Regardless of what people think, this story will continue the way I intend it to be. It's impossible to satisfy everyone, no matter how much you listen to each of them. As long as the majority are enjoying it, things will not change. Catering to the majority and the optimistic ones is what's important to me.

Chapter 8

You Have Failed This City

Inside a relatively messy lab-like room, a table could be seen filled with several mechanical components. There were some circle objects with buttons on them placed close to the edge. An office chair was suddenly pushed towards the table by an unseen person, hitting the table hard enough to shake it and cause one of the objects to fall off. It hit the floor with its button, causing it create a portal in front of it before disintegrating completely.

Another circle object was close to falling off the edge of the table when this happened, and when the portal appeared, it finally rolled off the table and right into the portal, which disappeared shortly afterwards.

"Did something happen just now?" asked a deep and rough voice from somewhere in the room.

Back in U.A., class went on as usual for Class 1-A, despite eight of its students having gone missing. The remaining classmates were worried for them, wondering where they went.

Denki, Mina, and Toru were walking together in a hallway with worried looks on their faces. "Where could they have went?" wondered Denki. "I hope they're all right..."

"I can't believe that the strongest ones in our class, like Midoriya, Todoroki, and Bakugo, would go missing! If they were attacked by villains, you'd expect those three to be able to fight back and make it out alive," said Mina.

"The villains must've ambushed them! Perhaps those villains are invisible, so they are unable to see who they are fighting!" said Toru.

"Yeah, facing invisible opponents can be tough," agreed Denki. "Wait a minute, have you even won a one-on-one fight yourself?"

"Imagine more skilled versions of me and you'll get a good picture!" Toru told him.

"What are you talking about?" asked someone. The three looked ahead and saw a Nejire standing there.

"It's Hado senpai!" said Mina. "It's a surprise to meet you!"

"No need for formals! We're good friends after all!" Nejire told them. "I remember... Some of your classmates went missing, right?"

"Yeah, and we were talking about it just now..." said Denki.

"I'm sorry to hear that... I hope they are found soon..." said Nejire.

"Huh? Isn't that Hastumei?" said Toru, looking at a pink-haired girl approaching them.

"Hello there!" Mei said to them while waving. "How's class?"

"Hard to concentrate when some of our classmates have missing..." said Denki.

"What?" said Mei in confusion.

"You don't know?!" asked Mina in surprise.

"I've been absorbed in making babies in my workshop these past couple of days and didn't really pay attention to the news," said Mei.

Toru chuckled a bit and said, "Imagine hearing that without context...! Making babies in your workshop!"

"So what's that about your classmates disappearing?" asked Mei. The three then explained to her what happened. "Ooh, that sounds like a serious issue... Maybe I can whip up something that can help find them."

"That would be great!" said Denki.

"I'll need to have more information on what happened, though," said Mei. "Perhaps I should check the security footage first?"

All of a sudden, a blue portal appeared next to them without a word, much to their surprise. A circle device with a button on it fell out of it and hit the floor, causing a second portal to show up. The first portal disappeared, and the device that created the second portal disintegrated. "Whoa! What is that?!" asked Toru in surprise.

"Be careful!" Nejire warned them. "It's probably a trap!"

The portal just stayed there and didn't disappear, and the more Mei looked at it, the more curious she became. "Didn't you say that your classmates disappeared through a portal?" she said. "What if...?"

"You're trying to say this is the same portal that took them away?" asked Mina.

"Perhaps, and that's what we're about to find out! The first step to resolving a problem is took take one huge step ahead, and I'm going to step through this portal right now!" said Mei.

"No! We should tell the teachers!" Nejire told her. Before she could stop Mei, the latter ran into the portal without a second thought. "Hatsume! Get back here!" Then she ran into the portal after her.

The other three students looked at each other with dumbfounded looks, unsure what to make of this situation. "You think we should go in too?" asked Denki.

"They may need our help! I know Hado senpai is one of the top three students, but she's not invincible!" said Toru. "And assuming that our friends are indeed on the other side, we have even more reason to go through this portal!"

