Shota Aizawa's life had not been going well. You could say that it was darn well falling apart ever since the first day of term. His whole class mutinied against him and decided to walk out, which was fine with him, he had expelled the previous year's 1-A on the first day as well. It was slightly bothersome because some of the students had some possible potential. He may have only expelled 5-7 of them on the first day.
Then that damn rat had fired him, handing over the class to Midnight. He knew she wouldn't get rid of anyone till probably the second year. She would waste time on those with no talent and not dedicate that time to those that could make it. Those that survived their time with him had the highest survival rate of their first 2 years of being pro heroes. He was saving these kids' lives. Wasn't he?
No sooner than 2 nights after he had been fired, he found himself out on patrol. Yes, he could admit that he may have been a little rougher bringing some people in, but he was not a robot, he had emotions. Well, sympathy and compassion were not his strongest, Wrath on the other hand. He knew that one rather well. Till that night.
He had come across a small-time drug dealer, nothing too major but he let the buyer leave and decided to follow the dealers, to see if they could lead him to something bigger. And they did, just not in the way Aizawa could have hoped. Once he found their little hub and manufacturing center, it was a simple bust in and arrest them; easy job well done. It worked that way kind of. The dealers put up a fight but were rather easily dealt with, one had managed to escape the initial scuffle. He had chased him down farther into the facility and found him trying to get an addict off the couch to escape as well. It was when he burst in and captured the male that the female's voice caught his attention.
"Hey, Mr. Aizawa is that you?" Her voice sliced through the air like a knife, slurred and singsong the result of her obvious high.
The boy struggling in his capture scarf immediately stopped struggling. "Mr. Aizawa?"
"Who are you two?" Shota was not used to hearing his name tossed around by villains and drug addicts. Eraser head, sure but Mr. Aizawa that would be a big bad no.
The girl stumbled forward, "Mr. Aizawa it's me, Katie, don't you remember me?" The girl was a mess, in short, grey gym shorts and a red-tattered tank top. Aizawa looked at the girl with dawning recognition before looking at the not struggling boy as recognition settled in again. They were Katie and Kato's; twin brother and sister from last year's class. The girl could command water but had little actual control, and the boy could manipulate air, but it was very weak. Aizawa noticed in his pursuit of the young man that he had used his air blast to blast open doors, knock stacks of boxes over, and other feats.
Aizawa clapped the quirk suppressing cuffs on the boy and turned his attention to Katie who was in a drugged-induced haze. The police came and took Kato away to the station for processing as Aizawa sat with Katie who was receiving medical attention. "Katie what happened?" he asked.
The girl had just flopped over, and her eyes locked on his, "You did."
"What do you mean?"
"We worked so hard to get into U.A., and then you kicked us out the first day. We could barely get any other hero school to look at us," she giggled and smacked her lips, "Can I get some water?"
Aizawa looked at the EMT who nodded, Aizawa handed the girl a bottle of water he had to help her take a drink.
"None of them wanted to touch us, we got kicked out on day one. Our quirks weren't very strong so there wasn't a lot for us. You remember Amber?" Aizawa nodded that she was another girl from the expelled class. "She was down, and she is the one who gave me Phantasia. It is so great; I just don't care anymore." She waved her hand in front of her face like there was more to see than the simple act. "Kato takes care of me; he is such a good brother." She smiled broadly and laughed at something that wasn't there.
"Where is Amber?"
"She's dead," she giggled again, "her parents kicked her out, she started hooking and one of her johns killed her. Poor Amber. I miss her sometimes." Katie was smiling and laughing as they loaded her into the ambulance, Aizawa could hear the laughter as the doors closed and they drove away.
Aizawa went to the police station and walked into Kato's interrogation chamber.
"Mr. Aizawa," his voice dripped with venom. "Well, I guess you were right after all Katie, and I had no potential."
Aizawa looked at the boy, "I said you had no potential for heroics. Why didn't you pursue something else?"
