Chapter 4: Rescuing? Villains!
"…Midoriya… Midoriya!" Ben calls out.
"Don't be too loud!" Recovery Girl says. "He's still a little whimsy."
It was now around 4:00 in the afternoon, with Ben currently inside the Nurse's Office. Recovery Girl was in charge of watching over Midoriya until he woke up, in which she predicted was going to be around now. With the twitching of his eyes and a slight groan, the Omnitrix wielder smiled a bit as they went over to him.
"Are you awake, young one?" She asks as her face overlooked his vision
"…Waoh!" He flinches a bit, turning to his side. "…Recovery Girl, Ben."
"You're finally up." He grins. "How're you feeling?"
"…A little tired. Hungry." He rubs his stomach with his left arm.
"Well, that's normal. Alright, up you go." Recovery Girl says. "Gonna have to put a small cast underneath that broken arm of yours…again."
After detaching the IV attached to him and wrapping the rest of his wounds in bandages, Recovery Girl finally lets him go. Ben offered to act as a shoulder to lean on, but Midoriya told him that he was well enough that he could walk on his own.
"Oh noo… I missed the rest of the afternoon classes… Aizawa-sensei's gonna wrap me in his bandages again…" He grimaced.
"Well, there's no helping you out there dude, but on the bright side…" Ben smiles as they reach 1-A. Opening the door, Kirishima was the first to look over.
"Hey, you're back!" He lets out a smile. "Midoriya's finally up, guys!"
"Huh?" The green haired teen blinked.
"Good work, man!" The red haired teen slapped his back as several other students started to crowd around him. Ben smiled a little as he scuttled through the crowd. "I don't know what you said during the match, but man, you were so fired up! Hecka manly I'd say!"
"You fought against Bakugo, the guy who got first place in the Entrance Exam man!" Sero added.
"You did such a good job with dodging that giant explosion too!" Ashido bounced a little. "It was so cool!"
"Sheesh! With how you guys acted in the first match, the rest of us had to give it our all too!" Sato laughed, with Sero and Kirishima nodding in agreement.
"W-Waahh…" A little overwhelmed was an understatement to how he was feeling. Kirishima grins once more as he points to himself.
"Name's Kirishima Eijiro!" He greets, gesturing to everyone. "We were gonna wait until you woke up. We're all going over the training together right now, so you're just in time!"
"I'm Sero Hanta!"
"Ashido Mina! Your dodge was awesome!"
"You alright there, Midoriya-chan?" Asui popped up from her back. Midoriya blushed a little upon seeing her lean closely towards his arm. "I'm Asui Tsuyu. Call me Tsu-chan!"
"I'm Sato!"
"Umm… Ehh…" Midoriya couldn't help but panick a little, but smile in return as he entered the classroom.
"Geez… You guys are really loud, you know?" Tokoyami shrugged as he sat on a desk. Iida gasps as he begins to valiantly walk towards him.
"Tokoyami! Feet and bottom off, please! That desk is not a chair!" He insisted. Jiro and Ojiro, who were standing next to him, chuckled a bit.
"It's not that big of a deal, is it, Iida-san?" She shrugs. Ojiro chuckles a little upon seeing Iida's gestures. "And what's with that arm movement?"
"—Wha… I… You little… I cannot condone actions that disrespect that the great men and women who used it before us!" He broke with a humorous amount of arm shaking taking place afterwards.
"You're too loud, Iida…" Tokoyami sighed.
"Ha… Iida never wavers, huh?" Kirishima chuckles.
As he finished his rambling, from the back door, Kaminari and Uraraka entered through, carrying several casings of documents. It seemed like he was trying to get a little info off of her, but as the gravity user spotted Midoriya, she rushed to check his body.
"Huh? Recovery Girl didn't heal your wounds, Midoriya?" She observes.
"It's because it would take too much of his stamina to do so." Ben explained. "If she did so, he'd be still asleep."
"Y-Yeah…" Midoriya said as he began to look around, only to visibly gasp at the lack of Bakugo in the room. "Wait, where's Kacchan?"
"Oh…Bakugo. We all tried to stop him, but he just left for home now without saying anything." She revealed. Frowning, he immediately turned and began to run outside.
"Wait, Midoriya-chan!" Asui called out to him, but alas, she could not stop him. Everyone watched as the green haired teen jumped down the stairs, rushing out to catch Bakugo before he left the campus grounds.
'He's still stuck on that, I see…' Ben said as he picked up his duffle bag and hoverboard.
Walking out of the room with several of the other classmates, they watched as he and Bakugo yell at each other, though it seemed that Bakugo had gotten over his depressing lost from earlier, and seemed to be making some sort of declaration towards Midoriya. Even so much, All Might tried to intervene with the talk, though it was revealed that he didn't even have to do anything.
As Bakugo finally left the grounds of U.A., Uraraka, Asui, and Ashido leaned against the windows in a attempt to understand what they were saying through oral gestures.
"W-What was that?" The pink haired girl blinked in shock.
"A fated battle between men!" Uraraka presumed.
"…Midoriya-chan." Asui simply said as she did her usual gesture. "You seemed to be giving one-sided excuses?"
"…A fated battle between men." The gravity girl continued. Asui and Ashido sweat dropped from her one sided expression.
…
The next day on…Ben was mildly surprised with what he saw.
He had learned about the news of All Might's decision to become a teacher at U.A., and apparently it had gotten so spread out that the media tried to swarm the school in search of answers. He watched with mild comedic looks as his classmates were barraged by the media while they were trying to enter the school. Some were simple, some ignored the media, some were nervous wrecks or even threatened to attack them (we know who that was), but it was then…
The four eyes came.
Iida took great pride in his comment towards the media, lasting for minutes upon minutes with a very grand speech. By the time that Aizawa came in, he dragged the Engine user into the building with him.
"Um… About All Might… Wow, you're really scruffy…" A female reporter, along with many others, were a little reluctant towards Aizawa as they turned to try and intervene him.
"…He's not on duty." He states, waving his hand out like he was trying to drive a fly away. "You're disturbing the classes. Please leave."
"W-Wait, sensei!" Iida struggles to get off from his grip as Aizawa turned around, but not before seeing Ben in the background. He gives him a lazy look before sighing.
"Get to class. Now." He mouthed out. Ben merely grins as he gets on his hoverboard.
The media continued to try to interrogate the bandage user, with Aizawa grumbling in his mind about fame and being known by the populace. He wondered how All Might was able to deal with the media while performing Hero activities.
"Grr… Just a little time is fine!" The female report grumbles. "Just let me see All—"
"—Beep beep!" Ben yells out as he flies above her head, landing in front of them. "I wouldn't go beyond the gates if I were you!"
"Wait, why—" She growled as she tried to step forward.
"—Ah, you idiot! Stop!" Another reporter tried to grab her shoulder…
From the top of the school gates, Ben and everyone else looks up to see three red lights beginning to glow. As if on cue, countless walls and other obstacles began to rise up from the ground, almost skimming the female reporter's nose. Ben shrugs, riding off into the building as the female reporter steps back in shock.
"What the hell?!" She gasps.
"Yep… That's the U.A. Barrier." The other reporter sighs. "You triggered it."
"T-That's so lame!" The female reporter retorts as she turns her head. "What the heck is that anyways?!"
"Well, if someone without a student ID or a valid pass tries to enter the school premises, then the security system of the school activates. There's sensors all over the school apparently." He explains as he lends a hand for her.
"What the heck… They think they're all so mighty and stuff… They could've at least given me a brief moment of commentary." She sighs.
"Ya think? We've been here for like, 2 days!" The male reporter says. "They still won't say anything."
From the other side of the street, a man with light blue hair walked across. He wore black pants, a featureless black V-neck shirt that exposed his collarbones, and red hi-top sneakers with no socks. He smiled as he approached the crowd of media, coughing once to get their attention.
"Ah… May I have your attention for a moment?" He calls out. Everyone stops to turn to him, with the man smiling as he holds.
"Huh? Who are you?" The female reporter frowns. "…And what's with your face? You need some facial cream, buddy?"
The man chuckles, placing four of his fingers on the wall in front of the media. He turns and gives them a disturbing grin as he leans on it.
"Would you like a way inside?"
…
"Alright… Take your seats." Aizawa yawns. "First, I would like to commend you all for yesterday's battle. I saw the videos and the results. Now then…let's go over some stuff though."
He glances at Bakugo first. "Bakugo. You're a talented guy, so don't like a kid."
"Geh…" He glances away, acknowledging his words but showing a reluctant front. "…I know."
"And Midoriya." Aizawa turns to him next. The green haired teen flusters a bit. "I see you had to settle it by breaking your arm again… Well, at least you tried to control it this time."
"Er…"
"You can't keep saying that you can't help it because you can't control your Quirk though. I don't like repeating things… But as long as you can learn to control it, you'll be able to do a lot in the future." He then said, lightening Midoriya's mood a little.
"Eh?" He brings his head up.
"But have a sense of urgency, Midoriya. You're gonna have to learn to do it quickly." Aizawa reminds him.
