"Denki."
"Yeah?"
"If you saw a villain, what would you do?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean if a villain suddenly invaded this park and tried to hurt a bunch of people, what would you do?"
"Hm, I'm not sure. Mom and Dad would definitely want me to run away and find safety quickly. But someday, I don't want to run away! I'd want to use my Quirk to save people like a hero should."
"Oh..."
"You okay, Raichan?"
"I'm find. How about if you saw a hero?"
"A hero? What kind of question is that?"
"..."
"If I saw a hero, I'd be amazed! Heroes are the best! They help people and beat the villains! Especially All Might! He's the greatest!"
"Oh. I see..."
"Raichan? What's wrong?"
"It's just...that's different."
"Who'd you vote for Class Rep?" Denki asked as he ate his lunch.
Raiden shrugged. "I didn't."
Denki stared at her. "Why didn't you? You could have just voted for yourself or me!"
Raiden sighed as she prodded the food in her bento, which mostly consisted of a lot of tofu and greens. "If I voted for myself, it makes me feel like I'm narcissistic. If I voted for you, well, what's the point."
Denki feigned being hurt. "Raichan!"
Kirishima laughed. "Wow. Your sense of humor is really dry, Kami, but it's so hilarious. Especially whenever you roast Kaminari like that."
During their lunch break, the two siblings had been joined by Kirishima, Sero, and Ashido. They had really bonded over trying to make a plan to get Raiden into the school, even though they never needed to use the plan in the first place.
"Either way, Midoriya-san is the Class Representative and Yaoyorozu-san is Vice," Raiden said as she finally finished up her bento. She wrapped it up and slid it back into her bag. "Nothing can change by my vote." She pulled out a slab of dark chocolate and was about to bite into it before a loud alarm blared throughout the room.
Security Level 3 has been breached. Students, please evacuate.
"What Level 3?" Kirishima yelled over the panic and cries of the other students.
"Someone's trespassed onto school grounds," Raiden said without batting an eye, biting into the chocolate. She wasn't showing the slightest bit of concern.
"We have to get out of here!" Ashido all but screeched.
Raiden shrugged and nodded toward the door. "Yeah sure. Have fun getting through that." The group turned their heads in the direction Raiden was looking at.
The door and hallway was completely jam packed with panicking students. To willingly go into that was probably suicide.
Raiden continued to calmly eat her chocolate. "I'll just wait here until the crowd's thinned out enough for me to comfortably walk through."
Denki winced. "Knowing you, you'd probably go when there's no one."
Soon enough, Iida had taken charge and grabbed the attention of the students in the strangest way possible, alerting them all that it was merely the press that had entered the school. The students eventually calmed down and continued with the evacuation, albeit in a far more orderly fashion.
Raiden finally stood, wrapping the leftovers of her dark chocolate. "Now we can go."
"Speaking of which, Kami, what's your Quirk?"
Raiden blinked at the pinkette in front of her. "My Quirk?"
Ashido nodded. "Yeah, your Quirk. Your's too, Kaminari," she said, looking to the blonde boy seated next to Raiden.
The class was on the bus headed for the USJ for their new rescue training. Iida, their new class representative in place of Midoriya, had tried to organize them all before realizing the bus wasn't the kind of bus he had expected.
The discussion had moved on to Quirks, and now that Ashido had asked the question to the two Kaminari siblings, the spotlight was on them.
Denki took Raiden's hand when he sensed her stiffening under the eyes of their peers. "Well, my Quirk is just an electric-type one. I take in electricity and I can emit it out of my body as a defensive and offensive measure." He pointed to Raiden. "But Raichan's Quirk is really strong. It's nothing like mine. It's amazing." He poked her cheek. "Raichan, tell them."
Raiden stared at Denki and sighed. "I have Electrification like Denki, but it's different. I can't store electricity inside of my body, so I rely on an outside source to use my Quirk. That's why my costume generates electricity for me. My ability to control that electricity is also more controlled than Denki's. For example, I can use the electric charge to control electrical devices, like the robots in the Entrance Exam."
Kirishima's eyes widened. "Woah! No wonder you got second on the Exam! That Quirk of yours is really handy!" He held up his arm and the skin hardened to form a sort of armor. "All I have is Hardening. It's not flashy at all, you know?"
Raiden shook her head. "No. The flashiness of a Quirk doesn't define how strong it is. Look at Denki. He uses too much of his Quirk and he turns into an idiot, but that isn't really a difference from how he usually is."
Denki sputtered. "Raichan!"
"What. It's true."
"I know, but don't say it like that!"
"Hah, you admitted you're an idiot."
"Raichan!"
