Pokémon Trainer Hero
Chapter 16: Reality Check
"AND THAT'S ALL FOR TODAY LITTLE LISTENERS! YOU STILL GOT ABOUT FIVE TILL LUNCH, SO HANG TIGHT TILL THEN. I GOTTA GO AND DO SOMETHINGS SO I'LL SEE YOU ALL AFTERWARDS. STAY FRESH!", Mic exclaimed while dashing out of the room and leaving the students alone.
"Oh lord Dialga, why do you hate me so?", Gar moaned in pain as his head slumped backwards at the edge of his seat and steam generated from his ears while swirls spun in his eyes.
"You okay Gar?", Izuku asked in concerned.
Gar waved him off and replied, "I will….when my hearing comes back."
"I didn't know you disliked Present Mic Sensi so much?", Iida questioned with a bit of disdain in his voice.
Gar shook his head and explained, "I like Mic, really I do, but he's like prescription medicine. Good in small doses over the day."
"Is that why you don't like working with the Whismur line, or the Popplio line, or the Toxel line, or Chatot, or any pokemon that can learn a sound based move?", Izuku asked.
Gar blew a raspberry and answered, "They're all really good pokemon, but they're so loud and I have really sensitive ears."
As the group of teens shared banter with one another, Mina decided to get a head start and sneak out early to the cafeteria, knowing how long the lines got and how her favorite item was on the menu today! Just as she opened the door she stopped right at the precipice seeing something so wild it made her brain stop for a solid 10 seconds before she could do anything else.
"WHA-?!", Mina finally cried out!
Gar looked up from his seat, hearing her cry, and in confusion asked, "What's wrong their-holy Barbaracle!"
Gar was utterly shocked to see a sea of UA students all crowded around the front and rear entrances of the classroom! Gar was so shocked that he completely forgot the pain in his ears as he shot up in his seat, initially thinking they were gonna be attacked! Each one trying to peak in, get closer, or move forward to get a look! Somewhere whispering to each other, and some were speaking in tones loud enough to hear. Some of which went like; 'Is that them' 'they don't look that tough' 'did they really get attacked' 'Is that the guy with the super animals' and so forth.
Gar pointed a finger at the crowd while looking back at the class and asked, "Where did all these…..sassy lost children come from?"
"A bunch of fucking extras.", Bakugou snarled as he walked to the front with hands in his pockets.
Gar looked at him confused until Iida translated for him, "What he means is, there from the other classes in UA."
"But why are they all here?", Uraraka asked while getting a bit nervous.
Bakugou clicked his tongue in aggravation as he stated, "Tch. Ain't it obvious. They're here to scope out the competition. See if we're all really as tough as we've lived up to be."
"I guess getting attacked by villains will do that to ya.", Kaminair shrugged.
"And having an interdimensional being with magic animals helps too.", Jiro said dryly.
Gar gave a dead panned expression while saying in a flat tone, "Thank you Jiro, for once again addressing the Copperajah in the room."
"Move it or lose it extras!", Bakugou snapped at the unflinching crowd!
Izuku, Uraraka, and Iida all looked gasped at Bakugous choice of words with a mix of shock, cring, worry, and insultment as Iida scolded him, "Don't call others 'extras' just because you don't know their name!"
Before he could continue, the tall glasses teen felt a hand on his shoulder and saw Gar standing their with a apathich look. "Don't even bother Tenya. Trying to tell Bakugo anything is like training a Charizard with a Stubborn nature.", he said while trying to hide the snark in his tone.
Bakugou heard his remark and before he could whirl around to yell or flip him off, a new voice asked, "Move what or lose what?"
"The hell you say!?", Bakugou restored while whipping his head back in the direction of the crowd!
The crowd parted like waves running across a boulder as a figure approached the front. Once the person was in eyesight it was revealed to be a male student wearing a UA uniform, no older than the rest of the class, long upright messy purple hair, tired purple eyes with dark rings around them, and an expression that said 'I'm ten cups of caffeine short from caring about anything'.
"Move what or lose what?", the purple haired teen asked again, but much more slower and in a mocking tone.
