chapter 3: Month 1: Week 1: getting initiated
"Yo, are you alright over there, kid." the man in bulky armor said again waving at midoriya. "Did you agree to that creature's deal or what?" Midoriya was still a bit stunned and slightly confused on who the man was and what he meant by that creature's deal? But it all came flooding back to him after a moment. That planet within his subconscious, could he be referring to that?.
"Umm.. no , I didn't agree to it." Midoriya replied skeptically. "Who are you? And where are we?" Midoriya asked.
"Introductions can wait until all of you are properly out so we won't have to repeat ourselves." the businessman answered.
"You say you didn't take the deal, huh? But I sense a growing power from deep within you. Care to explain?" blast immediately asked.
Midoriya was caught off guard by the person's question, did this guy have a quirk that allowed him to sense other quirks? He wagered on what to answer or more precisely how he should answer given that he doesn't seem to know me he may not be in cahoots with AFO but he has never heard of any hero names blast in japan, perhaps he's one of the foreign heroes that endeavor talked about but that doesn't explain his location or why he and his friends were trapped. Midoriya ultimately decided to air on the side of caution and said.
"What you're probably sensing is my quirk, the seven wonders: it grants me all sorts of abilities." The tall man seemed unconvinced and skeptical of his words and said.
"Riiight... "quirk" you say? And tell me how did this "quirk" of your manifest."
It was midoriya time to be confused, how could they not have heard of quirks before or know how they function? Even if they were foreigners , surely they would be unable to not have seen or read about them before they made up 80% of the population.
"Well it's something that manifests in about everyone once they hit the age or 4-5, a weird power or mutation that is the culmination of either their parents' quirks or something new all together." Midoriya replied.
"Are you trying to play games? Because this isn't a laughing matter kid." The tall man's voice hardened some.
"No , no , I'm honestly telling the truth, if you could release my friends they would tell you the same thing." Midoriya replied immediately.
The two older gentlemen whispered among themselves, deciding on what to do. The boy wasn't making sense but he hadn't followed any of the patterns others did when being touched by that creature's power either, so they allotted to go along for now. Just as the two talks concluded the boy spoke again.
"You don't have to let all of them go but if I could proposition a choice, I would request that the small boy with purple hair and the boy with the yellow hair be let out immediately if possible."
"Oh.. and why would that be?" the businessman had asked.
"Well sir, going off your body language, you visibility relaxed when I answer no to the other ones question , so I guessed that taking that creatures deal is seen as a bad thing, while I trust my classmates like me to resist it's temptation unlike me those two are a….special case." Midoriya answered.
The other gentlemen laughed at that. "Well he sure is an observant kid i'll give him that, well ok, well go with your plan." blast lifted his arms and two portals opened up on the barriers dropping their content on the ground. After some time both boys started to stir and looked at each other and celebrated that they were finally free and out of that place. They noticed Midoriya and rushed to his side asking about if he was the one who freed them but the boy simply pointed in the direction of the other two across the way.
"Well, now that you are reacquainted. Did either of you accept that creatures deal?" The tall man asked. Both boy's said no and that they were pulled out before they were able to. causing another burst of laughter to emerge from the tall man.
"Well it seems you have real knowledge of your friends, you guys should be thankful he saved your skins just now. "
"Do you two know what quirks are?" asked the man in a business suit.
"Well duh! Everyone has them." Kaminari explained while generating lighting from one hand to another and the other boy removing a chunk of what he assumed was hair from the top of his scalp and it instantly regenerated on top of his head. Shocking the elderly man.
"Hmmm, it looks like you weren't lying about that either." the taller man said.
The two gentlemen talk amongst themselves, while Midoriya and his group did the same. The two expressed worry about where they were and if the two across from them were villains or something midoriya didn't know for sure but didn't want to jump to conclusions besides so far, that guy seems like the only one capable of releasing the rest of their friends in the first place, reasoning if they could do it as well he doubted they would have allowed them to be this close to each other when they got out. On the other side of the rooftop the two conversated on what should be the appropriate steps currently, if what these people are saying is true, they either mutated by being in proximity from being around the cubes for so long before coming into direct contact with them and being trapped or their was literally the possibility of a civilization of superhumans out there somewhere in the world. Both seemed incredibly dubious to say the least.
Ultimately the two decided on a plan of action and turned once more to face the teens. Blast lifted both his arms and portals opened up on the rest of the trapped teens and they all fell on the ground, certain individuals immediately catching blast attention , and creating another portal separating them from the rest of the class. Midoriya ran over to bakugo as he didn't stir or move like the rest of his classmates, but he was still breathing and after some time begrudgingly began to open his eyes. Upon seeing this midoriya was happy but that soon turned to shock as bakugo eyes, sent a death glare his way and he was too close to dodge the attack he was preparing but a portal suddenly appeared as bakugo lifted his hands swallowing them and a large explosion set off in the air 100 meters above their position. A portal immediately appeared below bakugo swallowing him whole and midoriya was left shocked at what happened to him only to see him appear some distance away on the roof along with tokoyami, koda, shoji, mina, and toru. Followed by the man's voice again.
"Well it seems you were wrong on this one kid, your friends over there have obviously taken that creature's deal, they have already begun to monsterfy as a result. Even attacking you upon waking up." The tall man began to walk towards them cracking his knuckles menacingly.
Midoriya was suddenly hit by a massive wave of pain from his danger sense. It was incredible he had not experienced anything this great since his fight with shigaraki but compared to that this guy was a lot worse, like comparing a toothpick to an oak tree. Where did this bloodlust come from? The guy was so carefree a moment ago how could he hide all of this? He remembered what he said about Kaminari and mineta. Was he planning to kill those over there because he thinks that they are gifted? Given that he didn't know what quirks were , then mutant types must have been also new to them as well. He had to stop him.
"Wa...wait, th..they are naturally like that….. it's their quirks as...well" he struggled to talk as he pushed through the pain.
"Don't worry kid, you don't need to make excuses for them, I'll make it painless. It's better this way, trust me." the tall man replied, continuing to walk to the still recovering group of teens.
As he heard those words midoriya was already stretching his leg to gather fujin to make it in front of the man, he launched forth charging 100% OFA into his fist, his emotions and danger sense getting the better of him, pseudo 1000000% Detroit SMASH! Blast saw out of the corner of his eye the boy moving towards him reeling back a fist, he was slower than him as expected but much faster than he thought he would be. Seeing the desperation and the fear in his eyes he decided to hear the boy out. He had stopped and waited for the boy to reach him and blocked the strike. The resulting explosion of air pressure didn't launch anyone off the roof but was felt even as it was kilometers away in the sky making the others cover their ears and crouch down from the noise and wind pressure.
As Midoriya opened his eyes he was shocked to see that the tall man had not only blocked the attack but did so with just one finger. The shock of it all, completely froze Midoriya as his powers left his body, he got down on his knees and begged the stranger.
"Please, believe me, they didn't accept that gift, quirks take many forms and they can change their body as a result."
Hearing midoriya pleas, Kaminari, mineta, and other students that recovered joined in and reinforced what he was saying was true. The man simply raised his hand and placed it on midoirya's head. He began trying to enter the boy's mind and read his memories to truly see if they were telling the truth but suddenly he found himself hovering above an empty void. Nothing in sight other than what looked like a piece of building with what appeared to be several chair's arrayed around a fire, he steadily floated towards the chairs where he began to hear voices. As he touched down on the piece of rubble , black energy immediately sprang up trying to ensnare him, he didn't care to dodge and let the black energy wrap around him, still puzzled by the scenario. A voice rang out from one of the chairs.
"Ha! got him, I thought it would be tougher than that given what we just saw but maybe it was just a coincidence of his quirk." suddenly the black whip started to tug on his body, he floated along with the whip and was pulled in front of a group of seven individuals sitting in those chairs.
"How did you get in here?" the only lady of the group asked, somewhat threateningly.
"I don't even know what "here" is and who are you people? Why are you guy's living in this kid's mind?" A similar voice as the one in the beginning came from a bulky man that was the largest of the group.
"We are the ones asking questions here. Wise guy and you better start answering them." He made a show of tightening his restraints in a show of power but blast decided to stop playing this game and simply broke out of the black whip himself.
"What the?" The members of the group began to get up preparing for a fight but were halted by the man in the center. He had a white shirt with his hair covering his eyes and spoke "easy now, we do not want to make needles enemies if we could avoid it, especially one so strong as well."
Another voice spoke up from another person that didn't stand , he had a strange scar across one of his eyes with yellow hair, "Yeah, you guys don't have danger sense. This man is trouble, everything in my body just screams for me to get away, just like all for one but even worse."
The man with white hair continued "Well stranger, you have our attention. What would you like to know?" The others in the group reluctantly began to sit back down and blast relaxed his muscles which he noticed made the one with yellow hair relax as well.
"Well this is really strange, what I was trying to do was read this young boy's memories now I'm suddenly here. I guess that you guys are some sort of defense mechanism for his mind and that too is related to this so-called quirk. And the seven people here probably match the abilities the boy has. Would I be correct in that assessment?" blast asked.
"You would be indeed correct we exist inside the boy's subconsciousness due to our bond with the quirk, may I ask why do you need access to the boy's memories?" another person noted, this one in a collared jacket with black hair.
"Hmm. I am simply curious if he is telling the truth or not, his memories don't lie. It's not everyday where people have supernatural abilities or body mutations that weren't monsters in our civilization." the group were a bit confused about the the man's statement but while speaking telepathically decided that it would be better for midoriya and the rest of his friends if they would comply with this mans wishes even if they could beat him out of here it would only make him more suspect of them and may cause him to lash out. They all agreed and let the man go where he needed. Several images flashed through blast's mind of midoriya's life, his training and obsession with a guy called all might, his entrée exam, his hero course exam , and his fight with a villain he called shigaraki. All of this happened within a few seconds as he removed his hand from midoriya's head and said "all right, I believe you." Midoriya looked up and was surprised by his turn of heart and all that bloodlust simply evaporated away, lifting what seemed like a cruise ship off of his shoulders, allowing him to stand up again and watch as the man walked back over to his associate. "Oh and you didn't have to lie to me about the name of your power, it's one for all isn't it? Not 7 wonders, also tell those people when you see them that it was a cute attempt to hide it from me, it only made me want to find out more."
