"Wow, looks like this place got wrecked." noted Kirishima, looking at the deserted city in ruins before him and Bakugo.
"You idiot! Of course it does, that's the fucking point of this place!" Bakugo yelled at the other boy.
"I know that, but like… it looks like some big fight happened here…"
"It looks the same as any other crappy corner of this place! If you insist on getting in my way, the least you could do is be of use and start looking for a fucking way out of this shithole!"
"You really think the exit is here?"
"It better fucking be! Now hurry up already! The sooner I get out, the sooner that wrap bastard gets to die!" Bakugo barked as he started to walk away.
The two teens had already walked across the city in ruins, hoping to find some sort of exit. At the moment, the two had arrived at a particular section of the faux city that looked to be in a rougher state compared to where the two originally came from… or at least, that's what Kirishima thought. Bakugo though, the only thing that he saw, was yet another crappy street. He was starting to get annoyed… really, really annoyed. It feels like they have been walking forever and had yet to find anything that wasn't a complete wreckage.
Kirishima was about to follow Bakugo, but stopped for a moment. He turned around believing that he heard something. It was like the sound of rocks moving or something like that. However, there was nothing in sight. Only the empty wrecked ity and big pile of ruble. The boy of hardening quirk found that a little odd, but he quickly shook his head, believing that maybe it was his imagination.
"Man, my mind sure likes to mess with me when I'm in a stressful situation."
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING STANDING THERE LIKE A BRAINDEAD IDIOT?! EITHER GET A MOVE IN OR DROP DEAD!" yelled Bakugo, who was already more than halfway across the street by now.
"I'm moving. Yeesh, you sure are impatient today."
"JUST SHUT UP AND START MOVING!"
And so, the two kept walking further and further until they were no longer in line of sight. However, perhaps Kirishima was not completely in the wrong. For that very same pile of rubble had some bits falling off. And when it happened, it revealed a faint magenta light coming from within the pile.
As for another part of , Eraser Head was still doing battle against the multiple villains that stood against him. Luckily for him, more than a decent amount of villains had been defeated. Either at his hand, or in a few cases, been the victim of some friendly fire. However, he himself was also tiring by the minute. And what's worse, was that he had yet to take down either of the villains that he assumed were the biggest threat.
The pale guy had yet to move, seemingly analysing the situation to try and find the best opportunity to strike. That's what he would do if he were in his shoes. It didn't seem like the big guy was about to do anything just yet. Aizawa himself was very wary of that one. Not because he knew what he could do, but rather because of the opposite in fact. That factor was simply impossible to ignore. The guy that could teleport was out of reach, threatening all of the students that hadn't been teleported away. Thankfully, Thirteen was there to protect them, but being a hero that specializes in rescue rather than combat, there was only so much that she could do on her own. He had to finish this fast, but that's where the final big villain was causing him so much problems.
The electric blonde had no quirk, which meant that he couldn't suppress his powers. He had no issue in accidentally hitting some of his allies so long as he could hit his opponent. Aizawa believed that if it were a one on one, he could probably beat the American, but fighting him after taking on so many opponents already… he was having some doubts.
However, he had to cut his train of thought short when he was forced to dodge a bolt of electricity from the American villain. Luckily for him, he was able to avoid the blast by jumping away. However, the force of the explosion did manage to knock him down. One of the larger villains saw this as his opportunity and literally ripped a chunk of the ground with his hands. He was about to smash it into the pro-hero, but he stopped when he suddenly felt that the piece of ground had suddenly grown a bit heavy. Not by much, but he definitely felt the sudden change. As if something had landed on top of it. When everyone turned to see what was on top of it, it turned out to be a certain redheaded student that, despite looking as if she had just got out of a tough fight, had a juvenile careless look on her face.
"Hey." she said, as the criminal looked rather confused.
"Wha- GHA!" exclaimed the villain, but before he could finish, the student shot something out of her wrist at his eyes.
The girl quickly jumped out of the chunk of ground, who let go of it to try and remove the weird substance out of his eyes. He obviously did this out of instinct because no one in their right mind would do that while holding something over their head. The reason? Because gravity will do its thing and make the object fall to the ground, or in this case, on top of the head of the criminal. Who despite looking rather tough, ended up unconscious in no time at all.
"Would you look at that! Miles' dumb trick is good for something after all!" she thought to herself as she landed next to Aizawa.
"Parker?" he asked.
"Hi teach! Do I get extra credit for making him knock himself?" Annie asked jokingly.
"Spider-Man's child is still alive?" the American villain asked.
Such question naturally attracted the attention of those on the side of justice. The students that were still at the entrance suddenly looked a little more relieved, as well as Thirteen. After overhearing how one of the villains came to U.A to gun for her specifically… let's just say that they were worried for their classmate's wellbeing. Not surprising, after all who in their right mind could ever consider that someone, anyone would ever attempt to end the life of a fellow classmate of yours? None of them may have known the American that much, she was rather reserved for some reason. But what they have learned about her is that she's rather straightforward and a little hotheaded from time to time. Yet, she was also someone rather caring and kind.
