The appearance of Love
In an airport of Japan similar to the one in the beginning. A large man stands in on the corner smoking a cigar.
"Taxi!" He yells and low and behold one arrives. The man throws his luggage in the back and hops in.
"Okay, sir where are you headed?" The driver asks.
"First the nearest Cabaret Club and after that U.A!"
"You know I never asked what was Miruko like, because how I picture her is a female version of you," Kaiden asked curiously as him and Hyde walked to U.A talking about how their internships went.
Hyde smiled as he looked at his friend. "Curious about the number six hero huh Kaiden, well if you must know she praised me during the internship and she personally picked me out when she saw my performance in the sports festival," Hyde said boasting as Kaiden looked at him with a raised eyebrow
"She beat your ass and made fun of your boxer's, didn't she?" Kaiden said trying to hold in a laugh as Hyde grew a tick mark.
"Oh yeah and how did your internship with Woods go then jackass?! I know you got your ass kicked too!" Hyde said getting annoyed as Kaiden laughed a little and shrugged his shoulders.
"Well if you must know, I was thrown off a building in order to use my quirk to maneuver around the city, I helped Woods with a hostage situation and fan asked for my autograph," Kaiden says smiling a cocky grin at Hyde.
"No way in hell you have a fan, let me guess it was some edgy teen who saw your quirk is something that represents the blackness in their soul," Hyde said chuckling as Kaiden shook his head.
Kaiden looked straight ahead as they approached the school and headed up the stairs "No it was the kid I saved from a villain, even though he saw my quirk he thought it was awesome and even asked for an autograph, it's a small start but I'm happy, not to mention I think I developed something new with my quirk." Kaiden says thinking back to his fight with the Nomu.
Hyde feels a bit suspicious and looks at his best friend "what do you mean, is it like another tendril or something cause that's the most I've seen your quirk do." He says staring at his buddy as they reach their homeroom door hearing muffled voices and possible laughter.
"That's the thing Hyde it wasn't a tendril at all, my arm didn't transform at all it was just my hand and it resembled something like a claw." Kaiden says opening the door "When we get home today, I want you to help me test my quirk if you don't mi..." Kaiden stops mid-sentence and raises an eyebrow as Hyde looks forward and begins to laugh hysterically.
What the two boys say was Katsuki Bakugo with his hair neatly comb looking as if he's about to murder Sero and Kirishima and now Hyde.
"Even after washing it's still like this." He glares at the three. "Keep laughing and I'll murder all three of you!"
Kaiden stares at Bakugo as he stares back with murderous intent. "You better not laugh either if you know what's good for you, ya gaijin bastard!" He growls as Kaiden says nothing and simply takes out his phone and takes a picture.
"And I'm gonna save that for blackmail material," Kaiden says calmly and relaxed as Bakugo yells at him to delete the picture.
"Hey Bakugo, or should I say Bomb-ald Trump!" Hyde joked with a shit-eating grin.
Kaiden shrugged. "Eh, 5/10,"
"Wait so you got take on some villains during your internship that's awesome Jiro I'm jealous!" Ashido stands praising her classmate.
"It wasn't anything special it was honestly just evacuation procedures and logistical support, not really any fighting." Jiro says twirling her earlobe around as she looks at Tsuyu "Did you do anything interesting?
Tsuyu puts a finger to her chin "Well it was mostly patrolling and training though there was one day where we had to catch some foreign smugglers." She says recounting the events as she turns to face her classmate.
"That's amazing!" The girls exclaimed.
"How about you Ochako?" Tsuyu asked the brown-haired girl who was making a very battle-hardened face and surrounded herself with a strong aura.
"It was very... Instructive," Ochako said in a martial arts form.
Kaiden saw the girl and went to compliment her on her style. "Hey Uraraka, that's some nice form-" "HIYA!" Thwack! But was interrupted by Uraraka punching him in the shoulder. "OW! What the hell?!"
"Trial of the dragon!" The pink-cheeked girl continued to punch at him.
"Ow! Hey, stop it! Leave me alone!" Kaiden yelled as he dodged and blocked the oncoming attacks
"Man, such a transformation in just a single week," Kaminari says watching Uraraka strike Kaiden as Mineta waves his finger in front of him.
"You are so wrong Kaminari, don't you know that all women hide their demonic natures deep within them?!" He says nibbling on his finger as he sweats.
"Dude, what in the name of All Might did Mt. Lady do with you during the internship?" Kaminari askes confused and concerned.
"He learned the horrible secret of women during his time," Hyde said sliding in with his horndog buddies.
Kaminari smiled "Well for mine I was pretty spoiled I won't lie, but if you want to talk about the ones that went through a transformation and had traumatic experience it had to be those five." He says looking at the five students consisting Hyde, Kaiden, Deku, Todoroki, and Ilda.
"From what I've heard Kaiden fought a Nomu, Hyde helped stop a robbery and you three fought the Hero Killer!" He says as the rest of the class joins in.
"Man, that had to be something I bet you all were super brave and manly fighting your battles!" Kirishima stated bringing his fist up.
"Look yeah we may have seemed brave fighting but that doesn't mean we weren't terrified of the situation, believe me when it came to that Nomu I may of seem fearless but trust me under the mask I was running out of ideas," Kaiden says sighing at the number of close calls it came to that monster.
Hyde puts his arm over Kaiden's shoulder "Just try and keep a cool head Kaiden that's what I did you don't see a single scratch on me do you?" Hyde says as Tokoyami looks away sighing quietly.
