The Hero's Stand

6: School Trip

Nothing interesting happened on the day after the break-in or any other days after. The hero classes were treats to look forwards to and all our morning classes were on basic stuff like maths, during which I spent being the equivalent of a private tutor for Ururaka. We both came out of that with adequate amounts of work in the end though. Iida had embraced his role as class rep and had started trying even harder to maintain order in the classroom which, as Ururaka pointed out to me, was a near-impossible task. People were just too exited because of the events of the first two days.

I could also sense some tension around the teachers, they were more alert and easily startled. It was almost as if they were waiting for something that they had figured out would happen and were trying to prepare us. This was evident through our hero training, which became more focused on escaping and saving others in a life-threatening situation. I pointed all of this out to Ururaka, who shrugged it off as them being paranoid about the media beak-in.

But that answer didn't feel like enough. I started thinking for myself what could get the teachers in such a tense mood. Try as I might though, my thoughts would always drift to the thought of the media breaking in until I woke up from a dream on the Tuesday of our second week at U.A with a small epiphany. The media wouldn't be able to get in the way they did, I had seen the way the wall was disintegrated when I stopped time. There was no way just some journalist could do that, they'd need outside help, someone who could do a thing like that and get away afterwards. It was probable that a villain got in on that day and if the villains were able to get through the security then the pros teaching here were the only safeguard us students had against the possible threat.

Knowing this put me on edge too. It went unnoticed by most but Ururaka was quick to do so. She almost immediately came to ask me what was wrong and I told her my theory. She agreed with it and made me promise not to stray too far while I was training around school.

We were all proven right pretty fast after I started thinking this. It was that Wednesday afternoon, on our second week at U.A, that things went off the rails. Mr Aizawa welcomed us to the class as usual and we took our seats.

"Welcome students" he said in his usual, lazy voice "Today we'll be going on the class' first out-of-school trip. The buses are parked outside, now get your hero stuff on and meet me there in 5 minutes"

He turned and walked out of the classroom, leaving us confused as to how we'd get changed in the classroom. Iida came to the rescue on that one. He had us get changed in groups while the other people kept Mineta under close eye. We got out on time though, God forbid what Mr Aizawa would have done if we hadn't.

The bus was a one big enough to hold the whole class in 2 rows of seats. I sat with Ururaka, conscious of Ashido, who sat behind us with Kirishima and seemed to have an unnatural level of interest in our discussions. I noticed this only because there was one point when the bus threw me on top of Ururaka and we both turned red, apologising profusely to the other. Ashido pretty much squealed at this point and tried her best to hide it by looking out of the window.

Great work. Now they're gonna think we're dating. Not that I'd hate that or anything.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY FOUR EYES!?" Shouted Kacchan, saving me from my own thoughts.

Apparently Iida had tried to talk about Kacchan to Todoroki.

Eventually we arrived. I saw them first, the rescue hero Thirteen, and tried to keep Ururaka's attention. It didn't work of course and she saw the pro anyways, leaning over and on top of me to get a better look all while squealing.

This made Ashido smirk and I swear I heard Mineta whisper 'lucky'.

"Ummm...Ururaka?" I said, slightly muffled "You're suffocating me"

"Oh. Sorry" she said, quickly retreating from the window.

"Bet you didn't mind" whispered Ashido from behind me, just quiet enough so that Ururaka couldn't hear.

"Alright class. Calm down. We're here at the USJ. Keep in mind the same rules apply here as if we were in school."

He funneled us out of the bus and Thirteen introduced themselves.

"Welcome to the Unforseen Simulation Joint! I'm sure you've heard of me. I'm the rescue hero Thirteen. I'll be teaching you how to save people and keep your quirks under control. A quirk is a good thing when used properly, take mine for example. I save hundreds of people a month with my quirk black hole but it could just as easily be deadly to those very same people. That's why I had to learn to keep my quirk under control and limit my output. Come on in and I'll show you how."

Thirteen turned around and pushed open the doors to reveal a grand dome of glass that housed a variety of different environments that must have stretched on a quarter of a mile each. There was twelve of them and a large circle of flat ground in the center. We were stood on a set of steps that led down to the centre piece.

Suddenly Mr Aizawa threw his arm forwards and blocked us from moving forwards.

"Everyone stop!"

Thirteen turned around and started a question, to wich Mr Aizawa pointed to the centre of the middle circle.

"I don't suppose you called in assistants Thirteen?" He said

"No I didn't" replied the space suit sensation

"My God" sighed Mr Aizawa "where's All Might when you need him. He probably got too caught up in his own hero work to make it."

"Listen up!" Shouted Thirteen "Those people there are villains. Real ones! You kids need to get out of here. We'll distract them."

Mr Aizawa jumped towards the group and started fighting. I watched as he took out villain after villain, using his scarf to pull and throw his opponents. I knew he wouldn't be able to hold forever so I turned to the class.

"Come on! We've gotta go!" I shouted

"For once Deku's right!" Shouted Kacchan "we can't take that many villains. Leave it to the pros!"

We all turned around and started running for the exit. It looked like we were about to make it too.

"And where do you think you're going children?"