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It would be an understatement to say things had not been going well for Anne Boonchuy.

After being stuck in a world full of talking amphibians for a few months and being adopted by a frog family of farmers, Things were looking up she'd finally found her two friends Sasha and Marcy and they had charged the stones of the calamity box, after a disastrous dinner party and a scuffle before Wartwood's battle of the bands Sasha and Anne seemed to have come to a compromise and start rebuilding their friendship, all that was left was to go to Newtopia to see King Andrias and they could finally go home.

However, things came crashing down when it was revealed that not only was Sasha using Anne and Marcy to get into Newtopia and stage a Toad uprising and Marcy had gotten them all stuck in Amphibia on purpose out of fear of moving away but also that Andrias was a mad tyrant who had tricked them by having them charge the box so he could take it for himself and use the power of the stones to conquer other worlds.

The ensuing battle had Andrias destroying Frobo, Polly growing her legs, and Sprig almost falling to his death. Anne activated the power of the blue calamity stone and then proceeded to kick the tail of Andrias and his robots until her powers gave out, however during the chaos Marcy had not only managed to save Sprig but also got to the box and tried to make a portal back to earth. Sasha told Anne and the Plantars to just go as she and Grime fought Andrias to keep him occupied so they could escape, and what Anne saw next would linger in her mind.

"Marcy, hurry!" Anne exclaimed worried for her oldest friend in the current situation.

"I just need to–" Marcy began, but before she could finish her sentence SHUNK! Her face turned to dread smack dab in the middle of Marcy's torso was the end of Andrias' gigantic flaming sword the wielder stood behind with a solemn look quite literally stabbing Marcy in the back

"Now look what you've made me do." The 1,000-year-old king said with clear disappointment in his voice.

"I-I'm sorry. For...everything…" Marcy stated weakly with tears in her eyes.

"MARCY!" Anne shouted in shock and horror.

Marcy's body went limp and crashed to the ground, the calamity box falling out of her hands and onto the floor

And then the world turned pure white…

So yeah not going so great.

Anne opened her eyes. "Ugh, what happened?" She groans out in confusion, her whole body feeling weak, not helped by the headache she was having, she was covered in scratches and bruises, and her clothes and hair smelled of soot and ash.

She looked around and thankfully saw her dazed but alive adopted frog family along with her bag and the head of the destroyed Frobo

"Aw, man…" Sprig, her best friend said tired with his hand on his forehead

"Everybody alright?" Asked Hop Pop, the elder of the family tired himself but was more interested in the safety of his grandkids.

"Yeah." "Could be better."

"Physically yes, Mentally not so much," Polly stated, the newly-legged Pollywogs voice filled with sarcasm.

The family stood up tired but able to get up and started surveying their surroundings. They were in an alleyway there was garbage and the like on the ground and a dumpster nearby Sprig spoke up "Where are we?"

Anne suddenly felt a buzzing sensation from inside her bag, she looked in it and saw it was her phone, she turned it on and saw something she hadn't seen in months, her phone had 4 bars of service but that could only mean.

She tuned her ears and heard the passing of cars, the steps of feet, and the chatter of voices

"I think-" Anne walked while waving her hand for the Plantars to follow "We're in my world."

They looked out of the alley and saw large buildings covered in what appeared to be Japanese along with cars and other humans walking by.

The Plantars looked around in awe at a place like nothing they had ever seen before "Whoa." They said unison

Anne was beaming, after being in Amphibia for so long she couldn't believe she'd finally found a way home. She walked outside the alley "I can't believe I'm finally hom-Oof." She was distracted by her emotions and accidentally knocked into someone.

"Oh hey, Kid are you okay?" The man asked and extended his hand.

Anne rubbed her head but then realized what she had done and went to take his hand. "Oh shoot sorry sir I didn't mean to-!" Anne stopped in surprise at what she saw. The man had black fur on his body, his head was a canine-like skull with two horns, and yellow eyes with purple pupils, he looked like nothing Anne had ever seen.

"Kid?"

Anne took a double look at the street and saw things she hadn't noticed in her excitement, she saw advertisements featuring people in weird costumes but more importantly, she saw people of all shapes and sizes moving up and down the streets, people with long necks, people with wings, even people with no legs at all, yet despite these oddities no one even seemed to bat an eye as if these things were completely normal. She couldn't believe her eyes and turned to the Plantars who looked equally bewildered.

"Or maybe we're not in my world."

To Be Continued…

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Andrias was conflicted.

He’d finally accomplished part of the goal that he’d been working towards for 1,000 years, he’d finally found and gotten the Calamity box back after his so-called friend had stolen it, and his armies numbers were rising, it seemed like the invasion of Earth was soon approaching and after all these years, he could finally redeem himself in the eyes of his ancestors, most notably his father, but there was one thing or more specifically one person that stood in the way of his victory.

