Boring Hero Work

For the next couple of days, life went on as usual. There was no villain uprising, no catastrophic threat to worry about or trouble to solve. After his one way beating of both classes, the students of class 1A and B seemed to become even more motivated and worked much harder on drawing out their quirks potential.

Of course this meant nothing for Aiden, he simply followed his daily routine without another thought. Though one thing that did change was the way in which some people in the class looked at him. It seemed like he had lit a fire in their hearts that wouldn't be extinguished anytime soon. He also recieved some news from Midnight detailing a meeting that went on after the combat examination finished. Of course he had to compensate her afterwards much to her delight.

*Sigh*

'I'm bored...'

Ignoring Aizawa's class lecture, he thought back to the fight against both classes and couldn't help but smile to himself. Compared to everyone else who wanted to go Plus Ultra and break their limits, Aiden knew that his ability and mindset didn't work like that. Instead of surpassing his limits, his limits adapt to the situation. By limiting the abilities he could use during the examination, he had discovered how to use Burst in an entirely different but effective way. One of these new methods he had discovered was the "Full Body Burst." Due to his shift ability, he had never needed to repel an attack before so he had never had the chance to try it out. Not to mention the fighting style he had copied from Bakugo. To spite him he decided to call it Burst style as both a mockery to him and Deku's shoot style. Not that he thought he would ever use it again.

"Did you hear that?" Momo whispered.

"Huh?" Confused by what she meant he gave her a weird look.

"About the Hero Office Project?"

Since he had tuned out of the lecture, he obviously didn't hear what Aizawa had said. In his defense, Aizawa liked to monologue a lot and most of the time it was useless. Besides, he had Mina and Momo there to tell him if he missed anything important.

Seeing that he had no idea what she was talking about, she quickly explained the situation to him.

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"I see..."

In essence, the school had agreed to a government project in which the students from class 1A would be sent to some random island in the south to take over the duties of the heroes on the island who are about to retire until new heroes from the mainland can come and replace them.

What was interesting though was the fact that the teachers were not allowed to be there to help them. Unlike the internship and work experience, this was true hero work.

"When do we leave?"

"In a week."

'A week... Good thing I halted my weekly sessions with Mrs Ashido.'

Thinking about her now, he couldn't help but peak at an excited Mina who was happily talking to Tsuyu.

'I wonder if I can get Christina to visit Eri in my absence...'

"Hey Aiden!!" Mina ran over to him. "You excited as well!!"

"Sure." He said with a deadpan expression.

"Ah, c'mon, at least try to act a bit more excited."

*Sigh* "We're going to take over the roles of heroes on a relatively peaceful where everyone knows everyone, the hero work we're likely to do there probably isn't as exciting as you think. To the people on that island, we're probably closer to handymen than heroes."

"You can't know that!" She argued.

"Mina, its an island in the middle of nowhere that none of us have heard about before and is unlikely to be famous for any particular reason. And with the agriculture and natural resources that an island provides, the people living there are probably self sufficient. I doubt that they will have any problems or issues there that they couldn't just solve by themselves. We're probably just making their lives easier by being there as they will pawn any small issues they have onto us instead of doing it themselves. In fact, they may even become lazy due to our presence and overwork us while they have the chance."

"They wouldn't- I mean- ah..." Unable to refute him, the previous amount of excitement that she was bursting with seemed to deflate within a manner of seconds. And since Aiden wasn't one to speak a lot during class, when he did he naturally drew the attention of everyone else. So not only did Mina hear him, the rest of his classmates did as well.

While he didn't want to ruin her excitement for the trip, Aiden didn't want her to be too disappointed when she finally realized that the job wasn't as glorious as she thought it'd be. That's why he wanted to help lower her expectations before they left. He just didn't expect that the other students would be listening in.

"Is that true Aizawa-sensei?" Invisible girl Toru asked.

*Everyone's heads turn to look at him in union.*

'Motherfucker!'

[A/n: At this point I don't know if that's a compliment or not.]

Seeing them all turn to look at him, Aizawa couldn't help but curse internally as he sent Aiden a death stare which only got him a middle finger in response. Remembering what Midnight had told him about the after school meeting, Aiden felt a weird sense of accomplishment from his current predicament.

"Are we really gonna be handymen!?"

"Are we even gonna do any hero work!?"

"Are you just forcing us to do manual labor!?"

*Yelling*

Seeing chaos start to rise within the class, Aiden pulled his headphones out of his bag and after putting them on, he sat back and watched as a myriad of different expressions that he never thought he'd see cross Aizawa's face as he attempted to answer every question to the best of his ability.