Harleking31: Strong Koichi stuff
Me likes
Vigilantes is so underrated
Re: Which is why I put so much effort into re-introducing him to the main storyline~
And see, I just knew that Rokuro Nomura (it's in the freaking name for Kami's sake) was the prototype of the modern-day Noumu, even before his skullcap exploded off his brain, and also before the "Anti-All Might" Noumu in its cloning pod was shown.
ThunderBasilisk: Was that an abridged mha reference hidden in there?
Re: Not explicitly, unless I copied some of the dialogue, which I don't think I did. The style of humor might've been the same, like Bakugou's expose during the first Combat Trial in the Abridged, and All Might being called "sun-dried tomato" is just my own take on the visual gag.
superpierce: Wow that girl really had it bad. I mean when a woman demands a baby you know they more than just sex.
Re: She did go undercover to a college-age single's mixer that one time~ Not to mention she's been pining over him since he saved her from drowning all those years ago. I just imagine watching busty women fawn over him in America made the decision for her as soon as she realized he wasn't "attached" by the time he got back.
Having her jump him in her Pop*Step outfit was so she'd have the courage to act on her impulses. That, and, she had to be really obtuse about the whole thing because of how dense he's been; like an Isekai Protag. Hell, completely out-of-context, Koichi would be a 1:1 of most not-conventionally-handsome Isekai Protagonists…
(Guest): Love the filler chapter
super fun to read
Anywaaaay
Would be awesome if MC could make some paralyzing smoke pellets to throw at people's faces like pepper pellets in air soft guns
Maybe mei could also make AC hidden blades on his arms and boot for extra damage on nomus
Maybe it could also inject a super concentrated poison like a wasp injection knife too to tax their regeneration
Maybe lots of cyanide
Re: I think Hatsume would need a special license for working with poisons, the current socioeconomic landscape isn't really conducive for killing Noumu outright unless you're a Top 10 because there's going to be people who bitch and whine about "killing those that could still be saved with enough time and research". Still, love that energy.
*MHA*
"So Midnight-sensei really let you go? Just like that?" Tsuyu blinked as the four of them sat in Genki's apartment.
"Pretty much, yeah," the Heteromorph hummed after recounting how Midnight put on a show of 'chastising' him before letting him off 'with a warning'.
"Still, some of these Villains are really weird…" Ochako hummed as she eyed the skillet, having followed the instructions Genki left behind for her in case she had to start dinner without him.
"To be fair, the ancient Greeks also weaponized pigs for militant purposes. Albeit, those pigs were covered in oil and set on fire to frighten war elephants," Izuku muttered, going off on a tangent-
"So do you and Ochako have dinner like this all the time?" Tsuyu asked.
"Eh, it's more like I can't stand watching her subsists on nothing but bean sprouts after school, so we pool our money together and buy from the supermarket sales," Genki hummed pointing to a pile of coupon pages off to the side.
"Salmon for 98 yen each is a bargain, plus it's really good for you!" Ochako told Izuku with a red face like she needed to explain herself to him.
"Nothing wrong with living within your means," Tsuyu hummed with a finger to her chin. "I guess you're not one for living extravagantly, even though your parents are basically printing money?" she hummed at her 'date' as she looked around.
"Nah. Not when I'm away from home at least," Genki shrugged. "Friends who value you for your money is a bad metric to make them by; which of course is pretty hard not to consider since everything in this world is highly 'transactional'."
"Right. You did go on that tangent about how paid heroism actually maintains the number of Heroes we have, even if some do say it 'cheapens' their goodwill," the Mutant girl hummed.
"I did. And trust me, you want a building the size of Might Tower, you're going to need a ton of merchandising rights."
"I still say a building that big is a bit excessive," Ochako hummed.
"W-Well, I mean, the All Might Agency does create a great many jobs, and a building of that size does inspire people with 'I am here', you know?" Izuku replied.
With timers going off, the four of them for dinner ate salmon, mushroom, and butter baked in foil, with sides.
*MHA*
A couple days later…
"It's a little sudden, but for our next Hero exercise, four Hero-class students from Isami Gakuen will be joining us as special guests," Aizawa introduced as three-no, four students in dark navy blazers and beige-colored pants/skirts stood off to the side.
