Month1: Week 1: Chapter 4: getting started
The Strongest man: King, Genos, Saitama, todoroki, Bakugo, Mineta
Thank god I managed to get here in time, I managed to snag the limited edition of the new love game simulator heartthrob sisters. The greatest hero thought as he walked out of the video store he was anxiously wanting to get home to play it before anymore monsters appeared in front of him like previously. His thoughts were momentarily interrupted by someone yelling loudly behind him.
"Hey, hey didn't you say back that you had an important mission to accomplish? Why the fuck did we just go shopping with you and this nobody."
looking over his shoulder he saw the S-class hero demon cyborg , with 3 other people, a bald guy , and an angry blond teen and a teen with mixed white and red hair.
"It is of the utmost importance to make it to any available food store sale to save money, and that nobody is the greatest hero and my master Saitama, show some respect when you address him." before the bald man could interject king had turned around hoping to not be spotted by demon cyborg but suddenly the monster sirens started blaring and a sudden shadow overcame his form and the ground started to shake near him, king took a glance to his left to see a giant machine standing there no doubt staring at him, the robot had a regal theme to it with gold ornaments over black plating with a fur cape and crown to match.
It began to speak to him stating that it was there to fight him to gather information for some organization, he tried to make a bluff touting his status to the bot in hopes to make if back down but it just angered it further and it twirled a sword and pointed it right him stating that he needed to fight the strongest being for combat data for this organization, quickly thinking on his feet king let out that he needed to use the restroom and that when he does his power is cut in-half so he couldn't be reliable as he is now. Fortunately this got him sometime, 10 minutes to be precise on the ultimatum that for every minute he's over he would kill 10 people, which got his anxiety pumping.
The group of heroes watched as the strongest hero walked off towards the bathroom and saw as the machine waited.
"Do you really think it is ok if we just sit here and wait for this guy?" Todoroki questioned.
"No, this is the perfect opportunity to see the king's abilities first hand." Genos said
"I'm kinda interested myself, that monster looks tough." Saitama added.
"What!? You two can't be serious, if that's a monster, it's our job to destroy that scrap heap. If you chumps aren't going to do anything then I will, Just let a real hero take care of this." Bakugo began to walk towards the machine when his hand was grabbed by genos.
"I detect a powerful energy from it, it's definitely a machine and its performance may even be greater than mine and I estimate it's threat level to be demon, from the statistics that were given to me about you, you're only at the level of A-class. you have no hope of beating it, don't needles throw your life away." The teen snarled and snatched his hand away from his "teacher'' and kept moving forward.
"Don't underestimate me, the people at the association simply made a mistake and I'll prove it now." Genos said nothing and let the boy continue on with his futile effort he didn't really care one less annoyance to deal with. The second teen todoroki attempted to call his friend back but thought better of it and decided to approach the creature with him instead. Much to the blonde's annoyance.
"I didn't ask for your help, todoroki."
"Trying to convince you to not do this would probably fail so it would be best just to help you instead and I don't disagree with your assessment, if this thing is going to go on a rampage it would only be wise to stop it before it can even if King does return."
Simply nodding his head, bakugo turned his attention back to the robot that didn't move at all or recognize their presence even with bakugo taunting it. Feeling ignored bakugo anger got the best of him and attacked using his AP:shot Auto-cannon the rounds simply dissipated on the machines chassis not even leaving a scratch, the machine still remained motionless almost inactive taking this as a insult bakugo attacked again with an even stronger shot which still didn't harm the machine and still It didn't move from its spot. Bakugo charged forth as Todoroki used his ice powers to freeze the machine's legs and joints. Bakugo hit the machine with a fully charged blast creating a smoke cloud only to reveal the machine looking directly at him.
"11 minutes has passed and King has not returned, you shall be the first of ten to die." bakguo began to worry but the machine was then completely frozen in ice, todoroki yelled at his friend to retreat from the machine but to his surprise the machine had already broken out of his ice with it's sword. It began to chase bakguo gaining ground on him as he flew away, he yelled at his friend to instead to fly upwards fast as he prepared a large fire wave with his left side, the flames engulfed the robot and the street behind it but the robot remained standing only the foot of his cape caught fire which it put out with one swipe of it's hand. The machine activated it's back boosters and launched itself at shoto, ignoring the peppering fire raining down from above from bakugo.
Todoroki created an ice wall to separate himself from the charging behemoth but it was immediately cut down with one stroke of it's sword, it raised it sword ready to cut down but in a surprising event activated it booster to fly upwards hoping to skewer bakugo in a surprise attack, bakugo had a quicker reaction time than the robot thought as it nearly missed the teen and only scored a cut on his cheek as the teen redirected his body out of the way of the massive sword shooting off another explosion point blank. Unfazed the machine hit bakugo with with the flat of it's sword sending him screening down towards the ground, bakugo attempted to recover in time but he couldn't and braced for a hard impact that never came.
He was caught by demon cyborg's master, he quickly struggled out of his grip and wanted to tell him off but he struggled to recover from that attack just now. Alarms started blaring all around them as someone over a speaker reported in.
"Emergency evacuation a machine weapon is rampaging near central park in M city, from witness reports cross referenced by the association an A-class hero has engaged, its estimated threat level tiger possible escalation to demon, all residents within the area should proceed to the designated safety area!"
The robot pointing its sword downward towards todoroki again and charged double handed at the young hero, gathering up his ice in one hand he charged a heaven piercing ice wall to incase the machine but as the ice connected he felt it charge through almost unimpeded.
He took a step back to gain more distance but by that time it seemed too late the machine burst through the ice preparing to gore him on it's sword but it was held in place by a metallic hand both combatants seemingly in shock turned to see none other than demon cyborg. He quickly disarmed his opponent by using the elbow of his other arm to completely shatter the sword that he held in his hands. This astonished not only the teen next to him but the robot as well taking a step back to marvel at the sight of his broken sword, taking the initiative demon cyborg began to charge his next attack tucking in his right hand and charging energy in to it, he told the teen next to him to fall back as he launched a punch that soared through the air and connected with the machine sending him careening back. As todoroki got back as instructed, he checked to see if bakugo was ok while the cyborgs master said what was on both teens minds.
"Was that a rocket punch?"
Genos didn't have any time to respond as the robot immediately righted itself with its back thrusters and came in to slam it's massive foot on top of the S-class hero. He caught the robot's foot and struggled not to succumb to the pressure against him, his face showing visible cracks as the stress built up.
"Genos, do you need some help?" his master said idly
To the udder bewilderment of the teens standing next to the man.
"What are you talking about of course he nee-"
"No" todoroki was cut off by genos
"You challenged me to get to the top ten of the S-class, and this is the perfect opportunity, I must defeat this on my own. That goes for you two as well, protect the civilians. I'll handle this."
As he spoke he blasted a whole straight through the robot's foot causing it to release some of the pressure and allowing him to escape from under it, he immediately dashed right back into the creature and began hammering away at it with a barrage of blows straight to its chest forcing it backwards.
Saitama turned his attention away from the fight and saw a familiar hooded individual running away from the conflict and decided to pursue him. He turned back to genos and said.
"Oh, don't lose then." and began to walk away. But was halted by the flaming headed boy.
"Where the hell do you think you're going? Isn't that your student, don't you care about what's going to happen to him?"
"He said that he could win so I believe him. I have to get these groceries home so they don't go bad in this heat." he continued to walk away. Leaving the two teens stunned by this man's casualness of the situation. But before they could say more.
"Thank you sensei! For your trust!" Genos said over his battle with the vicious robot, the two teens turned back even more confused than before and watched as the two battled it out, cratering the surrounding area with numerous holes in the concrete. After some time an idea formed in genos's head if the exterior was to hard to do sufficient damage than attacking the interior would be his greatest shot at beating this machine, he proceeded to dodge a punch from the machine that left it over extended allowing for geno to jump on it's back before placing his palms in the gaps of the creatures armor and using his incineration cannon. The blast had the ideal effect: genos could see the lava pouring from the creature's body as it slumped to the ground; he jumped off and flipped over next to the teens and the civilians.
He taunted the machine's shortcomings but was shocked when something else was revealed to be inside a smaller, more round and compact machine, it looked at him quizzically and got into a stance. Sensing an attack coming he told the civilians to get back and for frozen-phoenix to create an ice wall and just in time as well the robot began to shoot laser from it's head , arms , and legs completely bypassing through some of the ice wall that todoroki had made but redirecting it away from the civilian who started to flee again.
Genos hopped on top of the ice wall ready to engage the machine again dodging lasers left and right. But the machine was getting closer each time no doubt analyzing and finding his patterns of movement he landed next upon a small stair well of an apartment and spotted a fire extinguisher using the object he threw it the the machine as a distractions momentarily blocking it's visual feeds so he could break open a water valve which when directed to the flaming carcass of the pilots mech created a large gust of smoke to envelope the area.
The robot spotted genos through the smoke and attempted to use his laser again just for it to dissipate, the robot found himself tied up and being drawn into geno who crushed it with his one still functioning arm after exclaiming of a hero that was far stronger than that of king. As the smoke began to clear the two teens rushed in to see if the fighting was truly over with only to come upon a battle damaged genos who without his clothes on looked completely robotic. This revelation stunned the teen hero's but that quickly turned into cause for concern for at least one of them.
"Those injuries, are you going to be alright?" todoroki asked
"More importantly the hell? You're a robot too?" bakguo inquired.
"I am a cyborg built by the great scientist for justice professor kuseno, he will repair me as he always does." genos responded. Which left him with a question: what was he to do with these two? He definitely didn't trust them around and they didn't know where his master lived to go there either. He could send them back to the HQ but their powers had piqued his curiosity about them and the association's dedication to assigning them to the S-class left him with even more questions. He doubted he could just ask them about it either. He ultimately decided to take them with him to but no one could know where he was located besides the people he utmost trusts which left him with only one option.
The two teens were suddenly taken off guard as genos had disappeared and before they could wonder what happened to him, their world suddenly went black. Genos shouldered both teens in one hand and while dragging the lifeless G4 machine in the next and headed for 's lab.
Run, just keep running, run as fast as you can without being too suspicious, thought king as he ran away from the scene in central park, in the bathroom he started to have a panic attack on what to do, he was utterly terrified of what he could possibly do to stop that machine and cursed his weakness as probably dozens of people will die because of him and the lie he allows to permeate from the association. But a saving grace was that he remembered that demon cyborg was in the area so even if the robot was to start attacking people he would no doubt intercept the monster and fight it in his stead, and even if he couldn't defeat the monster by himself he could no doubt hold it off till other heroes arrived on the scene to take it out together.
So he kept running, all the way to his home into his apartment practically skipping over the receptionist that tried to tell him something and straight into his room, he decided to try and take his mind off of the events of the day as he tried to play the love simulator that he just bought but a mysterious voice behind him scared the crap out of him. After failing to scare the individual by throwing his title and status around he recognized him from the S-class meeting in A-city. Quickly making up a story to explain the game he was playing was a mispurchase he put on a different mecha action game to play instead.
The individual didn't leave as he played and started to ask him questions which he ignored in hopes of having him leave his residents until the question of him fleeing the machine from early sprang up causing him to do a spit take, luckily he didn't have to answer the questions as alarms started blaring announcing that a demon level threat has been spotted in the area, the hero got up and began to make his way back towards his window to jump out when suddenly a giant crow monster crashed into the apartment, king was flung to the wall and was slumped next to his cabinet. He was astonished to see that the supposed B-class appeared to stop the bird in its tracks but that could be the fault of the building.
He continued to question king asking if he was going to fight the creature but he was paralyzed and stuck in fear of the creature but he had to tell the truth to this hero before he got hurt waiting for him to move, he screamed the words as the bird forced its way into the building burying itself inside while most likely eating the B-class hero but as he opened his eyes.
he still saw the man standing there and the bird monster completely out of sight. The man was still there and as he spoke to him, he recognized the voice from so long ago when he first got the scar on his face, of a man with black in a tracksuit defeating the monster that hurt him smiling and asking the same question. Upon realizing that this was the man he stole all the credit from he decided to come completely clean to the stranger who revealed himself as saitama. He told him everything but to his surprise, he wasn't angry at all but asked a question of if he would stay weak and lie or become strong and live up to what people thought of him before jumping out the hole the monster made stating that he would come by from time to time to play some video games.