“Anne Boonchuy” he cursed with venom.

Andrias had underestimated the 15-year-old Thai-American, at the outset, she appeared as just a scruffy mess of a girl, leaves and twigs always stuck in her hair and walking around with only one shoe, but despite appearances, she had the heart of a warrior, despite the odds she kept her connection to the stones and decimated Andrias and his forces, only stopped by her inability to control her powers, he could only imagine what danger she would be if she learned to control them. He needed the girl gone to insure his success luckily he had an idea.

“Your objective is to eliminate her,” Andrias ordered a Cloak-Bot one of the finest unit in his forces. “It appears that in the chaos of the moment, Marcy made a mistake with the box and sent Anne and the Plantars to the wrong world, as such it is even more important that this mission be done with the utmost discretion.” Andrias pulls up a picture of the girl, he then turns the Calamity box’s key and after the stones glow and small sparks fly a portal to the world Anne was sent to is opened

“Energy Signature Acquired.” Cloak-Bot scanned the picture and blue calamity stone to allow him to track Anne, once secured the robot begins to walk into the portal before being stopped by the king.

“Oh! One more
thing.” Andrias pulls out a book with the title Cynthia Coven on it. “Could you see if you could find the latest Cynthia Coven book? Marcy got me hooked and I'm dying to know what happens.” Andrias asks innocently then puts his hand to his chin. “And maybe some of those... potato chip things she had.” Trying to remember the delicious snack Marcy had shared with him once.

The Cloak-Bot’s turn into question marks to indicate confusion. “Eliminate... potato chip?” He asks in confusion of all the orders being asked of him so quickly.

Andrias realizing the confusion he was causing the robot shakes his head and states “Okay, forget the chips. Kill the girl, get the book.” Emphasizing the book for clarity.

With the confusion cleared up and now understanding its objectives the Cloak-Bot resumes walking through the portal to start his mission, the portal closing when he makes it to the other side and the power returning to the box.

Andrias turned behind him to the sight of Marcy, the 15-year-old Taiwanese Girl contained within a rejuvenation pod, in a coma, clinging to life after being stabbed by Andrias. “Well, Marcy, your friends are about to be eliminated from the equation.” He pauses before resuming “And as for you, my dear... your part is just beginning.”

On the other side of the portal, Cloak-Bot appeared in an alleyway, a nearby stray cat fleeing at his unexpected appearance. The robot looks around his surroundings before activating his scanner to track any sign of the blue stones energy to locate Anne. Finding a signature radiating that same energy the Cloak-Bot laughs sinisterly stating “Target acquired. Activate stealth mode.” He then activates his cloaking device to become invisible and jumps out of the alley, crushing a car then jumps to power lines to climb buildings and get to his target.

“Hey, what happened to my car!”

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It’s been a few days since Anne and her frog family got sent to this strange world.

After calming down after an initial freak out, Anne was able to find out some things about their situation, first of all, they were on Earth just clearly a different one, second her and Plantars located in a city called Musutafu, in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan, and thirdly and most importantly that they had landed in a world where superpowers not only existed but were the norm with almost 80% of the population having some kind of ability or as they were called in this world quirks.

The first appearance of quirks sparked an era of chaos where people would use their new abilities to commit crimes, however, some individuals who also had quirks would rise up to stand up against criminals to defend those who couldn’t, they would be known as heroes and eventually being a hero would become a common profession with schools being made to train young people to use their powers to help others.

Heroes were treated like celebrities getting paid for their work and having brand deals and merchandise.

It was like a dream come true to many, A world that was as if it came out of a comic book, it reminded Anne of movies her dad loved so much… she missed him. Despite having service she couldn’t contact her parents being in another universe and all, so close but not quite.

But Anne didn’t have time to be sad because she had a bigger problem. She and the Plantars had nowhere to live and no way to provide for themselves.

Anne and the Plantars were lucky enough to find an old unoccupied building they could stay in for the time being and Anne could use her wallet she’d in her bag but wasn’t able to use in Amphibia but they knew it would only be enough for them to live off of for so long. It didn’t help that people often gave them odd looks while in public, not necessarily because of the Plantars to most they just looked like a family with extreme mutation quirks or even because Anne was a foreigner, but because of how they were dressed while Anne was able to get the leaves and twigs out of her hair, her hair was still very messy and while she had other clothes she didn’t have any more shoes so she still had to walk around with one shoe and in combination with the Plantars dirty, tattered, and smelly clothes it made them seem like homeless people

Little did they know that an encounter today would put them down a path they never would’ve expected.

“Alright… Dig in, everyone!” Anne set 4 bowls of ramen on their table. They were outside a pretty empty little Ramen restaurant, after all they had been through Anne thought it would be a good idea to have something nice.

Hop Pop took a skeptical look at the food only to slurp some up and be pleasantly surprised “Hey, these worms are pretty good! And they're not even fighting back.”

