Chapter 28: Analysis

A/N: Shouji has a really really underpowered quirk

The two teams came back to the viewing room. Sero was hunched over, he had been so close to capturing Iida too, and winning it for them. But, Iida's speed was too much for him to handle. Jiro had apologized profusely to him since she felt it was her fault that the tape came falling down. Iida had also tried to comfort him by praising him which elevated his mood slightly, but still.

"Good work out there, both teams!" All Might said, "Now, for your criticism. Let's start with the man of the match: Sero!"

"Huh, me? But I lost," Sero said.

"Be that as it may, your plan was simple yet solid. You knew both of your opponent's quirks and you used that vital information to your advantage. Iida and Hagakure knew only about Jiro's quirk while yours was a sort of mystery," he explained, "The tape you put in front guaranteed that nobody could get there without crossing the tape which was loosely connected to you. Once you had Hagakure, it should have been game over, but Jiro messed up. But you still did brilliantly capture Iida with stunning reflexes. There is almost no criticism, I can give you besides building up your muscles to use the elasticity of the tape to your advantage," All Might said. Sero nodded happily. All Might had praised him!

"Jiro. I am sure you already know what you did wrong?" All Might asked. Jiro nodded, "Good! Do not be disheartened as this is only a practice scenario. In the future, you will get better. Try to understand the range of your power and control its output. Your planning was quite good!" Jiro nodded determinedly.

"Hagakure, your planning was also brilliant. There was nothing you did wrong except one huge mistake. You underestimated the opponent's quirk. In the field, DO NOT take one glance at a quirk and determine its danger. For all, you know, the tape could have contained poison. This is my only criticism for you,"

"Yes, sensei,"

"Iida. I have absolutely nothing to fix for you!"

"Huh? But sensei surely I could have done better-"

All Might put his hand up, "Yes, Certainly! Your plan and execution could be better. However, according to the circumstances, you behaved exactly as a pro-hero should! But you should practice your reflexes to keep it in line with the speed of your quirk!" Iida nodded.

"Ne, Midoriya, do you have anything for me?" Sero asked with a smile.

"Huh?"

"You know, pointers, like with Hitoshi?"

"No, I mean you don't mind?"

Sero frowned, "Why would I? It helps me get better right,"

Izuku smiled, "Well then, I think you could have used your tape to jam the door shut. Since it's sticky, you could have folded the tape and wedged the door from behind so that the opponent couldn't come through. I'd say you could use your quirk to move rubble and help in rescue operations but since your tape is sticky, that would be a problem,"

"No worries! I can make it unsticky too,"

Izuku's eyes widened, "Whoa, can you control the stickiness after you disperse the tape? Can you also control other properties?"

"No, I can't control the stickiness once the tape exits my body. And I didn't try to modify any properties, so I don't know,"

"Ok, enough!" All Might announced, "Two members from each team come up for the third match!"

"Aww, I'll give you a copy of my notes later," Izuku said. Sero nodded.

"Could I get a copy of mine too?" Hagakure asked while Iida and Jiro nodded beside. Izuku's grin grew wider, "Sure,"

Meanwhile, Sato threw rock, while Aoyama threw scissors. Sato grinned. "All right, Yaoyorozu and Aoyama set up for defense!"

As the two teams left to get ready, Izuku turned to Shouji, "Ne, our match is next. Wanna discuss tactics?"

Shouji gave Izuku a weird look, "I was under the impression you would take care of that,"

"Huh, you don't want to help?"

"Not that. You just seem so smart and powerful,"

"Well, maybe but two heads are better than one, right? And your quirk is probably amazing too! You had a force exertion of 540 kg!"

Shouji shuffled slightly, much to Watanabe's amusement. Seeing someone so giant and menacing move awkwardly like that was always comforting to watch, "It's not that special. My quirk is Dupli-arms. I can create body parts at the end of the tentacle-like structures of my body. Like eyes, ears, extra hands," Shouji gave a demonstration.

Izuku stared at him with wide eyes but before he could say anything, Watanabe yelled out, "What the hell? That's a freaking OP quirk!"

All Might gave Watanabe a pointed look causing him to rub his head in embarrassment, "Sorry sensei. We'll keep it down,"

"Well, I mean, yea it gives me better sensory skills and also allows me to create extra arms for more power, but it's not that OP,"

"No, Shouji, it is OP!" Izuku declared in a whisper, "You can create any body parts, right? Since you can create eyes, which require special optic nerves, ears which require auditory canals and so on as well as muscles for the arms?" Shouji nodded in reply.

"Alright, now think about it this way. You can create extra brains to help increase your intelligence. You can create extra glands like the adrenal gland and pump yourself with so much of it that you become a superhuman for a short period of time. You can create the fundic glands of the stomach to secrete hydrochloric acid onto your opponents. You can build up only the muscle fibers instead of the whole arm and use it for increased strength or even create only the bones and use them as a sort of sword!" Izuku ranted, "The possibilities are endless!"