"Yes, sir!" He grins.
"Also, Ben." He then calls out to the student all the way in the back. Everyone noticed his slight change in tone. "A question."
"What's up?" Ben sits up.
"…Regarding that time from your battle, that ice form you used. What other powers does it have? I'm a little curious." He honestly says.
"Oh, yeah! I've been wondering about that too!" Kirishima agrees. "That was wicked, when he came out from the floor and stuff!"
Ben raises an eyebrow. Glancing at Momo, he wanted to get her confirmation, but all she did was shrug. Scratching his head, he sighed.
"Well, to put it shortly, while I'm in that form, I'm able to make may own particles move between other particles, converting myself to a nigh non-physical being of energy, vibrating my molecules into a new quantum frequency, etc. Regardless, I'm able to ignore most attacks, physical dangers and gravity." He explained.
"…What the hell? That's so cool!" Ashido grins.
"I'd prefer to keep my abilities a secret though, please…" He requests.
"Well…you answered the question. Alright then, let's get down to homeroom business." Aizawa yawns. "And sorry for the late notice…but today, I'll have you—"
'…Take another test?!' Everyone gulps in horror.
"—Decide on a Class Representative." He ends.
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'IT'S ACTUALLY A NORMAL SCHOOL ACTIVITY!'
"I wanna be Class Rep! PICK ME!" Kirishima was the first to pop out from his seat, arms flailing out frantically.
"Me too!" Kaminari and Jiro raise their hands at the same time.
"It's a job meant for m—"
"—I'll be the leader!" Ashido interrupts Aoyama's speech.
Ben knew that this type of scenario was different from that of normal schools. Typically saying, students might feel that they're just taking on daily duties. However, in the case of Hero training schools like U.A., this is completely different. In the Hero Course, it's a role that allows a student to create a scenario in which they can practice being a Pro Hero that is leading a group.
While the rest of his classmates were busy trying to frantically get the position, Midoriya tried to calm the situation down as usual. As he looked onto the eyes of Iida and Ben for support, he was glad to see former in a somewhat calm state, but with slight irritation growing in his figure. Turning to Ben though…
*…Snore…*
'He's sleeping?!' He sweat dropped. He watched as Momo tried to poke him away, with slight annoyance showing on her face as she continued to do so. Midoriya then began to hear the glasses wearing teen utter a low grumble, until he—
"SILENCE, PLEAAAAAAAAAAASE—!"
Everyone stopped their chattering to gaze at the source of the loud sound. Iida stands up as he readjusts his glasses, the light gleaming off of them in a supernatural matter. The screaming of Iida also managed to wake the young Omnitrix wielder, who groaned a little as one of his eyes opened.
"Being a Class Representative is a serious job. It is one that has you take on the role of having serious responsibility of leading others! It is not just a job for anyone who wants to do it. It is a calling that requires the trust of those around you, and so… If we want to use democracy to decide on a true leader, then I propose…"
"Propose…? Everyone echoes.
"An election!" His glasses shine! But…as everyone looked up…
"IT'S YOUR HAND THAT'S RAISED THE HIGHEST THOUGH!" Sero and Kirishima point at him.
"Wait, why would suggest for anyways?" Kaminari asks.
"Well, it's not like we've known each other for long." Asui notes. "If you think about it, we don't really have any actual trust for the matter. If we were to vote for a person worthy of being the Rep, we'd most likely pick ourselves."
"Right?" Kirishima agrees with the frog-like girl.
"Don't you think that it is precisely why whoever receives the most votes here should be deemed to be the most trustworthy and considerable person? Aizawa-sensei, what do you think?!" Iida explained to his classmates, before turning back to Aizawa. Everyone could see the scruffy haired adult wrapping his sleeping bag around himself as he did so.
"I don't care. Just decide before homeroom is over…" He grumbles, sloping down onto the floor to sleep.
"Thank you very much!" Iida bowed. "Now then, let us proceed with the voting then!"
"How do you propose we do that?" Ojiro asks.
"Why, I have just the thing, Ojiro-kun!" The glasses wearing teen smiles as he takes a few pieces of paper out. Everyone watches as he cuts and divides them up into 21 equivalent pieces.
"I always forget that you're good with your hands, Iida-kun." Hagakure noted.
After expending all of the sheets to the 21 present students in class, it took a few minutes for them to tally up the result. After Aizawa writes everyone's names down and tallies up their individual votes, the students finally began to skim the results of the poll.
"…In first place, is Midoriya. He got 3." The bandage user pokes the board.
"WHAT?!" Midoriya freaks out upon seeing the tally mark. "I got three?!"
"Who the hell voted for him?!" Bakugo growls.
"Well, it's better than you, dude." Sero chuckles.
"The hell'd you say?!"
"And…3 for Yaoyozoru. Since Midoriya's surname comes up first, he'll be the Class Rep. Yaoyozoru, you'll be the Deputy Class Rep, alright?"
"Y-Yes, sir/Yes, sir." Midoriya and Momo respond as they both approach the front of the class. Everyone could see the green haired teen shaking like a stick as Momo sighs in slight disapproval.
"Quite vexing…" She says. Ben withheld a snicker as some of his classmates started to actually like this arrangement.
"I think I like this matchup." Asui smiles.
"Yeah. And after all's said and done, Midoriya's a pretty good guy. He can also get fired up when he needs to!" Kirishima added.
"Yaoyozoru was pretty rad when she and Ben were going over the battle results, don't forget that!" Kaminari adds. The rest of the class, minus a tad few, began to jibber amongst the interior of the room, sounding like ants until Aizawa couldn't take it anymore.
"Quiet down, you damn brats! Your first class is coming up!" Aizawa reminds them, standing up with his eyes glowing red.
…
"…There's a lot of people here today as well." Ben looks over the crowded cafeteria with a disheartened look. "…Maybe I should start bringing lunch."
"You know how to cook?!" Uraraka grabs his shoulders, shaking him back and forth with a smile growing on her face. "What can you make?!"
"A-A-All sorts of stuuuuuff… Can you please stop shaking me, Uraraka-san?" The Omnitrix wielder's voice was zippy as his face went back and forth. Iida, Midoriya, and Asui could only sweat drop in sympathy.
"Ochaco-chan, you're a little enthusiastic about food." The frog girl comments. "But…it is quite crowded around here."
"Of course!" Iida adjusts his glasses. "That's because everyone in the Hero Course, Support Course, and Management Course meet in the same place. It's a place to settle down and have a leisurely time of conversation."
It was now lunchtime. Inside of Lunch Rush's place of wondrous cooking, the five were taking their time scrumming down. Midoriya was still thinking about Class 1-A's decision to elect him as the Class Rep as he poked at his food.
"I'm still thinking I'm not worthy of being so…" He mumbles as he swallows a lump of meat.
"You are though." Uraraka disagrees with him as she happily gulps down a cup of tea. "Why do you still think so?"
"It will be fine." Iida adds on as he wipes his mouth. "Your courage and judgment at critical moments make you worth following. We can all agree on that. That is why I voted for you."
"Huh? You voted for me?" Midoriya's eyes widened slightly.
"But didn't you want to be the Class Rep, Iida?" Uraraka turns to the glasses wearing teen. "You've got glasses and everything!"
"That's quite the blunt way of talk—Son of a… Why are these damn things so hard to hold?!" Ben was about to retort, only to grumble at his unprofessionalism in using chopsticks once more. Asui attempts to help him by holding his hand.
"Like this, Ben-chan." She ribbits a little as she readjusts his fingers, grabbing a lump of rice as she would. "See?"
"…Huh, so that's how." Ben blinks. "Thanks."
"You're welcome, ribbit." Asui smiles a little.
As Iida and went on with his discussion about being the Class Rep and…eventually to another exciting topic, Asui and Ben were spending their time gouging down on the food in front of them in silent bliss, despite the loud environment of students around them. However, all of this ended when…
*RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNG!*
"An alarm?!" Midoriya barks out as he and everyone in the cafeteria looks up. "What's going o—"
"—Security Breach: Level Three. All students, please evacuate outdoors immediately. Repeat. Security Breach: Level 3—"
"What?! Level Three?!" A student yells.
"What's "Level Three"?!" Iida asks him.
"It means that someone's trespassing on the school grounds!" He answers. "I've never seen anything like this during the three years I've been here! You should hurry too!" Getting up from his seat, he begins to run out with the other students.
"Let's go!" Uraraka stands up. Iida and Midoriya run along with her, leaving Asui and Ben alone. The Omnitrix wielder looks over at the now tight crowd of people struggling to go through the exit and into the hallways as he sighs. He then looks at Asui as she does her usual gesture.
"Tsu-chan. You on a mood to find out about our trespassers?" He smiles a little.
"…I have a feeling you're going to do something a little reckless, Ben-chan." She responds.
"Probably." He shrugs.
"On three then?" She ponders her finger onto her face. "Let's go."
…
"Don't push, damn it!" A brunet student growled as someone from behind tried to push him forward. "I can't go through!"