Sprig and Polly have their faces shoved inside their bowls eating the noodles ravenously before taking their heads in response to Hop Pop’s comment “Pretty good? They're delicious!” Sprig exclaims excitedly while Polly just sighs contentedly simply saying “Polly likely.”

“They're not worms, they're noodles,” Anne laughed and corrected Hop Pop before then adding “Asian food's heart and soul.” She widened her eyes and waved her hands to the side in an exaggerated fashion.

Unbeknownst to them, Cloak-Bot had finally found them and was ready to strike.

Sprig turned to Anne and complimented her “Man that was great, this was a good idea, Anne!” Anne did a little wave in response. “It’s nothing that big, I just thought that after everything that’s happened recently, I thought we deserved some time to rela-“ Anne was stopped from finishing her sentence as she suddenly couldn’t breathe, she felt like she was being squeezed, her body started lifting off the ground.

The Plantars looked at her shocked “ANNE!” They shouted in unison, Sprig looked closely and saw a figure vaguely behind Anne ”Oh no, you don't!” He picked up his ramen bowl and threw it in the general location of what he saw. Instead of hitting the ground the ramen and bowl landed on Cloak-Bot, the liquid of the ramen causing a momentary malfunction with his cloaking turning him visible again and causing him to drop Anne leaving her on the floor coughing.

Seeing the success that Sprig had throwing his ramen, Hop Pop decides to throw his at the robot as well “Take this’” only for the Cloak-Bot to just catch the bowl and throw it right back. “Oh, boy…” The force of Cloak-Bot’s throw causes the table to be destroyed with the Plantars falling out of their chairs, in response to the sight Cloak-Bot does his signature laugh only to sense something and activate his cloaking device.

The Plantars go to the now recovered Anne “Anne, are you ok?” Asks Hop Pop his voice filled with worry “Yeah I’m ok.”

“Oi!” They turn to see the man who owned the restaurant looking furious “What did you do, do you have any idea how expensive those tables are!” Anne and the Plantars sweat buckets as the man point to Anne “You better pay for the damages!”

Anne panics, this was bad not only did almost just die but now they have the owner mad at them and there was no way he’d believe them if they said that it was done by a robot sent from another dimension, they had no source of income and only had the money she already had, even if she had enough to pay for the damages, it would make a massive dent in her wallet and they might not be able to provide for themselves.

Anne nervously chuckles “Well, of course I will- RUN!”

Anne and the Plantars book it out of the restaurant while the owner comes out yelling after them “Hey get back here, help these people just trashed my store!”

Anne and the Plantars sprint down the street past confused onlookers, Polly is the first one to speak “Did you see that thing? It's a new kind of Frobo!” “It's gotta be from Amphibia. But how did it get here? And what does it want?” Anne asks and Hop Pop answers “Andrias must've sent it to capture us.” Anne rolls her eyes “Great, as if things couldn’t get worse!”

Anne then suddenly bumps into someone, the person turns around and is a big man wearing some kind of construction-themed costume, Anne realizes she’s seen him before he’s a popular hero, his name was Death Arms, right?

“Whoa, kid you ok?” Death Arms Asks with concern only to pause and look at them closer “Wait aren’t you that kid from the report who trashed a restaurant?”
Anne and the Plantars back up “Um well” Anne shakily spits out “It’s alright kid I’m sure you had your reasons just come with me and we can talk this out.”

“Uh sorry sir!” Anne grabs the Plantars and dashes past Death Arms

“Hey, kid!” Death Arms rushes after her but after a while, he ends up losing her he talks into his radio “I found the restaurant trashier.”

Anne and the Plantars finally stop at their temporary residence and are gasping except for Polly who was being held by Sprig

Hop Pop turns to Anne “Anne, can you use your blue powers?” He does a bunch of punching motions “Take it down easy like?” “Powers! Powers!” Polly shouts pumping her arms in the air.

Anne turns to them “I would if I knew how to use them. I'm not sure if it's something I can just do whenever.” Polly throws her hands up in annoyance “Boooooooooo!”

Tears started to appear in Anne’s eyes, and she just breaks down and falls to the ground crying “I’m such a screw-up I’m sorry you guys, it’s my fault we’re in this situation if I hadn’t suggested going to that restaurant we wouldn’t be running from the law, I can’t do anything.”

The Plantars look at Anne and walk up to her “That’s not true at all Anne.’ Hop Pop says
“You couldn’t have known Andrias would send that robot.” replied Sprig “Yeah girl, and besides you’ve done so much!”

“Like when you stood up to those tax collectors for everyone in Wartwood.” “Or when you stood up to Sasha at Toad Tower and fought to save my life. “Heck, you even fought against and punched the king of Amphibia in his big dumb blue face.”