Leaving king star struck, staring out the gaping hole of his apartment, what finally drew him out of his stupor was the sound of his front door unlocking and a small purple teen coming into his room. Confused he began to wonder who the kid was but stopped as the teen fully looked at the wreck that was his apartment.
"WOAH!, (the teen ran up to the hole in the wall and looked down at the carcass of the bird monster that hit the building.) you really are strong, I hadn't noticed when you came in because I was on my phone but the receptionist let me know, the alarms started blaring so I was forced to evacuate with everyone else as they saw it fly directly here. You're so cool that things must be like a thousand times the size of a normal one and you beat it without a scratch like the magazine said you could." the teenager said.
"Hold on, who are you? And why did you have the key to my room?" king asked.
"Oh, um my name's mineta the hero grape juice from the association, they sent me here to train under you remember? They gave me a key to your room to come in but I thought it would be polite to wait for your return first." Mineta said, slightly confused.
"Oh, yeah I remember that." crap I completely forgot about that king thought.
"So you really beat that crow huh? It was said to be a threat level demon which from what I read is a threat to an entire city! Wow you sure are strong." king sat in thought to the boy's words of praise; he didn't like lying to people and after talking to Saitama the person he would no doubt steal the credit from again for this, decided to be more honest for once.
"No, I didn't do it, someone else was here and he took care of it." king said straightly.
Mineta was caught off guard by that statement, no one else was in the room or left the room as he would have seen them walking up there and everyone else was evacuated from the building once it was clear that the bird was heading straight for it, but remembered what he read about king in the magazine of how he never liked to brag about his power and would often understate his abilities to the public. So he went along with the man and dropped the topic.
"Well what are you going to do now?" Mineta asked.
King honestly didn't know the answer, his room was in complete ruins now with a giant whole to the streets below but he was so exhausted from the day's events both mentally and physically that he just wanted to relax for a moment. He went to pull out two handheld devices from his closet and offered one to the teen and said.
"Well I'm probably going to have to pack my stuff up and be prepared to move somewhere else soon but I can always do that later for now. Do you want to play some games?" He offered the boy a device.
"Oh, definitely!" , taking the device in his hands and sitting down on the floor playing games with king until the hotel could properly find new homes for everyone in the apartment complex while rebuilding took place.
Building some muscle: Darkshine, Kirishima,Pig god, Sato
Kirishima followed darkshine into a large gym area, it looked normal to what he was used to with a number of machines scattered around the room to workout different parts of the body, even having a boxing ring off to the center which became apparent to him that they were approaching. The only thing that stuck out as odd to him was the cylinder transparent tube sticking out of the wall.
"What's with that tube there." he said while pointing at the object in question. Stopping and looking at where the young teen was pointing, Darkshine replied.
" Oh! that, that's just a gravity chamber, as the name implies it increases the gravity of the objects inside. I had the hero association to create something like that so I could train with some of the weights in here. But it's in need of an upgrade, even with the heaviest weights in here with 100x gravity it's not much of a workout for me." hearing so much manliness temporarily made kirishima's mind explode for just a moment and thousands of questions popped into his head but he collected himself before speaking next.
"Dam man! That's hardcore! I'm curious how high I could go in there." Kirishima thought out loud. Which caused darkshine to laugh a bit.
"I like your enthusiasm but I think it would be better to start you off with something that you can handle and work up to that point. Even only a 2x increase in gravity can cause significant problems as not only does it affect you externally but internally as well. At the beginning I could only handle 15x gravity." he said as he continued to walk towards the ring.
Kirishima continued behind darkshine digesting the information he was just told.
"So what are we going to do first?"
"Well first, I'm really curious about your ability um..quirks I think you guys call them?(Kirishima nodded), well as someone that prides himself on his muscles being an impenetrable fortress I wanted to see how your quirk measures up.`` Both the student and teacher got into the ring and began to walk towards the center.
"Ok, so Try to get as hard as you can and I'll tap you to see how durable you really are."
"Alright sounds like a plan, but just to let you know, in my hardest form my body morphs a bit."
Darkshine nodded his head and watched as the teen started to activate his ability, the skin around his arms and legs started to become enshrouded by a hardened material and his body began to fracture and splinter with hard rock edges, his hand turned into hardened claws, even his hair was completely spiker and his teeth became elongated and even sharper. He looked like a monster in this state and darkshine understood why their parents may not have wanted him around regular people and heroes that might mistake him as such.
"Alright here it is, Red Riot Unbreakable my hardening quirk pushed to its absolute limit. Give me your best shot."
"Ok, get ready" darkshine extended his open hand and simply patted kirishima on the back, the "blow" having an immediate effect on the teenager and flattening him, face first into the mat. He was momentarily worried for the teen as he didn't move for some time and the armor from his back shattered and began to fall off and disintegrate as it left his body, which darkshine noted as being interesting. He began to stir after about 3 minutes. Coming to and sitting up on the ground and holding his shoulder that darkshine hit.
"Dang man, you really are strong. I don't think I've felt a hit that hard since gigantomachia."
"Gianto-who?"
"Machia, he was a villain from back home, he was a giant that could grow to 82ft tall and he hit like a truck but I think you got him beat." Kirshima said getting helped up by darkshine.
"I see, Who beat him?"
" Well it took a combined effort of a bunch of heroes to beat him, one of my classmates helped me be responsible for drugging him and which made him tired enough for a hero to knock him out later on. But if you were there we may not have even needed that!"
"fascinating, moving along well now let's see how well you attack, I'll stand here and you will attack as hard as you can, don't worry about holding back not a thing in this world could harm these muscles," he said as he began to flex.
Kirishima nodded and re-took his unbreakable form and lined up his punch and hit darkshine with a full blown Red gauntlet but as the punch connected it was like punching enhanced steel he started to hold his and shake in pain.
"I see, well that's where we are. So from this I'll suggest we first bulk you up , build up some muscle and add natural durability which if my theory is correct should also improve upon your quirk, you should look up in your free time what sort of body type you would like to strive for. Now let's get started over there with some basic weight lifting but first we need to stretch to get the blood pumping."
Kirishima enthusiastically agreed and began to follow darkshine work regiment after a couple of hours had passed and two people entered the gym with them as Kirishima was taking his break. It was Sato and his teacher pig god who held a platter of sweets and bakery treats in his hand, eating them as he walked.
"Rarely see you in here pig god." darkshine said.
"I'm here because of him, getting him stronger would be the best chance to improve his ability." pig god replied.
As the two teachers conversed, Sato walked over to Kirishima who was sitting on a bench drinking some water.
"Yo, how's your time going with your pro?" kirishima asked
sato just sighed "This entire time he just had me bake those treats for him, I think he only chose me because he likes desserts and things."
"Sounds rough, my teacher is super manly, he is even more durable than me and can hit as hard as gigantomachia!"
"Woah, for real? dang wish I got to train under him with you.`` Sato replied.
"Don't worry you'll get your chance." pig god said from behind him
Spooking sato as he was surprised that someone that big could move so quickly and quietly.
"Starting today you will report here with kirishima and train with them and then report to me after their second break."
"Speaking of breaks, breaks time over kirishima back to work. That goes for you too, new kid." darkshine said.
Kirishima went and walked over to the last machine he was last located on and began to work out his legs, Sato held out his hand to pig god which he looked at quizzically with an eyebrow raised.
"What are you reaching for?"
"Um the sweets? I need 10g of sugar to activate my quirk. Isn't that why you had me bake them?"
"Now why would I do that? Didn't you tell me that your quirk is a multiplier? What benefit would training do with it? you won't get any stronger like that."
Sato sat and thought about what the hero said and than mentally kicked himself for being so stupid in his trainning so far. Of course as a multiplication his power is only as strong as his base state, training while consuming sweets doesn't help him at all.
"Yeah, you're right. Thank you" and went over to kirishima and darkshine getting instructed on how he will train. With pig god waiting on the sidelines eating his buffet of sweets.
Learning the basics: Bang, Charanko, Midoriya, Ojiro
The car ride to bang's dojo was uneventful, midoriya would occasionally ask questions about building and landmarks as they passed trying to absorb as much information about the city as possible, while ojiro sat in thought on bang's martial arts, if it is true that everyone here was quirkless and this guy was in any way shape or form as strong as the one S-class hero they met before than he was hopeful that he could learn alot from bang. The car slowed to a stop in front of a mountain side and for a moment midoriya and ojiro were confused.
"Welcome to my dojo." bang said with his eyes closed and hands behind his back.
"Um, where sir?" ojiro asked. Before he and midoriya gasped as he disappeared before their eyes.
"UP HERE!" the old man said yelling at them from semi atop the mountain on a cliff face waving back at them. Before turning around and continuing upwards, ojiro and midoriya first looked at each other before nodding and proceeding upwards after the old man, midoriya activating full cowling at 50% scaling the mountain in record time while ojiro used his tail to catapult himself up the mountain but at a much slower pace than midoriya. Midoriya made it to the top of the mountain just as he saw bang reach the gates of his dojo and turned around to face him.
"Oh?, your fast young man. Not many can make the journey up here as fast I can, your friend is still on his way up I presume." Midoriya nodded and the two waited for him to arrive, taking around 2 more minutes to arrive up the mountain slightly winded.
"Excellent, now that you two are here I would like you to meet your fellow student,Charanko. We have two fellow students for you to meet. " The old man said while entering the dojo, the two teens saw another man with brown spiky hair in a karate gi approached them and offered a bow.
"Hi, I'm Charanko Bang's best student." he bragged. Bowing in return, Ojiro and Midoriya both greeted their fellow disciple. Ojiro looked around the dojo confused.
"Where is everyone one else?" the question causing bang to noticeably shake and be thrown off balance, midoirya noted.
"An incident happened some time ago with a fellow student here, he went on a rampage one day forcing bang personally to deal with him and throw him out. But the fear never left my fellow students' hearts so they never came back. From then on Bang's dojo was treated like a curse no one wanted to train here due to the potential of that student coming back again and running wild. Also the topic is highly sensitive to bangs so it's best not to bring it up." he whispered the last part disparagingly as they all looked to bang. Who simply sighed as he closed his eyes and remembered the memories of all the students who once littered the dojo and opened them up to being just an empty shell. He fixed his composure again, walked to the center of the dojo and turned to face his students.
"What is done in the past, can't be undone but I look to you all as the future, as long as the fist of the flowing rock passes after I'm gone I will be happy. Now (he said as he clapped his hands) usually I would start with a demonstration of my martial arts, but first I would like to measure my two new students first. Midoriya if you don't mind approaching the center." Midoriya nodded and continued forward along with Ojiro and Charanko but as he got to the edge both got into a kneeling position just as they met the edge of the ring area as midoriya continued forward.
He got to the center near bang and was asked to get into a stance. Giving a signal to his student, Charanko started to count down to begin the match.
"Begin!"
Midoriya started out at 50% full cowling starting out with a right hook, which bang sidestep easily, causing him to fly past him, swinging back around he came back with a roundhouse which bang dodged again without even looking at him tilting his body just so the attack barely missed. Midoriya tried next to sweep his legs but failed as well, having Bang jump over the sweep and in mid air turn around to face the teen, he was slightly surprised to see projectiles fly from the teens gauntlet which he dodged while in mid air. He held out his hand for the boy to stop.
"You don't have to hold back young man, I'm alot stronger than I look." Midoriya gasped and was confused on how he could tell but nodded in understanding anyways. Raising full cowling to 100% causing the lighting around him to become more pronounced and his hair to lighten up noticeably, earning gasps from the audience on the side lines.
Putting his hand down, bang nodded for the boy to continue. Midoriya tried again for a straight strike but the blow was diverted off center causing him to stumble away behind bang still using the momentum he pushed off his feet towards the wall he was moving towards and bounced off preparing a Manchester smash but again he hit nothing but empty air correcting himself and landing on the opposite wall he charged forward again his arm back in a Detroit smash position but when he swung he found himself suddenly on the ground one of his arms behind his back and bang over top of of him with his leg on his back.
"I see, you do have the power and speed fitting of the S-class but your attacks are too straightforward and easy to read. You remind me of a lot of metal bat in that way." he released his hold on the boy's arm and helped him get up. Gesturing him to return to the side with his fellow students and adding that ojiro should come take his place.
