Before the dawn of Quirks, mankind dreamt of reaching for the stars, to travel the universe. That dream had died when Quirks began appearing, with the chaos bringing too much turmoil for any country to focus on. And that dream fell to the wayside, as the dreams of space became replaced with dreams of heroism.
At least, to the public eye.
A group of private funders had managed to gather together and work together to create their own secret space program. Their first goal? To land on the Moon once more, and this time, establish a secret base. Once they were done, they planned to reveal to the world its existence, and that the dream to space hadn't died.
If only life were so simple.
On the moon, an astronaut sprinted away from another as parts of their moon base were engulfed in flame. In his hands was a metal suitcase.
The second astronaut had tried to take the suitcase back from the first one, only for the first to knock him back. The second was launched backwards, and hit the side of the imploding moon base. The first one stared at the second astronaut, his eyes flashing red for a second before making his way to their landing pod and flying towards their spaceship.
As the second stared at the escaping landing pod, he reached into his pocket, and pulled out a strange clear switch.
As the base exploded, he looked up to Earth, and uttered only one thing.
"Kengo..."
17 Years Later
Izuku sighed as he walked from the train station. It had been a hectic first few days at UA. The Heroes vs. Villains exercise, the class representative elections and a person disintegrating the UA Barrier, that same person leading an actual attack at the USJ while he and his classmates had gone to it. In a way, he was glad for the day off that UA gave to the students. At the same time, he couldn't afford to slack off too much, even if he hasn't gotten full control over One for All yet. In fact, the fact that he hasn't gotten full control yet means that he needs to train even harder.
As he walked across the bridge on his way to UA, he came across his friends in 1A, Ochako and Tenya. "Oh, good morning you guys."
"Hey Deku!"
"Good morning, Midoriya! I see that you're arriving early just like us!"
"Oh hey you guys!" a voice said behind them. They turned and saw Eijiro and Mina jogging towards them.
"You all doing alright?" Eijiro asked.
"Indeed, Kirishima! While it was upsetting to take a break from attending school, I made up for it with my own independent studying!" Tenya said.
"I spent the day with my mom. She was really worried over the whole thing," Izuku said, scratching his cheek.
"I just went grocery shopping, there was a big sale I thought I would miss," Ochako said, rubbing the back of her head. "What about you, Ashido?"
"I went to a rave!" Mina said, as they raised their eyebrows. "Don't worry, it was an all ages one."
"Sounds like you guys all had fun! Spent the day at the gym, so-" Eijiro began to say.
"Kengo!"
The five 1A students, as well as some others on the bridge, looked over to see a 2nd year girl with a letter in her hand as she handed it to a 2nd year boy. "Would... would you please read this?"
"Aaaaaw, a confession!" Mina said, sparkles in her eyes as she looked at the scene.
"... If you have time to write frivolous letters, you should be using that time to study," the 2nd year boy, Kengo, said. He tossed the letter off the bridge. "Don't waste my time."
"Oh that was brutal," Ochako said, as they watched the letter fall into the water below them. The girl smiled sadly as she watched the letter float down the rain drainage, as if she had expected this to happen.
"Alright, that's not-" Eijiro began to say.
"OI!"
Everyone watched as another boy ran up to Kengo from behind, grabbing him by the collar of his jacket. He was dressed in an unbuttoned gakuran uniform with a white shirt, carrying a schoolbag that was decorated with a flame pattern, and his hair styled into a pompadour. "Who the hell throws a love letter away without reading it!? In front of the person that gave it!?"
Kengo stared at the yelling teen, disinterested in the lecture. "She went to the trouble of writing and giving it to you! She poured her heart into it, so at least read it! It's called courtesy!"
"I-It's fine," the girl said, holding her hands out to stop him. "I kind of expected him to-"
He tossed his schoolbag to Eijiro, who was the closest to him. "Hold this please!"
To everyone's shock, he leaped over the bridge's railing, yelling as he fell. He landed in the water feet first. "YEEEEEOUCH!"
He ignored the pain, and began to give chase to the letter that was floating away.
"... What an absolute idiot," Kengo grumbled, as students watched this stranger scramble for the letter. As he walked away from the scene, he reached into his pocket, and pulled out a strange switch, which he began to click with in his left hand.
"What did we just watch?" Ochako asked.
"That... that was so MANLY!" Eijiro shouted, in absolute awe.
"Is that what that was?" Mina said.
"Well, either way we mustn't get involved!" Tenya said. "We must make it to UA!"
"B-But what about that-" Izuku stuttered.
"He isn't a UA student, so what he does is not of our concern!" Tenya pointed out. "Now let's continue on!"
Izuku sighed as they followed the bespectacled teen, though he took one last look down at the strange 2nd year student. If he wasn't a UA student, just why was he here in the first place?
Later, at Class 1A
"So did anyone else see that wacko guy jumping into the rain drainage?" Hanta asked, as they waited for homeroom to start. The class was abuzz about the scene from earlier.
"No, but I saw the manliest guy ever jumping into the rain drainage!" Eijiro replied.
"I didn't think that there were people that still dressed like a delinquent, though," Toru said. "That's really weird."
"He reminds me a lot of those old shows my mother and father watch..." Momo said, recalling the collection of Blu-Rays that her parents have that had people dressed like the boy on the cover.
"That just a sign that he isn't a UA student!" Tenya said, adjusting his glasses. "UA would never accept a student like-"
The door slid open, and the 2nd year boy from earlier looked in.
"Hey!" he said, as Class 1A stared at him. "Any of you know where Class 2C is?"
"T-That should be on the floor above us," Izuku stammered. If he was looking for Class 2C, did that mean that he was a General Studies student?
"Oh, thanks!"
"Oh hey, it's you!" Eijiro said, picking up the bag the boy entrusted to him. "Sorry I took it! Didn't mean to."
"That's alright!" the boy said, taking the bag from him. With his free hand, he did a handshake that Eijiro seemed to instinctively understand. "Just means that I found a friend that I can trust!"
"... What?" Mashirao said, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm Gentaro Kisaragi!" the boy said, introducing himself. "And my goal here at UA is to make all of you guys my friends!"
"Really!? Then I guess we're friends!" Eijiro laughed.
"Nice!" Gentaro said, laughing too. The two patted each other's back, as Class 1A stared on at the scene.
"... Are... are they long lost brothers?" Denki whispered.
"More like clones if you ask me," Hanta replied.
"Tch, just another fucking extra..." Katsuki grumbled.
"Y-Your shoes! Your pants!" Tenya shouted, seeing how drenched they were. "H-How dare you walk into UA in such a state!"
"Oh, a stickler for cleanliness and rules, huh?" Gentaro said. "Gonna be tough becoming friends with you!"
"I do not desire your friendship!" Tenya said, simply aghast that someone like him was just inside UA to begin with.
"Anyways, I got to go! Thanks for the help!" Gentaro said, though he looked to the Class 1B door. "Hm... there's still a lot of time before the bell! I should introduce myself to them there, too!"
The strange delinquent shut the door, as most of the students stared at it.
"... You're not really going to be friends with that guy, right?" Hanta asked.
"Are you kidding!? Of course I am!" Eijiro grinned. "That is the sort of manliness I wish I could have!"
"I don't know, that guy seemed more 'crazy' than 'manly'," Denki said.
"His blood burns with the fires of friendship," Fumikage said.
"More like disrespect! How dare he come to UA in such a state of disarray!" Tenya yelled. "He isn't even wearing UA's uniform!"
"But UA's uniform policy is optional," Mashirao pointed out. "Not to mention that we're free to customize them however we want or need."
"That still doesn't give him the excuse to behave like a HOOLIGAN!"
Class 1B
"So anyone else see that lunatic earlier?" Sen said, as 1B chatted about their unexpected break.
"You mean the dude that jumped into the rain drainage to get that girl's love letter?" Kosei said. "Guy has a lot of guts to do that."
"It's so sweet, though, I think," Kinoko said. "I hope someone does that for me if I ever get rejected like that girl."
"I think it's nuts," Yosetsu said. "What type of guy just does shit like that for strangers?"
"A manly guy!" Tetsutetsu said. "The way that he told off that jerk was incredible!"
"Yea, he's got my support if he's ever around. He seems like a fun guy," Setsuna said. The door slid open, and the guy who had jumped into the rain drainage was in the doorway.
"What's up, everyone?" he said, with a big grin. "The name's Gentaro Kisaragi!"
"It's him!" Pony said, pointing at Gentaro.
"What're you doing here?" Itsuka asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well I got lost on where to go for Class 2C, so I asked the guys next door to you where it should be," Gentaro said. "And since I was already here, I thought I'd say hi to all my future friends!"
"... Future friends? Are you talking about us?" Hiryu said.
"Yep! I'm going to become friends with every single student in this school!"
"... That's absurd," Togaru growled.
"Tell that to the 1000 friends I've made before transferring here!" Gentaro said.
"You're actually a student here!?" most of the 1B students said.
"Yep, starting today! Gentaro Kisaragi, General Studies 2C!"
"So you're not even going to be a hero?" Neito hmphed, crossing his arms. "Good luck trying to get all of the Courses to get along. None of us are friends!"
"Sounds like an uphill battle, but I'm good with that! I've already done that at my previous high school, so this shouldn't be too different!" Gentaro replied. He looked at his watch. "Talk to you all at lunch later! Hope I get to know every single one of you!"
As Gentaro left, 1B sat there in silence, at least until Tetsutetsu shed a single tear.
"How... manly," he said. "I'm so glad to be his friend."
"We just met the guy," Kosei pointed out.
"And I'm so glad that we did."
Class 2C
The 2nd Year General Studies class was abuzz as normal, talking about all sorts of topics, as most normal high school classes do. After all, out of the four Courses offered at UA, General Studies was the most normal. Sure, UA was known for its Hero Course and all, but the General Studies students were its lifeblood. And even being in the General Studies course at UA opened up a lot of opportunities.
Kengo stood at the window, peeking through the blinds before pulling them up slightly, letting a tiny robot jump in from the opened window. He sat down and pulled out a book, standing it upright on his desk so that the robot wouldn't be seen by his classmates. It projected a small holographic screen onto his desk, showing a series of graphs, readings, and data. The girl sitting in front of him turned around, and looked at him.
"So? How is it?" she asked.
"It seems like the Hole's reactivating now," Kengo replied, as he poured over the data. "We might need to use Fourze soon..."
"Really? It's that serious?" she said. "We're going to have to find someone who can handle-"
"I'm going to use Fourze," he said curtly. He lifted the robot up, pulled out a switch that was in its back, and in an instance, it closed up and became a fake burger of all things. He put it back into his bag. "We don't need to bring in more people."
"Good morning, everyone," their homeroom teacher, Sarina Sonoda, said, opening the door and walking it. The class began to settle down, and everyone went into their desks.
"Good morning, Miss Sonoda," the students answered.
"I hope you all had a good break. First things first, we'll be having a new student joining us today," she said, making the students chatter once again. They stopped once they heard sloshing steps come into the classroom, and saw the guy that confronted Kengo earlier stand in front. He took the chalk, and wrote across the board in gigantic characters 'Gentaro Kisaragi'.
"The name's Gentaro Kisaragi!" the boy introduced himself. "And my goal here is to become friends with every single person in this school!"
The class chuckled at the absurdity, as Gentaro walked through the aisles to an empty desk, shaking hands and patting the shoulders of other students on his way to it.
"Nice to meet you! How you doing?"
Before he sat down, the girl that Kengo had been talking to took a good long look at him. Gentaro noticed her, and instantly recognized her.
"Yuki!? Is that you!?" he said, grinning.
"It is you, Genny!" she said, also grinning big as she stood up. The two exchanged a special handshake, as the class stared at them.
"It's been a while, hasn't it? Haven't seen you since elementary school!" Gentaro said. He looked at the book on her desk, and picked it up. "So you're still into space? That's great!"
"Yep! I'm going to become the first person to go back into space!" she said, hands on her hips. "And have you made 100 friends like you swore you would?"
"Ha! I'm already over 1000!"
"Wow, no way!"
"Yep! It was 1000 exact before coming here, so I'm already off to a good start!"
"Excuse me," Miss Sonoda said. "You can play catchup later. Can you please take your seat, Kisaragi?"
"Yea, hold that thought for a second," he said. He reached into his jacket's pocket, and pulled out the love letter that Kengo had thrown over the bridge. He slammed the drenched paper onto his desk. "Kengo Utahoshi. Glad we're in the same class. Saves me the trouble of looking for you to hand this over."
"So you kept it for me, huh?" Kengo said. "Feh, what a pain."
"Yep, that's what I am, a pain," Gentaro said. "That's what friends are for."
