xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Principal Nezu's Office- 1:30 p.m. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"I must say, this day is looking more and more nicer the more I stare at it." said a small rat/bear-like creature, dressed in a suit and tie, in his office, staring out the windows to the world outside and sipping tea.
In the office: it contained numerous books, a fancy couch and a large wooden desk adorned with several personal items such as photos and a single name stand that read: "Principal Nezu."
"Another year is upon us for the youth of tomorrow to make the ascension into becoming heroes. It almost seems like its becoming redundant at this point to keep talking about it since that's what this school was designed for." He said looking up at the ceiling, continuing to sip his tea.
Where he was standing was his office located within U.A. High. A school designed for molding the future of the teenage members of Japanese society into becoming the heroes that will one day be the ones to stomp out evil and save the lives of millions, inspiring the generations after to follow suite with their endeavors.
"I do enjoy my job, but I feel like something more can be done than just accepting the best of the best..." Principal Nezu said aloud as he walked away from the windows and back towards his desk, sitting in the large revolving chair that was behind it.
"I don't want U.A. to be just the best school for young and impressionable children to become heroes, I feel like we can do more... Be more..." He continued. "Hmmmmmm..."
Suddenly, a page came in from an intercom on Nezu's desk, prompting the humanly dressed animal to press the button to answer. "Hello? What is it, Akane?"
"Hello, Principal, this is just a reminder to tell you to look for those student admission files for the upcoming semester. The files should be in that filing cabinet next to the wall on the right in front of your desk along with previous student records." said an assistant named Akane over the pager.
"Ahhh yes, thanks for the reminder." he said as he moved his finger away from the pager. Standing up, he moved away from his desk to and begun to walk to the filing cabinet.
He stretched his arm out to grab the top cabinet but was struggling to pull it out from its currently closed state. Not helping the fact was large height difference between the cabinet and the smaller Nezu.
"Ugh... come on already." He said as he struggled to reach the top drawer. "Why couldn't I have been born with a Quirk that made me taller, not just smarter... oh wait, than I wouldn't have been named the principal for the school now, would I?"
At his wits end, he jumped in the air, attempting to grab the handle on the cabinet until he was finally able to clutch the top drawer with his paw.
"Gotcha!- Oh no...Ahhh!" After grabbing on the cabinets top handle, the extra weight of Principal Nezu and the cabinet begun to cause the cabinet to fall forward and on top of the principal, sticking him underneath. The drawers, following suite, had the begun to come slightly open and caused folders filled with papers to begin to spill out and land all over the floor of his office.
"...well this is quite the pickle." said Nezu as he looked at the mess of documents and manila folders covering the floor.
"Principal Nezu?! Are you alright?!" said the voice of his secretary Akane coming from the door.
"Yes! Yes! I'm alright, nothing I can't handle. I can clean this mess myself." said Principal Nezu in a reassuring tone as he pulled himself out from under the cabinet.
"This is gonna take me awhile." said Nezu as he begun to pick up papers. "Ok this is from a few years ago, this is from the current semester, and these are the upcoming student files here..." He said as he was trying to sort all the papers back in their proper folders.
"May as well put them back inside...huh?" he said with a hint of confusion looking inside the cabinet after most of the papers fell out.
As he was about to put folders back in, he saw another folder wedged in the back of the cabinet with a label marking on it. It was the same as every other folder stuffed into the filing cabinet but it had a large set of letters posted on it that spelled: "H.R.I."
"Well this is peculiar...this is an old cabinet but I haven't ever seen this file before." After putting away the spilled over files back into the cabinet. Principal Nezu had started to walk back to his desk, taking with him the "H.R.I." file.
"I wonder what this is." he said to himself as he opened the file and begun to read the contents of the papers inside.
"Hmmmmm...Oh? Huh...Well this...interesting...Very interesting..." he said as he scanned the papers, thoroughly looking at every word and detail written.
"Now this...is just what I was thinking about...I must tell someone!" Nezu said aloud. He begun to press on his pager, calling for his secretary, Akane.