Midoriya was caught off guard by the man's words. But continued on to the rest of his class and figured out their next steps though something told him that it was not up to them to decide. Blast walked back over to sitch and filled him in on the current situation and what he had glimpsed from Midoriya's memories.
" We may have a bigger situation here than I thought, these kids may not be from around here" he said.
"Well obviously if there is a group of powered individuals, then surely the hero association would have found it or at the very least some of the individuals would apply to be a hero." sitch replied
"No, you're not understanding, they may not be from around here as in, this plant hell maybe this very universe who can tell when it comes to that creature. The visions I saw in the boys' memories, the damage inflicted to the city and the scope of their society, it would be impossible to conceal from the rest of the world without going unnoticed." blast said definitely.
On the other side of the rooftop the rest of the teens were also conversating on what happened and where they were, most of the class looked to midoriya as he was the first to wake up and have at least some idea of what's going on.
"I don't have many ideas either on what's going on, I woke up just like the rest of you. Due to that man freeing me and after some convincing we managed to convince him to free the rest of you." midoriya said, pointing to the man in the white bulky armor.
"Speaking of which, why did you attack him all of a sudden midoriya? If what you said is true he saved us from whatever trapped us in with whatever was in those cubes." Sero asked.
Midoriya began to fidget and play with his hands, before answering.
"That guy…. He's bad news, I don't know if he is a hero or not but one thing for sure is that he's dangerous. With danger sense I can feel his blood lust and killing intent. I truly believed he was going to kill you guy's that he separated from the group based on your mutant quirks. Whatever that thing was we were exposed to, it must be bad news to have to result in such drastic measures for those that accept its deal. "Midoriya fidgeted some more. A look of relief flushed over most of his classmates, relieved in their choice to not accept that creature's offer. Besides the two individuals shaking from midoriya's tale both kaminari and mineta thanked midoriya for essentially saving their lives and preventing them from making a horrible choice.
"Ha, let that poser try to kill me, I would have destroyed him easi-"
"NO!" bakugo was caught off by midoriya. None of of us can beat that man, so it would be unwise for any of us to get on his bad side or suspect us to be under influence of that creature. That attack that I hit him with was at 100% of my power and he managed to block with just one finger." This drew shocked gasps from all of his classmates and it was Todoroki that spoke this time "Are you sure that his quirk just isn't just a counter to brute force? Like some nullification or absorption quirk?" surprisingly it was kaminari to speak up this time, " nah man, if he had or knew about quirks he wouldn't have needed me and mineta to showcase ours to believe midoriya into freeing you all." "and he wouldn't have tried to attack the others as well for having mutant type quirks either" Mineta added.
"There right it wouldn't make sense, that means he is just naturally that strong or something else either way he may even be stronger than all might in his prime." This revelation created an air of silencing from the class as a whole. It was uraraka who was always the optimist trying to make the best of the situation.
" Well maybe that's not such a bad thing, if this guy really that strong we could try and convince him to help us back home he could be a real asset to us and be the main person in leading the charge against AFO, that way….you...don't have ..to leave ..again." her voice got quieter and quieter where the last part was barely audible. As midoriya was about to comment again a sudden cough got his and the group's attention. It seems as though the two have come up with what they were going to do to them.
"Hello everyone, now that you all are awake I think it is only fair that we introduce ourselves. My name is Sitch and the man next to me is the S class rank 1 hero blast." he paused for gasps of shock or excited murmurs from the teens but when none came he continued onwards noting the strange reaction or lack thereof. "You are currently on top of the hero association headquarters in the newly rebuilt city-A, may I ask where you all are from?" the man named Sitch asked.
A boy with glasses stepped up in front of his classmates. "Good evening sir, I am Tenya Iida. and This is class 1A from UA high, a hero school based in japan."
Japan? Sitch sat in thought, and asked the first question that came in his head.
"And what city would that be in?"
This drew a confused glance from the boy, "um...sir japan isn't a city, it's a country based on the continent of Asia sir. The city specifically we came from was Musutafu."
This an even more confused look from sitch as the boy spoke, he looked to blast and they both nodded their heads in agreement.
"Um, excuse me but we really need to get back there as soon as possible. There's currently a crisis going on, that I need to be a part of to stop. And.. if you could help us with it, that would be very much appreciated." the boy with mossy green hair spoke up.
Blast rubbed the back of his head as he replied to the boy.
"Well that could be a problem to achieve if my hunch about you all are correct. It would be better to talk about this inside the building, but before we go I need all of you to make a promise, right now. None of you are to speak about those black cubes or any of your experience with the creature in the void to anyone that is not myself or sitch here. It is a classified and highly top secret project that can't get into the wrong hands." The cubes that were currently denting the floor were suddenly swallowed up by a portal under them sending them to a place that only blast knows where. The whole class nodded their heads in understanding and Blast continued.
"In any case, you all and most likely ourselves as well will have a lot of catching up to do, we will try to get you guys home as quickly as possible.(if it's possible blast said to himself) but for now let's all get off this roof and head inside. Two portals opened up above the students, himself , and Sitch and swallowing them whole, they immediately found themselves on ground level directly in front of the building they were just standing on and were ushered inside by the two adults behind them.
They were quickly separated into a common area that was completely ordinary for them, it had a couch, TV, computer , love seats, and more. There they sat and waited for further instructions as the other two left, giving them some alone time to process just what was happening to them. Kaminari and Mineta fought over control of the computer while the others lazed around on the sofa and chairs, jiro attempted to user her phone to get into contact with her parents on anyone but realized that it was impossible they had no connection to any service network, others also attempted to try themselves only to run into the same problem no one had a service connection. They instructed Kaminari to see if he could reach anyone through social media using the computer provided only to see that none of the known sites seemed to even exist. They turned on the TV to see if any of the news channels were covering the attack in Musutafu, but not only did they not even recognize any of the news channels but there was no mention of it anywhere, midoriya reasoned that having 20 teens go missing would be something the school would definitely try to cover up especially in this time of panic and confusion, as it would no doubt put an even heavier burden on the heroes.
Sitch came into the room and asked for one of the students to follow him and for some questioning, the class was reluctant to follow the man's request as splitting up in an unknown environment surrounded by unknown people would be foolish, sitch assured them that this wasn't a trap and that separating them is just a safety precaution, and would allow them to see if everyone stories match up without being influenced by everyone else. Midoriya decided to go first to put his class at ease and he would have the best chance to break out if anything went wrong, they also knew about one for all and given how they haven't attacked him yet,leads him to believe that they're not with AFO. He was brought into a room lined with a bookshelf and a computer situated on a desk. it was parallel to the common room they were just in, he was thn gestured to sit opposite of the desk with the computer.
"Your name is?" sitch asked
" My name is Izuku midoriya."
"And do you have any form of identification on your person to confirm that." sitch followed.
Midoriya sat for a moment before coming to a thought and digging through his pockets to fish out his Provisional Hero License and gave it to the man which drew a surprised look from the man. He took a moment to type down something on the computer and returned the card to midoriya.
"So you're a hero in training? From this place called Japan, am I correct?" Midoriya nodded in confirmation. "And in this Japan there are more people with these powers you called "quirks" correct?" Midoriya nodded again and added "Not just in japan either sir, all over the globe. All continents on the planet have quirks. In fa-"
"Continents as in plural?" Midoriya slowly nodded his head "yes?" Midoriya was really confused now, sure maybe these people could have been isolationists that shunned quirks of any kind and therefore don't know much about them but everyone should know the absolute basic fact of geography that there are multiple continents on the planet. He began to start typing on the computer again.
"And these quirks manifest from birth?"
"Potentially, it depends on the quirk type. Mutant type quirks can be seen at birth itself and become more profound the older a person gets but usually others appear around 4-5 years old." again more typing in the computer was heard before the next question was asked.
"You mention that there are different types of quirks? Can you elaborate further on that subject, how many are there and what differentiates them?"
"There are all sorts of quirks out there but the three most popular one's are emitters as the name implies emits or changes things around them, transformation allows the person to change something about their body, and mutants which permanently changes a person's body in some relation to their power." sitch typed as the boy spoke listing all the interesting things he said.
"Fascinating, on to a different subject, the card you gave me said you were a hero in training? Are teens your age normally trained to become heroes?"
"Not necessarily no, kids can opt into the hero course similar to other professions, the hero course trains students to be heroes."
"And why would there be a need for heroes if nearly everyone has a quirk to defend themselves?"
"Well it is considered illegal to use your quirk without a form of hero license."
"Ah I see, well that is all the question I can think of asking for the moment but before we dismiss I would like to ask you one more thing, Would you be willing to give us a blood sample? We don't know how long your stay here will be and it would be wise if we had some data to work with in case you need treatment done." as he talked the desk started to shift and change until it released a drone type object with a stinger, that hovered near midoriya. After Midoriya nodded his head in confirmation the drone pricked his skin and began drawing blood from his body.
"I thank you for your cooperation, once you return to the common room, you may send in the next person." midoriya understood and began to walk towards the door but turned before leaving "We really need to get back to japan as quick as possible, if you have been informed we are currently in a state of emergency, the villain's have mostly overrun the place an without me their there's a good chance they won't be able to stop whatever is coming next." sitch gave a tight smile and replied
"will try to get you back as quickly as we can but it may take some time as we figure everything out."
With that said midoriya walked out the door back to the common room, the rest of his class was in, to a barrage of questions of what he was asked and more. Midoriya managed to comfort his class and convince them the questions were mostly ordinary and nothing strange really happened. The only thing was the request of a blood sample from him which he told them may be asked of them as well. He asked who wanted to go next and it was surprisingly jiro who went next, her reasoning being that she wanted the WIFI password to this place, midoriya pointed in the direction towards the door and watched her move out and after having confirmed her going to the right place he turned back to his class huddle over on the couch.
Much of the conversation was on the strange environment and their new surroundings , and the people that inhabited it. As the discussion continued on, more students would trade as their questioning came to a close. It was when Iida returned with a book in his hands that the conversation took on a different tone.
