Last Time

Seamus and Neville waited with Dean outside the USJ, they'd de-masked. Fuyumi emerged next pulling Baraquiel with him "Harry James Potter, Thunder Hero: Baraquiel, just what have you gotten yourself into now?"

Seamus asked, a shit-eating grin on his face.

"Banshee, Malkav, Roadblock, pleasure to meet you in person. I'm Potter Fuyumi, née Todoroki." Fuyumi announced, allowing Harry a moment to recuperate.

"The pleasure is all ours. It truly is, you have to tell us how'd you and Harry meet you?" Neville asked curiously.

"Fuyumi, this is no criticism but Harry never had much luck with women at school." Dean asked.

"He and I ran into each other, literally. He then asked me for dinner and we couldn't help but work together. It certainly helps when he doesn't seem to sleep. As for the proposal he asked me on a trip of island hopping and he proposed whilst at Hokkaido."

Harry turned red slightly at the compliment. "What was so important that warranted three of my friends to track me down?"

Neville sighed "That Blue Thing, Project Troll, we've found the usual suspects are funding it. We've also found that a subsidiary of Deternerat is backing the Traditionalist Party."

"Why did I allow you to persuade me to not go all Purge on the community?" Harry groused.

Neville sighed "As I thought you'd bloodied your hands and nearly killed yourself for us on more than one occasion. I honestly believed after your demonstration on Tom; and the subsequent deaths of the others that we'd make some progress."

Fuyumi gently pulsed ice into her husband's hand slowly cooling his exhausted and fatigued muscles; the increased neuronal activity now subsiding it left him paralysed slightly and with momentary lack of feeling. They'd found if Fuyumi gradually pulsed cold temperatures through his body gradually it lessened the backlash.

They quintet turned to leave to see the police arrive, Tsukauchi arriving "Baraquiel, Cold and…" Tsukauchi began, "Zelretch, Screamer, ChumpBlock." Baraquiel interrupted. "Detective, they don't speak Japanese, this is going to no doubt cause a scene. Especially because they're Foreign Heroes, they've headed straight to UA looking for someone…"

Tsukauchi blanched, he scribbled it down before tearing it out of his notebook; "Give me something to at least work with." Tsukauchi insisted; Baraquiel's agency, as small as it was, was beginning to gather a reputation; a reputation of being extremely stingy with Law Enforcement. Considering the Hero himself was teaching most of the time; the day to day running was left to the lawyers. They were known to turn Law Enforcements warrants away if there was a single line out of place. "It's called being professionally thorough, nothing personal."

Baraquiel sighed and he turned to his friends "Tsukauchi is a decent cop, trapped by bureaucracy, inept co-workers and infiltrators working for the HPSC. I'm a person of interest to the HPSC, any basic search into you is going to show you've got some links to me...You've not come here as heroes to work have you?"

"Nope."

Baraquiel stilled "Want to? It'll give me an edge for the amount of smoke and shit for obfuscation I can throw at investigative parties."

The trio nodded "Can we give bullshit hero names?"

"Already have. Dean is Zelretch, Seamus you're Screamer and Neville…"

"I'm ChumpBlock."

Fuyumi giggled at the immaturity of her husband and his friends "Gentlemen, I'll handle the Police." With that she walked over to Tsukauchi.

"Lady Cold…" Tsukauchi recognised the tactic "What's the official record of your Husband's associates? Can I get some Hero Names?"

"Zelretch, Screamer and ChumpBlock. Zelretch has a sensory modification quirk, linked to taste. Screamer projects mentally controlled pulses of sonic energy from his mouth. ChumpBlock, he's got a mass to power quirk allowing him to become the immovable object to an unstoppable force."

Tsukauchi's face contorted as his quirk activated and made him feel like he'd been hit by the bullet train. He swallowed the feeling and recorded everything "I can't promise HPSC will not come sniffing around them, but I can promise that I'll keep them out of the spotlight."

Harry was acting as a translator "Listen to me, Japan is really tight about foreign heroes busting crimes. The Detective is Jim Gordon only minus the office and power."

Seamus nodded "You're giving him enough information for him to do his job…Baraquiel, who's that…black sedan; a blonde, brunette, a power builder and a guy in a suit."

Baraquiel turned "Fuck...me. The women are the 'push and pull' duo, the body builder has a fear quirk and the suit…HPSC."

Snipe, Mic and Midnight had joined them "Baraquiel, you think you're going to be able to play nice?"

"I'll have Kuro Kaminari on prep. It's the trio that tried to fuck me over with Eraserhead."

