Most of class 1-A were staring in awe at what they had just witnessed. Izuku Midoriya, a kid that looked like some frail kid, managed to get the third best result of the ball throwing test. Some of them were complimenting his power, others were páying as much attention to the boy's feat, knowing that it could be an obstacle in the future for their race to the top. Tenya noticed that Izuku had apparently broken his finger, similar to what had happened to the entrance exam. Something that Ochako could certinately testify to. The two American girls had a smile on their face. Annie seemed pleased that the boy that had been antagonized since getting to U.A had just shown his mettle by himself. Similar to Valerie, who was simply content with the fact that the kid with the nice shoes was able to accomplish something on his own.
However, not everyone had it in them to acknowledge the boy. Katsuki Bakugo, the so-called childhood friend of Midoriya, was looking at what had happened with widened eyes. The same boy that he picked on since they were kids, the very same quirkless crybaby that always went on and on about becoming a hero with no powers whatsoever had just upstaged him?! Bad enough that he had the guts to defy him since they were little, or that he rushed his useless butt into trying to save him from being taken hostage by a villain! That he not only dared to come take the entrance exam and pass it, but the fact that he had just beat him in this one test?!
How dare he?! He was supposed to be the only one from that crappy school to get to U.A! He was supposed to be the number one in his class and the whole school! He was the one that was meant to become better than even All Might himself, not him! Not some quirkless loser that only got in due to some sort of trick! He would not allow a cheater to beat him, just like that!
Sparks started to fly from his palms, and before anyone knew it, he shot himself at where Izuku was. It was only when he was halfway through that the others took notice. Even Annie, who was taken back at the fact that someone would try to do that on the first day and in front of over twenty people. One of them being their teacher no less. She was about to try and intercept the ash-blonde from trying to hurt the freckled green-haired boy, when all of the sudden, he found himself wrapped by some sort of threads.
"GHA! W-Why the hell is your damned scarf so strong?!" the boy cursed, looking back at him and seeing his homeroom teacher, with his hair up and his eyes glowing red as he held onto his scarf.
"Because it's a captured weapon, made out of carbon fiber with a special metal alloy." he answered coldly. "Stand down! It will be wise to avoid making me use my quirk so much… It gives me, serious dry eye.
"Too bad, that power's amazing" the entire class thought.
Shota Aizawa, Class 1-A Homeroom Teacher - Quirk: Erasure!
He's capable of erasing the quirk of anyone that he looks at! But the effect wears off if he blinks! His quirk has the possibility of causing different effects on those whose powers come froms sources that aren't quirks! From mild dizziness, a small headache or sometimes, losing of balance!
"You're wasting my time now. Whoever's next is your turn." Aizawa said, finally letting go of the capture weapon and deactivating his quirk, as he released Katsuki.
Soon, the next student came forward, ready to do the test as well. Meanwhile, Katsuki grinded his teeth as he turned and saw Izuku being approached by Ochako, asking if he was okay. And while his train of thought was that he was still a little bug that he could crush if he wanted to, he was also being stared at by another one of Class 1-A students. More specifically, the American red-headed. Her expression, being similar to the one that the ash-blonde had, notably not pleased at what she saw.
"A-Annie?" Valerie called, noticing the look on her friend's face.
"... Come on Val, let's see how Izuku's doing." she said, as the two Americans started to walk away.
Afterwards, the tests renew once again. The three that remained, not being that difficult. If anything, they were the easiest to some, especially those in peak form. Annie and Valerie doing both sit-ups test together and doing them with ease. The same with the seated toe-touch. Although, Annie definitely seemed to have the edge there as well. Making many wonder if there was something that the girl couldn't do well… outside of keeping quiet, that is. Some of the other students already saw how she seemed to have issues in that regard. The long-distance run also proved to be quite easy for the more athletic students, although Valerie did start to tire around halfway through, even if it was just a little.
By the end, the students all gathered around in front of their test, who were ready to give out the rankings.
"All right, time to give you your results. I ranked you all from best to worst, although you probably already have an idea as to where you are if you're standing already." he told the twenty-two students. "I'll just pull the whole list, it's not worth going over each individual score."
As he prepared to do so, the pressure that was in the atmosphere started to grow. The last person was said to be expelled according to their hobo teacher. There were those that were already starting to pray for them not to be in the last place. Soon, their teacher pressed a button and a hologram appeared in front of them. There were a couple of kids that dared not to look up, but eventually, they did and the results were…
1.- Anna-May Parker
2.- Yaoyorozu Momo
3.- Shoto Todoroki
4.- Katsuki Bakugo
5.- Valerie Vector V.
6.- Ida Tenya
7.- Tokoyami Fumikage
8.- Shoji Mezo
9.- Ojiro Masahirao
10.- Kirishima Ejiro
11.- Ashido Mina
12.- Uraraka Ochaco
13.- Koda Koji
14.- Sato Rikido
15.- Asui Tsuyu
16.- Aoyama Yuga
17.- Hanta Sero
18.-Denki Kaminari
19.- Jiro Kyoka
20.- Hagakure Toru
21.- Mineta Minoru
22.- Midoriya Izuku
The students saw their placing and those who were on nicer terms with the green-haired immediately started to feel for the boy. If he was the last one, then that meant that…
"By the way, no ones going home." Aizawa said, getting everyone's attention.
"Eh?" they all asked.
"That was just a rational deception to make sure everyone gave it their all!" the teacher said with a grin.
"HUH?!" most exclaimed, with Izuku in particular looking as if he was about to fall down.
"Y-You mean that… and I…" Annie said, trying to process what she was told, while remembering how she did nothing but talk back to her teacher. "... GHA! THIS IS THE THIRD TIME A HOBO MAKES ME LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT!" she exclaimed in english, making the Avengers' child wonder, what were the other two then?
"I'm surprised that none of you figured it out sooner." Momo said. "Sorry, I probably should have said something."
"Yeah, you should have." most of the students said.
"Oh, I a-actually remembered that Avengers Academy did something similar to their first class." Valerie remembered.