"But I still think it's too dangerous..." said Mina.

"I'm going in whether you like it or not!" said Toru as she headed through the portal. Denki and Mina decided to follow her through it afterwards.

The fives students stepped out of the portal and found themselves in a nighttime area, and around them were buildings with English signs. "Where is this place?" wondered Nejire.

Suddenly, the portal disappeared. "Oh no! The portal is gone! How are we going to get back?!" asked Mina in shock.

"I told you this was a bad idea!" said Denki.

"Yeah, I think you're right..." said Toru, sounding guilty.

"Calm down! Let's get a good look at where we are first and then figure out what to do," suggested Mei.

"You're the one who got us into this in the first place..." grumbled Nejire.

Looking around, they saw that all the signs were English, and there were some skyscrapers in the distance. "It seems that we are in America," said Nejire.

"So we're in America? Good to know! Let's see if there are any pro heroes who can help get us back to Japan!" suggested Denki.

Suddenly, they saw a group of people coming out from a nearby building, which appears to have been broken into due to the door having been broken down. The fact those people are carrying guns and large bags made it clear that these are bank robbers.

The particular people stood out from among the generic-looking robbers. One of them is a large, muscular man with brownish-red skin wearing a white suit. The second one is a humanoid made from several metal shards stuck together somehow.

"Are they bank robbers...?" asked a worried Mina.

"Huh? What are kids doing here?" asked the muscular man in English.

Understanding English, Mei asked them, "Are you people villains robbing a bank?"

"You know English?" Toru asked her.

"Of course! I need to learn several languages in order to sell my babies internationally!" Mei told her.

"Who are these school kids?" asked on the robbers. "What's with the pink girl? Is she an alien?"

"Are those clothes floating in air?! What the heck?!" asked another one, pointing at Toru.

"Whoever they they, we can't have witnesses," said the muscular man. "Get rid of them!"

"Sure thing, Brick!" said the robbers as they raised their guns at the students. Denki, Mina, and Toru looked worried, but Nejire stepped forward with a serious look on her face.

"You four stay back! I'll handle them!" she told them.

"I don't know what you just said, girl, since we don't speak Japanese, but you better stay down, or else you'll get a bullet through your head!" one of the robbers said to her. She kept on approaching him, however. "Do you have a death wish? Then die!"

He pulled his trigger, but with an unexpectedly fast speed, Nejire dodged it before grabbing his arm and disarming him. She then kneed him in the abdomen and hurled him away.

Seeing this, the other robbers fired at her, but she was able to dodge them with swift movements and then punched and kicked them out one by one.

"Wow! She's good!" said Toru in awe.

"She is one of the Big 3 after all!" said Denki. "Still, I didn't expect her to be this good even without using her Quirk!"

The muscular man named Brick was surprised to see the robbers getting beaten up by Nejire, who turned to him after dealing with them. "Tsk! Useless! Losing to a little girl!" said Brick in frustration, and then he turned to the being made of metal shards. "Shrapnel! Deal with her!"

"As you wish!" said the being called Shrapnel as he approached Nejire.

"A mutant-type... Guess I'll have to start using my Quirk now!" thought Nejire, while the other students cheered her on.

Swinging his hand, Shrapnel shot pieces of the scrap metals on his body at her, to which she responded by jumping aside. He continued to fire scrap metals that she kept on dodging, but when she landed near some of the previously fired metal shards, they exploded, catching her by surprise and blowing her back. "Kya!"

Shrapnel leaped at her while he was down, thrusting his sharp fingers at her, but she rolled out of the way in time and then released a blast of energy from her hand at him, blasting him away.

"What?! How did she do that?!" asked Brick in shock.

Pieces of Shrapnel's body broke off him and fell onto the pavement. One of them flew in front of Mei, who picked it up and observed it. When Shrapnel stood up, the shards flew back to him as if they were attracted to a magnet, including the one in Mei's hand.

Noticing this, Denki said in shock, "He fixed himself! It's like regeneration!"

