A Natural Fiasco [Rescue Class]

Siegfried had awaited this day since the discussion with Witch Doctor had come up. A class involving her students, and the ex-cop pro hero that wanted nothing more than to see the capabilities of the students sounded ripe for a exciting morning. Nimue seemed just as eager about the prospect herself, though he wasn't one hundred percent certain the reason was the same as Siegfried's.

Rummaging through the gear to distribute to the necessary holders, he kept a careful eye on the road, awaiting the fated bus to arrive at the destination. He'd be checking his watch for the time...if he had remembered to wear one. So instead Siegfried got their bright and early...perhaps too early, to prepare the scenario. Siegfried handed the various arms to the Yuuei robots that crowded around, following their issued commands of following his orders.

It was...extremely weird, to say the least, as Siegfried never had to deal with artificial intelligence allies, and less so be the commander of a group of them. The weapon was snapped into place on the few that needed to be custom fitted, as instructed, but many had already been fitted to the necessities of the exercise. Scanning the area, most of the layout had already been prepared from the prior days assembly, since this had been in the works for a time now. The 'victims' had been either set or were ready to be moved on the order, and all it required now was-

As if on queue, a distant sound of rumbling could be heard from down course and gravely pathway of a road. Peering from his view point within the forest outskirts, Siegfried grinned as the sight of the UA carrier bus chugged down the sandy path before coming to a crawl and eventually stopping. Well, looks it is show time. Siegfried always kind of wanted to play maniacal super villain!

Stepping out from the slightly shaded trees with a signal towards two of the other Yuuei issued robots to follow, Siegfried removed a rifle of sorts that was slung over his back and started taking steps towards the vehicle, though from a far off distance still. Lifting his left arm up, he took as steady an aim as he could, trying to account for distance and-

What sounded like a grenade launcher thumped out a circular object that went souring towards the area between the forest and the bus. The canister shattered upon the ground, releasing the distinct quirk tear gas that drifted through the air. It was a warning, and not intended to hit the bus directly or affect any of the student.

"Open fire!" Siegfried issued the order for the robots to fire off several pot shots of colored rounds at the bus, Sieg also joining in by firing about three quick burst in the general direction through the smoke. Waving a hand, he gave a signal to start taking the last of the training civilians towards the forest, to which one of the two robots followed and started to drag off, the cries for help clearly being heard.

"Alright! You all hearin' me!? This is Vulture's turf now, and I expect to have our demands present within thirty minutes. Should you all choose to not comply, we will start the executions as we declared earlier." Siegfried barked out loudly to clearly be heard by the bus fully of students and Nimue. Siegfried wasn't used to this whole 'acting' thing, but he could certainly sound fierce if he wanted. Not that he ever really chose to.

Starting to step backwards, he kept a close eye on movement and was ready to fire again if anyone chose to be brash before the lesson properly started with Nimue's command. "The CEO and teachers shall be held at the moonlight cavern as discussed for 'negotiations'. We will continue to hold onto the others at the checkpoints, but if you wish to see them safe, bring what we asked for. This is our final request for payments. You have been warned!"

Siegfried, with a proud smirk fired one last shot at the bus before picking up his pace and jogging into the forest with the robot following close behind. Well, here was hoping he played a convincing enough villain for the job. Now onto the plan~

Red didnt like biology. Atleast normal biology, who needed to know what all the organs in your body were called? Like who gives a shit about stuff that isnt important, like your spleen or your appendix, all that mattered was the stuff you needed to live, in Reds mind anyway. So to say it was strange that he opted in on this trip would be an understatement to say the least. However, the class wasnt dealing with normal biology today, it was dealing with quirk biology. Specifically how your quirk could affect the natural enviroment, like a forest in the mountains, and if there was anything Red was very willing to learn about, it was quirks. Anything that helped him understand quirks, especially his own, interested him to no small extent. Though he did find it weird that he was going on a school trip on his third day of classes, but eh, it was his own choice to go up to second year, so he wasnt gonna complain about it. He scanned the rest of the bus, looking for a lonely seat close to the back, found one and moved towards it. As he did, he noticed one very interesting fact about it.....He knew almost no one else on this bus.

