The Teaching Assistant

The Teaching Assistant

Chapter 2

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Waking up to the door being pounded on and a voice she didn't want to hear, especially after waking up a tiny bit hungover. She gets out of her bed throwing on short bottoms and heading out of her messy bedroom into her apartment going to the door and finally opening it, which the moment it's open in strides her older brother, whose a big man, he has darker red hair than her and instead of red eyes he has hazel eyes.

"About damn time 'Melia. I've been knocking for 10 minutes." He scolds coldly as he walks in before turning to his little sister, "why the hell does it look like you just woke up? It's 1 pm."

Amelia looks sheepish as she rubs the back of her head, "well, I drank a little too much wine last night."

Her older brother huffs as he enters into the apartment plopping down on the couch as the white furred cat hisses at him. He rolls his eyes at Stubby and shoes him away.

"Damn cat, don't know why he freaking hates me. Why couldn't you've adopted a dog or something?" He comments of handedly

"Not that I have anything against dogs, Stubby just.. he's different and I wouldn't have it any other way." She replies back softly as she walks over to the living area and sits on a reclining chair away from her brother.

It's silent after a moment as Stubby hops into Amelia's lap and purrs loudly in a taunting tone while Amelia pets him. Her brothers eyes are narrow and just watch them before breaking the silence, "what am I going to do with you.."

She blinks her eyes at him questioningly, "what.. what do you mean?" She states

He clasped his scared hands together and says, "you know what. I've told you to not stick your nose into places where you shouldn't and you keep doing it, and it's getting worse over the past couple years."

"Sticking my nose into places? All those times I had legal obligations to step in. I'm doing what a hero should do!" She says raising her voice a tiny bit before cringing at the headache she feels doing so

He chuckles dryly as she throws his arms  along the back of the couch, "sis, I think you and I know you're not exactly hero material. I've been telling you for years, just stay out of the way. But you refuse to listen. So here's what's going to happen, as punishment I'm making sure your only allowed to work 20 hours or less during the work week."

"You can't be serious." She says narrowing her eyes at him, "I don't know where you think I don't have what it takes to be a hero when obviously I do. You seriously need to get the stick out of your ass Miguel, your throwing temper tantrums because you can't keep me under your thumb. I'm sick. I'm sick and tired of being in your shadow, I'm sick and tired of people constantly comparing me to you! Stop comparing me to you, damn it! We're completely different!" She yells at him getting a bit emotional

She keeps going not letting him talk, "I could care less about fame, I like helping people! That's why I step in when there isn't need for me too. Yesterday I stepped in because those individuals, most of them would have died. If I have the power to change someone's fate like that I'm gonna do what I can. Sorry to be such a disappointment."

He looks at her and his hands dig into the couch before he stands up and stalks over to her and she doesn't back down looking at him, even if she's nervous. He can tell she's nervous, even with how she's trying to hide it. He leans over and puts a hand on her head and brings his face close as he looks at her with a small glare.

"You are a disappointment." He states coldly and it feels like a bucket of cold water is poured on her, "can't you see your more fit to be a nurse or something? Why put your life on the line when your quirk doesn't allow you any defense or offensive stats. Not to mention your poor combat skills, all those villains you defeated, you just got lucky. If you keep going you're going to get yourself killed and others too. Do you want to leave me behind huh? Do you want to live with such guilt?!" He states yelling at her with a bit of fear in his eyes

"I'm the only family you got, who was there for you when Mom passed huh? Who was there to help do homework when I could have been heroing, me!! Damn it it all Amelia! You can hate me all you want, but you're going to follow the rules I placed down. Otherwise I'll call my buddies up at the Hero Activities Office and have them pull your hero license. I've held off for a long time doing so, hoping you'd get it through your thick skull that this hero thing wasn't for you. But no, you kept pushing, I almost died, I almost lost my whole career because of a mistake you did six years ago. Don't you still feel bad for that? Just do yourself a favor and keep quiet, stop doing stuff you're not supposed to, got it..?"

She feels sick as she looks at her brother, throwing all that into her face. Being a hero was.. was all she wanted to do. Why can't he respect that!?

