Week 1: Wrap up
The previous couple of days were hectic for class 1A, there was more truth to sero's story than they initially gave it credit for the day he told them of the incident was the exact same day where he had attempted to assault midoriya in his sleep, and the altered nearly demonic voice that spoke through his voice instantly queued midoriya in on what was posing his friend in that moment. That knight with that dragon from before and almost to confirm his theory once sero was returned back to normal he explained how a strange things happened to him on his way back to on the ship it, he didn't know if it were real or not but he saw a glint in the distance for one moment and in the next he was suddenly stabbed in the chest by a flying sword but the moment happened so fast that he didn't feel any pain and soon as he went to touch his chest nothing was there so he assumed it was just him hallucinating it. Midoriya concluded that it was probably the same being that would make sense why he would target him specifically over everyone else. The group scattered the internet for some type of solution to this problem but couldn't find anything even going to the association themselves but they had little they could do either.
The next time possessed sero attack was kirishima even despite the boy's hardening quirk he was still able to be cut by possessed sero's tape which the teens found remarkable lucky the cuts wasn't anything major due to sero warning them of the danger before hand and seeing the marks it left in the associations walls in midoriya's room on his first attack. that's when the group collectively decided to forcefully bind sero to his bed when going to sleep so they could avoid these situations from happening again, which seemed to be working out so far, momo had created a device around his elbows which would shred his tape just as it left his elbow making his powers even while possessed basically worthless, sero remarked how the spirit did not take to kindly to its situation it's voice occasionally yelling in his head a number of expletives at his friends…but par from the the group didn't know what to do about their friends predicament so they decided to let it stay for now.
That wasn't all that happened over the previous days koda had attempted to follow up on his and sato's discovery of those monster scales that they found previously but every time koda would bring it up the association members would have no idea what he was talking about, even sitch didn't know what he was referring to, koda had eventually found that blonde bowl cut worker from before that gave them the mission to recapture that scale monster and confronted him over what they were doing with it but the worker only told him that he couldn't reveal that information to him but he did confirm that the monster was being used for other purposes than medical as he was informed of but that's all he can really say on the matter and he advised that koda dropped the subject only leaving the quiet boy with more questions than answers.
Ojiro was still undergoing his harden training under bang as well as occasionally, training additionally with toru later in the night but the duo was also strangely interrupted by an unconscious bakugo showing up two more times during their training sessions , making the two of them wonder what was happening with the explosive teen. on some of the days ojiro was simply too tired to train in the night toru took the opportunity as a way to stalk bakugo during his training and see what he was up to, she was completely naked silently following after him in the halls of the associations HQ, she watched as he turned into a specific training area and went to follow but before she could see anything everything simply turned to black and she and bakugo both woke up where she and ojiro originally trained. Bakugo somehow found out that she was following him and threatened to blow her up if she tried something like that again before limping back off to the house. She was still confused about everything that happened but returning to the training area she found no one there, leaving her even more curious about what the explosive teen was doing or if someone else was involved with it.
Surprise visitors: Class 1A
The class were in their usual places in the morning, everyone scattered about between the living room and kitchen as they made breakfast conversing amongst each other about this or that, sero initially thought with him being possessed and all that his friends would be more weary of him but he was welcome to be surprised about how none of his core group or the class for that matter treated him much differently at all which he found was a welcoming relief he even had a few conversations with tokoyami of all people who he never much in common with to talk to but now with his situation the dark teen was early trying to converse with him and his "spirit " if anything the possession actually helped their relationships grow even stronger, much to the ghost annoyance sero noted.
Toru had told mina about the late night sessions and the strange things happening with bakugo during them which was mostly to give the girl something else to focus on other than her and ojiro being alone together. It was the pink girl's idea to stalk bakugo in the first place but when that plan failed both were just stuck on what they should do about it, bakugo wasn't even fully recovered from whatever happened to him although he tried to play it off well the class could tell that something was up but anytime someone would bring it up he would counter with his usual aggressive yelling and in the case of kirishima literally launch a small explosion in the red heads face, so others wisely just began to leave it alone.
There came a knock on their door again and this time it was momo who answered to an almost fearsome sight, there were three people standing outside the doorway two men and one women in the center given the way she was dressed and the way the two men made room for her suggested that she had an air of authority to her, she had a unique blue tattoo under her right eye and a mole under her mouth. The other two were undoubtedly hero's she recognized one of them from her time with spinner lightning genji if she believed the other was someone completely new he had a similar ecstatic to kaminari though with the similar yellow hair and thunder bolt near his head she though she overheard the guys talking about someone like this but she forgets the name.
"C-class neith" the women finally spoke, jarring momo from her thoughts, the women's voice was calm and collected but also suave and calculating.
"Yes ma'am?" momo said almost instinctively
"That was a good response but If you will let me in please, I don't know how much the association has informed you of all of their workings and members but I'm an executive and I would introduce myself but I don't like to repeat myself." The woman said her voice still retained the same cool tone.
"Of course madam, right this way." momo said with a hesitant nod
"Don't mind these two I didn't bring them along with me to intimidate or anything like that, they were coming here on a quest of their own." the woman said, gesturing to the two individuals.
"Greetings again creationist or should I say neith. We are here on orders from our master, one of your numbers has to go under an evaluation." genji said
"And who would that be?" momo asked
"Raijin. We haven't been introduced but I'm lightning max" max said and momo nodded as well.
"I see." Momo said in reply as she let the three individuals inside the building.
She quickly got the class attention about their very important guesses, the class all began to huddle into the living room and waited for the women to begin their. Iida instructed everyone to be on their best behavior and to treat them with the utmost respect before quieting down himself. The woman's steely gaze hovered over each of the individuals in class judging their reactions before continuing forth with what she had to say.
"We are all busy people here so I will make this brief. I am the heroic discipline supervision section chief agent Exma, to explain my position in simplest details as possible. I am responsible for training hero's under the rank of A-class. Your situation however has prevented you all from seeing me but another task is ensuring that hero's behave in the proper conduct which you all have performed admirably in so far however a week ago, in A-city we experienced a random power surge and after an investigation we found the suspect.`` Exma said, looking sternly over in kaminari direction of which Kaminari began to cower under her gaze and sent some side eyes towards Jiro who simply looked away her earphone jacks twirling in a not her fault way.
"I'm sooo sorry." Kaminari replied.
"If you were under me you would have received some sort of punishment but as I have no authority over you directly, I will just let you off with a warning. Although since you will be in volten care you will be punished well enough I suppose. Now the second objective that brings me here is for my training as I said I train heroes under the rank of S-class, however the students that I currently find in my care also have unique abilities similar to some of yours. Frozen phoenix, forest lord. I'm expecting your aid in training them. Two of them have already clarified that they have met you before they became heroes, so there should be no issue."
"You met people with abilities?" momo questioned
"Yes, although they were really underdeveloped." todoroki mentioned with a shrug
"Indeed that is the reason I'm demanding your aid, abilities such as those are out of my reach when it comes to training them. The last reason I'm here is for frogger. The association has admission planned for you and two other heroes and would like for you all to meet." Exma said before handing the frog girl a note card with the room number and the details of the team being designated. frog girl simply nodded her head before taking todoroki and koda away and outside, leaving only the two men with them, both continually stared at kaminari for a time before approaching the teen.
"You're coming with us." lightning max said simply
"For what?" jiro questioned, which made Kaminari look at the girl with a smile, she was being defensive of him which means things between them were starting to really heat up.
"To see if he really deserves the name he was given." Genji said simply, the hero saying that made kaminari connect the dots in his head, battery man did mention that this volten guy had two apprentices and he was going to guess that these two guys were it.
"Look..I had nothing to do with the name and all they just gave it to me." kaminari said
"That is irrelevant, Volten still wants to see you, if anything you should be honored. He was originally A-class rank 1 before sweet mask came along and he has abilities similar to yours.`` Genji remarked.
"But he wants to evaluate you to see if you deserve the lightning honorific first , if he does not prove you worthy you will change your name and if so then you can keep it." Max said.
"Ok , I guess I'll just follow after you guys then." kaminari said and the two nodded before making their way out, kaminari gave a half-hearted thumbs up before making their way outside. The rest conversed some more on everything before everyone started to head out their separate ways.
The Blizzard Group: Saitama, Geno, King , sweet mask , bakugo, mineta, aoyama
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"You finally arrived, you now let's hit the target's hideout at the slightest sign of resistance, you know what to do." hellish blizzard said
"Yes ma'am!" Eyelashes replied
"If he gets fresh with us, I'll break him!" Wild monkey announced
"Let's go" blizzard said walking away
"Yes miss blizzard ma'am!" both wild monkey and eyelashes said in unison.
Saitama house
"Master Saitama you rose to rank 7 and I have risen to rank 15, although that is still a far goal from the one where you set for me, especially with the recent addition that I'm now competing with." genos said as he was in the kitchen washing dishes, sending a glance towards bakugo. The explosive teen currently on his phone, but as the conversation started about rank he noticed the teen noticeable tense up and his face scrunch up in anger.
"All I did was beat monsters that I stumbled across, they show up a lot now" saitama mentioned casually as he played his game.
"You don't report your victories…which means witnesses are doing it for you. People are starting to recognize you. At this rate you may even get a fanclub." genos remarked
"Haha this loser, get a fan club? get real" bakugo said with a chuckle only receiving glare from genos.
"Even you don't have a fanclub and your class-S" saitama said ignoring bakugo
"No, I do. And I wouldn't sell you self so short master in fact those followers you met a couple of weeks ago have sent in numerous messages on their progress; they even managed to become heroes themselves.`` Genos remarked, with a side glance to bakugo who sucked his teeth in response.
"So that's what that lady was talking about those three losers." bakugo mumbled.
"Oh really? Well I never thought they would have gone but I guess seeing how high they could climb got them excited, I hope they are ok out there." Saitama remarked.
"I'm sure if they followed the training routine that master gave them, they will succ-" Genos' sentence was cut off as his system began to warn him of an incoming high speed signature, genos surveyed the room, first landing on his master who was occupied in probably a secret training ritual(playing a game) before transitioning over to dynamite who was staring back at him, he considered sending the teen out their to face the monster but at the speed it was moving at he would undoubtedly prove no match for the creature so he resigned himself to handling the situation himself.
"Dynamite you keep watch over the place as I'm out." genos said with a demanding tone and the expected response came back from the teen.
"Who the hell said that you can boss me around! And where the hell are you going anyways?" bakugo roared back.
"Your new gauntlets will be ready tomorrow, As for where I'm going….I'm going to get rid of a pest " was all he offered in return making the boy grit his teeth in silence as he crossed his arms over his chest as genos began to walk outside the door.
As Genos set foot outside the doorway he began to follow his sensors, which were telling him that the target it was tracking was extremely close within vocal range so he spoke.
"Show yourself." and surprisingly the being did, no not being.
"You are human? What do you want?" Genos asked, the human was covered by the shadows and slowly walked forwards as he responded, his hands slowly going into his pockets as he came into the light. Genos memory receptors immediately identified the perpetrator as the S-class criminal speed-o'-sound sonic.
"Get saitama, I know he lives here." sonic said casually
"This is the second time you have inconvenienced master, are you some sort of acquaintance? Or are you just a stalker?" genos replied
"Master eh? Well sidekick, I'm Saitama's rival speed-o'-sound sonic and I'm here to settle things. So scram" sonic remarked brazenly with a sadistic smile which turned into an angered scowl when genos started to laugh.
"Haha, what a freak, you claim to be my master's rival? How presumptuous and shameless! Get lost or you will be eliminated. Your bounty should please master plenty. Genos said, holding up his incineration cannon in a threatening manner. Sonic's scowls turned into a confident smirk as he pulled out a kunai and threatened similarly.
"No, that will be your fate, sidekick!" sonic said and with that done both combatant complete disappear from the house without much of a word
20 minutes later
Bakugo was getting agitated the robot hadn't come back yet from whatever "pest" he went to exterminate and this bald guy was really starting to get on his nerves with how loud he was being with playing some stupid game. He was tempted to just leave and go out on his own before a banging was heard on the door.
"Class B rank 7, capped baldy show! Yourself! Class B rank 1, hellish blizzard wants to talk!"
"caped baldy…huh." bakugo said with a chuckle, making saitama flinch up from the game.
"Hey could you answer that I'm in a very important part of the game right now, I don't want to lose my momentum." Saitama said casually over his shoulder.
"What?! This is your house! And they're clearly looking for you!" bakugo screamed back.
"Come on man this is important, if you don't I'll tell genos to break that toy of yours he's making." bakugo just growled at the hero before stomping his way over to the door. He knew if his master told him to destroy his bracers he would undoubtedly do it without a second thought and he had to admit he was entirely curious what that thing would be like going off the new tools mina, Jiro, and kaminari got from their teachers. He stomped his way over to the door and opened, as expected the three dorks in front of the door weren't expecting him to open it.
"D-dynamite? What are you doing here, I'm sure that my information was correct that this was the home of caped baldy." hellish blizzard began to murmur.
"Hey if it's the newspaper! Tell them that I don't need it." Saitama called from inside. Bakugo was about to reiterate the message when the large one intercepted him.
"We're not salesmen, we're high ranking heroes!" mountain ape yelled back.
"Could have fooled me .What do you three want?" bakugo remarked, earning a scowl from the three in front of him.
"We aren't here for you squirt. Get out of the way." mountain ape said as he went to open the door but bakugo knocked his hand away.
"Do you have any idea who this is punk? This is hellish blizzard B-class rank 1" eyelashes remarked
"So? that just means that she's a weakling just like you two staffers of hers" bakugo replied back, this got a flare from the girl in the center.
"Dynamite we are not here for you but for your insolence we will use you to draw out the one I seek." fubuki said with venom as her power flared and a familiar green glowed started to surround her.
"I loved to see you try." bakugo said in reply as his hands started to spark and glow with miniature explosions but before he could do anything he found himself levitating and thrown out of the doorway.
"Mountain ape , eyelashes occupy him while I discuss with caped baldy." fubuki said as she tossed bakugo over the railing towards the street below, just as the restrictive feeling started to fade he immediately used his explosion to correct his course preventing him from the rough landing he was about to commit as he looked back up towards the railing he was just in time to use his explosion to launch away from the two attacks from girl's butlers. Dodging both of them as they crashed down towards the streets below.
Bakugo didn't care about them though that girl thought her lackeys' was enough to stop him? Hah that's rich as he began to rocket back up to saitama's apartment before he could make fully however a shadow suddenly casted over him, the smaller one of her henchmen was their in mid air, he launched a kick in mid air which he easily dodged before grabbing the offending leg and was about to perform his Explode-A-Pult but the man's other leg was lightning quick coming up and striking him in the side throwing off his rotation and causing him to drop him to the ground and just in time as well as the other large man had gathers up rocks throw his way, bakugo simply waved his hand with an blast shield destroying all of the rocks before they could reach him.
"If you guys want a beating so bad then I'll be sure to give it to ya." bakugo remarked as he started to directly fly down to the larger man before using his miniature ap-shots to peppered the man down, the large man could do nothing but take the pummeling crouching low and guarding his body against the attacks bakugo wasn't a fool though and the second boytoy came back at him with knife? In his hands bakugo was adept at avoiding such weapons as he juked to the left and right avoiding each blow and getting a better idea at the weapons he was striking out with and he nearly burst out in laughter once he realized what the scrawny one held it wasn't a knife but eyelashes curlers but just as he dodged again they changed form into something that nearly scored a scratch on his face if it wasn't for him dodging back and countering with a large explosions to the man's gut launching him backwards into his partner that caught him. Now that there was a break in the fighting bakugo did indeed laugh.