"What's that in your hands Iida?" momo asked
"It's one of the books I saw on the shelf in the room. I asked Sitch if I could borrow it. It's about the heroes here. The dialogue and structure is interesting however, the book mentions several times of being only one continent and that heroes are segregated into rankings similar to ours but different in that their are classes starting from S,A,B, and C. there are only around 400 heroes which is staggeringly low for even the worst country, let alone a continent. And what's even weirder is that the books doesn't describe any of the heroes' quirks but instead lists their "weapons" and special skills but what's worrying is the use of killing in the book, it lists the amount of exterminations a hero has and any notable "monsters" that the hero has killed. "
The room's mood had become dark and sour, heroes that kill people? And their being praised and accommodated for it no less. What sort of topsy turvy world had they been teleported to. But through one of their minds that news was the final nail in the coffin that connected all the dots. Kaminari started laughing, drawing strange looks from the rest of his classmates.
"That thing really didn't, I was joking but it really did do what I think it did." Kaminari murmured to himself. Mina who was the closest to him blurted out "What!? Did you figure something out? out of all the people here that were not getting?" he looked at her then to the rest of the class who all had their attention on him. He looked everyone in their eyes before saying.
"It isekai us." This drew confused looks from almost everyone in the class. He was suddenly poked in the ear by jiro. "You dweeb this is serious, there is no time for your games." after recovering from the pain he pressed on. "I'm serious, Todoroki, back me up here. Doesn't this seem like the same plot of an isekai?" Before he could comment it was momo and tenya who almost simultaneously asked "what is an isekai?" Jiro was the one who answered.
"It's one of the losers, manga/anime genre, it's a complete work of fiction." Todoroki spoke up after rebuffing her statement.
"I wouldn't be so sure to dismiss him so casually, he does bring up a valid point. Within that genre of fantasy the main character or characters are usually teleported to another world where things are different from the one they are used to in one way or another while staying similar in other ways."
"Do you seriously believe this idiot? "Jiro protested.
"Yeah that would be very hard to believe to be even possible, ribbit". Tsu added.
"Yeah but I bet quirks that are normal to us would have been seen as impossible to people generations ago as well." Sero pointed out.
"Tch." jiro had nothing else to counter, it would also explain why none of the traditional social media sites even existed or where completely different to how they're supposed to be and why the groups emails didn't exist at all. Todroki spoke again.
"If we are seriously giving this theory some thought it would also explain the creature we saw as that to is present in them, some mystical being giving the main characters another chance whether intentionally or not in another world. However if we continue this theory to the beginning of the cycle that would mean that we all died in that battle with AFO." The room was deadly quiet as the teen last words left his mouth, mostly shock and astonishment of the possibility of what happened to the group. Mina was the first to speak out.
"NO!,no,no there is no way.. There's got to be something else, I don't even remember taking a fatal hit!" she shook her head in frustration.
"There's no way I would kick the bucket that easily without at least hitting back, that would be so unmanly." Kirishima said additionally. This began a wave of dismissal of the idea from the class as none remembered taking a fatal blow or even being closed to dead, the talks momentarily halted when ojiro came back from his questioning, and escorted the last classmate to be questioned toru to the designated area, after a funny moment of surprise from sitch not realizing the girl was their, he offered to get her some clothes if she would give him her size in shirt and pants as they continued inside the office. Ojiro came back to the room with his friends which was silent again with everyone having serious faces, after being caught up to the conversation his face darkened in understanding of the possibility that they all might have died and inwardly cursed his powerlessness.
"I don't think we died. AFO's entire purpose was to take back OFA, he wouldn't just kill me like that, he was trying to capture me if anything, think about it. If he wanted to just kill us, why go through the effort of gathering a group? He could have just used shgarkai's decay quirk to wipe everyone near UA out in one fell swoop." midoriya stated.
The class brightened at this, giving some hope to their predicament.
"I..is death the only way for that type of genre to begin? Maybe something else could have caused it." Koda shyly asked.
"I don't know, from the ones I've seen that was the common denominator, you kaminari?" Todoroki answered.
" I believe there were a couple where death wasn't the cause for it, but they were usually the less popular ones so I skipped them."
The class once again breathed a sigh of relief to the news, they didn't necessarily have to die for this to have occurred but that still left the question of how did this happen in the first place and how would they be able to get home from it.
"Was there any show that had the main character return home?" Shoji asked.
Kaminari shook his head. " I don't know, I'm sure there are but most of the ones I see don't have that as a possibility."
The mood grew cold again, no way back home. Stuck in this other world forever, all their family back home would assume them lost and probably dead from the attack at UA. Midoriya had an even bigger worry that without him AFO could do anything without resistance, he knew the other heroes were strong but only OFA could defeat AFO. No other quirk was strong enough. He thought back to blast, well in his world no other being could stop him but here, wherever here it seems some are much stronger than the people in their world. Through his ramblings he heard momo speak up and redirected the flow of the conversation again.
"That creature wanted us to accept it's deal and at least for me destroy all the quirks in our society to stop a dystopian future, that means it could send us back and may be the reason why we were here in the first place. " the class nodded in acknowledgement and stated having a similar experience with the creature.
"Did anyone see anything out of the ordinary during our fight with the villains at the school?" Iida asked. All the students thought back to the climatic moment and couldn't think of anything, just a sudden burst of darkness consuming them. Midoriya spoke " I think it was Kurogiri, during the fight with AFO I saw him next to Aizawa but after a moment I think I saw a burst of darkness come forth from him, maybe he accepted this creature's deal? And this was part of it."
Toru had come back in from her questioning and sat down with the rest of the group being informed by asui on what had transpired in her absence. Bakguo was the one to counter midoriya this time.
"Isn't he AFO lackey? Why would he accept a deal that sends his master's greatest target to a place he can't reach?" bakugo raised a good point and the class sat in thought on a possible solution to that, and Uraraka spoke up her thoughts.
"Maybe it isn't permanent? The only thing they fear that could stop them is midoriya and they wanted him out of this, so that they can have everything prepared for him once he gets back."
It was a mostly optimistic take, that would give them more hope of potentially going home again and not being stuck here but had some truth to it, removing your greatest threat from the equation even if temporarily, from the board would allow them to move much more freely and openly without being worried.
"That wouldn't explain why we're here along with him, round face and given that aizawa and shinso aren't here either rules out the possibility of just being too close either. ``Bakugo countered. Ojiro stepped in and said,
"In any case if kurogiri did accept that creatures deal, then it's all on it, maybe if we can find out its motives we can find out why it took all of us. What did it show you guys to try and convince you to accept it's deal?"
that question made the room grew uncomfortable, nobody wanting to go first on the torture the creature put them through, but Iida went first regaling the story of his brother which would hopefully open up the door for others to tell as well.
While the class was discussing the how's and what's of their current situation they didn't know that they were being watched from another room parallel to theirs, as sitch walked into this room he saw blast leaning against the back wall, watching the students and listening in on their conversation.
"Did you gain any new information?" Sitch asked
"No, nothing that we didn't speculate already about them, how did the questions go?" Blast replied.
"As expected most of the things they said made no sense if we assume they are from our world, multiple continents, quirks , hero schools, multiple hero agencies , thousands of heroes worldwide. And then there's this," the transparent window soon blacked and displayed two genetic sequences. "The one on the left is of a normal being and the one on the right is from one of them which all of them share, they all have something extra which was explained to me as a "quirk factor ``which allows their quirks to function without inhibiting the body. " a third genetic sequence rose up to join the other two. "This is the genetic sequence of the monsters we captured , while containing similar traces of humanity they're completely different to humans and these children. Which means they are telling the truth, that only leaves the question on what we should do with them."
The screen went transparent again, showing the teens inside. Blast sat and digested the information, trying to come up with some plan of action. After a couple of minutes he spoke.
"You're probably thinking of making them heroes of the association, I presume?" Sitch nodded, " I don't have a problem with that but I would like them to be monitored. And not just by some no-names either. The S-class."
This drew some surprise from sitch as he responded
"the S-class? But all evidence points to them being clear of suspicions. Didn't you also read that boy's memories? How could you still suspect them of being with that creature?"
"We still don't know what that creature is capable of. He could have fabricated all of that to fool us, no doubt it realized that someone had been collecting its cubes and slowly diminishing its influence. It stands to reason he would employ a different tactic to see what's going on. It becomes even more worrisome if these kids did naturally have these powers and they are enhanced further by that creature. They would be the only ones capable of stopping them in that scenario and if they turn out to really just be kids away from home, they would probably see it as a great opportunity to get stronger."
There was a knock on the door of the room. No doubt it was the clothes for the invisible girl, as he was about to open the door blast was opening a portal ready to depart. Before he could leave however sitch asked how he was supposed to convince the S-class of all people to take in students, blast simply flashed a smile and said that he would find a way , He convinced him to take this whole cube hunt thing seriously after all and he was just a hero for fun before. With that blast left through the portal and stitch opened the door and took the clothes from the agent, dismissing them back to their station. He continued on to the req room with the teens and knocked on the door to announce his presence before entering, he presented the clothes to the invisible girl, toru he believed and once she got herself situated he began to address everyone within the room.
" Judging from the information you have all provided to me, We have come to the conclusion that you all are telling the truth about your origins and your abilities. However getting you all home may prove to be difficult. As you all may have come to realize by my line of questioning, there is no place called Japan here and the planet only contains one continent which has 26 cities each for a letter in our alphabet. " noticing the grimacing faces he continued on. "However we will do anything in our power to return you back to your original planet/dimension."
" and what do you plan on doing with us in the meantime?" A boy with explosive blonde hair, katsuki he believes.
"Well katsu- "
"Bakugo" the teen interrupted him, seemingly getting agitated by the use of the first name he gave.
Ok, well bakugo.. given that you all claim to be heroes, we considered making you all heroes for the association for the remainder of your stay, we could sure use your help as the rate of monster attacks increases."
He saw excitement briefly flash through some of their faces but one teen with glasses raised his hand. He signaled for the teen to proceed.
"Sir, would we be required to kill monsters or capture another suitable method of duty?" Iida asked.
"Capture and detainment are all possible ways to deal with a monster of threat level tiger or below any higher would be considered unwise and nearly impossible." Sitch replied, which seemed to spread a relieved expression from multiple of the students present.
Another student raised a hand, this one was the strange mutant type with a bird face.
"What are these danger levels? You refer to me." Tokoyami asked.
"Threat levels are how we assign threats to the general public, it allows us to accurately gauge a monster's strength and allows us to dispatch the correct hero or heroes of a given class to dispatch of it."
When no other questions were presented he continued.
"We will not force your cooperation and understand you may need time to converse about the proposal. So you do not have to answer now, we will have you escorted to guess bedrooms/w built in shower and utilities. We will also ask for your sizes in clothes so you can have a change of clothing. I would ask for all of you to meet back here in the evening to give me your answer. Understood?"
