Chapter 19: Promising Future Heroes.
You walk through the door to classroom 1-A, "Good morning, future heroes!"
"Good morning, Red Force-sensei!" The class cheerfully greets you back before erupting into excited statements and questions.
"That was such an awesome fight yesterday! The way you held your own against that monster was truly manly!" Kirishima shouts then blushes, "Uh, I mean that it was awesome not that you're a man, sensei."
You chuckle, "It's fine, Kirishima-san."
"Are you all right, sensei?" "Did Recovery Girl heal you?" "W-was that guys b-bite really v-venomous?" "What happened to him after the fight?" The students rapidly ask you questions one after another.
"Whoa. One at a time. Yes, I'm fine now. Yes, Venom's bite is venomous...if it wasn't for my quirk I would have been dead within minutes. No, Recovery Girl didn't heal me, the venom was destroying my body faster than her quirk could heal it. In the end, Venom had to heal me. As for what happened to him after the fight, he was just fine...it's next to impossible to physically hurt him. Now, on to today's lesson! Everybody up! Grab your hero outfits we're going to Training Grounds Gamma!"
"Again?!"
"Yes, but this time you all will be participating." You walk towards the door and press a button on a small remote causing the hidden racks in the wall opposite the door to slide out. The students all stand up, grab their costumes from the storage racks, then walk over to the door to the classroom. You lead them through the halls to the training grounds. You stop in front of the double doors then turn around to face the students. "Go and get dressed in your hero outfits, everyone! The girls' locker room is to the left and the boys' is to the right."
Once everyone is dressed in their hero outfits, you lead them inside the vast cityscape training grounds. "Okay, young heroes, I want you all to form 4 groups of 5. You can have whomever you want on your team, but make sure that you work well together because today you all will be going up against me."
"What?!" The students all shout in disbelief, except for Todoroki, Bakugo, and Tokoyami.
"Go ahead and form your groups everyone. You have five minutes."
The students all start to talk to each other and form into groups. In the end, the four groups are: Midoriya, Uraraka, Asui, Tokoyami, and Sato in Group A. Bakugo, Kirishima, Kaminari, Hagakure, and Sero in Group B. Todoroki, Yaoyorozu, Jiro, Ashido, and Shoji make up Group C. Ida, Aoyama, Ojiro, Koda, and Mineta make up Group D.
You hold up your hand to silence the students and get their attention. Once everyone quiets down you tell them, "I will be playing the part of the villain and as a group you heroes have to find me somewhere in this vast faux city and capture me."
"Is that all we have to do, old lady? This will be fucking easy," Bakugo says, scoffing.
You raise an eyebrow, "It won't be as easy as you think Bakugo-san. Throughout the city and inside some of these buildings are dummies representing innocent civilians. There can be any number of dummies per building; anywhere from 1 to 200. On each of these 'civilians' are sensors that will activate when the 'civilian' suffers a fatal blow. Your job, as heroes, is to capture me while keeping the civilians safe. If the hero team manages to capture the villain, me, before 15 minutes are up then they win. However, if they fail to capture me or if the city is destroyed then I win." You point over to a humongous electronic scoreboard above the bleachers on the other side of the stadium. "You all will be graded on your performance at the end of the class." The students start to whisper among themselves, "When the buzzer sounds, you're up Team A. The time will be on display on the scoreboard." You say, before activating your quirk and running off into the fake city, disappearing from the students' sights within seconds.
You run through the streets of the city, passing by dummies representing civilians heading for the section of the city you plan on using for group A. You're almost there when the buzzer goes off signaling the start of the match. You stop beside a building and raise your fist, your willpower armor covering your entire arm. "Crushing Evil, Spreading the Truth: All Crush!" you shout then punch the side of the building causing it to violently implode, sending debris and dummies flying through the air.