"Since when have we been friends?" Kengo said, turning his head to glare at the new student.
"As of right now. I don't like you all that much, and I hate that you threw that girl's letter away. But we're going to become friends, and I'm gonna open up that heart of yours," Gentaro said, crouching down to look at Kengo.
"How preposterous," Kengo grumbled.
"It makes sense to me," Gentaro said, slamming his hand onto his desk to pull himself up. "If I can't make friends with someone I disagree with, then I don't stand too much of a chance making everyone in UA my friend, right? So that's a Kisaragi promise!"
"Hmph, the chances of you and I becoming friends is absolutely zero," Kengo said, getting up from his desk and walking out.
"Utahoshi, are you really leaving again?" Miss Sonoda scolded.
"I need to go to the infirmary," Kengo said, as Yuki gave the okay hand sign to him. "I need to rest from my chronic headache."
He shut the door closed behind him, making Miss Sonoda sigh loudly.
"Alright, if you're finished, let's start class, Mr. Kisaragi," she said, shaking her head.
"Of course," Gentaro answered, as he took his seat. Chances are absolutely zero, huh? He's gonna make him eat those words when they become friends.
Later, at the Teacher's Office
"Seriously," Miss Sonoda sighed, as she looked at her fellow teachers. "We get so many problem children."
"Well this is UA," Chuta Ohsugi, a plain faced man wearing suspenders, said. "We get all sorts of kids, even in the General Studies Courses."
"Can't blame them, UA's one of the few Hero Course schools that encourages even its non-Hero students to give their best after all!" Present Mic said.
"Yea, that's all good and all, but-"
"Hey," Aizawa, Class 1A's homeroom teacher (who was currently mummified due to his injuries at the USJ), said, interrupting the conversation. "Teacher meeting."
"Really? Al-" Ohsugi began to say.
"For the hero teachers only," Aizawa clarified, as Present Mic, Snipe, and Midnight left the teacher's office.
"Aw, again?" Ohsugi sighed, as he sat down at his desk. "We always seem to have hero-exclusive teacher meetings."
"The divide between UA courses is really big, isn't it..." Miss Sonoda said, opening up her laptop and noticing that she had gotten an unlabeled email. One that was addressed to all of the faculty. She opened it, and saw that it was a link to some forum post. She raised an eyebrow at the single sentence that the forum post had. "'UA High is a bastion for guardians of this false and unfair society, and it shall be taken down.'?"
"Huh?" Ohsugi said, opening his laptop and seeing his own copy of the email. "I guess that's what they're going to talk about. Don't worry, Sonoda. I, Chuuta Ohsugi, shall protect you no matter-"
The door closed, and he turned around to find that Miss Sonoda had left the room. "Dang it, so close," he mumbled, as he pulled his suspenders and let them snap back against his torso. "Next time, Chuuta... next time..."
Conference Room
"Is it really wise to not include the non-Hero teachers in on this?" Midnight asked, as they discussed the email that every faculty member had gotten. "They were all sent the same email link, so they're technically a part of this."
"They're civilians first, UA teachers second," Aizawa stated plainly.
"Yea, there isn't much that they can do in hero situations. They're not trained for it," Vlad King added. "So have we started tracing who could've created this forum post?"
"We are, indeed, but there is the possibility of it being a dummy account," Principal Nezu said, holding his paws together.
"You reckon that the League of Villains from a while ago have something to do with this?" Snipe said. "If not, I'm bettin' that the USJ attack's just emboldenin' copycats."
"Perhaps. We must remain vigilant and prepared for anything," Principal Nezu said. "As such, we'll take this email seriously, and be on alert for what may come our way. But we mustn't alert the students about this, either."
"Anything from Chairman Gamou?" All Might asked.
"Nothing as of yet," Principal Nezu replied. "He's simply insists on making sure that the student body is comfortable, and to make them look forward to the Sports Festival."
"Makes sense, he did agree to keep it going," Present Mic said, shrugging before smiling. "So let's keep it that way! I'm looking forward to it myself after all!"
At the Infirmary
"Yo, Utahoshi!" Gentaro said, walking into Recovery Girl's office. "You here?"
He pulled a curtain away, only to see that none of the beds had occupants. He looked around, and found that there wasn't anyone in there. "Guess not... maybe he's getting lunch."
Cafeteria
"So do you guys really think that Kisaragi guy wants to be friends with us?" Ochako asked, as she sat down to eat with Tenya and Izuku.
"Even if he wants our companionship, I refuse his offer!" Tenya said, still incensed that someone like Gentaro was even allowed to step foot into UA.
"He is a bit... eccentric," Izuku said, not sure how to feel about someone like Gentaro. "But he's a year above us and in the General Studies Course, so I don't think we'd be seeing each other that often."
As chatter filled the cafeteria's air, Gentaro opened the doors and walked in. He scanned the area for Kengo.
"Dang, he isn't here either... oh well," he sighed, shrugging. As he looked for a place to sit, he greeted every single student he passed.
"Hey! What's up! Hi!"
Soon he came upon a small table, and sat in one of the chairs. Immediately most of the cafeteria had gone silent upon witnessing him planting his behind into the chair.
"... What?" he said, looking around. "Do I have something on my face? Is my pompadour out of shape!?"
"Hey, new guy!" a first year General Studies boy said, approaching Gentaro and laughing. He wore his hair back with a headband, his tie loose, his jacket's sleeves pulled up, and a ton of wristbands. "Did you really just sit there?"
"What? What's wrong with where I'm sitting?" Gentaro said, as the first year skipped away.
"Genny!" Yuki shouted, her eyes wide as she rushed to him. "You shouldn't be sitting at that table!"
"Why not? It's just a table-"
"It's not just any table! It's the table reserved for the cheerleaders!" Yuki hissed. "Believe it or not, UA's got a bunch of laws about cliques in the General Studies!"
"You've got the gossipers-" she pointed to the first year who went back to his friends and chatted with them, "- the muscleheads-" she pointed to a set of teens who were surprisingly working out, even if they weren't in the Hero Course, "- the honor students-" Gentaro looked at a bunch of students with their noses in their textbooks, "- the chuunis-" she pointed to a table of students wearing dark makeup, hair accessories, and chains, one of whom, a girl with dark eyeshadow and poofy hair, was staring at the two intently, "- and the nerds!" She finished by pointing to a table full of nerds. "And right now you're sitting in the table only meant for the cheerleaders!"
"How was I suppose to know that?" Gentaro said defensively.
"They're unspoken rules here!" Yuki whispered.
"That's right, geek girl," the first year gossiper said, putting his hand against the table and leaning against it. "And you shouldn't be anywhere near there, either."
"Geek?" Gentaro said, puzzled.
"It means nerd in English, and I'm one of them," Yuki said, before pulling on Gentaro's arm. "Now come on, we have to get out of here before they come!"
"There're cliques like that here?" Eijiro whispered to Denki, Minoru, Hanta, Mina, and Toru.
"I mean, the Hero Course is pretty small, so we're basically a clique already," Hanta pointed out.
"... Huh, I guess I never thought about any of the other courses that much..." Eijiro said, his eyes shifting to the ground, somewhat guiltily. "You think we should try getting along with the other courses?"
"I dunno, we're gonna be pretty busy with just our Hero classes," Toru said, shrugging. From a table away, Katsuki scoffed. Who cared about what extras outside of the Hero Course did?
The doors opened, and the cafeteria watched as three 3rd year girls in cheerleader uniforms walked in.
"Oh wow, UA's got some really, really hot girls," Gentaro muttered, watching them strut. Minoru and Denki were also staring from their table.
"Oh no, it's Miu Kazashiro!" Yuki whimpered, pulling at Gentaro's arm. "She's the cheerleader captain and the General Studies Queen! We can't be on her bad side! So let's go!"
"So," Miu said, crossing her arms as she and her posse came upon the two. "What's a trash and a geek doing at our table?"
"I'm so sorry!" Yuki said, bowing profusely. "He's new to UA and-"
"Trash?" Gentaro said, puzzled.
"Yes, trash. The trashiest of trash," she said, snidely.
"... That must mean 'manliest man', right?" Gentaro said, running his hand over his pompadour. "Then yes, I'm the trashiest of the trash."
Miu looked at her friends incredulously, before laughing. "Oops! Guess he doesn't know English!"
"Huh?" Gentaro said, when someone grabbed him and tossed him aside into some tables. "Ow! Hey, what was that for!?"
He looked at his assailant, or rather, assailants, as a crowd of American football players appeared, who all were wearing letterman jackets. Their leader, tall 3rd year half-Caucasian half-Japanese boy, stared down at him, as Miu walked up to him and hugged his arm and laid her head on his shoulder.
"Thanks Shun, but you didn't need to be so rough," Miu said, smirking.
"Rough? All I was doing was taking out the garbage," Shun replied.
"Garbage!? Like hell I am!" Gentaro said, getting up. "I'm trash!"
"Genny that's garbage in English!" Yuki said.
"Wait, really?" he said. He glanced over to Miu, who just smiled smugly at him. "So you wanna make fun of me, huh? Well I'm not garbage! The name's Gentaro Kisaragi-"
"Shut up. I don't care what your name is, Trash," Shun said, cutting him off. He snapped his fingers, and three of the boys walked forward. "Show him his place."
"Oh, you wanna rumble?" Gentaro said, popping his shoulder. "That's cool, a real man talks through his fists anyways!"
"Hold it!" Tenya said, coming between him and the boys. "This is UA! You can't fight outside of class! This is-"
"Butt out of this, hero, this is General Studies business," Shun said, as three other boys grabbed Tenya by the arms. "Besides, we're not going to use our Quirks. Nothing in the rules about regular fist fights."
"H-Hey! This is highly inappropriate!" Tenya said, as they dragged him away. "UA is a hero school! There's-"
"Oh great, another 1st year hero lecturer," a 2nd year General Studies student moaned, as the cafeteria collectively shook their head. Shun took a good look at Tenya, and grabbed him by the cheeks.
"Listen. You hero students already get a lot of special attention this school," Shun said. "Not only do you get the freedom to use your Quirks, you're also constantly in the spotlight because you're UA Hero students. Meanwhile, everyone ignores us General Studies students because why should they. So there's some spoken and unspoken rules between the Courses here to keep things fair. One of them being that no one interferes with another Course's business."
"But-"
"Do you see your upperclassmen doing anything?" Shun said, moving Tenya's face around. Indeed, the 2nd year Hero Course students averted their eyes already to Tenya's shock. "The 2nd years understand this, and the 3rd years are too busy with their internships to even be here most of the time. Sure, we still get guys like you that care enough about what happens in the other Courses, but they're the exception. But if you're such a stickler for rules, learn about them."
"Hey leave him alone!" Gentaro said, coming towards them. The three boys that approached him to fight blocked him, and began swinging fists at him. Gentaro dodged each wild swing of theirs, before punching back and kicking away one of them. They fell against the tables as people scrambled away. "You wanna fight, just make it between you and me!"
More football players charged at Gentaro, but it was becoming very apparent that he was far more experienced in fighting than they were, as Gentaro easily blocked each of their punches and kicks and returned his own. One tried to punch him, but he grabbed his head and headbutted him, making the football player stagger away into a table. Another had snuck up from behind him, having grabbed a chair, only to get tackled by Eijiro.
"You little-" the football player began to say, when Tetsutetsu slugged him across the face and knocked him down.
"It isn't manly to sneak attack people in a rumble!" Tetsutetsu shouted.
"Yea, what he said!" Eijiro replied, sticking his hand out to shake Tetsutetsu's hands. "Name's Eijiro Kirishima!"
"Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu!"
"... That can't possibly be his real name," a student off to the side muttered.
"Damn, what a show," the first year gossiper said, as he watched the fight with a wide grin.
"Let Iida go!" Izuku said, trying to pull away one of the football players heading his friend, while Ochako was pulling at another.
"More 1st years who don't know to keep their noses out of things?" Shun said, pinching his forehead. "Come on, do we have to-"
"Who cares about some dumb unspoken rules!? This isn't the right thing!" Izuku said. "UA isn't the right place for this!"
Shun shook his head, and snapped his fingers again. More football players ran up and grabbed Izuku and Ochako, as well as Yuki.
"Hey, let Yuki and those guys go-" Gentaro said.
"If you play 'nice', then we won't have to hurt your little friends here," Shun threatened.
"You little-"
"Hey, don't talk back to Daimonji like that!" a smaller football player shouted.
"Daimonji-?"
Shun stepped forward as he did a two finger salute. "Shun Daimonji, captain of UA's American football team. Let's take this outside. Don't want the ladies to miss out on their lunch."
"This isn't-" Eijiro began to say, but Gentaro stopped him.
