Reflecting on things, I've been really lucky to have the life I've got right now. Self-Insert types like me, especially ones who are dropped in don't always end up this lucky. I remember reading one of a guy in Sailor Moon who seemed to have no powers and showed the harsh reality of being a foreigner in Japan… although I also remember it went off the rails too so who knows. Meanwhile not only do I have a place to stay, but I have my own bedroom and basically an adopted family at this point. My room was fairly simple of course – the one thing in the Hatsume household that was – due to being a former spare bedroom, but I had made it work, with an assortment of different container suits hanging in a closet nearby – I couldn't just have the one U.A. uniform one after all.

A nice computer set up on a desk to the right of the room that dominates a lot of my free time. While the tablet was good in the first few years while I was there, battery issues were always an issue and Mei took it upon herself to fix it. To this day I'm thankful, but the way it hums sometimes in the night makes me glad that I have the Blood Stalk form now.

And as for it taking up my time… well, once a computer nerd, always one. To the left was my bed, simple, nice, and soft. But it was towards the back of the room where I took pride, a unit of plastic containers and shelves containing things I had gotten with the test money and enjoyed. Some high-quality figures from anime, cartoons, and Kamen Rider – because of course. Some DVDs, video games, Warhammer books… because sadly Games Workshop disappeared when Quirked society was forming so I get what I can. And most recently… my Thompson and Thomson bowler hat that Neito had insisted I have.

It's been about a couple of days since then. After Ojiro's little comment about how useful I could be in helping people train I… well I honestly do want to help out my classmates, especially because the Sports Festival is probably the last big-time they have any activity coming up that doesn't end up involving villains in some way. But I need to get in my own training too. Thankfully Shoji has made it clear after the Tintin incident that he'd rather not but that still left 18 classmates to have to deal with.

That, and Mei's been asking me questions, asking her dad questions, and then disappearing off into her room for extended periods. Without a big eager grin, she's doing something serious… and that frightens me more than anything, I think.

Still, I just sigh. Whatever it is, I'll deal with it when it comes along and make sure nobody is in the blast radius.

Mei was for whatever reason still not grinning by the time we got to U.A. and just muttered to herself as she went on to the class of her own accord. Neito and I watched as Mei, absorbed into her own world, didn't even say a "see you later" or anything.

"Uh… what's up with Mei?" Neito asked.

I shrugged at that. "Search me… I think she's got something big planned though, she's been like that for a bit." I noted with a frown. "And I can't exactly ask – you know how she gets."

Neito chuckled at that. Yeah, Mei got… passionate about her Babies, and didn't like anyone finding out if she had a big project in mind. The last time we had tried I suspect lead to the burning building incident. Sure, I was hoping that she couldn't pull that off again, but I remember her being involved with explosions in the original story so I'm not getting my hopes up right now.

"At least U.A. can… probably handle her." Neito remarked as we started to head for the hero classrooms. "… they can handle her right?"

"Don't ask a question you don't want the answer to." I groaned. At least class was going to be less of a headache than this.

The moment I entered Class 1-A, I had been swarmed, from Bakugou glaring at me and insisting on a fight, to Kirishima asking for a contest of manliness, to even Ochako insisting on a sparring match sometime. This wasn't unexpected, the last couple of days had been the same, although aside from Bakugou it was never the same people twice and, thankfully, Bakugou was showing some restraint for once.

At that, I reached into my back… and pulled out a piece of paper, soon SLAMMING it against my desk. "Right. I've gotten that after Ojiro pointed out part of my Quirk-" I noted, shooting a glare over at the seat where the tail man usually was but this was before school started. "-that most of you want at least one go at me to see how strong you are."

"Get to the point Gas Suit." Oh Bakugou, you and your – wait is he doing that because he doesn't know my name or because he's trying to piss me off?

I let out a sigh that… I will fully admit I appreciated for once how it seemed to sound slightly like the hissing of a leaking canister. "Because we all need to train, and because I don't expect any of you want anyone else to know how you fight, we're doing this by a schedule." And at that, I spun the roster I had placed down towards them. "Starting tomorrow, every two days – so long as we get clearance to do so – ONE of you can face off against me ONCE. Yes, this means some of you are going to miss out on training. I need time to study and train too." I pulled out a spare pencil… and placed it on the desk. "We're not doing this now. Approach me at lunch, after or before school."

"Are… you ok Andros?" Sero asked. "This seems more like the sorta thing Iida would do."

