Week 8
Classes were cancelled for the rest of the week, which didn't mean much when the USJ trip was on a Saturday, but it was the thought that counted.
Izuku spent only two days in the infirmary, as his injuries weren't severe enough to warrant anything more. Recovery Girl was able to heal him with only the two sessions, and only took one session for everyone else.
Mic, Thirteen, Snipe, and Aizawa are still in the hospital. Thirteen was in the most danger, but they're out of the red zone now. Snipe was just behind them, having lost a lot of blood after his own bullets buried him.
Mic and Aizawa, somehow, got off the lightest, though that doesn't do them justice. They weren't in danger of dying, but they did go through an unbearable amount of pain, with most of their bones being broken. Aizawa had worse injuries of them, as his broken ribs penetrated his lungs.
All Might was damaged deeply too, with his scar bearing the brunt of it, which in turn reduced his time to three hours. He's concerned about his time, as he still has yet to pass on One for All.
In other words, Recovery Girl needs a raise.
She is a short, elderly woman with gray hair styled into a netted bun, a large syringe poking diagonally out of it to the left. She has a notably small nose and eyes and a long mouth with defined nasolabial folds.
She wears a doctor's lab coat and a dress with yellow and red vest-like designs on either side, two yellow buttons, and a belt with a pink "R"-shaped buckle. She wears pink boots and has a helmet around the sides of her head, a purple-tinted visor joining it over her eyes. In addition, she walks with a cane designed like a syringe that she can also use for healing the injured.
Her quirk is heal it allows to heal injuries but it uses the person stamina to do so
Meanwhile While they're all still recovering, 1-A gather in the common room. For a while, it's silent and nobody speaks a single word, still struggling to come to terms with what happened.
It's broken by Mina, "I think... I killed them said with years Denki and Minoru share a look as Mina started to cry
I couldn't regulate my acid, and I could tell that it was attacking more than just their skin. I'm sure that the teachers just don't want to tell me what I did.
I know how you feel said Denki. There's no way I didn't end a few lives with how I lost control of my quirk. Minoru wants to speak up when it goes silent, wanting to defend Denki, because it's not like he was in the right head-space to worry about it, but he can't get the words out.
Shouto, who is only really there because Tenya refused to let him hole himself up, doesn't say anything either I'm angry at how
easily my ice collapsed under the wrath of the landslide. I wonder if Mina could have avoided all that if my ice was stronger by any margin he thought
Minutes of silence pass, before more people start talking, opening up about feeling so useless, unable to do anything but struggle, who had to be saved despite wanting to become heroes. They were so scared, but this will be their entire job description. In the future, their entire jig will be fighting villains, but they couldn't do anything.
Bakugou, also dragged out by Tenya, stays silent.
A while back i was attacked by that Sludge monster he thought
I was unable to even struggle, and I had to be saved by Izuku. How the heroes just stood by as i was dying, and some inexperienced kid pulled me out
I was the most useless in the USJ, with my quirk squandered by water, and it was Hanta and Kouji who had to make the first move, and i still barely did anything. I think about it all, and hate how useless i am How far from a hero I am
Kyouka and Mashirao decided to talk together
We were able to overcome the villains. why we didn't need to be saved by a teacher or a pro-hero. was only because Izuku saved us first Said Kyouka
We were struggling to just deal with the heat and flames, but it was Izuku who got rid of that for us. After that, it was just a matter of pushing on until we were able to escape, said Mashirao.
But, still, despite him saving us we were unable to return the favour, not even noticing when he was grabbed by a villain and taken to Tomura.
Logically I did what was best. Thought Tenya.
The only reason they all walked out alive was because I ran to U.A. and brought back-up. But, I still can't forgive myself. Knowing how much my classmates have suffered while I was completely unharmed in the fallout.
All throughout this group therapy session, Yuuga says nothing.
Around the corner, Neitou, Itsuka, Tetsutetsu, and Pony are about to enter the common room... Until they hear muffled sobs. They peak in, and the only dry eyes are Shouto, Mezou, and Kyouka, as everyone around them cries.
