They seemed to come out of nowhere.
It was nearing the end of their first semester, and part of their introduction to business class was to get an understanding of how agencies really worked, and to really make a point of it Midnight had apparently decided to take the class on a field trip to an agency a colleague of hers had started in Matakihara city.
The city wasn't known for its hero population so they mainly handled copyright issues. Once they were off the bus and walking down the streets, nearly the whole class found themselves admiring the city, it really was beautiful almost idealic looking, but most of all it was quiet. After the initial tour everyone had been given an hour for lunch, Todoroki had tagged along with Momo, Toru and Oujiro as they followed Momo to a restaurant she insisted they would love. All in all it was a pretty relaxing day.
And then the screaming started.
They all looked to see it coming from a building development surrounded by scaffolding around the corner, and on instinct they all ran towards it. Just in time they got close enough to see a person falling from one of the upper levels.
"Oujiro!" Todoroki yelled as he planted his hands down on the ground forming a ramp out of ice, taking his cue Oujiro immediately began running up the ramp and quickly jumped into the air to catch the falling civilian. His quirks agility allowed him to safely mange the landing, everyone then crowded nearer to see if the woman was okay. He was in a pencil skirt and waistcoat which were covered in what looked like grass stains, and although he seemed unharmed he had a horrified look on his face.
"E-everywhere, it was everywhere..." she muttered.
"What was everywhere?" Momo asked gently as she knelt down beside her.
"Th-the, the moss!" She choked out.
They all shared a look with each other (well except for Toru), clearly they was a villain at work here. Setting the woman down on the ground Oujiro immediately became serious, "Toru you need to run back to the agency and get Midnight and the other pro's,"
"Got it!" Toru chirped before sprinting back in the direction they'd come.
"Miss are you hurt at all?" Oujiro asked the woman, looking back down at her, she just kept muttering.
"I can't hear anything, do you think the villain is still up there?" Momo asked,
Todoroki prepared to make another ice ramp, "Let's find out." But Momo grabbed him by the arm,
"No! We should wait for the pro's to get here, we don't know what's up there!"
"Up there!" The woman stirred again, "the building crew is still up there!"
Todoroki looked back at Momo, her gaze was now downcast but her grip on his arm loosened just a little, she bit her lip and turned back to Oujiro, "Can you stay with her?"
He nodded, "We'll be fine, you two just be careful."
Momo nodded back at him and placed both hands on Todoroki's shoulders, with a shift of his stance he created an ice platform and suddenly they were rising into the air.
Once they got to a section without walls they jumped onto the steel beams that made up the skeleton of the building, walking along it like a tightrope they kept their eyes out for signs of movement, while they were walking Momo created a shield and a rod from her body.
Eventually they made it to the centre without signs of anything, until Todoroki heard a shifting sound from below them, he looked down to see the entire lower floor was covered in what looked like moss. There was one large mass sitting in the centre, it had a carpet of moss sprinkled with roses, and a series of green tentacles.
"Looks like that's are villain," Todoroki said quietly, "but where are the crew?"
After a few seconds of searching Momo gasped, "Todoroki..." she pointed at the floor, squinting down at where she was pointing he saw various lumps in the moss... various human shaped lumps.
Todoroki clenched his fists, "They could be suffocating." He stated getting ready to jump down but Momo stopped him again,
"We need to be careful, we can't risk jumping in head first."
"The people are trapped we don't have time to wait." He argued, Momo looked like she was about to argue more when a third voice was heard from above.
"Let's go!"
Suddenly four flashes of bright colour shot down from above them, they all landed on various places on the moss carpet of the floor, freeing four people before they all bounced back up to a steal beam opposite Momo and Tododroki. Now that they were standing still the two U.A. students could see that they were four girls around their age, all wearing bright and beautifully designed outfits and all brandishing some kind of weapon.
"Ready ladies?" called out the girl who was apparently the leader, she was dressed like an Irish regiment soldier with yellow accents, this comparison was further justified by the musket she expertly spun in her hands, her hair was tied into two twin tails that blended into two giant curls. Todoroki had meant to inspect the entire line up but his eyes seemed to keep returning to her. She seemed to glow.
