Total Command

Chapter 28: because some things sometimes aren't ours to hold

The first years of UA had heard a lot of stuff in the 4 days they had been enrolled in the college.

They had heard about the weird teaching style UA let the teachers have on the first day when all of class 1-A was missing during orientation.

The second day, they heard rumors of a male in the hero course and seen him eating with a class, giving them pointers on what's good on the menu.

He was intimidating to look at, to say the least, towering over the rest of his classmates.

The third day, they heard him chastise them over the exit of the cafeteria, gripping onto a woman as he floated above them.

Later, they'd heard there was an attack on USJ.

They'd heard that the villains were the ones that needed the teachers to rush to their aid.

And now, with some sick curiosity that egged them on, they needed to scope out the competition.

To see what 1-A was really about.

So they crowded the hall right as their class ended, waiting for 1-A to open its doors.

And suddenly, the crowd felt scared as the door slid open.

195 centimeters of pure muscle stared down at them, face apathetic.

They had seen him in the cafeteria, heard about him in the gossip. But nothing compared to seeing him simply tower over them up close.

"Can I help you?" he asked, tilting his head to the side slightly confusion in his face. And with that, the world crashed around the crowd.

The intimidating aura was broken.

"Wow..." came the voice between the other student's as a tall, lanky woman made her way up to the front, kiting her fingers through her messy mop of lilac hair. "Honestly, I thought the rumors were exaggerating your features," her tired eyes squinted. "Turns out they were just exaggerating your mental state."

"They are probably here to scope out the competition, Deku!" A blonde from the classroom yelled.

"Competitio-OH! Right! The sports festival" He rubbed the back of his head. "That's nice- could I get through then? I have to speak with our teacher about some things."

"You think this is a joke ?" the lanky woman spat. "There were many that didn't make it into the hero program and were forced into other courses." Her souring face quickly dispelled, turning back into the lazy poker face she'd worn when she first spoke up. "Our instructors told us that there was a chance of us transferring over to the hero course based on our results in the sports festival" She smirked, "I'm sure the reverse could be said for you, couldn't it?"

"For a general studies student like me, this isn't just 'scoping out competition'," her face hardened. "It's a declaration of war."

Some 'oos' and 'aahs' were murmured in the crowd, some started to back away fearing that maybe the man was going to get violent in return.

"Oh- sorry you didn't make it to the hero course. I hope they do transfer you over," he said, finishing with a genuine smile.

Clearly, that wasn't the reaction the woman was expecting, so she froze on the spot.

"Stop hogging the way!" the same blonde from before protested, trying to shove the man out of the way. Only to fail gloriously as he didn't even budge. "Dammit, Deku, move!"

"Oh, right," he mumbled, taking a step to the right to let the woman through. Who then proceeded to shove through the horde. "...was that all?" he asked, turning back to the lanky woman, still staring blankly at him.