"If he couldn't touch you, I doubt I could do much better." ojiro said
"Now now, don't look down on yourself. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, this is not necessarily about winning but an examination of sorts, statistics sent by the association are one thing but you always gather better ideas when experiencing it first hand." bang replied
Nodding to charanko again, he began to count down for the match to begin as he counted down ojiro and got into a stance mostly known in karate as dochi, his legs spread apart with one hand cocked back while the other is extended in front of his body, bang replied with his own stance his arms cascading in front of him until ending up besides his body looking similar to a praying mantis type stance from their world, he swore he could see faint blue lights around his hands as they moved but it could have been a trick of the mind.
The match began and Ojiro immediately charged forth, trying to land any hit he could with punches, kicks ,or sweeps but they were all deflected or dodged by bang. He jumped into the air trying for a tail swipe but that too was deflected by bang grabbing the tail and swinging him around before throwing him away. Ojiro stabilized in mid-air using his tail to plant into the ground granting him a foothold, he landed and using his tail launched pieces of the floorboard at bang as cover for his next move, bang easily deflected all of the debris aimed at him and sidestep the jump kick flung his way, but forgot about ojiro's tail which wrapped around his ankle and attempted to pull him off his feet, only being slightly surprised bang used their connection and pull of his ankle to perform an handstand and quickly twisting his legs forcing ojiro into the air and down to the ground as he slammed his leg down, causing ojiro to land face first into the ground. Not letting the boy recover he quickly took hold of the boy's tail with one hand and the back of his neck with the other pinning him to the ground and signaling the end of the match.
He helped the boy get up, and explained his thoughts.
"You see your tail as your greatest weapon but don't forget it can also be your greatest weakness, you rely on it too much and neglect your body causing an imbalance in your fighting."
He gestured for the boy to go sit with the rest of them and began with his normal class showing them and explaining the intricacies of the water stream rock smashing fist.
An assassin's Test: Iida, Flashy flash
Iida walked behind his teacher as they walked the halls of the building passing by numerous rooms and going down numerous elevators to get down to what appeared to be a sub level of the base. he tried to strike up a conversation with the hero during their travels but he didn't answer any of his questions, he didn't even register that he existed, making Iida partly think that maybe the hero could be deaf but he heard his name when he was announced to the center to collect him from the gymnasium so he summarized that he's just being incredibly rude. The atmosphere of the place screamed to Iida that this wasn't a place he wanted to be, the doors were more reinforced and locked, like they were designed to keep people inside like a prison but he thought that it would be Inconceivable for a hero agency to also contain a prison under it, but if they truly were in some alternate reality than his preconceived notions on what is acceptable would probably need to revalued for this new system.
The two continued to walk towards a specific door, flash signaling him to wait outside and opening the door to the room, allowing him to peek inside and see a man handcuffed to a chair, his arms, forearms, legs, and even his ankles tied together by thick metal braces. Was this man really that dangerous to require such harsh restraints? The man's eyes seemed to light up as he saw flash enter and he smiled and called out a greeting before the door closed and he couldn't see or hear anything anymore.
Time flew by Iida keeping a internal counter as he was on his phone texting his friend's seeing if they were ok, some replying instantly others not being able to for whatever reason, he decided on exploring the web and collecting more information on the heroes of this world, it seems there are multiple fan-groups for different heroes sending him down the internet rabbit whole completely absorbing his attention until there was a slight muffled thumb from the cell, he was sitting next to and the door opened revealing flash as calm and collected as ever gesturing him to follow him again.
Looking back at his phone, the time elapsed was around 20 minutes, he turned around to look inside the room at the man again just to see that he was no longer bound in the chair and he couldn't see him from his point of view, but what he could see made his jaw tighten on the walls that were completely white before were splashes of red that looked eerily similar to blood, before he could investigate further the door closed leaving only his imagination on what happened. He followed more loosely behind flash, than previously he was not sure about this "hero" .From what he read online the only thing sharper than his looks was his blade, his eyes dropped to his the blade on his belt that he could see every so often as his caped swayed from left to right.
It was there where he saw it almost imperceptible but the red dot clashing heavily with the white cape, blood that could only be from one source, he thought. He tried to keep his trepidations under control as he was led into a designated training zone. The landscape was mostly cluttered with rocks big and small and nothing else really notable. To Iida's surprise he started to speak as they approached the center of the area.
"You have 30 minutes to try and land a hit on me, I will not use any weapons."
"Sir, are you suggesting this to test my abilities?" Iida questioned, confusingly. He would assume the data the association collected yesterday would have been enough to avoid situations like this.
"More or less, consider it an evaluation. I've seen your file by the association, but I have my own metrics that I would like to confirm. The time's ticking. Come at me."
Simply nodding his head, Iida activated his recipreo burst, his engines firing up and smoke coming out of his mufflers. charging forward jumping up and doing a spin hook kick the blow seeming going completely though flash like he wasn't even there. Flashed called from directly behind him causing Iida to turn in surprise to see him behind him, he charged again using a forward snap kick that flash sidestep the blank expression on his face seemingly suggesting to Iida that it was casually dodged. He tries again multiple snaps kicks all dodged easily, trying and failing to land a hit, the last blow launched was a roundhouse kick that once his rotation completed was shocked to see flash gone again this time directly behind him causing him to hop backwards some steps to make distance.
How is he invading him? Is it a quirk? No this world has never heard of quirks before was he really that fast!? Iida thought.
"I'm pretty disappointed so far, I thought you would be better." flash taunted
Iida didn't take the bait and reply but he did realize that to pass this test he needed to step it into a higher gear, he shouted recipreo burst turbo and his muffles began to glow with light and as flames bleached out the ends, he sped towards flash launching a kick that to his surprise misses again, the acceleration of the maneuver sending him into a rock destroying it completely. He needed more speed and decided to run around the arena so he can get to top speed before coming back around and rounding on the hero but no connection again, he tried time and time again missing each time, flash still with that blank look which slightly ticked Iida off, he started trying even harder, mixing mock charges to disguise his true attack, but it didn't work no matter how many he did in-between real attacks switching patterns and and angle of his attacks all of it was dodged so easily, with no sign of strain on the hero's face.
Iida was closing in on his time limit, 10 seconds left one final play he had in mind where he started his attack like regular coming around at full speed preparing another mock charge, but instead of falling back he used his engine boost to accelerate even faster than before at flash from a stand still performing a kicked that missed but carried his momentum into the air and landing down with a axe kick, but still no connection he thought as his engines died down. His eyes wide as flash seemingly disappeared again, only to hear some clapping from several meters away.
"That was new, Seems there is a modicum of talent in you after all. You have 15 mins remaining." hearing his words lifted his spirits somewhat but what is he going to do now, his quirk is in it's cooldown period and if he couldn't land a hit then he surely couldn't now.
"Sir, I would like to relinquish my remaining time." As he said that, flash's facial features dipped into an angry frown and Iida could feel his contempt just from the hero's gaze.
"And why would that be? Are you implying that without your quirk, you would refuse to fight?, that you would just give up? Do you think you would have the luxury of a time out in a real battle?" He said as he unsheathed his sword making Iida's eyes go wide and his body shake in fear of the implication. His mind flashing back to the prison cell and the blood on the wall.
"You will continue or you have to survive the next 15 mins against me fighting back." he re-sheathed his sword.
Iida simply nodded and went at him at a terribly slow pace, the kicks performed before becoming sloppier, his balance and movements less refined, flash sat there dodging while looking at the pitiful display in front of him and realized after 5 minutes the boy didn't throw any punches at all. either now or when he was using his ability, angering him greatly. The sight became so pathetic that he stopped the exercise 5 minutes early and proceeded to the exit. By the time the boy's senses caught up he was already opening the door from the training center. Turning to the teen and giving an ultimatum.
"Your skills are barely sufficient for the task I have at hand. If you wish to join me, meet me here tomorrow at around noon. Pack whatever you need for a month of travel. But be warned I shall not coddle you on this journey, if you go it is possible that you will die, the choice is yours.`` With that said flash left, Iida was puzzled by the man and the choice he gave him, an entire month? Separated from his friends? And the possibility of dying making things worse. He would have to discuss it with everyone else to see if he should accompany him or not.
Opposites attract : Atomic samurai, Iain, Bushidrill, Okamaitachi, Sero
Sero was currently following his fellow disciples presumably towards atomic samurai hideout, he found the area reminded him of lone samurai movies, complete with a hideout amongst the trees , some even sporting the distinct pink cherry blossoms that would occasionally fall towards the ground. They stepped into a clearing that held one singular building. He nearly laughed at how similar it was to old school Japanese aesthetics complete with the wooden frame and the style of the roof. The group came to a complete stop and waited in the front lawn, no one making a move to the front door and just sitting down in front of the building in the grass.
"Aren't we going to head inside?" Sero asked confusingly.
"No, only those who are considered a part of the council of swordsmen are allowed to enter. We shall wait here until our master is ready to come out." Bushidrill stated.
"Well….how long will that take?" sero questioned
"As long as it is needed, kid, you of all people have no right to complain, C-class." Okamaitachi said dismissively.
"Woah, I'm not trying to complain or anything but I was just wondering is all." Sero held up his hands in mock surrender. After that they simply waited and waited and waited. Sero was getting incredibly bored now, the games he had on his phone were taxing on his phone's battery to play, especially if he didn't know if he needed it or not. After answering some text from Iida he decided to spin the rest of the time listening to music, it had been about 30 mins before the door to the hut began to open up. Sero turned off his music and noticing the others begin to bow in front of the door he followed their example.
Atomic samurai stepped out of the building bowing to his other council members before taking his leave and closing the door behind him. He turned to look at his disciples and frowned slightly when he saw the extra member.
"Iaian, I assume this is the kid from the hero association." Sero was about to raise his head to reply, but his head was forced back down by Bushidrill, turning to look at the disciple who shook his head at him.
"Yes, master. His name is Sero, C-class rank 125. But that is not all that is troubling sir, his main form of attack is with the use of tape." Iaian raised his head and answered his master's question.
"Oh?, so not only is he a weakling but he is the complete opposite of what we stand for."
"Correct master." Iaiain said evenly, Sero mentally chiding himself on how they speak like he's not even there. looking up and pinching the bridge of his nose, atomic samurai let out a sigh. "Someone in the association must really like playing jokes. No matter, the mission is a go. We will leave for tomorrow and set sail for the island. The trip should take all but a month before we return again, so you all should be prepared." Sero shot up at this before bushidrill could push him down again.
"Wait, am I involved in this!?" He finally got a good look at the man and he was a traditional lone samurai in almost every sense of the word, even having a blade of grass in his mouth. He staggered under the hero's steely gaze. He turned his attention back to Iaian.
"Make sure that everyone is ready, we will gather at the hero association headquarters along with the other council of swordsmans members." This shocked the group.
"Master, is this mission of such importance? "Iain asked.
"Yes, if the information granted by the association proves to be correct instead of a red herring, then it shall. It will bring us one step closer to what we as an organization have been yearning for. So you all better remain vigilant. I will need to go and prepare myself so you are free to do whatever you need for the day."
A resounding "yes, master" came from all three disciples' voices and with that atomic samurai began to walk away. He stopped after overhearing the young teen comment on him not answering his question or at least acknowledging his existence before finally turning and talking to the boy directly.
"I only recognize the strong, I will most likely never acknowledge you. But if you can manage to touch one of my disciples with your tape then I might consider it.(a slight chuckle escapes his mouth) let's make it a challenge seeing as I don't know what else to do with you. If you can land tape on one of my disciples then I'll acknowledge you and for the person that does allow themselves to be touched.(his face turning serious) I don't want to see your face around me again." with that he left and began his way through the clearing of trees.
Sero cursed himself for speaking, now all around him, the three disciples were guarded around him. All of them taking a step back and hovering over their blades like he was preparing to attack them at any moment.
"Guy's, guy's come on, I'm not going to do anything to harm your relationship with your master. You don't have to worry about me. I swear."
"I would like to see your power first hand anyways so I would request a duel." Iaian said, causing his fellow disciples to gawk at him.
"Are you sure that is a good idea Iaian? You heard what the master said correctly?" Bushidrill said.
"I understood his message well and I will not allow a single strand of tape to touch my body as expected, but if he is to fight by our side, it is smart to know of his capabilities." This piqued Sero's interest
"Fight by your side?"