Just then Stubby launched himself at Miguel hissing, bitting, and swing his paws at him. Miguel growls throwing him off him and Stubby hits the floor hard as Miguel curses.

"I'm gonna kill that cat one day 'Melia, so help me, get that thing muzzled and declawed or so help me it won't be around for much longer." Miguel spat out angry as his arm bleeds from bites and scratches.

He curses again shoving his sisters helping hand to heal him away as he just storms out of her apartment, slamming the door behind him.

Amelia drops off the chair and quickly brings Stubby into her arms as she cries a little bit, the tears sizzling as it hits his fur.

"I'm sorry Stubby. Please don't attack him again. Please.. I.. I can't lose you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I'm pathetic." She says whispering while cradling him

"Maybe I.. should really give up.. I mean if he has friends in the Hero Activity Office.. whose to say even if I moved out to a different state they wouldn't pull my license.." she mumbles into his white fur. After a moment she feels his tail wraps around her arm, giving a comforting squeeze.

She stays sitting on the floor with Stubby purring to her. "You're all I have, so please behave, no matter what happens." She says softly

The Teaching Assistant

~Prologue~

"isn't that.." "Shh, she might hear you." "Who cares do you think she can introduce us to her brother?" "Don't even try, her brother doesn't even look her way anymore, not since the incident." "What incident?"

Amelia sighs as she just ignores the blatant stares and whispers as she stops in the coffee shop in hero costume.

*Fuck my life.* She thinks to herself as she pays for her drink and heads out of the cafe not wanting to stay any longer.

*It's always like this, especially now that HE is fighting for rank 2 spot now. All my mistakes in hero work, how I hold myself, how I talk, walk, E V E R Y T H I N G.*

The red haired woman with an oversized Hoodie and utility belt around her waist walks down the busy streets of New York, sipping her coffee as she goes, heading back to Beam Line Agency, which is owned by her brother.

No one really bothers her, it's not too often shes recognized, which is a blessing in her opinion. She isn't too much of a people person, she's too socially awkward. But she works her butt off and mask it well enough on the job.

The incident was a rookie mistake she did 6 years ago when she was 20. She almost got herself killed and a few civilians, all because she wasn't strong and fast enough. She was lucky her brother got there when he did, but it costed him multiple surgeries and physical therapy sessions to even regain the ability to walk and run again. She thought she could handle it, she was so wrong. Now she has to live with a slightly fractured relationship with her brother who has a major over protection streak and became a massive asshole.

But she can't blame him.. she did almost ruin his whole life. Though her cat, Stubby, always writes and tells her it wasn't her fault, after all who would have believed a rookie there was a terrorist attack going on? Her superior told her to investigate if she was "so sure". If anything it was that guys fault.

Oh yeah you heard correctly her cat writes to her. Insane as it sounds he can hold a pen with his tail and write, though the writing is.. bad, not that she would ever tell her best friend that!! Oh yeah, that three legged, one eyed cat is her best friend. Which is kind of sad if you think about it. With how everyone wants to get close to her brother, to his influence, the easiest target would be to befriend or even date her. She has no.. real friends, the ones she has were caught trying to sleep with her brother and it was quickly discovered they didn't care for her at all.

Her brother Miguel, always calls her to trusting for her own good, to naive. It makes her sick to hear those words.. it's hard to read people for her, to tell what someone's real intentions are, probably due to a bit of autism she has. It makes it difficult for her to read people and social cues, especially sarcasm unless it's covered in it.

To be completely honest, her brother.. use to be nice until he became really famous, then he.. he changed. Became a asshole, he even told her she should quit being a hero cause he wouldn't always be there to save her, like she's some damsel in distress! Amelia Tano is a hero, a hero I tell you! She is strong in her own right! She's pro hero Mercy, the medic hero! Saving thousands of people each year with her quirk and her skills she learned hopping onto the two years nursing course she took after graduating hero school.

Amelia enters the tall building, her brothers agency. This building could almost be called a skyscraper with 20 something floors to it plus a giant basement with a 15 car garage underground. She heads to the elevator as she scans her ID and pushes the apartment floor. Which is floor 18 through 23, she's on floor 19.

