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If Aizawa expelled…
Chapter three: Explosive Event
The audience that was summoned to Talespinner69's theater room by the Realmcrafter himself had just finished watching the second of a set twenty realms, each one featuring Aizawa expelling a different one of his homeroom students and the consequences that end up taking place depending on which 1-A student is given the axe. So far only Izuku and Todoroki have been seen getting kicked from UA by the underground hero, and neither realm showed anything looking good.
In fact, some audience members were arguing over which was worse, Izuku getting the axe or Todoroki. "Well now," Kotaro remarked from where he stood in front of the big theater screen next to Tale, "You all seem to be brimming with discussion."
"I'd say," Aizawa remarked dryly, "I had no idea that me expelling a student would have had such far reaching consequences, with at least one death guaranteed regardless."
"And that reminds me," Mina said as she pointed at the big theater screen, "Mineta didn't die in that last realm!"
Shrugging, Tale replied, "Well this ain't the show that features realms with different versions of the 1-A and 1-B girls. But more on that later."
"Indeed," Kotaro agreed, "Realm number three is ready to be play."
"Heh, I wonder who Sho expels this time and how it ends up biting him right on his butt," Hizashi said with clear amusement in his tone.
Scowling in an unamused manner, Aizawa said, "...I'm sitting right here, Hizashi."
...
(If Aizawa expelled Katsuki Bakugo)
Folding his arms over his chest, Bakugo in the audience scoffed, "Feh, I wonder what bullshit excuse Aizawa-sensei had for kicking me out."
"Zip it, brat," Mitsuki snapped at her son over from where she sat next to Inko.
Aizawa was getting something set up in his classroom for his students. Speaking of, he was being aided by Izuku, Tenya, Todoroki and Shinso, with the last of those four being recently added to class 1-A in the wake of the underground hero expelling a student from his class.
"Again, I take the place of the student that Aizawa-sensei expelled," Shinso in the audience remarked as he gestured to the big theater screen.
"Aizawa-sensei, although I'm truly flattered as well as honored to join the hero course earlier than expected, I have to ask," Shinso began, "Why was I placed in the hero course so early? Did something happen, or is it not my place to ask in which case I apologize."
Gently shaking his head, Aizawa remarked, "No need to worry, it's understandable that you'd be curious about the change in events. And to answer your question, I recently had to expel one of the boys in class, which left a vacancy that the school was able to fill by placing you into the hero course earlier than what we were anticipating."
Grimly nodding in agreement, Tenya remarked, "Yes, Shinso. Aizawa-sensei recently expelled Bakugo because of the numerous acts of physical violence against one of our classmates that he had carried out as of late."
"He had a justified reason to give my brat the axe?!" Mitsuki in the audience exclaimed, "What the actual fuck is this?!" Bakugo himself was pissed, but he was just angrily screaming at the top of his lungs.
"As much as I am relieved to see that I'm presented as having a justified reason to expel a student," Aizawa remarked after Bakugo stopped screaming, "I have a dreading feeling in my gut that there's a hell of a lot more to things here than what meets the eye."
"Bakugo...was physically violent towards one of the other students here in 1-A," Shinso remarked dryly, "...Yeah, I can see why Aizawa-sensei had to kick him out of UA."
"Yeah, but there are a few issues that Aizawa-sensei didn't take into account concerning the events surrounding him expelling Kacchan from UA," Izuku began, "One, all of said recent acts of physical violence that Kacchan had made were made against Mineta."
"Oh shit," Aizawa in the audience remarked in a tone of steadily growing dread, having something of an idea on where this may be going. As for Mineta, he felt like a number of pairs of female eyes were glaring angrily at him, making him shrink into his theater seat.
"Two, Bakugo only made said acts against Mineta because in addition to continuing to be lewd towards the girls in our class," Todoroki continued, "Mineta has now started acting in such a manner towards the girls in 1-B as well."
