Chapter 25: Faculty Meeting

It was only a week before classes had to begin and UA had its faculty called into a meeting to discuss any issues or topics they had to tackle. The faculty members were discussing amongst each other about what they had planned for their students. Power Loader was talking about a simultaneous good and bad feeling about a girl named Hatsume Mei that was going to be in his class this year.

"She calls her inventions her babies when she showed off the items to me. She had so many of them," Power Loader commented while slumping badly against his chair. "I feel like I will have my hands full this year."

"Any other news regarding students?" Midnight interrupted, "Hey, Vlad. You got anyone in your class that you think is going to be a troublemaker?"

Vlad King huffed, "My class seems to be very well rounded from what I saw from the entrance exam. I believed I picked wisely. Eraser?"

"Hmm?" Eraser mumbled weakly with his head slumped against his arm.

"What do you think about your class? You got Izuku in your homeroom!"

"I see some potential in the, but the first day will truly bring out their potential.l

"Oh, you are doing the quirk assessment thing again? Are you ever going to show up for the welcoming ceremony?"

"It's not needed," Eraserhead replied simply. He adjusted his head to rest in his palm as they all waited for the meeting to start. "Plus, Izuku listened to it plenty of times before. If anyone truly wanted to know what happened, Izuku can give them a bullet point list of what Nedzu went over."

"Since we are speaking of Izuku, is he doing the presentation?" Present Mic asks quietly.

Eraserhead nods slowly, "Only when the meeting ends. But yes, he will give a fully prepared presentation. I helped him with some of the ideas."

All Might sat at the closest desk to where Nedzu would be presenting with a small notebook open that he was scribbling in. He listened to the others talking while going over the ideas in his notebooks. 'Okay, so I introduce myself like a normal teacher when I come into the classroom.'

He was very appreciative of the job offer by Nedzu to teach at HA since it would give him the chance to work more closely with his successor about OFA. But he was teaching hero course to the first years mostly because he was just an amateur with no experience. Nedzu didn't trust him enough with the third years yet until h proved himself to be the greatest teacher. But he will show him that he is great at being a hero and a teacher to the new generation!

With that encouraging thought in his head, All Might looked up from his notebook just in time it see Nedzu stroll into the room with a thermos in his hand. Izuku was right behind him with a tablet and his own thermos clutched in his arms. Izuku closed the door softly behind him while Nedzu situated himself at the head chair to face his faculty properly.

"Alright, let the first meeting of the incoming school year commence!" He announced joyfully as the teachers prepared their folders to report what they have planned so far.

All Might looked around at everyone before flipping through his notebook to land on a certain page filled with unintelligible scribbles that he had for his scheduled class time. Izuku glanced over at his paper with a worked look. Ah, he might want to help All Might out with making his class plans more clear.

So one by one, the teachers answered Nedzu's checklist questions about what they had ready for the classes. Power Loader had his lab all set up, but he was going to get more material for the students to work with the next day so they can get started sooner than later. Ectoplasm was ready to go with all his mathematic lessons planned out for the year all prepared in a neat planner that he decorated with star stickers for fun. Midnight has all her modern art classes outlined, but not fully planned out yet. She picked out all the art mediums she wants for the students to know, and she even has a fashion course planned.

Snipe had an idea for some western to mix into his class, and he said that there wasn't much he had to do since he has the classes basically outlined for the lessons. Mic had his English plans for teachings all lined up for each day with enough room to move around things if needed. He was very excited to share his idea of an extra credit assignment that is to memorize an English song. Aizawa was straight to the point with most of his classes going his own way to help them achieve their potential. Cementoss and Thirteen shared that they had all of their plans completed for the most part.

When it was All Might's turn, Aizawa raised a pun eyebrow to how he was surprised that he had to plan for about a month ahead since he only had two weeks planned out so far.

Izuku got All Might's attention when he finished, "Uncle Might, I can help you out if you want on your schedule if you need it."

Thirteen offered, "All Might if you really need help, I have no problem with it. My lesson plan is already prepared, so I have no trouble helping you out."

"Ah, thank you. But I-," All Might started to reassure her that he was fine.

"He would appreciate it very much since he is still new at teaching," Nedzu interrupted All Might to reply to Thirteen. All Might gratefully nod back at the space hero before turning his attention back to the principal.

"Okay, now that everything is settled amongst our faculty. Izuku has something to share with us that he has been working on for quite a while. Everything presented will help us improve the school, so your thoughts will be needed," Nedzu announced to the rest of the faculty. Aizawa hid his knowing smile under his capture scarf as Izuku fiddled with the tablet to display his screen for everyone to see. "Izuku prepared a lot of ideas that we will discuss on possibly implementing in the future."