It's less than a minute ride up to her apartment floor and she exits and heads to her room, again scanning her card and entering in and shutting the door, which she slumps again sighing.

She gets out of her slump quickly kicking off her shoes by the door and placing her now empty coffee cup in the trash can as she enters the kitchen area.

"Stubby I'm home!" She says in her usual soft tone though it's a bit louder than usual as she yells this out above normal volume.

It's not long with the pitter patter of pawed feet is heard and soon enough a three legged, one eyed, white cat hops onto the kitchen counter, purring loudly at her as she gets food out for the both of them, but not placing the note book with a pen on the counter before she prepares breakfast for the both of them.

"Hope I didn't keep you waiting all night, I honestly didn't expect my brother to request back up from well.. me, last night." She says to her furry friend

The sound of a pen on paper is heard, when she finally has food and turns around to put both plates of chicken she just heated up for the two of them on the counter.

She reads the paper which said, 'was he grateful?'

She snorts a little as she rips a piece of chicken off and pops it in her mouth, "you've known me and my brother for how long? He'd rather shoot his foot or fight a villain than admit I managed to help him, especially after telling him to stop telling me I should just quit heroing all those years ago." She complains a little to her friend.

The white furred cat rolls it's single eye  before writing on the paper, 'dont remind me, I thought maybe he wouldn't be a dick to you for once, considering you dropped your one night off to help him with this mission.'

Amelia's red eyes soften, "yeah.."

It's silent for a few moments longer as the sound of chewing takes over for a few minutes before Amelia takes the plates and starts washing them.

She sighs again and says, "maybe.. I should move out or something. Move to a different state, get out from my brother constant shadow. I'm sure there are plenty of other states needing heros and, ya know me! I don't exactly care for fame or fortune though money is always nice hehe~" she giggles cutely for a moment before her face falls, she looks at the wall across the kitchen and it has some pictures.

Most of them are with her older brother when they were younger, and her first day becoming a hero. There's nothing new or recent on the wall besides the pictures of her and Stubby.

*It's.. all my fault.. if I wasn't so useless.. maybe we could have stayed close.*

Unknown to her, Stubby watches her, and his yellow eye narrows and intrigued at her words. This is his human, and as many as much as he tried to understand human dynamics he can't ever understand the reason why her older brother would be so mean, he's nice one minute then making her feel completely shitty the next. Keeping her under his thumb like that's gonna protect her.

*Amelia.. I'll do my best to get you someplace better than here, you deserve a place to flourish without people who work for your brother or admire him so much stopping you. it's about time I reach out to my old friend.* Stubby thinks as he watches his human take her face mask off and place it on the cabinet and heads to her room to shower.

He rips the paper out he just wrote on out of the note book by his teeth, and begins to write..

AUTHORS NOTE

Here's what the lovely Amelia's hero costume it's one of those sleeveless hoodies!

I'm hoping your liking this so far.

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

ehhh.... if it works

The Teaching Assistant

Chapter 6

The wait for monday is painfully long!! She does get called out for a mission and gets scolded when something goes wrong, when it wasn't her fault! How is bad intel her fault, her only objective was to get in and out with the injured while the other heros on her team fought. It was like they knew someone was coming and hid a villain among the hostages. She fought tooth and nail and almost kill the guy, lucky she didn't.

She did get bruised up, and a fractured arm but nothing her quirk couldn't handle, even if it made her extremely tired in the end. She did heal up the hostages, even the knocked out villain who almost died of blood loss. But once again seems everyone in her brothers agency finds fault with her for no reason. It's stupid majorly so.

Back to Monday night she's showing off a few different button up shirts to Stubby, "so be real with me, which one should I wear to the interview, the red one or the black one?" She ask

The cat huffs and gives a head tilt which Amelia replies, "I know it's a virtual interview but I still need to look, ya know, professional."

She looks at the mirror in her room and holds up each air of clothing, "I think black works better, I already have red hair and red eyes, it would be to much to wear red." She comments to herself

She looks at the time, Japan is about 12 hours behind America. So  she needs to wait until 3 am, since that's when the video call is scheduled for.