"Wait, I'm falling!" A female student shrieks as she and a few other people fall over. "Kyaaaaah!"
"What the hell's with this rush?!" Another student cries out.
"Owwww…" Uraraka groans as she was nudged between the shoulders of two guys around her. Iida and Midoriya struggled with similar circumstances as they attempted to go through the sea of students.
"A-As expected o-of the best!" The Engine user states. "They're quick to react in a crisis like event!"
"B-But they're so quick that it's causing a panic!" Midoriya retorts, before getting elbowed in the face and sent swooping down towards the front of crowd. "Oh, shoot!"
"Midoriya-kun!" Iida and Uraraka cry out as they shift their gazes towards their fallen teammate. The glasses teen grunts as he tries to go through towards the edge. He leans on the windows in order to get a look outside.
"Who in the world trespassed the school?" He wonders as his irises gaze around.
"The media, Iida-chan." Asui suddenly responds. Iida looks up to see her and a…humanoid frog jumping around. Fortunately, she happened to be wearing leggings, and even spats underneath those.
The creature next to her was a humanoid frog-like alien with three-fingered hands and two-toed feet. He was a little taller than Asui's height, and had pale green skin and wore a pair of dark green sunglasses. Wearing a black uniform that featured fingerless gloves and boots for his fingers and feet, a green stripe down the middle. The Omnitrix logo was located on a pair of X-shaped sashes.
"Asui-san? And…Ben? Wait, the media? How did they get in?" He blinks, before looking out the window. He could see Present Mic and Aizawa in front of the entrance to the building, the female reporter and the rest of the press surrounding them.
"Oh, great… Everyone, calm do—doh! Ow!" Iida was about to yell out to everyone, but the shoulder push of the crowd ended up pushing his face into the window, leaving his cheek to the mercy of the thin layer of glass that separated him from the outside.
"You alright, Iida?" Ben asked as he and Asui hanged on.
"W-Where are the teachers?!" Iida growls. "Are they trying to deal with everything?"
"E-Everyone, calm down!" Kirishima tried to do what Iida did. Kaminari was also with him as they tried to calm the crowd, only to get dragged in the swarm alongside Midoriya.
"Ben-chan!" Asui calls out to Ben.
"Call me Bullfrag!" He insists as he opens his mouth, a long, prehensile tongue like Asui's wrapping itself around Iida.
"Woah!" Iida yelps.
Flinging him up above the sea of people, it was then that Asui leaped off from the window, jumping off of Bullfrag's shoulders to kick Iida in the back, pushing him off to the exit.
"Iida-chan! Calm the crowd!" She commands.
Gasping, Iida quickly rolls his pants legs, revealing his engine-like protrusions on his calves. Putting his glasses in his pockets, he grunts as they begin to steam up.
"Engine Boost!" He yells out.
With the activation of his Quirk, Bullfrag and Asui land on top of Kaminari and Kirishima as they, Uraraka, and Midoriya watch as Iida face plants onto the top of the frontal exit's gate, seemingly resembling the man viewed upon various "stopping" and/or "slow down" signs. He takes a deep breath as he stays in place, his eyes turning to look down on his fellow students.
'Be precise, clear, and bold!' He utters as he grabs onto a pipe.
"EVERYONE! EVERYTHING IS PERFECTLY FINE!"
His voice echoed through the hallway, with everyone now looking up to him as he struggled to hold onto the little edge. They all gasp as he continues on, his feet shaking from the height.
"It is just the media! There is nothing to panic about! EVERYTHING'S FIIIIIIIIINE!" He repeats. "This is U.A.! Let us act in a way that befits our status as students of this school!"
Silence goes on, and afterwards, the anxious atmosphere begins to calm down. Kirishima and Kaminari sigh in relief, only to yelp once Bullfrag and Asui leap on their heads, landing on an empty space as the Omnitrix wielder reverted back to Ben. Looking out towards the window, Midoriya and Uraraka could see the police starting to come through the front entrance.
"Well, that just happened." Asui ribbits. "I didn't think you had a frog form though."
"I aim to please." Ben shrugs, only to blink once Asui began to pat his head. "Tsu-chan?"
"You're a good boy, you know that? Ribbit." She smiles. Midoriya and Uraraka could only giggle as Ben remained motionless, allowing the frog girl to continue her gesture. While they were busy with that though…
"Uh… Can I request for someone to help me down from here?" Iida gulps. "I'm…not exactly proficient with scaling heights."
…
"Come on, Class Rep." Momo turns to Midoriya as the mop head nervously stands in front of the room of 1-A.
"R-Right…! N-Now then, let us decide on t-the other class officers…" Midoriya was a train wreck in his usual antics of speech. The entire class smiles a bit in worry for their cinnamon roll, but it was then that he gulped. "B-But first, can I say something?"
"Eh?" Momo blinks.
"I-I think…that Iida Tenya should be the Class Rep of 1-A after all!" He boldly announces, bowing slightly. Asui and a few other students smiled a little at his honesty. "He was able to get everyone's attention in such a cool way. Even though Asui-san and Ben were part of the progress, I know Iida had the idea first in his mind."
"No offence taken, Midoriya-chan." The frog girl says. "Also, call me Tsu-chan."
"I think it would be best for Iida to do it though." Midoriya smiles at Asui, regaining his posture. While Iida was mildly surprised with that, a couple of the others started to agree, Kirishima and Kaminari the first of the bunch to do so.
"Yeah. I could tell that Iida wanted to do something, which is why Kaminari and I tried to go out as well. Though I think Iida's a much better speaker than the rest of us, ha ha." Kirishima chuckles.
"You said it, man." Kaminari nods. "And besides…that pose he took, keheheheh…"
"Whatever the case, you're wasting time…!" Aizawa interrupts from his position in the corner, making the two standing students flinch a little. "I don't give a damn, but hurry the hell up already."
Iida stands up, back straightened and slightly bowed down. "Then, if I have been nominated for the position of Class Representative, it cannot be helped. From this day forth I, Iida Tenya, promise to do my best to carry out the responsibilities of the Class Representative's duties!"
"Counting on ya, emergency exit!" Kirishima jokes.
"Aye~! Emergency Exit Iida!" Mineta echoes. "Do your best, man!"
While Momo and Midoriya were still standing though, the Creation User cups her chin in confusion, Ben snickering from the back upon seeing the lack of attention being sent towards his mistress. However, he couldn't help…that he had this strange omen growing in his gut.
…
The rest of the school day went off as surprisingly uneventful. Aizawa dealt with the distribution of the other class officers, giving it to the ones that he felt needed some more…"discipline". After the school day ended, many of the students did not notice any of the effects that the media may had done to the school. After everyone left though, Ben took it upon himself to investigate how the press got in the through the first place.
He knew of the U.A. Barrier. The reporters also knew if they were to break through, they would be treated as Villains, but since they were able to enter anyways, it meant either two things:
One. Someone helped the media breakthrough from the outside, or two: Someone from within the school grounds allowed the media inside.
It was likely to be the former, as U.A. keeps a secured surveillance around the entire school's grounds. Anything beyond that perimeter though, was all for fair game. If it was a student or faculty, then news of their capture would likely been done by the other staff of the school. And since Aizawa was here, even though he was an Underground Pro Hero, many Villains would know of his name.
'Which means…' Ben surmised. 'Someone from outside.'
As the sunset started to roll in through the school's grounds, as the remainder of the students started to leave, Ben hid behind one of the pillars, a location he discovered was not able to be seen from a majority of the front entrance cameras. He takes a small breath as the Omnitrix activates, wrapping him in a green light and replacing him with Buzzshock.
Sparking to a bolt of electricity, he quickly flew and disabled the few cameras that would be in his view by flying through them. Green sparks ousted from them as they lowered themselves to a depowered state. After confirming so, Buzzshock landed on the middle of the ground as he flashed again, this time with Clockwork replacing himself.
"…Let's see what has happened…" He mutters. Going for the key on top of his head, he begins to turn it clockwise for a bit. After it passes the 12:00 mark six times… A loud bell sound was heard.
His key began to glow green as it commenced to rapidly spin. The surrounding area began to turn green as several images started to play out. First, projections of the students leaving the school started to enter the grounds once more, the sunset turning back into day… It took a little, but after a few more seconds of backtracking…
"…There." Clockwork confirms as the key began to slowly turn back, to the time of the media right before they came in.
Walking out from the front entrance, Clockwork began to observe the scene in front of him. Standing behind him was a large crowd of reporters observing the man in black. After he asks his question from beforehand, the female reporter frowned as she stepped back.
"W-What do you mean?" She asks. The man merely grins as his final finger, his middle, touches the U.A. Barrier. Right as he did so…
'I see now… It was him, his Quirk.' He notes. 'This horrifying result must be named… "Decay".'
The resulting end of the U.A. was just that; a decay-ment of material as a result of the man's Quirk. Like if something was crumbled to dust, littered and voided of all matter that constituted its shape. Whatever the case though, the thing about this Quirk was…it was not in an instant. It took some time, most likely due to the material used to build the school's barrier.
