Chapter 8 : New teacher (1)

Abid khan was furiously walking into the regional Raider's association building that inadvertently came under the heroes association banner. Pooja was following him with her utmost ferocity but a tighter skirt meant smaller steps and the essential things on her including the files of three heroes and top 3 of entrance test were making it harder for her to keep up the pace.

Abid had been working since long to get the best university to train Raiders in India to accept his offer of making a separate class just for heroes. It made work easier for him and gave him some administrative powers there. But his plan was now in pieces. There were many universities everywhere, where they were ready to implement a separate class but nothing was as good and prestigious as RUA.

He got into the office specially kept for him on his arrival. It was a far cry from his Delhi office with all the technology and reporting systems but the chair wasn't bad, still he was just used to his usual one. Pooja kept all the files on the table and relaxed sitting on the chair. "Who told you, you can sit?" Growled Abid in anger.

"I told myself." Said Pooja mumbling "I do most of your signatures anyway."

Abid sighed and drank some water, "I am sorry."

"Why are you angry anyways, those kids were really good. Maybe Mr. Sardar is right they can learn something from this."

"You don't understand Pooja. Sardar is sticking his rules before nation. You know what the alpha wave did, don't you? Half of the world's population was gone, just like that. Heroes have been our best hope at defending against the waves and they are leaving this nation faster than we can produce them. Those kids may be good for now but a year from now when both of them have trained enough there will be no comparison. If we don't change our ways we are paving the way for our own destruction. Why does it not get into his thick skull!"

Pooja's face fell down in silence, she looked at her ring and said, "You know it wasn't the heroes that saved my family, they even passed by us but never looked down to help. It was a brave B class Raider that saved us."

"I know. That is why I respect him and let him do as he pleases, people like him are just as much necessary as I am. The central government has been putting a lot of pressure on us lately and recently with an S3 ranked demon coming out of a type 1 anomaly gate, things are heating up. It's not just that, the number of anomaly gates opening up has been increasing rapidly with every consecutive wave. Every nation is gathering up as much as they can."

After a brief silence Pooja sprang up and said, "I know something that will please you. You wanted to know about that girl Rusjeet singh was talking about about right? wait till you hear Jia's analysis on her."

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"Ram can you tell me what have we been doing wrong here?" Said the President as he sat in front of Krishna in his office "this man here managed to raise such an excellent fighter out of a C rank even though he is just an F rank physiology teacher." Ram who was seated next to Krishna said, "Sir, he is not an F ra…" The President shook his head and said "That was a rhetorical question Ram. my point is you hired him for the wrong job. He should be one of the teachers for our Raiders."

"I am not looking to be a Professor there sir. I am happy with my job." said Krishna sitting with his hands in his pockets. The president paused and smiled for a bit and said, "Ram, isn't Abid looking for the one who defeated that demon from that gate?". Krishna chuckled a bit and said now keeping his hands crossed on the table, "Be direct sir, I am getting your point."

"It is simple son. You showed exceptional skill when you stepped into the ring back then. Abid would have been suspicious of you if Ram had said you were a simple physiology teacher. But now that he knows you are one of the faculties he would like to keep an eye on you. He has a good eye for talent you know. But if he finds out that you are indeed a physiology teacher and the one who trained Anika he is good enough to join the other pieces. I understand you have been trying to hide some facts about you and I respect you decision on this. But if you want it to remain a secret then you need to let me help you."

"And get some help in return too."

President shrugged and said, "That seems only fair now, doesn't it? You don't want to owe me something here anyway. We have a free position too, saves us the trouble of hiring"

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In the hospital of RUA campus Rajdeep had woken up to the rising sun. he could not remember much after the first punch by Anirudh but the pain was suffice to tell him that it did not go well. "So you finally woke up big guy." Said Anirudh who silded the curtains and was also admitted on the next bed. Rajdeep analysed him fully, he had bandages all over him and a cast for a broken leg, "looks like you took some beating too."

Anirudh still had a smug face but there was not that same old confidence behind it. "If it helps you, it also took only 2 hits."

Just like everyone Rajdeep was also shocked, "How? And who?"

"It was that Karate klutz. As if it wasn't bad enough getting beaten by a woman she could not even use her aura." said Anirudh as the flashback of the fight accentuated his pain.

Rajdeep then extended his hand and said, "then let's get even more stronger and next time get beaten by a man." Anirudh had a mild laugh and grabbed onto his hand as both of them flexed their muscles. "That sounds like a pipe dream, I am not planning on losing anymore."

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Anika and Reema were in a cafe hanging out as new Friends. It wasn't a rush time as at 4 pm as almost everyone busy. Except for a few odd balls they were all by themselves. "So what did they say at the hospital, you have been going there since 3 days any improvement?"

