''A scientist, huh?'' She nodded her head putting a hand up to her chin. She could really feel that she hadn't gotten her morning coffee yet as her brain was still booting up. ''Indeed, if this was anyone else it would be a different case, but this is a big mutation type power.'' She looked at Mar, before flashing a thumbs up and a wink at Detective Ko, ''let's go hear her out.''

She smiled reassuringly at Suki, offering her a hand to hold while she told her witness account. No matter if she took it or not, Lucille just wanted to make sure she felt safe in their presence. ''Suki you are doing a fantastic job helping our investigation, do you recall what type of voice it was? You said it was rushed, but were you able to make out anything else? Did it sound rough or soft, did it sound masculine or feminine?'' She wanted to ask about what was said too. 'I have to'? Have to what? She was hesitant to ask since she didn't want to bombard the poor woman with questions. Besides, Mar probably had something she wanted to ask too, and she wasn't going to not let her partner talk. While she remained quiet to let Mar speak, Lucille looked over at Detective Ko and smiled, not because she was having fun or anything. It was the type of smile that communicated that everything was going to be okay. That they were going to solve what was going on and apprehend Geo Koji, assuming he really was their culprit. ''Tiburón, just to make sure, you haven't picked up anything yet, have you?'' She was referring to Mar's ability to sense electrical fields. Since she hadn't said anything it was safe to say they could clear any suspicions on that front, but she still made sure to ask.

gamelizardnarrator, Mar

It was a rough landing, but Lucille got her and Hotshot back on the ground safely. Before she could even get her bearings, Hotshot was already taking aim at the serpent villain, missing fast shots of fire. ''Conserve your energy, Hotshot-san! He wants you to lose your cool.'' Lucille pleaded as the villain just laughed and weaved around his attacks by flying around in circles.

''Tiburón!'' Hotshot exclaimed with a smile as their friend emerged unscathed, swiftly followed by the two other villains. ''Are you okay?'' Lucille was immediately by her side checking on her while Hotshot was posturing, ready to throwdown and arrest the troublemakers. ''So it comes down to this...'' He grinned, cracking his knuckles. ''Maxima vs...'' His grin soured as he squinted at the villains again. ''Oi! What are you knuckleheads called?'' The villains looked at each other, the bigger one shrugging.

''We're friends from Shinjuku.'' Said the serpent, looking at his comrades. ''We never bothered with group names.''

''I see, that complicates things.'' He muttered, putting a hand up to his chin as he got lost in thought before ruffling his hair with his hand. ''Whatever!'' He exclaimed. ''You're criminals, you picked a fight with Maxima!'' He pointed a finger at them. ''As far as I'm concerned that makes you three big idiots. So it's Maxima vs 3 Big Idiots!'' Lucille giggled from behind him. ''He's getting all fired up.'' She smiled at Mar. ''Shall we?'' She indicated towards Hotshot, walking up to join him and stand by his side.

''How juvenile...'' The serpent frowned.

''The serpent is fast, but I'm the only one of us who can fly.'' Which probably left her with the best odds in that match up.

''Leave the small guy to me! No one beats me when it comes to raw power!'' Hotshot said confidently. Besides, his adoring fans would love seeing videos and pictures of him fighting and beating a fearsome villain like it was just another Tuesday.

''Think you can handle the last one, Tiburón? Did you see their quirks?'' She awaited her answer, but ultimately felt like even if they went in with little to no knowledge of their opponents they were still going to pull through. They were a team after all.

Suddenly, all hell broke loose, Hotshot and the smaller guy budding heads as the big guy came for Mar, while the serpent and Lucille took to the skies. In a clash of talons and dragon claws, the two flying types came to a standstill.

''If you surrender now you can get a lighter sentence!'' She tried to persuade him. ''You haven't killed anyone yet, right?'' Their call was about hostages and mayhem, but there had been no confirmed deaths yet. ''Why are you doing this?'' The serpent just growled and fired a blast of electricity at her, which she narrowly dodged.

''Just try and bypass me, shark hero.'' The big guy lunged forward trying to slam her with his palms. ''You must be tired after all that running we just did.'' Sending out a flurry of palm strikes he tried to catch her off guard. ''Well I'm not.''

''Ora!'' Hotshot and the last villain exchanged punches, beating each other without their quirks until he felt his hand hit something hard. ''Ow!'' He took a couple of steps back, his opponents skin having turned gray and hardened. ''You fool! I wanted to fight you all along! I know you burn things up, Hotshot, but you won't be able to burn my Stoneskin!''

Mar

Pain shot through her body as she was kicked through the window of a small boutique. These villains were not only persistent, but incredibly powerful and coordinated. It was almost as if they didn't just come to the islands seeking knowledge, but was expecting a team of heroes to follow them. Letting out a cough as the dust settled she was about to get up when her colleague, Hotshot, a fellow pro hero at Maxima offered her a hand. ''Phantasmagoria! You okay?'' She took his hand and let out another small cough. ''I'm fine, just a little shaken.'' She smiled weakly at him. ''Where's Tiburón? Oi!! Tiburón where you at?!'' He shouted into the comms. ''She's chasing the other two villains.''

