At the seedy bar in a suspicious alleyway...
"So, this is where you and your friends have been hanging around," Golkin said, as he looked around the bar. All six of his eyes fell onto Tomura and the hands on his body. "Looks like one of you is real handy."
"Haha, very funny," Tomura grumbled. "So why's this asshole here? I thought he was going to kill that stupid idol or something."
"No, that was the other Alien Blades, I was hired to protect her," Golkin muttered. "Of course, now that I know I'm not getting paid, that all went to shit."
"Hm. Again, why's this asshole here?" Tomura said, looking at Virus.
"I thought it would be nice if I recruited an alien to help out! Add some more diversity to our little group!" Virus laughed, taking a seat at a table. "After all, that Giran fellow still looking for all those potential recruits, so why don't I come in with some?"
"I better be getting good pay, I have bills and groceries to attend to," Golkin growled, crossing his arms.
"Aliens need to worry about dumb shit like that?" Tomura snickered.
"What of it? I've become a citizen of this country recently and I still need to eat. Of course, that's with forged papers and a humanoid disguise. Not a law-abiding one, either, considering my occupation. "
"Don't worry, we'll take care of that, right Mr. Teacher?" Virus said, addressing the monitor.
"Hmph, so it is up to me to pay this alien?"
"Well, I don't have any Earth currencies, I only have alien ones that wouldn't be accepted by any alien living on this Earth," Virus shrugged.
"I see... fine, I suppose I'll foot the payment for any aliens from this planet, since I am paying for Giran's recruits after all," the Teacher stated. "Just remember that my money isn't an infinite resource."
"Of course!" Virus replied. "I promise that I'll be getting you some more interesting recruits! And if they don't work out, well, there's always more potential Nomu subjects for the good Doctor to have."
"Oh goody!" the Doctor said, giddily.
"Nomu? Those exposed brain things?" Golkin asked. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"A lot that you don't want to know, really," Virus said, slinging his arm around Golkin's neck. "Just don't disappoint us, and you won't find out personally."
Wednesday after Rin Kagamine's UA concert; afternoon at Training Ground Beta
"So... you ready for this?" Setsuna asked Fuka and Hiroshi, as they stood outside the training field. Hiroshi took a deep breath, and sighed.
"... Sort of, I guess," he said, looking around at his 12 classmates that volunteered for the special teamwork exercise with Katsuki. He admired them. While he knew it was probably the best thing to try and learn to work with people he doesn't necessarily like, it was still very difficult for him with his old baggage. They didn't have anything like that (well, except maybe for Izuku). Still, he had to at least try. Aizawa and Hound Dog approached them all, and they stood at attention.
"If you're all ready, follow me," Aizawa said, as they walked into the training field.
"So what do you think we'll have to do for this special exercise?" Ochako asked.
"Hopefully nothing too stressful," Denki muttered, when they came to a stop in front of a building. All Might was inside in his muscle form, dressed in a tight black shirt, gloves, green military pants, and a spiked mask, with a prop rifle in his hands. With him was Vlad King, also dressed similarly. The two were busy looking through the windows of the building. Nearby were police cars and some barricades. "Uh oh."
"Your exercise starts now," Aizawa said, as he and the other two teachers stood back to observe them.
"We're just jumping into this!?" Minoru cried, becoming nervous. Hiroshi, Fuka, and Setsuna jogged towards one of the police officers, recognizing who it was.
"Detective Tsukauchi! What're you doing here?" Setsuna asked.
"To help with this hostage situation, of course," Tsukauchi said grimly, before giving them a small smile and whispering to them, "I had today off, so I volunteered to help, and a handful of police buddies joined in. Gotta stay in character, though."
"Right, of course!" Setsuna said, nodding.
"So what's the situation here?" Fuka asked, deciding to get into character, motioning the others to join them, Katsuki reluctantly following.
"We've confirmed that at least two villains are in the building," Tsukauchi said, getting back into character. "There might be more, so we're patrolling around and blockading any potential escape routes. We've yet to confirm the number of hostages."
"Hm... have they made demands?" Hiroshi asked.
"No, they've yet to make any."
"I see... I think two or three people should go ahead and distract All- I mean, the big villain and his ally by asking him about their demands," Izuku said, after thinking for a bit.
"Setsuna, go ahead and use your Quirk to look up at the upper windows, out of the villains' sight," Hiroshi said, looking at her.
"Don't need to tell me twice," she replied, separating her eyes off her body and sent them towards the upper windows. "... I see two villains, and four hostages. Cementoss, Present Mic, Midnight, and Thirteen. They're all tied up towards the back, but they're behind different counters."
"Alright, so the police were accurate with the number of villains... still, we need to be on the look out for more villains that might be in the back," Hiroshi said, as Setsuna's eyes returned. "Let's split in groups. We need people to ask for the demands-"
"We'll do it!" Denki said, as he and Minoru raised their hands.
"It's probably the least scary thing to do here!" Minoru said, sighing a breath of relief at having an easy task. Katsuki grumbled as he joined them in raising his hand, annoyed that Hiroshi and Izuku took charge of his exercise.
"- people to go sneak into the back and look if they have anymore allies-"
"Sounds like a job for me!" Setsuna said, nodding.
"We'll go with her," Kyoka said, pointing to herself and Momo. "I can help listen in for more villains, while Yaoyoruzu can make weapons for us."
"- and the rest of us will go around to help the police with patrolling the perimeter to make sure that there aren't any villains that tried to sneak their way out. Remember, we need to avoid confronting them directly so that the hostages are safe," Hiroshi finished.
"Sounds good!" Itsuka said, with Mina and Yui nodding in agreement.
"Hey, Furinji, what about the air?" Katsuki grumbled, noticing that the alien host had forgotten about that. "We'll need people to keep an eye up from there."
"Oh, yea... Good idea, Bakugo," Hiroshi said.
"We'll do it!" Ochako said, pressing a button and letting the wings on her back flip out. Pony and Fuka nodded in agreement.
"Alright then," Hiroshi said, as he turned to Momo. "Momo, can you make us some walkie-talkies or earpieces that we can use to communicate with?"
"Of course," Momo replied, and as soon as she produced all of the necessary earpieces, the group went off to perform their duties. Denki approached a police officer, who was standing next to a blockade with a megaphone. "Mind if I borrow that?"
"Go ahead, sir," the officer replied, handing him the megaphone.
"Nice, I always wanted to use one of these," Denki said, as he lifted the megaphone to his mouth. "Hello, testing, testing, can you hear me?"
"What do you want, hero!?" All Might shouted, his voice loud enough to be heard from behind the glass doors.
"We want to know what your demands are, and the status of your hostages," Denki said. Katsuki tapped his foot impatiently. This was the worst part, 'negotiating' with villains rather than just beating them right away. But maybe he waits it out a bit-
"The demands my buddy and I have are that the police give us a car, and not to follow us while we take the jewels and cash away!"
"Hmph, so that's just two villains, then," Katsuki sneered. "Shame, I wanted to blow up more of them."
"Yea, no point in saying 'my buddy and I' if there's more than two, right?" Minoru muttered.
"Alright, so if we promise you a getaway car-" Denki started to say.
"Not just a getaway car, a full guarantee that the officers and you heroes are gone so we can go! And no trackers, my buddy's Quirk lets him sense electric signals like that!"
"That's not Vlad King's Quirk-" Minoru started to say.
"They're playing villains, not themselves, Grapehead," Katsuki growled. "Of course they'd have different Quirks than their real ones."
"You don't need to be so mean-"
"Alright, so you want us gone while you drive your getaway car, I think that can be-"
"Hold on, not just any regular old getaway car-"
"Alright, we're in," Setsuna said over her earpiece, after Momo successfully unlocked the backdoor using the lockpick set that she created. "I'll go and scout ahead, you guys be prepared."
Setsuna's left eye and left ear detached from her face, as they flew towards the front, moving sneakily to avoid everyone's sight. Kyoka stabbed her earlobes into the ground. "Setsuna and Bakugo are right, I can only hear the footsteps of two people walking around."