Iida raised a hand to object… before lowering it. "I must admit such an orderly method is what I would use but… I have to agree with Sero-kun, you seem rather… on edge. You've been making sure to get the proper sleeping hours correct?"

I sighed again… but smiled at the Class President and basically den mother. "I got this sorted out last night. I… didn't exactly expect you all to sorta… grab at the opportunity like you did." I freely confessed.

Iida suddenly stiffened slightly in a way that made the light shine off his glasses briefly. "Alright then everyone! Take your seats, class will be starting soon!" He declared, thrusting his arms around in the Tenya Iida style. And… honestly, it's the little touches like that are what make me love this class.

Lunchtime was a surprisingly silent affair, for one noticeably absent reason.

"This is getting silly." Kendo noted as she drummed her fingers along her cup of coffee - a surprising allowance for U.A. "You're telling me she barely talked to any of you, went straight off to class without being escorted, and hasn't been acting like herself?"

"The fact she didn't make it here when we were doing Neito's little 'investigation' is worrying too," I admitted as I reached across the table. "Mei doesn't usually skip multiple ones in a row."

"Then maybe it might be a smart idea to check up on her?" Sato pointed out even as he bit down on a cookie, a batch of homemade ones he'd brought with him we were absently snacking on with lunch. Gotta say, the man knows his ways to make cookies work with both chocolate and berries, I thought muffins were the only way to pull it off.

"I mean that's a nice idea, but the Support students use a lot of different spaces," Neito noted, even as he pulled out his stupidly expensive – yet still imported – Orangina. A French drink that was basically fizzy orange juice and I had once heard being as popular as Coke was in France, not that I had any idea of how that was now. When I had mentioned it a year or so ago, Neito had almost gone into a frenzy working with his parents to get some as a rare treat for him.

Mina hummed. "I mean, Andros, you've lived with her longest." She said, slooowly holding some natto in front of her face as she talked. That's the fun part, while I only ever knew Neito liked French cuisine, I think the story only ever mentioned Mina's fave food (natto being one of them), but she has a tangy soda with her because apparently, the acidity helps her own. "Where do you think she'd be if she's like that?"

I blinked at the question… and then hung my head as I got up.

Ok, good, so the workshop's door is still intact. A good sign at least. It's the same workshop that Mina worked in during the summer break in the original story, so I'm going with a big-time guess here but… well, Neito had bowed out of "Mei level insanity" after meeting Mirio before and frankly I half considered not but… well, Mei reminded me of the sister I had before I came here. More in just… the role she had served with me, my sister wasn't Mei levels thankfully.

I sighed and went to open the door

And then it exploded.

"HATSUME! I told you, no volatile tests at lunch!" Ugh, that's Power Loader's voice, isn't it? My ears are ringing slightly but… so not as much as they should be. Urgh.

"Innovation waits for no mealtime Sensei!" Mei, definitely Mei there. And… something is tugging at my suit? Something small?

I groaned as I pulled myself into a sitting position and looked down… to see a little squirrel tugging at my sleeve. Seemingly satisfied it scurried back inside as Power Loader peered out.

"Oh hey, Nebulos." Power Loader noted with a wave. "Take it you're here to check up on the cause of that explosion?"

"Yes sensei, I'm here to see Mei," I remarked. "Her missing lunch is a bad habit of hers."

Before Power Loader could comment further, a speeding pink blur that is Hatsume Mei rushed out. "Oh! Finally, wondered when one of you might come to check up on me." Mei insisted, before grabbing me by the arm and starting to tug me inside. "And just in time, with that last experiment, I have a working prototype!"

"Prototype of what?" I demanded… even as Power Loader sighed and seemed to seemingly let the chaos happen. I have to admit, the workshop makes the high school memories of my old life jealous, this is top of the line and more so, I've been in professional setups with less than this. On one of the worktables was a series of materials, a set of tubes, pyramids and the like, and… Squirrels dashing back and forth putting something together? Wha-

And that's when I spot the other student standing next to the bench. And it's a student I definitely recognize even with time eating at my memory, the rocky crags that are his face combined with the squirrels and my time in 1-A make me realize that when I had gone into the hero course… somehow Koda Koji had been shifted into Support?

"Oh, right, Koda-kun, this is Andros Nebulos, he's in Heroics. Andros, Koda-kun." Mei noted idly before letting go of my arm.

Koda waved shyly before giving me a thumbs up and indicating to himself, then to me, then shaking his head, but then pointing to the building around us and then to himself and smiling.

