Waking up to the bright glare of fluorescent lights of an infirmary was something I was quite familiar with, however this case was far from the norm as I stared at the rat standing in front of me wearing a suit standing on a stool near my bed. "Uh can I help you and you can tell the cowboy to lower the gun? I'm not going to do anything I'm fine with one gunshot for the day." I said not knowing what else to do. "Also dude with the scarf don't know how you're doing the red glowy eye thing but it's not really intimidating."

Before anyone else could say anything the rat started laughing like a maniac for what felt like minutes before he calmed down and began talking. "Ah I knew I had a good feeling about you, now to start with Snipe can't lower his weapon until your friend behind you lowers hers."

"What? SV stow it if they wanted us dead they had their chance, sides something tells me these guys aren't the same as the ones that got us." I said as I sat up and saw SV aiming her holdout weapon at the two people and rat.

"But you're in no shape sir, someone needs to keep guard." she replied, glancing at the bandages on my chest and looking conflicted.

"SV I'm sure we're fine here like I said they had plenty of opportunity to take us out…well me out you might have been fine."

Narrowing her eyes at me she did comply " Yes Commander and let me remind you they would have to get through me first sir."

"Great she used the Commander card I'm in trouble later, so I may ask who are you and how can you talk?" I asked barely keeping my sanity together talking to a rat.

"Ah yes I am Nedzu the principal of UA and as for my ability to speak that's my quirk High Spec, it gives me unmatched intelligence and consequently gives me the ability to talk."

"Quirk?"

"Ah it seems like Yamada should have made that bet, it seems you're not from here."

"SV can you pull a GPS location from any Griffin satellites?"

"Negative but I did get access to others and it shows us at a UA High School in Japan."

"So you can connect to electronics wirelessly. Is it like our Quirks?" Nedzu askes with a glint in his eyes.

"You guys don't know what she is? I thought all of Japan was ready to kill all T-Dolls on sight?"

"She's a Doll? The one that looked like a cowboy with a gasmask asked. "She doesn't seem like one. She almost broke poor Powerloaders arm before she figured out we were trying to help you not bleed out, it took you starting to flop like a fish out of water for her to not attack Recovery Girl when she started doing blood tests."

"Oh I'm not surprised she's put me flat on my back plenty of times before…."

I was cut off as the door opened up and a short old lady with a syringe cane and a curvy woman in a dominatrix outfit walked in "Oh my~ that sounds like a fun time." the curvy one said.

Flushing red I quickly intervened seeing SV hid her face under the hood of the jacket she had taken to wearing. " Ah um…yeah no it's not like that, it's just during down time we like to spar and keep sharp."

"Sure dear but before you continue your conversation with Nedzu I need to let you know a few things." the shorter one said.

"Ah yes, go ahead , Recovery Girl." Nedzu says gesturing to me.

"To start with, as I'm sure you're aware, you suffered a gunshot to your right leg and a knife wound to your right side under your ribs."

Rubbing my side I nodded along. "Yeah, I definitely felt those."

"But you also had something in your blood you should know about, I'm still testing it but whatever you had in you was attacking your cells killing everything it could, I barely flushed it out of your system before it did severe damage."

"Shit that sounds like collapse fluid alright, but you said that you stopped severe damage. What did happen?" I asked, seeing SV suddenly looking pale hearing about the collapse fluid.

"Well If you hadn't noticed your left hand is a nice shade of purple now, it should be fully functional but this collapse fluid seems to have destroyed the pigments in your skin."

Looking down I confirm yes my hand worked and yes it was a pale shade of purple. "And you're sure it's not spreading?"

"Positive why you seem to be familiar with it."

"Well normally just touching that stuff is enough to turn people into ELIDs, much less getting it in your bloodstream, whatever those PMCs did to the collapse fluid must have deleted it."

"Where did this collapse fluid come from?"

Looking at SV and having heard a few things from them I was starting to believe we were really out of place. "So quick questions here, do any of these words mean anything to ya'll." I asked and continued at Nedzus nod. " Griffin & Kryuger, T-Dolls, so9, or Sangvis Ferr, KCCO? Does any of that sound familiar?"

"No it does not." Nedzu says, shaking his head slowly.

"SV I don't think we're on our earth any more."

"Well this is fascinating, it seems as if you're from another planet or reality."

Speaking up for the first time the shaggy looking man with the scarf cut in saying. "Really Nedzu you're thinking there from another reality, that's far-fetched even for you."

"Oh on the contrary." He replied, gesturing to the files the curvy woman had in her hands. "Recovery girl sent me a copy before our guest here woke up and in his DNA results he shows no quirk factor."

"Wait, no quirk factor? Even the quirkless have one, it's just not active."

'Exactly that with the unknown chemicals found in his blood it leads to either he's from a pre quirk family that has lived in isolation for hundreds of years or…."

"So let's go with there from a different reality, how do they end up here in the first place armed to the teeth and him half dead." the scarf man asked.

"Well that's a somewhat complicated story but I suppose I do somewhat owe you an explanation since we just kinda popped out of nowhere and bleed on your floor." I said as Recovery girl came over with my shirt that looked recently cleaned and even had the hole from the knife patched up and I made to put it on.

"That does seem fair but you seem to accept that explanation pretty fast."

"To be fair this isn't the weirdest thing we've seen, not even top 5 if you include the incident between the IDWs and MP5." SV said shuddering slightly at the thought of the IDWs.

"Yeah she's right, so where should we start?" I asked as I made room for SV to sit beside me to help with the story.