"That should make this easier, then," Momo said, as she started to generate tools while Kyoka contacted the others via earpiece.
"Yea, I just finished talking with one of the officers at a blockade," Hiroshi said, as he walked away and began to jog back towards the building. "They've also confirmed that they hadn't seen anyone take to the air, so you and the others can join us at the building, Fuka."
"Hi, Furinji," Yui said, waving at the boy and joining him.
"Hey Kodai, what's up?" Hiroshi asked, as they got back towards the building.
"Nothing, just... um..." Yui said, her tongue tied. Itsuka had left her alone so that she could try talking to Hiroshi, but right now, she was struggling to figure out what to say. She was never one to have a lot of words, after all. "How... how're you feeling about this?"
"The exercise? Well... Truth be told, I'm not entirely comfortable," Hiroshi said, shrugging. "Like I keep telling myself that this is all so I can get over my grudge against Bakugo, but it's... really hard, you know? Like I've spend so long hating people with huge egos that I forget that, well, he's not really one of them. He backs up what he says and sets his eyes on, which is just about the only admirable thing about him. He had a good idea about using an air patrol, and he is sticking with Kaminari and Mineta. I thought of all people, he'd avoid those two, but I guess he didn't want to spend time searching for villains when there were confirmed ones in front of him."
"I see..." Yui mumbled. "... How about Hero's birthday? Are you two excited for that?"
"Hero's birth- That's right! It's this week! I can't believe we forgot!" Hiroshi said, slapping his helmet's forehead.
"I don't blame you, a lot of things have been happening," Hero pointed out. "Hard to believe that everything happened within the span of two and a half months."
"Does Hero want anything in particular?" Yui asked.
"No, not really, since I'm an alien and all. Everyone's welcomed to give me a surprise, though," Hero said, which Hiroshi repeated.
"Oh look, everyone's pretty much here, I wonder-" Hiroshi began to say.
"- and we want that private island to have super strong security!" All Might shouted.
"A-All right, so if we get you that private island after giving you that getaway sportscar-" Denki stuttered, when Hiroshi, Fuka, and Itsuka all smacked him up the head.
"What are you doing!?" Fuka hissed. "What kind of negotiations have you been making with him!?"
"G-Give me a break! This is the first time I've had to do negotiations with a villain!" Denki justified. "He just kept going on and on about what they wanted, and well, I promised them that we-"
"You're not supposed to bend to their whims!" Itsuka scolded.
"Now they've got unrealistic expectations about what we can do!" Hiroshi said. He turned to Minoru and Katsuki. "And why didn't you two stop him!?"
"This is my first time, too! I never had to negotiate for the safety of hostages before!" Minoru defended, when everyone heard Katsuki chuckling to himself.
"So I guess this means that negotiations fell through?" Katsuki said, cracking his knuckles. "Looks like the only thing we can do is to take them out while they're at the windows! You lot can go in and save the hostages while I'm pummeling them!"
"Wait, did you-" Hiroshi began to say as Katsuki reared his hands back.
"Kacchan wait-" Izuku shouted, but Katsuki launched himself forward with an Explosion.
"NEGOTIATIONS HAVE FALLEN THROUGH!" Katsuki yelled, as he aimed his right hand at the window, firing off an Explosion.
"Dammit! Let's go guys!" Hiroshi shouted, as they all ran to the building.
"ACK BAKUGO! I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING THROUGH ALL THIS SMOKE!" Setsuna said, as the building shook.
"Figures he'd leap in like that," Kyoka muttered.
"We better head to the front to provide support!" Momo said, as they headed towards the front, armed with the tools Momo had made.
"Seems like Bakugo forgot the point of this exercise..." Aizawa sighed, shaking his head. "At the very least he didn't immediately jump into attacking the villains."
"Grrrr... he's learned patience to a degree, but for the wrong reasons," Hound Dog growled, watching the rest of the students rush in to the building. "He should've stepped in to stop Kaminari agreeing to those absurd demands."
"If I was judging this exercise, I'd have docked points for that," Tsukauchi said, as he joined the two teachers. "An attack like that could've injured the hostages if they hadn't confirmed that they were in the back away from the front."
"In any case, there's more to this," Aizawa said. "They're going to have to work together to figure out this problem."
"Alright, let's go get the hostages-" Hiroshi said, when they all came to a stop. "Uh oh."
"Good, the smoke's clearing up," Setsuna said, as she, Kyoka, and Momo got to the front. "Let's- Oh boy."
The two hero groups stared at the two dead villains, laying on the ground as blood spilled out of their chests, knives on the ground.
"ALL MIIIIIIIGHT!" Izuku yelled, horrified at seeing his teacher and idol dead.
"Oh my god!" Pony shouted, pointing at the two. "All Might and Mr. Vlad King are deeeeeead!"
"Oh no!" Mina said, covering her mouth in horror. "W-What do we do!?"
"Did you kill them, Bakugo!?" Denki said, his teeth chattering.
"Oh god we're going to go to jail!" Minoru shouted, pulling at his face.
"You idiots, my Explosion wouldn't make their chests bleed like that!" Katsuki yelled.
Fuka and Hiroshi walked over to the dead teachers, and checked them. Fuka put her ear to Vlad King's chest, and Hiroshi touched All Might's neck, slightly tickling him, All Might chuckling a bit.
"They're not dead," Fuka announced, much to the relief of everyone (even Katsuki, though he didn't show it).
"Right, right, this is an exercise," Itsuka said, her hand over her chest to slow down her rapid heartbeat. "So I guess we should-"
She stopped when she saw Fuka and Hiroshi binding All Might's and Vlad King's wrists and feet together with rope.
"What are you two doing!?" Mina asked, as everyone paled at how they were treating the 'dead' villains.
"You heard Fuka! They're not dead!" Hiroshi said, as he finished tying up All Might. "We have to prevent them from escaping!"
"But they're-" Denki began to say.
"Dammit! I told you that we should have just made a break for it when we had the chance!" Vlad King said, looking at All Might. "But no, you just had to go and ask for more and more ridiculous things!"
"But my possum routine was flawless!" All Might cried.
"It isn't flawless if you react to a tickle!"
"So I'm a little sensitive!"
"Wait, what!?" everyone shouted, as Aizawa, Hound Dog, and Tsukauchi walked into the building.
"Congratulations, Hiroshi, Fuka, you figured this out much quicker than I expected," Aizawa said, dryly. "A bit too quick, in fact."
"But they were stabbed-" Izuku pointed out, looking at the knives.
"Did you check how deep they really were? Or that they actually were stabbed?" Aizawa asked. "You all assumed that they were breaking character when the Furinjis checked to see if they were alive."
"So wait, so they were playing villains that were playing dead!?" Mina asked.
"Correct," Aizawa stated. "Villains can and will take any measure to escape capture, even pretending to be killed."
"Hahaha, you've done pretty well on this exercise!" All Might laughed, as Hiroshi and Fuka untied their teachers.
"Remember to always check their vitals to make sure that they are genuinely dead, you runts," Vlad King said, rubbing his wrists. "Very nice knots, Furinji."
"Thank you, Mr. Vlad King," Fuka said, giving him a polite bow.
"Aw, I didn't even get to do my bit!" Present Mic whined, as Setsuna, Kyoka, and Momo helped untie the teachers.
"And I had an entire backstory ready to get interrogated out of me," Midnight sighed.
"Me too! I was so excited to talk about how I was the owner of this jewelry store and how it grew so popular!" Thirteen replied.
"So... how did we do on this exercise?" Denki nervously asked.
"I have criticisms for each of you individually," Aizawa said, looking at them all.
"Kaminari, you shouldn't have kept agreeing to the villains' increasing in demands. Your job is to negotiate, not hand them everything they ask for. Mineta, you were there with him, you should've held him back from that. Bakugo, this exercise, again, was to help teach you how to work with others. While you did help throw out a few important ideas, such as having an air patrol since you have members that can fly, you stood back while letting Kaminari cave in to the villains' demands, just so to justify attacking the villains under the pretense that 'negotiations have failed', and used an Explosion that could've potentially injured the hostages if you didn't know their positions."