You then hide to wait for Izuku's team to arrive. A few minutes pass by and hero group A arrives on the scene. You jump out of the shadows taking Izuku, Uraraka, Asui, Tokoyami, and Sato by surprise. You punch Izuku in the gut sending him flying backward. Asui is the first to recover from her surprise and sends her long tongue towards you, attempting to wrap it around your body. You sidestep her attack then grab her tongue with your armor covered hand. You use your enhanced strength to pull her off of her feet and swing her around in a circle. Dark Shadow emerges from Tokoyami's body to attack you, but you release Asui's tongue tossing her into the bird-headed boy. Uraraka and Sato run towards you from opposite directions. Just as Uraraka is about to touch you from behind, you jump high into the air and do a backflip in midair, landing behind her. Uraraka's hand touches Sato instead of you and the muscular teenager starts to float off of the ground. "Oh my gosh! I'm sorry Sato! I didn't expect her to jump! Release!" The boy's feet touch the ground, but before he can properly regain his footing, you kick Uraraka from behind sending her flying forward into Sato.
Izuku, Tokoyami, and Asui are now back on their feet. You raise your right leg, your bent knee reaching your waist. "Giga Impact!" You stomp your right foot down on the ground causing a wave of red willpower energy to arch outward from where your foot hits the ground. The energy wave travels an inch above the ground, causing the concrete to crack into tiny pieces.
"Watch out!" Tokoyami shouts while jumping into the air, Dark Shadow comes out and grabs Izuku and Asui right before the energy wave reaches them. The wave slams into a 5 story building causing the side of the first floor where the wave hits to partially explode, cracks appearing then quickly traveling upwards.
As the building shifts; on the verge of falling over; dummies are sent flying through the windows from the inside. As you turn and start to run away, you can hear your nephew shout, "Tokoyami, Asui, Uraraka! Save as many faux civilians as you can! Sato come with me to capture the v-villain!" He says something else, but you're now too far away to hear him. A huge grin appears on your face. You're really proud of your nephew; not only did he figure out that saving the dummies is the most important part of this exercise, but he also managed to assign each member of his team to the task that their quirks will be best at. The two physically strongest members chasing after you while the others with quirks that will allow them to save more people faster stay back to rescue the faux civilians.
The rest of the 15 minutes pass pretty quickly; they almost trap you near the end, but you manage to get away by exploiting Uraraka's quirk again. And, unfortunately, Izuku hurts himself by trying to hit you with a Detroit Smash, but you manage to get your armor up in time and are only sent flying backward a couple of feet just as the buzzer sounds, signaling that time is up.
Next is Team B's turn, which is a disaster. For 10 minutes, Bakugo doesn't work with his teammates or try to save any of the dummies. He focuses solely on trying to capture you. You've finally had enough of his attitude and confront him. You grab his fist as he throws an explosive punch at your face and let the full force your willpower wash over him, causing Bakugo's eyes to roll into the back of his head as he is knocked unconscious. You then jump up onto a building near to where the other four members of Team B are and tell them to surrender or you will drop Bakugo. Of course, you wouldn't have really dropped him, but it didn't matter because at that moment time ran out.
Team C does remarkably well. You are nearly captured multiple times. Todoroki's quirk is powerful and he knows how to use it for offense, defense, and for rescue. Yaoyorozu is also remarkably talented; her creation quirk is amazing and she has the ability to formulate plans very quickly. These two alone prove to be quite a challenge and at one point you actually have to use a low powered Rasengan to escape from them. And with Shoji on their team it proves to be impossible to hide from Team C.
Team D chooses to focus more on rescuing the faux civilians than trying to capture you. They do try to catch you when they run into you though. Ida makes a big speech about how crime never pays and that you should just give up. Mineta then pulls off a couple of balls from the top of his head and throws them at you. You dodge them, but to your surprise they stick to your cape and you can't remove them. "So, wait...your quirk is sticky, purple balls?" You can't help but to chuckle, causing Mineta to cry saying that he knows his quirk isn't amazing or flashy like everyone else's. "It's not that young Mineta...it's just...you have sticky, purple balls. Sticky, purple balls. Dahahaha!" Your lewd comment throws Team D off and Ida immediately begins to scold you by telling you that you're their teacher and an adult so you shouldn't be making such comments in front of them.
