5.) Paparazzi
Hibiki gets a phone call early before she leaves for work.
"Hello?"
"Try to make yourself scarce coming in today," Aizawa's voice sighs. "The media have gotten news that you and All Might now work at the school. They've surrounded the front gate."
"Thanks for warning me." She taps her wrists together to form the suit over her body and moves the call into her suit. "I'll be sure to make some clones."
"See ya." He hangs up.
Echo makes her way up to the top of her building, taking a running leap to the edge and jumping off to glide her way to the school.
Along the way, she takes down some criminal activity as she has time. She lands on the ground as she gets closer to the school and begins to make herself duplicate. She sends out Tranquility, Lazy, Happy, Inspiration, Sympathy, Hostility, and Serenity.
The press quickly takes notice of her arrival.
"Echo! The number 6 hero! Are you really are a teacher here?" a woman shouts.
Hostility smirks though they can't see any of the Echo's expressions because of the helmet. "If you can guess which one of us is the real Echo, we'll answer all your questions."
The brunette lady looks startled and confused. "Uh..." She looks between the lined up Echos for a moment before pointing at Happy Echo.
Happy giggles. "Nope! I'm the Happy Echo! Too bad! Better luck next time!"
The Echos make their way through the paparazzi. Echo becomes one again after she makes it through the gate. Aizawa is waiting on the other side. The woman complains then tries to move forward only to set off the security and the slam of the gate closes.
"Is that how you always handle the press?"
"Usually," Echo chuckles. "Saves time."
"Have they ever guessed correctly?"
"Once, and I agreed to my terms and answered what they wanted. I mean unless I couldn't."
"You're... something else," he says.
She grins, letting her helmet down. "I'll take that as a compliment, Aizawa."
~~~
"Hey, hey, hey! Hibichan!" Mic shouts out. "Wanna have lunch together with us?"
"Oh? Uh, sure? I don't typically ever eat lunch though," Echo admits, tagging along with him and Aizawa.
"Whaaaat?! That's crazy! You're not like doing that just to stay skinny, are you?"
They leave the teacher room and head to the lunch room.
"OH no! Nothing like that! It's just, my body has adjusted to not eating anything really. I only really eat breakfast and dinner. Actually, it's more like some snacks throughout the day and dinner."
"Are you anorexic?" Aizawa asks.
"Oh no! I, uh, I... well... Uh, when I was younger I had major ADHD. I don't much anymore, I've calmed way down. So, the medicine I would take... one of the side effects were lack of appetite. So, it's carried over after I stopped taking it. I'm just generally not hungry is all. One meal will usually fill me for the day."
"Bet that comes in handy when it comes to food costs," Mic says.
"It can, but things I forget about often go to waste. That or I just don't feel like making food or in the mood for what I got." Echo shrugs. "I honestly mainly buy things to snack on."
Mic chuckles, nudging Aizawa. "Sound familiar?"
Echo tilts her head. "You usually just snack too?"
"Yeah, he carries all kinds of snacks and things in his sleeping bag. He has a bag at the bottom for all his snacks."
"I'll admit, that's a good place to put them."
"What?"
"I use my sleeping bag to carry everything on the way here each morning. I take it out once I get here though," Echo says.
"Why are you two legit the same person?" Mic asks, looking between his two fellow teachers.
"I've been told I'm a mix between the two of you along with my own quirkiness," Echo winks.
Mic gasps. "Did you just pun?! Shotaaa! She just made a pun!" He shakes him back and forth.
"I know, I heard. You don't have to shout in my ear and stop shaking me."
A loud ringing alarm sounds off. "Warning: Level 3 security breach. All students please evacuate the building in an orderly fashion." It repeats itself.
The three teachers look at each other before rushing to the entrance. Echo gets her helmet back over her head. They fling open the doors before the press do, blocking them from entering further. They all go crazy seeing Echo.
"Number 6 hero!" the brunette from before screeches at her. "Tell us about your teaching methods and All Might's! All you have to do is answer. He's here somewhere!"
"I don't have to answer anything," Echo voices darkly.
