"U.A High has finished its first semester and started summer vacation. However…" Aizawa-Sensei stared at the class gathered in their uniform and at the front of the school, "Those of you who are trying to be heroes will not be receiving those days of rest. At this summer training camp, we'll have you aiming for even greater heights – Plus Ultra."
"Yes, sir!" The class responded and Aizawa-Sensei strolled away to talk with the other teacher.
"Thank god, I managed to get everything I needed for the camp yesterday!" Sero sighed in relief.
"You went shopping yesterday? Wouldn't the malls have been packed?" Niwa asked standing across from the tape boy with Kaminari on her left.
"It was a bit of a last-minute rush, yeah," Sero chuckled.
Suddenly, a blast of wind rushed across Niwa's back as Uraraka suddenly moved from chatting with Midoriya on the left to several meters away from the class on the right. "I-It's time for training camp!" Uraraka said loudly with her face bright red and a stutter in her voice.
"Training camp! Training camp!" She celebrated, jumping around, and soon was joined by Kaminari and Mina in her celebrations.
"Weirdos." Bakugou scoffed.
Niwa hummed in agreement watching her friends bounce around, clapping their hands and chanting 'training camp'. Niwa turned back and blinked in surprise when she caught Bakugou watching her. She rose an eyebrow in question, but her confusion only grew when the boy scoffed and turned away.
Weirdo.
"Eh? What is this? There are people in Class A taking extra classes? Does that mean you had people who failed the finals? What? Isn't that weird? Isn't it just weird? Even though they're supposed to be way better than Class B? How can that be?"
Twack!
Monoma, Class B's very own unsavory personality, and his babysitter class rep Kendo.
"Sorry!" Kendo called out to Class A and dragged a collapsed Monoma off to the bus prepared for Class B.
"Well, at least we aren't the only weirdos." Niwa chuckled, watching the theatrics of Class B.
Kirishima and Sero both made sounds of agreement while they all watched the other class file into their bus.
"Class A's bus is this way!" Iida motioned and directed with his usual robotic gestures. "Line up in seat order!"
Niwa wondered if the whole seat order ever pissed Bakugou off since they were almost always sat next to each other in these arrangements. Niwa risked a glance at the boy and decided, yeah, probably. Bakugou waited and watched their classmates line up with a glare at the bus. Niwa shrugged and walked over to the line while thinking, oh well, not my problem.
Then she paused and groaned, "Hey class rep!" Niwa shouted out to the tall boy.
"Niwa, what is it?" Iida walked over to her and paused in his perfect posture an appropriate distance away from her.
"Say, could we sit where we like?" She slapped her hands together in a begging gesture, "Just this one trip, class rep?"
Iida looked hesitant and Niwa was sure the boy was about to say no but then Uraraka zoomed over and joined her, "Just this once, Iida!"
Iida looked completely conflicted before he sighed and gave up, "I suppose one time should not be a problem."
"Yeah!" Niwa and Uraraka double hi-fived before going straight onto the bus.
Niwa took the first window seat and Uraraka took the seat immediately behind her. Soon Mina joined them in the seat next to Niwa and Tsuyu took the seat beside Uraraka.
After the bus was filled and everyone was ready to go, the bus took off in one long hour of loud chatter and oblivious excitement.
They pulled over after that hour and the entire class seemed exhausted just from sitting there and chatting endlessly throughout the trip. Niwa crouched to the ground slowly, feeling her knees pop. She arched her back with a satisfying click and rolled her neck, producing several similar sounds. Niwa stood slightly off from her class as she clicked her bones and eased the tension from her body, contently watching Mineta scramble around the area while he was looking for a bathroom.
There was nothing here, it was just a lookout after all. Below the cliff and beyond, Niwa could see nothing but trees and mountains and some more trees. How much further was there to go?
"There's no point stopping without a reason." Her teacher spoke loudly.
Niwa felt the uncertainty flood her senses.
The doors of the sleek black car already parked in the area popped open.
"Yo, Eraser!" A feminine voice called out and her teacher bowed formally at the three people who stepped out from the car.
Niwa buried her face in her hands as the two female pro heroes introduced themselves in probably one of the most embarrassing ways Niwa had ever seen. The brat who stood off to the side watched the ladies with a blank stare Niwa could totally get behind.
"These are the pro heroes who will be working with us during the camp, the Pussycats." Aizawa-Sensei introduced and immediately, Midoriya went into fanboy mode spouting off all sorts of info about the Pussycats.
After all the theatrics, they eventually got down to business.
"We own this whole stretch of land here. You will all be staying at the foot of that mountain." Said the Pussycat with the short brown hair.
"Then, why did we stop here?" Uraraka asked the question that floated through everyone's mind and Niwa had a really bad feeling.
"Let's go back to the bus, fast," Sero said nervously.
"Y-Yeah, let's do that…" Kirishima agreed.
"It's 9:30 now… If you're fast, maybe around noon?" Said the brown-haired Pussycat with a grin that told Niwa everything she needed to know.
They were fucked.
Her classmates all scrambled to get back to the bus, but Niwa just stood there. Accepting the sadistic training was better than wasting her energy trying to avoid it.
"Sorry, ladies and gents…" Niwa could hear the fucking grin in her homeroom teacher's voice, "The training's already begun."
The entire ground turned into a wave of mud and dirt, sweeping the entire class off their feet and over the edge of the cliff.
Niwa landed with a loud thud and her classmates all groaned from being thrown off a fucking cliff.
"Hey! Since this is private land, you can use your quirks as much as you want!" The Pussycat bitch yelled from the edge of the railing.
"You have three hours! Use your own feet to get to the facilities! After getting through the beast's forest!"