Sprig goes up and hugs her “Even in a world like this I know you’re the greatest hero out there.” Hop Pop and Polly join in the hug, Anne looks down at them and hugs them “Thanks, you guys are the best.”

Suddenly they hear a familiar laugh as Cloak-Bot uncloaks himself having found them at last “Oh come on you just had to ruin the moment!” Polly shouts “Guys, how about we show this tin can what we got” Anne gets up and asks the Plantars “Yeah!” They all say in response

Anne and the Plantars grab junk from around them and run to Cloak-Bot while shouting in unison. “AAAAHHHH!”

What both parties didn’t know was that a hero had heard the commotion and would go on to not only inform others of their location but also would record the battle that was about to take place.

Despite all their efforts, Anne and the Plantars aren’t able to do much to Cloak-Bot with the Plantars easily being sent flying while he grabs Anne’s weapon and tosses it away when she tries to punch him instead Cloak-Bot just grabs her fist and picks her up laughing at her ready to use his laser to finish his target…only to be stopped by a rock to the face he drops Anne and turns to see a weakened Sprig weakly holding his slingshot breathing heavily “Don’t you…mess with…her.” Before collapsing exhausted

Cloak-Bot annoyed by the kid points his laser at him to get rid of this little annoyance

Anne couldn’t believe what she was seeing, it was happening all over again, she was seeing her best friend, the little frog boy who gave her food when she was starved after she’d just put him in a trap, who saved her life after just meeting her, who defended her and offered her a home, the same kid who was always there for her even in her lowest moments.

No…NO!

Anne felt a fire she’d felt once surface from deep inside her, the world seemed to slow around her, despite being injured and exhausted just moments earlier, all the pain and ache she felt seemed to fade, she felt good…no she felt great, she felt like she could do anything.

Anne stood up, her eyes shoot open and glowed powerful blue, her body surrounded by a blue aura this scene causes a giant blue shockwave around the area

“Leave him alone!” Anne stated in a distorted voice and faster than the eye can track she got in front of Cloak-Bot and delivered a powerful punch so strong it tore bits of him off leaving his parts exposed for the world to see and with his systems damaged his cloaking started to malfunctions causing it to flicker in and out, In a panic Cloak-Bot ran away in a mad dash to survive he destroyed his immediate surroundings before climbing buildings and retreating for now.

The Plantars say all this happened and exploded in celebration for Anne “Anne that was amazing!” “You showed him what for!” “Girl, you kicked his butt!” Only for them to see Anne’s aura disappear and she collapses to the ground “Anne!” They all ran up to check on her Hop Pop picked her up “Come on Anne. Come back.” “Is she ok?” Polly asks worriedly “She's OK. I think using those powers takes a lot out of her” Hop Pop reassures his grandkids “Now let’s get her inside.”

Anne woke 10 minutes later physically exhausted but otherwise fine. “I don’t know if I want those powers so much they really take it out of you.” Hop Pop tells Anne clearly worried about her but Anne interjects “I know but what if I found out how to control them, they would be a big against the robot or maybe they could help us find a way home.” “But it could be dangerous, just using them this once caused you to pass out for ten minutes who knows what overuse might do to you.” Hop Pop pleaded with his adopted granddaughter Anne sighed “Ok not for now but could look into it later, I just feel it would be better to learn to use them positively rather than not use them at all.” Hop Pop thought about it for a second and then finally conceded “Ok but promise to be careful I can’t lose any more of my family.” Anne and Hop Pop hug “I promise.”

Anne and Sprig are outside the building watching the night sky “Today was so crazy!” Sprig said in excitement “Yeah.” Anne replied but not fully in it “Anne are you ok?” Sprig asked his adopted sister, Anne turns to Sprig and says “Yeah I-I’m just thinking about Sasha and Marcy.” With so much going on Anne hadn’t had time to think about her two friends, she couldn’t imagine what could’ve happened to Sasha when they left and Marcy… no Marcy was alive, she had to be. “Don’t worry Anne there’re fine I’m sure of it we’ll get back to them I promise. And until then I’ll be right here with you all the way.” Anne was surprised for a second before smiling and faced Sprig “Til the end?” She asked, “Til the end.” He confirmed, then they hugged and did their special handshake “Spranne against the World!” They said together then laughed “You know what Sprig, I think things might be looking up.”

“I don’t know about that.” Sprig and Anne turned and saw a scruffy-looking man with black hair and eyes with heavy-looking bags he was a wearing baggy black outfit around his neck a weird-looking set of glasses and some kind of scarf.

“You have a lot to explain.”

To Be Continued…

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Anne really should’ve seen this coming.

With the craziness of the fight with Cloak-Bot and the panic of Anne passing out after using her mysterious powers, it was easy to forget that they were still in pretty big trouble.