"And three, the last act of physical violence that Bakugo had committed against Mineta," Tenya finished up, "The one that actually got Bakugo expelled, was inspired by Bakugo seeing Mineta trying to...get cozy, as it were...with that Pony Tsunotori girl in 1-B, even though she was very clearly uncomfortable with it." Holding his hand to his chin, the class 1-A rep remarked, "I have never seen so much blood come out from one human nose. I guess Bakugo wanted to go the extra mile since he's in love with Tsunotori."
"Wait, so I took none of that stuff into account?" Aizawa in the audience asked rhetorically as he gestured to the big theater screen, "What the actual hell? If all of that did happen, sure I'd still have to punish Bakugo, but I wouldn't expel him since he was very clearly standing up for his fellow students! Also, I would totally take into account all of what Mineta did to inspire Bakugo to act in such a manner!"
"Also, Bakugo's in love with me in this realm?" Pony remarked, "And he stood up for me against someone who was being a pervert towards me?" Gently placing a hand over her chest in a gesture of being touched, the half-American girl said, "Aww, that is so sweet!"
The other girls, however, were throwing stuff at Mineta, saying that he messed up big time in the currently playing realm. Mineta was dreading where this realm was going since he had a big roll in getting Aizawa to expel Bakugo.
Shinso looked to be a bit surprised, and as such turned to regard his mentor. "...Did you do anything to discipline Mineta for his lewd actions?"
"I figured that all of the beatings Bakugo gave him would be punishment enough, so I let Mineta off with a warning," Aizawa explained.
Where he sat in the audience, Aizawa gently held his hand to his face. "...You have got to be shitting me here. I'm falling into the 'punishment enough' trap that usually allows for a student to get away with more than they should."
"Yeah, I'm not a fan of that concept either," Tale admitted over where he and Kotaro stood in front of the big theater screen.
As the boys continued to help Aizawa, they all looked up when Nezu's voice came out over the school intercom system. "All main staff please report to see me," Nezu's voice called out, "There is a matter of troubling news that we need to discuss."
After the intercom system turned off, Aizawa got up and went over to the door. "...Something's up, I can tell." To the boys, Aizawa said, "I got a gut feeling this will take me a while, so you all can return to the dorms for the day."
"Got it, sensei," Todoroki remarked as he left in a group with Izuku, Tenya and Shinso. After the boys left, Aizawa left as well but took a different path, one that led him to Nezu's office for the emergency staff meeting that had cropped up all of a sudden.
"...I have a feeling this will not go well..." Aizawa in the audience said in worry as he and the rest of the audience watched on.
...
All main staff at UA had gathered in Nezu's office for the emergency staff meeting, with every seated at the big meeting table. "Thank you all for coming, and sorry if this was inconvenient for any of you," Nezu began in a troubled tone, "But UA is in a lot of media trouble right now, I'm afraid to say."
"What happened, Nezu?" Toshinori asked, looking concerned for his boss at UA slash close friend of many years.
At that prompting, Nezu pulled out a remote, pressed a button on it to make a section of wall mechanically shift to reveal a hidden monitor screen, and pressed another button to turn the hidden screen on, pulling up an online article titled 'UA High School: are they teaching the heroes of tomorrow or the perverts of tomorrow?'.
"Oh fuck me," Aizawa said in a tone making it clear he hated how his self in this alternate realm had screwed up so damn badly.
"This article, published by the biggest news station in Japan, has gone viral ever since it had come out," Nezu began to explain, "The country at large thinks that all of the future pro heroes that we're teaching at UA at the moment are going to wind up as walking sexual harassment lawsuits. Well, they say that about all of the boys at the very least."
Shrugging, Nemuri said, "Well that's reasonable for the citizenry of Japan to assume, thinking that the boys will be naughty. There's no such thing as a girl pervert, after all."
Hound Dog, who sat next to Nemuri, turned his head so that he faced her. "...How dare you."
"Yeah, I have to agree with the Hound Dog in this realm," Nemuri in the audience said in a mildly ashamed tone, "Girls are capable of being perverts, same as the boys. Hell, I'm living proof that the fairer sex can be a little frisky."