''Other two? So she's goin' at it alone.''

''They wanted to separate us like this. The guy I'm fighting-''

''Yeah. He's too fast for my flames. These bastards are no amateurs.''

Speaking into her own comms, Lucille tried to reach Mar as well. ''Tiburón, let's regroup and fight these villains all together! Keep an eye on the sky!'' She put a hand on Hotshot's shoulder. ''Hotshot-san, can I borrow your fire to send a signal?'' The hotheaded hero grinned and pointed a thumb at his chest. ''Damn right you can!''

Stepping back out of the boutique, the flying villain that had sent her crashing was nowhere in sight. Maybe he was just biding his time? Transforming into a harpy, Lucille flapped her wings and lifted Hotshot by the shoulders as they took to the skies. ''Hotshot!'' She called out to which he exclaimed with just as much fiery vigor as his quirk could produce. ''All right!! Get ready to see some cool shit, Tiburón!'' He started kicking the air as he activated his quirk, firing off fast shots of pink fire and lighting parts of himself up in the process, Phantasmgoria and Hotshot's combination move functioning as a makeshift signal flare for Mar to know where to go to meet back up with them. ''That oughta do it.'' He grinned, wiping the sweat from his brow.

''Foolish heroes, is that the best you got?'' Emerging from behind one of the buildings, the villain Lucille had been fighting earlier floated out to greet them. A flying serpent, his quirk was a transformation type similar to hers, only he also possessed elemental properties, making his range far superior to hers. ''There you are you overgrown snake! Come over here and insult me to my face!'' Hotshot started shadowboxing the air in the direction of the villain, while Lucille did her best to keep him stabilized and not drop him as he moved around. ''You do realize I left your precious friend to fight my allies? There should be nothing left of her by now.'' The serpent chuckled, before opening his mouth as he started charging up a blast of lightning. ''Hotshot, we gotta go!'' Lucille called out, pulling him and herself around the blast just in time to avoid getting fried.

Mar

''I'm sure she will.'' She smiled, having as much faith in Ylva to grow and improve as she did all her other students. ''I don't know for sure since I'm not close with Mafdet-san, but my hunches are usually never entirely wrong.'' She gave a thumbs up at Mar as she mentioned Masao. ''Her decision making is fine, she was a little stiff addressing the civilians, but it's nothing out of the ordinary for students who haven't been out in the field before. The biggest issue was her quirk.'' She clarified a little further, ''as a manufacturer, Ando-san is practically ready to go professional already, but she doesn't just want to be a manufacturer. She wants to be out there saving lives directly. However, her quirk and her mastery of her powers is not up to code. It is not at a place where we can trust that Ando-san would be able to help up to the standards that are expected of licensed students.'' She let out a small sigh. ''That's why I'm kind of relieved they assigned her Lawbringer-san. He's an old head, but he's wise and will be able to teach her a lot. I suspect she wanted extra PE classes with you too because she's serious about improving.''

She leaned forward to gather the files again and stack them all neatly. ''This brings me to the final point I wanted to talk about. I'm going to organize a big lesson for all the years in the USJ. It'll be a bomb-seeking exercise, something nice and easy to kick-off this fall semester. I asked you to come meet me here because I wanted to request your help observing them.'' She smiled, but it faded just as quickly.

''Remember where our conversation started? The students are flawed, but they're eager to learn and to work for the betterment of society. In other words, nothing much has changed since our time in hero school.'' She stood up and walked over to look out her window. ''But hasn't there been a big change? The Elementalist, the Tokyo Bay attacks, the Dream World incident...'' She looked back at Mar. ''I believe the biggest difference is that a lot is being expected of hero students today. A lot more than the world asked of us. It is our job not only to protect them, but to get them ready for the world that awaits outside of campus. That's why following the bomb-seeking exercise, I will be putting together some more serious training measures.'' She put her hands on her hips and smiled over at her colleague. ''For serious training measures I'll be needing your serious attitude too. You have a way with getting the students to pay attention to you with just your presence alone.'' She giggled.

When Mar started to show signs of sleepiness Lucille fetched a pillow and a blanket that she kept in her office for just this occasion. ''Feel free to get some rest, Mar Mar.'' She said softly as she sat back down and put her reading glasses on, picking up where she left off on the homework she was grading.

Mar

She smiled back at Mar right after offering some advice to a couple of first year students. ''Sort of!'' She pointed her thumb at herself. ''I just spoke straight from the heart! Works all the time, every time! ~'' She looked past Mar to wave at another group of students. ''Good luck in there! Take care of each other!'' She put her hands on her hips and let out a small sigh. ''They're livelier than ever, don't you think?'' Speaking of, that second year student Enma, he was really going into this giving it his all. Talk about a strong crisis response performance already!

