A/N: Okay once again forgot to mention something last chapter... the helmet that Izuku wears part of his costume is based on NT Warrior Megaman, a few people thought it would be a cool reference to make... Also on a side note I found my copy of Journal 3... the version of Ghostbuster is call Phantom Bust-ifiers... still invoking Cosmic Wars/Star Wars thing. Enjoy the chapter which covers the election and the first part of the USJ!
Chapter 9: Election Time and The USJ
After Mabel's extra-long hug was over. Katsuki grabbed his stuff and left not wanting to deal with anything for the rest of the day.
However the next morning he knew he did have to explain it to Tenya and Ochaco… not everything. But the cause of the breakdown.
He ended up asking the two to meet up with him the next morning at the train station…
"Oh yeah you did mention about him giving nightmares." Said Ochaco.
"If you see him tell Deku as soon as you can." Said Katsuki.
"I can enter dreams." Said Izuku, "I found out when we figured out what Bill was doing."
"If it's not rude to ask, how long did he haunt your nightmares?" asked Tenya.
"A week." Said Katsuki.
Both Ochaco and Tenya paled.
"I took a week off from school after…" said Izuku.
"Another reason why you have to tell him right away." Said Katsuki.
Tenya and Ochaco both nodded.
That was when they arrived at the school… and they saw the sheer number of press that was at the school.
"It's students!" yelled one reporter.
"Quick! Get an interview!" yelled another.
"Deku! I won't blame you if you run…" said Katsuki.
"Should I…" said Izuku.
"Deku, you're a floating puppet… I think if the press sees you, they won't leave you alone." Said Ochaco.
Izuku gave his backpack to Katsuki an flew over the press and over the fence.
He waited for his friends to come through the crowd of reporters.
Katsuki was the first as he tossed him his backpack.
"They started to ignore me when I started swearing." Said Katsuki.
"What are they here for?" asked Izuku.
"Trying to find out about All Might teaching here." Muttered Katsuki.
"What did you say." Said Izuku.
"That he's fucking dork who doesn't know shit about teaching." Said Katsuki.
"You can't say that about All Might!" cried Izuku.
"It got the media away." Said Katsuki as Ochaco joined them.
"That was tough…" sighed Ochaco.
She gave a rather simple interview talking about how he was muscly.
They waited a few minutes.
Izuku flew over and saw what was going.
"So what's going on?" asked Ochaco.
"He's giving a long interview." Said Izuku.
The three looked at each other.
"If he's not done in the next minute we're leaving him." Said Katsuki.
"Yeah…" said Ochaco.
Izuku nodded his puppet's head.
He joined them before the minute was up and they all went to class together.
Of course all their classmates look rather frazzled when Homeroom began.
"All right." Said Aizawa, "I saw what happened in yesterday's cases, and there's really not much to say. I will say this though, Bakugo… if there's another breakdown you have to see Hound Dog…"
Bakugo grumbled about this.
"Now that's out of the way there is something that we must do to determine your futures." Said Aizawa.
The entire class was tense.
"You have to pick the class representative." Said Aizawa.
"NORMAL SCHOOL STUFF!" yelled most of the class.
However once they got over that fact just about everyone was throwing themselves to get the job, after all when it came to being a hero, having that they were the class representative would be a great honor and get them noticed.
However Tenya knew it couldn't be just anyone.
"Calm down everyone! We need to take this seriously. An office such as this can't be just given away." Said Tenya, "I believe it's best if we hold an election."
"We've only know each other for a few days… mostly…" said Tsuyu.
"We'd just vote for ourselves." Agreed Kirishima.
"But if someone managed to gain their other classmates trust during those few days then we know their best suited for the job." Said Tenya, "What do you say Mr. Aizawa?"
"Just whatever, don't take all day." He muttered getting into his sleeping bag.
"Deku.." said Katsuki turning around, "You're not voting for yourself right?"
"No…." Said Izuku.
"Who you going to vote for?" asked Katsuki.
Izuku looked at Katsuki surprised, though he couldn't see the surprise look on his face he probably guess
"I'm not doing that job and you're a better judge than me." He muttered.
He told him and Katsuki and Izuku vetoed for Izuku's choice and soon enough the results were tallied.
As it turned out there was a three way tie, with each person getting two votes: Iida the one that Izuku picked, Yaoyorozu and finally Izuku himself who was extremely confused.
"Okay… so we will now hold a run-off election with the three of us." Said Iida who was surprised by the results, but clearly happy to be in the run off.
"Um… I want to drop out… I don't think It'd make for a good class representative." Said Izuku, "Plus I'm busy with other things…"
"Oh come on Midoriya…" said Kaminari, "I'm sure it will be fine… plus you can be our puppet king."