One of the upsides of living with an Avenger is that she gets to hear stories of many of their adventures in detail and other of their miscellaneous. For example, how apparently Pietro managed to convince Jocasta into programming the then unused robot Arsenal to surprise attack their students while in the middle of their lunch. Although, in their defense they made sure that everything was nonlethal. Plus, Jocasta did it because she thought that said actions had been approved by the rest of the staff, which was not. Quicksilver replied that when he was their age, he had to deal with Magneto hiring assassins that were tasked to attack him and his sister while in their sleep. Not surprising given the master of magnetism's history, who despite apparently claiming that they were never told to cause serious harm (according to what Finesse had told her teachers), was most definitely a complete and utter lie.
"Then why didn't you say something?!" Annie asked.
"S-Sorry…" the blue girl apologised.
"Man, that was pretty nerve-wrecking, don't you think?" Hanta asked the rest of his class.
"Nah, I'm always up for a little challenge." Ejiro replied.
"With that, we're done here. There are handouts with the curriculum and such back in the classroom. Pick one and read it for tomorrow." Aizawa said, walking to the sides, not before stopping in front of Izuku and handing him a piece of paper. "Misoriya, have the old lady fix you up at the nurse's office. Tomorrow will be an even harsher day for you all. Prepare yourselves." he said as he walked, leaving the students all by ourselves.
Once done, the students all relaxed a little bit. There were those that paid close attention to the results that they had gotten. Having their placing in mind and knowing that they had to be better (like Midoriya for instance). Others were looking at the results of their peers, measuring their capabilities with the idea of what to expect from them (mainly Shoto and Katsuki). The red-headed America, on the other hand, simply had one thing in mind.
"You hungry?" she asked her blue friend.
"A l-little."
"Makes sense. I mean, the tests weren't that bad, but they sure opened my appetite. Especially since I had something of a light breakfast." Annie told her friend. "Actually, I have a PB&J sandwich in my bag. You can have half of it if you want."
"A-Are you sure?"
"Yeah. Besides, we're meeting at your place with everyone else for a 'first day of school meal', remember?"
"Yeah, I guess you're right." the blue girl noted as they started to walk back to their class.
"By the way, did you notice that hobo teach omitted your last name in his results list?" Annie asked.
"Yeah, I did. I wonder why though?"
"Probably to not have you being the center of attention or something, you know? Since she's a pretty big deal." Annie said, noting how there should at least be one or two kids in their class that could recognize the name of the Wasp.
"T-That makes sense."
"Yeah… The same treatment would have been welcome in my case, but whatever!" Annie complained.
Valerie sighed, knowing that she wouldn't be stopping in quite a while.
"WHAT?!" the arachnid girl exclaimed. "You mean that while we had to deal with a crazy hobo threatening us with expulsion, you guys were chillin like nobody's business?! How's that fair?!"
"Geez, mind being a little louder? I think your dad didn't catch it all the way to New York." Hitoshi quiped.
"New York? I'm sure that they heard you all the way over to Hala." Kamala said.
"It is bogus! Unfair! Total madness I tell you, MADNESS!"
"... If anyone asks, we don't know her." Robbie said.
The quartet of Americans and the purple-haired japanese boy had just runite after their day of school. Having informed each other of what they had done in their respective class. Robbie himself had joked that he was surprised that Annie hadn't been expelled because she annoyed their teacher or something. As they kept on walking, hearing the second Parker child complain, they caught a glimpse of three other students that they recognized (Parker and Van Dyne in particular since they spent the day with them).
Izuku Midoriya, Ochako Uraraka and Tenya Ida. Or as the other kids outside of Class 1-A remembered them; Bush-haired kid, uptight… and that girl that helped bush-haired kid.
It was the only thing that Shinso and Khan could come up with at the moment.
They seemed to be talking with one another, probably talking about going to the station together or something, when they too, took notice of their presence. The first one being Izuku, who recognised his fellow classmates and one extra person as well.
"H-Hi, Parker-san!" he called.
"San? Isn't that used to talk to people that you respect, or something?" Kamala asked Shinso.
"She did say how she placed first in her quirk assessment thing. It shouldn't be that much of a surprise." he replied.
"Oh, Parker-san, hi!" the round-faced girl greeted.
"Hi eh, Ochako, right?" she asked.
"Uraraka Ochako, yes!" she answered.
"Hmph, don't you have any manners? You barely know each other and you're already talking to her as if you have known each other since grade-school!" the tall glasses-wearing kid complained.
"Oh hi Tenya, I can already tell that we'll be just the best of buds." she drydly addressed the younger of the Ida siblings.
"We are most certinately, not friends. At best we're still nothing but acquaintances and that's all."
"I was being sarcastic."
"...Umm…" Valerei said, making the trio of kids all turn their gaze toward her, much to her dismay. "Why do I do things?"
"Hi there, you're V, right?"
"V?" asked Kamala.
"Well, it was the only thing that was written on the list. By the way, what does the 'V' stand for?" the browned-haired girl asked, causing Valerie to ramble nervously.
"W-W-Well, i-i-it's y-y-you know-"
"It's private stuff, let's leave it at that." Annie said, saving her friend.
"Uh?"
"Y-Y-You can call me V-Vector if it m-m-makes you feel b-b-better." she nervously said.
"W-W-Well, we w-wouldn't want to he d-disrespectful." Midoriya stuttered.
"N-N-No, r-r-really, I d-d-don't mind." the girl replied.
As they talked, Annie, Kamala and Hitoshi couldn't help but to look back and forth between the two shy kids. They did it a couple of times until it hit them all.
"My god, there's two of them." they noted.
It was then that Tenya saw the way that Robbie Reyes was looking at Midoriya. Uraraka did as well and after seeing the way that Bakugo acted not that long ago, they started to worry. Mainly because of the fact that this guy was like three times more intimidating and scary/looking than the ash-blonde could ever be. But to their surprise, he simply offered Izuku a handshake, with a somewhat small smile.
"Roberto Reyes, call me Robbie or whatever you want. I really don't mind." he said, puzzling everyone but Izuku. "I knew that I would see you here."
Izuku smiled and shyly accepted the handshake. "N-Nice to see you again." he said.
"You've met him already?" Annie asked.
