OF ROOMS AND MUSHROOMS
All Might took a deep breath. It's the same class he gave the day prior. Plus, Midoriya would not be there, what would theoretically ease the pressure. Even so, he was trembling again when he opened the door to Class 1-B
"I am here! For the Heroics Class!"
He just stood there for a couple seconds, knowing most people want to recover from the shock of seeing him.
Same speech. Same delight in so many young eyes as their hero uniforms were revealed.
"Go change and meet me at Area B."
They rushed to the locker rooms, excited with the coming class. It would be the first time they feel like heroes.
"Are you going to fight villains or to a ball, Monoma?" some kid hackled, seeing him put on his suit.
"With my quirk, I don't need any costume."
"Man!" said Tsuburaba "Me and Kuroiro are wearing normal clothes" He looked at the jet black kid, his black uniform mixing with his skin "If he is wearing anything, that is. You are wearing a costume."
Kuroiro let some interjection out as a complain, and Monoma kept going.
"You have no sense of style. But Honenuki's cool." He said, looking at the other kid dressing up. "Suit of armour, huh?"
"Close. I learned form my father. He was auctioning for Phantom of the Opera and talked about the mask of the character and its meaning. I wanted something that made sense for me to cover my face." He put his helmet on "People link skulls with death, and I don't want to scare those I save."
Tetsutetsu overheard the talk. Auctioning? Phantom of the Opera?
"Let's pray for our first step into heroics to be blessed and that we remain always on the path of virtue."
At the girls' locker, Shiozaki put her hands together and closed her eyes.
"We'll be fine" said Kendo, zipping up Tokage's scally uniform. "I believe in what we can do."
"That back zipper's a design flaw, will change it" mumbled Tokagi, thanking her.
"We… girls? We 1-B?" struggled with her Japanese Pony Tsunotori.
"We, the future heroes." Seeing the foreign student was making gestures with her hands, Kendo spoke slower "We must pay attention to what matters, not the divisions Monoma creates."
"Cheer up, everyone" Komori was jumping around on her polka-dotted uniform "It will be fun. It's not like they would ask us to handle a bomb on our first heroic class, right?"
"For this class, you will be handling a nuclear bomb" said All Might. Every girl eyes turned to Komoki, who just opened a shy smile for excuse.
"A mock-up, of course. This will be the battle test. You will now be split in hero teams and villain teams and face off in two-on-two indoor battles." All Might kept explaining, just like he did with class 1-A. Maybe one day he will get used to it, but not on that that day. Facing young student still felt harder than fighting villains.
FIRST BATTLE: Villains: Yousetsu Awase (weld quirk) and Yui Kodai (size quirk). Heroes: Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu (steel quirk) and Juzo Honenuki (softening quirk).
Awase finished using his quirk on their bomb.
"There. If the heroes want to move this, they will have to rip the floor and take it, too."
"Very good, Awase" said Kodai, and started to shrink. "I will do a quick reckon to try and find them."
Some floors below, Honenuki was trying to solve the problem.
"If we knew exactly were the bomb is" he whispered "I could use my quirk on the ceiling below it, and we would win without a fight. Any ideas, Tetsu?"
The steel student just stood there, thinking. Honenuki advanced a couple more steps, afraid of making any noise.
"Neither of us have any spy ability" he kept whispering "So…"
"AKIRA HONEN!" Tetsutetsu shouted, excited. "Your father's Akira Honen! Of course! I watched 'The Zombie King' like, a zillion times! And went to see his Jack Skellington show at Disney Tok…"
He shut up seeing Kodai appear for seemingly nowhere, growing quick to her normal size. And doubling it.
"Oh, boy." He said, before being slammed into a wall before having the chance to activate his quirk. Honenuki quickly touched the floor using his quirk at the fullest, making his opponent sink.
… just to her waist level. Before he could do anything, he was also slapped unconscious.
Watching it on the closet circuit camera, some of their colleagues facepalmed.
"And that, kids, is why you should focus on your mission and your mission only." Said All Might, seeing both heroes on the floor. "Villains win the first battle."
SECOND BATTLE: Villains: Ibara Shiozaki (quirk: vines) and Kosei Tsuburaba (quirk: solid air). Heroes: Pony Tsunotori (quirk: horn cannon) and Kinoto Komori (mushroom quirk)
Shiosaki kneeled in the middle of room, the fake bomb at her back.
