Chapter 7 - Alert! The Enemy Has Taken Our Intelligence!
"YOU! What is it like having All Might as a teacher!?"
Izumi had walked to school with Kacchan, meeting up with Cheeks and Glasses along the way. Only to be met with a swarm of ravines vultures (the media reporters) blocking the front gate of UA and unceremoniously had microphones shoved in their faces, upon arrival.
"Fuck off." was all Izumi said while shoving everyone in her way to the side.
Kacchan was beside her doing much the same as she was, Cheeks was hiding behind her trying not to be noticed, meanwhile Glasses had started answering all their dumb questions with long winded answers and over animated movements (The reporters promptly decided to ignore him).
The trio had successfully pushed their way onto school grounds, pashing Mr. Aizawa along the way "You're interfering with our students trying to get to school, can you kindly go away." he said in his usual board tone, making a shooing motion with his hand.
One ballsy reporter decided to ignore the hobo looking man and attempted to make her way through the gates "Come on! All we want is to speak with All Might, the public deserves to know wh-." she didn't get to finish her sentence as a massive wall of metal suddenly snapped up. Sealing the gate shut and damn near taking her extended hand holding on to a microphone clean off.
She stumbled back with an "Eep!" and fell flat on her ass "The hell was that!" she exclaimed.
"That's the UA barrier. Without an ID card it's impossible to get in." explained another reporter "I guess we'll just have to wait for it to open again to get our interview." he huffed out.
Luckily for all the media reporters present, there just so happened to be a handy handsy man creeping in the bushes ready to help with that exact problem.
Aizawa sauntered up to the podium, slapping down a stack of papers "Alright, listen up. I took the liberty of grading your battle performances from yesterday, and" he gestured to Izumi and Katsuki "you two. Stop acting like stroppy brats, you're doing nothing but holding back your own potential. Grow up." he said flatly with a stern voice.
"Yes sir." they both muttered in tandem with each other through gritted teeth.
"Now let's get on with class, there's something important that needs to be done." that immediately put the students on edge "What now? Another test?" they all worriedly thought "You need to pick a class president." he stated bluntly after a few second pause.
"FINALLY SOMETHING SCHOOL LIKE!" the students excitedly exclaimed, they started yelling over the top of each other, all throwing their hat into the ring for the position of being the head honcho of the class.
"I wanna be it! Pick me, pick me!"
"This position is perfect for me."
"My rules will dictate that all the girls wear shorter skirts!"
"I'll be the leader, pick me, me, me, me!"
Through all the chaos 2 voices stood out the most (aka the loudest people there) "I'LL DO IT PICK ME!/I'M THE BEST CHOICE PICK ME!" the 2 owners of the loudest voices said, yet again (Yelled over everyone else) in tandem with one another, silencing the rest of the class in doing so.
Katsuki's neck twisted around with a creaking sound akin to an old unoiled machine, he was met with the angry unfazed stare from Izumi "What? You think you'll be better than me at being class prez?" Katsuki asked in an oddly calm tone.
Izumi leaned across her desk and rammed her forehead right against his "~Why of course I do, I'm not a total meathead. Unlike you~." she stated matter of factly in a sickly sweet voice that sounded friendly however, radiated a menacing aura.
Ketsuki's veins bulged, the duo both raised their fists, Katsuki making small yet threatening crackles and Izumi forming her icy knuckle duster. However before they got the chance to throw hands (as well as Aizawa stepping in, as he'd awoken due to the commotion).
"SILENCE PLEASE!" Iida's voice rang through the classroom "The position of class president is laden with responsibility and isn't a job for just anyone, it requires the trust and support of their peers." he stated, while his arm was raised ramrod straight in the air "That's why I propose that we hold a diplomatic election to determine the person most suited for the position, will this be acceptable Mr. Aizawa?"
"As long as you decide before the period ends I really don't care." Aizawa said, zipping up his cocoon of a sleeping bag and slumping onto the floor after making sure he wasn't needed to subdue Midoriya and Bakugo.
After a few minutes for the class to cast their votes, they were collected and counted with the result being Iida receiving 4 votes and Momo earning 3 "What not a single extra vote for me! Or even Kacchan?!" Izumi exclaimed while Kacchan sat in front of her, just as stunned by the conclusion of the vote.