"Dagobah beach." he said, making his friends understand in an instant.
"Then no wonder you got here!" Kamala said, making Hitoshi flinch a little.
"Dagobah beach? What does it have to do with him being at U.A?" Ochako asked.
"The guy was the one that cleaned that whole mess by himself." Robbie said, taking the other Class 1-A students by surprise.
"Wait, for real?!"
"Just what one should expect from you Midoriya! You are certinately the embodiment of what it means to be a student at U.A!... At least more than others." he said, specifically looking at Annie, who frowned in annoyance, as well as Hitoshi.
"Bite me exhaust-pipe-legs."
"What's his deal?" Kamala whispered Ochako.
"I think it bothered him that she talked back to the teacher or something."
"Among other things." said Tenya, turning to the other girl. "Apologize my rudeness, I haven't introduced myself to you two. I'm Ida Tenya." he told the other teenagers.
"A pleasure… um… Te-"
"Ida."
"Yes, Ida!" Kamala said, after Robbie corrected her. "I'm Kamala… Kamala, right?"
"Kamala Khan. Khan's the last name and yes, she's bad at this."
"... You didn't have to add that last part." Kamala murmured.
"I know." he joked, much to her annoyance.
"Well, it's nice to meet you Khan, Reyes!" Ochako said, with both Ida and Tenya nodding in agreement (since this was the first time that Midoriya met Kamala). "So I take it you're from another class, right?"
"1-B, yeah."
"Hopefully your homeroom teacher doesn't threatent you with expulsion only to make you look dumb." Annie muttered.
Tenya then turned to the boy in the back, just now noticing his presence. "May we know of-" he was trying to say, only to be met with a glare directed at them that actually took them by surprise.
"Umm, h-he's usually a lot n-nicer!" Valerie tried to say, even though his glare intensified a little. "That's not helping!"
"I-Is that so?" Uraraka awkwardly asked.
"W-Well, we were on our way to the station, do you want to t-tag along?" Izuku asked.
"As tempting as it sounds, we'll have to put it on for another time." Annie told the other 1-A kids.
"Why?" Uraraka asked.
"We're being picked to go to her house." Robbie said, as he looked at a car parking in front of the entrance. "Oh, look, that's our ride." he said non-chilan, which was not how everyone at school grounds reacted, who had their mouths widened… except for Valerie, she looked as pale as a ghost.
The car in question was nothing short of a fancy luxury vintage car. More specifically to Robbie, an old Cadillac Limousine. The kind of vehicle that one would assume was used in the Godfather or something like that. From it, Jarvis came out smiling as he greeted the group of teenagers. And yet, Robbie was the only one that replied his greeting since the others still had their jaws three inches from the ground. He then walked to the passengers side and opened the back door, where Nadia sat with two ice creams in each hand.
"Valerie! Did you know that they made cookie dough ice cream?!" she asked.
"... WHY?!"
"And that's our cue. Nice knowing you and stuff." Robbie told the others as the others recovered from their shock and said their goodbyes as well… except Valerei, she remained the same, so the others had to drag her to the car.
After which, they got into the fancy vehicle as it drove away. Leaving the trio of Midoriya, Uraraka and Ida still somewhat surprised. But they quickly shook it off, especially Midoriya, who momentarily thought that he recognized the butler.
"Oh my, was that Jarvis-san?" they heard Momo, who was standing behind them and making Midoriya's eyes widen.
Back at the car, Nadia had handed one of her ice creams to her adoptive blue sister, who was still in the same state as before.
"So, how was your first day of school?" Jarvis asked.
"Nothing out of the ordinary. Just orientation and stuff." Kamala answered, only to turn to Annie. "By the way, were those guys calling you by your last name? I thought that you didn't want people knowing about that or something." Kamala asked.
For the remaining of their journey, they had to listen to Annie's complaints, with the exception of Robbie. He was smart enough to pull a pair of headphones and turn them all the way to elven. Not something that any grown-up would encourage, but if it meant that he would be spared of Parker's ranting, then it was worth it.
The next day was nothing out of the ordinary at first. The students of U.A all attended their classes, getting to learn how the teachers would operate. Their timetable said that they were to be from 8:25 A.M to 3:10 P.M. There were a total of 6 periods, each lasting a total of around fifty minutes each, with the exception of homeroom, which only lasted a total of ten minutes. Everyone learned that each course of course would have certain different subjects, but that they share a couple of them. Mainly the core ones being math, science, foreigner language (which was english), social studies, japanese, etc. They would change every now and then and to Annie's disappointment, they wouldn't be touching sience just yet. Which did surprise the other kids when she asked about that.
One of Class 1-A's first classes was english, which to no one's surprise, bored Annie. It was to be expected from someone that was a native speaker of said language, on top of having her being a top student at that as well. The teacher that was responsible for teaching it to the hero course in particular was none other than Present Mic, who was very fluent at it. So good in fact, that if someone were to say that it was his first language, no one would bat an eye.
"Alright then, which of these four sentences is wrong?" he asked, sounding normal and not like he was speaking through an amplifier.
"So normal" most thought.
"It's the fourth one." both Americans thought, but did not raise their hands, for Momo ended up answering the question.
Class 1-B also had to deal with those kinds of classes, which at the moment was math. It wasn't that difficult and the person that was responsible for it was a hero named Ectoplasm, although his appearance wasn't that of a traditional hero. He was wearing a trench coat that covered his slender body. He had apparently lost his legs in a fight, so he had two prosthetics, a skin-tight body-suit with golden lines in the neck area and a matching black helmet that covered his jaw and circular mufflers. He had written an algebraic equation on the board and asked if anyone was willing to give it a try. Some felt a little intimidated by the problem (like Kamala, who was wondering why there were letters there), but Robbie decided to raise his hand and answer it himself.
"Well done, Reyes. The answer is correct and the procedure was well executed." the teacher congratulated the latino-american boy.
"Thanks. It wasn't that hard actually." he answered.
"Not that hard my ass!" a decent amount of students asked. Never having thought that the ruffian-looking guy would be one of the smart ones.