The one on the left was a short boy with a cat-like mouth, light chestnut hair swept up and to the left, his most-defining physical trait being his arms which started out thin at the top but grew bigger at the bottom including his hands. The next student over had desaturated bluish-gray hair, no eyebrows, bug-wide eyes, a nearly nonexistent nose, overly distinctive straight teeth, making him look like some sort of undead. The next one over, the first girl to be seen, was a petite girl with a round face and pale hair tinted a periwinkle blue, intelligent gray eyes, and a pair of triangular glasses with thick dark frames. The fourth Isami student… was hiding behind the third but appeared to have shoulder-length spiky red hair flaring out in all directions, with nothing else visible at the moment.
The majority of 1-A of course got excited over the whole thing, Kaminari cooly asking for the silver-haired girl's number, only for Aizawa to chastise him for leaving his seat. After that, the guest students were asked to introduce themselves.
"We'll be running the exercise with you today. Isami Gakuen, Hero Class. I'm Sekigai Kashiko," the silver-haired girl greeted.
"Same class, I'm Tadan Dadan," the cat-like boy greeted, wiping a nervous sweat from his brow. "Pleasure to meet you."
"Fujimi," the undead-looking teen grunted.
"Hm. There's supposed to be one more," Aizawa hummed.
'Um… Sensei, she's standing right there,' Genki thought to himself as he eyed the bushy head of red hair behind Sekigai. The girl in question poking her head around, revealed that from the neck up she resembled a gray patterned snake with bright yellow eyes instead of a quote/unquote "normal human head". 'K-Kawaiii…!'
The next moment, Tsuyu sat up in her seat, the two making eye contact for an extended period before the two rushed up to one another.
"Tsuyu-chan!"
"Habuko-chan!"
"Tsu-chan's friend?" Ochako blinked.
"I'm getting a little nervous…" Izuku blinked, looking blue around the face. "This shouldn't happen in nature."
"Mongoose," Romero spat out. "Don't get all friendly with these UA guys!"
'Oh great. Another one.'
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY YOU ISAMISHIT BABY!?" Bakugou demanded.
"Stop it, Kacchan…"
"SHUT UP, SHIT NERD!"
"Why don't you shut up first," Aizawa grunted, the explosive teen relenting. The bell ringing a minute later, Aizawa ushered everyone out to get changed after telling them where the buss would be waiting. "Iida, guide the Isami students."
"Understood, sensei!"
"Ne, Tsu-chan," Habuko then said in a whisper. "Is that the cute boy who took you to karaoke the other night? The one with the great voice that made your kokoro go doki dok-"
Tsuyu Asui, in a rare moment of sheer, unadulterated panic, did the only thing she could think of at-the-moment to shut her friend up with the aforementioned 'cute boy' in earshot.
Aforementioned "only thing" however, involved shoving her head into Habuko's mouth to get her to stop talking.
Sometimes the first idea that comes into your head, is far from the best idea.
Especially when someone like Tenya Iida has zero context when it comes to things like gossip.
"AH! YOU FIEND! CONTROL YOUR ANIMAL IMPULSES THIS INSTANT!" Iida demanded, Habuko flailing her arms wildly and unable to verbally protest.
*MHA*
"Habuko-chan… I told you that in confidence…" Tsuyu chastised as everyone got into their Hero Costumes.
"Sorry, but I just couldn't help myself after you told me a boy really liked you~" the snake Heteromorph gushed. "That he's been stigmatized like us means his feelings are genuine, at the least."
"Right…" Tsuyu nodded, her feelings on the matter still conflicted.
"So you two went to the same middle school?" Ochako asked.
"Yes, we were very good friends," Tsuyu smiled, Ochako and Mina shuddering as Habuko flicked her forked tongue, unnerved by her golden, unblinking eyes.
*MHA*
Meanwhile with the boys…
"Oh great, they're multiplying…" Genki groaned as Bakugou and Romero shot lightning-gilded glares at one another. "At least there's one normal guy in your group," he hummed turning to Isami Gakuen's other male student. He wasn't physically impressive by most metrics, but maybe his Quirk was lipid-reliant like Momo's, and thus he could pack more in while still remaining 'healthy'.
"We're so sorry! Fujimi says a lot of nasty things, but he's not a bad person at heart," Tadan apologized.
"We too, apologize. Ours has trouble with admitting that he is in the wrong," Iida returned.
"HAAH?!"
"I hope nothing bad happens in this exercise…" Izuku muttered.