"Well, did you really think anyone would vote for you or Blasty?" Mina asked cheekily "Also Iida showed some balls yesterday and earlier when he kinda stood up to you two, plus yaourozou's like super smart." she added, receiving several agreeing nods from the class.
Aizawa excited his cocoon and stood next to Iida and Momo at the front of the room "Alright it's decided then. Iida will be the Class President and Yaourozou will be the Vice President."
In the cafeteria Izumi was busy burying her frustrations at the results of the vote by angrily stuffing her face with food "I must say I am both shocked and honoured to be selected as the class president!" Iida said, which really wasn't helping Izumi's mood.
"Well with the glasses and posture, you've got the look for it down pat Iida." Uraraka added with a smile.
"The fucks up with that anyways." Izumi commented, after finishing the assault on her lunch "You've got that uppity air about you, are you some kinda rich boy or something?" she asked, with Uraraka nodding alongside her, who also suspected as much.
Iida let out a deep sigh "I didn't want to talk about this in fear of my peers seeing me differently. However!" he stated while leaning his head back and pushing up his glasses, clearly wanting to broach the subject despite what he claimed "I am in fact a member of the Iida family which has produced Pro Heroes for generations. Such as my elder brother Ingenium!"
Whatever (most likely snarky) comment Izumi was about to make, which was totally not out of slight jealousy due to Glasses being related to a high ranking hero with at least 65 sidekicks working for him, was cut off by a blaring alarm sounding throughout the cafeteria.
"LEVEL 3 SECURITY BREACH! ALL STUDENTS EVACUATE CALMLY! LEVEL 3 SECURITY BREACH!"
Immediately the students in the cafeteria bolted out of their seats and proceeded to stampede their way towards the nearest exit, clearly having forgotten the "calmly" part of the alarm and subsequently plunging the entire area into chaos.
In the ensuing chaos, Izumi managed to grab a hold of an older looking kids collar, pulling her poor (already panicking) victim in close "HEY! THE FUCK DOES LEVEL 3 BREACH MEAN?!" she yelled in his face, demanding an answer.
The panicked student, now looked slightly terrified at having a random very angry red and white haired girl screaming in his face, whilst looming over the top of him "I-i-i-it m-means that an intruder got p-past the gate and a-are in the school!" he managed to stammer out in his fearful state.
Izumi dropped the random student, allowing him to run to the exit with the herd of other student "Guess we better got the fuck out of here with the rest of the extras then, come on you two lets go."
No sooner had Izumi finished her sentence, her along with Uraraka and Iida were swept up in said herd of students. All pushing, shoving and trampling one another in an attempt to get away from the unseen danger just that split second quicker.
Amongst the cacophony of panicked noise, Izumi managed to pick up on Cheek's pained voice within the crowd "Michan!" she called, from between all the bodies roughly bashed into her own, resulting in her collapsing to the floor.
"Fuck Fuck Shit Damn It Hell!" was about the only thing going through Izumi's mind whilst struggling to make her way towards the downed girl. Upon reaching Cheeks and assisting her up, she caught Glasses out the corner of her eye calling out to her.
Iida had been separated from Midoriya and Uraraka when they unintentionally became a part of the chaotic mass of bodies in the narrow hallway, in that time he was slammed into the glass walls, giving him a clear view of the gate outside.
"It's just the reporters?!" Iida exclaimed upon seeing them storming their way through the gate "Calm down everyone! It is nothing but the reporters!" he yelled.
However his yells fell on deaf ears due to the students being in too much of a frenzy to listen and or frankly, just not giving a shit about listening to some random kid. Luckily Iida happened to glance in Midoriya and Uraraka's direction "Midoriya! Uraraka! It's just the Reporters!" he desperately called out to them.
After hearing the reason behind all this fuckery, the air around Izumi rapidly plummeted a few degrees, creating an icy mist that was being sweeped away with the crowd "Are you shitting me?" she said, her voice barely a whisper "ARE YOU SHITTING ME!?" she repeated, yelling it this time.
"All this shit just because of some damn pests!" she growled out "Cheeck's make me float now!"
Izumi demanded, leaving no room for questioning. As soon as she was in the air she began spring boarding off of various students' heads (she was mostly aiming for their faces though) reaching the doorway leading towards the exit and inhaled a deep breath.