"I was worried about you," Yaoyorozu stated to the four Hosu students.
"I heard you guys got rescued by the number 2 hero!" Hagakure excitedly says while Todoroki looks conflicted about the whole thing.
Kaminari leans back in his chair. "Speaking of the Hero killer did you see the video? He was pretty buuuut I don't know if it's his single-minded tenacity or whatever but don't you guys think he was kinda cool too?" Kaminari concluded his thought without actually thinking.
"Ah, Kaminari..." Midoriya reminded Kaminari to stop but it was too late.
Kaminari finally realized what he was saying. Calling the man who crippled his classmate's brother cool is a bit of a tasteless move. "S-sorry Iida...I...!" Kaminari apologized.
"Nice sparky," Kaiden grumbled under his breath.
Iida went silent for a moment but found his words. "No. He was a man of convection so I understand if people find him "cool" but he chose to go about his ideals by conducting a "Purge". No matter what belief you may hold that line of thinking is an error and as a hero, I will stop those who seek to replicate his actions!" Iida exclaimed to the class giving relief to Izuku who worried about his most.
"Iida's gotta point for once. Screw Stain! Who died and gave that noseless ninja wannabe the right to decide who and who shouldn't be heroes?" Hyde spat at the notion of Stain.
Tsu tilted her head at Hyde's rant. "I guess Stains ideals and yours don't mix?"
"Either way I say we all did a great job during our inter...". Hyde stops as he looks around with a confused face that slowly turns nervous and horror.
Tsuyu looks at her friend concerned "Hyde are you o-" she then goes silent as Hyde puts a finger up and then slowly speaks.
"Kaiden do you smell that? the mix smell of frustration and cocoa butter." Hyde says looking up and staring at the door as he begins to sweat nervously
Kaiden puts his fist to his chin "Not only that but also the smell of cheap cigars, that could only mean." Kaiden eyes widen as the realization hits him like a truck. "No, no, no, I refuse I'm not going through that again! He says as both he and Hyde run to the door.
Ilda stands up looking at the two. "Gen-san, Raider-san what are you doing this is not how U.A students act!"
As Kaiden opens the door two giant hands brown reached out, grabbing the two American teens by the face.
"Wha-?" Midoriya barely spoke out before the person connected to the hands jumped into the classroom still holding Kaiden and Hyde.
"RISE AND SHINE BOYS!" The man yelled as he slammed both boys into two desks breaking them.
The class was alarmed at the attack their two classmates suffered. They eyed the villain who was responsible as he stood up to show them his massive height and. Despite seeming quite old he none the less looked very muscular and chiseled. The dark-skinned man was bald but with a white beard wearing a White camo combat vest with a pink heart on the back and green military pants and topped off by wearing a pair of sunglasses. The class was intimidated...
"DIE!" Except for of course Bakugo who jumped at him ready to use his quirk to explode the intruder.
"Ah, good initiative but..." The man said he redirected Bakugo's attack and tossed into a wall. "Too fuckin slow!"
"Woah he even knocked Bakugo aside!" Kirishima said as he and the rest of the class got ready to battle.
"Oh thank god... I mean oh god!" Jiro fumbled a bit.
That's when Midoriya realized something about that last move, like he'd seen it before. That's when he realized this guy was in the same stance Kaiden and Hyde when they used The Fist of Four Seasons. "You, you're their teacher, you're this master they would talk about!"
"Heh, guess you piss ants aren't all dumb like these two." The man said picking up Hyde and Kaiden by the neck. "Oi! Wake up ya nuggets!" He yelled knocking the two's skulls together snapping them back to reality.
"OwWwW..." Kaiden stood up groggily he knew it was and instantly froze at the sight.
"W-why are you here master?" Kaiden stutters a bit as Hyde starts to come back and sees him.
"I've come to see how far my little shit students have improved and frankly I'm disappointed, I haven't seen you two in almost a year and you both are still weak." The man says with a harsh tone with a glare of murder in his eyes.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait!" Hyde pleaded with the man. Hyde was weirdly destressed seeing this man which caused the class to wonder.
Kirishima was the first to ask. "This guy has them both wiped. Who is he?"
The man heard this and immediately grabbed Hyde and Kaiden and placed them both in a headlock making it hard for both of them to breathe. "You two shiftless punkasses said you had a master but didn't say my fucking name the entire time!?"
"We wanted... to give you an air...of mystery..." Hyde croaked out still in the headlock.
"Just say my name like a normal fucking human being!" He exclaimed while picking them up and suplexing them both.
Aizawa finally walked in the room, he was there the whole time and didn't feel like intervening but class was about to start, so he had to stop the onslaught of attacks.
"Alright Apollo I believe that's enough tough love for your two students, would you please let them go." He states calm as ever as the class just stares.
The man now known as Apollo let the two boys go as they begin to breathe again.
Kaiden looks up "Guys, this is Apollo Love our hero master." Kaiden says in between breaths.
Midoriya's eyes widen "Wait Apollo Love!? He was a former top-ranked hero in the united states! Your master is Rocket Hero Apollo!" Midoriya yells wide-eyed as some of Class A start to realize who this person was in front of him.
"I didn't think you knew about heroes from other countries Deku," Uraraka said impressed by the green-haired boy's knowledge.
Midoriya, a shy lad he is rubbed the back of his head. "Ah, no it's just something I look into every now and this I'm not exactly proud of it." He said in a stuttering mess.
"Don't be! Damn nerd!" Bakugo yelled standing back up from the altercation earlier.
