-Chapter 11: The Calm Before the Storm-
"The next battle shall be between Team H and Team J!" All might proclaims holding the team's respective lots. "This means our last battle for today will be between Team E and F!"
"This is going to be awesome!" Kirishima calls out before giving his teammate a high five. "You ready to kick some ass Sero?"
"Yeah let's go." the tape user says trying to get his loud teammate away from the class.
"Kero, We might as well follow them." Asui croaks to her feathered teammate.
"Let's make haste." Tokoyami calmly states
As the four students make their way to their building Ashido decides to ask Ben a couple of questions.
"Hey, Alien Boy, mind if I ask what kind of memories were brought up when Yaomomo sent you on that tirade?"
"Yaomomo?"
"Yeah, Yaoyorozu is a mouthful to say.
"Oh, well before I moved here it felt like I was a magnet for the weird. I would end up in crazy situations where I would have to be bailed out by Grandpa or by my cousin. So anything that could 'strengthen the magnet' I like to avoid."
"Oh I get that, You mentioned your cousin what were they like?"
"My cousin Gwen," Ben starts in a bit of a somber tone," she was brilliant, top of her class, a bit of a dweeb, if you ask me. Her quirk was very similar to our grandmother's. As she used to describe, she was able to manipulate the life energy of the world around her. She could manipulate this energy to create barriers, tethers, and projectiles or to track people by their Mana, as how she would call it."
"I'm assuming she needed to track you down on several occasions," Ashido said trying to get a smile out of her saddened friend.
Giving a small smirk the Omnitrix wielder says "More times than you would think, let's say I have an adventurous spirit."
"Yeah, I can tell" the pinkette then reaches up and ruffles Ben's hair much to his dismay.
"Yeah, yeah I know I'm a troublemaker. Looks like they are almost to the building." the brunette says pointing to one of the screens.
"Since you were able to make a plan for the first battle what do you think will happen here?"
"Yeah, I was curious to see what you could come up with too. "Momo chimes into the conversation looking at her former teammate.
"If that's the case I can't let two beautiful women waiting then," Ben starts causing the two girls to blush Ashido's cheeks turning more of a purple than red due to her pink skin, "I think the villains would have a higher chance of winning."
"Why do you say that?" Yaomomo questions.
"Even though the heroes are more mobile with Asui's ability to jump like crazy and assuming Tokoyami can fly due to his bird head, it sucks that he hasn't shown his powers yet because this would be a lot easier, their movement is rendered useless by Sero and his tape. He can make a web in the room with the weapon so dense that the heroes could make it through.
"I can see that but what about Eijiro?" Ashido asks
"Assuming Asui and Tokoyami are like my aliens the more mobile they are the less likely for them to be incredibly strong. From personal experience, it takes a lot to take down Kirishima. Whenever we would spar at the gym I would have to use Four Arms to end the fight.
"Four Arms?" Asks the confused ravenette
"Think of a four-armed guy as tall as All Might that can throw cars as if they were made out of styrofoam. From what I know of our classmates the villains should hunker down and wait for the heroes to come to them. Once the heroes are in range, one should be distracted and restrained by Kirishima while the other would probably make a break for the bomb only to become trapped by tape."
Ben's assumption for the battle wasn't too far off. As soon as the trial started Asui make her way up the top of the building while her teammate stayed on the ground floor. What surprised the class was when a shadowy being with glowing yellow eyes left the cloak of the bird-headed teen. The boy and his sentient quirk quickly checked the bottom floor while Asui did the same on the top floor.
Then the heroes made it to their respective staircases they were surprised to see the tape blocking their way. Asui saw a small opening near the ceiling she then jumped up and clung to the surface allowing her to crawl upside down perfectly fitting through if we ignore her hair getting stuck for a second. Tokoyami took a more direct approach by using the shadow to slam through the tape. The adhesive of the tap surprisingly was unable to stick to the living quirk.
The second and fourth floors respectively had little to no problems outside of bookcases and desks blocking walkways. When the heroes made their way onto the third floor the teammates were able to reconvene and searched the last floor together.
Little did the hero team know that one of their adversaries was waiting for them around the next corner. As soon as the villain was able to see his target he charged at the heroes in a red blur. Just as Ben assumed Kirishima was the first one of the villains to attack. The redhead goes to tackle his bird-headed classmate only to be stopped by the shadow. It looks like Tokoyami was telling Asui to leave the redhead to him because the frog-like girl bounded past the two making her way into the room with the bomb.
Much to her surprise, the bomb was in the upper corner of the room being held up by a large amount of tape. This isn't counting the webbing to tape that was made around the room making her job of getting to the bomb much harder.
She once again saw an opening close to the ceiling and went to jump to it but was caught mid-air by a fresh strand of tape stocking her to the wall. Unknown to Asui Sero was in the corner under an upturned chair waiting for her.
The battle ended not long afterward due to Kirishima getting frustrated by the shadow and using the tether that connected the living quirk to its user to slam Toktami into the wall rendering the boy unconscious. The shadow gave up on fighting and became a barrier around its user to make sure no further harm came to Tokoyami.
"Team J Wins!" All Might declares into the microphone.
"The final battle of today is Aoyama and Ashido vs Sato and Koda!" All Might declares "Please make your way to the final building."
"Sounds like a plan All Might," Ashido says bouncing on her feet. "Let's get this thing started!" The energetic girl then pulls her teammate out of the room.
As the four students make their way to the training building Ben once again gives his predictions for the upcoming battle.
"Just going off personalities I think Ashido will be too much for Koda to handle. Has anyone heard him speak yet?" Ben asks.
"Now that you mention it Koda is very soft-spoken and shy." Sero mentions
"If that's the case Mina's exuberance will scare Koda."
"Sato seems to be more level-headed, but he has no ranged options unless he throws something. Aoyama would be an easy counter for him with his laser assuming Sato doesn't close the distance before he has a chance to attack. Just going off of these factors I'm going to say the hero team should win this match."