Before Bakugou could go off on him at his obvious vexing, Gar butted in and answered, "Your ass or your ass.", the whole class looked at Gar with a plethora of expressions as the teen looked around and asked, "What? That's what he was alluding to.", Gar then walked up to the door and asked the new teen like a teen talking to a child, "And who might you be to ask such a bold question in the face of our class rabid Mankey?"
"Shinso Hitoshi, General Ed. Class 1-C.", Shinsou replied while not letting go of his deadpanned 'I don't care' attitude.
Gar shot his hand out, almost surprising him, and stated, "Garfeild, but you can call me Gar.", Shinsou made no sign of movement as he simply stood there staring down Gar with his tired eyes. After a full minute of awkward nothingness from the teen, Gar pulled his hand away and droned, "...o-kay? No hand shake or polite introductions...I get it."
"No, you don't.", Shinsou suddenly stated, making Gar look at him inquisitively. "I didn't come here for pleasantries, I came to enact a delectation of war.", he spoke with the most serious tired tone imaninable.
Bakugou looked annoyed, the rest of the class looked shocked, the crowd outside had mix reactions, and Gar looked like his brain was buffering.
Then it all clicked and Gar suddenly burst out into laughter so hard it made everyone jump a little, "BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!", Gar belly laughed for almost two minutes as he bent over trying to catch his breath! When he finally calmed down enough to see past the tears, he saw that Shinsou still had the same unchanged expression before but with a more serious air to it. Gar's laughter trailed off as he said, "Oh wait…. you're serious, aren't you?...holy Makicarp! You're an emo!", Gar shouted and made everyone jump back from the sudden outburst!
Gar then dashed up to the purple haired teen and grabbing his cheeks he pulled on them lovingly while cooing, "Oh Arceus I just love you little emo types. All dark and discounted and moody all the time. What's your story, eh? The world treats you differently, no one understands the real you, you like to wear black? I've heard it all before. I have several emo friends back in my world."
"I'm not emo and stop pinching my cheeks!", Shousou finally raised his voice while violently ripping his hands away!
Gar rolled his eyes and sassed him saying, "Riiiiiiight! And I'm not Palkia, the lord of Space.", while pinching one check like a child.
"Stop that!", Shinsou slapped the hand away!
Gar raised up his hands and said defensively, "Okay okay okay! Geeze, take a joke why don't ya."
Shinsou gave a soft growl as he said, "You top heroic class types are all the same. Alway taking the spotlight from others who deserve it just as much or more so. And with the media all over you since your villain encounter, you're even more popular than ever. You must be eating this up, aren't you? The fame, the attention, it's what you all want, right? Especially you." "With your whole 'I'm an other worldly Alien' thing and your magic animals that can turn the world on its head, you're overshadowing us even more. And I bet you're just loving every second of the attention.", he stated directly to Gar's face while itching uncomfortably close.
With that last word spoken, everything in the room immediately changed. Gar's entire persona melted away to reveal something much worse. His eyes opened wide as his pupil dilated, a shadow covered his upper face yet left his eyes illuminated under the darkness. The aura around him went cold as his head slowly tilted to the side, and his smile melted away to a neutral expression of trying to hold back fury! His shoulder stiffened as his body trembled and his fists tightend as he started to loom over the shorter teen!
Gar's pokemon sensed the immediate change in their trainers behavior and began to respond in fearful ways. Houndoom wined in fear and hid himself behind Izuku while Mimikyu jumped into Uraraka's arms, and Jigglypuff deflated so much it was only a few inches tall.
"Why are they acting like this Deku-kun?", Uararaka asked her friend while cradling the shaking pokemon.
"I don't know, but suddenly I'm just as scared as they are.", Izuku replied as he began to back away and crouched down to Houndoom's level.
