Hello my dear readers, here we go into yet another chapter. I do hope you think my little battle between the characters to be fun and fine enough. Now there has been no reviews scince the last update so let's get right into the story!
Izuku gleefully tinkered with the boot in front of him, testing the air pressure constantly as he made each small adjustment to make sure everything was just right. This was to be his and Mei's first real graded project after all, when he stepped into the classroom after most of his heroics classes had ended for the day the young man was worried that he would have to stick through some boring speech after the action-packed start to his day but was surprised to find out that no, after the ceremony that the support course jumped right into working on projects which the young man was grateful for at least. Even if he really wanted to refine his cowl today, Mei had insisted they finished up her own personal baby before they worked more on his personal stuff.
Izuku had agreed to said arrangement quite quickly, in the end, knowing this was part of being in a partnership with someone and making inventions with the girl was a fun time in of itself. After tightening the last screw in he looked over at Hatsume before giving her a sharp thumbs up and the machine itself started up, propelling a high amount of air from the boot's sole and lifting it up off the ground, anchored to their table by a thread of Webbing of course.
"Houston, we have lift off! Looks like we have a workable prototype here Mei. Man, this was a lot simpler to make than that mask of mine huh? Only took like, half an hour to finish this up?" Izuku admired their work for a bit before Mei pressed the kill switch, making the light metal boot fall onto the table with a soft clink.
"Well, of course, that will happen! This is already based on one of my old working designs, not creating something from scratch like before, speaking of which, shall we use our remaining time working on the thing or do you want to start something else?" Mei took her goggles off her face for a bit before looking back at the hover boots, they needed a little more...Bronze feeling if it was going to feel like one of her creations in the truest sense. Looking to her friend she smiled seeing him contemplate something before heading back to that wonderful backpack full of ideas of his.
"We could work on it more but honestly that's a long term project I can work on forming the lenses and other stuff during free time later on while you refine the code at home...You are fine with doing that right? I would hate to impose on your free time that much." Picking out a notebook with a yellow face, Izuku brought it right out before coming back over to Hatsumei and placed it on the table.
"Oh my dear Midoriya, don't you realize that this is what I love doing in my free time? I will gladly do the coding bits at home if I get to see what else you have cooked up in that head of yours. Oh, also I saw Katsuki's costume blueprints earlier today when we had a little demonstration of what we would be dealing with. I assume the rocket boots were your idea?" She lightly bumped against her friend who had a dusting of pink on in his cheeks while he nodded slowly, chuckling to himself as he looked to their other project today.
"Yeah that part was me, figured out explosive friend needed a bit more mobility to get around places and it was a waste if he couldn't use all that sweat for anything... Anyways thank you for doing the code, because a part of me wants to work on this, for now, I think we might be able to get a second working prototype today if my math was all right." With that, Mei looked down at the notebook and broke out into a maniacal grin seeing the title of it. Magnets and Wall-Crawling.
"Izuku, I knew I had a good feeling about you the day we met! First the Cowl and now we get to play with magnets? Though yes I will need to check those calculations of yours before we start making a pair of...Gloves for ya to crawl around on the ceiling."
Izuku smiled at the memory as he suited up for whatever All Might had in store for them today. Pulling the gloves over his hands quickly and flexing them a bit to make sure they felt right concealing them, these were their second working prototype after all and it was imperative they do enough field testing in a safe environment like this he was sure that Mei's calculations and craftsmanship would work fine though.
Once the gloves were on, Izuku slowly put himself in the rest of his spandex suit, loving the look of the silver web designs on his feet contrasting with the smoky-white cloth that it connected to, the fabric itself clung to Izuku's body stretching a bit along it, showcasing his truly well-built body unlike the school uniform. Once his arms were in and secure, Izuku did a few cautionary punches and kicks in the locker room to make sure he could move perfectly well smiling when he felt no restriction in his movements, perfect. Once that was secured, Izuku went to his backpack and lifted out a small cloth package he had received from his sensei that Sunday. Placing his hand upon it gently, he felt the hard bit of equipment beneath and smiled to himself, practically feeling Sensei's care and support just through that. He knew the man wasn't that good with metalworking and had been training for a few months just for this.