"Alright, fine. But on the condition that you let them go," Gentaro said.
"Hm... we'll only let the first years go. As a warning for them to not get into General Studies business," Shun said, as the football players released them. "But make no mistake, we won't be as kind the next time they try to stick their noses into things."
Shun motioned for Gentaro to follow him, as the beaten football players rubbed their heads and surrounded him to make sure he didn't try to escape. Eijiro and Tetsutetsu tried to follow him, but he stopped them. "It's alright, this is between me and him. I appreciate your help, but right now, you need to check up on your friends."
"But-" Eijiro began to protest, as the football players shoved them away.
"He said leave, you little runts," one of them hissed.
"Yea, I suggest you take this warning and learn to stick to your lanes, 'heroes'," another growled. "Otherwise we might have to give you an even harder lesson."
As the football players left with Gentaro and Yuki, Eijiro went over and checked on Izuku and the other two. "You guys alright?"
"No! I'm going to get a teacher!" Tenya said indignantly. "Those thugs shouldn't be here in UA! How dare they disrespect UA with their actions-"
"Oh, come on, give us a break," a 2nd year hero student said, getting up. "If you're not going to listen to those guys, you might as well listen to your actual course upperclassmen when we say, 'don't interfere with the business of other Courses'. The only ones that do are the Hero and Support Courses, and they need to by necessity. It's not worth the trouble when we have our own business to attend to."
"But-"
"Just take the hint, dude," the 2nd year sighed. Tenya bit his lip, before deciding to run out of the cafeteria, with Izuku, Ochako, and Eijiro following close behind him.
"Wow, those 1A students just don't know when to not stick their noses into-" Neito began to say, when he saw Tetsutetsu and Itsuka following them. "Hey! What are you two doing!?"
"We need to do something!" Tetsutetsu said, as he left the cafeteria.
"Yea, I don't think I can believe that there's something as stupid of a rule like that!" Itsuka said.
"You idiots, you-"
"There's no way that's a rule here," Setsuna said, her eyes narrowed as she followed her friend out. "I know that the Courses don't get along too much, but an actual rule about not getting along? Bullshit."
"There are people in trouble, I think that's enough to concern the teachers," Juzo added, as they left him. Neito grumbled under his breath as he overheard several upperclassmen do the same.
"Those guys are in for a big shock," one of them said, as the cafeteria went on with its business.
"Mr. Aizawa!" Tenya and the 1A students said, spotting their teacher walking in the hall.
"Mr. Vlad King!" Itsuka and the 1B said, also spotting their teacher with Aizawa. Present Mic and Midnight were following them.
"What is it, kids?" Vlad King asked, looking at them.
"It's the cafeteria! There's a fight going on!" Izuku said.
"What!? Why!?" Vlad King said, as he and Aizawa looked at them with urgency.
"A bunch of General Studies students began to-" Tenya started to explain, and to the students' shock and surprise, the teachers relaxed.
"Oh, is that all?" Aizawa grumbled, as he began to walk away in the other direction.
"'Is that all-' what are you saying, Mr. Aizawa!?" Tenya asked.
"Sorry kids, but that's up to the General Studies teachers to reprimand them, not us," Vlad King said, rubbing the back of his head.
"But they're causing trouble-" Tetsutetsu said.
"Are they using their Quirks?" Aizawa asked.
"Well, no, but-"
"Then there's no need for us to get involved," Aizawa said. "You all are going to be busy with your Hero studies that we're teaching you, and we can't waste time getting involved with students that aren't in our classes."
"But they're besmirching the good name of UA-!" Tenya protested.
"Sorry, listeners, but even if we wanted to, the rules are preventing us," Present Mic said, shrugging.
"What rules?" Setsuna asked.
"Chairman Gamou instated a rule while we were in UA ourselves," Midnight sighed, recalling when she heard the news as a teen. "Any issue with a student must be handled by a teacher in that student's Course. So since we're all Hero Course teachers, we're not allowed to step in the business of the other Courses, and vice versa. The only other Course we can step in with is the Support Course, and that's because Heroes and support companies have to have a good relationship."
"It's the rational thing, anyways," Aizawa said. "Like I said, we're going to be busy with teaching you and you're going to be busy learning from us. We can't afford to waste time on students who aren't in our classes."
"But this reflects poorly of UA!" Tenya said.
"Yea, I'm not one to be worried about things like that, but are you really not going to do anything?" Itsuka said, crossing her arms and raising her eyebrow.
"It'd be more of an issue if it were in the Hero Course," Present Mic admitted. "But since it's the General Studies Course, it's not really that big since they're not the stars of this show."
"Sorry kids. Better luck going to a General Studies teacher and getting their help," Vlad King said, as they walked off, though Midnight stayed behind for a bit longer.
"I wish we could help, I really do," she said, apologetically. "But that's just how things work at UA. We're basically four schools with how it works."
The students stood there, dumbfounded as Midnight followed her fellow teachers.
"I-I-I can't believe this!" Tenya said, completely aghast, before forcing himself to calm down. "Well, I suppose the next course of action is to find a General Studies teacher and get them to help!"
"... Do we even know who the General Studies teachers are?" Ochako pointed out, as everyone realized that they didn't.
"There's no time anyways!" Eijiro said. "We have to help Kisaragi!"
"That's right! That's what friends do!" Tetsutetsu said, as he and Eijiro ran out.
"But we only just met the guy today!" Setsuna pointed out, though they were out of earshot.
"T-They're right, though!" Izuku said, looking to follow them. "We should go help!"
"... As much as I hate to say it, but I think we need to obey the teachers," Tenya sighed, pushing his glasses up. "If those are the rules, then we mustn't get involved anymore."
"But Iida-" Ochako said.
"It's the rules. I don't like this either, but... but the fact that this rule exists, it must be for a reason," Tenya said. "So I'm sorry, but we shouldn't get involved anymore then this."
"Speak for yourself," Setsuna said, shrugging. "I don't really know you guys, but I'm pretty sure that Tetsutetsu and that redhaired guy are like, clones or something, and that means they both need someone to hold them back from doing something completely stupid. That might as well be us, right?"
"Exactly," Itsuka sighed, rubbing the side of her head. "I'm sorry, but a rule like that just... doesn't make sense to me at all."
"It is a rather frivolous rule to have," Juzo said. "I don't know what UA's chairman is thinking, but to let something like this happen just isn't right."
"At the very least we should make sure that Kisaragi is alright, right?" Ochako said. "We won't make you go, but this isn't right."
Everyone present went and followed Izuku to join Eijiro and and Tetsutetsu to help Gentaro, with only Tenya stood back. His fist tightened. He wanted to help, but the rules... there had to be a reason why Chairman Gamou would want the Courses to not interact, right?
Outside, behind Gym Gamma
Gentaro grunted as he fell backwards and rolled onto the ground from Shun's tackle. The football players had elected to do some football drills, by using Gentaro to practice their tackles. The football players grabbed Gentaro before he had a chance to recover.
"Is that the best you got!?" Gentaro grunted, as they held him up once again.
"Excuse me?" Shun said, glaring at Gentaro.
"Genny, don't antagonize them more!" Yuki said, still struggling against the hold of the football player keeping her captive.
"It's fine, Yuki. After all, we're friends, and friends do what they can for each other!" Gentaro assured her.
"If you want my best, I suppose I'll have to do this properly," Shun said. He glanced over to the small football player who had snapped at Gentaro earlier. "Miura, go and keep an eye out for anyone coming this way."
"Right, Daimonji," Miura said, as he ran off to make sure that no one was coming. As Miura disappeared, Shun lowered himself towards the ground before charging at Gentaro, ramming himself against him and knocking into a nearby tree before he fell onto the ground. The football players grabbed him once again, and forced him up, when the first years from earlier found him.
"Hey! Leave him alone!" Eijiro shouted, as he and Tetsutetsu prepared to charge at them.
"Hmph, so you decided to ignore our warning, huh?" Shun said, as they looked at them. "And you brought some more friends. Well, I guess this means we'll all have to give you a tougher one."
"Guys, I said run-" Gentaro said, when he noticed something off to the side. A dark purple nebula-like mist started to approach them, with strange glowing dots appearing inside it. "... Stars?"
"Is that... the Orion constellation?" Ochako said, noticing the mist and squinting at it. Everyone turned their heads to look, and out of the mist, came a huge hulking red man with giant tusks coming from his bottom teeth.
"What the-?" Shun said, as they stared at him.
"A villain?" Izuku and Gentaro said, as everyone stood frozen at the sight.
"So soon after the USJ!?" Eijiro said, as they backed up from the approaching man.
Shun snapped out of his stupor and shock, and looked to his fellow football players. "Everyone, let's go!"
The football players ran off with Shun, leaving behind Yuki, Gentaro, and the hero students. The man came to a stop, the dots on his body glowing as he stared at Yuki.
"Yuki!" Gentaro shouted, running towards her and grabbing her, saving her from a big explosion that the man created.
"Well, he's no student that I've ever seen," Gentaro said, as he got up. "You guys go and get a teacher! I'll hold him off!"
"Wait, you can't be-" Juzo said, when Gentaro grabbed a metal pipe and started to swing at the red man. The pipe connected with the man's chest, but Gentaro shook his hand.
"Oooow! You're a hard bastard!" Gentaro said, as he kept swinging and swinging the metal pipe onto the man. The man growled as he grew tired of the hits, so he grabbed the metal pipe and yanked it out of Gentaro's hands before bending it into a loop. "What!? Super strong and explosions!? How come-"
The red man threw a punch that Gentaro barely had time to block, and like earlier with the football players, he was sent flying back, though this time he collided with Gym Gamma's wall, knocking him out.
"Genny!" Yuki said.
"Kisaragi!" the hero students shouted. None of them could go help him, however, as the red man turned his attention towards them, and his dots glowed again. Eijiro and Tetsutetsu activated their Quirks and stood in front of them all, while Itsuka grew her hands and covered everyone, when a giant robotic wheel came and blocked most of the explosion. They turned to look, and saw a giant yellow robot with wheels for hands near them.
"Powerdizer," the robot announced, as it stood up.
"A robot!?" Setsuna said, as they stared at it.
"Are you alright, Yuki?" the robot asked, with a boy's voice.
"Yea! Look!" Yuki said, pointing to the red man. "It has the Orion constellation on its body! It's a Zodiarts!"
"Zodiarts?" Juzo said, scratching his chin.
"You know the robot?" Ochako asked
"The Orion Zodiarts... I see... take these first years out of here and let me handle this," the robot said, as it charged at the Zodiarts. The robot began trading punches with the red man, who, while strong, wasn't nearly as strong as the robot and was starting to become overwhelmed. Yuki grabbed Setsuna's and Izuku's hands, and began pulling them.
"Come on, we need to get you out of here!" she said.
"But what about Kisaragi!?" Izuku asked.
"We got him!" Eijiro said, as he and Tetsutetsu lifted him under the arms and carried him as they joined the others. Izuku took one last look at the fight. The robot managed to knock the Orion Zodiarts back, who decided that it was best to retreat. To his surprise, the robot's head opened, and a boy stumbled out, sweating heavily from exhaustion.
"Just what was that..." Izuku muttered to himself. Unbeknownst to everyone else, Setsuna also saw the boy falling out of the robot, and decided to keep an eye on him. Quite literally, by using her Quirk to separate her eye and ear off her face, and making it follow the boy (of course making sure that her hair covered the missing parts of her face).
Later
"Honestly, I have no idea what that Chairman Gamou is thinking!" Recovery Girl complained, after healing Gentaro. The students there had informed her about what happened, and they heard her ranting to herself as they left. "Keeping the Courses separated like this and telling teachers not to discipline students outside of their Courses!"
"It really just seems like more of a hassle to not let teachers get involved," Itsuka said, her hands on her hips. "Like we don't know any of the General Studies teachers, so there was no way we'd get any of them to help in time."
"Yea. It's gonna make my goal of befriending everyone in UA a lot harder," Gentaro said, rubbing his head. "By the way, where did Yuki go?"
"She left us to go get a teacher to stop that villain," Ochako said, putting a thinking finger on her chin. "But you know... it's weird, why didn't the teachers come in the first place? Shouldn't the alarms have been set off by an intruder?"
"Maybe that villain found a way to sneak in and out," Juzo said. "But it's still concerning..."
"Well, either way, it doesn't matter, that villain's gone by now. Tried to keep an eye on him, but he disappeared in that big cloud of mist," Setsuna said. "But I have been keeping an eye on our big yellow friend and his pilot."
"How-" Izuku asked, when Setsuna pulled her hair back, revealing her missing eye and ear. Ochako, Eijiro, and Izuku all screamed at the sight.