"You and me both," Genki replied.
*MHA*
Training Ground Gamma, a large forested area, was rife with small wildlife, nothing larger than a rabbit, and at a glance you almost couldn't tell that it got half-leveled on the regular. She skies were blue with occasional cloud cover, the perfect weather for outdoor training before Final Exams.
"Alright, is everyone here?" Aizawa asked. "Today's Hero Exercise will be observed by myself and one other person."
"HAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I-" *CRASH!* "-like a special guest-! AM HERE!" All Might bellowed, Genki idly wondering if the theme music was playing from his phone speaker, or if that was his "secret Quirk".
"A-All Might!" Romero gushed.
"In the flesh!" Sekigai gasped.
"Such power!" Tadan awed.
"I'm so jealous of Yuuei!" Habuko gushed.
"So! About our little exercise… We're going to have you all go through some Survival Training!" All Might began bombastically as a holographic placard appeared at his side. "Let me explain! With four students per team, and six teams overall, you will start at the predetermined positions that we have chosen! There is but one objective! To survive! To run or to fight, anything goes! Victory will go to the last surviving team!"
"If you run into another team and manage to bind your opponents with this Capture Tape, you can make them combat ineffective," Aizawa explained. "This should be a familiar item."
"Now! Let us announce the teams!"
*MHA*
On Team A, Midoriya Izuku, Ashido Mina, Uraraka Ochako, and Asui Tsuyu.
Were Mineta still around, he'd have complained about Izuku being a "harem protagonist", or something.
On Team B, Bakugou Katsuki, Yaoyorozu Momo, Kirishima Eijirou, and Shoji Mezo.
A DPS, a Tank, and two Supports.
On Team C, Todoroki Shoto, Mashirao Ojiro, Koda Koji, and Hagakure Toru.
Two DPS, a Support, and one "Spy".
On Team D, Tokoyami Fumikage, Iida Tenya, Sero Hanta, and Sato Rikido.
Three DPS and one Support.
On Team E, Gokiburi Genki, Kaminari Denki, Jiro Kyoka, and sparkling off in the back was Aoyama Yuga.
One Tank, two DPS, and one Support.
On Team F were the Isami Gakuen students, obviously, Romero Fujimi, Sekigai Kashiko, Mangoose Habuko, and Tadan Dadan. Romero's costume was predominantly black with red piping and brass buttons, a semi-opaque purple mask on his face. Sekigai's costume was in shades of black, gray, and white with red accents, a futuristic visor over her eyes. Mongoose's costume was a blue form-fitting bodysuit in various shades with yellow visors over each eye. Tadan's costume was more like power armor, with blue legs, a green abdomen, and a yellow torso, a reticle over his eye and what looked like missile ports scattered about.
Or at least that was how Genki assessed everyone once the teams were announced. He had no idea what Team F's Quirks were, so the obvious move there was to allow them to reveal themselves in due time while remaining hidden with what he'd learned from the Edgeshot Agency in Iga; assuming he could get Kaminari, Jiro, and Aoyama to follow his lead.
*MHA*
"Genki, out of all of us, you seem to have the most recognized combat experience outside that one isolated incident," Kyoka hummed as Team E huddled together within a copes of trees. "Any advice we might not've learned at the USJ?"
After the way "a General Course student" flattened all of them at the Yuuei Sports Festival and booted one of them out of Yuuei altogether, she had no illusions she were his "superior" in any way. A little arrogant on her part to think so back then, but she had genuinely thought no-one from the General Course was a threat to them; doubly-so until a second General Course student almost took out Midoriya with nothing but a spoken word.
And it wasn't a hard choice for her to make, the only other alternatives outside herself being the French narcissist and the electric idiot who fried his brain after using his Quirk too much.
"My [Air Pressure Sensing] is next to useless until our opponents are right on top of us, and if Bakugou comes our way, that'd be too late for most of you."
"I'm sorry, most?"
"Who here has actually beaten him in a fight?"
"Fair…" the rocker girl admitted…
"Well, we've got six teams in here at four apiece… How about we stay hidden until at least half are done for?" Kaminari suggested.
"A sound stratagem. After all, glory is not found in the journey, but the arrivée," Aoyama stated glamorously.
"Although… if too many teams come to that same conclusion, it'll probably turn into a free-for-all anyway as we get near the time limit…" Kyoka hummed.
