Class 1-C: Enigma

Raring to Go!

"Yeah well we're not exactly standard, are we?"

"It's also not standard that these matches are so stacked!" Rhea complained.

"Yeah, Okami, maybe you should stop and think about our Quirks for a second before just throwing us randomly into a tournament bracket." Yuuki complained. "I've got a dress that shapeshifts with me and a few weapons with poison on them, it's not fair for me to go up against a giant hairy man with sharp teeth," She said, poking Okami in the chest to pointedly end her complaint.

Under his metal wolf mask, Okami was trying not to panic. He had made the mistake of pairing people based on their performance in hand-to-hand combat, not Quirk combat. Someone like Mai-Mai, whose Quirk allowed her to create different projectiles from her blood based on what bat she was holding, didn't go up so well against someone like Kaito, who could close the gap between them before Mai-Mai even had the chance to fire off a shot.

The same thing happened to Kazumi and Yuuki. Kazumi could fight close-quarters when she needed to, but even against Kaito, she folded, much less when being pushed back by Will who was, quite literally, walking around in a fully enclosed mechanized exo-skeleton. Forget the calm, collected, quiet kid, Will was now the largest figure amongst the group.

In many ways, the exo-suit almost looked like a gorilla, except for the fact that the legs were proportioned well with the body. But the arms? The arms were nearly four times the size of Kaito's bicep and probably well over 20 times as powerful. Saturn Six had been developing exo-suit models for years, but none of the models had enough room for batteries to properly be effective in the field. Will had the opposite problem. Saturn Six actually had to design a much larger more powerful suit to be able to handle all his power at once, harnessing Will's Quirk, Radiation. It didn't cause cancer, but Will's cartoonish green energy could turn an office building into bubbling magma given enough time to recharge his expendable pool of insane heat.

As for Yuuki, well she could blend into a crowd, knife someone in the back with a poisoned knife, and escape with a different face, all in one smooth motion. Of course, for all of that, you needed a crowd.

If you put Yuuki in front of Okami and told the two to fight, well the guy who could turn into a raging wolf would beat the girl who could look like someone else.

"Well... I suppose we can restructure the matches," Okami said, furiously scribbling into whatever piece of parchment he had in his hand.

Sen and Daidoji pointed and laughed at the wolf ears poking out of his head, tilted down slightly.

"But if we are to restructure future matches, then we must redo the entire tournament and perform a recount!" Half the class groaned.

As the class began to bicker on what to do, Waka, the quiet personality amongst a class of quiet personalities, noticed their teacher hanging back, a phone held to his ear.

"The Iwata prefecture?" Edgeshot muttered into the phone. "It's still too soon. They just barely started-" Edgeshot was cut off as presumably the voice on the other end bit back.

"I understand, Sir. I want this job done just as much as you, but you're talking about a Pro level mission. I know we promised something like that to them someday, but it's been a few weeks. You could maybe trust Mirio with something like this but-" Edgeshot sighed.

"We're getting a mission?!" Sen exclaimed excitedly, her attention having been directed to Edgeshot by Waka. Her selective hearing decided not to pick up on the fact that there was some tension hanging around the assignment.

"I'll call you back," Edgeshot pocketed his phone, the class's attention now fully on him after Sen's outburst.

"We've got a mission?" Okami probed.

Edgeshot closed his eyes, taking to the count of 3 before saying, "it's up to you."

"What's that mean?"

"Your first job was supposed to be simple, but I just got a call from a contact involved in Enigma. This is a serious step up from what you've seen. Most Pros wouldn't even start with something as dangerous as-"

"We get it already!" Daidoji cried from the back.

Kazumi scoffed, but smiled nonetheless. "For once, she's right."

"Class A and B are already working towards internships, we gotta do some catchup," Will said, his massive armored arms crossed over his chest. If he wasn't careful he could quite literally tip over.

Edgeshot glanced at Will's tone. "Don't forget, this is still a black ops team. It's not about surpassing your classmates' progress towards being proper Pro Heroes."

"I get it," Will waved away his concerns, "Don't show your face, don't share your name, and definitely don't show up in the news."

"That last one shouldn't be too hard," Endo announced, strolling back to the group with Hina and Shizuku in tow. "All of our costumes are equipped with digital scramblers. We won't show up on cameras of any kind. Hina told me and Shizu about it while we were touring."

"A tour...?" Okami asked dejectedly. "But... we had a tournament."

"Come on people! Stay focused! Mission!" Kaito shouted.

"Hmm," Endo directed his attention to Edgeshot. "Myself and Shizu have business to attend to. They can handle it without us?"

"Business?!" Daidoji looked ready to sock Endo in the jaw. "This is way bigger than... well I have no idea what you do in your spare time."

"Something weird," Sen concluded with exactly zero evidence.

"Is it that important?" Edgeshot asked.

Endo nodded. "Medical conditions."

"Very well."

"Whaaaaat?! You can't just sit out because you have the sniffles, Endo!" Adrian looked almost like he had second-hand embarrassment for the guy.

"It's Quirk-related," Endo answered, walking past the group and out the hangar doors with Shizuku, "Good luck have fun," He shouted back to them in a fashion too robotic to be called encouraging.

"We live near here," Shizuku explained, chasing after her brother, "So don't worry about us being on the bus!"

"Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!" Daidoji practically jumped around Edgeshot as she begged for the details of the mission.

Edgeshot shook his head and sighed. "A tsunami just hit the Iwata prefecture. The most affected areas have evacuated, including a single building. Whilst the other Heroes are doing search and rescue... you'll be breaking into that building."

"Sounds like some illegal shit," Adrian responded.

"It would be," Edgeshot said coyly, "but that building... belongs to the Yakuza."