Okay, here is the next chapter for this story. It's time to prepare for the actual training ahead. Hope you all enjoy this. As you know, I got some editors like Edge, Steel, Writer, Qale, irmadbro, gotsh0cks, Raef, Revion, DekutheStrong and the others. MHA is owned by Shonen Jump and Horikoshi, and Young Justice is owned by DC and Greg Weisman.
Upper Limits
(Mustafu, Japan. UA Gym Gamma. August 8:00)
It had been a more normal morning for the Hero course students. The only odd thing was that they had all been messaged by their teachers with instructions to meet at the track field in their gym uniforms. "Wonder why they wanted us here this early in the morning," Denki said, a little confused as they headed towards the field.
"That's a good question," Ibara said, walking by as she looked at Denki. "Also, I hope you bear no ill will about the sports festival. I was only wishing to show my heroic talents."
"Ah, water under the bridge. Denki Kaminari, by the way. Nice to formally meet ya, Shiosaki," Denki said with a small smirk as Neito glared at him.
"Don't socialize with Class A, Shiozaki. You know how they are," Neito said with a scowl. Ibara just ignored him, rolling her eyes slightly.
"Monoma, that kind of attitude needs to be worked on," Yosetsu said with a frown as they arrived at the meeting point. They saw Wally with Shota, Vlad, and Mei. The young lady was setting something up with a sort of projector and computer.
"Sir, what is going on?" Tenya asked, raising his hand as Vlad looked at him with a small nod.
"Everyone, you are going to get some upgrades from Flash. But first, today will be all about the forty of you and your skills. We also have a couple of observers from the other classes to watch." Vlad motioned to Mei. "Hatsume is one of them."
"Who're the other two?" Togaru asked as the class noticed a purple-haired young man and a kid with glasses.
"Shinsou?" Izuku asked with a surprised look as the bored looking young man gave a small wave.
"Yo, Midoriya, long time," he said with a nod.
The other kid smiled sheepishly. "Uh… Hi, I'm Chihiro Hoga from Class J." He gave a small bow. "I am a student from the Department of Management. I was asked to rep my course for this exercise… for some reason. Why are we here?"
"Easy. I heard Shinsou wishes to be a hero, so he's here to observe to see what it takes for it. Mei is the most eager of the Department of Support, so she's likely got the tech know-how in that regard. And finally, you're here because you know all about marketability. I read up on you; you were one of the three students doing the most observations in the Sports festival," Wally explained simply.
"Ah, I see," Chihiro said with a small nod as he looked at all forty of the Hero course kids. "I will say, I am very impressed with them already. Why are they all here, though?"
"Simple; today we are concentrating on where they are. Their limits, as it were," Shota said, looking at Chihiro calmly, "I also read on your file that your quirk is a data-crunching ability; is that correct?"
"Uh, yes… I can see the percentage of anything I can think of. I just need the basis of the data process and then I can calculate the math nigh perfectly in my mind. It's why I do management; I can figure out the percentage of success in a hero's future prospects and marketability," Chihiro said sheepishly.
Wally chuckled and said, "So you're gonna be the best manager a hero can ask for." He then clapped his hands. "Okay Classes A and B, get into a line facing each other. Any order you want." As they followed this instruction, a white hologram went right down the middle between the two classes and under their feet.
"How do you like this new baby? Mr. Flash told me all about this kinda tech they used at his old HQ back home! He calls it the 'Holo-Training Ground,' sorta a real-time analyzer of who wins and loses a round of training," Mei said with a smile. "And now it won't blow up!"
"That's… reassuring," Kyoka said under her breath as Wally nodded at both classes.
"All right everyone, take a stance. This is to practice your hand-to-hand combat skills. After each round, both classes will go to the opposite sides of the room facing each other and go down the line 'til each of you have fought each other." As he was explaining, Wally caught Katsuki smirking, a series of sparks in his palms. "Eraser?"
"On it." Shota's hair suddenly flared up as the sparks stopped, making Katsuki stare in his hand in confusion. "The point of this exercise is only hand-to-hand combat. That means no quirks. If you have a mutation, that is fine, but don't overuse any extra limbs."
"That means no biting anyone, Shoji. If you're gonna use the other four arms, only use hands," Wally said. The large teen nodded, making his four extra hands shift into fists. This made Yosetsu sweat a little, as he was his opponent.
"The round ends when an opponent is on the ground subdued. And… begin!" The students began to fight against each other. They began to go at it quickly and the six observers watched.