"Ah, but you forget who's leading Team B," Genki hummed.
"Sooooo… You're going to let Bakugou do literally half the work for us?" Kaminari asked.
"Monsieur, that is trés sombre…"
"So is hunting down your classmates in the woods, The Most Dangerous Game-style."
"Fair…"
"We should probably keep it down to a low roar. Bakugou has Shoji on his team, Iida has Tokoyami, and I have no way of knowing what the Isami Gakuen team is packing. Too many kids these days design their costumes around their own aesthetic with little to no consideration for how it can influence their Quirks."
"What are you, a retired Hero on a talk show?" Kyoka chuckled.
"Hopefully we all live that long, given how-many the Hero Killer inspired."
*KABOOOOOM!*
"Well, nice to know some people are always true to form…" Kaminari hummed as Bakugou raged in the distance, frightening wildlife for miles around.
"So… What will you do when Bakugou shows up? Assuming someone else doesn't get him first," Kyoka asked as explosions continued to ring in the distance.
"I'm gonna punch him repeatedly in the face~" Genki grinned as he donned his brass knuckles.
"Well, that usually does stun someone long-enough to put cuffs on them…" Kaminari hummed.
"And the best part, I get school credit for it~"
"You really don't like Bakugou, do you?" Yuuga asked.
"He reminds me of all the, pardon my French, connards de merde, from my previous school."
"Oh! You too speak the language of love?"
"Since when did this turn into an after-school clubroom chat…?" Kyoka asked as the two continued to gab, albeit in hushed tones.
*MHA*
Team E continuing to hide out at their most-experienced member's insistence, things took a turn when a high-pitched whine pierced the air after some sort of… air-to-ground bombardment took place. Kaminari hugging Kyoka close and covering her mouth so she wouldn't cry out, Genki made use of the Tanuki Gakure no Jutsu and was able to warn his team of the pink gas encroaching on their positions well in advance.
"Either Yaomomo's gotten into chemical warfare while we weren't looking, or this is Isami Gakuen's doing…" Kyoka hummed as they ran, Genki peppering the space behind them with air bullets and smoke grenades.
"Good news is this stuff seems to be neutrally-buoyant, so if we get to higher ground, we should be safe," Kaminari hummed.
"Looks like this'll turn into a free-for-all after all," Genki hummed. "I mean, what idiot would stand around and wait for this suss shit to wash over them?"
The quartet breaking out of the forest, Genki with amazing strength ferried his teammates up the sheer cliff face to the rocky plateau that felt marginally out-of-place in the middle of a wooded area. Todoroki and Midoriya's teams presenting themselves a few moments later, revealed at least two other surviving teams assuming Team F didn't Party Wipe themselves.
"Genki-san!" Izuku cried as the Heteromorph set his last teammate down, Kyoka blushing up a storm as she was princess carried into view.
"Izuku, Shoto," Genki nodded. "You guys have all hands?"
"Y-Yeah…" Ochako hummed.
"You get any residue on your skin? For all we know, this crap can be absorbed epidermally."
"No, we're good," Mina nodded.
"Genki, do you know what that gas is?" Shoto asked.
"Unless Yaomomo got into chemical warfare when we weren't looking, this has Isami Gakuen written all over it," Genki said frankly. "We have the high ground, so we might as well wait for our class to walk out of the woods, see what it actually does to human bodies."
"That's… kinda dark…" Izuku muttered.
"What, you volunteering to go on a fact-finding mission yourself?" Kyoka asked.
"No thank you!"
"Hey, look down there!" Hagakure called out, drawing everyone's attention to the woods as the gas began to clear. Shadowed forms shuffling forward, Ochako called out to them before the color started to drain from her face.
"Z…! ZOMBIES…!" Izuku cried as his zombified classmates shambled out of the woods, their skin a sickly pallor of white, their eyes shadowed to black.
They looked like the guy from Scream...
"Habkuko-chan…!" Tsuyu whimpered.
"So… What now?" Kaminari asked as his classmates randomly fired off their Quirks and/or repeatedly slammed their heads into trees.
"First, we plot our escape route. Tomorrow… this shit goes viral~" Genki grinned as a red dot appeared in the corner of his visor.
"Are… Are you recording this…?" Kyoka gawped.
"Being recorded and posted online is half a Hero's job."