"… I'll take a wild stab and guess he was saying he tried out for the Hero course, didn't pass, but they realized he'd be good in support?" I asked slowly.

Koda smiled slightly more and nodded rapidly. Sweet kid, but if he's working with Mei on this she's probably going to try and make it a full language.

Mei smiled. "Koda-kun's been really helpful in the little pieces for my latest Baby, would've taken a few more days at least otherwise – with dad's help." She explained as the little squirrels wander back and forth.

"It wouldn't be safe usually for them, but Koda checks each animal beforehand and… frankly, the way he does it brings new potential to the way Quirks interact with Support work." Power Loader added. "And I'd rather not take up too much time – Nebulos is right, you DO need to have some food Hatsume."

Mei seemed to ignore the statement as she does, and grinned, stepping back and forth as the squirrels finish, before snatching up the finished product and throwing it to me. I let out a cry and just barely grab at it. It's small and… a bit tube-like but what is-

… oh. OH. I pulled it up to my face just to make sure, and sure enough, it's a small bottle, the top and bottom covered in a black metal moulding, the very top having a blank white twistable tab, and the main body of it is a clear bottle with a rectangular strip at the back. It was small enough to fit into my hand and yet the weight of what it was – what Mei had made - shocked me.

"Mei… this is a Fullbottle." I remarked. Fullbottles were the items used in Kamen Rider Build to store Nebula Gas from defeated Smash, then either used to turn into the Smash Monster again or purified to be used by Riders and three odd Smash. But… this meant that Mei had…

"Mhm!" Mei nodded at that. "Really I had this idea years ago but U.A. gives me the resources to do it – I still need to test the design out but I'm thinking we can use this as a way to help people with the gasses in the air! Dangerous fire? Store it in the bottle and toss it away!"

"Because it's going to explode." Power Loader grumbled. "You can't just compress that much raw energy into it and hope it'll turn out ok!"

"The new design accommodates for that!" Mei insisted with a thumbs up… while behind her Koda shook his head and his hands rapidly at that, his face seeming to have gone pale.

I just sighed. "So, what you're saying is… it's a gift, but you want me to be the Guinea Pig now that you have it semi-stable?" I asked sarcastically.

"Exactly! I knew you'd understand!" Mei exclaimed… which only made me groan and hang my head at that.

Power Loader cleared his throat. "As… dangerous as the idea sounds, your friend is right Mei, you should go get some lunch. You too Koda. And that's not a request." He added as Mei was about to ask something.

I grinned and grabbed Mei by the arm. "C'mon Mei, the others were wondering where you were," I remarked as I dragged her out by the arm before she could start insisting.

"NO! My babies could have touch-ups! Adjustments! I could make more of them!" Mei exclaimed… as the squirrels and Koda followed us out, likely Koda on his way to get his own food.

Frankly, I just felt lucky on the way out after school that Mei hadn't brought anymore Fullbottles with. It was a small comfort though – she'd managed to spot the schedule as I was packing it away and noticed that I had one time specifically booked.

"I'm coming to see your match tomorrow morning." Mei insisted.

"There's a match on involving Andros tomorrow?" Neito questioned as I groaned. "How about I bring some of my classmates?"

"You can both shove it," I grumbled. "Or would you like to deal with Bakugou trying to blow your asses up for messing around with his practise t-" I cut myself off as I spotted Neito already had his phone out and was starting to scroll through it, a twisted grin on his face, while Mei had started to mutter to herself and had pulled blueprints for another of her Babies out of who knows where. So much for privacy, I already know some of 1-A will probably make it, the burgeoning BakuSquad at least and maybe Izuku, but now we're going to have half of 1-B around and Mei announcing? Give me a br-

"Oh, look a conveniently distracting convenience store, how about we stop trying to turn my helping out with training into a sports event and get some snacks?" I asked with what was DEFINITELY not a growl. Mei just grinned and nodded while Neito at least had the decency to look sheepish. Still, we made our way into what is just your standards convenience store. Cheapo local supermarket chain, not all that special, mostly looking like it'd be right at home next to a petrol station but what do I know? Still, while the others looked around, my choice was easy. Cola and a chocolate bar, even if the Japanese don't get it to the same recipe as Australia or England it's still chocolate. None of that bitter dark choc either, bleh.

"Just these thanks," I noted to the cashier, even as I pushed one of my arms down in the containment suit, reaching for my wallet. It gets really annoying just to catch public transport otherwise, and we aren't THAT local to U.A.