So the question was; why would someone go out of their way to kill her?
Meanwhile, the redhead had a different reaction towards the villain. And that was the same kind of reaction that someone would have after being asked the same question over and over again.
"Oh, great. Another weirdo that probably has beef with my dad. Let me guess; you want him dead because he bought the last bottle of your favorite shampoo that one time or something?" she asked in a dry manner.
"I see that Joey couldn't kill you. Well, I guess slaying you myself is something that I could enjoy either way."
"So that's crazy lady's name, huh?" asked the girl. "By the way, do you have a name or something?"
"He's Supercharger. He was the very first villain that your father fought back when he was your age." Aizawa informed him.
"Wait, really?! That guy is supposed to be one of my dad's roughs..? Boy, does he look goofier than the others for some reason." she said.
However, Supercharger quickly shot a bolt of electricity specifically aimed at her. If it had been any other person, it might have hit. But Annie was a spider. She was able to sense the attack before he even fired it. So, she quickly leaped away from where she was and landed a couple of meters from her original spot.
"Oh, so that's why his name's Supercharger!" she lightheartedly said. "Hey, any relation with Max Dillon? Because being the electric baddie that wants my dad death was kind of his whole deal." she asked, as she had to dodge another blast.
"Why does everyone insist on comparing me to that dead buffoon?!" he asked, shooting another blast that ended up being avoided yet again. "I debuted way before he did!"
He was about to shoot another blast, but before he could charge the energy to do so, Aizawa appeared to his side. Before he could do anything, Supercharger took a direct hit from the pro-hero that pushed him back a couple meters away.
"Hey, nice one teach! You probably saved my bacon back there!" Annie said, complementing her teacher.
"Parker, go somewhere safe, now." said the teacher, much to the girl's confusion.
"Wait, you kidding?"
"I'm serious. This is too dangerous for a student. Get to safety, that's an order." he told the girl, only to keep attacking Supercharger while he was still recovering from the surprise attack.
In all honesty, some help would probably come in handy to him now. But he didn't want that help to come from one of his students. It was his job to protect them, not the other way around. And even if Parker may be among the top students of the class, she was in no condition to help. She had a couple of scratches in her face, some of the fabric of her suit got torn in the arms and even if it was hard to notice, he saw that the girl was being extra careful with her right shoulder while jumping around. She probably got hurt while dealing with whatever foe was sent on her way. But while he was keeping Supercharger on the defensive for a change, one of the other villais attempted to strike at him while distracted. However, before he could do it, the arachnid teenager shot a thread at his torso and pulled him towards her. Knocking him out with a very solid left hook.
"I thought I told you to go somewhere safe!" Aizawa told her, while kicking Supercharger in the gut.
"You did? Gee, and here I am thinking that you told me to punch these jerks in the face." she joked.
"Parker, I'm being serious!" he told her as she avoided an attack from behind, while elbowing her attacker.
"You see, the thing is that I would like to graduate hero school with nice grades and having a dead teacher probably wouldn't look good in my report card, would it?" she semi-joked, dodging more attacks coming her way and retaliating with quick and fast strikes.
As she kept multiple enemies at bay, the pale man tried to sneak behind her. Of course, he ended up failing as she was easily able to predict it, but even then, something happened. Her spider-sense rang intensively, telling her to stay away from him. No… it was a little more specific actually. It was almost as if telling her to avoid being touched by that guy at all cost. She quickly leaped several meters away from the pale man, kicking another would-be attacker before she landed.
"Hey, teach! Just want to point out that pale man over there made my spider-sense ring louder than Katsuki's yelling. I think it would be best to not let him near us." she told her teacher, who managed to punch Supercharger away from him once more.
"Noted." he said, as Supercharger, somewhat dazed, glared at the pale criminal.
"Huh… so that's the daughter of the greatest vigilante the world has ever seen… Outside of you cheating with whatever allowed you to avoid me, you're not that impressive…" the pale villain said.
"Spider-Man's child is mine to slay! Do that again and I'll turn you into ashes!" Supercharger warned.
"Those two are obviously at odds with one another. That could be used to our advantage if we play our cards well." Aizawa thought, analyzing what he could from the two of them, while also taking into consideration what the redhead told him.
"Untrue… the one that chose her as her opponent was that other dumb American… and she failed to kill her for whatever dumb reason. You wanted to do other stuff… so now, I get to do things my way." the man said, while turning to stare at the girl. "And who knows… maybe we can grab some bonus points by offing the kid of the oh so legendary Spider-Man as well as All Might… yeah… I want to do that…" he said, menacingly.
However the girl did not react the way he wanted. As a matter of fact, she did not react the way most would think one would in her situation. No, instead of being nervous, instead of being scared… she started to chuckle. Which soon became laughter.
"BWAHAHAHHA! I can't even… BWAHAHAHA!" she laughed, irritating the villain, as well as her teacher.
"Parker!" he barked as he kept on laughing.