All of the teens nodded as Sitch clicked a button on his sleeve that notified the staff to come in. 15 men and 5 women in suits came into the room with pads in their hands. Handing each student one to give their various sizes and escorting each student to their rooms, each situated next to each other similar to their dorms back at UA , after some time they all got acquainted with their new living space a couple of hours later fresh clothes were in front of their doors. After showering and throwing on their new clothes the teens sat in thought of the day's events and the choice they had to make tomorrow.
The night went by quickly and as 10am rolled around the corner all of the teens had made it back into the req room. Following some light conversation about the style of clothes given to them and some mentions of thankfully the food in this world being digestible to them, Iida had signaled the class to quiet down. He opened with a summary of the situation they're currently in and his thoughts on the question at hand.
"I will not lie to you all, I'm conflicted on this for several reasons. Number 1. The questionable nature of this association that endorses heroes to kill other beings perhaps this may sound naïve to them but killing should be the ultimate last resort even from our worst villains we give them a chance of surrender, number 2. The danger we don't know what we will be up against here in this world and without healing quirks any injury we sustain would leave us vulnerable for extended periods of time, maybe even permanently disable us which we can't afford especially with what's going on back home, which brings me to problem number 3. Getting back home, if our time here is only temporary or a way home is found, it would be best for us to not put ourselves at risk if we don't need to. I have other concerns but I would like to turn the conversation over to the rest of you, all voices are welcome."
Midoriya raised his hand to speak up next.
"I agree with Iida assessment, throwing ourselves into unknown danger seems unwise and if they're these so called "monsters" around just as strong as the individual from yesterday,(a visible shudder went through midoriya's form) I can't imagine what that kind of strength in the wrong hands could do."
"So You're still looking down on us huh?" the abnormally normal sound of bakugo voice cut in. "Just because you're the strongest now doesn't mean you will remain that way for long. I'm still aiming to be the number one hero, there ain't nothing I'm afraid. You got that midoriya! (his eyes drifted over to todoroki as well) the same goes for you too half and half. If the monsters are stronger here than the villains were used to then that is just the perfect opportunity to practice. Besides, did you guys forget about yesterday already? The heroes are separated into classes so only the stronger one gets the call to the bigger threats. ``Bakugo said finally.
"I agree with bakugo, however more concerning to me is how hospitable would the association be if we decided to decline the offer. If they don't have the money to support us or if they decide that we're just freeloaders and throw us out on the street. Those of us that can't pass off as human could be in serious trouble, if the reaction of that stranger before is universal. Those with mutant type quirks could be hunted down by their heroes and we would be forced to fight them. not mentioning housing and other needs." Shoji said. Causing looks of concern to befall the class.
"Well couldn't momo, duplicate money to help us hideout and buy things we need, ribbit." Asui replied. Momo shook her hands in surprise while shaking her head.
"No,no,no, even if we're in a different world that's still illegal where we come from besides I don't even know what the money here looks like, let alone its atomic configuration, they may not even have the same periodic table as us."
"Oh,oh, I know what if we… Got jobs? That way we could just camp out until we have enough money to buy an apartment or something." Toru said, waving her arms in the air rapidly.
"That would be impossible, we don't have any information in their systems. So we would either be paid very poorly or take probably unethical jobs for decent pay" Tokoyami said. The group sat in silence while people gathered their thoughts together. Semi-bawling her hands up, Uraraka went next.
"I still want to save people, no matter the danger as long as people are hurt or in trouble I want to give a helping hand."
"Uraraka is right, if we didn't help people because the risk was too high we wouldn't be able to call ourselves heroes." Ojiro said in support.
After that, multiple other classmates began to raise their support for joining the hero association and becoming full-fledged heroes, eventually it was fully decided that they were going to join the association and in perfect timing as well by the time the talks had ended and the decision had been made the time was rapidly approaching 12pm, they heard another knock on the door before it opened showing the same gray haired man from before, sitch.
"So have you all made a decision?" The boy with the green hair stood up and said yes.
"Great!, the hero association thanks you all for your kind service, before we go any further, however I would like you all to follow me to the gymnasium. Before you all can become heroes, we need to analyze all of your capabilities so that we can accurately assign you to a hero class. The class moved and got up excitedly as they followed the agents to the gym. Staying slightly behind, Sitch spoke into his radio and asked for there to be an S-class summon later in the evening
. Smirking to himself as he followed behind the teens, the first part of the plan went smoothly, however convincing the S-class to take these kids on as essentially apprentices would prove difficult given their lone wolf nature even with his planning and spying on them, there was no guarantees they would still take the bait and even if they do, would they really watch them or just sit them in some random corner somewhere? He sighed problems for a different time he guessed. He too was curious about just how capable these students and their quirks were.
First however was the Written test, this section held a lot more weight than people realized, he remarked that someone had broken every single fitness test record in the associations history but completely flunked out on the written portion which probably relegated him to C-class if he had to guess. He made a note to send word down to the rankings team that in this case the written portion should only be weighted a quarter of how much it originally weighed. During recent times it seems now more than ever the association needed more heroes to counter monsters' rising appearances. So maybe loosening the weight entirely may be the best choice of action, what's a few stray heroes if they can get the job done maybe they wouldn't need to be heroes at all. There are a lot of strong individuals in all walks of life after all.
By the time the written portion had concluded, sitch had given the teens back their hero costumes from before, all of them cleaned and stitched back together to look brand new.
the finesse test was next, however sitch was less than impressed by most of the students, the first test being1500 meter race proved a majority of the teens were practically average with some outliers, one being the obviously speed powered quirk of the boy with engines in his legs and the boy that had attacked blast so fast that he couldn't even see what happened, but there were others as well that surprised him with their ingenuity with their quirks the half fire and ice user used his ice as a slide and fire as propulsion, similarly to how the blonde headed boy used his explosions to launch himself ahead.
The top 5 finishes being Midoriya, Iida , Bakugo, Todoroki, and the bird face tokoyami in that order. The second test being weightlifting, He wasn't surprised when many of the students were insufficient in this regard. A lot of them were not bodybuilders and their quirks weren't tailored for physical labor besides a few of them, most maxed out at around 100 kilos, certain individuals made it into the tonns range and he was surprised of that a girl still remained among them although given her quirk it shouldn't have come with to much of a surprise, being able to remove the gravity on an object essentially removes its weight as well. In the end the top 5 were Midoriya, uraraka , shoji ,kirishima, tokoyami.
Afterward there was the squat jumps and utilizing their quirks again most were fairly average in this test as well, some notable ones being obvious at this point the 1st spot inevitably going to midoriya, the explosive bakugo second, the frog girl third, ojiro fourth , and sato coming in at 5th. Technically the gravity girl stayed and rose into the air indefinitely but they decided on her not using her quirk for this test in the sake of fairness. The next test was shot-put, nothing extraordinary happened that didn't happen with other strength based test although after having some of the object be melted by a certain pink lady, the test was redone with a more reinforced put that could withstand the toxins, flames, and explosions the more unique students used to launch the put. The 1st one was inevitably midoriya, followed closely by bakguo, then Iida using his legs to launch the put in a spectacular display, followed by asui , and 5th being sero. The next challenge was an unconventional one: it was a whack-a-mole machine, the purpose of this test was to test hand-eye coordination and combat speed of an individual. The results were no surprise to him either, midoriya as always came in first, followed by shoji, bakugo , todoroki , and Iida.
The last test he was unable to attend due to being notified of the S-class showing up for the meeting, the punching bag test results were as he expected from the students those who did not have physical enhancements with their quirks were fling on the average level with their punches, stronger than he expected of the average teen but still average overall for a hero, the teens that came out on top in this event was midoriya, Iida (although it was a kick not a punch), kirishima , tokoyami, and 5th being ojiro(using his tail). He left the teens for the other tests and walked towards the S-class meeting, he hoped everything would go well here as well.
As he entered the room, he immediately saw the occupants were all familiar to the last time barring puri-puri prisoner which was already the sign of a blessing as that would save him the time of explaining why he was excluded from the conversation. He greeted the S-class and the single B-Class that joined the meeting, and began before anyone got antsy about why they were summoned on such short notice.
"The reason I've gathered you all today, was not some upending doom that would doom the world like before-"
"So you're just wasting our time then!?" Tatsumaki exclaimed.
"Well, no something else has come up, some teens have appeared recently that have manifested some supernatural abilities, we have collected these teens to train them in how to use their powers and to become heroes but they lack experience so we were hoping that you all would take them under your wing and supervise them."
As he said this the table they all sat around began to light up, each showcasing the teens in question and brief descriptions of their powers and abilities.
"What!?, you think I'm going to watch over some stupid weak kid? Just because they have some fancy powers." tastumaki exclaimed once more.
"I'm with the little lady on this one, I don't have time to watch over weaklings." atomic samurai said.
Bang flashed a big smile and said "I would gladly take them all, under my wing. It would be my pleasure to take on the "burnden" so my fellow S-class can roam around free."
Sitch waved a hand as he denied bang's offer "no,no, bang we couldn't ask that of you besides, of the unique powers they were given only a very few of them actually have any physical hand to hand ability. It would be better to have them under a hero that can fully maximize their potential, on the table we have divided the teens into heroes who we would like them to work under. Have no fear of undertaking such a task we will offer you all bonuses that you can't refuse."
Bang smile fell and he along with the rest of the heroes turned to look at the screen below them, tatsumaki had an extra note on her screen from blast, it was a picture of him with his thumbs up and a smile on his face, she remembered meeting him the other day and him telling her that something like this would happen and he wanted her to go along with it? She breathed a deep sigh before resigning herself to actually looking over teens in question immediately closing windows that had the gender as male, she was left with five choices left each of them with a rather uninteresting power, the one that was highlighted for her was a brown haired girl that had the ability to float object's. Assuming she was another esper user she agreed to take her on just for blast sake, but after this he would owe her now.
"Fine, I'll accept her, but don't come crying to me if she doesn't want to be a hero to be a hero anymore or she ends up kicking the bucket." Tatsumaki said. Hearing her of all people say that shocked the rest of the S-class, they thought she would be the last one to agree with the situation. But their shock continued further when the drive knight also voiced his approval of the deal.