"THE FUCK ARE YOU EXTRAS PLAYING AT!" Izumi screamed with all her years of practice in shouting matches between her, Kacchan and Aunt Mitsuki. She also sent a chill wind down the corridor to doubly make sure all eyes were on her.
"It's just a bunch of media vultures! You lot of hero wannabes are god damn UA students so fucking act like it instead of running around like a load of scared toddlers, now, CALMLY get out of my sight!" Izumi finished off her rent with an audible "tsk" and leapt back down to the ground.
Atleast the mass of students had the decency to look ashamed for their ridiculous panicked actions. After making their way outside in an orderly fashion they were all greeted with the sight of a very irate Aizawa, along with numerous police cars and policemen ushering the swarm of reporters off of the school property.
"For today's Fundamentally Hero studies we will be going to an off campus facility." Aizawa stated in his usual flat tone "There will be 3 teachers present. Myself, All Might and one other."
"Mr. Aizawa, what'll we be learning there?" the black haired boy with the fucked up elbows (Hanta Sero) blurted out.
Aizawa held up a card, written on it in bold letters was the word RESCUE "From shipwrecks to landslides and anything in between, it's rescue training."
Putting the card away he pressed a button, revealing the classes' costumes from their places within the wall "You can either wear your costumes or your gym clothes, due to the fact that a few of you have absolutely terrible ones. I'd recommend your gym clothes." he said, with brutal honesty.
"Now. Get out and head to the busses."
However despite his advice the whole class made their way to the costume racks, much to Aizawas irritation. But let's be honest who would want to wear a set of gym clothes over a professionally made hero costume.
"CURSES!" Iida explained in frustration "This does not fit with my seating arrangement at all!"
Izumi was sitting besides Cheeks and some Frog Fucker, silently watching Glasses anguish at not being able to control where the class was seated on the bus due to it having a different layout then he planned for.
"I tend to say whatever comes to mind," the Frog Fucker beside her spoke up "and I think most of us want to know the answer as well, so I'm just going to ask. Midoriya?"
"What do you want Kermit?" Izumi asked.
"Call me Tsu." the frog girl (Tsuyu Asui) replied seemingly without noticing or caring about being called Kermit.
"No." came her instant reply, accompanied by a deadpan face.
"Anyway." Tsu continued, immediately giving up on the idea of ever being called by her given name "You and Todoroki are practically identical. Are you siblings or perhaps closely related?"
The ears of everyone on the bus perked up at the question, it was true that they were all curious to know the answer. Todoroki kept his impartial stare, silently waiting for whatever explanation she came up with, Izumi on the other hand had a deep look of disgust etched into her face as if the question had personally offended her.
"Fuck. No." it was a simple and short rebuttal "Though, it's not like I know myself. For all I know I could be related to that Candy Cane Cunt. Not like i actually know my dead beat shit head of a fucking dad anyway…."
Izumi rapidly shakes her head, dispelling that ridiculous line of thought before it could go any farther than it has any right to.
"Yeah! Tsu has a point, you two look the same and you both have awesome flashy quirks." Kirishima piped up "I'm kinda jealous though, compared to my Hardening you guys are much cooler. I doubt I'll ever get popular with it."
"Well Boner Boy, you might give Kacchan a bit of trouble with your quirk so it's not the shittest around. But with me I'd melt your eyes out in a second." she complimented? Insulted? He couldn't really tell….. wait.
"BONER BOY?!" he shouted, shooting up from his seat.
"Your quirk is literally to get hard, what else am I supposed to call you?" she stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Kirishima! Call me Kirishima!" he practically pleaded.
"No." she quickly said, with the same deadpan face as when she'd given Tsu the same answer.
"Never mind." he signed dejectedly "but, if we're talking about flashy and powerful, we can't leave out BakuBro!" he added, flashing a shape toothed grin.
"Bakugo is always angry and yelling, so he'll probably never be popular, same with Midoriya." Tsu stated matter of factly "Actually, Midoriya and Bakugo seem close and act almost the exact same, disregarding looks I'd say they seem more like siblings then Midoriya and Todoroki do."
"THE FUCK DID YOU SAY FROG FACE!" the two in question yelled while perfectly in sync with one another, proving the exact point Tsu was making.
"See." she said, pointing at the both of them with her comically large gloved hands.
