The Immortal Hero: Phoenix

Chapter 10: Darkness at USJ Part 1

Sometimes, Shota Aizawa REALLY hated his life. The Press invading the school yesterday had been a major annoyance, but still just an annoyance. The injuries caused by the panicking students, and the resultant panic attack from Izuka had sullied his mode further, but Aizawa had dealt with worse. Discovering the Press had gotten in through a hole in the barrier that was created by one of the people responsible for Izuka's captivity five years ago, as well as discovering a threatening letter from that person to Izuka had left Aizawa wanting to crawl into his sleeping bag, grab his cats and hide from the world. Then to put a cap on a truly god-awful day, he had to tell All-Might about Izuka's panic attack AND the letter... The Number One Hero had, quite reasonably, gone ballistic and had only barely been able to keep his rage from showing in front of Izuka and Katsuki.

All that was yesterday, and it seemed to Aizawa that today was just going to keep shovelling more shit onto him. It was nearly 1pm, the time for Hero Foundational Skills, which All-Might was supposed to be teaching alongside Aizawa and Thirteen at the USJ, but at 2am that morning, a massive fire had destroyed an apartment building in Tatooin Ward... specifically, the building that Izuka and her mother had lived in before moving in with All-Might...

And the place that Shigaraki had stated as the meeting place in his letter to Izuka.

The Police and a few heroes, including All-Might, had secretly staked the place out, but the Villains never appeared. Suddenly, at 2am, warp gates began opening throughout the building, dropping small explosives and Molotovs into every apartment and stairwell. All-Might had been able to save the civilians living in the building, with only a couple being injured, but the building had ultimately succumbed to the damage and collapsed; thankfully while it was empty. Even now, many hours later, All-Might was still going over the place with a fine-tooth comb for any leads, and so he wasn't coming to U.A for the day.

To compound the issue, almost no heroes were available to cover for All-Might; all the ones that were available had already been roped into the other classes. In the end, even Gran Torino and Sir Nighteye were unavailable, both of them currently being out of the city following leads on alleged sightings of Kurogiri. The only person that Aizawa was able to get to assist him was a sidekick of Sir Nighteye; Juso Moashi, AKA Centipeder.

With the afternoon Homeroom coming to an end, Aizawa-Sensei stepped up to address the class. "Today, your Foundation Skills Class was intended to be supervised by a three-man team of myself, All-Might and another Hero you'll meet shortly. Due to All-Might being called away to assist the Police, a Sidekick from the Sir Nighteye Agency; Centipeder will be joining us instead."

Izuka smiled at that; she'd only met Centipeder a couple of times, but she liked him a lot. He was very respectful of others and acted like a gentleman. Sero put his hand up to ask a question; "Sensei, what are we doing in class?"

"The second most common form of Hero Work, after Support, is Rescue! Whether it's a natural disaster like a flood or hurricane, or a man-made disaster like car accidents and forest fires, a Hero must always be ready to save others, so today is the Trial of Rescue!" Aizawa declared.

"Whoa, this sounds tougher than the battle trial." Kaminari said, smirking despite his nervousness.

"Yeah, but it should be interesting!" Mina said excitedly.