Denki and Minoru flinched at the criticisms, while Katsuki only scoffed lightly, though he acknowledged Aizawa's point.
"Hiroshi, Midoriya, while it's good that you took charge, you should've let the others contribute more. You two are smart, but it's even smarter if you actually listen to others. And don't talk about unrelated issues while on the job, like Hero's birthday, Hiroshi. The ground and air patrollers were too passive and didn't offer more input. You did patrol the perimeters well enough, but you need to help plan out more. The only ones I don't have that much criticisms for are Tokage and her team. Tokage took advantage of her Quirk to check the situation prior to going in, Jiro helped confirm that there were only two villains with hers, and Yaoyoruzu armed them all with hers. Overall, you all did well enough to pass."
"So does that mean we get the extra credit!?" Denki asked.
"Indeed."
"And what about me? I did well enough, right?" Katsuki asked, hoping that this was enough to let him end his punishment.
"To a degree, yes," Hound Dog said, sighing. "But considering how you behaved, I think the only type of combat training you'll be allowed to participate in are teamwork ones so you can actually improve on them. You won't be allowed to do individual combat training, as you need to improve your ability to teamwork more."
"Sounds fair," Aizawa said, looking at him. "I'll notify Principal Nezu of the decision."
Katsuki grinned upon hearing the news. Finally, he'll be able to fight-
"Remember, Bakugo. You're only allowed to do teamwork exercises, not individual ones," Aizawa reminded him. "That is what you need to work on. And we can still fail you if you don't make any progress on improving your teamwork skills. Is that clear?"
"Yes sir," Katsuki replied, as they all headed out. If he was only going to be allowed to do teamwork, whatever grunts he'll get will just have to keep up with him. There was no way he'd let others boss him around.
June 16th
Hiroshi stretched as he looked at his phone's date.
"Ready for your big day?" Hiroshi asked, smiling a bit.
"When you're as long-lived and big as an Ultra, birthdays aren't really big days, but it'll be fun to see how humans enjoy them," Hero replied, as Hiroshi got into the elevator. When he reached the first floor, everyone (sans Katsuki, Togaru, and Neito, though they were still there) jumped in the commons room.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" everyone shouted, causing Hiroshi to jump and clutch his chest.
"Hold on, guys, I hadn't changed places with Hero yet," Hiroshi laughed.
"Oh, right," Setsuna snickered. "Hurry up and do it so we can celebrate with Hero!"
"Yea, yea, just be patient," Hiroshi said, waving them off. "We have all day to do stuff with him, so we don't need to worry."
He looked around, and notice that they were missing some people other than the three he expected not to be there. "Where're Kyoka, Pony, Honenuki, Ashido, Shoji, and Koda?"
"Oh, they're out getting the food for the party!" Tenya explained. "They should be coming back soon."
"In the meantime, we've got games, movies, and a bunch of gifts for Hero to open!" Denki said, showing the table full of board games, video games, movies, and a separate table that had a tower of gifts from each of them. Hiroshi closed his eyes and pushed his hair back as Hero took over.
"You guys shouldn't have," he said, inspecting the pile of gifts. "No, really. I... don't think I have any particular thing I wanted."
"Don't worry about it," Fuka said, nudging Hero/Hiroshi. "We made sure that they're all stuff that'd be useful, and also that Hiroshi could enjoy."
"You guys didn't need to do that," Hiroshi said. "This isn't my day after all-"
"Of course we had to get you stuff, Hiroshi," Setsuna said, poking Hero/Hiroshi's forehead. "I don't need to have a telepathic Quirk to know that's what you're thinking. You're lending Hero your body, after all, so you should enjoy yourself, too!"
"Heh, thanks Setsuna," Hiroshi said.
A Few Streets Away...
"You think we got enough food?" Kyoka asked, looking at all the bags they got (Mezo carrying the most thanks to his many strong arms).
"You bet!" Mina said, as they walked. "This is going to be so much fun! I never thought we'd get to celebrate an alien's birthday ever!"
"I hope Hero and Hiroshi enjoy all the presents we got him," Pony said, smiling as she swung her arms back and forth happily.
"I hope they enjoy the animal dictionary I got them," Koji signed, when he spotted an animal moving in the bushes, its stomach growling.
He lowered himself to the ground, and motioned to it. He reached into one of the bags and pulled out a piece of fried chicken, and whispered, "It's okay, little guy, you want something to eat?"
The animal moved out of the bushes, and squirmed towards Koji.
"What is that!?" Kyoka shouted, pointing at the animal. The animal was feline-like, but it was completely spherical, with no visible limbs or mouth.
"I... don't know," Koji whispered. "I've never seen a cat like this."
"It's so cute!" Mina said, as she and Pony awed at it. At least until it opened its mouth, revealing rows of sharp teeth as it vacuumed in the fried chicken. "Eep!"
"Do... do you think it's an alien?" Juzo said, as the strange animal got closer.
"Maybe. Hero might be able to identify it," Mezo said, as it clambered towards some of the bags they had set on the ground.
"He must be hungry, I wonder how long it's had something to eat," Koji signed, when the animal started to vacuum up food after food.
"Hey hey hey hey! No! Don't eat all of the food!" Mina cried out, as they all desperately tried to stop it. "We got that for Hero's party!"
At the 1A/1B Dorms...
"What's taking them so long!?": Tetsutetsu said, his stomach growling. "I'm starving!"
"I know, man," Eijiro whined, as he slumped against the couch. "I really could use some fried chicken right now."
"You know, if it's taking them so long, Hero could open some of the presents, right?" Ochako said, as she threw down a Wild +4 card. "Take that, Kaminari!"
"Nope!" Denki said, following with his own. "It's Hero's problem now!"
"Um..." Hero/Hiroshi said, putting down another one. "I can do this, right?"
"No!" Minoru cried, as he realized he couldn't use another one.
"No?"
"You can, don't worry," Yosetsu said, as Minoru drew twelve cards from the deck. "He's just mad that he has to draw twelve cards."
"S-Should I call them?" Izuku asked, reaching for his phone. "T-They might need hands to carry the food."
"Indeed! Maybe we should have had half of us get food!" Tenya said, karate-chopping the air.
"At least we have Rikido's chocolate-strawberry cake in the refrigerator," Kinoko said. Suddenly, the doors opened, and to everyone's surprise, the team tasked with getting food looked like they had gone through a warzone, except for Koji, who was only carrying one bag.
"What happened!?" Fuka said, seeing how incredibly disheveled they were.
"Where's the food!?" Tetsutetsu said, more concerned about the lack of bags.
"It... it's all gone," Mina said, defeated.
"How!? We all pitched in to get a lot of food, how can it all be gone!?" Sen said, crossing his arms.
"This... this thing ate it all!" Kyoka said, pointing at the lone bag that Koji had in his hands. He held it close, as if to protect it.
"We couldn't stop it at all," Pony said, her usual optimism and energy gone.
"What 'thing'?" Nirengeki asked, when the feline-like ball creature popped out of Koji's bag.
"What the hell is that!?" Kosei yelled, pointing at it. The creature hopped out of Koji's bag, and it wandered around the commons room.
"Aw, it's so cute!" Kinoko, Toru, and Ochako said.
"Don't let it's adorableness deceive you!" Mina shouted, as everyone stayed out of the creature's way.
"If that thing gets any closer to me, I'm blowing up!" Katsuki said, as the creature flinched and ran away from him and towards Togaru.
"I'll slice you up!" he threatened, a blade appearing from his wrist. The creature whimpered and ran around more until it ran into Hero/Hiroshi.
"A Lunah?" Hero/Hiroshi said, picking the creature up. He stroked it a bit, and it purred, rubbing against him. "How'd it get here?"
"You know what it is?" Mashirao said, eyeing the creature suspiciously.
