Izuku's second day at UA started much the same as the first. Some light training to make sure he didn't get rusty, a shower to make sure he was fresh and ready for the day, and a quick breakfast before making his way to class. Considering that their teacher, Mr. Aizawa, had basically taken care of their hazing, it should be time to get a real UA experience. Unfortunately, the real UA experience was seemingly more focused on the school aspect than the hero aspect. They were being taught by heroes, which was amazing, but that excitement was quickly drowned out by the overwhelmingly boring lessons they were taught.
Eventually they made it to the last class of the day. Most of the students were asking about who their heroics teacher could be. Given that he hadn't seen the man all day, Izuku had a sneaking suspicion of who it was. And his suspicions were answered when the door burst open suddenly "I am, coming through the door like a normal person". The class erupted into cheers of excitement as they saw it was All Might who would be teaching their heroics class. Some commented about how cool it would be to learn from the number one hero others, Izuku thought he heard Asui comment about how that was his silver age costume.
All Might moved to the helm of the room before he began speaking again. "Today's trial will be…" He produced a card with the word battle on it. "Battle Training!" Bakugo had an almost feral grin as he looked on at the card in All Might's hand. "And the first step of that is looking the part!" All Might suddenly produced a button from somewhere in his costume before hitting it revealing 20 cases that came forward from the wall. "These cases follow your seat number in class, so grab your cases, change, and meet me at Ground Beta." With that All Might zoomed off before the class ran and grabbed their cases and headed to the changing rooms. Izuku found his case and slung it over his shoulder before following after the rest of the class.
When he arrived in the locker room some the class was just starting while Todoroki had already finished changing and walked out towards Ground Beta. Izuku opened his case and looked through the contents and smiled. Him, his mother, Benimaru, and Maki had worked hard on this suit and it was great to finally be able to put it on. He put on the shirt first, it was a black shirt with green trim with a full-length left sleeve and no right sleeve. Next was the shorts, black shorts with a green trim at the waist and legs, but with white lines stretching the length. Finally, a massive black fireman's coat was over his shoulders with the same design as his pants. The coat itself was so long that it went past his knees.
Izuku walked out with what was left of the guys to find most of the class out in front of All Might. He appeared to take a quick headcount before he began again "Now zygotes, you look the part now it's time to divide you into teams for a 2v2 battle trial." At this point the class exploded with questions about the exercise. All Might seemed to be overwhelmed before slowing them down and pulling out cue cards to better explain the activity they would be doing. Izuku looked over to the board where All Might had divided them up. He would make up a team with Uraraka and go against Bakugo and Iida. They would be the heroes with the goal of capturing either both villains or the fake bomb. The villain's objective would be to capture them or protect the weapon. Maybe the second day wouldn't be so boring.
As Uraraka and Izuku looked over the schematics of the building Izuku was curious about if she had a plan ready. "So Uraraka do you have a plan?" Izuku asked.
"No, I'm actually really worried about this because of how high those two scored on Mr. Aizawa's test." Uraraka explained. Izuku looked up to the building ahead of them and thought for a moment before he replied.
"Honestly the most solid strategy for them would be to let Iida search the building while Bakugo stayed back and protected the bomb, but from what I understand it will likely be the opposite. My plan is simple we'll intercept them and overwhelm them with number, an absolute victory." Uraraka looked stunned at the confidence that he delivered the plan with before nodding, and just in time because All Might called a start to the exercise in their headsets. Izuku took the lead with Uraraka a bit behind him to maximize their strategy. If she could go unseen and capture the enemy, then this would be over in no time.
Sure enough Bakugo erupted around the corner, his palms out and primed to explode. Izuku reacted by signaling for Uraraka to look for an opening while he redirected the palm aimed towards him. "So Deku, you finally found some fucking guts" Izuku squared off with Bakugo taking a simple stance before Bakugo raced forward right-hand glowing with another explosion. Izuku met him halfway grabbing his wrist and flipping him onto the floor hard.
"Uraraka now!" Izuku yelled as his partner took that moment to surge forward and try to capture the stunned Bakugo, but Bakugo wasn't just acting tough and quickly regained his bearings. Exploding his palms to launch himself up and over Uraraka and down the hall a bit. Bakugo scowled as he looked upon the two before igniting his palms again. He changed up his movements in air to be slightly less predictable learning from his first couple of straight-forward engagements, but ultimately, he couldn't land a blow on Izuku who he perceived to be the bigger threat so far.
Bakugo landed back on the end of the hallway before deciding on a new course of action and a feral grin plastered itself to his face. "I doubt you remember it because it's been so long, but my quirk works by exploding my sweat. I wonder what would happen if I ignited a ton of it at once." Bakugo grinned as he raised his gauntlet towards them. Uraraka was currently a bit ahead of Izuku from another attempt at wrapping up Bakugo.