'Ha! You almost had me there. I wondered what type of idiot would go into battle with fashion equipment." bakugo remarked
"Yes, that's exactly what I want my enemies to think it would be their last thought before they die." eyelash said trying to be menacing transforming both of his claws now into twin daggers.
"Cheap tricks like that won't work on me and that lug head over there is about as useless as well. Bakugo said confidently pointing to the larger man who was breathing heavily even after that light barrage.
"We will continue to fight you. We've faced much worse for fubuki." the big man wheezed out. As he stood up to his large height again, the two whispered to themselves trying to think of a strategy before they could fully however bakguo used his Land Mine Blast to launch both men into the air, despite the sudden change the two still attempted to fight him, the large one had thrown the smaller one directly towards him but bakugo being a natural in mid air combat easily avoided the straight attack before speeding directly towards the large man he tried to launch a punch out towards bakugo but he again avoided the blow and launched multiple explosion over the man's body before grabbing him by the head and performing his Explode-A-Pult throwing the larger man directly at his smaller compatriot and bakugo had to admit despite the mans build he was strong being able to completely halt the large one momentum without falling over but he was still off balance and bakugo seized the opportunity flying in close and pulling the pin on his bracer and letting his explosive cannon attack sending both stooges flying backwards into some spare tires and their they remained slumped and knocked out.
"Hmph, chumps." bakugo said dismissively before turning back towards their leader. As he made his way back towards saitama's apartment a weird wind started to build up around him gathering small pebbles and rocks in its wake and as he closed in he realized that the eye of the storm started to focalize on a single point directly in front of saitama's door, he summarized that it must have been that girl from before and just to confirm his theory her voice ranged out through the swirling storm "hellstorm!" The wind and rocks exploded forwards out the other way from the stairwell and bakugo could make out the silhouette of the baldy just as he touched down towards the ground. He was tempted to attack the women himself but he was more curious about the bald guys power he wasn't quite convinced on the pedestal genos put him in and it didn't make matter any easier when the bastard would always find a convenient way to leave when a monster strikes or the monster he kills doesn't seem like much of anything. He noticed saitama land on the ground and then be consumed by a tornado but despite that he suddenly appeared behind the women and was set to punch her but halted allowing the girl to jump a few steps back and slam her hands into the ground bakugo was slightly surprised when the ground suddenly sprang up around the bald hero and attempt to eat him but the bald hero broke out unfazed, the girls was faster however and struck the bald hero with something sending him flying backwards towards the wall, as saitama slid back he noticed the explosive teen.
"Oh you're ok?" saitama asked
"Obviously why wouldn't I be? baldy" bakugo shouted back, angering saitama
The two attention was snapped back to the women as she threw a rock barrage at both of them, bakugo counted the ones aimed at him with explosions while the bald hero simply let the rocks break apart on his body, through the smoke the girl went to slice saitama's throat but saitama was more focused on what was happening behind her through the smoke he could see genos and someone else…..sonic? And reacted quickly as he knew what was coming next. A large explosion engulfed the front of saitama's house leaving a large crater that was averted, bakugo completely oblivious to the threat was taken off guard and blown backwards slamming into the concrete wall, a trickle of blood trailing down the side of his lip. As he fell to a knee and looked up to what just happened.
"So you scampered back to Saitama's apartment. Sorry about the dust" genos remarked as he looked toward his master
"This is more than just dust! I saw sonic? What's going on!?" Saitama yelled back.
The three conversed before Saitama yelled back at the blonde teen, that attack just now was stronger than when he and the bot would train together. He struggled and hobbled forwards attempting to walk off the pain going through his body.
"You alright their explody? I would have protected you as well but you called me bald so I'm sure you could handle it.`` Saitama said casually as he looked at the teen..
"I don't need you to protect me!" bakugo replied sharply
"You did better surviving than I thought you would." Genos remarked but before the teen could say anything in retort a sudden yell "exploding shuriken" and explosion rocked the cyborg in the side but the attack barely phased him. Genos turned to the assailant who was camped out on a light pole. Bakugo noticed that the guy was the same one from the mountain side previously.
"You could launch thousands of those attacks and you still wouldn't be able to hurt me."
"Tough talk for someone that hasn't been able to hit me once!" Sonic replied back.
Sonic jumped down from his light post and landed softly both fubuki and bakugo could sense the murderous intent oozing off of the ninja, and bakugo could understand that the this sonic must have been skilled enough to have occupied the cyborgs time for an entire 20 minutes if this was the pest he was after all this time.
"Watch closely saitama as I turn your apprentice to scarp and after that your next!" sonic said with full confidence.
"Master, this man is an annoying stalker. I will permanently erase him so that he never bothers you again." genos replied and Sonic laughed.
"Ha! Erase me, you're too slow, you lack the ability.`` Sonic taunted, Genos' chest started to glow with stored power as he made his reply.
"You're a fool if you think I have been taking you seriously, you lose." genos said before disappearing from fubuki's and bakugo's sight.
The two started a high speed battle, genos constantly trying to attack sonic by his blind spot but every attempt was fruitless as the ninja would expertly dodge out of the way. The fight was completely lost on fubuki she couldn't even perceive their movements, saitama thought that genos had gone a little bit faster than before, bakugo was equally stunned by the display of speed only catching blurry images at most but mostly just reacting to the aftermath of their conflict but the thing that was really bother him was that despite this display of speed he was almost certain that, that giant ninja was even faster than this, he's fought her a total of four times now and he got..beaten every time, somethings up about that chick, he thought. The conflict between the two finally reached a head, the robot accelerating even faster before something baffling happened the ninja seemingly split up between 4 different bodies at first bakugo thought it was a similar mechanism to that giant womens liquid metal clones but he observed that none of them, casted a shadow and the ninja spoke about the technique they were actually after images. The battle was now about to completely heat up before suddenly petering out as genos hit the ground as sonic rushed past, what no one expected was that Saitama suddenly appeared in the middle of the brawl.
"Saving you pupil? You soft saitama." sonic regarded his rival
"I don't want any more explosions in front of my house besides, genos your new parts, do you think they were made for street scuffles?" Saitama explained before stepping forwards.
"Sonic wants to fight me and I'm a little angry right now so I'll take you on seriously, so bring it on." saitama said holding his fist loosely in the air
"That's exactly what I wanted, I've created this ultimate technique just for you." Sonic said getting ready, tenfold funeral sonic created 10 afterimages, startling everyone but Saitama about the amount of skill and talent the ninja possessed to reach that level but that was nothing to what happened next.
Killer Move: Serious Series: Serious Side Hops
Despite the ridiculous name bakugo could only stand there and gape at the massive amount of after images that suddenly appeared nearly a countless amount of clones the two charged at each other and sonic was instantly blown away, left powerless on the ground unconscious
"Is he dead?" genos asked
"No, I didn't kill him." Saitama said casually.
"Alright I'll inform the authorities to come pick him up, dynamite. you stay here and watch over him " genos demanded.
"Why don't you do it you piece of scrap!" bakugo shouted back
"Please allow me, I realized now, realize the error of trying to stop your progress." Fubuki said before yelling out for her subordinates to come and place the unconscious man in cuffs while the four of them went back upstairs to have a normal conversation.
Once there Fubuki started to explain her life story and due to how overwhelming her sister was in terms of her powers she would often overshadow her and make her efforts pointless, so she wanted to form a group of individual heroes under herself to oppose that overwhelming power.
"Doesn't matter how many zeros you add behind you they will still only amount to zero, you won't be able to compete against someone stronger than you like that" bakugo remarked.
"That's what I'd try to tell her" saitama added towards bakugo as he read his manga
"Point thoroughly noted, That is why the fubuki group seeks members with potential, I'd even offer you a position in our ranks although we dislike poaching off different groups." fubuki
"Like hell I would join your little fan club, I'll surpass everyone on my own." bakugo huffed back in reply.
"That witch- I mean tornado is in class-S, so why not strive for class A rank 1, you sure do have the skills for it." genos commented
"And I don't?" bakugo remarked
"I never said that but in a bout between the two of you for such a position she would probably edge you out." genos said simply.
"No class A rank 1 is impossible, I could rise high in the A-class correctly but I could never reach number 1. Atomic samurai's three disciples Iain, bushidrill , and Okamaitachi even couldn't reach class-S. Because no one could surpass sweet mask, the gatekeeper of the S-class. A-class rank .1 ``Fubuki replied with some foreboding tone.
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Aoyama and sweet mask were strolling down the road towards the ruckus that was currently happening down the street sweet mask had told him that they were tasked with tracking down an ancient caveman of sorts that they found in an ice floe, they named the person suppon. Aoyama was curious about how this person looked; it would give him and presumably the scientist a good look at human evolution in this world and given what he was already told about the people of this world in comparison to his it could offer some great insight it could even maybe solve the monetarization issues that this world's humans seem to undergo under stressful situations.
And just as the duo expected the ruckus being stirred was from a large beast of a man his clothes and necklaces/bone accessories already signified his primitive nature but what interested aoyama the most was his pointed ears almost like an elf's from fiction in their world which he thought was strange and made him more curious how the human evolved towards the point they are now. The creature was holding up two people by their heads his massive hands encompassing their skulls almost entirely. They were beaten and bloodied but still alive and breathing, suppon didn't look completely hostile but mostly just curious but that changed as they approached. Suppon dropped both of the men he held in his hands before stepping up to the two of them.
"The association said that they wanted me to take you in alive but I'm not that soft." sweet mask said his hands and neck sprouting veins as he pressed for combat aoyama noticed a bead of sweat start to drip down from the suppon almost as if in reaction to the bloodlust sweet mask was giving off but that was halted when aoyama shot a hand out in front of the star.
"Wait sweet mask, at least give me a chance to handle this. Please you wouldn't want to deal with the hassle of the association would you, by killing this creature.`` Aoyama argued and after a brief consideration sweet mask nodded.
"You got 5 minutes." sweet mask said simply and despite the short time frame aoyama simply nodded and watched as he took a couple of steps back suppon noticeably relaxed his posture that hard killing instinct and sense of danger left its body as aoyama began to step forwards tentatively to it. Suppon was still cautious of him, aoyama reached out a hand towards him to grab and the creature mimicked his movements, intrigued by the glowing gem in his hands a little too interested aoyama realized as the creature grabbed his hand harshly with his other hand and attempted to snatch the glowing red orb from his inner hand. While the hold was sorta painful he was just glad there wasn't any conflict but he spoke to soon as suppon angered that he couldn't take the red gem from his hand was about to use his claws to cut the entire arm off, aoyama thought quickly using his naval laser to strike suppon directly in the forehead making the creature stagger backwards letting him go, suppon was more shocked than hurt but that didn't stop him from baring his fangs at the teen and launching out with even more swipes at the teen, aoyama used his training from sweet mask to dodge the beast swipes and delivered a kick to the creature abdomen followed by another laser strike to suppons chest.
Forcing it backwards, suppon let out a howl of anger before charging again aoyama tried to stall suppons approach with his naval laser but the caveman was learning dodging out of the way of his strikes but before it got to him aoyama managed to redirect his laser back at him and it struck suppon in the back of the head tripping him up but he came up fast with a claw strike up aoyama chest the blow while not leaving a mark on him the force was still felt and lifted him off his feet and the beast took it's opportunity pouncing on him and trying to claw the boys eyes out but aoyama was just barely able to keep him at bay the claws were steadily closing in on him threatening to reach his face. Aoyama tried to launch multiple naval laser to get suppon off but the creature weathered his low powered hits and aoyama was to concerned about using an even higher power version but he did not have to suppon was suddenly kicked away aoyama could here it's screech before suddenly it came to a stop he immediately rose up and saw suppon embedded into a wall, it's right ribs completely caved in but it was still alive if just barely.
"Times up and for that pitiful performance we will now quadruple your training. Now go and detain that thing '' sweet mask said, bending down to whisper in aoyama's ear before standing up and addressing the crowd who were all shouting support and admiration about his looks and strength.
Saitama's house
"Monsters like that simply defy common understanding. Your monstrous yourself saitama but not in the same way as sweet mask or my sister , then there are monsters among monsters King and the penultimate hero blast who stand atop the hero world." fubuki started to drone on.
"It's difficult to move up alone, what's the problem with forming factions?" fubuki asked
"Nothings wrong with that but I won't join you." saitama remarked
"Just because you're a little strong doesn't mean you can do whatever you want , you'll never reach the top that way!" fubuki said.
"Compensating for individual defects with numbers is no way to survive." genos mocked
"I agree with the robot but not completely. There is only so much you can do by yourself…having a team to take on something you normally couldn't would be wise but when you are overly reliant on that dynamic is when you're just shooting yourself in the face." bakugo said as he started to remember the previous week and that large turtle creature that they were fighting, if he was by himself that day there was no way he could have held the thing off let alone beat it, then again when against that knight robot, without todoroki their he doubt he could have beaten it and again with the fight with shigaraki and gigantomachia those were team affairs and he admits that they needed it but it still bit at him that he couldn't do more, that he simply had to wait and watch while others did the fighting for him he needed to get stronger.
There was a knock on the door and to only Fubuki's surprise it was king the monster of monsters in the S-class and he was casually conversing with Saitama like it was no big deal, she started to ponder how such a thing could happen. Maybe it was due to his strength? Could she ponder if she could be a part of this group?
"Hey what happened to you bakugo?" mineta question noticing the scuff marks on the blonde teens hair
"Shut it shorty." was all bakugo said in reply.
Starting with the basic: Todoroki, Koda, mediocre group(Enjoe, Brut, Chemonille)
Todoroki and koda were both slowly following Exma further into the hero associations HQ, they progressed further and further through about a dozen twist and turns before entering into a familiar gym area they had went to when they first met their new teachers once they cleared the doorway both teens were shocked by how loud and abrasive Exma was when she spoke.
"Get on the line!" The woman announced which the two teens behind her guessed was a code phrase for a specific place as even before they could completely see who was in the gym they heard the sound of feet shuffling on the metallic floor. Just as Todoroki expected the faces were familiar to him, that group of abilities users from before in that park. Their faces went from a Stearns and frightened to relieved and back again as they took notice of those who were accompanying Exma today.
"Alright you three given the similarities between your three abilities and these two heroes we will be pairing you up with them today in hopes of better training results with them, but even with that in mind I will be keeping a close eye on you all just to ensure that you don't slack off. Is that understood?"
"Yes ma'am" the mediocre group said simultaneously, snapping in an awkward salute that the teens weren't familiar with, they moved a fist over the right side of their chest before opening the fist into a palm which they slid down horizontally down their chest until it went back to their side again.
"Good, now forest lord I understand that you can speak and control monsters, Chemonille aka forest commander will be your subordinate for the evening he reportedly has a similar ability to yours but he states that he can only command small animals your Job is to find a way for him to improve that ability to a similar state that you have. Understood? We will bring in a small selection of monsters and animals shortly so that you two can get started." Exma said
"Ugh ..yes ma'am" Koda said, attempting to mimic the salute that he just witnessed.
" frozen-phoenix, I assume no introduction is needed between you two given that you have met before these two are now the C-class heroes flame dragoon and frost raven. They share powers similar to yours and we hope that you can improve their abilities as well. We don't expect them to match you anytime soon but any progress would be good. Understand?" Exma said
"Understood ma'am" todoroki said, mimicking the salute like koda.