After the fourth period was over, the students all headed for the cafeteria to eat something. The young Parker once again brought lunch of her own, but just in case also brought some money just in case. Hitoshi himself was looking for a place to sit at the moment. He was about to head for a table that was shared by a couple of kids from management and generals until he heard Annie calling for him to sit next to her and Valerie. At first he was a little unsure. After all, she was a hero course student and most of the students at general studies hate the hero course. But that thought was quickly thrown over the window, they're his friends. School hierarchy and what not be damned. Even if he saw a couple of his classmates looking at him like he grew a second head, as he was sitting.
"How's it going?" Annie asked.
"Not that different from back in middle school. You two?"
"S-She almost fell asleep in english class." Valerie informed, causing Shinso to chuckle.
"Of course she would."
"Come on, can you blame me? We're basically being taught as if we just learned a language that I have known since I was born."
"I a-actually like it… Feels nice to be in a classroom." Valerie commented, smiling a little.
At that moment, both Kamala and Robbie sat at the table as well. And all three saw that Kamala was not in a good mood. "I don't care what you said, there's no way that that kind of black magic is math! Seriously, letters? Since when are there letters in math?!"
"It was just a basic algebra problem, no need to make a big deal out of it. Besides, in what world is math considered black magic?" Robbie asked.
"Well, back in the day during the dark age I'm sure that a commoner would be accused of being a witch or something for knowing about math." Annie commented.
"They would accuse anyone of practicing magic for literally anything. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that someone was tried for taking a bath." Robbie said.
"Oh, they wouldn't do that. They would just think that you're weird, since soap sucked back then."
"In what world does soap suck?" Kamala asked.
"Everything sucked during the middle ages."
"Yep and soaps back then were made out of accumulated mutton fat, wood ash, sometimes potash as a substitute and natural soda." Annie said, causing Kamala to have a look of disgust, which both Hitoshi and Valerie had as well, although not as intense as the Jersey girl.
"M-Mutton fat? Ashes?!" she asked.
"That… that doesn't sound… is that even sanitary?" the japanese boy asked.
"Nope." Annie said, taking a sip out of her beverage. "I'm pretty sure that a bath in sand would be more hygienic than soap back then. Also, apparently they were soft and very irritated to the skin. It wasn't until the 12th century that they started to make them out of olive oil, lime and aromatic herbs and even then, it was a luxury product."
"...How do you know so much about soap?!"
"I got bored one day and was curious about it." Annie answered the inhuman.
"... Great, as if I needed another reminder that you're probably smart enough to teach here. And then there's this guy making most of the class look like kindergartners with him and Kendo getting every answer that profesor Ectoplasm threw at them like they were no biggy."
"Hey, Setsuna and Juzo were also getting answers right. Even Neito and Hiryu as well."
As their conversation kept on going, both a teacher and a girl were walking around the place. The teacher was somewhat skinny, had what looked to be an excavator over his head and had large hands with weird things attached to his fingers. As for the girl that was accompanying him; she had shoulder-length salmon pink hair that was styled into dreadlocks. She also had wide and sloped upwards with some notably long upper eyelashes, their irises green-yellow with a cross in the centre. It kind of looked like a scope lense to most of the students.
It also looked like she didn't want to be here.
"Can I pleeeease go back to the shop? I could be making babies right now!" she said, causing some people to almost choke on either their food or drinks and causing some to blush.
"I really would prefer if you would use another term to refer to your inventions Hatsume." the hero said, as he noticed the way some of the other students reacted. "Besides, I don't want you to close yourself in the shop… god knows I would rather not have another table melted… So I want you to eat here, understand?"
The girl sighed, clearly not being on the same page as her teacher. "Yes Power Loader." she said as they started to look for an empty ´place for her to sit.
Then, she saw where Annie and the rest were and noticed that the redhead had a notebook open next to her. Weird, one would think that any normal kid would put school work or anything away during lunch, especially considering that it was just the second day. She thought it a little interesting and using her quirk, that enhanced her sight, she saw that they were… WERE THOSE NOTES FOR SOME SORT OF DEVICE?!
She quickly rushed to where the girl was, much to her teacher's surprise. Once she was in front of the table, she kind of spooked them with how out of nowhere she came by. Kamala almost dropped a muffin that she brought with her.
"Hi, is that a baby that you're planning to make?!" she said quickly while pointing at Annie's notebook and causing them to stagger and even blush somewhat.
"B-B-B-B-B-Baby?!" Valerie said, being the one blushing the most of the group.
"What the?! Baby?! Where do you get that kind of idea through your head?!" she asked, noticing that there were some students all looking her way. "Great, two days in this place and now everyone's going to think that I'm messed up or something!"
"Can I see it?!"
"Hatsume! What have I told you about using your quirk on people like that?!" the teacher said, trying to represent his student.
"H-Her quirk?" Kamala tried to say, while still in shock.
The girl, who they now at least knew was named Hatsume, decided to answer by pointing at her eyes.
Hatsume Mei - Quirk: Zoom!
By focusing on a spot of her choosing, she's capable of seeing up to 5 kilometers. She's basically a walking telescope!
"It's called zoom and it's perfect for spotting potential clients!" the girls explained. "Now, mayIseeyourbaby?!"
"There is no baby on this table! Stop saying baby!" Annie exclaimed, noticing then that Robbie, instead of being flustered or embarrassed like the others, was just one level away from bursting into laughter. "What's so funny?!"
"What do you think?" he answered in-between laughter.
"Grrr!"
"It's not what you kids think. That's just her way of saying inventions." the teacher tried to assure them.
"What kind of weirdo refers to their inventions as their 'babies'?" Shinso asked.
"The best kind. The brilliant ones that change the world!"
"I'm really sorry, but she gets pretty excited with inventions and projects."
"Projects?" Annie asked, turning to her notebook and then noticing how the pink-haired girl was also looking at it.
"Hatsume, don't look at other people's notes without asking permission!" he told his student, but even he caught a glimpse at the notes and was also impressed. "I'll be damned, that is one interesting gizmo you're planning to make."
"Right?!" she said, taking a seat next to her on the table and looking at the diagrams on Annie's notebook. "Cartridges that collect the moisture of the environment? An analog shooting mechanism capable of shooting with strengths similar to high-end compressed air equipment?! A structure made out of type-2 aluminized steel?!"