"It does not please me hurting innocent friends. Let's try restrain ourselves and not do anything we didn't like to be done to ourselves."
"Sure" answered absently Tsuburaba, thinking on ways to catch their oponents mid-air, so he could slip under then and maybe – maybe check their panties. He knows most heroines wear shorts under their skirts, but he was counting with his lucky.
"It seems the best course of action is to seal this room with your air, while I cover the whole floor with vines."
"No!" he said a bit too quickly. No way he would be stuck there, without a chance of peeking on the girls. "the… the… huh… mushrooms can affect your vine. Nothing can go through my air walls, on the other hand. You, huh, protect this room and I will set up some traps on the way."
Shiosaki smiled.
"Would you be so noble to go on a path of possible martyrdom?"
"Y-yeah, martyrdom. Or whatever. I don't intend to get caught. Be right back."
"May you be blessed on your quest."
Tsuburaba rushed out of room. Any more religious phrases would make him too guilty to try anything. But it was his first chance to check the foreign girl, right?
Komori was worried. It was hard to communicate with her fellow "hero". She tried even her fractured English to match her imperfect Japanese.
"You faster. You go-look."
She answered with some mimic of her hand hitting something invisible.
"Let's move together, right?" sighed the mushroom girl.
"Slowly" The horned one answered.
As they went on, climbing the stair to the next floor, they found Tsuburaba waiting in the end of the corridor. Tsunotori waited no time launching her horns at him, who lift an air shield. Looks like it would be time for plan B.
Two horns kept hitting the shield, Tsuburaba smirking.
"Game over, girls. I got this part of the room completely sealed.
He then noticed mushrooms growing at his side.
"That's good." Komori said. "Thanks for telling me to send my fungus through the concrete walls." As they grew, the Hard Air kid saw, in terror, cracks appearing in the walls. Could he raise two walls at once? He saw the two girls advancing towards him. Desperate times.
He used his quirk again, under them.
Suddenly, Tsunotori and Komori were walking in a complete frictionless surface. It did not take much for them to slip and fall. Komori felt on her butt, legs facing Tsuburaba. He quickly reached for his phone.
And was his costly mistake.
Keeping two walls up and trying to snap a picture was too much for his attention. The shield in front of him flickered, enough for a horn hit him, followed by a "pervert!" shout from one of the girls.
Tsunotori was quickly on her feet, and rushed at him. Thinking fast, he made a ramp, causing her to pass over him. He raised a air wall, to trap her and turned to face Komori.
Who was not there anymore. She probably darted upstairs.
To where the bomb is.
Oh, no.
Entering the bomb room, Tsuburaba saw both girls, arms crossed, looking at him with angry faces.
"Shiozaki, what are you waiting for? She's the enemy. Trap her."
"She is the hero, I am supposed to be the villain. But I am also my sister's keeper."
"What does…"
"Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men." Turning around, he noticed vines growing, blocking the only door out, as Shiozaki kept talking "Blessed is he who, I the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children." Both took steps forward him. He tried to retreat the max he could. "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!"
He noticed an opening on the vines and exit the room running as fast as he could. So much he forgot the air wall he raised, hitting it and falling unconscious.
That's why he missed the two girls laughing.
"He was a bit of a creepy back there, but that's almost too much a scare for him. Almost." Laughed Komori.
Both looked at the bomb and each other.
"Now" said Shiozaki "I am at your side, but I also don't run from the good combat."
"Fine by me."
The space around Komori became a flora battle, with vines and mushrooms fighting for every centimeter. When one found a new angle at a nearby wall or ceiling, the other occupies it. Untill
"Seems a :cough: stalemate :cough cough: Komori…"
Soon, the vine girl was on her knees, coughing.
"Sorry." Komori said, touching the bomb. "you will be fine soon."
"You… :cough: defiled the temple that is my :cough, cough, cough: bo:cough:body?"
"If you were a villain, this move would probably stop people for getting hurt. Sorry."
All Might voice to be heard on the speakers, cutting the talk.
"Heroes win. Shiozaki, there are nurse bots waiting to take you to Recovery Girl at the exit. Next battle…"
I think 1-B is full of powerful, interesting girls. I wanted to make them justice, and give them the spotlight. Was I successful? Opinions?