"Not wholly untrue," Todoroki hummed, he and Genki having spoken on the subject, children of top-ranked Heroes to another.
"Hahahahahaha!" Romero cackled with manic eyes, having somehow snuck up on them. "what do you think of my Quirk!? Yuuei isn't all that much-" *CHOMP!* "OH! MY! GAWD!" he cried in English as 'Zombiegou' took a bite out of his shoulder, the gas mask-wearing teen keeling over before he rose up, the same sickly pallor on his face as the others.
"I-It's just like the movies!" Izuku cried.
"You get turned into a zombie if you're bitten!" Mina squealed.
"If the Quirk user is down, there's no way to reverse all this!" Todoroki said as the rest of 1-A started to climb the plateau, revealing a surprising amount of coordination.
"Don't worry, Romero's Quirk is definitely temporary," Genki hummed.
"How are you sure?" Tsuyu asked.
"Because I know that if it wasn't, he'd have been crammed into an Iso Ward for apocalyptically-virulent Quirks ages ago."
"Right. Because of what happened to Franchouchou…" Ochako hummed sadly.
"Guys, we've got incoming!" Kaminari said as their classmates crested the plateau.
"Everyone, behind me!" Shoto said putting his best foot forward, a wave of creeping ice catching half of his class from the knee down. A few seconds later however, and the moaning HITs broke free.
"It really is like the movies!" Izuku gasped. "They're stronger now!"
"Toru! Quick! Get naked!"
"Stop saying 'naked'!" the invisible girl cried as she discarded her gloves and boots with wild abandon, Zombieyami flailing his arms at the space she once occupied.
"Todoroki, ice them up to their necks! Super-strength doesn't mean anything if they don't have leverage!"
"Right…!" Todoroki replied, flash-freezing the zombified students in his wake.
"It's moments like this that I think how OP your Quirk is…" Kaminari hummed.
"Oh… Pee…?" Shoto blinked.
"We can talk about that later. Right now, I have a plan," Genki stated.
"A plan?" Izuku blinked.
"Yes! One last all-or-nothing gambit!" he said with a raised finger.
"An all-or-nothing gambit, you say?" Aoyama asked.
"Yeah. It's my final move!"
"What does it involve?!"
"Genki, when you say 'final move'… you're not referring to that 'final move', are you?" Ochako muttered.
"Listen up! This is something you're going to have to do for yourselves!"
"Just tell me what to do and I'll follow your lead, Genki-san!" Aoyama demanded.
"Hm! Hmhmhmhmhmhm~" Genki smirked before grabbing Tsuyu's wrist and suddenly bolting off. "RUN FOR YOUR LIIIIIVES!"
"Oh man, I knew you were going to say that!" Ochako cried as Genki's arms and legs pumped dramatically.
The remaining students fleeing as ice shattered and zombies moaned, on the way down, Tsuyu's foot caught on a rock, and she wound up landing flat on her face.
"Asui!"
"Tsuyu!"
"Tsu-chan!" the others cried as the blue-clad Habuko landed right in front of Tsuyu, her darker-gray markings standing prominently against white-colored skin.
"Habuko-chan…" Tsuyu called out as her snake-headed friend stood over her.
Habuko's moaning coming to a stop after several moments, instead of going in for the "kill", Zombieko just stood there, looking down at her friend with no ill intent.
"Habuko-chan!" Tsuyu cried happily, the others letting out sighs of relief as the two held hands. "You remember me, even as a zombie! Thank you, Habuko-chan!"
"Awww! Even while zombified, she's still Tsu-chan's friend~" Mina gushed.
That sentiment swiftly died as Iida tumbled down the cliffside, end over end before sinking his teeth into Tsuyu's shoulder.
"Well… shit…!" Genki swore.
"I would think you would be more-concerned about the girl who makes your kokoro go 'doki doki' being turned into a zombie…" Shoto hummed idly.
"Tsu-chan isn't some thing that I own, and we aren't even boyfriend/girlfriend yet. Getting in the middle of her reaching out to her friend would be crossing a boundary walled off to me right now," Genki replied as the rest of 1-A rolled down the side of the plateau like lemmings; many landed quite unglamorously and would become the subject of remixes and montages on YouTube. "Besides, there's no way Romero would be in any kind of Hero Course if his Quirk permanently turned people into zombies. Though admittedly, he's probably on some sort of global watchlist in case he has an Awakening that changes that…"
"Sooo… we just keep running?" Mina asked.