"Good, now you all get to work." Exma said before walking out.
As the women left the three members noticeably relaxed before walking over to greet their trainers, forest commander greeted Koda and jumped slightly back at the sight of aki below him.
"Is…is that a monster?" Chemonille asked
"Yup she is." koda confirmed
"So it is true that you can control monsters? You got to show me how?" Chemonille asked, getting closer to the teen.
" I…..I don't really control monsters like I do animals. I can't really say they're too smart for that, aki here and I have a sort of deal." koda explained
"Really? How can you make a deal with a monster?" Chemonille asked perplexed
"I can speak and understand them, Can't you?" koda asked confused
"Ugh…no I can only command creatures not listen to them. Observe." Chemonille said before shouting out his words animal control! And failing his arms about.
/ stand on two legs /
{hah as if} aki roared out in response.
{you heard something?} koda asked aki in response
{Yeah this guy wanted me to stand up on my hind legs} Aki responded before letting out a growl at the man who jumped back frightened by the response.
"I guess that's what happens if you use your power on monsters." koda remarked
"What was that thing with your voice?" Chemonille commented
"Oh that was my ability, I call it my anivoice and it allows me to speak to animals and monsters alike. I guess your ability is more psychological than mine." Koda remarked as he looked at aki.
"And for your first piece of advice, I find it better when you ask creatures to do things instead of demanding them to. It…probably wise if you treat them like there more your equal and not just a subordinate.`` Koda instructed.
"Yes , yes that does make sense." Chemonille said, rubbing his chin before using his animal control powers again.
/ would you please sit down / aki heard him in her thoughts again and took a glance at a koda for a moment who nodded to her she obliged with the request of taking a seat.
"Wow you weren't kidding." Chemonille said in disbelief.
"Yeah, let's wait for the chief to get back with the other creatures so we can practice a bit more on it." koda suggested as the three of them went to sit down and talk more about animals and the environment.
"Teacher!" both Enjoe and brut addressed todoroki formally with a bow, leaving the multi-colored eye teen a bit stunned at the gesture.
"I'm so glad that we can meet you again teacher!" enjoe said with joy as he wrapped an arm around the teens neck.
"That woman is scary. I would much rather train under you and that bald guy from before than her." brut added as he fidgeted a moment more even though he had a hood on. Todoroki shook the big man off his shoulders before addressing them.
"Have you been practicing since we last met?" todoroki questioned
" I sure have watched this." enjoe remarked as he shouted his signature attack. Hyper big bang burst the man said as he flexed his muscles and thrusted a finger outwards and away from them, despite the energy and concentration that the man displayed during the build up the flame that emerged wasn't much of anything spectacular mostly coming out like a soft flame thrower, todoroki did notice that the amount was indeed larger than it was previously it rivaled his other stronger attack from before which he would give the man some credit for.
"And so Have I." brut announced before raising his hands announcing his attack, hyper typhoon and the attack was similar again to how it was previously but the amount of gaseous frost that was being let out was slightly more both had improved slightly but neither seemed to truly take his advice to heart it seemed.
"I can see that both of you have improved your abilities but both of you have fallen back to your usual traits." Todoroki said watching their proud smiles and laughs turn into sad frowns and bowed heads as he began to detail their faults.
"Enjoe, you're still relying too much on physicality when using your ability, you bottleneck it and force it out of your body instead of letting the energy flow through you naturally. The most important aspect is to watch and control your breathing, let the fire build within you like you're holding in a breath and release it like you're exhaling." Todoroki instructed to a now dejected enjoe before turning his attention to the other one.
"Brut, you're the complete opposite. You don't release your power out like a stream, you simply just let it escape your palms unregulated and unfocused. While effective in getting to know your ability you need to look past that so that you can evolve it into an actual attack." Todoroki said, finishing his rant of the two.
"Sorry teacher!" Both of the adults said tears were falling from their eyes, making Todoroki even more confused and thought that maybe he had been too harsh in his criticism. But the two bounced back incredibly quickly, both of them patting the teen on each of his shoulders.
"We will not fail you again teacher!" They both remarked as they started to drag Todoroki further into a gym he was surprised to find a small little metal hut in the center of the gym.
"They created this thing for us so that we could cut loose inside." enjoe said as he tapped the huts outer shell.
"It's a completely isolated enclosure." Brut added on. Todoroki nodded along and began to think about what they could use this structure for, he began to not only think about training these two but also himself as well they're were some difficulties with his phosphorus white and phosphorus red ability that he hadn't considered yet the opposite side of the element he chose was not yet accommodate for the others element which meant that he would be burned on his right side more easily or his left side would experience frostbite earlier which limited his time and how much power he could generate with the ability even though according to genos becoming one element made that element stronger than when it was split in half in his normal state.
Todoroki thought for a moment more before coming up with an idea, given the isolated room and what the two others needed to work on it provided the perfect environment to work on both his and their issues. He requested for one of them to enter the chamber first while the other wait outside the first one to join him inside was enjoe, once inside he used his phosphorus red ability and completely heated up the inside of the structure and after calming enjoe enough to actually have a conversation with the man there the two sat inside the coffin of fire for 30 minutes and after that was done it was Brut's turn.
Exma came back and just like she said she came with at least a dozen creatures along with her being transported like house pets in small to medium sized kennels, koda noted that out of the dozen of creatures brought in only 3 of them were monster which he could tell because he could actually understand them, he often found it interesting how monsters operated in this world especially those evolved from animals, they gain a whole new level of intelligence which they could explore life with but most of the time what they said was extremely basic especially what they were saying now. Although he was happy that for the most part they were in good condition and seemed properly cared for which eased his nerves slightly on that scale monster from before. Koda and Chemonille immediately set out to work first starting with something easy with the traditional animals. There were around 4 dogs of various breeds and sizes and Chamomile used his powers on them and it worked fairly easily making them all run around in a circle before sitting down.
They moved on to the monster some of which seemed to have remembered koda and aki which he could only assume were from the fighting ring that they stopped and Chemonille powers on them were mixed only 2 of the four actually followed his commands but koda noted that was mostly out of those particular monsters being simply skittish and not wanting to get in trouble while the others were more headstrong even when koda attempted to talk to them they didn't seem to listen well at least until aki threatened them and then they got into shape very quickly, although koda reprimanded her for that saying that she shouldn't threatened them like that. When he had the time, Koda tried to ask the executive if she had known about the scale monster previously but she also didn't know what he was referring to but she did know that sitch would likely know. leading him to try and think of a different plan of action.
The masters are away time to play!: Atomic's group, Bang's group, Charanko
Sero was pleasantly surprised when the group of all of them began to head over to Z-city, atomic samurai had remarked that they were going over to bangs dojo for a bit and then from their the four of them could do whatever they wanted as the two men went out fishing, he partially admitted that sero was the lead cause to accept bangs offer to go fishing with him doing so when they were on that carrier that past month.
The group arrived in front of bangs dojo and sero marveled at the sight of the large mountain side, he was surprised that bang decided to set up shop in a place like this it would probably be a pain in the neck for anyone to climb up all those stair luckily for him he didn't have to.
" Yes your tape abilities will finally be of actual use "
Sero heard the disembodied voice inside his head speak in retort, making him mentally sigh.
" Would it kill you to be just a little bit nicer to me? I mean it was your choice to exhibit my body afterall. "
" And what a poor choice that was. "
The voice said back before sero just said forget it and just decide to leave the ghost be. As he shot up the mountain using his tap to scale up, there was a few times where he was sure Okamaitachi had cut his tape a couple of times during his trip up the mountainside but since they were so unbelievably fast he couldn't be sure and he really didn't want to start throwing out accusations especially with her he thought.
" Coward "
Ignoring his ghost again he finally made it to the top where he was greeted by the familiar faces of the old man bang, ojiro, and midoriya. but there was another person their with dirty blonde hair, ojiro was the one to introduce the teen as bang's original apprentice charanko, the two shook hands before everyone gathered around in the garden. And began to discuss some random topics, surprisingly before things got completely underway bang made note that they were just about to undergo their ritul mediation portion of their training and asked them if they would like to join them and that wasn't very surprising to sero in the least given that he seen the disciples meditating before he even decided to join them after he realized he was possessed by a ghost which worked he could speak to the thing at least now.
The group gathered around before sitting down crossed leg and over seeing the morning sun, sero closed his eyes and took a deep breath as he was instructed and let his mind be at ease, he focused more so on the sounds that surrounded him which wasn't much but the sound of flowing water, the flowing wind, and the sound of birds that were nesting in the area near by. but all of that suddenly disappeared. Nothing was heard as if everything seemingly blacked out of existence for him and he opened his eyes just to check, especially if something did actually happen and was momentarily freaked out when there was nothing but a dark void surrounding him. He attempted to find his bearings before a campfire spontaneously spawned in front of him and directly across from the campfire laid what appeared to be a knight all decked out in enchanted armor. Wait, was this possible?
"Greeting Tarni-" sero sentence was cut off with a whimper as the knight moved so fast and rapidly a sword somehow seemingly sprouting from his hands to stab sero in the chest he wasn't fast enough to avoid the strike but as he opened his eyes he realized he didn't even have to the sword that was aimed straight for his chest was stopped before it could reach him by an invisible barrier that suddenly surrounded him. The knight simply retracted its sword and sat back down.
"Huh? Even here that thing protects you." the knight said mostly to himself than sero, and the voice basically confirmed that yup this was the guy possessing him in the moment.
"So you're the guy, talking in my head. And what do you mean by that thing?" sero questioned
"The thing that brought you to this world, it protects you from me. You owe your very existence to it. You should count your thanks" the knight said vaguely. Oh he meant that thing , god he believed or something that believes it's god at least.
"Well now that you know you can't possess me now what are you going to do?" Sero questioned, the knight looked up at him and even through the helmet that obscured his entire face he could see the red glare peeking out through the slits.
"Nothing! I can do Nothing but rot in this hell scape that you call a soul, we are interconnected the only way that I'll leave you is if you die. Then I will pass on as well." the knight replied
"Hehehe…ugh I hope that doesn't mean you are planning on killing us now…..right." Sero said a bit hesitantly.
"I have been…considering the possibility but my revenge isn't done yet so no not yet" the knight replied
Sero was about to ask the knight who he wanted revenge on but he could wager a guess but before he could ask he was rudely shaken awake, he blinked his eyes multiple times as his mind took a moment to readjust to the real world again, ojiro was telling him to move out of the way so that the match could begin. Upon asking what was going on ojiro explained that iaian had asked midoriya to a duel and sero remembered him saying something to this effect when he first told him about midoriya being in the S-class. Sero gave a word of advice for midoriya not to hold back too much on him and that he was pretty strong, of course midoriya already knew that Iaian was A-class rank 2 so he was above kacchan which meant that the amount of full cowling he needed was higher than 45% so as to not be disrespectful he decided to go a whole 15% higher up to 60% full cowling as his power grew his aura and electricity flared and he signaled that he was ready.
Atomic samurai was the first to call the start of the match and as soon as he did midoriya already felt the bloodlust oozing out of the fellow hero and with that it allowed him to predict where his strike was headed to score just above his right shoulder, midoriya was already beginning his dodging motion before Iaian even began to move, the blade missed completely but his attacks didn't end there, Iaian next attack turned his sword from a thrust into a sideways slash but this attack was blocked by midoriya's black whip wrapping around the sword but he couldn't complete ensnare the blade as Iaian quickly pulled it out from the ensnaring whip, before quickly dodging backwards as midoirya summoned more blackwhips from his back that attacked the swordsman. Iaian batted away a number of the whip with his blade meaning to cut them completely but they were much to durable for him to cut through he instead attempted to serve through them but midoriya was one step ahead using his gauntlet to shoot out a number of air bullets which kept the swordsman at bay . midoriya was able to ensnare the disciples legs and tripping them from under him and causing him to fall, midoriya quickly sped over and pinned the swordsman to the ground it was Iaians lost. The battle was so fast that ojiro, charanko, and sero were at a loss for words as they couldn't really see what happened.
"You are holding back." Iaian said simply as he stood up on his own ignoring the hand midoriya stretched out for him.
"Not completely there, only so much of the power I can use before it starts to take a toll on my body itself." midoriya tried to ensure.
"What percent were you going at midoriya?" ojiro asked from the sidelines.
"Around 60% currently I can't go above 70% without some drawbacks." Midoriya said, rubbing the back of his head.
"You got good instincts kid, you move exactly where Iaian was aiming before he moved himself." atomic remarked, making sero gasp in shock from atomic actually praising someone.
"What are you gaping at? He told you our master only acknowledges the strong and you friend over there is definitely better than your sorry excuse for a hero." Okamaitachi commented
"Hey he's still giving it his all to be a hero and that's all that matters." ojiro countered
"All the guts in the world won't matter in the face of power, it will only lead you to die a fool." Bushidrill countered making ojiro bite back a response, he was right in a way he had to admit.
"Well I had sort of a head start, another power of mine allows me to detect danger going towards me and these three aren't very subtle in hiding it." Midoriya said, looking at atomics three disciples. This got a laugh from the man himself.
"Interesting, Interesting indeed, mind if I give it a try?" Atomic said so casually and midoriya, hesitated but nodded his head, bang instructed him to go up to 100% and he did as instructed his aura getting bigger and the electricity going around his body becoming more and more vibrant and wild. The three disciples were astonished by the aura he gave off but atomic simply stepped up to the plate and after a moment when both participants were ready atomic gave midoriya so many advantages such as when he would attack, where , and how but it didn't matter midoriya couldn't even perceive the masters swing, hell his danger sense didn't even activate to warn him of danger which shocked him even more.
"Alright now let's try that same thing again as last time but this time. Well test that ability of yours." Atomic said casually again before Midoriya was suddenly hit by a wave of bloodlust he was stunned by the amount and even those without danger sense could feel a pressure almost radiating off the man, ojiro felt a familiar sense of dejavu as he thought of his late night session with bang and that intimidating aura he can give off if he really wanted to. Midoriya was taken back how the man could switch between the two phases so casually and not even just that his body still looked completely relaxed as well. This time midoriya danger sense fired off and it showed the imprint of where the blade would be but just as he recognized that it was already there, midoriya could barely move a single muscle.
"Well, you still have room to grow but I'm sure you'll make a good hero, welcome to the S-class." atomic said handing out his hand for midoriya to shake which he did offering a nod in return, now that that all of that was out of the way the two masters left for a fishing trip leaving the rest not knowing what to do, the other two apprentices wanted a crack at midoriya as well while charanko and ojiro went to practice together, while sero took the opportunity to talk to his knight friend that he could finally see and interactive with not just hear now. After a moment of sparing the groups got bored and decided to go out and patrol for monsters, ojiro knowing charanko still being somewhat afraid of such activities decided instead for the two of them to headout to bombs dojo and just watch there class, which he was a lot more accepting to, sero teased that ojiro just wanted to see toru again, but the tail boy brushed it off as everyone started to say there goodbyes.
Fishing with Middle-aged Men: kamikaze, Bang, Tsu
Tsu arrived inside the briefing room designated and immediately went to greet her team which was comprised of the C-class hero mumen rider she was surprised by how ordinary top of the C-class was in comparison to some other heroes she known about or saw around, he mostly wore padded biking equipment which supported the bicycle in the room being his she thought and the next hero that was in the conference room was an A-class hero chain'n'toad who was a unique hero in her eyes as he wore a karate gi with a blackbelt but what surprised her the most was the frog mask the hero wore it was red on top and white underneath with yellow eyes, when she asked the hero about it he said simply that he wears the mask mostly because he wants to appeal to children, which froppy could respect the two converse amongst each other about their similar frog aesthetic before the briefing began.