All four girls then shifted into a battle ready stance while shouting in unison; "Puella Magi Holy Quartet!"
The golden girl spread her hands out towards the villain, "Syaka, cut the people out of their bindings!"
The girl with blue hair and a pair of sabers who was apparently Syaka grinned cockily, "I'm on it!"
"I'll keep the tentacles off her" said a girl a red haired girl with a spear, as they both jumped down into the green pit.
The leader then turned to a girl decked out in pink with an innocent face, "Madoka you take high ground and give us cover."
The pink girl nodded her head in a way that made of twin tails bob, "Okay." She responded cheerfully before she started leaping higher up into the air.
The groups leader then looked down at the villain with an expression of steely resolve, with her free hand she grabbed the hat from her head and swept it dramatically in front of her, four new muskets flashed into existence as she did so. What kind of quirk was that?
The golden girl then jumped into the pit along with Syaka and the redhead, however instead of joining them in freeing the civilians she began shooting the villains rose covered head with her muskets (which hovered near her while she moved). Half of the tentacles which had been harassing the red and blue girls began attempting to wrangle the golden girl. She balanced out her movements between shooting the villain and using the butt of her muskets to bat away the tentacles. Her movements were fast and fluid, she was clearly no only the leader of this group but also its most experienced member.
Enough of her shots had landed that the villain was letting out a shriekish howl, it lashed all of it's tentacles at her and managed to wrap a thick one around her legs. The villain jerked her out of her airiel routine and dangled her upside-down above its head, she had gone limp in its clutches but Todoroki could see her grimaced expression and her eyes darting about, looking for a way out.
"Mami!" cried out the red haired girl, seeing her friend in peril.
'Mami' looked down and seeing her partners distress, composed herself and smiled calmly, "Well I can't go looking uncool on our big debut now can I?"
With that she pulled a ribbon from its bow around her neck and it began slithering like a snake in the air, with a little manurering on Mami's part the ribbon swooshed towards the tentacles and somehow cut through them. Kicking the remains from her ankles she tucked and rolled in the air so that she was facing the villain, swirling the ribbon into a tornado it caused a glow similar to earlier and then she was hanging on to the end of a giant musket.
Who were these girls?
"Tiro Finale!" Mami announced as she fired flashy shot. The fight was over then and there. A huge flash of light exploded agains the villain head and it went fell backwards, the tentacles went slack.
Once Mami landed on the ground she elegantly swiped her skirt clean, the giant musket having dissapeared supposedly back to where it had come from. Syaka now noticing the fight was over took a break from slicing the pods of people one at a time, and craned her head backwards and shouted to the ceiling,
"Hey Madoka! How about a little help here?"
There was an agreeing chirpy sound from above when a sudden shower of pink lights showered down from where 'Madoka' apparently was, bolts of light landed on the lumps in the moss which caused them to pop! open harmlessly, freeing the crewmen trapped within.
Madoka feel gracefully down from her perch and began helping her teammates help the crew back on their feet and check that they were okay.
Todoroki and Momo had been rendered frozen during this entire spectacle continued to watch on from their place, Momo was starting to feel a little awkward still holding the weapons she hadn't got a chance to use. Apparently they weren't as well obscured as they thought because at one point Syaka glanced in their direction by chance, seeing the two students she propped one of her swords onto her shoulder and whistled to get the other girls attention.
"Uh guys," she said casually "I think we've got some company."
No more point in hiding, Todoroki and Momo jumped down to the floor with the rest of them and faced off with the weapon branding idol look-a -likes. Taking charge once again, Mami was the first to step in front of the others and address the U.A. students.
"Hello." She smiled.
"Who are you?" Todoroki asked bluntly, in his mind uncertainty took priority over curtesy.
"Clearly you weren't paying attention when we literally announced ourselves." drawled the girl in red, clearly unimpressed with Todoroki in general.
"Kyoko." Syaka admonished under her breath, elbowing her friend in the side.
"My apologies for not answering your question right away," Mami cut back in, "but could I please ask who you are? I'm afraid I don't recognise your school uniforms."