"Yyyyup!" Genki nodded before leaping off into the trees.
"Dammit, man! Not all of us can do that ninja bullshit!" Kaminari cried as he tried to follow after,
*MHA*
And thusly, that was how the rest of the exercise went. Little by little, as stamina flagged from endless running or misfiring Quirks getting lucky hits in, members of Team C and Team E succumbed to the horde at their backs. And if that wasn't bad enough, Romero's Quirk fired off sporadically even as Zombiegou held him in a headlock, causing yet more zombifying gas to leak out into the woods and "re-zombifying" those that regained lucidity.
At one point a "stranger" crash-landed into the field with the force of a meteor, All Might's "sun-dried tomato" form scaring the ever-loving shit out of Mina and Ochako, who then proceeded to drag a catatonic Izuku out of the way. Genki, using the Tanuki Gakure no Jutsu, witnessed that in their brain-dead states, Romero's "zombies" were incapable of distinguishing someone who looked zombie-like from one of their Quirk-turned brethren.
'How the hell do you forget how much 'time' you have left…?' Genki gawped inside his helmet as Zombido pat him on the shoulder, the whole of the zombified 1-A and Fujimi classes passing over him completely. 'I guess beyond all the god-worship, he really is just another meathead… A little hard to take him seriously as an instructor...'
*MHA*
"Hey, Deku-kun…" Ochako hummed as those that were left (Mina, Shoto, Genki, Denki, and Izuku) all hid in a cave walled off by Shoto's ice. "How do the protagonists in zombie movies escape?"
"Er, well… Most zombie movies end badly," he answered, Ochako and Mina quavering in fear.
"To be fair though, that's just movies where it always 'ends badly'," Genki hummed. "Some of the newer movies break form and cover humanity taking their world back in the epilogue, episodic series have more of a closed ending, or in the original material like the books for World War Z. Only difference is everyday life is a bit more labor-intensive once the dust settles."
" . . . Has anyone seen Hagakure?" Shoto asked.
"Hah! Nice one!" Mina said, trying to find a bit of levity where she could.
"Your guess is as good as mine," Genki shrugged. As far as he could tell, she was still somewhere outside after ghosting them, and was either running around as an invisible zombie, or had gotten free and clear. "Shit. I should've told her to go for help."
"Can't you call her with your helmet-phone?"
"What would I actually call? Her costume's got no pockets."
"Or costume~" Mina chuckled, only to squeal as cracks began to form on the ice wall barring the cave. "AHHH! Hold me, Genki-sama! I don't wanna die a virgin!"
"M-Mina! Compose yourself!" Genki cried as the pinkette clung to him desperately. "And what's with this '-sama'?!"
"They're here!" Izuku cried.
"Yeah, no shit," Genki deadpanned as something invisible punched a hole through the ice before Shoto covered it up. "Well… I guess that answers what happened to her."
"We'll be overrun if this continues," Shoto muttered.
*Br-r-r*Br-r-r*
*Br-r-r*Br-r-r*
"Moshi-moshi?" Genki asked. "Ah, Nezu-sensei! . . . Uh huh… Uh huh… I see," he nodded. "Good news, everyone! The Support Department captured Romero in an airtight container before air-lifting him out with a fulton, so he won't be gassing anyone again. All that's left is to break clear of here and not get caught up in the incoming drone strike."
"DRONE STRIKE?!" Ochako and Mina cried.
"Yeah, but they'll be zombified for another ten minutes after their last gassing according to Isami. They'll be fiiine…" Genki waved off as the ice gave way. "Midoriya, blow them away with a 'Delaware Smash' or whatever you call it, I'll grab the others," he said taking hold of Shoto and Mina by the backs of their costumes. " . . . Ahem!"
"Oh! Right…" Ochako nodded, using her Quirk on Mina, Shoto, and then herself after she clung to his back.
The four of them standing off too the side, Izuku braced his foot against the rear wall of the cavern, his body lighting up with sparks of electricity as he powered up. A moment later, the greenette shot forward with a cry of- "SMAAAASH!" -, a deafening *BOOOM!* sounding as rock, ice, and bodies flew out like grapeshot.
"Time to go!" Genki said as he shot into daylight, the others sans Shoto crying out in shock as Genki used the still-flying bodies of his zombified classmates like stepping stones as he leapt in a powerful zenith through the skies.