"I'm so-haha, I'm sorry! It's just… It's just that I didn't get a good l-looked at him before! But now that I do, oh my god does he look ridiculous!" she said, laughing even more at the villain. "Seriously, I thought Batteryman over there looked dumb as it is, but this guy's by far the goofiest guy that I have ever met!"
As Parker kept on laughing, making remarks at the amount of hands that covered the would-be villain in front of her, the man started to growl. He did not come here to be laughed at by some foreigner, he came here because he wanted to kill All Might. And speaking of foreigners, he was starting to really hate them. They acted like they were so much better than him, like he was just some… some kid! And now, this damn brat was laughing at him too?! He was tired of it. He deserved respect, damn it! And one way or another, he was sure to get it.
"Nomu…" he said, as the big, hulking beast turned to the man. "Squash the bug." he told him as the girl kept laughing.
"Hey, stop me if you heard this one before-" Annie was saying, however out of nowhere something happened.
In less time that it took a fly to flap its wings once, the large behemoth was suddenly behind Annie, despite the fact that beforehand, it was many, many meters away from the kid. Everyone, from pro-heroes, to villains, to students were all wide-eyed at such feat of speed. As for Annie, she was no longer smiling, her head buzzing with the kind of intensity that she had only experienced two, maybe three times in her life.
And in all of them, her life was in the greatest of perils.
"PAR-" Aizawa tried to call, but before he could finish his sentence, the massive beast brought its massive fist down.
A loud BOOM was heard. One that sounded as if a skyscraper had suddenly collapsed into the ground. A screen of smoke was raised due to the force of the blow. And amidst all of that, the teachers of U.A, as well as the rest of their students were all without words. Their eyes as wide as possible and with dread crawling all over their body.
"Where is that stupid dummy!" Kamakiri yelled out loud.
"How about instead of yelling, you try and actually start looking for it?" Kaibara told his classmate.
"Perhaps if we are to become patient, the lord will guide us in the correct path for that which we're looking for."
"What does that even mean Shiozaki?"
"We don't need any of that! Our combined manlinest should be more than enough to get us through anything in front of us!"
"What does that even mean, Tetsutetsu?!"
At the moment, class B were currently back in ground Omega, doing a heroic class exercise. It was a fairly simple one, actually. The scenario that they had received was that they were a four-man team of heroes looking for a lost person in the woods. The lost person was a dummy that was hidden among the forested area of ground Omega. Snipe had been divided into five different teams, two of which were made of five individuals instead of four. Right now, it was still the turn of the first team, which was formed by Tetsutetsu, Kaibara, Shiozaki and Kamakiri. And let's just say that… they weren't doing that great of a job so far.
"I'm going to shred that stupid dummy the moment that I get my hands on it!"
"MAAAAN!"
"Oh lord, please guide us."
"Am I the only one with a functional brain in this team?!" asked Kaibara, wanting to smash his head into a rock.
Back in the observation tower, their classmates couldn't help but to feel for poor Sen.
"Well, I'm glad I'm not in that team!" Tokage joked.
"I don't want to insinuate anything… but if things keep up like that, the next team will be tasked with finding them instead of the dummy." said Hiryu.
"Honestly, I can see what you mean." Kamala said, as the entire class nodded with her.
"Alright kids, time's almost up. You better hurry, understand?" asked Snipes through the speakers that were placed around the forest.
"Yes si- what the heck are you doing?!"
"It'll be easier to look for that stupid dummy if the trees aren't blocking our view!"
"That's a manly idea! We should have done that ages ago!"
"No, that's not a good idea! That's in fact a stup- stop cutting down trees!"
"MAAAAAAN!"
"Shiozaki! Stop rambling about lambs and help me stop those lunatics from wrecking the entire forest!" Sen told his other teammate as Snipes sighed.
"Alright then, I'm going to head down there to pick them up once time runs out… hopefully there'll still be trees standing by the time that happens." the teacher said, before turning to the two class reps. "Kendo, Reyes, you two are in charge while I'm gone. Make sure nothing happens, ok?"
"Understood!"
"Sure."
"Alright then I'll be back in a bit." he said as he left the room.
Once he did, the class heard once more the argument that broke between Kaibara and the rest of his classmates. It was mainly him trying to stop them from doing something reckless… or more like he was trying to make sure Kamakiri didn't thought of something stupid, which would lead Tetsutetsu from following his example. At least Shiozaki was aiding the boy of spinning quirk by not causing as much trouble as the other two. That was something at least.
"Well, at least we get to know what not to do thanks to those goofballs." Robbie said.
"That and we also get some entertainment as well!" commented Tsuburaba, making a few of the other students chuckle a bit.
"I'm a little disappointed to be honest." Awase suddenly said, making everyone turn to him. "Don't get me wrong, ground Omega is cool and all… but that compound that Snipes-sensei mentioned sounded really cool."
"Yeah, I'm a little jealous of class A right now. Why do we have to wait till next Monday to go there?" Shoda asked.
"And that's without mentioning the fact that they have had All Might as their heroics teacher all week long. It's almost like they're favoriting class A over us." Yanagi said, a little disappointed… probably.
Her monotone voice made it a little hard to tell.