"Quirks that can heal are a pain to deal with..." said Mina.

"That was a surprise, girl, but it won't get me against next time!" said Shrapnel before firing more shards at Nejire, who released blasts of energy from her hands in response, hitting Shrapnel with the full force of her Quirk this time and blowing him into pieces. "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

"Is she a metahuman?!" asked Brick in surprise. Mei heard and understood him and wondered what he meant by metahuman.

Seeing that Shrapnel was in pieces on the pavement and assuming that he was fine due to the fact he could still pull himself together, Nejire turned to Brick and said, "You're next!" That phrase sounded like "Engrish."

"Looks like you're not ordinary girl!" said Brick in frustration. "Fine! I'll show you nobody messes with me here in Star City!" He stepped towards her with his fists folded and ready to punch someone.

Wanting to know what he was capable of first before using her Quirk, Nejire ran up to her and threw a punch. However, she felt quite a pain when her fist struck Brick's body, and he didn't flinch at all and simply smirked. "Ow! It's like hitting a brick wall!" she said in her head while shaking her hand in pain.

Brick threw a punch at her afterwards, but she reacted in time and dodged it by jumping back, and then she released energy blasts at him. Brick took the blasts to his body, but planted his feet firmly on the pavement so that he wasn't blown back by it. She was surprised to see that he was still standing afterwards. "He's still standing?! A blast like that should've blown people even his size off their feet!" she thought. "Must be related to his Quirk!"

"That stung a bit, but you'll have to try harder than that!" said Brick before charging at her, but she jumped out of the way before firing a larger blast of energy at him. In fact, she didn't stop firing and kept on pushing him back with the energy blast until he hit the wall of a building, and said wall was torn down by her Quirk.

"Wow! Awesome!" said Toru in awe.

"That should do it..." said Nejire, panting from using too much of her power just now. However, she was shocked to see Brick walking out as if nothing happened to him, though his suit was torn in some places. "What?! How is he still standing?!"

"Argh! You're starting to get on my nerves!" said Brick in frustration. "Don't get so cocky just yet! I've made sure to bring backup!"

"Hado senpai! Behind you on the roof!" Mei shouted at Nejire all of a sudden. "Get away!"

Without checking what it was Mei was talking about, Nejire threw herself to the side just in time to dodge a bullet that was meant for her, and it was aimed in a way that would've done fatal damage to her. Landing and looking at the roof of a building behind her, Nejire could see something there. "A sniper?!"

"Meow," said the person on the rooftop.

There was a bit of silence among them all as they stared at the source of the meowing. "Yeah, nobody's going to be fooled by that..." said Denki. "That's clearly a human pretending to be a cat..."

Brick used this distraction to hit Nejire, but she jumped out of the way in time and proceeded to avoid the punches he threw at her. All the while, the person on the roof continued to snipe her, but she was able to dodge them as well. Some of the bullets hit Brick, but to her surprise, they bounced off him harmlessly. "His Quirk must have something to do with the hardness of his body, and durability must be involved as well!" she thought.

He then, to the students' surprise, lifted a nearby truck over his head with no effort and then threw it at Nejire, who hastily blew it into pieces with her Quirk. Brick charged through the explosion before it dissipated and rammed into her, knocking her back quite a distance. "Ow..."

"Don't try anything else! Or your friend gets it!" said Shrapnel, who was seen holding Mei by the neck, his sharp fingers pressing against her skin and threatening to pierce through it.

"Um... We can talk over this peacefully..." she said to the villain nervously in English while standing perfectly still.

The goons that Nejire previously knocked out were back on their feet and with their guns pointing at the other three students. "Haha! Make a move and your friend dies, and if your friends do anything, you die!" said Brick. "Whatever you do, you're not getting out of this alive!"

"You can generate electricity to zap them, right?" Mina asked Denki, who said yes.

However, Mei told them, "Probably better that you don't do anything... They threaten to pull the trigger on Hado senpai if we move an inch..." This made those two nervous and think twice before doing anything.

