Disaster Strikes - Lessons~! (Graham, Shizume, Iida) (72 hr)

Katsumi had spent the ride here mostly keeping to herself. It was for the best, she had justified. She had decided to save her energy for the things that they were going to do for the day, there was no use in spending it in idle chatter. Though that did not stop her from staring enviously at the ones who looked like they were having more fun sitting around than she was. The thing with the drawing and the situation with the bear had been a great relief to her in a way, giving her something to do that didn’t have anything to do with socialising.

‘What is-’ Before she could even finish thinking about asking what the sudden loud noise was, she captivated by the sight of a plane moving to meet the ground. The shock of seeing something like that only began to wear off when she realized that she just watched a plane crash relatively near the area they were in. She stood up straight when she was called on by one of the teachers. “...Hai, temporary designation will be Pink for this operation.” She said monotonously while staring at the other two that the teacher called on. “I will follow your lead for this mission.”

She took off after the teacher, looking at Hibiki, temporary designation Blue. “Blue, how does your Quirk perform in a search and rescue operation?” She was also beginning to think of what she could do with her Quirk for the situation.

Blank's sprint was a tad bizarre- his arms folded at a forced and perfect ninety degree angle moving just beside his chest. He leapt over tree roots along the way, occasionally bringing up his arms to grab a hold of the branches just overhead to swing on them as the group rushed towards their destination. All three of the students he'd called upon were with him, and he smiled faintly behind his gas mask before his lips parted to speak to them,"All right, young students! It's time that we see just how much you've learned from your time at U.A~!" The tone of his voice was a tad too jovial for the task at hand but it was just the type of person and Hero that Blank was,"It may seem overwhelming, but not to worry! You'll have ole Blank-sensei to guide you along!" The heavy breathing from his mask had become as weighty as lead as the lenses fogged up with condensation from his warm breaths. It didn't seem to phased him too much, however, and he simply squinted through his foggy vision to gauge just how close they were to the crashed plane.

It was big, bigger than anything the teacher had ever seen. Smoke filled the sky above them, surely signaling anyone else nearby of the scorching blaze that had originated from an even bigger issue. That being the huge metal bird that had decided to fly straight into the forest. 

Sliding to a stop just before it as other Hero groups sprung into action, Blank surveyed the area with a slow turn of his head before ushering the students to continue,"Let's enter through the left wing like Kiryu-san...!" Deciding to jog now instead, the mother duck would lead his ducklings over to the door that the illusive 1-B homeroom teacher had decided to take for himself. He climbed up through the doorway with ease, extending his arm down to help the students up if and when they needed it. Once up, the team would notice a commotion erupting towards the middle of the plane- first class. Not anything like panic, but anger,"Oh! This seems a tad strange!" Blank spoke truthfully, looking around as his hands were shoved into his pockets. The other passengers were already in the midst of being rescued by Kiryu and his team, so the Hero had to admit that it was highly unusual to hear upset voices rather than relieved or panicked ones. 

The walkways were narrow enough without the seats jostled out of place and cutlery and plates scattered across the floor from the impact. Blank would lead the pack through with relative ease as the chatter got louder and louder with each step. A faded red curtain separated business class and the upper areas, and the teacher pushed it aside to be immediately greeted by a young and distressed flight attendant. There was a superficial cut on her forehead, but apart from that she looked to be in good health. The sudden movement from Blank had startled her, however, and he greeted her with a nod and a step forward,"Hello! We are Hero Unit-" It was good that the teacher was cut off there, as he really had no flashy name that he could pull out of his sleeve for this occasion.

A plain-looking suited man stood up from his seat to step into the walkway. He squinted at the group, before a look of shocked agitation washed over his face,"You are Heroes?!" This declaration brought eerie silence to draw across the first-class passengers. Some rose from their seats, watching the team as if they group was prey. It was as if they waited for an answer, one that Blank had already answered just seconds before,"Yeeeeeees? I believe I jus-" Those words were an invitation, and suddenly a crowd of enraged passengers fell upon the team like starved predators, all speaking at the same time with various different concerns. It was a difficult place to be- caught in the middle of the flight attendants station with a mob piling into the tight space. Many of the passengers circled around the teacher who was not taking it well- his head shooting from one angry face to another as he tried his best to get muffled but reassuring words in.