Kaiden finally getting a full a breath addressed his teacher. "Anyway Master, what do you mean we're still weak?" He states confused as Hyde backs him up.
"Yeah, we know you watched the Sports Festival back in the states, surely you've seen how badass we were during the obstacle course and various battles," Hyde says smiling and punching Kaiden's shoulder playfully.
"Oh yeah I've seen the Festival and the various events that were held, like the Calvary Battle where Hyde was so mentally weak, he got brainwashed or the one on one fights where Kaiden once again went feral," Apollo says as Kaiden looks away disappointed and Hyde looks down. "And Hyde you getting a tie with blondie over there," Apollo said throwing a thumb at Bakugo, who slightly raged.
"But I tied though!" Hyde protested.
Apollo just crossed his arms. "You fool getting a tie is like kissing your cousin, it's sweet in the moment, until you think about how gross it actually is."
"Wait what?" A few class members ask.
"Anyway, I'm in town for a while and I came to see my boys are doing in school. I hope you two dim wits improved over your internships." Apollo lit a cigar from his vest and smoked it.
Yaoyorozu raised her hand. "Um sir, I don't think there is smoking allowed on campus."
Apollo took a few more puffs. "This isn't smoking little lady; this is vaping but I'm doing it like a man."
"You just came here to check on us I don't believe that for a second," Kaiden says narrowing his eyes.
"Doesn't matter what you believe toad eye, I'm here now and I'll be watching over your training for a while," Apollo said walking out the classroom. "Plus, I heard of some fine momma's in this school."
Kaiden looks at Hyde. "Did he just call me toad eye?"
Hyde looked back at him. "Yeah, I guess he improved on his insults as well."
Aizawa stood behind his podium and addressed the class. "Alright settle down, Hyde, Kaiden since those desks he broke where yours go to the storage room and get more."
Kaiden sighs and nods. "Yes, sir."
Hyde's face turns into one of shock and anger. "Oh, that is bullshit, why us!?"
Kaiden just grabs him by the back of his collar. "Just come on, we don't have time for your rant about nothing," says Kaiden as this both leave the room.
The rest of the Class watch in shock and disbelief "That Apollo Love really is something." Tsuyu says with a finger to her chin as Shoji looks at Aizawa "Sensei did principle Nezu allow this?, he seems a little cruel."
Aizawa looks at the class. "I know having him in here will be bit unsettling and maybe even barbaric but he recommended this school to Hyde and Kaiden, he handled the passports and paperwork to transfer them, he may seem harsh but you need to understand he's looking out for his two students."
"Oh God, your face is like a comic panel! That's Hilarious!" The class heard from the American hero in the hallway.
"In his own way..."
The room of principal Nezu was in a state of calm with the rat...dog...thing brushing his main. Soon the door was flung open to show the grizzled faced hero. "Yo, Nezu, how my favorite whatchamacallit!?"
"Ah, Apollo Love good to finally meet you. I hope you reunited with your student's first?" The Principal said unaffected by the rude man.
Apollo made himself comfortable by sitting on the couch and crossing his legs. "Ah, always good to see those boys grow. Thanks for taking good care of them for so long." Apollo said.
"Think nothing of it, their progress is thanks to their good work and your prior training." Nezu complemented while pouring a cup of tea as he finished he presented it to the hero who turned it down.
"No thanks I have my own," Apollo said as he pulled out a bottle of Jack Danials from his vest and took a sip. "Enough pleasantry's, what am I here for?"
Nezu passed the alcoholic a stack of papers from his desk. "You may have heard but recently our school had been under attack by a group called the league of villains, at first we thought it was a small group with nothing to worry about since the students got away with a few injures."
Apollo took another sip from his bottle. "I don't deal with shit under my radar. If those ankle bitters can fend these losers off, then why should I care?"
"Because," Nezu showing a picture of the large black figure, a Nomu. "This creature there was designed to kill All Might and given the testimony it could have. Then in the Hosu incident more were seen but weaker than the last but still..." Nezu said voicing his concerns.
Apollo hearing enough stood up. "And you want me to help find where they are coming from? Okay, then I'll start tonight when the creeps truly come out."
Principle Nezu nods and sips his tea "Try not to cause too much attention I've seen videos of your work and even though you say you're an underground hero you sure cause a lot of commotion with your battles."
"Yeah, yeah," Apollo dismissed.
Nezu then placed his cup down. "And be sure not to tell your students, I know you care but they will want to assist and this is extremely dangerous."
Apollo stopped at the door. "Don't worry there is still a lot of things those two must learn and besides they'll be busy with the upcoming test."
An hour later Class A got changed is outside Field Gamma for their lesson for today which they were told to be a rescue lesson.
"Hey Iida, why are you in your gym uniform?" Uraraka asked curiously as she saw Iida in his gym uniform.
"My costume was damaged and sent for repairs. It should be back shortly." Iida said grabbing his injured arm.
"Cool, then you can stop looking like Deku in the USJ Ha!" Hyde laughed.
Ashido then notice something on the spiked haired teen. "Woah Hyde, what happened to your shoulder?!" The pink girl asked looking Hyde's scar.
"Woah you changed so fast I didn't notice! Which in retrospect is weird considering your costume is a muscle shirt." Sero said.
"Oh, this well during the internship I got caught in an accident that gave me this wound." Hyde flexed his arm while lying.
"Heh, I guess you kids are getting shown the school of hard knocks!" The class turned and saw Apollo sitting on a lawn chair with an umbrella and a glass of alcohol on a table.
"Master, why are you here?" Kaiden asked the sunglasses-wearing man.
