Chapter 96: Chaos in Babysitting
Eri quietly played with one of her toys in the common room. Everything seemed to be going well.
"Where's Midoriya?" asked Kaminari.
"He's at Work Studies but it's also the first time Eri is able to trust someone enough that isn't Hagakure." Said Iida.
"Oh that's really awesome." Said Kaminari.
"I wish I was close to Eri." Complained Mina.
"You're not even that close to Midoriya." Said Kyoka with a sweat drop.
Mina still complained.
"Eri might be cute but you have to remember she's still very skittish and is in danger as well." Said Iida, "So whoever he trusts to baby sit her must do a good job."
"Aren't you the assailant babysitter though?" asked Kyoka .
"That might be…" said Iida, "But I plan to help Koda to ensure that Eri is safe while Midoriya is away on his meeting."
That was when they heard the sound of someone snapping, in a flash of light of light Eri completely vanished.
Everyone froze.
"What… what just happened!" yelled Mineta.
"Eri just disappeared!" said Sato.
"We all saw that." Said Kyoka.
"Don't worry she's safe…' said a voice.
They turned and saw a man;… he had grey skin, yellows eyes and red eyes, a white goatee, black hair and wore a strange mishmash suit.
"Who are you?" asked Iida.
"That's not important…" said the man.
"You broke into our school." Said Iida.
"The Alarm didn't sound." Said Shoji.
"Don't worry about that." Said the man.
It was clear that the 10 students were ready to fight this mysterious man.
However the man snapped his fingers… and all of them felt off.
And that was when several of them realized why…
"Did you just erase our quirks?" asked Mina.
":I did." Said the man, "Don't worry it will be temporary…"
He then snapped his fingers again and suddenly all but Iida and Koda found them with chains on their ankles.
He snapped his fingers again and everyone felt their cell phones disappear from their pockets, as well as Iida's transceiver meaning he couldn't send a distress beacon.
"Why are you doing this!" demanded Iida.
"I have my reasons." Said the man, "If you want her back, you have to find her… she is somewhere on the school grounds."
Iida and Koda knew since they weren't chained up like the rest it was their job to find her.
"Why are you doing this!" demanded Iida.
"You'll find out why soon." Said the man.
She snapped his fingers and Iida and Koda felt their quirks returned.
He snaped then snapped again and the TV also disappeared.
"Oh come! We're stuck here! And you took away the TV." Said Kaminari.
"can you make it any worse!" yelled Mina.
He smirked and snapped his fingers again and everyone's homework appeared in the room… along with a deck of Uno cards.
"You can do your homework or play games including Uno… but that's it." Said the man, "If you want to be free. You have to rely on these two to rescue Eri…"
"Seriously?" asked Kyoka.
" I can't have you call any of your teachers or leave to inform them what's going on… even if your homeroom teacher is busy." Said the man.
"What did you do to him?" asked Iida suspiciously.
"Nothing… he was called in for a meeting about an upcoming hero thing…" said the man, "It's just lucky he's busy…"
The class was quiet… unsure if they should believe.
"Now I should leave… after all you have to find Eri./.. and I won 't be going easy on you two… even if one of you resembles my wife." Said the man.
There was an awkward silence.
"What?" asked Iida.
"Personality wise." Said the man who began to blush, "You see she was almost as shy as you when she was younger… not to mention she also has affinity for animals… especially bunnies."
They weren't sure how to respond to that… though it was the look on his face he was very much in love in with wife as he talked about her.
Mina would have found it cute had he not been a villain holding them captive.
"Well I have to go… have fun." Said the man.
He snapped his fingers and he disappeared.
No one knew how to react to this…
After about a minute.
"Should we wait until Midoriya returns so he can save her?" asked Mineta.
"I don't know if that's a good idea." Said Iida, "We don't know when he'll be back."
"Plus considering how powerful the guy is… who knows if even Midoriya can stand up to him." Said Kyoko.
"It's clear he wants myself and Koda to do this while Midoriya is away at Work Study." Said Iida, "We will try to save Eri as quickly as we can and free you."
Koda nodded in agreement.
The two of them left, not sure where to go… but they knew they had to save the little.
There was an awkward silence with the remaining 8.
"So what should we do while we wait?" asked Sero.
"Not homework!" said Mina and Kaminari at the same time.
Outside of the dorms, thankfully Iida and Koda had already devised a plan.
Koda called a few flocks of birds and told them Eri's appearance and to search for her.