(Okay so correct me if I'm wrong about the time, but I believe that's right)

She sits the shirt flat on her desk and debates on wearing dress parts or PJ bottoms to the virtual interview, cause what's the chance they make her stand up and show her outfit off? She decides to stay on the safe side and wear dress pants, plus it shows she went the extra mile.

She checks the time it's 9:13 PM. She's got time to shower, maybe nap before getting up closer to 3 in the morning. She nods as she does just that. She wakes up to her blaring alarm as, she lazyly swipes her phone screen to shut the alarm off as she sits up.

Her red hair needs another brush through as she swings to feet to the edge of her queen bed before getting to her feet. She does a big stretch and rushes to get dressed in the bathroom still having 30 minutes to make herself presentable.

Stubby is already sitting on the counter by her laptop, as she comes out of her room looking good in her blue button up and black dress pants, she doesn't bother with shoes as she sits down on the barstool getting her laptop ready as 3 am in 5 minutes away.

She runs her hands through her red locks and looks at Stubby, "okay, I look good right? Oh jeez so I speak Japanese or do I speak English, what if I mess up!? I never had the chance to really practice my Japanese before." Amelia says begining to panic

The cat gives off a purr trying to be reassuring, he believes in her after all. His white tail stretches and wraps a pound her hand in reassurance. Which Amelia looks grateful for as she looks at the time and decides to join the Oogle meeting.

She stares at her own video feed before it a conference room pops up, she sees a mouse looking thing and a really really tired guy and a-wow how does someone get their hair to stand like that?

She feels her heart beat pick up, as she feels like a deer caught in headlights as the sound soon feeds through.

"Miss Tano correct? Can ya hear us just fine?" The mouse thing (is he a stout?) ask in Japanese

She gulps before nodding, "y-yes sir I can hear you loud and clear. Can you umm.. hear me?" She replies cautiously in Japanese as well

(Just a word of warning she'll be speak in Japanese for the meeting and so will Nezu, Aizawa, and Present Mic)

The mouse thing nods back as the blond Cockatoo gives a thumbs up.

"I was worried their would be tad but if a language barrier but I'm glad there isn't. Let me introduce ourselves. Am I a mouse, a bear, whatever I am, all you need to know is I'm the principal of UA, I go by Nezu." The mouse thing states

The blond goes giving a big grin, "I'm Present Mic, but my real name is Yamada Hizashi! I teach English here at UA, I'm mostly here to help translate if there's issues with communication. Glad a cutie like you doesn't have a problem-ow. Sho that was my shin."

The tired man seems to have kicked Yamada under the table, while Nezu just sips tea and enjoys the chaos a bit.

"I'm Aizawa Shouta, class 1a homeroom teacher, I'm the person who you'll be working with if this goes well." He states a bit tired with a neutral expression, looks like he doesn't wanna be here

"Way to bring down the mood dude." Whispers Yamada and the microphone barely picks it up

Nezu clears his throat taking back control of the meeting, "now that we have introduced ourselves, I think it's time you introduced yourself, don't you think?" Nezu says in his usual cheerful tone

Amelia feels tense but she nods none the less, she remembers everyone's been introducing themselves by last name first, then first name. "I'm Tano Amelia, I've been a pro hero for 6 years and ranked in top 150. I'm a rescue hero, so while I can fight I prefer more slip in and out unoticed with civilians safe. My hero name is Mercy, and I'm known as the Medic Hero." She states softly and confidently (so proud 🥲 of my shy baby)

The three on the other side of the world take notes, as she talks. She does pause a small amount to give them time to ask but when they don't she goes on talking, "my quirk is a bit weird, I can't turn it off."

Before she can speak again someone is speaking up, "a passive quirk huh? That could be dangerous." Says a tired Aizawa  looking right at the camera, Amelia feels a bit intimidated.

"Well, umm not exactly, I'm pretty careful especially if I'm in a fight, cause that's when I need to be mindful of it. It's not touch based or anything, umm it's.. my bodily fluids, like blood, snot, spit, anything labeled under bodily fluids has a bit of my quirk, some like blood have a more potent version of it."