"Right, of course!" Itsuka said, hitting the palm of her left hand with her right fist. "We can always count on you for reconnaissance!"
"Yea! Where did that robot and pilot go?" Tetsutetsu asked.
"Seems like he went to an old storage shed in the far back of UA," Setsuna said, sticking her tongue out in thought. "Oh hey, the pilot's meeting up with your friend, Kisaragi... makes sense, since she seemed to know who that was."
"Are they saying anything notable?" Izuku asked, as he, Ochako, and Eijiro forced themselves to calm down from seeing Setsuna's missing parts.
"They're talking about something called 'Fourze'..." Setsuna said, sticking her tongue out in thought. "And going to a place called the 'Rabbit Hutch'..."
"Any idea where they're heading?" Juzo asked.
"Hm... seems like they're heading towards some of the older buildings nearby, too... Come on, let's go," Setsuna said, as they followed her.
At the old buildings
Kengo and Yuki walked through the hallway crowded with old supplies, and reached a door that had caution tape plastered onto it. Kengo pulled out some keys in his pocket, and unlocked the door. As they walked into the storage closest, Yuki closed the door behind her, not noticing that there was something small following her that was low to the ground. Kengo opened a locker that was off at the back, and a bright light shone as he and Yuki entered the locker.
Inside the locker, they walked through a corridor of rainbow light that ended with a sliding metal door. Kengo opened the door, and they walked into a sterling white secret base. Once inside, the two lost their gravity, as they hopped to a lab that was on the other side of the base. Kengo walked inside, and began typing on a computer, running a diagnostics test on a strange device on the console. The device had four spaces on it, two on each side with a black screen in the middle, with four red switches and a large lever on the right side. He then pulled off four strange switches on a charging dock and inserted them into the belt.
"Rocket."
"Are you seriously thinking of using Fourze, Kengo!?" Yuki asked, looking concernedly at him. "Your body can't handle using it!"
"Drill."
"What choice do we have? Fourze is the only thing capable of beating Zodiarts," Kengo grumbled. "You can't use it either. When we tested Fourze before, you dislocated your right arm."
"Launcher."
"And I'm completely healthy!" Yuki pointed out. "Do you really think that you'd be able to use it!?"
"Radar."
"I have to!" Kengo shouted. "The Fourze Driver was left behind for me to use against the Zodiarts! There's no one else that can!"
"W-Whoa! What's going!?"
Kengo and Yuki froze at the new voices, and went out to look. To their shock, it was Gentaro and the first years from earlier. "I-I'm so floaty!"
"W-When did you use your Quirk on us, Uraraka!?" Eijiro said, trying to get a steady foothold.
"I didn't do anything!" Ochako defended herself, trying to grab and hold herself down from floating away.
"This is kind of fun!" Setsuna laughed.
Kengo scowled as he bounded over to a lever on the wall, and flipped it. "Gravity Control."
All at once, the floating intruders fell to the ground. They moaned as Gentaro got up and made sure his pompadour wasn't messed up. "Man, this place is just like a secret base!"
"How did you find this place?" Kengo said, glaring at Gentaro.
"Oh, so the pilot of that robot was you, huh, Utahoshi?" Gentaro said. "And as for how we found your hidden base, we had someone keep an eye on you."
Upon hearing that, Setsuna detached her eye and ear from her head, making Yuki scream in shock. Kengo was also surprised by the sight, which Gentaro took as the chance to grab the device out of his hands.
"Give that back!" Kengo demanded, lunging for it. Gentaro sidestepped out of his way, as he looked at it.
"We heard you all talking about this thing," Gentaro said. "This thing's supposed to beat that weird red guy, right? And Yuki said you can't use it. So let a guy like me handle it!"
"No, I won't let anyone else-" Kengo started to say, when he began to wobble back and forth. "Dammit, not now..."
"Yea, you're in no condition to fight," Gentaro said, as he ran out of the base, the first years following. "Just leave it to me!"
"Get back here!" Kengo said, before collapsing to his knees. Yuki bit her lip as she stared at her friend, before deciding to follow Gentaro and the others. Kengo glared as they all left, and slammed his hand onto the ground, shivering as frustrated tears dripped down his face. "Why was I born with this stupid frail body!?"
Class 1A
"Where are Midoriya, Kirishima, and Uraraka?" Aizawa sighed, spotting the empty chairs.
"I think they went to find and stop some General Studies students from fighting," Denki answered.
"Yea, it was that weird 2C guy!" Minoru said.
"Tch, and just after we told them to stay out of their business..." Aizawa grumbled, when an explosion went off outside.
Class 1B
"Does anyone know where Kendo, Tokage, and Honenuki went?" Vlad King said, tapping his fingers against the teacher's desk.
"They went to help some General Studies students that got into a fight," Sen answered.
"Those fools are really going out of their way for some non-Hero Course students-" Neito grumbled, which earned him a smack from Yosetsu.
"Since Itsuka's not here right now, it's up to me to keep you in line..." he muttered.
"They've got their hearts in the right place, those three..." Vlad King sighed. "I really do wish we were able to actually help..."
All of a sudden, an explosion went off outside.
Class 2C
"So Jojima and Kisaragi are also skippers..." Miss Sonoda muttered, shaking her head. "As if Utahoshi wasn't enough..."
She turned her attention back to the blackboard when an explosion went off outside.
Outside
The Orion Zodiarts walked and growled as he went through the campus hallways, students screaming and running away from him. The hero teachers all came out to stop him.
"Why didn't the alarms go off!?" one of them shouted, as the red man tossed them aside like ragdolls. "How'd he get through!?"
Aizawa and Vlad King ran out, spotting the Orion Zodiarts beating up their coworkers like nothing.
"Stay back, Eraserhead, you're still injured," Vlad King said, getting in front of his coworker. He charged at the Orion Zodiarts, grabbing him by the throat and releasing his blood out, wrapping and hardening it around him. The red man broke free, though, and socked Vlad King in the gut before tossing him behind. Aizawa activated his Quirk, staring at the intruder as his hair raised. The intruder growled, and the dots on his body began to glow. To his shock, the Orion Zodiarts fired a series of explosive balls of light, shattering the windows.
"How-" Aizawa said, when the red man grabbed him and threw him backwards. Vlad King regained his senses and used his body to cushion Aizawa's fall.
"Why didn't you erase his Quirk!?" Vlad King said, as the Orion Zodiarts charged through the hallways.
"I did," Aizawa growled. "Whatever that explosion power was, it wasn't a Quirk. And neither is that strength..."
"N-No, please, don't hurt me! I'm not a hero student!" a student cried, as the Orion Zodiarts approached him. He ignored their pleas, and raised his fist above his head.
"Hey you big red jerk!"
The red man stopped and looked up to where the voice came from, giving the student the chance to escape. Gentaro stood in front of him confidently, as he pointed the device at him. "You wanna rumble!? Let's rumble!"
The two stood in silence, staring at each other as the others caught up to him.
"What's going on?" Itsuka asked, raising an eyebrow.
"A standoff between men!" Eijiro whispered.
"They're waiting for the other to make their first move!" Tetsutetsu added.
"... How do I use this?" Gentaro said, making everyone's jaw drop. "Oh crap, I should've asked before running here!"
"Stick it onto your waist!" Yuki said, running up to him.
"Huh?"
"Like this!"
She took the device out of his hands, and slapped onto his stomach. To everyone's surprise, a belt looped around Gentaro's waist, keeping the device onto him. The Orion Zodiarts stood there, puzzled by what was happening.
"Now flip the red switches to activate the Astroswitches!" she said.
"Astroswitches?"
"That's right! The Astroswitches! They'll give you the power of the cosmos! You gotta transform, Genny!"
"The power of the cosmos!?" Juzo muttered.
"Transform!?" Setsuna said.
"What?" Gentaro said. "Transform?"
"Yep!" Yuki said, as she pushed the device's red switches down before running back.
"3."
"Um what now!?"
"2."
"Pull the big lever!" Yuki said. She held her left arm up with her elbow bent in front of her, before motioning him to pull the lever. Then she stuck her right hand above her head and her left arm to the side. "And yell 'Transform'! Like that!"
"1."
"Uuuuuh push the big lever!" Gentaro said, mimicking the motions that Yuki just showed him. "And yell 'Transform'!"
A big gust of wind and steam blew out from where Gentaro was standing, pushing everyone back a bit, even the red man. A strange holographic circle appeared above Gentaro, and in an instant, strange armor formed over him. His helmet was shaped like a rocket with antennas above bug-like eyes, his suit resembled a sleek astronaut suit, and he had giant gauntlets and boots. On his right gauntlet was a red circle, on his left a black square. His right boot had a blue X, his left a yellow triangle. On his back was some sort of jetpack.
"What the heck is that!?" Setsuna said.
"Oh my gosh he looks like an astronaut!" Ochako said, sparkles in her eyes.
"Yes! He did it! He turned into Fourze!" Yuki shouted.
"So that's what Fourze is!?" Itsuka said as Juzo stared, jaw dropped.
"That's so manly!" Eijiro and Tetsutetsu shouted.
"I-I've never seen support gear this high tech before!" Izuku stammered, in awe of how the suit just instantly appeared around Gentaro.
"I don't know what's going on, but let's start this fight with a blast off! Mano-a-mano!" Fourze exclaimed, throwing his hands into the air before pointing his right fist at the Orion Zodiarts.
Fourze and the Orion Zodiarts charged at each other. Fourze made the first move by swinging a punch at the red man, only for him to block it by crossing his giant forearms. "Ouch!"
The Orion Zodiarts moved to throw his own punch at Fourze, but in the split second his hand was reared back, Fourze punched him square in the chest. "Ha, take that-"
The red man swung his fist and knocked Fourze into a wall, breaking it. Before he could attack again, Fourze sprung out of the rubble and shoulder tackled him, knocking him against the opposite wall and cracking it.
"C-Calm down!" Izuku said, sweating at the collaterial damage. "You're breaking everything!"
His words fell on deaf ears as Fourze grabbed the Orion Zodiarts by the collar and tossed him away, making him crash against a hallway shelf, breaking it.
"Don't know why there was that cheap shelf there to begin with," Setsuna muttered.
"Come on, get up, jerk! We're not finished!" Fourze said, punching the Orion Zodiarts in the head. The red man growled as he grabbed a hold of Fourze, and the two began simultaneously attempting to toss the other. They swung each other into the classroom Fourze had fallen into, knocking desks and chairs over. "Man, there's not a lot of room here to fight!"
"Take it outside! Use Rocket!" Yuki said, as she and the first years peered into the classroom.
"Rocket?"
"The switch on the outer right!" Yuki said, gesturing at her waist where the Rocket Switch would be. Fourze pressed down on it.
"Like this?"
"Rocket. On."
An energy construct of a rocket formed over Fourze's right arm before solidifying into a orange arm-mounted rocket. The rocket's engines ignited, causing Fourze to move wildly. "Gah! An actual rocket!?"
The Orion Zodiarts attempted to attack Fourze, but the Rocket's powerful engines made it hard for it to hit Fourze. He stumbled around for a bit before grabbing a hold of the Orion Zodiarts, and the two ended up breaking through the windows of the classroom and soaring out away.
"Amazing!" Yuki said, beaming at the sight. "Genny's really doing it! When I did it, my arm was dislocated!"
"Where are they going!?" Itsuka asked.
"I don't know," Yuki answered, shrugging before running towards the stairs. "But we should go look for them!"
Fourze yelled as he and the Orion Zodiarts landed in the furthest corner of UA's campus at the older buildings. He spun around a bit as Rocket's engines refused to die down.
"Gah, what a wild ride!" Fourze said, pulling the Rocket Switch up. The Orion Zodiarts charged at him, but Fourze ducked. "I'm feeling a little sick-"
Fourze then sprung up and uppercutted the red man's chin. The two exchanged punches before Fourze kicked him away. "I wonder what else I can use..."
He looked down at his belt, and pushed the Astroswitch next to the Rocket Switch.
"Launcher. On."
He prepared to get a new weapon on his right arm, only for it to form around his right leg. Fourze lifted his leg up and looked at the blue missile launcher attached to it. "Oh, nifty!"
When he put his foot back onto the ground, he accidentally fired the missiles, which flew everywhere and hit everything but the Orion Zodiarts. "Oh boy, that's not good..."
Suddenly, the Astroswitch on the outer left started to ring. "Huh? What's with this?" "Radar. On."
A radar dish with a screen appeared on Fourze's left arm, and he lifted it to his face.
"You idiot, are you trying to destroy the school!?" Kengo berated, his face appearing on the screen.