Pony is about to enter, but Neitou stops her, shaking his head, and the four of them go back upstairs, allowing 1-A to get this out of their system 'less they break. Internally, they all wonder if they would be the same way had they been at the USJ instead.
They don't want to think about it.
Meanwhile When Izuku's recovered and classes are back, Midnight covers for Aizawa. She sees how the tension wrings them dry, and how they can barely keep their heads up, not even stepping out of class for breaks
I know how hard the first interaction with villains is she said to class 1A in the school hospital.
My first internship, where I panicked and forgot everything I learned, needing my instructor to beat the villain. For days, I hated myself and how weak I thought I was, and it took a while before I got myself back into the groove.
You all are having private therapy sessions with the school counselor . Hound Dog will be the dedicated therapist for 1-A, and he'll see two people Monday to Friday and you'll have a session every two weeks.
At first, they feel ashamed, somehow. Like they're it was a mark of weakness, that they'd need a therapist so early on, without even entering the field. It carries with them throughout the day, and interactions are often quiet, full of falsity.
As they walk through the halls, eyes are constantly on them, whispering to each other as if they couldn't hear. It doesn't make them feel any better. 1-B, ironically, are their only solace, as they do their best not to stare and to keep their comments to themselves.
Part of Neitou wants to feel jealous. He can't.
Then they have a lesson where Mic would usually be the teacher, but it's being covered by Hound Dog himself.
He has the appearance of a dog due to his Quirk. He has a scruffy mane of blond hair sticking straight out behind his head. He also wears a muzzle over his slightly pointed snout in his hero costume.
His quirk is Dog; it gives him the attributes and abilities of a dog.
He notices how tense the students are, how their eyes focus on the desks more than the lesson, and he puts his plan away, making a note to tell Mic they missed the lesson later.
"I've had a therapist since my first year in high school," he says, and the students pay attention, both because the lesson was suddenly dropped and because Hound Dog, the counsellor, has his own therapist.
All students are given counseling after their first interaction with a villain; it just so happens that your interaction came earlier than expected.
This makes some of them feel better about themselves, knowing now that it wasn't just special circumstances, but many are still down.
Having a therapist doesn't mean you're weak. It means you can continue to be strong. People who can admit they need help are the strongest of all. He says
It's not alright. It isn't, because only a handful of them are sixteen, yet they're already in therapy... But it doesn't feel so shameful anymore. Finally, they can understand that even the greatest need help.
After All Might, Mic, Thirteen, Snipe, and Aizawa have recovered enough to return to work. Nedzu hosts a staff meeting. At first, some of the staff disapprove, especially Recovery Girl, as they believe the aforementioned five need more rest, the five of them stubbornly push through it.
They discuss what happened, knowing that this plan started since the first week with the strange man, who they now recognise as Shigaraki Tomura, staring at the school gates.
I was conscious enough to hear Izuku speak with Tomura said Aizawa .
His quirk is Erasure; it gives him the ability to make a person unable to use their quirk by looking at them . His eyes goes red and hair goes up .
While powerful, this ability has many drawbacks:
Erasure deactivates if Aizawa blinks.
His Quirk gives Aizawa a bad dry eye, forcing him to blink more often when he uses the power continuously.
Most Mutant-type Quirks are immune to Erasure, given that these Quirks are often passively active in a way that can't be negated.
Erasure has zero effect on any strength or abilities that don't originate from Quirks.
Erasure makes Aizawa hair stand on end while it is active, allowing his enemies to see when his Quirk is active or not.
This Quirk has no offensive potential.
The Quirk Factor lies within Aizawa's eyes, so if one or both are damaged or destroyed, he cannot effectively use Erasure.
they seemed to know the students' quirks as Kurogiri avoided Ochako's fingers, implying he knew she had a touch-based quirk said snipe
Snipe Quirk is homing; it allows him to lock on to any target he can see within six hundred meters and make any projectile he releases chase after said target. He cannot choose what part of the target's body his projectile hits and his attacks do not carry much strength.
There could be a traitor Said mic . Think About it, they may have stolen the timetables but they didn't steal information about the students' quirks. Yet, the villains clearly did know them.