"What? Are you dumb too, kid? Master made it abundantly clear that "Everyone" will accompany him on this trip, were you not listening." Okamaitachi stated
Oh, I see, that's something I have to prepare for. Sero thought to himself. As he followed Iaian to another clearing away from the house to begin the duel. Both sides started 50m apart and Bushidrill gave the count down to begin, once the match officially commenced Sero shot out one roll of tape from his left elbow, Iaian did not move or attempt to attack and to his surprise even closed his eyes staying in position until suddenly the tape hurling at him completely disappeared in front of him, a long roll of tape reduced to nothing but confetti, sero tried again and again only getting the same result, he was stomped and before he could try and think of something else to try instead he felt the cold feel of metal pressed against his throat.
Shocking as the only thing he could see of Iain moving was the flow of leaves and shredded tape hovering in the air from the position he just moved from. The match was over and maybe from being emboldened by Iaian the other wanted to test him out as well. Sero mentally sighed to himself thinking that it would be a long day.
We all float: Tatsumaki, uraraka
Uraraka was currently gazing at the landscapes below her, countless buildings and structures passed down below her at incredible speed, like she was in an invisible jet, at first once she realized that tastumaki was elevating in height taking her with her she was scared of falling or crashing into stuff but that quickly left her mind as for the past 10 minutes nothing happened, so she decided to enjoy the ride and ponder where the girl was taking her. Her question was soon answered as she started to fall down from the sky slowly going down towards the ground, eventually hovering mere feet above it before being dropped unceremoniously. Looking around there was nothing of note to the area; it was just a mostly barren landscape. Between cities.
"Um, why are we here exactly?" she asked hesitantly.
"Isn't it obvious we're here to train your espers abilities duh." tastumaki said while crossing her arms and beginning to glow green, lifting up several small rocks.
"My esper wh-" Uraraka began to ask before dodging out of the way of several rocks being tossed at her.
"Wait… wait!" she tried to say but to no avail as she dodged more rocks that were aimed at her.
"There is no waiting, as a hero you should never expect someone to come rescue you. As an esper you should at least be able to create a barrier to protect yourself." tatsumaki said as she threw more small pebbles at her
"wait...I'm not…. A esper!" Uraraka got out as she dodged rocks from the floating girl. Causing her to stop her barrage and the green glow surrounding the girl to vanish.
"What do you mean, you're not an esper? Your file said you could float and levitate objects?" she snapped angrily at the teen.
"Well yes I can, but not the way I assume you can.(she raised her hand, outstretched showing her fingers) These small pads that I have on my fingers are my quirk, anything I touch with all five of them loses gravity's effect on them, causing them to float." she demonstrated by picking up one of the small rocks that was thrown at her, touching it with her fingers and pouncing it up into the air where it kept upwards at a constant steady pace. Tastumaki watched the rock float and looked back at her surprised.
"Is that it? Is that really all you can do? That's such a weak power. What do you expect to do with that, how do you expect to fight monsters with that!?" she said while getting somewhat angry at the girl.
"Well fighting bad guys isn't everything there's to being a hero, my power can come in handy with rescue work. And someone being weightless can completely throw off how they move and at least create openings that can be exploited by other heros. " she reasoned, tatsumaki only let out a loud sigh.
She reminded her of her sister, trying to overcome her own shortcomings with the people around her. That mentality made people weaker and kept them stagnant, never improving themselves to what they could achieve if they only thought of themselves. This girl was in a worse state than even her sister given her lack of ability but if she truly wanted to go down this path, she needed to try harder to be independent.
"And what if you're the only hero available? Are you just going to let monsters just do what they want? Hell if your opponent can fly, your power is essentially worthless, maybe even if they had a rope or something that anchors them to the ground. Do you have any offensive abilities at all!?" she said her tone full of contempt and disdain. Uraraka was somewhat angry by the hero's tone of voice but understood that from the questions asked she was only trying to look out for her safety.
"Well….I have some knowledge in martial arts and I have these hooks that I have contained in my gauntlets that I use to grab and throw things that I make weightless." she said while demonstrating how her gauntlets work picking up 4 stones that hovered around them. Seeing this tatsumaki gave her an idea. The green light returned to her body once more she asked.
"Tell me is there a limit to this power of yours?"
"Yes a weight limit actually, I think from the test my upper limit is 91 tons if I really push myself but I get really nauseous. But I'm comfortable at 10 tons." she smiled at herself thinking of when she first started UA how she came so far from her limit of 3 tons.
"I see not very much then." she said, shocking uraraka but before she could question her about it a deep rumbling started to happen around her suddenly a large chunk of rock sprouted out of the ground behind tatsumaki eclipsing both of them and casting a huge shadow. Uraraka was frightened about her attention with this giant rock structure and even more afraid at the lack of difficulty she had when summoning it. Suddenly the rock came apart in 8 chunks, and those chunks were crushed and condensed into small cube shapes.
"That rock just now was around 60 tons give or take, I want you to lighten all 8 cubes."
She shot the cubes forth and while it was not aimed at uraraka directly, she still stepped back as the 8 cubes landed near her and as expected betraying their size, the holes they created were a decent size bigger than the actual object themselves. Uraraka approached the 8 object hesitantly and tapped the first one already feeling the weight of the cube weighing in on her comfortability but otherwise being fine, the second cube she already began starting to feel somewhat ok , and this continued on her conditions getting worse and worse as she went from cube to cube, by the time she arrived at the 7th cube she was shaking and her stomach being tied in knots, when she touched the 7th cube she started to feel the water pool in her mouth as reading it self for her to throw up, but she was persistent to keep moving forward to the 8th cube.
when she got to it she stared at it mentally preparing herself for the and letting her body get accustomed to the weight she's currently supporting and she went for the last cube. Tapping it and buckling under the pressure. She just on her knees on the ground the cubes hanging loosely by the hooks from her gauntlets. Tatsumaki waited patiently for the girl to stand surprised that she was struggling so much with so little weight. The girl finally shakily got to her feet.
"Took you long enough! Alright you better be ready to begin again. Cause here it comes."
Shock filled uraraka features as she watched as that familiar green glow surrounded tatsumaki once again lifting small rocks and sending it at her.
Angel or Demon: Sweet mask , Aoyama
Aoyama was flung through the air, his back suddenly coming to a stop as his back hit the far wall of the "training gym" that the sweet mask rented out for them. From spending time with handsomely sweet mask, he thought that he was everything he wanted to be as a hero, he was a star in every sense of the word; he was a singer, dancer, book writer, and movie star, along with his hero work. He reminded him a lot of beast jeanist in a way the hero closest to the public and the one that would reassure the public of the hero's dedication to protecting them from threats but now?, now he was the only threat around and he scared him greatly, he would notice over the course of the day's events that sweet mask when alone was a lot less charming and charismatic, quite the opposite especially when pertaining to hero's he disproved of which currently was himself. He struggled to stand as sweet mask waited impatiently, tapping his foot and looking down on him with a sense of contempt.
"Is that really it to your skill and ability?, and you want to be a hero with that?!" The questions he asked Aoyama knew were retchorical at that point. Any time he tried to answer his responses only served to make the hero angrier. He finally managed to stand up holding his stomach where he was roughly kicked towards the wall.
"I expected better, maybe I should take one of your other classmates instead. I remembered you said that two of them were rated as S-class which I would like to check out for myself, god forbid we have two more metal bats running around. You, on the other hand, can be lost with the rest of C-class."
every word out of his mouth stung, partly because he started to agree with him, maybe someone else should be here instead. Todoroki and Midoriya were both much stronger than him and they were both incredibly heroic, even more so than him. His mind drifted towards that being's visions again, was he truly not remarkable or memorable to people? Did his infatuation of sparkly things and shine just a way for him to draw attention? As he thought about this his face began to morph into a solemn and sad state. Which seemed to agitate sweet mask even more.
"Look at your face. Are you just going to accept what I say as true? A real hero doesn't ever show themselves weak to anyone, you are supposed to be calm, collected, and beautiful at all times, to give people hope and a figure they can admire to be or follow in. if you truly think what I said is true then you can leave my presence right now if not then try and prove me wrong."
Aoyama looked at the hero as he spoke those words, he wasn't completely trying to dissuade him or berate him but teach him to be a better hero. He wanted to prove that entity wrong and if this was a step into doing that then he would like to train under sweet mask more than he wanted to prove to him that he wasn't a complete failure , that he deserved to be a star like him. He began to get into a battle stance and prepared to attack sweet mask again, which from what he saw somewhat elevated sweet mask features, meaning he was happy with his choice.
Aoyama began his assault trying to tag sweet mask with a single laser launching multiple at the hero only for him to dodge out of the way or seemingly just phase through as he appeared in another location, while dodging sweet mask started to walk towards him menacingly.
"Is this really all there is to your power, your attacks are so predictable everyone would tell where you were aiming just by the motion of your hips." he suddenly disappeared from aoyama vision and he was frightened as he talked right behind the young hero.
"Do you think you will have the luxury of being at long range against your opponent?" again behind him he spoke.
"If your opponent is faster than you, what then? Are you saying you have no martial talents at all.`` Aoyama thought back to the sports festival and how he was easily beaten by Mina once she disabled him and got close. But he trained and now he has something against close range opponents, his naval saber extended from his stomach and he flung his body around to slice at sweet mask, only to hit nothing and hear clapping behind him. Turing to face sweet mask some meters away.
"I stand corrected, you at least thought that through, although that still leaves the same problems as before, you need to turn your whole body to swing that thing around limiting your range of motion and your range of attack." He suddenly disappeared again but before Aoyama could turn around he was suddenly swept off his feet and landed face first into the ground.
"Like in this position you are completely helpless here, although a hero should never let themselves be put to the ground but especially in your case as you lose all your options than." he let the boy get up as he walked back over to where he started exclaiming.
"You have yet to prove yourself to me, if you have anything left you should do it now or I'm dropping you off back towards the association and finding someone else."
Panicking Aoyama could think of only one more thing he could do, if his normal laser was so easy to avoid than maybe a big laser would find better luck. With a larger laser. He charged his naval laser and unleashed his supernova attack, the beam exploded out of the boy covering almost the entire gym. Sweet masked, was shocked by the size of the beam and only blocked as the beam came closer to him. It landed with a loud bang and just as the beam connected Aoyama turned it off, but panicked again as he just came to terms of what he did, but before he could ask to see if sweet mask was ok the smoke cleared to see that he was relatively ok and dusting himself off. looking over his close only to find that his sleeves had a new whole in them, frowning slightly and taking a deep breath and composing himself.
"Well that's more like it, you may have some hope after all we just need to improve on some things before you're truly ready and the first thing that needs to improve is your wardrobe, that cape has to be the first thing to go and those red glasses, they look nothing but tacky." feeling a bit hurt by him assaulting his outfit he was no less happy that sweet mask was going to take him on as a protegee.
"Well, excuse me sir but my suit is actually needed for my quirk, without it I can't use it effectively."
"Is that so, well in that case I'll make a note to the association that allows them to check it over and fashion it into something more fitting for someone that will be traveling alongside one we will get you some casual clothes in the meantime." almost bounding over to sweet mask happily he began to trail after the hero as they left the gymnasium.
We can only evolve through experimentation: drive knight, kaminari,Yaoyorozu
Yaoyorozu and kaminari were currently walking through what could only be described as an evil laboratory, the entire place was incredibly dark and they wondered if that was just for aesthetic or if the "man" in front of them didn't need light to see as his body would compensate for it. Kaminari had tried to act tuff for her offering to lead the way in some sort of bravado stunt to impress her but that quickly died out as they made they're way deeper into the facility especially in one aspect of the facility where some of the man's "subjects" lied one had reached out to grasp at kaminari making him jump and instantly jump behind momo for protection, while humorous she did find the whole thing worrying.
A hero seemingly having creatures captured and doing who knows what to them, made her worry for their safety under his "teachings" or if they would leave this place at all. They eventually came to a clearing with a ginormous computer, as the man walked towards it the area began to light up, showing more of the area. There were several clear rooms that held creatures inside them with transparent glass, some after seeing them started begging to be let out, others shone from the glass hoping not to be seen. Yaoyorozu finally had enough and wanted an answer for what she was seeing but her voice betrayed her feelings of the event.
"Wh…..what is going on here? What are..you doing to these creatures?" her voice was soft, almost shaky despite wanting to be angry at the site before her. The man turned around to face them, his single eye looking at her than at the cages the two were looking at. Causing all of the creatures inside them to get away from the glass and out of the man's sight.
