I've been working on this story for a while. I just don't know if I am a fan of this one. Let me know down below if you like this one. Credit to Ocomhdhain1 for the title.
Monoma lay on the ground, defeated. His fist clenched, his pride stepped on. He glares daggers up at the one responsible for his defeat. The one who put him through utter humiliation in front of everyone.
Saiko Intelli. A third year from Seiai Academy. She had a mocking look on her face.
It made Monoma's blood boil how cocky she was. He wanted to attack her, to beat her down, to show her who was boss, but he knew that was futile. That the moment he moved an inch, he would be on the ground again, but in worse shape.
With the looks of his classmates, he closes his eyes. He thinks back to where this started.
30 minutes ago
Monoma scoffed as he looked to the front of the class, boredom written all on his face.
Today Class 2-B had special guests. Third years from a hero school he never heard of before.
Seiai Academy
Even the name left a bad taste in his mouth. The name of this speaker was Saiko Intelli, the other two he didn't even bother learning their quirks. They were so unremarkable that he paid them zero attention what-so-ever.
Saiko was talking about something. Something about internships, hero work, and being a third year.
All Monoma heard was her bragging about her internship. He didn't catch on to who she was interning under, but he assumed it was some nobody. How she got to experience the front lines. God he hated cocky people.
He resists the urge to groan out loud.
Monoma wasn't the only one feeling this way. No, there were more. One of them being Togaru Kamakiri. Class B's hot head. He was known to be aggressive and to have a short temper.
Monoma looked over at him right in time. Kamakiri was pissed. A vein on his forehead.
Kamakiri rises from his seat, instantly stopping Saiko and gaining the attention of everyone.
'Seems like his patience has run out.' Monoma smirks internally. This was the window he was looking for.
"Are we almost done here? I'm about done listening to this."
"Kamakiri!" Kendo says in shock, her jaw dropped.
Kamakiri ignores her.
Instantly Vlad King stepped up and glared at the Mantis-headed boy. He was about to punish him for being rude but then one of the third years from Seiai, a girl with pointy ears, gestures for him to halt.
Vlad King reluctantly steps back as all attention is now on the impatient Kamakiri.
He figures he would give them a chance to solve this.
"Is there a problem?" Saiko asks, her tone unchanging and her eyes blank, as if his interruption didn't affect her in the slightest.
"Yes there is a problem. I'm tired of hearing this bullshit. WE know this already. We have been on the front lines. We all have fought fucking Gigantomachia. We know all about this. You're wasting our time by spouting the same shit we learned over a year ago." Kamakiri says pissed off.
He wasn't lying.
Class B did hold back Machia from steamrolling U.A completely, with the help of Class A.
"You have. I saw it on the news. I commend you for that. You all fought bravely, but being a hero isn't just about stopping villains. Its-"
"We know! Vlad-sensei taught us all of this in our first year here." Kamakiri cuts off rudely.
Saiko still shows no signs of anger, annoyance, or any other emotion. The other Seiai third-year, a girl with Maroon hair, steps forward angrily.
"Hey, have some respect. We came all the way here to help you all grow as heroes and this is how you treat us?!" She growls out. She was the only one among the three to show any type of reaction to them.
"You came here to bore us with lectures and to waste our fucking time. We didn't ask for you to come here." Kamakiri shouts.
"Sit down wasabi, before you start something that you for sure cannot finish." She shoots back.
Yosetsu spits out a fake drink and laughs. He had never thought that anyone would call him wasabi. Now that he thinks about it, his head does look like wasabi.
Kamakiri felt blood rush to his face, he sputters in place.
"That doesn't change the fact that you bore us all." He managed to reply, fists clenched tightly. He resists the urge to attack her right there.
"This is just dumb. At least Class A had the decency to pay attention." The girl says annoyed.
Monoma instantly felt his blood boil at the mention of Class A being better than Class B in any way.
He calms himself down and decides this is the time to rise.
Monoma rises with the smug look on his face.
"I concur. Your lecture has been rather repetative and has no new meaningful info we need. Your coming here has benefitted no-one." Monoma says with a wide open arm gesture.