Mei took off her goggles to use her Zoom to keep a good eye on them, and chuckled as she saw Minoru was sent back when Kinoko kicked him on the stomach when he tried to do something perverse. Next to her, Nirengeki was doing rather well despite going against the taller Denki, using quick boxing strikes to take him down.
Ibara cried out as she was knocked on her back by Ochaco, who panted as she smiled at the religious woman.
A few steps down, Izuku was having some trouble against Itsuka, who was able to block his kick and flipped him over to his front. "Wow, that was amazing…" Izuku said with a smile as Itsuka kept him down.
"I've been training since I was a kid," Itsuka said with a small smirk. Behind them, Mashirao ducked around Kojiro's hand before grabbing his arm and kicking his leg, knocking the larger teen down. "And seems he has too."
"Uncle, uncle!" Toru shouted as she was currently caught by Hiryu in a headlock. Next to him, Jurato had knocked Eijiro down and was keeping him pinned under his large hand..
"Hah, too easy!" Togaru smirked as he took down Fumikage, who groaned in frustration. Next to him, Shihai was currently struggling against Rikido, who had him in a grapple hold.
"HYAH!" Tenya shouted as he sent a low-powered rocket kick towards Juzo, who grunted as he ducked around it and then grabbed his leg in a lock. This caused Tenya to yell as he lost his footing.
"They're doing pretty good so far. Nice job teaching them the fundamental basics, Vlad," Wally said. The taller man just nodded, though he did chuckle when Katsuki, after some aggressive grabbing, was headbutted by Pony. He yelled out in annoyance as she followed up with a straight kick to the stomach with her hooved foot, knocking him down.
This kept going as they switched up, but Wally could see some needed help. Katsuki seemed to do well against other, more aggressive fighters, like Togaru, Tetsutetsu, or Sen, but against calmer opponents like Itsuka or Yosetsu he had issues. As an example, he saw him gotten a bit overwhelmed when Yui got him into a hold since she wasn't intimidated by him and was able to work around an angry lash.
"Hmm…" Shota watched Itsuka and Ochaco go a few rounds before the latter went down, panting as they seemed pretty even, while Momo was holding her own against Nirengeki, despite his short stature making it harder to deal with him. Mezo and Jurota's fight was them mostly trying to push against the other to see who went down first.
"Gotcha!" Yosetsu said as he had a round against Kyoka, putting her into a head lock after she messed up her last punch.
"Heh... it seems that Class B is showing some superiority here," Neito smirked, but that caused him to get knocked down by an elbow to the chest from Eijiro as Kojiro took Koji down. But the biggest deadlock was in a different round with Itsuka and Mashirao going at it. The two of them seemed to block each other's blows and could not knock the other down. The match had to be called a draw so they didn't exhaust themselves for the other rounds.
After about half an hour, all fourty kids were exhausted, covered with dirt from the ground and sweaty. "So… how does it look?" Wally asked as the three other non-Hero Course students checked the results and handed them to Chihiro.
"Hmm… it seems Class B won about 52% of the total fights in plain martial arts. The factors were outside of other parameters that I had noticed, such as people's height and weight classes not fully being comparable and sometimes there were variables such as the amount of actual physical strength training one side had over the other," Chihiro explained, adjusting his glasses. "However, the ones that had the most difficulty seemed to be Shiosaki, Koda, Hagakure, Aoyama, Fukidashi, and Bakugo. The last one was because he kept changing how he fought each time."
"I'm adaptive; I change it up to not be seen as predictable. So what?" Katsuki said in annoyance as Wally groaned, facepalming.
"Being predictable is not a good thing in a fight, I'll admit; it can make it easy to see tells. But if you're just going off in temper tantrums without thinking, that'll also be predictable if your opponent is smarter. But I am still impressed. Class B did a good job with this. Still got a ways to go, but you got good form."
"Oh yeah!" The students of class B all gave celebratory moments, a few high fiving each other while giving the two that didn't do the best their support.
"Now time for some team exercises. I'll have four students pair up; two from their own class, two from a different class. A group of four students total so that'd be about ten groups. Two from each class shall pick a duo from the opposite class to work on this next exercise," Wally explained. The hero course students looked on in confusion at this.
"From a different class?" Neito asked, not liking the sound of this at all.
"Yes. You and one other from B will team up with two students from Class A to work on this next exercise. This is gonna simulate a team event in terms of recon work compared to the Cavalry Battle. Only this time, you have to support each other without excessive use of your powers because the terrain I'm choosing is kinda hair-trigger. Excessive use of quirk factor will set off the trap." Wally then got a machine out. "Now, I'm gonna be choosing partners."
