might said, giving them a thumbs up. "Good luck with your choices, you all! I'm sure that you'll find this all enlightening!"

"So you've got some workplace training submissions for your first years, already, huh?" Snipe said, looking at Aizawa and Vlad King. "It's real important. You gotta make'em really think about it. My third years made some choices they regret now."

"Mhm," Aizawa muttered, as he looked through the ones he got, when he got an email from Hiroshi. He opened it and read it. "Seems like Furinji's already made his decision."

"Already? Did he look through all of his thoroughly? Boy's literally got a record breaking amount of draft offers," Snipe said, crossing his arms.

"Mt. Agency..." Aizawa said. "Hmph, seems like he's made a rational decision. She's just about the only one in Japan that's got a gigantification Quirk. He must be thinking that she'll be able to teach him a thing or two about giant hero work."

"I guess that makes sense," Snipe replied. "Still, if he's going for something like that, you'd think he'd go with Ryukyu, with her being the Number 9 Hero and having a similar Quirk."

"She's already busy with one of your own, isn't she?" Vlad King said. "That Hado's probably enough of a handful. And she has a habit of only working with second and third years."

"Yea, you're right about that, partner... maybe she'll come to when it's time for proper internships."

"Indeed..." Aizawa said, as he looked through the other submissions, when he came across Tenya's. "Hm? Normal Hero Manual Agency? Now that's a peculiar one... Furinji's made sense due to the similar powers, but Iida going with Manual's? Seems... odd."

"Hey Mt. Lady, we got an email back for UA's workplace training submissions," one of Mt. Lady's sidekicks said, as he checked the email.

"Ugh, can't it wait? I'm off the clock," Yu Takeyama said, lazing on her couch and in casual clothes. "Also, I'm busy being depressed about my stolen spotlight."

"Right, right. Sorry to interrupt your moping session," he muttered. "Hopefully you'll be in better spirits by the time we get our-"

The sidekick went silent, catching Yu's attention. "What's wrong?"

"I-I-I-"

Yu got up to look at the email, and her eyes nearly popped out of her face when she saw the first name of the submissions. Hiroshi Furinji. "H-He really picked us!?"

"Oh my god, he really picked your draft offer out of every possible one he could've gone with."

"B-But why!? What do I have to offer besides a stolen spotlight!?"

"Maybe he thinks you'll give him some tips on how to operate in a city as a giant, since your Quirk lets you grow gigantic, and their powers include size changing!"

"But I don't have any tips for that! I didn't even plan on what to do if I got him! It was a shot in the dark! Honestly if I was going to get any UA students I was just going to have them clean this place up!"

"That'll be a waste of their time if you do that! Do you want someone like him leaving with a bad experience!?"

"Gaaaaaah!" Yu grabbed at her hair. She really didn't expect this at all.

"Okay, I'm back on the clock!" she said. "Let's figure out something that we can do with the Furinji kid and his alien! We can't mess this up!"

The Next Monday, at the train station

"Alright, you've all got your costumes, right?" Aizawa said, looking at the Hero Course kids as they all held their hero costume suitcases. "Remember, you can only wear them when you and your chosen hero mentor are on the clock. Wearing them any other time is prohibited."

"Yeaaaaa!" Mina said, slapping hers hard.

"Don't drag out your yeas, Ashido," Aizawa deadpanned.

"Remember to be all on your best behavior! And keep an eye on your hero costumes!" Vlad King barked, as they dispersed to get onto their respective trains to their agencies.

"Hey, Iida," Hiroshi said, as he and the others looked at him. "Listen, I know you're still stuck on your feelings about what happened to your brother. Trust me when I say that we all understand how you're feeling. We're here to help you out, you know."

"... I'm fine, really," Tenya said, giving them a smile.

"Iida we know that's a boldfaced lie," Fuka said, crossing her arms. "Listen, we'll be sending you messages to check up on you, and we won't stop unless you respond."

"Yea! And if you block us, we're gonna come over to you personally and check up on you!" Pony said. "You're not gonna escape our concern checkups!"

"... Alright, I'll be more active in our group chat. But I'm fine, really," Tenya said, as he walked away from everyone.

"He's totally not fine," Setsuna said, shaking her head. "If he was, he wouldn't have picked an agency in Hosu..."

"Why is that concerning?" Ochako asked, as Izuku thought it before realizing it.

"His brother was injured in Hosu..." Izuku said, as everyone stared at him.

"Exactly," Setsuna said, her hands on her hips. "He must be hoping that he'll find the Hero Killer still there since that's the last place he was in..."