"Will it work?" asked Iida.
"Hopefully…" Koda said quietly knowing it would be better to say certain words as the moment.
"All right." Said Iida.
He preceded to give Koda a piggyback ride, it was somewhat awkward as Koda was taller than him.
Though for both of them it wasn't the most awkward Piggy Back ride they ever had, that was during the camp when Izuku has to give them one…
Still…
Several people did see them run around, but most assumed it was a weird form of training.
Though there was one annoyance during that time.
"I don't know what you're doing but you look ridiculous." Mocked Monoma as they ran passed them.
"I don't think they heard you…" said Awase who was with him with a sweat drop.
Monoma didn't answer and wasn't sure if he should say anything else…
After quite a bit of running plus a pit stop to pick up some orange juice from one of the vending machines, they decided to check one of the forests;.
Thankfully Koda was able to call on more animals to help them search the forests.
"You ready?" asked Iida.
Koda nodded.
And the two headed into the forest.
Little did they know was that they were close.
And soon the traps started…
As Iida was running the two started to sink in what appeared to be a mud pit…
As they were sinking the "mud" got into to Koda's mouth as he struggled.
They managed to get out of the pit thankfully.
"That was chocolate…" said Koda knowing he had to voice it.
"Are you sure?" asked Iida confusing.
He looked at the mud, he could already yell form the texture that it wasn't mud, it was so smooth to be mud.
He looked at it hesitantly and decided to taste it.
"I think this is American pudding." Said Iida.
Koda was shocked at this.
"I don't know why there is a pit of American pudding here… but I think it's from whoever kidnapped Eri." Said Iida.
Koda nodded in agreement.
They knew they had to find her after all.
After making sure there wasn't any pudding in his engines they continued their search.
After about a minute they heard weird chirping noises that made Koda go pale.
"What it is?" asked Iida.
That was when they noticed what was making the weird chirping sound… very large ants…
And they were surrounded.
And soon they were covered in the ants…
Koda was freaking out as was Iida though not as much.
However very quickly the ants left.
And when they left, Iida noticed any remaining pudding they had on them was gone…
"That's odd." Said Iida.
However Koda was still freaking out.
He put Koda on the ground and tried his best to get him to calm down.
Not too far away the man was watching them.
"I think I might have gone a bit too overboard with that one." Said the man, "Maybe give him something to calm him down."
He then looked over to where Eri and smiled at what was going with her before paying attention to the screen he was viewing.
Back with Iida and Koda.
"Are you all right now?" asked Iida.
Koda nodded, he was still effected by the giant ants, but had calmed down much more.
HE picked up Koda again and ran.
As he ran suddenly the ground opened into a pit and both of them fell in.
"At least it's not pudding." Sighed Iida.
That was when there was a bright flash of light and suddenly they were surrounded by bunnies./
"You don't know how you got here?" Koda asked the bunnies.
There were a bunch of noises.
"Do you need help getting out of here?" asked Koda.
Several of the bunnies checked the walls of the put and indeed they couldn't dig their way out.
Iida nodded known that it was a good idea to get out of the pit.
Thankfully the pit while extremely deep for bunnies was something he could do get out easily.
And over the course of the next few minutes they got all of the bunnies out.
"We need to keep looking." Said Iida as he got Koda and the last remaining bunnies out of the pit.
Koda nodded.
However Iida didn't notice a vines warp around his ankle and he was lifted into the air.
A large evil looking flower appeared and it looked like it wanted to eat him.
However Koda got an idea.
"Does the plant smell edible to you?" asked Koda.
The bunnies all sniffed to the plant and they all nodded at Koda.
And then bunnies practically engulfed the evil plant and started to devour the plant.
The plant dropped Iida and the two of them watched at the plant screamed in pain as it devoured alive.
"They'll be fine." Said Koda.
Iida nodded.
They counited on their way and soon they found the man sitting on a golden throne watching a screen.
"I've been waiting for you." Said the man who was also drinking something.
He then drank the glass and tossed the beverage over his shoulder which exploded.
Both of them looked at the man.
"You want Eri back?" asked the man.
Both of them realized that they now probably had to fight the man.
However what happened next surprised them.
" Eri! Your babysitters are here!" called out the man.
They noticed Eri nearby talking with some women and a large purple dog.
She saw Iida and Koda and walked over to them.
"You found me?" asked Eri.
The two nodded confused.
"Okay." Said Eri.
That was when a large orange and red bird flew to her shoulder.