"Hup, hup, hup!" Annie exclaimed, taking the book away from the girl next to her. "First off, boundaries. And second of all, I'm still looking for other materials to make these things out of, that's just one possibility. Also working on the shooting mechanism and making sure it doesn't jam or anything."
"And what does it shoot?!"
"Well, it's a… wait a minute, why am I telling you any of this? I don't even know the first letter of your name?!"
"Hatsume Mei, at your service! Engineering aficionado and future leading inventor of support items for heroes all around the world!"
"And in case you wish to know, I'm Power Loader. I'm in charge of U.A's Support department and all of it's students." the pro informed the rest of the kids. "I can tell that most of you are from the hero course. Say, it's not that common to see a hero course student, or even pro-heroes, planning on creating their own gear. I can tell that you have potential to shine in the support equipment business."
"W-Well, I kind of got it from my dad."
"Is that so?" he asked the girl. "Well, if for some reason you are in need of help or counsel, my doors are open for you."
"Appreciated, but this is kind of a personal problem that I want to do by myself." Annie told the teacher. Noticing that Mei was still looking at her. "Umm… I'm Anna-May-"
"So what does it shoot?!" she asked, not really caring that much about names. "Let me guess, pebbles? Maybe needle-like projectiles? Some sort of capsules?!"
"Man, you're a talkative one, aren't you?" Shinso said.
This gave Power Loader an idea. He could already see that Hatsume was a smart girl. Perhaps, she could be one of the smartest students of the Support department. Someone with a bright future ahead of her… unfortunately, she seemed to know it. Not like she was some arrogant child that saw herself above all others, but because of the fact that she was aware of her potential, she would probably spend all her time in polishing her skills to fulfill said potential.
So far, he could see that she would be some sort of reckless loner if nothing is made, something that he didn't want to happen. In just two days, she has shown that no one in her class could keep up with either her creativity… or her crazy personality. And yet, this hero course girl had just caught her attention. Maybe this could be some sort of blessing.
"Well Hatsume, it seems that you seem interested in her project, don't you?"
"Do you know that she's working on trying to make a synthetic silk that's supposed to be stronger than a steel cable and is meant to come out of that thing?" Robbie said, gaining the girl's interest and making Annie question their friendship.
"Reyes, what are you doing? That was supposed to be a secret project of mine." she whispered to him.
"Hey, you're smart, she's smart, I thought that it could be beneficial." he said, having quite the fun at seeing Annie being annoyed by the other girl.
"A synthetic silk that comes out of your baby? Would the silk be in some sort of liquid form or something? Is that why the cartridges absorb the moisture of the environment?!"
"What did I say about the word baby?!"
"Well then, if it's no problem for you Hatsume, I'll be heading out. Is that ok with you?"
"Yeah, yeah! Take your time!" she said, without turning to see him.
"Ok then." the pro-hero said, turning to the other kids. "Will it be ok for her to sit here with you?" he asked, making most of them to look at each other.
"Sure, the more the merrier." Robbie said, without even consulting the others.
"Great! I'll be seeing you kids later." he said as he waved them goodbye.
"What was that?" Hitoshi asked Robbie.
"Hey, we're all good guys. Aren't good guys supposed to do these kinds of things, anyway?" he said, although it was mainly because of how the girl kept on embarrassing Annie.
"Reyes, I swear to god, I'll use you as a test dummy after I finish building them!" she threatened, which Robbie didn't take serious.
"Oh, have you thought of adding thermite to the synthetic silk? That way, you could maybe make high-explosive projectiles!" Hatsume said.
Ok, maybe he should take it a little serious.
"Great, just what we needed. Another know it all, that'll make us look dumb." Kamala complained.
Meanwhile, from the other side of the hall, the students of both class 1-A and 1-B were looking at the Americans. They were too far away to hear, but they still wondered what they would be talking about.
Lunch had already come and gone, some of the classmates of the Americans of classes 1-A and 1-B asked them why they didn't sit with them. Monoma of class B said that the obvious reason was that they were using their connections to class 1-A to gain information on their weaknesses so that they could exploit them.
So naturally, they all decided to ignore him.
Although, one thing that Annie learned to avoid for the time being is that she would have to keep her father's web -shooter away from Mei. She didn't want to risk her trying to do something to it. Once it was the afternoon, those of the hero class finally had the class that they have been waiting for all day long. Heroics classes.
"Wonder who's teaching this one?" Annie asked Valerie.
That's when the arachnid girl could have sworn that she heard someone rushing to their classroom direction. Then, whoever it was, stopped once he or she was in front of the room. Finally, a booming voice finally announced his presence.
"I AM…" they heard, with most, if not nearly everyone recognizing who that voice belonged to. "COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON WOULD!" All Might said, coming through the door, not like a normal person would.
"Wow, it's All Might!"
"Wow, he really is a teacher!"
"That's a costume from his Silver Age days, isn't it?"
Many of the students all stared at their teacher in awe. Inspired by his mere presence and his retro suit. It was definitely something that a hero would use all right. The upper part being primarily red with some white lines and details and his forearm sleeves being of a golden color with spiked fins on the sides. The lower part was primarily blue with white accents on the sides and a pair of yellow boots. He also had a really noticeable big yellow belt with the middle being a metallic gray with small yellow and red accents. Lastly, he had one blue cape that was attached to the suit with the help of two squared shoulder pieces on each side.
Even Valeire couldn't help but to look in awe at the pro-hero in front of them. "I-It really is All Might!" she thought.
Unfortunately, Annie was not in the same boat.
"Oh shoot, it's All Might." Annie thought, hoping for the buff hero to not look in her direction. She didn't want to have attention drawn to her because of the fact that her father decked All Might in the face.
"Hello children, I will be in charge of Hero basic training. A subject where you will be training in different ways the basics of being a hero." the Symbol of Peace started to explain as everyone started to pay attention. "You'll take the most units of this subject!"
"A-Annie, can you believe it? We're being taught by Japan's number one hero!" Valerie whispered to her friend in english.