"I too can agree to such terms, however given the heroes in the room and the number of teens presented I assume you expect some of us to take more than one of them. In that case I would like to take the electric user along with the creation girl. In doing so are you giving me free will over them and their bodies? "
The way the knight phrased that question made Sitch uncomfortable and responded "As long as they consent to whatever you plan for them then yes. What do you plan to do with them?"
"I only plan to study them, you said these powers manifested in them and given that you didn't name a reason, I would like to find out for myself and if these powers could be replicated in others as well." the driver knight said flatly in reply. The mood suddenly lifted again as the other heroes sat and studied the screens in front of them.
Bang rose his head immediately after trying to take the initiative that drive the knight left.
"Well if we can take two of them, I would also like to express that chance. The young boy that you marked for me named Ojiro, I would gladly take him on along with the boy named Midoriya as well ." Sitch nodded and accepted Bangs' deal.
Pig god was the next in line to speak up.
"I would like this one..ugh .. Sato I would also like more sweets to be brought to my room for the next few days free of charge. `` he said pointing to a picture of a big lipped guy with brown hair at first Sitch racked his brain with intrigue on why he chose that particular student but realized that on the document it said that he liked to bake desert and his quirk revolve around sugar meaning pig god could comfortably request sweets all for the sake of helping his "student" in his training. Shaking his head Sitch reluctantly agreed to the pig gods deal, as long as it's one less kid off the table.
"Just try not to go overboard." Sitch calmly says. Super alloy darkshine, looked over the remaining Teens and was interested in the one highlighted for him, he had red hair and his hardening ability, curious to see just how durable that made him and he would be glad to instruct someone so young in building muscle to support such an ability.
"I'll accept the kirishima boy." Sitch agreed and looked to the rest of the S-class heroes looking over first to the demon cyborg he asked for his thoughts.
"No, me and my master don't need any more mouths to feed. And I have no interest in taking care of children." he said finally.
Sitch internally sighed to himself but this was expected as was his "masters" appearance in this room which was a blessing, hopefully what he was about to say will not escalate things too much.
"You won't have to feed them and I am not asking them to stay with you, they will still be housed here and be sent out to you or a designation of your choosing."
"I still refuse." genos said in reply
"Even if I offer you and your master a money bonus of 2 million yen?"
Genos was about to again but his master immediately stopped him after some large amount of murmuring , Genos turned back and said "fine, I'll accept this one" he said pointing to a blonde headed teen with explosive hair. Sitch continued however
"You know, your master shares a shocking resemblance to a hero who we received constant complaints from civilians for the incident with a demon level threat not too long ago, a number of them wanted this hero expelled from our rankings and some were major influencers of ours as well."
Genos squinted his eyes "are you making a threat?"
"No, but I can inform the public that the problem individual has been reprimanded and wipe away the complaints he received, even promote him to B-class rank 33 if you are inclined to take another teen under your wing, with future positions possible. "
After more murmurs from the duo, Genos turned and accepted the "offer" sitch gave him, he looked down and looked over the remaining teens and chose the teen with the red and white hair.
"You're sure going all out with trying to get us to watch these kids, is there something we should know?" child emperor asked
Sitch waved his hands "nothings it just that we hope to cultivate these heroes and fine tune them into something better."(maybe even the future of the S-class , he whispered)
Sitch looked over to the king." I hope you can see the use of raising the next generation king. And would agree to do this for the association."
the king simply nodded his head as his mind was filled over with thoughts on what he should do. He didn't know if he should pick someone that is strong or someone weak. If he chose someone strong then they could fight battles in his place and pass off his passiveness as tuff training but if they fail he wouldn't be able to save them and he would be revealed as a weakling and a coward on the other hand if he chose a weak student than he could run away from the danger and excuse it as getting them out of a bad situation but than if they were corned and force to fight the student wouldn't be much use in a fight. Hmmm he wracked his brain and simply went with his gut and pressed his hands on the table in front of him without looking.
"I choose this one." he said finally.
Sitch was partially surprised on who king had chosen but hearing the faint roar of the king's engine he decided not to press him on the subject and simply agreed to his choice figuring he may have seen something in the purple haired kid that he did not. He turned his head towards, metal bat who looked incredibly uninterested in any of the conversations going on being on his phone even looking at something he couldn't see. "Metal bat, given your handful of next jobs for the association, I'll assign you this student to make them easier, he can talk to animals so it will make any future incidents with influencers pets escaping easier." The metal bat looked up and smiled slightly at that but said "If he's an annoying bastard, don't blame me if I pummel him into the ground."
Sitch made a mental note to tell the teen that, metal bat always did have a short temper, which was another reason he paired those two together specifically hoping that the reservedness of the kid and hot head that was bad would balance each other out, he looked around the room again and this time turned his attention to tank top master who was skimming through the remaining applicants, he seemed to take an interest in one individual and raised his head to meet his eyes
"This kid here says his hero costume is a tank top, guess he's a fan of the tank toppers. Would be criminal if I didn't give him a shot of joining in."
Sitch nodded, and switched his eye towards flashy flash. He seemed just annoyed from this whole debacle. And didn't even look at the screen.
"Flash I would suggest looking at the screen in front of you, we will also supply you with the latest and greatest of hair products if you take one of the teens under wing." that last statement got the hero's attention he tried to feign ignorance but he looked down at the screen and once he did he stopped all pretense of pretending to not care. The screen below showed information of a stranger attempting to break into the heroes HQ and being captured, the only information they were able to get out of the man was that he was there for flash and would not talk with anyone but him. This got Flash's attention. No doubt this man was an assassin sent to kill him but from whom remained to be known.
"Sure, but if he ends up dead don't blame me, I don't guard weaklings and as you can see people are after me so sticking with me will put a target on his back as well. "
Sitch nodded slowly, pondering if he should really allow a teen to be around someone like flash, it should be ok, the one he picked for him seemed to have a good chip on his shoulder and book smart. He should be fine. He looked over next to zombie man who stared back at the man.
"I'm curious, what are you going to offer me? I don't practically need anything important."
"Well true but we believe we have a tip for you if you comply, about a specific doctor that you may be interested in. and the teens we have in mine would greatly aid you in your search and expertise. We know you specialize in espionage, spy operations and reconnaissance so we assigned two of the teens that would best accommodate that." Sitch replied.
Zombie was somewhat surprised at the hint of the doctor they were referring to , easily blocking out all of the rest of Sitch's speech regardless, he looked down at the screen as saw that one teen had a form of invisibility and the other grew stronger in a darker environment, they could be useful indeed. He chuckled and said
"Alright you got yourself a deal." zombie man said.
Sitch then turned his eyes towards the atomic samurai who had his hands crossed behind his back and head up and his eyes closed, he must have sensed Sitch stare because he spoke to him.
"No deal old man, I don't care what you say there, nothing you can say that could change my mind, I even glimpsed a lot of them, none of them even know how to use a sword, their time would be worthless with me anyways."
While he had a point, The teen he had in mind, was unconventional and the complete opposite of each other capabilities wise but that was the more reason he wanted them together, the boy could learn to overcome his weakness by practicing under probably one of the greatest swordsman in the world, thinking of swordsman however.
"Are you sure? If you looked at the screen you would have been shown the image of an island, that island is peculiar in that it only rises during the summer when the sun is highest in the sky, it rises from the sea and sinks down some time later. The readings we have on the island is that an energy from within the island is causing its rise and fall, scans show that it's metallic in nature and in the shape of a blade."
With that atomic samurai shot up and out of his chair. " hey, hey are you really suggesting what I think you are? Cuz that's not something to joke about." he had a serious expression on his face.
"I'm not saying that it's confirmed to be there but it is a peculiar situation we can get you and anyone you wish to accompany you to the island. If you take the teen of course." Sitch said.
Atomic samurai started to walk away but agreed to the deal and left the meeting to prepare for the trip and talk to the council. Mentally letting out a relieved breath, all of the hard headed people were taken care of which only left child emperor who was sitting there sucking on his lollipop as he watched the events play out.
"Let me guess you want me to take the remaining three huh?" Child emperor said.
"No, actually just the two remaining females we have some plans for the lone male in the group, it would save us some hardships later on if we fill him in on what's going on and ease the public into some of the teens' appearances if they are revealed." This got the remaining members attention.
"Are you suggesting that these powers they manifested also altered their outward appearance?" the child emperor asked.
"Well, not exactly all of them. Some of them can pass off being normal but others have strange changes to their body. We assume that their bodies naturally developed this way to better accustomed themselves to their powers."
As Sitch was talking the table below them was creating a large holographic image of one of the kids, he seemed normal enough other than his head which was replaced by a bird's. There was a second boy next to him that seemed normal other than the fact that he had several arms that are webbed together. The third image was strangely just floating boots and gloves.
"These are the most abnormal of the bunch, and the third holographic is not a glitch, that girl really is invisible. She apparently has no ability to control it and seems to be in a natural state."
"And I thought I was going to be the weirdest one in the association forever, let me guess those two are mine." Zombie man pointed to the bird-faced teen and the invisible girl. Sitch nodded in confirmation. "Yes, you would be correct. Given your talents we thought that it would give the least amount of potential exposure to the public. The last one here was selected by you tank top master, he as you can see he has multiple arms but that's not all, he has the ability to spawn even more from his body and not just arms either, he can spawn things such as eyes' mouths, ears, and maybe more."
"That would be pretty hard to explain to people that see them in action, what do you suggest we do about that?" the tank top master asked.
"We plan on issuing them specialized suits that will allow them to use their abilities, without hindering them but be played off more as cybernetics than natural talents. With that I have nothing else to report, If you have any further questions feel free to ask them now, if not. We expect you to meet them here tomorrow evening, we will have additional information of their abilities prepared along with their artificial ranking and class to give you a gauge on their talents."
None of the S-class had anything else to say and began filling out of the room, off to who knows where. Sitch form visibility relaxed as he sat down in his chair with a thud. Now that everything was complete, time to check on how the teens were doing, he wagered that by this time they should be doing their selected training based on their individual powers and abilities. He brought up a screen with the data from the fitness test and the results was what he expected a good majority of them were put into low C-class, but since some of the kids didn't rely on their physical ability to fight it was the best option to give them tests based on the power of the quirks themselves which could boost some higher than what these results would indicate.