Pointing dramatically at Nemuri, Hizashi said, "Aha! A confession!" Some of the other male UA staff members couldn't help but snicker a bit at Hizashi calling Nemuri out like that.
"Where did the paper go to get such an interview?" Sekijiro asked.
Sighing, Nezu explained, "They interviewed the newest student over at Ketsubutsu Academy, who had his homeroom teacher Ms. Joke present with him during the interview." Turning to face Aizawa, Nezu added with a hint of firm, knowing sterness in his tone, "You ought to be very familiar with Ms. Joke's new boy, Aizawa."
"...Bakugo got into Ketsubutsu?" Aizawa remarked, able to put the pieces together in his head, "Emi is Bakugo's homeroom teacher?"
"Ohh ho ho ho," Emi in the audience laughed with some knowing self-amusement in her tone, "It looks like Shouta's trash is my treasure."
Face palming once again, Aizawa muttered under his breath, "Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me here..."
Nodding a few times in the affirmative, Nezu said, "Yeah, Bakugo got accepted into Ketsubutsu. That's where the interview for the news article was conducted, where Bakugo went into detail on how he was kicked out because he stood up for his female schoolmates against a perverted classmate."
"I'm sure things aren't so bad as what you may think, Nezu," Power Loader tried to offer.
Turning to regard Power Loader, Nezu shot him a mad look. This unsettled the support course teacher, mostly because it's the first time he had ever seen Nezu frown. "...The article accuses UA of not only condoning perverted behaviour in its halls, but also quick to punish those who try to stop said perverted behaviour. Do you have any idea how bad this makes us look?!"
"Ehhh, Nezu looks mad," Hizashi in the audience cried in a freaked out tone as he pointed at the big theater screen, "Make it stop!"
Turning to face the staff as a whole, Nezu said, "And that is not all, I'm afraid. There are loads of interviews with folks condemning UA for its supposed fostering of perverted future pro heroes." Nezu used his remote to pull up a number of videos, but played them one at a time.
The first recorded video interview was with a toad-like man identified as Ganma Asui. "Yeah, I don't like how my first born has to attend a school that allows perverts to roam its halls as they see fit," Ganma began in a firm, stern, disappointed tone, "Those perverts have dirty thoughts about my daughter, that much I can guarantee you!"
The next interview was with the flame hero Endeavor. "This never would have happened back when I was a student at UA!" the current number one hero declared firmly, "Either their standards have dropped considerably, or the teachers hired on in more recent years are way too lax in punishing perverts!"
The third interview was with a woman that Toshinori was able to identify to the rest of the staff meeting as Izuku's mom Inko. "It's not just boys perving on girls, you know," Inko began, "The girls can be just as predatory. Which is why I'm worried about my baby who I know is too pure to be dirty. Those dirty girls will try to have my baby's butt, I tell you!"
Izuku in the audience moaned in embarrassment as he covered his face with his hands, his face turning a bright beet red as that all went on. For his part, Bakugo pointed and snickered at the green-haired boy that he knew growing up.
"Heh heh, sorry about how my alternative self here embarrassing you, sweetie," Inko apologied to her son as she had the decency to look sorry for causing her son embarrassment.
After turning off the monitor, Nezu turned back to face the staff. "Things are looking really bad for UA, I'm afraid." Facing Aizawa in particular, the quirked animal principal remarked, "This is all your fault, I hope you know."
"How is it all my fault?" Aizawa replied, looking mildly incredulous.
"You didn't read the situation carefully, and acted on a surface-skimming summarization of the event that led to you deciding to expel Bakugo," Hound Dog remarked in a dry and unamused tone, "Granted, Bakugo had to be punished regardless because physical violence against a fellow student like that simply cannot be ignored."
Gesturing to the underground hero, Sekijiro went on, "But given why Bakugo carried those acts of violence out, as well as how many will tend to view Bakugo beating up Mineta for being a pervert as a good thing, you could have made Bakugo do a bit of after school detention, or gave him extra chores at class 1-A's dorm building for a few days! Expelling Bakugo was going way too damn far, at least if you ask me!" Hound Dog, his arms folded over his chest, nodded along in agreement with what Sekijiro had said.
