Mystery from Another World--MHA

Part 16: Work Study and Drama

The upshot of those confrontations was that most of class 1-A was still mad at the DJs, but to their astonishment, Aizawa did nothing at all about it. He never even mentioned what happened. None of the other teachers ever heard about it either.

Shine did exactly as she said, she stopped avoiding the students. That scared the crap out of some of them, because they felt like it was a challenge, and her powers were still uncertain.

They might have been unable to be in the dorms with all the tension, but the work studies began, and the student became too distracted to have much time for sulking. Todoroki and Bakugo alone remained around the school, it got real quiet too. The DJs didn't bother them though. Shine was mild enough, and Wally was friendly, but they didn't force any confrontation on them. Bakugo seemed to lose interest in starting one for the time being and put more effort into study so he could catch up or surpass the others. It was driving him crazy not to be able to participate.

One day not far into the Work Studies, Kirishima came home with a story about a quirk blocking drug and his successful defeat of a villain, which impressed everyone else. Midoriya seemed to be troubled over something, he wouldn't say what.

Not that many days later, Shine was reading when she heard yelling downstairs, and came rushing to the common area. Most of the class who were not at Work Studies still were gathered around the TV.

"What's going on?" Shine demanded.

"Something's going on, the news is covering it..." the girls cried.

"Midoryia was there somewhere," Kaminari added.

"I think I saw Tsuyu and Ochako too." Hagakure was jumping up and down. "Something big is going on."

"Mr. Aizawa was there too, and Fat Gum," Sero said.

Shine didn't know who Fat Gum was, but she watched the screen. The News reported that a pro hero by the name of "Sir Nighteye" had been taken to the hospital. But the broadcast was strangely sketchy. Like all the important parts had been left out. A villain named Overhaul had been arrested.

"Where's Midoriya?" Todoroki wondered. "I don't see him anymore."

No one saw Midoriya for quite a while, or Kirishima, who had been wrecked in a fight. When they did finally get back, with the girls, the class rushed to make them feel better. After resting a while, they told everyone part of what had been going on, that it had been actually days of working on the case, and planning a rescue... there was a little girl involved.

Shine sat in on this, and Wally had joined them by then too, and they were both horrified to learn this. Shine gripped her teacup. 

Midoriya wouldn't say much about the girl, Eri was her name, but he seemed pretty relieved she was rescued. 

It wasn't very long after that happened that they learned that Sir Nighteye had died. Midoriya seemed to take this hard. No one spoke to him about it...except Wally. Who of course, had lost people along the line.

"Once, I thought one of my friends who I looked up to had died," he said. "I remember feeling lost. Not knowing if I was going to be good enough on my own without him."

Midoriya glanced up. "Oh... what happened? I mean, were you able to live up to his example?"

"I don't know, turns out he wasn't dead," Wally said. 

"Oh," Midoriya wasn't sure what to make of that. 

"Still, it was scary," Wally said. "And I think I do try harder since then..."

Shine came into the area and handed him a cup of coffee and Midoriya one of tea.

"You don't need to live up to his example, Wally. Not everyone needs to be Superman, I think Superman himself knows that, he's still human really...but if it came to living up to his example in regards to mercy and justice, I think you more than succeeded. You are the most compassionate person I know."