"Those are just some monsters I've captured that have taken interest in. They possess interesting abilities that I hope to harvest for myself. " drive knight said with such lack of feeling or remorse that she began to wonder if his appearance was not just for show and that he was an actual machine. The thought on her mind must have been racing in Kaminari's head as he came out and asked.
"Are you a robot or cyborg or something? Or is that just cool armor?"
"I am a cyborg, I have a question for you two as well. If I may, can I receive a sample of your blood?"
" For what purpose would you need that? The association has already taken samples of us for medical reasons in case we need them." she said almost too defensively.
"As I said before I like to harvest powers that interest me and your powers I can only assume come from a mutation that lies within your biology."
"And if we refuse?" Yaoyorozu voice was timid, almost accusingly.
"You may have me confused, I have no interest in harming you or anyone in your group. The monsters you see around you are just that monsters if they were not caged up in here they would be rampaging around in the cities, most of them were actually were caught while they were rampaging in the streets. You should not compare yourself to them. If you refuse then we can leave it be." he reassured them.
"Well I'm not sure, I'm comfortable with handing over my blood to you, especially after we just met." Yaoyorozu. Replied
"I'm with her on this one, not to be mean or anything but this entire place screams spooky and not too trustworthy." Kaminari als declined.
True to the cyborg's words he showed no signs of anger or any emotion at all for that matter, only turning back towards the large computer and begging to activate it.
"That is fair, well alternatively I would like to ask some follow up questions based on the data the association supplied to me.(the computer began to show the data from the test they performed the other day. He turned back around and gestured to the yellow haired boy.) your tests were quite interesting, you can absorb 300 million volts of electricity but can only discharge 5 million volts of electricity before your system is overloaded. Do you know why that is? That's a staggering 60x difference." Kaminari was mostly speechless; he couldn't really think of a reason for the difference being that much when he suddenly found something.
"Well it may have to do with me in my early ages, I was struck by lighting alot when I used my power during storms." he began to laugh while rubbing the back of his head.
"I see, so you built up a higher tolerance by getting struck by natural lighting, another thing about your ability, it was said that you are unable to discharge lighting in a direct way without special tools, why?"
"I… don't know, maybe I just need more training with it. When I was growing up I never needed to direct it to a specific point and used it more as a defense mechanism against anything around me."
"Hmmm, last question for now it said you can absorb and discharge energy but have you ever done so at the same time? If you have, could this theoretically stop your mental degradation entirely?"
"Well, I never thought of it like that , I haven't tried it before but I wouldn't rule it out of the realm of possibility." he said unsurely. He turned his attention to Yaoyorozu who seemed to wither under his gaze.
"Your quirk was ultimately incredibly interesting to me, it seems like an extremely powerful ability. How does it work?"
"Well, I can create anything that I know the atomic structure of, as long as I have enough fat stored up to create it."
"It said that you were capable of creating around 5 tons of mass before tiring, I assume that the conversion between fat and the material is incredibly skewed from these results based on your size?"
"Yes, actually, even I don't fully understand the conversion myself, but given my weight class and some basic math I guess it would result in something like 64 pounds of mass per pound of fat on my body."
"Interesting, would it not be more convenient for you if you weighed more? If you are worried about looks you shouldn't be as you would inevitably slim down very quickly from using your quirk in combat." hearing the man say that got Yaoyorozu to flush a bit and got a laugh out of kaminari.
"You hear that momo, he said that you should be fa-" a sudden blow to the stomach from Yaoyorozu quickly silenced her friend as she replied to drive knight.
"Not really, while there are some benefits to gain by getting bigger, I find it would inhibit me more than it helps me. While it would be better for my quirk and things of that nature it would hinder my physical abilities."
"Understandably there is always a tradeoff to make in such decisions, I hope to run some experiments with you two in the coming days but I must first learn more about your abilities to have a good testing environment for them. I hope you both don't mind answering a few more of my questions." As both gave metal night the ok to continue he continued questioning the young heroes on a number of things regarding their quirks.
Don't Touch That: Child Emperor, Mina, Jiro
"WOW! OOH! AWW!" constant gasps and shocks sounds emerged from mina's mouth as the supposed S-class hero escorted them through his quarters, they passed by numerous inventions and gadgets that functioned that they couldn't even imagine. Jiro had to constantly reign me in from traveling too far from the pack as she would try to get a closer look at the machines around her. But even Jiro had to admit that what they were seeing was extraordinary. It reminded her of I-island with the drones and robots scattering around performing tasks or the multiple monitors scattered about displaying contents of locations and numerous scans of varying types. The hero led the group into some sort of testing area where nurmourse robots were testing equipment, mina practically bolted when she saw one machine hold something akin to a lightsaber from their world wanting to hold it, only for the machine that was wielding it to turn away from her and dodge every attempt from her to grab it.
Finally admitting defeat she turned to the hero and talked in her sweetest voice.
"Can….i please...just hold it?" She made a pouting face while rubbing her hand behind her back to play up the emperor merely rolled his eyes at the stunt.
"No. You'll probably end up hurting yourself. It's not a toy and it's going through its final phase of testing."
"You're younger than me! If you can, surely I could. At least let me take a picture of it, the guys will be sooo jealous, if they see I was by a real lightsaber." Mina pleaded with her hands together bowing.
"Fine, just a picture." as child emperor finished his statement, the robot began to turn around and hand her the saber and took the phone from her hands, she started multiple posses deciding on which one she should do before deciding on a backwards facing grip with her other hand held out in front of her, making a pose she seen from ashoka tano. The robot took the picture and was going to retrieve the saber and return her phone. Mina was about to attempt to run away to have more time with the energy sword when suddenly her arms were grabbed by a metallic claw, tracing the claw back to the user she was stunned when it came out of the young boy's backpack. The robot reached her and took the sword while replacing it with the girl's phone. Just as more claws clamped over her arms and legs and lifted her up and dragged her back to them. Looking up into her pouting face with a snide smile of his own.
"You may be older than me but I'm a lot smarter and more mature than you are." child emperor said. Failing to struggle from the claws grasp mina, let out a sigh and just looked at the kid in front of her.
"Come on! You can't just show me all these cool things and NOT expect me to want to try them out. Back me up jiro, I know you're just as curious as I am."
"What? Don't bring me into this. While what I'm seeing is cool and all, I can respect the creators wishes to not touch." Jiro explained. Making Mina gasped as she was let down and put a hand to her chest in fake hurt.
"And here I thought you were my friend? You're supposed to back me up!" making Jiro and child emperor just roll their eyes at her theatrics.
"If you were patient, we would have already got to the part where you can touch and test something out already." child emperor remarked. This got the pink girl's attention and she jumped up ecstatically.
"OH! Really!? Is it going to be the laser sword? Those missiles? What about something like that back pack of yours?" Mina said getting closer to the child in question.
"Nothing that dangerous for you two, actually it's something to do with your abilities. I believe I made some equipment that should benefit you in combat." he began to walk towards a clear area with a platform rising in the area of a shooting range. As the group made it up to the platform it had fully risen to have what looked like gloves and bracelets in the next.
"Given the information I have from the association plus video footage of you both, I managed to build these for you both, the gloves are for you mina and the bracelets are for you jiro. I didn't have much information to go off of for your hands so using video footage and pictures I guessed the dimensions needed. Please tell me if they are uncomfortable and I'll make the adjustments needed. " The young hero stepped aside as Mina was first up to try on the gloves, once attached it began to steadily morph over her entire hand. It was mostly made of a mixture of cotton materials and metals of various kinds to maximize comfort and durability.
"The gloves should offer you a greater range and much faster velocity in your attacks which when combined with your acidity should increase your penetrating power.
Try to up your acidity to the limit and then drip it into the glove." mina's eyes shined bright but was hesitant to do as instructed knowing how destructive her acid could be to machinery but as she started with a small sample to test the material and found it didn't melt through brining a smile to her face as she poured more in and a sound clicked out which child emperor said that was to signal it being full. The young hero then told her to shoot at the target 50m, holding her hand out she followed the hero instructions on how to make the gloves fire, soon after acid rocketed out of her palm in a steady stream reaching the target and burning and penetrating through it completely. The girl then started to whoop and holler at the inventions looking at the gloves dreamingly before turning to her friend, who then took her equipment once she put on the bracelets they immediately gravitated towards her sound amplifiers, covering them and part of her upper arm in metal armor ending in a tube for her earphones jacks to plug into.
"Woah." she marveled at her new amplifiers.
"From what I could see from the test, your amplifiers lack a way for you to perform ranged attacks, bracelets amp your traditional attacks while condensing the soundwaves to a single blast allowing for range attacks."
Jiro nodded her head and turned to the targets 50m away, and shot a condensed soundwave, the blast went slower than she expected from seeing mina's but it was still pretty quick reach the target in 3 seconds and knocking it completely down and also exploding outwards behind knocking the target down another 50 meters behind. Marveling at what happened she turned to look at Mina just in time for the pink girl to shoot another shot but her pose is what got to her the most, it looked almost exactly like.
"You see that Jiro, I can even do your crushes move now." blushing somewhat, she stared at the girl.
"Crush? What do you mean crush? I don't have a crush on that idiot."
"Sure you don't, I still remember what happened at the start of the battle last time, you were really worried about him."
"We all were in the frontlines away from all of us" she defended.
"Oh,oh,oh but you were the first one to voice it and your silent words of encouragement., ah!"
That got Jiro to blush even more rapidly, did she really say that out loud?
"Well, what about you and Kirishima huh? He ran straight into hell almost literally to rescue you when you were in trouble and he constantly credits you for us succeeding." she said, trying to deflect. But it didn't seem to get the girl flustered at all.
"Me and kirishima? You're kidding, he's always trying to be manly. He would have run in there to save anyone." she waved it off, as she never really thought about her classmate in that way.
"Besides, you-" she started but stopped her mouth hanging open causing jiro to look confused at her friend.
"Earth to mina,(she waved her arm in front of the girl's face) pinky what's up." the girl said nothing and only pointed at an object behind her. She followed the girl's hand and suddenly staggered back as well once she saw what the girl had seen. It was a robot, not just anyone though this one was massive, towering over everything in that area being worked on by countless drones and atmontons. It looked straight out of an anime. They're gawking was interrupted by a resounding "No." from the young hero behind them.
"That is brave giant, a project that's still being built up, you are by no means going into that area. It is off limits.`` The child's voice was stern and not up for debate. Jiro knew it was more focused on Mina but even herself was curious to see inside of the thing.
"Fine." Mina said back while secretly taking a picture of the giant incomplete robot. Jiro nodded.
"What are we going to do now? Can we take these with us when we leave?" Jiro asked.
"I want both of you to keep testing and trying them out and give me information on what you think can be improved. I don't want you leaving with them yet though these are still prototypes, I would like more data with you both before handing them over."
While hearing a groan from Mina she nodded her head in understanding and turned back to face the targets.
"I bet I can hit more targets than you." Mina said.
"Loser, buy's owes the other a soda?" jiro replied
"I was thinking, dinner." Mina escalated.
"You're on." jiro accepted as they both began blasting away at targets.
Inheritor of the Tank Top: Tank top master, Tank toppers, Shoji
Shoji followed the giant man closely into a large building, Tank top master suggested that he wait behind him so he could properly introduce him and how he looks to the rest of the tank toppers. Shoji adjusted himself to be directly behind the hulking man making sure to keep his arms out of sight. The man stopped and suddenly yelled out for all the tank toppers to gather in front of him.
"Listen up you all, We got a new recruit to the tank toppers today courtesy of the hero association itself, he is behind me right now because he has certain defects that make him not normal, but I he is still an ally and I expect you all to treat him as such. He is a fellow follower of the tank top and any who follow the tank top way is welcome here! Do I make myself clear!"
Shoji heard the chorus of "Yes, Sir!" , before he was gestured by tank top master to step up in front of the group of people. Upon stepping up he immediately saw why the group was named the way they were, every single person in that gym had a tank top on there were several men and 1 woman at the time. Judging by their body language he was definitely an irregular sight to them as several of them had tensed or balled fists almost like he was going to attack them at any moment.
He tried a traditional greeting to show that he was not a threat to them.
"Hello my name's Mezo Shoji, my hero name is Tentacle Hero: Tentacole, I know my mutations can be cause of concern but I can assure you all that I have no motive to hurt or attack any of you."