As the briefing began the association had told the group about a monster that called itself the great salamander, as its name implied the creature was a large salamander with four big red eyes. there had been many sightings of the beast it seemed to have migrated from K-city and they assumed that it was the cause of slicing in half one of their destroyers in the fleet recently but that is unconfirmed, they said the the creature is likely a tiger level threat and was last seen heading into D-city and that's where they're team was supposed to come in, mumen rider who knew the area best was to be their guide in the city, the association assumed that the creature may have been aquatic so froppy was their for that case and chain toad was there for the fire power and to kill the monster. Each member accepted the roll with open arms and quickly set out towards the city hoping to find the creature before it could cause more havoc.
D-city lake
Bang and Kamikaze were both starting to begin their fishing they had brought two baskets for either of them and the two would likely silently compete amongst each other to see who could catch more fish, as the two sat down and began to talk about the time both regarding the past alien invasion and current events that have transpired both had regarded their aging selves. both had gotten kinda excited during their talks and nearly scared the fish away from them with their sheer pressure that it created before calming down and going back about their happy fishing.
"How is Iaian doing? It must be tough for him to lose an arm, even more so since he is a swordsman." bang said, making atomic chuckle a bit.
"Don't underestimate my disciple, right now he's training himself to the very bone to become more deadly with one arm than he ever was with two….. That's the kind of man it takes to become one of my disciples." atomic replied
"I understand..sorry it was a foolish question." bang said
"No need." atomic said simply
"Such honor…dedication…I had thought that I had found that in him…seeing that what had happened(and what could transpire next) kinda of breaks my heart." bang said honestly thinking about garou, atomic knew who bang was referring to when he said him and decided to switch the topics away from their previous disciples.
"It's not your fault, even though I still don't understand these new kids these days. Speaking of the new kids…the kids that the association had us settle up with are a suspicious bunch." atomic said, earning a nod from bang.
"You refer to the interview about them, correct? Yes that is weird the weapons from that day were surely kinetic in nature, no exotics nature to them or we would have been infected as well." bang said
"Do you think there are some experiments the association cooked up to make stronger heroes?" atomic asked
"Possibly, possibly…if that were true then the effects of the experiment was a success creating two S-class level combatants out of 20 people are very good odds. Especially with the growing number of ferocious monsters appearing lately." bang replied
"Well 20 successes at least we don't know if they were the only people involved with the experiments they could have just been the lucky ones." atomic said
"A rather grim thought indeed but a likely one." bang replied simply.
The two heroes noticed a monster go into the water as it exited the treeline but they paid it no mind and continued to converse amongst each even as the group of heroes that were after the monster followed it.
"These tracks of the monster, it undoubtedly went into the water." chain toad said as he looked down and followed the monster's footprints into the dirt leading into the water of the lake
"It seems the association was right in calling it aquatic. Ribbit." asui said.
"Wait there are civilians over there, fishing!" mumen rider said in panic and the group looked out over the lake to see two fishermen in a boat near the center of the lake.
"We have to warn them of the danger." chain toad said before making way to call out to them but was halted by mumen rider.
"We can't if we warn them and they panic, we could alert the monster to their presence and inadvertently put them in more danger, no we need to either defeat it now or restrain it enough so that they can escape unharmed." mumen rider said getting head nods from both chain toad and frogger.
"I think I spotted the monster." chain toad remarked pointing to a shadow in the water, before anyone else could comment on a plan of action chain toad jumped high into the air spinning his Kusarigama before throwing the bottom half down and pulling tight as he landed.
"I think I score a hit." he said as he struggled to keep the creature in place but he was losing the tug of war as he was suddenly pull into the water but before he could submerge completely mumen rider and asui was there they dogpiled on and began to pull in the opposite direction, they gained some ground but not much.
"Frogger, we can hold it from here your faster you go and get the civilians out of here." mumen rider instructed. Froppy hesitated for a moment as the beast gave a vicious pull nearly dragging all three of them under, the water began to circle and cyclone beneath them furthering increasing the pulling power on the other side but asui did as instructed and let go of mumen rider and launched off towards the fisherman's boat.
It took some time for her to swim completely out of the creatures vortex but she ultimately managed to do so and reach the boat a few kilometers away from the action she slowly raised up out of the water to try and not spook the fisherman just in case. they should have definitely been able to see the vortex from this distance away she thought but maybe it was like a natural occurrence for this lake or something else was keeping the fisherman there.
"You guys need to get out of here are you guys hurt or-" asui voice trailed off as she looked towards who was exactly on the boat, at first she thought nothing of the two older gentleman but she thought she's saw them somewhere and her mind immediately began to connect the dots and realized that at least one of them was bang and as if to confirm her thoughts he greeted her.
"Oh, what a surprise one of the teens have come to greet us." bang said.
"If you're here to ask for help, then forget it." the stranger with the swords said almost immediately in reply, Judging how the strange man looked and she noticed that he carried around a sword that meant this man was another S-class hero atomic samurai she believed if she recalled sero master correctly.. Two S-class here just casually fishing while watching them fight a monster and what did he mean they weren't going to help them? They are heroes aren't they.
tsu went through a number of mixed emotions before she tried to answer but was interrupted by an eruption of water behind her. The great salamander and the other two members of her party were suddenly thrust into the air before coming back down, tangled amongst each other as they dropped back into the water as several more water geysers bursted into the air as the battle continued underwater. Tsu looked back at the old men with scrutiny.
"Are you really not going to help us with this?" she asked gesturing to the geysers
"Nope." atomic samurai said simply as he still maintained his sitting posture.
"No, I don't think I will. You youngsters can't keep relying on your elders forever. But I will give you a hand." bang said hoisting tsu up by the shirt and before she could ask what the old man had in mind he had chucked her under the water she was shocked for a moment before she even could recognize what was happening she realized where she was headed directly towards the monster and the hero's fighting underwater, she quickly fixed herself just in time to deliver her signature drop kick that landed directly on the creature's cheek snapping its head sideways away from the heroes in question. The salamander now spun the water around him again and launched it at the girl but thanks to chain toad's Kusarigama she was able to get out of the way in time as he hooked it around the girl's leg and pulled her away from the attack. Asui was surprised by how adept the other two hero's were fighting underwater, they must have had really good lunge supply to continue fighting the creature, dodging away from its water jets and returning with attacks of their own but the creature was fast and fighting underwater still had the negative effects of slowing their movement while the salamander seems eleven more agile than before.
mumen rider used his justice tackle shocking tsu that he was able to briefly push back the beast before chain toad was able to get a cut on the creatures tail, asui tried to come in for another drop kick but the creature caught it with his hands and slammed the girl into the ground, before spinning the water around its body again and shooting all three of them up into the air where they were flung into the treeline out lining the lake.
As asui came to and noticed where the creature was perched up on a rock glaring down smugly at the chain toad as he crawled out of the water. Chain toad wasn't totally defeated however still maintained his fighting spirit to continue to fight the monster wrapping his Kusarigama around the monster neck the creature commended his skill but just by himself he was easily overpowered by the monster and shockingly to tsu herself swallowed whole by the creature and his weapon unceremoniously thrown into the water as the monster laughed. Tsu casted a disturbed glance at the two men still just waiting in the boat watching this all take place, a fellow hero was just eaten and possibly killed but they seemed to just not care, she thought as she bawled her fist.
"On the battlefield, only an Idiot follows an enemy into their natural element, challenging the great war salamander in the water was pure folly and you two call yourselves heroes? And as for you girl, you may be fine in the water like myself but you're merely a tadpole in the water compared to me." war salamander taunted
"Now my first line of business is to make this area my new base of operation, it is here where I will build up my strength and my army and then get back at the shark bastard for running me out of my original base." war salamander started to monologue to himself as he surveyed the area spotting two men fishing and getting a wicked grin on his face.
"You see those fishermen over there, I'll skin them and gut them just like the fish they catch right in front of your eyes, heroes." war salamander taunted getting ready to leaping back into the water to head at the boat but was halted by mumen rider's dedicated cry that he wouldn't ley that happen but the rest of his statement was cut off as he soon found himself tied up with froggers tongue, he tried to yell but all that came out was muffled words.
"Oh is he going to be your offering to me to let you go?" war salamander said as he looked at the spectacle before him. Tsu simply shook her head before taking the hero and leaping away back into the trees and out of sight.
"Huh!? The cowards simply wanted to save themselves instead of the civilians truly nothing worthy of being called a hero." war salamander said dismissively as he leapt up from the rock at the fisherman on the boat.
Tsu only got around two leaps before mumen rider simply broke free of her tongue and yelled at her.
"What are you doing! We are heroes! No matter the danger to ourselves we have to protect the people! Are you ok with just letting those people just die back there!? I thought I told you to evacuate them. What happened?" mumen rider yelled, tsu cringed back at his words but simply shook her head.
"Those weren't regular people that were bang and atomic samurai. S-class heroes" tsu said simply as she began to walk forwards gesturing for a stunned mumen rider to follow her, as they came out of the treeline again they were just in time to see the war salamander be completely chopped to pieces, those pieces and revealing the eaten chain toad underneath as they fell into the ocean.
"Huh? They were there the entire time and didn't help us?" mumen rider said as he saw the last bit of the monster hit the water.
"Yeah …that was a pretty selfish move. ribbit." tsu said
"It was but I'm guessing they wanted to see if we could handle it ourselves before interfering, ever since I saw them in action it always inspired me to do more….oh, and sorry for yelling at you like that. I don't normally like to yell at people." mumen rider said, bowing his head.
"No , no it's alright it's understandable really as I didn't tell you about it before, I actually really think you are brave to put your life on the line like that for the people, I strive to be the same way." asui replied although she didn't share the same sentiment for the S-class, The two shared a fist bump in acknowledgment of their similar pasion. As the two finished helping look for chain toad's weapon in the lake, the three of them promptly left back towards the association to report. Tsu waved goodbye to the bang who waved back as the two old men continued their fishing.
By blade and bow: Momo, shooter, drive knight
Momo was just entering into drive knight storage area one kaminari missing in tow, over the past couple of day she was finally able to create her Ideal bow that most suited her needs with some added suggestions from drive knight as well as some help in creating the material and composition of the bow her bow was extremely special in that fact that it could transfer it's type from long, recurve, compound, and even a crossbow by the simple press of a button or with enough talent and work pure intent, whatever this shape form memory material was it was a fundamental game changer for weapons and crating being able to change the way a weapon takes shape could improve her ability massively and save her energy in the field.
The two had been practicing mostly the recurve variant of her bow as that was what shooter used mostly for his monster fighting and she has gotten proficient enough to be able to shoot a still target accurately from 50 yards away although that was on non moving targets and even then it wasn't really perfect every time on moving targets she was even worse when dealing with her nearly 70% accuracy rate dropping down to 20% if that she thought as drive knight mostly just gave her averages of her accuracy. Once she fully got down into the room and drive knight noticed the lack of a certain yellow haired individual he questioned her about it.
"Raijin is not here?" he said referring to kaminari's new hero name
"Yes he was taken by the A-class lightning duo, due to his new name." momo said
"I see, they operated quicker than I expected then." drive knight said simply earning momo interest.
"You…you planned for that to happen?" she questioned
"Yes, volten was less than coming when asked to teach the boy so I took a more roundabout method to get his attention. If he outright refuses the boy and forces him to change his name he would be disgraced as a martial artist. " drive knight said as if there was nothing wrong with what he just said.
"Isn't that a bit manipulative? Wait, is that how you've been getting my teachers to agree to train me she questioned?" Momo asked a bit disgusted with drive knight methods.
"It is effective is it not? Everyone has a price to pay for their service, volten was the prime candidate for the boy to train under given their similar skill set and as for the other heroes, not necessarily they are much easier to corral into obedience." drive knight said simply, momo attempted not to show how nervous she was around the cyborg once he said that as she began to think more about kaminari and what he must be going through currently.
"You said martial artist….that means….from the very beginning of his hand to hand combat training you were planning for something like this to happen?" momo accused, drive knight merely nodded his head
"You both wanted to become stronger. This is the best way to accomplish that without interfering with my research as well." drive knight said simply, momo finally understood that he was simply trying to get rid of them to continue his monster research she thought.
"I…I see. Maybe a word of warning next time?" momo said simply in reply trying to keep the frown off her face and drive knight simply nodded back in response before both of them proceeded towards the firing range again, momo had the ability to create her bow with her quirk but given that she had the original model in the workspace she found no need to, she shot for a couple of moments before hearing the sounds of someone approaching through the darkness it was shooter she realized his blonde hair reminding her of aoyama along with his unique bow like hair style, the two greeted each other before making their way outside.
"Hey…shooter what…what did drive knight promise you for doing this?" Momo said as they got farther away from the storage area, although she doubted he didn't undoubtedly have some tools spying someplace.
"Oh, nothing…he was going to offer some incentive but none was needed for me, hearing what you all been through was plenty enough for me especially a fellow archery enthusiast we have to stick together not many people still use archery nowadays." shooter replied simply, momo was sort of guilty that he was referring to a fabricated story that the association created but she was happy that he wasn't essentially strong armed into accepting her as a student.
"Yes, I'm simply not comfortable with guns yet for now." Momo replied.
"That's understandable, so where do you want to go?" shooter asked, surprising the girl somewhat. She never had the option of a place to go before and she didn't really know a place she should go.
"I'm really not familiar with the area so I leave that to you." momo said simply
"Alright , well since you are a beginner with the bow and everything we could head over to Q-city, monsters are usually taken care of by watchdog man and I'm sure you can handle yourself against petty criminals" shooter suggested and momo nodded her head going along with his plans.
The two traversed to the nearest shelter to take the train over to Q-city and began to walk around as expected no monster sirens went off but the mysterious wind that was watchdog man blew through up and down the streets every now and again notifying that a monster had indeed appeared he even made a pit stop to personally greet momo again although when he realized tsu wasn't with her(presumably for the snacks that she would usually posses), he made a quick exit allowing her and shooter to continue their patrol of the town, shooter was more talkative than her other teachers going over little details about the city as well as the bow. After getting bored of no action, shooter suggested that the two of them go over towards a nearby archery range to practice explaining that even though that archery fell out of favor amongst heroes that it was still a pastime that people enjoyed to participate in.
Once their shooter actually paid for her entry which she thanked the hero for and the two set out to get to work, momo appreciated the practice as it would offer a more authentic experience in archery as she would have to deal with things such as elevation and wind pressure which she had very limited access to in drive knights storage room she thought and the results showed as her accuracy dropped slightly by 5% but that was quickly recovered with the guidance of shooter and his skills she was amazed by how fast he could fire an arrow his arms blurring in motion as he shot and his accuracy was also phenomenal from even 1 kilometer away.
she hoped that she could be a quarter as good as him when she was done but that would take hard work and dedication, he said. The two sat at the range for some time before simply running out of arrows to shoot, momo artificially extended their time by simply creating more arrows with her quirk which shooter marveled at stating that she would be an excellent accomplice for anyone that relied on external ammunition like himself or death gatling as she could simply keep generating more ammo for them without having to lug it around which momo agreed with replying that normally she would be in a supporting role within a team composition and shooter said the same.