The hallway erupted into light as All Might yelled at Bakugo to stop. The fire sped forward as it sought to engulf everything in its path before suddenly stopping and reshaping around both Izuku and Uraraka. All Bakugo could make out from within the flames was a brilliant green. Suddenly the fire entered Izuku's mouth and he seemingly ate the entire attack at once. Uraraka sat shell-shocked as Izuku cleaned his ear with his finger. "God, All Might can fucking scream."
Bakugo looked pale at first before his expression hardened and he rushed forward again. All his explosive punches were tossed aside, and the explosions themselves were redirected and did more damage to Bakugo than anything else. Ultimately Bakugo could only see red. Thisdeku should have been a pebble in his path, yet he was more affected by All Might screaming in his ears than any of the attacks Bakugo threw at him. He let out a yell before rushing forward again. Suddenly his explosions cut out and Izuku caught him with the capture tape before slamming him into the ground roughly. "And that's for putting my partner in so much danger. Are you alright, Uraraka?" Uraraka dumbly nodded and Izuku extended a hand to help her up. While making sure she was all right, they heard All Might call for five minutes remaining in the exercise. Uraraka began to panic, but Izuku picked her up by the costume as he headed up the nearest staircase. As she struggled to get free Izuku spoke to her again "It doesn't matter how much time is left, what we need to focus on is finding the bomb and a good strategy to save as much time as possible." Uraraka broke out of her desperate struggle and nodded before they finally heard a small amount of talking in the room.
Apparently, Iida felt the need to get into character for the exercise. Uraraka and Izuku both laughed a little as Iida realized they were in the room with him. It had been stripped bare of everything Uraraka could have used and he stood dead in front of the bomb. As he began to start another monologue about how the heroes could not get past him. Izuku started to circle around the room. Iida followed him with his eyes until Izuku walked behind a pillar and Uraraka surged forward to make a move on the bomb. Iida grabbed the bomb and ran away from her into another corner of the room.
Iida then caught sight of Izuku making an 'ok' sign with his hands before he disappeared from his line of sight again. Suddenly Iida was on the ground and Izuku was the one holding the bomb. As he set it on the ground lightly, Izuku extended a hand to help Iida off the ground. All Might called an end to the exercise and all four of them made their way back to the observation room. All Might asked the rest of the class to name an MVP of the match and Yaoyorozu quickly responded. She named Izuku the MVP, but some of her comments came off as more criticism than areas that could be improved upon.
All Might went on and added some of the things they could have done to improve. As Iida and Uraraka began to get down on themselves, Izuku tapped them on their shoulders and gave them a thumbs up and a smile to try and encourage them to work harder moving forward. They seemed to take it well as they smiled and listened intently to All Might and watched the next matches even harder. There were a lot of good matches, but Izuku found that he didn't too much care for some of Yaoyorozu's commentary.
Most of it was spoken in absolute, but most of the matches were close enough that some small strategy changes could easily change the outcome. She was definitely smart, but the absoluteness with which she casted judgement seemed to point to her thinking there was always one correct way to do things. A very inflexible train of thought for someone with such a versatile quirk. Honestly a self-imposed limit.
Finally, they got to the last match of the battle trials. It was underwhelming, but impressive. In an instant Todoroki froze the entire building to secure the bomb. It was overwhelming power against the other team and all Izuku could do was grin as Todoroki unfroze his classmate's feet and they made their way back to the training ground.
From the matches Izuku could tell that some of his class had experience training before they made it to UA, and ultimately it was coming up to be a very interesting year. All Might sprinted off because he had somewhere to be and the class went back to their respective locker rooms to get changed and Izuku was finishing up getting his uniform on when he heard an unnatural sound.
"Our upperclassmen have left us this wonderful gift, and I for one will not waste- "As Mineta made a dive for a peep hole a flaming arm extended from Izuku's body and grabbed Mineta by the head. Another arm extended from the flames and grabbed Mineta's case as Izuku threw his own over his shoulder and made his way down the hall back to homeroom.
"You know you can't be peeping, its disrespectful to our classmates, and yourself since you aim to save people." As Izuku carried Mineta back to class to drop off their cases and then back to the dorms to keep him out of even more trouble, Bakugo went to the training grounds to begin working again. He'd seen so much today that he felt like he couldn't compete with stupid fucking Deku to the half-and-half bastard, he wasn't as invincible as his school life led him to believe.
Meanwhile a half-decayed newspaper sat on a bar counter. The front headline: "Symbol of Peace Begins Teaching at UA!?"