The beginning of the match was just like the others with the heroes searching the first couple of floors before finally finding the room with the bomb in it on the fourth floor. But when Ashido tried to push open the door it wouldn't budge.
On the screen, it looked like Ashido pointed to the floor above them before sliding across the hallway on some slime that was coming out of her shoes. Aoyama then turned to the camera in the upper corner of the hallway and proceeded to do several poses for a couple of minutes. The glamorous boy then quickly turns to the door before putting his hands behind his head as he fired a powerful laser beam from his belly button.
The laser was able to blow the door off of its hinges knocking the furniture that was in the way across the room. A large wooden object was then thrown at the blonde boy by a dull-eyed Sato catching Aoyama by surprise and knocking him back into the hallway. All the while Koda has his head out the window for no apparent reason.
Sato then in a mad rush charges Aoyama picking the boy up and slamming him through several walls. Luckily The Shining boy had his armor to take some of the force, sadly though it wasn't enough, after being slammed through four walls he was rendered unconscious. Unexpectedly though after his rampage, Sato collapses reaching the end of his sugar rush.
Back in the room with the bomb Koda finally looks back into the room to see part of the ceiling melt away. After a couple of seconds, Ashido comes falling through the freshly melted hole in the ceiling scaring Koda. The energetic girl then performs a front flip to jump onto Koda to use him as a springboard to launch herself at the faux weapon winning the trail.
The class is now outside of the final trial building All Might calls out to the remaining students that aren't seeing Recovery Girl. "That's a wrap! Super work. You were all amazing plus no major injuries, except for Young Midoriya and Young Aoyama being knocked out. You all should be proud for an excellent first day of training!"
Asui raises her hand before stating, "Thank you, it is nice to have some encouraging words after our homeroom class. Mr. Aizawa was kind of a buzzkill."
The entire class besides Ben and Bakugo nodded. Ben was giving a so-so gesture with his hand while Bakugo was staring down at his feet refusing to look anywhere else.
"I'm happy to bring such staggering positivity to my alma mater! That's all for now, folks. I should go and check on Young Midoriya's progress! Now, watch how a pro exits. Like he's got somewhere to be!" All Might finishes his statement by running into the distance at speeds that would rival a tornado.
"Holy crap, I would not take someone of his size to be able to move at those speeds," Ben mumbles to himself.
Luckily the last two periods of the day for Class 1-A are their hero class with All Might. So once the class was dismissed they were free to go home. Most of the class did so besides a select few, Kirishima, Ashido, Ben, Uraraka, Iida, and Asui. These six couldn't go home yet not without making sure one of their classmates was ok. Currently, they were casually talking waiting for said classmate to arrive.
"Ben, what is America like?" asked Asui
"I can't say for all of the US 'cause it's massive but where I'm from it's pretty chill. Bellwood is as southern as you can get while still being connected to San Francisco Bay. It's a relatively small town hardly on any maps but it is in almost the perfect spot in California. It's basically a 3-hour drive to anywhere you may want to go in the state. But besides that not too much happens outside of the rare villain attack." Ben responds while sitting on a desk
"That sounds pretty chill," comments Kirishima
"Yeah, it was at least until I moved." said the emerald-eyed teen
"What do you mean by that?" Asked Uraraka
"Oh, um, well before I-I moved," Ben started but was unable to say much more.
Seeing the nervousness in her new friend Ashido steps in and whispers to him. "You don't need to tell everyone about what happened." She quickly changes the tone by pointing at the door announcing "Midoriya's back!"
With those two words, the group minus Ben dropped what they were talking about before dashing over to the greenette. The Omnitrix wielder stayed on the desk frozen in thought but did look over the new arrival.
"Good to see ya back, man!" Starts Kirishima "I don't know what you were saying during your match but you were fired up. That energy got us hyped for our matches and we knew we had to go all out."
The rest of the group had other words of praise as well making their way back to the desk where Ben sat introducing themselves to Midoriya. Asui made it a point that everyone should call her Tsu. It was only then that they all realized that Midoriya was still bandaged up.
"Hey, Deku why didn't Recovery Girl heal you up?" Asked Uraraka
"I was too tired to heal. She used stamina as fuel to heal but I barely have enough stamina to walk so she wants me to go back in tomorrow," The greenette then notices that Bakugo's chair was empty, "Where did Kacchan go?"
"He left a little while ago you just missed him actually. I'm surprised you want to know where that ass is." Ben informs Midoriya but before Ben could finish talking the healing boy sprinted out of the classroom.
"Wonder what that was all about?" mutters Kirishima
"No idea, but I know we just started hanging out but I need to get going." The Omnitrix wielder says despondently, " But before I leave can I have your guy's numbers so when I get home I can still talk to you guys?"
"Of course, having the contacts of other heroes is the responsible thing to do as an inspiring hero." States Iida chopping at the air, "If you prefer I can give you the contact for Midoriya."
"Yeah, that sounds good," Ben says taking a step back trying to not get chopped in half.
Back at Aizawa's apartment, Ben is texting in the new group chat name "The Rising Stars" by a certain Pink hair classmate of his. The teenage hero has been home for about two hours before Aizawa made it back.
"I'm surprised you are out in the living room besides your room Ben." the gruff man comments
"It's not that unbelievable Shota, I'm just texting some friends."
"Friends, you say? Let me guess the students that you were with that refused to leave until you all knew how Midoriya was."
"Yeah, those guys are pretty cool, even if Iida is a little stiff."
"I can see that." Aizawa says with a nod before focusing on the boy, "When I was in my sleeping bag behind my desk I overheard part of the conversation you had with your friends. You were talking about America before going quiet when you mentioned your 'move'."
"Yeah, I sorta tensed up there. I-I was just sent back to that day…" Ben started to say before he began to tear up unable to speak.