"Hey!" said Mabel becoming visible next to Kaminari.
However she didn't do it to scold him but gave him a high five for that really bad pun.
"Now I really want to drop out even more if it's just so you can make bad jokes…" sighed Izuku.
"Midoriya's out…" said Aizawa waking up for a bit, "So don't vote for him… he's got enough stress as it is."
Then he fell back to sleep.
Izuku breathed a sigh of relief as he floated back to his seat.
"All right, remember only votes for myself and Yaoyorozu this this time." Said Tenya.
Tenya ended up winning with Yaoyorozu becoming vice-representative.
At lunch of course they walked about it.
"Oh come on Izuku, you could have ran… I could have run your campaign." Said Mabel who became visible for lunch.
"What could you have done?" asked Katsuki.
"Oh me and Dipper ran Grunkle Stan's campaign when he ran for mayor and he was the front runner and won… but it's a REALLY long story…" said Mabel, "The point is I know how to run a useful campaign…"
"I didn't want the job though!" cried Izuku.
"Mabel… just wanted to brag…" said Dipper showing up, "She's not kidding by the way… we did run a success campaign for him."
"Wait then why wasn't he mayor?" asked Ochaco.
Being mayor of a town would earned him some fame and would have been mentioned on Ford's biography at least.
"Wait is it because of…" said Izuku.
"Yeah…" said Mabel.
Katsuki had learned about Stan's extremely long list of crimes.
"Figures…" muttered Katsuki.
Both Ochaco and Tenya looked confused.
"Not telling…" said Dipper.
You'll find out one day…" said Mabel.
Tenya and Ochaco looked at Izuku and Katsuki.
Katsuki on the other hand changed the subject.
"You two are the ones that voted for Deku…" he said.
Ochaco laughed nervously and Tenya just adjusted his glasses.
"And you were the two to vote for me." Said Tenya.
"I'm surprised you didn't vote for yourself." Said Ochaco.
"I wasn't sure if I would have been a good one." Said Izuku.
"It's not the puppet thing is it?" asked Ochaco.
"It's not that…" said Izuku.
"It's because Deku lacks a backbone." Muttered Katsuki.
"Kacchan!" cried Izuku.
"He's kind of right you know." Said Mabel.
Izuku sighed while Dipper just rolled his eyes.
Izuku looked up, "Besides you're the one who showed leadership… and you wanted the job." Said Izuku.
"Yes but wanting the job and being qualified are two comatosely different things." Said Tenya.
"But considering you won the run-off it seems like you're the one qualified." Said Mabel.
"Yes, but I don't know if that would have been the case had Midoriya had stayed in." Said Tenya.
"One of those votes would have been because of a joke." Pointed out Izuku.
"A joke?" asked Dipper.
"Kaminari wanted Izuku to be their puppet king." Said Mabel.
Dipper face palmed.
"Even though if you had been the one to win I would have humbly accepted that." Said Tenya.
"Humbly?" asked Ochaco, "Iida, are you rich?"
"Not all rich people talk like that." Said Dipper.
Tenya on the other hand seemed to blush a little.
"Well…" said Tenya.
"I knew it." Said Ochaco.
"I don't like spreading it around, but I come from a family of heroes!" Said Tenya, "Do you knew the Turbo Hero Ingenium?"
"Of course!" said Izuku, "He has an agency in Tokyo with 65 sidekicks!"
"Izuku knows his stuff about heroes…" said Mabel, "It's probably easier to ask him if he doesn't know a hero."
"I see…" said Tenya who began to smile, "Well he's my older brother! He leads people with unwavering adherence to the rules. It's my admiration for my older brother that's inspired my own desire to become a hero. Though I believe you would have been the better choice Midoriya I can only hope that I can live up to what my brother has set."
The group at the table stared at the normally serious boy.
"You know… this is the first time I've seen you smile." Said Ochaco.
"I smile occasionally." Said Tenya.
That was when suddenly the alarms began to blare.
"Level 3 security alert." Said a voice, "This is a level 3 alert. All students evacuate in an orderly fashion."
"What's a level 3 intruder alert?" asked Tenya.
"It means that someone had broken into the school, It's never happened since I've been here!" said an older student.
That was when Katsuki suddenly took Izuku's puppet and pocketed it.
"Kacchan" cried Izuku even though only Dipper and Mabel could hear.
"Look Deku! Everyone's going nuts! Just evacuate with the two dead people." Muttered Katsuki.
"He's right." Said Dipper.
Mabel took Izuku's hand and the three evacuated through the walls.
