My job was to escort victims to the emergency treatment area from the the students who were out in the field. I also would check the victims wounds if needed, but usually the rescuers had gauged what injuries they had.
"Kirika!" Uraraka waved at me. "We need your help over here!" I ran to her in the dilapidated city area. She, Yaoyorozu, Sero, and Satou were standing around an old man on the ground.
"What's wrong?" I asked. I looked down at the old man feigned semi-consciousness and only whispered, "my neck…"
"We think he has a neck injury, but every time we try to move him, he starts screaming at us!" Sero said.
"Whatever you do, don't move his neck. That's the worst thing you could do." I thought for a minute before handing out orders. "Momo, can you make a gurney or just a flat board of any sort that we can carry?"
"Yes! Just give me a moment while I stand over there." She walked over to a corner and opened up her costume to expose her chest—facing away from us—to create the gurney. I blushed before turning back to the others.
"Uraraka, make him float. Very carefully though, we have to make sure he stays level and still." As Uraraka slowly helped the man float to about our waist height, Yaoyorozu brought over the gurney and we placed it under him. I grabbed one end of it while Satou grabbed the other. Uraraka released the man from her quirk and his weight came onto the gurney.
"Sero, tape him down by his wrist, arms, legs, ankles, torso, and head. We need him to be as stable as possible." After Sero did that, Satou and I made our way to where the other victims were.
We attempted to make travel fast and quick, but I tried to refrain from using my quirk. Another downside to jogging is the you bob up and down, so, naturally, the man on the gurney was too. Suddenly, I could hear him yell out, "Points deducted! I have a neck injury! You want me to get paralyzed from the neck down?!" And with that, he went "unconscious" again. Satou and I looked at each other with utter surprise.
"You know what, screw this." I looked at where we were and the victim area. We weren't that far off but I wasn't going to risk failing. I switched us to the area and help the man get proper care while Satou went to rescue more people. After that, I felt like taking a bit of command over the victim area alongside Hoji and Tsumaki. There were so many victims that we overflowed into the reception area to make sure we had enough room for those who were critically injured.
I got points deducted again one time for telling a group of very mildly injured victims to finish the walk by themselves and go to designated areas based on their own injuries so that the students could save more victims. A little kid in the group spoke out and said I should have points deducted.
"Excuse me?" I snapped while trying to maintain at least a little bit of composure. "I understand that you have just been through a traumatic experience, but you are minimally injured and are not openly facing any psychological troubles at the moment. You can clearly walk to the area over to the right there without any assistance. Now, some of us heroes have more important and much more highly injured victims to deal with so it would be a great help if you just took care of yourselves for the time being and allow us to do our jobs."
"Your goal should be to help every victim, so you are neglecting your duty as a hero!" An elderly woman chimed in.
I gave her a blank stare. "I am not going to pamper you and cater to your every need. If I did that, more people will die just for your comfort. Next time you want to criticize me on how I'm not giving you cookies and lollipops right now, you can go talk to my family's graves and ask them how they would've felt if the only reason they died was because a few kids needed some help walking on their perfectly capable legs. My goal is to make sure no brothers, sisters, mothers, or fathers die today." I pinched the bridge of my nose. "Now, would you please go to the area on the right?"
"Y-yeah, sure." The boy said and he and the group of victims walked away with looks touched with embarrassment and humiliation
After that, I continued working and even got to talk to some of class 1-A.
"Hey, Midoriya!" I waved to the green-haired boy as he dropped off a victim to Taimaki.
"Oh, hi, Asuga! I would've thought that you'd be out in the field." He said.
"Nope, I thought I'd be best suited here. Plus, the wreckage just reminds me of bad memories."
"Ah, I know what you mean." He looked out towards the large, debris-filled area and I followed his empty gaze. I knew old memories were flooding both of our heads.
"Anyways, how's the situation looking out there?"
"Huh? Oh, I'm not sure. I think we still have a lot to go but I also think we can finish soo—"
CRASHH.
Midoriya and I whipped our heads towards the wall to our left. It was blown to bits and dust covered our view of it. "I think this is part of the exam!" Midoriya yelled over the panic.
As the dust cleared and settled, a large figure arose along with other, smaller figure behind it. "Gang Orca?!" Midoriya gasped. I knew the hero vaguely but apparently Gang Orca had come along with many of his sidekicks with oddly shaped gauntlets on their hands.
Gang Orca and his little Oompa Loompas were presenting themselves as villains which meant that we would have to both rescue victims and defeat villains at the same time. I couldn't have said I was surprised, but I was a bit annoyed.
"Midoriya, most of these villains most likely don't know our quirks which means we have the advantage. I'm going to do as much as I can to whittle down their numbers and see what kind of quirks and weapons they have."
"Asuga," Midoriya grabbed my arm before I could run off. "Bring some of the sidekicks to me first!" I nodded and stood back a bit while the side kicks charged at us.
"Ready!" I switched the closest sidekick. "Now, Midoriya!" Midoriya set his feet and roundhouse kicked the confused sidekick, effectively knocking him out. I grabbed some rope from the bag underneath my cape and tied him to a heavy cement pillar far away.
Suddenly, I felt an earthquake, but It wasn't normal. It was almost… artificial. I remembered a similar feeling from the test we took prior. I flipped my scope in front of my left eye and zoomed into the area where I assumed was the epicenter. It was the boy from the parking lot that was shaking everyone's hands. Without warning, Gang Orca shot over to the boy and made his own sort of shock wave. I was familiar with the attack he used as Gang Orca was well-renown for his ultrasonic attacks. The scary part was that they could not only give you a massive headache, but they also can paralyze you. The boy, who's name I remember as Shindo, was now a victim of that very attack and there was no doubt in my head that Gang Orca would use it again; it won't really injure students but it will put them out of commission.
I switched back over to the villains and made a risky move. Before Gang Orca really knew what I could do, I switched right on top of him. If there's anything I knew about sea creatures, the nose or the eyes were always your best bet. I sat myself right into the villain's shoulders and just started pounding on the head and face.
"Argh! Little brat, you think some measly punches will take me out?!" Gang Orca twisted his body so that I nearly fell forward. I tried to balance myself again or switch off of him until he grabbed my arm and swung me straight into the ground.
"Gah!" I coughed as all the air in my lungs escaped. I gasped for air as Gang Orca lifted me up face-to-face with him.
"You didn't really believe I was going to be an easy target, did you?" Gang Orca was noticeably preparing himself for another ultrasound attack.
"Yeah, it was a kinda—" a cough erupted in my throat "dumb move, but any distraction is a good distraction, don't you think?" I switched out of the way as Todoroki came barreling in with a barrage of ice.
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Hey! I thought I'd do something a little special after each chapter (or maybe before, lemme know)! I like to listen to music as I write or I usually have a song stuck in my head. For this chapter, I was really stuck with the song "CITY OF ANGELS" by 24kGoldn. I found it while I was looking for songs and I actually really like it! I hope you guys do too and I want to do this in the future and maybe find songs that go along with the chapter in lyrics or mood!
Peace!
