Justice Across Space and Time

Chapter 9

I don't have much of a preamble for this chapter. I'm mostly using it as a filler and slight goof chapter. So, on with the show.

The day after the battle trails, Aizawa gave a quick overview of what he thought about each of the teams' performance. For team A, he complimented how they had planned matters out and had a relative backup plan. But he did have a problem with Izuku basically going at the mission alone for the battle. Saying he should work with and rely on his teammates more. Team D had a good plan, but they underestimated their opponent and also relied on one member too much (the main one in this case being Ida). Team B was in a similar situation (Shoto….).

Team I… he just said that sometimes there is bad luck when it comes to a matchup. Team H also had the problem on relying mostly on Tokoyami to carry the team. Though he praised Koda for trying a few different creatures he was limited to. Team G he praised the fact that they worked well together but told Kaminari to fix his short circuit problem. Team C was praised for both setting traps and false leads to fool their opponents.

E on the other hand had the fact they went too far ahead without an escape or backup. Team F he said they had the same problem with a bad match up. And team J…. in his mind he was freaking out a bit that this kid he can't shut down has multiple abilities. Each a bit more intimidating that the last. But he acknowledged that they both pulled roughly equal parts of the plan, though still relying a bit more on Jotaro's capabilities.

Once that was out of the way he told them, "Today you have another important task to do." While everyone was sweating and wondering what they were in store for. "Today you pick a class president." Everyone slightly cheered at that and a few were making cases asking to be made class president. Jotaro and Saphentite however were both just non plussed at the matter. 'How is this an important matter. Then again, I went to a public school. We never really had these kinds of elections.' Jotaro mulled over in his mind.

As this was happening Ida shouted above the others, "we should cast votes for who we think would be the best pick!" "What voting? But we've only known each other for about a day. Everybody will just vote for themselves." A myriad of voices ring out with those statements. To which Ida states, "And that is why it is a good system. The person who gets the most votes will be the one everyone thinks can do the job. Is that all right Aizawa-sensei?"

And Aizawa is just getting back into his sleeping bag. "I don't care just so long as you pick someone." Saphentite just thinks 'how is this guy an educator again?' But while she is doing that Ida passes out slips of paper to write down their votes.

Once the ballots are cast, Izuku sits at the head with three votes. While Momo and Ida tie with two votes each. While it is unanimous on who the president is, the vice-president matter is different. Just as Ida is about to suggest that they re-vote for the two of them, Jotaro says "Why don't you both just take the VP spot? And before you ask, just take a look at Izuku as is."

While Izuku is standing up at the podium with a nervous look on his face (not as bad as the original look but still nervous). "He's gonna need more people that support him. And frankly you two are some of the best planners in the class." With his reason given they check with Aizawa that it would be ok. "Sure, why not? It should be fine." 'Again, how is he an educator?' With that done the VP slot is held by Ida and Momo with Izuku as the president.

As everyone is getting ready to leave Aizawa stops Jotaro. "Can you come to gym gamma? There's someone there who wants to meet you." Jotaro is a bit surprised by this decides to go along. "Oh and change into your gym uniform." With an eyebrow raised as Aizawa walks away, Jotaro says to Izuku and the others, "Go on ahead. I'll catch up in a bit." With that stated, the ones who were waiting on him head for lunch. After Jotaro has changed and gone to gym gamma (which has a handful of concrete pillars raised up) he waits around for a few minutes before saying, "Ok I know you're here. Can all three of you come out?"

From behind a two of the pillars come a young man and woman. The young man has shaggy black hair and pointed ears with a grimace on his face, and the young woman has periwinkle hair and wide happy eyes with a big smile. "Wow how did you know we were here?! I thought we hid pretty well. Does it have something to do with your quirk? How did you get so big? You're only a freshman right? What's with the sunglasses? You're taller than Mirio and seem to be a bit bulkier."

"OK I'm just gonna stop you because if I don't, were going to be here for a while. Now about you asking if I'm like Mirio, I'm guessing that's the guy behind me right?" The two have shocked looks on their faces but said person decides to break up the tension with a big laugh.