Nejire growled and wondered what to do, and then she noticed a red dot on her chest, realizing that the sniper on the roof was aiming at her. "There has to be a way out!" Nejire said in her head, but she wasn't sure how to respond in a way that could guarantee her own safety and also those others three.

The sniper was lying on his front, aiming his sniper rifle at Nejire and getting ready to pull the trigger if she made a move. An arrow suddenly struck the part of the building right underneath him, but he was too focused on Nejire to notice it. It exploded, blasting him backwards.

The explosion shocked the others, who all turned to where the sniper was. An arrow suddenly attached itself onto Brick's shoulder, and before the villain could react, the arrow exploded. "Ow!"

At almost the same time, an arrow struck Shrapnel and exploded, making him let go of Mei.

The goons panicked, and then they were all struck from behind by someone. The students turned around and saw a blonde woman with a domino mask wearing a black leotard and fishnet stockings standing there. "You're safe now, kids," she said to them.

"Whoa... What a beauty!" commented Denki, mesmerized by her appearance.

"Green Arrow!" shouted Brick just as a person wearing a green hood and a domino masked landed nearby and pointed a bow and arrow at him.

"Danny Brickwell! You have failed this city!" shouted the person before firing his arrow. With a swing of his hand, Brick was able to knock the arrow away before charging at him. The archer got out of the way before firing more exploding arrows at him.

Shrapnel turned to the blonde woman, ready to attack her. She told the students to close their ears, and Mei translated it to the other three so that they did as told. Before Shrapnel could make a move, the woman screamed, releasing a powerful blast of sound at him that caused him to be blown away while breaking into pieces.

"Wow! Her Quirk is just like Present Mic's!" commented Mina in awe.

Nejire was relieved to see that what she believes were pro heroes coming to deal with the situation. "Thanks goodness! We're saved!"

Green Arrow and Brick continued their fight, with the former moving around swiftly to dodge the latter's punches and charges. "Stand still!" Brick said to him in anger.

"Yeah, tell that someone who hates getting punched in the face!" replied the archer. He fired an arrow that attached itself onto Brick's body and then turned into steel wire that wrapped around him tightly. "That wire is strong enough to not get torn apart even by multiple elephants, so you're not breaking out of it!"

Brick growled in anger as he tried to break free of the steel wire, but it was just as tough as Green Arrow said. The hero fired another arrow onto the pavement before him, and it released smoke. When Brick smelled the smoke, he felt drowsy until he finally collapsed on his back and snored loudly.

"Dealing with stubborn rock-for-brains who can't seem to stay down no matter how many times they get hit is annoying, so I've prepared sleeping gas arrows for this occasion!" commented Green Arrow.

Meanwhile, Shrapnel had attached himself together and was fighting the blonde woman, who moved around swiftly to dodge the exploding shards he fired at her. She unleashed her screaming attack at him again, once again blowing him into pieces.

Shrapnel was going to rebuild himself, but Green Arrow fired an arrow onto the pavement of the general area his body pieces are on, and the arrow released electricity around itself, zapping them. Shrapnel screamed in pain and then stopped moving while still in pieces.

"And that's that," said Green Arrow, and then he he aimed his arrow at a nearby rooftop without even watching. "Nope, I didn't forget that guy."

The sniper fired from his sniper rifle. However, the bullet was knocked away when the arrow flew into it, and said arrow continued to fly forward without having its trajectory altered in any way. The arrow flew into the turret of the sniper rifle, exploding when it did so. The person let out a cry of shock and backed away.

"Whoa... What an aim!" commented Nejire in awe.

"Your buddies are down, Onomatopoeia," Green Arrow shouted at the sniper. "Give it up!"

The sniper then revealed itself on the edge of the roof. It was a person wearing a trenchcoat and a black mask with a white bull's eye drawn on it. "Grrrrrr...!"

"Yeah, you keep it up with those childish sounds..." said Green Arrow. Onomatopoeia then took out a pair of machine guns and took aim at the archer. "Okay, the hard way it is, then..." The archer began jumping and running around swiftly to dodge the gunfire. All the while, Onomatopoeia was saying "ratatatata," mimicking the sound of a machine gun.