"Yea, they're rare alien animals that are popular to keep as pets," Hero/Hiroshi explained. "However, because of their sometimes huge appetites, they get abandoned by owners who're unprepared to take care of them. Usually on completely different planets, since it's illegal to release them in the wild."
"I can guess why!" Kyoka said, shooting a nasty glare at the Lunah.
"Don't get too mad at it!" Koji shouted, the usually quiet and timid teen catching everyone off guard. "I-I-I mean... it's just hungry..."
"Don't worry, I'm not blaming it for being hungry," Hero/Hiroshi said, much to Koji's relief and Kyoka's, Mina's, and Pony's indignations. "I'm just concerned about where exactly this Lunah came from. Must've gone on a while without eating if it ate all the food you all bought..."
"Well, what are we going to eat!?" Tetsutetsu complained. "That thing better not eat anymore of our food!"
"We can pay for more food," Fuka said, patting his shoulder. "It's no big deal."
"It's no issue at all," Momo added. "After all, it's a special day today, isn't it?"
At the edge of the forest near just north of UA...
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7... dammit where's the eighth one!?" a scorpion-like humanoid dressed in baggy clothes said, as he counted the caged Lunahs. This wasn't good. The clients specifically asked for eight Lunahs. It was all that bastard's fault. If he hadn't shot down his ship, he'd be rich now! Now he was stuck with a broken engine, hull, and cargo hatch.
He was lucky he managed to use his ship's dimensional warp to escape to an Earth where he could easily hide among the populace, and had enough control over it to use the invisibility function so no one could see his ship make an emergency landing. But when he checked his cargo, he saw the broken cargo hatch, and one of the cages was missing. It must've landed somewhere in the city he flew over. And with the ship's auto repair function, it'll take a few days until it's ready. Until then, he can use this time to look for the missing Lunah, or else he can kiss that money goodbye.
At least there's no possibility that bastard followed him.
Downtown Mustafu
Kirika sighed wistfully, as she stirred her melon cream soda's straw around while she and her friends sat outside at a café.
"Is something wrong, Tahenkei?" Daichi asked, as his giant rocky fingers gingerly lifted his positively tiny tea cup to his mouth.
"I bet it's that fucking alien guy again," Kosuke grumbled, taking a sip of his soda when Kirika slapped the back of his head, making him choke on his drink. "FUCK!"
"I guess you're not wrong," Kirika said. "It's been so long since we done that routine of ours, and I kinda miss it."
"THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!?"
"Because of your ugly face," Kirika sneered with her polygonal smile.
"Honestly, thinking back at it now, it was pretty bad of us to pick on someone Quirkless like that," Daichi muttered, thinking about how they picked on him. "Ever since the Sports Festival, that guy's on another level of intensity."
"Why are we talking about this, he cheated-" Kosuke growled, only to get slapped on the back of the head by Kirika again. "DAMMIT QUIT DOING THAT!"
"You idiot, don't you remember how he just dominated that Bakugo guy? Who was the first placer on the practical exams for regular entries like us!?" Kirika said, shaking her polygonal head.
"But that greenhaired guy beat the shit out of him!"
"And lost at the end of it!"
"Not to mention that guy's got more fighting experience than all of us, since he's fought all those aliens recently," Daichi said, ignoring the slap fight that was going on between the two. "Like saving that idol from those two aliens a few days ago."
"Feh, aliens are nothing but trouble," Kosuke said. "I bet I could fight an alien-"
Kosuke stopped short when he noticed that a shadow loomed over them. The three looked up, and saw a large, strange spaceship floating high above them and the buildings. Everyone around stopped and stared at it, when a light shone from the base of it and an alien landed down from it, crouched down. The being had a silver undersuit with blue lines running down his arms and legs, blue gauntlets and boots, blue upper torso armor, a large bulky hi-tech belt with a strange rod-like device on the back, and a helmet with long antennas on the sides, with a simple blue visor that covered his face.
"Here's your chance to fight an alien, Inugami," Kirika muttered, as Kosuke's ears flattened in fear.
"Alright, so I chased that trader to this Earth..." the alien said, looking around. "So he picked an Earth that has alien civilians out, huh? Makes it harder to find him..."
The alien approached Kosuke, Daichi, and Kirika, the closest people to where he landed. "Excuse me, Alien Mutt-"
"What did you call me!?" Kosuke said, indignantly while Daichi and Kirika laughed at him.
"He's not wrong, though!" Kirika chuckled.
"- Alien Polygon, Alien Geom-"
"Excuse us?" Daichi said, raising an eyebrow.
"We're not aliens!" Kirika said, crossing her arms.
"Oh, sorry. I guess being born on Earth wouldn't make you aliens," the alien said, his hand on his chin in thought. "Well, in any case, have you seen a-"
"No, we're human, dumbass!" Kosuke growled.
"Hm? So you're half-humans?"
"No, we're entirely human!" Daichi said.
"... Nah, that can't be possible-"
"Freeze! Move away from the kids!"
The alien turned around, and saw a group of police officers approaching him. He failed to notice their hands were near their guns.
"Oh, the local law enforcement," the alien said, turning around to them as the three teens moved out of the way, running towards the side to avoid the possible shootout. "Can you help me-"
"Put your hands in the air!" one of them commanded, as they all pulled their guns out and pointed them at him.
"Huh?" the alien said, crossing his arms and tilting his head. "Am... am I being arrested? Why? I haven't done anything-"
"Rigel," a voice said on his helmet. "I've searched this Earth's internet. Aliens are not common here. Or at least, openly common."
"What? But what about all of these aliens I'm seeing in front of me-"
"They are human. This Earth's humans have powers unlike a majority of Earths, which can alter their appearances a great deal."
"So that Alien Mutt, Alien Polygon, and Alien Geom-"
"- Were full-blooded humans."
"... Okay, so there's been a misunderstanding-"
The police officers opened fire on the alien, who stood there, taking the bullets.
"... I can see that this is going to take a while."
At the 1A/1B Dorms
"Booyah! Nonstop victories!" Pony shouted, winning her 25th consecutive match at Street Fighter. Tetsutetsu threw his controller down in his lap in frustration.
"How are you so good!?" he cried.
Meanwhile, the other girls, excluding Kyoka and Mina, were surrounding Koji, who was holding the Lunah, while Hero/Hiroshi fed it some snacks.
"You know, even with its weird vacuum-y mouth with pointy teeth-" Kinoko said, as the Lunah opened its mouth and sucked in a grape, "- this little guy's so cute!"
"Indeed, who knew that otherworldly creatures from beyond our stars and dimensions could be so... soft," Reiko said, as she stroked the top of the Lunah's head, which cooed at the gentle strokes.
"Who's a good alien? Who's a good alien? You are!" Setsuna said, joining in on stroking the Lunah.
"So soft..." Ochako said.
"So... are we going to keep it?" Fuka asked, catching everyone's attention. "The dorms do allow us to keep pets since Koda's got the rabbit, but I'm not sure about alien..."
"It... might be a problem," Hero/Hiroshi said, as he fed the Lunah a chip. "This Lunah's appetite's all but satisfied from the food it ate earlier, since it's not eating nearly as much now. But still, it's concerning that you found it in the wild like that. We'll need to figure out why it's here."
"... Can... can I keep it?" Koji signed, to the other's surprise.
"You seriously can't think you can take care of an alien animal like that," Denki said, looking at the Lunah. It looked at him, with pleading eyes, making the teen crumble a bit and he gave it a pat.
"Yea, aren't you worried that it might eat your rabbit!?" Sen said, to which Kinoko and Tsuyu punched his arms. "Ow!"
"Don't worry, Lunahs are smart enough to know what they can and can't eat," Hero/Hiroshi said. "And, well, I don't think I should let you take care of this Lunah. They might be a bit of trouble."
Koji looked to the side, saddened, and the Lunah seemed to do the same. Suddenly, Hero/Hiroshi's phone started to ring, and he pulled it out of his pockets to check it. "A text from Detective Tsukauchi? 'Human-sized alien in downtown Mustafu, police firing at it, come help'... I guess we found our answer."