"How did you get like that young man?, if you don't mind me asking." a man with a white afro and white tank top with spectacles covering his eyes asked. One hand rubbing his chin with a hand as he stared at the teen, analyzing him.
"I was simply born like this, it was a mutation from birth." Shoji replied, giving half of the truth reason, as if he went on about quirks and things of that nature they wouldn't understand most of it.
"Show them what else you can do." tank top master said,
Shoji assumed he was referring to his power and nodded first showing that he could stretch his limbs far beyond the norm of a regular person and then to top it off when those extended appendages started to take shape into hands, mouths, eye's and even feet. This caused quite the commotion from the 10 individuals huddled around with sharp gasps of surprise and some becoming even more skeptical of him. He then retracted his extended appendages back to their original state.
"There you have it, I know it may be weird for now but you'll need to quickly get over it as he will be with us for some time. Now who would like to be the new recruits chaperone to show him the roots on how the tank tops operate?" nobody moved or said anything and shoji couldn't blame them, he was considered a freak here at best and at worst he was considered a monster and from what he's heard from Iida they kill monster for living, so getting close to someone that could resemble these monsters could stir up bad memories or worst hostility.
"Oh, that's it's rare for you to get involved in anything Tank Top philosopher" tank master said.
Shoji looked up to see a figure further in the back. He wore a tank top like the others that was black, in black jeans, with a full beard and flowy black hair. He was present with the other 10 in front so he never noticed the man but he walked forwards towards the group with a large book in his hand, the title being Tank-top prophecy and origin of the Tank-Top.
"Did that book tell you something about him?" the whitebeard man said sarcastically as others began to laugh.
"For those whole through the world through science will never understand , Tank doctor. This boy is more special than you may think and I am not speaking of his mutation." Tank philosopher said cryptically. Silencing the laughter around him as he spoke.
"Well whatever the reason, make sure you teach him properly and he is your problem if he brings shame to the tank-top. Everyone else back to what you were doing." Tank master said. The group slowly started to disperse leaving only Tank philosopher and shoji alone to walk over to one of the work out machines further away from everyone else.
"Thank you for taking me on, sir."
"No need for formalities, you can just call me Tank-philosopher. Besides I wasn't lying, you could be more special than you or they know."
"How so?"
"As you can see by the people around you and the name of our group that we almost idolize the Tank Top."
"I was actually curious about that myself really, but how does that concern me?"
"Well people don't know this but the Tank Top holds special abilities since it's creation offering great strength, speed, healing, and other abilities through the ages.(he opened the book to shoji and to his surprise it was completely blank) for me I can see the hidden text within this book is tales of a legend that unlocked the full extent of the Tank tops power, it's what we as an organization's stand to achieve. But the legend I read says the person was incapable of wearing anything else but tank tops and through that solidarity he was able to unlock its secrets and power. That's where you and your unique mutation comes in, you may be the one destined to achieve what even Tank master cannot and I will do everything in my power to help you achieve that purpose. "
Shoji was completely stunned by this revelation, he didn't know to think if this man and by extension this group was a bunch of psychopaths or that could something like Tank Top power be actually real in this world there in. lucky before he could formulate a reply on all of that he was tapped on the shoulder and turned around to see the one girl in the group.
"Hi I'm Tank-girl," she said, holding out her hand for him to shake. Which he did.
"Sorry, about the guys back their, they have no reason to judge others, especially with how weird they act(she pulled shoji in closer to whisper in his ear) especially the one your talking to now.(pulling back) so what rank did the association assign you?"
"Uh.. they gave me C-class rank: 91"
"I see, well That's close to where I am actually. I'm C-class rank: 80 wanna spar, that is if you don't mind me taking him away from you philosopher"
"That is fine, I'm curious about his abilities myself, actually."
"Great!, so what do you say, want to try and take me on?"
"S..sure i guess?" Shoji said hesitantly as he was pulled towards an octagon type cage similar to the one UFC fighters use.
Invisible to the world: Zombieman, Tokoyami, Toru
True to the hero's word the group traveled towards a restaurant, it wasn't very crowded and mostly abandoned by barring like the 10 or so other people in the place. The lack of people was a blessing to the two teens that accompanied zombie mans as their entire journey to this place were full of people staring at them, mostly tokoyami but toru also got a few stares of people that were passing by some of the younger individuals were a little bold and tried to see if she was a trick or not and attempted to touch her leg while passing by or people pulled on the back of tokoyami head thinking it was a mask. Forcing him to restrain dark shadow from doing anything foolish and causing a scene. While in the restaurant they still got stares from some of the patrons but most just ignored them and continued with their meal.
They approached the counter with a single male employee dressed in service ware, he took a momentary look at the group and addressed zombie man directly.
"Yo, zombie man, interesting company you have today? You usually come here alone."
"Yeah, well as you can see my company isn't normal, so here's a good place where we won't be bothered much." zombieman said with a hint of suspicion in his voice.
Picking up on what he meant the man nodded and took out three menus.
"No problem, I'm sure no one here gonna bother you, most of the people here are our regulars, they know the rules. I assume a booth near the back?"
"That would be good, next to a window if you can find one."zombieman said.
"Alright right this way." he flashed a small smile while leading the group towards a booth near the back of the place, it had the appearance of an old fashioned diner, with a bar in center and booths on the sides. Making their way in the booth both teens got in on one side facing the hero opposite of them, the waiter than gave them the menus and both teens looked at it somewhat perplexed most of the food on it were familiar to them but certain things stuck out that didn't make sense or was alien to them. Deciding on the more traditional objects tokoyami ordered a burger with fries while toru ordered a seafood pasta, zombie man only got a coffee.
"You're not hungry?" the invisible girl asked
"No, not really… I don't get hungry often." he stated.
"I assume you want to discuss something important with us?" Tokoyami said immediately
A little taken back by her classmate's inquisitive question, berated him about being polite and thankful for the meal before she was caught off by zombie man.
"He's right, I do have something I wish to discuss with you all before we proceed, how'd you figure?"
"Given the location and the supposed rule of this place. I assume it's an ask no questions establishment?(zombie man nodded his head) , you wouldn't take us here just for us, so we would feel more comfortable if that were the case we could have just ate at the association. By leaving the association and coming to a more secluded part of town it must be something you want to be as secret as possible." the hero just smirked at the kid as he went on.
"You're pretty attentive for a kid your age. What you said is completely true. I do have some things I want to ask you two. I hope you both answer with complete honesty. (both teens nodded their heads) This first question I would like to ask you both: do you have any connection to the house of evolution?" Zombie man played close attention to the birds face, there is a lot people can learn from body language , facial expressions , and eye movements when you ask someone a question, he would focus on both of them but being how the invisible girl is well invisible he couldn't tell anything from her face, but her sleeves could tell some of a story but nothing really concrete. Judging from the birdy boy's face he didn't have the slightest idea what he was talking about and his thoughts were confirmed when he spoke to answer the question.
"I have never heard of that place? Where not from around here so, I hope you don't think we're affiliated with such a place." tokoyami said.
"Yeah, why would you think we were included with something like that, whatever it is?" torul said, presumably making a gesture with her hands that no one could see.
"It's not a place but an organization. They wanted to "evolve" humanity by experimenting with monsters and animals to create better humans and then you two show up after I lost all trace of them some months ago. It didn't help that the association somehow got a hold of more information when you guys came around." he said sitting back in his booth and began to stare out the window. " So what is your guy's story? And I mean real story. If there was an accident that mutated a bunch I'm sure it would be impossible to cover up even by the association."
Tokoyami looked to toru who looked back at him, they whispered to each other for a bit before both turned to face zombie man again and tokoyami began to speak.
"I don't know what the Hero association told you, but we are under strict orders from them to keep some details secret, When we say "we aren't from around here." were not referring to this city, state, or even continent. We're not from this earth. I know it may be hard to-" tokoyami said.
"No, I believe you, we had a group of aliens attacked here a while ago, they destroyed most of A-city as soon as they arrived, were you with them?" he asked casually.
"Umm…no we got here by…. Different means.`` Tokoyami replied, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Wait what aliens are real here!? Can I see them? What happened with A-city, why did they attack!?" Toru said explosively, almost rising out of her seat and waving her arms around.
"Well they were, they all died during the attack because someone was jumpy. We never got a reason for why they attacked in the first place. And what happened to A-city? Heh, you guys really are not from around here, you were just in A-city when the aliens arrived they completely bombed and destroyed it 98% of it. " he said turning away.
Hearing that made the bubbly girl demeanor completely drop and sadden.
"Oh." she said some pain in her voice.
"How many people were injured?" tokoyami asked
"Not many, mostly casualties that day. Not many survivors. It was a surprise attack and metal knights building's is the only reason the hero association is still up and running." he said a little too casually for tokoyami's taste but he said nothing.
"We had similar calamity happen where we are from, nothing as bad as a whole city being destroyed but multiple cities took heavy damage and multiple heroes were killed. How did the public take about what happened with A-city?" toru asked with morose tone
"The usual I suppose, the public outcry was met with equal push back from the association. press relief team and of course Sweet mask, together they managed to rally the people even more in the association's favor even managing to convince them to turn A-city into a fortress city that it is now."
This shocked the teens, a whole city just up and disappeared and the public still managed to support the hero's here? They didn't know if whoever manages the media team were just that good or were the people here just accustomed to that type of damage, back from where their from the heroes agencies would be completely disbanded if that happened.
"Wait, you said this event happened just a few months ago, and you all managed to build that base in such a short time?" Toru asked, flabbergasted.
"Huh, oh no it didn't take that long at all only 10 days from what the association says"
"WHAT! That's impossible!" Toru replied a bit to loudly drawing eyes from some patrons in the diner. She immediately apologized and sat back down.
"It's true, metal knight fixed the entire thing in only 10 days. He has an army of machines at his beck and call."
"He must be a marvel at engineering to design something so quickly." tokoyami said.
"He sure is" he murmured as their food finally came over to them, the waiter setting each down. Before eating however, tokoyami had a burning question to ask about the event.
"You said that someone was jumpy and had dispatched the aliens before you could get answers, who was it?"
Putting the packets of sugar he was pouring into his coffee down he simply answered.
"Handsomely sweet mask A-class hero number (he took a sip of his coffee and decided to pour some more sugar in and continued) he may look sweet and innocent from the media but from what I saw that day he's definitely hiding something more sinister underneath. The mask part of his name isn't just for show I recon. "
Tokoyami nodded mentally keeping the name in memory of people not to cross and with that said and done they all began to eat and converse on softer topics.
Your different and Your normal: Watchdog man, Asui
Asui was just finishing being taken on a small tour around the area watchdog man set up near the metro, there were some shops and clothing stores around as you would expect. There were some small parks that kids would play on surrounded by a walk area so adults could walk or jog around it. The clothes in the stores and what people wore were similar enough to the world she came from but almost all of the brand names were completely new to her and she pondered on what passed off as "cool" or "popular" here, if mina were she she would probably be thinking of the very same thing if she hadn't figured it out all ready. The tour came to a stop with them arriving back towards where watchdog man was still seated in front of the station his suit was noticeably a bit dirtier than when they last left him and Dalia turned to address her as her tour came to a close.
" That should be about all you need to know of the surrounding area, just in case you get bored standing around so often next to him. You could also help people out around the city yourself as well, C-class heroes often come here to get some free points with helping with more trivial matters like helping across the street or carrying their bags, finding lost objects or people although they often get help from watchdog man if they can't find them in a good time frame." she handed asui the device from early that had watchdog man's gps on it as well as some snacks for watchdog man himself and almost proceeded to walk away before stopping and turning to the hero again.
"Before I go, we should probably share contact info, so if anything happens to you can call me for help as unlikely as that may sound." she said, holding up her phone.
"No, you're right you never know what could happen. And if it would be good to have someone close by that I can call just in case I need help. Froppy replied by getting her out of her pocket, once the two girls exchanged numbers they both said their goodbyes and Dalia began to walk away leaving only Asui and watchdog man. As she turned around to look at the hero again, who was curiously side eyeing her the entire time. She tried to make some light small talk but He just laid on the podium motionless. Every now and again he would launch off the podium presumably to another attack and his suit would come back dirtier and dirtier each time with different colored stains on it. Evey return however she would hear a sniffing sound near her but couldn't find the source of it. Sometime later a group of individuals began to approach them holding buckets of water and spray bottles. One guy in the group greeted her as the others moved on towards the podium that watch dog man sat on.
