Silver Cyclone

Chapter 20: Backup Plan

We landed pretty close to shore with a splash. Tsu was dragging Mineta by his scarf thing while Midoriya was cradling his broken fingers.

"I had a pretty good poop this morning which makes my balls stickier." Mineta stated.

"You know what TMI is, Mineta?" I glared at him. He didn't answer. Midoriya started to mutter about what could have happened and all the chances we took.

"You're creeping me out. Stop it." Tsu stated without looking at him. He stopped and turned to her, "Instead of second-guessing what we did shouldn't we think about our next move?"

"Yeah, you're totally right." He responded.

"Really, it could have gone a ton worse." I added, side-eying Mineta. He looked off trying to be innocent. Midoriya grimaced.

"Hey, are you okay?" Tsu asked.

"Yeah, fine! Don't worry about me." He pulled down his elbow brace to hide his swollen fingers.

"We should make getting help our top priority. If we follow the shore to the exit we can avoid the central plaza entirely." He pointed to the gate we walked in from.

"Good idea." Tsu confirmed.

"We won't get in Mr. Aizawa's way with that plan." I turned my head in the direction of Mr. Aizawa. I hope he's doing okay.

"If he doesn't get back up, he'll overexert himself. He'll end up defeated." Midoriya stated out loud. He can't be thinking of interfering with him, can he?

"Wait, don't tell me you're suggesting?" Mineta said something I agreed with.

"Midoriya. We can't interfere with his fight!" I almost yelled, feeling emotions that I felt from back then. A mix of everything, but I felt fear for our teacher, an emotion I didn't even have time to register from when my mom died. Things happened so fast. But, what if something similar happens to our teacher? What if when we get involved, we end up making him lose, or we lose our own lives? So many questions, no answers. I have power now unlike then. We could, but, should we?

"Are you trying to get us killed?" Mineta looked at Midoriya like he was crazy.

"I'm not saying we should jump into the middle of the battle, but maybe we could figure out a way to take a few of those guys out to lighten his load." Midoriya suggested. My nerves calmed a little, but still, the lingering fear for Mr. Aizawa had bubbled up into a wild inferno. I didn't even realize I made the temperature around us 10 degrees hotter until Tsu pointed it out.

"Hey, Fubuki? Did you just make it hotter?" She asked, and I was confused for a second until I tuned in my dulled senses. I lowered the temperature to its natural spot.

"Sorry. I didn't even know I could do that." I replied innocently, "Honestly I used to try to change temperature outside but it never worked. Strange."

If only I knew at the time this would be monumental to growing the power of my quirk. Then, Midoriya asked a question I was not expecting.

"Fubuki, uh I may be totally wrong about this, but, did you get your quirk late?" This threw me off guard, but I replied swiftly.

"How did you guess?" I answered, surprising my three companions.

"Really?" Mineta wondered.

"I was wondering that too. Your quirk seems so powerful but you don't seem to have that much control." Tsu added.

"Well, I got it after I turned ten when my mom passed away." I looked down.

"Ten!?" Mineta screeched.