The class was wiped out from the day's activities, the mental challenge of the opening written exam combined with the physical test reminded them of a harder version of the quirk appreciation test they did at the beginning of school. Then the real challenge came when they took everyone aside individually to test out their quirks specifically, it shocked them how they had managed to design tests to accommodate them so quickly. Midoriya had to go through rigorous weightlifting within a gravity chamber to accurately gauge his strength, his black whip was tested for its accuracy and yield strength, smoke screen was tested by endurance and thickness, fujin was tested to gauge the increase in strength or speed, while danger sense was tested by a number of factors such as debilitation, surprise , and hidden attacks.
Bakugo was tested for explosive damage and how many tons of TNT his explosions are worth, Todoroki was tested for temperature of his flames and ice, the distance he can fire them, and how long he can shoot them out. And many more examples from the rest of the class, some expressed concern especially Iida when Kirishima explained his tests which were him essentially being shot at and blown up by weapons, but Kirishima expressed that he was fine if not just a little singed.
On a lighter note the class got a good laugh out of what they did to kaminari, they had him hooked up to a generator to test how much energy he can absorb and discharge at a time. Momo was the most tired out of everyone and could barely explain what they had her do before going to bed, they had her create multiple large objects at a rapid pace, to find out the amount of mass/energy ratio needed for her quirk to function. Koda was taken outside of the facility to see how far his invoice went and apparently he was also taken deeper into the facility and faced against he described as mutated animals, he could understand them enough but if he attempted to exert control over them the only thing that would happen is that they would shake their head as if in pain and become rabid and try to attack him through the glass.
It caused some discussion of why the association had them inside the facility if they were so dangerous and not in some pound. Soon the conversation steered from the test to the results, sero made a point that since this world didn't have quirks they would essentially be superheroes in their eyes and because of that they would probably put in a high class and bakugo added that he would definitely be S-class stating that other would probably be B-class heroes just like how they would be in their world. But that was for tomorrow's events apparently, Sitch had come to tell them of the news and the situations they would be in to operate as heroes, they would essentially be work study students again under an official hero. They would also have their ranks delivered to them in the morning in the req room. The rest of the day was spent just consulting with one another about everything transpiring before everyone called it a day and went to sleep.
Morning came quickly and the teens quickly gathered into the req room eager to get their score and class rating. The room grew quiet as Sitch was accompanied by another member of the association; this one had wore a similar attire to Sitch, but he had a more angular face with a
Stubble beard. They approached the forward center of the room and the worker started speaking.
"First and foremost I would like to thank you all for agreeing to join the hero association, given you'lls unique situations. We have made customary accounts for all of you and have deposited an initial sum of money that should help you all buy some clothes of your own and any other materials that you desire." he braked in his speech as the students whooped and cheered, especially the one in pink.
"Any hero duties you accomplish will be rewarded monetarily and deposited into these accounts, and these will be the cards you can use to access that money at any given time if the store has the capability. They each have your name on them and will be passed out along with your new hero card that displays your hero class and rank within that class. We are also going to hand out the data plan for your cellular devices, the money will be coming from the association's as you work as a hero. "
The beard worker stepped back and Sitch took his place holding a envelope in his hands.
"Aoyama: C-class rank 120, Ashido: C-class rank 105, Asui: C-class rank 92, bakugo: A-class rank 20, Hagakure: C-class rank 380, Iida: B-class rank 72, Jiro: C-class rank 100, Kaminari: C-class rank 124, Kirishima: B-class rank 70, Koda: C-class rank 200, Midoriya: S-class rank 14, mineta: C-class rank 250, ojiro: C-class rank 90, sato: C-class rank 110, shoji: C-class rank 91, Todoroki: S-class rank 17, Sero: C-class rank 125, Tokoyami: A-class rank 31, uraraka: C-class rank 130, Yaoyorozu: C-class rank 114." as momo took the cards, Sitch began to speak again.
"For some of you may have noticed that your hero names have been changed, we have brought them more in line with our standards and regulations. We also would like to ask those with excessive mutant traits to stay seated while the others report to the gym to be picked up by your professional hero for the day."
As the students filed out of the req room towards the gym, more agents began to come into the req room with the mutant teens, taking measurements and asking probing questions about their extra body parts and how fabric reacts to it and how much can be covered up before losing functionality. After around 10 minutes the questions and measurements were done and they went along to join their friends in waiting for the heroes in the gymnasium. The class was in the midst of constant discussion about everything that had just transpired their class, ranks, and some of their new hero names.
"What happened bakugo?I thought you were going to be in class S?" sero said teasingly
"yeah , yeah… guess you aren't as strong as you think you are." kaminari piled on
"You should have heard him when they said midoriya and todoroki were announced, I swear the fact that he didn't burst out there was nothing short of a miracle, he's really come a long way." Kirishima mentioned.
"Shut Up, you idiots!, aren't you guys mostly C-class anyways? pathetic , for me since my ranking isn't S that just means they're just as in incompetent as the rest of you, they can shove this rank up their ass because that's where it's best.'' Bakugo lashed out as he looked back towards his card. The group was momentarily drawn to silence thinking that did bakugo just rhyme on purpose?
"Well he hasn't improved that much apparently," Ashido said.
"Shut your mouth pinky your C-class like the rest of them too." bakugo replied.
"ah,ah,ah , that's not my hero name anymore, now it's "acidic cherry". Not the most tasteful name but it's ok, for the most part." she said with a smile. Another group of students were talking as well.
"What!? My new hero name is Green Menace , that makes me sound more like a villain than a hero." midoriya pointed out to his group.
Iida nodded his head in understanding "yes it seems this hero association has no calms with putting more intimidating words in their heroes names to perhaps put fear into the people that may cause trouble? It could also be because you're a part of the S-class now so they wanted you to have an intimidating sounding name. They may not understand what your original name meant."
"That's a shame I really like that name too… but Iida has a point, Deku wouldn't really inspire fear amongst villains and according to him that's all they care about. ``Uraraka said.
"I had no doubts you would have made S-class midoriya, you do have all might's quirk after all, ribbit." asui said.
"Yeah, I'm surprised that so many of you were put in C the lowest class, the heroes here must be really strong as well, but they don't have quirks? How could that be right? Maybe they evolved differently from us so that they can survive in their environment? But why would they evolve similarly to humans…" Midoriya began to mutter aloud again as his friends looked on with smiles on their faces, happy that remains of the old midoriya still exist in him. There were two students separated from the others consulting one another.
"You seem somewhat down more than usual?" ojiro said.
"What? Me? I'm not down, I'm fine.. How could you tell even if I was anyways?" Hagakure replied.
"Because I know you, you're always so cheery and waving your sleeves around to signal your emotions. When they called your class and rank your shoulders and posture notably slumped down and you haven't said much since. I can only guess you being so low in comparison to everyone else has put you down." ojiro said.
Toru's heart began speeding up as he spoke about her. It would have been even faster if he could see her face which was blushing from the attention he gave her. Suddenly the memory of the visions she saw flashed through her mind and her demeanor dropped once more.
"I'm...fine, it's just more confirmation of how weak I am, it's lucky that I even got into UA." ojiro put a hand on her shoulder and said.
"You're not weak, you're just unique. I thought I was weak as well compared to everyone else so to prove them and myself wrong, I trained hard to surpass their expectations. You got into UA with your own merit and you can always keep progressing."
She smiled at the boy for his kind words and replied "I guess you're right, maybe I could catch up to you one day, look at you even for having such an "ordinary" quirk you're the 7th highest in the class. You definitely proved everyone that doubted you wrong.
Ojiro was slightly flustered and said "yeah, it surprised me as well, shoji was only one rank below me, as for the others above it didn't surprise me in the least but I'll still keep trying to get better I may never catch up to them but that doesn't mean we should just give up and not try to."
Hagakure proceeded to walk over and give ojiro a quick hug which made the young boy blush before saying "thank you, for saying that...I really needed it." She turned to walk towards one of the larger groups in the class before turning around and saying "I guess I have to watch myself more carefully since your eyes are so focused on my body." seeing the boy blush she laughed and turned away before the boy could recover from the statement and defend himself. Both walking past another group of students discussing name changes.
"My hero name was changed from creati to the creationist, seems just as an added extension of the original I don't see why the need to change it.'' Momo said.
"My hero name was changed to frozen-phoenix, it makes sense given my powers." shoto said.
"They thankfully decided to keep my name earphone jack, given my power as well. What about you?" jiro said
Surprised by her pointing to him, Koda quietly replied.
"They...they decided to change my hero name as well, it's now forest king."
"Hmmm. That seems like a cool name actually." Shoji said behind them."
"I agree it suits you and your powers well." tokoyami said
Koda just nodded while shying away from the conversation, not used to having all attention being on him, while the group continued to speak.
"Just what I expect from you Todoroki you were placed in S-class, I'm surprised that a lot of us were put into the C-class. Are the heroes just that strong here? Given the test we did I'm sure I would have done better than most." Momo said.
"It's likely that this association thinks highly of physical ability and those with more range capabilities were penalized from their physical performance." Todoroki explained.
"I agree with todoroki, If I hadn't developed dark shadow's dark abyss to cloud my body it's unlikely that I would have been in the A-class." tokoyami added.
"What does the classes mean anyways? Why are they so important?" shoji asked
"They created a class system to better deploy heroes to certain threats. C-class heroes are to handle threats of wolf and below, B-class are for tiger threats, A-class for tiger threats, and S-class for demon and dragon threats. This means that it is unlikely for us to be sent out against horribly dangerous opponents." Momo explained.
The group discussed more about this threat level system in comparison to the class system. Another group was getting restless about meeting these other world heroes.
"Hey mineta, if we are to follow the standard isekai procedures it is highly likely that the professional hero we train under is probably gonna be some good looking babe." Kaminari whispered. This got the boy's attention and anticipation going.
"For real!? , having to spend time with a smoking babe, fighting and training against each other and going out…." the boy started to get louder and louder as his fantasy started to overtake his thoughts but was quickly interrupted.
"Shut up, they would probably stick us with some A-Class nobody." bakugo stated harshly
As he said those words the gymnasium door opened up and mineta and Kaminari were both desperately trying to see if they could see a girl about to walk through the door only to be confronted with a giant wall of muscle squeezing his way through the door, he was a incredibly tanned and oiled behemoth of a man, that wore only a speedo which garnered some flustered glances from the girls of the class and aww from kirishima from how built that manly man was. The next to step in was someone that was the complete opposite of the first to enter, an older gentleman with his arms behind his back and gray hair in a black top and gray pants, he was muscular as well but nowhere near as much as the man he stood next to.