After a few minutes, the teams were chosen by a colored band. Wally used his super speed to place one on each of their wrists. Izuku looked at the green band he had on before he looked around, looking for the D team. He soon found his three teammates. Momo, who waved sheepishly at him; Setsuna, who just gave a peace sign and a grin; and Kojiro, who just shyly waved.
Izuku then looked at the other groups and saw who was there as a total:
A. Todoroki, Asui, Shoda and Fukidashi
B. Bakugo, Koda, Tetsutetsu and Rin
C. Uraraka, Sero, Kamakiri and Monoma
D. Midoriya, Yaoyarozu, Bondo and Tokage
E. Iida, Kaminari, Tsuburaba and Yanagi
F. Kirishima, Hagakure, Kendo and Shiozaki
G. Aoyama, Ojiro, Kuroiro and Kodai
H. Ashido, Jiro, Honenuki and Tsunotori
I. Tokoyami, Mineta, Shishida and Awase
J. Sato, Shoji, Komori and Kaibara
"And now for team leader assignments. I already got them chosen, so don't worry about that; Team A will be Tsuyu Asui. Team B will be Hiryu Rin. Team C shall be Ochaco Uraraka. Team D will be Setsuna Tokage. Team E will be Tenya Iida. Team F shall be Itsuka Kendo. Team G shall be Mashirao Ojiro. Team H shall be Juzo Honenuki. Team I shall be Yosetsu Awase. And finally, Team J shall be Mezo Shoji." Wally called out, as there were some mixed reactions from the teams.
"Wait, I'm the leader?" Ochaco called out, pointing to herself with a blank-eyed look of shock on her face. Mezo and Mashirao both exchanged confused expressions as well, equally surprised.
"Sweet, I'm in charge," Setsuna said with a cheeky smirk. Momo looked to the side nervously at this fact.
"...Ribbit." Tsuyu just shrugged a bit, rolling with it. Shoto raised a brow at his being passed over. Yosetsu and Hiryu just high fived each other to become leaders. Some, however…
"Why do I have to be the underling to some extra with scales?" Katsuki shouted in annoyance, his eyes almost seeming to glow red in the irises.
Wally sighed. "Sometimes, we have to see if a leader can be a follower. Oh yeah, speaking of stuff with you, Bakugo. You, Monoma, Uraraka, and Kodai, put these gloves on." Wally gave both girls artist gloves and Katsuki and Neito thick worker gloves.
"Is this all?" Neito asked as he saw the speedster whisper something to Momo, confusing him further before she made a black full body jumpsuit, which was given to him.
"Change into that. Your whole body can activate your power just from touching, so this is to avoid accidental activation. Again, this trap activates the moment your quirk factor goes off in their sensor's range, so be careful. Toru, you get one as well. Both of you go change."
"Yes, sir!" Toru said as she took her jumpsuit and followed after a grumbling Neito. After a few minutes, the two came back in their gym uniforms... only now they had it to where only their eyes would be exposed outside of some small gaps so they can remove their gloves if needed.
"Also, before anyone makes a comment on how it may look, don't," Wally said flatly as Shota actually took Minoru aside while they were waiting. After a few minutes, Minoru came back, looking nervous as he went over to Mashirao, who filled him in on their strategy.
"Anyway, come on, class." Wally brought them along towards a training area that was nearby. It was a large city area with a lot of roads and bridged areas above large pipes, with ten, four-seat motor vehicles at the standby and ten different trucks. "The teams each get one truck to protect, but you all have to be careful with how you use your powers."
"Yeah, yeah…" Katsuki said dismissively as his team went to their vehicle. Wally frowned at his disrespect, but rolled with it for now. Wally then sped off as he gave something to each team leader; instructions..
"These are simple instructions for how these vehicles work. They were made by one of Mei's upperclassmen, so good luck! You have five minutes to figure this out and who will sit where," Wally said as he sped off to the observation area, leaving behind an electric trail. Denki caught a small trace of it and grew curious.
"You sure this is a good idea…?" Shota asked, looking at Wally as he arrived, who just shrugged. "That's not encouraging." He gave him a flat stare as the students began to converse to themselves.
Wally, however, just motioned to Mei, who was setting up her drones. "They weren't built by her, so it's not like they'll blow up."