Turning to face Aizawa, Nezu added, "Oh, I should also mention that there's folks out there that are now accusing you of being a pervert, Aizawa."
"WHAT?!" Aizawa exclaimed, "How in the name of Gilgamesh did people come to a conclusion like that?!"
Gesturing to his alternate self, Aizawa said, "Yeah, I kind of have to wonder that myself. Also, why am I being depicted as invoking the name of an ancient Sumerian demigod?"
Shrugging, Tale said, "Yeah, crafted realms vary. You'd be very surprised by what all goes down in some of the various realms that are out there."
Gesturing to Aizawa, Nezu proceeded to explain, "In his interview with Japan's top news station, Bakugo went into detail about how you'd always punish him whenever he had caught Mineta acting lewd and beat him for said lewd action, but always let Mineta off. Ms. Joke didn't help at all by saying that while she's certain you're not a pervert, she'd allow you to act lewd towards her and all you have to do is ask."
Pounding the meeting table with his fist, Aizawa exclaimed, "Damn it, Emi!"
Sighing in a mildly troubled tone, Nezu said, "In...any case, we have got to do some rather serious clean-up. UA is the top hero academy in Japan, so by no means can we afford to get a reputation as a breeding ground for walking sexual harassment lawsuits. Now, I need to set up a task force for this job, and said task force will be requiring a team leader."
Standing up from her seat at the meeting table, Nemuri replied as she raised her right hand, "I volunteer as tribute!"
"Hound Dog it is!" Nezu declared. Nemuri slumped in her seat at the meeting table, but Hound Dog had a smirk on his face.
"Given that UA needs the task force to help curb the accusations of the school being a breeding ground of perverts, having you as the task force's leader would be a poor idea," Aizawa in the audience pointed out to Nemuri, who merely folded her arms over her chest as she wore a look of mild annoyance on her face.
Gesturing to the big screen, Nezu remarked, "Also, I've noticed how Hound Dog has been shown in a very competent light, always on the side that points out the faults in the events surrounding Aizawa expelling one of the students in class 1-A. He's been given quite a nice deal, from what I have been able to gleam." Where he sat in the audience, Hound Dog looked a bit amused by how he's been shown in such a good light, at least when compared to Aizawa.
...
Aizawa, as part of the UA task force's effort to combat the accusations of UA being a breeding ground for perverts, was leading a tour of a few members of the media through UA's halls. "As you can see," Aizawa began, "UA has well earned its reputation as the top hero academy here in Japan. All of the finest pro heroes had attended school here."
"Not to mention all of the worst perverts," one of the media members, a slightly overweight woman, muttered just loud enough for Aizawa to make out. The underground hero rolled his eyes at that, knowing that he's not exactly in any position to argue at the moment.
As Aizawa and the tour he was leading turned a corner in the hallway, they came across a sight consisting of Aizawa's students Izuku and Kirishima, plus Sekijiro's student Yosetsu, stomping on a student who was laying prone on the floor in the hallway. Aizawa was very clearly able to see that they were all stomping on Mineta.
"This feels like the moment of truth," Hizashi in the audience remarked, wondering how Aizawa in the currently playing realm was going to handle this.
"Boys, what are you doing?" Aizawa asked as he walked over to the boys that were right in the middle of beating up Mineta. The tour that Aizawa was leading followed closely behind.
Gesturing to where a beaten Mineta laid on the cool tile floor, Izuku explained, "He was trying to blatantly flirt with Uraraka even though she very clearly didn't want it, so I'm stomping on his ribs in retaliation for her."
"Aww, that is so sweet of you, Izuku!" Uraraka in the audience remarked, with Izuku blushing in embarrassment and Mineta paling a bit out of worry.
"Mineta was being hella un-manly when he asked Kinoko, who I'm dating right now, if she had mushroom print underwear, " Kirishima explained, "So I'm right now giving him foot print internal organs."