The two shot for about 30 minutes longer before they were about to leave the lodge was suddenly under attack by criminals, three of them to be exact most of them carried large blades in their hands like machete, a large bowie knife, and the last one was the most weird with a chainsaw of all things. Shooter immediately went to work firing arrows directly towards the new arrivals but that was another problem with the bow momo began to see it lacked sufficient stopping power or at least it should have shooter fired 12 times at the targets most of them were intercepted by the villains weapons being fast enough to deflect them with their blades but one was a little slow and as soon as the arrow hit his knee he collapsed almost as if his whole body locked up.
momo didn't have time to think about it as the other two attackers charged them shooter let loose one more arrow as he was force to back up to evade the attacker with the machete as he rolled away he was still able to lose an arrow but the attack was deflected yet again and he continued forward unfazed. Momo on the other hand had to take on the attacker with the chainsaw, she quickly created a shield and stop the machine cold before creating her cement gun with her other hand to glue the persons feet to the floor and retreat backwards to get out of range of his weapon he used the chainsaw to cut through cement on his feet but that action took his eyes off momo which created a couple of shuriken and threw them at the chainsaw embedding into the machine and causing it to catch fire and made the criminal drop it in panic. He looked up just in time to see momo reel back with the metal shield in her hand and clocked the man in the face with it knocking him out cold.
Momo went to check on how shooter was doing with his foe and found that he was already nearly cornered, they were only around 10 meters away so momo created her bow and knocked an arrow before letting it fly forwards the shot hit the man in the upper right shoulder making him drop the blade he was holding and jerk forward, shooter took the opportunity to shoot the man with one of his own arrows and the man went down. The people in the area thanked them for their help as they waited for the association to come pick the criminals up.
"Your arrows certainly pack a punch." momo said
"There nothing special, I just coat them with a sort of tranquilizer." shooter replied
"That's a good way to overcome their stopping power." Momo thought out loud.
"Yeah, just a bow and arrow is not the best at completely halting an enemy, so I came up with this solution." shooter said
"interesting" momo said simply as her thoughts circled with possibilities of arrowheads she could have her arrows armed with to improve them..wasn't there a fictional story like that in their world? A master archer among super powered individuals? She would have to ask sero or kaminari about that later.
lightning in a bottle: max, genji, volten, kaminari
Kaminari was a bit nervous to visit this volten fellow especially as he found out that he essentially postured the guy's title even though it wasn't his fault the association gave it to him. On the bright side if his students were any indication on how the man would react he should be alright, while initially coming off as intimidating they were both actually pretty friendly with him. They had explained that the "lightning Volten" title was something volten was first assigned with when he was a hero and once he retired the lightning prefix was only to be used by those he deemed worthy to use.
"Why did volten decide to retire?" kaminari asked
"He had reached the pinnacle of the hero world and wanted to walk the path of a martial artist instead." max replied
"Pinnacle? But didn't you say he only got to A-class rank 1?" kaminari questioned
"Yes, this occurred three years ago just as the hero association was created, before the creation of the S-class." genji responded
"Back then things seemed so easy, tiger level threats were as few and far between as demon level threats are today." Genji remarked, earning a chuckle from max.
"So why doesn't he come back?" kaminari questioned
"He hasn't fulfilled his goal as a martial artist yet, he wants to win the super fight tournament first before returning to hero work." genji replied
"Super fights?" kaminari questioned
"It's a tournament with the best martial artists all over the continent and both volten and myself are participating in it. I hope to meet him in the final ``Max said, determination and admiration gracing his feature.
"Wow that sounds cool and master vs student finals would be pretty hype, I hope the best for both of you." kaminari remarked
"Thanks. I hope the best for you as well." max replied
"Given your similar ability I'm sure he will be lenient on you." Genji said
"How did volten get his powers anyways?" kaminari asked
"He was electrocuted by a lightning bolt as a kid and because of that he was able to channel that electricity through himself." genji replied
Kaminari nodded his head and he thought about how similar they were in that regard although getting hit by lightning as a kid didn't really power him up at all, only fried his brain and he always cursed his luck for that. The group of three arrived in V-city and began to walk through the city, Kaminari lightly chuckled to himself that volten decided to set up his dojo in a city with his first letter in it but maybe the city held some value to him he thought alternatively. The group progressed through the city, not much had occurred in terms of conflict, no monster alarms or anything really happened during their journey. There were few regular criminals such as thieves or robbers but they were rather promptly taken care of by either the heroes or the police.
Kaminari was a bit shocked by the reception the police got from some of the people around even their station that they past had graffiti and spray paint over it and a lot of the guys working seemed demoralized, he didn't think things would get this bad for them after that interview. The group of three finally made their towards voltens dojo and kaminari didn't really know what he expected from it but he was shocked nonetheless not that the location was on a large distance and ragged hill but that it was near what looked like a large thunderstorm that seemingly just hovered off the coast.
"Wow, is that storm always there?" kaminari questioned, both of max and genji nodded
"Yup volten quickly built his dojo here once he found out about it, we don't know what type of natural phenomenon caused it but he said it gives him perspective on his martial art." genji replied
"Alright your evaluation begins now, the first test is speed, let's make it a race let's see who can make it up to the dojo fist." max gestured to genji and kaminari.
" Sure I'll try but given this environment I'm likely at a disadvantage." Genji said simply.
" sure I'm in…but ugh give me a moment alright?" kaminari said as he begin to try and think of a way to find electricity so he could get into his powered up form but there wasn't much electricity this far out in the woods and he wanted to do good on his first test so he sat in thought as he looked to the sky and the storm that rage off the coast before an idea popped into his head, the reason why lightning struck him as a kid back in the day was explained to him that the electricity that his quirk gave off was with positive ions which naturally attracted the negative ions in natural lightning so if the same process remain in this world then maybe he could get a power up from the lightning he thought as he moved closer to the edge of the cliff as the two heroes watched in curiosity.
"You guys stay back alright , wouldn't want y'all getting caught up in this." Kaminari said as he held a hand back for them to stop.
"What are you about to do?" Genji asked
"Just watch." kaminari said simply as he got into a stance and started to let his power leak out of his body, indiscriminate shock 10 million volts yellow lightning started to flow from his body in large amounts surprising both of the heroes behind him as they shielded their eyes from the light and then suddenly a arc of lightning came crashing down on where the teen was causing both hero's to panic and run over to where the teen was through the smoke but as they got their they were greeted by a mysterious sight, raijin was standing their completely fine but he was surrounded by an aura of lightning that surrounded his body as his hair was rising high in the air.
"Alright, I'm ready now." Kaminari said he was finally able to partially transform into his power up state which he now started calling lightning god, just to give his name even more flare he thought although Jiro thought it was him just trying to brag again she thought. While it appeared as he had full control over his new form in actuality he still relied on the clutch of saving someone more specifically he would always relive those memories of Jiro in trouble or danger and it seemed to work although he neve told her that. After the initial shock of the transformation wore off on the heroes they both looked at each other and shrugged before continuing on towards the starting area for the race. Kaminari was fairly confident in his speed and he was fairly confident that he would impress the two heroes he was next to before but that completely shattered when the race begun and the two completely left him in the dust figuratively and literally in the case of genji as the sparks raised from rollerblades, he arrived at the foot of the front of the dojo almost a full 3 seconds after they did as they waited for him to arrive.
"All that just to still end up last." max jested
"Well you didn't do too horribly, I would evaluate speed as a B." genji said, raising kaminari's spirits slightly, B was good he could definitely live with a B.
The group of three entered into the dojo and both genji and max took a knee as they approached the center, kaminari not knowing what he should do simply followed their example. Max announced their arrival and having brought him in tow the man he was speaking to was in front of them turned the other way, he wore a green suit with some gold on his shoulder and had black slick backed hair. He didn't turn around as he spoke for kaminari to come forwards and kaminari compiled and moved forward a couple of steps, the man finally turned around to look at him and was slightly surprised by kaminari's form.
"I guess they were telling the truth after all.'' Volten said, looking kaminari over.
"The truth, who" kaminari questioned
"While the association of course, drive knight had told me about you and wanted me to train you but I refused under the assumption this was another ploy from the association to get me back but they went as far as giving you the lightning title forcing my hand to act…that drive knight is a devious one I'll give him that." Volten spoke.
"I had nothing to do with it sir, I assure you. Kaminari said
"I'm sure you didn't but that is for another time, speed analysis,'' he said
"B, master." genji replied
"I see." volten said before he suddenly disappeared from kamianri's sight and reappearing directly in front of him, his arm was pulled back and charged with electrical energy kaminari could feel he was so surprised by that, his body moved before he did and charged a punch of his own, the two fist collided and both participants released the stored electricity in their punches causing a cascading effect of yellow and blue lightning clashing amongst each other before exploding outwards around the room, as both attacks fizzled out volten retracted his fist and stared at it for a moment.
"I see, he even had you copy my technique." Volten said, which Kaminari would have thought he would have been angry about but the smile on the man's face told him differently.
" You have true potential, I can see it. Someone that can truly replicate my thunder thunder style." volten stated
"Thank you. Si- master" kaminari corrected, bowing.
"Oh and Exma said you should punish him for causing trouble." Genji said, earning a shocked gasp from Kaminari as suddenly he was punched in the stomach, making him clutch it as he dropped to the ground.
"It's good to know that she is still around and kicking. The first thing you will learn here is discipline. Now your punishment has just begun." Volten said in a serious tone, kaminari just sent a death glare in Genji's direction, who only shrugged his shoulders in reply.
Darkshine's adent fans: Darkshine, Kirishima, Sato
Well today was the big event kirishima thought as he and sato made their way over to the typical gym that they would train at with darkshine their training was progressing smoothly under the hero being able to lift about three times as much now as he did when he first arrived here which he thought was going well, the same could be said for sato, while he initially had his doubt about training with pig god it bore fruit in unexpected ways such as the time limit he could operate when dealing with his quirk was greatly extended being able to be enhanced for 10 minutes now on a single pellet, as well as attempting to go over zero thought exercises that would train his body to somehow react on it's own so that in the advent that he ever does tap out and he crashes he won't become too much of a liability in the field. His co-op training with kirishima and darkshine was the cherry on top of it all.
The two teens continued on and were met by darkshine, given the big event of the day the workout wasn't much, mostly enough to get their blood pumping but nothing too serious to get them really sweating, darkshine said that he didn't want to tire them out before the main event later on that day, sato had previously asked to join them on today on whatever event they were doing and him along with a few of the other guys were constantly teasing him about mizuki for the better part of the time when uraraka had mentioned him getting her number. The group of three left the associations HQ and made their way into a car they were headed towards D-city as they arrived they were greeted by the security staff and with that they proceeded to head inside, everyone except kirishima who waited outside for mizuki to arrive he was able to convince darkshine to let the girl in pretty easily, darkshine didn't mind if he brought a guest.
Mizuki finally arrived running and grabbed Kirishima in a bear hug, lifting him off his feet slightly while thanking him for getting her this chance to talk to her idol before everyone else. Kirishima, while flushed, just waved her off and said not to mention it. He was slightly surprised by her costume. It was very revealing. When the excitable girl was finally ready the two proceeded inside the building, sato had waited by the door to show them where they needed to go to save security the trouble of escorting them.
The three of them walked down the hall of the building where they entered into a large gymnasium with a black and white checkered patterned floor. Everything seemed to have been cleared out of the place except for a large table where darkshine was situated, approaching from behind kirishima noticed that on top of the tables were a large amount of cast iron pans, a staggering amount actually.
"Woah what are you going to be doing with all of those?" kirishima questioned
"What!? You don't know? Darkshine is known not only for his strength but his frying pan art as well." mizuki said
"Frying pan art?" sato questioned
"Yup, Just like you know, just like with clowns and balloon animals. But replace the balloon portion with freaking iron pans." mizuki said excitedly.
" That's correct, fan favorites are bunnies and dogs but I can create whatever." darkshine remarked as he turned around to address them.
"Woah …how much maniler could you possibly get..it's like you're the epitome of manliness all into one person." kirishima said nearly pulling on his hair like he was dreaming
"I know right!? Darkshine is really awesome." Mizuki said additionally as both of them gushed over the hero.
"Can I get a demonstration? A dog would be nice." sato asked
"A dog coming right up." darkshine said simply as he grabbed a frying pan and started to immediately morph the pan into shape ripping and shaping the pan with so little effort as the others stared in amazement, darkshine only took about a minute before he finished with a perfect rendition of a dog using the pans handle as the tail. The teens clapped as he handed the creation to Sato who marveled at the creation.
"So I'm guessing you're the guest kirishima had told me about?" darkshine said, immediately snapping Mizuki's attention back to darkshine and straightening up her back as she talked to him.
"Y…ye- ahem…yes, I'm Mizuki B-class rank 71 or I guess I should say 72 now" she said, holding out her hand for the man to shake which he did.
"Oh you're, I guess that means that you and kirishima here are rivals. Given that he's ranked just slightly above you." darkshine remarked.
"Yup this little guy not only ranked above me but because of him I moved down." Mizuki said as she nudged Kirishima's hair.
"Sorry about that." Kirishima replied simply.
"Don't worry about it, but you better not slip up or I'll blow right past you." mizuki challenged
"In your dreams. I'm only gonna go up from here.`` Kirishima said in response.
"Well everyone should aim to improve but always be careful to take care of your muscles." darkshine said simply receiving firm confirmation between both individuals,
The four of them all pitch in to get the place prepared for the long lines of people that would inhibit the place as well as check over security with security in case of emergencies. They were ready to begin in an hour now which left the crew nothing to do for 60 minutes and after a slew of exercises the three of them did to just warm up and keep occupied which all of which spiraled into competitions amongst each other to see who was the best this ultimately came to a head when kirishima and mizuki were tied on score and decided to settle it with a match between the two. They had found a suitable spot for both of them to go at it and sato sat over the match as a spectator, Mizuki had given him a whistle to blow to signify the start of the match while they got ready to begin.
Sato blew the whistle and the match began mizuki opened the match by grabbing one of the medals that hung around her neck and chucking it at the charging kirishima surprised by the attack and he quickly hardened his hands and wanted to attempt to catch it but the disk was so fast that he simply blocked it instead, the force of the blow slid him back a couple of feet before the disk dropped to the floor.
"Not bad right? I call it Discus Throw" mizuki said in jest and kirishima nodded
"Not bad at all." Kirishima replied, before picking up the disk and throwing it back at the girl but she simply snatched it out of the air with one hand, but that was what kirishima wanted using it as a distraction to close the distance even further and launch a strike to the girl's gut but before he could in the girls other hand sprouted a baton that extended and pushed him back, he rotated around the pole and charged forwards once again, reeling back a punch that would have landed if the girl didn't suddenly hurtle into the air, the pole that he avoided stuck up out of the ground as the girl sat stood atop it balancing herself.
"You aren't just gonna run away the entire time are you?" kirishima questioned
"I'm just waiting for you to take this seriously, I know that you have that other form of yours." Mizuki said almost like she was pouting. Making kirishima let out a laugh.
"It's usually a final resort you know like a trump card but sure I'll oblige you." Kirishima said with a chuckle as his body hardened to its maximum he has been working on keeping this state up for a longer period of time along with his strength training and he has around 5 minutes in this form now which he assumes will be enough of a time for this match.