Shota and Vlad looked at each other at this, but went with the other observers as each driver activated the vehicles to go after the trucks they had been asked to protect. A hundred drones flew into the air around them to attack.
With Team D, Izuku drove on it as he said, "Okay... I've got an idea." He then saw an ear float up to his face as Setsuna smirked. "Um…" He whispered the idea into her ear, and she nodded and gave him a thumbs up as her ear reattached.
"Yaoyorozu, get me some tonfas!" Setsuna said. Momo nodded and quickly made a pair of metal rods come out of her arm, which she gave over to her as Izuku sped the bike up to try and keep up as he started to go around the truck.
Setsuna glared upward as she raised her arms up and forward, firing them out. She spun them in a frisby fashion, knocking away the drones that were nearby. Izuku used his Full Cowling to make a sharp turn as Kojiro gave a look at Setsuna, who nodded.
"Here we go…!" He then fired a blast of glue-like slime out of his face that clung to the truck and drones, sticking them together in a very thick web.
At the observation area, Wally was munching on a piece of takoyaki as he watched this, boredly watching the different screens. "That Izuku kid really needs to work on his strategizing… kid can apparently kick up hurricanes but he can't slow down the truck so Kojiro could just spray the ground."
"He's actually pretty good with helping others with their potential, though…" Shota admitted as they watched the others. On one of the other screens, Tsuyu was shown jumping at their truck with Shoto on her back to blast the asphalt in front of it. At her command, Manga blew out a bouncing speech bubble that allowed Tsuyu to kick the runaway truck... which Nirengeki double-impacted to make it stop in its tracks.
All Might looked at the two for a moment before he looked up, studying the other screens. One thing that caught his eye was Tenya trying to keep his team under control after Denki fried the drones, leaving the truck to run wild. Reiko was trying to stop it with her powers, strain clear on her face as she fought to keep the truck from teetering off the road into a wall.
"It seems Young Iida is distracted," All Might said, stroking his chin as he looked at another screen and turned on the sound. On that particular monitor, Ochaco was talking with Neito.
"Look, I know we don't seem to like each other much, but I got an idea!" said Ochaco as Hanta drove the truck towards their target. "We need to get those drones out of the air so I can touch the truck… With your powers, you can help Kamakiri with these braces on."
"Hmm... good point," Neito conceded with a small smirk as he tapped both Ochaco and Togaru. "Since I know you have some basic strategizing from the Sports Festival, let's see if you live up to this hype your class has."
"Whatever! Lets do this!" Togaru growled, smirking wildly as Ochaco tapped herself and them, causing them all to float up into the air. "Let's do this!" He slashed towards the drones with clawed hands as Neito got a blade out from his wrists to stab into a few of them.
"Okay…!" Ochaco then jumped and tapped the truck, making it start to float up. "Sero! Tape it up!"
Hanta nodded and put one arm out to start creating a web of tape around the truck, sticking it to the bike as he parked it horizontally on the road.
Wally chuckled when he heard and saw this as they all floated down. "Heh, got his parallel parking down, too." He popped another octopus ball into his mouth as he looked around before sipping from a bottle of soda and settling to watch Mashirao's team, turning the sound on. "Seems our martial arts expert is having some issues…"
On the road, Yuga was driving the vehicle, but was looking nervous. "Mon ami, you sure just chasing after this vehicle was a good idea?"
"I'm trying to think... we need to get onto it as soon as possible," said Mashirao nervously. Yui got up, frowning a bit as he looked surprised.
"Look, we need to focus. So, I'll only say it once," Yui said calmly, looking at everyone with a neutral face. "Kuroiro, can you phase into shadows?" When he nods, she turns to Ojiro and motions to him. "Go into Ojiro's shadow and stay there 'till he gets there. Then, use that to get up there and work with him to infuse with the shadows. Could be a good way to get the truck to stop. If not, I've got a different idea." She then motioned Mashirao over and whispered in his ear.
Mashirao nodded and said, "Good idea!'' The obsidian teen nodded as he sunk into the monkey-like teen's shadow. Mashirao jumped to the top of the truck with a strap on him as Shihai jumped out and smacked a drone aside. Mashirao then used his tail to smash a few of the drones. Yuga fired from his belt as Yui drove to the side of the truck and got close before nodding to Yuga. The blond Frenchman then jumped to the rider's seat and took over as Yui climbed to the truck and pressed her hands on it.
With a grunt, she concentrated a faint glow on the vehicle until it started to shrink to about the size of a toy, with Mashirao and Shihai jumping off and back onto the bike which Yuga stopped with a fast slam on the brakes.