"We WANTED TO BE HEROES YOU SACK OF SHIT, we trained to be heroes, we dreamed of being heroes, we studied to be heroes. What in your drugged-induced mind thinks that translates to something else? Do you know what our parents did to us when we came home at 10 am and had to tell them that we had been expelled? Do you know that tuition is not fully refundable? They only give you back 50%. Katie was devastated, then she got hooked on Phantasia, and Amber's parents kicked her out. You know that one of the other guys you arrested tonight was in your glass 2 years before me. You expelled him on day 2."
"You two could have applied…"
"To where, what other hero school wants two twins who got expelled from U.A. on the first day? Hey Mom, and Dad, I know you just shelled out a fortune for me and my sister to go to U.A. and we got kicked out, can you do that again so we can go to this other hero school? Oh, by the way, it is far away, and you must pay for us to have a dorm, and we are not allowed to work to subsidize this at all." He yelled; his voice ripe with anger. "You know that out of the twenty of us, only 4 got into another hero course. 3 got into general education, and 5 are dead. Ken killed himself that night you son of a bitch."
Aizawa stared at the young man.
"Now I am going to jail, Katie is going to be released from the hospital in 72 hours and be on the street. I hope she doesn't end up like Amber, but she was already that way before I started supplying her. I made my choices and I get that; this is my fault. I want you to look at me and I promise you when I get out you will see me again. Remember to send flowers to Katie's funeral for me. I got nothing else to say to you, get the fuck out of here."
"Kato…"
"GET OUT, GET THE FUCK OUT!"
Aizawa stepped out, and he could hear Kato screaming until the door closed. He started walking down the hall, pulling out his phone, a sleepy famous radio host answered on the other end. "Shota is everything ok, it's 2 am?"
"Hizashi, I need a favor."
"Sure, Shota sure, what do you need?"
"I need you to get me the name of every student that I have expelled."
"Why do you need that?"
"Please, Hiza?"
President Mic immediately knew something was wrong, Shota hardly said please and only called him Hiza when he was drunk. "Ok Shota, do you need it now?"
"As soon as possible." He replied and hung up the phone. He raced over to the hospital, got there, and went to check on Katie, he found her still drugged out in a room with other people in a similar state. When she saw him, she started laughing, he walked over to her.
"Katie, I want to get you to help. Will you let me help you?"
A look of sobriety washed over Katie momentarily before she spits on him. "GET OUT, YOU RUINED OUR LIVES AND NOW YOU WANT TO PLAY HERO. I DIDN'T NEED YOU TO BE A HERO, I NEED YOU TO BE A TEACHER. GET OUT, GET THE HELL OUT!"
Soon everyone in the room started shouting the same thing. Aizawa was stunned into silence, a nurse came in and pulled him out of the room.
Aizawa went back to the agency to fill out the paperwork in a daze, he didn't even acknowledge Ms. Joke when she passed him in the hall. When he got home, he found a box sitting inside his home on the coffee table. Only Hizashi and Nemuri had a key to his place. He walked over, retrieved his laptop from his bedroom, and sat with the box he opened, pulled the first file, and ran it into the system.
3 days later Nemuri and Hizashi found Aizawa sitting in a darkened room, papers were thrown everywhere. He was drunk, and empty bottles of whisky were everywhere. He looked at his friends with a haunted look. "I killed them, I killed so many of them. I thought I was saving them but instead, I killed them."
Hizashi said nothing but he walked over and lifted his friend by an arm. "Shit Shota you need a bath, now come on." He dragged his friend down the hall, Nemuri turned on the lights and opened a window to air out the place some. She started picking up the papers before she picked up a legal tablet that was crumpled and tear-stained. She started reading down the list of names next to the names was a year, and next to that were words like Incarcerated, Dead, Suicide, Drugs, Alcoholic, and Vigilante. Only a few said Married and happy, and even a few numbers said, Hero.