Shinsou immediately noticed this and felt a cold chill of dread run straight up his spine. His face deflated from the arrogant pride he felt to that of stressful fear as he stared directly into Gar's cold yellow eyes! Before the teen could do anything, Gar quickly grabbed his head with one hand and his nose with the other! In one quick motion there was a loud snap from Shino's face followed by the teens shrill scream of pain! Shnisou fell back on his butt grabbing his face while kicking his feet and rocking from side to side! The crowd backed away from the teen rolling on the ground and even the students 1-A scuttled back from Gar!
"How's that fell huh?! How does that feel!", Gar yelled at the downed teen!
Shnisou rolled a few more times before looking up at him with teary eyes and shouted back, "It hurt like hell!", Shinsou eventually stopped wiggling around and carefully brought his hands from his nose to find it streaming with blood! "You broke my nose you bastard!", he shouted at Gar!
"Well that's the price you'll pay!", he shouted back at him!
His statement made Shinsou drop his guard for a moment at the confusion now swirling through his head.
"You don't get it, do you?', Gar exclaimed rhetorically. "If you or any of you want the level of 'fame' or 'infamy' or 'attention' or 'spotlight' like we all have, then that's what you're gonna have to sacrifice! You're gonna have to put your physical, mental, emotional health on the line to get anything out of the empty headed media! You'll have to break your body, rip your flesh, burn your face, and more so if you want what we got! Cause we didn't get it from or looks or rank or position or whatever you think we have!", Gar ranted off while pulling the tie off his dress shirt.
"We got it from this!", he exclaimed while ripping his shirt open and showing off his left breast!
The crowd in front of him gave off a collective gasp of shock and horror asvtgey all stared at his wound! Each of them murmured or commented on said wound!
"OH MY GOD!"
"What is that?!"
"That looks painful!"
"I think I'm gonna be sick!"
"You see this! You all see this! This is the reason for my popularity! This hideous injury on my body! This is what you'll have to do!", Gar exclaimed while pointing to it! "I don't know if you saw it, but that freak with the hands did this to me! He nearly rotted away my chest to the bone and Erasers left arm! Were lucky to still have those parts of our body, and even more so to be alive. Especially after fighting that monster.", the crowd said nothing but kept silent, stared, and listened to the older teens rant.
"And speaking of which, that thing nearly killed Eraser and put him in the ICU, me having to be put in a coma, and a few of my friends and one aqqantice that got creamed!", he exclaimed while motioning to Izuku, Todoroki, Kirishima, and Bakugou.
"Fuck-", Bakugou was about to curse him out,buntil the older teen cut him off.
"Shut the Heliolisk up Katsuki!", Gar snapped at the ash blonde, causing him to stop and stare at him in agasp. Even the other students looked at him, shocked by his outburst. Gar whipped back to the crowd and ranted, "And If I hadn't had my army of pokemon to back me up, that Numo monster would only need to double tap Eraser, myself and my friends once more to get the job done! We would be having a wake and not a conversation right now!"
Gar took a moment to catch his breath before speaking again. "And speaking of my pokemon.", he said in a much calmer tone. "look at what that thing did to them!", he exclaimed while throwing a ball to the side.
The pokeball opened and out popped Ambipom with his usual smile and high energy nature. Only this time the two tailed purple monkey pokemon had a scare that almost made up the whole right side of his face. The scare started wide at the top, where some of its hair was missing, and went down to a small triangle just going over the eye.
Somepeople sewed at the pokemon, and others who noticed the injury hissed through their teeth in pain at the sight of it.
Gar pointed to the injury on the pokemons face and exclaimed, "Ambipom never had that scar on his face before! Never, not even once, ever, have my pokemon ever been this hurt to this extent! Hell, anyone of them would have died if I wasn't fast enough!", Gar's practically turned red as he looked to the crowd and the floored Shinsou and shouted, "And you, all of you have the gaul, the audacity, to think that our near death experience and injuries somehow correlate to fame?! What the Heliolisk is wrong with you?!"
Gar then quickly snatched the purple haired teen off the ground and holding him close to his face he yelled, "Would you have preferred we died, huh?! Is that what you wanted? Us to be dead so you could take the empty spot! Cause if so, then the only bastard I see here is YOU!"