Even with its apparent flaws, Clockwork saw the dramatic effect it could have on a human if this man's entire hand were to grab onto someone. Their skin would crumble, their flesh shriveled and left to blow in the air, their bones…ash.
This was all that Clockwork could project back to though. It was his limit go back to around a few hours into the past. Any further and it would cause him to tire out.
'…I'm pretty sure the Principal took note of this. Guess we will just have to see how this goes out… At least, I hope it doesn't end in with someone being killed.' Clockwork hopes as he reverts back to Ben.
With one more look at the front entrance, Ben turns to the exit, flying off on his hover board, a grim expression on his face.
…
On the next day, on 12:50 p.m…
"For today's Hero Basics Training, we'll be doing something a little more different." Aizawa announces. "It'll be turned into a class that is taught by three instructors."
"Who exactly, sir?" Iida raises his hand.
"It'll be All Might and me, as well as one more person." He answers. He could tell that words "turned into" echoed into the minds of his students. As expected, one of them asked what was going to happen.
"Then what are we doing, sir?" Sero asks, raising his hand as well from behind Jiro.
Answering his question, Aizawa takes out a card that read out the word "Rescue", in blue, bold letters. "Disasters, shipwrecks, and everything in between. Today's lesson will be on Rescue Training."
"Rescue…?" Kaminari smiles nervously. "That's certainly different." A bunch of the other students reacted similarly, while some were excited for a different type of lesson. "Looks like it's going to be a lot of work this time around too, I guess."
"Right? This is going to be exciting!" Ashido pumps her fists in response as she turns to the male sitting next to her.
"Well come on, man! This is the duty of being a Hero after all!" Kirishima chuckles. "I'm ready to rumble!"
"Well, if it's water, no one can beat me though. Ribbit." Asui boasts with a prideful smile. Ben hears this, smiling a little.
"We'll see about that, Tsu-chan." He responds. The frog girl unexpectedly turns her back to her, a growing expression of challenge showing up on her face. Momo could tell that it wasn't going to be a pretty ending between them, despite the friendliness that the two already shared with one another.
"I see… A challenge, Ben-chan?" She says. "Very well then."
"I'm not done yet, hey!" Aizawa calls everyone back. Asui and Ben ended their little challenge bravados to turn back as well.
"For today, you can choose to wear your costume or not. After all, even though they may look to you all, some of them might be ones that inhibit your abilities depending on the environment." The Eraser user notes as he presses a button, revealing the cases of costumes.
"The staff has cleaned and repaired most of the uniforms, be thankful." He says. "After everyone gets changed, the training will commence. It'll be off-campus, so we're going to be taking a bus. That's it. Get ready."
Leaving the room, all of the students began to stand up, picking up their cases and moving out to their respective locker rooms. It took a few minutes for the rest of the students to put on their costumes, as some of them consisted of more than typical decorational pieces, not naming a certain laser-shooting user of all people…
After that, most of the students exited the building, some of the students noticed that Midoriya was wearing the school P.E. uniform. It was like this as a result of Bakugo's brash explosions that tore the fundamentals of his suit. So, as a place holder, he wore the uniform, keeping his respirator, his elbow and knee guards, as well as his gloves.
Seeing everyone present, Iida blows hard into a whistle. Ben, Momo, and Asui, who were next to the bus, covered their ears in mild annoyance as he raises his arm up and down like a crane.
"Class 1-A! Gather round! It is time to depart! Follow into the vehicle in two lines in order to make the bus boarding go in a smooth matter~!" He yells.
"Sheesh, didn't he know that we were right next to him…?" Ben growls. "It's almost as annoying as Bakugo's screaming…"
"I feel similarly…" Momo sighs. "That's just Iida-san's nature, I suppose."
"Iida-chan's civilized, but oblivious in some remarks…" Asui croaked a little.
…
Now on the bus, Class 1-A began to relax on the comfortable seats of the vehicle. Much to Iida's embarrassment, the bus the class went on was that of a public transportation. He covers his face with his palms as he slouches down in shame.
"…I didn't think it was going to be this type of bus…" He sobs. Ashido pats him on the back with sympathy on her smile.
"There was no point, huh?" She says. "I guess that was karma for almost shattering those three's earbuds?"
"Well, it wasn't that bad… I've heard much worst." Ben rolls his eyes as he sat next to Ashido on his left, Kaminari on the right.
The front of the bus consisted of two 1x4 rows. On the right was Sato, Midoriya, Asui, and Kirishima. The left was that of Iida, Ashido, Ben, and Kaminari. The rest of the students sat on rows of two and four on the back of the bus.
"Well, since we have the time, why don't we get to know one another a little more?" Asui suggests. "For example; I always say what's on my mind."
Turning to Midoriya, she smiles. "Midoriya-chan."
"A-Ah! Um, yes, Asui-san?!" The green head blushes a little while flustering back.
"Call me Tsu-chan." She giggles. Midoriya laughs a little nervously. "Anyhow, what I wanted to say was that your Quirk…resembles that of All Might's."
Both Ben and Midoriya quirk a little in response. "H-Huh?! Y-You think so? B-But I…I uh…well I…"
"But wait a second, Tsu-san. When All Might fights, he doesn't hurt himself like Midoriya does." Kirishima notes. "That means they have two different types of Quirks. They just look the same."
Midoriya sighs in relief once Asui was convinced. Kirishima however decided to go on with the topic though. "It must be nice to have certain Quirks though. A simple-augmenting one is pretty good if you think about it. You can do all sorts of flashy stuff."
"How so?" Sato asks.
"Well, take my Quirk for example." Kirishima brings his arm up, hardening it. "My Hardening's good against individuals in 1v1 situations, but it doesn't look like much."
"Heck no! I think it's pretty cool!" Midoriya disagrees. "It's definitely a Quirk that can pass as a Pro's in the future!"
"A Pro, huh? Well, you have to think about your popularity as a Hero too, in that sense. When I harden multiple parts of my body, it kind makes me look like a monster or something." The red haired teen chuckles.
"Eh, you get used to it." Ben shrugs. "At least you can be recognized for one particular thing. Look at me."
"Right! Those monster guys you turned into were cool!" Ashido grins as she slaps his back. "How many forms do you have anyways?"
"Well… A-Anyhow, if you want to talk about strong and flashy, then why not Bakugo's then? Or maybe Todoroki?" Ben averts the topic as he points to the two that sat on the upper level of the bus.
"…?! Hmph." Bakugo heard his name, but upon learning that it was Ben that called him out, he looked away. Asui shrugs though.
"Bakugo-chan's always mad, so he doesn't seem like he'll be popular though." She boldly says. Midoriya instinctively flinches from his "Bakugo Radar" as the blond reacts with his explosive nature.
"Jeez, way to bomb the guy, Tsu-chan." Ben puns with a smirk.
"What the hell! You wanna fight?!" Bakugo barks in a comedic matter as he stands up from his seat, leaning on the railings as he stares at him and Asui.
"See?" She points at him with a satisfied smirk.
"Well, we haven't known each other for that long, so it's amazing that everyone knows that his personality is crap slouched from the remains of the improper sewage from people." Kaminari chuckles.
"The hell's with that vocabulary, electro bastard?! I'll kill you!" Bakugo growls again.
As the class had fun with teasing Bakugo, Asui and Ben looked over in Midoriya's direction. He looked like he was hearing a mix of heaven and hell from what his expression exposed. The two looked at each other, shrugging as the frog girl began to pat his back.
"You okay, Midoriya-chan?" Asui asks.
'K-Kacchan of all people is being teased… I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT I'M HEARING AND SEEING! THIS IS U.A. FOR YOU!' He panics.
"…What a savage conversation." Momo covers her mouth in disturbance. "How are you alright with this, Uraraka-san?"
"I like stuff like this!" The Gravity user cheerfully responds to the person sitting next to her. "Especially since he gives off such a rea—"
"—Alright, we're here! Everyone, shut up and stop messing around, we're getting off soon."
Hearing Aizawa's words, everyone looks out the windows, aweing slightly at the sight they saw. The facility consisted of a dome-shaped building that composed of eight main sections. This was the USJ, or the Unforeseen Simulation Joint.
A minute or so later, the bus stops in front of the entrance. The first few then noticed a figure standing proudly in front of them as everyone got out, waiting for the rest of the class so that they could introduce themselves.
"Hello there, everyone. I have been waiting for you!" They introduce themselves. Immediately, Ben wondered…
'…Is that a guy, or a girl?' He blinks in wonder. Everyone else seemed to react positively to this person's appearance.
Their costume consisted of a white space suit design using what appears to be a puffy jacket instead of an actual suit, a black helmet with white eyes, and a pair of yellow boots. It was possible to assume that their body was thin, given the quite small legs showing between the costume's pants and shoes.
"Oh God! It's the Space Hero, Thirteen!" Midoriya swoons, going into Fanboy mode. "The gentlemanly Hero who's rescued tons of people from disasters of all kinds!"
"I love Thirteen!" Uraraka agrees.