Shihai slunk across the road and picked up the toy-sized truck with his hand before giving a thumbs-up to the team. "We have won this day, my comrades in arms."
At the main base, Wally nodded with a small smile. "Not bad…" Toshinori nodded in agreement, stroking his thin chin as they watched these play out, especially as they watched Ojiro and Yui give each other nods at their team work.
"A leader does need to learn how to listen to his allies. Only way they can win is with many perspectives. But they need to keep their authority." Suddenly there was a loud, banging sound as they saw the bridge on the screen start to crumble.
"Ah crap! " Wally quickly moved, zipping away as the others watched this play out. Wally zoomed past the faux city streets as he saw one of the bikes. He saw Itsuka's team was at the bridge with a cluster of vines keeping the truck from falling in with Eijiro pulling on the vines. But one of the bikes had crashed on the ground below.
"Come on… come on…!" Eijiro grunted as Itsuka and Toru prevented Ibara from falling out of her chair while Hiryu's team fell out from the sky on parachute chairs. They all soon landed, with all four boys disorientated.
"Good thing we found that eject button…" Hiryu muttered in a daze to himself as Katsuki grunted, ripping off his seatbelt. Tetsutetsu jumped from his chair in his metal armor and quickly went to some of the other vines and began to pull with Eijiro. Together, the two the truck back on stable ground.
"Everyone okay? What happened?" Wally asked as he took deep breaths to get his lungs some air. Ibara rubbed her scalp with a groan as she just gave a wary thumbs up.
"My team heard a big explosion and Kirishima, our driver, thought Katsuki needed some help. So he drove us over here and we saw the truck about to fall into the hole," Itsuka explained, as Toru patted Ibara's back.
"And that's because Bakugo kinda... blew his top…" Hiryu admitted, sighing a bit. "I thought we could cut it off at this part of the road and… well, Bakugo got frustrated and released a big blast."
Wally groaned as he facepalmed, "Why would you use an explosive blast on a bridge itself and not at the drones?" He gave Katsuki a flat look at this, who was rubbing his temple at his own stupid move.
Katsuki, however, glared at the implied accusation and said, "Hey! You didn't give us a map of this damn road's layout! I thought this was a road, not a bridge! I thought a shallow pothole could stop it and help us get the drones away!"
"And instead, our bike is down a hole. Koji was our driver, so he slammed the eject button," Tetsutetsu explained as the quiet teen stroked his head sheepishly.
"As I just said, this guy didn't give us an actual map of the road!" Katsuki said in annoyance with a small growl.
Wally glared at this, his eyes starting to glow blue with a faint electrical charge. "Okay, look here kid—!" Wally began as Katsuki and he glared at each other. Katsuki was quickly advancing.
"You're not even that much older than me, so don't give me that 'kid' crap!" Katsuki growled as Eijiro and Koji held him back.
Before a clearly annoyed Wally could retort, Toshinori cut him off via the communicator in his ear. "Mr. West, I need to talk to you about this. Aizawa and Vlad are calling everyone back for the next part of this test."
Wally just groaned a bit, rubbing his head to calm himself as he said, "Look. Team B, ride with Team F back to the school. I'll have someone pick up the bike. See you at the next test." He gave Katsuki a small frown before zipping away. The explosive blond growled in annoyance.
At the hallway All Might told him to meet at, Wally stopped in front of the retired hero, the man's arms crossed over his chest. "Look, I know I got a little heated there with Katsuki, but come on! Who goes right for blowing up the road to stop a truck?"
"You forgot to give them the road map, right? With warnings on the layout of potential obstacles?" Toshinori asked. Wally sighed and looked down. "Look, I am still new to this teacher thing, too. I had to get this one book so I can even get good at it. And trust me, forgetting resources is a rookie thing that any new teacher can do."
Wally put his hands up as he says, "Sorry, sorry… look, how was I supposed to know he would do that? Everyone keeps saying he's this prodigy in combat; I thought he had some self-control in these situations with his powers. There weren't a lot of factors that should have led to that mess."
"He does… but he's also prone to an explosive temper. You've seen how he is by now; you should have looked into that. I would suggest next time you set up teams, put Young Kirishima in the same team as Bakugo. He'd be a good calming presence for him." Wally nodded, and Toshinori sighed again. "Oh, and I have another thing."
