Atrocious

- Chapter 14 -

Narrator POV

A few weeks passed and
Anna had arrived.
Although she was sure that her dreams had a greater meaning than causing her to wake up in a cold sweat, they had not appeared for a week.
She thought for a long time about whether the dreams had a message, were supposed to trigger something or prevent something. But without any more dreams (and she was glad of that), she decided to let calm prevail.

Teaching filled her up. Her lessons were perhaps still bumpy but well structured. The students showed great interest, especially in making dishes and creams that were proven to accelerate healing.

The professional relationship between her and the teachers steadily improved. She was now on first-name terms with all of them. Only with Mr. Nezu did the teachers keep the polite form.
She hadn't seen Hawks in all that time, but she regularly gathered from the television that he had his hands full.
The rogues had a new kind of high culture, or so she felt.
They appeared more often, dared to get away with more in terms of robberies, attacks or simple brawls.
In the end - the heroes had more to do and it felt like the villains were like little children who wanted to test their parents' limits.

The bell rang and Anna had had her last lesson.
She dismissed the 2nd class of the support department, wiped the blackboard and roughly cleaned the room with a cloth and feather duster.
When that was done, she packed up and left.
The students still had four lessons to go, but you could tell from the boisterous mood that they were already looking forward to the afternoon.
"Anna!" was called out and she couldn't tell where the call was coming from in the crowd of pupils.
"Over here!" came more clearly from behind her and she saw All Might. He gave her a friendly wave, assumed his familiar heroic pose and then made his way to her.
He offered to accompany her for a while and together, lost in small talk, they left the building.
"I have a rather unconventional question and hope that you might have a solution to my problem."
"I'm happy to help," she said quietly, watching his kind and very open smile.
"Those creams you make can speed up the healing, you mean?"
Anna nodded.
"What about ... with foreign bodies?"
"They have to be surgically removed?" she said, confused, realizing in the same breath that he meant something else.
"What kind of foreign body?" she asked seriously.
He stopped and Anna stood demonstratively in front of him.
You could see from his face that something was bothering him. His smile narrowed.
"Backlash and residue from a specialty..." he whispered and this was indeed new territory for her.
"I've never had anything like this before, All Might, but I'd be happy to use my knowledge to help you. Where is the injury? I assume you have one?"
He answered in the affirmative and stroked his stomach with his hand. He was struggling. But he was also desperate.
He slowly pulled his shirt up on the left side of his stomach when they were interrupted.
"ALL MIGHT ! ALL MIGHT!!!!"
He looked over Anna's head and his expression suddenly became worried and fearful.
"Young Iida!"
Tenya Iida jumped over quite a few fences to avoid the scraggly walkways.
His eyes were wide and full of fear. His legs were wobbly.
Before he had even reached them, he said loud and clear:
"Scoundrels! Rogues are attacking us!"
It took him less than 10 seconds to explain everything.
The students had made their way to the USJ of No. 13. A constructed disaster area that housed areas such as sea rescue, landslides or fire.
This area, encased in a glass dome, was a purchased and managed U.A. building and thus tightly guarded and secured.
"They were just there...through a portal!!! All Might! We need your help!!!"
"Go ahead, I'll call the teachers and nearby heroes with the principal!" shouted Anna, patting All Might's arm in encouragement.
"It'll be all right, Tenya," she turned to him and ran.
They parted ways and Anna did her best to do everything she could to help the students and heroes in this situation.

Ten minutes passed.
Precious minutes that could lead to victory or defeat.
Both Principal Nezu and Sekijiro had forbidden her to be there. She was too inexperienced and Anna knew that they were right and that Sekijiro would be worried.
She agreed, albeit reluctantly, and called the infirmary to prepare them for any casualties.
Only one thought kept running up and down her mind.
'I want to help, but I'm too weak.
And she knew she had to change that.

As quickly as possible.