"I appreciate the comments! Now then, let us proceed through the front entrance, shall we?" Thirteen gestures towards the entrance, which consisted of a large blue gate.
Bowing in respect, everyone begins to follow the space-like Hero, arriving inside the facility. The Central Plaza, the main part after the entrance, was a large yellow and maroon platform that had two large stair cases leading down to the main area. Around that, there were six zones which mimicked certain environmental locations.
"Holy! This is USJ!" Kirishima notes.
"Yes! Take a look over yonder." Thirteen points out to the locations.
"We have several simulation zones. First, a Flood Zone, as well as a Landslide Zone. We also have three more locations: A Conflagration Zone, a Downpour Zone, and last but not least, a Mountain Zone." They explain.
"This is a training ground that I made with different types of accidents and disasters. And you are right, this is named the "USJ", otherwise known as the Unforeseen Simulation Joint!" They proudly say.
"Whelp, alright then. Thirteen, where's All Might?" Aizawa looks around as he walks to Thirteen. "He was supposed to meet us here."
"Well, about that…" Thirteen walks up to his ear. "All Might got caught up in some Hero work, and is currently resting in the lounge."
"…Well that's the height of irrationality." Aizawa cocks an eyebrow, before glancing about. 'Well, it's good that we prepared some stuff.'
Turning back to the students, he breathes in. "Alright, it can't be helped if he's not here. Shall we begin?"
"Right… Hmm, let's see here. Before we begin, let me say one thing…err…or two, no, maybe three…could be four or five or—"
'—It's increasing…' Everyone glooms a bit.
"Well, forget it. Let's go with the basics." Thirteen decides as he brings his hand up.
"As you all might know, my Quirk is called Black Hole. I can suck up anything and turn it to dust." He explains.
"Yeah! You've used that Quirk to save people from all kinds of disasters, right?" Midoriya notes with an enthusiastic smile. Thirteen nods, but points a finger at them.
"Yes. But…it could also be a power to easily kill a person." They counter, making everyone's happy mood dim a bit. "Some of you also have Quirks like that, correct?"
"In a superhuman society, personal Quirks have been certified and stringently regulated, so that doesn't seem to be a problem at first glance. However, please do not forget that there are many Quirks that can easily kill with one wrong step." Thirteen warns.
Everyone takes their word to heart, looking down at various parts of their body. Ben grips the Omnitrix as he folds his arms behind his back.
'Tell me about it…' He grimaced slightly. 'You have no idea, Thirteen…'
"With Aizawa-san's physical fitness test, you found out the possibility of your own hidden prowess in your powers and abilities, and with All Might's person-to-person combat training, you experienced the danger of using your Quirks against those of others." They go on.
"This class will be a refresher of sorts, a new starting. In this, you shall learn how to use your Quirks to save the lives of the people around you. Your powers do not exist for the purpose of hurting others, and I hope to leave you here with the understanding that you also have powers in order to help those around you."
Taking a minute to register his words, Thirteen bows in a gentlemanly manner. "That is all. Thank you for listening to this Hero's rambling. Ben smiles, but all of a sudden, that gut feeling in his stomach began to surface.
"Alright, let's—"
"Incoming!" Ben growls as he places his visor on.
As he says that, the entire circulations of lights around USJ go dim. In the center of the plaza, in which a fountain spewed out water, it began to twitch and get stuck as a void of purple forms in front of it.
Aizawa was the second to notice as his eyes widened. Turning around, he turns to Class 1-A. "Everyone! Gather together and don't move! Thirteen, protect the students!"
"Wait, what's that?!" Kirishima notices the void. Pointing down to it, the rest of the class begins to look down onto the plaza as it opens up, the man possessing the Decay Quirk exiting out. He had several hands all around his body as he walked from the void's space, with Villains upon Villains following his lead.
"Is this like the Entrance Exam, where everything's already started?" Kaminari gulps.
"Don't move!" Aizawa yells, placing his goggles on. "Those…are Villains."
"What?!" Everyone but Ben gasps.
"They're here…but how?" He growls. "How did they know we'd be here?"
"Thirteen… And Eraserhead, huh?" A voice uttered, revealing itself to be the void. "Seems like the teacher's schedule we received the other day was a bit off. It said that All Might was supposed to be here."
"…These guys were responsible for the breaching of the U.A. Barrier the other day. I knew it…" Ben growled. "Aizawa, what do we do?"
Watching the various Villains walking forward into the area of the plaza, the man with the hands on him looks around eerily, the void person next to him, and a sort of…monster next to him.
It was a large black humanoid monster, his body being very muscular and having many scars around it. His brain was exposed on the top of his head, while his large eyes are around it and his mouth had the shape of a bird's beak that had sharp teeth in it.
"Where is he…the symbol of peace, All Might?" The man asks with a cold tone. "I can't believe I brought an entire crowd, only to find that he's not here."
As he looks up though, his eyes widened as if he got an idea. "I know… I think he'll come if we kill some of these kids…!"
'…Kill?' Ben's eyes contracted upon hearing that word. He was about to walk off and punch that hand covered face, but Aizawa stopped him as his bandages began to hover. Thirteen also stood in front of the students as their eyes narrowed to an unpleasant look.
"Wait, Villains?!" Kirishima looks down. "How'd they get into a Hero School?"
"Sensei, what happened to the trespasser sensors?!" Momo steps up beside Ben as she asks Aiza—No, Eraserhead and Thirteen. This was now a Hero and Villain situation.
"Yes, we do have them, but…" They couldn't answer that question entirely.
"Are they only here, or around the entire school?" Todoroki wonders. "Either way though, it doesn't look like the sensors are responding, meaning that—"
"—Someone has a Quirk that can nullify the detection of presences." Ben finishes. "An isolated area such as this one from the main campus location, during a specific time in which a class would be taken here…"
"They're fools, but they aren't stupid in that regard." The Ice/Fire user completes.
"This attack was carefully planned out with some goal in mind." Momo added.
Eraserhead stands in front of the students, glancing back at Thirteen. "Thirteen, begin the evacuation immediately. Call the school for backup. Since they have someone that can nullify the sensors, it's possible that someone with radio-wave powers is present and interfering."
"Kaminari. You should try to use your Quirk to call the school as well." He quickly says, pointing to a part of his costume, which was a headset on his right ear.
"R-Right!" He says, placing his hand on it and beginning to use his Quirk.
"But wait, what about you, sensei?" Midoriya yelps. "Will you fight by yourself? Even if you can erase Quirks, with so many of them there...how can you do so? Eraserhead's fighting style is capturing an enemy after erasing their Quirk! A frontal battle is…"
"You can't be a Hero by being a one-trick pony, Midoriya." Eraserhead answers. "Thirteen, I'm leaving it to—"
"You're going to need backup." Ben says. Everyone gasps as Eraserhead stops. "I'm going with you."
"…No." He says. "You stay with the others and—"
"Let me tell you something, Eraserhead, Underground Pro Hero…" Ben's tone changes, something that Momo and the rest of the students and Thirteen began to notice.
"…?!" Eraserhead turns his eyes to see his. His eyes were calm, but full of deadly precision behind its gray coloration.
"I will provide cover by fighting the Villains alongside you. Do. You. Accept?" He says as he stands with him. Eraserhead glares at the kid through his goggles and his visor, before sighing heavily.
"…Come on." He simply says.
"Wait, what are you two do—"
"Thirteen! Go, now!" Eraserhead yells as he and Ben jump down.
Falling to the bottom of the plaza, the two run together as Eraserhead brings his bandages to his hand. Several Villains group up together as they look up towards the duo.
"Shooting Squad, let's go!" One yells, having barrels on his fingertips. Two other individuals joined up with him as they grinned.
"Didn't our intel say that it would be just Thirteen and All Might?" She say as she aims her grey colored dreaded hair at them. "Who are those guys?!"
"It doesn't matter!" The third one yells, wearing a full bodied, stitched suit of olive green. "But if they think they can come to us from the front by themselves…
"Then they're huge idiots!" All three of them yell as they begin to use their long-range Quirks.
As they begin to fire though, Eraserhead and Ben land on the floor, dashing towards the three as the former activates his Quirk. In their confusion, he wraps the three of them around, smashing their heads together before dropping them onto the floor. Some of the Villains stopped to gasp a little as the two stood in the circle of all of them.
"You idiots! That's Eraserhead! He can erase Quirks just by looking at them!" One of them explains as a Mutation Quirk user approaches them. He had four arms that were covered in some kind of fur-like material.
"Erase?" He boasts. "He can't erase the Quirks of Mutant types like us, now can he?!"
"No, I can't…" Eraserhead says as he avoids a couple of punches from his arms. "That doesn't mean I can't fight normally though!"
Ducking, he quickly rushed up and delivered a hard right to the Villain's face, sending him flying off a couple meters into the air. Sending his bandages off, he grabs him and pulls him close.
"The skills of guys like you…" He mutters. Ben was about to warn him about a punch to the back from another Villain, but he quickly limbos and kicks him in the face. As the brute landed on top of a nearby duo, he grunts as he throws his captive onto them. "Are statistically more likely to manifest in close combat!"
