Fan mail is open up again similar to what boss kaiju did you can write an in-universe letter to the teens which they will respond to , the cap off point this time being chp 23 and wooooo! celebrating 100 follows and favs, thank you all for reading my story!
Fan-mail: Class 1A
Things had a bit of a tense atmosphere revolving around the class the following morning after their little session yesterday, all of them came to realize that just because they weren't in their world anymore didn't mean that things were just going to simply stop happening, things were still occurring in their world, people were still fighting which meant none of them should be taking it easy either. Momo described the feeling as a sort of object permanence that they were experiencing but yesterday was a wake up call for all of them and the villains were undoubtedly biding their time building their strength eagerly awaiting for their return and that meant that they needed to be ready to face them once they got back.
The tension in the living room was completely broken by a knock on the door, Iida answered it and soon arrived back with a box full of what appeared to be letters and gifts. The label on the container read fan-mail for the "Non-killing army." which immediately drew everyone's attention.
'It looks like we all have fans of some form." Iida remarked as he sorted through the letters and handed each out to their prospective person of interest.
'Me and you probably didn't get much of anything seeing as we've been gone for most of their time." Sero said casually as he looked at almost everyone else receiving letters.
"Yes, it is unfortunate but I'm sure that we will receive some later on, although popularity is not something we should strive for as heroes we should strive for simply doing our part and helping the community, it is its own reward." Iida replied
"Me and ojiro didn't get anything either, I guess that's because we both just were in the dojo most of the time and not out there doing hero work, I'm surprised that tokoyami got one? What does it say? What does it say?." toru remarked
"It was from someone named Sigismund, he simply said that he liked my power and that he too has different voices in his head." tokoyami remarked earning a bunch of questioning gazes from his classmates.
"That definitely seems like a letter you would get." dark shadow said as he emerged. From the teen, garnering a few chuckles here and there.
"Did you say someone named sigismund? Midoriya asked
"Yes, do you know of this person?" tokoyami inquired
"Well kinda, I ran into him and his parents on patrol once…he is a monster." Midoriya remarked, earning shocked gasps from everyone in the room.
"So he's kinda like Tiffany then, he appears mostly human?" mineta replied
"Yes, well he had schizophrenia and when he turned into a monster that morphed along with it, now the voices in his head materialized into beings when he's unconscious or asleep." Midoriya said. A look of understanding suddenly flooded a number of his classmates' faces as they looked towards tokoyami and dark shadow once more.
"Ah I see, I can see the similarity to myself then." tokoyami regarded as he looked towards dark shadow.
"That's not all that's similar, when I first encountered him the being that we fought was a shadow creature as well, although that was only for that given day apparently there are 7 voices/monsters in his head each correlate to a different day of the week and vary in strength and personality. The shadow creature was labeled a tiger by the association." Midoriya said with a nod
"You seem to know a lot about him, why?" bakugo said his voice was rough from the morning.
"Well I might have …suggested that he should come train with us so that he may not be as dangerous. And initially they refused but I guess after the interview they changed their minds." Midoriya said as he held up a letter from said parents directed to him, the letter read mostly about thanking him for not killing his son and not telling the association about him and how they now wanted to take up his offer from that day.. The rest was talking about how their son favored the dark hero amongst their group called Tsukuyomi and how he sent him his own letter. The class awed at the display.
"So you're just gonna pawn some kid off on us?" dark shadow remarked, before being pulled back in by tokoyami.
"It's fine… although getting the association to agree would probably be the more difficult part." Tokoyami said simply.
"I'll try to talk to stitch about it, they may have some systems in place to help him out themselves, so you don't have to worry about it." midoriya mentioned
"It is fine, it's the logical approach to put people with similar disposition together, just as they did with koda and todoroki yesterday." Tokoyami replied simply.
"Well isn't that nice of you." asui mentioned but only got a nod in return from the silent boy before he noticed the around four letters towards her that were ripped to pieces.
"Did the contents of your letters not please you?" tokoyami asked gesturing to the ripped ones
"Just a bunch of perverted dribble." asui said bluntly, garnering a look of understanding from the dark teen.
everyone else began to open and discuss their letters majority of them simply being thank you letters from people that they had saved over time, mina even got letters from a pair of sisters raptora and reptera that complimented her horns and said that they looked cool and awesome which she really appreciated. Todoroki had a couple of letters and many were of thanks and such while a few were of "thirsty" fans as mina called them, bakugo had a couple as well and before exploding them he did make it a point to rub it in uraraka's froppy, and momo who thought opposite but they did get the last laugh when noting that todoroki had received more than him, which he just scoffed at. The two that had the most letters however were Aoyama and mineta but it became quickly obvious that it wasn't themselves but who they were under which were the main subject of most of them. A number of questions for their respective teacher, sweet mask and king.
Everyone in the group also got some less than stellar letters from the populous that out right objected to their existence, some calling them some association experiment, others calling them traitors of the human race or fake heroes for not killing monsters which garnered a mixed of reaction from the class but ultimately the class chalked those comment up to the the different world and people seeing hero's differently but that didn't deter any of them from trying their best to save monster if possible.
"Hey guys this is a letter addressed to all of us." Uraraka remarked, taking out a final letter from the bin, it was from someone that called themselves boss kaiju. It was a more positive reception from the previous letters they read wishing them well and making a request of them to tell the individual again about their ranks in the associations, believing the interview wasn't very clear. Also he questioned how people were treating them now that the interview was up.
"I thought the interview was pretty clear?" aoyama remarked
"The person was probably not paying enough attention." bakugo gruffly remarked
"Well now let's not jump to conclusions too soon. Things could have transpired during or they may just be confused from our previous ranks and names, a lot of us got a change of names afterall." momo defended, and bakugo just huffed in response.
"Well I guess we can send something back. It wouldn't hurt, it even has a return address." midoriya suggested and the rest of class agreed the first thing they did was do the initial request.
Non-killing army former and current names and ranks:
Green menace - green savior deku, S-class rank 14
Frozen-phoenix, S-class rank 17 - 16, +1
Explosion god dynamite - god of destruction dynamite, A-class rank 20
Raven - Tsukuyomi , A-class rank 31
Red riot, B-class rank 70
Speed knight - Ingenium, B-class rank 72
Tail man - silver wukong, C-class rank 90 - rank 70, +20
Tentacole - tank top tentacole, C-class rank 91 - 71, +20
Froppy - frogger, C-class rank 92 - 72, +20
Earphone jack - stereo queen, C-class rank 100 - 90, +10
Acidic cherry - pink mist, C-class rank 105 - 93, +12
Sugerman, C-class rank 110 - 95, +15
Creationist - god of creation neith, C-class 114 - 97, +17
Solar flare, C-class rank 120 - 88, +32
Chargebolt - lightning Raijin, C-class rank 124 - 80, +44
Cellophane - tape weaver, C-class rank 125
Uravity, C-class rank 130 - 100, + 30
Grape juice - grape-a-pult, C-class rank 200
Forest king - Forest lord, C-class rank 209 - 133, +76
Invisible girl - spirit of light, C-class rank 390 - 300, +90
As for persons secondary question most of the teens didn't see to much a change in people reaction other than some of the more no humminod members, shoji wrote that any time he sees police officers now when out on patrol they would personally apologize to him for what happened, mina didn't get asked question about her skin tone anymore and some of the people that had asked prior actually came up and apologized to her. Asui had gotten even more popular in q-city whether that was good or not depended on who the fans actually were she was talking about, she wrote. Tokoyami wrote that while he could take his helmet off more in public and not be criticized much it still drew too much attention for his liking so he usually still walked around with it on, only taking it off sometimes when fans of his came up to him wanting to see his real face. Ojiro didn't really change much with his tail, people were just more cautious when dealing with his tail knowing that it was attached to him and not a machine.
Toru said that her experience was mostly wholesome all though some store owners made it a point to point out to her that they have motion and heat sensing cameras in their stores as a threat so she wouldn't try anything and while she was offended by the remarks she understood their concerns. The overall temperament people felt for their group in general was a mix of positive/sympathy and some discouragement for what their group does apparently but they will keep giving it their all and they ended the letter with a thank you from them all along with a signature from all of them. With that done marking their last letter the group all left out for their day.
Disaster level: Geno's group, saitama
Todoroki and bakugo arrived towards saitama's house although bakugo would insist on calling him caped baldy which he insisted was his hero name given by the association but todoroki didn't want to believe that would be the case and was just bakugo creating a demeaning nickname like he does so often with people. The two arrived on saitama's street, todoroki was momentarily surprised by the condition the streets were in, their were a number of potholes in the street along with gashes of chunks taken out of saitama's apartment, bakugo paid it no mind as he continued forwards, only remarking that some thing's had transpired the other day.
The two climbed the stairs and were about to knock on the door but because Saitama had actually been planning on leaving they didn't have to as the bald man opened it, he was in his hero outfit which suggested that they were actually going to go on patrol today much to bakuog's excitement.
"Oh and explodo dude, genos said he would be coming back with your gauntlets soon so I guess you can just chill out here until then, we'll catch up later." Saitama said before him and Todoroki left out, while angry that the bald idiot still hadn't remembered his name he was somewhat excited for what this had cooked up for him, looking at some of the upgrades his other classmates got made him extremely curious if not downright optimistic about what his new gauntlets would have, he pondered the thought of if the robot forgot about not wanting any of that extra crap that went into making his weapons to be included in his gear but with the stuff he knows now…maybe that wouldn't have been so bad he reckoned.
He dislikes relying on crutches but he hated losing even worse and if those bastards really did have all might locked up somewhere it was his obligation to save him, just like how he did for him what he felt like was so long ago now. But that was all just hypotheticals. The best thing he could do now is just wait around for the cyborg to arrive and just judge it for himself and of course take it for a joy ride, of course he knew the exact person he wanted to try it out on.
Todoroki and Saitama were meanwhile walking the streets, the two heroes were somewhat alike in how they were people of very few words, their conversations that they had were mostly simple about things transpiring around them. Todoroki did ask the hero about why he decided to have his home so out of the way of the more normal parts of the city which the bald hero simply responded that it was cheap rent which Todoroki couldn't really argue with. The two patrolled some time in the city, todoroki wasn't just walking around normally either he was constantly working on his phosphorus forms both his red and white states and switched between the two constantly as half his body began to suffer too badly from the side effects.
The patrol was actually rather hectic monster sightings started appearing more and more frequently and forced the two into action but none of the threats currently were above tiger so todoroki could handle most of them, a mixture of humanoids animal hybrids and fairy tale monster from their world attacked in a few location around the city most of the time the monster were already defeated by heroes that were closer by. Todoroki was surprised by the strength Saitama displayed occasionally when the hero bothered to actually fight, usually killing the creatures he encountered in just a single punch. Even if the monster were just that of a tiger he was impressed by the display of strength nonetheless although the loss of life was a somewhat unfortunate one, there was occasions when saitama had simply got bored of waiting on the association bus and just decided to leave it and allow todoroki to take care of it but that would only lead to him inevitably stumbling upon a different monster and killing it instead todoroki realized
Todoroki had just caught up with the bald hero as he was at a food stand for hot potatoes, the aftermath of one of the monsters that was attacking smeared all over the street next to the stand as the man thanked him for protecting his cart.
"When that monster dive bombed my cart I was sure that I was going to be a goner. But you beat it with just one punch, what class are you? Class C? Class B?" the man questioned
"Class B." saitama replied simply
"That monster looked strong, what threat level do you think it was? Since you're a pro hero I assume that you would know."
"Nope. one roasted potato please." Saitama said casually as he watched Todoroki walk up next to him looking at the disembodied monster on the ground. The only thing that could recognize its being was just its singular eye.
"Hey do you want one to?" Saitama said gesturing to the hot potato stand completely unfazed by the blood and guts sitting not too far away. Even the stand keeper didn't seem bothered by it either but was more surprised by him, such a strange world Todoroki thought to himself.
"Wait, aren't you that new S-class hero? Frozen phoenix right?" the shop keeper said in surprise. Todoroki nodded his head this marked the third time he was asked about that during his time on patrol, he guessed Natalie was kidding when she said that the S-class heroes are sort of like superstars here which shouldn't come as a surprise from him as that was a similar thing in his world with the top 10 heroes, king was basically revealed with the same reverence that all might was in their world.
"Would you like a potato, free of charge." the man said
"Hey!" Saitama said immediately about the remark.
But any response was cut off as the monster alarm began to blare again, this time it said that there was a tiger level monster in the area next to a gray apartment complex and for citizens to stay away from that area while the A-class heroes engage it and it was only few minutes later when the same voice came over the alarms system again stating that the monster had been defeated already.
"Aw man I was about to go ." Saitama said casually.
"Dangerous times we live in eh? Be Careful now your potato's hot." the stand keeper said as he had finished wrapping saitama's potato and handing it to the hero before the alarm started to blare again.
"Evacuation alert! Evacuation alert! Threat level: demon"
"Woah a demon! Frozen phoenix I suggest you better get over their pronto and as for you B-class I suggest you stay away." the stand keeper said but Saitama really wasn't paying attention to what the man said, instead focusing on his potato. Todoroki on the other hand slid off using his ice powers to skate over to the scene as quickly as possible. But his haste seemed to be misplaced as by the time he arrived the monster was already beaten; it appeared to be a giant radish creature with large arms and legs with a tail. It had appeared to be stopped by a group of people that all shared the same suit but the emojis on their face expressed different emotions. The one with a smiley face turned to address him.
"Oh frozen phoenix seems like it was a false alarm, while the alarm said it was a demon it most likely wasn't." the person said off handily waving his arm in dismissal as the creature lied there on the ground.
"I see, are there any injuries that need medical attention?" todoroki asked
"Nah, everyone evacuated away in time." smile man replied before picking up the phone again and answering a call.
"That was the association they said that there was a monster around here, it's only a threat level wolf though so I'm sure that we can take care of it so you don't have to worry about it." smile man said, waving todoroki off.
" It's no trouble at all, it would be much faster if we work together to detain the monster." Todoroki tried to reason.
"Detain? Oh right, you're one of the "None-killing army guys." hmph what a joke." the man with an angry expression on his suit remarked.
"Angry man mind your manner." smile man said almost immediately, rebuffing his brother. who merrily sucked his teeth.
"Don't mind him but as for your offer, no we would prefer to do this by ourselves, we aren't very popular so we want to get more popular by defeating monsters. A wolf level presents a good opportunity for angryman to level up as well but with a S-class around those accomplishments are diminished." smile man said with earnestly. Todoroki was slightly confused about the talk of popularity but he understood the general gist of what he was saying, so obliged them.
"Ok then good luck out there." Todoroki said as the group all began to leave in search of the monster in question. Todoroki went to head back over to saitama just to realize that the bald hero was already there, he still had the potato in his hand but hadn't taken a bite out of it yet, saitama looked at the Radish monster and saw the group walking away and realized what had happened. The two continued onwards patrolling the town for a brief moment fighting monsters, now that saitama had his prized potato in his hands he had no calms of todoroki taking the charge in fighting monster only stepping in if he really needed to which he never did the monster were mostly tigers and todoroki could freeze them rather easily enough, the two were waiting for the next bus when suddenly a cold draft started to breeze down the street corner at first saitama thought that it was coming off of the frozen monster but todoroki knew better something else further down was causing it, the wind chill was way too cold for the current weather. So he decided to investigate and asked Saitama to watch the monster for him, which he obliged.