"THAT IS ENOUGH! BOTH OF YOU! SIT BACK DOWN AND APOLOGIZE FOR BEING RUDE TO THESE YOUNG LADIES!" Vlad barks out, his temper reaching a boiling point. That comment about Class A also hurt him too.
"Its fine Vlad King. We've got this." The girl with pointy ears says cooly. Her face was much like Saiko's, unchanging. She looked completely composed and unfazed by either of the boys.
"How many of you feel the same as he does?" Saiko says, looking around the room.
Everyone nervously looks at each other. After some time passes, Tetsutetsu raises his hand shyly. He gives them a look that says 'Sorry' as he turns his head away in shame.
Sen Kaibara raises his hand, his face twisted in a mild frown. He was top 5 in the class when it came to grades. He did not slouch one bit on his studies. He too felt this lecture provided no benefit.
Kosei Tsuburaba follows suit. He too looked nervous as he raised his hand. He didn't want to admit it, but he too was bored.
Nirengeki looked around. He too was about to raise his hand, but a glare from Kendo said 'You better not' and he instantly dropped his hand, not daring to defy the Class Prez.
Monoma laughs.
"See you and your comrades have a fifth of the class bored. Your talks ahve done nothing but made us realize how long a minute truly is." Monoma says with a smirk.
"Oooooooooh" Sen, Shihai, Kosei, Setsuna, and Yosetsu all wince at that comment. That was a burn if they've ever heard one.
Nirengeki looked tense, even more tense than usual.
Ibara had her hand over her mouth, looking at Monoma in horror.
Kendo and Jurota both shot apolgoetic looks at the three.
"Alright. Would you all prefer if we showed our skills rather than bore you all with our lecture?" The maroon haired girl asked icily. Shooting her eyes at the boys who said they were bored.
Kamakiri smirks. This was exactly what he wanted. Action, not meaningless words.
"Hells yea. I get to show why we don't need your shit advice." Kamakiri had a maniacal look on his face.
The three Seiai girls look at each other. All of them reaching an agreement at the same time.
"Fine. The three of us can take you all on." Saiko says.
The class gasps as they look at the girls with looks of shock. The class did this with mixed reactions. Some thought that a 5 versus 3 was unfair. Others thought that the three girls would stomp the boys. Most leaned towards the former.
The three girls turn to Vlad with expected looks on his face.
'Is this what Aizawa deals with on a daily basis?' he sighs. He remembers the story Aizawa told him. How his class had basically challenged the former big 3 of U.A. 18 of them took on Mirio and only Midoriya came anywhere close to dealing damage.
'Actually. This might be the lesson they need. ' Vlad realizes all thes ones who raised their hands were troublemakers in his class besides Yosetsu. He wished that Yosetsu raised his hand and that Tetsutetsu didn't, but he would take what he could get. Maybe once the Seiai girls defeat them, they will become better.
Vlad nods at the girls.
"Alright. Monoma, Kamakiri, Kaibara, Tsuburaba, Tetsutetsu, you five go change. We're going to the gyms."
Once the boys get into the lockerroms, they began to talk their shit.
"About fucking time we get some action. I thought I was going to die of boredom." Kamakiri curses.
"Finally a real fight! You guys think they are going to be a challenge?" Tetsutetsu asked. He felt pumped up on the feeling of fighting a new opponent. A fight always got his blood rushing.
"No way in hell, they all got weak quirks. I mean look at the one talking. The hell is an IQ quirk? She has to drink tea for it to activate." Kaibara rolls his eyes at his classmate.
"Yeah that quirk sucks. I kinda feel bad." Kosei agreed.
"I want the smart mouth bitch. I don't care who you all take on." Kamakiri says, angered that she got smart with him. He would NOT let her talk to him like that and get away with it.
"I want the silent one! She seems like she's strong. You know what they say about the quiet ones." Tetsutetsu says enthusiasticlly.
"All of you. Lend me your quirks. I want to take on the know it all. Alone." Monoma says. He wanted nothing more than to shut her up.