"AAaah!" They cry out in pain.
"Why is why I have taken measures to protect myself from such things." He finishes. Ben groups with him as more and more Villains begin to circle around them. The man with the hands observes the two from afar.
"He's proficient in hand-to-hand combat, and since he's hiding his eyes with those goggles, you can't tell whose Quirk he's currently erasing. When he fights against a group, which makes it harder for them to work together." He explains.
Erasing a woman who could use her hair as drills, Ben quickly kicks her in the face as Eraserhead ties and kicks off a Mutant with a bird like skull helmet. The two continue to fight off the Villains as he continues to observe them.
"…And that other person with him is also proficient in combat. I see… I hate Pro Heroes. The masses don't stand a chance against them."
The Void person next to him narrows his eyes as the duo, noticing something from Eraserhead as he continues to fight alongside the circle of Villains. As the students of 1-A begin to evacuate, Midoriya takes a moment to awe at Ben and Eraserhead.
"I knew Aizawa-sensei was a good fighter…but Ben as well? Amazing…" He says.
"Midoriya, come on! There's no time for analysis!" Iida yells at him. "We need to take shelter!"
As 1-A began to run off towards the exit though, the void user appears in front of them, surprising Thirteen as they stop first. Looking down on them, the Villain narrows his eyes.
"I won't let you, Thirteen." He utters. The fighting duo glance over in horror in response.
'Shoot! I blinked the moment that the most dangerous looking went off!' He tries to run back to them, only to be stopped by Villains. He growls, turning to Ben.
"Go!" He yells, quickly wrapping away a row of Villains away. Ben quickly begins to run off with a gruesome expression growing on his face.
"Get away from them!" Ben roars as he jumps onto his hover board. His voice could not be heard from below as the Villain forms a wall of shadows.
"Well now, hello there. Nice to meet you all." The Void user introduces himself. "We are the League of Villains, myself being a member. It may have been a bit presumptuous of us, but we invited ourselves into the home of the Heroes, U.A. Academy, in order to have All Might, the Symbol of Peace…take his last breath."
The students shuddered as they stopped in their tracks, quivering in either fear, confusion, anger, hate, or a bunch of other emotions. "I believe that All Might should've been here though. Has there been some sort of change in regard? Well…that is neither here nor there. This is the role that I have come to play."
Thirteen narrows his eyes, opening up his index finger to reveal a black hole, but before he could activate his Quirk, his eyes widened as Bakugo and Kirishima rush forward, Quirks activated.
"HAA!" Bakugo lets out a large explosion as Kirishima follows him. "Did you ever consider that you'd get beaten by us before you did it?!"
The rest of the students opened their eyes from the smoke of Bakugo's attack, only to hear the sigh of the Villain in front of him. "…Oh dear, now that's quite dangerous…"
"What?" Bakugo blinks in shock.
"That's right… I forgot. Even if you are students, you lot are quite the excellent golden eggs." He smiles, or appeared to smile as his body began to expand.
"You two, get away, NOW!" Thirteen yells, but—
"My job will be to scatter you all…and torture you to death!" He yells as his body circulates around the entire group, trapping in a dome of shadows. The only ones that escaped the vicinity were that of Iida, Uraraka, and Sato, the first using his Quirk to push the three of them out of the sphere.
"EVERYONE!" Iida screams out in horror.
Ben finally arrives up onto the main floor, only to stare in shock. He was about to go berserk, but upon hearing the faint screaming of Midoriya from afar, the Flood Zone to be exact, he glares at the sphere.
"He's warping them to the various Zones… That's his Quirk." He growls.
Looking back, he sees his classmates scattered about around the Zones, Villains beginning to approach them. As the Void user's attack ends, it was revealed that Thirteen, Shoji, Sero, and Ashido remained.
"Shoji, is everyone here?" Iida asks. "Are they safe?!"
The Dupli-Arms user replicates several of his eyes and ears, using them to move and located the class. "Yes! Everyone's scattered, but they're all still in this building!"
The group sighs in relief, but quickly turn back to the Villain in front of them. Thirteen glares at the Void user, before glancing back at Iida.
"Class Rep of 1-A." They calls out. "I'm entrusting this duty to you."
"Yes?" Iida blinks.
"I need you to run to the school and tell them about what is happening here." Thirteen orders. "The alarms are not sounding, and our phones don't have signal. The system is based off of infrared rays, and even though Eraserhead is erasing Quirks left and right, they're still not working."
"Then that means…!" Ashido notes.
"They have someone who could interfere with them that hid the moment these crooks arrived." Thirteen explains as the Villain reforms to his full form. "It would be faster for you to run to the school than for us to find and capture that person.
"But I can't leave everyone beh—"
"Iida, GO!" Ben growls, almost in anger. "We'll handle it here!
"Go on, Emergency Exit!" Sato adds. "If you can get outside, there'll be alarms. That's why they're only doing it inside."
"As long as you get out, they won't follow!" Sero shouts as he lines with up the yellow spandex wearing classmate of his. "Burst through this guy's miasma with your legs!"
"I said that Quirks are to be used to save lives, right? This is the time to do so, young man." Thirteen says as Shoji walks up with them.
"Come on, Iida-kun!" Uraraka looks at him. "I'll support you with my Quirk."
"Who tells the enemy of their plan right in front of them though?!" The Villain growls as he lets his body surge forward. Thirteen uses this chance to properly begin the fight, standing in front of the students.
"Because even if you heard, you wouldn't be able to stop it!" They yell, a giant vacuum starting to come from the hole in Thirteen finger. It began to suck up the Villain's attack as he went on.
"Black Hole!"
Watching the Villain begin to get into conflict, Ben quickly turns back, eyeing the various grounds. He growls like a beast, something that Uraraka and Ashido note as he turns to them.
"Watch over this place… I'm going after the rest of our classmates and the Villains!" He says as he runs off towards the center.
"Wait, where are you—" Uraraka was about to ask where he was going, only for the two ladies to cover their eyes.
Replacing Ben was a creature resembling a humanoid velociraptor. He had black wheels on his feet and wore a helmet with a visor, leaving the other features of his head unknown. His fingers resembled sharp blades. When the visor came up, one can see that he had a blue face, green eyes, black lips, and stripes above and on the right side of his eyes. Wearing a skintight suit of black, his arms and lower legs were exposed, and there was a gray stripe located down the middle of his chest. He wore the Omnitrix symbol on his chest, and he had five blue stripes on his tail.
Not even getting a chance to retort, the two could only see a blur of blue and black as the new form went down to the floor in record time. As Eraserhead kicked another Villain, the screeching of the alien's speed was enough to make him stop.
"What in the name of—"
The Villain in front of him was suddenly smacked, kicked, punched, slapped, kneed; practically any form of direct physical harm was achieved against his body as the blur of black and blue savagely and mercilessly torn him down in circle of pain. After a final hit, the attack ended up creating a crater from the result speed force, leaving the Villain gasping for air.
'Is that…' He was hoping it wasn't who he thought it was. As he looked around, the dozens and dozens of Villains began to drop one by one, each on the floor with bruises and bumps all over them. It didn't even take long for them to dwindle down to a half-dozen either.
After around thirty seconds, the speeding Ben finally stopped in front of Eraserhead, the alien looking in his direction. "…You alright?"
"…What the hell was that, Tennyson?!" He says.
"I didn't break any bones or body parts, I merely subdued and left them unable to fight. These bastards are going to pay for trying to harm my classmates…I know just the torture to deal with them." He growls, a small smile growing.
"…I see." He says. Clearly, Ben was not in the mood to argue. "If you do anything suspicious though, it'll be on your record."
"Of course… All that matters though is that we rescue class 1-A. They were randomly spread out to the Zones without regard to their Quirks. That means that the enemy doesn't know of their abilities." He quickly explains. "Can I trust you with these two jokers?"
Pointing to them, the man with the hands narrows his eyes in curiosity. As Eraserhead nods, Ben speeds off to the nearest Zone, a bad grin showing on his face.
'…Is this kid a sadist? Hate to be a masochistic girl right now then.' Eraserhead jokes.
…
The Flood Zone, also known as the Shipwreck Zone.
Midoriya was currently standing on a ship in the middle of the water zone with Asui and Mineta. Surrounding them were dozens of Villains who were currently floating around the area.
"M-Midoriya! You're freaking contradicting yourself!" Mineta was about to cry out into a panic attack. "The best plan would be to just sit tight and wait for the U.A Heroes to come save us!"
"…Wait a minute though, Mineta-kun." Midoriya and Asui look down from the edge, observing the watchful group. "Those guys down there are clearly assuming that'll the three of us will be fighting them in the water, yes?"
"Haaaah?!" The short teen gawks.
"Does that mean they knew what was in the facilities before they gathered all of these Villains here?" He asks out loud.
"That should be correct." Asui responds, pondering her finger on her chin.
"Then for people who gathered so much intel so meticulously, there's something a bit strange. They sent you, Tsu—"
"Rib…bit?" Asui's cheeks turned ever so slightly pink as she turned to him.