Gar dropped the teen back on the floor and addressed the crowd he shouted at them, "Is that what you all think this is; a game!? What, you think you can try again, reset, load up your previous save file or try a new straight some other time?! No! The Distortion World no! This is the real world! People get hurt and die when fools like you don't take this seriously and act like clowns! Do you really think you'd become a hero so easily? You thought you'd apply, show off your special power, learn how to throw a punch, and then run off to fight crime in colorful tights?"
No one dared speak as the teen ranted off on them. Some looked away in shame, some looked completely freaked out, some couldn't take their eyes off him, looking like deer caught in headlights, and some didn't know what to think. Even the other students in the class looked at Gar in shock and fear, and so did his pokemon. Apart from Ambipom, who seems completely unfazed by his anger, strolled up to the teen and used one of its hand tails to hold Gar's hand. For some reason, this actually calmed Gar down a good bit.
After Gar had taken a few calming breaths, he addressed the crowd one more time, saying, "If you think that then you're all good as dead with the rest of the civilians and victims of crime! And if any of this sounds even the slightest bit unappealing to you, then hero work obviously isn't your thing."
Suddenly, one of the pokeballs on Gar's belt started to shake and then popped open in blue light. The energy took shape and Tyranitar stood in front of Gar, directly in the line of sight of the crowd. The crowd gasped at the sight of the overwhelming size of the pokemon and stood frozen in shock and fear of the monster!
Gar closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm himself. When he opened his eyes, he said in a passive aggressive tone, "Now get out of my way."
Tyraniatr threw his head back and then bellowed out a loud roar!,
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWW!"
The crowd screamed in fear and back far away from the dinosaur, with many people getting shoved back and some pressed against the wall! Even Shinsou scurried back against the legs of people trying to avoid the incoming attack! The crowd stood frozen as Tyraniatar stared down each and everyone of them. When he was satisfied he snored and then moved into the hallway where people did their best to keep clear of the pokemon. As Tyranitar moved down the hallway, the pokemon made sure to drop each footstep heavily against the ground and swing its tail in the widest way possible to make the largest hole in the terrified crowd! Gar followed behind the pokemon with Ambipom still holding his hand and smiling like nothing happened.
Lunchroom
Gar sat at his lunch table, by himself, picking at his food with a hole laying heavily in his stomach and a sad expression on his face. Even Lunch Rushes meat platters were not that appetizing to him, and so he mindlessly sipped on his drink every now and again. Tyrainatar stood behind Gar and growled at anyone who got too close, only having to roar once or twice for people who were ballsy enough. And Ambipom, who was in a world of his own, danced happily on the table and played with utensils like drum sticks.
Eventually some were allowed to pass Tyranitar and sat down at Gar's table. The older teen looked up and saw Izuku, Iida, and Uraraka sitting across from him, all wearing different expressions on their faces, next to them were Jigglypuff, Houndoom, and Mimikyu. Gar looked back down at his food, trying to avoid eye contact and social contact. No one said anything for at least three minutes before someone decided to speak.
"Uhhhhh...hi Gar, how's it going?", Uraraka asked?
Iida slapped his head and said to her, "Really? That's the ice breaker?"
Urarak looked at him insulted and shot back, "I'd like to see you do better after what we just witnessed! Oops.", Uraraka slapped her hand over her mouth!
Everyone at the table went silent as they stared at Gar, who hadn't even looked up from his untouched food.
Car waved off whatever they were thinking and replied, "It's fine guys, you don't have to say anything. I know you all hate-"
"Were not trying to!", Izukul suddenly blurted out, making everyone stare at him. The green haired teen robbed the back of his head awkwardly and said, "Sorry, I jumped the gun there."
Gar just gave another empty sigh.
"Don't talk like that Gar-san. We don't hate you. None of us do.", Iida went back on topic.
"If you think we hate you because of your outburst, then don't think that.", Uraraka added.
"Yeah, everyone in class still loves you.", Izuku said genuinely.
Gar gave a small half smile and cough before replying, "Well..…I wouldn't say everyone. Katskui hates me because….well you know. I'm pretty sure Tsyuy and Koji don't like me too much for trying to catch them every other day."