"What's that?" Wally asked as he saw All Might come over and flicked him hard in the forehead. Despite his thin build, it still had a bit of an impact to it. "OW!"
"Get your head in the game! Don't just laze about on it, keep an eye on these kids! They are your responsibility too, even as a new teacher!" All Might said, his voice firm. "Any mistakes they make that could possibly hurt them also falls to us, their mentors, for not looking out for them better."
Wally groaned. "You're still strong for a string bean… Okay, I'll keep that in mind from here on, okay?" Suddenly he saw All Might expand into a seven-foot-tall, muscular goliath of a man with shimmering blue eyes and a stern look on his face, arms still crossed. Wally's eyes shrank a bit in intimidation.
"You mean it?" he asked in a firm, deep and booming voice. Wally just nodded, quickly doing a 'swear to god' crossing thing before All Might deflated to his normal form, coughing a bit. "G—hak—great… come on, we got the third part of this special process you have, that science thing you wanted to do."
"Oh, yeah! Power Loader is helping with this, too," Wally said as the two headed off as they walked ahead. As they walked, he couldn't help thinking, 'Man… haven't seen someone that physically imposing since Superman gave a lecture…'
They soon arrive at the Gym Gamma, or the "TDL," as Wally found out, with a series of equipment set up by Power Loader. All the students were now dressed in their superhero suits, with Mei giving the group an odd stare. "Okay students, we are going to do the last test for today for your ultimate moves," Shota explained calmly, looking at everyone. "As you know, Mr. West is a science expert on his Earth."
"Well, I wouldn't say 'expert,' but I was a little above average. But not the point; my Uncle Barry did something with me once." Wally stood in front of them as he guided them to a spot near the wall. "This is to set everyone's powers to their maximum."
"Maximum?" Minoru asked in confusion, crossing his arms. "What do you mean? We're already trying our hardest."
Wally just chuckled."Oh, really? You sure you're not just doing what you think is the highest limit possible? People wouldn't think superspeed has much utility, and yet I can do a lot of things." Wally reminded them. "Each power has a few other capabilities than what's blatantly there."
"Huh?" asked Hanta in confusion as Wally motioned to Rikido, who came up at this. He blinked as everyone else murmured at each other.
Wally looks at him up and down. "Your power is all about turning the chemicals in sugar into something that empowers your muscles, right?" Rikido nodded,and Wally got out a white sugar cube out of a pouch. "Just granulated white?"
"Huh?" asked Toru in confusion.
Tenya rubbed his chin in thought before snapping his fingers. "Of course! Sugars are not 100% similar depending on the source. There are liquid sugars and brown as well!"
Wally snapped his finger at that as he tossed the cube into the air before he caught it. "Exactly. Chemistry-wise, granulated white sugar is either beet or sugarcane put through a breaking-down method that just turns a natural chemical in certain plants into crystals. This stuff right here? If I had to guess… wastabon, right? Japanese sugar?"
"Yeah?" before Rikido could say anything else, Lunch Rush arrived with a tray of some kind; cookies of different hues. Wally picked one up and gave it to Rikido. He took it and looked it over, confused at the significance.
"Take a bite out of that one," Wally said as the others only looked confused, but waited as Sato did as he was told. He blinked, catching that something was different. "This one here is made with mostly brown sugar, which has molasses in it. A different kind of sugar."
Rikido powered up out of curiosity and everyone noticed his muscles seem differently proportioned; instead of just muscular, it seemed... rounder and harder in terms of firmness. "What the…?" Rikido asked in confusion as Wally curiously smacked the thick muscle with his hand, but cringed after moving his hand away. "You okay?"
"Yeah...yeah… I think your powers work on the logic of the sugars you ate. Refined white burns fast, thus a sudden rush of energy and makes you get a power rush. This stuff compacts easier, so it makes your muscles denser. And you also move faster, right? Some sugars likely have a different effect on your powers."
"Hmm…" Rikido scratched his chin at this. He went back in line as Wally nodded, getting everyone ready as the teachers and helper students sat back. Wally looked at Hitoshi and nodded calmly, his tired eyes looking intense.
"Okay, now for why Shinsou is here. Some of you may have a mental block to go all out… so Shinsou here is gonna help you get into that upper limit. However, since said upper limit likely has a pain threshold… that'll snap you out of control." They all nodded at this and started the training.