"You don't need to say anything else, let's knock out some homework before calling it an early night ok?"
"Ok," was all the teen could say before he forced himself to walk to the kitchen table where his backpack was.
Not too long later Ben is solely focused on his homework trying to push those memories back but he was interrupted by a fragrance he hasn't smelt in a while. The boy turns around to see Hizashi holding a fast food bag.
"Did you get chili fries?" asked Ben
"Maybe but I did get some Mr. Twisters," the blonde man then reveals a tray of smoothies. "I got word that you had a rough end of the day and figured that I could help."
"Thank you, Hizashi," Ben says while taking the chili fries.
"If you don't mind me asking what happened that day last year? I know that was the day an old villain attacked and made your inner circle smaller. You haven't gone into much detail besides that."
"I know I haven't said much but it's still so hard to think about. I can still hear Gwen screaming, the smell of disintegrated bodies, the heat of the fires." The shaken boy goes into his head lost in thought.
"I know it must be hard Ben but don't forget Shota and I are here for you."
When Ben got to school the next day it was interesting, to say the least. Even though Aizawa had him get up extra early so the two left together Aizawa allowed the teen to stop at a nearby coffee shop for him to walk to school with his new friends. Everything was going well Ben met up with Ashido, and Kirishima before the rest of the way to school. Once they got to the front gates was when the trouble started.
With the news of All Might teaching at UA getting out the press wanted as much information as possible on the topic. This of course led to anyone who could get a camera and a microphone chasing down students to interrogate them. Ben having flashbacks to Will Harangue back home took his new friends through the teacher-only entrance at the back of the school. It would seem like not all of their classmates were so lucky, most noticeably Midoriya, and Uraraka were backed into a corner.
Aizawa eventually stepped in to save his students by setting up the UA Barrier. This wall was set up to ensure both nosey reporters and villains couldn't easily make it onto campus and would notify the teachers if anyone were to set foot on school grounds.
As homeroom starts, Aizawa lets everyone know that they did an excellent job yesterday, before advising certain students on how to do better. Ben, Midoriya, and Bakugo were said, students. He told Bakugo to stop sulking, told Midoriya that he need to focus more and gain better control of his quirk, and lastly told Ben that he had the power to stop the match before it started and to not get distracted.
"Now that we got yesterday's notes out of the way, our first task today will decide your future. You all need to pick a class representative." Aizawa tells the class.
This announcement sends most of the class into cheer and demands to become the class rep. Iida was able to get the attention of the class to calm them down. Before stating "The class representative's duty is to lead others. That's not something just anyone can do. You first need to have the trust of the classroom. Therefore the most logical way to fill this position is democratic. We will hold an election to choose our leader."
"I don't care how it'd done just as long as you have a representative decided before I wake back up," Aizawa states zipping up his sleeping bag
The class then wrote down the name of the person they want to be representative on a sticky note before leaving it on Aizawa's desk to be counted. The results of the vote were written on the chalkboard byYaomomoin perfect kanji. The top three places went to Midoriya with four votes, Yaomomo had three, and Ben and Iida were tied with two votes.
When Aizawa woke up he formally announced, albeit in a tired tone, that Izuku Midoriya was the class representative and his deputy representative wasYaomomoYaoyorozu. Both students were standing in front of the class, Midoriya was sweating up a storm being so nervous in front of everyone whileYaomomo looked like she has done this a thousand times before.
Now that everyone was at lunch Midoriya was able to speak his mind about his new leadership role. "I'm not sure I'm qualified to be the class representative."
"What are you talking about you are going to be fine," says Ben, nudging his friend's side while taking a bite out of a burger.
"Sure you are." Uraraka pipes up eating a rice bowl
"You will be great," Iida says while drinking some orange juice, "Your courage and quick thinking under stress will help make you a worthy leader. Not to mention the strength you've demonstrated. Those are the reasons I voted for you, at least. Ben, you were a close second for my vote for the same reasons, but I figured American school systems wouldn't have something similar to this so I didn't want to through you into the deep end."
"I'm surprised you didn't vote for yourself you really wanted that position." Ben comments
"Wanting a job and being suited to it are quite different things. Observing the Iida family's hero agency has taught me that much."
"Agency?" questions the other Japanese natives.
"Hold on, what does your family do?" Midoriya questions.
Iida begins to nervously scratch the side of his head before sheepishly responding. "My family has been pro heroes for generations. It runs in our blood."
"That is so cool, I'm surprised I didn't notice it sooner but you must be the younger brother of Ingenium the Turbo Hero." Midoriya being before going into a muttering spree.
"Wow, a family of heroes. Guess I'm not the only one then." Ben mentions
"What do you mean?" Asked a confused Uraraka.
"My grandpa was a hero back home before he retired. He mainly dealt with local villains so he was never well known, But I did get my support item from a tech firm he worked with back in the day." As Ben is telling his friends about his grandpa his left eye begins to twitch.
"Ben I believe there is something in your eye once again," Iida informs his classmate "I'm glad to have a fellow student following in their family's footsteps in doing the right thing."
"It's no big deal really, I spent most of my childhood with him-" Ben was unable to finish his sentence before an alarm started going off around the cafeteria.
An automated voice is heard as well informing the school "Warning. Level Three security breach. All students please evacuate the building in an orderly fashion.
"What is a level three breach?" Ben says thinking out loud only for a third year to inform him and his group that someone managed to get past the school's barriers.
The entire cafeteria began to evacuate but in the most chaotic way imaginable. What do you think would happen when the entire student body begins to panic? Students are in the halls pushing and shoving each other. At one point Ben thought he saw a shoe get thrown over everyone.
Through the chaos, Iida was able to notice that the breach was caused by the press that was stopping students this morning. "Everyone, the press made it onto campus! We need to-" the bespeckled boy was cut off by his face being slammed into the glass.