Watanabe nodded beside him, "Also, considering the fact that you can create so many different parts of your body, it means your cells are still capable of specialization. That also means that the protein synthesis process is varying. Since all proteins have the same basic pairs, does that mean your body is capable of consciously changing the pattern of your base pairings? That is what should happen considering the vast difference in parts of the body. But if you can move your proteins and control the ribosome to that extent, does that mean you can make parts of other organisms? Every living thing in the universe is formed through variations of the four-nitrogen bases, so if you can control the arrangement, you could probably do that. Maybe you can even control chromosome division during the mitosis process in our tentacles and make a different organism on the tentacles! And as Izuku said, you can make adrenal glands produce excess adrenaline but what if you make extra hearts and pump the adrenaline-filled blood rapidly? Your stamina, power, speed, and reflex would increase ten-fold!" Watanabe contributed.

"I don't think the DNA manipulation will work though. I think it's more like he thinks of the final product and the cells specialize according to his wishes," Izuku pointed out.

"Well, that could be but with enough concentration, who knows! I wonder if you can change your blood group too, Shouji,"

"No, blood groups are determined by antigens on the cell. Since it's his own cells dividing through mitosis, the antigens won't change. Even DNA manipulation doesn't change antigens as far as I know,"

Watanabe deflated slightly, "Hmm, I suppose that's right. But Shouji could make more blood with his bone marrow at least,"

"That he could. And he could donate a lot of blood that way!"

Shouji looked at both of them with wide eyes. All Might had been listening in to their silent conversation and paled as did Uraraka, Iida, and Sero. Shoto didn't show any outward reaction but inside he was absolutely flabbergasted. He knew that Midoriya loved analyzing if his notes said anything but the rant he went off on about Shouji was... too good. And then Watanabe had come and given more technical terms to showcase Shouji's hidden power.

"C-can you help me do... all of that?" Shouji asked.

"Well, I mostly analyze to give the strengths of the quirk. We never really tried teaching anyone but I guess we could give it a go! Right, Watanabe?" Izuku asked his cousin who nodded.

"You two must be related or something. How do you go about analyzing someone's quirk that much?"

"Oh, we're cousins," Watanabe replied.

Shouji rolled his eyes, "Of course. How come you didn't tell anyone?" Even Shoto was interested, he hadn't known that bit either.

"No one asked," Watanabe shrugged, "Now, for the first step, we'll dissect you after this is over," Watanabe said a bit too cheerfully.

"D-dissect?" Shouji gulped.

"Forgive my sadistic friend. He hasn't had anyone to torment for about a week now," Kaminari helped along.

"Well, I doubt he'd like my murder plans," Watanabe pouted.

Shouji paled further.

Izuku laughed, "Don't worry. He just likes analyzing weaknesses. I'm better at analyzing strengths, that's about it really,"

"So why is he calling it murder plans?" Uraraka asked.

"His plans almost always end in murdering the subject," Denki deadpanned.

Iida frowned, "That is extremely unprofessional. You must not do such things!"

Watanabe glared at Iida, "It's better to hear the weaknesses that could kill you from an ally than having a villain figuring it out and kill you,"

Iida froze at that as did the others around him who'd been listening in. "Isn't that a bit too harsh?" Mineta said.

All Might sighed and stepped in, "Watanabe is right! It is better to learn your weaknesses and train them instead of being injured out on the field. As pro-heroes, many villains will learn of your quirk and try to find weaknesses. Izuku is helping you by giving you your strengths but Watanabe's analyses might help you live another day too. Keep that in mind."

The class nodded grimly as the stark reality of being a hero hit them.

Aizawa frowned. The teachers were still spectating All Might's hero class. What had Aizawa so concerned was the fact that All Might was not the dunce he had thought him to be. He was actually acting intelligent and offering good views into the students' performance. Had All Might fooled him?

"You're thinking how All Might is so good at teaching, right?" Nedzu asked. Aizawa grumbled but nodded. "He had teaching lessons,"

"Huh, from whom?" Aizawa asked.

"Remember Torino-san?"

Aizawa's hand unconsciously went to his head where he was kicked by Torino, "Yeah. He trained All Might?"

Nedzu nodded. Torino had sent him videos of his tutoring sessions with Toshinori. He had pretty much beaten into Yagi, how to teach the next generation. Fortunately, Yagi still hadn't picked up Torino's violent tendencies.

"Nedzu," Recovery girl spoke for the first time. All the teachers moved their gaze to their elder colleague, "I'm going to take Shouji on for his internship study,"

The entire staffroom turned to face her, "You what?" Mic asked.

"I want to take Shouji as my intern. Snipe already asked for Watanabe, so I want to take Shouji. Someone more experienced needs to teach him about the biology of his quirk,"

"That can be easily arranged. Of course, Shouji-Kun will decide from his choices but I'll make sure to add that you want him specifically," Nedzu said cheerfully.

"If Shota doesn't expel him that is," Mic commented. Chiyo just chuckled and Aizawa snorted. Even he knew better than to cross recovery girl.

A/N: I'm not kidding when I say there are a whole lot more Shouji can technically do. This is where the real analysis of Class 1-A starts. I have so many things written out for all of the members of class 1-A.

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