"Uhh… T-They sent you, Tsu-chan, to the Shipwreck Zone. In other words, the Villains most likely do not have a clear idea to what our Quirks are.
"Ribbit… Oh, that's true…" She blinks with realization in her otherwise emotionless face. "If they knew I was a frog, they'd most likely would've sent me to the fire zone over there."
She glances towards the red dome. "I think I know where you're going with this, Midoriya-chan."
"They probably separated us because they didn't know what our Quirks were, and most likely wanted to overpower us with numbers alone." Midoruya notes. "We have inferior numbers and less experience, so our only hope is to use the fact that they don't know what our Quirks are."
"True. They aren't trying to climb the ship. That supports your hypothesis, Midoriya-chan. However, that also means that they aren't going to be underestimating us either." Asui adds.
"Right. So, what we'll do is—"
"—Midoriya! Tsu-chan! Mineta!" Ben yells from afar. The three look up to see the speedster alien do a long jump from the edge of the water across the Zone, landing right in front of Mineta.
"B-Ben?" Mineta gulped. "What kind of form is that?"
"A dinosaur? Like Humungousaur? It's pretty fast though." Asui noted.
"Name's XLR8." He says as he reverts to Ben, looking over the edge. "These guys are pissing me off… How dare they…!"
"C-Calm down, Ben!" Midoriya pats his shoulder. "How's the other Zones?"
"…I was planning to go along and help the next Zone after this one. Assuming that the likes of Bakugo and Todoroki or other of our proficient classmates are there, most likely that they'll be alright." He starts. "But if some of them are in Zones that are dangerous for them to be in…I'll have to intervene."
"Well, we were just about to plan out an attack." Asui announced. "In order to coordinate, let's tell each other about our Quirks."
Everyone looks at one other, nodding as they sat down. "Well, it's kind of obvious in my case, but my Quirk is my Frog Form. I can do most things that frogs can do, like jump high, stick to walls, and fling my tongue out up to around about 20 meters in length."
"…If what you said is true, you can also…" Ben narrowed his eyes a bit, in worry of insulting Asui. She took no offence, but it was clear that she didn't like to say it.
"…Yes. I can also spit out my stomach and wash it, as well as secrete toxic mucus that stings, but just a little." She begrudgingly explained.
Upon hearing that, Mineta blushed, but for a seemingly wrong reason. Ben and Asui's ear twitched upon hearing him utter what seemed to be an otherwise suggestive noise
'…"Secrete"?!' He drooled in his mind. He was immediately slapped in the back of the head by Ben though.
"Anyhow, those two are practically useless for this kind of situation, so you can probably forget about them." Asui finishes.
"…I already knew it, but you're really strong, Tsu-chan." Midoriya smiles a little. "All I have is super strength, and to a slight extent, super speed, but once I use it, I'm out of commission pretty much. It's like a double edged sword for me."
Ben glances at Midoriya. He had taken his words, as he noticed during the paired battles that Midoriya attempted to surge One For All throughout his entire body. Even if it was slight, and ended up hurting him anyways, with future training, it would be possible for him to achieve a full effect like All Might himself.
He then gestured to himself. "My Quirk is pretty much self-explanatory as well. I can transform myself into a flurry of creatures that each have different shapes, forms, abilities and weaknesses, etc. You already saw a few of my forms, like Humungousaur, Big Chill, and Heatblast."
"And Bullfrag as well, ribbit!" Asui adds with a slight smile. Ben returns the gesture, before going back to his neutral expression.
"Anyhowm, depending on what kind of attack you guys want to initiate, I probably have a form that'll accommodate for that." He finishes. Mineta raises a hand though.
"How many forms do you have, anyways? Ashido tried to ask the same question, but you didn't answer." He asks.
"A-Ah… Mineta-kun, if he doesn't want to say, then he—"
"—No, he's right." Ben turns to him. "Regarding the number of transformations I have, I possess roughly seventy at the moment."
"S-Se—"
"Seventy?!" Mineta barks. "What the heck?!"
"Yes, yes! I have that amount, yes! Let's get back on track. Mineta, what does your Quirk do?" Ben turns back.
"Well…" He reaches for his head, grabbing it off like a sphere. "My Quirk produces extremely sticky spheres from my head, which I can then use as projectiles, with a new sphere growing in place of the removed one in seconds. The spheres are able to stick to surfaces, with the exception of myself, in which they bounce off me. Depending on my health level, their stickiness can last a whole day. If I remove too many spheres from my head in quick succession though, I'll bleed."
…
…
Ben and Asui look at each other, before looking back at Mineta. "…That sounds like the perfect Quirk for a pervert like you."
Mineta remained silent, before crying out like a child again. "AAAAAAAH! This is why I said we should've waited quietly! My Quirk is totally unsuited for this type of battle!"
"Th-That's not it, Mineta-kun!" Midoriya tried to convince him otherwise. "It's an amazing Quirk, so we should think about a way to use it—"
"—Heads up!" Ben suddenly says as he and Asui watch from out. A villain uses his water manipulation Quirk to strike the ship and breaks it into pieces after creating a giant, sharp hand out of water.
"W-Woah!" The mop head begins to stumble as the Villain grins.
"I'm getting freakin' impatient. Let's end this thing already!" He roars.
Balancing on the now two-in-one vehicle, Asui sighs as the four stand on one end. "Sheesh, the power of that Quirk… He broke the ship in one fell swoop."
As the ship began to sink though, Ben began to glance around, his eyes thinking of something from Asui's point of view. Blinking, he turned to Mineta. "Mineta."
"H-huh?" He sniffles.
"Trying throwing some of your spheres at them. I want to test something." He calmly says.
Blinking in confusion, Mineta steps forward and starts to furiously throw some of them down into the water. Seeing them float in the water and seemingly having no effect, he turns to the three behind with an even more upset face.
"Wait, what're—Huh?" Midoriya looks over, only to gasp in surprise. Ben and Asui look over as well, the former slowly growing a smile on his face.
"What the heck are these things?" One of the Villains tried to splash them away.
"They're being cautious and not touching them?" Midoriya notes. "…Wait, then…"
"Midoriya. You thinking of the same thing?" Ben turns to him. Midoriya nods, and the two turn to Asui and Mineta.
"Guys, we have a plan." Midoriya smiles. "You ready?"
From the water, the Villains grin as the ship begins to slowly sink. "It's only a matter of time until—"
*WHOOOOOSH!*
Interrupting his chatter though was of a super jump. From the ship, a flash of green quickly erupted as Midoriya, and a large, humanoid figure leaped high into the space above the vessel. He was a red alien that was approximately twelve feet tall, had well developed muscles, and two pairs of four-fingered arms. A black stripe went from his chin to his lower lip, and he had four green eyes: A main pair, and a smaller pair below them. He wore a grey and white T-shirt with a black line going down it, black pants, and fingerless gloves, and possessed the Omnitrix symbol on his upper left shoulder.
"I think I understand why Iida's afraid of hei—"
"—NOW, Midoriya!" Ben yelled as Midoriya hanged on his neck.
As the two hovered around the space above the Villains, the latters looked up in shock as Midoriya rocked his arm forward, grunting as grabs his right wrist and aims it at Ben's back.
"Sorry, you're going to have to repair my body again after this!" He yells. "Let's go!"
Bringing his middle finger in lock with his thumb, the power of One For All begins to surge into his two fingers. Midoriya growls loudly as Ben's Four Arms form flashes once more. The adrenaline from using his Quirk prevented the teen from being blinded as he watched a new form replace the one in front of him.
Ben was now a hulking, broad-shouldered alien that resembled a pill bug, being covered in natural, yellow armor plating on his back, shoulders, and the backs of his arms. He was mostly white, with black on his upper half. He had four claws on both of his hands and had sharp teeth. Wearing the Omnitrix symbol on his forehead, his eyes were green.
'Even if it's a Smash, we won't be able to get them all if they were to form a circle. And besides, even if we get through this Zone, there's still going to be other enemies! We have to preserve as much as we can!' Midoriya growls in his mind as the Villains.
"Ha, the moment they hit the water…"
'But…we have to ensure our own safety first…! Here we go…imagine the microwave…control the power…!' Midoriya grumbles in his mind, before widening his eyes.
From the ship, Asui grabs Mineta as she looks up. "Time to go, Mineta-chan."
"We're gonna freaking di—"
"—One For All…" He starts off. The Villain who destroyed the ship was about to bring up his giant fist when…
"Delaware Cannonbolt SMAAAASH!" Midoriya screamed as he flicked his fingers off.
Right as he performed the move, Cannonbolt rolled up. His back plates and the plates on his hands were now covering him, and his side plates were now the plates on his shoulders. His sphere form had semi-circular stripes across his body, with black lines around the circular plates.
"Oh man… This is gonna—HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!"
Being blasted by Midoriya, despite his armored state, Cannonbolt grunted slightly as he was suddenly pushed off with incredible force into the oceanic Zone's water deposit. The Villains' eyeballs nearly popped out as he cannonbolted into the water, creating a ginormous hole in the water.