In the chaos of the mob of students Iida and his friends start to get separated. When Iida was making his way over to help Uraraka he had an idea. "Uraraka touch my hand. Make me float above everyone else!"
The squished girl was able to barely reach her friend allowing him to float to the ceiling. Once he was in the air Iida rolled up his pant legs before activating his thrusters to send him forward. Much to his dismay due to the placement of his thrusters he was spinning through the air. Luckily Ben could see what his blue-haired classmate was trying to do so after a flash of green light, a tall plant-like creature with a venus flytrap-like hood surrounding a cycloptic face.
"Wildvine! Don't worry Iida I got you!" the Florauna called out in a hippie-esque voice stretching his arm to reach the spinning boy.
"Ben throw me to the exit!" cried the floating teen
"What?"
"Just do it!"
With a pull, the plant man whipped his classmate across the mob of students slamming Iida into the exit sign about the walkway.
"Listen up, everything is okay! It's just the media outside! There is absolutely nothing to worry about! Everything's fine! We're UA students! We need to remain calm and prove that we're the best of the best!" Iida proclaimed to the panicking students.
A moment later everyone was calming down. When people looked outside they could see the flashing blue and red lights of the police making their way onto campus to escort out the trespassing reporters.
After the chaos Iida, Ben, Uraraka, and Midoriya made their way back to class. Since they were the first ones back Midoriya had something to ask Aizawa who just crawled back into his sleeping bag.
"Mr. Aizawa, would it be possible to change who the class representative is?"
"Why do you ask?" the gruff man turns over to look the boy in the eye.
"I believe Iida would be a better class representative than I could be. He was able to capture everyone's attention and get us in line when everyone was going crazy in the hallway. While I was flailing not knowing what to do. So I believe that he should be the one leading our class from now on."
"As long as Iida is ok with it I'm fine with it. Now get to your seat." The gruff man says rolling back over to face the wall.
"Thank you Midoriya. I pledge to carry out the duties of class rep to the best of my abilities." Iida declares as the rest of the class walks in.
-Chapter 12: First Confrontations-
After the class settled down Aizawa informed them about what they were going to be doing for their heroics lesson today. "Today's training is going to be different. You'll have three instructors. All Might, another faculty member, and I will be keeping tabs on you."
There was one thing on everybody's mind. "Sir! What kind of training is this?" Asked Sero, volunteering himself as the mouthpiece.
To answer the boy Aizawa pulls out an index card with the word "rescue" on it. "You'll be dealing with natural disasters, shipwrecks, stuff like that."
With that announcement, the class starts to talk to each other thinking that the idea of rescue training is going to be fun and looking forward to what happens next.
In the driest tone, Aizawa tells the class "I wasn't finished," which quiets the class immediately, "What you wear to this exercise is up to you. I know you're excited about costumes but keep in mind you haven't gotten used to them yet, and they might limit your abilities. This special training is at an off-campus facility, so we'll be taking a bus to get us there. That's all. Start getting ready." The man finished talking by bringing out everyone's costumes from the wall and walking out of the classroom.
Outside at the buses, everyone is in their hero uniforms except Midoriya. The greenette was wearing the add-ons of his hero outfit but had on the PE uniform under that.
"Midoriya, why are you in the PE uniform?" asked Ben, Uraraka had the same thought on her mind.
"I sorta tore that costume up during training yesterday." the greenette smiles sheepishly
"Now that you mention it, your mask was ripped in half wasn't it?" Asked Uraraka
Before the freckled boy could respond he was cut off by Iida blowing a whistle. "Gather around, Class 1-A! Using your student numbers, form two neat lines so we can load the bus efficiently." He finishes off by blowing his whistle again and karate-chopping the air.
"I think someone needs to till Iida to chill out," Ben mutters.
Once everyone was on the bus Iida was disappointed that it had a more open layout because it ruined his boarding strategy. Kirishima puts an arm around Iida to comfort the man.
"Hey man, you need to calm down. It's not the end of the world."
The rest of the drive wasn't too crazy, besides the time Kaminari called Bakugo's personality "flaming crap mixed with garbage". This sent the blonde bomber off on an angry tirade about how he would kill the next person who talked badly about him.
When everyone was inside they were met with a shorter person of unknown gender in an astronaut suit. This was the space hero, Thirteen. They specialize in rescue work and are well known for their extreme control over their quirk Black hole. This quirk allows Thirteen to create miniature black holes that can suck up and destroy anything.
"Welcome to the Unforeseen Simulation Joint or USJ for sort. There are five main training grounds here, the Ruins Zone, the Landslide/Mountain Zone, the Fire Zone, the Downpour Zone, and the Shipwreck Zone. Each of these Zones simulates some of the many different disasters you may come across during your time as a hero." Thirteen informs the class.
After that Aizawa went over to Thirteen and starts asking them questions. The class was unable to hear what was being said but they could see the space hero raise three fingers.
With a look of annoyance, Aizawa turns around. "There has been a change of plans our final instructor for today is preoccupied with previous matters, he will be here later but the clock is ticking so we should get started."
"Everyone I have something important I need to say." Thirteen begins "I understand that many of you have powerful quirks but you have to understand that even though you may be strong you have to know how to be gentle. I know this first hand. With my quirk Black Hole, I can easily suck up objects and turn them to dust. Sadly I can do the same with people. Some of the strongest quirks are also some o the deadliest I made this place to teach young heroes how to properly rescue civilians without hurting the same people they are trying to save. Today I want all of you to realize the possible destruction you could cause if you are not careful. That is all I have to say."
"Know that we have that covered-" Aizawa was cut off by the lights to the USJ suddenly going out.
As soon as this happens Ben activates the Omnitrix "Shota, what's going on?"
"I'm not sure but everyone be prepared for anything." As Aizawa says this a strange purple miasma begins to appear in the center of the USJ as a swelling vortex. A hand then reaches out of the newly formed portal. "Everyone stay together and don't move. Thirteen, protect the students." The underground hero then pulls his goggles over his eyes.