As it turns out, indirectly destroying a ramen restaurant and then running away is not a good look, especially if you run away from law enforcement without giving an explanation or paying for damages.

So the Thai-American really shouldn’t have been surprised when a pro hero came to her and the Plantar’s temporary residence asking to speak with them, However, it was still a surprise nonetheless, one that was not appreciated by a certain pollywog. “We’re not telling you diddly-squat, Sleepo!” Polly shouted at the tired-looking man, thankfully the others realized they didn’t have much choice, trying to fight or run away again would get them in even more trouble, not like they had anywhere to flee to or could fight the man as they were still recovering from the fight with Cloak-Bot, So they decided to follow the man to the nearest police station to the temperamental pollywog’s disapproval.

Anne and the Plantars sat in an interrogation room with 3 people, the man that escorted them, a man in a detective uniform, weirdest of all some kind of strange dog-mouse-bear thing with a scar over its right eye wearing a suit.

“I believe you know why you’ve been brought here?” Said the detective in a kind yet knowing tone.

“I’m not entirely sure, but I have a pretty good idea.” Anne snarked back

However this didn’t seem to annoy the detective, he just chuckled “I can understand your reluctance, but you don’t have to worry we don’t want to harm you we just want to talk.” Anne looked around unsure, noticing that the man gave her a kind smile “How about I tell you our names and you tell us yours that way we’re all on the same page.” Anne thinks for a minute before silently nodding, to which the detective smiles.

“Great, well I’m Naomasa Tsukauchi, as you can probably guess iI’mdetective for the police.” Tsukauchi turns and signals to the perpetually tired-looking man “The man who escorted you here is Shota Aizawa or the pro hero: Eraser Head.” Aizawa just nods “And this,” he points to animal man “is Nezu, the principal of the most popular hero school in Japan, U.A. High.” Nezu waves and gives a simple yet friendly “Hello!'' In response, Naomasa then turns to Anne and gives her a quick nod to signal her to speak.

Anne sighs and skeptically says ”I’m Anne Boonchuy,” she points to her adoptive family “and these are the Plantars, Sprig,” “Hey!” Sprig waves “Polly,” “Sup.” Polly nods “And Hopediah or Hop Pop for short.” “Hello there.” Hop Pop also waves.

Tsukauchi smiles “Well Anne, for a few days we’ve been getting reports and sightings of a foreign girl with curly hair and one shoe and three frog-like people, mostly reports from people worried about the state they were in, you four fit said description.” Anne nervously nodded.“Well, today people with that description were also said to have destroyed a table and some bowls at a local ramen restaurant and ran without paying for damages.” Anne gulped “They were also said to be running from pro heroes.” Tsukauchi pulls out a piece of paper with a list on it.

“So that would be destruction of property, disturbing the peace, and resisting arrest. These are some pretty serious charges.” Anne sighed, she had decided she’d take the blame for the Plantars and make sure they were taken care of, she started to open her mouth. “But that isn’t the main reason you’re here,” Tsukauchi explained.

“Huh?” Anne questioned, that didn’t make any sense what other reason could they have?

“If that were the only reason, then these two wouldn’t be here.” The detective pointed to himself, the principal, and the pro hero. “You’d just be talking to me, no the reason we are here is because of this.” The man pulled up something on a laptop and turned it so Anne and the Plantars could see what seemed to be some kind of video.

“Guys, how about we show this tin can what we got.” “Yeah!” oh no “Don’t you…mess with…her.” Oh no “Leave him alone!” Oh No. Right there on the screen was Anne and the Plantar's earlier fight with Cloak-Bot

Tsukaguchi spoke, “Now we won’t be charging you with illegal quirk usage as you used it in self-defense, however, we do have some questions.”

Anne was very nervous, they might’ve had the chance to come up with some lie but now they had actual footage of not only her powers but also Cloak-Bot, there was nothing they could do to get out of this situation. She turned to the Plantars who looked back at her assuringly, Hop Pop said “Anne, I know you’re scared but maybe it’s time we asked for some help, I mean we’re barely getting by the way things are going we won’t be able to do this alone. Sprig and Polly nodded in agreement.

Anne thought for a moment and then replied “You guys are right, if we keep doing what we are now we’re not gonna make any progress.” She then turned to the three men who looked back with keen interest, she sighed and then began.

“So you see…”

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“...and that’s about everything,” Anne concluded and turned to the three men nervously

There was a momentary silence, as everyone just tried to take in the information the girl had just shared, Tsukauchi’s face was one of shock and confusion, and Aizawa was looking down to the floor grumbling fingers pinching his forehead, meanwhile, Nezu looked curious but mostly unfazed.