The blond Cockatoo looks squeamish while the dark haired homeless man looks about the same, maybe his eyes got a bit wider or something? Nezu looks the same but he gets a interested look on his face.

"Now, that's interesting, what is your quirk exactly?" Nezu ask setting his tea cup down

"Oh umm it's called Healing Fluids, it doesn't really um give me any draw backs, well actually, the only problem I get is anemia if I use to much blood, and dry mouth if I use my saliva too much. I do get negative feelings, like disgust, feeling itchy if I use it to much in one setting. Other than that, theirs nothing else. The people I do heal complain about different things, If I heal with blood; they complain about a burning sensation like their being burned but it's only for a moment and then it's gone. My saliva its kind of like a numbing agent, it doesn't burn but it isn't as potent in healing. I can use that for bruises and scratches but the big stuff, I gotta use blood all the way." She says a bit embarrassed to be talking about her quirk she sometimes despises

Nezu looks very intrigued, "with a quirk like that I can see why you took up the name Mercy the Medic Hero."

"The question is.. do you relie on your quirk to much? You could concuss yourself on the field and cause issues if your quirk wasn't there, or working right. You did say if you over use it you feel disgusted or itchy, what happens when you push through it?" Aizawa ask his eyes narrowing

"Oh umm, I don't like using my quirk unless absolutely necessary. The whole reason I got the title Medic Hero in the end was because I went to college shortly after graduating from my hero school, I am a certified CNA. I didn't debute until age of 20. There's something I gotta be able to do, to heal without my quirk. If I use my quirk to much I quite literally shut down, feel quite sickly. While I can still fight, I'm more paranoid. It's.. a weird draw back." She says nervously, "so yes I know my weakness and I back them up by not using my quirk unless necessary."

Aizawa looks a tad bit impressed, but it's hard to tell when he has a resting bitch face.

Nezu hums as he replies, "impressive none the less. Now then how about you us about yourself, maybe why you think you'd be a good fit for this job. Ya know just the standard questions at a interview."

She blinks in surprise, she tries to think of something that she can say, "oookkaayy.. so I like to read and learn new things. As weird as that sounds, I also like to bake when I have a down moment. As for why I think I'm a good fit.." she trails off thinking, to be honest she has no teaching experience, she doesn't have a teaching certification either.

"It's because I care, incredibly so. If I can help educate the future heros of today, arming them with knowledge and skills that can help them after graduation or even on internships, that's all that matters. Statically speaking less than 40 percent of heros survive two years after graduating, if I can make sure that the students I help teach aren't in the 60 percent that don't survive, that's all that matters." She says, "while I don't have a teaching certificate id be more than willing to go and get one, I umm was planning on trying for one but actually didn't know where to start when you called last week Nezu."

Aizawa looks impressed by her words at first until he heard about her not having a teaching certification. Yamada was moved and didn't seem to bothered by the lack of credentials.

Nezu hums, "yes I know that, that's something can be fixed. Well do you have any questions for us before we end this meeting?"

Amelia thinks on it, "if I get this job, will you help find a place to house me? I have money I just would rather not fly half way across the world an not have a place to move into."

Nezu chuckles as he picks his tea up and takes a sip, "of course! Let me handle everything. Consider it a investment if this works out. I'll call sometimes this week letting you know. Now I'm sure you wish to get some sleep, as its.. 3:41 am your times correct?"

She blushes and nods, "t-thanking for having me. Have a umm good afternoon."

She bows her head and then ends the call. She slouches in her seat as Stubby makes his presence known now by a cute meow.

She turns to look at him and sighs, "I feel like I was to awkward.. what if I don't get the job because of my weirdness."

The cat gives her a look before trying to close the laptop screen so she can go to bed.

"Okay, okay, I'm heading to bed. Let's go." She says getting up leaving her laptop on the center island, walking to the side turning the lights off and heading back to her room to sleep.

my first play through and also trying to keep everyone from becoming their worst selves is going well why do you ask