Todoroki quickly made his way down the street using his ice and flames as propulsion to launch himself down the street high above the road, following the cold wind towards its source there was no monster alarm so maybe he was overreacting and this world had some sort of winter event but that idea was quickly dashed out of the way when he arrived to a park that was nearly frozen over, but as he drew closer he found something even more disturbing the group of three that he met previously were all completely frozen in large column of ice and only one small twig like creature to show for it. That was starting to walk away from the scene. Todoroki immediately landed behind it and before the creature could react fast enough froze the creature solid before it could get off a word. He was going to begin to thaw out the three other frozen hero's but his ice almost instantly shattered much to the scrawny bean sprouts annoyance.
"Hey! What is with you picking on a defenseless monster like that!" the bean sprout reprimanded him, before taking a close look at the hero in question notifying that he was a S-class his entire demeanor changed as if on a dime.
"Please….please show me mercy…I ..I didn't do this …some other monster did I'm being honest" the sprout said its hands shaking in fear and its body trembling. Todoroki didn't believe the creature for a moment but decided to air on the side of caution and see if he could glean any more information from the monster.
"So where did the perpetrator run off to?" Todoroki asked, immediately seeing a look of relief flash through the monster's features as it pointed in a random direction.
"It…it ran off over here!" the monster replied, turning with speed that Todoroki didn't fully anticipate before being completely frozen in ice. The monster pointed and laughed at the S-class hero.
"Hahaha , I can't believe you hero's are so gullible didn't your mom ever teach you to not judge a book by its cover?" He taunted and laughed again but his laugh was completely stifled as todoroki in a mirror to the monster completely broke out of its ice a burst of flames that he was building inside himself releasing itself as a failsafe precaution.
"I never believed you from the start." Todoroki said simply as the remaining bits of ice evaporated off his clothing.
"Hmph, that's an S-class for you. But you ain't gonna be taking me in punk!" the sprout said before launching multiple freeze blast out of its hands, todoroki went into his phosphorus red mode and battle back with his fire, the two battled for what felt like an eternity for the teen fire and ice completely clashing around creating large burst of steam that permeates the entire city block. But the surprising thing was that the creature seemed to just be enjoying his time and playing with him before its face got serious.
"Your decent kid, maybe in a couple years you could give me a challenge but for now enjoy your extra cold nap…absolute zero freeze " the small sprout said and todoroki answered in kind storing up all the remaining heat inside himself and launching it forwards duel flashfire fist but as the two attacks clashed unlike before where steam would rise from the conflict his fire was completely consumed by the ice, the fire itself becoming frozen as the blast continued forwards unimpeded and by the time it reached him he felt a slight chill and then nothing at all as darkness consumed him, he didn't know what happened next but he found himself awake again, standing above him was saitama the next things he felt was the numbness all around his body. his hearing was completely shot and he could barely move any part of his body. He couldn't even feel anything anymore and he couldn't even speak a word, his body was attempting and failing to warm himself but nothing was working he couldn't even summon a flame.
"Hey…hey…can you like… thaw out my potato? Hey …hey?" Saitama remarked as he looked at the teen still lying on the floor his eyes were open so he assumed he had woken up but he guessed looking at him things weren't the best Saitama thought. The kid was stone still on the ground, his cheeks were red and his lips were nearly completely blue.. He would have thought the kid and his powers would make him good in the cold but he guess there is a limit to everything he supposed even he got sick sometimes. Saitama bent down to carry the kid over his shoulder and began to walk away, maybe genos could warm him up. Saitama began to walk away as he left the 10 kilometers of broken ice and sleet behind for someone else to clean up.
Scrawny bean sprout was later reclassified as demon level threat and frozen-phoenix was credited for beating it due to eye witnesses.
Saitama canyon(the place where saitama and genos were training.)
(I drew inspiration from mikekameda's animated fight including both characters you should check it out. )
Both bakugo and genos were both flying towards each other bakugo using his explosion while using his incinerators to fly through the air directly towards each other, the two clashed in mid air as bakugo's new gauntlets and genos arms clashed against one another. Both parties continued their assault on the other bakugo coming in with his signature right to launch an explosion directly into the cyborgs face and geno countered with his left his incinerator blazing with power as the two attacks collided creating a large explosion that engulfed the both of them. The recoil of the explosion forced genos to the ground as bakugo flew higher up into the air, bakugo charged back down towards genos as the robot raised on the ground about to leap back up into the air but upon seeing the teen charged down recklessly at him he reacted quickly shooting a tight incinerator beam directly at the teens face but bakugo was quick dodging out of the way just in time. As he returned the favor launching a counter explosion that kicked up a large amount of dust and rubble.
Genos quickly emerged from the dust flying in the air being followed swiftly by the explosive blonde. The two climbed higher and higher into the air before genos stopped abruptly and fired at bakugo forcing the teen dodge out of the way, this processed repeated itself three times before bakugo started to fly away this time being pursued by genos just as he planned the two flew for a couple of seconds before bakugo completely altered his path launching an explosion forwards and up to launch him over the pursuing cyborg blinding him with stun grenade which he transitioned into his Explode-A-Pult sending the cyborg crashing into the ground into a nearby rock pillar, the explosive teen didn't relent in his assault their he reigned down a barrage of his AP Machine-Gun he then followed quickly by flying down using his Blasting Speed Turbo: Cluster to quickly land near where his target was and used his Land Mine Blast to blast everything up into the air.
the cyborg was caught in the blast forcing him skywards but he recovered quickly and shot out multiple incinerator blasts that forced bakugo to dodge around them before finally getting ready to balance again to lift off into the air but just as he closed in on him the demon cyborg had completely surprised him by using his rocket punch to extend his arm and completely wrap it around bakugo's neck forcing the teen back down into the dirt and dragging him until he retracted the arm and bakugo back towards him and hit the teen in the stomach with a kick sending him careening towards the top of and into a rock column. bakugo only could raise his gaulnets up as genos used his machine gun blows to completely pulverized the rock he was standing behind causing him to fall on his back, genos didn't relent either using his lightning eye to briefly blind bakugo before following it with a rocket stomp that plummeted the two directly into the ground, bakugo had managed to block the attack with his gauntlets which mitigated much of the attack from the kick but not from him crashing into the earth below causing 4 meter deep creator to form. As Genos pointed his incinerator directly into Bakugo's face.
"You lose." was the only thing genos said simply, making bakugo grit his teeth as he attempted to weasel his way out from under the cyborg finding it pointless he simply gave up.
"Get off me." the teen remarked with a deflated tone, a fight like that would have normally got his blood pumping….. well it did get his blood pumping but everything had that bitter taste to it, when they first started their sparing genos revealed to him that he had decreased his firepower to ⅓ of it's normal level and decreased his speed to ⅕ of it's normal level to have the fight be as "equal" as it appeared. The explosive teen still got up and took a moment to recover from that hit to the gut, the bastard can decrease his power and speed but his strength he guessed was still the same which would explain why he didn't hit him single time in that barrage of fists.
"How are the gauntlets?" genos requested
"They're fine." bakugo replied immediately
perfect actually bakugo thought. His new gauntlets weren't in the traditional grenade bracers like before but instead kind of in the shape of grenade launcher tubes with 6 tube like protrusions bulging outwards. The cyborg gave him a list of new features the things had over the old ones, all of it was mostly just powered by his sweat, no extra power coming from anywhere. The most interesting thing he saw was the delayed explosion feature it had, the gauntlets would turn his sweat into small miniature adhesive orbs that would set itself off with a miniature spark or could be set off early with an external force which he called C4 . Another feature was the explosive punch, keeping up with his methodology of also believing in physical strength the gauntlets could also fire off backwards which could come in handy for enemies behind him but the main purpose was to increase the speed of his punches.
The gauntlets also had a feature to simply shoot out his sweat by itself dowsing someone completely in nitroglycerin which he called time bomb , the next feature that drew his attention was his explosive cannon attack it was still completely intact but unlike his previous gauntlets he didn't need to pull a pin to activate it and it could be fired manually just with some inputs on his hand but the actually impressive part was that he could fire 12 of them off simultaneously this was a real firepower upgrade for him.
"At your current level I believe that you could take out a low demon level threat now." genos remarked, making bakugo frown.
"A "low" demon level threat? I didn't know monsters had their own sub definitions." bakugo said a bit in irritation, the news was somewhat bitter sweet to him on one hand that means he is saying that he has S-class level ability but a low one.
"They don't at least not officially speaking, the association likes to believe that their ranks give a concise metric but it is folly for a number of reasons mostly that a monster could hide it's true power or could have shape shifting powers to make it appear less threatening. " genos explained
"So what are the ranks unofficially?" bakugo asked
"Some citizens have taken it among themselves to provide their own disaster levels although this is usually done after the heroes have already taken care of the monster and it's defeat is reported , dividing each of the four category into four more sections, being low, average usually just referred to as the category itself, high, and above." genos said.
"Wait, doesn't the above term seem redundant? Why now just move them over into the next category over?" bakugo questioned
"That is constantly debated among forms, strong enough to be above the category but too
weak to go to the next one over. Sometimes another section is added named below but that is very rarely used." genos explained
"Alright so I could take a "low" demon in a fight, could you give me something actually concrete to work with here, how am I compared to you or half and half?" bakugo stated.
" if I had to simplify it to just a number I would put you at 14 while he is at 30 but can rise to a level similar to me with his elemental switches which would be 40. You are about as strong as I was when I first met my master'' Genos said simply making bakugo grit, his teeth and bald his fist, as that being words rang in his head again, along with the same statement from the nerd himself just the other day. Speaking of.
"What about midoriya? Deku?" bakugo said, clarifying with his hero name just in case genos didn't know who he was referring to, the robot took a moment staring at him as if he was pulling up the relevant data and for all bakugo knew he was doing just that.
"It's hard to say, I haven't had many encounters with him but if the VGS is correct in its assmenst of his capabilities rivaling that of darkshines then he could be as high as 2,000 " genos remarked. Making bakugo choke down a surprised expression his face mostly hardening into an even heavier frown over 100x stronger than him..could he ever hope to climb that high? Could he ever hope to surpass him? He Began to think before launching an explosion into his face, surprising the cyborg slightly.
"I had to empty my head from some stupid thoughts, that VGS machine you still got it?" bakugo asked
"If you want it, it's yours…master has already informed me of its failings." genos replied simply, making bakugo smirked well at least he didn't have to convince him of anything now.
"Load it up with all the information you took from us and your stuff too." bakugo said and genos merrily nodded, he thought about any other good combat data points he could take from he thought about the baldy he could have some powerful people.
"I want some from you master as well, what number would you rate him?" bakugo asked
"Immeasurable" was Genos immediate reply and bakugo couldn't contain the chuckle, yeah he figured the cyborg would say that, it didn't make it true however. Seeing the skepticism on bakugo's face at his remarked made genos oil boil, he looked up into the evening sky before spotting it and pointing in a direction bakugo followed the path the cyborg pointed to which was the moon it was a full moon but something about it didn't look right it seemed incredibly crater near the epicenter.
"I'm never joking when it comes to my master, he is what caused that after all. Master had previously held a rock that he said he got from the moon. I did not believe him at first but after analyzing the sediment he was telling the truth. After looking at the scar on the moon I promised to never doubt my master's words again." genos said before displaying a hologram of his enhanced vision of the moon, which clearly showed the massive craters on its surface bakugo just gawked at what he was seeing switching between the hologram and looking with his own eyes to try and see any fabrication but there wasn't any could that laid back jackass really have done that? It almost seems impossible.
Seeing the marveled look in bakugo's face, Genos was satisfied that he wouldn't doubt his master again but just to be sure he played a recording of him and his masters first training overlaying the ending exactly directly in front of the gorge in real life and how that gorge came to be. Bakugo was speechless and just nodded his head in understanding before the two left back towards the apartment complex, not before making several pit stops around the city to clean up after his master's patrol, collecting the bodies before roasting them near the outside of his apartment. The bald hero arrived sometime later and to the shock of bakugo with an almost comatose todoroki in toe, he set the teen down next to the fire of the burning monsters as he attempted to reheat his potato as bakugo attempted to ask the fuck was going on.
Taking things up a notch: Bang's group , Charanko
Bang class started out fairly normally like usual with the several kilometers run around the mountain of bang's dojo while midoriya and bang would consistently finish much faster than the other two students but they had both gotten significantly faster than previously bang noted that they have gotten three times faster than they were originally making an extra note that compared to himself from the start of his training charanko had improved massively being over 5x as quickly as he was before which significantly stroked the so called "best" apprentices ego. The first surprise of the day came in the fact that unlike previously where bang and midoriya would head off into the city on patrol to do hero work the two decided to stay and just continue on with their training.
Midoriya just briefly mentioning how he didn't want to delay their practice just for appeasing him, ojiro took it as a reaction of the talk the class had the other day and having more time with bang would benefit him getting stronger, bang took it as the boy finally coming to terms with what he told him previously of doing everything himself and not allowing hero's to grow, either way both participants were happy to accommodate him. Charanko was still gushing over his master's praise to really follow along with the conversation but once he finally caught up to everything that was happening he was even more determined to show his improvements.
The four of them started their training with standard strength exercises such as push up, sit-up, crunches, leg lifts and so on just to get the three teens' bodies stretched out and prepared for their next activities. They started going over forms and techniques again before going over to direct sparring. Their sparring was divided into three phases so that each pupil would have a chance to train with bang himself. Their were stark differences in the sparring matches depending on the match up, when midoriya would spar with bang he would usually be using full cowling 100% a majority of the time much to bangs request he wanted to teach the boy how to properly fluctuate his power throughout his body like a stream of water. When midoriya fought against charanko or ojiro he would power down to about 10%.
ojiro noted how he never saw the blue lines coming off midoriya no matter how many times they practiced so far which he found surprising because he was way more on point with the forms than either he or even charanko was often giving pointers on where there arms should be or if they were off by even the slightest degree in comparison to how bang taught it but maybe that was what the issue is he figured maybe midoriya hyperactive and imitative mind was to focused on the details and to exactly copy the original without actually having any of the emotion of the original art, he speculated as the two trained together. Ojiro would definitely go much harder on midoriya and bang than in his time with charanko; their sparring match was mostly one of equals, each attempting to use the water rock smashing fist to less try to hit the other but more each trying to correct flaws in their own forms, which produced growth in the both of them.
After a short intermission, the group was brought outside, there bang would instruct both charanko and ojiro to continue with their image exercises while he took midoriya down to a place he called the reliquary, the location of this place was off the side of the mountain near the waterfall, there was a small pond near the bridge of the waterfall pond with rocks pressed out of it's center like large lily pads.
"So what are we going to be doing down here master bang?" midoriya asked
"We will be training that ability of yours, danger sense I believe you called it?." midoriya nodded
"Yes I want to try and see if we cannot overcome the flaw of that ability." bang said simply
"Flaw sir?" Midoirya asked, confused before bang disappeared and then suddenly bonked him over the head, with a karate chop.
"The flaw is that your opponent may not have Ill will against you. Skilled individuals are able to hide their bloodlust and killing intent against such opponents. Your ability would prove rather infective if not harmful as atomic samurai displayed the other day." bang explained and Midoriya understood completely. He was surprised that his danger sense didn't flare when the sword master first attacked and was pondering a multiple of reasons why.
His danger sense actually flared this time and he moved his head out of the way just in time to avoid a pebble that was thrown his way landing somewhere across the lake.
"I see that it also works on objects after they leave the person's hands…a very fine ability indeed." bang murmured to himself as he clasped his hands behind his back and slouched slightly.
"Go sit in the center of the pond" bang instructed and midoriya immediately knew what bang had in mind for this training as he got to the center of the pond and sat down crossed legged.
"Try to clear your mind, close your eyes, try to let your ability fuse with all of your other senses."
" the old guy actually is on to something here" midoriya suddenly heard the voice of himikage the fourth vestige speaking
"What do you mean?" Midoriya immediately asked back.