Apollo took a swig of his drink. "I told you kids I was watching you plus your classmate could use my guidance too."
Iida was the quickest to bow. "Thank you very much!"
"I don't think we should want that." Tsuyu said.
Kaiden intervened. "You shouldn't," Kaiden grinned.
Apollo threw his glass at Kaiden, who managed to dodge it. "Dammit boy! Now I don't have a glass!"
Jirou sighed. "That guy was a top hero? He seems like a total lush."
Hyde stepped in. "Well he is super strong and won the American award for most villain captures before." He then leaned into her ear. "But he is, in fact, a total lush, he accepted that award drunk hehe." Hyde chuckled before he was hit with the lounge chair.
"Dammit boy! Now I don't have a seat!" Apollo yelled.
Kaiden sighs and facepalms. "It's almost like we never left the states." He says softly.
To break this up All Might finally showed up by crashing down in front of them. "I AM HERE!" The number one hero announced.
All Might saw the star-spangled hero and gasped in surprise, like this was a man who he clearly didn't want around. "Apollo Love, when did you get here?"
"Holy shit, Mighty Mite!? It's been so long!" The hero laughed giving the number one hero a handshake.
Kaiden stifles a laugh "Mighty Mite!"
Midoriya was star-eyed. "Wow a nickname, no one ever heard!"
"Your enthusiastic," Shoto noticed.
"Oh yeah me and this guy go way back, like back when he trained in America, he was so strong yet so green!" Apollo chuckled while slapping All Might's back.
All Might wasn't really phased at all. "Yes, he was part of my training back in the states. Although a bit much at times," All Might admitted.
The bald hero laughed. "Oh, it wasn't all bad. Like remember when you turned 21, I took you and David to that Strip club in Las Vegas and you went in the back room with..."
"OK! OK! Enough reminiscing about the past let's move forward, HAHA!" All Might covered the Love's mouth in a hurry to stop him from talking any further.
Mineta however didn't let that slide. "Dude, All Might likes strippers," He whispers to Kaminari.
"Riiiiiiight,"
All Might clears his throat to stop this conversation. "ANYWAY, since you have all returned from, your internships we're going to play a fun activity this time, you'll be competing in a rescue training race!"
Ilda raises his hand "Shouldn't we do rescue training the USJ facility?"
"From the information I got from Principle Nezu the USJ is used for disaster rescue's Quicksilver this is a race, Field Gamma is a dense spread of factories that come together to create an intricate network of maze-like alleys, for this exercise you'll be split into groups of four or five each group going in one at a time," Apollo says getting out a cigar.
"You all will get into a starting position at the border, I will send a distress signal from somewhere inside the field it's a race to see who can rescue me first." All Might says as Apollo steps up.
"And one more thing I looked at all your files so I'm expecting a good show, also combustion boy! Apollo yells as Bakugo as he looks at him
"What is it?" He says as he points at him.
"Conceal that hate boner of yours and keep destruction to a minimum, otherwise you and I will have a chat." He says blowing out smoke as Bakugo growls and turns away.
Jiro leans towards Kaiden. "Now I see where Hyde gets it from."
The first group was decided to be Midoriya, Iida, Ashido, Ojiro, and Sero. The group had set out to their starting positions to begin the race. All Might had journeyed to the center to be the victim. The rest of the students with the were sitting out in front of a massive monitor showing footage of the field.
"Iida isn't fully recovered yet. He should sit this one out." Kaminari said concerned about the class prez.
"He'll be fine, he's mostly legs anyway." Hyde dismissed the notion.
Kaminari merely sighed. "I don't think that's the problem."
Kirishima took note of the competitors. "The classes most Mobile are in this group."
"Except Midoriya and he's usually an odd case," Jiro explained.
The most analytical girl, Yaoyorozu put he two cents in. "Midoriya is at a huge disadvantage. He has to hurt himself in order to accomplish this."
Kaiden then gave a knowing smile as he sits in between them. "I wouldn't say that. Deku always pulls out something new right Hyde?"
"Alright 2000 yen on Sero." Hyde pulled out a bill, while he and the rest of the guys talked it over.
"Gimmie 1000 on Iida, He may be injured but he can still pull through," Kirishima said.
"C'mon guys don't count Ojiro out. Put me in for 2000 yen." Kaminari added on.
Mineta pointed at the screen while pulling out money. "Ashido has crazy reflexes, she's gotta win!"
"Deku'll come in last," Bakugo grunted out.
Hyde turned to the bomb boy "That's not a bet Bakugo."
"Hyde!" Kaiden growled at Hyde, who jumped in response.
"What? Iida and All Might are gone and I need a new pair of shoes." Hyde complained.
"What about Deku?" Kaiden asked.
Hyde rolled his eyes. "Dude, it's Deku he has about four limbs to win, then Aizawa will be pissed at him."
Apollo walked to the gang. "Hmm, that was the kid who breaks his body to use his quirk?"
"Yep. You want in master?" Hyde offered.
"Hyde, you know I have a gambling problem... 5000 yen on the pink chick."
START!
With that, they were off all the students involved were using their quirks to their advantage. Iida used his natural speed, Ashido used her Acid to slide along the buildings, Ojiro used his tail to jump around. Sero was most at home, as he used his tape to swing from building to building.
"Say isn't Sero doing what Woods taught you Kaiden, I remember?" Hyde asks as Apollo gives Kaiden a curious look.
"Mind telling me why you interned with a tree Kaiden? I'm surprised someone picked you up after the incident at the sports festival." Apollo said curious as to how a hero like Woods took him under his wing.