Reema was sipping through her latte with whipped cream and said, "nothing substantial till now, the pain is gone but I still can't use my aura. There is no knowledge about how to repair a broken foundation." Reema paused for a moment and said, "you were saying Krishna helped you with your unstable foundation, any chance he could help me?"

"I don't know, he won't talk to me. He is still mad about me using that move on that Rishi guy. I can't blame him either, I was the stupid one." Anika's shoulders drooped and she whined "why do I always mess things up." as her head banged on the table. "Even the old man won't stop lecturing me about how I always end up getting hurt so much." said Anika a muffled voice

Reema finished her drink in the meanwhile and said, "don't worry college will start in 2 days from now, you won't have that much time after that I think. With all the studying and training."

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Rishi was in his personal training ground built by his father for him but he barely used it before. He was trying to focus his attacks on multiple targets at once with his water stream attack that he used on Anika. But he was not able to focus enough to make it work. He had been doing it since the morning and was exhausted now. His butler came and told a wet Rishi, "Sir, Rusjeet singh is waiting for you in the waiting hall."

It was a magnificent waiting hall which exuded a royalty from every corner. Rishi entered all drenched in water and sweat.

"How are you doing?" asked Rusjeet singh seeing a tired Rishi drying himself in an instant.

"Are you here to ask about my wellbeing?"

"No, I came to give you this file you asked for."

Rishi sat on the sofa next to him. He opened the file and started going through it.

"You know this won't change in the future." Said Rujeet as he leaned forward. "Uptill now you had probably never faced a real threat to your life. It can be daunting at first but the fact remains, It will only get worse from this point on and if you can't face it you won't survive. There is no running away."

Rishi closed the file and slammed it on the table.

"You are right. That senile on man mine has been on my mind lately. It keeps reminding me that I am not as good as my brother."

"You need to focus on your development, I will take care of our mission till then." Said Rusjeet as he tapped on Rishi's shoulder and walked out as the butler guided him.

Rishi opened the file again, the words on it still made him shiver a little and the photo reminded him of his first experience of being so close to death. It was Anika's file.

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Yash Bakshi was walking with his number two, also known as the most lethal butterfly by her fans. Yash was the leader of one of the great four guilds of india with his guild dominating the western side of India.

After they had entered their office building one of their men had given them the information about RUA taking in 3 new heroes but in a secret competition with the top scorers of the entrance exam they had been defeated. It wasn't something they would have been able to know easily but Anirudh flying out of the whole building and crashing into a college class had leaked a few bits about the things that were happening. Yash and her number 2 were both hero class themselves, yash being an S3 and his number 2 a rarer S4.

"Should we get in touch with those 6 and start making a hiring pitch?" asked the butterfly as they sat in Yash's office. Yash who was wearing a pink coat and a violet striped shirt thought for a moment and said "let's observe them first and collect some data. We have a time advantage here. Before the other 3 make move we can get enough data to win the best deals."

"That will be boring."

"Yes but you don't have to worry about that. You can have some fun in lakshadweep islands, we have a report that a type 2 anomaly gate has appeared there. The association has requested for some more firepower, they don't want another fiasco like andaman nicobars. At this moment all our teams are busy. I am sure you can handle the whole gate alone before it opens in 7 days."

"Another one? This rate of increase is a lot more than we thought, what kind of monster is coming to this side anyway. Hopeful it doesn't get as ugly as Mumbai 5 years ago."

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A separate class was made because of sponsorship but it was in the core of RUA that everyone should get equal chance and so with the 3 heros in this special class there were those who defeated them. A class of 6 people and that too having hero class was already destined to be famous but soon the news was spreading about the third step and it was a sensation in the whole college, a trio of A,B and C class had defeated the hero's in a one to one battle. It was never confirmed by any authoritative person so there was always a mix of people who were too skeptical of this news. How could they not be skeptical, it was the first time any such thing was ever done for an entrance test and the results were just not acceptable by common sense.

All 6 of them were seated in the class. All healed up except for a few bruises on both Anirudh and Rajdeep. They were waiting for their homeroom teacher to come in and So walked in the one and only Krishna. Anika's eyes were left open and Reema happy looking at Anika's reaction as she had heard a lot about him from her.

"Will it be hard to study for you now looking at his pretty face?"

"What?" Anika's cheeks were all red. "You...you shut up."

Nobody else knew Krishna but they remembered him from the arena when he stopped the fight between Rishi and Anika.

"Good morning." Said Krishna as he sat down on the chair and put his legs crossed on the table. "I am your new homeroom teacher, hopefully not for the next three years but the pay is good, so, who knows." Krishna did want a new gaming Pc but now with more money his ambitions were expanding.