" you still haven't mastered danger sense yet it can do more , funnily enough all might actually figured that out on his own even without our help but of course he called it his "might sense" and "might ears" " himikage ended with a laugh, which got a chuckle out of midoriya as well.
"Did you think of something funny?" bang asked somewhere off to his side
"Oh- ugh yeah just thinking about how I never thought of this before." midoriya said simply
"Well you did just receive your gifts so you shouldn't feel so surprised." bang murmured out in response .
"Right. I'm ready." Midoriya said.
" You don't get to sit by either, you need to quickly master all of our quirks as well, especially if you have to face all for one in his prime. " the voice of the second vestige said in his mind
" I know, do these quirks involve yours as we-" midoriya's response was completely cut off as well, he felt a sudden smack upside the head, quickly crying out in pain as he rubbed his head.
"Just focus on mastering the fourth ability first," the second vestige replied. And midoriya rolled his eyes as he gave bang the ok again, this time however he began to focus shutting out all unnecessary thought and trying to manually activate danger sense but it didn't seem to work before the ability suddenly activated and he was able to catch the rock being thrown his way he at first thought he did it but thought better of it as he looked to bang.
"You went easy on me? "midoriya said as he tossed the rock into the stream
"Not easy, I want to alternate between activating the ability the traditional way and not, so that you can get a better feeling of it." bang said, midoriya nodded his head and the two continued to train together For sometime midoriya was never able to quite catch or move out of the way rocks bang threw without intent, even when he cleared his mind and tried to pay attention to his surroundings especially the sounds of his surroundings, he tried to pay attention the the sound of the rock leaving bang's hand, the sounds of the air being split by the pebble , or if it clashed with any water on its way towards him but none of it worked the pebble still hit him every time. Bang said that he needed to stop overthinking which he still had a tendency to do but it was easier said than done for someone like him the two tried for about an half an hour more before bang called it for the day. The two went back up the mountain to greet both ojiro and charanko again, there was a brief pause as in the distance of the mountain a giant colossal ice structure could be seen in the distance before it was immediately shattered, ojiro just thought that it was simply todoroki fighting out there but midoriya had his doubts that was much larger than anything todoroki has been able to do and the cold coming off the structure was even enough to reach where they were and the wind chill alone was definitely extremely cold forcing all of them to rush inside practically.
Given that class was nearly over midoriya took the chance to go out and investigate, he also had to go visit sigismund and his parents so that they could figure out a plan for him. After visiting the scene of the incident midoriya was shocked to see the state of things the ice that was their was completely shattered into small pieces but it showed no signs of melting away anytime soon even as emergency responders began to use fire on the much large pieces that were blocking the roads the ice just remain in tact the fire barely affecting it's integrity unless focused on a small tight spot. Checking in with a local hero group he found that the ice was caused by a relatively small monster in the shape of a bean sprout which was currently broken in half, the heroes said that frozen phoenix was the one that did it but seeing the damage to the monster he doubted that was the case, he would need to ask todoroki about it later he reckoned, as he did whatever he could to help clean up before heading over to sigismund's place.
Going even further beyond: Tatsumaki, uraraka
Uraraka was feeling more motivated than ever for her training today, ever since the other day she had some pent up aggression she wanted to take out on something. She wasn't that angry at midoriya per say, she understood that he had good intention with him declaring that he wanted to leave again he wanted to take them as far away from afo as physically possible but the best of intention can be ruined if you go about it the wrong way and to her at least he surely did. She felt like he completely ignored what she said during her confession to him and he was openly ready to sideline their relationship when they got back just to be alone again. like she was so easy to just forget about and discard which made her paranoid about his true feelings for her but she stalled those thoughts midoriya wasn't like that, she knew in the back of her head that midoriya was always going to be a hero first and everything else would come secondary especially when he had such responsibility on his shoulders by being the one to carry all mights mantle. But he has to understand that they all wanted to support him in that endeavor; they were all heroes, and they can all lift each other up in hard or rough times. Not to mention he didn't even bother to consult her before speaking, I mean if he at least talked it out with her when they were discussing all the other things that was troubling him she may have at least tried to see it his way or give him some benefit of the doubt.
Uraraka was so consumed with her own thoughts that she didn't even notice tatsumaki setting her down and having been trained so long she didn't even feel the 7x gravity field the girl had already activated on her but what she did feel was the rock that hurled directly into her open gut making her immediately keel over in pain clutching at her stomach.
"Hey you can day dream on your own time." Tatsumaki remarked coldly, not even concerned about if the girl was ok or not from the attack she just received but Uraraka knew better to expect such treatment from the green girl.
"You…your …right I need to get my head in the game, I…everything just became so natural for me that I didn't notice that we had begun." uraraka
"Are you saying that you're ready for even heavier times of gravity?" Tatsumaki said with what she thought was a threatening tone but to her surprise the brown headed girl just smiled at her and nodded her head.
"Exactly….actually…I wouldn't mind trying out 10x gravity now.'' Uraraka said her confidence fading slightly before coming back in a wave, she needed to get stronger not only for midoriya sake but hers as well. Surprisingly the gloating girl didn't immediately agree and turned up the gravity on her. She looked at her with a skeptical gaze before pulling uraraka up towards where she floated.
"What's with this new found enthusiasm huh? Don't tell me that…"Boy friend" of yours put you up to this?" tatsumaki said her expression reading somewhere between annoyed and angry uraraka noted but why? Even if midoriya was a large reason why she wanted to excel her training, why would that be a bad thing? And as if reading her mind the esper hero continued.
"If you're only doing this for your boyfriend then I suggest you just leave now, you shouldn't try to be strong for others, you should try to be strong for yourself. Working hard because someone else will only remove all your motivation once that person is gone or if they gave up themselves.`` Tatsumaki said, uraraka now saw where the espers were coming from and she shook her head.
"No, I want-no need to get better and faster…something might be coming up soon and I want to be prepared to do my part." Uraraka said simply. Tatsumaki gave her one last glance over seeing the conviction in the girl's eyes before she nodded.
"Alright it's about time you finally got your head on straight." tatsumaki said simply before uraraka noticed that same glowing field that surrounded making her float suddenly switched to the opposite increasing her gravity by 10 sending her crashing downwards to the ground , uraraka thought quickly using her quirk on herself as she struggles to raise her hand just enough above her head to shoot all of her orbs upwards and stopping the hook cold which had the ideal effect immediately slowing her descent enough that she could land safely, she faltered when she finally felt her teeth touch the ground her extra weight causing her to fall to one knee but the shadows in the air told her all she needed to know that tatsumaki wasn't just contempt with just dropping her, she had to think of a way to dodge the from the the massive rock that was going to drop right on top of her head if the shadow it cast was anything to go by. she couldn't properly move out of the way using her legs so she did the next best thing, using the orbs again she shot them forwards and away from her and then once they landed reeled herself towards their location moving just fast enough to save herself from being crushed under a rock.
By the time she finally recovered from reeling herself away from the large boulder, she just had time to raise up both of her hands to in a cross block as multiple smaller rocks pelted all over her body, before she could even think of something else to do the platform below her started to levitate skywards at a rapid rate, the speed at which the platform raised combined with her increased gravity forced the brunette to hug the ground, she couldn't move a single muscle until suddenly the platform stopped forcing her into the air, she could only gasp in shock as still under the effect of her own quirk she constantly sowed upwards, she quickly deactivated her quirk on herself slowing her down and hopefully not doing her first ball test impression and start flying off towards infinity which she didn't as she ascended slower and slower before starting to fall back down to earth she was a bit intimidated by the height she was falling from which doubled when she noticed the large platform that she just launched from suddenly broke into four pieces and were one by one launched at her. She quickly reactivated her quirk on herself before throwing her orbs to the side and stopping it short and reeling herself out of harm's way before doing the same for the next large landmass coming her way.
She was just recovering from dodging out of the way of the second rock when the next two parts of the landmass completely broken apart further into even more smaller pieces, before all launching out at her she was about to block again until another large landmass blocked her path instead completely halting her fall and hurting like hell as she didn't expect the sudden stop but she couldn't really worry about that right now as the platform she landed on started to tremble the smaller pieces that were created from before completely tunneled through platform flying high in the sky and began to circle back around towards the girl, uraraka used all the strength she could muster to push back up from off the ground and dodge out of the way of the incoming rocks she successfully avoided them before she felt the ground beneath start to tremble again, but she ignored it still scanning the sky for the rocks flying about. In hindsight she realized her grave error in judgment, she needed to split her attention on the ground and air as a rock shot out of the ground like a gopher and struck her right underneath her chin before settling back down into the ground. The unexpected hit packed some punch making the girl rub the aching pain in her jaw before moving out of the way again.
Her practice continued this way for several more moments, making the girl focus on several things at a time to improve her multitasking and observation skills. It would seem almost impossible to track everything that was happening with her at a given time, the rock flying through the air and constantly hounding her combined with the underground attacks that only tale tale sign that they were coming was the slight rumble of the platform she was on, hell she didn't even know if she was still falling through the air or not but that question was answered when suddenly a loud thundering crash reverberated through the platform and into her body making her knee become wobbly and fall. She didn't have the strength to move anymore or the leverage to throw her hooks out so whatever attack that was coming was just going to hit her and she would have to endure it….but none came? She felt the increased gravity slowly dissipate from her form before she heard tatsumaki call out to her.
"Well that's all you gonna get for the warm up….in 20 minutes get ready for the real challenge." uraraka heard the flying girl say, completely baffling her…that was just a warm up? She mushed her head further into the ground as she started to question what the heck did she just get herself into.
Let's get physical: darkshine, Kirishima, Sato
Both kirishima and sato were both hyped up for their training session today, after the whole conversation the other day about what was happening back home, they needed to increase and quicken their progress which meant they had to do more than they have been doing these past month and darkshine was happy to oblige easily increasing the load they were achieving by a factor of three which he remarked that any higher would probably be to much for them and would only negatively impact them in growing faster by overworking their muscles, given darkshine was the relevant expert here the two students just nodded along happily to do even just that bit more regardless. For kirishima he had an even higher purpose on his mind as the talks the other day of overhaul brought his mind screaming back to his time just before they were sent here by whatever that being was and his epic rematch with rappa, well he thought epic rematch but it was nothing but a one sided beatdown even with both shoji and sato's help. he could have swore that he was even stronger than before not to mention his fist were even faster and the multitude of blows just constantly wore downed his unbreakable form as punch after punch landed.
the funniest things was he wasn't even a skilled fighter kirishima thought as he really thought about their most recent fight he was only throwing his punches willy nilly in a berserker frenzy maybe even he couldn't see what he was actually doing kirishima began to ponder but that led him into thoughts of his own failings all of the monsters he fought here that were actually strong enough to not only take his hits but were also capable of actually hurting him were all more skilled than he was, he needed to not only focus on strength alone, he also needed to focus on technique as well he realized.
At first he consider maybe trying out some martial arts or something like that, but he was never really into all of that stuff and listening in on mina's experience with the duo martial artist the other day suggested to him that it was something that you needed to have a real dedication for to really make the most out of it. His second option was actually mizuki and taking up on her offer for some lessons if she wasn't trying to just fluster him that is, she was a hero after all unlike darkshine who mostly assigned to defend the association's headquarters just in case anything actually happened so she may not have had time to spend on training him. There was also the fact that she specialized mostly in wrestling not really fighting with punches or kicks which had its advantages as she showed against him but that was another reason why he was hesitant to ask her to train with him despite being a hero she would undoubtedly come along just to see darkshine again but he wouldn't lie she wasn't entirely wrong about him being flustered with wrestling with the girl…..he had to admit she was definitely attractive to him and the thought of being all up close and personal with her did get him feeling some type of way.
the only thing that really prevented that was his affection for…..mina but that….isn't going anywhere anytime fast especially what she said about relationship in that car but that would seem to completely contradict what happened the day before that where they went out to that karaoke place, he felt like something was there, like a spark but maybe that was just him trying to imagine things that way. She was a hard girl to figure out when it came to this stuff and he cursed his unmanliness to just come out and ask her straight up which on more than one occasion bakugo simply told him to do just that. but he didn't want to ruin the friendship they have if she didn't reciprocate his feelings and things got weird between the two of them.
He quickly shook his head from those thoughts and decided to just continue to carry on with what he was doing, unbeknownst to him sato was thinking fairly similarly he was trying to figure out if someone could teach him some boxing techniques he thought of his but whooping him and tsu got from kg scramble a couple of weeks ago but he couldn't really think of anyone specifically to actually help with that he could possibly go and ask koda for help as strange as that sounded in his head to think but he was supposedly been going over some boxing lessons with his teacher but he never actually got the time to actually see him in action, maybe he could offer to spar with him later on just to check out how far he progressed or just ask to come along with him for his lessons now but that would prove hard for him as he would than be torn between three different locations, pig god was at least close by somewhere in the hero association hq usually in the kitchen which allowed him to participate in both of these teachers lessons
he often wondered who was stronger darkshine or pig god. Going off of simple looks he would originally just assumed it to be darkshine but he's seen pig god eat some big monsters whole and he almost never been hurt in any of the fights he's seen him in along with being deceptively fast for his size. Pig god is above him when it comes to ranks so maybe pig god is stronger than he thought ? Finally, he quickly pivoted back to his original and serious thoughts about finding a teacher before ultimately deciding to just focus on his current training.
Suddenly another person entered the gymnasium to sato. It was just a stranger but to Kirishima it was someone he was familiar with at least from just how the guy dressed.
"Bone!" Kirishima remarked, doing one more lift before heading over to greet the man.
"Yo! My rocky man." bone replied as he held his hand out for kirishima to shake, both keeping a firm grip on the other making it a contest of sorts of who would would give up or relent first as each of their grips got tighter and tighter kirishima hardened his hand and after another moment went into his unbreakable form as he squeezed even tighter and it was in that very moment bone had to submit.
"Ha! I won." kirishima remarked as he turned his unbreakable form off
"You're just lucky I didn't decide to drink any milk before I got here." Bone replied, shaking his hand slightly.
"Milk?" sato questioned as he approached
"Oh sato, this is bone he has a power similar to mine and you're mixed together, instead of eating sugar, however he needs to drink milk and when he does his bones get denser on top of how much they are denser than normal. This is sato his power needs him to ingest sugar and he gets 5 times stronger.`` Kirishima introduced and the two did a regular handshake and greeting.
"So what brings you here? Are you here to work out as well?" kirishima remarked
"I actually brought him here." darkshine said coming up from behind the three of them
"Oh really? Why is that?" kirishima asked
"Well the big guy wanted me to teach you how to fight obviously, you definitely got the strength and durability section down pack we just got to improve your fighting skills a bit to match." bone said and kirishima's eye nearly popped out of his head as he quickly turned around and attempted bear hug darkshine, attempting being the correct term as he couldn't actually wrap around the man in total.
"Thank you so much! I was just thinking about this very exact problem but leave it to the manliest man in the universe to figure it out for me." kirihsima said with a sharked grin smile, darkshine expected the praise and rubbed it through Kirishima's hair as he pushed the boy off him.
"Yes I would have taught you myself but from my experience when you compete and train with someone more on your level it allows both of you to progress faster than if someone is massively above you." darkshine noted.
"Am I included in all this?" sato asked himself, getting sorta hyped up.
" the more the merrier , I always say." Bone remarked as he flung an arm around the teens shoulder.
" don't you have something with pig god to go to though?" darkshine questioned.
"I can tell him that I'll spend the day here." Sato remarked as he left to go and tell pig god exactly that. Darkshine simply shrugged his shoulders as he gestured for the two to follow him over to the ring in the corner.