"Hold on now Monoma. I want to take her too. You can't hog her up for yourself." Sen says, side-eyeing him.
"Kaibara. Let me have this." Monoma says in a serious tone. All haughtiness gone. His eyes didn't have that cocky glint in them. They had the seriousness he only reserved for those that REALLY pissed him off.
The rest of the boys look at him uneasily. They never saw this side of Monoma aside from when Machia attacked.
"Alright. Guess i'll tag along with you Kiri." Kaibara says with a shrug, not letting his unease show.
"Whatever." He grumbles. He wanted ones, but he didn't mind. Kaibara was a good guy.
"Guess i'll tag along with you Tetsu." Kosei says with a smile.
Tetsu's eyes brighten.
"Alright!"
Both boys dap each other up at the same time. A clap echoing across the lockerroom.
Everyone was watching from the sides. The 8 participants were all in UA gym uniforms.
"Who you got your money on?" Yosetsu asked Rin as they looked on.
"I got the girls. They wouldn't accept this if they weren't ready." Rin says with confidence.
"Pfffft. No way. Those girls are idiots for accepting that. Have you not seen how they have progressed? The boys got this in the bag." Yosetsu says with a headshake. He couldn't believe that Rin had no faith in the boys.
"3200 yen says otherwise." Rin says with a playful tone.
Yosetsu forms a shit-eating grin on his face.
"Oh you're so on." They shake on it.
Juzo, who was close-by, overheard this. He turns to them, deciding he wants in on the bet.
"I got the boys on this one. 3700 yen." Juzo chimes in with a smirk. He had seen his class progress. Kamakiri, Tetsutetsu, and Kaibara were deadly at close range. Kosei's special move and versatility made him a menace, and Monoma's intellengence along with all 4 of those quirks at his disposal made him the Jack of all Trades.
"I thought you were smart Honenuki. Sure everyone has gotten better but they have a year of experience and that Saiko chick could give Nezu a hard time at chess. Girl power for the win. 3900 yen." Setsuna says as she joins them.
"Ooh, now this is getting interesting." Yosetsu rubs his hands together.
'The boys. 4500 yen.' Manga's face bubble says as he walks over.
"You are fools. Of course the more experienced heroes got this. 4900 yen on the girls." Nirengeki says with a confident look on his face.
Soon enough, the rest of 1-B got in on the betting. Minus Jurota, Ibara, and Kendo.
Yosetsu was collecting everyone's money.
Monoma eyed Saiko with complete seriousness. In his pockets, he had Kamakiri, Kaibara, Tsuburaba, and Tetsutetsu's quirks at his disposal.
"Ready to get slaughtered?" Kamakiri asks as he glares at the Maroon haired girl.
She rolls her eyes and scoffs.
"In your dreams Scyther."
A vein forms on Kamakiri's forehead. Oh he was going to make her suffer now.
"Lets have a good fight alright!" Tetsutetsu says excitedly to the girl with pointy ears.
Her face doesn't change at all. She still has on that stoic look.
Vlad gives the signal.
Instantly, Kaibara, Kamakiri, Tsuburaba, and Tetsutetsu all rushed their respective opponents.
The girl with pointy ears instantly sprouts 2 hammers from her back. She catches them without missing a beat and charges Tetsutetsu and Tsuburaba.
The girl with the maroon hair forms claws. She rushes forward. Claws on both hands clash with Kaibara's fists and Kamakiri's blades.
Saiko and Neito were in a staredown. The world seems to slow down as they zeroed in on each other.
Steely gray meeting deep lilac.
Neito eventually charges forward. He reaches in his pocket and uses Kaibara's quirk.
His face morphs into a confident smirk.
"Take this!" Neito spins his right fist at turbo speed, effectively making his fist into a drill. He goes to attack Saiko, who has not moved an inch.
'Is she boring and stupid as well?' he questions upon seeing her not move an inch.
To his surprise, with surprising reaction speed, she moves her head at the last second.
"Is that all?" She questions in a bored tone, looking at Monoma with bored eyes. She expected more from a kid with such a large ego.