And they ended up missing what happened in the hall way.
Turned out the intruders were just the press who somehow broke in demanding to speak with All Might.
Not only that but Tenya was the one to notice it and managed to calm everyone down with Ochaco's help, cementing his role to Cass Represented and earning the nickname of Emergency Exit due to the fact that when calm everyone down he ended up looking like the guy on the emergency exit sign.
However when Nezu over looked some of the damage to the entrance (as if someone that wasn't a ghost tried to pass through the gate it would completely shut) an felt like there was more to this than he thought.
The next day in class Aizawa was knocking that day's hero training.
"All right today's hero training will be a special class overseen be me, All Might and another teacher." Said Aizawa.
The class was excited for it.
"What are we doing today?" asked Sero.
"Preparing you disaster relief. From fire to floods. It's recue training today." Said Aizawa.
The class was excecated.
"Now, I'm not done yet." Said Aizawa.
He took out the costume switch.
"If you want to wear your costumes you can." Said Aizawa, "But remember it not might be a good fit for the training. Also Midoriya, we've picked out your robot body for today's training."
"Okay." Said Izuku.
"The location will be remote so we will getting there by bus." Said Aizawa.
And soon enough all of them were ready and at the bus. And of course everyone decided to wear their costumes, despite the warning.
"So which one is today?" Ochaco asked Izuku.
"Oh just the basic one, the same one I used during the assessment test." Said Izuku.
"Oh I was hoping to see something cool today." Said Ochaco.
"I know… but Ford and Power Loader made a lot of bodies." Said Izuku.
That was when Tenya began to blow a whistle, "All right everyone line up in order of your number and board the bus."
"He's really getting into his role." Said Ochaco.
"Yeah." Said Izuku.
However Tenya was depressed over the fact it was a bus with an open lay out so it ruined his plans.
"You know Midoriya I've been wondering a couple things about you." Said Asui who was sitting next to Izuku on the bus.
"What Asui?" asked Izuku.
"Call me Tsu." She said.
"Okay Tsu…" said Izuku, "What is it?"
"It's the difference between you and the Pines." Said Tsuyu (As she prefer her first name or a nickname).
"Well…" said Izuku.
"I can explain…" said Dipper appearing.
Half of the class jumped in shock at the spirit appearing.
"Have you been here the whole time!" yelled Ashido.
"You get used to it." Muttered Katsuki.
"Sorry…" said Dipper, "But yeah there is an examination why we're so different and it's not just because the way our situations are…"
"really what is it?" asked Tsuyu.
"You see… Izuku is actually inhabiting another plane of existence." Said Dipper.
Dipper could feel the stares.
"I know it sounds strange, but it's true." Said Dipper, "He can see and hear everything in this one, but unless the thing can act like a vessel, he can't interreact with it. Thankfully all vessels as like an anchor to these world allowing him to interreact with this one…"
There was an awkward silence.
"Yeah… that's not horrifying." Said Kaminari.
"Wait how can you interreact with him though?" asked Yaoyorozu.
"ME and Ford have yet to figure it out." Said Dipper, "One belief is that we partially inhabit that same plane of existence… we also believe that the earth itself is the same way which is why Izuku isn't floating around in space and is able to remain on earth as it orbits the sun."
The class that was awake (Todoroki was taking a nap) except for Katsuki all looked pretty horrified.
"Maybe you should ask your other question." Izuku said to Tsuyu.
"Oh right…" said Tsuyu, "What are you going to do when you get your body back?"
Izuku froze.
"You're Quirkless right?" said Asui.
"Oh yeah… he is Quirkless…" said Ashido.
"I almost forgot because the whole possession thing." Admitted Kirishima.
"Seriously Frog Face!" yelled Katsuki.
"What?" asked Tsuyu.
"I… I haven't really thought really thought about it…" said Izuku.
Thankfully before any more could be said, they arrived at their destination, and Izuku tried his best to not think about the conversation.
The place they went to was a very large dome and they entered it and most of the class marveled at it, there seemed to be many facilities like domes, fake parts of cities and even a lake.
"It's like a theme park!" said one of them.
They also saw Thirteen was there.
"It's the rescue hero Thirteen! They're my favorite hero!" squeed Ochaco.
"Both of you are space themed." Said Izuku.
Then Ochaco looked at Izuku.
"You've been working with the heroes for a while, haven't you…" said Ochaco realizing that Izuku wasn't fanboying.
"Yeah…" said Izuku, "I know everyone on the staff."
"All right." Said Thirteen, "Welcome to a place I design myself, the Unforeseen Simulation Join… or USJ for short…"
"So it's Universal Studios Japan…" everyone practically thought.