The portal now stretches to be larger than a school bus and people start to walk through. The first was a young man wearing what looks like dismembered hands and the last was a mountain of a man wearing nothing but torn pants. His head was birdlike with his brain exposed.
"Everyone stay calm but things just got worse. Those are real villains. No one do anything rash, stay together and protect one another."
Ben slams down the dial to his watch, transforming into broad shouldered greenish cyan crystal humanoid with large crystal structures protruding from his back, he is wearing a sleeveless black shirt with a green stripe going down the center, and the Omnitrix dial acts like a belt buckle. "Diamondhead." the newly transformed Petrosapian announces.
"They must have used the press as a cover to get onto campus," Diamondhead thought to himself
"Thirteen, why aren't the alarms going off?" Asked Yaomomo.
"They must have bypassed them somehow along with communications. My radio isn't going through anywhere." Thirteen informs the class.
"Kaminari your support gear is designed for you to use your quirk to communicate right?" Aizawa asks.
"Yeah, you're right I will try to get through to someone. It may take some time."
"If that's the case I will try and get you as much time as possible."
"Wait this fight is in their favor, your quirk and fighting style is more suited for one on one combat, not all-out brawls." The hyper-analytical Midoriya informs his teacher.
"You can't be a pro if you only have one trick. I will leave it to you Thirteen." The gruff man then leaves into the fray handling as many villains as he can by canceling their quirks and entangling those he can't.
Back up with the class, everyone is making a break for the door only to be blocked by the portal from earlier. It seems like the portal is actually this guy's body if the glowing yellow eyes at the top of the miasma were anything to go by.
"We are the League of Villians. I know it's impolite, but we decided to invite ourselves to this haven of justice to say hello. And besides, isn't this a fitting place for All Might the Symbol of Peace to take his last breath?" The living portal questions.
"So that's why you guys are here for a chance to take out Number One. Think again!" Diamondhead calls out shooting a barrage of crystal shards from his hands. These projectiles went into the void-like body of the villain just for a portal to open above the class with the same crystals raining down onto them.
"I think you should think twice about attacking a living portal. I have a job to do so begone!" as the villain declares this his body reshapes to entrap the class in it.
Iida was able to grab Kirishima, Thirteen, and Ashido and escape the attack. When they turned around to see their friends were gone.
When Diamondhead was able to push aside the cloudy mist of the portal villain the only thing he saw was blue. For a second the Petrosapiean thought he was looking at the sky if it wasn't for the fact that he was falling, and he could still see the inside of the USJ.
"Oh man, this is gonna hurt," Diamondhead says to himself before he makes contact with the water of the Shipwreck Zone.
Due to his crystalline body, Diamondhead sank like a rock into the faux ocean. Once he gained his bearings the teen tapped the dial to the Omnitrix. In a flash of green Ben became a humanoid Fishman with greenish-white scales and a large black tail, it had four webbed fingers with razor-sharp claws. On its head was a phosphorescent light singular to an anglerfish, and the creature's mouth was this form's namesake being able to rip through steel with a myriad of jagged teeth that jutted outwards, the Omnitrix acted like a belt buckle.
In a deep raspy voice, the newly transformed Piscciss Volann called out "Ripjaws! Where is the rest of the class?" Ripjaws began to search the water for his displaced classmates.
Not too long later Ripjaws could see Tsu saving Midoriya from a shark-like villain before she dragged him up to the surface. The two greenettes were sadly unaware of a villain with four arms, the upper two were lobster-like quickly gaining on them.
In a burst of speed, Ripjaws tackles the villain digging his claws into the crustacean-like limbs. "Tsu, get him to the boat I will cover you!"
The frog-like girl turns around startled to see the menacing face of Ben's current form before noticing the Omnitrix dial on his belt. "Got it, Ben! I will come back for you!"
"Don't if there are two villains here there must be more! I will meet you guys up there as soon as I handle crabcakes here!"
"Crabcakes?! I'm a lobster you brat!" the now irritated villain calls out to Ripjaws.
"I'm the brat? You and your dumb buddies decided it was a good idea to attack a superhero high school," Ben starts as he begins to drag the villain to the bottom of the water. Once he reaches the bottom the Piscciss Volann slams the head of the villain on the ground knocking the villain out, "that is not a good idea."
Ripjaws then turns around seeing several aquatic-based villains surrounding him, the natural light he produces does nothing to hide him this deep in the water. Seeing five of the fifteen villains there have a breathing apparatus of some sort Ben assumes even though they can fight in the water they are unable to breathe underwater.
"Why aren't you idiots fighting?" questions a large squid-like villain, "It's just one student kill him already!"
"You must be the leader of these guys, right? Asked Ben crossing his arms over his chest confidently.
"Of the water crew, yes, but the big boss is Shigaraki" The Squidman responds not thinking.
"That's good to know. Now that I know that, I'm going kick your butts starting with your guys with the scuba gear, and let my teachers know who is in charge of everything."
"Wait what did-" Before the villain could finish his sentence Ripjaws dashed around the group slashing open the air tanks in the scuba gear. "You little shit, I'm going to kill you!" the villain cries out brandishing a large knife with a small hole in the top of the blade.
Ripjaws just turns around making a growling or hissing similar to one that would be made by a crocodile and bites the blade of the handle of the weapon. In a fit of panic, the villain presses a button on the handle sending a typhoon of bubbles into Ripjaws' face. Ben then realizes that the knife was made to create an air pocket in something underwater to cause major damage. Not knowing if any other villains had a weapon like this Ben disengaged with the group before swimming full speed to the surface.
Once he breached the water's surface Ripjaws could see about ten villains surrounding a boat. "They must still be on there waiting for me." Ben thought to himself.