There were distant sounds of vehicle engines and as the sound faded, Niwa knew her teachers were gone.
"The beast's forest?" Midoriya said in pure confusion and a hint of fear.
"That name sounds like it came right out of Dragon Quest!" Kirishima yelled and Niwa groaned to herself.
Niwa walked over to Uraraka and Tsuyu who stood around Kyoka. The earphone girl looked like she had a pretty bad landing and Niwa reached out her hand, "You alright?"
Kyoka winced and took Niwa's offered hand to be pulled to her feet. "Yeah," Kyoka replied rubbing at the bottom of her spine, "U.A does stuff like this way too much."
"There's no use complaining," Kirishima said while brushing the dirt off his uniform. "We just have to go."
Mineta zoomed toward the forest only to be stopped by the weirdest looking monster Niwa had ever seen. Four students took off and Niwa walked to the front of the class, ready to support them if they needed it. Midoriya grabbed Mineta and hopped out of the beast's range, Todoroki froze the beast in place, Bakugou and Iida destroyed the creatures limbs and Midoriya jumped back in for the final blow.
"Not bad!" Niwa approached the blonde with Kirishima.
"As expected, Bakugou!" Kirishima called.
"Not over yet!" Bakugou yelled, eyes focused deep into the forest.
Niwa watched a lump emerge from the ground and morphed into the shape of a fucken dragon that took to the skies above the trees, obscuring the student's view of the monster.
"How many of them are there?" Kirishima whined.
"What's our plan? Run away?" Mina asked.
"This is no joke, if we don't make it to the facilities by noon, we'll miss lunch." Sato said and Niwa could already feel her hunger at the mention of food.
"Then we have no choice but to get through here and take the shortest route!" Momo declared.
"Straight through? My favorite…" Niwa hummed, eyes darting around the trees.
"Alright! Let's go, Class A!" Iida declared spiritedly.
"Yeah!" replied the more psyched-up class members.
Shoji grew an ear at the end of one of his arms and a mouth on another, "There are three up ahead! Two each on either side!"
Niwa glanced over to Shoji and Kyoka, the pair were practically built for recon.
Her class split off into groups without receiving any instructions at all. Sero, shot off to the left, using his tapes to swing him through the trees. Sato and Kirishima chased off behind the tape-boy, taking on the two monsters off to the right.
Ojiro, Tokoyami and Aoyama split off to the left followed by Kaminari and Mineta. Niwa chased after the electric boy, she already knew just what type of plan the idiot was going for. Niwa didn't interfere as Mineta used his Quirk to trap a monster-thing to the ground and trees, restricting all movement from the monster. "Damn it! It's your guy's fault that my pants are wet!"
Disgusting.
"Get clear, Mineta!" Kaminari warned and ran up the tail and back of the dragon-like monster. "1.3 Million Volts!"
Niwa whistled as yellow lightning illuminated the dark forest, that was fairly cool. Pikachu up there really fried the damn thing, but just as Niwa was expecting, he also fried himself.
"Kaminari!" Mineta called out in worry as the monster began to crumble and Kaminari made no move.
Niwa jumped, snagging Kaminari around his waist and leaping away from the crumbling pile of electrified earth. Niwa sprung from tree to tree, carrying Kaminari away from the front lines. Mineta was clever, despite being lower than vermin on the scum scale, the boy will regroup with the others nearby and work with them.
Niwa skidded to a stop by Momo just as the girl slid a fucking historical cannon out of her gut. Niwa ignored the outrageousness for the time being and dropped Kaminari on his ass, "I'm leaving him to you, Momo!"
"Understood!"
"Yaaaay!~"
Niwa rushed past her classmates, eyes watching just in case anyone slipped. "More have appeared!" Shoji called loudly.
"Where?!" Niwa yelled back.
"Ahead, three more!"
Niwa dug her foot into the ground on her next step and launched through the forest, she came across a convenient patch of ground covered in a straight line of ice and slid right along at high speeds like she was skating with booster rockets or something.
Boom!
"Don't get in my way, half-and-half bastard!" Bakugou and Todoroki charged on ahead right toward the three new monsters.
"I'm not in your way." Came Todoroki's reply.
"Oi!" Niwa called, earning a glance back from the overpowered pair of boys. Niwa was suddenly hit full force with an idea and she grinned like a madman. "Launch me at em'!"
She saw recognition flash behind Bakugou's eyes, and he skidded to a stop, throwing out an arm to his side. "Half-half, get out of the way for real!" Bakugou grinned an equally mad expression and Niwa remembered all over again why she fell for this guy.
Todoroki dodged out of the way just in time for Niwa to catch Bakugou's arm, he countered her momentums force just enough with low-scaled explosions and propelled them into an insanely quick spin. The world warped in a familiar feeling of pure speed and Bakugou released his grip on her arm. Niwa spun in the air like a drill and plowed through two of the monsters before crashing into the final one with such a heavy impact, it sounded like one of Bakugou's explosions.
The two boys quickly caught up to her and finished off the final monster she had just tackled to the ground. Niwa climbed down from the monster, her breath panting from adrenaline and exertion.
Niwa glanced over Todoroki and Bakugou. Both were in good shape, maybe a little breathless but nothing a quick stop couldn't fix.
"You've got some screws loose," Todoroki said.
Niwa blinked at the boy, the words processing in her brain before she laughed. "What? You're just figuring that out now?"
"No, you've just confirmed my suspicions." Todoroki joked subtly.
Niwa chuckled and turned to Bakugou, "Feel free to do that anytime. That was fucking awesome!" She offered her hand out to the side and was thrilled when Bakugou actually accepted her casual low-five.
"Better not bitch out or whine if I do." The boy taunted.
"Not a damn chance."