"An alien!? On your birthday!? That's so rude!" Toru said, crossing her invisible arms.
"Stay here, you all, I'll go take care of this," Hero/Hiroshi said, as his hair fell back and his eyes changed back to gray. He ran outside the dorm, with everyone following him out.
"Hold your hand and call out-!"
"HEROOOOO!"
Light covered Hiroshi as he changed into Hero, and he took to the sky.
"Do you think we should follow?" Izuku asked, looking at his classmates.
"You kidding? We have no idea where in downtown the alien is!" Fuka said, bopping the teen on the head.
Downtown Mustafu
"You know, if the first several bullets didn't do anything, I don't think the next several bullets would do anything, either," the alien said, as all of the bullets flattened against his body and fell down in a clatter. "I genuinely am not here to cause trouble."
"I do not think that they are willing to listen to you."
"I know, but I should still try, right-"
All of a sudden, Ultraman Hero landed on the ground, and the police stopped firing as he focused his attention onto the alien.
"Alright, who- an Alien Hunter?" Hero said, looking at the alien.
"Oh thank god, an Ultraman," the alien said, sighing a breath of relief, much to the confusion of everyone around. "I'm Alien Hunter Rigel Algeva, and I'm here after an illegal trader."
"You know who this alien is?" an officer said.
"Not personally, but I do know of his race," Hero said. "They're bounty hunters much like their name suggests, but they only ever go after confirmed criminals."
"Our bad," another officer said, as they all gave Rigel a polite bow.
"It's quite fine, I did abruptly appear out of nowhere," Rigel said, shrugging them off. "Anyways, I'm after an Alien Scorpek illegal animal trader. I shot their ship's engine port, but they activated their dimensional warp before I could stop them. I followed them through the temporary dimensional rip to this Earth."
"I guess those animals are Lunahs," Hero said, crossing his arms.
"Oh, so you've encountered him?" Rigel asked.
"More like we've found one of them," Hero clarified. "Why don't we talk more at my, um, 'base of operations'?"
"Alright, fair enough. I'll follow you in my ship," Rigel said, as a light shone on him from his ship, teleporting into it. Hero leaped into the air, and flew back towards the UA Dorms.
At the 1A/1B Dorms
"Man, this isn't how I expected to spend the birthday guy's birthday party," Setsuna said, as they watched Pony destroy Itsuka at Street Fighter. "It's wrong, celebrating it without him."
"I know, but we can't help it," Fuka sighed, as Pony took a break from playing before her match against Mashirao. "Hero and Hiroshi are the only ones among us that have the capabilities of fighting aliens."
"Speaking of which, do you really think you can take care of that thing?" Kyoka said, her eyes narrowed at the Lunah, which seemed to cower slightly at her gaze.
"Y-Yes," Koji signed. "I-It's not dangerous, just hungry... We need to help it."
"Well, if we're keeping it, hypothetically," Itsuka said, coming over to pet the Lunah, "What would we call it?"
"...Toko," Koji whispered, to which the Lunah enthusiastically purred at, apparently approving of it.
"We shouldn't name it, we'll get too attached to it!" Tetsutetsu yelled, still bitter about the Lunah eating all the food, meaning that they had to wait again for food to come (at the very least Fuka managed to get Hayate and Kana to get it for them instead of sending off more people).
"I think that's a bit too late," Juzo sighed, as the girls continued to fawn over the Lunah. "I have to admit, besides a bad first impression, Toko's a bit adorable."
Mina, Pony, and Kyoka begrudgingly agreed, though their hearts softened a bit when they took a look at Toko, who gave them sincerely apologetic eyes. Before they could say anything, the door opened, and everyone turned to watch Hero walking in, with an alien following him. Light covered him and Hiroshi took his place before Hero possessed him.
"So this is your Earth's defense team?" the alien asked, looking at all of them. "They're... all teens."
"Hey, we might be teens, but we're learning how to be heroes!" Rikido said, looking at him.
"Oh, so you're students, that makes sense," the alien said.
"Who the fuck are you?" Katsuki growled, as he glared at the alien.
"He's an Alien Hunter," Hero/Hiroshi said.
"An alien hunter, huh? What's his race?"
"Oh no, Alien Hunter is my race," the alien explained. "I'm Alien Hunter Rigel Algeva. And I see that you've found one of the poached Lunahs that I'm looking for."
"Oh, so you're the one looking for Toko..." Koji signed, realizing that the alien was looking for the Lunah.
"... What was that?" Rigel asked, tilting his head.
"Don't worry Rigel, I've scanned this Earth's internet to find information, and Japanese sign language was one of them," someone said, making the humans jump from the unexpected voice. "He's saying that we're the ones looking for Toko. I'm assuming that's the name you've given to that Lunah?"
"Ah, that makes sense," Rigel said, nodding. "Oh, I should introduce my partner to you. Ardiana, go ahead."
Rigel stepped back a bit, and a hologram of a white-haired girl with a bobcut, yellow eyes, ashy white skin, and what appeared to be a two piece blue spandex-like suit was projected from his helmet.
"Greetings, I'm Ardiana, an EM Being," the hologram said, giving a polite bow. "I provide assistance to Rigel and his ship, Saiphza."
"An AI?" Izuku asked, intrigued. "Those exist!?"
"A sexy AI..." Minoru drooled, earning a slap from Tsuyu's tongue.
"No. AIs are artificially made. I'm a sentient being that's naturally made of electromagnetic waves," Ardiana explained. "I came to work with Rigel since his sense of justice and kindness resonated with me."
"You know you don't need to keep telling people that," Rigel said, crossing his arms.
"Oh but I do, Rigel. Anyways, we're indeed looking for that Lunah," Ardiana stated, as Koji looked to the side sadly. "However, there should be seven other Lunahs that were taken by that Alien Scorpek."
"One must've fallen out from the cargo hatch when he landed here," Rigel said, thinking. "Where did you find Toko?"
"A few streets away," Mezo answered.
"We were carrying groceries when he ate everything we were carrying," Mina sighed.
"Since he was found a few streets away, the Alien Scorpek must've landed in the forest near here," Rigel said, pacing around a bit.
"It would be difficult for UA to put surveillance systems in the actual forest," Izuku said, his hand on his chin in thought. "Best they could do there is an occasional robot patrol. So the alien would have an easy time hiding in the forest around here."
"If that's the case, we can get some help patrolling the forest and buildings here," Hero/Hiroshi said, when Mina poked him on the shoulder.
"But Hero, what about your birthday?" she asked, glancing over to the presents. "It's your special day."
"Birthday?" Rigel said, as he finally took notice of the gift table. "Oh. I'm sorry that I'm interrupting your day. Don't worry, I can-"
"It's no issue. I'd feel bad if there was an alien criminal that was on the run while I'm celebrating," Hero/Hiroshi stated. "So count me in."
"Well, if that's what you're gonna do, count us in!" Setsuna said, giving Rigel and Ardiana a thumbs up. "After all, UA's pretty much owns this part of the forest, so we can use our Quirks, even without our special licenses!"
"Quirks?" Rigel asked.
"I've been running through as much information as I can, Rigel," Ardiana said, turning to him. "I'll explain as much as I can while we're searching the forest."
"Alright, let's just do two groups for now. We can't risk spreading ourselves too much," Hero/Hiroshi said. "One group led by me, the other by Rigel."
Later, in the Forest
"So the people on this Earth have powers that they call Quirks, there's a category system used for Quirks, Quirks aren't one-to-one the same but can be identical, and there are laws in place that prevent people from using their Quirks freely in public, but that they've invented a 'hero system' to allow special law enforcement to use them?" Rigel said, reciting what Ardiana told him. He was accompanied by Izuku, Ochako, Tenya, Sen, Yosetsu, Kinoko, and Principal Nezu and Aizawa when they were made aware of the situation.
"Indeed, that is what I've managed to glean from the information I have found," she answered, having returned into Rigel's battle suit.
"Incredible, to think that there are aliens who're made entirely out of electromagnetic waves such as Miss Ardiana!" Principal Nezu said. "The multiverse is simply magnificent!"