"I thought All Might was going to meet us here." Said Aizawa.
"Something ungently came up." Said Thirteen holding up three fingers.
While most of the class didn't know what the three fingers meant, two students and the resident spirit did.
"That fucking moron." Thought Katsuki face palming.
He had reached his limit for the day…
All Might had a rather busy morning fighting some villains unfortunately due to that he ran out of time to teach class that day.
"Al right… before we get started, I want to make a point." Said Thirteen, "Or two… maybe three… wait four…"
"That's a lot of points…" thought most of the class.
The space themed hero gave them a speech about how while quirks are amazing, they can also be danger, and Thirteen's own, which allowed them to such things up like a black hole and turn them to dust. And it was up to them use their quirks for safely.
"Bravo! Bravo!" cheered Tenya.
"Thank you…" said Thirteen.
Before anymore couple be said suddenly all the lights went out.
Everyone was confused at what was going on…
Then something black appeared in the central plaza… it was a strange black fog… which people emerged from.
"What?" asked Izuku.
"Training robots, right?" asked Kirishima.
"Everyone get back! Those are real villains! " Said Aizawa.
Everyone was shocked at this.
In the central plaza where all of the villains were gather they looked at the group.
With the villains the ground the person who seemed to lead them look up the stairs and saw the assembled class. He was a very pale man who was covered in hands. Along with an amorphous black cloud with gleaming yellow eyes.
"It's Eraserhead and Thirteen. The schedule said that All Might was supposed to be here." Said the man.
"Oh come on Shiggy!" said a rather short person wearing a yellow mask that consisted nothing but a silted eye that covered his face, he figured wore a nice suit with a bow tie, a yellow vest with a brick like pattern, black gloves an wore a top had that covered his hair and his hands were a gleaming gold cane, "It's not all bad…"
"You're only that way because your targets there…" said the leader.
The masked villain shrugged.
"Remember Cloudy! I want the six I told you about to brought to me." Said the masked villain.
"I know…" the amorphous cloud.
Back at the entrance all of the students were horrified and confused.
"Wait… shouldn't there be an alarm." Said Yaoyorozu.
"There should be." Said Thirteen.
"Are they the only ones here… or are they also at the campus? Either way if the censors aren't working this has to be a coordinated attack. It has to be one of the quirks doing it. This place is out of the way, and they picked a time where there would be few teachers. They're not as dumb as they seem." Said Todoroki.
"You're right." Said Dipper appearing knowing he would have to help out and not overserve silently, "This is clearly well planned…"
"Kaminari! See you can get in touch with the school! Said Aizawa, "Dipper… is your teleplay working?"
"It should be." Said Dipper.
"Hey!" he sent out his telepathic message, "Can you hear me?"
"Yes, why?" asked Ford.
"Good! Something's happening here at the USJ…" said Dipper.
"Just to be clear… you're talking about that thing the space guy built and not Universal Studios right?" asked Stan.
"This is serious!" mentally yell Dipper, "Villains are attacking! Communications are jammed and we need everyone now!"
"I'll go find Nezu!" said Ford.
"I'll go see if All Might's up to it… did you hear the news this morning?" asked Mabel.
"Haven't heard but he's not here…" thought Dipper.
"I'll head to you…" said Stan.
"Okay…" thought Dipper.
"Did you get them?" asked Katsuki.
"I did..." Said Dipper, "Help should be here soon.
Aizawa nodded as he put on a set of goggles he wore around his neck.
"Wait! You're not going to fight them are you?" asked Izuku, "You're fighting style isn't meant for multiple targets at once… it's erasing than quacking capturing them.
"Midoriya, remember this you can't be a hero if you're a one trick pony." Said Aizawa.
He jumped into the ray and began to bet down the villains. Izuku couldn't help but to what.
As he watched he felt someone touch his shoulder through his robotic body.
"Izuku… we need to leave now." Said Dipper.
"Okay…" said Izuku.
They all headed towards the door, however the Amorphous cloud blocked their path, "I won't allow that…"
Everyone stood in shock of the cloud.
"Greetings, we are the League of Villains." Said the amorphous cloud, "We've come here to UA For a very special reason… to end the life of the Symbol of Peace… All Might."
While most of the class seemed to brush it off, both Izuku and Katsuki knew that All Might was in terrible health.
"We had the schedule, but it seems like it changed, no matter I still have a role to play." Said the amorphous cloud.
He was about to do something.
However both Katsuki and Kirishima both attacked him.
"Bet you didn't expect that…" said Kirishima.
"Wait… get back…" said Thirteen.