"He, he… Y-Yeah, so cool." Annie replied, not with the same excitement that her friend had. "Please don't look at me, please don't look at me, please don't look at me, please don't look at me."
"Now then, let's get right to it! Today's exercise will be…" he was starting to say, as he pulled some kind of card with the word 'BATTLE' in it. "Combat training!"
"Combat training?" Parker and Van Dyne thought.
"And of course, to do so you'll need… this!" All Might said, pointing at the wall of the room, where what looked like squared lockers or something came. All of which with a designated number. "Costumes made based on your Quirk registrations and request sent in before school started." he told the class, making everyone excited.
Something that Annie and Valerie shared as well, with Annie looking at her bag and Valerie looking at the small suitcase next to her bag. Even Midoriya also held his bag tight to him.
"After you change, gather all to Ground Beta!"
"Yes sir!" they all replied, soon heading to their changing rooms.
Once there all the kids eagerly put on their own costumes. With the exception of Annie and Valerie. Valerie was too shy to change with the rest of the girls in front of them, but also not wanting to be alone, so Annie decided to wait for her once everyone was done so that she would go in and change as well.
"Nice business suit you have there." Annie joked, pointing at the metallic suitcase in the girl's hands.
"N-Nadia thought that it would b-be better to have it here." she answered, opening the case, using a weird key that she had with her. Something that Annie couldn't help but notice. "... Jarvis wanted to make sure it didn't open by accident." she explained when she saw the redhead looking at the key.
"No problemo, back in middle school, my bag would open at random times. I lost sooo many pencils back then." she joked, opening her bag and looking at her costume and remembering something that happened just a few days ago.
"Annie, could you come down please?" Annie heard her mother calling out for her.
"Sure, I'll be there!" she replied, getting up from her work table and downto the living room.
It was only two days before the first day of school. Annie had just finished buying everything that she needed for school around a week ago. At the moment, she was working on trying to come up with another way to design her web-shooters, but got stucked and couldn't think of anything. So maybe she needed a little break or something. Once she was down, she saw both her mother and sister on the couch with a wrapped box with them.
"Hi guys, what's that?" she asked, pointing at the box.
"Oh you know, stuff." her sister replied.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means that it's something that-"
"Mom read that made up comic you drew when you were eleven." Mayday said, causing her sister to go red.
"What?!"
"Mayday."
"What, you guys did!"
"Guys? Wait, that means dad saw it too?!"
"He sure did." Mayday said, chuckling at her sisters 'I want to die' look.
"... Hey, anyone up for Teriyaki? I think there's a place not that far from here. I'll go get my jacket!" Annie said, trying to escape whatever was going on, with no avail.
"Anna-May." their mother called, making Annie turn and seeing her signaling for her to sit next to them.
Annie did as she was told, as she sat in between both of the older women. "... So… nice weather, right?"
"Annie, remember the first time that Regent appeared?" her mother asked.
Annie's mood went down when she heard that name. The man tried to take away her father, threatened to use her as some sort of super battery when he had gotten his hands on her and is the sole reason as to why she can't be with her father at the moment. Because the power-hungry madman caused a massive super villain strike against all of the heroes of the U.S and who was responsible for outing her father as Spider-Man. What's worse, two months later, a lot of things started to go south as an aftermath of his attack. Solidifying her dad's reasoning for them to leave the country while he stayed back, helping with cleaning the mess that Regent caused.
Mayday took notice of Annie's distaste for the high-tech villain and decided to snap her back to reality by making a joke "Well, I sure remember that gody costume that you pulled out. A purple cape and goggles? Really?" she said, making Annie frown.
"Cut me some slack, I was just ten at the time. Plus it was the only thing that the Powers and I could find." she stated.
"Regardless of it, after the whole deal was over and your sister and I started to help your dad, we took notice that you wanted to do the same. The purple cape was just the beginning whether we wanted it or not. And I'll be honest, that suit that you drew in that comic wasn't that bad." she said, handing Annie the box in her hands.
"Although that giant helmet was probably too much." she said, making Annie frown again. "Hey, instead of making funny faces, why don't you see what's in the box?"
The young Parker girl did and when she opened it, she was rather stunned. Her eyes wide as a plate and her mouth opened all the way down.
"You dad and I decided to make an updated version of it around Christmas. Thought that maybe you would find it useful at U.A." Mj said, putting her hand on her second daughter's shoulder. "So, do you-" but she couldn't even finish her sentence, for Annie jumped to her mother and hugged her.
"I love it!" she said, smiling and her eyes a little watery.
Mj simply chuckled and hugged her in return.
"They say that the clothes make the man, young men and ladies… Be fully aware, from now on, you're heroes!" All Might said, as most of the students all showed up, fully clothed in their hero suits.
To say that they were all a colorful bunch would be accurate. From simple spandex and jumpsuits, to a couple of jackets to even some pieces of armor reminiscent of knights of yore. Class 1-A was certainly something else.
"Look at you all. Everyone sure does look the part!" All Might complimented.
A few seconds later Izuku himself came by wearing a green jumpsuit and he even started to talk with Uraraka, who had a somewhat tight one piece suit that was black and white with small pink accents and a headpiece with a pink glass. And a couple of seconds afterwards, Annie and Valerie came to the scene as well.
Annie's hero suit was a variation of the now iconic spider-look that her father started so many years ago, of course with her own take in mind, updated by her parents. For starters, the color scheme was of a celestial blue as the main color and black on everything else. The upper part of the costume was like a combination of the costume worn by her sister and the pattern of her father, with the exception that, aside from not wearing a mask like them, the back of her costume was completely plain black. The web pattern and the spider insignia were stylish after her father's design. She had both a pair of red wristbands and her hands had the exact same web pattern look that her costume had, with the exception of the fingers, which were black. She also had two red accents in both her ankles and the soles of her shoe.
Lastly, she wore a red domino-style mask.
Valerie on the other hand had a yellow color scheme suit. She had both black gloves and boots that reached up till her knee. Had a black belt with a 'V' insignia in the middle. In the upper part of her suit, she had a black triangle-like shape that went downwards until ending near her chest and a pair of black shoulder-pieces. Lastly, she didn't wear a mask or anything like that, but she did have a red scarf around her neck and shaped in a triangular form.