The blonde woman ran close to the building and jumped into the air when Onomatopoeia fired at her, and while in the air, she screamed at him. The powerful scream demolished the edge of the building he was, causing him to fall down. Despite having a rough fall onto the pavement below, Onomatopoeia stood back up with no problem.

The blonde woman ran up to him and began attacking him, and he fought back. The two traded blows multiple times, and it became clear the woman was the superior fighter. Onomatopoeia was hit multiple times and eventually knocked back onto the pavement. "Bang bang!" he said before taking out a pair of pistols to fire at her, but she avoided them.

Green Arrow fired an arrow at his shoulder, making him stop firing. He stood up, only to be shot with arrows in his limbs. Despite this, he still managed to pull out the arrows and ran off while shooting back at Green Arrow, who dodged the shots. The hero fired an arrow that went in between his legs and hit the pavement, exploding into ice. Onomatopoeia slipped on the frozen spot and slipped, and then Green Arrow caught up with him and punched him in the face multiple times. "Stay down already!" he shouted, sounding frustrated.

Eventually, Onomatopoeia passed out, and Green Arrow stood up while taking a deep breath. "Never got what's the deal with this guy being so tough..."

With all the villains down for the count, Green Arrow and the blonde woman got together with the students. "Wow! That was awesome!" Denki said to him. "Seeing pro heroes fight is always great!"

"He probably can't understand you," Mina reminded him.

"Actually, I can," said Green Arrow in perfect Japanese, much to the student's surprise. "I had lessons in multiple languages!"

"Same with me," said the blonde woman in Japanese.

"That makes things easier!" said Toru.

"Strange bunch we have here, huh?" commented the blonde woman, noting Mina's pink skin and Toru's... seemingly floating set of shirts.

"So... What are you kids doing getting involved with Brick and his cahoots?" Green Arrow asked them.

"You see. We were minding our own business in our school when suddenly a portal..." said Mei, but she got interrupted by the sound of police sirens.

"Uh oh... Gotta bail! Let's talk about this somewhere else!" said Green Arrow.

"Why? It's simply the police," said Nejire. "You defeated the villains, so you have no reason to run from the police."

"The cops here don't really like me," said Green Arrow. The two heroes left the area, with the students following them.

After a while of running, the group was at a place far from the police, who were currently taking away the villains.

"All right... Let's continue where we left off," said Green Arrow. "You said you entered a portal, right?"

"Yes. We were at our school when a portal suddenly showed up, so I entered it to find out more about it, and so we ended up at that place and ran into those villains," explained Mei.

"Entering a portal you find at random? Isn't that too reckless?" asked the blonde woman in Japanese.

"I'm a scientist, so it's my job to study the unknown!" Mei told her.

"Some of our classmates previously went missing because of these portals, so we thought we should be able to find them if we went through one," added Denki.

"What school do you go to anyway? I assume it's in Japan?" asked Green Arrow.

"U.A., the most famous hero school in Japan," replied Nejire.

"U.A.? Hero school? They have hero schools in Japan?" said the blonde woman curiously.

"You don't know U.A.? It's famous that the whole world knows about it! How can you not know about it, seeing how you are pro heroes?" asked Mina.

"Can't say I have ever heard of it," said Green Arrow. "And if you don't mind me asking..." He looked at Mina. "What with your appearance?" Then at Toru... "And... are you invisible or something else...?"

"I'm a mutant-type, which is why I look like this," replied Mina.

"My Quirk allows me to bend light, which in turn made me invisible," replied Toru.

"Quirk?" said the blonde woman in confusion.

"You don't know what Quirks are? How is that possible?! You even have one yourself! You know, the screaming move!" Denki said to the woman.

"That's my superpower," replied the woman.

"Quirks are superpowers! Do they call Quirks differently in America?" asked Denki.