Mic's quirk is voice it allows him to increase the volume of his voice, giving him an ability that is similar to a sonic scream
The staff members begin to ponder on this, but Nedzu stops them before it goes too far suspecting each other may be exactly what the villains want. I'd rather deal with the aftermath of betrayal than nobody trusting one another.
His quirk is High Specs . Most people think his Quirk gives him superhuman intelligence but in reality it only gave him human-like sentience.
His intelligence is all him.
While I accept this, I can't help but feel frustrated at how easily everyone else accepts it too. Thought mic.
Because this 'traitor' contributed heavily to the kids' suffering. As Pro-Heroes, we're well aware of the danger heroics contain, and thus are prepared for anything - life-threatening or otherwise.
The students aren't. They haven't even complete a semester, yet they were put through such hardships. If it weren't for the traitor telling the villains about their quirks, they could have had the upper hand.
But that didn't happen. They suffered, and it was all too easy for the staff to forget that.
Nedzu decides to change the subject. The Sports Festival is coming up, he said .
At the end of the way, Nedzu summons Mic to his office.
The next day, Kisai calls a student council meeting, which Midnight does not attend.
At the end of the week, Aizawa returns to classes covered in bangans It freaks some of 1-A out, but he doesn't particularly care and instead focuses on this
The Sports Festival will still be taking place he said
Many of them are upset about this, as they'll barely have enough time to recover mentally, and they just survived a villain attack. The Sports Festival is in three weeks, after all. Wouldn't it just be another chance for the villains to attack, especially with the publicity?
the festival for the first years aren't broadcasted said Aizawa
We learned many years ago that it would be all too easy for villains to see it and monopolise on their weakness shown in battle. Only pro-heroes will be able to see it for Internship reasons.
Plus, we'll have more active security and rigorous checks before anybody enters to lower the chances of infiltration. The villains would have to be foolish to ambush a stadium full of pro-heroes, all of whom are aware there may be a villain attack.
Aizawa also expresses how the staff were against this too, even Vlad King who would otherwise protest taking his students out of the eyes of pros. We didn't agree with this decision... and neither did Nedzu.
Because it wasn't Nedzu or even U.A.'s decision to continue on, it was the HPSC.
Eventually, the students accept that there is no avoiding it, and a fire lights within them... Especially Ochako.
During their break, she shows a lot of vigour and a desire to fight, which shocks many of her friends.
Izuku and Tenya walked in on her punching a punching bag
Hey Ochako he said why did you decide to be a hero.
Well it's kinda selfish she said
I'm poor-poor. As in, there were many days I didn't eat anything simply because my family couldn't afford it.
my parents suffered far more. On days I was able to eat a full meal, they would share a single bowl of rice. They'd sacrifice their own comfort for the sake of me, and I always hated it. I would wake up in the middle of the night, and watch them argue as the stress brought by a lack of money tore them apart, only to act like nothing was wrong the second they noticed me.
I hated it so much, and so I decided to become a hero - to make money. Enough money that I could support my parents as they supported me .
"I... I know it sounds shallow-"
"Not at all!" Izuku and Tenya readily affirm that it's far from one, and is rather noble. Maybe the end goal is just money, but the reasoning is enough to make Izuku tear up.
Later on, Denki approaches Izuku. I know you analysed Mina, Eijirou, and Tooru's quirks, and they've improved a lot because of that, he said in his normal joyfully way
Had it not been for his analysis, Mina wouldn't produce as much acid, and Eijirou wouldn't be able to activate his quirk as long, and Tooru wouldn't even know she manipulated energy.
Suddenly he looks down feeling sad . I keep thinking about how I lost control of my quirk, and there was every chance I could have killed Minoru had he not reacted in time.
Maybe... Maybe you could help. So he asks i Never want to be in that position ever again
I have multiple pages of all my classmates, but wouldn't be able to confirm much of it said Izuku as he handed him the Notebook.
He makes it seem so easy, and Denki wonders how Izuku is able to understand a person's quirk more than the user. It scares him, but he feels safe all the same. As if, with this analysis, the weight has fallen off his shoulders.