The cashier – average guy, male, slightly scruffy actually – nodded and started to move to tap into the register… and then stopped. And then he started to laugh a bit. "No way, there's no way I'm this lucky!" He exclaimed. "That suit, you're Nebulos Andros right?"

I sighed. Great, someone else who had seen the news. It wasn't common but thanks to what happened 5 years ago, everyone pretty much knew about my containment suit, and while I could probably pass off for some other kind of dangerous Quirk user, the U.A. uniform design kinda ruins that. "Yep, I'm the Nebula Gas kid, go ahead and snap a photo, paparazzi don't seem to want it-" I started, not in the mood for the usual spiel.

"Nah, nah, I wasn't about to do that!" The man asked… the oddly familiar man. "Ah mou, been over this so many times in my head… ah!" He bowed slightly. "Hakaiken Taro! It's good to see you again and… I'm sorry for scaring you back then."

Wha- No. No fucking way. That's beyond a coinci- actually, five years, the hospital is near the Hatsume's place, this is really more likely than it should be but still. "Holy shit, Hakaiken… no, no I need to say sorry to you! I turned you into a monster then-"

"Nah nah, you stopped me so no probs there, and that whole incident helped me pull myself together!" Hakaiken insisted. "I'm the one who owes you."

I shook my head and similarly waved my hands to how Koda had earlier that day. "Oh no, no you don't, you did that interview! From what I saw, paparazzi really died down after you did that, I haven't had to use that sorta pre-prepared speech in ages-"

"If you too are done trying to apologize to each other, could we get our snacks sorted?" Neito asked with more than a hit of humour in his tone, Mei just grinning as she watched the scene unfold.

"You two are already trying to have my classmate kill me tomorrow, I have an excuse." I deadpanned, even as I turned back. "But yeah, probably should… good to see you though, to see you're doing well Hakaiken-san."

"Ah, well, that's not the best term, but I'm dealing with life at least." Hakaiken insisted. "An' call me Taro, ya've earned that much… same goes for your friends too. Good to see you got into U.A. too."

I just grinned and rubbed the back of my head. "Yeah… hero course for me and Neito-"

"Monoma Neito, and yes, both of us got in… although not into the same class." Neito interrupted.

"And I'm Hatsume Mei, Andros' foster sister and more importantly future top support inventor and genius of U.A.!" Mei exclaimed, spreading her arms above her head… and I just reached out, grabbed the massive bar of chocolate Mei had grabbed before slumping over.

"So, between me and your inventions, I'm second place?" I groaned… before righting myself and tossing the bar back to her. "Why should I expect anything more from you?"

Mei just stuck out her tongue at that and Taro laughed. "Oh man, you guys look wild… ah, yeah, lemme just ring you guys up." He noted, starting to run the register again…

And at least for a bit, I could let myself relax.

Relax. Right. Such a smart idea given what I walked up to when I walked into the exercise fields the next day. Not only had Midnight-sensei offered to supervise - weekends were apparently big for Eraserhead – this bout of training, but along with Mei and Neito who had both insisted on coming with me, there was Mina, Kaminari, Kirishima and Sero – the BakuSquad – but also Sato, Izuku and…. And…

"Neito. You said you didn't send many messages." I remarked.

"No, only three." Neito insisted with a far too smug look.

"THEN WHY THE FUCK IS ALMOST ALL OF 1-B HERE?" I bellowed, only to hear a slight echo and turn my head… to see a literally smouldering Bakugou barely containing his anger. And I don't blame him. When I say almost all of 1-B, I only knew it wasn't all of them because counting Neito there were only 15 of them, including Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, Shishida, and Kendo. Mei just continued unconcerned… and grinned wider as a speaker emerged from her backpack.

"Oi! Gas Suit!" Bakugou bellowed, Kirishima inching just within grabbing range of him. "You didn't answer my question, why is almost the entire other class here to look at training?"

I sighed and groaned. "Because Neito Monoma – the smug-looking blond – spotted my schedule and decided to send texts around." Bakugou's glare turned to Neito at that, and I gave him a flat look in turn… and a smirk. "Payback's a bitch."

Bakugou let out a sound that was a mix of a roar and a groan but turned his head back towards Izuku. "And for some reason, Deku wanted to show up!"

Izuku looked at Bakugou and then to me. "I-I thought it might be a good idea to have someone see how well Andros Quirk does!" He insisted, and oh god he actually has a notebook with him. He's here entirely for research purposes.

"So, what was that going rate on Bakugou starting a fight before the actual fight again?" Kaminari asked idly.