Monoma's eye twitches slightly.
He spins both hands and throws more punches, but Saiko dodges them with relative ease.
Her reaction time caught him off guard.
His attacks weren't hitting. He was looking pretty dumb and he knew it. Slowly he felt a deep anger begin to well up within him.
Monoma decides to switch things up. He deactivates Kaibara'a quirk and activates Kamakiri's on a whim.
Monoma fakes throwing a punch, but at the last second, he sprouts blades from his arm. One of the blades nicking Saiko in the face and leaving a laceration.
Her eyes widen in surprise at how quickly he changed things. The carmine colored liquid drips down her face as she looks at him.
'He has more than one quirk? This guy is more than I thought.' Saiko's interest grew. You don't really meet people with more than one quirk.
"Ha! Not so high and mighty are you?!" Monoma laughs at her shocked face. He was glad to get some kind of reaction out of her.
'Okay its time to teach this kid a lesson.'
"I admit you got me off guard. Ready for me to actually start trying?" She questions, cracking her neck.
Monoma retracts the blades and clenches his fist.
'I'LL SHOW YOU!' he rushes in, making a blade on his forearm. He attempts to slash at Saiko but Saiko lands a powerful kick to his chest.
Monoma's momentum comes to a screeching halt as he collapses. He holds his chest and tries to breathe normally. Not only was he caught off guard, but the hit was strong. Strong enough to floor him.
He gets back to his feet.
"Lucky shot!" he shouts as he charges in again with blades. No matter how often he swung, Saiko was faster.
Saiko lands a kick on his leg, that caused him to lose balance and crash violently on the floor.
The fight was becoming more and more one-sided as it dragged on. Saiko controlling the pacing.
Saiko lands another kick, this time to Monoma's face.
Monoma felt as if he was hit with a frying pan as he resists the urge to scream out. Without fault, he charges in again. He wasn't going to let her defeat him this easily.
Another hard kick hits him in the face, knocking him to the ground. The impact felt like getting hit with a sledgehammer. He was sure one of his teeth were loosened as well.
Monoma feigns pain but reaches into his pocket secretly. He had the advantage, she didn't know his quirk because he wasn't really featured in the Sports Festival.
He activates Tetsutetsu's quirk. Causing his skin to become steel.
Saiko's eyes widen again upon seeing this. No way he has more than two quirks. She quickly tries to deduce what his quirk could be. She then remembers.
'I barely caught the movement, but he reaches into his pocket before swapping quirks. It has to be some kind of copying quirk.' To confirm this she quickly glances to the side and sees the kid with the silver hair using that same quirk.
'Seems my hypothesis is correct.'
"Now you can't hurt me!"
Saiko narrowed her eyes.
He rushed in, swinging metallic fists at every turn.
Saiko only parried and dodged. She no longer tried attacking, she knew that attacking was futile.
Monoma laughed as he swung more and more.
"What's wrong?! Are you scared? Do you see why you're no match for us?!" He asks. Monoma felt his confidence inflate. His ego going through the roof. He had reduced the so called hero into submission. No longer was she talking, but now she was dodging his every move.
Monoma gets so caught up in the moment, that he doesn't notice when his skin turns back to normal.
Saiko picks up on this immediately.
Monoma with his still confident face, goes for a swing, but instead of dodging, to his shock, Saiko grabs his arm and does a Judo Toss.
Monoma impacts the ground hard as he felt the wind get knocked out of him.
He looks around. Kamakiri, Tsuburaba, Kaibara, and Tetsutetsu were all down. The other Seiai girls simply watching from the sides, despite the fact they can jump in at any time since there were no rules.
'Useless IDIOTS!' he curses.
Monoma knew his time limit was up. His quirks were gone. There was no point in getting up. He was outmatched and they knew it.
He looks around. He sees the pity stares of his classmates. He sees some of them happy, others sighing in disappointment.
"Do you concede?" He hears the voice of Saiko Intelli ask.
He does his best not to lose his patience. He wanted to shout so many things at her, yet he remains calm.
