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It was a perfectly normal day.
Perfectly normal. Well, aside from the fact two students were currently off campus having the laws they were being trained to uphold used against them; every other student who was outside of school was being called back to the dorms (without any trouble so far); and two scientists who'd spent half their lives trying to give back to humanity were hiding in one of the quiet rooms used for one-to-one sessions because— over seventeen years ago— a man had taken advantage of their kindness.
Yes, it was a perfectly normal day, Aizawa and Hizashi gripping each other's hands like vices, Eri fast asleep on Aizawa's hip, no idea her big sister was in any trouble at all. They weren't letting Eri out of their sight. They were back to staying in the 2-A dorms too, Snipe so glad he almost fainted when he was relieved of dorm mother duty. By the end of the evening, they were going to have every student safe and sound on campus. All but two anyway.
A buzz in his back pocket had Hizashi pulling his phone out, hopeful for a message from Silver. Instead, he was not ashamed to say he yelped, dropping his phone as a blur of light purple and neon blue went from heavily pixelated to a high-definition Lucy, her usual pigtails in disarray, a crazed grin on her face and deep bags under her eyes.
"I got tracked!" she squealed, the excitement unexpected along with (of course) her materialisation, even if the words themselves weren't.
"We know," Aizawa muttered, rocking his weight back evenly instead of balancing it over the balls of his feet, and bringing his hand from his scarf back to his youngest daughter. Thankfully, she hadn't woken up.
The girl's grin widened, the feral expression making her eyes glow with animalistic glee. "They're here," she whispered excitedly, bouncing up and down, moving her arms so quickly in front of her face it made the two men dizzy. "I have to meet them, like right now I have to meet them. This second. Now. Where be my people?"
"Lucy, do you know what's going on?"
The girl blinked, her excitement hitting a stonewall and sliding down into the mud. "Um, Silver either rubbed off on your secret love child a little too much or he's being framed, and Silver is out there keeping him alive. Also, two insane people I should have met years ago because awesome are here and I'm not in the same room as them yet! Anything I missed?"
"If we needed a secure line, could you do it?" Aizawa asked, choosing to brush past that particular explanation of events.
"Well, duh." Her face twisted into a frown. "You mean phone right, 'cause-"
"Yes."
Lucy wiped her brow dramatically. "Oh good. Now tell me where my homies at."
They'd been on the way there anyway, so it was easy enough for the two men to lead her, though the way she walked so close to them that she kept stepping on their heels was a little irritating. Thankfully, the journey was short and Lucy bounded in before Hizashi could even reach for the handle. Lucy rushed into a messy greeting to the two scientists who looked to Aizawa and Hizashi for an explanation.
They didn't have one to give.
"Lucy, why are you here?" They'd tried asking her along the way here, but all they'd got out of her was unintelligible noises that sounded somewhere between agonising pain and overwhelming excitement. Now that she'd hopefully got most of her energy out running circles around the bewildered Shinsekis, they should get a straight answer... maybe.
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SSD IV: Shinsou
FanfictionPart IV: Shinsou Shinsou Hitoshi doesn't remember his birth parents. Apparently, they gave him up when he was a newborn. He likes to imagine they were good people, good people who couldn't take care of a child and gave him away in the hope that it w...