"HAHAHA! Man, that is impressive! I had heard that your abilities were different but to think you knew I was coming before I made my move." The young man, now known as Mirio stands just a bit shorter than Jotaro and is a bit less bulky. His blonde hair is standing up in the front and has simplistic blue eyes. "Anyway, I'm Togata Mirio. This is Hado Nejire and Amijiki Tamaki. Were known in the school as the Big 3, or the top students at the school."

Jotaro's eyebrows raise at the mention of that, but he also has a different problem. "I'm confused why did you want to meet with me? What could the top student have to do with someone who is frankly a bit of a troublemaker? Especially given what happened to Aizawa." Mirio smiles at that and says "that is a bit of why we are here today. Aside from the fact you have been a bit of a troublemaker, I'm here personally to show you that there can always be someone stronger."

Again, Jotaro raises his eyebrow at that statement. "So, what you want to fight or something?" Mirio's smile increases again before telling him that he may think he has an impressive quirk, but it won't do much good against everyone. He then says the two of them will just have a quick bout and call it a day. At the mention of calling his power a quirk again, Jotaro is disgruntled. But he decides to go along with it. Mirio tells him to head out to a point where he feels comfortable. Once he says he's at his spot Mirio waits for him to come at him. However, Jotaro doesn't move. Instead, he just waits there about twenty meters away from Mirio.

"Since you won't come to me, I hope you're ready!" With that Mirio rushes at Jotaro before disappearing into the ground. 'Hmm. Should be in about three, two, one." Jotaro steps to the side avoiding Mirio's attack. The look of shock on all three of their faces is apparent. Though some of that may be due to Mirio being naked. Speaking of which he dives back into the ground and decides to not take it easy anymore.

"Try this, Phantom Menace!" Mirio uses the full capabilities of his quirk to attack Jotaro coming at him from multiple directions. However, Jotaro evades almost every single attack. This shocks them all again as no one has ever been able to anticipate his strike when he uses that move. Jotaro is still just standing at the center waiting.

'I think I'll give him a different taste of my capabilities. He's not wrong in thinking that there will always be someone stronger. The problem is his phasing isn't that unusual to me. But he is creative given weakness of quirks as a whole. And he's coming at me again. Ok.' Jotaro dodges a few more attacks, but then Mirio manages to get right up under him and land a punch to Jotaro's stomach.

"He got him! Did you see that Mirio finally hit him!" Nejire says before Tamaki interrupts her with, "yeah but the freshman didn't fall down." "AHH! Damn! What are you made of? When I hit you it was like punching metal." Jotaro just shrugs his shoulders and tilts his head. With that Mirio decides to get even more serious. He dives back into the ground and moves even faster than before.

Jotaro still dodges a lot of the hits before he decides to finish this. He turns to face Mirio, who goes for a different super, "Blinder touch eyeball crush." Mirio goes for like he's gonna poke Jotaro's eye but he isn't prepared for what happens next. Jotaro's head passes through his hand so fast that Mirio can't permeate his head fast enough. He takes a headbutt right between the eyes.

And once he's reeling from that hit, Jotaro finishes the fight with a backhand fist smash to Mirio's stomach. The top member of the Big 3 gets sent flying before impacting on a pillar unconscious. Neither Nejire nor Tamaki expected this to ever happen. Especially with how much Mirio has trained up his quirk. As they think Jotaro is about to walk to leave, he instead grabs Mirio's gym uniform and brings it over to him. Then he stands to the side and waits.

Mirio wakes up after a few minutes but is surprised that the guy who beat him stuck around. "I figure I owed you a few explanations once you came to." Jotaro says while Mirio is putting his clothes on. As he is about to start explaining, Nejire pops up again asking a bunch of questions. As well as getting into his personal space. After a few seconds, Jotaro chops her on top of her head. "OOOWww ow ow! What the heck!"