-Inari-
Inari Midoriya was having the time of her life in the large girls' bath; she had managed to patiently sit through Momo washing her hair and body and rinsing her off before with a nod from Momo she found herself in the bath. All the girls played with her and gave her all the attention she wanted. Then the bath ended, and they all were sitting in Momo's room with coloring books. They put ribbons in her hair, watched cartoons, and tickled her. She simply didn't want the night to end, even when her dad showed up. Eventually, she had to say goodnight, but she made sure to get kisses from all of them before doing so. She even tried to get Daddy to give them kisses goodnight but for some reason, Daddy and the girl's faces got red and Daddy just told them all good night and took her downstairs to their room. Her daddy was funny like that.
-Izuku-
Getting Inari down for bed after two songs, as he slipped out of his room he made his way to the common area, and he fired off a quick thank you text to Momo. Before he went and made himself a sandwich. He set the baby monitor on the common room table and opened his bag to sit down and do some work, the common room was surprisingly empty tonight. Settling down into his homework he absently took bites of his sandwich, a few other classmates wandered down to raid the fridge with a stroke of luck Ida did and Izuku was able to ask his assistance on a science problem. As he was wrapping up Denki, Sero, and Mineta came down to play games together. He was surprised when they asked him to join in, he did so and had a nice time. The whole experience was pleasant, Mineta had tried to stir the conversation towards their female classmates but Denki and Sero cut him off. He did his check before he bid the boys goodnight and retired to his room.
-The next day-
Izuku awoke before his alarm and stretched, as he looked around the room something fell off. Try as he might place his finger on it, he proceeded with his normal routine, but he kept feeling like something or someone was watching him. As he was about to head for the gym he stopped and pulled out his phone.
"Is everything ok Izuku?" All-Might said on the other side of the phone.
"Toshi I can't shake the feeling something is off, or that someone is watching me. I was wondering if Torino wouldn't mind watching Inari today?"
"I am sure he wouldn't mind, is there anything I can do to help set you at ease."
"If you could maybe persuade them to up the threat level today a little, I don't know maybe I am being paranoid."
"I am sure I can manage that; it is better to be safe than sorry Izuku. Let me contact Nezu, go ahead and bring Inari to me so I can watch her till Torino awakes. I would like to spend some time with my granddaughter."
Izuku smiled, "Thank you Toshi, I am on my way now."
Izuku found himself soon enough in front of Toshi, Inari practically leaped out of his arms to her grandpa. Izuku lost himself for a moment in the happiness on both of their faces. "Thank you again Toshi, I hope it is just me being dumb but…"
"Listen to the voice inside that tells you that something is off Izuku, it is a good tool as a hero and a parent." Toshi placed his hand on Izuku's shoulder, squeezing it.
Izuku returned to the dorms and got ready for the day, he placed a call to daycare to let them know Inari would not be there today as she was spending some time with her adoptive grandfather.
Midnight began class by having them all change into their hero outfits as they were going to special hero training, it was on campus but due to the distance, they would be taking a bus. As the class made their way to the locker room, they noticed 1-B doing the same. As they all got changed, they made their way outside together exchanging some strange looks, Izuku kept getting the side eye from Neito and Jurota. There was some sort of invisible divide between the two classes, well at least on the boy's side.
Izuku saw the girls come walking out and they were laughing and engaging in friendly banter.
(All 1-B Costumes are the same as Cannon)
Midnight and Vlad were standing by the bus waiting. "All right everyone boards the bus so we can get this show on the road," Vlad yelled. The combined classes made their way on with mummers. Once everyone was seated, they made their way, the conversations started slowly but soon the girls had started roping in the boys from each class into their talks. It seemed to be a coordinated attack by them, and well boys being boys were not to let the opportunity to chat up their classmates.