"Midoriya come on! We can't spend all day waiting for you to get through putting on your costume no matter how cool it might look!" Kirishima's lighthearted jab brought the emerald haired boy out of his little daydream and back to staring at the bundle before him and nodded before undoing the string.
With the rest of his class, Izuku marched out onto ground beta, solidly in the middle of the pack surrounded by his friends, Iida to the left and Uraraka to the right, as he stepped out into the sunlight, the proud spider emblem on his chest and the green glint from his temporary lenses reflecting and shining while the class approached All Might
"Now my young wards! Shall we begin our battle training?" The blond man proudly looked among the crowd of heroes to-be, chuckling a bit seeing Izuku's own costume as he traced it from the head, the inspiration from his favorite comic book was there all right! Drifting down to his arms though, Toshinori spotted a pair of crimson gauntlets, made of the sectional plates running up his outer forearm. So, Fumai passed down those too his student? That was good, Toshinori wondered if the boy even knew the significance of those things.
"Oh Izuku, the nice costume you went for the classic superhero vibe huh? It seems to suit you!" The cheery Uraraka grinned at her friend, her eyes scanning his costume while she did his own before they broke out into mutual blushes realizing how little they left to the imagination. Izuku was grateful his mask concealed the blush entirely as he looked at hers.
"Y-yeah, though I think your costume is also really, really cute. The support company did a splendid job creating it!" Izuku gulped a bit before both teens turned towards All Might while the rest of the class calmed down some patiently before expositing what they would be doing today.
"Now my young saplings! Today as I said before we will be engaging in combat training! We will be splitting you all up into teams of two randomly then drawing lots based on those teams to determine who will be the heroes and who shall be the villains in this instance! Heroes will be trying to infiltrate a building and capture the heroes while the villains shall be protecting a dangerous nuclear device!" Pausing to take a breath, All Might looked at the crowd with a smile on his face as the students started to discuss what they would want to be for teams when Tsuyu spoke up.
"Are we not going to be going through basic training?"
"No! Being here at UA, everyone in the hero course is expected to have a baseline basic training put in before we go into anything to build it up! You all passed the entrance exam, right? That is proof you have the basics down and need to be built up further with experience!" Toshinori gave his class a passionate arm pump to emphasize his point before wiping some sweat off of his head and starting the last bit of his talk
"The heroes will have a limited amount of time to either capture the villains or secure the weapon. While the villains' job is to let that time run out in the end! In order to end up captured, you will either be immobilized or have yourself bound by this capture tape! Now onto the pairings!"
After the process of drawing lots, Izuku ended up on Team A thankfully with Uraraka by his side. He hadn't paid too much attention to the rest of the teams, however, but was sure he could handle what they had to offer easily enough when working with Uraraka. After a few moments of waiting it was called out they would be the heroes fighting against Team F, which consisted of Kaminari and Kirishima a team that made Izuku smile at his friend who had a fire in his eyes, nodding at Izuku to confirm his own suspicions. Once things had settled All Might gave each team fifteen minutes to converge and talk things out for a plan, prepare for the oncoming battles.
"All right Uraraka, I don't know much about Kaminari but Kirishima I think should be easy enough to deal with if we can play our cards right. My friend is a really honor bound man, charging in head first into the action without any fear to help or in this case, defeat the heroes." Izuku chuckled some thinking about his friend's personality and assertions with being "manly" in every part of his life possible. It was the perfect personality for a hero he supposed.
"Um, sorry Deku but how is that going to help us? It seems like he isn't the kind of person to really back down from any sort of challenge when it gets down to it. That kinda hurts our case if we want to scare him down or something like that."