Out of the 12 people attending, he "Knew" three of them, and that was a very liberal use of the word at best. Out of those 3, Yumi was the only one he had actually had a conversation with....but the less said about that, the better, since he was still scared of talking to her after what he'd said last time. Least he wasnt the only guy from 2-C here, atleast. As for the other two, he knew Jaz from brief conversations on UA chat and from that 2v1 combat lesson from a couple days back, which he had mostly recovered from...mostly. Emi he knew cause of UA chat, and the fact her face was in there constantly cause of her Emiji things, so she was easy to recognise to say the least. He took his lonely seat at the back and just leaned against the window, with the headphones in his goggles blasting music to pass the time...hopefully it wasnt too loud. If anyone sat next to him, he'd atleast try and respond if they started a conversation, bringing his goggle mounted headphones off his ears, but he'd be awkward as fuck about it.

As the bus was coming close to its intended destination, Red had been looking out the window for most of it, taking in the sights and such, and totally not imagining tricking through all the trees that were surrounding them once he got the chance. His goggle mounted head phones had been cycling through most of the songs on his phone at this point, randomly. He had noticed the dude behind him, who seemed like he was having a bad time on this bus ride, judging from how much he looked like he wanted to puke. Red leaned over, and started to ask "Yo dude, you alrig---" When the bus stopped. Red didnt question it, until he looked outside expecting a bus stop of some kind....when instead it looked like they were in the middle of goddamn nowhere. Red was about to remark on how strange this seemed, his instincts feeling that something was off about all this.

Thats when the screams and smoke grenades started going off. Some fierce sounding voice boomed over the area, calling for their demands or whatever to be met as he opened fire, or he'd start executing hostages. What fuckin demands? Red asked himself, and popped his skates to attempt to kick the window in so he could jump out and start saving the people who were getting dragged off. Unfortunatly, before he could someone with a light quirk reinforced the windows, and then Nimue said they should come up with a strategy, her tone and wink betraying the fact that this was probably a drill. Red lowered his leg, and rushed outside like everyone else had.

They all started talking about their quirks, which was a good idea, but to Red it was just wasting time. They could do that on the move, they only had 30 minutes after all. Seemed like the guy who was close to vomitin---scratch that, had vomited all over the floor had a similar thought, as he proposed that him, Jaz and two others go after the checkpoints. Red spoke up immediatly. "Yeah, im in, lets go" He replied, his bracelets spinning up and skates burning out, ready to get moving. He didnt know who this guy was, but if Jaz was gonna end up going with him then he was too, cause thats where the fun was gonna be. Light quirk girl started giving a speech and suggesting that they use their hero names, but Red didnt really care about that right now. Her mention of a vanguard was interesting, but scouting was probably better for him, he was fast with his quirk after all.

"Names Reddarcc, make wind when i generate momentum" He'd eventually say, pointing at his bracelets, just so everyone knew what to call him and what his quirk was....most people hardly knew him, he was the new kid.

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(sorry for holdin;’ you guys up. All that came before was a bit intimidating to absorb so I’m mostly getting out a basic post to make sure im here and this is moving).

Expecting some odd little field trip for a biology class, Yumi was more than a little surprised when the bus stopped and the nurse at the front of the bus, hosting their class, announced there was a rescue scene to be helping with. Now, of course, Yumi had recalled that she’d been told to pack her hero suit by one of the other teachers, but she’d always been confused as to why. Where they going to have her use her quirk as some example of biology? It always seemed like a weird request until now when miss Nimue winked. Riiiiight. This was UA. They couldn’t have a normal lesson could they.

She was at least thankful another teacher had warned her to wear her costume. Without it she was more useless than a magikarp holding an everstone. With a deep breath she charges herself up once everyone else was getting out of the bus ahead of her, sparks burning through her school uniform and revealing the hero suit she’d warn beneath, her electrical dart motion style helping her get out of the bus and rise up into the sky, trying to get a good view of exactly what was going on before looking to her fellow classmates to see if any of them were forming a plan.