"Yes, Principal?" said Akane through the intercom.
"Akane, can you make some phone calls for me? I got some people I want to discuss something with." said Nezu with a small smile on his face.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Principal Nezu's Office- 4:23 p.m. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Inside the office of Principal Nezu's, there were several individuals taking seats on the couches and chairs located within his office.
One was a very scruffy looking man with a bored face and a grey scarf named Shota Aizawa or "Eraser Head" to some, another was an overblown looking man with blonde hair, a pair of sunglasses and a small moustache named "Present Mic," another was a woman dressed similar to a dominatrix named "Midnight," and another was a man dressed in a large scale astronauts outfit named "Thirteen."
"I'm glad to see all you Heroes were able to come on such short notice. I see we are missing someone though." said Principal Nezu.
"He is late, isn't he?" said Aizawa, referring to the missing person.
Suddenly, a sound of loud and fast footsteps begun to be heard by the people in the room as they turned their attention to the door. The speedy footsteps continued to get louder and louder until a large man with blonde hair that has two strands standing upward, large muscles and an overly exaggerated smile on his face emerged from the doorway.
"Fret no more, my waiting comrades! For I, All Might, am here!" said the boisterous man named All Might.
"Nice of you to join us, but your about 11 minutes late for this meeting." said Thirteen calmly. This caused All Might to wince at the acknowledgment of his inability to arrive at the predetermined time and he sunk his head in partial shame for his lateness.
"Sorry about that-" suddenly a puff of smoke had over taken All Mights body until he had become a skeletal version of himself that was more smaller and brittle than his large form, hacking out blood from his mouth onto the floor of Principal Nezu's office. "S-sorry...ugh...I spent a lot of time today...doing things that required my Hero form and I got tired on the way here." he continued while holding his chest.
"It's alright, All Might, take a rest." proclaimed Nezu as he offered him a seat, prompting the bony man to sit down.
"So why did you call us here?" All Might asked.
"Why I called you all here is a very peculiar reason indeed." Nezu said with a charming little smirk on his face.
"Please, just get to the point, I want to go home and sleep..." Aizawa complained.
"It's not even dinner time yet..." Midnight said in response.
"Sorry, I may as well cut to the chase than bother you all for too long." this response caused All Might to smirk.
"Thank you, Aizawa's complaining. I don't want to be here too long. Nezu's rambling can cause even sloths to want to run as far away from him." thought All Might in his head.
"I want you all to look at these folders." Nezu said as he placed a series of folders marked "H.R.I." on the table in front of the people in his office. Each one of them grabbing a copy. "And I want you all to take a moment to read these contents."
In response, the Heroes looked into the folders and begun to read some very interesting and yet, bizarre statements and ideas for a project called the "Heroics Reforming Initiative."
"Thoughts?" Principal Nezu said curiously. "I just so happen to find this miraculous little folder hidden inside my filing cabinet and it turns out to be written by one of the original founders of our little high school. So I made copies."
"Well I read it, but I don't really understand it much." Midnight stated.
"This sounds a bit odd." Aizawa stated in conjecture.
"I can't really read this through my helmet. Can someone describe what's going on with these papers?" Thirteen asked in need of help.
"Well! Based on what it says, it looks like a schools itinerary for a reformations class!" Present Mic shouted and explained.
"A what?" Thirteen asked.
"In other words, its basically a rehabilitation program for troubled youths. Are you planning to turn U.A. into a reform school Nezu?" said All Might as he continued to look through the papers. in response, Nezu continued to smile.
"Not exactly. Earlier today, I had a bit of an epiphany." this response from Nezu prompted Aizawa to raise an eyebrow. "I love this school and all the students who come in here and make each and every day something special. Because every student who can just make it through the front door has already proven that they want to become a hero. That's what you call "resolve" or "desire" or something like that."