Snipe smirked beneath his mask "Alright then."

By now the HPSC had gotten close enough for Kuro's quirk to take effect "Shouldn't the scare-mongerer be in prison, officer."

"You should really learn to respect your betters, Baraquiel." Snarled Kuro.

The Suit managed to get between them "Kuro back down. Baraquiel, what happened?"

Baraquiel was going to open his mouth when Nezu jumped onto his shoulder "Villain attack, Baraquiel, Eraserhead and Thirteen fought the villains to keep them away from Class 1-A until Class 1-A were forced to fight the villains themselves; and they did admirably to hold them before my newest members of staff Zelretch, Screamer and Chump rushed ahead as the Vanguard."

Baraquiel managed to keep his face straight as the seamless and effortless bullshit fell out of the Principal's mouth. Meanwhile Baraquiel's hand went for his nails; he wasn't about to unleash Scientific Railgun unless he needed to. "Baraquiel…"

"Suit?"

"I…"

"Am not listening to whatever spiel is about to fall out of your mouth. Right now the Police and Yourselves are obstructing my ability to think, compartmentalise and more importantly worry about my students. Good day."

"We want answers about your companions...something doesn't add up."

Baraquiel chuckled as he deliberately rolled his eyes at the suit "You can want your answers, all you want. You can request, demand, shriek, scream and even throw your bloody toys out of the pram in a single minded pursuit of someone to use a scapegoat; but you're not throwing my school-friends or I under the bus."

"Why is that?"

"Collateral. I don't care about fallout as long as I get my results. Just ask Britain."

The suit gulped "My name is Teruo Kuba, and I'll be in touch to arrange a peaceful interview between us in the attempt to clear the air."

Baraquiel nodded "Have a good day Teruo-san."

The Principal turned to Baraquiel "Can you trust your colleagues?"

"I've taken stabbings for them. Roadblock, was the last one standing with me when we broke into the Ministry. Malkav and Banshee had to hypnotise me into an REM sleep so I didn't kill myself from sleep deprivation."

Seamus snickered "I've never seen Baraquiel so delirious. Even when his nights of uncontested sleep kept us up all night; that siege…that siege I might just remember that for the rest of my days."

"We were desperate, little more than kids, Seamus. And the Hand-man, Tomura Shigaraki, rattle me."

Fuyumi paled at her husband's frankness "Why? What did he do? What did you fail to do?"

"They arrived, I tried with diplomacy to get them to leave. Shigaraki said 'we'll kill the students and the teachers to draw All Might out'. They produced a Troll; I cracked. The first thing I did to demonstrate my point was Scientific…"

Dean and Seamus choked, turned green but managed to keep the vomit down. Neville pulled Harry into a hug "Hogwarts, when the Snatchers attacked, you went Scientific Railgun Esper. You flat-out killed him."

Harry nodded "I made a choice; them or my students. Them or my brother-in-law, them or my project. Them or my family." He gradually returned the hug, Harry and Neville through fluke or circumstance having been personal targets for Voldemort; that twisted bond allowed the duo to be open and frank with one another in a way that Hermione and Ron couldn't help Harry with.

"You feel like you've done what Fudge, Bagnold and Scrimgeour have done; foisted your failures onto your students. Harry, listen to me, we've done our part, we cleared up Britain's mess. Yes it's back at the beginning again but this isn't your fault. Now Athena is en route via America, something about introducing someone to us; Kimimaro and Abbotoir they're keep an eye out."

"And Clan Red?"

"Ever since you split from the daughter; they've been less than receptive."

Baraquiel shrugged "Robute, Rawbutt, would have been useful but he's not essential."

"He's ditched that name; he's taken up the name Agravain. He's part of the Camelot Agency."

Baraquiel nodded "Good for him; look I'll catch up with you. I've got students to look after. The three of you, look after my house like you would your own. Fuyumi is in charge of you, then the wee ones and after that fight it out yourself. Don't wreck the place."

With that Baraquiel shifted from feeling like a hero, to that of a panicked teacher. Fuyumi and Harry hobbled over to the panic stricken Class 1-A; they'd been supervised by the teachers and briefed on how to interact with the police.

Ojiro was beginning to sweat, he was pretty sure he killed someone "Detectives, I trust everything is in order?"

It was Baraquiel "We have. They've given their account of the events. Although we do have some further questions."

"Which are going to have to wait, detective, looking at a few of them, they require help that require the tenderest of approaches and handcuffed in an interview room will not assist in. Class 1-A, you're free to leave, make sure you pick up a card from Fuyumi. Also, I trust between the twenty of you; everyone has everyone's contact details." Everyone nodded.