"That's better, I would have felt bad if this next attack hurt you so better to be safe than sorry." mizuki said with a cheeky smile as she jumped up from her large poll lifting it up with her as she went and kirishima watched at it retracted very quickly back into a baton before she shouldered it and dragged it back Javelin Throw she yelled as she chucked the baton that now turned back into a pole with a spike on the end, the attacks was fast and but in his unbreakable form kirishima was barely phased as the javelin strike his chest the tiny indecent it made into his armor already regrown just as new, he had to give her props though to be able to break through his skin with that was impressive. Kirishima went forwards directly towards the place the girl was about to land, completely deflecting another disk that the girl threw at him before she landed.
Once the girl landed she quickly evaded kirishima through her way sidestepping the blow and hopping to trap his arm in and arm lock but due to the nature of his skin spikes she couldn't complete the hold, he reared back another punch aimed straight for the girl gut his signature red gauntlet the attack landed forcing the girl back but she still attempted to retaliate with an elbow to his face but he was unfazed by that attack continuing on with a red counter which struck her again in the gut making her back up again before leaping off her back foot and sweeping his legs from under him, she attempted to put him in a leg lock but after several kidney punches she quickly let that idea go and reshuffled herself to go for a headlock, kirishima was much slower than her on the ground and he also had reservations from touching her body to much as she was in such little clothing. The match ultimately ended with kirishima taping out as she got the teen in a triangle choke hold that completely left him unable to attack, while the effects of the choke was nullified by his unbreakable skin she still had him pinned and could just wait him out and besides if he wasn't flustered enough with them wrestling with what she was wearing he was even more so when she managed to get him in that hold and how it looked like.
Sato called the match and just in time as the event was about to start in 15 mins, Mizuki let go of Kirishima.
"Goodness you're really like a porcupine in that form, If I held you any harder I'm fairly sure I would have hurt myself." mizuki jested
"Ye…yeah." Kirishima said, still a bit flustered not looking the girl in the eye.
"Aww, are you all jittery from wrestling with a girl? ….I can give you some private lessons you know… to get over it." Mizuki teased, before laughing as Kirishima jumped away, his face as red as his hair and him violently shaking his head no.
"I'm just kidding…I'm kidding …well sorta I think you can benefit with some wrestling experience. You're a brawler that is clear but strength won't matter if you can't use it.`` Mizuki said and Kirishima nodded.
"I guess you're right about that." Kirishima said.
"I could teach you if you want." Mizuki offered but Kirishima now with a clear head saw her intentions.
"You just want to see how darkshine and I train don't you?" Kirishima replied and Mizuki just looked away bashfully.
"Maybe." she said simply
"Well I'll think about it." kirishima said simply as both of them, got up to go towards the event area, kirishima knew that sato most likely recorded his lost and already sent it to the group chat and he confirmed to have done as such when the three of them all moved over to the main exhibit, they were so surprised that so many people wanted to have pan art from darkshine as the line stretched to far outside the building he was equally surprised as everyone was in basically their undergarments as they entered and kirishima and sato both also had to switch out of their hero costumes to something more fitting with everyone else as well, which made both sato and kirishima both a little more self conscious and the fact that a number of individuals revolving around the event were just completely built similar to darkshine being of pure muscle everywhere on their body each at least 6ft tall including the girls.
The only person that stuck out amongst this posy of 20 people was a shorter man in the middle, he stuck out not only because of his size and muscles weren't as pronounced as the others were but the most curious case about him were that protruding from out of his body were multiple spike like intrusions but no one else said anything about it so kirishima and sato just assumed it was natural, he was a bit skittish in comparison to everyone else so they thought it would have been best for them to stick together but the guy who just revealed himself as "dark" left a little after he got his bunny pan art. Mizuki also informed them that the 20 man posy dark was a part of a secret emergency team called the shining prodigies.
Same man, different suit: Child emperor's group, Iida
Iida had been spending a majority of his time with Mina and Jiro as he worked with child emperor on creating his new suit this included some rigorous testing involving his quirk along with micro improvements Iida would like to see implemented into his new hero costumed, after some testing he speculated that his new boosters has tripplied the speeds he would normally perform at but he didn't know how much he could contribute that to flash's training or his awakening. Another benefit to his awakening however was that now he could curve and turn much easier using the boosters on his arm, he remembered how his brother told him stories about his time in Naruhata where his lack of control caused him to slam into a wall allowing a villain to escape, so he wanted to work on his curving and turning times and to further reduce such a situation occurring with himself, so wanted his new hero costume to help with that as well.
Child emperor suggested creating something akin to a powered exoskeleton instead of just a suit of armor which he considered would be beneficial to his flaws, the suit didn't augment his speed or strength but it was more connected to his body then his previous suit through a neural link that allowed him to move it with just his thoughts which greatly impacted his reflexes which was almost too well he figured as he still was trying to get a handle on using his new suit. In terms of cosmetics he didn't want it to look to differently than how he had it, the armor still resembling his family's lineage he still looked like a knight but the mufflers on the middle portion of his suit was trimmed down massively and barely extended past his center, the armor was a mix of white and dark blue with more angular features, his arm sprouted additional mufflers to support his new additions and his leg mufflers were also more heavily armored than previously. The next notable thing about his suit was the ease to remove and put on. the suit would open up from the front and he would be able to just put it on like a jacket, which he appreciated.
Mina and Jiro on the other hand were mostly lounging around or patrolling the city, the two of them would help occasionally in stress testing with Iida in his new suit but most of the time they weren't really needed, the two of them would occasionally check up on torax just to ensure koda that he was doing fine and he was, the exhibit that was originally settled for the bunnies he accommodated to fairly well. Without koda the two couldn't really converse with the creature but it didn't mind their company allowing mina to cuddle and rub it's head sometimes, although Jiro was still weary of the creature, it didn't act aggressively or show any signs of anger towards them. Mina wanted to take torax out for a walk a couple of times but most of the time child emperor would refuse her request.
Currently the group of three teens were all out on patrol, child emperor deeming that Iida's suit being ready for real life experience. The three toured around for several minutes with nothing seemingly occurring for a moment, they still helped out the city with remedial tasks such as picking up litter and trash, cleaning graffiti off buildings, helping people find their lost pets, or helping the elderly around the city.
"So how's the suit, treating ya?" Mina asks as the three of them continue to just walk around the city.
"It's weird…almost indescribable feeling, it doesn't feel like armor but more akin to a second skin, my normal suit was light weight but this? It's like I'm not wearing anything at all." Iida remarked as he stared at his arm flipping it every which way as if seeing himself for the first time.
"Sucks, that we don't have anything to actually test it on." Mina said, earning a sigh from her goth friend.
"Why do you always say that? You always jinx us." Jiro replied disgruntled
"As heroes we should always hope for days like these, it's a sign that things are going well. We were able to help people and enjoy the day" Iida replied and just as he was finished talking the alarms began to ring out across the city.
"You two just don't know when to just enjoy the moment." jiro said through a face palm, the monster, she quickly took out her phone to locate where the problem area was as the voice on the speaker announced the disaster level of the creature it was a tiger level creature with possible escalation to demon which signified to the group that this creature was potentially going to be a strong one but nonetheless the group continued to the disaster area passing by screaming civilians as they ran away from the scene in question. The three of them quickly found out, that the creatures causing the ruckus were three individuals one of which was a bat creature that was a man sized bat, the next was a creature that was a humanoid cheetah person, and the last beast was what appeared to be a giant 2o ft tall slug monster that was currently spewing acidic sludge all over the place. One spike of sludge was about to land on a child but Iida was quick on his feet being able to rush in a save the child from danger but before he could retreat with the child in tow, the humanoid cheetah attempted to strike him from behind with his claws thankfully his new suit also came with a few more quality of life improvements like a 360 degree sensors which thankfully alerted him to the incoming strike which he ducked under before continuing forwards and setting the child down in safe distance telling some nearby police to take care of the child before rushing back to the scene.
Mina and Jiro were nearly blindsided by the cheetah creature charging them but Iida was there to kick it back. The two sized each other up before seemingly both blurring out into a full speed fight. Leaving mina and jiro to fight the slug and manbat monsters. Jiro immediately said that she would take the manbat monster as it flew off and she took off after it using her sound amplifiers to shoot up into the air onto a building and onto another one, mina just sighed as she looked at the large slug and hoped that her natural acid resistance would prevent her from getting cinged but the same would be true for her against the slug as well. The slug seeing her shot out a stream of acid at her and she responded in kind white and green acid collided amongst each other.
Jiro was able to reach the top of the last building giving her a decent shot at the bat creature she shot out a sound cannon that hit the creature in the back which got it's attention, the bat monster came back at her flying down and attempting to use it's claws to remove her head from the girls body but the girl was one step ahead using a heartbeat wall directly in front of her that stopped the creature cold in its tracks before using her new sound boom attack to disorient the creature while it was close the attack worked as the monster shook its head in pain and confusion but it still cognitive enough to take a slash at her, she was lucky enough to be able to dodge out of the way from the strike before thrusting both of her amplifiers into the creature chest and performing her heartbeats surround to shoot the creature off the room and down towards the ground, creating a 15 meter crater in the street.
Iida was fight with the humanoid cheetah was mostly an equal match while Iida was faster than the monster it was clearly more agile than him being able to avoid a number of his strikes and retaliate in kind but his armor was too durable for the creature to actual penetrate with it's claws however leaving the two to be in a stalemate before the cheetah after seeing the manbat creature fell decided to retreat, Iida was tempted to follow the creature but thought better of it to decide and help mina with the slug monster instead, he didn't know how resistant he was to acid in general in his new suit so he tested it with some of the slime he saw on the ground no warning signs flashed on his readouts but he continued forwards and struck the slug on the side of the head with a jumping kick snapping the creatures head back for a moment before it spewed a cascading amount of acid out at him, Iida dodged out of the way scooping mina up and moving her away from harm as well. The slug was suddenly knocked towards the side as jiro used her heartbeat legato special move completely throwing the slug into the nearest building knocking it unconscious.
The group called the association for pickup and began to help clean the place up before finally deciding to go and grab a bite to eat before. Heading back to the lab. Three of them discussed somewhat about their recent battle while their food arrived they ate for a moment before suddenly their phones each pinged with a notification the suggested that someone had sent something in the group chat, it was from sato and it was a video of kirishima and some girl, the two fought for a moment before kirishima had to tap out from a compromised position.
Group chat:
Tape weaver: chocked between a girl's legs not a bad way to lose.
Grape-a-pult: I agree
Raijin: thumbs up emoji
God dynamite: pathetic
GSavior deku: at least he tried his best. kacchan
Frozen phoenix: didn't you lose to stinger?
GoD dynamite: shut it, icy hot.
GoC neith: he raises a fair point: you can't criticize others when you also lost to heroes in your own bracket.
GoD dynamite: he was a higher rank than me and I still almost won. She's lower than him and he still lost.
Silver wukong: ranks probably only account for so much, she was just better skilled than he was from what I see.
Frogger: what does she say at the end there?
Uravity: yeah kirishima looked incredibly flustered by whatever it was.
Sugerman: Kirishima won't tell me.
Red riot: it was nothing….just a tease is all. She thought I could use some practice in wrestling.
Spirit of light: oh, I can guess a few things she could have said. Maybe some private lesson.. ?
Red riot: ….
Frogger: where's mina? Doubt she would like to miss out on this.
Uravity: probably threw her phone away….?
Jiro looked up to see what the pink girl was doing and was surprised to see that she wasn't paying attention to the group conversation at all but she was…..checking herself out? More precisely she was flexing her arm like examining the muscles she didn't have… but why ….was she ….comparing herself to the girl in the video with kirishima? She had overheard a couple of murmurs from uraraka and tsu talking about something that happened on their photoshoot op with mina and if memory serves her correctly, kirishima had gotten a girls number there for an event. Was this that girl? Could it be…is the pink matchmaker possibly jealous? She grew a wicked grin as she got the girl's attention.
"Aren't you going to respond?" Jiro asked jogging the girl from whatever she was thinking about.
"oh…I just didn't really have much to say really." Mina said, which completely blew Jiro's mind on that comment alone making her assumption even more likely her grin grew even wider as she parody one thing Mina said to her before.
"Don't worry, while you may not be the most muscular girl, I'm sure kirishima still likes you just the way you are." jiro said with a chuckle
Experimenting: tatsumaki, uraraka, deku
Uraraka has still been practicing on her flying maneuvers and going over how to better treat the form as it current really only use right now was to get her from place to place quicker but not a useful technique in combat as it put her into such a predictable flight path and with no way to really stop herself, she was able to slightly make herself launch off faster than she originally did before by using some of the tips needle star had told her about swinging the black orbs in a circular motion before launching it forwards, but that didn't entirely make up for the downside unfortunately.
Uraraka had been experimenting with her awakening and all the things that she could do now, along with the ability to more precisely pick and choose what she wanted to release with her quirk, she also found that if she touched the pads on her hands to the pads on her knuckles she could reverse her power on those objects that correspond to that finger in a very similar manner to how her new focused release worked, further experimentation with missing and matching her new abilities showed that if she had previously made something heavy with one of her knuckles and lighten an object with her hands and then proceed to touch the finger that the lighten object is tied to anyone one of her knuckles on the hand that heavied the object the lightened object would gravitate towards the heavy one and depending on how much heavier she had made the object the faster the lighter one would be attracted to it she called the move gravity attraction, which made tagging enemies a lot easier and it also allowed her to recall her orbs back to her although in doing so she would need to ensure that she was ready to release the orbs so that they wouldn't hit her in coming back.
Currently she was simply working on all these new techniques under tatsumaki which left the girl mostly to her own devices although her gravity training did not end there she was constantly pushing the girls limits on how much she was able to take, being up to 7x gravity at the moment. On top of her usual training routine, tatsumaki had introduce a new "fun" aspect to her training the girl, her being tired of cleaning up after uraraka quirk she decided to take matters into her own hand to improve the girls bile reflux herself by literally shaking and moving the girl around like a rag doll, like she was nothing but a toy to her, it was slightly effective training uraraka guessed although she found it more demeaning when it was done by someone else she thought.
The two heroines were in their usual training area and uraraka had just got done her cyclone training when in the next instance they would begin her reflex exercises which she assumed the floating girl did on purpose to make her extra sharp as after just being discombobulated she would than be force to use her body to dodge around rocks and other obstacles which she obviously couldn't leading her to take more hits than she would otherwise and all of this under 7x the increase gravity really weighed on her as by the time break time arrived she was truly exhausted everywhere on her body hurt or ached and her head was still spinning for a good five minutes after everything was done.
Uraraka realized that tornado had somewhat of a heart however after her break was done and flying off to what she expected was going to be to fight monsters that even after her all break uraraka didn't think she was fully ready to do at the moment but instead of that the girl actually took her to go get ice-cream as some sort of reward for not complaining about the training at least not to much.
"If only my sister was as obedient as you, she could maybe actually get somewhere." tatsumaki said absentmindedly. Uraraka noticed that she mentioned her sister a couple times over their time together but most of the time it was just so dismissive that she felt that their relationship was an estranged one at best.
"I'm sure that she just wants to do things by herself." uraraka reasoned.
"Hah! I wish she would do things by herself, she's stupidly relying on that group of her to get things done." tatsumaki said dismissively, that was right fubuki did have that group and she was the most anti group person she could think of other than bakugo but the explosive teen had gotten better with it over time she thought so maybe the same things could happen with her.
"Why do you dislike being in a group so much?" Uraraka asked finally having time to just talk with the girl but she did find it slightly funny that even though they were having a casual conversation on the bench like a normal person she still has her under the effects of that 7x gravity that she normally does.
