Silence Destroyed (MHA)

Chapter 30- A Major Loss

If there was ever a moment that Aizawa resembled a cat, then this was it.

His shoulders were up to his ears, and while Naoko couldn't see his face, she knew he would be hissing if he could.

Not that she blamed him. The situation didn't look very good, and from what she could tell, they were facing the originator of the forest fire... Along with about thirty of his clones, all of whom were circling their small group and holding fire.

It was apparent that the bodysuit man was responsible for the thing that had attacked them earlier because every single one of the clones was identical to how that thing felt. It was both unnerving and impressive to see how much power the bad guys in this situation held, and they were here for her.

The other students had circled around her in protection, and they all seemed to be preparing to fight. It didn't matter to them that they were injured, it didn't matter that the Class 1-B guy seemed to have a deep-seated grudge against Class 1-A, they were all willing to defend her.

Unfortunately, their heroism- which, under any other circumstance would have brought tears to her eyes- was about to bring them a world of hurt.

The man who created these clones had disappeared, meaning that Aizawa couldn't stop this from getting out of control. And while Aizawa was doing his best to erase as many of the clones as he could, there were just too many.

Blood was still trickling down from Kirishima's hair, the class 1-B teacher was still passed out on the ground next to Naoko, and the fires that the clones held were hot enough.

If Naoko wanted to be polite, she would say that they were in a spot of trouble...

But since when did Naoko ever want to be polite?

There was a whole litany of swearwords running through Naoko's mind at the moment as she cursed these idiots. They were making her life far more miserable than it needed to be, and while she appreciated the break from the training camp, she really just wanted them to go away.

A quick glance let her know that these clones weren't nearly as powerful as the original, but that didn't help. A difference in power didn't change the fact that the 'heroes' were about to get barbequed.

***

It was official, Levi and Chris really didn't like the broccoli boy.

Normally it would be enough that they were flying through the sky, Levi hated that, but Broccoli boy wanted to go with them, as did Todoroki, arm kid, and the birdman... Which meant that they were flying through the air bundled up with the rest of these kids.

At one point, Naoko described what her claustrophobia felt like to the two of them. They had been interested, because Naoko was able to go on trains without too much consequence, and she described her little hollowed out nook by the AC. It was something both of them wanted to understand, so as uncomfortable as it made her feel, they forced her to talk about it one day.

She did her best to explain the terrible feeling of the walls closing in on her as she lost the ability to breathe.

After that came the feeling of her mind shutting down as panic filled her.

Every time she had one of these, she woke up with something destroyed because of her quirk's volatile reaction to the panic attack.

It sounded absolutely miserable, and more importantly, it was eerily similar to how the couple felt right now.

Neither of them really loved being close to people very much, they did just fine with how close they normally got to people in hero work. Occasionally picking someone up? Yeah, that was fine. Patching up bloody wounds? A piece of cake.