"There is a fridge right over there full of milk for you, bone I hope you don't mind 2%." darkshine noted
"Nah that's good man I'm not picky about what type of milk I drink; it works on all kinds." bone said, waving away any worry.
"That's good and for the second thing, check this out." darkshine said before pressing a button on the side of the ring and after a moment the ring expanded about 10 more feet before a giant dome surrounded it completely.
"Hold on, don't tell me." kirishima remarked in astonishment
"Yup, a new and improved gravity machine it could go up to 400x even works with your phone" dakrshine said as kirishima let out a gasp in shock, he quickly turned his head towards bone immediately wanting to test the new machine out and bone was almost as eager to comply as kirishima he quickly jugged around half a gallon of milk and made his way inside the domed structurer after kirishima, the two started for a moment before sato arrived and marveled at the scene before quickly popping a pill and joining in the the fun.
The animal inside of me: Watchdog Man, Asui
Tsu was on her way to Q-city in deep thought going over the events of the previous day, she didn't really think about much of anything that was happening at home since she was here and now part of her felt guilty for doing so. Now that she thinks more on it she did realize how hard uraraka has been trying since she got here which made her feel even more self conscious about her essentially doing nothing but laze around. It also made her think about what was really going on back home and if her family were ok but they were in the safety of UA for protection but the same couldn't be said for her friend Habuko she hoped that the snake headed girl was ok, there high school wasn't as reputable like hers or Shiketsu High School were but maybe that was a blessing in disguise for her it isn't a high profile target so maybe the villain wouldn't find it necessary to attack and she would be safe…..safe she thought again about that word and what it meant now….if their guesses were correct and all for one was going to be in his prime now which presumably meant he was going to be stronger than ever before, she didn't really know much about the menace to society by the time she was coming up his name was almost always brought up in like a boogeyman type manner something someone would tell their kids and even her youngest sibling about to get them to behave or he would come and steal their quirks away when they sleep.
Her entire view changed once she saw him on that day in kamino the epic last battle between all might and all for one which left the whole city in ruins really put into perspective how things were really at the top of the totem pole of hero society and made all the bad and horrible things said about all for one so real and not just a scary tale it was even worse for her because she knew that her friends were in the area and she was so worried if they had gotten caught up in all of that. But if all for one was going to be above that display in kamino and all might well she guessed midoriya now wasn't there to stop him then who would be able to prevent him from just doing whatever he wanted? Just thinking about it made her shiver again but she had to put aside her fear despite whatever was happening back home she needed to make sure that she could handle to not only protect her friends but her family as well so she turned to the one person she could think of to try and get stronger although she didn't expect much from the man.
Asui finally arrived at the foot of watchdog man's plaza, in front of his statue, the hero in question was missing no doubt on another monster hunt and she braced herself as he would undoubtedly be back very soon and just as she expected the large gust of wind marked his arrival as he was as he appeared on the podium that was just vacant. He offered a paw in greeting and she shook it. She didn't know how to broach the topic with him the man and his constant coming and going meant that she had to be quick about it as well.
"Watchdog man, how did you get so strong?" she asked, offering the hero a treat and saying the word.
"I thought I told you, training?" watchdog man said simply taking the treat. Before launching off again and quickly returning looking at the girl.
"You did but I was hoping for a more detailed answer." tsu said specifically.
"Hmmmm." watchdog man replied before rushing off again and coming back.
"Hop on." watchdog man said simply and tsu obliged she hopped on top of watchdog man and they were gone far away in just a couple of seconds the two were at their new location she took a moment to look over her surroundings they were located in a completely different climate than before in a forest of sorts, she was curious why did he decide to take her out here of all place or where she was exactly but before she could ask watchdog man had already gestured to a place down below them it was a rather large pond and inside it were a bunch of tiny frogs just existing amongst one another.
"Why…did you bring me here?" asui asked as she watched the frogs just laze around in the pool.
"You're a frog so it's best you learn from frogs, it's how I learned to be strong." watchdog man said simply, tsu was a bit perplexed by the hero, he was definitely a weird person to turn to but maybe he had a point to all of this he could, I mean she could potentially learn something after all by studying things about frogs since her quirk essentially made her one.
"So are you saying that you studied dogs a lot when you were younger before you were a hero?" Tsu asked, watchdog simply nodded before whining for a treat and the girl obliged, tossing him a treat before he suddenly took off again, when he returned next time his feet were covered in what she assumed was some monsters blood but she ignored it for now turning her gaze back to the frogs in tge pond, they barely moved around much and they were anything but graceful in their movements but something about them held a charm to them she thought.
"What am I supposed to learn from them?" she asked watchdog man.
"Everything." watchdog man answered simply and stoically, she shouldn't have expected anything less from the strange man.
"Could you maybe give some examples, just to be sure." tsu recommended.
"Your senses match them to that of the animal you resemble." watchdog man said before rushing off again.
Leaving the girl to her thoughts as she observed the frogs, they again were mostly just unmoving, they didn't seem to react to much of anything unless it moved. Frogs mostly had very small brain capacity even compared to other animals let alone humans so there was nothing she could really gain from them, that she hasn't really already learned, maybe watchdog man wanted her to specifically hone her frog-like abilities more? That's the first thing she could do in practicality and she could potentially look around the web and see if this world had any unique frogs that she could model after as well just in case. It wasn't much but she guessed it was a start, her quirk wasn't one that lent itself to direct combat very often or well she though but she guessed the same could have been said for uraraka's quirk as well and she's managing just fine so she shouldn't doubt her own ability either.
Once the watchdog man had returned to her, she thanked the hero for his help in figuring things out. The hero simply nodded his head in response and surprisingly to the girl, he offered advice well more a challenge for the girl he challenged her to match his speed off her first leap. She was at first completely dismissive of the challenge but he gestured back towards the frogs in the pond, they were now leaping up from the little pond hopping at the flies that littered the skies above them most of the frog caught a prize for their efforts before falling back down into the pond below while others that were less stable and had more awkward launches would constantly miss their prize being off. She guessed he saw her as one of the awkward ones that were missing their prize and he wanted her to practice her form to be able to leap further and faster than previously.
Tsu turned around and nodded her head, she needed to get faster given that hopping was her main sense of travel that meant that she needed to work on her legs which got her to think of another heroin in their world who also had a animal quirk like hers but was really powerful mirko wasn't it? She had a bunny quirk and could do all the things that she did so that meant she should have the same ability. If she tried hard enough, she reconciled and smiled as she started to stretch and lined up with watchdog man. The two sat side by side and Asui got into position to hop forwards but before she did she took one last look at the frogs behind focusing on the frogs that were successful catching their prey more times than others and attempted to mirror their posture before looking forward again and fixing her legs and posture a bit before scrunching her legs together and leaping forward as she expected she definitely didn't get anywhere near as far as where dogman went he was clearly gone but she did actually move farther and quicker than she has had previously it felt a bit weird but she could work with it. Watchdog man arrived back at her side and told her something that shocked her. He said if she truly wanted to embody the animal she resembles like he did then she should not break out of character and that she would ideally live like she was a frog.
Tsu wasn't shocked by what he said. It was fairly on brand for the hero at this point to say something as weird as that but what did shock her was that the dog hero stood up on two feet and talked to her like a regular person for once. It was such a surreal thing that she did not expect to come from the man and what it told her was that he was serious about what he was telling her and due to the shock of it all she ultimately agreed to it, she would act like a frog with the caveat only being that she wouldn't change her personality to mimic that of a frog or she wouldn't behave like a frog when she was off duty. Watchdog man said that it would hamper her training but tsu would be just too embarrassed to do such a thing, especially in front of her friends. The dog man relented and simply nodded before going back down on all fours. He gestured in a single direction and said that they were 30 kilometers from the plaza and that he wanted her to get back there solely by hopping back, before disappearing out of sight. Tsu just sighed before getting on all fours and leaped along in that same direction.
Fact or Fiction: Tank toppers, shoji
Shoji was in the middle of a bit of a dilemma with the tank tops, he wasn't one that really focused on religion or things of a higher power such as god and things of that nature but that whole thing has been thrown out of whack ever since he arrived here in this new place by that being he didn't really know what to think really anymore and this doubled for this cult like worship of the tank tops that the tank toppers were. But unlike any other cult or something similar that he's had discussions with tokoyami in the past with, these guys had a legitimate claim to something here. Tank top power as they seemed to call it really may exist.
He started to come to terms with it and maybe being in a completely different universe or planet now really started to convince him of the possibility of it. I mean he didn't really have that many reason of why he shouldn't believe the tank topper given the other things that existed in this world like monsters, espers, and aliens so a mystical force that only helped those that wore what it wanted didn't seem that much of a leap in logic did it?
The reason he was starting to question his beliefs in the first place was the conversation from the other day and how things were heating up back home, he was worried for his family and the people back at school. During their final days his final couple of days back home he had met up with an old babysitter of his although the girl was only five years older than him their parents would just set them together and leave on their plans which made the two of them grow attached to one another, she was the few people in their neighborhood that was actually not scared of his true face which he was thankful for. Another thing about her was her towering size which shoji could only marvel at everytime they were together and that size discrepancy didn't change any much now she was still 4ft taller than him, 4''9' taller if he was being exact as the first things they did when they met up again was to compare heights much to his disgruntled annoyance at the fox women being that much bigger than him still. The two had similar hardships when growing up in their hometown with them both being Heteromorphic quirk beings which probably also drew their parents to put them together to support each other despite such hate from others.
He hoped she was doing ok as well but with all for one coming back into power everything could flip on its head again. Nowhere could be safe from that monster if he really wanted to do something not with Midoriya here along with them. So he wanted to get stronger and simply going over and lifting heavier weights and working out more just doesn't cut it for him anymore if he could harness this tank top ability than maybe he could do even more.
And this wasn't just a spur of the moment thing he decided to do either, as soon as he first put on the new tank top they gave him and used it in battle and noticed the explosive growth he experience he started to experiment with it by himself…he couldn't describe how or why but putting on the tank top that they custom made for him made him slightly stronger by at least 30% not only stronger either he was faster as well and his tenta cage ability was vastly improved thanks to the speed of which he could explode his created fist outwards increasing the force behind every punch. The only person about in the tank tops that didn't believe anything they said was tank girl and he wanted to actually figure out why she didn't despite him clearly showing her a difference in strength and speed although she only chalk it up to him trying to play with her which he really didn't have a way to prove so he just dropped it.
Going over to his other partner tank philosopher he found that she was just in denial and that power that the tank tops gave him would be increased the more he believed in it and if he was lucky would give him a power like his. While shoji didn't know about that…well maybe that's not entirely true, there is the potential to learn a new ability, his awakening after all but that was something genetic if momo was telling the truth about it he doubted some hypothetical mythical force could do something like that he thought.
Never minding those problems, he was on patrol with none other than tank master himself, other than trying to get hang on this whole tank top power situation and figuring out what his next steps are in getting stronger he wanted to try his best to learn from tank master. He requested to go on patrol with him just so he could get a few pointers and first hand experience with the man closest to the pinnacle of tank top power and someone that might have been close to all might in power if that battle with that huge orc was anything to go by at least the all might that was in the USJ incident that day. Given his current honorary status, the tank master was easily obliged to his request and together with him and tank vegetarians of all people they set out and were currently in S-city.
The patrol was going over fairly well, although he couldn't say that he learned much on their journey with the two highest rated tank toppers, any fight below that of demon was killed in one punch by tank master before he could really notice anything really specific about his fighting style. The fights against demons which there was two of that day one being a giant humanoid rabbit creature and the second being a giant carrot creature which shoji found fairly ironic and would have wondered what would have happened if the two monster had fought in the wild and what would have happened and simply going off each of their performance against tank master he would have to had given the fight to the carrot monster.
The fight between the tank master and the carrot was fairly balanced the carrot creature would bear it's rear into the ground and somehow split apart and rise up into separate small pieces from the ground that were razor sharp that it tried to use to stab master but the hero was to fast for the creature to hit even when it would also fire out miniature carrots from the top of it's head that somehow managed to track where master and shoji and tank vegetarians movements. The two resorted to having to bait the carrots to hit overturned cars or structures in the area to get them to stop following after them.
Tank master on the other hand had a different idea, he began to use whatever he could as throwing objects to counter the flying carrots before he tore out a large piece of concrete to throw at the beast completely shattering it with the impact force. Once the beast was killed the crew waited around a moment for an extermination crew to arrive and shoji was surprised to see that they had completely brought flamethrowers and burned the monster and vegetarian explained that it was for a safety measure just in case some idiot or animal tried to eat it, the heat supposedly destroyed the monster cells within and made it safe for consumption so he guessed that the monster could theoretically be repurposed for something else after all. Shoji also figured out something that he could learn from tank master was his throwing style. He seemed fairly proficient in it and it did give him a separate type of attack for targets out of his normal range as he thought back to his fight with pony and how he was completely helpless when she took to the air. Having asked tank master about it he told him that he would consider it but not for the day and maybe later, as the three continued on their patrol unbeknownst to them that another one of the carrot creatures was tunneling its way towards a different city.
It's only natural: Bad, Metal Knight, Koda, Aki
Koda and Bad was currently in R-city despite the initial thrashing he gave that one gym coach from before it became quickly apparent with Koda and even the brash teen himself that he really didn't know much about boxing. The two eventually ultimately decided to head back to that very gym and go up to the very same coach to ask about training koda in boxing. The coach agreed surprisingly but it was mostly for the sake of having the pedigree of training an S-class hero he could flaunt around to get more business but obviously bad through a wrench in those plans as the hero didn't care much about fighting if it didn't include his bat which put a serious damper on the coaches mood but he still agreed nonetheless.
Before he awakened he didn't really take his practice as seriously as he could have been, he always somewhat thought how pointless it was, well pointless in the terms of fighting villains in his world at least who could have a myriad of quirks that would essentially render his training pointless, it didn't matter if he had proper training if his opponent had some variant of super strength, speed, or durability for that matter. He was content with just being a support hero that helped finding and locating people or causing distractions so that someone else could deliver a decisive blow. But now that he awakened and he could draw strength from the animals he talked to, it opened up so many more avenues for him and allowed him to apply himself much better in combat situations and with the conversation that happened the other day about what was happening back home he wanted to power himself up as much as possible so that he could be ready to face whatever is happening back there together with everyone else, no longer would he just cower in his corner while his friends risk their lives he wanted to be their with them and for them so he needed to improve all of his abilities, especially his new ones.
Having been testing his ability for a while now he found out that just like his normal anivoice ability he could easily just force the transfer of power just like how he could demand an animal to listen to him and do what he says, he didn't like doing things that way but if the times called for it he could perhaps take a portion of their strength at least for a moment similar to how if the situation truly called for it he would demand animals in fact he actually liked this way of fighting a bit better as while he is taking something without permission the only person in danger would actually only be himself not some mind controlled bird that was just doing what he would told it to and potentially die because of him. alternatively his voice has wide range of effect he doesn't know what he was going to affect or what situations those animals could be in, he realized that he absorbed a portion of power from the animals would lead them to be fatigue so if they were already injured or hurt or weak him taking even more from them could lead to him inadvertently hurting animal even more which left him conflicted on what to do with it, so he would also use it sparingly but he did redouble his efforts in boxing training.
The other alternative he could use his new ability with monsters like aki which proved incredibly more useful if he just thought about the increased benefit he got, he compared aki strength increase compared to a normal animals in this case being a bunch of wild dogs, 50 of them to be exact and he began to drain them to almost a third of their strength and just when he did that did he feel the amount of power that aki had given him with seemingly little strain on her part which put into perspective how strong aki really was currently. But thinking about the the small bear cub who was with him wherever he went, she was still obsessed with finding that blackman from before speed o sound sonic if he remembered correctly but going off of what torax had told them about the man combined with his rating on the hero associations criminal rank him as an S-class level threat which meant that the perpetrator that she wanted revenge on was at least a demon level threat and for however strong aki was she still wasn't comparable to even a tiger level monster.