"More like troublesome," Aizawa grumbled. "The HPSC is going to have a field day with this..."
"So there're entire planets full of EM Beings like you?" Izuku said, as he filled out a new 'Ultraman Hero and Aliens Journal'.
"Yes. They aren't common, but there are quite a few," Ardiana stated.
"And you can warp between Mr. Algeva's battle suit and your ship?"
"In a way. As long as the communication module is on the same frequency, I can travel between different points."
"So if we had our phones on the same frequency-"
"I would be able to travel between Rigel's, Saiphza's, and your phones' frequency, yes."
"And since you're made of electromagnetic waves, you can go and absorb information from the internet?"
"To a degree, yes. I cannot retain all the information forever, and can only keep some of it to a degree, much like anyone else here."
"You're very curious, huh?" Rigel said, as he scanned the area with his right gauntlet.
"I-Is that weird?" Izuku asked, a little nervous now that Rigel brought attention to it.
"No, curiosity is good. Helps with coming up with plans and changes when you need it," Rigel said, when his right gauntlet seemed to get a response. "Seems like the Alien Scorpek's in this direction, and very close. I'll let you all get close to him so he won't run off when he sees me."
"Come ooooon, where are you, you stupid Lunah!?" Alien Scorpek said, looking around. "Stop hiding!"
"Excuse me."
Alien Scorpek stopped in his tracks, and turned to face a man dressed in black with a long gray scarf and goggles around his neck, with a surprisingly big rodent dressed in clothes, followed behind by what looked like adolescent humans.
"Um, who are you?" the alien said, deciding it would be best to be on guard, considering that he hadn't expected to be found by anyone in the forest.
"I'm Eraserhead," the man in black said. "Mind us asking what you're doing here on UA property?"
"Don't be so hostile, Eraserhead. I'm Principal Nezu!" the rodent said cheerfully. "What's your name?"
"O-oh, um, er... Sasori. I'm just looking for my... cat," Alien Scorpek said, giving them his fake Earth name and taking a bit to remember what Earth animal looked like Lunahs. "Yea, they... ran off around here."
"What's their name?" one of the teens, a girl with pink cheeks, said with a smile.
"Oh, um, Lunah," Alien Scorpek said, deciding that using the real name wouldn't hurt. For whatever reason, the teens looked at each other, and nodded.
"Hmph, so how did you manage to lose your cat here? There's a gate around here, and all the roads and pathways around this forest are blocked off from nonstudents and nonteachers," Eraserhead said, his eyes never coming off Alien Scorpek.
"L-Lunah's a jumper, and well, s-so am I," Alien Scorpek replied. "Like owner, like pet, right?"
"That's strange, considering our security system would've alerted us."
"S-Security system?"
"Yes sir!" Principal Nezu said. "Our security system is state of the art! It prevents trespassers from even getting a single hair into UA! It can even detect aliens!"
"A-Aliens!?"
"I'm surprised you didn't know, sir!" a boy with glasses said, adjusting them. "After all, our classmate's become famous as the host of Ultraman Hero!"
"ULTRAMAN!?"
"Why're you so scared? Ultraman Hero's a great guy!" a girl with mushroom-like hair said. "He's helped stop soooo many giant alien attacks!"
"Y-Yea, go-o Ultraman..."
"Are you alright?" a sharp-eyed boy said, crossing his arms.
"Y-yea, just didn't expect to hear that an Ultraman was here..."
"Wait, 'didn't expect'? That's kinda odd, since he's been well-known around the world for a while," a boy with a headband said.
"Um, well, er-"
"Mind explaining to us, sir?" Eraserhead said, narrowing his eyes.
"... SCREW THIS!" Alien Scorpek shouted, pulling out his gun. Everyone immediately went on the defensive. "If no one finds your bodies, it'll be like I wasn't here-"
He didn't finish his sentence when a red-and-blue figure came out of nowhere, decking him across the face. He turned, and saw the aforementioned Ultraman there near him. "Shit."
"So, you're the Alien Scorpek he's been looking for," the Ultraman said.
"Oh no, you can't mean-"
"Yep, hi there."
Alien Scorpek turned around, and saw the Alien Hunter that's been giving him a migraine for the past several days by chasing him. "You're in a lot of trouble with lots of planets, you know. Illegal poaching, illegal trading, the works."
"DAMMIT! I... I-"
Alien Scorpek screamed as he began to fire at everyone. Hero leaped towards the humans, creating a barrier to protect his friends, as Rigel pulled out a rod-like device that was attached to the back of his belt. He pushed a button, and an ax blade popped out from one end.
"OMNIROD! AX HUNTER!"
Alien Scorpek kept firing at Rigel, who managed to dodge all of the attacks before swinging his weapon down onto the gun, breaking it in half. He reached into his pocket, and pulled a remote and pressed it before being punched in the face by Rigel.
"Just what did you do?" Rigel said, pointing his weapon at Alien Scorpek, when he got his answer in the form of a giant yellow portal opening in the sky. From it fell a giant alien that looked like a cross between a scorpion and lizard that was standing upright.
"That's Sargas! He was the hardest animal I caught! Took me several days and thousands of traps just to get him!" Alien Scorpek shouted. He hated to use his strongest but most rampant capture, but he had no choice if he wanted to distract them all to escape. He turned around to run while everyone looked at Sargas, but he screamed as a sudden throbbing pain entered his head. Eraserhead tackled him, and tied him up with his scarf.
"Hero, go and take care of-" Eraserhead started to say, but Rigel held his hand up, stopping him.
"No, allow me. Consider this my birthday gift to you Hero, and an apology for barging in," Rigel said. "Ardiana, get Saiphza here right now."
"Already on it, Rigel," Ardiana said, as the ship flew over them. A light shone over Rigel, and he landed in his ship.
"What's going on?" Setsuna said, as she, Fuka, Momo, Kyoka, and Pony joined them.
"Oh I do NOT like all those legs and arms!" Kyoka said, pointing at Sargas as Hiroshi took Hero's place.
"What do you think he's gonna do, Hero?" Hiroshi asked.
"Well, he's in a ship, so it's either one of two things," Hero replied. "Either use his ship's weaponry, or-"
Inside Saiphza
"Alright, let's do this. Gotta make it up to that Ultraman Hero guy and his host," Rigel said, opening the door to the special control cockpit and shutting it close. He sat down, and took his Omnirod out. He opened the base of the Omnirod, revealing it to be a claw of sorts before a key popped out. At the top, a handle came out as well, which he twisted so that the trigger was pointing out. He inserted the Omnirod into a port in front of him.
"OMNIROD! DINO HUNTER!"
"Ardiana, Saiphza, begin the hunt!" Rigel shouted, as he gripped the Omnirod's handle.
"Right away, Rigel," Ardiana replied, as a dinosaur roar followed.
Outside Saiphza
As Sargas began to stomp around, everyone watched as Saiphza began to transform. When it landed, it had turned into a-
"A GIANT SPACE ROBOT DINOSAUR!" Setsuna screamed in excitement, her eyes sparkling at the sight of Saiphza as she shook Izuku and Ochako violently out of pure joy. Indeed, it had become an upright robotic dinosaur, the wings having turned into its legs, the rocket exhaust closing up and becoming its tail, the front of the ship turning into the head, neck, arms, and upper torso, with cannons and missile pods on its back. "OH MY GOD THAT'S SO COOOOOOL!"
"T-Tokage, ease up on the shaking!"
"Y-You're making me sick with all the shaking!"
Saiphza roared as he charged at Sargas, scratching it with his bladed claws and biting down on Sargas' neck. Sargas pulled away, and swung its scorpion tail at Saiphza. The tip struck Saiphza' metal body, but couldn't penetrate it. Saiphza bit Sargas' tails and snapped it off, causing the giant alien to screech. Saiphza tossed it to the side, making sure that no one was near where it landed.
"LOOK AT HIM GO HIROSHI!" Setsuna yelled as she bounced up and down right next to her best friend. "KICK SOME SARG-ASS!"