“So you’re saying that you’re from a world without quirks and you and your friends got teleported by a music box with magic gems to a world of talking amphibians ruled by a giant salamander for months before recharging said gems and reuniting with your friends, only to be betrayed by the king who turned out to be a thousand-year-old tyrant who wanted the power of the box to travel and conquer other worlds and after a battle ended up teleported here and while eating noodles you were attacked by a robot sent from the king to capture you,” Tsukauchi paused before then continuing “and the quirk you showed comes from the connection you have with one of these stones however you cannot control it, did I catch everything?”

Anne scratched her head and said, “That’s everything important anyway.”

Tsukauchi leaned back and scratched his head. “This is a lot to take in, I mean other worlds, talking frogs, and interdimensional tyrants.”

Anne was surprised, she expected them to think she was lying or at least not believe them immediately “You believe me?”

Tsukauchi nodded then explained, “I didn’t tell you this earlier for obvious reasons, but my quirk is called Lie Detector, it allows me to tell when someone is lying or giving half-truths, not only that but the way you talked about things was very genuine so unless you’re an inhumanly good actor then you’re telling the truth.” He then gave her a kind smirk and stood up “If you will excuse us,” he motioned to Nezu and Aizawa “we will be discussing this information in private, stay here we’ll be back in a bit.” They then walked out of the room, Sprig looked at his family and said “Let’s hope things go well.”

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“This is Ridiculous.”

Aizawa wasn’t one to believe in the supernatural, so when he was called to deal with a foreign girl and a family of frog-like creatures he’d just assumed they were just homeless people who got in a pickle while trying to provide for themselves, what he didn’t expect was them being beings from another dimension who got stranded after running from A tyrannical giant salamander

Tsukauchi looked at the tired pro “I can assure you that girl was not lying.”

Aizawa sighed “It’s not that I don’t believe that I trust you, there’s just a lot to think about here, like how this Andrias has an entire army and the power of the music box even with all of Japan’s Pro Heroes we might be outmatched and for all, we know he could invade at any moment and we would be unprepared.” Nezu and Tsukauchi nodded in agreement “What do we do with Anne? She’s useful, but not only is she just a teenager, she also can’t control her powers, we can't rely on her.” The men stood still, lost in thought.

“I think I have an idea,” Nezu stated

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It had been a while since the men had stepped out and Anne was getting worried, what could be taking them so long? How much were they in?

Before Anne had any time to question their current situation the interrogation door opened and the three men had returned.

“Sorry for the wait, but after a lengthy conversation, Nezu made an idea and we have collectively made a decision.” Tsukauchi informed before turning to Nezu, the bear-mouse thing nodded and spoke “In terms of the Ramen incident, we will pay for the damages in your stead and you won’t be charged with any crimes so you won’t have to worry about that,” Anne and the Plantars blew a sigh of relief.

“It has been decided that you four will be staying with Aizawa for the time being.” “Boo!” Polly complained in response. Anne however was surprised “Wait really?” Nezu nodded “Yes, you four will be living with him so we can keep tabs on you and make sure you stay out of trouble.”

Nezu then paused so they could process this information before continuing “Ms Boonchuy will be enrolled in U.A. under special recommendation. “What why!?” Anne shouted, “We decided it would be not only the best way to keep you safe but to also help you learn to control your powers.” Anne thought about it before grumbling out “Yeah I guess that makes sense.”

Nezu continued “We have devised a cover story, Anne is a foreign exchange student who was brought over because of your powerful quirk, the Plantars will be your adoptive family after your birth parents were killed in a villain attack, they came with you to make sure you were ok.” Anne flinched just the thought of her parents dying in an attack made her feel sick. “Finally we will help you four attempt to get back to Amphibia and if it comes to it help fight Andrias.” Nezu finished and questioned, “Are you ok with this idea?”

Before Anne and the other Plantars could reply Sprig interrupted “Hey if Anne has to go I’m going too!” Everyone was surprised however Sprig continued “Anne is my best friend and I can’t just let her go through this alone, I want to be there for her so she can have someone she knows with her and because we stick together no matter what.” Sprig finished his voice resolute.

“Sprig…” Anne spoke touched that he cared so much.

Nezu thought for a minute and smiled “I can see how much you two mean to each other, however we’re already stretching some rules allowing Anne to get in and I don’t know if we’ll be able to make you a student.” Sprig frowned “but we can allow you and your family to access into U.A. while she is at school.” Nezu explained, Anne smirked as she saw Sprig positively beaming at the news “Thanks, man.” Sprig looked at Anne and smiled “Spranne against the world?” Anne smiled in return “Spranne against the world.” She replied.

Anne then turned to Nezu and stated “I think we can agree to this.