"Yeah why do you always do that?", Iida asked.
Gar gave a slight shrug and answered, "Force of habit, it's a reflex. Also Fumikage for the same reason, and Dragapult has tried to eat Dark Shadow on more than a few occasions. Minoru probably doesn't like me cause I'm popular with the girls and cause Serperior tried to squeeze him to death. I can't ever tell what Tour, Jiro, Mezo, or Yuga are ever thinking, so I'm unsure about them. Especially Yuga, he scares me more than any ghost type. It's like he knows when I'm looking at him, and he stares into my soul!"
All the teen's turned their heads to the sparkly blond flamboyant teen and saw him staring right at the group with his signature smile and ever sparkling body! This made all of them shiver and turn away from his gaze.
"And Shoto just looks at me coldly.", Gar wrapped up.
"Doesn't he do that to everyone?", Uraraka added, which Gar shrugged at.
Another wave of sense filled the table until Gar awkwardly spoke.
He sighed and then states, "Look, I'm really sorry you guys had to see me get like that. I don't normally lose my temper that easily."
"Don't piss off the nice and quiet kids, otherwise they'll explode.", Uraraka added.
Gar shrugged nonchalantly and continued saying, "I guess you could put it like that. It's just….it made me so angry. To see all those people staring us down like some kind of an attraction, or wish for ill will, or even think our pain ment our success. It just..baffles me how people could think like that!", He exclaims while pounding the table with his fork. "I mean I get it. They are jealous of our station as the top students in the whole school, they wanna be where we are, they wanna be us, they put in just as much work, some of them have useful quirks that were swept under the rug because of how the school picks its next generation. It gets it. But to wish for us to be crippled or die just to take the next step on the ladder, it's just unacceptable!", He exclaims while bending the fork in his hands. He gives a defeated sigh, puts down the bent fork , and says, "I mean, I used to be jealous of people when I first started off on my journey! But I never wanted harm on them, ever!"
No one said anything after that and a heavy silence filled the area between the four teens. No one seemed interested in their food or making eye contact as they looked around awkwardly.
Until Iida piped up and stated, "I know what you're saying, Gar-san. It also makes me mad knowing people think our near death experience somehow translates into our classes skyrocketing fame. Some people just truly don't know what goes into being a hero."
Gar gave a small smile knowing that someone knew what he was thinking and feeling. Before he could say anything else, Gar felt something press against his lap. you look down and saw houndoom's head laying on his thigh, to his sides he saw a deflated Jigglypuff standing a few inches tall, and Mimikyu carefully approaching him.
Gar gave a sad noise and patted his Pokemon whie saying, "Oh, sorry guys. I guess I should apologize for freaking you out too.", The Pokemon made little whining noises as if they were unsure of how to react. Gar gave another sad noise and asked, "Do ya forgive me?", The Pokemon immediately perked up and began to smother the teen in love!
"He hey hey! What about me! Buzzt.", Rotom cried as he springs from Gar's pocket! "I've seen you get angry more than anyone else. And it scares me every time! Buzzt."
Gar chuckles and says, "I'm sorry to buddy, do you forgive me?"
"Welllllll.", Rotom draws it out, making Gar frown. ",Oh alright. I could never be mad at you Garfield. Buzzt."
Gar gave a few giggles and pushing the pokémon off he said to them, "Glad to hear it. Now why don't the rest you rest up for now."
Gar then deposited three pokeballs from off his belt and returned the three Pokemon, while Rotom slipped back into his pocket, and leaves only Ambipom and Tyranitar still out.
"Then I guess I shouldn't be a hero after all.", Uraraka suddenly blathered out.
"What?", Izuku and Gar asked at the same time.
"Why would you say that, Uraraka-san?", Iida inquired.
Uaraka looked surprised by her own words and tried to play it off cool. When that didn't work she caved. Before that she looked around before asking, "Can you guys keep a secret?", the three boys nodded their heads. Uraraka looked around once more before saying in a low tone, "I'm actually doing this for money."