"We've known you guys for, like, two days and we all already know your personalities are basically shit that's been steeped in raw sewage then set on fire." Kaminari joked (it wasn't a joke), most of the students laugh at his accurate description of the class's two hot heads.
"You guys will probably end up being more infamous then famous." he added with a snicker.
"YOU WANNA FIGHT PIKACHU?! I'LL KILL YOU!"
"YEAH YOU SPARKY SPUNK STAIN YOU WANNA GO?! I'LL MELT YOUR EYES OUT!" Izumi added to Kacchan's initial provocation "What the fuck is this shit? Me and Kacchan are getting teased! School has never been like this, why's UA so different?!" she thought in the back of her mind.
"What a vulgar conversation." Momo whispered to Uraraka, who was seated next to her.
"I don't know, they make me laugh." she replied with a grin spread across her face.
While during the bus ride Aizawa had been trying to get some much needed shut eye, however, had been kept awake due to all the chit chat (but mostly the very much unneeded shouting.)
With a groan he reluctantly exited his comfy safe haven, already missing the warmth it provided and not ready to deal with the big oaf as well as 20 illogical teenagers with superpowers "Alright quiet down brats. We're here." he said, feeling unprepared for the hell that most likely awaited him.
When Aizawa had finished corralling the students of the bus, they were situated outside of a massive white dome like building.
"Welcome students! I've been waiting for you." came a cheery voice.
"Eeeep!" Uraraka squealed in excitement "It's the Space Hero: 13! They're a rescue hero whose saved countless lives during disasters. I love them! They're my biggest inspiration."
"Yeah yeah Cheeks we get it. Space theme and all that shit." Izumi grumbled beside the over energetic brunette.
"13. Where's All Might, don't tell me the oafs running late on his second day." Aizawa whispered to the other hero, a promise of pain in his tone if he was right.
13 huffed "He's resting in the teacher's lounge right now due to using up all his time this morning heroing on his way to UA." they informed him, holding up three fingers symbolising his three hour time limit.
"Why even bother coming to work if he's not even going to work. That man is the height of irresponsibility." he definitely felt like he hadn't had enough coffee this morning to be dealing with this "Forget it, the man can barely teach anyway. Shall we begin?"
Turning back to the students, 13 began "Now class, welcome to the U.S.J!"
"Universal Studios Japan?! Awesome! Best school trip ever!" Kaminari exclaimed, throwing his arms up in excitement and unknowingly further cementing his place as the class's defacto class clown.
"The Unforeseen Simulation Joint." 13 corrected, much to Kaminaris disappointment "Is a training area I created to simulate large scale disasters."
"Before we start the practical lesson there's one… two…. three or four ish things I must say." they happily said "My quirk, Blackhole, is a fantastic quirk for saving lives by clearing any debris or obstacles that might appear during any disaster."
"However." any cheeriness in their voice immediately vanished with that one word "it could also sooo~ easily be used to kill."
A slight chill slithered its way down all of 1-A's spines, 13's statement was so blunt and a complete 180 from their usual attitude.
13 let that sink in for a moment before continuing on "And that stands for every single person present as well."
They proceeded to point to various students of examples "Kaminari, your quirk Electrification. Shocks of 2700 volts and above are more often than not fatal for regular adults, that's pretty self explanatory seeing as you are capable of reaching up to 1.3 million volts."
"Uraraka, your quirk Zero Gravity. Falls from over 14.5 metres typically result in fatal injury, leave someone under the effects of your quirk too long with no safe way to get them down. Dead."
"Ashido, quirk Acid. Chemical burns are more likely to get infected without proper medical care than regular burns, when that happens blood poisoning can occur which has a 50% mortality rate. Also your acid is by far more dangerous than regular acid due to it being more viscous than most, meaning when it's on something it stays on something until either that acid is gone or that said something is gone."
"Kirishima, quirk Hardening. Doesn't seem like it could kill, however, punch someone in the wrong place such as the neck and the jagged edges your skin forms as a simple byproduct of your quirk could easily rip through the carotid arteries, leaving that person to quickly bleed out to death with little that can be done to stop their now inevitable death."
