The flares shot into the air to mark our quarry's position. Uraraka's flare was pink, and I saw it coming from the northwest. "There's Uraraka's flare!" I said. I tapped my fists together and materialized my fourwheeler, Deku powered up as green energy coursed through him, and Tsu bounded along to keep up. The three of us took an early lead ahead of the other teams, powering through the clearing and into the woods beyond. "Try and keep up!" I called as my fourwheeler's engine was roaring, full throttle. We made great progress, but the forest was thicker and thicker as we went deeper and deeper into it until finally we reached a thicket of small trees and bushes.
"Asui, can you still see the flare?" Deku asked. Asui looked up and caught a glimpse of the flare in the sky.
"I've got a visual, but this brush is too thick!"
"And we'd waste time trying to get around it. Haetch, do you have any tools that can cut through this?" Deku asked me.
"I think so!" I replied. I stored my fourwheeler, then tapped my fists again to try and make a brush hook or a machete to try and slash through the obstacle, but then I was able to conjure another vehicle! This time it was our old Caterpillar D4 bulldozer. The engine idled at a growl as I then yelled."Y'all hop on!"
"Got it!"
"Ribbit!" Deku and Tsu replied as they tried to make room for me to see in the cramped, open operator's station. I tightly gripped the controls as I revved the engine all the way up and shifted the dozer in gear. The hulking machine lurched forward, its tracks creaking and clattering, then I lowered the blade and dove into the thicket. The machine was more than enough to clear the path then, but more obstacles lay in our way. Slowly but steadily, I cleared away branches and trees that stood in our way, but I then remembered we were against the clock. I had to conjure something faster but also strong enough to clear the path to reach Uraraka in time.
"Alright. We need to get a move on. Get off while I conjure something faster!" Following my instructions, my teammates leaped off of the dozer, then I whisked it away. I was now realizing that I had more in my storage than I thought. I pictured another machine in my mind, then I tapped my fists together and materialized our farm's John Deere 4440, then a front loader with a grapple attachment and dual rear wheels appeared, then to finish it all off I added a box blade on the back. I charged forward in a middle gear and handily cleared away the trees and bushes, but one fallen oak tree was especially troublesome. At nearly three feet in diameter, it was too big to pick up with the tractor, but then Deku rushed in and with a single punch he smashed the fallen tree into splinters. "Great going, Deku!" I said to myself as I shoved the fragments out of the way. Working together, Deku, Asui and I bulldozed our way through the forest at great haste. Suddenly, I saw in the rear view mirror a laser blast streaking towards us. Aoyama, Jiro, and Ashido were hot on us in their attempt to get to Kaminari.
"Bonjour! It looks like you'll have to catch up to us!" Aoyama said as he and his teammates charged past us. Deku saw this and was alarmed as he kicked a tree over. He had to do something to achieve victory. He sprinted over to me and yelled,
"Get ready, Haetch!"
"For what?!" I exclaimed. Deku then pinballed around several trees to then line up a perfect shot at the back of the tractor. I then realized what he was about to do, and I dropped what I was holding with the grapple and shifted into neutral. Deku flew in and with a single kick he shot the tractor with me in it forward, lifting it up off of the ground for a split second, and in that second as all six wheels touched the ground I slammed the stick into twelfth gear. "You'll never catch me, Jiro! Not when I shift into D 4! HIYYAAAAAA!" I screamed as the tractor bucked forward and nearly popped a wheelie as I retook the lead from Jiro, Ashido, and Aoyama. At top speeds, the tractor bounces and bucks like a bronco, but all 140 horsepower was going into beating them to our target. Deku and Tsu then leaped forward to catch up. It was now a game of chicken as a pink and yellow flare both loomed higher and higher in the sky, indicating we were getting closer and closer to our targets, then I saw it. Uraraka's kind of a short girl, but I could see her light brown hair from a mile away. We were so close to victory I could feel it! With everything in me and my tractor I made my way through the clearing, leaped down from my tractor and rolled to break my fall, then on one knee I took her hand and lightly kissed it.
