Chương 1992: 11
The entrance ceremony and introductions.
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The opening ceremonies were...interesting, for lack of a better word. Izuku didn't see Katsuki anywhere, which was honestly a good thing, but it was still kind of worrying. While Izuku wouldn't put it beyond him to just skip the assembly and hang out behind the dumpsters or something, he didn't think Katsuki would pull something like that on the first day! Oh well, if he made a poor first impression, then that wasn't Izuku's problem.
The general muttering of the students died down and Izuku turned to the stage to see Present Mic striding out onto the stage, "Hey, hey hey, everybody! How's everybody doing this morning?"
To Izuku's surprise, Present Mic's enthusiasm was met with a general non-response. He didn't know why, this was Present Mic, the voice hero! He had his own radio show and everything…
"Um, Midoriya?" One of his classmates, the bald one, said softly, "Are you aware that you're mumbling again?"
Izuku slammed his mouth shut and blushed, "S-sorry! I'll, um, I'll try to stop…"
"Ugh, you're all idiots!" The curly haired girl leaned over Mei's lap and shoved a pencil in his face.
Izuku took it hesitantly, not wanting to be rude, "Um, thank you, but ..why?"
She rolled her eyes, "Put it in your mouth. If you start talking, it'll fall out."
Izuku's eyes widened. It was such a simple solution that Izuku didn't know why he hadn't ever thought of it before, "T-thank you so much!"
"Whatever," she settled back into her seat and crossed her arms, "just use your chew toy so the rest of us can hear the damn assembly."
Izuku nodded frantically and bit down on the pencil as he turned back to the stage. Present Mic, having failed spectacularly at getting a response from the crowd, had apparently just decided to move onto the next order of business, "Well everybody, welcome to UA high, the premier hero school in Japan! To our upperclassmen, welcome back and good luck with your next year of studies. To our brand new first years...Congratulations! Not just anybody can walk these halls, and it takes a lotta hard work and dedication to sit where you're sitting. That being said, don't go getting complacent little listeners! You've each got your own stars that you're reaching for and you're each gonna have to work extra hard, got it? So you're all gonna have to go beyond…."
"PLUS ULTRA!!!"
This time, at least, the students responded exactly how Present Mic wanted, earning a wide smile as he skipped back to the line of chairs across the stage where all the teachers and faculty were sitting, two of which were empty for some reason. Were there more teachers that weren't at the assembly? Or did they set up extra chairs for some other reason?
The next part of the assembly consisted of the faculty all introducing themselves briefly and Izuku dropped the pencil in his mouth twice as he instinctively started to ramble about each hero's quirk. He ended up taking out his own notebook and writing down his observations instead, adding subtle observations that he was only able to notice from up close. He was at UA! He'd be learning from pros! It was still so surreal.
After each of the gathered teachers had gotten the chance to introduce themselves, Present Mic stood again, "Alright, Listeners! Some of you may have noticed a couple empty chairs up here next to us awesome teachers! This is because there are two teachers you all haven't met yet! You upperclassmen know who one of them is, but for the first years, you might be lucky, or unlucky, enough to see our local cryptid in the halls. Aizawa Shouta, pro hero name: Eraserhead, is off hazing his own first year class, so wish them luck. They're gonna need it."
Izuku's eyes widened. The underground hero?! He couldn't beat All Might as Izuku's favorite hero, because All Might, but he was a close second. He fought practically quirkless and could take away other people's quirks at will! And he was a teacher here? What did Present Mic mean by hazing? Was that where Katsuki was?
Izuku felt a brief surge of jealous anger. Katsuki got to learn from one of Izuku's favorite teachers? He wouldn't even appreciate the nuances of Eraserhead's fighting style! Unbidden, an image of Katsuki getting his explosions erased as he was tangled in Eraserhead's capture weapon came to his mind and Izuku snickered quietly. Ok, so maybe Katsuki learning from one of his favorite heroes wouldn't be all bad…
"But that still leaves one more teacher that you listeners haven't met yet!" Present Mic continued. "He's a special new addition to our staff this year! You first year hero students will be in for a real treat because here he is, the number one hero, the symbol of peace, and the newest member of our staff...All Might!"
Izuku's jaw dropped and he knew he wasn't the only one as a booming laugh echoed around the auditorium and the number one hero himself strode out from behind the curtain, "I am here...to help mould the next generation of heroes!"
The auditorium exploded in applause and Izuku added to it wholeheartedly. He was going to be in the same building as All Might! This must be why he was in town! But...how was he going to teach classes if he only had three hours in his hero form? Did he still have three hours? Or had saving Kacchan from the sludge villain cut down on that time? What were the repercussions of him going over his limit?