As they stepped off the bus they were greeted by All-Might and 13 the rescue hero. Ochaco practically was jumping out of her skin when she caught a glimpse of her Idol. 13 seemed quite amused at the girl being such a fan and even posed for a few pictures with the bouncing brunette. When Ochaco returned to the group it was hard to ignore the smile plastered on her face.
"All right students, other than Ms. Uraraka, who knows what my quirk is?" 13 said. Izuku smiled and suppressed a chuckle at the pout that Ochaco flashed at not being able to gush about her favorite hero. It was the vice rep of 1-B that answered, she had green hair and sharp teeth, Setsuna.
"It's called Black Hole, it consumes matter like a literal black hole, not even light can escape it."
"That is correct, it is a very dangerous quirk that can cause some serious damage if I am not careful. Today we are going to conduct rescue training here at the Unforeseen Simulation Joint or the USJ for short. While I am sure you want to be a rescue hero and others are aiming for a more standard heroic career, it is important that you know how to proceed and lend aid in rescue operations. Follow me."
The students stood in wonder as the doors opened and the vast inside of the building was revealed to them. "The USJ is designed to simulate all different kinds of rescue operations, from water to fire, urban, forests, and mountain zones. Today you are going to be broken into groups and along with a teacher you will proceed to a different area to engage in types of rescues. You will be graded on teamwork, participation, quirk control, and demeanor."
-Team 1-
All-Might stepped forward, "WOULD THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS STEP FORWARD WHEN CALLED, INTRODUCE YOURSELF, AND QUIRK." He called out Yuga, Mina, Tsu, Tenya, and Bakugo from 1-A, who all stepped forward when they were called and did as instruct, they kept it nice and simple, just stating their names and quirks.
The first to stand was a boy 5'8, with Black hair, and gray eyes. "Hello, my name is Yosetsu Awase, and my quirk is called weld, I can fuse things at an atomic level.
Next, was another boy about the same height with dark brown hair and black eyes. "Sen Kaibara, Gyrate is my quirk, I can make any part of my body rotate at high speeds.
A very tall boy, 6'2" green skin, green hair, and eyes. "Togaru Kamakiri, Razor sharp, I make blades."
A young man with all black skin and white hair stepped forward, a little taller than the first two "Shihai Kuroiro, I call my quirk Black I can merge with anything dark.
Finally, Itsuka stepped forward and introduced herself to the group, she noticed that Bakugo gave her a bit of a side eye due to their history and more so from her association with Izuku, but the explosive blonde said nothing.
"WELL, DONE, NOW YOU TEN WILL ACCOMPANY ME TO THE URBAN RESCUE ZONE."
The group followed All-Might off to their training grounds. Once they arrived All-Might began to lay out the scenario, they were going to work together to scout and rescue 20 "victims" of a recent earthquake. All-Might walked them over to the first location and walked them through all the things that needed to be considered, that one could not just rush in and start removing rubble, proper support, and how to calm down the people that you were there to rescue.
"LISTEN CLOSELY MY DEAR FUTURE HEROES, IN THESE SCENARIOS YOU ARE COMING UPON PEOPLE THAT ARE MORE THAN LIKELY EXPERIENCING THE WORST DAY OF THEIR LIVES. YOU MAY BE COMING UPON A MOTHER WHO JUST WATCHED HER CHILDREN DIE, OR A CHILD WHO JUST LOST THEIR PARENTS. IT IS NOT ONLY ABOUT RESCUING THEM, BUT IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO MAKE THEM FEEL SAFE. YOUR TONE AND YOUR MANNER WILL GO A LONG WAY IN THIS. YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO REMAIN CALM AND DO YOUR BEST TO CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS. YOU ARE GOING TO SEE SOME TRULY HORRIBLE THINGS WHEN YOU COME UPON THESE SCENARIOS IN REAL LIFE. RESCUE IS PART OF A HERO'S JOB, WHETHER THAT IS YOUR SPECIALTY OR NOT."