"M'Lady." I purred. She then blushed profusely as she looked into my eyes and I into hers.
"TEAM URARAKA WINS!" Announced All Might. Team Yaozorozu was next, and after that was Bakugo, then Hagakure, and in last place was team Kaminari. It was an all around fun exercise that had showed me the potential of my quirk. After last period, we went home to our dorms, where I threw on some casual clothes and then went to Iida.
"Hey, Iida. I'm going out for a while." I said after knocking on his door. Iida was polishing one of his many pairs of glasses when I came in.
"Thank you for informing me, Haetch. Where will you be going and at what time will you be back?" He inquired.
"Training Ground Epsilon. I'll be back once I'm done taking inventory." I replied, simply, then walked out of his room. Iida looked somewhat confused as to my reply. I found a I found a nice open patch of dirt at ground Epsilon.
"Perfect." I thought. I tapped my fists together and created a rather beat up Case 580 Super E backhoe loader and began to dig a hole. Once I had made as deep a hole as I had wished, I then re-stored my backhoe and got out the dozer to fill the hole back in. The dozer was a good battering ram during the forest training, but I remembered that the left steering clutch was stuck. Dad always instead put it in reverse to turn left some kind of way, but I wasn't experienced enough to know that trick, so I put it away, too and got out something else. A man that my dad does business with is a contractor with a few pieces of equipment of his own, and one of them is a Caterpillar D5 in markedly better shape. I figured the controls wouldn't be that hard to figure out and thus gave it a try. Using that dozer, I was able to finally fill in the hole, but it left a rough spot in the ground, as though it looked like I had been digging there. I had another idea and pulled out the John Deere 6330 with a land leveler hitched to it. I was in my own world, playing with this equipment, testing out the limits of my quirk. I had come to have such an enormous stockpile of machinery from both the farm and from going around. One thing you should know about me is that I go around to places with my dad a lot. He goes to other farms and equipment dealerships a lot to take care of business. Being the curious guy I am, I always wander off on my own to see what's up. I climb in cabs, work the controls and touch all over it, and sometimes I catch my hand stealing to the ignition, and all of this was before I knew that I could store things like tractors and bulldozers with my quirk. Now was my time to take inventory, though suddenly I saw a dark silhouette shrouded in a grey cloth around his neck. It was Mr. Aizawa, who had apparently been told by Iida about my whereabouts and came to check on me. I didn't see him as I was making another pass around to smooth over my pile of dirt, but I then realized he was there when the tractor suddenly disappeared and I fell on the ground. I got back up to see him standing next to me.
"Iida told me you'd be here. Thank you for letting someone know before going off. My apologies if I startled you. " He said, plainly. I dusted myself off and replied,
"Not at all, I'm just taking inventory. I'm trying to see just what I've managed to collect over the years." I explained.
"You're into heavy machinery I see." Mr. Aizawa said, thoughtfully. He then blinked, restoring my quirk. I then showed my teacher all of my tools and machines I had managed to collect over the years. There were tractors, combines, cotton pickers, a silage chopper, backhoes, bulldozers, excavators, front end loaders, a five ton military truck, my red fourwheeler, my white Chevy pickup truck, all sorts of hand tools. I then realized how much I really had stored up, but was too tired to show Mr. Aizawa more.
"That's all. I think. I'm too tired to get more out." I wheezed.
"I think you've made your point. It's getting late, let's get you back to the dorm." Mr. Aizawa said. "You can sleep in, tomorrow, it's your day off." I was very relieved. The whole going to school on Saturday deal was kind of odd, but at least we have one day off. I returned to my dorm to the common area to find my new friends hanging out.
"Hey, Haetch. Where have you been?" asked Uraraka.
"Oooh, messin' around." I explained, casually. "I'm goin' to bed. I'm tired." With that, I went upstairs and passed out on my air mattress a few seconds later.