There was a clatter as the pencil dropped to his lap again, and Izuku hurriedly put it back in his mouth so he wouldn't mutter. Thankfully, no one could have heard him over the applause, but it would still be better to think about that when he was alone...maybe he could come up with some way to counteract or even just minimize the effects of his injury....or maybe Mei could come up with some sort of illusion tech so he wouldn't have to use his hero time to teach? But that would involve telling her about All Might's other form and he couldn't betray the hero's trust like that…
Later. He could think about that later. For now, though, All Might had taken a seat in one of the empty chairs that was almost ridiculously too small for him and Nedzu was climbing a small set of steps up the side of the podium, "Hello students! Am I a mouse? A dog? A bear? What's important is that I'm the principal! UA has a spectacular legacy and…"
Nedzu began to talk about the history of the school and Izuku was on the edge of his seat as he listened...for the first ten minutes. Mei had lost interest after three and began to sketch out invention ideas again. Izuku really tried to pay attention. This man was going to be his teacher! He couldn't just tune him out! His classmates seemed just as bored as he was and eventually Izuku decided that he could probably just apologize if he needed to and turned to fleshing out his analyses of the staff. Occasionally, Mei would poke his arm and point to a particular diagram, asking an unspoken question and he would think for a moment before writing something beside her drawing. It went like that for another fifteen minutes before Nedzu finally stopped talking.
"Ah, but I'm getting carried away!" Nedzu clapped his paws together, waking up a few of the students that had fallen asleep during his speech. "You all have bright futures ahead of you and we are so excited to help you cultivate that light. So, as the principal of UA, congratulations and welcome to UA high school!"
There was a hesitant round of applause that got louder as Nedzu descended the steps and the teachers all left the stage to go retrieve their classes. Within a few minutes, Powerloader was leading them back to the classroom. As they were walking back, the kid in their class with the shark quirk placed his hand on Izuku's shoulder and patted it consolingly, "I'm sorry, Midoirya. I don't know how you're gonna survive being Nedzu's personal student if he's really that long winded all the time."
"He wasn't that way during the entrance exam." Izuku tried. "But maybe that was just because he didn't want to distract me as I was hacking UA."
He ended up running into the girl walking from front of him as his classmates stopped walking in shock, "You hacked UA during the entrance exam?! What the fuck?"
"I didn't get very far!" Izuku defended, waving his hand in front of him nervously, "I think they just wanted to see how I approached unsolvable problems, that's it!"
"Yeah," Mei said, "and I'm sure it didn't hurt that you'd already gotten a head start before the exam even started."
Izuku turned to her in betrayal, "Mei!"
Their classmates kept their distance from the two for the rest of the way back to the lab. When they got there, everyone sat down at their tables and Izuku went back to his room, noticing for the first time that there was a small school desk that had been placed outside the door, probably for when the class had a lecture instead of lab time. Before he could decide if he was supposed to go into his room or sit at the desk though, Powerloader cleared his throat to get their attention.
"We have about twenty minutes until class officially ends." He said. "So, why don't each of you introduce yourselves? I know that the support course has a lot more individual work than the business course or the hero course, but it will still be helpful to get to know your classmates. Who wants to go first?"
The kid with the shark quirk shrugged and stood up, "What'dya wanna know?"
"Just say your name and quirk, dumbass." The curly haired girl griped.
Izuku felt his stomach sink. Yeah, he knew it was coming, but it still would have been nice if he didn't have to reveal his quirklessness right off the bad. Oh well, they already thought he was creepy, now there'd just be pity mixed in.
"Also include why you chose support." Powerloader added. "It'll be helpful to know each other's motivations."
"Alright." The kid with the shark quirk shrugged again. "I'm Ryou Hanzou. My quirk's Great White, and I wanna make waterproof tech. My quirk lets me do anything a shark can do, which means I can breathe underwater, so I spent a lot of time swimming as a kid, and would have totally spent weeks at a time in the ocean, but my phone and video games wouldn't work, so I'm gonna fix that."
Izuku had never realized that would be an inconvenience to people with amphibious quirks, but he supposed that it made sense. Most technology was made to be used by people in air, and even most waterproof technology had a limit of either time or depth. Hanzou would definitely have a niche as an inventor if he could figure out how to move past those limitations.
The class's eyes turned to the bald kid with pointed ears, who was sitting next to Hanzou, "Oh, I'm next? Ok, um, my name is Shin Shiguro and my quirk is called Goblin. I, uh, instinctively know the location of any non-living object I've ever touched. The accuracy goes down with time though, so if I haven't touched something for ten years, I'd be able to tell you the city it's in, but not any more specific than that. I, uh, just like building things."
He sat down almost before he'd finished speaking and the class turned to the next student, which was the girl with curly hair.
"I'm Akane Kohaku and this mess," the girl gestured to her curls, which rattled slightly as they caught the light, "is my quirk. It's called Copper Wire and it's a total pain to cut. Yes, it conducts electricity, yes, I use it in my inventions, no, you can't touch it. Got it?"
The introductions continued like that for the rest of the class until it got to Mei, "Hi! Mei Hatsume, future CEO of Hatsume Industries! My quirk is Zoom and it lets me see up to five kilometers away! My babies are gonna change the world!"
Izuku chucked quietly as he noticed their classmates instinctively lean back from Mei's enthusiasm. He was finally getting used to it himself, but it was still funny to see how other people reacted to her. Izuku noticed that the class was looking at him and he froze as he realized he was next. In fact, he was the last student to introduce himself. Hesitantly, he stood up.
"Um, I'm Izuku Midoirya. I like analyzing heroes and quirks, so I want to be a support analyst and help heroes work smarter and be better." Izuku glanced at the clock. Class should be ending any second now. He could do this. Just bite the bullet. "And I'm quirkless."
The bell rang.
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