"Because a true hero shouldn't rely on others to save them, it is up to the strong to protect the weak and not the other way around. " tatsumaki replied
"Even the strong need help sometime or another…are you seriously telling me that you never once needed help in your life?" Uraraka challenged and for a moment there was about to be an instant response from the girl in reply but a memory must have silenced her response as her mouth closed as she thought about her response in more detail.
"Hmph the only time I needed help was due to my own problems, I could have taken care of myself but I was just too slow is all." tatsumaki said dismissively, uraraka just sighed in response.
"Well , maybe everyone can't be like you? You were obviously gifted from a young age but other people need to work up to the way you are now, maybe until then they could work together to accomplish their goals? You're correct that the main point of being a hero is to protect people who can't protect themselves, so what does it matter how they do it?" uraraka tried to reason.
"As if, what actually happens is that they just become complacent and stay in their little groups or factions and rely on their numbers for strength. It is such a pitiful sight. And I can't stand to see my sister doing the same." tatsumaki said her power slightly fluctuating as her anger seems to rise and uraraka could have sworn that the gravity effect on her increased at least by 1 more G making her nearly dropped her ice cream to the ground before the effect returned to "normal" she thought not wanting to have her accidentally crush her, she thought it would be in her best interest to just leave the subject where it lies and continue on with her nice day. After a moment her phone went off with a video of sato in the group chat which occupied her for a moment as tatsumaki went off to fight a demon level monster that had appeared in the city.
Group chat:
Pink mist: well I wouldn't get too attached to the people here as we still need to get home.
Frogger & uravity: eyes emoji
Frozen phoenix: she's right… I would suggest keeping a safe distance between the people here and ourselves as there is no telling when we will just disappear in their eyes at least.
ingenium: well said todoroki.
Solar flare: oh my god! cross dimensional lovers, such tragic heartbreak, knowing that the other is out there but having no way of reconnecting. So romantique
Tsukuyomi: a very dark love story indeed.
Red riot: I think you guys are blowing this WAY out of proportion…there nothing there between us…we just are…..just a lot alike is all.
Sugar man: you wouldn't believe the amount of gushing those two did over anything darkshine does.
Tape weaver: I'm surprised mineta didn't say something akin to, it's a different universe, have as much fun as you can before we leave as there's not gonna be any repercussions from it.
Grape-a-pult: oh I'm surely thinking of it.
Goc neith: Speaking of repercussions , we should probably quarantine ourselves for inspection when we get back home, we wouldn't want to drag any possible new illnesses from this world to ours.
Frozen phoenix: wise as always, yaoyorozu
Goc neith: thank you
All other girls: eyes emoji
Private message uraraka and midoriya
My hero deku: are you busy right now?
Lifeline uraraka: no? Why?
My hero deku: I want to see you, what city are you in?
Lifeline uraraka: uhm, I-city
My hero deku: ok I'll be there alright?
Lifeline uraraka: Um sure I guess.
Uraraka felt her heart flutter when she read her boy….boyfriends text…he was on his way to see her and that made her all giddy with anticipation for when he would arrive, but that begged the question of how he would find her it was still a city after all and they didn't really have a way to locate each other given that this world lacks GPS and she didn't even know where she was or even the street name so she doubted deku would be able to find her anytime soon given the circumstances, she was about to look around and see if she could find the name of the street she was on or ask a stranger for help but it turned out she didn't even need to as deku literally fell from the sky surrounded by a familiar green glow that suddenly stopped his momentum when he was a couple feet in front of her levitating in the air before being dropped suddenly to the ground. Uraraka rushed over to make sure he was ok and he confirmed that he was.
"Wow that was fast. I see that you ran into tatsumaki while on the way." uraraka joked, deku let out a small chuckle with his signature smile that made her heart do backflips.
"Yeah, there was a monster alert and I wanted to help out but she just said that I was in the way and flung me over here." midoriya replied
"That surely sounds like her. What did you want to talk to me about?" Uraraka asked, and she watched as the smile on Deku's face slowly faded into a small frown, as he began to look around.
"Can we go somewhere a bit quieter?" Midoriya suggested piquing the girl's interest in what he wanted to discuss so she nodded her head and was shocked when he picked her up so brazenly and swung them away from the streets below, they swung for sometime before they arrived on top of a tall building. He gently set her down before turning around and walking a few paces away from her, uraraka noticed that deku seemed to have been trembling and mumbling to himself as he looked out over the city. But it wasn't until he pulled at his hair roughly that uraraka finally decided to approach him very slowly, she gently place a hand on his right shoulder careful not to touch him with her pads and he finally turned to look at her, what shocked her was that there was a single tear going down his right cheek. He fully turned his head towards her and spoke.
"I'm a failure." she heard him say, she was at first confused about what he meant by that but she figured she had an idea on what he's talking about, she had only seen him like this one other time before.
"Is…is this about what happened when you were in the hospital?" uraraka said in a worried tone, Midoriya simply nodded his head. She was happy that he was finally opening up to her about that, it was always somewhere on her mind when they hung out together.
"When the others were speaking about returning home and things it just brought it up again and…and ….it just made me feel so…powerless…made me feel like a ..failure all over again." Deku told her. She embraced him in a hug from behind as he spoke.
"Why? What happened while you were unconscious? `` Uraraka said, trying to be comforting but also her curiosity of how he could reach such a conclusion about himself. Midoriya took a heavy breath in before exhaling outwards using his hands to deepen the embrace the two were sharing at that moment. He began to tell her some of the things he knew how all might was captured and being tortured, how eri quirk was most likely stolen, and from that a number of their teachers were likely injured or worst. All because he wasn't there to stop them, he wasn't there to help out. There was nothing on their planet that could oppose one for all right now which meant he could do whatever he wanted.
Midoriya began to ramble about all the things that could be going wrong on their earth while they were stuck here and how it would all be his fault because he wasn't there…one for all wasn't there. Uraraka was quick to silence his rambling, unable to take how he beat himself up over possibilities of what was happening there and somehow believing that it was his fault.
"It isn't your fault midoriya …you couldn't have predicted what was going to happen to us." uraraka said, trying to calm the boy down, she could feel his body trembling in her grasp.
"Nobody will blame you for not being there, everyone has a role to play in what's happening…you shouldn't try to shoulder this burden just on yourself, we all could have been there for whatever is happening in our world." Uraraka said, rubbing over his chest to attempt to calm him down.
"We now have proof that we will be able to return and once we do we'll make everything right….together." uraraka said
"What-if there is nothing to come back to?" Midoriya said through a downcast voice.
"You can't think like that..ok. We have to have faith in the pro heroes still there, each and everyone one of them are going to continue to fight no matter what happens and they won't go down easy." Uraraka tried to convince him, partially being successful as his shivering ended and his muscles relaxed slightly, she turned him around fully to face her as she cupped his face with her hands.
"I'm also sure that Aizawa and Mirio wouldn't let anything happen to Eri either. Even if she lost her quirk she can still be ok and well." uraraka said and Midoriya nodded his head in understanding before placing his forehead onto hers. Both of them took a moment of silence to just bask in the other's heat and company. Before pulling back.
"I think we should tell everyone else, I'll be with you if you need me ok." Uraraka stated
"Yeah.." Midoriya said simply as the two looked into each other's eyes. There was a spark of a moment there as both of the teens started to lean in closer to each other, their lips slowly closing in as if drawn together before midoriya was seemingly wrenched from her grasp as a familiar green auras surrounded both of them and separated them. Tatsumaki had come back.
A Change of style: Zombieman's group, bomb, charanko, and Ojiro
Zombieman and tokoyami has been separating their training routine from day and night time, during the day on top of their usual stuff tokoyami would undergo his normal strength and conditioning training but on top of that he would undergo armed combat training with zombieman, after finding out that tokoyami had an efficiency for clawed weapons the two worked on helping tokoyami and dark shadow manifest four claws extending from his hands and forearms that the dark teen labeled Fenrir's fangs. The two would spar against each other with zombieman using his dual swords to fight with, which greatly improved tokoyami's skills with his new technique, he remembered his duel against slice and how his overconfidence led to his downfall and the injury of his classmate so he wanted to make sure something like that wouldn't happen again. The two continued their sparring practice even though zombieman ensured him that it was ok to try his hardest like he was trying to kill the hero, he still had his reservations even after the hero demonstrated his ability to heal cuts slashes rather easily.
The night time was a completely different beast well not that tokoyami would actually know about most of the time now he was Unconscious mostly the entire time and would only wake up at the end to usually find multiple large holes in zombiemans clothing or if he woke up early enough he would still find the holes in the hero's body mid regeneration, although the hero seemed unresponsive to his injuries and warded off any attempts he made to apologize for his actions. when he pressed dark shadow on what the two of them were talking about when he was unconscious the bird simply didn't have an entire clue either, the rage that overtakes his mind in that state kinda blacks out his memory of events, at best he could describe their trainings as is stress relief or something akin to that.
The two were currently dueling amongst each other for a moment before they were interrupted by the arrival of ojiro and his fellow disciple charanko who were looking for bomb's dojo, zombieman pointed the two in the right direction and before he used the opportunity for the two of them to have a break from their practice.
"Alright so it seems what I had initially planned for your night time training isn't working out as I expected, I thought that if the shadow guy just had time to go wild without restraint that you would be able to control your power to the fullest but while I can see some progress it's incredibly slow." zombieman said casually as he laid his back on a tree in the shade. Tokoyami was out laying in the grass in the sun as dark shadow emerged. From him to speak
"So I was right." dark shadow said looking down at tokoyami.
"Indeed but it seems that. That alone won't solve the issue. But if I've known you long enough, I assume you have a better plan." tokoyami said, rising up slightly to look at the hero, who stared back with a smirk.
"You would be correct although it's less physical and more mental which is a drag but it will surely definitely save me money and time on clothing expenses." zombieman said casually, tokoyami narrowed his eyes inquisitively.
"What do you mean by mental?" tokoyami questioned
"Well if exhausting that source of anger is going to be so tedious, we might as well go for the source of it instead. I assume that the reason the shadow get's all angry when you're not around is probably due to some repressed emotions of some kind." zombieman said casually.
"Even if that were true… What do you suggest I do about that? See a therapist?" Tokoyami asked a bit almost snapping at him which zombieman noted, he must have struck a nerve with that
" hahaha! That's rich. I don't think anything will help this dark depressing guy. " Dark shadow laughed as he mocked Tokoyami before returning back inside of him avoiding Tokoyami's glare he sent its way.
"Nah nothing like that, I don't need you to work through your problems with some therapist that would probably take an even longer time and be fairly expensive but maybe you could do your own type of venting just like your friend in there." zombieman suggested
"You want me to share with you my darkest secrets?" Tokoyami said, a bit astonished.
"It doesn't have to be me, it could be someone else that you know better. But From what I hear it's often easier to speak to a stranger about these things as if speaking into the void, which goes double for you since, I assume you're gonna go back to your planet eventually right?" zombieman explained
"For that I am uncertain that we will ever get back home but…. For the talks of venting to you…I'll…I'll consider it." tokoyami said
"Well the choice is yours, I'm not gonna force you to do it. Now let's get back to practice. We spent enough time just laying around. " zombieman said with a shrug as he pushed off the tree and out of the shade and brandishing his blades and tokoyami did the same as Fenrir's fangs were summoned on his hands.
Ojiro and charanko had found bombs dojo from the direction zombieman had pointed, both surprise by how the dojo seemed to be the inverse of bangs being deep inside what could only be described as a crater in the earth. The two carefully walked down the steep steps making their way to the entrance ojiro dashing away charanko's idea of them sliding down towards the area instead noting the rock pillars that littered the landscape being an unfun thing to fall on. The two of them finally made it to the doorway and knocked before they slid the door open, the students were all in the midst of some of their exercises. A couple of them turned to look at them as they entered but those that did quickly got back on task. Bomb nodded at them and gestured for them to go take a seat near the side of the room and the two students obliged, as the two sat down and watched over bombs class he search through the students to find who he was looking for and he did finding the invisible girl just near the middle of the group, everything from the neck up being completely invisible.
"You know it's still so strange to see that she's actually invisible." charanko murmured into ojiro's ear, he must have been following his line of sight to see he was looking at the girl, he couldn't believe he was being that obvious about it.
"Yeah, I guess it could get some getting used to." ojiro murmured a reply back.
"Did you know her before she became like that?" charanko asked
"No, she's been invisible ever since I've known her." ojiro said
"Really? You two seem so close though for someone that only met a month ago." Charanko said a bit confused, ojiro slightly panicked at the statement but regained his composure quickly to answer.
"Well when you all go through something like we did together it tends to bring people close fairly quickly." ojiro said simply in response.
"Oh-oh sorry I…didn't mean to make that sound rude." charanko said apologetically
" It's fine." ojiro said with a shrug of his shoulders the two continued to watch the students train and practice ojiro noting how different their practice was in comparison to theirs with bang which should come as no surprise given the polar opposites of their philosophies.
Bombs approach was all about striking and dealing damage the students would practice Harding the bones in theirs arms and legs by striking stone targets, they would practice a similar method to bang's abandonment training but unlike bang instead of attempting to predict your opponents next move and anticipate their next attack bomb focused more on study your opponent, too look for weak points in their body that you could exploit for the use of the whirlwind. The next training was more interesting to him as they each began to practice on stone dummies against and using the whirlwind they would set one hand in a style similar to the leopard fist and then thrust it outwards towards the stone target and the results were surprising a lot of the students managed to cut the stone monolith each with varying degrees of depth however one individual a male by the name of fred was able to cut thing completely in two not only in the centers but in multiple places having the rock fall to the mat in piece shocking both him and charanko.
They took a moment to replace the stone before having the next few up go and demonstrate how far they've come and next up was none other than toru but when she attempted the move she didn't even make a scratch in the stone, they let her attempt the maneuver two more times before sending her back. Ojiro noted how unlike the others Toru didn't seem to have any of the faint light red light coming from her movements which he assumed like bang's blue lines were indicators that you were using the martial arts at least partially. his thoughts were even more confirmed as they started to spar, while some of the other students were showing hints of that light red trail, toru showed none of it.
"You seem to be in heavy thought." bomb said jarring ojiro from his thoughts.
"Ugh…it's nothing really …I'm just curious, has toru ever been able to use the whirlwind before?" ojiro asked
"I'm afraid not, she hasn't shown the capability to." bomb said with a sigh.
"Is it a problem with time or is she just not compatible with the style?" ojiro asked
"I assume that is a question that she must answer, in my experience there hasn't been a student incapable of using the whirlwind iron cutting fist unless they choose not to." bomb said rubbing his chin hair. Ojiro simply nodded as toru was the next to spar against jackie.
The class ended some time later as the students got ready to leave, ojiro managed to convince charanko to stay late with them and practice together, charanko seeing he didn't really get to work out much obliged. Bomb made a game of their training segment separating the four into teams by dojo at first then a mixture of different things he had them try out. Jackie had teased ojiro a number of times through their training session in an attempt to make the invisible girl jealous but she retained her composure well and didn't let much of anything show by her body language although her face was a mixture of negative emotions when the girl would get a little to close or hang on a little too much to the blonde boy. After another 2 hours of practice it was time to go, the four of them left the dojo and ventured up the stairs into the sound of crashing and thrashing, toru explained that it was likely darkshadow and the group ventured further to see , toru quickly pacified the creature before all of them headed their separate ways charanko wanted to escort Jackie home but the girl refused much to everyone's else entertainment.