"Just give us one good comment on record and then we'll leave!" a man pipes up.
Aizawa raises his hands up. "I know how you people work, give you an inch and you'll want a mile."
Mic leans in between Aizawa and Echo to whisper. "They are trespassing that means they're kinda like villains... Why don't we just beat em up?"
"Don't you even think about it," Aizawa tiredly replies. "Unless you want your name dragged through the mud." He glances at him. "Let's wait for the cops."
"Tch."
Echo begins to clone herself. "I got a better idea." All the clones round up the press like cattle and begin to force them out. Once they're all out, all the Echo's cross their arms and stand guard restricting anyone from entering.
"That works too," Aizawa says. "I'm impressed."
Mic laughs. "You herded them like sheep!"
"I'm gonna go check on the kids," Echo says. "I could hear them screaming in panic from here." She rushes inside to the lunch room to find the students calmed down but still in the hallway. She increases her voice for everyone to hear. "It's alright everyone! The press got too angry. Return to your lunches. This is a school for future heroes, so you all need to act like it! Panicking over an alarm is ridiculous. We're supposed to be Plus Ultra not scared babies! Now, what are we?"
"PLUS ULTRA!" they all scream.
"Good! Now get back to lunch."
They all calmly return to the lunchroom.
"You handled that well."
Echo turns to find Aizawa. "Where's Mic?"
"Dealing with the police."
"Ah, duh. I knew that," she lightly smacks her forehead, seeing all the Echo's still keeping guard.
"Ah, I didn't get to thank you for helping me home."
"No big deal. You would've done the same as I'm sure you've done countless times with Mic and Midnight."
"How'd you know?"
"I can just tell," she smirks.
~~~
"Found you," Echo says, gliding down to the roof Eraserhead is on. "So, you gonna let me patrol with you tonight?"
She's cloned herself, like she usually does, to patrol more areas. When she does this she usually sends out Fury, Rage, Angry, Helpful, Interest, Crazy, and Smug. Paired with them are their opposites so things won't get too outta hand. Helpful and Interest are paired together though. Echo has also figured out why she's made it to the top is because of this tactic she's able to rescue more.
"God you really need to stop doing this sneaking up thing and no."
She sits beside his crouched form, handing him a sandwich. "I brought your favorite."
He glances at her then the sandwich before letting out a small grunt and sitting down beside her. "I blame you if something bad happens." He takes the sandwich.
She unwraps her sandwich. "I have 12 clones running around taking care of things." She takes a bite of her food. "We should be fine."
"Don't your clones have different personalities?"
"Yeah, they're part of my personalities."
"You can choose which ones you want too?"
"Yeah, Fury, Rage, and Angry, are currently running around along with the opposite personality to keep everything in harmony."
"Aren't all of those just synonyms of each other?"
"Yes, but for me they're just different levels of anger."
"Are there ones you don't send out?"
"Uh... I don't typically let out Insanity or Sadistic unless I'm around to make sure they don't overdo it. Also Fear cause she's pretty useless in battle."
"You really have a sadistic side?"
"Everyone does and they're lying if they say they don't."
He shrugs. "Fair enough."
"Anyway, those two get really wild and aren't scared to do anything. I save them for the more severe stuff."
"I understand why."
A scream is heard from beneath them. Aizawa gets up to move but is stopped by Echo. She duplicates Boredom to handle it. The problem is quickly resolved and Boredom heads out to explore and try to cure the boredness.
"See? Easy."
"Do any roam while you're asleep?"
"Oh, I can't do that. My quirk doesn't... Well, I might activate it at night... My brothers say they sometimes see me doing something at night when I know I happened to be asleep before that. It's probably Geek that comes out at night to watch anime or something. I sometimes watch an episode that I haven't watched only to find myself already knowing what happens."
"The power of anime."
Echo lets out a loud laugh. "That's so true."
"Any of them ever get annoyed at having to do this hero work?"
"Never, they all seem to enjoy fighting. Even Lazy and Boredom. I mean they're all still a part of me so they all share the wanna be a hero trait."
Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: AzTruyen.Top