"Okay, I'm ready," Izuku mumbled standing up from his chair. He momentarily paused before he walked over to the front of the table behind his father to stand next to the displayed screen. "Um, okay. Hi. I noticed there are some things that could be changed, so I wrote down all of the ideas that I will know show you. I focused mainly on the entrance exam since we all notice that it leans more towards flashy quirks."

"So yeah, I have gathered a lot of ideas that can help us change the entrance exam to be more inclusive towards other quirks and other people as well. If you have any suggestions or feedback about anything, they will help out greatly. If you have any questions, please speak up so we can further go into a discussion about it," Izuku glanced over at Nedzu who waved at him with his paw to continue. "Okay, I'll start now."

"The main topic to about is the entrance exam and what can be done about it hopefully in the future. I researched quite a bit about different things that could be helpful to implement or a completely different way to how the exam is as a whole. The goal is to have a mostly, if not all, inclusive exam to help out any future hero in the making." Izuku turned to the screen to show off the title screen which had the basic layout map of the entrance exam with the four robots listed.

"The first option is an escape room type exam with a goal to rescue hostage," Izuku explained, flipping to the next slide which showed a sketched out building with rooms highlighted on different floors. It had drawings of locks, keys, and papers around the surrounding bullet points that explained what it was. "They will navigate the city looking for clues available through evidence is well hidden. There will be several buildings set up with the room layout different each time so they start at the bottom and work their way to the top. They will have to find clues to go to their next room to save the hostage at the end."

"Hmm, this is a unique exam, but not many people are good at these types of games," Ectoplasm commented.

Vlad King leaned back in his chair, "This is a pretty interesting idea."

"I feel like Izuku can do this in like ten minutes." Midnight muttered to Mic who nodded back at her.

"It won't work for everyone. It would work better for the participants with more intelligence though. It centers more on stealth quirks who can gain the needed information quickly," Aizawa said. "But it will show off the potential of how people can work in this kind of situation. It's more similar to a scene that underground heroes have to face more than heroes like All Might."

"What happens if they run out of time?" Snipe piped up from the opposite end of the table. He swiveled around his iced tea in his thermos as he stared at the screen thoughtfully, "I don't know if most of them will finish in under twenty or thirty minutes. Heck, last time I tried to do an escape room I wasn't even close before the timer ran out."

Izuku flipped to the next slide which showed a grade scale for the first option, "Then you grade based on what they did during that time wisely. Like if one participant chooses to just go straight to the top using their quirk without knowing the situation, major points will be taken away. If they don't finish, then their work and skills that they have shown at that time will be graded on how well they did. Even if they win, their turn will still be looked at to make sure there wasn't anything like only one person doing the work while the others in the room goof around."

Cementoss politely spoke up, "I think this does have the potential to have a lot of people working together for the greater good, and it can also show right away who doesn't work well with others. In a situation like these, any mistake could cost someone their life."

"What the next one?" Nedzu asked with a calm smile as his eyes stopped scanning the sketched out blueprints Izuku had drawn.

"Now, the next option is to have two separate exams for the physical portion. This will be something like having a more combat-based exam with robots as we have now. But the other exam will be more rescue and/or investigation based on the more mental quirks or quirks that don't work well against robots. The combat exam will still have the secret rescue points if the participants choose to save other peers. The rescue exam is more based on saving civilian bots or mannequins. I wouldn't put live actors in there so soon since it is only the entrance exam..."

"Would that mean students choose or that we place them in their exams based on what their quirk is?"

"The decisions will be more based on what major group their quirks are in. More combat or physical in number one and the more mental or less offensive quirks in the second one. Besides quirks, also any fighting experience will decide as well. If they have a tail but they have martial arts experience, they will be considered for the first one. This is mostly to help those whose quirks don't work well with robots."

"Hmm, very considerate," Thirteen states as they looked at the screen. On the screen, the slide was an image similar to the entrance exam they already had next to another image that had more civilians mannequins trapped under small rubble.

"The final option is one that has designated areas with bad guys that the participants need to take down. Each place will be either more combat-based, information gathering based, and rescue based. So people who want to rescue can go for the villain robbing a store with hostages. The person who wants the combat will go after the one wreaking havoc in another part of town. This is up for the applicant to decide where to prove themselves. They will have options ranging from fighting with smaller robots minions for the combat-based villain to rescuing civilian bots from the hostage situation. Civilian bots will be scattered around the city, so this would be the tie to see if any of the participants are shown to not care about who gets hurt. Placing civilian bots around the cities will help weed out the people that are shown to use excessive force in damage and how they treat the civilians around them. Then at the five-minute mark, they will be some kind of small disaster that is enough to knock participants around. It won't be super big, but it will range from area to area. The disasters would include something like exploding fire hydrants that erupt into a geyser of water, small fires, small tremors in the ground, and other things. This will show who acts well under pressure and who needs a bit of help under crisis."

"This idea is the best out of three."

Nedzu hummed before turning to Izuku, "Anything else to add?"