"Come on guys, don't say that." Kamala told the rest of her classmates. "Look, I'm sure that by next week, we'll get to learn from All Might all we want!"
"Easy for you to say. You and Reyes always hang out with those class A girls during lunchtime." Tokage mentioned. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we should hold it against them either, but I'm sure that they tell you all about how great it's to learn from him."
"Hh, yeah right. It's actually the opposite if anything else." Robbie joked, as everyone looked at him with surprise.
"What do you mean, Reyes?" asked Kendo.
"They don't talk much about having All Might as a teacher. And web for brains kind of implied that he wasn't that good at it." he told them, surprising even Kamala a little.
"Wait, really?!" they all asked.
"How come you never mentioned it?!" the inhuman asked.
"The hell are you talking about? We talked about that yesterday. Or did you spaced out?" he asked, making the girl chuckle a bit.
"I uh… look, Tetsutetsu fell into the river!" she said, obviously trying to change the subject.
"So, something happened yesterday, or something?"
"No, it was from Tuesday." he told the class. "Outside of the two of us, there was another kid from class A at the infirmary that day. And trust me, he was wrecked worse than the two of us."
"Oh great, bad enough that you looked like a failed isekai protagonist after your fight. Now you're telling us that someone got a shorter stick than you?" asked Rin.
"Man, it's hard to imagine All Might as being bad at something like teaching other heroes. Much less, someone talking bad about him." Kendo said.
"She didn't badmouth him, or anything. Just pointed out that it was obvious that he was fairly new to the teacher role."
"Still, the idea of someone even giving some shade to All Might like that is very unheard of." Shisida said.
"M-Maybe it's because of culture being different." said Pony in somewhat broken japanese.
In truth, she actually had an idea as to why. She was already aware that she was the daughter of the Spider-Man, but after the first day of class, Kamala and Robbie told her to try and keep quiet about that. Not hard to understand why. In the States, as well as other parts of the world, Spider-Man was one of the pillars of the hero world as a whole. He was an Avenger, a Defender, a Fantastic Four, among many other things. During the War of the Realms, he led a group of magic beings into freeing part of Africa from the forces of the Angels of the supposed tenth realm. Even more, he persuaded them into joining their cause. He and his team also took down some powerful enemy in Europe as well and that was before some video of him apparently being crowned as the king of some spider creatures went viral on the internet. Back when the Sinister Six held the world in ransome, he became the most wanted person in the world and despite that, he still ended up saving the world. Something that the other Avengers vouched for. And let's not forget everything that he has done for the city that never sleeps. Truth is, he is deserving of the recognition… unless Japan has anything to say on the matter.
Because of the clashes between the Symbol of Peace and the Friendly Neighborhood, the people of Japan didn't see the hero in the best of lights. That, combined with the fact that he started out as some juvenile vigilante didn't help either. It conflicted with their culture and they believed that he was sending the wrong message to their kids. Understandable if they ask her. It's hard to accept aspects of something different if said something clashes with your culture. It doesn't even matter if the change is good or bad, people will have a really hard time accepting, or even acknowledging it. And even if those rumors of the two of them hating each other were false (which she knew were false as a matter of fact), people will have a hard time accepting anything related to the arachnid hero in a good light. It was actually a surprise that her sister is not judged as much as one would think.
"True, she is also from America. But I'm also a foreigner and it's still hard to think that." Rin said.
"You also said that you've been here since you were like five, so I don't think that counts." said Robbie.
"Fair point."
"She sounds a little weird, to be honest." Kodai said… which kind of surprised her classmates, who almost forgot that she could speak.
"After what happened yesterday, I can see why you'll think that." Bondo mentioned.
"That was actually Hatsume. She's a little crazy and if not for web for brains, then-" Robbie was saying, when something weird happened.
Out of nowhere, something fell from the ceiling and in front of the class. It was weird to say the least. They thought that it would be a piece of the ceiling, but that was very unlikely. The ceiling had no signs of coming down and after looking above, their theory was proven true. So, they then decided to look downwards to see what it was and it turned out to be a spider. Apparently, a spider fell from above and was struggling to turn from its back.
"I didn' knew spiders could fall." Kamala said, a little creeped out at the sign of the arachnid in front of them.
"C-Creepy!" Pony stuttered.
"Don't just stay there, do something!" Tokaege told the boys of the class.
"Sorry, but I'm not that much of a fan of insects and arachnids," said Monoma.
"Don't look at me! I don't want to be near that thing!" Mangasaid, with an exclamation mark on his head.
"Here, let me do it." Shisida said, as he was about to step on the small creature.
However, before he could finish the job, Robbie stopped him from squashing the little guy.
"Wow, what are you doing?" he asked.
"Uh… I'm squishing the spider?"
"Why?"
"Because… I'm squishing the spider?" he repeated, making Robbie shake his head.
"If you don't have a proper reason to kill it, then don't kill it." he said, kneeling in front of the spider, creeping some of the other students.
"What are you doing, Reyes?" asked Kosei.
"I'm picking it up." he told them.
"I'm sorry, what?!" asked Kamala. "Why would you pick it up?!"