Kaiden still sitting down turned his head to look at his master "He was the only pro hero whose quirk was similar to mind in a way and not only that he saw past my problem and still try to teach me, I got a few new tricks up my sleeve master trust me I've gotten better." Kaiden says smiling as he looks back at the screen.
Back in the rescue training, Sero was in the lead so far but soon be overtaken by a surprise that shocked everyone there.
It was Broke bod Midoriya zipping through the field with ease like a parkour master.
"Damn it I should've betted on Deku!" Hyde groans frustrated as Kaiden stares impressed.
The class looks amazed as Deku maneuvers around field gamma without breaking his bones.
Kaiden smirks as the sight "Wow guess the training with Gran Torino really did something, he seems more athletic than before, I've never seen him so determined." He says as the class watches.
Uraraka watches and gets a confused look "Ya know the way he's bouncing around looks familiar."
Hyde analyzes it. "Your right Deku tree their kind of looks like..." Hyde turns to see Bakugo looking at the ground seething and growling "Yup thought so." He says turning back to look at the screen.
"I think Midoriya may take this one he seems to be way ahead," Kaminari says in disbelief as Midoriya continues to jump and run along the field making his way to a large pipe.
The class and Apollo watch as Midoriya begins to land on the pipe.
"Holy shit he may win this," Kaiden says smiling, just then as Midoriya lands he loses his footing and well slips off the pipe falling.
"Deku would it kill you to stop fucking me over?!" Kaiden yells disappointed and frustrated as Hyde smirks and laughs as Midoriya falls and Sero makes it to the signal first and wins the race.
"Pay me, boys!" Hyde shouts to the other betting teens.
"As impressive as that was, he's still got a lot to learn alright time for the next group, now let's see how about..." Apollo says as he survey's the room for a bit before picking five students.
"Froggy, Special Beam Cannon, Blue Balls, Day of the Tentacle and Black troll doll get out on the field." He says only for Hyde and Tsuyu to get up as the rest of the class looks at him confused.
Apollo facepalms and sighs "Shoji, Mineta and Aoyama go out and get into your starting positions like Hyde and Tsuyu are doing." He says as the three get up and head out.
Kaiden goes up to Kirishima and Kaminari "Alright 3000 yen saying Hyde comes in first with Tusyu close behind." Kaiden smirks as Kaminari smiles
"I say 2000 Tsuyu leaps past Hyde with either Shoji or Aoyama with a close third," Kaminari says shaking Kaiden's hand to confirm the bet.
Kirishima looks at the two "3000 says Mineta uses his quirk to stick them to the floor."
Both Kaiden and Kaminari look at each other than at him confused before Kaiden puts his hand on Kirishima's shoulder "You realize you're easily giving us your cash, right?"
Inside Field Gamma
In the field, Hyde got to his starting position on top of one of the pipes as he waited for the signal to begin. While he waited, he spent his time stretching and warming up. "Jeez, I spend a week running around and the first thing I do when I get back is another race." Hyde flashed his trademark smile as he stopped stretching. "Well, whatever time to show my stuff!" Hyde said as he clenched his fist and let the power course through his body exploding his hair in a blue geyser of power.
START!
With that, the students went off to reach the center in their own way. Tsuyu used her froggy attributes to her advantage by leaping from building to building. Aoyama was using his navel laser to jump the gaps but since he can't hold the form long, he crashed into a building. Mineta surprisingly managed to keep pace by using a similar strategy from the sports festival by placing his balls on obstacles and bouncing off them for speed. Even though Shouji didn't have many Mobile options like the rest of the class he still had his options. Using his quirk Dupi-arms he created ears and a nose to locate All Might and find the quickest path to the rescue. Hyde was...
"EI YA!" Being Hyde.
While the others weren't far behind, Hyde had taken the lead right off the bat. On top of the speed Burst mode gave him, he used what he learned during the internships to his advantage. Instead of using full power jumps every time he made a big jump yet made smaller ones to conserve energy. A good play on his part was after a big jump he saw a small pipe, he made got to it and using the momentum he spun around it a bit and rocketed himself to the next spot.
Outside Field Gamma
The class was watching the race and admiring everyone's progress.
"That's right, Hyde! Win this for the boys back home!" Kaiden cheered for his friend.
Midoriya took his notebook out and is already writing up a storm. "Hyde's movements are more compact than before but they still have power plus he's using his momentum to keep his speed..." And muttering up a storm.
Kaiden sighs to himself and shook his head. "You may have improved but you still the same Deku huh?"
Apollo looks closely at his student's performance "He's not using all his energy in one swoop and propelling himself forward, guess he has gotten better." He says softly as Kaiden turns around surprised.
"Master did you actually just complement Hyde?" He says in shock as Apollo actually said something good about one of his students.
"Shut up, Bug eyes." Apollo backhandedly said.
"So cruel!" Kaiden faked cried.
Inside Field Gamma
The race continued as everyone was getting closer to the goal but Hyde was closest to the center due to his improved movements.
Hyde soared through the sky. "Getting close to the goal with plenty of power to spare, I might run a lap when I'm done!" Hyde laughed as he spoke to himself. Hyde didn't underestimate his other classmates (Except maybe Mineta) but he was perfectly confident in his victory. But he heard something...
Vrrr..
Hyde instantly heard it in the distance. "What was that? I don't think any of them have metal quirks."
RRRR...