"H-How!? Sargas was the toughest one to catch! How can it be beaten by some robot!?" Alien Scorpek shouted, dismayed at how badly it was doing against the Alien Hunter's ship.
"Alien Hunter technology is some of the most durable in the multiverse. While people think of them as being nothing but, well, hunters, they are among the most technologically advanced races there is," Hero said in Hiroshi's head, which he relayed to everyone.
"Who cares!? ROBOT DINOSAUR!" Setsuna shouted, as Saiphza leaned forward and fired beams from his cannons and a couple of micro missiles. "I need to ride him, Hiroshi."
"I'm sure he'll-"
"I. Need. To. Ride him," she repeated, grabbing the boy by the collar.
"That is quite impressive," Principal Nezu said, rubbing his chin. "I wonder..."
Sargas tried to grab Saiphza with its giant pincher claws, though it responded by spinning around and smacking it with his tail, knocking it back a bit.
Inside Saiphza
"Alright, let's finish this!" Rigel said, cracking his knuckle before he pulled out the Omnirod and readjusted the handle to its original position. He pressed a button near the claw attachment, and held it like a gun.
"OMNIROD! DINO BLAST!"
"Wrecker Rex/Wrecker Rex!" Rigel and Ardiana shouted, as he pulled the trigger.
Outside Saiphza
Saiphza leaned forward, his mouth opened as an energy ball formed in it, and his cannons began charging. With a roar, Saiphza unleashed three powerful beams into the injured Sargas. With one last screech, the giant alien disappeared in a fiery explosion, leaving nothing behind.
"No! Dammit all, NO!" Alien Scorpek said. "All that time and resources, wasted on an giant alien that got wasted in 5 minutes!"
"I'd see you off to the police station, but since you're an alien that's being hunted down by a galactic enforcer of sorts, I'll just hand him off to you," Aizawa said, as Rigel reappeared in front of them.
"Of course. First thing we need to do though is find his ship and his cargo," Rigel said, as he stored his Omnirod away. "I'm sure we'll find the other Lunahs there, as well as other rare alien animals he illegally poached."
"Alright, let's-" Hiroshi began to say, but Rigel put his hand up.
"It's alright, I and your teachers can take it from here," he stated. "You should go back and enjoy your party."
"That, and I think I have a few things I'd like to discuss with Mr. Algeva alone," Principal Nezu said, causing everyone to raise an eyebrow.
"Al... right then," Hiroshi said, as he closed his eyes and slicked back his hair, letting Hero take control. "You've got some impressive tech, Mr. Algeva."
"Thanks, it means a lot to hear coming from an Ultraman," Rigel said, as he and the teachers waved the students off.
Much Later, at the 1A/1B Dorms
"- And I still don't have any idea why you thought giving Hero this was an acceptable gift, Mineta," Hiroshi said, as he, Itsuka, Kyoka, Setsuna, Fuka, and Tsuyu stared at the teen, scolding him. The party had finished a while ago, and Hiroshi and the others finished organizing the opened presents into big boxes so that they could easily be taken to his room. Izuku, Tenya, and the others were busy cleaning up the mess and dishes.
"Aw come on! It's important Earth culture-"
"It's weird, Mineta," Fuka dryly said, when Rigel, Principal Nezu, and Aizawa came into the dorm.
"So you got all of the captured alien animals?" Hiroshi asked, walking towards them.
"Indeed, and I think I have some family members that Toko might want to see," Rigel said, as he placed a box down and opened it, revealing seven more Lunahs. Toko purred happily and leaped out of Koji's arms, and scurried over to them. The eight Lunahs rubbed each others' cheeks, finally being reunited.
"What... what are you going to do with Toko and his family?" Koji signed, looking at the reunited Lunah family.
"We'll be taking them back to a interdimensional reserve, since there's several versions of their home planets, and we don't know which one is theirs," Ardiana said, reappearing in front of them all.
"It's the only place where we can take them and the other animals that Alien Scorpek poached," Rigel said.
"... Oh..." Koji mumbled, pushing his fingers sadly. Toko took a glance at him, and purred at his family. The other Lunahs looked at him, before nodding and started bouncing at Rigel and Ardiana to get their attention.
"Hm? Do you want to let Toko stay here?" Ardiana asked, as the Lunahs purred, seemingly saying yes. "Hm... I suppose that is alright. Do you all want to stay with him as well?"
The Lunahs looked at Toko, who kept purring and squeaking as it took looks at Koji. They looked at each other, before sadly shaking their heads (or bodies), and hopped towards the box that Rigel had placed. Toko purred sadly, but hopped to them, giving them one last affectionate rub each before jumping back to Koji.
"I guess it won't hurt to let one Lunah stay behind if that's what they want," Rigel said, chuckling a bit. "Taking care of a Lunah is a difficult responsibility, so are you up to it?"
"Are you kidding? Koda here's the biggest animal lover around! His Quirk lets him talk to animals!" Setsuna said, grinning happily.
"Yea, I might've started off on a bad foot with Toko, but if Toko and Koda are happy together, I'd say we should let them," Kyoka said, shrugging.
"We'll send you updates on Toko and how he's doing here with Koda," Hiroshi added.
"Oh, I don't know if that's necessary," Rigel chuckled, to everyone's confusion. "Well, I gotta go and take care of this Alien Scorpek and his poached animals. See you all next time!"
Rigel walked out as Ardiana disappeared back into his helmet, and everyone walked outside, watching him disappear in a beam of light as Saiphza flew away, with the Alien Scorpek's ship in tow.
"I wonder what he meant by that," Fuka said, scratching her head.
"Gaaaaah!" Setsuna shouted, pulling at her hair. "I never got to ride his space robot dinosaur!"
The Week after Midterms, Class 1A
"GAAAAAAH I DID SO BADLY!" Denki shouted, lamenting his absolutely abysmal placement as 21st in class.
"Hahaha, you and me both!" Mina said, laughing a bit to hide the pain of being 20th.
"I would've done so much better in any other circumstance!" Minoru said, crushed by his 14th placement. "There was just too much shit going on within the past several weeks!"
"Man, Momo, I knew you were gonna steamroll all of us on the midterms. First place," Hiroshi complimented, clapping for her. "Knew you would've been perfect for our class representative."
"Don't sell yourself so short, Hiroshi," Momo said, smiling. "You got second after all!"
"Indeed, as expected of someone such as yourself!" Tenya said, as he robotically swung his arms around. Katsuki grumbled, frustrated that he placed 4th. At least he was ahead of Izuku's 5th place.
"Man, you guys gotta host a teaching session or something for all of us sometime!" Ochako said, looking at her four smart friends. "There's soooo much I need to learn!"
"Yea, I'm down with helping with teaching sessions with everyone," Hiroshi said, when everyone heard the door slide open. In an instance, everyone was back in their seats, paying attention to the front.
"Good, you're all in your seats," Aizawa said, as he put papers down onto the desk. "Before we really get into everything, there's a new student for your class."
"A new student? This late?" Mashirao said, as the class murmured.
"It's a special circumstance like with Furinji and Ultraman Hero. It took a while to get it approved, and they're not 'officially' enrolled yet, but Principal Nezu thought it would be a good idea to let them participate in your classes so that they could get a feel for what it's like," Aizawa said, when a strange mechanical orb floated into the room, confusing everyone. A lens on the front flashed for a second, and Ardiana formed around the orb, though this time she was wearing the UA uniform.
"Greetings, it's a pleasure to be a part of Class 1A," she said, bowing before everyone as their jaws dropped.
"What!? Rigel and Ardiana are our new classmates!?" Mina said, slamming her hand onto her desk.
"Ardiana is," Aizawa clarified. "Rigel is introducing himself to Class 1B right now."
"So we're splitting them up to keep the number even?" Eijiro said, crossing his arms. "Makes sense..."
"Our class is insane! We got two aliens now! A giant one, and one made out of electromagnetic waves! What other class in the world can say that!?" Hanta said.