"We're from U.A." Momo replied, having discarded her creations, "we're here on a field trip."
Madoka spoke up at that moment as well, "Your from the hero school?" she then immediately looked shy when this question brought the rooms attention to her.
Mami smiled again, "Yes we've heard of you, we're not affiliated with a hero course ourselves but-"
"You're not students?!"
"No?"
"Are you employed at an agency?"
"Well no, but-"
"Then where did you get those costumes? Those gadgets?!"
"We..."
"You can't just fight villain on your own like that! Especially at our age!"
"But-"
"And the way you were fighting- how were you doing that? What are your quirks?"
"Quirks?"
"This doesn't make any sen-"
xxXXxx
It was nearing the end of their first semester, and part of their introduction to business class was getting an understanding of how agencies really worked, and to make a point of it Midnight had decided to take the class on a field trip to an agency a colleague of hers had started in Matakihara city.
The city wasn't known for its hero population, so they mostly dealt with copyright issues. Once they were off the bus and walking down the street nearly everyone in the class found themselves admiring the city, it really was beautiful and almost idilic looking, but most of all it was quiet.
It was approaching lunch time and the agency head was just finishing off the tour when they reached a door at the end of one hall way. She turned to them excitedly.
"Now before we take a break for lunch I do have something I would like you all to see. As you may know Matakihara city doesn't have any notable heroes at the minute, and in the hero business at least 70% of the game is getting your name out there."
"Uhh, don't you think that might be exaggerating that a bit?" Midoriya asked meekly from the back of the group.
"Nope." The agency head dismissed with out a nano second of hesitation, "And as you also know an agency is responsible for managing their hero's publicity as well as boosting their reputation to the masses. Which is why-" she flung the door open with enthusiasm, "I'd like you all to meet Matakihara city's newest and best girl group, the Puella Magi!"
The room was an apparent lounge area, and seated in a group having apparently been waiting for this section of the tour were four girls around their age in pale yellow school uniforms. Sitting on the couch was a girl with a red pony tail and a poky box in her hand and a girl with a blue bob, they had been in the middle of an exaggerated conversation when the door opened, sitting at the table was a girl who came across as smaller and more innocent than the rest of the rooms occupants, her pale pink hair was tied a red ribbon into pig tails, she looked at the group with a politely timid expression, offering a little wave. Sitting next to her, sitting up with straight posture was a girl who looked a little older than the rest, her shiny blonde hair was curled into twin tails, her hands were folded in the lap of her plaid skirt, she offered the tour group a composed smile.
Todoroki had meant to look at all the girls more closely, but his eyes kept feeling pulled to look back at the blonde.
"These are my little entrepreneurs, Kyoko Sakura, Syaka Miki, my daughter-"
"Mom." The pinkette complained quietly.
"Madoka Kaneme, and the group leader Mami Tomoe."
"It's nice to meet all of you." Mami said warmly.
"I wasn't aware this city had a hero course." Ururaka wondered aloud.
"Oh it doesn't." Mrs. Kaname answered, startling Ururaka a bit, "These girls are operating under what you might call 'special circumstances', they attend an ordinary high school but the agency provides them with hero training in exchange for the assurance that they will be assigned to our agency once they get their licenses. Think of it like Hero private school." She grinned like she was explaining her plans for world domination.
"I wasn't aware that kind of thing was possible." Momo murmured, rubbing her chin,
Mrs. Kaname leaned her head down close to Momo's face, smirking, "It wasn't. Until I explained to the board how it was a great idea" she righted her posture, Midnight laughed and patted her on the back.
"Now you all have an hour for lunch," Midnight announced, "and Mrs. Kanames trainee's have kindly offered to show you around town."
With that the two groups began to mingle, Kyoko and Bakugou had to be separated immediately after a few choice comments about how all his snarling and knashing was going to mess up his teeth.
Todoroki and Mami caught each others eyes and found themselves staring, the sight of the girl was threatening to trigger something in the back of his mind, she was beautiful of course, and clearly a nice person from the little conversation they'd had so far. But despite how ridiculous he knew it sounded (ridiculous and cheesy) he could almost say it felt like he'd met her before.