It grew louder and louder as Hyde kept advancing almost as if it was approaching him. Hyde began to tense up as he faintly remembered the sound but everything, he knew about it didn't make sense for her to be here
VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
The sound grew so loud, it was as if it was right next to him. He clenched his teeth an attempt to ignore it but he heard a familiar voice next to him
"Meat..."
Hyde froze mid-air as he turned to his right to see who said it. He saw her, Ripper was right beside him grinning like a maniac as she raised her right leg brought it down on him.
"Meat!"
"WAAAAAA!" Hyde yelled as he instinctually dodged the kick throwing himself off course and crashed into a pipe and fell hitting other structures before hitting the ground. Hyde instantly got up and entered an attack stance. "Where are you!?"
Outside Field Gamma
The class looks at Hyde's screen confused. "What was that all about?" Kaiden asked himself.
Sero raised a voice of concern. "It's not like Hyde to fail that epically."
"Maybe it's a gag." Ashido pointed out. She and the rest of the class knows that Hyde tends to goof around no matter what he's doing, be it training or in fights like the sports festival.
Kaiden knew that most of all but the explanation didn't sit right. "No, it can't be. Hyde is an idiot but he never throws away victory for a joke."
"Heh, Dumbass!" Bakugo laughed out loud.
Apollo remained silent during the discussion. He stared at the screen intensely watching the student fall.
Inside Field Gamma
Hyde looked around the factory setting but didn't see her, he calmed himself down. "What am I an Idiot? She can't be here." Hyde breathed a sigh of relief. "Why did I see her?" Hyde said as he grabbed his shoulder until his situation dawned on him. "OH SHIT THE RACE!" Hyde screamed as he jumped back into the race to finish the exercise. He tried to regain his lead position but it was too late.
"Winner! Thank you for saving me!" All Might congratulated the winner of the exercise, Tsuyu, as he put a sash over her much to Hyde's dismay.
Outside Field Gamma
As the group returned a few students went up to Hyde, Kaiden being the first to say something "What the hell was that all about man?" he asks his buddy a little confused about what happened.
"Yeah, you pretty much had that in the palm of your hands, Hyde, what caused the slip-up?" Todoroki joins in calmly.
Hyde rubs the back of his head trying to come up with a good reason he looks up to see Apollo's face, the look on the man it seemed like he already knew the answer.
Hyde chuckles a little "I just pulled a Deku and messed up my form that's all." He says with a halfhearted smile as Kaiden raises an eyebrow.
"Really? Ok, then what about the summer stance you got into when you landed you look like you were about to go into an all-out attack." Kaiden says suspicious as something just didn't feel right about Hyde's loss, sure when they use to spar there would be rare times where Hyde would taunt Kaiden and it would cause the energy teen to lose his focus and go down for the count but this was something entirely different.
"I mean All Might said keep destruction to a minimum bit he didn't say that we couldn't attack each other I was just being careful you never know captain sticky balls could've tried to get the jump on me." He says with a fake smile hoping they wouldn't pry more.
Kaiden crosses his arms with a deadpanned look. "Ok, now I know you're lying I doubt anyone of those four would try and pull something off like that Shouji and Tsuyu are not that type, not to mention Mineta and Aoyama don't have the stones to do it," Kaiden says as Todoroki adds his two cents in.
"You're not exactly careful either Hyde," Todoroki says as Hyde looks at him with a dumbfounded face.
"I know half your quirk is ice but damn man that was just cold," Hyde says looking at the half and half teen.
"When you got out of the summer stance, I saw you staring to reach your scar, did something happen?" Kaiden asks concerned as Hyde takes a step back.
"What no, come on Kaiden you know me I was staying cool and kicking ass," Hyde says flashing a fake smile
Seeing his best friend master and pretty much the whole class watching the ordeal Hyde sighs and takes off his shirt as everyone sees the large scar his right shoulder.
Kaiden eyes widen as he looks at Hyde "What the hell is that what happened?"
"It's nothing alright look we'll talk about later ok, just go out there and kick ass in the race Kai-Kai," Hyde says as Kaiden sighs and nods.
"Alright we'll press on the matter later, as for the race try not to bet on me too much last thing, we need is you winning everyone's money," Kaiden says with a small smile as him and the next group walk into field gamma.
Hyde sighs before turning to the class. "So anyone mind telling me who else is competing in the next race?" He says trying to turn the attention to something else.
"Well its only four participants for this one, besides Kaiden the other three are Tokoyami, Bakugo, and Kaminari," Uraraka says as hearing this Hyde gets a wide grin.
"Oh, this is gonna be a good one!" Hyde chuckles as Deku looks at him "Guessing your betting on Kaiden huh?"
Hyde gets out some money and licks his thumb as he starts counting "I mean who else would I put money on? I doubt I'm about to bet against sweaty palms over there, he's a close second not to mention Tokoyami has limit options for mobility." He says as he gets 2000 yen out.
"Wait what about Kaminari?" Sato says only for Hyde to scoff.
"What about Kaminari." He says with sarcasm as he looks at Kirishima "Let me guess 3000 on Bakugo?"
Inside Field Gamma
Kaiden was currently cracking his arms and stretching his legs on top of a rooftop. "Well on the upside no one is pushing me off a roof this time, just need to relax and remember Woods's training other than that there's no shame in having a little fun with this." He says closing his eyes and breathing slowly.
START!
Kaiden opens his eyes and sprints towards the edge of the rooftop taking a big leap he then activates his quirk swinging himself across the field, while the others were doing their own thing. Bakugo was currently propelling himself in the air using his explosions. Tokoyami was currently using dark shadow to help him maneuver around the field. And Kaminari well he was the odd man out as he was currently sprinting following anyone he can find that was going towards the signal.