"This is starting to get confusing..." said Green Arrow. "Hold on a second..." He then touched his ear. "Overwatch, have you heard everything?"

"Yes, I heard everything," said a woman's voice in the hero's ear. "I'm just as confused as you are at first, but then I remembered a message the Justice League sent a few days ago, though I didn't see it until now... It says that teenagers arrived from an alternate universe and are currently staying at the Titans Tower until they can find a way back to their own world."

"I didn't know about this..." said Green Arrow. "I should be checking my mails more often... So... these kids are from an alternate universe?"

"Alternate universe?" said Mei in confusion, as he was speaking English.

"Right," replied Overwatch. "We should contact the League about this. I'll try to call Cyborg."

"All right, and tell him to portal us to the Titans Tower," said Green Arrow. "If those teenagers are still there, then they probably know each other."

Green Arrow ended the call and told the students to wait. He told them what he was called, and the woman introduced herself as Black Canary.

Shortly afterwards, a blue portal opened up next to them, much to the students' surprise, and Cyborg came out. "Hey Green Arrow!" he said to the archer. "So these are the teens you found?" When Mei saw the mechanical appearance of the newcomer, she became interested.

"Yeah," said Green Arrow with a nod. "Think you can take them to the Titans Tower and also tell the League about this?"

"That's what I came here for!" Cyborg told him. He told the students to follow him, claiming that he was going to take them to meet people they know. The students wondered who he was talking about, and though they hesitated to follow him at first, they eventually did so when Green Arrow and Black Canary assured them that Cyborg is a hero as well and therefore could be trusted.

The Class 1-A students were hanging out in the Titans Tower, each of them in their own rooms and trying to pass time until they felt like turning in for the night.

They then heard an announcement from Starfire, telling them to come to the living room to meet a certain group of people. Curious, the students headed to the living room, where Starfire, Beast Boy, and Raven were at the moment.

"Who do you want us to meet?" asked Ochako.

"It's better that you see for yourself," Starfire told her.

The door leading into the room opened, and Cyborg came in, with the students following him. Needless to say, both sides were surprised beyond words to see each other.

"Kaminari! Ashido! Hagakure!" gasped Izuku.

"Hatsume! And even Hado senpai!" said Momo with widened eyes.

"Midoriya! You guys! You're all here?!" said Denki in shock and happiness.

"Wow! I didn't expect to see you at all!" said Mina happily. Mina, Toru, and Ochako ran to hug each other.

"You're the missing classmates! What are you doing here?" asked an equally surprised Nejire.

"We want to ask you that as well," said Shouto.

Izuku noticed Green Arrow and Black Canary, immediately becoming surprised. "You... You're the heroes Green Arrow and Black Canary from Star City! Wow! What a surprise!"

"You know about us?" asked Green Arrow.

"Yes! I've looked up on the heroes of this world when I came here, and I read about you!" Izuku said to him with sparkling eyes. "The internet says you have no powers, right? You're very good at archery and unarmed combat, even capable of taking down villains with powers by yourself!"

"Yep! I'm that good!" boasted Green Arrow.

"And you, Black, Canary! Your power is Canary Cry, a powerful screaming attack!" Izuku said to Black Canary.

"You sure did your homework!" commented the female hero.

"Can someone explain to us what on earth is happening?" asked Toru. "I'm totally confused!"

"You're never going to believe it!" Eijiro told them.

TO BE CONTINUED

So the Big 3 I'm using is Nejire! I originally thought of using Mirio, but then changed to Nejire. Why? Because I like girls, that's why!

Unless you've paid attention to the teaser, you might be surprised by Toru's addition. It's true that she doesn't have much screentime nor does she have a backstory yet, but I have a soft spot for her because of her appearance (or lack of). Plus, her face reveal, even if not completely, in the recent chapters sparked my interest in her more than before. Let's see how I can come up with useful roles for her and not just make her a background character!

Next chapter, we're finally going to see a particular group of people that you folks seem to be wanting to meet for a while already. I'm sure you know who they are!

And yes, Overwatch is Felicity Smoak.