Raiden shrugged, but a smile was creeping on her face. She looked back at Kirishima. "Besides, my Quirk wouldn't do a lot of damage if it wasn't able to make damage in the first place. In a fight between you and me, Kirishima-san, you'd probably win."
Kirishima's face lit up. "Really?"
Denki shook his head. "Nope. Raiden's a monster at martial arts. She'd kick your ass in seconds. I'd know." Kirishima paled.
Ojiro looked over at Raiden, surprise and curiosity written all over his face. "Martial arts? What kind?"
"Mostly Hapkido, Judo, and American Kenpo," Raiden said with a thoughtful expression. "Denki and I did Aikido during middle school, so I guess I can say that too."
"Woah!" Sero exclaimed. "I wouldn't want to go up against you in a fight, that's for sure."
"Tell me about it," Denki groaned. "We spar almost every day, and every time she's beaten me."
Raiden reached up to poke his cheek. "Then practice more."
Denki lightly smacked her shoulder. "I do practice!"
"Then why do you always lose."
"You're too good!"
Their classmates watched the exchange between them with smirks on their faces. Finally, Asui spoke up, interrupted their conversation.
"Speaking of which, you two aren't blood related, right?" she asked.
The two of them stopped talking and looked over at the frog girl. "Hm. You're the first to ask that so far," Raiden mused.
"To answer that," Denki said. "Nope, we aren't."
"But your Quirks are so similar!" Ashido exclaimed.
Raiden tilted her head. "But that's the only similarity. It's only a coincidence that I, a child with an electricity Quirk, was adopted into a family who all had electricity Quirks."
The classmates exchanged glances with each other.
"That makes a lot of sense," Kirishima said.
The chatter continued, with Bakugou beginning to make a scene with his anger issues. It would have continued if Aizawa didn't speak up.
"Hey, we're here," he said with a bored expression. "Stop messing around."
"Yes, sir," the class chorused.
Raiden stayed close to Denki as they entered the USJ. She could sense the crackle of electricity around her. But there was something off about it that she couldn't place.
Raiden was attentive during the hero Thirteen's speech. She shared Uraraka's fascination and admiration for the hero, but she didn't show it. Raiden always liked the heroes that specialized in rescue instead of defeating the villains.
Then the crackle of electricity around her sputtered and came to a stop.
Aizawa spotted something behind him, and his eyes widened.
"Thirteen! Protect the students!" he yelled as he reached for his goggles.
Raiden peered around him, and she almost stopped breathing.
A mass of dark purple appeared in the center of USJ. A man covered in disembodied hands walked out, followed by a massive beastly-looking villain. Even more villains came out, forming an large crowd.
"What's that?" Kirishima asked. "Is it like the entrance exam?"
Raiden's eyes widened at the sight. "No. Those are real."
"Thirteen, get them out of here. And contact the main campus," Aizawa said as he walked forward.
"Be careful," Thirteen said. "This isn't a random ambush. This was planned."
Aizawa only nodded before he jumped forward into the horde of villains. He effortlessly negated the Quirks of those he first saw and proceeded to use his capture scarf to rope them and slam them into the ground.
"Let's go!" Thirteen yelled.
Raiden found herself grabbing Denki's hand. She needed to reassure herself that he was here with her, and he was safe. Denki squeezed her hand as they ran after Thirteen.
However, the class stopped when a black mist appeared in front of them. Glowing eyes formed in the fog, glaring down at the class.
"There is no escape for you," the mist said. Raiden tensed just as a memory slammed into her. That very same mist appearing before her, years before.
As quickly as the memory emerged, Raiden pushed it down.
"We are the League of Villains," the mist said. "I know it's impolite, but we invited ourselves into this haven of justice to say hello. And we are here to ensure that the Symbol of Peace will draw his last breath by our hands."
To Raiden's utter horror, the two complete imbeciles that were Kirishima Eijiro and Bakugou Katsuki lunged forward to try to attack the mist.
"Idiots!" Raiden yelled. She sprinted forward just as the two morons had jumped off of the ground. She grabbed the collar of Bakugou's costume, yanking him back. She was about to reach for Kirishima when the mist whirled around them.
"Raichan!"
"Scatter. And die," the mist said.
Raiden grabbed Kirishima and turned to look behind her. She was able to catch a glimpse of Denki before her vision suddenly became distorted, and her surroundings changed. And for a brief moment, she was falling, bringing the two boys with her. Blue entered her vision, and her eyes widened.
"Shit, shit, shit, SHIT!"
Of all the places in the USJ, she just had to be brought here. This was the one place she would have extreme trouble working in. Or using her Quirk in general.
She, with Bakugou and Kirishima in tow, plummeted toward the Flood zone.
A/N: And another chapter is here! I hope you enjoyed it. My schedule and writer's block is killing me. The next chapter is something that I loved writing.
Til next time!
