They found their classroom after a bit of exploration. The door was massive.
"I feel bad for the people with Quirks that make them ten feet tall or whatever. Imagine the back pain."
Toru would have been giving him a funny look right now if she wasn't invisible. "Wouldn't their Quirks account for that?"
"I mean, one would hope so. Do you want to do a stupid entrance? All these classmates are gonna be hero kids, real weirdos. We've got to one-up them in weirdness, show who's boss right out of the gate."
"Hehehe…" she appeared to nod. "I have the perfect plan, too."
Thirty seconds later, the door to Class 1A slid open, and a boy with spiky blonde hair and a floating girl's uniform came bursting in.
"Everyone shut up this instant," the boy said, striking a pose.
"We're here to rock your world and be cute and great," the girl, apparently invisible, said.
Then, in sync: "We're the Cloak and Dagger of Shinobu Middle!"
The students in the central-ish desks had been having a kind of group conversation, and they were the ones who reacted. Kaminari Denki started laughing his ass off. Jiro Kyoka and Kirishima Eijiro chuckled, and Sero Hanta cracked a smile. Most of the others just looked confused or irritated.
Mission accomplished, thought Len, knowing none of the names, but a quick scan of the room revealed a diverse cast of faces.
"Wait," he said, confused. "I get why you're a cloak, but how am I a dagger, exactly?"
Hagakure was already skipping to the far side of the room, where there were two remaining desks open. One was in front of the angry blonde guy, which Toru sat down in, and the other was behind him… wait, the angry blonde guy?
"Hang on, I know you!" Len declared, pointing. "From the underground Quirk traini…"
"Shhh!" The guy gave him a look of fury along with the shushing hiss. Then, he looked around frantically. The people in the center of the room had returned to their conversation. The pretty girl and the European-looking guy that made up the rest of the back row were arguing about something. And the others in the class were paying no attention at all.
Angry blonde guy sighed and scratched his neck. "Jesus, dude. Don't mention that training so casually. Are you an idiot or something? Scratch that, from that display earlier, you definitely are."
I guess it WAS kind of illegal… but still, who actually cares? Wait, was it a bigger deal than Len realised? He didn't know enough about the hero structure to make a judgement!
"What are you guys talking about?" Toru asked, turning.
"Nothing," they said, in sync.
"What's your name, by the way? We never got to spar at the erm… thing. I only saw you from a distance."
"BakugovKatsuki."
"Cool. My name's…"
"I don't care. You have some kind of warping Quirk, right? Pretty powerful in concept. It's a shame you're a fucking crackhead, although all the better for me. You won't be able to get in my way of being number one at this whole damn school."
Len laughed nervously. He had been going to take the seat behind Bakugo, but now was thinking better of it. "I had no intention of getting in your way anyway. See you around." And then, with a brief glance at Toru that he hoped she would take to mean sorry, he walked back to the other side of the room.
Desks 1 and 2 had both been unoccupied when he'd entered, but the second one now contained another familiar face, one Ashido Mina. She stood out quite a bit in the classroom, in a good way. Len found himself moving to Seat 1.
"You missed my grand entrance," he said plainly.
She pouted. "And you missed mine. You were too busy talking to people."
Len grinned and held out a hand. "Good to see you here, Ashido. All Might laid out the situation for you too, I presume? It was good to know that we both got in thanks to our combined efforts."
Mina laughed. "It was all instinct, anyway. I couldn't leave your pathetic ass crying under a robot, now could I?" She did accept his handshake, though.
"Do you two know each other, ribbit."
Len tilted his whole body cartoonishly to peer around Mina's back, where a girl was sitting in Desk 3. She had long green hair, big eyes, a wide mouth, and hunched posture.
"Yo. Were you the one who just spoke? Your voice is so soothing."
The girl's eyes got even wider than before. "Are you making fun of me?"
Mina laughed. "No, that was a compliment. He's just like that, I'm afraid."
"Don't apologise on my behalf. And yes, I was being genuine. Your voice sounds really cool. I'm Kagamine Len."
"I'm Asui Tsuyu, ribbit."
"And I'm Ashido Mina!" The pink girl gave a thumbs up and a dazzling grin. "And to answer your question, the two of us met at the entrance exam. Life or death situation type thing. You gotta make friends I'm desperate times, you know?"
"Thank goodness for that," said Len, making a show of wiping invisible sweat off his brow. "Or else I would never make any friends."
That got a laugh out of both the girls, and Len smiled upon hearing Asui's laugh. It was like a deep-throated chuckle, and it was super endearing. "Say, Asui-sa—"
"Call me Tsu, ribbit."
"Huh?" Len blinked.
"Oh, that's adorable!" Mina brought her fists close to her face. "… Tsu-chan!"
Tsuyu nodded in approval, blushing slightly.
Len frowned. "This isn't fair. If I call you a nickname, I should get my own nickname in return."
Tsuyu put a finger to her chin thoughtfully. "Hmm…"
Mina clicked her teeth and snapped her fingers. "I know! Lenny!" Tsuyu nodded again.
Len grimaced. "I brought this upon myself. Hey, does that mean you're going to use it too, since you came up with it?" He turned to look at Mina, his blue eyes inquisitive.
Mina sputtered for a second, flushing lilac. "Ah, I mean…"
"You don't have to if you don't want to, I guess. But anyway, Tsu. You're like a frog, huh?"