"I'm pretty sure web for brains would want us to do that, don't you think?"
"She's a spider-powered girl! Of course she would do that! But that doesn't mean that you should do it! It could bite you!"
"Only if it feels scared. Which, may I say, it will definately be if you keep shouting like that." he said, picking it up and making some of his classmates to shiver at the sight of it. "Stop acting like babies."
However, it was when he looked at the spider that he noticed something… odd. He had to turn it back on his feet once it was in the palm of his hand and because of that, he noticed how scared it looked. Honestly, he didn't know how he could tell it was scared, it didn't act like how the documentaries said about a scared spider. But for him it looked like someone that had just avoided a car crash. As if in a state of shock.
"Um… Reyes, you okay there?" asked Awase, snapping him of his thoughts.
"Uh, sorry. I'm fine." he said, walking towards one of the windows and opening it up.
Afterwards, he tried to have the spider crawl towards the window. It didn't occured at the moment. In fact, there were some that just thought that the spider had somehow died when it landed or something, but that was obviously not the case. So, he tried to nodge the spider with his finger (action that put some of his classmates on the fence). After a few attempts, the spider seemingly regained consciousness and started to crawl out of the teen's hand. Once it was outside, a couple of students sighed in relief, however there was an odd feeling in Robbie's heart. He didn't know why, but that seemed almost like some sort of sign. Like it was the universe's way of trying to tell him something.
"Maybe my mind was just playing tricks with me." he thought, regrouping with the others.
However, soon will he learn that perhaps that idea wasn't as farfetchd as he first thought.
"Hey Uraraka, are you sitting in your usual spot today?" asked Ashido to her gravity-powered classmate.
"Sure, how about you?" she asked back.
"Probably. Kirishima wanted to tell me about something 'manly' that he found a bit ago." she told her.
The two girls were currently in line ready to get their lunch. They arrived a bit late, which is why Ashido decided to try and start a conversation with her classmate. Besides, it's not like the day has been anything interesting so far. Only normal school stuff. Like for example, how she had absolutely no idea what Ectoplasma-sensei was talking about during math. She always thought that math involved adding and subtracting numbers with the occasional multiply and divide. Not… whatever it was that he was talking about. Looked more like rocket science if they were to ask her.
"Something wrong, Ashido?" asked Uraraka.
"Nothing, just trying to find a way to not have my head explode during math. What's with the weird E that was in that equation?"
"Yeah, I also didn't quite understand what was happening there." said the other girl. "Honestly, I'm surprised how quickly Yaoyorozu and Parker-san managed to figure it out."
"Yeah, those two have like… computers for brains! I'm actually surprised that Parker is as smart as it is. She doesn't look like the study type of person and is probably as smart as Yaomomo!"
"She's a bit of a mystery, huh?" a voice suddenly said, surprising the other two who turned around to see their classmate Asui standing next to them. "It's really hard to get a read on her, right?" she asked them.
"Oh, hi Asui! We didn't see you there!" Ashido said.
"Call me Tsuyu." she told them. "But I'm serious. She's rather reserved, don't you think?"
Her question was one that they themselves would believe. She seemed nice enough and was no doubt the strongest girl in class. Hell, she might be among the strongest students in class, period. But it really was somewhat hard to get a read on Parker. For one, while she may as well appeared to be some carefree girl, she was surprisingly all about responsibility. Some may look at her as some fragile girl, yet was completely headstrong and as tough as one could be. Just take for example how she did not waver when she confronted Bakugo after his match with Midoriya. Unlike the others, she was apparently one of the few that didn't vote for themselves during election day and furthermore voiced her reasons as to why she voted for Yaoyorozu… and yet, there was a lot that they still didn't know.
For one, she was probably the most reserved person that most of them have met. Not unlike Vector, who just seemed shy. Or like Todoroki, who was just rather… antisocial? Whatever the case was, Parker was just reserved about herself. She didn't want to give her family name when they met her, she has hardly talked about her time back in the States, or just her family in general. Speaking of which, part of Uraraka (and probably some other students) were wondering if she had issues back home. The very first time that she openly mentioned her other relatives was on Tuesday when she said that she had two siblings and was living with her mother. She has even met her older sister and (despite the fact that she pulled her from the ear all the way home) they seemed to be on good terms.
But what about her father?
When Todoroki asked why he couldn't pick up his younger brother, she froze for a moment and emotionally answered whit: 'He's busy'. And now that she thought about it, Aizawa-sensei mentioned something about how if she couldn't keep up, she should just return with her father. And when he mentioned that, she seemed rather annoyed or irritated.
… Were her parents divorced?
Uraraka grew up with two loving and supportive parents. She loved having either of the two of them playing with her, reading her stories and so on. So the idea of not having one of them was something that has never crossed her mind. Maybe it was another thing, but she couldn't think of anything so far. Her only hope was that nothing bad was happening at her home, but that was probably about the only thing that she could do now. The only other person in class whom she hangs out with is Vector and it's really hard to have her sit near them due to the fact that her usual spot is on the other side of the cafeteria.