After he walked them through a couple of guided rescues, he handed them all earpieces and left them to decide their plans while he moved to the control booth. Once there he went back to his skeletal form. Time management was going to be important today. "Now begin."
-Team 2-
Midnight called her team over escorting them to the mountain zone. Once they arrived, she turned and smiled at her group, "All right my lovelies introduce yourselves and your quirks, so you all know what you are working with."
She smiled as her class stepped forward and gave their introductions, she noticed they were doing their best to smile and be friendly. (Class 1-A Ochaco, Ojiro, Denki, Eijiro, Momo)
Yui Kodai surprisingly stepped forward first she was average height 5'3 with black hair and cerulean eyes, in an emotionless voice she pulled an item from her belt, and to 1-A's surprise, it suddenly grew to a 55-gallon metal drum. Then she pressed her fingertips together and it shook back down. "Yui Kodai, Quirk Size."
"How cool she deactivated her quirk like me," Ochaco said with a smile, Yui just nodded her head once in response.
Next, a girl could almost be mistaken for Ochaco's sister due to her hair color and height. "Um, H. H. H. Hello my name is Kinoko Komori, shroom, and my quirk is mushrooms, I can make them, and I like them shroom. Ok bye." The shy girl went and stood behind the large boy in their group.
Ibara Shinozaki stepped up, tossing her vine-like hair over her shoulder, her dark green eyes looking over the students from 1-A, she was tall 5'6, "Hello, I am Ibara Shiozaki, and the lord has seen fit to grant me the gift of vines, I can lengthen and manipulate the vines on my head to the good work God has called me to do." She clasped her hand in front of her and bowed her head. "May the lord's blessing fall upon us this day, may we absorb all the wisdom that our sensei will impart upon us and may our hearts and minds remain pure. AMEN."
Next, the boy covered in brown fur? Hair? Stepped forward, "Greeting 1-A, I am Jurota Shishida, and I call my quirk Beast, when I activate it, I increase all my physical attributes. I look forward to us working together during this training exercise."
"Last but not least it is I, Neito Monoma," a 5'7 blonde-haired blue-eyed boy said as he walked forward with a smug smile on his face. "My quirk is quite versatile and will be the envy of all I call it Copy, it allows me to copy your quirks and show you how to use them properly, except for you Ms. Yaoyorozu. I am sure there is nothing I could teach you." He finished with a bow as his eyes danced over Momo and Ochaco's figures. The girls gave an internal shudder, the boys wanted to punch him in his smug face.
Midnight stepped in "Now my little darlings, we are going to work on the rescue of those who have been trapped in a landslide, we are going to have some of you play victims while the others will be the daring heroes that will risk life and limb to take you into their heroic arms and carry you to safety. We will cover how to identify injuries, what precautions to take, and how to stabilize someone for transport. Now let us start with this training dummy, all of you grab you're pack and come with me."
-Team 3-
Vlad King stepped forward, "The following students step forward and introduce yourselves and quirk. Class 1-A, Rikido Sato, Mezo Shoji, Kyoka Jiro, Hanta Sero, Shoto Todoroki. Class 1-B, Nirengeki Shoda."
A heavy-set boy with light blue hair and black eyes stepped forward, "Hello my quirk is Twin Impact I can strike a target and then trigger a secondary impact that is stronger at the point of contact."
"Pony Tsunotori"
The pretty blonde American girl with large blue eyes and a pleasant smile stepped up. "Me Pony, sorry my Japanese is not good. Quirk Horns, they fly I can control."
"Kosei Tsuburaba"
A boy with spikey brown hair and black eyes stepped forward with a smile, "Sup all my quirk is Solid Air pretty self-explanatory I hope we have a great training experience today."
"Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu"
A guy with silver hair crazy blonde eyebrows and black eyes stepped up "Hey 1-A, yes that is my name, it's so great that you say it 4 times. You can just call me Tetsu, my quirk is Steel I can turn my skin to steel."