"Shut it dunce bolt!" Bakugou yelled.

I just sighed at that. "In that case, we might as well get started right?" I asked. "Besides, I doubt you care that they get to see you in action, do you?"

Bakugou snorted in response. "Course not. They want to scope out the competition, that's fine with me. Lets them see how outgunned they are."

Before I could say anything else, the screeching of feedback sounded as Mei adjusted her announcer pack – or whatever she called this particular Baby of hers. "Attention everyone! Clear back from the area, this is going to be a big match today and if my experience is right, you don't want to be too close to an incoming explosion! I am Hatsume Mei and today I will be helping introduce our-"

And at that Midnight placed her hand on Mei's shoulder. "Perhaps leave the announcing to me, please?" She asked kindly… and Mei just tapped a few buttons, her gear retreating into the pack with no diminished Smile… but clearly, people had listened as they all backed up, watching eagerly. I just sighed and tossed off the helmet of my suit, having put on the sports uniform earlier on just for this match. Bakugou had done likewise, the only support item either of us had with was my Fullbottle, and even then, I didn't plan to use it to contain an explosion – pack all the energy into a smaller space is just asking for shrapnel.

In fact, that was why we were practicing on the school sports grounds and not a training ground during school time, aside from anything else it perfectly replicated the layout of the Sports Festival, at least according to Midnight, but without a ring out line. Something that I'm sure I'm going to regret. Especially given how Sero's just pulled out a big bag of nuts and is sharing them with the others.

"I want a good, clean fight you two." Midnight declared as she stood off to the side. "If things get out of hand, I will be forced to sedate both of you." So, is that why she's still in her hero form despite being only around teenagers right now? At least she's sans whip for the moment. Still, as soon as I had gotten out of the suit… and Mei grabbed and ran away from the field with the suit, Midnight chopped her hand down. "Start!"

"Explosive Turbo!" Bakugou declared, firing off explosions behind him to rush forward! Shit!

"Vaporize!" I declared, Nebula Gas issuing out from every point on my body and red light to start to-

And that's about as far as I got to think before Bakugou's fist slammed into my – thankfully already transformed – face, black Nebula Gas trailing behind me as it dissipated, my body seeming to finish the last bits of the transformation with what had already been provided.

"Take that as a lesson first Gas Suit! Or are you going to just be my sandbag?" Bakugou taunted as I landed a few meters away, pulling myself up.

"You trying to call that a first strike?" I asked. "Cut the crap and let's get serious Sparky Boom Boom man." I forced myself to my feet as Bakugou took that in, pulling my fist back. Bakugou's eyes widened as I rushed towards him and held out a hand to force out an explosion. I leapt into the air to try and use his own tactic against him, to hit him from-

And then I noticed Bakugou's right arm, which hadn't been at the ready when I was in front, was positioned pointing upwards and sparking. I brought my arms forward in time to take the brunt of the force of the explosion, which sent me up into the air. Right, it's his own counter, of course, he knows how to deal with it. But that's based on him… he doesn't know me. I pulled my legs in towards my chest and started to spin in mid-air before I lashed out with a double legged stomping motion. Bakugou had moved away from the spot by the time I landed, but I'd never planned to hit him with it.

I rushed forward, using the steadier footing from my stomp to recover quickly, the transformed state meaning I wasn't feeling anything but some serious stinging from the explosions before. I grinned as Bakugou, having clearly not expected me to be ready so quickly, brought his arms forward, but it was too slow, and I slammed a kick into his chest… pulling my punches a little of course. Cracking Bakugou's ribs wouldn't do well, and even if he can somehow survive All Might slamming him into a building, I'm not risking Recovery Girl's wrath.

Still, Bakugou surprises me by a quick explosion from both hands behind him to force a stop to his momentum, and soon he's rushing back at me. I simply stand and wait this time, deciding to try something different and one of his hands glowed orange and… I grabbed the arm and forced it to my chest as it exploded.

"There we go!" I remarked eagerly, although if I could I'd be wincing at the slight pain from the move. "Wasn't getting a read from you before, but I'm getting something vague… Jirou's had a little more exposure to Nebula Gas it seems!"

"So, you took a hard blow to try and guess my level huh?" Bakugou asked. "Let's see if you can still be that confident with this!" And the crackling is intensifying. Heh, want to play it that way? Fine. I spin my body to the left letting the plume of an explosion fire off, the shockwave of the blast making my skid slightly but no harm was done as I slammed my fist into Bakugou's gut – and he slammed his hand into my face where it exploded again, forcing my punch to land with less effort and energy than I thought it would.