The next man to enter also struggled to get through the gym doors while the first was due to his sheer size and musculature this one was solely due to his weight and round belly he had a fancy hair and multiple chins, but the greatest thing to stick out to them was his size he was a very fat person and in his hands he held up what appeared to be cookies he was eating out of the bag.
He took his place next to the older gentlemen offering him a cookie to which he refused. The next person in was also a surprise. He looked like just a child with a backpack on and brown hair which held a device in his hands that he was constantly tapping away at. Not even bothering to look at the teens as he walked in and quickly went by the fat man. The next "man" to enter the gym didn't seem like a man but more a machine, he had a singular red eye and an intimidating appearance with his body being fully exposed shrouded in a black metallic armor. His eye visibly scanned over all of the teens before he went over and stood next to the child. The next one to enter was what appeared to be a teen like them but his armors seemed to be completely encased in metal with blond hair and black eyes similar to mina, however instead of walking towards the rest of the group he walked towards the center between the students and the heroes and called out two names.
"Bakugo, todoroki come forward now."
" Hey, demon cyborg you're supposed to wait for Sitch to give the ok before leaving." the child emperor said patronizingly.
"My master has an important mission for today and I will not dawdle around longer than I have to."
Child emperor just let out a sigh before turning his attention back to his device. As genos turned back around the two teens were in front of him as requested. He pointed to the door and ordered them to follow him out and began to leave. They were hesitant to leave at first but in the doorway they saw Sitch nod his head at them that it was ok and they quickly followed "demon cyborg" out of the gymnasium. After the whole incident more people had filed into the room across from the rest of the teens. There were three people huddled close together with various blades and one was missing an arm, another was a definitely pale man with red eyes in a trench coat, another man with long blonde hair, and another muscular man with short blond hair in a tank top. The last one to enter the room other than Sitch was a small girl who like the blond teen before her didn't stand with the rest of her peers but walked well, more like floating to the center of the room and calling out a name.
"Uraraka, raise your hand we're leaving. If demon cyborg doesn't have to sit through the rest of this then I'm not.'' The girl's voice seemed annoyed and it was clear that her temper was similar to bakugo 's. Uraraka hesitantly raised her hand and then found herself surrounded by a green aura, and to her surprise, hurled through the air towards the girl in the center. Who was already turning away and leaving the gymnasium with her in tow.
Sitch sighed to himself but expected nothing less from the two individuals in question, the S-class was always an unruly bunch of people. he ran his hands through his hair and began to speak. "I thank you all for being here today, these are the students I had told you all of yesterday and to the teens these will be your new teachers for the time being, these are S-class heroes, the best of the best the hero associations have to offer, well most of them anyways." he said looking over at atomic samurai's pupils here in his place.
" We tried to pair the best teacher for your ability to help you all grow from their tutelage. Without further preparations, I'll introduce them and the students who will be training under them, after that you will be free to leave and explore with your teacher. We will offer you all transportation to and from your teacher's city if they are located away from A-city. The first hero would be super alloy darkshine. Please step forward, your student will be kirishima. "
Both the teacher and the student walked forward and greeted each other.
"Wow, you are the epitome of manly, makes sense why they would have me under you. I can't wait to get started!" the youths excitable nature was infectious as darkshine smiled and replied
"That's a great spirit to have, but I'm slightly disappointed by your lack of muscles, does your quirk really help that much in your defense?"
"Yeah, my hardening ability was second to none in my school. (raises his hand and hardens it as an example.) It makes my body stronger than steel. And if I'm really serious I can take it even further."
"Well I look forward to seeing that, there is a gym I like to go to here in the association. Let's go there first and test you out." with that both of them left out and began walking out of the gym towards their destination.
Sitch began again. "The next hero, Silver fang, and your students, Ojiro and midoriya."
The two teens and hero met in the center of the gym and greeted each other midoriya with a formal hand shake but ojiro performed a bow which caught the hero's attention.
"Oh, so have you heard of my dojo, young one?" He returned the jester in kind.
"No, but I can tell by the way you dress that you are at least somewhat familiar with martial arts, which would explain why they chose you to teach me."
"Oh wow cool, what style are you a practitioner of?" Midoriya asked with his growing curiosity.
"I am the creator of the water stream rock smashing fist." the old man said happily. The name didn't ring any bells in his head so midoriya looked to ojiro for any insight on the fighting style but he shook his head as well. The look of confusion on the boy's face was a somewhat grim reminder of how his dojo lost it's blister in the present day but he smiled nonetheless.
"What fighting style do you two practice? Given your gi I assume you have been formally trained in some arts." the boy with the tail nodded.
"Yes, I trained to be a black belt in karate, Tae Kwon do, and Judo. With some knowledge in Tai Shing." the boy with the tail said.
"Hmm , interesting. I have never heard of those arts before. I would be glad for us to share points and forms in the coming days. And you young boy?" he said, turning his head to midoriya.
"Oh, um , me … well , I just punch and kick things, I usually mimic others I have seen as reference mostly." he said, rubbing the back of his head bashfully.
"I see, well that will make you an excellent student then. I shall show you to my dojo.I assume there is transport waiting outside?" bang asked looking at sitch, Sitch nodded his head and radioed ahead that bang was coming towards them with that midoriya and ojiro both said goodbye to everyone before making their way out.
his system of calling the hero and students in question continued on. Iida was next his hero was the long haired blonde, he tried to offer a greeting but the blonde said nothing and slowly moved around the boy his eyes analyzing his form and once completing a full rotation around the boy he simply said to follow him out of the gym which Iida did after flashing a wary glance back to his fellow classmates. The next pair was mina and jiro , they're hero was the hero child emperor, they were shocked to learned that he indeed was a child and were curious how this boy was among the S-class but he assured them that he makes due with his intellect and technology in fact he said that he would like them to come with him to his lab to test some inventions of his that should supplement their quirks nicely, after hearing that mina was ecstatic and jiro was optimistic of the child's offer, they left the gym shortly after. The next hero was not singular but a group.
"Atomic samurai disciples, would you please advance forward. The hero under the atomic samurai's watch will be Sero." The group of three stepped up to the center of the gym sero was a bit intimidated by all three of them and the weapons they were wielding and decided to break the ice with a joke.
" It looks like I'm a fellow disciple now as well, I hope you don't mind me sticking around." Nothing came from the trio but weird looks and Sero tried to explain while holding his left arm out to shake the blond man in the lead hand.
"Get it? Because my quirk uses tape...hehehe."
The group was a bit taken back by his statement but the leader shook his hand nonetheless.
"My name is Iaian , this is bushidrill, and this Okamaitachi, we are all in the top 4 of the A-class and are here representing our master atomic samurai. He was too busy with the council of swordsmen to come here so he sent us to retrieve you."
"Did you say that your ability revolves around tape?" bushidrill questioned, to which sero nodded. Causing them besides Iaian to facepalm while Iaian turned to face switch.
"Is this some joke? I thought you said you assigned the students based on the similarity to the hero in question?" Sitch waved his hands in mock surrender.
"We attempted to yes, but none of them are compatible with the sword, assigning someone with the exact opposite ability could also produce further growth as well." sitch reasoned.
Indian nodded and somewhat found reasoned with his logic. It's unlikely that atomic samurai cared for the student but the information he was given to call upon the council of swordsmen so quickly. Okamaitachi, the only girl of the group, spoke next
"What's your class and rank kid?"
Sero began to look down and shyly said…. "It's C-class rank 125." even Iaian couldn't leave out the sense of disappointment in his voice as all three members sighed heavily "Just don't slow us down." Once he said that and as the three began to walk away gesturing for sero to follow, he turned around to say goodbye and flip off kaminari and mineta who were snickering and laughing at him.
After that situation resolved itself roll call continued next was the metal man or robot that was called driveknight he was to look after Yaoyorozu and kaminari despite his intimidating appearance and voice he tried to sound friendly and simply left with the two students in tow. Sato was next and his teacher just looked too big to be someone strong and his name matched his size, pig god. He was friendly but he must have an appetite as the first place he said they were going was to the kitchen. The next student was Koda and his teacher didn't even look more than a year older than him but they seemingly left the gym in a hurry due to the hero's sister needing to be picked up from school. The next up was toru and tokoyami whose hero was the tall pale man in a trench coat. Despite how he looked he seemed like a normal person and he offered to take them out somewhere to eat first before they start their hero work.
There was only one hero remaining and the last few thought they all were going to train under him but as Sitch spoke they were surprised.
"Last but not least, Tank top master and Shoji, please step forward." This triggered an outburst from mineta. "What? That's it, what about us!?"
"He's right, ribbit. Were we not picked by anyone?" asui said
"That can't be right, no one could overlook my shining sparkling brilliance." Aoyama said while sparkling and spinning with his cape. Sitch turned to address them.
"Settle down now, your heroes are either indisposed at the moment or as in the case of one of you have a special situation to consider. Meanwhile in the center of the gym tank top master and shoji were sizing each other up the man stood a whole foot taller than the teen with a similar comparison in bulkiness although what had caught the large hero attention mostly was the teens multitude of webbed appendages that seemed like little nubs. Taking notice of what the large hero was staring at he decided to open up about it.
"I know someone like me would be seen as out of ordinary here. I hope it won't cause a problem in our cooperation." he finished holding out a hand for the large hero to shake. He looked at his hand curiously as the appendages seemingly sprouted out to little nubs.
He ultimately shook the boy's hand and said "As long as you treasure the tank top like the rest of the toppers. It shouldn't be a problem. I'll clear it up with the guys once we get back there."
Shoji was a bit confused by his statement but was happy that his mutant quirk wouldn't get him in trouble with the hero in question and from what he said he too had some apprentices that he would meet as well.
"We should get a move on. While the tank toppers you won't have to worry about I can't say the same for the public in general, but as long as you're with me you shouldn't have to have too much to worry about."
"Thank you. I'll try to learn as much as I can under your care."
With that both the student and teacher exited the gym leaving only three students remaining with somewhat disappointed looks on their faces.
"As for the rest of you, if you would all come over here. You will be given a driver to take you all to the destination that your hero set out for you to arrive." The teens all steadily huddled around the switch and the agent from before gilded into the area.