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Anne and the Plantars stepped inside

They were greeted by a very simple house nothing more than was needed a living room with a couch and a few chairs, a tv, the kitchen had some dirty dishes, there appeared to be other rooms most interestingly a black cat was sitting in the couch when they noticed them they moved over and nuzzled up to Aizawa who gave the feline a gentle scratch “This place is nice.” Anne said pleasantly surprised

Aizawa turned to Anne and the Plantars “I’d hope so, now I’m doing a lot allowing you four to stay here so there will be rules, you will not be able to leave without my permission and you will let me know when and where you go, you three will make sure not to destroy any of my property, you will not bother me while I am working, and you will take care of Akari,” he pointed to the cat “when I’m gone, and you will pull your weight around the house if you cause any problems there will be consequences and I’m not a very forgiving person, do I make myself clear?” Aizawa said with intensity, Anne and the Plantars nodded in response.

“Good, I’m going to be heading out for patrol, you all such go get some sleep, especially you Anne early tomorrow we’re gonna train your powers there’s the attic, guest room, and the couch if you need to eat look in the fridge.” Aizawa then turned and walked out of the house.

Anne and the Plantars spent a little time looking around and had a small dinner before they all settled down for the night, Hop Pop slept on the Couch, Sprig and Polly shared the attic, and Anne lay in the guest room staring off thinking her current situation, a lot happened today they’d been chased by and fought a killer robot, ran from the law, met a weird Mouse-bear-dog, were now staying with some insomniac ninja, and she was now set to attend a school for superheroes.

Anne wasn’t quite sure what was in store for her and the Plantars but she was sure this was just the beginning.

To Be Continued…

Chapter Text

It had been about a week since Anne and the Plantars started living with Shota Aizawa, the pro hero Eraser Head.

It was…an interesting experience to say the least.

Anne didn’t quite know what to think of the man, he patrolled at night so he always seemed to be tired and grouchy. He was also very strict, maybe even more than her mom, he was easily annoyed, and that led to Polly and him butting heads quite often with Anne having to be the mediator on multiple occasions.

Anne also had to spend time training with Aizawa, mostly just some meditation and the occasional physical exercise or activity, Aizawa was a harsh but fair teacher, pushing her hard while still knowing when enough was enough, though sadly while they had gotten close to activating Anne’s powers, they still weren’t able to make it happen.

However, the day had finally come.

After a week of waiting, it was time for Anne to begin attending U.A. High.

Anne was getting dressed, a few days ago Aizawa had given her a custom-fitted version of the school uniform, a gray jacket that had blue-green stripes and a red tie underneath a long sleeve white button up, the look was completed with a blue-green skirt and brown dress shoes.

“Isn’t this so exciting Anne!” Sprig asked his adopted sister with delight. In the time they’d spent in this world, Sprig had grown a love of heroes; he thought they were awesome and inspiring, especially the number one hero All Might.

“Eh, you already know, I’m not a big fan of school,” Anne replied, it didn’t help that she was going to an entirely different school there wouldn’t be a language barrier thanks to someone at the police station whose quirk was the ability to get or give knowledge a language in an instant, but she still wouldn’t have Marcy and Sasha with her.

Anne shook her head to clear those thoughts, now wasn’t the time, she smiled over to Sprig and ruffled his hair “But with you here I’m sure it’ll be fine.” “Ha-ha hey!” Sprig and Anne laughed

“You two get down here!” Aizawa informed them from downstairs “Yes Aizawa!” They responded and headed downstairs. They found Aizawa dressed in his hero costume while Hop Pop and Polly were sitting on the couch.

“Come on, we don’t want to be late,” Aizawa told the two friends with a stern tone.

“Alright!” They replied not wanting to be on the man’s bad side.

Before they left, Anne turned to Hop Pop and Polly “Hop Pop, Polly, are you guys sure you don’t want to come.” she asked

Polly and Hop Pop shook their heads “Nah, we’ll be alright.” Said Polly with Hop Pop stating “You go enjoy school.”

“Alright remember if you ever want to come with just let us know, also try to research some portals and junk while we're gone,” Anne replied

“You got it.” Hop Pop responded.

As soon as they left the house Polly pulled out two DVD cases and showed them to Hop Pop “So, are we watching Starzgate or Quantum Hop?” She asked her grandpa

Having already made his choice Hop Pop fist bumped in excitement “Quantum Hop! Quantum Hop!”

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Anne hadn’t quite known what to expect from U.A. but it wasn’t what she saw, a large almost H-shaped building with students of all shapes and sizes going inside all surrounded by a large wall.

All Anne and Sprig could say was “Whoa.”

Seeing their awe, Aizawa stated, “Welcome to U.A.”

Sprig and Anne followed Aizawa through the seemingly endless halls of U.A. until they found themselves outside a room with a plank saying 1-A with the doors open.

Anne saw a girl who was just inside the classroom, she had chestnut brown shoulder-length hair with short bangs and perpetual blush on her cheeks who appeared to be talking to a plain-looking boy with freckles and fluffy green hair.

“What do you think we’re doing today besides orientation? I wonder what our teachers are like! I can’t wait to meet everybody!” The girl said

This seemed to irritate Aizawa who stood behind her and said “If you’re just here to make friends, then you can pack up your stuff now.” This was met with surprise from the students in the class.