So fighting someone rated so highly would only spell her and likely his doom if they ever ran into the man. He felt somewhat guilty about aki and how he was not only manipulating her but also stopping her from growing stronger by refusing from letting her eat the monsters they beat on patrols which could potentially help them in the future if they ever encountered sonic again but something about it just didn't seem right to him even though apparently monsters were similar to nature in a battle for survival type of way. He also felt conflicted about when he should tell her the truth about what happened to her dad which made all the happy moments with the small cub very bitter sweet for him.
He banished those thoughts from his mind as he focused on paying attention to the rest of his boxing lesson, once that was finished usually him and bad would travel around patrol around the city looking for any monster sightings so that he could test out what he learned in actual combat but not today it seemed, koda stepped out of the gym saying goodbye to his coach and some of his friends he made and was met with bad but what he was holding was a shock to be sure, the delinquent teen was holding a massive bouquet of roses and by large he really meant large the size eclipsed bad in height, koda knew better than to think that those were for him so his next best guessed was.
"For your sister?" koda asked
"You're damn right, today's her piano competition and I'm gonna root for her . Last time she got third place but I know she's gonna do even better this time around. " Bad said as he started moving on forwards towards her location. Part of Koda knew that the likely reason bad decided to swallow his pride and go back to the gym and that coach was likely due to how close it was to his sister's school.
The three of them made there way power walking towards zenko's competition, despite being in the very same city as her he was still running late, koda found it kinda amusing how he could manage that but as a hero he was very busy he thought, even while he was practicing he could hear the sirens going off all day and he guessed bad was going around whacking them off very quickly just so that his sister recital wouldn't be interrupted or put on hold. The two were just about to make it to the exact location when suddenly a large carrot monster suddenly buried from under the ground and began to wreak havoc, given the relative proximity of the monster was to bad sister made koda kind of feel sorry for it as bad quickly picked up his paste blurring into motion before koda's very eyes and a sudden whack was heard as the monster fell towards the ground dead part of it's top clearly bashed inwards and bad didn't lose any stride continuing forwards towards the location which wasn't even a couple blocks away. Aki was about to start eating the carcass of the monster and koda was about to stop her but then thought better of it letting the little cub eat the large carrot monster whole he did it at an astonishing rate and koda saw a similar red glow the cub noticeably got bigger gaining looking like an adolescence at this point. Its fur was green at the top of its back before going down into small patches of orange over her usual red fur.
Aki was circling around at her new look before continuing forward with koda, the two had caught up to bad who was impatiently stomping his foot presumably outside of the palace that zenko was set to play at.
"Goodness took you two long enough, here hold this, while I'm inside, don't let anything disrupt my sister's recital, you got that." bad said threateningly before handing koda the large bushel of roses and marching back inside the building leaving him and aki just sat outside the building.
{are you feeling ok} koda asked her
{I'm just fine, perfect in fact, although I got a weird urge to like dig around now, can I, can I? } aki responded, jumping up and down on her front legs, the effort actually causing cracks to form in the concrete. Koda slightly chuckled and waved his arms to stop her.
{maybe…later alright we can go find a forest or something for you to dig in, how do you like your new look?}
{It's ok …I don't know why I changed but it's ok I guess. You humans are too obsessed with your looks.} Aki replied making Koda chuckled again before a monster alarm began to ring out, he pondered on what he should do, he go over and investigated? Or could some other hero handle it perhaps it was a tiger level threat so there was no guarantee that he would be able to handle on his own and going inside to disrupt bad was not an option for him but before he could ponder anymore suddenly a large rumbling shook his surroundings before stopping the threat was confirmed dead and everything was peaceful for a moment before the sound of thrusters forced his head upwards.
koda was shocked to see what appeared to be a giant robot behemoth start to slowly come down directly in front of him, it was a large gray metal beast that had 4 large cannons on the back and scary three red dots on it's head that koda assumed functioned for eyes but only made him more concerned about the robotic being, aki picking up on his reservations got between koda and the metallic being growing at the thing but it only looked undeterred more focused on analyzing what it saw in front of it but before the bear cub lashed out the robot suddenly lifted his arm up in halt which to koda's stopped aki in her tracts was she scared too he wondered?
"Forest lord…I am here under hero association business I mean you no harm. ``Koda heard in a robotic voice.
{Aki it's ok, he's a friend .} koda told the bear who relented, relaxing somewhat but still holding defensively around koda, which the teen appreciated.
"What….what is it?" Koda hesitantly said.
"I'm following up on the lead you had about the captive monster named scaledon." the robot replied, this got koda's attention he didn't think anyone would tell him anything about it so he was about to just drop it all together.
" Oh…um did you find anything?" koda asked curious
"Yes I found that your hunch was indeed correct, the monster labeled scaledon was being used for illegal purpose it's scales being taken and used for jewelry and other products" the news made koda gasp in shock.
"Who would do such a thing?" Koda wondered out loud.
"From my research the culprit was gish a Z-city hero association executive." the robot remarked
"An executive huh?" Koda said somewhat depleted, if someone that high was causing trouble then it made sense why no one he could talk to could do anything about it, not wanting to risk their job for that especially because a monster may be uncomfortable. Koda realized
"Yes, after finding this out I had him removed from office and his associate arrested on charges by the authorities." the robot remarked, koda was stunned by the comment not expecting something like that who was this robot.
"Uhm I guess that settles it then, thank you." Koda replied, bowing his head.
"Don't mention it, those that seek to bend the association rules for their own gain disgust me. If you see any other issue be sure to ask for metal knight." metal knight remarked,
"Yes …yes I will." Koda began thinking of the name for a moment, metal knight that was the S-class hero if he wasn't mistaken and child emperor's teacher. But before the cyborg could leave again, taking off on his thrusters, Koda stopped it.
"um….I don't know if you have the power to do this or not but…ummm..but can you give me visiting privileges to see it? Scaledon I mean." Koda asked, rubbing his hands together in nerves, he fully expected that the hero would reject his request but the hero kept on surprising him today.
"I'll see what I can arrange, I'll leave a message in your room if anything comes of it." the robot said simply before taking off, making koda cover his face and brace himself just from the recoil of the wind pressure, along with aki as well and just like that the robot was completely gone.
{what was that about?} aki asked
{I don't really know myself} koda responded simply as he rubbed the bear on the top of her head the two proceeded to wait around for half an hour longer as bad finally emerged with zenko, she had a shiny 2nd place badge and bad face looked like it was crying in support of her accomplishment, koda had given bad back the cartoon sized bouquet of roses before he gave it to zenko, who to koda handle the large size fairly easily. He guessed that strength ran in the family he remarked. As the group of the three of them began to walk home, Zenko even got to ride on Aki's back as they went.
Pain for the guilt: sweet mask, aoyama
Sweet mask wasn't kidding when he had told the teen that his training would get four times harder than previously in fact if he would currently say that, that statement was an understatement of what he had him doing currently. Sweet mask had somehow created an entire environment for him to practice in it was a semi large circular building, with a number of function that were just dedicated for him the building was all just one complete room that held multiple features the first feature was a large number of rotating mirrors that would pop out of the walls that he would use for target practice. The room also had remote sentries that could be deployed that would shoot at him with lasers similar to his own, which he would need to absorb with his palms, the room also contained metal targets for him to cut or slice through for practice in his hand to hand combat and the last feature the room possessed was an enhanced gravity mode that could increase the gravity of the room to 20x normal.
It was still a relatively new system that he was getting accustomed two, he was still only practicing on two times gravity and practicing moving around and using his navel lazer, which increased to 4x increase in gravity, target practice and evasion/absorption practice when sweet mask decided to increase his load but now he cranked the systems even higher than before. His body was so wracked with guilt from the conversation that his class had the other day that the only way that he could successfully release some of that distress was with pain. He felt like all the pain that he was enduring currently under ten times gravity and constantly getting zapped by the sentry turrets was never enough to forgive him for his sins, he felt that nothing he did would ever be enough to forgive himself for the sins that he committed but he continued to endure continue to feel the pain until he would collapsed from exhaustion.
His self tournament didn't end there either he would also purposefully ignore sweet mask in an attempt to goad the star into hurting him out of all the things he's experienced with his new training room sweet mask attacks were still the most damaging to him physically but even with that it still never felt like enough for him the bottomless pit of despair, pain, self loathing in his stomach never left him, nor would he really wanted it to he wasn't worth being called a hero and everything he endured currently was just something to make him forget about his eternal struggle.
The door to the room opened and only a brief sight of blond hair and a powerful kick to the stomach marked sweet masks' arrival, sending Aoyama flying towards the other side of the room even in the increased gravity. He crashed into the otherside of the room with a gasp as he struggled to breathe the increased gravity playing with his now prone body as he felt his chest compact further and further before suddenly ceasing. Sweet mask must have turned off the gravity amplifiers he caught his breath before struggling to stand on his feet and look at the man who was looking at him in a disapproving manner. Leaning against the machine in the center with his arms crossed.
"Alright I had enough, what is with you? Did you figure out that you're a masochist or something?" sweet mask demanded, aoyama would have been amused by the assertion but he just didn't have the energy to fake his normal mood currently so he kept his head low and tried not to meet the heroes eyes, he knew that this would draw the heroes temper but he didn't really care much at this point. As for what he was going to say he was still piecing together himself, he didn't want to tell him what truly was bothering him he wouldn't tell anyone that not until he told the people that actually mattered first. So he decided to go with a half truth instead.
"Uhmm….no…it's just that me and my class recently learned that we have a time limit before we can go back home.'' Aoyama said still looking down his hair was messy which caused it to droop lower than he liked it to but a lot of things like that were of little concern to him for the moment.
"Given that was a positive thing I assume that there is some sort of catch , hurry up with it your self destructive behavior is getting tiresome …if you die under my watch you do realize how much of a hassle that would cause me?" sweet mask said and aoyama despite himself did chuckle at that, the fact that he didn't care about his life wasn't really shocking to him much. It seemed par for the course for this world and he didn't really put it on the man and he had they had that in common for the moment. He must have been taking too long to get out with it as he was suddenly hoisted up by the collar of his armor and the man forced the teen to look at him directly. His face was the epitome of heartbreak and mourning.
"I said hurry up." sweet mask said, ignoring or more like not caring for the look on the boy's face.
"It….it's just that….we also learned that villain from are world is coming back soon and he wa-is a very very evil man and he's also captured and is torturing our former number 1 hero he was an inspiration to me and many of our classmates, inspiring us to become heroes. But now that we're here and that man can do whatever he pleases and ….no one can stop him.`` Aoyama said dejectedly. Sweet mask slowly dropped the teen who dropped to the ground and curled in on himself in the fetal position.
"What about the heroes of your world, do you doubt them so much to just write them off?" sweet mask asked suspiciously, and Aoyama shook his head.
"It's not that I don't trust them but that man he was the supreme villain of our world, no one could touch him besides our former number one hero and now….he may get even stronger than before." Aoyama said, rubbing both of his hands on either side of his head, his fear building even more as he thought about that time in kamino or the battle with nomu and how crazy those were.
"You mention this former number one hero twice now, who was he and why did he retire?" sweet mask asked
"He did but not for any health or age reason…..he …he had given his quirk away to someone else to carry on his legacy, his name was all might he was too injured to continue hero work our technology wasn't as advanced as yours." Aoyama remarked holding his head in shame.
"Given that you don't believe the heroes of your world could handle the situation I assume that this person, this all might gave his power to one of your friends that is here also?"
"Yes, yes he did…green savior deku."
"I see, but what does any of that have to do with you? While slightly worrying, why does it affect you so much to essentially be killing yourself in here?" sweet mask asked his voice, losing its edge. Aoyama noted which he was slightly surprised at as he raised his head to meet the man's eyes.
"Because…..because …..it feels like it's my fault….. Somehow" Aoyama murmured, looking away again off to the side. He hoped the hero wouldn't pry any further because he just couldn't tell him why he felt that way. In another surprising turn of events however, sweet mask started to straighten out his hair.
"That's good, you should cherish that feeling, heroes shouldn't make excuses for their failures. The failure of a single hero reflects on that of all heroes. The fact that you feel that way just symbolaizes your heroic nature which is more than I can say for others." sweet mask remarked which got a nod of understanding from the teen in question and was the teen starting to cry, a part of sweet mask swelled with pride at the action thinking, believing that his remarks truly touched the boys heart and raised his spirits but unbeknownst to him it was actually the opposite of effect, aoyama stomach turned and twisted at the praise he felt sick and honestly wished the hero would have simply berated him instead for being weak.
"That's enough tears, now when is this return date that you figured out." sweet mask said standing back up and taking a couple steps away.
"We..well we don't know for sure but the time frame we have is anywhere from four months to four decades. We just assume the earliest so that we can get our hopes up.`` Aoyama remarked.
"I see well in that case we don't have too much time." sweet mask remarked before gesturing for the boy to stand up and he walked over to the machine and pressed a few buttons before Aoyama felt the increased gravity again but this time not as intense it was likely around 5 time gravity.
"We need to ensure that when you return home that you show them how bright you can shine. " sweet mask said as he stayed in the chamber and began to actually train with the small teen.
I need a weapon: drive knight, momo
The conversation yesterday really put her in a difficult situation, she had already resigned herself into taking her classmates blood samples in the hopes that drive knight would be able to crack whatever genetic sequence so that they didn't have to go through something traumatic to potentially get stronger, during the morning she even took the extra precaution of asking bakugo for some of his blood and while the explosive teen obliged he made it abundantly clear that while he himself would normally disapprove of such action using science to create shortcuts to get stronger but the things that transpiring in their world changed his perspective and he was going to hold each of them to his challenge from before and by his own admission he didn't care how they got stronger just as long as they did.
After having that conversation with bakugo who loud nature basically leaked her plans to the next person over being ojiro who asked about what the girl was doing and after explaining to him her plan he actually offered his blood as well, she was a bit surprised thinking that he misunderstood her and said the blood needed to be from people who awakened that had awakened their quirks but he confirmed that he understood and that he believes that he's also awakened his quirk somehow when he was training with bang recently. Momo didn't know how to take the information but trusted in the boy's judgment nonetheless and acquired some blood samples from him as well.
there would be no issue if it didn't prove useful and she could just inform him later on that he was simply mistaken or if it did prove useful than that was even more data that drive knight could analyze for study, which made her ponder for sometime what his awakening entailed he didn't seem any differently from what she could see of him, but koda, kaminari, and bakugo also didn't seem very different either in that regard as well so a direct physical change didn't seem completely necessary for a awakening to have occurred. His quirk was one that didn't lend itself for that much enhancement she thought maybe some type of stretching powers for his tail maybe? Momo didn't like to dismiss any of her classmates abilities but ojiro's was always peculiar in how basic his quirk was and she naturally assumed that his quirk awakening would likely be equally basic such as maybe a stronger tail, stretch tail, maybe even growing a secondary one she pondered.
But as she closed in on drive knights storage room the absence of kaminari was felt as he left off toward his teacher's volten. None of that was really the thing troubling her, no what was troubling her currently was what she was about to do, ever since the conversation yesterday she had begin to have thoughts about what she should do with her training currently while she appreciated shooters help in improving her bowmanship he was very forthcoming with his skills and ability while being incredibly friendly with her but what she was about to do was essentially go against him completely, she started contemplating if she should start practicing in firearms. Shooter wasn't against firearms personally but he did mention to her several times in their practice the other day how some people would ridicule him about using a bow and arrow instead of firearms which sort of discouraged him but he still persisted but now she was just about to up and abandon him for the sake of firearms as well.