"Hi, you must be froppy. The hero that is training under watchdog man, correct?"
"Yeah that's me and how did you know that I was training under him?" froppy questioned.
"We are from the Q-city committee as well, Dalia told us about it. My name is Geoff, we're here for watchdog man's podium cleaning. Mind helping us out while you're here."
"Podium cleaning? And sure I guess." as they made they're way towards watchdog man geoff explained.
"As you may have been made aware, watchdog man does a lot for this city so we try to repay him as much as possible. We help keep his base of operations clean and spotless so it doesn't get overrun with blood from the monster he fights."
That statement stopped froppy cold.
"Did you just say….blood?" looking at the girl quizzically he answered.
"Yeah blood… you know from the monsters? Aren't you a hero as well? I would advise a different profession if blood makes you squeamish. " he said casually.
"But… doesn't that mean he's, he's(she thought back to what Iida said when they first arrived about how heroes here killed on a regular basis to stop monsters and her question died in her throat.) I see" was all she could say as she looked at the podium which had some smudges and marks here and there, some dripping from the man's paws itself.
"So is that a no for helping out than?" geoff questioned
Shaking herself out of her thoughts, she shook her head and helped the group washing the podium. Oddly, the watchdog man turned so he could still keep her in his line of sight, which everyone there recognized as strange or abnormal behavior for him. After a couple of minutes they were done and began to leave, thanking froppy for helping out and wishing her luck as a hero. With them gone it was just her and watchdog man again, who was still side eyeing her as he laid on the podium. She tried to ask what was wrong but he didn't reply and only continued to side eye her, remembering what she was told about his personality she altered his approach.
"Is there something wrong?, speak." she thought it was stupid and wouldn't work but to her surprise he spoke to her monotone and straight forward.
"You're not normal." A short and matter of fact reply. At first she thought of the irony of that statement given what he is. But he could be referring to her quirk. She was a mutant type quirk user and he may have smelled differently than everyone else here.
"Can you maybe elaborate further?, speak." she said again.
"Your smell it's different, like you're not human but also not a monster." he said.
So he could tell.
"Well, I'm kinda part frog as well. See" she said while extending her tongue out stretching much further than a regular human could. "I'm not a threat to you or anyone around promise, Speak" when watchdog man didn't say anything she tried again but still nothing. Her hand brushed over the packet of snacks Dalia gave her and took out a treat and threw it at him that he caught and began to chew on.
"I see." was all the dogman said as he continued to enjoy his treat but his eyes left the girl and began to stare forward and his tail began visibly relaxed, some which was as good a sign as any that he believed her for now. Mentally sighing to herself she really does attract weird company but it was always charming in a way she thought as she sat next to watchdog man.
Grow a backbone: Metal bat, Koda
Koda was surprised by the attitude the hero in front of him displayed, given his aesthetic he thought the guy would be some sort of bully or miscreant but here he was getting ridiculed by his sister and seemingly crumbling under her gaze as she called him out for being took a moment to look towards koda as she let go of her brother.
"Hi, this idiot's little sister Zenko.(she said as she kicked her brother) and you are?"
"Um ... .me. Hello, I'm koda. I'm going to be working under your brother for some time. I hope you don't mind." he said softly.
"I see, so that's why you were late. But I hate to say this, you might as well be wasting your time working under him. My brother is nothing but a screw up. Other than his strength he doesn't have much to teach anyone if anything you can teach him something in manners."
Rubbing his hand behind his head, he slightly flushed from the praise. To her brother's annoyance.
"I ain't that bad zenko, I know how to behave." bad complained
"Ha, barely.. You still dress like a thug and carry that bat around everywhere you go." she said, signaling to his grey bat that he carried around. She took another look at koda and after looking at him, noticed that his head was sort of weird looking.
" Is that how you normally look or is that just the mask you have on your head?"
"Well, no that's just how I normally look" he said as he took off his mask showing his mouth and chin. I assume It's something to do with my ability." he said.
"Oh? And what would that be?" She was curious about the boy.
"I have the ability to talk to and control animals."
"OOOh, really that sounds like just in the cartoons I watch. Can you show me please…pretty please!?" the little girl pleaded.
"Um…no problem." Koda replied and then started to scream somewhat which drew some eyes from the other kids in the school yard. Slowly following a couple of birds and squirrels started to approach Koda and stand by him and landing on his arm. To the shock of all the kids around them.
"Wow, that's so cool!" zenko said as other students around her started to murmur the same thing. Gathering around the Koda making him get slightly scared from all the eyes on him. A flurry of questions were asked by numerous of the kids that began to surround them. So many that they all started to blend into one voice.
Bad noticing how uncomfortable the teen was around them decided to end it as he called for both of them to start to leave and head home. Koda breathed a sigh of relief as the tree of them began to leave the school grounds. As they were leaving a number of Teen girls tried to stop and talk to bad and even some older lady's as well, but he just ignored them and continued on his way. Once they were out on the street. The group started walking towards their home which was around a 30 minute walk from her school.
As they walked Zenko asked nurmourse questions about Koda's quirk and what he could do with it and he answered her questions as honestly as he could. As they walked Koda was rudely bumped by two guys passing by on the street. Even though it was their fault he still went to apologize but the two men weren't keen to accept his apology.
"Hey, buddy you better watch where you're stepping. Or something bad might happen." he said threateningly.
"Yeah, maybe you should use that overgrown head of yours to actually look at where you're going!" the man's partner said
Koda could only mumble a reply as the two men got in his face, by the smell of their breath they were both somewhat intoxicated and were obviously taking out their frustrations on him. Suddenly one of the two men reeled back in pain and kicked one of them in the back of the leg.
"You are the one that bumped into him, you guys should be the one's apologizing!" she said confidently with her arm crossed in front of her.
"Beat it little girl, this does-" he was stopped by his friend only making a gesture behind the girl, which he followed to look at the teen behind him even in his slightly drunken state. He knew who that teen was. The S-class hero metal bat and he was staring daggers at the two of them. The two men were frightened by the mere aura the man was giving off, as he spoke to them.
"You heard her, apologize and be on your way." he said calmly with some aggression in his voice and shouldering his bat to get the point across. Both men apologized and quickly walked away. Bad looked at Koda who was still nervously rubbing his hands together with his head down and sighed to himself.
"You're an introvert or something?" bad asked, koda merely nodded in reply. Bad mentaly sighed to himself and started walking again.
"That's kinda ironic, given your ability requires you to scream and shout to take effect." he said lightly snickering to himself, To which zenko smacked him in the back of the head.
"Don't make fun of him, he may just be naturally shy and that's ok." she said, turning to look at koda.
"Ow, if you say so. But you gotta learn to stick up for yourself. Someone may not always be there to protect you." bad explained. Koda nodded in reply. Zenko stayed quiet as her brother did raise a good point.
"Well I guess that's something you could teach him, big brother he needs a confidence boost and you need to be more level headed and chill. You both can learn something from the other."
Bad and Koda both looked at each other for a moment both weighing what Zenko said. Koda maybe thinks she's right while bad was a bit more stubborn.
"I'm pretty chill already, zenko." he said
"Sure you are and is that why you always come home with bleeding and damage all over your body?" she replied. With him not saying anything she continued.
"If you were more calm and collected like koda, you may not get so injured all the time from charging straight into battle. Not to mention spending a significant part of our budget on hospital bills" she said, pinching his cheek.
"alright , alright… I'll be more careful next time. I promise." bad dismissed
" You said that every time you end up in the hospital!" she screamed, smacking him again in the back of the head.
The rest of the walk was pretty safe and small, the group making small conversations about a multitude of subjects as they soon came up to the hero's house. It wasn't too large, smaller than momo's mansion but larger than most homes he saw back in japan. As they arrived they saw a dark car in the driveway, knowing what that meant bad dismissed his sister goodbye. She waved goodbye to bad and koda as well for them to be careful out there.
The association worker got out of his car and approached the duo. It was the same bearded man from before.
"Metal bat we have another quest for you, an important client of ours has his son who got his son lost in a forest and we want you to go and find him." Bad almost gagged about the request until he realized who he was with.
"You hear that rookie? Time for you to show what you're made of." he said, clasping the boy's shoulders as he moved forward to get in the car with the bearded worker.
The drive to the estate was somewhat short, one hour at most, the estate was huge, even bigger than momo's house and behind it was a deep jungle. On the way they were debriefed that the estate home owners were often into hunting and would often go hunting with their son in the forest behind their home, but he was taken in a freak ambush.
By some sort of monster. As they stepped in to meet the grieving parents which showed them the last position they saw him and what he last wore, metal bat gestured for koda to use his power, begging to yell and ask the birds for help with finding the lost child, suddenly he was interrupted by growls coming from around them as he stopped he looked around to see. Some wolf-like creatures surrounded them, they had weird appendages extending from their mouths and hardened spike-like covering on their body. He started to yell again to attempt to sooth the creatures but it only seemingly angered the mutant wolves more as they rushed at koda who flinched and dove to the side dodging the attack, the wolf came back to lung again but was suddenly caught on the side by bad's bat completely shattering it's ribcage and sending it's corpse flying.
"And just when I thought this would get boring" he said, aiming his bat at the rest of the wolves. "Come on I'll take you all on, (he turned to koda) tell me when you find the boy's position then make a B-line towards it." Koda nodded in return and began to yell again, soon the birds answered and spotted the child some kilometers away. The two man team fought their way through the jungle mostly metal bat with koda giving directions and rescued the child and brought him back to his family safely. The bottom of bad's pans had splotches of blood on them and some was still dripping from his bat as well but other than that he didn't appear to be damaged at all.
"You can't fight at all or something?" bad said bluntly.
"No, not really. I don't really like fighting." Koda replied.
"Well we're going to have to change that, you can't be with me and expect not to fight. I mean what else is there to being a hero other than fighting and killing monsters? "
"Well.. they're always finding lost people and animals." Koda argued.
"And if you have to fight to get to them, like we just did?" bad replied.
Koda opened his mouth to respond but nothing came out.
"You're gonna have to strengthen up to at least be able to defend yourself. That or you keep some type of attack animal with you. Come to think, didn't you say that your ability could control animals? Why couldn't you control those wolves back there?"
"I…I don't know, those were clearly something else entirely from regular animals, anything with a high enough intelligence I can't control and when I spoke to them it only seemed to anger them further." Koda replied, confused himself.
"Well if you can't control monsters, then your only other option is to bulk up yourself and be able to fight at least a wolf level threat by yourself." Bad said, Koda nodding in understanding as they prepared to leave again. Dropping bad off back at his home and taking koda back to association headquarters.
Moving forward: Genos, Kuseno
KAKLUNK!? The sound of a robot's carcass falling on the ground of the laboratory aligns with a softer thud of something else.
"Professor kuseno!" The familiar voice of his adoptive son rang through the halls of his lab as he made his approach to the cyborg. Shock at what he saw.
"These parts are from a robot named G4 , it was incredibly powerful and intelligent. They are damaged but use anything on me that you can. I want to be stronger."
Looking at the robot below they reminded him of something from the past.
"Genos, these parts where did you-(shaking his head and ending his question there), very well I'll do it, you have room to grow stronger. But more importantly, who are those two boys behind you?, friends of yours " he said hopefully, pointing at the unconscious teens behind the damaged cyborg. The cyborg sneered in response.
"Hardly the association dumped them on me, I rendered them unconscious as I do not trust them to know the location of your base." He was mentally saddened by that statement.
"So, why bring them here, then?"
"They both have some interesting supernatural abilities, this one has the ability to use ice and fire with the two sides of his body, the other one has the ability to make explosions from his hands. You may be able to unlock the secrets of their abilities from their blood and create something to enhance me further." genos inquired. So this was just another way to gain strength for him, the professor thought as he looked at his damaged state.
"You shouldn't push yourself so hard."
"It is necessary, my master tasked me with reaching the top ten of the S-class" was the cyborg's immediate reply.
"Such a reckless task, I would like to meet him one day. Have you found any clues on the cyborg that destroyed your home?" the slightly shocked and down face told the professor his answer.
"You've been too focused on your hero duties, I see."