"Kirishima and Kinoko are an item in this realm?" Itsuka in the audience said in a surprised tone, "Aww, that sounds so sweet! ...And familiar, too." As for both Kirishima and Kinoko, the two of them both began blushing slightly.
"He asked Yaoyorozu if he could inspect her garments," Yosetsu said dryly, "So I'm turning his ass to grass."
Yaoyorozu looked surprised that Yosetsu was being her knight in shining armor in the currently playing realm, but she was touched that the welding boy of class 1-B would go so far to defend her from the perverted purple midget in her class.
Aizawa looked like he was about to scold the boys who were beating up Mineta, but before he could get a word out the people in the tour group that he was leading all sounded happy to see that a pervert who was caught being lewd was being punished. "Wow, I guess that UA isn't a breeding ground for the perverts of tomorrow after all," remarked a somewhat hipster-looking man wearing a fedora.
"I wish that there was a pervert-hunting squad like this back when I was in high school," the slightly overweight woman commented, sounding very amused by seeing the three boys all stomp on Mineta.
"UA needs to show more of this if you ask me!" remarked a slender woman with somewhat tan-colored skin that denoted mixed heritage.
As much as he felt it necessary to discipline the boys beating up Mineta, Aizawa was being mindful of how the tour he was leading consisting of media members who all hate perverts and are very impressionable, that UA is already in trouble for supposedly condoning perverted behaviour, and that the boys explained that they were beating up Mineta because he was acting lewd towards some of the girls.
Sighing in a resigned tone, Aizawa said, "Boys..."
"Oh, I better not screw up here," Aizawa in the audience swore, worried his alternative realm self here was going to once again punish the wrong party.
Getting Izuku, Kirishima and Yosetsu, as well as the tour group, to all turn to look at him, the underground hero said, "...You three seem to have forgotten something." Aizawa then walked up to where Mineta was laying prone, and then gave Mineta's hidden treasure a good stomp, making him cry and gasp in pain. Turning to walk away, Aizawa said to the three boys, "...As you were. Oh, at the very least take him to see Recovery Girl after you all had made your point to him, alright?"
"Dude!" Bakugo in the audience exclaimed in clear amusement, "Aizawa-sensei stomped Grape Head in the grapes!" A good percentage of the audience all pointed and laughed at Mineta on the big screen, but Mineta himself had instinctively covered his manhood with his hands.
Aizawa didn't really want to have to stomp Mineta in his little Mineta, but given the situation that UA found itself in, he and the rest of the staff had to keep a vigilant eye out for perversion and punish it where and when it crops up, in order to get off some of the heat that the citizenry and media of Japan was piling onto it. He further hated having to try to make a show out of punishing perverts, but it was a show that made the people happy, and making the people happy right now was something that UA sorely needed to do.
Sekijiro and Hound Dog were right; expelling Bakugo was too harsh, all things considered.
FIN
"...So that Bakugo boy is needed around because he keeps the media and Japanese populace from seeing UA as a breeding ground for perverts?" Spinner remarked, more confused than anything else.
Nodding in confirmation, Kotaro said from where he stood next to Tale, "Yeah, there are a number of things that those of Tale's kind to not like. Aizawa's tendency to use expulsion as a threat, Endeavor's choice of parenting skills, how Mineta acts like a lewd little troll..."
Nodding in agreement, Tale said, "Indeed. One can only hope that Aizawa can read situations more carefully than his alternative realm self had been shown."
"Oh, I totally can," Aizawa replied, sending a glare at Mineta that made it clear he hoped like hell the short-statured boy won't act like that for real. At the very least, Mineta was happy that he had made it through another realm alive.
END OF CHAPTER
Author's notes;
I have made two promises, and both of them I have kept. One, no one died in this chapter, even though there was a few beat-ups. Two, shout outs to MuffinHero11 and One for Inspiration, as they made the clearest guesses at Bakugo being number three. Anyway, the next chapter will feature another one of Aizawa's boys on the chopping block.
See you all later.