When she noticed Rin approach she offered her a gentle smile, offering the timid student all the patience in the world as she addressed her question. ''You got that right, Gotoh-san!'' She was about to inquire about her choice of teammates when Enma called out to his fellow second year. ''Looks like someone needs your help, Gotoh-san, go get 'em!'' She grinned, giving her a firm and reassuring pat on the shoulder. Looking upwards she noticed that a lot of students were either taking to the rooftops or using flying quirks to get their friends and teammates around faster. ''I'm going topside.'' She pointed up as she looked at Mar. ''If you need me here just contact me on the comms, otherwise I leave the streets to you!'' She gave her colleague a salute before activating her transformation quirk, turning her arms into huge crow wings and her feet into talons. ''Good find!'' She exclaimed at Enma, offering him a small wink. ''Keep at it and the city will be saved in no time!'' She made sure to stay on the move as she observed everyone, ready to go wherever the students needed her to go, or where she looked like she was needed.

enma, Rin, Mar

The USJ looked like its same old, city replica self. It was quiet, deserted, only a sinister secret was looming in the backdrop of the ghost town. One for her students to solve!

Her megaphone picked up some feedback as she turned it on and put it up to her face. She had gathered the students on the outskirts of the USJ for today's cross-year lesson. ''Caw, Caw!!'' She cawed into the megaphone like a crow, but did a horrible job imitating one. Nevertheless, she had everyone's attention now! ''Eyes on me everyone!'' She waved and smiled at the crowd of students as she stood up on a small podium. ''My name's Phantasmagoria! Some of you already know me as your homeroom teacher, but I hope we can all get along! ~'' She smiled and winked, practically oozing energy, optimism and confidence with the way she conducted herself.

''Today's lesson is simple! Terrorists have hidden bombs all over the USJ and are threatening to blow the city to kingdom come!'' She paused for dramatic effect. ''All the civilians have already been evacuated, but oh! Won't someone think of the structural damage! Society will never financially recover if those bombs go off!'' She put a hand up to her forehead and hammed up her act to be extra melodramatic for that line delivery. ''That's where you come in!'' She pointed at the students. ''You must find the bombs and disarm them before they all go off! Disarming them is easy, but finding all of them won't be. Also, in the spirit of the season the bombs look like little jack-o'-lanterns! Be sure to thank your fellow support students for coming up with the design!'' She winked, waiting a moment to give them a little time to digest the information she had given them before posing dramatically. ''You may work together in groups or on your own, but you will all be graded for your individual performance, yes you may use your quirks too, but be civil!'' She twirled the megaphone around as she smiled smugly.

''Aaaand as an added bonus, if you happen to impress me today you can earn a ticket to go on a hero mission with yours truly, where you will gain some real world, practical hero experience as my temporary sidekicks!'' A red light switched on up on the walls surrounding the USJ as a timer began ticking down. One hour, that was all they had. ''Happy hunting, everyone!'' She grinned, waving goodbye as she stepped off the podium. Anticipating that some students might have questions she decided to hang around the starting area for a bit, before she would follow the students into the USJ to observe their progress.

Lucille hummed a little tune to herself as she worked her way through grading a stack of homework one paper at a time. Life in Tokyo hadn't exactly been chill as of late, and the safety of her students and the people of the city constantly weighed at the back of her mind. Big, scary, horrible events had happened already and while she wasn't really on the frontlines right now, she was willing to bet that the villains weren't slowing down anytime soon. It was only a matter of time before the next big attack, so how could they best prepare their students for certain disaster?

All this thinking was giving her a headache. And right while she was grading homework too? She really had to get better at differentiating between teacher mode and hero mode. Thinking about all that stuff right now didn't help when she needed to get other work done! Letting out a sigh she pushed her chair away and spun around in it with her arms out like she was an airplane. Once she came to a stop she grabbed her cup of coffee and took a long sip. Tasted like warm, but at least the caffeine still had an effect on her.

She had messaged Mar earlier under the guise that it was something important, something work related, when in reality she just wanted a little break and someone to talk to. Still, her friend and colleague should be here any moment now. Once Mar did arrive she would answer the door to her office with a sing-songy ''Come in! ~'' Before leaping out of her chair and pulling Mar into a close hug like they hadn't seen each other for months. ''Mar Mar, how are youuu?'' She beamed, pulling away. ''Come in, come in and have a seat!'' She was already running about the room checking on this and that before arriving at her electric kettle. ''Coffee? Tea? Water?'' She asked, looking over her shoulder. Due to her lack of taste buds she was infamously bad at brewing coffee, but Mar should know better by now than to trust her with the spoon.

Mar