01 [Video] - what is this madness

[touchandrelease]

There's a world with a bunch of weird animal hybrid things attacking anyone who dares come near them.

... [She realizes then that this is how she decided to start the video feed--]



A-Ah, I'm so sorry! I meant to introduce myself first... I probably could have done that when I first got access to this, but I wanted to give the world traveling a try...

Um! Hi, I'm Ochako Uraraka... kinda new here. That's obvious, right? Where I come from, we all have these things called 'quirks' that make us unique. Mine is easier to demonstrate than explain, so... maybe some other time?

Anyway!!



I went to the world called 'Ragol' and apparently they're looking for adventurers or heroes to help them solve the mystery of what happened to a ship that carried a bunch of their people. It just vanished when they tried to colonize that world! And now there's a bunch of weird animal hybrid things that want to kill people!!

[She stops short to catch her breath - she kind of rambled all of that out. Hope you caught everything!]

So, uh, I was hoping there might be some people who'd want to go with me to figure stuff out. They don't have anyone lined up to do it and I want to help find these people!

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[touchandrelease]

W-Well I mean, you've got to step forward to help those in need if you want to be a hero, right? Even if it involves fighting freaky animal monsters.

Yeah! Quirks are just what our powers are. Mine is like... [She grabs a book real quick, and then lets go, letting it float up and touch the ceiling. Putting her hands together, she says 'Release.' and it falls back to the ground.] that. Zero Gravity, basically.

It's nice to meet you, Mr. Stark.

[inadvertentdadfigure]

Typical. I just can't get away from kids who are completely like Rogers.

That's useful though, being born with it I'm guessing? Our world doesn't have anything like that unless it's rare and unique to certain people.

No problem. Call me Tony, it's not like I'm standing on formality right now.

Any drawbacks to that Zero Gravity? Nausea? Vertigo?

[touchandrelease]

To be fair, we go to a school that teaches the next generation of heroes due to our quirks. But that's also because there are people who use their quirks to be bad guys, so we're in need a lot of the time.

We're born with them, but usually don't show signs of them until we're in elementary school. Sometimes we don't know what makes them work until we're older than that.

I don't think it has any side effects to anyone else, but I can't use it too much at one time or I'll... uh, be out of commission. It also helps if whoever needs to use my power knows how it'll affect them, since zero gravity would affect things like speed boosts.

[inadvertentdadfigure]

So it's a schoolyard hero thing. Oh boy, this keeps getting better.

Well, what about the possibility of those who don't have quirks? What happens then? Do they just get put into a bin or something? Do they do office work while heroes work on the rest of the world fighting crime? The whole world can't be super can it?

So it's a synergetic world, I get it. As for me, I don't have a quirk. Don't need one, just build stuff that might look like a quirk.

[touchandrelease]

I guess you gotta train early to be a good hero. [But if it allows her to help her parents, it's worth it.]

There's business and support class students; lots of them don't have quirks. It's estimated that about 80% of the world has them.

Oh, you sound like an inventor. Do you mean you build robots or something?

[inadvertentdadfigure]

Fantastic. I guess heroics must run early in this world. Can't leave everything to the adults, gotta keep the kids in the business too.

[He sounds a little frustrated at that. Possibly because he had tried to keep Peter from getting into trouble with the Vulture and look where that got him. But still, the kid did good.]

But it sounds like you kids have a good school, so I'll give you that. I would feel worse if you didn't have one.

Business, support classes, so a real hero based society. Huh. Learning a lot then all the time. Someone's gotta keep the world running while the men in tights keep running around.

I am the robot kid. Call me Iron Man. I've built over 70 suits of armor in the past to fight on a superhuman level and I've been a part of a team called the Avengers. We broke up but, it's kind of a long story. This here? [And he taps the triangle glowing on his chest.] Newest model. Nanotech suit. Hardens to an extreme level of durability once it forms over me. All the bells and whistles like flight, scanners, weapon systems, all the fun stuff heroes should never be without.