"Damn, so he is going the route I did... except this time, it's not in a tournament setting, and it's with someone who will kill him," Hiroshi said, pinching his forehead. "This is not going to end well..."

"What are we gonna do!?" Pony fretted.

"Why didn't you tell Mr. Aizawa or Mr. Vlad King!?" Kyoka asked.

"I only learned today when I looked up where Manual's hero agency was after he told us who he picked when we got here," Setsuna said, biting her lip. "By then it was too late."

"Hm... I think the only answer for this problem right now... is to make suggestions to our workplace mentors," Hiroshi said, scratching his head. "We'll try to move any patrols we have to Hosu, make suggestions and the like so that we can check up on Iida..."

"I can't do that, Death Arms' agency is too far away from Hosu," Kyoka said, fiddling with her earlobe.

"Gunhead's a little closer, so we might be able to do something..." Ochako said, as Pony nodded in agreement.

"Uwabami's probably easy to convince, since I bet we'll be traveling around a bit for her modeling gigs," Setsuna said.

"Indeed, hopefully she'll have something nearby Hosu," Momo added.

"I don't know what Gran Torino is like... hopefully he'll be easy to convince," Izuku said, taking a deep breath.

"And I think Mt. Lady will be easy to convince," Hiroshi said. "Hosu's got a lot of people, and she seems obsessed with being in the spotlight, if her yelling at me and Hero for stealing her fights is any indicators."

"And Hawks is the Number 3 Hero. I'm sure he'll like the idea of traveling to Hosu to check things out there," Fuka added. "He might be actually looking for the Hero Killer himself..."

"Alright, it seems like we can do it... hopefully we're wrong, but in case we're not, we can-" Setsuna said, when Itsuka yelled at them.

"Hey, Tokage! Yaoyoruzu! Come on! Our train's gonna be here soon!" she yelled.

"Furinji! Get your butt in gear so we can all make it to Mt. Lady!" Denki also shouted.

"Right, let's go. Good luck at your workplace trainings, guys," Hiroshi said. Everyone nodded, and they split up, heading towards their trains.

"I'm concerned about Mr. Iida as well, Hiroshi," Hero said. "We must stay vigilant and keep an eye on him."

"I know," Hiroshi thought in his head. "But if Iida's really choosing to follow my example and fight the Hero Killer, it's going to be much, much messier..."

He couldn't let this happen. None of them could. Whether he wants it or not, they were all going to reach out their hands to him.

ORIGINAL AO3 NOTES:

- Hiroshi's draft number is the only one that had any sort of thought put into it. I chose 4,376 (which, using a phone pad, spells out HERO), turned it into 4,376,000, and divided it by 2, getting 2,188,000. I wanted to pick an absurdly high number to illustrate the fact how Hiroshi and Hero have the world's attention on them.
- Is it a bit too absurd to think that there are 2,000,000+ hero agencies in the world? Perhaps. Definitely for Japan, probably. But remember, this is including out of country ones that are close to Japan, and I'm going as far as Vietnam and the Philippines for "close", meaning that any countries between them are also sending draft picks. Not to mention that a lot of them are probably like, small time agencies that want to get big name recognition by having the world's first alien hero in their ranks. Plus, this is a little more comedic than it is "serious" in my opinion. Since, you know, there is absolutely no way Hiroshi and Hero will be able to read through all of the draft picks and choose one, and 2,000,000 is a funnier punch than like, half a million.
- Credit to Wickerstein on for giving me the idea of using 4,376 as a number related to Hiroshi and Hero some time ago. It's not necessarily going to be 4,376 all the time, but it'll be a base for a lot of numbers related to them.
- I had a lot of fun coming up with the epithets for the 1B characters.
- Since Tensei's gonna be able to return to hero work in UHA, he's not giving Tenya his hero name. Instead Tenya's getting a unique name. I chose Sigma to reference the Hyundai Sigma Engine, since Ingenium is probably a reference to the Ingenium engine family, and Speed since it'd make the name alliterative.
- It always confused me as to why it only seemed like one to two students would be interning at one agency together and not, like, more. I mean, there are 40 students and there were 40 agencies that agreed to take the ones that didn't get any draft picks, so I guess they expect one student for one agency each, considering what Fourth Kind said when Eijiro and Tetsutetsu arrived at his agency. Well, for UHA's case, I'm gonna be changing it a bit to make it so that agencies can have multiple students, though for the most part there will still be ones who'll be the only one at their agency. And hey, could end up tying back to the "encourage comradery" thing.