"Oh, Utahoshi! So I can talk to you with this, huh-"
"Focus on your battle," Kengo reprimanded, as Fourze blocked the Orion Zodiarts's punch and kicked him away with his left leg. "Use Radar to track the Zodiarts and then use Launcher to attack."
The Orion Zodiarts charged Fourze for a tackle, only for the impromptu hero to fly away and dodge it by using his jetpack. "Alright, so just point this at him-" he pointed his left arm at the Zodiarts, as crosshairs locked onto him, "- and fire with Launcher!"
The missiles from Fourze's right leg flew out, only this time they all converged onto the Orion Zodiarts and nothing else. The red man grunted as it got knocked back by the explosions, hitting the metal bar fence behind it. "Nice!"
"Alright, now switch out the Astroswitch for your right leg," Kengo said.
"With what?" Fourze asked, when the black screen on his belt glowed. A new Astroswitch materialized over it, which he grabbed. "Oh, that's neat!"
He flipped the Launcher Switch down, pulled it out, and replaced it with the new Astroswitch, which he immediately flipped. "Chainsaw. On."
The blue Launcher disappeared, only for a cyan chainsaw to replace it. "Ooooh, nice! I can get used to this!"
As the Orion Zodiarts got up, Fourze began to kick him with his chainsaw blade, sparks flying with each strike. Fourze jumped into the air, boosted by his jetpack, and spun around as he performed a drop kick onto the red man. The Orion Zodiarts growled as the dots on its body glowed, and it fired off explosive balls of light that hit Fourze and knocked him onto the ground. Fourze flipped the Chainsaw Switch off, and began to duck and roll from the Orion Zodiarts's attacks.
"That's not gonna work me again!" Fourze said, as he pressed the Rocket Switch on. "Rocket. On."
Fourze reared his right arm back as the Rocket formed over it, and launched himself into the air. He looked down at this belt, and flipped the Astroswitch that he hadn't used yet. "Wonder what this one is..."
"Drill. On." Like what the belt said, a yellow drill formed over Fourze's left leg. "Well this one looks powerful! I wonder what will happen if I pull the big lever again though-"
"Don't! You'll activate the finisher!" Kengo said over the Radar.
"Finisher!? Nice, now I have to do it!" Fourze said.
"I just said no, Kisaragi! You can't-"
"That's enough for now," Fourze said, as he flipped the Radar Switch off and Radar disappeared from his left arm. With his left hand he pulled the lever, as it announced "Rocket. Drill. LIMIT BREAK."
The Orion Zodiarts fired off a barrage of explosive balls as Fourze soared towards him, dodging each one. "Rocket Drill KICK!" he shouted. Fourze's drill collided with the Zodiarts, which attempted to resist it, but it was too much, and an explosion engulfed the red man. Fourze spun out of control as he landed, but soon managed to stop himself and planted his foot onto the ground. He turned to look, and saw that the Orion Zodiarts was gone.
"Yea, that's what I'm talking about!" Fourze said, as he flipped the Astroswitches off.
"Finally! We found you!" Yuki said, as she and the first years managed to find Fourze. She and Fourze did their secret handshake in triumph. "You did it!"
"So where's that red guy?" Eijiro asked, as they stopped and tried to catch their breath.
"I don't know," Fourze said, shrugging. "I hit him with a drill, so he might de-"
"Powerdizer."
Fourze and the others looked behind them, and saw the Powerdizer approaching them.
"Oh hey, Kengo! Don't worry, I totally took care of that-"
"Give me back the Fourze Driver!" Kengo shouted, as the Powerdizer grabbed Fourze and started swinging him around.
"Whoa, hey, what's your damage!?" Setsuna said, as they watched Kengo swinging Fourze around.
"Hey hey hey, what's the big deal!? I took him out!" Fourze said, as he pried himself out of the robot's grip. That didn't deter Kengo, as he and Fourze entered a grappling battle. "Fine! If you wanna rumble, let's rumble!"
"Kengo, come on, quit it!" Yuki scolded, as she walked in between the robot and Fourze. Kengo grumbled as the Powerdizer released its grip around Fourze's fists. The cockpit opened up, and he climbed out with a suitcase to approach Fourze. He flipped the Fourze Driver's red switches up, deactivating the belt and pulled it off from Gentaro's waist.
"This was never meant for you," Kengo growled, as he walked off before collapsing onto his knees.
"Yea, well, it doesn't seem like you'd be able to use it too much," Gentaro pointed out.
"At least I wouldn't so catastrophically stupid," Kengo said. "Because of you, we have no leads on who turned into the Orion Zodiarts!"
"Wait, 'turned into'? You mean someone changed into that thing!?" Itsuka asked.
"Yes. A Zodiarts is a new lifeform materialized from cosmic energy, channeled by the usage of a Zodiarts Switch," Kengo said, as Gentaro, Eijiro, and Tetsutetsu struggled to keep up with the technobabble. "All your pretty premature finisher explosion did was just give the Orion Zodiarts the perfect chance to escape!"
"You think you're so smart spouting off big words like that!?" Tetsutetsu said, rubbing his head as he tried to figure out what he meant by all of that.
"What he means is that monster you fought was made by a human using a special Switch, like the ones that Fourze uses," Yuki explained.
"The only way to defeat a Zodiarts is by taking their Switch and turning it off," Kengo said. "You messed up, now buzz off."
He opened his suitcase, revealing it to have a bulky portable laptop within it as he swiped the screen, making the Powerdizer transform. "Vehicle Mode."
The Powerdizer drove off, presumably back to the old building that it was stored in. Kengo closed his suitcase, picked it up, and walked off.
"Wait, Kengo-" Gentaro said.
"I don't recall ever letting you call me by my name," Kengo said, cutting him off.
"Don't sweat stuff like that," Gentaro said, crossing his arms. "All we have to do is just find the guy who turned into that Zodiarts thing, right?"
"Yea, that shouldn't be a problem at all!" Eijiro said.
"All we gotta do is-" Tetsutetsu began to say.
"Wait, Tetsutetsu," Itsuka said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "I don't know if we should be getting involved with this any further."
"This is beginning to seem out of our depths," Ochako said, rubbing the back of her head.
"I don't know, the fact that we're in this deep now means we can't really back down, right?" Setsuna said. Meanwhile, Juzo and Izuku were pondering.
"I don't need any of you to begin with," Kengo said. "Yuki and I are more than enough to handle everything."
"Kengo, maybe we should let Genny in," Yuki pointed out. "You saw how he used Rocket. He had no trouble at all!"
"The answer is no, and that's-"
"Something's been bothering me," Izuku finally said, getting everyone's attention.
"Yea, me too... Why hasn't the alarm gone off to alert that an intruder got into UA?" Juzo said.
"Especially after all the security upgrades that Principal Nezu said that they were making," Izuku said.
"Maybe-"
"Just maybe-"
"- the Orion Zodiarts is a student there," Juzo and Izuku said at the same time.
"Come on, do you guys really think..." Itsuka said, before trailing off as she thought about it. "That... that is a good point. The only way someone could get pass the security now would be-"
"- if they were already approved to begin with!" Setsuna and Ochako finished.
"Hm, a good point. Thanks," Kengo said, walking off. "Now don't get involved with this anymore."
"Sorry, but that's not gonna happen," Gentaro said. "Friends get into each other's businesses, even if they don't want them to."
"We're not friends," Kengo grumbled.
"Not yet at least," Gentaro said, with a confident smile. "After all, I'm Gentaro Kisaragi, the man who's going to make everyone at UA his friend!"
"Hmph, good luck with that," Kengo said. "Especially since the Courses don't get along like you think they do."
"Well, this has been a crazy first new day here," Gentaro sighed, shaking his head. "We should get back to our classes and-"
"Oh no, our classes!" Izuku said, as he and the first years paled.
"W-We completely missed them! Our homeroom teachers are going to kill us!" Itsuka said, sweating as they made a break back to the main campus.
"Honestly I'll be surprised if school hadn't been cancelled for the rest of the day," Setsuna replied. "Wouldn't mind that, honestly."
Elsewhere
"So, Fourze is in my school, is he?" a well-dressed man said, as he held a Zodiarts Switch in his hand. He looked up to his three servants. The first was a woman with pink swirling hair, the second was a cockroach-like man with two circular disks around his head that made it look like he was wearing a cymbal, and the third was a man whose eyes looked like a fanged mouth and wild hair, giving him the appearance of a lion. All three were wearing identical robes. "Hm, I should've figured... how is the progress on rewriting everyone's memories, Virgo?"
"As I figured, doing it on such a massive scale on all of UA is difficult. I couldn't fully remove the knowledge about the Orion Zodiarts like I could one on one. The only thing I could totally remove was the teachers' fight with Orion," Virgo, the pink-haired woman, answered, her face still. "Instead, I recontextualized it. I made it so that they only think that Orion is nothing but a rumor. Same with Fourze. Some might have escaped the memory change, but the number is small enough that it won't matter."
"Hm... and how about the repairs to the school?"
"As if nothing ever happened," she said. "The physical repairs were by far the easiest thing I had to do, Chairman Gamou."
"Good. I don't need Principal Nezu to come to me and talk to me about the Zodiarts and the damages they incur," Gamou said. "Or have the media go into another frenzy about 'villains' attacking UA again so soon."
"Is it so wise to start handing out Switches so soon?" the cockroach-like man asked. "After all, the school's already at the center of attention with the USJ Incident."
"The Hole is reopening, Libra," Gamou said. "Of course we need to. This is the moment we've been waiting for over 17 years. We shouldn't need to worry, since Virgo's powers will let us control information to an extent."
"Of course, my apologies, Chairman Gamou," Libra said, bowing a bit.
"Now then," Gamou said, as his grip tightened around the Zodiarts Switch in his hand. "It's time for humanity's next step."
At the main building
The group of students walked through the hallways, looking around and scanning the area.
"Um... what happened to all the damage that fight caused?" Ochako asked. Indeed, when they had arrived back at the building, all of the windows, all of the walls, were repaired. As if nothing had happened at all.
"I know that Cementoss can repair the walls pretty quick, but I don't think he could repair the windows," Eijiro said, remembering how the literature teacher's Quirk let him manipulate concrete.
"Something's not right," Gentaro said, tapping his foot in thought. "We should get our things first. Talk to you all later!"
"So... I guess we're all friends now?" Itsuka said, looking at the 1A students as Gentaro walked off in the opposite direction. "Got to say, this was one hell of a way of getting to know each other."
"We can chat all about that later and really get to know each other!" Eijiro laughed, as he and Tetsutetsu did the secret handshake that Gentaro and Yuki did.
"Yea, definitely! Monoma was wrong about you guys!" Tetsutetsu said, as they went into their respective classrooms.
Class 2C
"You're late, Kisaragi," Miss Sonoda said, to Gentaro's surprise. "I know this is your first day, but you can't make this a habit of yours."
"What? We still have class? But that guy just attacked the school-"
"What guy?" Miss Sonoda said, raising an eyebrow. "Are you talking about those rumors of the Red Man?"
"Rumors? He just-" Gentaro started to say, when Yuki and Kengo sprung up from behind him.
"Sorry, Miss Sonoda!" she said, grabbing Gentaro by the shoulders. "Genny met up with us on our way back from the infirmary, and we told him about that rumor!"
"The moron believed it was true," Kengo said, as they went back to their desks.
"Pft, the guy who thinks he can become friends with everyone at UA bought that rumor?" one of the students snickered, as the class shook their heads at him.
"But-"
"Just take your seat and listen to class, Kisaragi," Miss Sonoda scolded, before giving him a polite smile. "Please?"
"Alright..." Gentaro said, still confused by what's going on. As she turned back to the blackboard and began talking, Gentaro leaned in to whisper to Yuki. "Just what's going on? The school's all fixed, and everyone's acting as if that there was never an attack."
"Our guess is that someone involved with the Zodiarts has the ability to change memories and repair damage," Yuki whispered back. "We'll talk about this later, we should act as if everything's normal."
"Stop talking to him, this is none of his business to begin with," Kengo muttered, as the three went back and paid attention to class.
Class 1A
"Any reason why you three are late to class?" Aizawa said, to the shock of the three late students.
"What? We still have class?" Eijiro said, raising an eyebrow.
"Just because you three chose to skip to help out a student outside of your Course, doesn't mean that class is over," Aizawa said, narrowing his eyes through his bandaged face. "Get to your seats, we'll talk about this after school."
"But what about the attack today!?" Ochako said.
"What attack?" Hanta asked.
"Did you not see the villain attack!? He went through the halls!" Eijiro said. "You know, the red guy!"
"You mean the Red Man rumor?" Rikido said.
"You trying to blame that make-believe villain?" Denki said.
"But-" Eijiro protested.