Eri petted the bird, while she was still unable to smile the felt some joy as she petted the bird.
"Her name is Illumine…" said Eri, "They told me she's really, really old and my cur… quirk won't hurt her."
"The bird is more than a millennia old, conserving her quirk it's a good pet for her." Said the man.
The two heroes in training were deeply confused.
"Ah yes I forgot to introduce myself." Said the man.
He snapped his fingers and in a flash of light he transformed to his true form…
Who was Discord.
"The name's Discord. But I'm sure your friends told you all about me." Said Discord.
"`The spirit of chaos from Equestria…" said Iida remembering the story he heard.
"Exactly!" said Discord.
"Why did you do that?" asked Iida.
"Well you see… to spoil her." Said Discord, "I had found about what happened to her and I told my wife and her friends about Eri and my wife wanted to gift her a phoenix as a pet while her friend wanted to give her a lot of apples and apple products…"
Iida took a breath as he realized… that made some sense.
Though that didn't answer everything…
"Why now?" asked Iida.
"Easy… I wanted to play with you…. The others would have figured I wouldn't want to hurt her…" said Discord, "And where's the fun in that?"
Iida took a breath… he was so very annoyed right now…
Koda picked up a bunny as some of them had followed them and let him pet it.
Discord looked at Eri.
"I also intend to ensure that the man who hurt her, never gets his hands on her again." Said Discord, "I promise it, cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!"
Iida stared at him.
"Are you sure it's a good idea." Said Iida.
"We both know I really mean it." Said Discord, "Or else Toru will come after me if I break it… "
Iida nodded in agreement.
"Oh and also to clear something up…" said Discord, "I have full permission from the principal to do this…"
"What?" asked Iida.
"It's true. Earlier today I popped into his office… introduced myself, told him what I was going to do." Said discord.
Iida had heard stories about Nezu growing up… so hearing that…
"I hate to say that makes sense." Said Iida.
"Well now we must be going." Said Discord, "We can't stay too long."
"Bye!" Eri called out to the women.
Discord snapped his claw and he plus the women and dog disappeared in a flash of light.
However something appeared, a large cart that filled with apples, of all sorts of vaterites crates labeled "Zap apple jam" and barrels labeled "Apple Cider" along with what looked to be bakery boxes.
It was clear to all of them that Iida was to pull it.
They got to the dorms, so find that everyone was now free from the chains.
"Is Eri safe?" asked Mina.
"She is fine…" said Iida.
"Why did that man kidnapped her?" asked Mineta .
"You know how Hagakure told us about how she's friends with a the spirit of chaos from her old world." Said Iida.
"Yeah…" said Kyoka.
"Wait… are you saying he kidnapped Eri?" asked Shoji with a sweat drop.
"Unfortunately…" said Iida.
Koda nodded.
"Why?" asked Kaminari.
"So his wife and her friends could meet her and give her gifts." Said Iida with a sweat drop.
They noticed Eri had the phoenix with her.
"Her name is Illumine and she's a phoenix." Said Eri.
"Cute!" said Mina.
"Also Shoji, Sato can you two help us getting Eri's other gifts in here." Said Iida.
"Apples?" asked Sato remembering hear Toru tell him about the apple family.
"Apples." Said Iida.
They brought the apple stuff in.
It was clear that Iida and Koda didn't want to talk about what happened and none of them could blame them.
But of course they would have talk about it once they got back to the dorms and they had to tell them what happened.
"Oh that's the pinkie promise I felt." Said Toru, "That makes sense!"
"Looks we don't have to worry about Chisaki getting her then…" said Izuku unsure if he should relieved or not.
Mashirao and Todoroki both nodded in agreement.
After all they both seen what happens when a Pinkie Promise is broken.
"She's still not able to smile." Said Toru.
"No…" said Izuku.
Eri looked down.
"It's okay." Said Toru.
"Sorry about what happened." Said Izuku.
"It's fine…" said Iida.
Koda just sighed.
Nothing bad really happened and Eri got a new friend that could withstand her quirk thankfully.
However the raid was happening soon and thankfully they had an extra layer of protection with Eri.
Hopefully they're able to arrested him during the riad… and maybe beat him up badly during it…
But there was still quite a bit of time for it…
Next Time: With the upcoming raid, it's decided to begin the Haki training with Tsuyu added to learning. Will someone unlock their Haki? Or will it be pointless to try to unlock it before the riad? Find out next time!