"Oh, calm down! I didn't even hit you that hard. Crap I lost my train of thought." Jotaro says while shaking his head. Tamiki takes the moment to just ask the big question: "What the heck is your quirk?" Jotaro is of course annoyed again but takes it in stride. "I don't actually have a quirk. And before you ask, I can say that due to the fact it didn't activate when I was young. I was in an accident and a myriad of powers woke up in me at once. Well, so to speak anyway."

While they are all completely floored by that explanation, Jotaro continues, "you mentioned how it felt like you were punching metal or something when you hit me right? That's not entirely wrong. One of my basic abilities is to absorb energy. And not just like electricity. Radiation is part of it too; don't freak out! Everyone one on Earth absorbs a light amount of radiation every day." While the two of them are confused, Mirio puts it together.

"The sun! You absorb solar radiation or rather solar energy. Right? But how does that make your body dense?" "Do you even realize how dense a sun is? Think of it like this; with just solar energy, its like I have a mini sun inside my body. Thanks to that, the energy increases my muscle density and strength. There's a limit currently but still. And since you probably want to know for sure how I tracked you and didn't flinch at the eyeball thing, its rather simple. I didn't use my eyes."

Now this floors all of them again but Mirio realizes that would explain how he may not have flinched at the whole eye crush. "But it doesn't explain how you knew where I was coming from. Even when I picked up my speed you still seemed to know where I would pop out? Is foresight one of your powers?"

Jotaro shakes his head before explaining, "no. While all of my senses are not only extra strong, but I kinda gained a few other senses when my powers went active. A simple one is the ability to emit a radar like pulse, so I have a type of clairvoyance around me. But that wasn't how I tracked you underground. I may know how GPR works but that takes a lot of concentration. And isn't good for the middle of a fight."

They all seemed to contemplate the application of all of his capabilities from just a tracking a villain, to a search and/or rescue mission. He really did have a lot of applications for just that power alone. "No how I tracked you was due to an interesting ability of mine. I can sense energy. Not just absorb or use it. When you active your power, you let off a light energy wavelength. I'm good enough at memorizing that I can remember an energy field after sensing it once. And I can track its general location and direction."

At this Mirio eyes widened more than the other members of the big 3. He never really questioned the fact he could move through objects. That was just how his quirk worked. But this freshman had just told him a bigger part of his power that no one else ever could.

"Its no wonder you were as confident as you were in fighting me. You probably noticed how I came into the room earlier and remembered my energy state. Plus, if you didn't worry about looking and instead could just sense that I was making parts of myself permeable you wouldn't worry about me going for your eyes." Jotaro coughs a bit at this but agrees.

Nejire is still confused on parts of this fresman's mentality though and asks "Man that is all kinds of incredible. But why did you stick around? I know you said you owed him an explanation, but most anybody else with a quirk (Grrr). Sorry power like yours would just want to show off and brag they beat the best in the school. But you don't?" He looks away at the way Nejire describe what he did and could do.

He sighs before explaining that Mirio is right that there could always be someone stronger out there. There could be someone who has the capability to circumvent his power. "But sometimes….. there is a different mindset for guys like me or All Might. We have insane amounts of power. Enough that people look to us as inspirations at times. We have to limit ourselves, not just because our power could kill easily. But also, because we have to both remind ourselves we're still human, and we have to sometimes remind people about restraint." This little speech awes Nejire and impresses Mirio. Tamiki is just facing away from everyone.

Before they can keep talking, they hear alarms ring out. "It's the intruder alarm! We gotta evacuate!" The Big 3 turn to leave but Jotaro is just standing there. "What are you waiting for?" "We're fine. Its just the press right now. I can hear their annoying chatter." He sniffs the air a bit before saying, "But there is a lingering scent of death around. Not sure what that's from."

After hearing that Big 3 seem worried, but still calm down. Once they all get back everyone starts telling them the story about Izuku making a plan with Ida to calm down the students who were freaking out. With Ida doing an exit sign impression while slammed against the wall. Once the day is done and everyone is leaving, Jotaro and Saphetite go to where the faculty are gathered at the decayed wall.

I'll leave it at that for now but I'll include a bit for their thoughts on it in the next chapter.