"I'm not interested in hearing whatever excuses you have for trying to skip class, just sit down," Aizawa grumbled. The three students looked at each other, realizing that something was up. What that something was, they didn't know.
Class 1B
"Good to see you four finally join us," Vlad King said, looking at the four latecomers. They looked at each other, puzzled.
"Sorry we're late," Juzo said, recognizing something was amiss.
"I know and understand that you wanted to help a General Studies student get out of trouble, but doesn't mean that you can skip class, you know," Vlad King sighed. "I'll excuse you all for now, but next time, let the General Studies students sort it out themselves, or find the proper teachers."
"Right, of course sir," Itsuka said, following Juzo's example.
"Honestly, I don't know why you all decided to go help someone outside of 1B, especially with 1A students of all people!" Neito huffed. "It's just as ridiculous as that Red Man rumor I've been hearing about."
"Red Man rumor?" Setsuna said.
"You guys haven't heard about that? Supposedly there's this red man that-" Kosei began to say.
"You can talk about whatever rumors there are after class, you all," Vlad King said sternly, making the class pay attention again. "Now then-"
Later
"So someone's making sure that UA doesn't become villain scandal central," Setsuna said, as the 1A, 1B, and 2C students met up at the courtyard. Only Kengo was absent, having stormed off before they had a chance to say anything to him. "I can't tell if that's a good thing or a bad thing, since we just had the USJ Incident."
"It does feel like it should be a good thing, but it's probably self-serving..." Izuku muttered. "For what purpose is the question..."
"Couldn't they have made it so that school still wasn't going on?" Eijiro said, wincing as he remembered the dressing down that Aizawa gave them, though Principal Nezu stopped him from punishing them.
"Honestly, this might make finding the Orion Zodiarts easier, since they might react differently to the Red Man 'rumor'," Itsuka said.
"It might be, if that Kengo guy wasn't so uncooperative," Tetsutetsu muttered.
"Don't be too upset at him, he just... he's had a rough time," Yuki said, rubbing the back of her head.
"Hey, let's trade numbers and social media," Gentaro said, pulling out his cellphone. "That way we can stay in contact."
"Alright, sounds like a plan!" Setsuna said, as they all traded numbers.
"Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this," Juzo muttered, as they all went their separate ways.
Principal Nezu's office
"Ah, All Might, good to see that you made it," Principal Nezu said, as All Might sat down in front of his desk.
"Is there a problem, Principal Nezu?" he asked. "I was hoping to get the chance to talk to Young Midoriya about the Sports Festival after school, since that meeting about the threatening email took up that time."
"Indeed," Principal Nezu said. "Tell me, have you heard about the Red Man rumor?"
"You mean that old story about how there's a huge red man that stalks the hallways of UA?" All Might said, raising an eyebrow. "I didn't know that you were interested in rumors."
"It's not the rumor itself that I'm interested in," Principal Nezu said, his paws together. "Just when and how did you learn about the Red Man?"
"That's a funny question," All Might chuckled. "I learned about it when I... when I..."
"Do you not recall?"
"I... no," All Might said, his amusement contorting into confusion.
"And yet it's common knowledge amongst the students and teachers, right?"
"Y-Yea... just how did I learn about it?" All Might grumbled, rubbing his head.
"Hm... it's just as I suspected," Principal Nezu said, standing up from his chair and walking to the window to stare out from it. "A rumor that everyone knows all of a sudden, yet it's treated and thought of as an old story..."
"Do... you think someone implanted the idea of the Red Man into our heads!?"
"Indeed I am. It was strange when I suddenly started thinking about him, as I never recalled hearing about a 'Red Man' in UA until today."
"But why would someone do something like that?"
"My best guess? They must want to hide something," Principal Nezu theorized. "But their Quirk couldn't get rid of this knowledge they want to hide fully with so many people, so they must've gone with their next best option and changed the context into a rumor."
"You think that the Red Man is real, then?" All Might said gravely. From the 'rumor' he remembered, he knew the Red Man as someone that rampaged dangerously without regard. But then he started to remember another part of the rumor. "Then what of the Kamen Rider?"
"Ah yes, the mysterious white rocket-helmed being that fights the Red Man whenever they come face to face," Principal Nezu said. "I believe that whoever the Kamen Rider is, that whoever wants to hide the Red Man's activities, wants to hide the Kamen Rider's as well."
"So what do we do?"
"I'll be monitoring the security feed closely. I'm curious as to if any footage was also altered or removed," Principal Nezu answered.
"I see... and why tell me of your suspicions?" All Might asked.
"Confirmation, as well as to make you aware of my plans, of course," Principal Nezu said. "After all, if this person can change memories in this manner, so who's to say that they can't also read them?"
All Might paled as he realized the implications. "Right. Thank you, Principal Nezu."
The two bowed, and All Might left the office. He took a deep breath. First the USJ Incident, and now possibly memory tampering? Just what was happening?
The Next Day
"Hey, get to class," Ohsugi said, as students walked in through the courtyard. The students in the other three Courses rolled their eyes as the General Studies teacher greeted and urged them to hurry on in. "Don't be late. UA's got some standards after all."
"Man, yesterday was nuts," Gentaro muttered, as he walked in and past Ohsugi, who eyed him suspiciously. "Don't know how I'm going to deal with this-"
"Hey! You!" Ohsugi said, marching right up to Gentaro. Gentaro looked around, and pointed to himself.
"Me?" he asked.
"Yea, why aren't you in the UA uniform, huh?" Ohsugi said, narrowing his eyes at him.
"This uniform represents the hot-blooded manliness that I have grown over my life!" Gentaro said. "Also, the UA uniform is out of my budget. Transferring here was already expensive enough, and UA's uniform policy says I don't need to, so-"
"Ooooh, so you must be the transfer that's giving Sonoda a hard time," Ohsugi said, his lips pursed into a frown. "Listen, here at UA, we-"
Two cars drove up and parked at the front gate. Gentaro and Ohsugi turned around, and watched the car's chauffeurs opened their passenger doors, with Shun stepping out of one and Miu stepping out of the other. The cheerleader captain walked over to the football captain, and hugged his left arm as they walked through UA's front gate.
"Wow, chauffeurs, how bourgeois," Setsuna said, as she met up with Izuku and the others.
"Who'd travel to UA like that?" Ochako said, jealously.
All of a sudden, another car honked as it parked in front of UA, and Momo walked out. "Oh, good morning, you all!" she said, spotting Izuku, Ochako, and Eijiro.
"Oh, uh, right..." Ochako said, blushing a bit out of embarrassment. "Good morning, Yaomomo!"
"Aaaah, there's UA's two best General Studies students!" Ohsugi said, as he walked up to them, now ignoring Gentaro. "Coming together, huh? What a fine couple you both make!"
"I'm surprised that we're having school after that villain attack," Shun grumbled, catching Gentaro's ear.
"Shun honey, I keep telling you, the Red Man is only an old story," Miu said, shaking her head.
"I know what I saw, Miu, and since when was there a 'UA Red Man'?" Shun muttered.
"Disregarding rumors-" Ohsugi said, clasping his hands together, "- you're going to do your best at today's opening football game, right Daimonji? UA's General Studies Course is putting all of their hopes onto you and your team for the win!"
"Hmph, of course," Shun said, regaining some confidence. "I won't tarnish UA's good name, after all."
Setsuna stifled a snort upon hearing Shun's words. "Fucking ironic..."
"That's the spirit, Daimonji!" Ohsugi said, snapping his suspenders as he walked off. Miura, the small football player from yesterday, jogged up to Shun and Miu, with Miu's posse behind him.
"Good morning, Daimonji! Here, let me carry your bags," he said.
"Good," Shun said, as he and Miu handed them over to him. They only took a few steps before seeing Gentaro right in front of their path.
"Yo! Mornin'," Gentaro greeted.
"Oops, looks like we got yesterday's Trash thinking that he can talk to us," Miu said, crossing her arms as her cheerleader posse snickered at Gentaro. "Didn't Shun teach you a lesson already about how things work here at UA?"
"Well, good thing I've got a hard time learning about things," Gentaro said. "We'll settle the score some other day."
"Is that supposed to be a brag?" Itsuka mumbled to the others, who shrugged.
"What I want to know is what you think where the Red Man might be, Daimonji," Gentaro said, popping his neck.
"Huh?" Shun said, walking up to him.
Miura's eyes shifted for a split second, before he walked past Shun. "How dare you talk to Daimonji like that! Show some respect!"
Shun held his hand up to stop Miura. "Don't bother, Miura. It's not worth our time. Let's go."
Shun, Miu, and their friends walked off, each of them giving an intense stink eye at Gentaro.
"Man, for someone who wants to make friends, you've sure made a few enemies," Setsuna said, as she and the other first years walked up to him.
"It's no problem, enemies are just people who you need to work extra hard with to become their friend," Gentaro said, running his hand over his pompadour. "Anyways, I'll go around and ask some more info."
"Want us to help?" Eijiro asked, as he and Tetsutetsu stared at their senior classmate with anticipation.
"Yea, go around and ask your classmates more stuff about the Red Man," Gentaro said, smiling as he did his secret handshake with them.
"Come on, all I wanted was to ask you guys some questions!" Gentaro said, as he tossed a musclehead over his shoulder. The group of General Studies delinquents moaned as Gentaro stood amongst the beaten teens. "Just what do you know about the Red Man!?"
Unbeknownst to him, the chuuni girl with dark eyeshadow was spying on him, watching him toss and beat the muscleheads. The first year gossiper boy came up from behind her, and looked over at the scene as well.
"Well, isn't that fun," he said, smirking at the sight. "Wonder why he's so obsessed with the Red Man?"
"Okay, now that you all got that out of your systems, will you all tell me what you know about the Red Man?" Gentaro said. He then realized that they were all unconscious. "Aw, dammit."
"Looks like the only thing you're good at is wasting energy."
Gentaro looked around, and saw Kengo approaching him. "Just as I thought, you're just too big of a idiot to do anything. I can handle surveying on my own."
He pulled out a burger toy from his bag, and inserted a switch into it before kneeling down and letting it go. The burger toy unfolded into a robot, and began rolling away. "Go and look around, Burgermeal."
Kengo stood up, and glared at Gentaro once again before walking off. "I don't need you to beat the Zodiarts at all. I can handle it myself."
"Tch, if he wants to play at that, fine, I'll handle this on my own, too," Gentaro sighed.
Class 2C
"Alright, so I'm assuming that Utahoshi is still in the infirmary," Miss Sonoda said, looking at the usual empty desk. Her eyes then landed on Gentaro's empty desk. "- but where is Kisaragi?"
"I dunno," Yuki said, biting her lip as she half-lied.
"Seriously? He's skipping again? Already two days here and he's being a troublemaker," Miss Sonoda mumbled, pinching her forehead.
At the Rabbit Hutch
Gentaro wandered around the secret base, having managed to lockpick his way inside the closest (having been taught how to by one of his friends before he left), since Kengo had locked it.
"There's got to be something here that can help me figure out who the Zodiarts is," he grumbled, as he looked at a wall of buttons and switches. He got curious and flipped one of them up, and a panel slid to reveal a window. Gentaro took one look out of it, and was absolutely stunned by what he saw.
"So this is where you were," Itsuka said, as she and the first years came in. "So did you get any leads on-"
They looked to the window, and were all absolutely stunned by the sight of a blue planet in the sky. A blue planet that they're supposed to be on right now.
"Oh my goooooooosh we're in space!" Ochako said, eyes twinkling as she smooshed her face against the glass.
"Is that why we were all floating yesterday!?" Juzo said, jaw dropped.
"HowdidweevengetherewhatsortoftechnologyorQuirkwouldbestrongenoughtobringustothemoonfromEarth-" Izuku said, his eyes and mouth moving rapidly as he attempted to process what was happening.
"How come this isn't bigger news!? Technology like this would be amazing to have!" Setsuna said.
"We haven't had a space program in centuries! When and how did this get here!? And so well maintained, too!?" Itsuka asked.
As Gentaro stared at the Earth from the window, a single tear ran down his cheek. Eijiro and Tetsutetsu followed suit, absolutely stunned to silence by the sight as well.
"Why... why am I crying?" Gentaro said, feeling the tear run down his cheek.
"I never thought I'd see something as amazing as this..." Eijiro muttered.
"Me neither, dude..." Tetsutetsu replied.
The door slid open, and Yuki walked in, and saw all of them staring out the window.
"What are you guys doing here!?" she asked, shocked that they got in. "Genny, you missed all of our classes!"
"Oh, my bad," Gentaro said, snapping to attention. "I just thought I could get some sort of idea about the Zodiarts from looking around here."