"Oh, h-hi Parker-san, V-Vector-san!" Izuku called the two.
"Izuku, is that you?" Annie asked.
"Y-Yeah, it's me."
"Man, I hardly recognized you. Also, seriously, you can call me Annie, I don't mind."
"Hey, nice hero costumes! They totally rock!" Uraraka complemented.
"Y-Yeah, w-what company did you go with?" Izuku asked, especially because he was fully aware of who Annie's costume was modeled after and he couldn't think of a company in Japan willing to do that.
"Oh, a company?" Annie asked, as she saw Valerie grow a little nervous
Something that made sense, since she told her that Janet helped her make it and she really didn't want to share that just yet. As for her, it was somewhat similar, with her trying to think of something to say. But when she saw herself in full costume through the reflection of a window nearby, she couldn't help but to smile.
"Well, I didn't have any company make it… It… it's a gift from my parents." she said, smiling and blushing just a little bit.
Hearing that certainly surprised them, not expecting that kind of answer. Even Valerie was a little surprised, but smiled at knowing that her friend's parents did that for her. Then, she saw her own costume and finally answered.
"M-My… my mom h-helped me make mine." Valerie said, taken back by what she said, but after repeating it in her head, smiling with happiness. "M-My mom… t-that… that sounds nice."
Izuku himself was a little surprised with that kind of answer from the two girls. He couldn't help but to remember back when his own mother gave him his own hero costume and apologized for not believing in him when he needed it the most. He couldn't help but to feel nice when he thought about it.
"Well, it looks good." he complimented the Americans.
"Thanks, you two do as well. Pretty creative too. I would have never guessed that you would go for a green bunny look, but you actually pull it off." Annie said, taking Izuku by surprise.
"Green bu-, no, no, no I-I wasn't… well…" Izuku tried to say, yet staggered like crazy.
"Mmm, you… you mean it's not supposed to be a bunny?" Annie asked.
And as the two kept on talking, All Might couldn't help but to look at the young Parker. From her costume most certainly being something spider-themed and her appearance and bits of her personality. "Hehe, she's no doubt your kid." he thought, noticing her similarities to Peter and Mary Jane.
Meanwhile on another part of campus, class 1-B also got started on their own heroics class. Them being given by the hero Snipe. He told the same to Robbie's and Kamala's class and then had them heading for Ground Omega, which was a large forested-area that was surrounded by a green wall. He specifically took the kids to the observation tower where all stood in costumes as well.
There were a lot of pretty creative costumes there. From Kendo's, which looked like something a martial artist would wear, Ibara's robe-like clothes, even Monoma's was interesting… if a little questionable. It resembles something that one would see in a gala, instead of what a hero would wear.
Of course, Kamala and Robbie were no exception… well, one of them anyway.
Kamala's was primarily a blue top that reached to below her waist. She also had red pants and probably a red long sleeved shirt underneath as well with blue boots. In the front, she bared a symbol reminiscent of a large bolt of lightning and she had a pair of large golden bracelets that were actually hollowed to hold things for her. Not like he needed that much help, since her grandma used them to smuggle money out of Bombay back in the day. Lastly, she wore a blue domino mask that allowed her eyes to be visible to others as well as a large red scarf that reached past her knees.
… on the other hand, Robbie only had a black jacket with three white lines that formed a rectangle.
"I still fail to see how's that supposed to pass as a hero costume." Kamala said.
"You damn well know that it doesn't apply to me when I use my powers. Besides, both Tsuburaba and Kaibara also have jackets. And Shishida's not even wearing a shirt!"
"Well, I'm a hairy guy. What exactly am I supposed to wear?"
"How about a vest… or a jacket." Robbie asked.
"A jacket, really?" the hairy teenager asked.
"Well, jackets are pretty nice, right Kaibara?" Kosei asked.
"... He does have a point."
"Look at you. You're like the jacket squad or something!" Tokage quiped, who was wearing a purple bodysuit that had a scaly look.
"Alright students, here's how the exercise's going to work." Snipe said, making everyone turn to the holo-screen in front of them. "Now, we pro-heros are known for many things, obviously most notably being fighting crime. And one of the best examples of crimes that you'll run into once you all graduate will be theft." he said, as a couple of images popped on screen to illustrate his point. "From small things like purse-snatchers, to more serious ones that steal millions upon millions. As well as those who stole dangerous materials, data, among other things. You could say that the oldest game that heroes and villains are known for is that of the cat chasing the mouse."
"So we're going to chase those robots from the entrance exam?" asked Tetsutetsu.
"No, they wouldn't work for this trial. Instead, you'll all be paired with another one of your classmates. Half will be doing the role of heroes, while the other half plays villains." Snipe told the class, pulling out a memory drive with the school's logo in it. "There are five of these that'll be handed to the villains of this exercise. The backdrop of the trial will be that a group of villains have just stolen vital information that lies within these drives. A pair of heroes have just been tasked with chasing after them. The exercise will last for ten minutes and in those ten minutes the heroes will either have to capture the villains or grab a hold of the drive. Meanwhile the villains will either have to beat the heroes or get to an extraction point that will be exclusive to each villain team, understood?"
"Sounds kind of complicated." Shoda said.
"And there's one last catch that will make it even more complicated." said the teacher. "The villain team can not be near the extraction point for the first seven minutes. Afterwhich, you will only have the last remaining three minutes to reach your destination."
"But why's that?" Pony asked, not understanding why put such a handicap.
"These kinds of heists are not as simple as just taking something and leave. Even the average hit and run on banks have some semblance of planning. Being too early means that they risk the possibility of giving away their intentions and puts their partners all in jeopardy. Being too late and they'll be left behind."
"Oh I see. It makes sense." said Kinoko Komori, who was dressed like a red mushroom.
"Yes. One last thing, if time runs out and neither team has any of the requirements that I mentioned for them to win, then it'll be a tie." their teacher told the class. "In the case of the villains, it's pretty self-explanatory. You couldn't make it to the extraction point at the agreed time. As for the heroes, it means that you failed to apprehend the criminals in time and thus now require back up that shouldn't have been asked in the first place."