"I can see why Woods gets around like this, this is just awesome!" Kaiden yells to himself as swings from building to building using his quirk only to deactivate it as he gets close to a building to parkour around it. Kaiden was leading the race as he got around the field with ease using his quirk copy what his mentor showed him. He smiles to himself as an explosion happens from behind causing him to see something flying towards him and yelling.
"OUT OF MY WAY YOU BASTARD I'M WINNING THIS!" Bakugo screams as he flies past the dread head student causing him to scoff and chuckle.
"That's what you think bomb boy, but I'm getting first place!" Kaiden says as he pushes himself off a building and grabs a pipe flinging himself towards the ash-blonde boy and going past him.
"Bye dick bag!" He yells getting in front of Bakugo causing him to growl and chase after him.
Now sure Bakugo had speed when it came to his quirk but with Kaiden having to follow Woods around the city this was all just too easy for him, with Kaiden's agility, flexibility, and improved quirk there was no way he was gonna lose this.
Outside Field Gamma
"Alright folks in the lead we have the kid with the quirk as black as Bird Boy's soul and close behind is the bitch boy of explosions place ya bets now!" Hyde says grinning and pointing at the screen as the class watched the two students race to the end.
Deku watched his two classmates' race to the end as he scribbled in his notebook "Kacchan's explosion allows him to propel himself at high speeds meanwhile Kaiden can use his quirk to grapple and propel himself over long distances, not to mention how Kaiden is fast even without his quirk." Deku says mumbling as Apollo stands next to him.
"Also, Kaiden use to parkour and free run when I started training him and Hyde, it was mostly used as an escape mechanism when I would chase him looks like he's gotten better now that he's using it midflight," Apollo says studying the screen
Hyde looks at Apollo and chuckles "careful over there master you sound like you're going soft."
"You know you're talking a lot of shit for someone in rocket punching distance, right?" Apollo says as Hyde's face pales.
"I meant you're as tough as All Might," Hyde says nervously praying to not have a fist literally fling at him.
"Nice save," Apollo says looking back at the screen as Hyde breathes a sigh of relief.
Back Inside Field Gamma
The race was still going on strong with Kaiden and Bakugo maneuvering around the field, while still being neck and neck, Tokoyomai was doing his best to keep up with the pace and Kaminari was... well pretty much far behind a panting and sweating mess he even wondered why he was even put in this race with these three.
Meanwhile in the air...
"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!" Both Kaiden and Bakugo scream at each other as they continue to fly through the air getting closer to the signal.
"Drop dead already you dark-eyed freak you're no match for me!" Bakugo yells as he begins to get ahead of his classmate.
Kaiden looks at the ashy blonde with an annoyed/pissed look. "I'll prove that I'm just as good as you!" Kaiden shouts as he gets ahead and see a field of pipelines coming their way.
Kaiden looks around trying to find a short way through. "Let's see most of the area has large pipes that you can easily go around or use it to swing yourself forward I can easily use the crane to my advantage but that'll take too much time I'll be in second with that option, there's gotta be a way short way through this... THAT'S IT!" Kaiden gets a smile on his face as him and Bakugo approach the oncoming pipes "This is gonna be close!" He says as he begins to a risk.
Bakugo propels his hands downward and begins to fly up and over the pipes, Kaiden, however, straightens his body and flies through a small gap within them and launches out the other side shooting him towards the signal.
Kaiden grins widely as he lands on the Teppen building in front of All Might winning the race. "Winner! Thank you for saving me young Gen good work!" All Might say giving his student a thumbs up.
Kaiden smiles proud of himself. "Thank you All Might guess the training paid off," he says as he looks back at his competitors.
Kaminari was currently laying on his back out of breath, Tokoyami was wiping the sweat off his forehead and Bakugo was currently screaming at the ground probably calling Kaiden his usual nickname.
Kaiden looks at his hands before tightening them into fist "It's a start but I can only get better, I'll be his equal soon enough" Kaiden nods and smiles as the group heads back.
Outside Field Gamma
"Way to win U.S the gold Kaiden!" Hyde says as he runs up to his buddy punching him playfully in the shoulder
Kaiden smiles and chuckles a bit while Apollo walks up to both of them a plain look on his face.
"Not bad eight ball next time be quicker." He says turning to walk back to the main building as Kaiden smiles.
"Thank you, master," Kaiden says only for Apollo to brush it off
"Don't get use to it fuck stick that's the only compliment you'll get out of me, don't think just because you won this doesn't mean I won't kick your ass again," Apollo says as he holds up a clipboard to announce the next group.
Male Locker Room
After the last group finished their races the classes where dismissed and the kids went their gender-specific changing rooms. The boys were all changing from their hero uniforms to their regular school uniforms.
"Oh my, it seems I sweated quite a bit," Aoyama Flamboyantly said as he placed a rag to wipe the sweat from his face. "Twas our first exercise in quite a while,"
"Man I gotta work on my mobility," Kirishima said as he removed his gear.
"Perhaps information gathering would be compensated?" Tokoyami contemplated while putting on his shirt.
"Yeah but that'd make us slower wouldn't it? Jeez, I'm jealous of the swinging types like Sero and Kaiden." Kaminari sighed.
Kaiden chuckled a bit. "I wouldn't worry about it Kaminari, all heroes have their strengths and weaknesses, you just happen to be slow." Kaiden barbed.