The transformed teen then made his way to the stern of the boat before jumping out of the water to land on the vessel. Once there he found Tsu and Midoriya on the deck trying to come up with a plan.
"If the villains can stop All Might then we have to stop what they have planned." Midoriya said to Asui.
"Yeah, but what do we do? Kero."
"No idea but we need to get out of the water," Ben interjects walking over to his classmates, his large tail morphed into a pair of legs with two toes with webbing between them. "Midoriya, see if the boat can move, Tsu keep an eye on the star-" The transformed teen then fell to his knees gasping.
"Ben!" the two greenettes called out checking on their classmate.
"What is happening to him?" Midoriya cries out, panicking not knowing what to do.
"He's part fish he must be dehydrated," Tsu responds "Let's see if there are water bottles inside." The froglike girl then begins to search for the door to enter the boat.
In a flash of green Ben stands back up taking a deep breath of air. "No need I transformed back. As Ripjaws, I can't stay out of the water for too long." Ben begins. "As I was saying Midoriya see if the boat works. Tsu you and I will keep an eye on the villains until either we start moving or he comes back."
"Alright." the startled boy nods before running to the helm of the ship.
"Oh man, what do we do!" Ashido beginning to get nervous. "Our friends are missing and this guy can redirect anything we throw at him back at us."
"Students you need to calm down." Thirteen says sternly. "If we panic we will only play into our opponent's hand. Class rep, You have a speed-type quirk yes?"
"Yes, yes I do." Iida stammers out.
"Perfect due to a villain's quirk the alarm hasn't gone off and all communications have been cut off. I need you to run back to the main campus to get reinforcements."
"I can't leave you all here. I would be disgraceful if I do."
"No, it won't Iida. It's the manly thing to do. I can hold this guy off long enough to give you the time needed to escape." Kirishima declares. "If we can get you out of here then the teachers can save everyone else!"
"You are right. Thank you, my friends." Iida gets into a running stance.
Thirteen stops the teens before they act out their plan. "I will handle the villain alone. I can't risk hurting you three. Do what you need to break through that door."
"It's no good, the engine is out!" Midoriya calls out to his classmates "The boat must be set this way to force students to focus on evacuating the ship over moving it."
"Shit. That just made things harder." Ben thinks to himself.
"I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news but I think the villains are getting tired of waiting on us," Tsu mentions pointing over the edge of the ship. In the water, there are now at least thirty villains all ready to kill the three students.
"Ok new plan. They obviously don't know what we are capable of. So we need to use that to our advantage." Ben says taking charge of the situation.
"What do you mean?" Tsu asks tilting her head.
"If they knew what our powers were they wouldn't have sent you here."
"Now that you mention it, it makes sense. If they knew Asui-I mean Tsu was a frog they would have sent her to the fire zone. They must have split us up to both startle us and outnumber us." Midoriya begins to mutter.
"We need to talk quirks then," Tsu starts." Obviously, I can jump high and cling to pretty much any wall. I can also stick my tongue out about twenty meters."
"Meters?" the American asks.
"Sixty-five feet" the quirk fanatic responds immediately before detailing his quirk. "I'm strong but it comes at a cost. Once I use it I'm pretty much out of commission. Until I have better control I only have one good punch in me."
"Which leads things to me. We don't have enough time to go through all my transformations but assume if there is a power I have it to some degree. I have a time limit to my transformations that varies on my stamina but if I transform multiple times it decreases how long I can be transformed" Ben states before getting cut off by a large hand made out of water.
One of the villains who has hydrokinesis calls out to his allies "I'm starting to get bored. Let's get this show on the road." He then cuts the ship in half with the large watery hand.
"Well, things just went from bad to worse," Ben mutters before giving orders. "Tsu grab Midoriya and jump as far as you can to the central plaza! I will handle the Poseidon wanna-be." He then activates the Omnitrix finding the right head icon. The boy then slammed down on the watch transforming into a sasquatch-like creature with a trident-like structure on its forehead and bolts next to where its ears would be, and on the wrists. The creature's fur is primarily yellow except around his head and the ends of his limbs which were black. The Omnitrix is worn as a belt buckle on a green and white belt. "Shocksquatch!" The newly transformed teen calls out in a Canadian accent with a crackle of electricity in his throat.
"Wait what does this form-" Midoriya was cut off by Tsu wrapping her tongue around his body and leaping towards the end of the water.
"Sorry, Midoriya but we don't have time for you to analyze Ben's quirk."
The newly transformed Gimlinopithecus leaps into the air after them. Once they were in the air the villain that cut the boat in half sent another torrent of water at the airborne teens. In response, the yellow alien grabs his shoulders before dragging his arms across one another creating a large electrical charge from the fur. Shcocksquatch releases a yellow bolt of electricity at the incoming attack.
When the two elemental attacks connected the electricity was conducted through the salt water of the faux ocean and into the several water-based villains. Every one of them was knocked unconscious in a glorious flash of light.
Tsu was able to land cleanly outside of the water keeping Midoriya out of the electrified water. Ben, on the other hand, wasn't too lucky, even though he is resistant to being zapped the water drenched his fir making him sell like a wet animal.
"That could have gone worse, eh." The soaking alien comments.
"Yeah we were lucky that no one else had a ranged attack, and-" Midoriya then began a muttering spree that Ben tuned out when Tsu asked her classmate a question.
"So Ben why are you so calm right now? I'm internally panicking right now but due to my quirk, I have a hard time expressing emotions and I'm assuming Midoriya is overanalyzing everything to not allow his brain time to panic."
"Let's just say this isn't my first time handling villains. Before I moved to Japan one of my Grandpa's old villains." Ben started to say tearing up. "Let's talk about this later. We need to assist Aizawa, his eyes must be dried up by now.
"What do you mean?"
"His quirk turns off when he blinks, so when he fights it's like a staring contest to the death."
The three students followed the edge of the water to make their way to their teacher.