Some passengers made their way around the crowd that swarmed Blank to find the students, barking orders and complaints just the same. Shizume would find an uppity old hag dressed in a designer dress stood before her, the number of wrinkles on her face just barely outnumbered by her privilege,"I said that getting onto an airline owned by one of them was a terrible idea! But no one ever listens to me! No! We were fine and dandy and then suddenly we're going down! I swear it was one of those damn Quirkers!" She was outraged as she wagged a finger in front of the blue-haired girl's face,"My poor little baby Poofles doesn't like kennels, so I brought him on with me! He got scared and flew right out the airlock with the rest of the damn jumpers and you're going to go find him for me!" It was as if she was more upset with the fact that her possession, that being her dog, was lost as if it was luggage more than a living breathing thing potentially being dead in the middle of the forest. 

Katsumi would have someone equally as, if not more, unpleasant. An impossibly tall, obese man towered over the girl with his hands balled into fists. One was shaken at the short pinkette as he spoke,"You guys came late enough!" Though the Hero teams had appeared from the forest to help almost instantaneously, it wasn't fast enough for the slow man,"I want to go get my valuable luggage and you are going to help me find it! I've already had it up to here with you people!" His breaths were heavy in between his words, pointing a finger towards the doorway that the three had entered through. He was adamant to get through to retrieve his possessions. But getting through the door frame, let alone down the gap they had to climb up to close would be much harder than it was for the heroic team.

As for Graham, it seemed he didn't just have one problem to deal with. It was two passengers that had decided to approach him, and it was already proving to be quite frustrating. It was an elderly woman on his right, while her middle-aged daughter was screaming in the boy's face on his left,"Do you have any idea how traumatizing this is for an old woman?! She could have had a heart attack!" The wrinkled mother did nothing but nod along with her short-tempered daughter, enabling her childish behavior,"And there you stand, perfectly able-bodied, and you don't lift a finger to help! How dare you! The least you could do is begin by getting the children, elderly, and women off of this death trap! I'm already doing your job better than you are!" The woman was, to put it plainly, furious. She would surely continue to criticize Graham for whatever he chose to do, but starting by helping the first class off of the plane wouldn't be a bad idea...

Blank was overwhelmed, but not enough to turn his head towards the rest of his team,"J-Just do what they ask! Heroes have to take the hard road, not the easy-" His voice would be drowned out by the mob of his own, but his orders were clear. Sometimes Hero work was as flashy as saving a woman tied to train tracks, but that was never promised. Sometimes, though unsavory, the Heroes had to appease the public and calm wavering hearts. Though it was surely one of the worst parts of the job, it was still part of it. 

Katsumi had several thoughts running through her mind as demands started flying at the unit the moment they had gotten in. Were all rich people like this? No, that didn’t make sense, she wasn’t like that, neither was her grandfather and father. What made people act this way? Had there been a slight amount of chance that she’d have ended up like these...rich snobs? She shuddered at such a thought and mentally shoved the forming mental image aside, there was no place for idle and unneeded thoughts during her heroic duties.

Turning to face the obese man, she put on her most stoic expression as she let Blue do her thing with the announcements. She let her finish before she started addressing the man before her. “Alright sir, you want your valuables back.” She said, making sure that the man knew that she had listened to his request. “That is doable, but it would be better if I were to escort you out of the plane and to a safe area before I personally retrieve your belongings from the cargo hold.”

“Please describe your belongings to me, a general description or identifying feature would be helpful in this case. In case that the impact of the plane caused the luggage to spill and scatter, knowing the contents of your luggage would help in its retrieval.” She paused as if to consider something. “Though if you still wish to retrieve the items yourself, it would be advisable for me to escort you along the way to ensure your safety.

The loud announcement by the blue-haired megaphone sent a jolt of shock through the teacher's turned back, as it also did for the rest of the passengers. After the initial surprise, however, the mob was left with mixed reactions- the majority were not in Shizume's favor. Blank knew the expression that had washed over the crowd well, as it had been one that he and so many Heroes had seen more often than they should have.

Disgust.