"Oh, you are right there Uraraka. Good thing we won't be trying to scare him, see you were correct saying he wouldn't back down from any challenge. Not even say...A one on one battle from a fellow hero in training." Izuku smiled again with the plan, he was sure that he could fight Kaminari on a pretty even field using his webbing and training. He was the only real unknown factor to his plan though. All he knew was that the boy had an electricity quirk.
"Oh, so you want...Me to fight Kirishima? But Izuku I can't do that! I have nearly any combat training and well, his quirk seems a lot more suited to a brawl than mine does if we are being honest."
"Nonsense, your ability to make your opponents lose any sense of gravity they have and have em floating helplessly in the air is invaluable. Especially from a guy like Kirishima, I know his style and unless he really took my sensei's advice to heart then he is all about tanking blows so I don't think he can avoid a swift palm strike from you if shot out at just the right time." He chuckled a bit thinking of the redhead floating in the air while trying to adjust himself in any way possible to continue his fight with Uraraka. Nodding with the plan, Izuku spent the rest of their time showing his partner how to do a correct palm jab with both her arms, correcting the form when he was going through with his own arms.
"Remember, for this time you don't need to give a really strong or forceful strike to break through his defense, that won't do any help with his quirk being the way it is. You just need to get in one swift, but solid jab with your palm to activate your quirk and win the fight." As time ran out for them, Izuku gave a nod to his friend who returned it before they stepped right into the dark building. Ready to take on this battle with their simple plan in mind.
Izuku went in first, cautiously approaching the dark room letting his eyes adjust to the low light slowly while he went forward motioning for Uraraka to follow him as close as she could while they ventured through it, the young man knew Kirishima would never try something like an ambush and was like waiting for them to come up in a room, he was going to be the main guard and if they didn't adopt a total defense strategy then Kaminari, the unknown element here was the one that would be approaching them upfront to go for a capture. Running through his mind what little he knew about the boy, the boy preferred to look cool above anything else. Trying to put up the facade of a cool-headed and always ready individual. Well, then he was sure that the villain would attack them upfront in an attempt to look cool. Hearing a light buzzing from the wall next to them, Izuku suddenly pulled Uraraka away before a few streams of electricity danced across the wall next to them, causing the darkroom to light up slightly for a few moments and announcing the young man's presence a few feet away from them.
"Remember the plan Uraraka, I will handle Kaminari and you go on ahead!" He spoke to the girl in an intense little whisper-shout before smiling and running forward to see the blond boy waiting for them, his hands sparking brightly with his electricity and a smirk on his face as he sent his electricity through the ground towards them, the thing running across the building's wires and the iron used in the concrete easily.
"Don't worry Midoriya! I held back to make sure you ain't hurt too much being that you are quirkless and all! Just surrender and this will all be easier for us!" Kaminari smirked at the boy down the hall, whose eyes seemed to go from a friendly grin to a sharp scowl that a nearby camera picked up, broadcasting their voices to an observation room where the rest of class watched the little encounter.
"Oh, he just fucked up! Oh boy, I can't wait to see what will happen now to that sparky asshole!" Bakugou broke out into a laugh looking at the screen, he was glad to see someone insult his friend like that right off the bat. It was an attitude he himself had a hard time breaking, but looking at the rest of the class who was just confused at his outburst. The rest of them would need to break the behavior themselves.
"What is so funny Bakugou? Kaminari is just exercising caution for a classmate's wellbeing by holding back his full force and power. Is that not an admirable thing for someone in the hero course to do?" Rich prick looked to the blond with a confused look in his face, was Bakugou hiding something that the rest of class didn't know? A few people nodded with the prick's words and Bakugou just shook his head a bit as he felt a dull throbbing in his cheek, reaching up to rub it some as he shook his head.
"You all just continue to watch and learn why you don't ever want to make a comment like that ok? Though if anyone wants I will take a few bets on how quick Sparky's ass is gonna be kicked or how hard." He chuckled again before shaking his head and turning back to the screen that All Might be watching intently, with a bit of nervousness clear in the way he acted. Must be the new teacher shivers or some crap like that.