"We're going to be pulled into more crazy alien things, I know it!" Minoru said, fearing of what to come.
Class 1B
"Man, Fuka, you really gotta show off, don't you?" Setsuna said, looking at the 1st placed student of 1B. "Makes my 3rd feel so small."
"Oh, come off it, Setsuna," Fuka laughed.
"Hey Monoma, are you alright?" Itsuka asked, looking at her classmate. "You haven't said anything after finding out that you're last-"
"YES. I am FINE," Neito said, straining a smile.
"He's not fine at all," Kinoko said, sighing relief that she got at least 16th.
"Alright you all, sit down," Vlad King said, coming in. "Now I know it's late, but you all have a new classmate."
"What!?" the class collectively shouted.
"I know. There's been a lot of talking between Principal Nezu, the HPSC, government, and all sorts of officials, and its taken several days. He's not officially enrolled, he'll start next semester, but Principal Nezu thinks it'll be worth the trouble to let him sit in class so he can get a feel for how things work here. Now get in here, kid."
Everyone watched as someone who looked a year older than them walked in. His medium-length silvery white hair turned blue towards the tips, with long bangs framing his face, which had black markings that looked like four fangs. His eyes were an unearthly purple, and he was slightly taller than Shihai. He had a nice smile, as if he was a little familiar with them all already.
"Hey, it's been a few weeks, hasn't it?" he said, looking at them all. Setsuna and Fuka raised an eyebrow, wondering why his voice sounded familiar. "Oh, right, you all hadn't seen me without my gear. Lemme just-"
"Now hold on a minute-" Vlad King started to say, when the new student pressed a button on his belt. Light shined around him, forcing everyone to cover their eyes. When they uncovered them, they saw the familiar armor of Rigel Algeva standing in front of them. "- You didn't need to do that."
"Algeva!?" everyone shouted.
"Please, just call me Rigel, I'm not used to being called by my last name," Rigel laughed, as his armor disappeared.
"You're old enough to be in high school!?" Setsuna said, her jaw dropped, literally.
"Well, I'm just about a year older than you all. But it was decided that it'd be best if I started with the First Years, especially since you're the ones I met here first," Rigel explained. "Ardiana's in 1A right now to 'introduce' herself there."
"So does that mean you're gonna be staying at our dorms?" Nirengeki asked.
"Yep. Saiphza's nice to stay in and all, but it seems unfair if I get to stay in a ship and all," Rigel explained.
"So where's your ship gonna be?" Yosetsu asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, he's right here," Rigel said, reaching into his pockets. He pulled out a tiny Saiphza, which transformed into its dinosaur mode and roared, though its roar was very small and squeaky.
"Your ship can shrink!?" Sen said, as Setsuna's head and hands popped off to reach the tiny robot dinosaur.
"I LOVE HIM!" Setsuna said, taking Saiphza out of Rigel's hands and giving it a chin scratch. Saiphza seemed to enjoy it, as it started to thump its leg and roared softly. "Let's make him our class's mascot since Koda's got Toko now!"
"Yea, it's a convenient way to keep him around when I'm on planet long term," Rigel explained.
"So why are you here?" Neito said, raising an eyebrow. "Seems odd to have a bounty hunter among our peers."
"Well, truth is that Ardiana sensed quite a number of aliens on this Earth while combing through the internet, and we looked at the listings in this dimension, and there's quite a bit of aliens that're suspected to be in hiding here," Rigel explained. "When we told Principal Nezu, he told us that he had been thinking of offering us a place here at UA, and that what we've found out about aliens here is just more of an incentive to allow us to study here. He mentioned something about a press conference soon as well."
"Alright, that's enough!" Vlad King said. "Now get to your seat, class should be starting soon."
"Man, I never thought that this school year would get more wild," Fuka said, as Rigel walked past her, letting Saiphza stay at Setsuna's desk as he was pampered by the girl. "There's just no telling what's going to happen, is there?"
At the seedy bar in the suspicious alleyway
"More aliens!?" Tomura shrieked, throwing his phone onto the counter, cracking it a bit more. "Just my luck, more aliens wanting to play hero!"
"And an Alien Hunter, too," Golkin said, as he scrolled through his well-maintained and cared-for phone. "That's gonna be tough to deal with."
"Very intriguing! This game's becomes more interesting every day!" Virus said, laughing as he read the newspaper, with Illne sitting next to him in silence. "An Ultraman, an Alien Hunter, and an EM Being. What a combination! You don't see that too often!"
"I don't like this," Kurogiri said. "The more aliens that come to the side of those false heroes, the stronger this society becomes."
"Then we should get some more alien allies ourselves, shouldn't we, Virus?" Tomura's Teacher said through the monitor.
"Oh sure," Virus replied, shrugging. The door opened, and the villain broker Giran walked in, followed by some people. "But I want to see what our friend here has brought to the table first."
ORIGINAL AO3 NOTES:
- I based part of this chapter around the "Save the World With Love" episode.
- Not gonna lie, I was inspired by the 'Denki is in charge of negotiating with a villain for an exercise' joke from a different fanfic, I just for the life of me cannot remember which one I saw it from. If anyone's familiar with it, please tell me, so that I can at least properly credit who came up with the original one (since this isn't the exact same joke).
- I think I kiiiinda lost track of how much time it would take for all of UHA's events to happen? Especially since with June, we pretty much skipped all of it in official MHA canon to get to July. It should still be roughly the same, I think... Hopefully it's not too off, since the Hero Vs. Villains exercise was a few days after what it should be in canon, though I think I bumped the USJ incident up a few days, too.
- This chapter is actually two chapters smashed together into one. I wanted to do the teamwork exercise and show it happening, but it ended up being shorter than I expected, so I combined it with the Hero's birthday story. You can sooooorta tell by how... it kinda immediately transitions.
- I decided to make the Lunahs' appetite much bigger than in canon. Why? Kinda thought that the fact that they vacuum up food makes it seem like they can eat a lot. Then again, they have no limbs.
- If you need help imagining what Alien Hunter Rigel's suit looks like, his torso armor looks kinda like KR Kabuto's armor, his gauntlets and boots are like KR Fourze's (but without the shape symbols), and his helmet's like the helmets from Tomica Hero Rescue Force. The color patterns of the suit is pretty much identical to how the parts are colored, like the helmet's colored similarly to how the Rescue Force member's is.
- Quick notes about Rigel: His name comes from Rigel, the brightest star in the Orion constellation, and Algeva is based on Algebar, another name for Rigel. Ardiana comes from 'Artemis' and 'Diana', Artemis being the goddess most connected to the Orion story, and Diana being the Roman equivalent. Saiphza is based on 'Saiph', another star in the Orion constellation. The race name "Alien Hunter" comes from the fact that Orion is known as a great hunter. The Alien Scorpek comes from one of the more famous stories about Orion getting stung by the scorpion that eventually became Scorpio (likewise Sargas' name comes from a star in the Scorpius constellation). The Omnirod is based on the Rescue Breaker from Rescue Force, though it doesn't have the pick mode; instead its another handle for the 'Omnirod Dino Hunter' mode, and the Rescue Breaker's Break Hand mode is instead the 'Omnirod Gun Hunter' mode.
- Ardiana's race, EM Beings, is the same sort of race from Megaman Star Force (or Shooting Star Rockman, if you want to be that way). She's a lot more human-like in appearance, though, and her body's not really all that electric-y like theirs.
- I actually had thoughts about making Rigel an Alien Magic as an oxymoron about him using technology more rather than magic, but I started to think about the Orion ideas since he was 'hunting' the alien, which eventually evolved into Alien Scorpek. I do have a couple ideas for Alien Magics in the story, however.
- Why does the Saiphza turn into a dinosaur instead of a giant robot? I wanted to set Rigel, Ardiana, and Saiphza apart from Ultraman Hero. So rather than just making it a giant humanoid robot, I decided to go with the dinosaur, sorta like the Dyna Dragon or Dynarex. The way it stands is more like the Dragon Caesar/Dragonzord, but with some extra flexibility.