"But deep down inside my stomach, I don't want the U.A. to only be the school made for the sake of making new heroes of children who have shown potential early on. From the way our society works, if anyone has shown signs of negative traits early on in their youth, they typically don't make much of their lives in the later parts of their time on Earth. Chances are higher for them to become villains or petty criminals that get locked away inside penitentiaries with nothing more to look forward to than the smell of a cell." Nezu monologued.
"Ok? Then what more do you want U.A. to be?" asked Aizawa in curiosity.
"I want this school to not only be known for being the best school for heroics. I want to prove it can be a beacon of hope." said Nezu as he looked at the Heroes with serious eyes.
"A beacon of hope?" Ms. Midnight asked.
"I think we could do this. I think we can make even more of a difference than what we do now. And this project idea I have found just might make that happen." Nezu continued.
"Be more specific, Principal. You sound like your rattling nonsense at this point." Aizawa stated bluntly.
"Here is what I want us to do: It will be a test, no doubt, but I think this might work. I want to assemble a class in the school comprised of young boys and girls who might lack futures. Deliquents, ne'er-do-wells, the offspring of real terrors and criminals. I want to assemble them into a class that will make them go from future Villains into future Heroes." Nezu proclaims to the surprised group of Heroes.
Thirteen, Midnight and surprisingly, Present Mic were quiet, unsure of how to comprehend what they were hearing coming out the mouth of the U.A. Principal. Assembling a class, comprised of delinquents and possible future villains and teaching them how to be Heroes?
It almost sounded like the words of a mad man. Or in this case, a mad rat/bear/dog hybrid.
"It wouldn't work..." Aizawa spoke up in response to Nezu's proclamation. "This school already is hard enough to even get in for the normal students, the ones that show maximum Hero potential and the rest that get in are put into general studies, business courses and the support groups."
"Am I to believe that we can seriously pull off rounding up a bunch of trouble makers and children that are the seeds of villains and make the statement that they can become heroes if they are just gonna end up wasting other peoples times?" Aizawa continued.
"I understand the concern you show, Aizawa. You make a point that can't be denied." Nezu said acknowledging Aizawas intelligence. "But let me ask a serious question..." This statement caused the heroes to turn their attention back to Nezu in intrigue.
"Lets say your parents were a pair of real supervillains and you were just some young man who just so happened to be their son. Do you think you would have wound up being "Eraser Head?"' Nezu stated, looking directly at Aizawa.
"..." Aizawa remained silent, The other heroes, including All Might, remained just the same, awaiting further words from the Principal. "Well?" Nezu stated.
"No. Even I wouldn't think about being a hero if my parents were a pair of villains." Aizawa stated with closed eyes and a neutral expression. "Your point?"
"Who is to say that isn't the same for these young men and women that currently attend middle schools or home schooling that grown up in poor neighborhoods, broken households or even the rare chance of being the son or daughter of a truly evil human being. Their Quirks and talents, gone to waste on "could have beens" or that mentality you displayed that they are...worthless because of their circumstances." Nezu continued.
"worthless...because of circumstances..." All Might thought in his head as the image of a young man with green hair, freckles and no Quirk to call his own emerged in his mind.
"I have a Quirk called "High Spec" and it has given me so much intelligence that I don't almost know what to do with it half the time. Makes you wonder just how dangerous I would have made the world if I didn't have a conscience." Nezu stated to the intrigue of the Heroes sitting in front of him.
"Picture what all of you would have been like if you let your Quirks run haywire as children because you didn't think you could become a hero because of your background. Midnight, I'm pretty sure putting people to sleep with your Quirk would have made stealing from banks a lot easier for someone such as yourself." that statement caused Midnight to scratch her cheek in embarrassment at the possibility.
"Or how about you, Thirteen and your "Black Hole" Quirk. A lot of murder could be "getting away with" if circumstances led you down a nefarious path." Thirteen showed no response in reaction but kept looking at the principal.
"And I'd be afraid to find out what the peoples Symbol of Peace would be like as an enemy." Nezu said looking straight at All Might whose face looked more than just serious.