She was conflicted about her thoughts but ultimately considered it the better choice for the moment, she had to get stronger as quickly as possible she didn't know when they were going home but if she was going to assume that it was sooner than later than that left her with very little time to get proficient enough in firearms to use it in combat. They held many more benefits than that of the bow simply couldn't measure up to but that wasn't to say that she didn't want to spend more time on bowman ship, in actuality she wanted to learn both concurrently if possible but she didn't want to overload herself with information with dramatically different instruments. But she would assure the hero that she would come back and take lessons from him if she had the time for it, she said in conclusion.
Momo went inside and after a brief conversation with drive knight handed him the blood vials before telling him of her plan to transition between what she was currently learning to firearm expertise, she answered the obvious next question that came from the cyborg about what brought about such a change before leaving out again with shooter who had recently arrived.
The hero had taken her to S-city where he had told her held one of the best practices ranges on the continent for archery although it was very expensive for the trouble, after a couple of hours of practice the two set out for the streets momo, had familiarize herself with her bow and arrow and when she should switch between the different varieties of it, and after some more research and planning she was also able to come up with her different type of arrowheads similar to shooters that's he called trick arrows. These arrows ranged from normal, amnestic, poison, cement, explosive , and many others. Shooter was impressed and commented that he would do something similar to her but he would probably get confused was so many type of arrows and he was right in that sense, momo had the benefit of her quirk which meant she never had to actually carry a bundle of arrows with her everywhere she went she could just create the arrow type that she needed which meant she had no way to actually confuse what arrow she wanted at any given time.
The two heroes patrolled S-city for sometime their were a number of monster sightings but most of them were of little concern to the two heroes working together they even managed to beat a tiger level threat which was a monster that kinda resembles a goat and a yeti mixed together, the creature was large over three times the size of a normal man but that meant it was an easy target for her and shooter to hit especially since the beast wasn't all that fast to begin with once shooters poison arrows combined with momo's aesthetic ones combined through the beast and finally ran a course through it's bloodstream the beast noticeable cooldown it's temperament, slugging to a stop just before it managed to reach them before falling over unconscious, remembering shadow rings training momo took the extra precaution of wrapping the creature around in a thick layer of cement as the two waited for the hero association to arrive. Momo was a bit surprised by the fact that unlike many of the heroes she encountered before shooter wasn't really all that gung ho about killing the monster he fights, he explained that he usually works as part of a team and that his role is to usual disabilities a monster while his partner would finish it off, he even remarked that in all his time as a hero he could probably count the number of monsters he's personally killed with his hands.
The two continued patrol from a couple of moments before deciding to call it and head back to drive knights area before entering however momo informed shooter of her plans and despite the sad tone the hero took he understood the girl wishes and wished her the best before taking his leave, before he left however momo offered him a parting gift of a handful of her trick arrows in the shape of his arrow style each arrow had the ability of the arrow attached to the side so that he wouldn't get confused with them as a thank you present. He took them gracefully and offered her thanks before momo headed back inside.
Once back inside with drive knight he noted some of the finding he had from the blood samples that he's given her noting that all of them had their sequence awakened besides one of them which he described as partially opened which greatly helped in how he perceived how the sequence worked, momo initial assumption was that that strain was from ojiro but she was surprised to find out that it was from none other than bakugo of all people. She had no doubt that he would be glad to hear that he still had room to grow. The two continued on to choosing her next teacher which drive knight simply instructed should be zombieman, he specialized in one handed weapons like handguns and cannons which she should start out with. The room slowly started to transform itself into a gun range as multiple handguns raised from the floor. Before touching the material however, driveknight wanted to instruct her about gun safety and trigger discipline and how to discharge a firearm correctly. The word discharge brings back memories of kaminari which she almost completely forgot about and him asking to have her make a request to driveknight for him about his equipment.
Feel the thunder: Volten, Kaminari
Kaminari showed up to his technically first ever lessons with his new teacher, he got somewhat lost on the way and had to ask around for direction this time given that neither genji or max was there to show him the way but he eventually found his way into those woods and up to the dojo up on the mountain. Kaminari was still amazed by the perpetual storm that sat right off the cost but he had no time to admire the view as he was close to being late for his class and going off just the other day he didn't feel like going through anymore of the man's punishments….or maybe he did, after the conversation the other day that everyone had about what was happening back in their world he didn't have the luxury of being as laid back about things as he was and right now with someone that's almost exactly like him but with more experience and wisdom than he needed to use this chance to get better and master his new power and improve them even further.
So he decided to forgo his previous tactic of absorbing the lightning from the storm to enter into his powered up state deciding to make the arduous task of traveling the distance up the hill with his own speed which would undoubtedly make him late for his class but he didn't mind it he would gladly take the punishment and besides going off what drive knight had told him his lightning god mode was a multiplier so he needed to get stronger how he is regularly to truly improve after all. But even having thought all that the journey was incredibly long goodness he never thought about it but being 15 times slower to do something is incredibly long he realized as finally made it up to the dojo before taking a moment to stop and breath for a moment before entering inside of the dojo open entry he was almost immediately greeted by the stern voice of volten.
"You're late." Kaminari heard more than saw as the next thing he knew he felt a sharp zap and chop to the back of his neck the force of which sent him spiraling further into the dojo. He tumbled and rolled several times before landing on his back, and Kaminari quickly got up before rubbing the back of his neck in pain.
"Yeah, sorry about that I got kinda lost on the way here." kaminari remarked
"No, excuses." volten said simply
"Yeah, I know I'm ready for any punishment you throw my way." Kaminari said with determination, making the man look at the boy quizzically, noting the strange shift in attitude from the boy the other day.
"Your current flows differently today?" Volten said.
"Yeah some things happened the other day with some of our friends and now I'm more determined than ever." Kaminari replied with a smirk as a dash of lightning slid across his face.
"That's very good, that simple change of mindset makes you a much more worthy pupil but that doesn't change what comes next, here put this on and we will begin." Volten said as he threw Kaminari a bag, when the teen opened it he was surprised to find a uniform similar to Volten's himself. He looked up at the man in shock.
"If you are truly serious about mastering the thunder thunder fist it is only natural that you wear the dojo's signature appearance although I forbid you from using it for your hero work." volten said simply before gesturing to the nearest dressing room, kaminari nodded his understanding and walked over to quickly change out of his current hero costume before heading back outside towards the main floor, he had put all of his equipment with his clothes so that they wouldn't get in the way of his practice by the time he emerged from the changing room volten was already waiting from him near the center of the training area. Kaminari sighed inwardly as he knew what was about to come next. He slowly approached the ring before stepping inside and asking.
"All right, how long will it be this time?" kaminari asked
"You were five minutes late, so 25 minutes." volten said simply
"Oh man this is gonna suck but I'm ready." kaminari said simply
"Do you not want to take a moment to go into that form of yours?" Volten asked, and Kaminari shook his head.
"Nah I need to get better on my own." kaminari remarked
"Very well, your time begins now." Volten said simply before sending out an electrified punch into the nearest wall, the electricity from the attack suddenly turned on a light that was above the ring which would turn off after 25 minutes which would end their session or his punishment more precisely.
He's dealt with something similar previously but now the time was double from before and he wasn't in his enhanced mode like he was previously. It was the longest 25 minutes of kaminari's life he was essentially just being bullied by his instructor for all of the time, previously he could kinda of guard against some of his teachers slower attacks but now he was just an open book just waiting for the time to end he couldn't even see the man he was moving so fast the best thing kaminari could do during this time was to absorb the electricity before the attacks landed which meant he wouldn't be getting shocked very often during his attacks but that didn't work completely either as some attacks were just to fast for him to absorb before they landed and by that point it didn't matter.
The lights finally turned off and Kaminari yelled in relief as he dropped to his knees as he tried to regain any of his senses other than pain and bruises. Maybe being late wasn't the best idea he began to think. After regaining his strength, he and volten both stepped outside towards the patio of the dojo which was over a waterfall and even closer to the storm off the coast. The two sat out on the patio for a moment doing deep breathing exercises but also working on controlling the current of electricity within himself. Volten was able to completely able to enshroud himself with a blue electricity similar to kaminiri's lightning god form but he called that state his lightning armor style and wanted kaminari to simulate it but it was proving difficult as anytime kaminari would let his quirk flow outwards it would continuously flow out of himself. Volten advised him to look at the storm in front of them and imagine his body as the clouds and he controls the current of the lightning within.
kaminari could get the gist of what the older man was talking about and tried again, he always tried to contain and restrain his power and force it to a certain point but not actually direct it so he attempted that way instead he let his power flow outwards freely again before trying to control where it flowed he partially succeeded in his efforts being able to regulate his power to essentially flow upwards and downwards at a rapid rate, volten was impressed although not what he was going for it was a step in the right direction. The two continued for a moment more before Kaminari was struck by a stray lightning bolt from the storm, forcing him to go into his lightning god mode and Volten took that as the opportunity for the two of them to head back inside to practice the martial arts portion of his style.
Help from a soul mate: atomic disciples, sero
Sero was starting to get annoyed by his eternal companion between his loud outburst the other day during a pivotal moment during their conversation and the constant reminder of it as soon as he woke up today, but he understood that the being just wanted to rile him up so that he could gain control of his body. But he had to admit it was fairly hard to ignore thinking about having a traitor in their midst that caused all might to be captured really ticked him off, while he wasn't the biggest all might fan like deku he did respect the man greatly his time learning under the hero showed him that all the smiles and laughs weren't just for the camera's he was a really stand up guy and really nice just for someone to betray him really did make his blood boil.
"You understand that now even your humanity is filled with nothing but self served interest, others would gladly betray you if it meant ensuring their own survival." the ghost spoke in his head again.
" Just because some people are jerks doesn't mean everyone is, look I understand the pain-"
"You don't understand a single Fragment! Of what I've been through." the ghost cut him off screaming in his head.
"Alright , alright…sorry I don't but maybe you're giving too much into your anger? You can't just make a judgment on everyone just because of a few bad apples." Sero attempted to reason. What he said mostly resonated with the spirit because it said nothing for the remainder of their travels to J city, which left Sero in his thoughts by himself for once.
He was still contemplating the events of the other day and what bakugo had said about getting better, since he's arrived back on the mainland he has been on patrol a handful of times and captured some monsters himself but not very many and he doubted he was gonna rank up fast like that, given the time frame they had to go off of he needed to make an impression by taking down something larger than a wolf level threat but that proved more difficult said than done, the other day they had encountered a humanoid cheetah monster and the thing was so fast that he couldn't even touch it with any of his tape, if it wasn't for iaian and the rest he would have been stabbed by the things clawed hands. Which meant he needed to get better with his tape somehow, until he realized that he could be better the ghost actually showed him that he could be better but will it actually help him is the true question.
"No" came the ghost words causing sero to sulk in on himself while he may have gotten quiet for a moment he still could read his thoughts and everything he was currently thinking so that was something he needed to adapt to.
Sero finally made it to J-city and met up with atomics disciples near the swordsman's hide, his relationship with them has slightly improved over from his time at the start while they were still hesitant around him to their masters dare they still would at least talk to him normally enough. Now however they were training extra hard amongst each other sero noted if the sparks and sounds and wind was anything to go by, they were so fast that it was hard to keep up with them visually he realized after they were done the group of three acknowledged him. There was a brief conversation and iaian explained to him that they were practicing even more than usual because of their interaction with Midoriya the other day. Having someone younger than them surpass them felt like a signal for them to try even harder to master the sword. The group had then went for their morning meditation, sero had joined in and had used the time to attempt to enter that state he had previously and he succeeded entering in the dark void around the campfire with the knight from before.
"So why won't you help me? You said it yourself I don't know how to use my power and apparently you do, so can you show me how?" Sero asked the knight figure, its eyes glowing through the slits of it's helmet.
"And why would I do that? What reason would I have to help you." the knight said
"ugh …to live? Maybe…you do know I'm gonna be out there fighting monsters right?" sero remarked
"And? I would rather end my torment now than waste away inside of your idiotic mind." the knight said suddenly.
"That's a lie and you know it, if you wanted to you could have killed the both of us by now, didn't you have some mission you wanted to carry out? How are you going to do it when you're dead? Sero argued.
"My mission was doomed as soon as I came in to possess you and suicide would only completely my shame." the knight said simply rocking backwards.
"Hey I got an idea let's try and get to know each other better? How about that, I don't even know your name." sero said changing the subject.
"Saren." the knight said simply
"Well saren, I know a bit about your past going off of what midoriya had told me but care to tell me a bit more about yourself?" sero asked
"no , not particularly." the knight said with a stoic expression, causing sero to just sigh to himself.
"Well if you want to talk then I'm all ears well mind I guess." Sero said with a small chuckle, but didn't receive anything from the knight in return.
"Look, you're gonna be stuck here with me for some time, hell maybe the rest of my life, wouldn't it be better for the both of us if we were friends? Instead of enemies?" Sero tried to reason with no response forthcoming; he left the inner place with a final statement.
"Look, hate is a hard thing to get over. I understand that but you shouldn't let it consume you , lest you become the very thing you despise so much." sero said before leaving his inner sanctum just in time as he was able to avoid a blow from Okamaitachi.
"Woah may I help you." sero said
"Talking to your little friend again?" bushidrill remarked
"Yeah, I was trying to get him(her?) to help out with unlocking my abilities but he didn't want to help me soo.`` Sero remarked, rolling his hand in an oh well gesture.
"Hmmm I guess we had similar plans as well." iaian said earning sero interest
"What do you mean?" sero questioned
"Well our master liked the idea of looking for an enemy's attacks by sensing their blood lust so we were hoping the being inside of you would help us accomplish that." iaian remarked
"I doubt that he would like to hel-"
"I would."
" Wait, what? why? " sero remarked out loud on accident
"I don't have to answer you." the voice said simply
" right." sero remarked
"What it say kid ?" Okamaitachi said
"It said that it would help you guys out but I'm suspicious of why? He doesn't like others at all. If I had to place my bet on it, I think he wants the chance to possess one of you instead of me." Sero remarked, the rumbling in the back of his mind seemingly confirming his theory.
"And how did he accomplish that?" iaian asked surviving even his fellow pupils
"He stabbed me through the chest with a sword. I'm gonna guess my tape will act in the same way. " sero remarked
"Very well…I'll accept its challenge." Iaian remarked
Hah cocky bastard isn't he. Sero heard in his mind
"Woah are you serious? You don't want that thing to be inside of you right?" Okamaitachi remarked
"It wouldn't matter if his tape touched me at all I would be better off dead anyways. And we have restrained him before he isn't that tough when controlling the boy regardless." Iain confirmed
Oooh…sero said eternally letting out a chuckle.
"It is clearly reckless but it would emphasize the point of not messing up." bushidrill murmured as he rubbed his beard. The trio conversed for another moment before they all agree to do it and then turn to sero he was still not so sure about this, if he did manage to possess them it wouldn't be like his possession he would fully take control of their bodies…but they were confident and sero could use the opportunity to learn what his body really had in it so he ultimately relented, taking a deep breath and letting his mind drift into pure negativity and vile, which allowed the being to emerge towards the forefront and push his conscious aside. When he opened his eyes they were pure red.