Izuku looked towards Kaminari with a steely gaze, he had planned on gauging things out first with the electricity welder but that went out the window real quick, dashing in towards the hazard in front of him without fear. Jumping at the last moment before aiming his wrist up and shooting a web line out towards Kaminari.
"You know I am a little disappointed, I thought that the entrance exam and yesterday would have proved something" As the thread flew forward, Izuku tugged on the web line and zipped himself towards his foe, hurtling towards Kaminari at breakneck speeds as he adjusted himself in mid-air, bringing his leg up while twisting his hips the "villain"'s head was in range and slammed his hard heel into Kaminari's temple with an echoing thud, the force blowing Kaminari back a bit while Izuku landed, his legs bending with the force and springing himself forward towards Kaminari again.
"I was number one on the exam! You don't have the hold back on little ol me I assure you! I can take anything you dish out and return it tenfold alright?" Izuku spoke in a bit of a growl, throwing out a few jabs towards Kaminari face and chest, a few of which were blocked by the recovered boy of course. Though he just sent out too many to catch all of them of course and Izuku felt solid, rock hard fists land their way onto Kaminari's chest, the other hero in training responded with a sloppy punch, the form itself wasn't bad but it was clear the young man had almost no experience in close combat, deflecting the blow away and stepping in, Izuku slammed his elbow right under his opponent's ribs before backing off for an instance as a head of brown hair rushed past them and the blond reached out with a hand full of electricity trying to stop her, but Izuku pivoted on his foot to get right between them and took the voltage head-on into his chest.
"Don't try going after a second target when your first is still up and running man! That's one of the first rules of close combat!" Izuku grunted some as the painful electricity sparked across his skin, but it was nothing he couldn't handle. Just a little bit of pain was to be expected during a fight with a guy like Kaminari, especially now that he seemed to realize what he could do through simple touch and his quirk combined. Shaking his head and releasing a breath to calm himself down, as the blond looked between him and his hand Izuku tried construct his Seikuken slowly and prepare for the fight but he just couldn't calm down! Meaning his defencive technique was near impossible to preform now. His opponent then sprung forward, his hands sparking once more with bright yellow electricity and shot out a jab towards Izuku's head, which moved swiftly out of the way, the sparks sending small shocks down his neck as the young man stepped forward smoothly. Letting his actions flow from one into the other as Izuku fell into a lower stance, as his right foot landed about a foot away from Kaminari, Izuku stepped forward with his other foot quickly while bringing his palms up in a sharp circle, slamming the palms forward into his opponent's stomach at the same down his foot landed with great force the attack landing right onto Kaminari's stomach and pushing him back as the young man let out pained gasps.
Not giving his opponent a moment of rest, Izuku continued forward, his green eyes like steel, and when Kamirari gave his last jab one pumped full of many volts of electricity, Izuku sent out his own fist to match it, his arm spinning in a corkscrew motion so that when their fists would meet, his arm glided along Kaminari's letting a few hundred volts of electricity run through his arm, and flowing throughout his body, causing all his muscles causing the muscles to forcibly seize up and contract tighter than they were before when Izuku followed through and landed a hard punch right to Kaminari's chin, once the blow hit Izuku pushed through with all his leg strength, knocking his foe onto his back with a harsh crash before Izuku shot out a few bolts of web fluid to keep him down on the ground.
"Were you still going easy on the quirkless kid at the end then? Cause it sure felt like it!" He got no answer from the boy whose eyes seemed to roll up into his head when he passed out. With that small insult Izuku turned away from his defeated foe to regain his calm, he shouldn't have let Kaminari's words get to him like that damn it! He knew it would take these kids a while to adjust to the quirkless kid but Kamirari's words, especially the cocky way he said them it just got to him. Shaking off the battle from before and clearing his head Izuku started dashing up the stairs again, twitching a bit as he did so.