"And Midoryia," Izumi tried and failed to hide the flinch at the calling of her name, she felt like a coward, flinching at something so small as a mere call out "quirk Cold 'n' Hot. Unlike Todoroki's quirk which would take time to inflict frost and or heat damage, you on the other hand are capable of almost instantaneously inflicting intense 3rd degree burns and deep frostbite to anyone close to you. Need I say more?"
Their question was clearly a rhetorical one, the message was passed on loud and clear.
Due to 13's speech, a sombre and sobering atmosphere fell heavy on the students "However." 13 repeated, this time in their typical tone.
"That is exactly the reason why you're here, to learn how to prevent such things from happening. Especially when the lives you're supposed to be protecting as heroes are at their most vulnerable and delicate."
"The lessons taught here are not just to save civilians during disasters but to also to wield your quirks safely for the sake of Any life." 13 finished their speech with a theatrical bow.
"BRAVO! BRAVO!" Iida yelled, along with the rest of the class cheering at their motivating words, even Izumi and Katsuki giving a begrudging applause.
"'For the sake of Any life' huh." their words truly got to Izumi, it made her remember that one old All Might video she used to watch as a kid. The one were he heroically swooped in saving everyone with his iconic smile plastered on his face and laughing heartily despite the situation, he was a true idealisation of a hero in that moment.
Izumi's mind began to wonder "Can I ever be like that?"
However, that line of thought would have to wait as her attention was drawn to Mr. Aizawa violently flinching and whipping around to stare down at the central plaza.
Following his gaze led to her seeing a small swirling purple dot just in front of the fountain. The dot didn't stay small however, as it quickly expanded into a massive pool of darkness.
From within said darkness figures started emerging, most of them looked like typical throw away mob characters you'd see in cheesy villain movies except for the last two to exit the portal.
One was covered head to toe in severed old greying hands (definitely a repressed fetish thing going on there Izumi thought.) and the other was a hulking behemoth of a man? Monster? It was hard to tell. Due to not only its size and bulging muscles that could easily rival All Might, the Muscle Jesus himself. It also had a grotesque exposed brain, a large beak full of jagged uneven yellowing teeth and (probably the most unsettling), dead lifeless protruding eyes that seemed to process absolutely nothing about its surroundings.
When the thing that could only be described as a monster fully left the swirling darkness, the smoky portal rippled and formed into a well dressed man who situated himself beside the presumed leader of this merry band of misfits.
By this point the rest of the class had noticed the appearance of the not so welcomed guests "Is this some part of the lesson? Like the whole learning to be careful thing?" Kirishima asked while walking up to Mr. Aizawa to get a better look at what he presumed were people to help with the lesson.
Aizawa immediately pushed him back towards the others "GET BACK! 13 PROTECT THE STUDENTS!" he yelled "Those are real villains!"
"Eraser Head and 13." said the surprisingly well dressed mass of purple smoke "According to the schedule we equired yesterday All Might was supposed to be present and yet he is absent." his voice sounded warped and overall unbothered by their missing target.
Whereas the person next to him couldn't be more different "Where is he? He's supposed to be here!" the man hissed.
"We went through all this trouble to collect as many friendly NPCs as possible and you're telling me All Might, the Symbol of Peace, doesn't even show up to defend against a raid on his own home base." he seethed out, clawing at his neck.
However the clawing ceased a moment later, an expression of understanding wormed its way onto the intruder's face, as if something in his head had clicked into place "Aaah it all makes sense. You always have to clear out a dungeon boss's minions before starting the final fight."
"So. I wonder how many kids we have to kill before he shows up."
Author's Note:
I'M SO SORRY this has taken so long! Between my shitty motivation and life bitch slapping me with a big old helping of responsibility I've had like next to no time to focus on this.
So yeah, in this one I'm trying to show Izumi's having trouble with going from a big fish in a small pond to a small fish in a whole ass lake.
Also a small side note, I don't know if I just didn't get it till now but, 13s called 13 because it's a reference to the space launch Apollo 13 right? Idk if I was just really slow on the uptake or I just blew some people's minds like I did my own when I first thought of it, please PM or comment cause I'm kinda curious.
Also also, please say someone understood the title reference!
So, like it? Hate it? Please review to let me know what you think. Also thank you to anyone who did leave a review and if you have any questions or shit just PM me and I'll try to answer them. And just a heads up, I am infect a certified dumb ass so if there's any grammar errors I'm sorry for that.