"Is it that important that you look through everything here? What a mess," Yuki said, seeing the magazines, books, and papers strewn about.
"I just want to beat him to it," Gentaro admitted. "A man has his pride, and I want to fix my mistake... but... but are we really on the moon?"
"Yep, this is the Rabbit Hutch," Yuki confirmed. "Using the same power as the Astroswitches, the locker managed to connect to this moon base."
"Seriously?" Itsuka said. "They can do something like that?"
"Yep," Yuki confirmed, nodding.
"Then we're really in space!" Gentaro said, marveling as he and everyone stared at the window. After a few minutes, they turned and saw that Yuki had taken off her uniform jacket, and was in the process of removing her tie.
"W-What are you doing!?" Ochako said, as the boys covered their eyes.
"Taking my clothes off," Yuki said. "You all take them off."
"B-B-But-" Itsuka said, blushing.
"Come on, everyone, put your backs into it!" Yuki said, motioning them all to follow her.
"Oh my god, we're really on the mooooon!" Ochako shouted, as she jumped up and down the moon's surface, as the others copied her.
Gentaro was having trouble, struggling to keep his balance as he bounced on the moon's surface.
"Shit shit, I'm falling!" Gentaro said, as Juzo grabbed him.
"Got you," he said, as he pulled Gentaro up the cliff.
"You gotta be more careful, Genny!" Yuki chastised. "The moon's got 1/6th of Earth's gravity."
"Y-Yea," Gentaro said, as they bounced to where Yuki was leading them.
"Astronauts have to put their lives in the hands of their partners, and that requires of unwavering trust between them," Yuki said, as they made their way to a big crater. "And, well, I think that if you want to become Kengo's friend, that's the sort of bond you two have to make."
"Well, of course I-" Gentaro began to say.
"Genny, why do you think I showed you how to use Fourze?" Yuki asked, point blank. "I did it because I thought you'd want to save Kengo."
"Doesn't he-" Eijiro said, raising an eyebrow.
"You always used to care about your friends and other people way more than yourself," Yuki said. "I thought because of that, that you'd be the kind of guy we need. But I think you changed a bit since then..."
Yuki turned around and faced the giant crater that they had stopped to look at.
"What is this place?" Izuku asked, looking at the absolutely massive crater.
"This is where Kengo's father had died," Yuki said, sadly. Everyone turned to her in shock. "Mr. Utahoshi was developing the Astroswitches here as a way to use cosmic energy... But there were others who wanted to use them for selfish purposes, and they killed him to get them. This crater... this crater is all that's left after their attack."
"I had no idea..." Gentaro muttered, staring at the crater.
"Kengo stumbled upon the gate between the locker and the Rabbit Hutch, and found what remained of his father's research here," she said.
"I guess that it was the Fourze Driver and the Astroswitches?" Setsuna said, rubbing her foot against the ground.
"Yep. It's why Kengo thinks that stopping the Zodiarts and the misuse of the Zodiarts Switches as his responsibility," Yuki answered.
"So all that's why he's been trying to carry this burden alone..." Gentaro said, as Eijiro and Tetsutetsu struggled not to cry, if only because they wouldn't be able to wipe their tears away thanks to their helmets. "No one should carry a burden like that on their own..."
Izuku bit his lip; he could relate to Kengo in that regard. To carry the burden of his predecessors alone. Sure, All Might was still with him, but no one else knew about One for All. At least, not anyone that he's personally told.
But what if he did? What if he did the thing that Kengo refuses to do, and let others into the secret?
At UA's Football Stadium
The bus rolled to a stop, and the football team and the cheerleaders poured out of the doors, with Miu hanging off of Shun's arm like usual. As students from UA's General Studies Course and Isamu's General Studies Course entered the stadium, the girl that had been spying on Gentaro earlier peered around the corner and at the football team as they walked past her.
At the Dirtbike Track in UA's forest
Kengo sped around the dirt paths with the Machine Massigler, testing the experimental motorcycle he made from his father's designs. It was peculiar, seeing these plans. He wasn't exactly sure why his father chose to make something like this, though at the very least it would make traveling around as Fourze a lot easier.
He came to a stop, sweating heavily as he pulled his helmet off and wiped his forehead before putting it back on. "If I can at least use this bike..."
He revved the Machine Massigler's engines again, and sped off, when he heard a bicycle bell. He glanced over his shoulder, and saw Gentaro pedaling towards him, surprisingly catching up with him. The others were running behind him from a distance.
"What are you doing here!?"
"Kengo, I was wrong! I can't handle finding the Orion Zodiarts on my own!" Gentaro said.
"So you're finally admitting defeat?" Kengo retorted.
"Yea!"
"Shame, looks like I won't be seeing what you're supposedly made of."
"I know! I can't figure out who the guy is on my own!"
"Good! Then I don't want to see your face again!"
The two biked up a dirt ramp, and Gentaro lost control of his bike and landed against the ground hard. Kengo slowed down to a stop, and walked the Machine Massigler to the now-dirty teen.
"Hmph, reckless-" Kengo began to say.
"Yea, I can't do this on my own, but I can do my best to help!" Gentaro said, confusing Kengo. "I know about everything that you've had to deal with, and I saw what happened up there."
"You went back to the Rabbit Hutch-!?" Kengo growled, climbing off the bike and grabbing Gentaro by the collar. "You have no right to-"
"I can't do what you can do, but you can't do what I can do!" Gentaro said. "So please, let me help you, and you help me! Everyone should share their burdens and help each other!"
Kengo glared at Gentaro before releasing his hold on the teen's jacket and walking towards the Machien Massigler. As he thought about what Kengo said, Izuku's phone began to ring.
"H-Hello?" Izuku said, picking it up.
"Is this Izuku Midoriya, Gentaro Kisaragi's friend?" a girl's voice said over the phone.
"Y-Y-Yes, this is Izuku Midoriya!" Izuku stammered. "H-How did you find this number?"
"One of your friends in 1A gave it to me... listen, I know that the Red Man is real, and I know who it is."
"You know who the Ori- the Red Man is!?" Izuku shouted, startling everyone.
"Yes... you all have to come to the stadium where UA's football team is playing at. It may be too late otherwise..."
"Wait wait wait, who are you!?" Izuku said, but the girl hung up.
"So someone knows who the Orion Zodiarts is!?" Eijiro said.
"There's a football game today?" Tetsutetsu said, rubbing his head.
"I'm heading over there, it's the best lead we got!" Gentaro said, as he began to run towards the direction of UA's stadium.
"Wait, Genny!" Yuki said, as she and the first years followed. Kengo stared as the group disappeared in the distance, ruminating on Gentaro's words.
At the UA Stadium
The girl stood against the wall, waiting for the pompadoured teen to arrive with his friends. As she looked through her tablet, she heard a manic scream coming towards her, and Gentaro ran up to her, accidentally tackling the wall next to her and startling her.
"Are you the Red Man!?" Gentaro said, grabbing the girl by her shoulders.
"Kisaragi, no! She must be the one that called in the tip!" Izuku shouted, as they finally caught up to him, with Juzo and Yuki prying Gentaro away from the girl.
"Th-That's right..." the girl stuttered, nodding as her eyes shifted away from the group.
"Why did you call Midoriya?" Itsuka asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I-I saw K-Kisaragi looking for info on the R-Red Man, b-but I couldn't find his phone number, s-s-so I asked someone in 1A to give me M-Midoriya's, since he seemed to b-b-be his friend," she said, as a somewhat sinister smile grew on her face. "You all seemed so... interesting... wanting to find information on a rumor like the Red Man? I thought that I'd... try to help?"
Ochako and Setsuna held back a couple snickers, being reminded of their friends Fumikage and Shihai with how she talked.
"Interesting!? What's that supposed to mean!?" Gentaro said, grabbing her by the shoulders.
"Calm down, Kisaragi!" Itsuka said, prying him away.
"So how did you find out?" Ochako asked.
"T-There was a forum post about someone wanting to d-destroy UA," the girl said. "I traced the IP address, but I wasn't entirely certain if it was right... so I kept an eye on them... I can't believe that the Red Man is real..."
"So, who is it?" Gentaro asked, having calmed down.
The football team pumped themselves up as they walked down the hallway, ready to enter the stadium and win their game. Shun followed from behind as always, prepping himself in silence.
"Daimonji."
Shun raised an eyebrow and turned around to see Miura behind him.
"What're you doing here? I told you to clean out the clubhouse while we were gone," he said, brows furrowed.
"Oh you did. But you know what? You're not going to be seeing this game either, Captain," Miura seethed.
"Oh really?" Shun said, as he squared up to Miura.
"I'm through... with letting you and the others treat me like garbage!" he said, pulling out some sort of switch.
Before he could press it, Gentaro and the others ran into the hall, spotting him.
"Don't do it!" Izuku shouted.
"You all-" Miura muttered.
"Put that Switch down, Miura, please," Itsuka asked gently.
"That thing's not good for you!" Ochako added.
"All... all I wanted to do was play football!" Miura cried out. "But every practice, every game, I was benched! I couldn't even touch the ball after they were done!"
"Then show him what you can do, not what some power can do for you! Prove him wrong and play your heart out!" Gentaro said.
"Be a man and show him otherwise!" Eijiro said, crossing his arms while Tetsutetsu nodded in agreement.
"SHUT UP!" Miura shouted. "I'm going to destroy him, this stupid school, and every single person in it!"
"Then why don't you try beating me first!?" Gentaro challenged.
"... Just who the hell are you?"
"I'm Gentaro Kisaragi! The man who's going to be friends with every single person at UA!" Gentaro said, hitting the left side of his chest two times with his right hand before moving it out to point at Miura. Shun grumbled as he walked up to Miura.
"You really think that you're that tough!?" Shun said, shoving Miura into the wall. "Face it, you're not big enough to play, and your pathetic Light Eyes Quirk is useless! What can your little dumb Switch do? Dope you up!?"
Miura growled as his grip around his Zodiarts Switch tightened, before it announced something.
"Last One."
His grip loosened, and the Switch was covered in a dark purple glow before changing shape, gaining spikes and its switch changing to resemble a bloodshot eye.
"Well, I guess it's as good a time as any to tell you that you're off the team," Shun said, lowering himself and glaring at Miura. "That way, you can befriend all the garbage you want."
Miura screamed as he shoved Shun away, and pressed his Zodiarts Switch's button. The purple nebula-like fog appeared over him, with the Orion constellation forming in it. Gentaro covered Yuki, their informant girl, and Ochako as best as he could, while Izuku and the others did the same for Setsuna and Itsuka. To their shock, the Orion Zodiarts appeared, but Miura fell out, covered in strange webbing and unconscious. The red man now wielded a giant bladed club in his right hand and a shield in his left.
Shun had fallen onto his butt, and slid away from the hulking red man. "T-The Red Man was you!?"
"Daimonji..." the Orion Zodiarts said, in Miura's voice. "It's time for you and this school to face punishment!"
He raised his club above his head, but before he could swing it down onto a screaming Shun's head, Gentaro grabbed a trash bin and threw it at him.
"Stop it, you big idiot!" he shouted, punching the Orion Zodiarts, though it was ineffective, and only served to hurt his hand. The red man smacked Gentaro away with his shield, as he proceeded to approach Shun.
"Come on, this way!" Yuki shouted, grabbing and helping Shun up, and running around the corner of the hallway with the informant girl, Setsuna, and Ochako following them before peeking at the fight. Juzo Softened the ground, but that didn't slow the Orion Zodiarts's stride.
"You'll have to beat us to get to-" Tetsutetsu said, activating his Steel Quirk and Eijiro his Hardening Quirk. The Orion Zodiarts smacked the two out of his way with his club and shield, making them slam into the walls and creating small craters with their bodies. Izuku and Itsuka prepared themselves to fight, but Gentaro came from behind and tried to pull the red man away. He was smacked to the side with the shield again, and he struggled to stand up.
As the group of students tried their best to fight against the Orion Zodiarts, Kengo managed to find them, Fourze Driver in his right hand and his suitcase in his left. As Gentaro was thrown towards his direction, he handed him the Fourze Driver.
"Use this, Kisaragi," Kengo said, as Gentaro stared at him and took the Fourze Driver.
"Kengo, you-"
"But only on one condition," Kengo said, deadly serious as he helped Gentaro up. "Don't use my name."
Gentaro stared at him blankly before laughing and shaking his head. "You drive a hard bargain. Deal."
The pompadoured teen stepped forward, and slapped the Fourze Driver onto his waist. "Everyone, stand back!"
Juzo and the others fell back and joined the others at the corner. He flipped the red switches on the Fourze Driver, before holding his left arm with his elbow bent and his right hand on the level.