Midoriya looks down in pain and guilt, the former from busting two of his fingers as a result of his usage of One For All. The latter, was from using Cannonbolt as an anchor of weight for his attack. Watching the alien burrow down into the water, he nonetheless turned back to the two on the ship.
"TSU-CHAN! MINETA-KUN!" He yells for them.
"Ribbit!" Asui yelps as she blasts off from the ship, jumping as high as she could. She repeats her usual antic as she releases her tongue, wrapping it around Midoriya's torso as she began to jump out from the Zone.
"It's on you now, Mineta-chan!" Asui calls out. The crying purple man in her arms clenches his fists in anguish as he begins to furiously throw out his spheres down onto the water Zone.
"GOD FUCKIN' DAMNIT MIDORIYA, BEN! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS BEING SO COOL FOR?! NOW YOU'RE MAKING WANT TO HELP, DAMNIT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL!" He cries out, throwing so many in succession that his head started to bleed. Asui looks down in slight surprise.
'Woah. I didn't think he'd be that encouraged.' She admits with a mental ribbit.
As Mineta's spheres began to land into the water, as both Villains and objects began to dwell down into the center hit spot of Cannonbolt's landing. They both began to stick to one another.
"What?! The hell are these?" A Villain yells as one sticks to his back.
"It's that damn brat's!" Another answers. "Ugh, I can't get it off!"
As they struggled to get them off, the water begins to regroup back to the surface point from which it spread out from. Midoriya and company could hear the Villains yelling as they all began to diverge. Looking back, a pained grin appeared on his face.
"Kuuuh… If a strong force is applied to the surface of water, it'll spread…and then converge back into the middle!" He roars.
The resulting attack's force was so great that it caused the Villains, the ship, and even Cannonbolt, to bounce high into the air, even after the latter slammed rock bottom and managed to reflect off from the bottom the of floor. The yellow armored alien could be seen unraveling himself midair as he gazes at the three, before flashing green into Jetray.
Asui smiled in satisfaction. "Rounded everyone up at once, got ourselves out from danger with minimal harm, and we're out of range from nearby enemies. I've guess we've cleared the first hurdle, guys. Nice work!"
As the three landed near the edge of the zone, which was closer to actual grounding, Jetray quickly flew over, landing next to them while reverting back to Ben. He rubbed his back a little due to a little numbness he got from that Delaware Smash. "…Ow."
"S-Sorry, Ben." Midoriya tried to chuckle, but instead winced.
Mineta turned to the Villains, grinning. "I was had a bowel movement this morning, so those things'll be sticking all day."
"We were lucky that was all of them, I took a huge gamble and almost hurt Ben in the back. Normally, they would've kept some of their troops underwater to be secured, and I was trying to keep my composure but I couldn't stay calm and I—"
"—Midoriya-chan, stop that. It's scary." Asui retorted, patting her tongue on his bushy head. That managed to stop his muttering at least.
"Rather than reflecting back on this, shouldn't we be thinking about what to do next?" She suggests.
"O-Oh… Yeah, you're right—tch…" He replied, wincing still.
"You alright?" She asks with worry, grabbing his hands into hers. Midoriya blushed a little, but nevertheless gave her a small smile.
"Y-Yeah…" He says. "Anyhow, we should make it our top priority to get some help. Let's follow the shoreline and reach the exit through the central plaza."
Pointing to said exit, everyone but Ben looks over, before blinking in confusion. "Wait, what happened to all the Villains? Did Aizawa-sensei take them all out already? That's amazing!"
"No… That was me." Ben instead responded, turning his back to them.
"H-Huh? You?" Mineta gulped. "You beat all of those Villains, and by yourself of all people?! How?!"
"…Let's just say I was trying to cool my system. I didn't take the situation of Villains kidnapping my friends as a good thing." He responds. "Go out. Iida's group is by the exit, trying to get back the Void user who dispersed everyone in the first place."
"Wait, then we can try to help him then!" Midoriya responded.
"Help him? You're crazy, Midoriya!" Mineta barked.
"I'm not thinking of doing anything that'll get in his way, but if we can lessen the load after we find a slight opening, then even we can—"
"—No." Ben repeated. "Those Villains we took cared of were just second rated thugs. The real threat is the guy that first came out, and the last one. The guy with the hands on his face, and the giant, buff guy with the exposed brain."
"But—"
"—By all means, if you'd rather learn the hard way, by all means. I'm going to come after you guys after I check the other zones." Ben turns his face to them, a serious expression showing on his face before he ran and jumped into the air.
Flashing into Jetray, they watched as he began to fly towards the Mountain Zone. Turning back to the center, Midoriya narrows his eyes as he begins to walk out.
"Let's go, guys…" He says. Mineta looks back, shuddering slightly.
"…Ben was a little scary." He admits.
…
"Holy shiiiiiiiiiiit!" Kaminari yelps as he turns around and ducks, narrowly dodging a punch from a large Villain. He runs off in the direction as he starts to go towards the others that were dragged to the Zone with him.
"Scary! Seriously, did you see the size of that guy?!" He yells. "I almost saw the River Styx! What the heck is with these guys?! WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?!"
"How the hell do you know about the River Styx of all things?!" Jiro yells as she blocks an attack with a generated sword. "And stop panicking!"
"Focus on fighting please, Kaminari-san!" Momo yells as she slaps a Villain in front of her with a polearm.
"Yes! Worry about that later." Jiro says as the three group up. "Right now, we need to focus and figure out on how we'll get away from all these Villains."
It was true. Villains upon Villains were now surrounding them from every angle. Now that they were cornered to a wall, waves of these creeps were now preparing to come closer.
"Then give me a weapon too then!" Kaminari barks.
"You're the electric guy, aren't you?" Jiro says, blocking another attack. "Hurry and Kaminari then to death!"
"W-What? You saw me during the training combat, did you?!" The blond barks. "We were paired up! I can only cover myself in electricity! I'll you two as well as everyone else here too!"
"What are you saying?" Jiro sighed.
"It's like, you know, the same as Todoroki!" He tries to compare. "And even if we wanted to call for help, there's that damn jamming interference that's preventing my headset's signal from going out!"
"So, we can't rely on you, and instead you need to rely on us?" Jiro answers. "Sheesh, you're a guy… Stop whining."
"Oh, come on—Woah!" Ducking another punch, Jiro grins as she faces him, kicking the electric user.
"Then, I'll use you as a human stun gun!" She suggests. Kaminari gawked as he landed onto the chest of the attacker, only to blink in surprise once his Quirk began to electrocute him.
Blubbering, the Villain cried out in pain as Kaminari turned back to Momo and Jiro. "Oh, it's working! Hey, I am strong! You two can count on me!"
"Too happy-go-lucky!" Momo retorts. "Jiro, to your side!"
"Got it!" Plugging her ear jacks into the amplifiers into her legs, she knocks another Villain into Kaminari's electro trap, frying him into the mix.
"Another one, Yaoyozoru!" Jiro calls out. Momo quickly generates a net from her arms, throwing it at a knife wielding Villain. He quickly drops down to join the party, blubbering in sync.
"We seriously need to take this situation into account." Momo groans.
"Well, I thought it was a good idea!" Jiro replies as Kaminari's discharge ends. She blasts another heartbeat wave out towards another group of Villains.
"Kaminari, you should've requested something to help you aim in your costume order!" She yells, but as she does so.
"—GOTCHA, YOU LITTLE BRAT!" A Villain cackles from above the mountainside. Jiro gasped, but as she looked up…
"HANDS OFF, FUCKBERRY!" Ben suddenly yells, drop kicking the Villain in the face after leaping off from his hover board.
"Language!" Momo retorts as she whacks away the Villain as he drops her near. "Where'd you come from?!"
"From helping another group in another Zone. Did they do anything to you, did they even stare at you guys with their disgusting eyes?!" Ben suddenly growls.
"Well, a couple of them were staring at Yaoyozoru-san with a…lewd look I guess?" Kaminari looks at him with a nervous expression, gulping. He immediately shuddered and hid behind Jiro as Ben began to snarl savagely.
"B-Ben?" Momo blinks. "Are you—"
"—I'LL FUCKING KILL THEM!" He roars with a berserk like tone. The Villains stagger slightly from seeing his gritting teeth. "COME HERE!"
The remaining Villains, which lasted to around five, began to step back. As Ben growled, the Omnitrix flashed green, blinding everyone.
In his place was now a new alien. He resembled an orange and white bipedal tiger with one black claw coming out of each wrist, and had no tail. He was muscular and had green eyes. He had stripes on his shoulders, head, legs and upper body, and had a white jaw, neck, chest, stomach, hands, and feet. Wearing black shorts and a black and green shirt, the Omnitrix dial was located on his chest.
"Lemme tell ya something, Villains allying with The League of Villains…" He growled as his claws.
"H-Huh?" One of them dropped his jaw.
"RATH IS GOING TO KICK YOUR SORRY ASSES, DRILL THEM INTO THE GROUND, AND KNOCK THEM TO KINGDOM COME!"