Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 20 - I'm down here again

A/N Have a 11K chapter to make up for the short 1.6K previous chapter

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This wasn't supposed to happen.

It was just supposed to be a field trip to the USJ, where they were supposed to check their skills and what they had learnt during their internships.

Not a villain attack.

The day had started off decently, in Iida's opinion. He had met up with Uraraka and MIdoriya in the morning, before heading for their respective classes. Kaminari, for some reason, had found Stain's intriguing, but to be honest, Iida agreed with him, in a way. He had the determination and drive and the power to execute his ideals. That was admirable, but his way of doing so was completely wrong.

But Iida could learn something from this. He knew what he wanted; to become a hero as great as his brother, Ingenium. In order to do that, he needed to know what was right and what was wrong; going after Stain would have definitely been a mistake, he would have been massacred on the spot before he could even say a single word, if Stain wished that to happen. He wasn't strong enough, and he needed to pay even more attention in class, work harder, train harder, in order to grow strong enough to protect himself and the others around him.

Lunch was pretty normal. Kamakiri, Kaibara and Shiozaki had joined them at their table. Monoma looked like he wanted to join in as well, except that he had literally just insulted Bakugou and Todoroki for being cocky and was partially out of it from a chop to the neck by Kendo.

Midoriya, as usual, remained completely silent, and it was only then that Iida realised that Midoriya made absolutely no sounds at all. When he drank his water, when he walked, when he put his cup back on the table, it was quiet. He wondered what had happened for Midoriya to be like this.

Then it hit him.

Tensei had told him about bullying. No doubt that Midoriya had grown to attract as little attention as possible, in order to prevent others from noticing him and hurting him. Not making any sounds, slouching to make himself appear as small as possible, they were self-preservation tactics to make himself as unnoticeable as possible.

Midoriya was his friend. He may not know much about bullying, but Iida knew that Midoriya did not deserve it. He was a nice person, willing to stand up for others over himself, and after Tensei told him that most victims of bullying had a screwed up sense of self-worth? No wonder he had jumped in to take the hit for Shinsou, or jump out of bounds to protect Shiozaki. He felt that they were more important for him, and was willing to sacrifice his chance to get into the hero course, and even his life for them.

Somehow, Iida felt the need to protect Midoriya, even though Midoriya could probably kick his butt to the moon and back.

Then, they had to go on a trip to the USJ. They had gone their once, before their internships, but the Unforeseen Simulation Joint still looked as impressive as it had been the first time. Thirteen had announced them that the Mountain Zone had been replaced by the Frost Zone, given that they already had the Ruins and the Mountain Zone which were similar to the Landslide Zone.

But the second they had entered the facility, the lights flickered, and a portal swirled into existence, bringing with it more monsters like the ones he had seen on the news in Hosu, where he had been busy with Stain, and villains.

Aizawa and Kaminari tried to call for help, but something was jamming their signals, so Thirteen had told him to run, to get back to UA and to get help since he was the fastest as Aizawa leapt off the podium into the sea of villains in an attempt to buy them some time. But the second that Iida had run out the open door, he heard the ominous sound of the air swishing, curling in on itself, and against his better judgement, he turned around.