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A heavy blanket of silence consumed the room of pro heroes, nothing becoming the loudest sound in the room. Yokohama, the city at the centre of the discussion. Closed off from the world since the appearance of quirks.
“Should the students be leaving the school so close to the last incident? Surely, they can’t guarantee the safety of the class when a whole school can’t do that.” Nemuri Kayama, pro-hero Midnight’s face contorted in a look of worry and confusion. The person in question, Principal Nezu simply smiled, eyes twinkling in knowledge that no other in the room knew.
Aizawa Shouta, pro-hero Eraserhead, who had remained quiet observing the other heroes’ reactions, turned to get a better look at Nezu, one question burning in his head. “How did you get the offer with the city? We would be there for more than a couple of weeks.”
Said principal just continued to sip on his tea patiently waiting doe the rest to calm down.
“An old friend had reached out to me with an arrangement by the request of one of his work colleagues.” He answered only adding to the overflowing questions in all of them.
That had sparked the curiosity of many of the heroes, the principal was acquainted with people within the isolated city? No one had any contact with people within expect for the few heroes and government workers that had tried to get in only to returning doubting themselves, others and the system. Along with the villains that had found a way on the inside of the barrier only to either not return or return nonsensical bundles of jittery messes.
“You can’t send the students there!” To the surprise of everyone Usagiyama Rumi, Mirko protested. “That city has the highest crime rate in the world and has been under the control of the mafia since we had access to it!”
The response was an almost immediate uproar of shock and anger.“ Those students won’t be safe! No matter what your friend can claim!” Nezu turned to look over at Usagiyama, slowly lowering his tea cup onto the saucer.
“They have come up with a list of agreements that we are to follow should we wish to leave a good impression on the city and return later,” Nezu lifted a folded letter, cutting off any further interruptions.
"1. Quirks are to be used only when accompanied by an agency member and given permission by an agency member.
- All members of the party are to return at 11:00pm, though 10:00pm is suggested.
- All offenses of any form is forbidden.
- Electronic devices are allowed though there are restrictions, all members of the party shall be informed of these restrictions anytime that the rules change and can and will be wiped.
- Alleyways, backways, docks, warehouses, etc are to be avoided, bars especially.
- The school trip shall be a form of educational experience and tourist visit, so wear spring clothing and some autumn jackets, nothing trending from Musutafu or other countries.
- Actions by either student or other that violate these rules (be warned there is punishment) will be dealt with by the president of the agency, all members involved shall suffer a fair and appropriate punishment.”
“Of course, there is a risk to the school excursion, but it is not likely for Yokohama to offer anything like this anytime soon. I have already brought concerns to my old friend, there is no underlying purpose, the students are not there for anything other than an educational trip and their safety is promised.”
The pro heroes glanced around at one another, nerves still not yet calmed, however, the assurance had settled some distress.
Kan Sekijiro, Vlad King seemed less pleased with the students that had been chosen for the field trip compared to the other pros. “What will Class 1-B do then?!”
He huffed in irritation, the other heroes only sweat dropping in exasperation, ‘that’s your problem?’ they all thought collectively.
Nezu subtly swept the room with his black eyes before settling on the hunched-over figure of 1-A's homeroom teacher Aizawa. Aizawa’s gaze glided lazily form Sekjiro to connect with Nezu’s, a wordless conversation. He silently agreed to the proposition but with regards and concerns of his own.
Now only to explain it to the students.
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As expected, the class react with an outcry of excitement and disbelief, for they could not quite comprehend the situation and its weight. The quieter students tuck to reactions of thunderstruck faces and spluttering noises of hesitancy and elate, though their more expressive friends yelped in stupefaction and exhilaration.
Aizawa sighed, knowing all hope of peacefully telling his students about the Yokohama trip had just gone out the window. After the students had hounded him for information, Aizawa (after scaring them to shut up of course) closed his eyes for a second before opening them again and examining each student's reaction to the news.
“A friend of principal Nezu has offered a proposition for all members of Class 1-A that sign of agreement forms the opportunity to go to Yokohama and mentor under the workers from an influential agency based in the heart of city.”
A fury of questions quickly followed, “y-yokohama”
“The yokohama?!”
“Are you serious!”
“B-but Aizawa-sensei, Yokohama is completely isolated from the outside world, n-not to mention how dangerous it must be.” Tenya Iida, the class president of 1-A—a role which he took very seriously, tripped over his words his arm chopping as per usual, sweat building on his foreheads and chills running down his spine just thinking of Yokohama.
Slowly and surely the class of teens settled down though questions were still burning, Aizawa felt a headache building at the prospect of explaining the special event to his—very trouble-prone—students.
“As I said before (if you listened) a friend of principal Nezu will be arriving here tomorrow morning to brief all students and pro heroes that sign the agreement form about the trip to Yokohama for two weeks to, from what has already been arranged, train in quirkless combat—which will include hand-to-hand combat and basic weapons training, staged crime, and to understand the spectrum of villains.”
The students of 1-A stared wide-eyed at Aizawa, two whole weeks at Yokohama?
“Any students causing trouble will be sent back here—to U.A to work on any extra topics and no practical lessons will exceed the usual amount. Quirk usage is not permitted unless accompanied by a member of the agency at Yokohama, and reckless behaviour will be punished by the law enforcement in Yokohama.”
Aizawa looked each student in the eye to cement the notion that any misconduct will be fixed swiftly and (slightly) mercilessly.
“Take these forms to your parents, return them signed to me.” Aizawa drawled handing out the multiple paged agreement forms. After all students receive the papers, Aizawa turned to the black board. “Now back to the lesson, battle awareness and battle adaptability.” The Homeroom teacher continued over the students’ groans.