Wally sat and watched through the simpler powers. Koji was tested against Nedzu and while Nedzu admitted a slight tug in his mind, his higher amount of sentience made him free from the effect. Next up was Jurota, who turned into his monstrous state and tested his enhanced strength on some targets, followed by Yui taking objects and growing and shrinking them to various sizes. Even Reiko showed the full limit of her telekinetic powers as she lifted Jurato's giant frame off the ground for a few seconds before having to put him down.
After some time, Toru walked up curiously after putting on a swimsuit given to her by Midnight, since Wally was needing to test something. "Okay...so what am I doing…?" she asked as Wally got his goggles on.
"Just checking to see which light spectrum you're actually visible in. I mean, gotta be careful if you're gonna be a stealth hero, right?" He adjusted the goggles before pressing it on for night vision, and soon cried out in pain from something he saw. "GAH! MY EYES!"
That got some surprise as he took off the goggles, rubbing his eyes. "Are you okay?" All Might asked, surprised at his sudden shout.
Wally just groaned, his eyes sore from the sudden ray of refracted light in his eyes. He looked up at her without his goggles, blinking the spots away. "Well… I can safely say that she's giving off a strong refraction of light… puts anyone with night-vision powers at a big disadvantage, and a lot of eye problems in the future. Could work on that in a lot of ways…" Wally said as Toru gave a small jump in joy. The others were amused as Wally was still adjusting back to his light.
After some time, they continued the tests from there, with them testing Momo's powers to make a strong-looking cube of metal... which was followed up with them being shocked as Itsuka crushed said block with her giant fists' grip as Momo revealed it to be tungsten. Many were amused with Neito's pale expression.
Wally, however, paused when Yuga was preparing for his laser beam a second time, a slight cringe in his face after taking a bullseye from one of them. "Hey, Sparkles, what's the thing with the belt?"
"Oh, uh… I need it to be able to concentrate my beam," he explained. Wally put a hand out for it, and Yuga, curiously, gave it to him. Wally sped over to Mei. "What's going on?"
"Just something I am curious about… Mei, you're a tech wiz. You see something? I felt something was off," Wally asked. Shota was curious as Mei opened it and started to observe the design.
"Okay, I see the issue… the lens is too have to force more light out to get the concentrated beam you want." Mei looked it over and got some high-end plastic from her tool kit and started to do adjustments to the lens, making a smaller opening for the beam. "There we go!"
After getting it set up, Yuga put it back on and fired the second beam. This one was a little bit more comfortable to fire but still cut right through the cannon. "Oh my, that works wonders… thank you." Mei just nodded, giving a thumbs up.
During this whole thing, they studied many aspects of the powers as Mei wrote down ideas for upgrades for their suits that she kept to herself and the teachers, with the students seeing the speedster setting something up for Izuku. It looked like a computer monitor with different wires as he set it on his arms, face and legs.
"So… what's this supposed to be?" asked All Might in confusion. Wally chuckled as he showed a computer screen.
"This is something I noticed." Wally showed them all the footage from some of Izuku's training. "See this aura he gives off when he does that 'Full Cowling' thing, as he calls it? I'm curious on what this output actually is since he's glowing half the time he's using it."
"Huh… never noticed…" Izuku admitted sheepishly as Hitoshi sighed, clearly exasperated.
"Let's get this over with…" Hitoshi cleared his throat and said, "Hey, Midoriya, what's in that journal you brought?"
"Oh, that's some notes I made for—" Everyone watched as Izuku's eyes went dull when the power took hold, making Hitoshi chuckle a bit as Ochaco looked at the computer. She was very curious on what they were doing as they booted it up.
"Okay... do that Full Cowling thing while standing still. Just power up, and keep pushing it 'til you reach your limit." Hitoshi's command was simple, making Izuku get a determined look as his body sparked up. The computer lit up as Izuku gritted his teeth, eyes shining a lighter shade of green as the red lines formed over his body.
However, his homeroom teacher felt something as he quickly turned to the others. "Are you sure this is safe…?" Shota asked as they watched the numbers start to climb up fast.
Wally stroked his chin."I'm pretty sure it should be. I mean, he's standing still. He can't really do much standing still, right?" Wally's train of thought paused when he heard Kyoka yelling out in pain. He turned to the other teachers as they saw the ones with higher hearing covering their ears as it soon started to hum louder, the air starting to ripple with intense force.
"Uuuuh... Sensei…?" Mei asked as she felt something shake on her head. She quickly ditched her goggles as they started to crack from the pressure in the air. Other glass structures in the room started to crack as well as the concrete starting to shudder under Izuku's feet.