After having gotten to know Aizawa for a week Anne wasn’t really surprised at his response, Aizawa was an honest person who took hero work very seriously.

“Welcome to U.A.’s hero course.” Aizawa welcomed before saying “It took eight seconds before you all shut up. That’s not gonna work. Time is precious. Rational students would understand that.” He then walked towards the front of the class, he then turned to Anne and Sprig “Anne, go take a seat Sprig, Stay up here with me.”

Anne could feel that she was getting looks from her classmates. She couldn’t blame them though, she was a foreigner and came in with the teacher. She ended up sitting down behind a girl with long green hair and seemed to have frog-like traits and in front of a tall boy with glasses and black hair.

Before there was any chance to strike up a conversation Aizawa introduced himself “Hello, I’m Shouta Aizawa your teacher.”

This threw off all the students excluding Anne obviously “Eh?!” They all exclaimed in surprise, Anne could understand why Aizawa didn’t really seem like the teacher type.

“Right, let’s get to it. Put these on and head outside.” Aizawa pulled out a dark blue tracksuit with white lines that formed the school’s initials

The students left in confusion with their homeroom teacher.

Anne didn’t know what was going on but she had a bad feeling that this was not going to be pretty.

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“What?! A Quirk assessment test?!” Class 1-A exclaimed.

The students dressed in their given gym uniforms stood in a field just outside the school, there was a running track and a sandpit, and many other stations. Anne had to admit she was impressed by said field’s massive size.

“But orientation…We’re gonna miss it.” Said the brown-haired girl from earlier voicing the disappointment of her and her classmates.

“If you really wanna make the big leagues, you can’t waste time on pointless ceremonies.” Aizawa responded before explaining, here at U.A., we’re not tethered to traditions. That means that I get to run my class however I see fit.” This caused sighs to ring out from some of the class.

“You’ve been taking standardized tests most of your lives…but you never got to use your Quirks in physical exams before.” Aizawa told his students before making his opinion known “The country’s still trying to pretend we’re all created equal by not letting those with the most power excel. It’s not rational. One day, the Ministry of Education will learn.”

Aizawa then looked at a specific student “Bakugou, you managed to get the most points on the entrance exam.”

The boy walked over to his teacher, he had spiky sandy blonde hair with choppy bangs over his eyebrows and sharp red eyes along with a pretty muscular body for his age, he gave off a feeling of general apathy. Anne didn’t know why but he reminded her of Sasha.

“What was your farthest distance throw with a softball when you were in junior high?” Aizawa asked the top-ranking student to which the boy nonchalantly replied “67 meters, I think.”

Aizawa then tossed a softball over to the blonde-haired teen and pointed towards a nearby circle on the ground “Right. Try doing it with your Quirk.”

When Bakugou walked into the circle, Aizawa said “Anything goes. Just stay in the circle.” Bakugou did some stretches “Go on. You’re wasting our time.”

The Boy just turned to his teacher and shrugged “All right, man. You asked for it.” He then reeled back, back arched and hand raised high starting to spark “Ngh…Urahh!” a powerful explosion came from the boy’s hand and the ball was sent flying across the sky covered by a fiery trail, the air seeming to part in wake of the projectile as it finally touched the ground.

The students were stunned by the powerful showing. Anne could’ve sworn she heard a voice saying “Oh, well…”

If Aizawa was impressed he certainly didn’t show it, he turned to his students with his usual blank expression. “All of you need to know your maximum capabilities. It’s the most rational way of figuring out your potential as a pro hero.” The Man took out and showed his phone to the class, it read 705.2 meters

“Woah!” Was the sentiment of almost every student in class including Anne, in awe at the distance of the throw. This led to murmurs from the students.

“Woah, 705 meters? Are you kidding me?” Exclaimed a boy with short golden hair with a black streak that was in the shape of a lightning bolt.

“I wanna go! That looks like fun!” beamed an excited girl with pink skin.

“This is what I’m talking about, using our Quirks as much as we want!” Declared a boy with weird-looking elbows.

But Anne was not as excited as her classmates and not just because she couldn’t control her powers.

This doesn’t feel right. Anne had gotten to know Aizawa and this seemed too easy for him, where was the catch?

”So this looks fun, huh?” said Aizawa unamused, “You have three years here to become a hero. You think it’s all gonna be games and playtime?”

Aizawa then smirked “All right. Whoever comes in last place in all eight tests will be judged to have no potential and will be punished with expulsion.”

“HUH!?” was collectively exclaimed by the class shocked at the harshness of their teacher

…There’s the catch.

“We’re free to do what we want about the circumstances of our students.” Aizawa had an ominous smile

“Welcome to U.A.'s hero course!”

To Be Continued…