"And.", Gar stated.
"And?", Uraraka asks him back.
"And what's the catch? There is always an if, and or but. So what yours?", the purple haired teen explains.
Uraraka looked hesitant at first but eventually she explained to the boys in a hushed tone, "Well...it's for my parents. My family has never really been that….well off. So I wanted to be a hero so I could make enough money so they could retire and have a good life."
Uraraka looked away from the three of them with tears forming in her eyes and a red blush on her pink checks. She waited for the criticism but instead got something completely different.
"Well I don't see any flaws in that.", Gar what's the first one to speak, drawing the girl's attention in surprise.
"You don't? But didn't you just say-?", The girl began to say until she was cut off.
"There is a very fine line between selflessness and selfishness. And you're the former, not the ladder. Sure you don't wanna help people for the sake of it. But you're still a hero in one regard, and you're still technically helping some else.", Gar explained.
"Gar's totally right Uraraka. Being a hero for money isnt a totally bad thing. Some people just really wanted to make big bucks to live better. Or in your case, let someone else live better.", Izuku chipped in.
"Hero work is still a job at the end of the day. Just a more risk and reward job.", Gar added on.
"I couldn't have said it any better. After all, I wanted to be a hero so I could bring honor to my family name.", Iida chimed in his two cents.
Gar snapped his fingers and asked, "Oh yeah, isn't your family a bunch of pro heroes. Including your brother, what's his name again, Tensei? He's that Ingenium guy."
Izuku's eyes went completely wide with awe, sparkling like two crystal balls, as he fanboyed, "Your brother is the Turbo Hero: Ingenium!"
Iida clapped his hand around Izuku's mouth, and hissing at him in a low tone he exclaimed, "Shhhhhhhh! Not so loud! I wanted to keep that part of my life quiet."
Gar gave a dry laugh and stated, "I'd drop that dream right now, Tenya. I tried to keep my pokemon 'quiet' and this mess happened."
Iida dropped his head in defeat as he replied, "I suppose you're right. More importantly, how did you know my brother and my family?", he asked Gar.
Gar looked at him like it was obvious and answered, "Well, I mean, you both share the same surname, look similar, and have identical quirks. It wasn't that hard.", Iida sweat dropped at this realization and hung his head lower in embarrassment. "Also I met him, what was it? Last week? Yep, last week. He just went on and on about you. Tenya this, and Tenya that, Tenya Tenya Tenya. I swear that man jabbers more than a Chatdot on caffeine.", Gar recalled, as Izuku and Uraraka listened and watched the older teen enthusiastically.
As the group was talking, a large yellow three-fingered hand with red tips at the end slowly started to make their way towards Gar's face. Gar immediately took notice of the hand and without missing a beat grabbed it. Gar pushed the hand out of the way and saw Ambipom standing in the seat next to Gar, with his usual oversized smile, trying to bring one of his fingers to the older teen's face.
Gar immediately knew what the Pokemon was trying to do and stated, "No Ambipom, I'm not going to let you pick my nose."
The Pokemon, in turn, made a face like this :0 and slowly started to bring one of it's hand tails towards the older teen's face again.
Gar made a displeased expression while saying, "No Ambipom! I already said NO!"
The Pokemon stopped mid moment when he spoke, but when he stopped is when he started to move the hand again.
"Don't you dare stick those sausage fingers up my nose!", Gar exclaimed, making the Pokemon stop.
"Why don't you just move out of the way?", Iida offered.
Without taking his eyes off the Pokemon, Gar replied, "That'll only encourage him."
This game of cat and mouse continued until the Pokemon had his finger rights against the older teen's outer nostril.
"Ambipom, I swear to Arceus.", Gar stated in a low and threatening time.
But Ambipom was unfazed as he still made a :0 face and kept the finger right at the nose. A standoff occurred and after nearly two minutes, Ambipom pulled a fast one and diverted it's attention to somewhere else, causing Gar to look away, and give Ambipom a chance to strike! The monkey Pokemon shoved its huge finger up Gar's nose and wiggled it around! Gar spazzed and sputtered from the huge finger, flailing his arms around until he eventually grabbed the tail and pulled the finger out!