However, though they were quite openly revolted with the use of a Quirk, even to assist them, the voices all around the plane lowered to a gossipy murmur,"Yes, as Blue-chan said, we're simply here to aid you all! Compliance will ensure it all gets done faster!" Blank smiled around at the passengers that had circled him, then nodded reassuringly in Shizume's direction. It was hard to completely sway an ignorant crowd, but she'd done the best with the hand she was dealt. Though U.A. was strictly against Quirk use outside of school grounds, the white-haired teacher would have no qualms with it. He encouraged it heavily after all, and he had no doubt that the other teams were being permitted the use as well.

The older and bossy woman that stood before the blue-haired student would have a cruel scowl on her face from the display, and would scoff at Shizume's offer to help,"Hmph. You Quirkers are all the damn same. Always itchy to use that weapon of yours..." The words were muttered sourly under her breath, but she still took the student's arm regardless of her own personal feelings and stepped onward to find her precious Poofles. She was full of complaints the entire way down the left wing, saying many times over that 'they should make a stairwell' and 'I can't make it!'. Yet, once on the forest floor, her chest puffed out like she had done it all by herself. With that out of the way, however, it left the rather dauntingly large woods before the pair,"Well... get a move on! Poofles isn't going to just find himself!" Doing nothing to aid Shizume, the bitter old woman stood with her arms crossed in place. 

Graham, as his appearance did show, was a gentleman through and through. So much so, in fact, that a faint red blush was airbrushed across the elderly woman's cheeks,"My, what a remarkable young man! And so fit, too!" The woman would grope at the student's biceps while her middle-aged daughter gawked distastefully, but followed in silent anger as the two were helped off of the crashed aircraft with ease. It almost seemed too easy, and the irate woman from before would grumble out a 'thank you' before scurrying off to stay near a tree silently. Though her daughter had gone to pout, the elderly woman would stick near Graham for a short while in comfortable quiet before speaking,"It's good that you lot came to escort us out when you did. I feel so terrible for that poor Quirker girl that's stuck in her seat, but it's better her than us I'd say...!" She nodded and even smiled, shuffling away to join her daughter at her place next to the forest. Some people were truly heartless, others clueless when it came to their own ignorance. Whether the elderly woman was simply confused or a bit dull in the head, the possibility of there being a trapped passenger was too important to pass up.

It was good that such upstanding and respectable young students were studying at the heroic academy as Katsumi would handle the service aspect with ease. Sometimes, however, impeccable guest service isn't enough to satiate an angry consumer. With the voices in the plane cabin now dialed back to ear-pleasing chatter, it would mean that the man wouldn't have to scream to get his voice across. This hadn't stopped the man at all from his tirade, though, and this time had raised his voice to get his point across,"Now why the hell would I tell you what's in my damn luggage?! That's an invasion of my damn privacy!" He spoke down to the pinkette both in stature and in tone, becoming red in the face from the gall of her request,"I'll tell you what, little girl, you're gonna come with me and help me find my damn belongings instead of lookin' through my shit to determine who's is who's! You got that?!" There was a deep breath after his rant, and would push hobble past the student to get to the door first. It was difficult for him to get through the doorway the first time boarding, and it was surely even harder now. In his blinded rage, however, he hadn't cared to remember nor check as he pushed through that there was, in fact, no staircase. Now Katsumi had an even trickier problem on her hands than an enraged, entitled passenger, but a passenger that had now realized his mistake as his chubby foot slipped out the door frame.

Katsumi fought the urge to roll her eyes and forced herself to remain quiet. She didn’t like the way this man was addressing her, the volume of his voice, the emotion his words were tinged with, and the choice of some of his words was enough to nearly make her want to leave the man to his own devices. Her expression remained neutral and her eyes stared at him with their usual deadness. She nearly interjected, wanting to say something to calm down the man, when she noticed his face going red but decided against it. If she was guessing the man’s personality correctly, that would just make him angrier and louder. It seemed like he was one of the types of people that she disliked, the ‘loud idiotic always correct and will get louder to prove it’ type of people.

She quietly let herself be pushed aside as the man made his way through. ‘Following and helping,Doable.’ She then realized what the man was planning on doing and quickly made action to prevent the man from coming to grievous technically self inflicted harm. One hand reaching into her bag quickly searching for something to use. Not finding anything she grabbed the man with one arm and threw her own Quirk’s effects on herself and kept the effect on herself to make sure her speed always remained at 0. Then she began to pull the man back. “Please be careful while I find a way down for you.” She began looking around for things to help the man get down.