"You are the best of the best, I really should have known." Said the amorphous cloud, "However…"
Suddenly the entire area was covered in the black cloud.
Tenya reacted by grabbing Ochaco and Sato and getting out of the cloud, while Shoji reacted by grabbing Ashido and Sero and holding them down.
Dipper was unaffected because… well… spirit.
However the rest of them were engulfed by the cloud and scattered though out it.
In the area of the USJ known as the Land Slide Zone, Izuku, Katsuki and Todoroki all landed.
"What happened?" asked Katsuki.
"It was a warping quirk…" said Izuku.
"If someone hadn't done something… I'm sure Thirteen could have handled it." Said Todoroki.
"You want to fight!" yelled Katsuki.
That was when they all noticed the masked villain nearby… he looked at them and though they couldn't see his face it was clear from his body language he was annoyed. He then held up his hand and gave the hand signal for "Give me a minute".
Then a black cloud appeared and the villain through it, with the cloud disappearing quickly so that the three didn't follow them.
Katsuki started to grin.
"Didn't expect to see him so soon." Said Katsuki.
Izuku nodded having figured out who the villain is.
"You know who he is…" said Todoroki.
"Yeah…" said Katsuki, "Looks like your part of the team after all…"
Todoroki's eyes winded when Katsuki said that, realizing who the villain was.
At the entrance, the one hero teacher, 6 students and one spirit looked at the amorphous cloud, who seemed to look at the students.
Shoji had turned his tentacles to ears.
"All of them are still here but scattered." Explained Shoji.
"Thirteen! I'm going to go to the one of the zones and help out." Said Dipper.
"All right!" said Thirteen.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" asked Sero.
"I'm already dead." Said Dipper, "I'm headed to the fire zone since that's the worst place."
Thirteen nodded.
Dipper flew to the red dome to help out any students that might be there.
However the Amorphous cloud glared at the students.
"I was tasked by an ally of ours to deliver certain six students to him." Said the amorphous cloud, "And unfortunately three of them are still here…"
"Six students?" asked Thirteen.
The amorphous cloud didn't say anything… however behind them another black cloud appeared and the masked villain appeared behind the students, before any of could reaction he grabbed his cane and whacked Ochaco, Tenya and Shoji with the cane. Due to the surprise attack all three tree students to the ground.
All three of them were dazed and injured and couldn't react when another cloud opened up and the masked use his cane to push them into it.
Which was saying something… as two of them were among the tallest students and the villain that attacked was actually pretty short.
"Honestly Cloudy you did a pretty bad job…" said the masked villain.
"Who are you!" demanded Thirteen.
"I wouldn't use that quirk of yours on me…" said the villain.
The villain took off his mask and turned around. Ashido, Sato and Sero were all shocked and creeped out at the villain they were looking at.
The villain gave a demented smile before following the three he attacked through the cloud which disappeared.
Thirteen was also creeped out by the villain but regained themselves.
"Do you have any idea who that was…" said Thirteen.
"What do you mean?" asked the Amorphous Cloud.
Back in the landside zone the cloud appeared several feet above and the three that were caught in the surprise attack all landed, pretty hard.
Izuku, Katsuki and Todoroki all ran over to them.
"Are you okay?" asked Izuku.
"I don't know…" said Ochaco putting her and on her head.
"Got hit by a surprise attack…" said Tenya.
"I don't get it, why did he want us?" asked Shoji.
"You really have to ask?" asked Katsuki.
That was when the villain fell out of the cloud and landed pretty hard himself but started to laugh.
"That sure was fun!" laughed the villain.
The villain got up and they saw the face of the villain as he tossed away his mask.
"Has it really been a year already?" asked the villain with a demented smile.
Ochaco looked at the villain and covered her mouth, Tenya shook, Shoji glared at the villain while Todoroki just stared.
Katsuki looked ready of fight, while Izuku just looked determined.
"Love the puppet substitute, Freckles." Said the villain.
Izuku didn't respond to the villain.
"Sorry it took a few days to introduce myself to the four of you… but we were planning this and I figured my meat puppet would be the best way to meet you for the first time." Said the villain.
The villain put his cane over his shoulders.
"The names Bill Cipher but I'm sure you already figured that…" said the villain who was indeed Bizuku.
The six looked at the possessed body in front of them who just grinned at them in return who was ready for a fight.
And none of them knew it was a going to be easy… especially since Bill had a year to prepare for this fight… as well as the right allies…
Next Time: Team Zodiac has their first official fight with Bill! Unfortunately half of them are in a daze after his surprise attack and one of them can't fight him because of certain reasons... and it can only get worse when it reveals that someone gave him a special gift... What is the gift? Find out next time!