"Remember if things hit the fan disengage and regroup," Ben begins to strategize, "Midoriya I don't mean to sound rude but with your control right now you can not fight effectively. Wait till the moment is right and take out their leader. I'll bet that he is one of the guys waiting and watching," The Omnitrix wielder then points to the man covered in hands and the scarred mountain of a man with his brain exposed. "I found out his name is Shigaraki, I will cause a scene declaring his name. The one that seems the most annoyed should be him. When that happens knock the wind out of him."
"Right," Midoriya responds looking down at his hand.
"What should I do?" Tsu asks.
"When I go out there I should cause a large enough distraction where all the villains will be focused on me. Get Aizawa out of there."
Before the teens could set their plan into action the boy with the many hands around his body charges at their teacher. Aizawa quickly reacts by launching part of his capture tool at the villain only for it to be caught. The gruff man then elbows his opponent in the stomach. Sadly the villain is faster than he looks. The sleeve of Aizawa's sleeve started to lose color before it crumbled, and the same thing then happened to the skin underneath.
Aizawa was luckily able to get away from the villain with his right arm now hanging limply by his side. As he disengages from the group two other villains attempt to attack the injured hero forcing him to fight one-handed. Breathing heavily Aizawa is fighting the pain in his arm while quickly triggering and disabling his quirk trying to make as many openings as he can seeing a flash of green in the corner of his eye.
Before the teens could notice the large figure that was next to the fountain vanished and reappeared next to Aizawa grasping the man by his skull and slamming him into the ground.
"NO!"
Over at the front door, Thirteen is keeping the portal villain's attention by using Black Hole at the tip of their finger to suck him in. The wispy nature of the portal villain's body means that the edges of the body are being sucked away into nothingness but the core is unable to be moved. Ashido and Iida were able to sneak by using Thirteen's distraction.
Ashido is currently melting her way through the door. Due to the villains interfering with the security system the door that would normally keep villains out has locked the students in.
"Iida I don't think I will be able to make a hole big enough for you to walk through." The pink-skinned girl hisses in pain, "I will do my best but it will be a tight squeeze."
"That is all I can ask of you," Iida states while keeping an eye out to make sure his classmate isn't interrupted.
The portal villain begins to monologue stating "Ah, Black Hole, the Quirk that sucks up matter and turns it to dust—such an astounding power. However, you are a rescue hero Thirteen skilled at saving people from disasters. Consequently, that means you have little fighting experience or battlefield awareness." At that last statement, a portal opened behind Thirteen that began sucking Thirteen in.
"He must be using his body as the other end of the portal. He's using Black Hole against me." Thirteen thought to themselves as the back of their costume was torn apart forcing them to turn off their quirk.
"Too bad you have turned yourself into dust." the portal villain taunts.
"That is enough out of you Ugly!" Kirishima proclaims hardening his fist as he charges at the villain.
At the momentary victory, the portal villain revealed a collar-like brace from the mist. Kirishima struck that with as much force as he could, temporarily stunning the villain.
"You impertinent child! How dare you strike me!"
"How dare you attack our school!" The redheaded child then hardens his hand into a makeshift blade before chopping at the collar again denting it.
"There!" Ashido cries out her hands beginning to peel from the amount of acid she had to use. Even though the girl had a natural resistance to the corrosive substance her limit was passed a while ago. "Iida go and get back up!"
"On it, I will be back as soon as I can," Iida promises as he crawls through a hole no wider than two feet wide. His unflexing armor was no help at all.
Ashido turns around to sit against the wall to catch her breath only to be blinded by a flash of green light that lit up the entire USJ.
Moments earlier the sounds of bones cracking could be heard as the large villain with the exposed brain picked up Aizawa by the back of his skull and slammed the gruff man into the ground. The brain villain then grabbed the teacher by his injured arm and snapped it into an unnatural position. All the while the villain had a blank look on its face like it had no higher levels of thought.
The villain then readjusted his grip to hold the broken man by his long tangled hair. At that moment Ben could hear the hand villain taunting Aizawa but the Omnitrix wielder was unable to focus on what, only hearing Nomu. In Ben's eyes, the hulking villain was no longer there in its place was a large muscular humanoid wearing dark maroon armor with rod-like protrusions extending out of the arms. The large beast wielded a sword and had a deep malevolent laugh. Aizawa was replaced with the form of a teenage girl with a long ponytail crying out for Ben to save her. They were no longer in the USJ, Ben was in his driveway seeing the destroyed remains of his home.
"NO!" Cried Ben as he charged at the villain activating the Omnitrix. The boy slammed down the dial only to be bathed in a magnificent emerald light that everyone in the USJ could see. "You bastard!" came the bellowing voice of Ben's transformation. Now in Ben's place was a massive white-skinned humanoid, easily the size of a skyscraper, with large blade-like protrusions from its elbows two silver growth could be seen from its chin, these are an extra set of eyes, and at the top of the alien was a red and black crest. The Omnitrix was centered on this form's chest. This is the form of Way Big but Ben didn't call out this form's name. "You won't take her away from me this time! The titan declares grabbing the muscular figure and snapping its arm with his index and thumb like a toothpick forcing it to let go of her hair.
Way Big keeping the monster in one hand and the girl in the other, gently places her into the water next to his classmates. The titan then stands up staring before tightening his grip hearing several pops and creaks as bones are broken and muscles are snapped. Way Big then opens his palm to see a mush of blood, bones, and meat that starts to reshape into a body. Not wasting a second the massive alien slams his hand palm first into the earth shaking the ground for miles. He then pulls his arm back, seeing the mush begin to pull itself back together, only to get punched repeatedly into the ground. Each punch shakes the ground creating a creator with each strike.
Parts of the building are starting to break apart during this rampage. Midoriya is dumbfounded by the strength that is being shown. Even though Ben used this form during his entrance exam it is quite obvious that he was holding back then.