No more fun and games: King, mineta
Mineta was traveling towards M-city with a purpose today, the conversation from the previous day really had an impact on him. He felt a little guilty at the remark of people just lounging around all day because that's exactly what he's been doing ever since he got here. Just playing video games and watching anime with king and while that was all fine and cool for the moment he needed to start getting serious just like the rest of his friends, he didn't want to be left behind while all of his other friends progressed. And in some way it came at the perfect time for him as well he has been making an effort to better himself ever since the month began, trying to keep his aggressive appreciation in check for the most part his most notable achievement so far was when he found one of the girls undergarments on the ground probably due to just dropping it from a trip to the washers and instead of picking it up and pocketing it like he probably normally would he instead went and told momo about it instead which she appreciated.
And now he wanted to do something similar. He was working with the king, the strongest man on the planet. Surely he would know a thing or two about getting stronger, everyone had to start out somewhere he thought even midoriya who had all mights powers all this time had to work up to be as strong he was now and maybe just maybe he could get even a fraction of kings strength from doing the same training he did so that he can be more helpful to his friends and everyone else. Yeah with kings help he could be able to support everyone much more effectively and maybe….just maybe combined with a change to his antics with girls he may even get his own fan clubs like what midoriya or todoroki got.
"I don't know any advanced training strategies." king said simply not even looking the boys in the eyes as he continued to play his game.
"What do you mean…..how did you get so strong then? Was it something in your diet? Was it your indomitable will? Were you created in a lab or something?" mineta began to theorize out loud.
"No nothing like that." king said simply still playing his game, mineta felt actual anger stir inside of him the man was taking him to simply and barely paying attention to anything he said and answering like he didn't care, while he didn't tell him why he suddenly wanted to start training so rapidly he could have at least acknowledged his tone and understand it was something important to him to consider. Mineta, feeding off his anger, did the best things he could do. At that moment he rose up and went over and turned off king's game system, earning a shocked gasp from the man as he turned to face the guy face first.
"Look please I'm being serious here I need to get stronger FAST! And you're the only person I know that can help me get there. Look I can't tell you everything but something bad is happening far away from here and Sooner or later I'll have to go and face that bad thing but….as I am now …I….I don't think I will be able to do anything and I….I really want to be a hero like all my other friends to , I want people to rely on me, I want people to be assured when I appear on the scene that I can handle it….I don't want to be the but of the joke anymore!…``Mineta said in yelling the last bit before taking a moment to breathe, he didn't look up to see the man's face until he heard it…he heard the king's engine.
All the energy he once had suddenly left his body as he snapped up his head to look at the blonde man, his eyes were staring at him with pure venom, a sudden shiver came over his body before losing the strength in his legs and falling backwards nearly falling on king's console itself but he didn't pay attention to that as the king engine suddenly got even louder, his body started to shake in fear as the man got up from his bed and he started to hear the man inhale and exhale from his nostrils everything seemed to be so quiet besides the king's engine.
"lo…look..king…I…didn't mean to raise my voi-Voice …it's , just this is very important to me .please understand." mineta stuttered out.
"Ok." the man replied simply, the king's engine didn't go away but it did dramatically soften in paste and sound but he could have at least. Raise his head to meet the man's eyes again, that invisible pressure lighting up as well.
"Rea-really?" mineta asked hesitantly
"Yes…but don't come crying to me if you would have wished for death instead." king said in a menacing voice making mineta swallow a lump in his throat before nodding along.
"Alright first things first I'll have your training regime done by tomorrow you will follow it to the letter. For now leave and don't come back until you defeat at least three monsters." king said pointing to the doorway.
"Uhm are…are you going to join me sir." mineta said hesitantly as he looked to the door
"No , now leave." king said simply and Mineta didn't hesitate walking outside of the doorway before taking a deep exhale as he left that was the most serious he's ever seen king be in his time with him, maybe he doesn't like reflecting on his past very much, maybe something had happened to him back in his training days and he didn't like reminiscing about it, that kinda made him feel bad forcing the man to trudge up dark memories again just for his sake, maybe he should get him something on the way back just as a thank you and to calm him down mineta thought as he could suddenly start hearing the king's engine again making him begin to run down the hallway to get further away from the triggered hero just in case he does something.
"Damn it ! damn it! damn….why the little guy had to do something like that….does he not understand how much pain and struggle I went through to get here ….how much time I sacrificed for this very moment!" king said as he threw his controller on the bed causing it to bounce and hit the wall.
"All that pain and suffering I now have to retread for that dumb grape…..ugh …this is going to be torture." king said as he turned back on his console …he forgot to save his progress on his game now the last 4 hours of progress was gone. King was about to hunker down and start over again before thinking of the pupils boy's request, what the hell was he going to do for him? Huh he'll just ask saitama for a training routine for him to do and maybe throw in some other things with it just for ruining his game, king thought as he got to playing his game again.
More!More!More!: Child emperor, Mina, Jiro
Mina and jiro were both headed towards child emperors labs with the absence of Iida which for a moment for the two was a bit strange he been palling around with them for the last couple of days working on his suit and now with him gone things kinda went back to normal well as normal as things could be.
"Do you think he's going to be alright?" mina said absently speaking her thoughts
"I don't know given the state we found him in when he was with that guy initially, who knows what could happen." jiro remarked
"I'm sure he'll be extra careful now though." jiro continued
"Yeah , I guess you're right about that, he didn't even stop by to get his new suit." Mina said as the two walked out of the shuttle and started heading towards child emperor's lab. Iida had informed everyone that in light of the conversation they had the other day he would return to training under flash, citing that while the man wasn't the ideal teacher that he wanted to learn under he still needed to, given the two's compatible styles.
"That reminds me, how did you time with ojiro and toru go? Surprised someone like you would attempt martial arts?" jiro commented
"Well you're right in a way, It went poorly, it was so rigid and boring, that's just not me." mina replied
"Well that isn't very surprising, I would have thought that you would have taken the chance to start working out with Kirishima actually, ya know since you're feeling all self conscious about your lack of muscles." Jiro said with a teasing grin as she mocked flexed, mina face noticeably reddened at the remark but calmed down equally as quickly.
"I thought I told you it had nothing to do with him…. Besides, it's not like I could catch up to her anyways." Mina said, murmuring that last part but realizing who she was talking to quickly tried to change the topic.
"a-anyways …. Ojiro had the wonderful Idea of just going for a different style of martial arts, one that revolves around dancing! And you know when it comes to dancing I'm the best." Mina remarked with a grin. Jiro allowed her previous comment to lay where it lies, she didn't want to pry so much into the girl relationship, she didn't want to do the very thing she hated being done to her after all.
"Well that's lucky for you isn't but who's going to teach you this style?" jiro questioned
"That's the thing there, this A-class hero who seemed to know it fairly well so I'm hoping to see if child emperor can work something out for me. I mean momo teachers is able to get her a number of teachers now so child emperor should be able to as well. " Mina suggested.
"I wouldn't put too many stakes in that from what she's told me drive knight essentially coerces her teachers into teaching her and sometimes with not so justifiable means, kaminari teacher was essentially strong-armed into accepting him from what both of them have said. " jiro remarked
"Well I'm sure child emperor wouldn't do such a thing besides the guy maybe excited to train me for his own reputation, we are kinda famous nowadays.: Mina remarked.
"What about you, what are you planning on doing to get better yourself? Are you and kaminari going to practice together alone like the other couple? `` Mina said with a teasing undertone edging into her voice but it was actually just an honest question from the girl.
"Nah , I'll prefer to keep my distance from the fight, besides kaminari martial arts is something specific to him and his quirk to really be effective from what he's told me." jiro remarked
"So what are you going to do now, just carry on like normal then?" mina questioned
"Essentially I do have something in mind for a couple of upgrades though that I haven't thought about until recently for my earphone jacks themselves, maybe a covering of sorts so that could enhance their sensitivity to sound or do the opposite and protect them from the elements I mean fighting in the cold really put that into perspective along with getting partially singed by todoroki's brother in the war.'' Jiro said off-handedly, the name bringing up bad memories for the both of them on what happened that day and who was lost, the two girls walked in silence for a moment each reliving the most impactful moments of that fight.
"You're right my equipment could use a boost too, maybe I should get some matching shoe upgrades as well, I did forget about them before." Mina said simply and Jiro nodded and the two girls made it into child emperor's lab. Hoping the child prodigy would be welcoming to their requests.
The hero and anti hero: Flash, Iida
Iida was marching through the halls of the hero association hq, he didn't really know where to find flash and the man didn't have a phone to actually call either to contact him the best the association could do was hope that the blonde… hero Iida thought with severe skepticism would tell them where he was going to be situated for the day and they would call the establishment to reach him if he was needed, luckily for him when he asked about the man he was in the base and in fact the association had a mission for him in fact, thankfully it was a monster attack mission and not a human based one, Iida held no illusion on that the mission parameters were to kill the creature so he wouldn't bother trying to convince flash or the association of sparring the creatures life not that he would be able to from what he read from the documentation the creature is at least a threat level demon, which meant that this creature could be just as strong as the monsters they encountered on the mountain. He guessed he had nothing to worry about in that case, Iida said as he stepped into the room and despite wanting to throw the document towards the back of the "hero's" head.
He instead opted for a less violent approach slamming the documents down on the table in front of the man in a vain attempt to spook the individual and as he expected the hero didn't move an inch, still just focusing on cleaning his sword.
"I didn't expect to see you again." flash remarked still wiping his sword down and giving it a once over.
"And normally you wouldn't have but things have changed and despite my reservations on your heroic attitude and behavior, I have to admit that you are indeed strong and right now I need to get stronger and working under you seems to be my best move forward." Iida replied somewhat agitated that the man still didn't look his way.
"And what is it that is pressuring you to that conclusion?" flash asked, surprising Iida slightly; he didn't think the man would care for things involving him. Although that left him in a peculiar predicament, what was he to say? He couldn't just tell him the whole truth of what's happening back in his world as the man would probably think he's crazy and he couldn't reveal the secrets behind his origins to actually make his story make some semblance of sense to the stranger. He decided that this man didn't really deserve an explanation from him anyways.
"I would have thought you wouldn't have cared about me and my endeavors." Iida said deflecting.
"You are correct about that, however there is one thing I do need an answer to." flash said and Iida was almost blinded by the sudden motion and the sudden appearance of flash sword tip thrusted into his face. Making him take a staggering step backwards, in fear , flash's gaze was entirely cold as he locked gazes with the frightened teens.
"Back on the mountain, when I healed you…I noticed some shrubbery made over your wounds, where did you learn to do that?" flash said his voice was equally as cold as his eyes, Iida swallowed a lump in his throat as he started sweating from the intensity that the hero began to show.
"I..it wasn't me …someone out in the wilderness had helped me." Iida replied simply, flash's sword didn't leave where it was hovering as he began.
"And the name of this individual?" flash remarked
"He was a criminal that went by the name speed-o-sound sonic." Iida said raising his arms out in defense the name must have reminded the man of something as he stood up straighter and pulled his sword away before sheathing it.
"I see." was all flash said as he opened up the documents on the table and read them. Iida was now just confused, did the man know him somehow? He seemed so serious just now and upon hearing the name he just dropped it completely. part of him thought he might have been scared of the man but maybe it could be something else? They did give off a similar temperament they could potentially have known each other from the past but it wasn't his business to pry into things of that nature but part of him began to think how suspicious it was for him to drop the subject matter so completely especially given the suspect was an S-class level criminal and it was even more suspicious that he didn't know about the intruder even though so much had occurred before he even arrived at the lodge.
Is he covering for him due to their past? He thought finally before flash began to progress towards the doorway, snapping him back to the present as flash nearly exited the doorway, before stopping and throwing a brown bag back towards Iida the teen was quick enough to react to the bag being thrown his way but completely buckled under the unexpected weight from it causing him to fall completely over.
"you don't have your armor so where that instead" flash said simply fully closing the door behind him.
Iida sighed to himself and then took a look inside of the bag and was not surprised to find even more weighted clothing. They felt even heavier than the ones he wore previously and after finally being able to get them on he struggled out of the doorway just to see flash waiting outside with his back against the wall looking towards the ceiling.
"This….is…heavier than last time." Iida managed to get out.
"Yes it's 1800 kilos." Flash remarked but his voice was distant like he wasn't really paying attention to him but reminiscing about something else entirely. Iida on the other hand could only focus on keeping upright as the two began to journey outwards. The beast they were assigned to slay wad somewhere located in O-city but upon arrival their Iida was met by his next challenge by the blonde hero he was ordered to walk on his hands for the rest of the trip, Iida only gawked in response to such a ridiculous request, not only would such a task be extremely strenuous in his weighted clothes but it would also be extremely embarrassing for him to walk around like that in front of people but flash didn't care only citing the emotion as a weakness that should be discarded. Iida only looked more exasperated by the response before giving up and just following along he needed to get stronger and the longer he didn't comply the longer it would take for them to stop the monster before it can harm the innocent. So he swallowed his pride and did as asked.
The two of them walked for what seemed like ages but in reality was about an 1 hour before they came across there first sign of clues of the monster had them looking for it was a large humanoid hippopotamus type creature that had four legs and six arms it had been rumored take up residence in a nearby lake which was currently being quartered off by the police, none of them looked especially happy to see the two heroes either even through the looks of confusion they gave at Iida's predicament. They quickly let them through before the two made their way to the large lake. Iida was finally able to rest his hands as they stopped. He was going to ask flash what the plan was now but as he turned to look at the figure he was already gone and double surprisingly the monster came up from the lake at that very moment it's size easily dwarfing 20ft, Iida reacted just in time to avoid one of it's strikes calling out for where flash was as the monster began to attack him.
"You have been following us for sometime now" flash remarked as he announced his presence to the stranger garbed in a silver ninja outfit. Spooking the individual to turn around sharply weapons ready before relaxing.
"What is it that you're after? The association made no mention of backup."
" I merely saw you and presumed that a monster worth killing had to be around." The stranger said in a female voice.
"Ah I see, you merely wanted to steal my kill." Flash said simply before disappearing before the girl's very eyes and blade to her throat.
"I would suggest choosing a different target , I don't like my kills stolen from me." Flash said Menacingly as he locked eyes with the girl.
"Right" the girl said as she slowly began to back away and head off in a different direction but was halted by flash's voice.
"Do we know each other? Your eyes are filled with anger. " Flash remarked
"No , why would we?" The girl said simply before walking further away before leaving flash's sight.
"Don't let that anger lead you down a foolish path. "Flash replied simply as he looked up into a tree spotting a silver clone which dashed away immediately along with two others.
Flash turned his attention back to what he came here for, the constant yelling of the brat bringing him back to the monster at hand, as quick as his name the monster was dead in pieces the teen looked slightly worse for where and he knew immediately that he was going go off on another rant which the blonde hero would promptly ignore.
Working on a feeling: zombieman, bomb, Jackie, tokoyami, toru
Tokoyami and toru both walked to their instructors in silence, each student pondering on what they needed to do and how they would be moving forward now that thing's were getting a bit more serious back home. Each of them individually had an idea of what they needed to do, toru conversation with ojiro the other day made her more tolerant on fully learning bomb's techniques, while tokoyami and dark shadow were eternally arguing about seriously taking zombieman's advice from the other day if it could score them a chance of getting stronger but tokoyami still had his doubts about it. The two finally arrived and were greeted by zombieman for a moment before each teen split off.
Tokoyami and zombieman day started normally tokoyami fulfilling a full list of physical exercises that would work out different parts of the body each time to get the teen fully limbered up for their sparring event, which was next tokoyami would still use his Fenrir's claws ability versus zombiemans swords, he would still often lose the sparring matches getting pinned or in the advent that the hero would stop holding back having him suddenly force a surrender as his swords would magically appear from behind him with both of his swords threateningly close to his neck.