"I...concede." He says between heavily gritted teeth.
He sees many eyes in the class widen.
"Alright. Get up and get dressed. Once you all are dressed, apologize to these young ladies for your rude behavior earlier. That is NOT how we treat guests at U.A you got that?!" Vlad shouted the last part as his blood red eyes bore holes into Monoma's downed figure.
Monoma doesn't bother looking up. He just nods slightly.
Vlad looks at him slightly concerned but he quickly puts back on his angry face.
"Get to it!" He shouts as he walks out the gym. The rest of the class following.
Rin, Tokage, Nirengeki, Tsunotori, Kinoko, and Yanagi all rejoice as they win. Kodai cracks a small smile. Yosetsu, Juzo, Manga, and Shihai all groaned as they lost their money.
Kendo rolls her eyes at their antics, hiding a smile. She loves her class deeply.
"Alright lets get back to class everyone. No noise in the halls." She says. Instantly the class stop their antics and nod.
"Come on Monoma." Kaibara says with a defeated tone. He didn't expect to be outclassed in close quarters by the Seiai girl. He was going to train harder for sure.
"I'll be there in a second." Monoma says with a sigh.
Kaibara decides not to press him. He follows Tsuburaba and Kamakiri into the bathroom.
Monoma remains on the floor, lamenting over his loss. After all of that talk, he got put down. Again. This was the worst feeling.
Monoma is knocked out of his train of thought when he sees legs approach him.
His eyebrows furrow in confusion and slight anger.
He look up and sees who stands over him.
Saiko Intelli.
Everyone else was out of the gym. Either changing or heading back to 1-B. So it was just them.
Her eyes bore into his own. The cut on her face was no longer bleeding.
"Your quirk. It interests me." She says after time passes.
Monoma doesn't know how to respond to that. He lost all the energy and passion he had. He doesn't have it in him to get angry or to act cocky.
"Thanks?"
"You can copy other quirks. Is there a time limit? How many can you copy? Can you copy transformative quirks like Ryukyu's? What if the quirk is sentient?" Saiko wanted answers. Her thirst for knowledge came with her quirk.
The fact that copy quirks were rare and that he had exceptional control over it only sparked her interest even more.
"What's with the questions? You didn't come to demand an apology or to gloat?"
"No. You learned your lesson. I am only interested in learning more about you."
"How are you so strong? Did you even need your quirk against me?" Monoma answers back. Those questions were burning in his mind as well. He needed to know.
"I didn't use my quirk. I defeated you with skill alone. Tell me, did you listen to who I am interning under?" Saiko asked. She had to know.
"No I didn't." Monoma admits without a hint of regret.
"I am interning under the Rabbit Hero: Miruko. She has trained me in combat and has helped hone me into a fighter." Saiko answers.
Monoma's jaw hits the floor.
'M-M-MIRUKO?!' his mind was in a frenzy. His opponent not only defeated him quirkless, but is training under Miruko.
Saiko resists the urge to smile at his shocked expression.
"You didn't say that you trained under her!" Monoma says, still in deep disbelief.
"Yes I did. Multiple times. You just weren't listening." She says with that same bland tone.
'Figures he wouldn't have heard that.'
"What is she like? What kind of training do you do? How is it interning under her? Do you go into missions with her often? Are you a sidekick yet?" Monoma is now spamming her with questions.
Saiko shakes her head. She wanted her answers now.
"I answered your questions, you answer mine, then I'll answer yours." Saiko says.
Monoma rolls his eyes and resisted the urge to facepalm.
"Fine. That's fair. Now what were your questions again?" He asks.
Saiko opens her mouth to speak but then they hear the bell.
"No way its already time for class to be over." Monoma says in disbelief.
Saiko quickly rushes to her bag, she takes out a pen and paper. She scribbles something quickly.
She gives the paper to Monoma.
"Thats my number. Call me later and we can talk alright. I have to go now." Saiko rushes to change because her time at U.A was over. She had to be back in Seiai soon.
Monoma looks at the paper in disbelief.
It seems he may have made a new friend?