"Tsu, we need to get Aizawa to the entrance," Midoriya shakily states wrapping his teacher's arm around his shoulder.
"Right, It looks like Ben has the villains handled," The frog-like girl copies what her classmate is doing.
"No you brat! Stop attacking my Nomu!" Cried out the hand villain that must be Shigiraki. "Damn it! Kurogiri, I need you.
A moment later the portal villain appeared next to Shigiraki. "What is it that you need?"
"I think we found a mini-boss. This brat this wrecking my Nomu before the real boss gets here."
"Do you wish for me to eliminate the child?"
"No, this mini-boss is taking out our tank and is too big for any DPS to eliminate. We need to retreat."
"That is an excellent plan Shigiraki considering the bad news I need to tell you."
"Which is?"
"One of the students was able to escape the USJ, He seemed to have some speed quirk so I'd assume he is getting help."
"Damn it, Kurogiri if you weren't our way out I would destroy you one atom at a time."
"I understand Sir. Let's retreat and attack at another date."
With that said both villains disappeared in the violet mist that was Kurogiri's body.
Delivering the final punch into the ground Way Big reached down to grab what is left of the villain along with part of the ground. The titan then crammed the ground and villain into a ball. The massive alien then got into a pitcher's stance before hurling the ball out of the dome of the USJ, breaking even more of the roof, and sending the villain into the distance. Before it escaped over the horizon Way Big crossed his arms over his chest in an x formation releasing a brilliant green beam of cosmic energy at the flying target disintegrating everything in its way. The ground shook when the beam was fired.
The Titan then collapses onto his knees before turning back to Ben in a flash of red light. The green-clad teen began to sob uncontrollably. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." was all the boy could say before he collapsed in exhaustion.
When the boy came too he was in the arms of a muscular man. The man was walking up the stairs to the entrance of the USJ
"I am impressed, Young Tennyson. I heard you were able to defeat a villain that was designed to defeat me. I got here just in time to see your titan form throw the villain away like it was a baseball. Magnificent my dear boy." All Might congratulates the teen. The pro takes a look behind himself to see a sixty-foot creator.
"Thank you All Might. I guess I passed out after handling the villain. Stronger forms, like Way Big, can take a lot out of me." Ben says missing the normal cheer in his voice.
The two made it to a group of students who were able to make it to the entrance. This group was Midoriya, Tsu, Ashido, Kirishima, Bakugo, Todoroki, and Uraraka. Tsu and Uraraka were currently sitting next to the injured teachers. Kirishima was beating himself up for not being able to protect Thirteen. Midoriya, Todoroki, and surprisingly Bakugo were all discussing what they went through across the USJ attempting to further understand what happened. Ashido ran over to All Might as soon as she saw who was in his arms.
"Ben, what happened?! Are you ok? Can you stand?" The Pinkette questioned in rapid succession.
"Mina calm down. I'm fine just a little tired." Ben says trying to calm down the worried girl. "All Might can you put me down by the planter box so I can sit for a bit?"
"Of course Young Tennyson. Please inform the rest of your class I will be searching for your remaining classmates. I shall be back shortly. The mountain of a man then dashed to the opposite side of the facility to search for students.
Not too long after All Might began searching for students other pros started to arrive with Iida in tow and not too long afterward both the police and medical personnel also arrived. The heroes were swiftly taking care of the reading villains. The police were apprehending the villains while the medical personnel was checking on the students.
"Recovery Girl, over here!" Called out Kirishima. "Mina's hands are burned from her acid and Ben passed out right before you guys got here!"
"Eijiro, Ben is fine he was telling me how some of his forms take a lot out of him," Mina calls out supporting her American classmate who was resting his head on her shoulder.
"Either way young lady let me check out your injuries." said the calm elderly voice of Recovery Girl. As the healing hero inspects the damage done to the pink student she begins to criticize Ashido's overuse of her quirk. "Young lady out of everyone here you should know better about the dangers of acid. If you didn't already have a basic resistance to it you would have severe nerve damage to your hands." the short healer then kisses Ashido's arms reversing the acid burns and draining the last of her stamina.
"I know Recovery Girl," Ashido says with an annoyed tone due to hearing this lecture several times throughout her life right before falling asleep resting her head on Ben's.
"That brat!" yelled the angry Shigiraki throwing one of the several bar stools next to him. The young villain was destroying everything he could get his hands on in the bar he retreated to. "That kid ruined everything! He destroyed my Nomu!"
"That is enough Tomura." a calm and menacing voice said forcing the young man to stop his rampage. On a cart was an old box-style television with the screen off but this was where the voice was coming from. "I understand that someone got in the way of your plans, and I understand that you are angry my boy. Don't release the rage now. Bottle it and use it as fuel to take down that child. Now is there anything of note I should know about the student so I can help with your efforts?"
"He crushed Nomu in his palm like it was nothing."
"Preposterous," declared a second voice from the tv. "I personally designed that beast to be able to absorb the strikes of All Might. How could a mere child do such a thing?"
"His quirk, I saw him earlier in the corner of my eye. He looked unassuming wearing a green jacket and a black shirt but when Nomu attacked Eraser Head he flashed green before turning into a titan that shook the building when he punched the ground."
"Interesting," the first voice said "So this child has a form that is stronger than my brother's quirk."
"Yes, but there is more to this boy Master," the Kurogiri stated
"How so?"
"The boy has multiple forms. When I went to separate the students the child transformed into a crystalline being. This one didn't appear to have enhanced strength but he was able to shoot crystal projectiles."
"I see, a boy with multiple forms each with a unique ability. Tomura, how do I phrase this? I have a side quest for you. Do whatever you need to kill the symbol of peace but when you have the chance bring the changeling to me alive. It's not very often we find someone with multiple quirks. In the meantime, I must remain hidden in the shadows. Gather the villainous elite. Take all the time you need."