"I want some approval by you as faculty. You wont be teaching them, this will be a secret to most of the school and the student body of the upcoming semester. I can find other professors outside the school to help with their enrollment and development." Nezu stated to the Heroes.
"I think we can really make more of a difference than ever by being the school that doesn't just produce Heroes from untrained children. But also from the children that no one believes has that chance to be great." Nezu stated as he moved over to his desk.
Nezu then pulled out a contract from his desk. On the contract, it listed several lines for signing approval to the creation of the "Heroics Reforming Initiative" program. To seeing this contract, out of nervousness, none of the heroes reached forward to grab the pens and sign. Until one Hero, reached forward to grab a pen and signed his name down: "All Might."
"I want to believe this can work...Let's just say lately, I have been around some people that have changed things for me, and I am willing to believe anything nowadays. Hehe... plus I trust the school principals judgements, they typically don't fail." said All Might slightly weak and tired but reassuring to Nezu's idea.
"Hey! If All Might thinks it can work! Then why not!?" Present Mic said before signing his name.
"Ok, I'll agree, I might find some new whipping boys and girls out of it if they fail." Midnight said with a smirk before signing her name.
"I guess I'll do it too." said Thirteen as he signed his name. All but one Hero has signed the approval document: Shota Aizawa.
"..." Aizawa just sat there on the couch, looking at the paper without saying a word. Until suddenly he took the paper and begun to write his name in. To the happiness of Principal Nezu and smiles of her Hero co-workers.
"I'll take your word for it...but don't even think about putting me in charge of them..." Aisawa said as he grabbed a yogurt tube from his pocket and begun to walk away.
"Don't worry, you wont be involved at all, Mr. Aizawa." said Principal Nezu with a smile on his face as Aizawa walked out the room.
"So what do you need us to do?" All Might asked the principal.
"I guess we can start with scouting...Sometime this week, I'll send the each of you some files of some troublemaking children and some unfortunate souls and I'll see what you all think of their chances. Each of you will get ten applicants, 50 in total and then we chop that down to the top ten with the most potential." Nezu explained as he picked up the approval paper from the table.
"Only 10!?" Present Mic shouted.
"Remember, this program is highly experimental. It's a first time attempt at something like this and we need to start small to even begin to make this work." explained Nezu.
After that, the heroes began to take their leave and return to their homes for the rest of the evening until Principal Nezu was the only one remaining in his office, looking out at the windows as the heroes walk out of U.A.
"A beacon of hope...because not all children born from evil are made evil...hehe, I might just write that on a T-shirt." Nezu joked as he sipped tea while watching the sun set on the first day of a new beginning for U.A. High.
Hi people! Wow this is gonna be weird, my first fanfic since 2014. And I chose to do it on My Hero Academia of all things, the most popular new series available. Ok let me get started with this:
This is an experimental fanfic idea I came up with based on the concept of DC's Suicide Squad. However instead of dangerous criminals imprisoned and forced to do dangerous private ops, its about a class in the U.A. comprised of delinquents and relatives of villains who are given the opportunity to turn their lives around by being put in a Juvenile Detention variation of the Hero Course taught at U.A. Every character is a form of early criminal and negative persona that's atypical to what U.A. wants in the main course classes so the school is making a private single class that will attempt to be reformed and learn how to be heroes as a form of public service and systematic treatment for their issues. The story also takes place AT THE SAME TIME as the main story of My Hero Academia with partial cameos from the main cast and other established characters appearing as the story goes on. (also, I wrote Present Mic as always shouting so that's why he has exclamation points next to all of his sentences)
I have one OC as the lead and a friend of mine named keller75863548274483 who has sent in one of hers. This will be a SYOC style story where I will be accepting characters submitted by the readers. However, as mentioned before, there is a limit as two spots are already filled on the 10 character main cast, these other students will be a part of the HRI Class. If you wish to send in a character, I will give you a template for you to make a character and please use PM to answer to me. I will also accept some story arc ideas if anyone has good ones.
Bare with me too as this is my first fanfic in quite some time.