"I hate it when you do that!", Gar half shouted while grabbing the tail tightly!
Ambipom only laughed while hopping between feet and slapping the table with it's free tail. Gar gave a small growl at the Pokemons antics and threw the tail away.
"Why does Ambipom always pick your nose?", Izuku questions.
Gar gave a defeated sigh and replied, "No idea. He's done it since he was an Aipom. I tried getting him screened, but nothing. They told me he probably does it for entertainment. But even that's just a guess. It's part of the reason my nostrils are larger than yours."
Before their conversation could carry further, someone else placed their lunch tray on the table making the teens stop and look towards the new person sitting down. It was none other than the icey cold faced boy, Todoroki, sporting his naturally cold expression as he sat down at their table without a word and then began to eat his cold soba while staring at the group. The teen looked at each other, unsure of what to do or say.
Until Gar piped up first and said, "Uh, hi?"
Todorkio slurped up the rest of his food, and after swallowing he spoke saying, "Hello."
Everyone sweatdropped at this and looked at one another, unsure of how to pick up the stagnant conversation from here.
"Sooooooooo what brings you here?", Gar tried to make conversation again.
"Isn't a cafeteria a place for people to have lunch with others.", Todoroki stated.
"Yeah but, we didn't think you would come and sit with us. Shouldn't you wanna, I don't know, sit at the cool kids table?", Gar asked bluntly.
Seeing no reason to dodge the question, the other chimed in with their own blunt questions.
"Or the rich kids table?", Uraraka asked.
"Or the popular kids table?", Izuku asked.
Todorki shook his head and replied, "No, I wanna sit here. Is that a problem?"
The teens were initially shocked by his response, before Izuku stammered out, "No no no! It's just….well...um….", Izuku couldn't find the words.
Gar gave a hefty sigh and exclaimed, "Okay, I'm just gonna say it! You're about as comfortable as sitting on a Bergmites head, and just as cozy as it's type."
After almost a full moon of pure silence from the icy boy, he finally spoke up and asked, "What's that?"
"It's like a living icicle.", Gar answered simply.
"You have ice in your world?", Todoroki asked genuinely.
Gar gave him a weird look and stated, "What kind of a question is that? Of course I do. We have an entire spectrum of Pokemon labeled the Ice type."
Todoroki didn't reply to the statement and instead returned to his meal and silently and coldly staring at the four teens. Everyone at the table was thoroughly confused by Todoroki's behavior and tried to break eye contact away from the team and huddled around each other whispering softly.
Until it finally clicked for Gar, and he stated in a low voice, "Dear Arceus he isn't cold, stoic, brooding, and unapproachable just because that's his personality. It's because he's awkward as hell! Even more so than you Izuku, and that's saying something."
Izuku nodded in agreement and said, "You're right that does actually make a lot of-wait, HEY!", He exclaimed to the older team while realizing his last sentence!
"That would explain a lot of things.", Uraraka chimed in.
Before they could converse some more, they heard the sound of Todoroki groaning and complaining, as if he were trying to get something off him. The group turned their heads at the same time and saw Ambipom rubbing his face against Todoroki's face.
"What's he doing?", Iida asked in a low tone while still observing the sight.
"Beats me. I've only seen him do this on a handful of occasions.", Gar answered in an equally low tone.
"Are you gonna watch or are you gonna control your whatever you call them.", Todoroki asked in a slightly angered tone.
Gar pulled the Pokemon away, only to feel him try and fight back towards Todoroki. This confused Gar. Ambipom was away clinging to him and no one else.
"Well that's the first time I've seen him do that.", Gar stated while holding the Pokemon back. "And they're called pokemon."
"Well why did he do that?", Uraraka asked.
Gar shrugged and theorized, "Beats me? Maybe he just likes you?"
Todoroki gave him a strange look and said,"Likes me. Why? All I've done is stare at him after he started to stare at me. Then he just started rubbing his face on me."
"That's called affection.", Gar told him.