(if I ignored anything important to do with Yumi I do apologize, I genuinely just wanted to make sure I wasn’t delaying you guys further.)

An exploration of the effects of quirks on mountain forests? This was exactly the sort of thing Shimizu Haruto had chosen UA for! The white-haired boy had leapt at the chance to be involved in this course- Fortunately, his role in  the class had downgraded from class president to health committee, freeing up plenty of time for more electives! Quirk biology and impacts had long been an interest of the boy, although his age gave him few chances to explore it in any depth. Naturally, he wasn't about to miss this one!

He recognized most of the classmates around him- Some more than others, of course. It was only natural that Miku would join- The class was about the impact on trees, and Haruto was well aware of what his fellow cooking club member's quirk was. Yumi and Jasmine, he was vaguely familiar with- Both had been present during the nightmarish ending of the Semper Fi military camp. He had also treated Jasmine after the sports festival combat tournament's first round- Not that she had needed much treatment. If he had a chance, he would have to make sure her false tooth wasn't causing any discomfort.

Speaking of treatment, he also recognized Feng from the aftermath of that first round- She was definitely looking much better than before, to his relief! Her opponent had truly done a number on her. As for the rest, most were familiar in one way or another- A few had been a part of the rescue team meetup, which had gone unfortunately- Though it seemed that the two who had argued so vehemently on that day were getting along much better now, to his relief. 

As for the rest, he would most likely have only passed them in the hallways, not having had any significant interactions. The boy would smile and greet his friends as he boarded the bus, while giving a friendly nod to those he was not as familiar with. Not expecting anything unusual, the boy was simply wearing his school uniform. While he had his bag, it was not especially heavily packed- Books and pencils for taking notes on the lesson, a water bottle, a homemade bento for lunch, and his first aid kit. Even that kit was not especially carefully packed, mostly being just in case a classmate were to trip and scrape their leg- As they were going along with the school nurse, Haruto doubted he would need it, but he made a habit of taking it anyways.

In any case, it was a smooth ride, up until it wasn't. The bus came to a stop, but before the students could even ask if they had arrived, explosions would ring out, and multicolored gas would waft towards the bus. Sounds of shouting could be heard, and Haruto's heart sank like a stone. This scenario was all to familiar, albeit out in the open instead of in a grim basement. He couldn't help but glance at Jasmine and Yumi, to see if their thoughts took the same direction as his had- That time as well, all he had wanted was a chance to learn about the biology of quirks!

The shouts of the civilians called him back to the military camps, that deadly day. The day that had given him the determination to emphasize rescue operations. His breathing becoming shallower, Haruto would stretch his arms out towards the approaching tear gas- His mind far too distracted to wonder why the canisters had been aimed so far away from the students. This time, he would make sure that no one had to die!

Even as he prepared to purify the incoming clouds, he heard Nakahara-sensei speaking. The calmness in her voice was infectious, drawing Haruto from the cage of memories he had nearly fallen into. He still prepared to absorb the tear gas- Not knowing what effect the vapor would have, he was unwilling to allow it to reach his classmates- But his heartbeat settled and his breaths returned to a more normal rate. Right. A strategy. That was a good idea. And speaking of good ideas, Miku was definitely right that to make a strategy, it was for the best if everyone introduced what they could do. During the sports festival, wasn't that what he had done himself during the rescue operations event?

This wasn't an event, it was real, but that didn't change what they had to do. "Shimizu Haruto. My quirk allows me to absorb toxic chemicals- Like, say, those clouds of gas that those guys fired at us- And turn it into a less harmful form which I can then manipulate to do things like lifting debris." He gave the cliff notes summary of his quirk for the benefit of his classmates. "I, uh, also know some measure of first aid, if needed." Although with Nimue there, Haruto doubted his mediocre skill level would count for much.