My Hero Academia: Aspirations

Chapter 8

Aspirations
Chapter 8

The buildings around you were in disarray, rubble just about everywhere you could look. Another villain had reared their heads and what had started out as road rage transformed in an instant when their true colors came out. What once might have been a quick public argument turned into something more like a battlefield. One that disrupted the whole area and stopped traffic. Which was exactly why you had time to look out the window and see what was going on. The kids on the bus with you were mixed - some were frightened out of their minds, others wanted to see the heroes rush in and kick some ass.

You, like many others, were a mixture of both. There was a feeling of pride as you watched a silver streak swing closer to the bus; your mom had a certain type of grace when she used her quirk to help navigate broken urban environments. Your attention was shaken from the fight your mom was engaging in when one of the people in the road raging car barreled down the street carelessly, their rhino like body growing larger as they continued to move. Soon the escaping villain got so large that they were bulldozing cars out of their way as they started to run on all fours.

It was easy to see what was going to happen before it actually did. But you didn't know how to express your warning in time. It came out of a quick bit of profanity instead as you used your own quirk to help as much as you could given the situation. You stretched your arms out and let your tendrils come out as quickly as you could, covering not only the window you'd been looking out but two more, one to either side of you. As the bus was tipped over onto its side violently, you were able to cushion at least a couple of students from hitting themselves on glass and metal. Not everyone was so lucky.

It took a minute before you were able to retract the tendrils and longer still until you were able to stand back up. The other junior high students you were with were managed in by a couple of the natural born leaders in the school as well as the driver to work together to open the emergency door in the back. You stayed behind long enough to make sure that everyone else was out safely; the urge to help and make sure no one had gotten hurt was strong. And the easiest way for you to do that was to look at everyone as they filed out.

What you weren't prepared for was for the Rhino to turn back around. Their hulking body made a wide curve as they did so. You could practically feel their intent as they headed towards you and the group of students. The younger the hostages the better.

But the Rhino villain never got the chance. Spiraled spears of bone shot out and pierced his body. Your heart hammered in your young chest as you and a bunch of your other classmates had to dodge out of the way. You could feel your skin rip against the unforgiving pavement but it was patched together before you even finished standing back up.

You looked in the direction that the spikes had come from to see a vaguely familiar looking person standing calmly from across the way. The sleeve of his business suit was ripped, making it easy to see the bone spears slip back into his flesh. He'd started to take a step forward and you weren't so sure that was a good thing. He had just kill someone! A villain that had been about to potentially hurt some kids in your class, sure, but still they'd been alive and he had killed them!

Before you had time to turn around and run in reaction to this man getting closer and closer to your group, you felt yourself swept up. Your mother wrapped you in a safety net using her quirk and flung herself into the sky with you in tow. Something about this familiar man scared her to the point that fleeing became a more viable option than a confrontation.

And so you woke up feeling winded and worried as your alarm went off. You groaned and moaned, turning the device off. The dream faded but the sensation and emotions of it remained. You grabbed your phone to look at the time regardless of the fact that you knew that time you'd set your alarm for. You spent a couple minutes checking the basics (email, weather, and the like) before getting up to get ready for the day. By the time you were dressed and had fed yourself the teenagers had already been in class for a short while. Which meant that you had to play catch up to find what building Aizawa moved them to for their training.