"But she does seem like a nice person, don't you think?" Mina's voice suddenly snapped Uraraka back to reality. "I actually talked a couple of times with Khan, the other girl outside of Vector and the pink-haired girl, and the bits that she mentioned about Parker is that she's actually a really nice and caring person."
"She's odd, but also nice at the same time." Tsuyu said, smiling. "Even if her taste is of bad taste, I would like to spend more time knowing about her."
And as she said that, Uraraka turned to where the American was. She was smiling, laughing alongside the other kids at that table. From the rough-looking Reyes, the cheerful Khan, the shy and timid Vector, that pink-haired girl and even the other purple-haired boy. The same one that didn't look that friendly, had one of the most genuine smiles that she has ever seen. And that sight made her smile as well.
"Yeah, me too!" she joyfully said.
When she saw the American redhead, she couldn't help but to have a feeling of admiration towards her that was similar to the one she had for Midoriya. She saw a girl that stood up for a complete stranger in front of thousands of other strangers. She saw a girl that seemingly cheered some worried kid after a rough exam. The one that talked back to her teacher just so that she could defend her friend and who kept on defending him against one of the toughest kids in school. And it's not like she hasn't been nice to others. She complemented Yaoyorozu, she sometimes cracked a few jokes with Sato, and she was even nice towards Uraraka herself. Just a couple of classes ago, she helped her out when she couldn't understand one of Present Mic's assignments. And tried to explain to her something that confused her about math class.
Parker was a nice person and Uraraka would love to get to know her more and more. She was already imagining a few scenarios in her head. Perhaps a visit to the mall with the other girls from class. Doing homework together. Talking about their likes and dislikes as well as other things of interest. She was a foreigner, so she could tell them about how different it is to be here in Japan compared to the U.S. She could teach them about her country and they in turn, could help her learn more about theirs.
She didn't care if Aizawa-sensei told them that they weren't at U.A to make friends. She wanted to make them. So many of them, from Midoriya to Ida. From people like Jirou to Ashido and Tsuyu. From Yaomomo and Todoroki to… well, Bakugo and Mineta… she was going to put them on the sidelines for a bit… But Parker and Vector were among those she wanted to know better. She couldn't help but to giggle at the kind of things that they can all do together.
There they were.
From teachers to students, even a couple of villains. They all witnessed how that beast suddenly appeared behind the American redhead and seemingly squashed her with no issue at all. The students were all shaken and pale. Parker, arguably one of the toughest students in their class, someone that ranked above most of them in power and wits… was… gone?
No, no, no… nononononon!
That couldn't have happened!
Why did it happen?!
All the students found themselves in shock. Unable to try and even say a word. They all started to wish for all of this to just be a dream. A simple nightmare which they will soon wake up… but it wasn't… this was real. Parker… the idea was starting to become just too much for the kids to comprehend. It just… couldn't be the case, right?
Soon, the screen of dust that had risen started to dissipate. In no time the battleground that was downwards started to become more and more visible. In just a few seconds, the behemoth started to become more and more visible. His upper body was now seen by everybody, who now looked at the beast with terror. However, something happened. Once the smoke left completely, they all saw that the spot that he had striked… was empty.
No body, nor blood, nor anything that could show the presence of a body there. Just the fist of the beast in a crater. So… where was Parker?
To answer that question, one would have to turn towards the fountain in the middle of the plaza. More specifically at the top of a light post nearby. For despite the broken glass, there she was. Atop of it, was Anna-May Parker. She no longer smiled, but had a serious, yet worried and somewhat terrified look on her face. She was breathing heavily, she was shaking like a wet chihuahua during a windy winter day, she was sweating cold… But she was alive.
"P-Parker…"
"Dodged it?" Shoji and Hanta said, in awe and relief for their classmate's safety.
Out of nowhere, Uraraka's leg finally gave in. She allowed herself to fall to her knees. Trembling like a scared child, she found some relief in the fact that her classmate avoided death against all odds. The entirety of the class felt the same as they stared at what had happened down there. Even Thirteen and the mist villain stopped their battle to look at what had happened. And even if they were of different sides, the individual of teleportation abilities acknowledge that the girl was quite something. No wonder his master warned them about her possible intervention in things.
The pale villain on the other hand, wasn't that thrill.
"He… dodged it again…? That's cheating… Why are you Americans so insisting on cheating?!" he asked, starting to get more and more irritated.
As for the girl, she was still trying to calm herself from what happened.
"That guy… if it weren't for my spider-sense I would have been turned into mush. How did he manage to move that fast?" she asked herself, looking at the hulking beast. It was still unmoving, but was looking at her.
For a brief moment, the creature suddenly resembled an inked-like monster with sharp teeth and a devious madman dressed in white as well… as an individual with a green face and yellow eyes that still gives her nightmares till this day. That imagery made the girl tremble even more. She tried to shake the feeling, but as hard as tried, bits of it still showed in her. Out of all the criminals that invaded today, she had a guess as to which could be considered truly dangerous. Pale man didn't seem like a serious issue until he was near her, mistman was definitely the smartest of them all, Supercharger didn't look that special, but when she found out that he fought her dad, she started to wonder just how dangerous he could truly be. The one that she had the most information was that crazy lady and despite all her bravado, Annie had something of a hard time just getting her off her back.