After Team D is finished, you meet with all of the students in front of the double doors that lead back into the main part of the school. "Good work today, young heroes! Most of you did very well! Now let's see how you all did." You turn to the side and point up to the scoreboard. Team B has the highest number of points while Team A came second-highest, Team C third highest, and Team D has the lowest.
Bakugo smirks, "HA! Take that you damn extras! We came in first, losers!"
You clear your throat, "Actually, Bakugo-san...your team came in last."
The students are all staring at you in confusion. That is, all except for Bakugo, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU FUCKING OLD HAG?! MY TEAM HAS THE HIGHEST SCORE!" He shouts, his teeth pointed and explosions going off on the palms of his hands.
Your eyes narrow, "That 'score'" you make air quotes with your hand, "represents the number of civilians' lives that were lost during this exercise. Look at your scores closely and let the fact that those numbers are the lives of innocent men, women, and children that were lost." Bakugo's explosions stop and he becomes eerily quiet. "Nearly 3,000 lives were lost during your team's run because you refused to work together with your teammates, Bakugo. Actually, your score should be 5 points higher because your reckless actions would have not only cost you your own life, but your teammates' lives as well if I had been a real villain." Bakugo hangs his head, "Don't feel too discouraged, Bakugo-san. Most of the time taking a villain out as quickly as possible is the best way to save the most lives. But there will be times when you will come across a villain so strong that you just can't take them down on your own. You need to work on controlling your anger and working with others."
You look over at Izuku's team and he gulps. "Midoriya-san, I was impressed by how you lead your team. But you really MUST train harder to get your quirk under control. You will be no good to anyone if your teammates have to stop what they're doing to rescue you." You point at his broken right arm.
Izuku looks down at the ground, "Yes, Red Force-sensei."
You pull out an already filled out hall pass from your cleavage, "Now take this and go see Recovery Girl." Izuku hesitantly reaches out and takes it, giving you a weird look along with the rest of the class. "What? My costume doesn't have any pockets." Izuku leaves and you look over at Uraraka, "Uraraka-san, you need to be more careful when you use your quirk. It's kind of a double-edged sword and can be used to a villain's advantage as well as your own. I suggest that you work on making it to where your quirk works when someone comes into contact with any part of your body instead of just your hands."
"Yes, Red Force-sensei!" Uraraka says happily, clearly taking your advice to heart.
You turn to Todoroki, "Todoroki-san I am very impressed by your performance as well as by your judgment. You managed to put together a well-balanced team that worked almost flawlessly together. However, I am curious about why you never used your fire quirk though. But I will not pressure you to tell me. Just remember this...by choosing not to use it you will never be fighting at your full strength, which means that you're seriously handicapping yourself. My advice to you is to find a way to make peace with whatever it is that's causing you to hold back so that you can fight at your full potential."
Todoroki bows slightly, "Thank you for the compliment and advice, sensei."
You bow back at the polite young man before addressing Ida. "Your team did well, Ida-san. Your leadership was outstanding and you knew your team's limitations. I can see that you're following in your older brother's footsteps very well. But it wouldn't hurt for you to relax a little. I said one lewd comment and you ended up losing your focus. Real villains will say much more lewd comments than what I did."
"Thank you for the compliment and I will take your advice to heart, Red Force-sensei." The blue-haired boy stiffly says, and bows.
You chuckle and bow back before standing up straight and addressing the entire class. "I'm going, to be honest with all of you...this was not an easy lesson. Every time that a hero goes to confront a villain they have to not only be aware of the lives of innocent civilians, but also that truly cunning villains will use their surroundings to their advantage. Now there's still 10 minutes left in class...just enough time for everyone to shower and change out of your hero suits."
A/N: I'm sorry that this chapter took so long to post. It was actually extremely long so I decided to break it into 2 chapters.