"What?", Todoroki questioned.
Gar nearly went pale at his words, and in a soft dread filled tone he asked, "By the Creation Trio, what happened to you."
"Any other reason?", Iida inquired.
Gar tapped his chin while holding one of the Pokemon's tails and then theorized, "Well…. maybe he likes your…..", Gar trailed off while trying to look for something. Then it hit him and he finished up saying, "Scar."
"M-My scar? Why?", Todoroki stammered out while placing a hand to his left side and covering it up..
"Well...I mean….you two do match.", Gar shrugged while motioning to the Pokemon's scar.
Todoroki looked to the purple pokemon, who was still trying to break free from Gar's grasp, and asked, "You….like my scar?"
Ambipom jumped up and down, clapping his tail hand together while giving a big bright smile to the teen! The jumping eventually managed to free the pokemon and Ambipom ran right back to Todoroki where he wrapped the boy in a hug by its tail hands and began to rub his face against the boys. Scar to scar. And Todoroki almost seems to enjoy the affection.
As the pokemon continue to love on the icey boy, Iida whispered to Gar, "So is that the only reason?"
Gar shook his head and whispered back, "That's one part, but also because Ambipom wanted to make Shoto smile. Ambipom are a very emotional oriented pokemon, some say they can sense the emotional field. That's why they're always smiling, having fun, dancing, and pulling pranks. They love joy."
Before their conversation could go further, a small scream was heard from Todoroki and the teen whipped their heads to the icey teen, only to see him trying to push Ambipom away as the monkey was forcefully shoving its finger up his nose! Gar immediately sprung into action and pried the pokemon and its finger away from the teen!
Gar gave a stern look to the laughing monkey and exclaimed, "No Ambipom! It's one thing to pick my nose, but not with other people!", the pokemon still continues to laugh and clap his hands.
Todoroki furiously rubs his nose and exclaims, "God that hurt! Why is his finger so big and smells so bad?!"
"Sorry about that, he normally only does it with me. He likes to touch everything. And why do you think my nostrils are so much larger?", Gars asks back. Todorki says nothing in reply as he rubs the pain out.
Gar sighs and says, "Well Shoto, I guess your part of the troop now."
Todroki stops rubbing his burning nose and looks at the teen and his pokemon in confusion.
"Like I said, he's only ever done that with me. So I guess you're a special case.", Gar puts forth.
"I wish he'd show it in another way.", Todorki stated while blowing his nose into a napkin.
"You and me both.", Gar gives an exhausted sigh while sweat dropping.
"Uh, Gar.", Gar heards Izuku call his name with fear laced into the tone.
Gar turns his head and sees Izuku, Iida, and Uraraka all frozen in place as Ambipom stares down at them with the fingers on its hand tails trembling with excitement!
"Whadda we do?", Uraraka asks in a low hissed tone.
"Try not to make any sudden movements.", Gar offers, completely unsure of what to actually do to help.
Suddenly a small fart came from somewhere in the group of three and all eyes turned to Iida.
The teen blushed and said, "Sorry."
"Well crap.", Gar stated as he watched the monkey pokemon glomp all three students and try to pick their noses!
Off-screen info:
Gar has larger nostril holes than most people due to ambipom always picking his nose.
Gar has tried to catch several of the students in his class, teachers, and several more in the school due to their mutations making them look like Pokemon.
Gar isn't just a meat lover, he also has a heavy sweet tooth and a carboholic. Aizawa, who comes to check up on him occasionally, catches him raiding the fridge in the middle of the night with one of his Pokemon.
Bakugou regularly tries to fight Gar's pokemon. He always loses.
Gar is unusually popular with the girls in his class and the school. Because of this he's not liked by many male students.
Izuku and Gar regularly trade hero and pokemon info, occasionally battling one another with Pokemon.
Gar is a social butterfly and likes to be surrounded by many people. He tries to make the most of his day revolving around spending time with others. (Due to his chronic loneliness)
Bakugou found out that Gar is easily frightened. And uses this to surprise or scare him any opportunity he gets.