Baraquiel smiled "I'll be in touch. Everything you tell me will be in the strictest of confidence. Heroes defend the public, Teachers protect and teach students and Hero Teachers do all of that."

Ojiro breathed a sigh of relief "Baraquiel-sensei, are you sure we won't be imposing?"

Harry snorted and took a deep breath, he couldn't talk about this in public. "This is a lecture, they're going to need it." He thought to himself, as he looked at his class, he saw his own peers...Both living and the dead. "No, they're going to be better, greater than us."

Dean, Seamus and Neville looked at Harry's class "They're going to be better than us." Was the one clear thought "We're going to break their aspirations to be true and just heroes; but in their breaking we shall form them into better heroes...the heroes we were expected to be but never made."

Class 1-A couldn't help but drop their jaws; Potter-Sensei, Baraquiel, a hero was crying. The officers quickly took their que to leave "You know a hero isn't meant to…" Began Vlad Kin, also known as Kan Sekijiro.

"Respectfully, Period, shut your self-opinionated mouth before I truly snap. You weren't here for when it all went sideways, you weren't here when I gave the fucking orders. No-one is ever fucking present when I need them, Aizawa was down, Thirteen afterwards. I'm stuck with a bio-genetically created punching bag designed to compete with ALL MIGHT and a Man-Child by the name of Shigaraki Tomura. Blood Hero, I'm looking at my class all over again. There's so much potential, the same potential that I, myself, squandered; so help me if another PRO HERO considers himself my better." Baraquiel snapped lightning fluctuating to life.

"I'm at my limit, just because I'm at my limit doesn't mean I can't exceed it. Fuck Plus Ultra; EXCELSIOR all the way. Plus Ultra means nothing, it means a mere step beyond capabilities. Excelsior, means ever upwards."

Kan looked at his colleague and the unfettered rage and zealotry of Baraquiel gazed calmly back. "You're going to shame their families if you go wrong."

"Wrong them? Shame their families? No…They don't know the truth of heroics; you teach them to remain in line with the law making them effectively a secondary police force."

"Then what is a hero?" Growled Bakugo. "We won, Sensei. We're heroes!"

"No, Bakugo, that line of thought you're in; that was my train of thought. It only took the attempted massacre of my school, twenty plus assassination attempts, three years of slander, deformation of character and a whole bunch of reckless experiments that should have killed us to realise that we'd been made into clockwork heroes, more akin to weapons really. The answer Bakugo is I don't know, for me; I just want to be someone my kids and godson can say 'that's our father/godfather. He did that.' That's why I'm giving you access to an empty forum that Squad Six created; the only people on there are myself, Banshee, Roadblock, Malkav and Athena…You can trust all of them with your lives, worries and questions."

Ojiro couldn't keep his silence. "I was on my own in the conflagration zone; I got jumped by four of the thugs...I ended up…"

Baraquiel stopped "You heard Shigaraki, everyone with him was intending to kill or worse. I'm sorry, I'm sorry you were put in that situation, I'll get my lawyers ready."

Ojiro stared at him "You'd protect me?"

"I'm a hero with a registered body count. Manslaughter in self-defence but this was technically a terrorist uprising thus a war…Believe me Ojiro, you're no worse than I was. Hell you're better than I am, all twenty of you are."

"This fault lies with UA; Ojiro-kun." Stated Nezu "It happened under our watch, I can state firmly that whilst I'm the Principal anything that happens at UA is charged with UA."

"So we could have killed them…" Mina said jaw dropping.

"NO. Heroes shouldn't take lives because they can, but being a hero means you might well have to kill. Baraquiel, Malkav, Banshee and Roadblock have all killed people, as have the staff; it's an unfortunate circumstance of being a hero. My father will admit the same thing; we try not to but sometimes that's how it turns out, I dislike it but my youngest brother in this class as is my husband; I'm going to make sure they have an influence in my children's life." Fuyumi cut in.

"Why weren't we informed about this?"

"Because this topic is for second or third years, Iida-kun. You have the sports festival in just over a month along with Hero Experience…First week after UA reopens both 1-A and 1-B will be having a lecture on heroics and not the lecture based on the trash the HPSC foists on its schools. That includes UA. If people want to talk with us, we're always online and I'd recommend seeing Hound Dog for counselling."

"Right, everyone back to the bus." Snipe ordered, stepping into his role as a homeroom teacher.

Squad Six and Fuyumi were the last ones to leave the USJ. "It's a bit of a walk but we could walk back to ours?" Fuyumi suggested.