"Is that... normal…?" Tenya asked nervously as he motioned everyone else back while Izuku's body shone more intensely. Small shockwaves emanated from under his body as the ground cracked. His hair flared up for a moment before he cringed, snapping out of the mind control due to muscle strain and fell to his knees. The room soon went back to normal, the glow dying down as steam formed over him.
All Might, Wally and Shota all ran over to him, helping him up. "Was… that good?" he asked breathlessly. All Might nodded with a smile, but Izuku saw behind him that the computer was badly fried, smoke coming out of it as Chihiro and Mei were using a fire extinguisher to put it out.
"...I do have an idea for this coming week after this whole thing…" Wally got out two DVDs and handed them to Itsuka and Tenya. "I suggest you guys watch this on the big dorm TV. these have some pointers on hand-to hand-combat." They nod as Wally quickly looked at Izuku, "As for you... maybe have the low-level Full Cowling thing on for the rest of this week when you're awake?"
"Huh?" Izuku looked confused as Wally shrugged a bit, stretching a bit. "What do you mean, Mr. West?"
"I mean… I know guys back home with super strength, but they don't usually turn it off. So that could help you with using that in fights if you feel natural in it." Izuku nodded, getting an idea for that as they headed out. Wally looked at Mei, who showed him a notebook with a mischievous look on her face. This made Shota and All Might rather concerned.
(TIMESKIP)
(Mustafu, Japan. Class 1A Homeroom. Late-Mid August 11:00)
It had been a few days and it was now the day of the Exam. Everyone was getting ready in the homeroom. "All right... we are going to head out soon. Get your costumes," Shota said bluntly after finishing the roll call so they could head out. The class took their cases out, but the more perceptive students noticed something didn't feel right about their cases, with some even shaking them.
"Why does this feel lighter…?" Mina asked in confusion as Izuku opened his up... and gave a scream of surprise.
"My costume is gone!" Izuku said in panic as the others quickly opened theirs as well to find that all the cases were empty!
"Where'd they go?! How did this happen!? What's going on?!" many panicked cries were heard but Tsuyu noticed something attached to the top; on the top of the cases. It read, 'Go to Gym Gamma before you go.'
"Uh... I think they're at Gym Gamma," Tsuyu said, motioning to the note in her bag. They all saw the same note on their own. Everyone quickly went there and met up with Class B on the way.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Vlad asked in frustration as he and Shota led the classes inside... with the room darkened except for Wally sitting in a desk, casually sipping from a soda.
"About time you guys showed up," Wally said with a small smirk, getting up. "Thought I'd give you guys a little thing before you go."
"And what's that?" Neito asked in confusion as Wally casually got a device out and pressed the button. Suddenly, spotlights turned on, showing forty different costumes, all of them with adjustments to them on standees.
"Giving you guys more professional looking suits. If you're gonna be the next generation of heroes, you gotta look the part. I helped Power Loader gussy up your duds a bit. Better materials, adjusting the styles, make sure you guys look ready to take on bad guys!" Wally said with a small smirk as everyone went to their costumes, in awe at some of their designs.
"Oh, and Toru? Catch." Wally tossed something to her when she turned her body towards him. The invisible girl caught the object and found that it was a small bracelet.
"What's this do?" Toru asked as she put it on. A small orb of light formed from the small silt on the front. "Whoa…" She picked it up and it phased through her, forming anywhere her skin was exposed at. "Cool…!"
"Bendable light for you to play around with." Wally smirked as Minoru gave a shout in annoyance.
"Hey! How come I only got a belt buckle on my costume!?" Minoru shouted in frustration. Wally just shrugged casually, making him despair even louder. Shota just exhaled.
"...Okay, everyone pack the suits up," Shota said. The standees were stripped of the costumes and they all went to pack up for the road "And for this little stunt… you're coming with me."
Wally looked confused at this, blinking towards the stealth hero. "Huh?" Shota only smirked a bit, mischief clear in his usually sullen eyes.
"Since you decided to play this little joke, you may as well come with me for my class's exam. Could use the company. Plus, I think it'd be good for you. Class B can handle it, I'm sure… but my class are problem children, so I could use the help."
Wally groaned, but nodded."Fiiiine… may as well see how well my new suits work," Wally chuckled, not sure how this insanity would go.
End of Chapter 4
Wooof… man this took awhile to make. But I hope everyone was willing to wait for this for as long as it was. I hope this will meet your expectations. Next chapter is the early stages of the Provisional License Exams! Please Read, Review and Suggest away!