"3. 2. 1."
"Transform!"
The holographic circle flew above Gentaro's head as steam and air poured out from the Fourze Driver, forcing everyone to cover their faces, including the Orion Zodiarts. Armor formed over Gentaro, and Fourze stood in his place.
"Let's blaaaaaast off!" Fourze shouted, throwing his fists into the air.
"Don't you get in my way!" the Orion Zodiarts shouted, charging at Fourze.
"Sorry, but getting in the way is my thing!" Fourze said, charging at the Orion Zodiarts as well. The two collided, Fourze punching the Orion Zodiarts while he swung his club into Fourze's chest.
"Then I'll have to kill you before Daimonji!"
As the two exchanged attacks, Shun stepped away from the group nervously, shifting his eyes around. "I saw nothing, you hear me? Y-You all have this handled already, I'm not in the Hero Course to begin with!"
He did a two finger salute, and ran off as Fourze kept the Orion Zodiarats busy.
"What a chicken!" Itsuka muttered.
"He could've at least stuck behind and witnessed this fight! How unmanly!" Eijiro said.
"Damn, you got a little tougher since the last time we tussled, huh!?" Fourze said, as the Orion Zodiarts tossed him against the wall. He tried stomping on the red man's foot, but it was largely ineffective.
"That's a Zodiarts's final form, Last One," Kengo explained, as he crouched down and opened his suitcase. "The Switcher's consciousness is transferred into their Zodiarts's form while ejecting their human body out! This gives them immense power, but it's dangerous the longer they stay transformed!"
"How am I supposed to beat this!?" Fourze said, trying to prompt Kengo to think. "You know more about this than me, so I need you to tell me what to do!"
"Of course," Kengo said, as he pulled out Burgermeal and activated it by inserting the Astroswitch. It scanned the Orion Zodiarts, and Kengo began to type on his suitcase's laptop and pressing its touchscreen. "I need you to keep him busy while I come up with a plan!"
"Alright!" Fourze said, tackling the Orion Zodiarts and forcing him to go outside.
Fourze swung his hands into the Orion Zodiarts's chest, dodging his club swipes and attempting to knee the red man's head. The Orion Zodiarts managed to strike Fourze, however, sending him flying away. As he rolled across the concrete, he came across the parked Machine Massigler.
"I bet K- I mean, Utahoshi won't mind if I use this!" Fourze said, getting up and climbing onto the motorcycle. He revved its handle, and was surprised when the rocket exhaust-like back blew out flames, increasing his speed as its rocket-shaped front rammed into the Orion Zodiarts's gut.
Fourze spun the Machine Massigler, aiming its rocket exhaust at the Zodiarts and burning it with engine fire before smacking it with the back wheel. Fourze sped away, before turning around and flying towards the red man, whose body's dots lit up and fired exploding balls of light at the rider. Fourze weaved in and out between them, before jumping off the Machine Massigler and using his jetpack to boost himself towards the Orion Zodiarts with a kick while the motorcycle rammed itself against his gut.
Disoriented by the double attack, this opened up the red man to a string of attacks from Fourze. He kneed the Orion Zodiarts's head before hitting the back of his head with his clasped fists, pulled him up and punched him across his cheek, before kicking him away. The Orion Zodiarts dropped his weapons as he stumbled onto the ground.
The Radar Switch in Fourze's belt began ringing, and he switched it on. "Radar. On."
"I got it," Kengo said, as an image of the Orion Zodiarts appeared on the screen, zooming in on the left side of his chest. "The Orion Zodiarts's Switch is located in the left side of its chest. Get the Switch, and turn it off."
"But how-?"
"You'll have to destroy the Zodiarts. Don't worry, it's made of cosmic energy. But you can't destroy it here. If the cosmic energy destabilizes and explodes, it might destroy the entire UA Stadium... and everything else within a half kilometer radius around it," Kengo said.
"A half kilometer radius!?" the first years shouted offscreen.
"T-Then where am I supposed to-"
"Take it to the sky."
Fourze was puzzled for several minutes until the Powerdizer came screeching in in its vehicle mode, and the Machine Massigler drove itself towards him.
"Connect the Machine Massigler to the Powerdizer," Kengo instructed, as the Powerdizer changed forms.
"Got it!" Foure said, as he climbed onto the motorcycle and drove it onto the Powerdizer.
"Machine Set."
A pulley clamp snapped itself onto the front wheel of the Machine Massigler. Missile launchers popped up from the Powerdizer, firing a salvo of missiles into the Orion Zodiarts, launching it into the air above him.
"Tower Mode," the Powerdizer announced, as it lifted itself vertically.
"Is this a launching pad!?" Fourze said. "That's so cool!"
"3."
Fourze revved the Machine Massigler's engines, fire flying out of the rocket exhaust.
"2."
Fourze leaned forward, as the Orion Zodiarts fell towards him.
"1. Blast Off."
Fourze yelled as he and the Machine Massigler flew up from the Powerdizer, ramming into the Orion Zodiarts as they soared into the sky. The engines roared with fire until they were so high in the sky that they were almost out of Earth's atmosphere. The Orion Zodiarts floated helplessly as Fourze jumped off the motorcycle, letting it fall back to Earth, and flipped the Rocket and Drill Switches on.
"Rocket. Drill. On."
The energy projections of Rocket and Drill formed over his right arm and left leg respectively. He pulled the lever with his left hand, and angled his Drill towards the Orion Zodiarts.
"Rocket. Drill. Radar. LIMIT BREAK."
"Eat this! Rocket Drill SPACE KICK!" Fourze cried out, as Rocket roared to life and launched him towards the Orion Zodiarts, Drill spinning faster and faster until it collided with the helpless Zodiarts. The Zodiarts cried out in pain, exploding from the attack as Fourze broke through him. The Rocket and Drill disappeared as he turned them off, and the Zodiarts Switch flew out from the explosion, which he caught. As he looked at it, a new Switch materialized from the Fourze Driver, and Fourze picked it out.
"Take Radar out and replace it with Parachute," Kengo said from the Radar. "You're gonna need that."
"Wh-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Fourze shouted, as he felt Earth's atmosphere pulling him in. "Oh! Oh that is hot! Not even my hot blood can handle this!"
Fourze turned Radar off and pulled the Switch out, replacing it with the Parachute Switch, which he flipped on.
"Parachute. On."
A parachute bag-like box appeared on Fourze's left arm, and from it shot out three parachutes, slowing down Fourze's descent greatly.
"Oh thank god," Fourze sighed, as the heat of reentry dissipated. He looked down at the ground, and watched as he drifted towards the UA Stadium.
Back at the Hallway
Fourze sighed as he flipped the Zodiarts Switch off, and watched as Miura slowly began to regain consciousness. The Zodiarts Switch sparked for a bit in his hand, and as he released his grip, saw it dissipate into a dark purple nebula.
"You know, you don't have to be here to turn the Zodiarts Switch off," Kengo said. "The second you press the switch, they'll regain consciousness."
"Yea, but I want to be here to make sure he's alright," Fourze said, as he lowered himself to the ground and looked at Miura, who rubbed his face as Juzo and Izuku helped him up. "After all, we're friends now, right?"
"Hmph, we'll talk about friendship after we take him to Recovery Girl," Kengo retorted.
As the first years checked up on Miura, the informant girl stared at Fourze, shocked.
"Ka-Kamen Rider!" she said.
"Huh? Kamen Rider?" Fourze said, puzzled.
"From the information that I managed to gather, it seems like that whoever altered the memories of the Orion Zodiarts to be the Red Man rumor, did the same with Fourze," Kengo said. "They replaced Fourze with something called the Kamen Rider."
"Kamen Rider, huh?... Kamen Rider Fourze..." Fourze said, rubbing his helmet's chin in thought as he turned the Fourze Driver off. "I like the sound of that!"
Later
After they left Miura with Recovery Girl (explaining that he was feeling fatigued all of a sudden), the group walked in the empty hallways.
"I think this little club of ours is gonna be great," Setsuna said, stretching her arms.
"Since when did we become a club?" Itsuka chuckled, raising an eyebrow.
"Would we have the free time with our classes to be in a club?" Juzo said, rubbing his chin in thought.
"If we're a club, how about the Kamen Rider Club?" Ochako suggested.
"That sounds great!" Yuki replied.
"This isn't a club," Kengo said, brows furrowed. "And we don't-"
"Good afternoon, you all!"
The group stopped, as Principal Nezu stood in front of them all.
"Good afternoon, Principal Nezu," Kengo said, as the others followed his example. "How are you?"
"I'm doing spectacular!" the rodent laughed. "But I'd like to show you all something that we need to talk about! Come come, to my office."
The group raised eyebrows at each other, and followed Principal Nezu to his office. The humanoid rodent climbed into his chair, and opened up his laptop and typed in something before turning it around. Kengo's heart stopped as he watched security footage of Fourze and the Orion Zodiarts fighting, with him and the others around, watching.
"Mind explaining to me what this is?" he asked, his smile unfailing.
ORIGINAL AO3 NOTES:
- The next of the pilot chapters I've got planned! Also, going to unfortunately announce that two of them, "Mechanized Heroes", a 01/Drive/MHA crossover that I had planned, is going to be canned 'cuz nothing I wrote for it worked for me.
- If you're going to ask me if Setsuna will always play big parts in my fanfics, the answer is yes. I really, really like Setsuna.
- I'll admit that I might've made the 1A and 1B kids involved in the plot a bit too soon and become Gentaro's friends a bit too quickly compared to the buildup in Fourze. Mostly happened out of necessity to keep this a Fourze/MHA crossover and because it's only intended to have one chapter for now. Also I feel like Izuku, Ochako, and Eijiro would easily be the quickest to be his friends, while the 1B students were chosen so that they can get some focus.
- Kinda funny how this marks my fourth MHA crossover that involves aliens, huh?
- I'll admit, not feeling great or happy how the MHA side of this is integrated with the Fourze side, and that it's just a retelling first Fourze two-parter, but with MHA characters. Buuut it's a pilot chapter, so this can easily be corrected if I pick this up. Probably would make the next chapter focused on an MHA character instead of Miu (though that will happen). I feel like this will be a pattern for the rest of the pilot chapters.
- I don't know why I didn't realize that crossing Fourze and MHA would make sense earlier. Both of them take place in high school, so it works out. I thought about aging down the 2nd and 3rd year members of the Kamen Rider Club (and the characters that are related to them by extension) to the same age as the first year Hero Course, but I decided that since they already interact with characters from other years that it wouldn't matter.
- I combined UA and Amanogawa High together so that the casts can justifiably interact with each other. Principal Nezu is still, well, the principal (with Hayami being downgraded to a regular teacher), and Gamou is still the chairman of the school board. Instead of him being the founder, though, he's part of the founding family.
- The 'A' in UA now stands for Amanogawa. Don't know what the 'U' will stand for, though. Like Amanogawa, UA's uniform policy is now optional. And much like Amanogawa, the students are free to wear their uniforms however they want.
- Like in Amanogawa, the teachers are encouraged not to interfere too much with the students outside of class. Or at least, that's how I feel like what they did, considering how hands off they seemed to be. I'm also going to imagine that in this universe, there are patches for the uniforms and jackets that denote what course you're in. That way it's easier to tell which student is in which course at a glance. I get that this laxer policy might seem incredibly absurd considering UA's high standards, but if I'm going to combine the two schools, I'm gonna take a lot of liberties with the UA side.
- I'm going to make a much bigger divide between the courses (besides of the Hero and Support Courses, since they're obviously going to have to work closely together) thanks to the existence of, well, more than one Course, with even the teachers not really caring about the affairs of students outside of the one they teach. This means that the Hero teachers are a little more standoffish than in canon (save for a select few, namely Nezu, All Might, and Midnight). I also think that they wouldn't really care unless Quirks were involved in the fight. This is enforced by Gamou so that the negative emotions between the Courses can give rise to some powerful Zodiarts.
- I made the black screen on the Fourze Driver able to warp the Astroswitches to explain how Gentaro can pull out ones without having a visible way to carry them.
- The conversation that All Might and Izuku have about his decreasing time limit and that Izuku needs to tell the world that he's there doesn't happen. At least, not during lunch, as All Might's time got occupied by the meeting.
- I figured that the reason why Amanogawa hasn't been, you know, condemned as a high school after the constant property damages and never sued for negligence and endangerment of students is due to the fact that Virgo, being able to manipulate space-time, could probably repair everything, and that Virgo's memory powers are what keeps people from realizing the dangers of the Zodiarts.
- The reason why I mentioned Miura's Quirk here is because it's to show that Quirks don't factor into what Zodiarts you turn into. It adds to the mystery and need to discover who the Switcher is.