On top of their regular sparring they would also still continue to test the limits of what dark shadow could truly do, other than working on other places the shadow could manifest itself. The two continued to also work on the two shared vision modes allowing tokoyami to see all around him that he called hemindalls vision. They also worked on combat techniques of the two fighting separately from one another which would allow them an easier time in tricking their opponents. During all that time tokoyami was still arguing internally with dark shadow on what they should do until tokoyami finally relented just to shut the shadow creature up and during their next break as the two were resting.
"I have thought about your theory from the other day and I… would like to give it a shot." Tokoyami said hesitantly, he could already feel the nerves begin to build his head felt itchy and he rubbed his hands together.
"Oh? I'm surprised I just took a shot in the dark and didn't think you would respond." zombieman said looking the teen over
"Things have changed. We have a window of when we will be able to go home now and things aren't going well. So while we're here we need to try our best to get stronger and as quickly as possible so that we can be prepared for when we return to face anything."
"Interesting, what's the time table we're talking about?" zombieman questioned
"4 months to 40 years." tokoyami said simply, zombieman whistled
"That's quite the table, you sure about this I can see that you're nervous about this and there is no telling if it will actually work." zombieman said before sitting up slightly. Tokoyami breathed in before exhaling.
" No, we can proceed. We're assuming that we will return four months from once we came, which wouldn't leave us with a lot of time.`` Tokoyami said with conviction looking at the hero. Zombieman put out his cigarette before walking over to the teen and sitting down next to him, face to face.
"Alright I guess I'm all ears." zombieman said
"Well…..I…I guess the first thing I could say is….that…I…may like …one of my classmates." tokoyami said
"May?" dark shadow remarked as tokoyami looked at him in anger, making the shadow duck for cover.
"Do I get to learn a name? Don't worry I'm good with secrets." zombieman said with a wink, tokoyami settled down his nerves a bit with the help of dark shadow scratching his back for comfort.
"Yes …ugh ….her name is.. Asui or you may know her as frogger." tokoyami murmured out.
"Oh the frog of q-city huh? Never thought teen romance would be the first thing you talk about but I guess it can't be helped, tell me more about it." zombieman said as the two continued to talk.
Toru was in the midst of her classes and just like usual her and Jackie were mostly off by themselves when they could this time however during their occasionally sparring lesson she had forsaken Jackie and instead decided to take the opportunity to fight against one of the star pupils fred. The man was a bit surprised at first but gladly took the girl on as the two of them took their stance, toru wanted to see how far she was from him and as the sparring began it was completely different from her tie with Jackie, even though she was taking things extremely seriously fred was able to find countless gaps between her attacks that she hadn't really noticed before. On the receiving end however she fared better but still not up to the regards that she would have liked even with her training with ojiro and bangs defensive styles.
After the sparring was up toru was helped off the floor by fred and she proceeded back to her own position with a curious Jackie waiting for her.
"What's got you so riled up, having some guy trouble?" she teased
"No, nothing like that I…I just want to take things a little more seriously from now on." Toru said, earning the dark skinned girl's attention.
"Is something going on? …is it alien business.`` Jackie whispered in her ear, toru chuckled for a moment.
" Yeah, something like that, we may be leaving sooner than later." toru whispered back
"Oh that sucks, hey could I be there when you guy's leave? I want to see a spaceship" the girl murmured excitedly, earning another chuckle.
"Well I'm sorry to say that we didn't arrive here on some space ship." toru replied
"Aww, so how did you all get here?" Jackie asked
"Well I can't tell you that but it has something to do with blast." toru said
"BLAST!? ….blast oh my god you met him? The number one hero almost disappeared completely from the face of the earth." Jackie said before quieting down for a moment avoiding the stairs that they were getting from the dojo.
"Well we didn't meet for long. He was simply there when we got here and we haven't seen him since." toru replied simply
"Aww but if you guys are going to be leaving soon that means he's going to be their right?" jackie said getting giddy again
"More than likely yes" toru remarked
"Then you gotta tell me where, do you know how much a pictured autograph of the guy could be worth?" she said, ahh that's where she was going with this toru thought simply.
"I'll be sure to let you know.'' Toru said with a chuckle as the break was finally up the class did some more physical exercises and forms, the time of day arrived for the whirlwind test and it was toru's time again, she took a moment to size up the stone puppet and breathed in before striking her hands outwards and surprised everyone in the room when the stone puppet was nearly cut in half similar to fred's turn. Toru couldn't believe it herself as she looked out at her hands and before all of a sudden everyone in the dojo broke out in claps of applause, Jackie even whistled with hers , bomb began to approach her as she continued to look at her work.
"I'm proud to see that you have fully accepted my martial art. Your doubts were holding you back. " bomb stated
" I…I see, but how did I do so well with it?" toru questioned
"Well despite the violent nature of the martial arts the opposite needs to be true of the wielder to truly hone it to its full potential, the less someone wants to hurt others the better the better they are at summoning the whirlwind. I created it to be this way for the sole purpose of running a dojo, wouldn't want violent individuals running around using my martial art for heinous crimes now would we?" bomb said with a slight chuckle.
"No…I guess you wouldn't." Toru said with a bright smile, Jackie was on the girl's shoulder the next thing she knew.
"Wow you're already better at it than me, you must really not like hurting others." Jackie said, clasping the girls on the shoulder before giving her a thumbs up. Toru smiled to herself as she looked down at her hands again, while this was a big step in her progress she still had a lot to learn.
Deliberations: Class 1A
Everyone met in the living room again to talk about their day, the talks were brief however as each one of them had a very taxing day and all of them could understand the reasons behind it so nothing really had to be said, however five of their numbers was abnormally absent not counting the other two late arrivals, but Iida had assured them that everything was fine and something had happened to todoroki that they were taking care of. With that said the rest of the group headed to their rooms.
Midoriya had just shown up in the gymnasium of the main association headquarters; he wasn't surprised by who he found there; it was bakugo, Iida, and momo. He scanned around the large space for todoroki but only saw a large metallic box that only signs that it was occupied was a large bright light seeping through the cracks.
"Where is he?" Midoriya asked, his voice full of worry ever since getting Bakugo's message, he was concerned about todoroki.
"He's in there." bakugo said, jestering to the metallic box that began to glow a bright red.
"Wh- what happened?" Midoriya questioned as he could already begin to feel the heat coming off the box from where he stood.
"Yes now that midoriya is here, please inform us." Iida remarked
"Well I wasn't there but from what demon cyborg's master told me, was that he got into a fight with a monster and in an ironic turn of events he was the one turned into an ice cube." bakugo said with a small chuckle. Getting a glare from momo in return which he promptly rolled his eyes at.
"So that giant iceberg wasn't his after all." midoriya murmured to himself
"Where was this master when the incident took place?" Iida questioned, he had really been getting tired of the heroes of this world abandoning their comrades as if they had no sense of comradery.
"Yeah I had that same damn question but you're probably not gonna like the answer." bakugo.
"What happened?" Momo questioned, even more curious.
"Saitama was watching over a monster they had previously captured when they felt the effects of that one…. cop didn't hesitate to take the opportunity to mock us for that saying that if they just killed the monster then this potentially would not have happened. ``Bakugo said with some gripe to his tone, the other three were stunned into silence as they thought about that.
"So what are they doing with todoroki in there?" momo asked
"Isn't it an obvious ponytail? There, trying to warm him up, when I met him he could barely move his body, cold as ice.`` Bakugo remarked gruffly, surprising his classmates again.
"Even todoroki ended up like that. What type of monster did he face?" Iida said bewildered
"Iida is right, this isn't adding up, the monster was only a demon there is no way it could have done this to todoroki going off what the association says." midoriya said
"Don't believe that BS, demon monsters can vary wildly in strength from each other." bakugo replied simply
"Yes, drive knight has told me that as well." momo remarked
"But even the cyborg was surprised by the results, he speculates that the monster must have been a dragon . Todoroki and him have similar fire power, he even said that if either me or him had taken that same attack that we would have been killed on the spot, todoroki lived just by the grace of his quirk.`` Bakugo said glumly, taking one more look at the metal heated cage before standing up and stretching.
"That's the basic gist of it, he's been in there for about an hour now and now that you three are here I'll head back to training. Message me if anything happens. " bakugo said before walking out of the gym, leaving the three others there just waiting for Todoroki to come out of the cage but after 3 more hours nothing happened even when the heat inside the box clearly raised in temperature. Iida after nearly falling asleep while sitting down was eventually coached into leaving back home while the other two would wait around, midoriya offered to help the president back home with him as he seemed to be extremely exhausted from the days events and midoriya couldn't help but feel that it was somewhat his fault although each of the vestiges denied it, telling him that this was their choice and he shouldn't feel bad as that would only further disrespect their efforts that really got to him and reminded him of someone he needed to go make up with so once he finished escorting Iida to his room.
he made a detour to his room to take his own shower and brush his teeth. He set out to the person he wanted to see. His heart began to beat faster and faster as he neared her door, fairly worried about messing with the girl..his girl? Sleep but he needed to talk about what happened the other day. He still remembered that look she had on her face and he didn't get the chance to personally apologize. So through his nerves and doubts he finally arrived on uraraka's door and he tentatively knocked on it and even after only 3 minutes of waiting he was going to call it quits before the door suddenly opened and a clearly half-asleep uraraka opened the door, slightly rubbing her eye to get adjusted to the lights in the hallway.
"Oh..I…I..I um, sorry to wake you up..umm..we can talk at another time." midoriya said before begging to turn and walk away but was halted as uraraka grabbed a hold of his hand
"No…no it's fine…do you want to come in?" Uraraka remarked, making Midoriya blush but nod his head as he was led by the hand inside the girls room as she closed the door, just in time as kaminari was roughly shoved out into the hallway from one of another of the girls room.
"A guy makes one joke and he's out." Kaminari remarked with a chuckle as he left towards his own room.
Inside Uraraka's room both of the teens' nerves exploded in tension and worry as the two sat on the bed, Midoriya had noted that her bed was much larger than his and connected the dots from previously and was even more self-conscious than ever before.
"So what did you want to talk about?" uraraka asked before she yawned which midoriya found extremely cute but he quickly caught himself from staring too much as he looked down at his hands.
"umm…I…I wanted to apologize to you….about yesterday." Midoriya said as he looked up again at the girl.
"What I said, I didn't mean to disrespect or disregard you…I just….I just don't want to see you or anyone else hurt." Midoriya said with a broken voice looking down again, he was surprised when he felt the girl's hands cup his face guiding it back to look her in the eyes, they held nothing of the ire they had the other day but the opposite they seemed to hold nothing but respect for him.
"I know midoriya, I completely understand that and that's one of the great things I admire about you. how you will do everything for us so that we can be safe but I just need you to understand that me or any of us will do the same thing for you as well." Uraraka replied and Midoriya nodded his head not knowing really what else to say, the use of his real name out her mouth really floored his mind and made his heart race even quicker but that paled in comparison to what his heart experienced next as the girl kissed him. To the outside observer the kiss looked slightly wrong but to the two of them it was an unforgettable moment that lasted for about one minute before the two pulled away. And looked at each other. Still holding the other's hands.
"Would you like to join me in bed?...I mean just to stay the night , I mean…just to cuddle nothing…like..like that ." uraraka said, clarifying her attention while looking away bashfully.
"umm…I…I don't kno-...yes , um sure." midoriya started to say before flipping once he saw the sad look on the girls face, he shot momo a quick text asking if she would be fine on her own and after hearing that she would, midoriya had got into bed with uraraka and the two slept the night away.
Momo was a bit surprised that midoriya had decided to call it early from before and that only left her to take care of todoroki, her cheeks heated up at the thought but she blamed it on the again increased heat of the metal cage the heat inside the gym began to be unbearable and after another hour of sitting in it she decided it would be best to take a moment outside, she searched around the HQ area for a moment, she knew that other than bakugo, that two others of her friends would stay up late training and decided to pay them a visit sending toru a quick text to locate where they were she found the training area and sat in their for a moment to cooldown informing the two of why she was there so late so after another two hours of watching the two practice and the two finishing up she took the moment to go back towards the gym and even from down the hall she could feel the heat radiating out of the room, which kept her at a distance for another 30 minutes before the heat began to dissipate. Momo quickly took the opportunity to go inside and sure enough all the glowing inside the box had dissipated and out came the causes of the heat.
She recognized one of the individuals which was the demon cyborg the top half of his clothes were gone and all of the machinery could clearly be seen which made momo question how much of the man was actually human, the second one was someone she hadn't seen before he was a muscular man with flame-like hair, but he was unconscious and partly burned up in the black ashes around him was anything to go by, and the last person was todoroki himself he was being propped up by demon cyborg as they walked outside.
"Neith." the cyborg said, snapping momo from her thoughts.
"I assume you're here to take frozen-phoenix."
Genos remarked and momo saw how todoroki slowly lifted his head to look at her, before seemingly losing the energy and letting it fall down lifelessly, momo immediately rushed by his side and took the boy and noted how despite being in all that heat how cold he still felt. The cyborg merely remarked that they couldn't do much more for the man and his body would need to fight it off for now. Todoroki gave a very weak thank you before momo helped the boy walk home. He reached outside and shivered despite the warm weather and momo created several heating pads so that he could be better but the shivering still continued.
The two eventually got to the house and she set todoroki down on the couch given that he was in that oven for so long she assumed that he was hungry and so she had went to the kitchen to bring out something that he may like, she would have given him cold but given the circumstances she wagered it would be best to serve him hot soba which the teen thanked her for, however todoroki's shivering was so bad that he could barely eat the thing without it slipping or spilling everywhere making momo feed it to him instead. The two talked about the day's events and what had happened to him along with who the man that was with them in the cage along with the demon cyborg, his name was enjoe or the C-class hero flame dragoon that he was teaching him how to control his flames.
Todoroki didn't know why but her being so close to him brought a sort of inner warmth to him that combated how cold he felt and the closer he got to the girl the warmer and warmer he felt to the point where he barely felt how cold his body actually was, he was completely perplexed by the phenomenon but let the comforting heat sooth his body. Once the girl was finished feeding him she got up and was about to escort him to his room.
"Sorry if this may sound weird or that I'm coming off as a burden but would you mind …staying close together. For some reason when I'm close to you…I don't feel as cold." Todoroki remarked, making momo's face completely light up and her heart pound , her eyes quickly began to pace about as her mind exploded on what she should say.
"You don't have to if you don't want to …you've done more than enough for me already." Todoroki said, making the girl blurt out a response.
"No ,no it's..fine ..in that case I can create an air mattress for us to sleep on here in the living room." Momo said and Todoroki smiled.
"Thank you."
"Don't mention it." momo said simply as she created the mattress, todoroki made himself comfortable as momo returned from upstair with some extra blankets she found in the closet, she had also created some portable heaters so that todoroki could be even more comfortable just incase but even while they were just blowing on the teen, the heat was still incredibly stuffy for herself and the only cold thing in this situation was todoroki himself but she wouldn't dare initiate that type of physical contact with the man herself but it turned out she didn't have to as the boy began to hug her for even more warmth, making the girl flinch in surprise by the cold presence.
"I'm sorry, It was just still cold for me." Todoroki apologized unwrapping his hands from around her but was halted by Momo's own hands.
"No, it's ok… it's hot for me so…I guess we can both help each other out." Momo said with a smile, receiving a smile in return, todoroki resumed what he was doing wrapping his cold arms around the girl which cooled her down in all the heat that was blowing about, momo got even more comfortable by crouching down somewhat to scooch even closer resting the back of her head against his cold chest. The two balanced out each other's body temperature enough for both of them to sleep the night away as everyone else followed suit.
You know I found it strange when 1A was leaving for the final battle and we got most of them saying goodbye to their families, shoji was saying goodbye to the fox girl instead so decided to make something out of that for him.
well that's it from me this month, I hope everyone has a happy Halloween!