But this other foe thou…
"Even if we were on our best day… that thing could probably still crush us in a second!" she thought, grinding her teeth in frustration.
Instantly, her spider-sense rang once more. She did not hesitate to jump away as the monster leaped towards her. Luckily this time she was more prepared, so despite the fact that she was suddenly almost in front of her, she managed to somehow use it as support to jump away from it as it landed on the ground. And even with that action in mind, she could almost feel the power emanating from the thing's body. And she suddenly felt like she was a normal human trying to wrestle with an angry elephant charging her way.
Upon landing, she acted fast and shot multiple web pellets at the creature's face to try and blind it. She was successful in her endeavor, so she followed it up by webbing both of its hands together and then it's feet. She then leaped backwards as her spider-sense told her of a possible incoming danger coming from the back. It turned out to be an electric blast from Supercharger. But the weird thing is that it didn't feel like it was strictly directed to her. More like the villain wanted to hit the monster with it instead of the girl. Which it did as the force of the attack managed to catch the beast off-guard and make it fall on the ground.
"Wha-" the pale man tried to say, but he was suddenly wrapped to another part of the plaza as he was about to be hit by another blast shot by Supercharger.
"Young master, are you alright?" the mist villain, who was responsible for teleporting him away from danger, asked.
"... What exactly were you trying to do?" he asked the American, who was glaring at him.
"I warned you." he replied.
And as the group of villains were distracted, Parker reunited with her teacher, who definitely looked quite perplexed at what had just occurred with the monster.
"I could have sworn that I erased his quirk… so either he's also someone without a quirk or… is he naturally that good?" he questioned, for the only other individual that he knew could pull such speed was none other than the Symbol of Peace himself.
"Hey teach, I'm just going to save you the 'I told you so' that you're about to give me by saying that maybe I should have listened to you." she told him, either trying to ease the situation that they were on… or simply trying to calm herself.
"Yes, you should have." he replied, looking at how the powerful villains started to argue amongst themselves and noticing that both Thirteen and the rest were free of the clutches of the other villain. "Thirteen and the rest of your classmates are now free and the villains are distracted arguing with each other. We should take the opportunity and-" he was trying to say, but suddenly stopped when he saw the monster begin to struggle.
With not that much effort, it snapped the webbing that binds his hands together. Such a sight brought dread on young Parker as she saw how it started to begin and free his feet.
"T-That… how's that possible… t-that s-shouldn't be…" she started to stutter as the creature, now able to stand up, reached for the webbing in its eyes. "A single thread of webbing is already two and a half times stronger than a steel cable… how can it rip free of it like nothing?!" she asked, as the creature ripped the webbing effortlessly from its eyes.
Once he did, he turned its gaze to where the pro-hero and the student were standing. The two knew that they now had little chance of slipping off unnoticed. Whatever that thing is, was stronger and faster than the entire class combined. The creature soon started to snarl at the two of them as they decided to adopt a battle stand of their own. Whatever was about to happen, however long it took for help to arrive, they may as well make it a little difficult for their attackers.
My Hero Academia: Legacy Bits! - A Bad Feeling!
"Where the hell is the beer?! I was sure that there was an entire six-pack here this morning!" said a voice that constantly declared himself the best there is at what he does.
Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Perhaps some would consider it the very first institute dedicated to the teaching of heroes in the United States. Its founder, Charles Xavier created this school as a haven for mutants that were once persecuted and oppressed by the world outside. To say that this school has had its fair share of trouble would be an understatement. From machines bent on destroying them, to humans insisting they were a crime against god given flesh, to skirmish between mutants. This institute and those who could consider it a home had to suffer through many troubles, tragedies even.
But now, things are rather different. Now, seemingly against all the odds that they have faced, it seems like a step to a world in which mutants and humans could co-existed was taken. Now a lot of them were seen as heroes. As equals amongst those who inhabit the world. For a couple of years now, it looked like they could finally be at peace… unless you're James Howlett that is.
"Who was the idiot that got rid of the beer?!" Logan shouted, almost ready to tear the fridge in front of him with his near indestructible claws.
"That would be me." another voice said.
Logan turned around with an annoyed look, which seemingly increased when he saw who the voice belonged to.
"Of course it would be you." he said, glaring at the person that was standing in front of the door's margin. "What did you do with the beer, Summers?"
Yes, Scott Summers is a man known for many things, amongst which is using shades indoors like some jerk. An original X-Men, one of the leaders of not only the mutantkind, but arguably one of the big names of the hero world. A man who can punch holes into mountains if not for the special visor in his eyes. He was also the current headmaster of Xavier's Institute.
"I gave them to Hank so that he could turn them into fuel for those jetpacks that he's having his students make for their science project." he said, which was true… although he did it just to piss Logan off… which worked.