"Hey! No fair!" Kaminari yelled in annoyance. "Guy beats Bakugo and thinks he's on top of the world."
Kaiden was grinning a bit from his victory over Bakugo. Since school started no one has been able to win against him except Midoriya in the battle trail. This felt like Kayden's revenge for the sports festival.
"I guess, master, being there really encouraged me," Kaiden shrugged his shoulders.
"But all he did was drink through the exercise?" Ojiro chimed in. "Honestly you guys talk about him so much I had higher hopes but honestly I'm a little letdown,"
"Don't be, he's the kinda guy you gotta see in action in order the understand," Hyde said fully dressed in his uniform.
Kaminari pointed at the dressed teen. "And you how do you keep getting dressed so quickly?!"
"I told you guys before I'm a master at the quick change," Hyde popped his collar smiling.
Kaiden looked at Hyde with deadpanned eyes until a question came across his mind. "Hyde, tell us how you got that scar," Kaiden said Hyde dodged the question earlier but something was off.
Hyde froze again having the question asked. "I told you guys an accident happened during the internship. Doesn't bother me though girls love a hunk with scars!" Just as fast as he had put his uniform on, he quickly disrobed to flex his body.
"Not that Hercules what exactly happened? I want to know." Kaiden pressed the matter more. Hyde didn't expect Kaiden to be this invested in his scar. He figured he'd give some dumb excuse and that would be it. He needed a distraction quick but who? Where?
"Who cares about that, guys check this out!" Mineta yelled to get the boys attention.
"Thank you, Mineta," Hyde thought as the boys turned their attention to the small student.
Mineta peeled back a poster on a wall to reveal a small hole in the wall.
"And what the hell is that supposed to be?" Kaiden asked raising an eyebrow.
Mineta gets a sick grin as he points to it. "What do you think it's like the movie Shawshank our predecessors must have made it!"
Kaiden eyes widen a bit. "Wait a minute the room next to ours isn't that the..."
"THE GIRLS LOCKER ROOM MINETA YOU GENIUS!" Hyde yells in whisper and chuckles excitedly.
"Both of you stop peeking is a serious offense especially in school!" Iida says looking at the both of them.
Hyde gets a deadpanned look. "You can't be serious Prudezilla, come on it wouldn't hurt to peek a little, besides maybe it will loosen you up a bit." He then nudges Kaiden. "Come on bud what do you say?"
Kaiden gets a worried look. "No I completely agree with Iida on this one, I'm kind of uncomfortable by this why don't we just plug the hole." He says as Iida nods.
"Are you out of your mind Kaiden!" Mineta says as he completely removes the poster and gets close. "Just imagine it Yaoyorozu's boobs, Ashido's curves, Uraraka's ooh la la body and Asui's surprisingly good boo-"
As Mineta is about to finish his perverted rant an Earphone jack slams into his eye and emits sound into his eye. As he screams in pain Hyde sighs and shakes his head.
"Hey, blue balls! if you wanna see the show you at least got to be quiet about it, that's basic peaking 101!" Hyde says as Kaiden walks up to the hole and knocks on the wall.
"Not gonna lie ladies I was expecting acid to come through the hole, don't worry about sticky balls I'll talk to Aizawa about getting the hole plugged up." He says as Mineta still yells in pain
"SOUNDS ARE BURSTING OUT OF MY EYEBALL!" Mineta screams as Kaiden tries to diffuse the situation.
"Jiro as funny as it is please stop torturing Mineta." He says calmly as she pulls it away.
"Don't worry about Aizawa we'll get Momo to plug it up," Jiro says as the rest of the girl's nod.
"Got it," Kaiden says as he finishes putting on his uniform and begins to walk out as Hyde stops him.
"Always the knight in shining armor huh?" Hyde says with a small smirk.
Kaiden shrugs "You're welcomed to try and look but I think you'll get a worse fate then Mineta." He says laughing as he walks out of the locker room.
Class 1-A Homeroom
"Your summer vacation is getting closer and closer," Aizawa says looking through papers as the rest of the students stay quiet in their seats. "Now normally it would make sense for all of you to take a whole month off." Aizawa starts as the class gets suspicious.
Class 1-A "Wait for it..." Class 1-A all thought. They had been with Aizawa and U.A itself to know the news won't be simple.
"You'll be going in the woods for summer training camp" Aizawa states calmly as Class A jumps up.
"I KNEW IT!" And right they were.
The class soon went into fantasizing about the upcoming summer training.
Ashido raises her fist in the air "Truth or dare!"
"Maybe we'll see fireworks." Tsuyu says putting her finger to her chin.
"Curry would be lovely." Iida pushed his glasses up.
Kaiden smiles as he looks back at Hyde. "Nothing says summer like a good old fashion bonfire what do you say?"
Hyde smiles. "Hell yeah need to get s'more and hot dogs." He then whispers. "And maybe some of masters booze."
Kaiden chuckles "You know damn well he won't share."
Aizawa's eyes get serious "However anyone who doesn't pass the upcoming finals is in for summer school hell that will happen right here."
"Alright time to get some serious studying in," Kaiden says as Hyde puts a hand on his shoulder and puts a thumb up.
"We passed the entrance and the written exam to get in we got this no sweat," Hyde says confidently.
Long time no see gang, sorry about the long wait but life is life ya know.
Anyway, this is the chapter introducing the teacher of Hyde and Kaiden Apollo love who I personally had way to much fun writing.
Anyway enjoy the chapter and I'll see you guy next time, it's study time.
TACO OUT!