This idea is great.

Anything else to add?

Izuku smiled, "Ah, I do have some other ideas, but they aren't for the physical entrance exam. This is more written based."

"Let's hear them!" Nedzu exclaimed.

"Well, I was thinking of some ideas for more of the written part of the entrance exam. Maybe some questions to decide where exactly their morality leans toward. Like what they true intention of being a hero is or what they think of others that have been discriminated against. The main question I want to put on there is a classic moral test between who do you choose to save," Izuku paused to collect his breath. "For example, there is a villain surrounded by a crowd with two other pro heroes that are taking care of them. They are locked in a fight with the media and crowd watching them trying to take down the villain. But there is a civilian being robbed with a weapon in a close alleyway where no one else is paying attention. Who do you choose to help? The heroes fighting the villain or the civilian that is being mugged? It's all made to see what would they go for. Would they go for the villain to get more recognition or would they save an unknown person's life?"

"That would be an excellent addition to the written exams, I'll keep a note of that," Nedzu commented, turning back to the long table to face the other teachers. "Anyone else likes to discuss or add anything before I close the meeting for today?"

The teachers shook their heads while Mic and Midnight excitedly gave Izuku a thumbs up for his presentation. And with that, Nedzu ended the faculty meeting. On the way out, the staff congratulated Izuku on his ideas for the entrance exam. Aizawa patted his head of curls when the others weren't looking. Even if he went over the presentation before with Izuku, he was still impressed by the work Izuku accomplished especially since he could help with the ideas based on his experience with it.

All Might excuses himself to go catch a train to Sir Nighteye's agency, Izuku assumes it was for either the class schedule or because of Mirio. Present Mic stayed behind after every one to give him some exciting news.

"What is it?"

"Don't worry, little listener! I asked permission before asking you about this. You know how DJ Mouse is a hit with the fans?"

"Yes?"

"Well, the fans have been wondering when you would get a show of your own. What do you think of that?"

"What? A radio show?"

"Well, I will still be there, but what they really want is more of you. So I was thinking of having a more DJ Mouse central show about once a week or something if you have the time for it that is. It will only be an hour, and I already discussed it with Principal Nedzu about dropping you off if necessary! So what do you think?"

Izuku ran through all the thoughts in his head ranging from the fan theories all the way to his school schedule. He was starting actual school soon that was going to be totally different from homeschooling. With a smile, Izuku accepted the offer.

Oh, Uncle Mic was going to regret this decision.

Long after the meeting, Nedzu was working in his office while Izuku was scribbling down his late design for his hero outfit. He was scribbling down in his notebook in his own little hiding space.

The hiding space was what Izuku nicknamed a small room that Nedzu had installed in his office if there was a need for a private small space that no one knew about. If it was needed for a situation like villains breaking into a smaller situation when he just wanted to be alone. The small space was sneakily hidden away at the back of the closet in Nedzu's office behind a disguised door that looks exactly like the drywall inside the closet. It was perfectly tucked away and no one but he and Nedzu knew about its location. It was a small crawl space that led to a secret room that was big enough for Izuku to sit up with no problems with hitting his head against the ceiling.

The room had a fluffy rug that decorated the floor. There were two small beanbag chairs with throw pillows placed on them. The beanbag chairs had a large stuffed bunny whose arms were wrapped around a coiled blanket. So if there was ever a need for him to ask a nap, he would be prepared. And the whole room had fairy lights that hung down to provide dim lighting.

Izuku scribbled away at his design with a small battery-powered lamp near him to help him see the notebook pages better. He wanted his outfit to hold influences of the people he looked up to the most. He didn't want to wear a suit or tuxedo because it wouldn't provide the flexible stretch he would need.

He drew out the capture weapon his uncle always uses around his sketch's neck. He was more skilled at using the captured weapon now, so it would be a great help to him. Another item he added was a visor style pair of glasses that was the same color as Present Mic's headphones. He envisioned for the visor to help him out a lot, but he could wait until he gets an upgrade for what he truly wanted. For now, he would be satisfied with a regular visor.

For Midnight, his hero belt is reminiscent of hers in style. The belt had pockets and compartments on the sides to hold a taser, pepper spray, a knife, and a retractable staff. For Ingenium, he already had his jet pack which looked like Ingenium's hero outfit. The jet pack also had pockets for any bigger items that he needed like flashbangs, smoke bombs, and first aid supplies. And to represent his father, he had his hood designed to have ears that looked just like Nedzu's own ears. The hood itself was a greyish white that really stood out against his green hair.

The main color of his whole hero outfit was a mostly grey and black color scheme with traces of color like red in his belt and shoes. There was also the pops of color like gold in his belt and light blue with his visor. And his capture weapon was designed most white than Eraserhead's own.

With one last detail, Izuku was finished with his hero design.

And he couldn't wait to try it on once it's finished!