"Tsk, do you know how hot it is outside? Honestly Summers, after coming all the way here to visit, the least I expected was some hospitality from you." said the headmaster of Jean Grey's institute to the other headmaster.
Cyclops simply sighed, walking towards the fridge and opening the lower part of it. There, he pulled what looked to be some sort of ice cream. He then handed it to the shorter man, with a grin on his face. Action that obviously annoyed the canadian.
"You think you're so funny, don't you Summers?"
"Hey, what better way to beat the heat than with some sweet ice cream? Besides, it's already past midnight. You shouldn't be drinking that late."
"Whatever you say, boy scout." Logan growled, taking the ice cream and going to the counter to grab a spoon. "What are you doing up so late anyway?"
"Someone has to make sure you don't do something reckless." said Scott with a bit of humor, but afterwards, his expression turned a little serious. "I also noticed that you didn't look to be doing that great all day long."
"Am I that obvious?" he asked, as he ate some of the ice cream.
"Let me guess, it has to do with Laura?" asked the leader of the X-Men.
Laura Kidney, the apparent daughter of Wolverine. Her story is very complicated to say the least. He found out of her existence a couple of years ago. Apparently created to be a weapon meant to be the greatest assassin the planet has ever seen. Modele after one of the deadliest persons to ever walk the Earth. She also just so happens to be a student of the Avengers Academy located on the west coast of the country.
"How has she been anyway?" asked Scott.
"Last time I visited, she was doing better than the first day she arrived. Kid's getting used to things… but it's obvious that she's still not that comfortable with things there." replied the hairy short man. "Honestly Summers, it's hard to think of what to do with her."
"Well, at least she's not on the New York branch."
"And with good reason. Neither me nor webs want to risk that happening again." he said, remembering a certain… incident that happened two summers ago. "Couldn't even face the guy without feeling awkward for almost two months…"
"Yeah… have you two… tried to, you know, get the two to talk things out?"
"Summers, you know me. And you were practically living off Parker's back for a while. If we were in that situation, do you really think that we could just talk things out?"
"Probably not without you growing irritated." Scott said.
"Exactly. And I actually like the guy… don't you ever mention this outside of this kitchen, understood?" Wolverine threatened Cyclops, who just chuckled and nodded (although was debating whether or not to actually do as he said). "... Those two are more likely to pummel each other if given the chance." he said as he took another swoop of his ice cream.
After that, there was a certain awkward silence. Cyclops looked at the fridge and saw a picture of a couple years ago. It was the very first summer camp that Xavier's School had. There were a couple of kids all in those pictures. Some were students, while the vast majority were just random kids that managed to convince their parents to give the mutants a chance. And among them, was a certain redhead of green eyes back when she was just ten. He and Logan were rather fond of the young girl. Logan and his father once became blood brothers, so there was no surprise there. But Scott was another story.
He once fell.
And when he did, he almost destroyed his whole life. But eventually, he managed to pick it back up and eventually remade the bonds that he thought were lost forever. However it certainly took its time. He was villainized for actions that he did out of desperation and some of the ones that followed didn't help in improving things either. And yet… when he was at his lowest, someone offered him a helping hand. He helped him out, even offering a place to stay. He eventually grew closer to him and his family and while many others would steer away from him, one of the man's kids told him that he didn't believe that he was that much of a bad guy as the news said he was.
"You know Summers?" Logan suddenly called, snapping Scott back to reality. "You can't lie to me."
"What do you mean?" Scott asked.
"You didn't come down here to check on me, you came here because you couldn't sleep." he said, as Scott sighed.
"Am I that obvious?"
"So, what's keeping you from shutting your eye?"
"I don't exactly know… I guess, it's just some feeling." Scott said, scratching the back of his neck. "I don't know if you actually get what I'm saying, but… I suddenly felt as if something bad was about, or is happening." he said, for some reason, looking at the picture once more.
"... Know something, Summers?" the Wolverine said, also looking at the picture. "I guess I do get it." he said.
As for the other side of the world. Three students of U.A were in the water near the plaza of the U.S.J compound. Their faces were those of pure terror. They had just escaped from a group of villains. They had just thought of a plan to leave the place and ask for help… and right now, they couldn't for their lives move an inch.
They saw a massive monster grabbing a hold of their almost beaten and somewhat mangle teacher with its massive hands. Try as he might, he couldn't do anything. For it was as if he was asked to move a mountain. Not that far from where he was… stood the top student of class A… although to say that she stood was not exactly true.
She was on one knee, looked tired and was holding her left arm, which was bleeding. The redhead was breathing heavily and looked rather hurt and powerless. And on top of it all, she had to endure the chuckle of the pale man that was covered in many disembodied hands. For he enjoyed looking at those entitled foreigners finally falling from their high horse.
"You were right brat… I wasn't the final boss… he is… " said the villain, as the monster growled as if to signify its dominance over the seemingly broken hero. "And it's name… is Nomu."
Alex my friend, don't worry. I do plan to continue that series... eventually.
I got carried away writting this one after the entrance exam, but I'm not planning on leaving that story. Sorry, but I'll try to bring it up as soon as possible to make up for lost time, okay?