"Setsuna Tokage"
A rather pretty girl with dark green hair and eyes and sharp teeth stepped up and smiled. "Wass up all call me Set, my quirk is Lizard Tail Splitter I can split my body up into different pieces and control them with my mind."
"All right now that is over with, we are going to the flood zone, here we are going to practice rescue after a flood incident. It is going to be a more complicated urban rescue as the rising and receding water can cause its own set of problems. We are going to focus on search and rescue, triage stations, and recognizing structural problems and how to handle them. You will be scored on teamwork and how well you handle the principles I just mentioned. Now for the first part Shoto Todoroki, you are in charge. Let's go to the training dummy to start, grab your med packs and whatever gear you feel will be beneficial from the table over there.
-Team 4-
"All right the rest of you are with me in the fire zone," 13 said. "Introduce yourselves as we head over."
Fumikage, Toru, Koji (via Fumikage), Mineta who muttered something about wishing he was in group 2, then finally Izuku all introduced themselves.
Manga stepped up and with his bubbles showing a waving hand, and smiley face, demonstrated his quirk by making the bubble for a "Pop" and they all heard it.
The blond with gaunt features and ash-blonde hair introduced himself as Juzo Honenuki and explained his quirk of Softening.
A tall lad with what looked like a glue dispenser for a head stepped forward and with what could be called a voice so deep that Barry White would have been impressed, introduced himself as Kojiro Bondo and explained his quirk Cemedine.
The lone girl from 1-A stepped forward and introduced herself as Reiko Yanagi and that her quirk was a poltergeist.
Hiryu Rin gave the final introduction with his quirk of scales.
As the introductions 13 signaled Izuku to fall back. "Are you still getting the feeling that you are being watched? All-Might filled me in some when the alert level was raised."
"No, only when I am outside, not in the bus or in here just when I am in the open." He responded.
"Ok let me know if anything changes."
After Hiryu finished they came in sight of the fire zone.
"Ok, folks we are going to be dealing with fire rescue. Some of you will be on water duty, others on search and rescue. We have some fire gear for you Toru as your costume will cause issues. We will trade out jobs as I don't want anyone getting heat exhaustion. These are real flames so be careful. Now children let us begin,"
-USJ-
The whole day the groups worked to rescue, rotating zones, the best part was when they broke for lunch and an American-style BBQ, Pony was in heaven telling everyone what the different foods were. Much to Izuku's relief by the third rotation he was able to get along with 1-B. It took him answering a lot of questions, but it seemed worth it. At lunch Itsuka brought her group to eat his, surprisingly Bakugo joined them. He didn't say much but complimented the spicy BBQ sauce, but it was strange, nonetheless. They all joined back up as they were leaving the USJ as they entered the plaza it was nice to see the classes intermingling. They were being escorted by Vlad, Midnight, and 13; All-Might was nearing his time limit so he was in the monitoring room. As they exited the USJ Izuku had the feeling of being watched over him, he subtly got 13's attention and nodded. He saw her relay the info to Vlad and Midnight, the bus ride home was much livelier than the one over, Itsuka and Izuku even saw some of their classmates exchange contact info. Aside from the strange feeling it was a productive day. After changing to Izuku, he was waiting outside for his friends as he fired off a text to Torino to check up on Inari when he received an image from an unknown number. He opened it and was pictures of him, though out the day, him with Inari, walking to and from the dorm and the last one was of him just moments ago leaning against the wall. Izuku immediately activated full cowling and looked around, Momo and Itsuka plus his friends came out to see the electricity dancing around Izuku as he scanned the tree line.
"Izuku what is wrong," Momo said. Izuku simply tossed his phone to her. He glanced and saw Jiro, "Jiro I need you to tell me if there is anyone in that direction about 200 yards."
Jiro was slightly nervous by the seriousness of his voice. "Someone is giggling, no wait they are gone."
Izuku faculty phone, "Nezu possibly have had another break-in."