Izuku just behind him and to the side, the next moment an army green aerial drone flew by, peppering the zombified students with large mochi-like balls from an undercarriage launcher. The bodies hitting the ground, soon founds themselves stuck fast to trees and rocks despite their best protests. Those that were able to get up again were struck by a second strike, this one launching metal cuffs onto wrists and ankles and occasionally necks before metal cables shot out into the nearest other bracers, momentarily forming a complex web before they retracted and drew everyone into a giant ball of human suffering like Katamari met The Walking Dead.
"Well… At least they're happy…" Genki sighed as he spotted Tsuyu and Habuko stuck fast together, hands still clasped.
"I'll never take the Support Course for granted ever again…" Mina sighed gratefully, Ochako nodding before her hands went to her mouth.
"Chako! Don't you dare puke on my costume!"
*MHA*
The sun setting in the distance, everyone who'd gotten hit by Izuku's final attack for the exercise were miraculously unharmed. Their costumes of course, were completely and utterly ruined by the solvent used to dissolve the adhesive of Hatsume's "Mochi Cannon Mk VI". Other than some slight headaches and memory loss, Fujimi Romero's [Zombie Virus] had no other lasting side-effects.
That the HPSC knew of anyway...
"Everyone… We're so sorry for what happened!" Kashiko apologized, she, Dadan, and Romero bowing their heads.
"Don't worry about it," Momo sighed, just happy the whole ordeal was behind them.
"We too ask for your forgiveness!" Iida bowed. "Bakugou, you apologize too!"
"Fujimi, you too!" Kashiko demanded.
" . . . APOLOGIZE!" they demanded once one wasn't forthcoming.
Meanwhile...
"Habuko-chan," Tsuyu hummed off to the side. "I'm so glad I got to meet you again!"
"Me too, Tsu-chan!" Habuko grinned. Or what could pass for a grin on her reptilian face.
"We got turned into zombies-"
"-and got hurt-"
"-but it was really fun!"
"I'm so happy we could be together!"
"Habuko-chan, let's both work hard and become great Pro Heroes!" Tsuyu smiled amidst the sunset.
"Yes, absolutely!" Habuko returned. "Oh, and one more thing," she whispered. "If things don't work out for you and Genki-kun, can I date him?" she asked conspiratoriously, a shudder going up Tsuyu's back before she shot Habuko a hard look. "A maiden in love! Kawaiiii!"
"I-I'm not in l-love with him or anything…" Tsuyu stuttered.
"Maybe. But it doesn't mean you can't give it a shot~" Habuko smiled as she pat Tsuyu's head. "The next time you go out for karaoke, make sure to send me an invite!"
"I will, Habuko-chan," Tsuyu nodded.
*MHA*
"And that's what happened…" Genki sighed as he and Shoto sat across from Rei.
"Heh heheh~ Yuuei never changes, does it?" Megumi asked.
"No it does not~" Rei replied merrily. "So, about this Tsu girl you like-"
"Hey, if anyone's going to tease him about that, it's going to be me!"
" . . . So what did you think of that Mongoose girl?" Shoto asked sidelong.
"Cute as a button. Why do you ask?"
"Hm. I guess I can kind of see where you're coming from."
"Oh my god it's spreading," Rei gasped.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?!" Megumi demanded.
"Um... We should go..."
"Yes, probably," Shoto nodded as Megumi and Rei had a back-and-forth about the latter allegedly "kink-shaming" the prior's son.
*MHA*
AN:
Yes, what the four of them ate together was inspired by Today's Menu for the Emiya Family. Assuming that wasn't too vague.
As for Romero's Quirk re-firing while in his zombified form, I think that if this episode weren't limited to a one-off OVA, that things would've stretched out like that, with students un-zombifying only to catch a fresh whiff of gas. That, and, it just makes sense for more Quirks to be misfiring.
Anywho, next time are the Final Exams! Thankfully, I don't have to repeat the whole arc verbatim, as there's no reason to re-hash what Genki's presence doesn't change, as that sort of thing was always something that irked me; an author re-hashing an episode in almost its entirety to fluff up the word count.
That said, see you next time on Teen Titans: Two of Four Elements, or just whenever someone reaches out to me on Discord. So until then…
GO BEYOND!
EXCELSIOR!