"Enough! Break!" Midnight declared. To stop us turning this into a full-on battle, a bunch of ideas had been passed around. Bakugou had preferred the idea of a bunch of short but full-on matches… which is why Midnight is here to make sure we actually remember to.

As we pull away from each other I chuckled… while turning OFF the voice. "Gotta say, nice move with the double counter." I pointed out. "Thought you might leave yourself exposed for it."

"That fucking stomp move of yours is just as annoying," Bakugou shouted back… but that's definitely not a full scowl on his face. In fact, it morphs into a smirk. "Glad to see you're taking this seriously." At that he walked off and over to his bag, probably to go rehydrate – his Quirk is based on sweat right?

"Aw man, guess you were right after all Monoma, your friend can take a beating!" Tetsutetsu stated, a few members of 1-B walking over – Shishida, Neito, Tetsutetsu, Kendo, and I believe given the horns Pony. "Like the way he grabbed that explosion arm to just get a reading! Guess 1-A can't all be assholes."

"Language Tetsutetsu!" Kendo scolded.

I shook my head at that. "No, I agree, the best way you can define Bakugou, and I'm sure he'd agree, RIGHT ASSHOLE!" I stated, yelling out the last part to Bakugou.

"GO JUMP OFF A ROOF GAS SUIT!"

"See?" I stated as if that proved anything.

"Um…" Pony turned to Neito, but he shook his head.

"You don't need me to translate. He's British." Neito pointed out. "… I think."

"Oh! Sorry for assuming… it's just your Quirk seemed very strong out there, two Quirks clashing against one another!" Pony noted… before grinding a hoof against the ground and stomping it. "All I can do is fire my horns and do Horse-stuff."

Neito sighed and his shoulders sank at that. "Again, with that Pony-san?" Pony sighed at that; it does sound weird in English "Your Quirk is amazing! Besides, Andros couldn't make anything more than the gas till last week." Neito noted.

"I'm taking by Monoma's reaction that she's doubting herself based on her Quirk again?" Shishida asked, to which Neito, me and Kendo nodded in unison. "Pony, c'mon, you can't just go based on Quirks! Just because I can go super strong, that wouldn't mean anything if I didn't have my brains behind it."

"Shishida-s- I mean, Shishida is right," I added with a smile. "I was too worried about hurting people with my gas before… so I used it to push myself about like Bakugou did." In fact… "Oi Sero! I need you for an example!"

Sero sighed, but he walked over, with Kirishima following behind as Kaminari seemed to be… being yelled at by Bakugou. Ah well, Izuku and Mina are close enough to help. "What's up? As fun as a chat is, I don't think we have long before you need to fight again… or Kaminari is going to test his luck too far."

"Also, nice idea with the explosion reading, but it might have been better to try and get him to punch you again, less chance of hurting yourself." Kirishima pointed out. "You're a sponge, not a wall."

Tetsutetsu blinked at that statement… and slammed a fist into the palm of his hand. "Oh right! Yeah, that makes sense, and it'd be manly too!" He exclaimed.

"Finally, someone who gets it!" Kirishima declared.

Right, moving on from the I-Can't-Believe-They-Aren't-Twins. "Hey, Sero, during the Hero and villain exercise, what did it take to deal with you covering the entire room in trapping tape?"

Sero blinked. "He… basically had to turn himself into stupid mode, and ended up zapping me and Jiro a bit too, why?" He questioned.

I grinned, especially seeing Neito explaining it to Pony in English. "Simply put, your Quirk is simple sticky tape and Kirishima's is hardening. You two took on one of your worst-case scenarios and almost won it." Jiro being Kirishima's weakness sadly.

Pony's eyes widened, and she was about to say something… when Midnight's voice rose above the rest. "Audience to the sides! The training will now recommence!"

As both sides walked off, with Pony following after Team Bakugou to talk to Sero about things – thank goodness I got to Neito early, there seems to be no hostility – I looked over at Bakugou and… he's breathing heavily, teeth bared. And he's clenching his fists. And Kaminari seemed to be wiping his forehead while a mortified Izuku and Mina look on.

… Kaminari is going to pay for this.

A/N: In a couple of weeks time as of this upload, I'll be going away on vacation for a few weeks. I'll try to write a bit as I have three long plane rides ahead of me, but no promises on updates during that period. I'll try to get the next chapter out before I go though.