"Man, this exercise is harder than I thought." Awase said.
"No kidding." Honenuki agreed.
"Well then, I'll be assigning the teams now. Are there any questions?" asked the teacher, with Robbie raising his hand. "Yes Reyes?"
"You said that there are five drives, but there's twenty two of us in total. If we're to be paired, then that means that there should be eleven teams. Meaning that there'll be a team that won't be doing anything."
"Excellent observation, Reyes. Indeed, this exercise is designed with twenty students in mind, but don't worry. The last team will be doing something else." Snipe told Robbie.
"How did you notice that?" Kamala asked Robbie.
"By paying attention."
"What do you think that the remaining team will be doing?" Kendo asked, approaching the two Americans.
"Beats me, as long as it's not just taking notes or some other crap, I'm okay with it." the boy of the black jacket asked.
"I wonder if class A is doing something like this." Sen asked.
"Probably, although it's most likely not the exact same exercise." Yanagi said.
"Bha! Their exercise is probably a waterdowned version of ours." Kamakiri commented, with Monoma agreeing with him.
"Why yes indeed! Besides, they're probably thinking too highly of themselves! With how they didn't dare to even show their faces during orientation!"
"... We really need to get you two a hobby." Robbie said as Kendo nodded, agreeing with him.
"Besides, we told you all why they didn't make it to orientation during homeroom." Kamala said.
"Hey Kaibara, why the sudden interest in class A?" Fukidashi asked, with a question mark appearing in his speech bubble.
"... Reasons." he replied.
"He was totally looking at that blue girl from class A during lunch period." Tokage whispered to Kodai, who nodded as she too noticed how obvious it was.
Still, they couldn't help but to ask the same question. More specifically, Kamala and Robbie. And while they were being paired by professor Snipe and sent to do the exercise, All Might did the same on his end (although not as professionally made as the marksman). It didn't take that long for him to send the first team, which was composed of Izuku and Ochako as the hero team vs Tenya and Katsuki posing as the villains.
At first, things were somewhat looking ok enough, but then Katsuki, in a fit of rage, pulled the pin out of one of his oversized gauntlets. One thing about his costume and his quirk is that he made sure that they were compatible. Bakugo's sweat was similar to nitroglycerin, which allows him to create his explosions. And the gauntlets that he had (which were shaped in a way that resembles grenades) actually stored all of that sweat. That way, it could, in theory, be used as some sort of finishing move with overwhelming destructive power. The kind that could potentially kill Izuku had the blast actually hit him.
"That guy's going way overboard!" Annie cried out as she saw the battle kept on going and Katsuki fighting with almost malicious intent.
"I-I think you should stop the fight sir." Valerie told All Might, who was definitely tempted to do so, but…
"Not yet… Things still need to be played out." he thought as another explosion caused everyone to turn their attention to the monitor.
They all saw going out of his way to slam a Midoriya that by the looks of things was just barely standing up.
"He can just capture him for the exercise by just wrapping the tape around him!" cried one other student.
"Yes, those are not the actions of a hero." said Tokoyami, a kid whose head resembled a black bird.
"I thought that Midoriya was amazing but… In terms of power, Bakugo is no doubt superior in every way." Denki commented.
"Then why not just finish things already? He's just dragging things out by now for no other reason than to hurt Izuku!" Annie complained.
But to their dismay, the battle kept on its course. Soon enough, Izuku was already badly beaten, with his costume already in shreds in certain parts. Then, after it seemed that Midoriya was trying to get away, he stood back up and face Bakugo once more."
"W-What's he doing? He should t-try to make a run for it, right?" Valerie asked.
"Yeah, I mean I probably would if I was in his shoes." Denki said, but Annie noticed something.
"Wait a minute…" she muttered, getting the attention of a few that heard her. "If I'm not wrong… then-" but before she could conclude her train of thought, they all saw Midoriya and Bakugo charging at one another.
Midoriya raised his arm and summoned the power of his quir, which started to shred his costume even more. Meanwhile, Katsuki caused a couple of small explosions in his palm, before he started to heat it up. In no time, they would be right in the other's face and they all knew that that wouldn't end well.
"Sir, things are not looking good!" Kirishima told All Might, who was already looking like he was indeed about to call the match off.
"Both of you st-" but he couldn't finish.
They all noticed how Izuku told Uraraka something and she then hugged the pillar next to her. "No way, is he actually thinking of…"
And then to their surprise, Izuku did not counter the attack, nor did he move out of the way. Instead, he took the ash-blonde's attack as he gave an uppercut away from his opponent. Just like Annie was thinking, his plan was to cause an enormous amount of power to create enough of a commotion to allow Uraraka to do something in the upper levels of the building. She knew that he could pull it off, using the ball throw as a starting point, she made a quick calculation to estimate the power that he would output in an actua punch. And the results were around the same as what she was seeing. He generated a burst of compressed air with enough power that went past the ceiling of the building and kept on going for a couple of more seconds.
Next thing they knew, Uraraka managed to secure the weapon and Midoriya, looking worse than he did early, was barely standing up. And then, with burns on his left arm and a broken right arm, he finally fell out. And as he was hitting the ground, with the entirety of the other classmates still in shock, All Might finally spoke again.
"The… the hero team… wins!"
Quick review replies!
ImNotaWeeb64101: Thanks for hoping that, glad to see people enjoy this
Aztec 13: The Ereaser power thing is given an explanation here. I'll elaborate more on the future if possible, but at the moment that's how it'l work in this story.
Kokomo: Yeah, let's face it. All the Hero Academia villains combine would barely go as canonfoder against some of Marvel or DC's actual threats. And not even the big guns like Galactus and Starro. I'm pretty sure that some of the villains from the comics would make them beat themselves without the need of lifting a finger. With a couple of exceptions of course.
OK KO: You mean to ask if I'm going to mention the school of one the best books that Marvel has put out in recent times? Course I am! I've been reading that since day one, even bought the First Generation volume just a week ago when I saw it. Hell, I'm even planing a story involving "%"$#$ and # #$, so yeah there's that.
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