"How about who you are and what you do." the cowboy suggested.

"Ah yes that's perfect Snipe if you wouldn't mind." Nedzu says gesturing for me to start.

"Well I'm Nick Wood, I'm a mercenary, and she's SV-98 and she's my partner kinda sorta. It'll make sense later"

"Isn't that the name of an old Russian rifle?"

"Yup but any ways it all started with this stuff called collapse fluid,,." I began giving them a rough overview of our world from the start of WW3 to the use of collapse fluid. It was when I got to explaining about T-Dolls when Snipe stood up straighter and pointed at SV. "Yes SV here is a T-Doll she originally worked for Griffin."

"Then how did she come to your possession, it doesn't sound like a mercenary could afford a Doll, did you steal her?" Aizawa asked, narrowing his eyes.

"So originally I worked for G&K I was a guard at some remote outpost and had a commander that was an absolute piece of shit, the Dolls were expendable and the humans weren't worth his time." I said feeling that old flame of anger start to well up again. "Well he one day decided to sell out the outpost to Sangvis Ferr, and left taking the only way out with him."

"That still doesn't explain SV"

Rolling my eyes I replied." well I had a partner at the time M-1911 she was actually one of the first Dolls made so she couldn't back herself up after all the new models and updates started coming out, so since she only had one life she got stuck with me on wall duty where we got close and then SF attacked."

"Wait how close?" the curvy one (Midnight I was later told) asked with a look of something in her eyes."

"I'd say pretty close." I said digging in my pack that SV had given me when she sat on the bed, until I found what I was digging for and pulled out a pair of black with gold accent rings that were on a chain.

"Boss, is that oath rings?" SV asked, looking as shocked as Midnight.

"Yeah it is but if you couldn't tell shit didn't go the way we planned and 19 ended up taking the round that should have got me, and well I don't remember much after that it wasn't like the movies where you get to here there final words or anything else she was there and then boom gone." I said looking at the rings in my hands before pulling the chain over my head and letting it sit around my neck. "I woke up after the fight we won somehow but then that bastard showed back up and tried to take credit for the defense, I won't lie I wanted to kill him."

"But you didn't?" Aizawa inquired, looking interested in the story for the first time since it began.

"No the remaining Dolls talked me down and we left, I did knock a few of his teeth out but he's still alive once we landed back at Griffin Hq I dropped my gear off and quit on the spot, a few weeks later I got a job working as a gun for hire on a convoy rolling threw a red zones and I went from there."

Before anyone else could say anything I was enveloped in a hug by SV as she cried. "Is that why you were so worried about working with me?"

Hugging her back I said "yeah it was SV I didn't think I could handle getting attached to anyone else, but you ended up proving me wrong."

"Aww… that's so sweet." Midnight said practically vibrating in place.

Feeling my face flush red I continued letting SV go and she leaned against me. " well eventually I started taking jobs for G&K."

"So you went back to them?" Snipe asked, looking confused.

"Not technically but I did start taking jobs. The company itself isn't bad and they're a whole lot better than other groups and they do pay well." I said going over some of the jobs I'd done and explained how me and SV came to be a team and the lead up to being sent here.

"So you two seem to have been threw a lot it seems."

"I agree with Midnight, and seeing how there's no need for mercenaries as much in this world, what are you going to do?" Nedzu inquired.

"I honestly don't know."

"Well how about you work for me?"

"Aren't you a principal? What need for a mercenary do you have?" I asked, probably having the same look of confusion on my face as Midnight and Aizawa.

"Well yes but this is a Hero school we teach others to use their quirks." He said as he began to explain this current world we found ourselves in." "And so it's my duty to help train the future heroes of Japan, and I believe you have some skills that may help."

Slightly taken aback it wasn't me that answered it was SV "It's like the comics MP-40 had a school for superheroes!" she exclaimed, waving her hands around excitedly."

"Yeah I guess but what skills do you mean if I may ask." I asked before SV could accept for us.

"Well your survival skills must be quite high if these red zones are how you say they are, and also Snipe here teaches a homeroom, weapon classes that include how to use firearms and how to maintain them as well as our current survival classes."

"So you want us to help ease the burden."

"Yes and by doing so we can work in the classes for the first years as well instead of cramming it in at the end of the second year and third year, I'm hoping that doing that will reduce the amount of hero fatalities from firearms, as rare as they are in Japan they still get underestimated."

"I see but you could hire another hero for that. Why us then?"

"Smart.. You're not under the HPSCs jurisdiction, Snipe can help get your weapon permits and you two can also double as security something i've been having trouble increasing since the board is quite complacent, also it lets me keep an eye on you."

"That's fair, so how much would we be paid because um no offense to SV but she's a high maintenance girl." I said getting a punch to the shoulder from said girl. "Especially since I'll have to find someone to make parts on the downlow for her, I don't want to see what people could do with T-Dolls and quirks."

Grinning, Nedzu pulled out a paper from the files and passed it to me laughing at my expression as I read it. "Well we have someone here that can help on the parts and i'm sure you will find that number is a good starting amount don't you?"

Confused SV looked over my shoulder to see the paper and was also settled by what was on there. "Th..th..that's a lot of zeros…" She stuttered out looking at me, I gave her a subtle nod and she looked at Nedzu. "We'll take it."

"But first." I cut in. "Where's my hat? That things kinda special to me?"

"Follow me then I'll show you and we can walk as we talk details." he says as he turns to the door. "Oh by the way, welcome to UA."