"To make a long story short, due to circumstances your mentors couldn't make it today. (he looked to asui) your mentor is a S-class hero called watchdog man he is the sole protector of Q-city. As for you (he said pointing towards Aoyama) your hero is A-class rank 1: handsomely sweet mask, he was busy with a scheduled meeting in place, while he may be in the A-class but he's the undoubtedly the most popular hero and deals with most show business, as he spoke aoyama beamed with joy and sparkles, and finally you (he said turning to mineta), your hero is the legendary and possible strongest hero in the association the S-class hero King, he messaged us that he had an important issue that he nearly forgot about. So he said for you to meet him at his apartment. "
Mineta was conflicted about the news, he really wanted his hero to be a hot babe but on the other hand the hero he was going to be training under was a super mega strong guy this worlds all might essentially and he was excited to meet him. The group happily went off with the bearded worker into their car.
The first stop for the group was aoyama. he was handed a piece of paper that the bearded worker said would allow him to see sweet mask, he was stopped in front of a giant studio which had a large bodyguards standing in front of the doorway he attempted to get in was soon blocked off after being questioned of his purpose here he showed the guards the paper he was given and he was let into the studio, he was guided by a receptionist towards a waiting area that next to the hero's room. Suddenly another door opened with a man with blonde hair in skin tight shirt and pants came out and moved towards his hero's door assuming it to be him he tried to get the hero's attention but was promptly ignored as the hero went into his room and closed the door behind himself after around 20 minutes the door opened again.
And the hero came out and walked over to the teen, the style and grace of his movement was marvelous and his clothing was perfect. He gestured for the young teen to stand up and he slowly paced around him and took in his form and hero suit, probably being as stunned as he was by his perfect hero costume but the words that left the hero's mouth were nothing but scolding.
"What are you wearing? It looks awful? If that is your hero suit then it is also highly impractical." the hero's face seemed to grimace as he looked at the teen. When the teen didn't say anything he continued to be annoyed. " You look like someone that is begging for attention, but demands the opposite,(he sighed) regardless, that could be fixed later. What I'm more curious about is what is so special about you and your friends that the hero association would go through such lengths to have the S-class babysit you." recovering from the hero's harsh words of his outfit which reminded him of a certain creature's visions.
He Responded
"Well me and my friends are unique and that we all possess certain supernatural abilities that we call quirks. He made a show of using his naval saber as a demonstration. This is mine. I can shoot out beams from my navel." sweet mask rubbed his chin in thought, they probably hoped to cultivate their powers but for what? And why the S-class of all people if anything they should have all came under me I could show them what a true hero is not those nutjobs. He mentally sighed to himself and addressed that teen in front of him. "That's very interesting, I assume they assigned your class and rank? I haven't had the time to look over the statistics they sent me from the association."
"I'm C-class rank 120."
"I see that's rather disappointing but under my tutelage you shall be a star and everyone in your class will gaze upon with jealousy. But first I have some other matters to attend to throughout the day and you shall be my assistant." Aoyama nodded his head and followed behind sweet mask as they left the studio.
The next stop in the car was for asui, the frog girl was standing outside in the middle of a street corner, she was advised that an advisor for the hero will come and introduce herself and her to the watchdog man. She waited for 5 minutes then was greeted by a brunette lady in a similar outfit to all the hero association agents. She had a sharp face with makeup on and a jeweled necklace. "Hi, you must be the hero froppy from the hero associations, my name is Dalia and I'm the q-branch committee leader. Nice to meet you." she said, holding out her hand which Asui shook. "Hello nice to meet you as well, ribbit."
"I'm sure you're curious about where watchdog man is and why I ask that we meet here,(froppy nodded) well before you meet the great hero and given what the association has said about you being new to everything, I wanted to explain to you few things before we get to him." The two began walking as she continued.
"As you may know now this is Q-city, one of if not the safest place in the whole world, and that is all because of him. The great watchdog man is the sole hero and has taken care of all monsters who have sprouted up rather swiftly and mercilessly." her attitude and tone of voice as she spoke reminded froppy of a tour guide.
"However he is a man of few words and also is usually as still as a statue, unless there is danger present." This caught froppy attention.
"Wait, you're saying that he doesn't move unless a monster appears?, ribbit"
"Well not quite he does move around occasionally for his walks, that's part of the reason we couldn't come to the association to meet you there, we already used up the number of walks he takes during a day. There were some people that really wanted him there for a party and the association insisted on his attendance. While we don't know why he does things this way we assume that it's because of his love and care for Q-city, he is the sole protector of it after all, so if he is not here when danger strikes then the results could be disastrous."
"That sounds like a lot of pressure to just put on one person. Ribbit ,why don't other heroes operate in the city?"
"It would be, for any other hero but not for him. Other heroes don't operate here because it's poor grounds for advancement, so most heroes that are above C-class tend to avoid this place as their spotlight would no doubt be overshadowed by watchdog man himself. Speaking of the great man, there he is" she said as she stuck out her hand. Froppy followed the hand to its destination to see a man in an all white dog costume sit atop a statue.
"It's said that the reason he chose to put his hero post here near the most popular train station in and out of Q-city was to get a smell of everyone who enters and leaves the city. So that he can keep tabs on everyone and know if they're in danger by the sense of smell alone."
"Are you saying that he has such a good sense of smell that he can tell an individual's position no matter where they are in the city!?" froppy said with shock. To which the committee leader just shrugged her shoulders.
"No one knows for sure but it's a popular fan theory as he's able to always be there when someone is in trouble inside the city and he can often tell that a monster appears before the sirens even begin to go off. He's a really amazing person." froppy looked at the man in costume in a new light. Maybe she will be able to learn something after all. They both began to approach the podium that he stood on. Dalia held her hand out for Froppy to stop as she continued.
"Hey, hey, watchdog man. I brought you the playdate that the association assigned to you."
A sudden breeze swept the area and froppy could have swore she heard some sniffs coming from behind her but when she turned around nothing was there and as she turned back around to face watchdog man again she was a bit surprised when the hero was no longer on the podium but in front of her face sitting down like a dog with his hands in front of him on the ground.
"Hi my name is asui, but you can call me tsu." she held out her hand but the hero did nothing but stare at it and sniffed it. Dalai came up behind her whispering in her ear before she spoke again and said.
"Shake?" to which watchdog man instantly responded putting his paw suit in her hand and said "Hello." with a very low monotone voice. After "shaking" her hand he immediately went back to his post up on the podium as still as a statue. Dalia tapped her on the shoulder and explained.
"As the name implies, watchdog man acts like a vigilant guard dog and his mannerism on duty reflects as such, so when speaking to him it would be wise to speak as if you were talking to an actual dog. He is not always guaranteed to reply but he is more open to that sort of language."
"Well, How am I supposed to train under him if he doesn't talk?"
"For that I have no idea!, but you should watch him carefully if you can and see if you can't learn a few things."
She was about to ask what she meant by if she could when suddenly a large gust of wind blew by and nearly knocked her off her feet. It was the same from the direction of watchdog man and she turned to see that he wasn't there anymore.
"There he goes again off to the rescue. (dalia pulled out a tab and motioned froppy to look, it showed presumably an upscale view of the city, and on it was a yellow dot and a red dot.) this yellow dot represents us and this red dot represents watchdog man." froppy was stunned the red dot was 30km away, she signaled for her to brace herself as the red dot came back nearly instantly and there he was back on the podium again.
"Good boy, watchdog man, here have a treat. ( dalia reached into her pocket and threw out a cookie which disappeared from the air and was in the watchdog's man mouth. She turned to look at Froppy) he's more responsive to treats and people who pass by also offer him food as a sign of thanks or to just clean off the podium from monster blood. And that should be everything you need to know. Any questions?"
Asui mentally sighed to herself why she had to get the weird one, but there was something cute about this hero's weirdness.
The last stop was for Mineta, he was surprised to find that king stayed at a regular old apartment and it wasn't even a fancy one at that. While it did have at least a view of the bustling city below, that was all it had. He was given a document to give to the receptionist for his authority to be there and enter apartment and was shocked to find that there wasn't even security at the front gate either. The guy made this king sound like all might the strongest man in the world, he expected more like a mansion or an estate with guards and more importantly hot babes in a line stretching forever long or at least to be welcomed by maids in cute outfits. But nothing just a regular apartment complex, maybe this hero association didn't pay well enough for that.
He probably should ask when he gets back. Mineta approached the desk and said he was there to see king. After some initial reluctance to believe the teen he handed her the paper he received, her tune instantly changed and even gave him a spare key to his room and where it was. Mineta was about to proceed upstairs towards the designated room but he thought better of it, even if he's technically allowed and expected to be there. Someone's room is still their personal privacy and he wouldn't want to violate that by entering by himself so he decided to just wait outside in the lounging area. It held many images and self promotion by the king apparently, which makes sense given that he's such a strong hero but thanks to this he could at least match a name to a face.
The man he was looking for had blonde hair with a 3 scratch mark down his left eye. The man didn't look especially powerful from how he looked, if anything he looked pretty scrawny but maybe he had a similar ability like all might where he has a muscle form or perhaps he would have a ranged ability. His pondering lead his curiosity in picking up a pamphlet called King's greatest defeats, he opened up the pamphlet an the first page showed a menacing villain who was all purple with two antenna on the most stunning detail on the page was the giant text that read threat level dragon, the creature could shoot energy beams from his eyes and balls of energy from his hands but king defeated him without a scratch, the next page was a giant humanoid feature with a white skull face it's details read dragon level threat: 270m tall giant killed by king without a scratch, flipping the page again was a group effort it was said that king and the S-class destroyed the alien invaders that destroyed A-city.
The print read that while the details about the event are scarce it is heavily suggested by the association that king and tatsumaki are the leading figures of the climactic battle that lead to the hero's victory where mostly all of the S-class heroes were unscathed by the assault. Mineta flipped the page again and this time the image was of king himself and the text read beware the king's engine for it is the sign of imminent death to the sounds of a human heartbeat. Monsters below that of demons are left stricken in fear by the mere sound of it alone. Mineta was getting incredibly excited about meeting this man after reading this pamphlet all the things this man could teach him and if these people truly didn't have quirks than its possible to for him to learn from king and maybe gain some power of his own with that maybe he could really help midoriya with his problems and not just be seen as a burden.
He contemplated for some time about that before checking the time and wondering when King would return home and what business occupied him for so long, know doubt it had to be some super important thing , maybe a secret mission ,or another dragon level monster to fight.