"Yes, Lenny. I can do most things a frog can. That's my Quirk. And what about you?"
"I can teleport myself and any object up to the weight of a printer ten meters in any direction."
"But not other people," Mina supplied. "I would know, since you PUSHED me."
"You're laboring hard feelings about that?"
"What about you, Mina-chan?" Tsuyu asked, tilting her head, blinking those wide eyes.
Mina let out a happy squeak upon being called "Mina-chan", and puffed out her cheeks, her eyes shimmering with emotion.
"Do try not to implode on our first day. She asked you a question," said Len.
"Quiet, you. Anyway, Tsu-chan, my Quirk is Acid. I can emit it from my palms and my feet."
"Interesting. I can also secrete a sort of toxin as part of my Quirk, but it's very low-level. I imagine yours is quite powerful. But that it interesting, Mina-chan. Based on your unique appearance, I had you pegged as a mutant, not an emitter."
"Well, with more and more people with unique Quirks getting married, these weird fusions do happen." Mina ran a hand through her curly hair, seemingly unfazed by the idea of being a "weird fusion." I can respect that, thought Len. After all, he genuinely had no idea where his powers came from, genetically speaking.
"I heard mutants? Toru Hagakure at your service."
"Oh, it's you." Len turned to see the invisible girl's uniform hovering over their desks. "Decided to join the cool side of the room, huh?"
"Briefly. I tried to talk to that Bakugo guy, but it was like he didn't even notice I was there." She seemed to pout.
"Ah, yes, I saw you two enter the room and make that grand display, ribbit. I'm Asui Tsuyu, but you can call me Tsu. How do you know each other?"
"We went to the same middle school," Toru explained.
Mina had been quiet for a beat, her facial expression curiously thoughtful, but she chose to re-insert herself at that moment. "I'm Ashido Mina! Good to see another girl here! The other two on the other side of the room don't seem much for conversation."
Len spared a glance over there. The girl with short black hair was talking to some of the boys, while the girl with the longer black hair in some crazy ponytail was ignoring the European guy, who kept trying to get her attention.
"Lenny," observed Tsuyu, "you seem to know a lot of people here already, ribbit. Notably girls."
"H-huh?" He gave her a frightened look, feeling a single drop of sweat go down his face. "How could you say something so brave?!"
While Mina and Toru were laughing at his overreaction, Tsuyu replied: "I just say what's on my mind, ribbit."
"Excuse me, could you take your feet off the desk? That is extremely insulting to the upperclassmen who sat here before us and the people who built the desk!"
"The hell?" Mina raised an eyebrow, looking across the room. The other three followed the voice as well.
"HA! You gonna make me? What middle school did you even go to, you supporting cast member?" It was Bakugo, and the uptight guy with the glasses from the entrance exam. Everyone else in the room had quieted down to look at the confrontation that was happening.
Glasses straightened himself. "I… I had the privilege to attend Somei Private Academy."
"Yeah, privilege is a good way of putting it. I'll enjoy leaving your rich ass in the dirt."
The green-haired kid had just appeared at the doorway, and he looked incredibly frightened. Len had to admit that he was awfully confused by all this.
Suddenly, Glasses NOTICED green-haired kid, and zapped over to him an instant. "You!" he declared, making a scene at the front of the room. "I need to apologise to you! My name is Tenya Iida, by the way!"
"I-Izuku Midoriya!" the greenhead stuttered, waving his hands frantically.
"Bakugo still hasn't gotten his feet off my desk," mumbled Toru.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Midoriya…" Iida adjusted his glasses, and they went white over his eyes for a moment, indicating serious business. "You realized there was something more to that exam, didn't you? That's why you took out the zero pointer. I misjudged you, I confess it."
"Uhhhh… th-that's okay…"
"Oh hey, it's the nice person!" A girl with brown hair appeared at the doorway, which by Len's count was the twentieth and last student. "The way you took out that zero pointer was awesome!" She punched the air intensely.
Midoriya was getting redder by the second. "Ohhh, it was n-n-nothing! I only got in thanks to you g-going and saying something, anyway, so r-really it was all because of yo…"
"How did you know about that?" She blinked, curious.
"If you lot are here to make friends, you've come to the wrong place," a voice droned from the hallway.
Toru quickly crept back to her seat. The three students at the front of the room backed off, confused. Len tried to peek around to see who had spoken, but they came through the door anyway.
A human in a sleeping bag. Midoriya and the brown-haired girl had made comments, but Len wasn't listening.
Whispers flooded the room as the sleeping bag walked to the front desk. Mina and Tsuyu were chatting about something behind Len, and then they stopped as the human unzipped, revealing a disheveled man with long black hair.
"It took you all far too many seconds to quiet down. Time is of the essence here," he told them in a bored voice. "This is the hero course. I'm Aizawa, your homeroom teacher."
"HOMEROOM TEACHER?" All the students exclaimed together, aghast.
Aizawa's eyes narrowed. "That display was certainly cute, but we have no time. Put these on and head down to the field. Make it snappy." He procured a box of PE uniforms and put it on top of the desk.
Huh? We're not going to go over anything? Len felt panicked for a moment, before looking around and seeing that everyone else looked pretty lost too. So this isn't even normal for hero school. Okay. Good to know. But there was nothing for it but to follow their teacher's orders.