Deliberations: Class-1A
Tokoyami , Toru, and ojiro were surprised when they entered the house and they found that everyone was in the living room waiting for them.
"Wha-what's wrong?" toru asked
"Midoriya wanted to tell everyone something." Iida replied gesturing for the new arrivals to come and take a seat, given that everyone was finally there in the living room that midoriya finally made his way to the front center of the room in front of the television and uraraka followed along with him. Kaminari wanted to make a pregnancy joke but seeing the look on Midoriya's face along with the overall tension in the room he decided to hold off on it for now, even the normally loud bakugo was unusually silent and waiting for what the guy had to say. The couple reached the front of the group, midoriya began to fidget with his hands before uraraka murmured something into his ear, Jiro heard what she said was something along the lines of "start with the good news first" which really got her to pay attention to what he was gonna say.
"Guy's… I think I have an Idea of when we will be able to go home." midoriya said he waited for the shocked gasps and negging questions of how or when to die down before continuing.
"Umm…I can talk to the previous user of one for all which includes all might and he had a message for me…he said four and then return." midoriya explained
"But four what though?" sero asked the obvious question
"I…I don't know but I assume to be at shortest four months and at longest four….decades" midoriya murmured out the last bit, getting the class another shocked surprise.
"We can rule out anything longer because if this was done by all for one he wouldn't want deku to die here so it has to be within those time frames." Uraraka said.
"That doesn't inspire a lot of hope." froppy said bluntly.
"It could be earlier." midoriya said immediately
"I think it will be best to take it one step at a time, let's assume that we will return at least 4 months from now and if that fails then four years and only then do we have to admit four decades." Iida said which restored some hope in the class.
"What do you mean?" bakugo said simply, his voice low and almost dripping in something the class was not accustomed to hearing in the boy's voice, which was pain and grief. He repeated what he said over and over again getting a little louder each time, his classmates knew from the direction he was glaring at midoriya that his question wasn't targeted to them and may not even be about what they were discussing.
"What do you mean you heard him? If that were true doesn't that mean that he's…" bakugo trailed off as he couldn't find the strength to even say the words, his icon gone just like that. But the implication was already laid, his classmates each catching up and panic expression on each of their faces about what bakugo was going to say. Midoriya was quickly to shake his head but his body still trembled and his hands fidgeting began to worsen before he ultimately decided to just grab both of his forearms to hold them still.
"All might's not dead but ... He maybe going through something even worst …..he's captured by all for one." Midoriya said his voice ooze with regret and sadness as he looked towards the ground instead of his class
"So how did he speak to you?" bakugo asked
"I don't know…I just know when I saw him he was old….much much older than when we left. I can only assume that all for one has a quirk or something that can enhance aging." midoriya replied
"But why would all for one want something like that?" Momo questioned, Midoriya increased the grip on his forearms and rubbed them up and down nervously. He felt uraraka hand rub small circles on his back which gave him the comfort to say his next line.
"Well all might also had something attached to him…it was…a horn ..like eri's." Midoriya said coldly, the class had no words…they didn't know what to think now ….
"Wai-wait…..it doesn't …have to be her's right?...it could be someone else's right?" Kaminari tried to reason.
"It's a possibility, there could be someone in our world with a similar ability but we have no way to know." Uraraka said, shaking her head. Iida bit back a response…that being had said something about eri not having her power anymore and this is what it must have meant, he wanted to divulge that information but what would it accomplish other than demoralize his class even further and midoriya already looked like he was on the edge of a breaking point. having confirmation that it was eri would only drive him further off the deep end…he needed to wait for a moment so that everyone could calm down first and then he would tell them, he concluded.
"If we assume your right, how do the two factors come together?" mineta asked
"Are you an idiot? It's obvious all for one wants to get back to his prime before he was hurt by all might.`` Bakugo responded gruffly, anger dripping in his voice and a sense of dread flooded through the class, a prime AFO combined with the monster shigaraki would be nearly impossible to stop, it would be nearly unthinkable. Midoirya simply nodded along before continuing.
"All might also say chaisaki as well." midoriya announced earning some whispers among the people who knew of him.
"Why would he be involved? Didn't he hate quirks?" kirishima said
"I don't know but he may not have had a choice similar to all might. Chaisaki wanted to see his father so bad that he may have allied with AFO to do it, with his quirk overhaul he could heal any injury AFO obtained prior to kamino.`` Midoriya said glumly. Earning even more faces dripping with despair but giving rise to a new feeling of anger.
"Did he say anything else?" tokoyami questioned
"Yes, the last thing was about a traitor? Which we assume is how he got captured in the first place." Uraraka explained as Deku sulked into himself, the class scrunch their faces in disgust at the term and many argued who could have been the snake that would turn on them like that at the school but those arguments didn't last very long.
"So to summarize, all might has been captured due to a spy and has been forced to accept a quirk similar to eri's and combine that with them enhancing his age through some other means to increase the rate at which quirk stockpile its power and using it to bring back AFO prime." Momo said and the two nodded their heads.
"And we will return as soon as two months from now or 40 years from now. Iida said, earning more nodding from.
"Dang…that's just….wow." Sato remarked speechless from everything being said.
"Once we get back, wherever that is…..I need you all to promise me…..that…you'll get as far away from me as possible." Midoriya murmured loudly, his voice dripping, he didn't dare meet their gazes as he spoke. But he could hear the surprise in everyone's voice, he even felt the comforting hand of uraraka leave his back as she no doubt turned to look at him with equal the amount of shock that no doubt all the rest of his classmates shared at that moment.
"I know that you guys want to support me but this….this something different, we are not talking about just shigaraki anymore, this is AFO in his prime ….you guys just….you can't ….you can't keep up." Midoriya said , his hands going from his forearms dropping to the ground and hanging lifelessly as he still refused to look his classmates in the eyes. His danger sense kicked in and he believed that it was obviously from none other than bakugo, he out of everyone hated to be looked down upon, especially if it was from him but even he had to know that what he said was true.
"Please understand that…I'm not looking down on any of you or how strong each of you are but….we are just in two separate leagues…I need to settle this alo-" another flare of his danger sense came as he was speaking he originally thought it was from bakugo but this one was much to close for that it almost felt like it could have been coming from none other than, slap! just as he got to the last part of his sentence a resounding slap could be heard from the room as the class just stood there in shock at what was transpiring, uraraka had just slapped deku fairly roughly cutting off his speech. He was so shocked by the action that he finally raised his head to look at her and he really wished he hadn't. There She was clutching the hand that slapped him as tears threatened to drop from her eyes as she looked at him with a sense of betrayal.
"If you are even thinking about running away again... and leaving us...leaving me….the very least thing you can do is to look us all in the eyes when you're telling us." Uraraka said with a broken voice.
"Look into all of our eyes and tell us to simply leave it all up to you, do you think we're scared? Does anyone here look scared to you? Look!'' Uraraka yelled as she gestured to the rest of the class and Midoriya hesitantly looked over to the rest of his classmates and she was right there wasn't an ounce of fear on any of their faces if anything there was nothing but determination and anger, like they were motivated….but motivation just isn't enough don't they understand that? His mind began to think.
"Do you think that any of us are just sitting here doing nothing while we wait to get back home? Everyone here is making an effort to get better and catch up to you, so that we won't be a burden to you, I told you this before that I wanted to lighten the load on your shoulder just that little bit so that we can all be together all of us can do our part to lighten that burden. you don't have to do it by yourself. But you're right if it came down to it we can't stop you even if we wanted to so tell us all right here right now, what's it going to be? Will you just throw us all away, and forget the bonds you shared and strike out on your own again or will you let us help you and we can face whatever is going back home together?" Uraraka finished her speech with a final ultimatum, a true declaration of what path midoriya was willing to take.
Time seemingly slowed down as his mind went into overdrive on what he should do, on one hand he didn't want to endanger his friends because of him but on the other hand he didn't want to leave them behind again, especially not now if he chose to still abandon them despite their motivation it could completely discourage them from improving. It didn't help that the vestiges inside of him were divided as well.
"The choice is yours." he heard in the first vestige voice Yoichi remarked taking a neutral stance
"They will only serve to get themselves killed, guts doesn't mean anything if they lack the strength to back it up." the second vestige spoke out against
"The whole situation has changed now. If AFO is going to be in his prime then all bets are off. These guys will only slow you down." the third vestige stated out against
"I don't really have a leg to stand on in this race, I ran away and hid myself." the fourth users voice Hikage remarked in neutrality
"There is nothing that you can do by yourself , that you can't do with your friends beside you. Some of them are already improving fairly quickly in this new place, let's see what they can do." the fifth user, Daigoro remarked unusually calmer than normal but still louder than the rest in support.
"Just be prepared to live with the consequences that either choice brings." En remarked in neutrality
"Casting aside my bonds is what caused Tomrua's downfall, you should trust your friends and the bonds you made with them." the warm comforting voice of the 6th nana said in support.
Overall the vestiges were in a similar deadlock that he was, all of them made valid points to support or go against his friends wishes, he wished he had something to break this eternal deadlock in his mind but the only other person that could possibly say something would be someone that couldn't speak or that was what he thought when suddenly he heard him , he was about to break out into tears thinking of the implication of such an action but…it wasn't like how the vestiges spoke to him…it was different…it was more like a…memory a memory of his time waking up in the hospital and what all might had to say.
"You need to strive to be even better than me, learn how to take breaks, learn how to accept help from others." all might's voice from the memory played out as he could swear he began to see his silhouette displayed behind his classmates as he caught back up to the moment at hand…tears strolled down from Midoriya's eyes as he finally said his answer.
"I'm sorry….I never should have said such a thing…we can-no need to do things together." Midoriya said, finally earning a bunch of whoops and cheers of enthusiasm from his classmates as they all went to share in a massive group hug with Midoriya in the center. Everyone joined in except one person which was bakugo who after a couple of seconds launched a small explosion to get everyone attention.
"That was well said uraraka, I'm glad I don't have to be the only one smacking some sense into this idiot but if we're really going to be doing this then we all need to get stronger fast, I don't care about how or with who you do it with but that needs to be the main goal from here on out." bakugo said, taking a glance towards Iida as he spoke, their eyes met and an unspoken conversation was being had with that simple exchange before bakugo made his way to the front door and opened it.
"This worlds S-class heroes are all strong…maybe each of them as strong as all might in a certain point in time, maybe even some beyond him in his prime and we all are learning under them, make the time we have count let's assume the four month period like Iida said, in the next two months we have I want each of you to at least get to a higher class before we go back. We will make all for one regret sending us here. We will all break through our own limits here as our school motto says." bakugo remarked and the reply was almost immediate.
Go Beyond! Plus ultra!
Was yelled by the entire class as bakugo closed the front door behind him and left, hearing the vibration of an explosion that he did as he launched off and away. Ojiro and Toru both left as well sometime later, surprisingly along with Mina who wanted to train with them.
As everyone was heading off to their separate rooms to mull over events and undoubtedly look for ways they could push themselves even further than they were currently. Momo had snuck away koda, Iida, and uraraka to ask all of them for blood samples explaining to them the potential that drive knight found in their DNA which could theoretically help their other classmates awaken themselves all three of them agreed and waited around some more while she drawn their blood and stored it in a place to give to drive knight tomorrow.
Bakugo walked through the halls of the association HQ going through training room to training room looking for a certain someone, she hadn't appeared in her usual spot that he had met her at previously which he couldn't doubt her for, he hated that she was right in that he would have challenged her over and over again when he lost to her that first time but now he wasn't really concerned about that. Not having any luck finding the girl in the traditional spots he thought of returning to his old training ground and sure enough she was there, mediating some distance away from the door, like she was waiting for him.
"And here you are again. You can begin when you are ready." she said simply with that same stoic expression her eyes closed.
" I'm not here to fight you today." bakugo said simply he couldn't believe he was about to do this but she was strong and in the face of the day's events maybe even stronger than the cyborg. The girl opened one eye out towards him, silver meeting red as the two locked gazes.
"Have you come to terms about where you stand?" she asked
"I've come to terms about where you stand, your abilities are far above A-class. Why haven't you been promoted to S yet?" bakugo said a bit irritated but calming down.
"The S-class would simply draw too much attention." she said brief and simple.
"I guess that make sense being a ninja and all.'' Bakugo replied, mentally kicking himself for stalling like he was, he really hated what he was about to do but if she is stronger than the cyborg it was going to be his best chance at pushing his limits.
"If you're not going to fight me, I assume you came here for some other matter?" the girl said, finally opening both eyes to look at him properly as she sat crisscrossed. Bakugo swallowed a lump that was in his throat before he replied.
"I was going to ask you….if you could train me." bakugo said with an unusual and disgraceful amount of hesitance. The girl simply continued to look at him for a moment almost as if analyzing him but she said nothing.
"Look I know you have no reason to bu-"
"Sure"
"Wait what? Why?" bakugo asked as the girl finally answered him.
"My elders are simply curious about your little group and would have liked for either me or shadow ring to prune for information but this will make that easier." silverchain said simply standing up and stretching slightly.
"And why would they be interested in us?" bakugo asked with curiosity
"I'm sure you know the reason." the girl said simply, making bakugo scoff.
"I'll train you in return for information about you all. Deal." the girl said before suddenly appearing in front of him extending a hand. Bakugo considered the girl's offer for a moment, he would no doubt be lying for a good majority of any of the questions she asked him but if it meant getting stronger it was a necessary sacrifice to make.
"Deal." bakugo said with a sly grin.
Mina didn't really know what to expect when going out to train with ojiro and toru, the two of them currently were definitely a little strict with her ribbing on her posture and looseness of form whenever they would go over something with the girl she was surprisingly easy to distract from the "boring" way each person took things when it came to each of their respective martial arts. Ojiro came up with a different idea however, knowing how mina liked dancing he looked up on the internet if this world had similar martial arts to Capoeira a brazilian martial arts that he believed that mina would be perfect for with her extravagant dance moves and love of music. And to their luck they did. in fact there was a hero that specialize in such a style an A-class hero called forte of the rhythm rhythm fist. Mina thanked the martial arts enthusiast before heading back home and letting the two get on with their own training.
The two that remained were surprised by the lack of bakugo appearance today but were equally surprised to see that he was knocked out on the couch on their return, ojiro waked the explosive teen who quickly checked his surrounding only to realize where he was and left to his room without another word, toru suggested they check the camera's to get a guess about what was happening their but the only thing the two found were blacked out viewing from the time the sensors were proceed and when the door open and left the sludge only conveniently leaving when the person or whatever had already left, presumably depositing bakugo on the couch. The two found it still strange but neither wanted to deal with it for the moment as the two and everyone else went to sleep.
writing is interesting in a way when things work differently than how you originally plan things to work in you head, originally the scene at the end and uraraka speech against deku was originally going to be said by bakugo but it just worked out better being uraraka in this case once the writing commenced.
the faces they made is a perversion of sorts of the "now their angry" scene that was in the manga chp338(which personally was somewhat dissatisfied with given the characters that motivated that scene was star and stripe someone that most of them never knew of and could likely give a rats ass about and aoyama which was revealed to be a traitor(more on that later)) changing it to people that their closer to like Eri and all might along with the belief that someone sold out all might and Eri, is better IMO to give them some really good motivations to try harder.
also decoupled the bakugo apology scene(it'll come up) with midoriya commitment to working with the class because I believe one overshadowed the other completely.