"Don't worry, whatever happens I will find that cyborg and destroy it with my own hands." the cyborg said seriously with a murderous aura surrounding him, the professor had hoped his anger had dolled with the time and with his master, maybe training these two could change that he thought as he addressed him.
"I warn you genos, I have been tracking this cyborg longer than you have. I know how dangerous it can be, if you do find it do not fight alone, report to me immediately."
"I understand professor kuseno, this is our fight, the cyborg has taken many lives and we will not let it live." he said harshly that same murderous aura emerging again. Only sighing to himself the doctor looked down and began investigating the robot and the boy's.
"Well i'll see what upgrades I will be able to gather from this robot and as for the teens as well, but I make no promises on the latter."
"That is fine, professor, anything to become stronger." the cyborg said.
The rest of the time was spent on analyzing the pieces of the G4 robot and adopting it's components to Genos, the transfer was successful and Genos body was completely remade stronger than before. The two teens were kept artificially unconscious by genos's request. He was currently fighting in the Virtual Genocide System testing out his new upgrades he did indeed grow stronger according to the system he was strong enough to easily beat mosquito girl and the deep sea king but he still failed against carnage kabuto even after 55 attempts, he still didn't even transform into his carnage mode making it even worse. Taking off the system he began to think of further training opponents other than himself and his eye's fell on the two teens below and wondered.
"Professor, do you think this machine would work on regular humans?"
Already seeing where genos was going he confirmed." Yes, you still in fact have a human brain so naturally the machine will be based around concepts it can understand. But be warned, unlike you they do not have enhanced visuals and sensors, the data it will absorb of people will be straight from how they perceive the threat and their experience of it, it would be far from an accurate representation unless they have extensive knowledge of the person. "
"I see, but my main motivation of doing so is not for training but to have a glimpse into their memories." understanding where this was coming from, Kuseno asked.
"You don't trust them?, well more than normally that is." he asked, eyebrows slightly raised.
"No, the circumstances surrounding them are too strange, the association had bribed and strong-armed the S-class into accepting these teens as students, along with that they have no history even a cursory glance at their files reads as fake to the keen eye. Any other details surrounding them are strictly classified." he reasoned.
"I see that is a cause of concern. Maybe they were grown by splicing monster DNA to gain their abilities? That reminds me the blood samples I extracted are indeed strange and abnormal, their powers are indeed embedded in them but it will take some time for me to properly understand and make something useful out of them, the half-half powers are showing promise but the explosion powers aren't."
"That's fine sensei, should I return with blood samples of those that seem worth it?"
"At least ask for their permission If you plan on doing so." Kesuno replied drearily.
Genos had set the device on the two teens and let the data accumulate and process, as he put the device back on a slew of new options appeared the machine had approximated that only one of them were seen to be as strong as carnage kabuto even fewer that wore calculated to be of a demon level threat, quickly entering the simulation of the weaker opponents instead of focusing on the fight he focused on the surroundings and he recognized none of it, no city on the continent mimicked his surrounding area making it strange very strange, he easily killed the rand bandana wearing ninja-esqu villain that held knives in his hands and continue forward to the next opponent.
This continued for some time before he finally came to the demon level threats, after beating some black monsters he went to the human looking foes, first taking on the man that was supposedly as strong as carnage kabuto which confused him initially, why would he have two different entries he wondered. As he fought and with some difficulty beat the smiling red, white, and blue figure, he watched as his body seemingly deflated into a skeletal form that signaled the end of the fight.
The next fight was of the highest human demon in the category and the third highest of the new additions. He appeared above a skyscraper, flying as suddenly a flame exploded out of the building in front of him. Pushing him back slightly, a buff red haired man with flames covering his body began flying and Genos ready himself for the battle to come.
Deliberations: Class 1-A
As the class' first day in this new world was slowly coming to a close, Ilda had called for the class to the common room to discuss the day's events. Everyone slowly entered the room and he mentally held a small sigh of relief knowing that all of them were doing ok, that was until uraraka came in. who practically collapsed into her chair, she was carrying a single cube that was roughly three times the size of her hand, once she collapsed onto the chair she let the cube gently settle down into the floor in front of her before releasing the effect of her quirk. Iida and Midoriya were upon her immediately.
"Uraraka!? Are you ok?" Midoriya said, slightly worried.
"What happened?" Iida inquired seriously.
"T-t-train…. Training… with … her." Uraraka said through pants of breath. Before she cold elaborate further she suddenly held her mouth, quickly thinking midoriya scanned the room looking for something to catch her puke in, spotting a small trash can he used his black whip to pull it towards him and offer it to uraraka who wanted to offer her thanks but as she opened her mouth she began throwing up instead, thankfully straight into the trash bin. This drew the attention of others in the room who stopped their conversation and all began to pile around uraraka to see if she was ok.
"Given who you were put under I was afraid that something like this would happen. '' Ilda said stoically. Seeing the eyes on him he continued. "The hero that picked uraraka up today is tatsumaki or better known as tornado of terror she's the number two hero of this world and has been described as having a short temper and very much prone to violence." he explained to the class.
"So…she's kind of like a female bakugo." sero said, garnering a few chuckles from the class. Before being abruptly interrupted.
"You wanna run that by me again you filthy extra." bakugo explained walking into the room with todoroki behind him. Holding up his hands in mock surrender sero slightly sweating.
"I didn't say anything at all."
"That's what I thought, loser." he replied walking towards one of the corners of the room. As Todoroki went towards the rest of the group.
"What happened to uraraka?" he asked, seeing her still throwing up into the trash bin. Noticing the cube shaped rock down by her feet. "What is that." he pointed towards the rock drawing everyone's attention to it.
"T-Train…ma-material." uraraka manages to squeak out between gags.
"It doesn't look so heavy" Kaminari mentioned as he tried to pick the rock up but had no luck whatsoever, not even budging the thing. Tapping the yellow haired boy on the shoulder and smirking, Kirishima approached behind.
"Ha!, don't let your mouth write a check that you can't cash." he said as he also tried to move the rock but was met with the same luck.
"Ha, you can't move it either." Kaminari said as well, which then became a contest between the guys on who can lift or even move the object between kaminari, kirishima, and sato, none of which were able to. Uraraka finally was able to catch her breath and speak clearly.
"It's 80 tons." she said factually. Making the entire room gasp in shock and surprise.
"WHAT!?, REALLY!?" Mina screamed out from beside her. Uraraka only nodded in response.
" She said that because of how " weak " I am that my training doesn't end when she's not around using her power she compressed a giant rock she lifted down to this size and told me anytime I want to move that I have to carry this rock with me everywhere I go." She explained the situation.
"That's highly irresponsible, what if you were to accidentally hit yourself with it or fall unconscious due to the strain. There has to be safer methods of doing that, I may need to speak with about this." iida said seriously, upon hearing that she immediately shook her head.
"I wouldn't recommend that Iida and I don't mine it, really.(she looked towards deku) she said that this would make me stronger and I really want to be." she said with conviction. Deku nodded in reply and looked at the rock and used 5% full cowling and moved the cube some and then slowly raised it to 15% where he was fully able to pick the cube up. And seemingly test it's weight. Somewhat disheartening the three who tried to pick it up prior.
"I would say you're making us look bad, but if that thing really does weigh 80 tons than I don't feel bad at all." Kiminari said.
"Yeah, that's insanely manly midoriya, what percent are you at to lift it up so casually?" Kirishima asked. Placing the cube back down near uraraka he turned to face kirishima.
"15%."
"WOW!I can't believe it, you're incredibly strong. I'll try and catch up if I can, my teacher darkshine hinted that he could lift more than 10,000 tons and I hope I can at least lift up to that cube when I'm done with his training.`` This got the whole crowd even more surprised.
"10K tons? Aren't the people of this earth supposed to be quirkless? How can they be so strong?" tokoyami asked
"Different universe, different rules" shoji mentioned casually.
After that the group began discussing the day's events and what they did most of it were pretty dry with nothing much to share besides getting to know their hero's better. Mina had some images that she showed off to the class of the awesome things she saw in the child emperor's lab and her holding a device similar to a lightsaber, making the guys around gush besides todoroki and bakugo, who was constantly silent.
"Aoyama, tsu, mineta, what hero did you get? I don't think they were in the gym with the others." Momo asked.
"I got, watchdog man , he is a man in a dog costume, despite how he looks he's incredibly strong and fast. He was able to travel 30 kilometers in a second and he's the sole protector of an entire city." Tsu mentioned.
"Well, for me I was chosen by none other than King! He is the strongest of the S-class , he even destroyed a Giant raven that was like 1000 times larger than a regular one.`` Mineta said proudly, puffing up his chest.
"Well, I was chosen by the Idol superstar himself, handsome sweet mask. Perfectly benefiting someone like me who is destined for stardom." Aoyama exclaimed, flashing a smile and striking a pose that swept his cape to and fro.
The name instantly drawing tokoyami gaze towards toru who he assumed looked back.
"How was your time with him?" he asked Aoyama, With a worried tone.
"Your tone suggests that he may have something to worry about. What's wrong?" Momo asked.
"When we were having lunch with our hero, he told us what had happened to A-city, aliens attacked and wiped it out completely and from the ashes they created this place. They couldn't question the aliens' motivations because he killed them before they could get the opportunity." Toru explained.
"Zombie man said that he may have a dark side that he hides from the world so I'm simply inquiring if that's correct or not." Tokoyami reasoned. Quickly shaking his head, Aoyama replied.
"No,no ,no….nothing like that he's….. Just a bit rougher than you would expect of him but he means well and always strives for perfection." Aoyama explained.
"Well, with that said I'm sure you all may have seen it first hand or not but this world and it's heroes have a different rule set when it comes to killing, it seems to be their go to option when dealing with enemies but I hope that while we are here that we can change their mind on that if possible and never resort to it ourselves if possible.
Which brings me to the reason I called you all here today, I didn't just want to talk about today's events and check up on you but I Also would like to ask you all your opinion on an offer I was given to me by my hero flashy flash, after a brief test, he offered me a deal to travel with him on a quest but warned that it will be dangerous and potentially life threatening for me. I will be gone the entire month on this quest should I accept as well. I am undecided on the offer so I open the floor to you all as well. Do you think that I should go?" Iida said.
"Well at least you're getting a choice, I'll be away for the month as well, I don't know all the details but I know we are traveling by sea, so if anything it's going to be like a fancy cruise. Full of people who…..hate me. So I say go for it." Sero said, somewhat dishearteningly.
"From everything I've seen and heard about the S-class today, I don't think you should be worried about the danger. They all seem super strong and going on a super secret ninja mission seems cool to me." Kaminari said.
"Idk, having the class split up already was a risky move in such a strange place, you said so yourself now you're pondering on leaving for an entire month with someone you barely know? I think it's too risky to do." Sato explained.
"If it's any consolation, The demon cyborg protected me and bakugo. Twice when we were fighting that giant robot in M-city, he even brought us back here. While they may not be our friends, they're not going to just leave you to die either, " Todoroki said.
Garnering surprise from the group seeing as how they already had been in a fight here.
"What happened?" Momo asked, concerned.
"We don't know much really, the demon cyborg and his master operated under unusual rules of engagement, so me and bakugo attempted to be more proactive but failed in falling the creature our imminent danger forced them into action.
After the battle was over with one of the creatures however more came and knocked me and bakugo unconscious at least that's what the note said once we woke up.'' Todoroki explained.
"Well, I'm glad that he was there to protect you." Momo breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to the topic at hand.
"With this information, I would be a bit less hesitant on going. The S-class heroes are strong and I'm sure on your travels you can learn or be taught many useful things that may help you later. But the choice is yours to make."
The conversation continued on with a majority being swayed by todoroki and bakugo tale of being protected, Iida ultimately made his decision.
"Ok, after constant talks I have decided to accompany him on the journey, in my absence. As formality implies Momo would take on my duties as acting President of the classroom and midoriya will be acting vice-president. Treat them with as much respect as you treat me and listen to their instruction when given." He scolded the class. ``I'll try to keep in touch as much as possible about my whereabouts and happenings."
"How are you going to prepare, In such a short amount of time?" ojiro asked.
"No, need to worry about that I have already packed a bag of things I may need just in case of this possibility, I'll be fully prepared to leave tomorrow morning." Ilda assured.
"That's our class president, for you." Mina joked, getting some small chuckles in from some of the girls in the class. After some more light hearted talking everyone began to file out of the common room towards their respective rooms.
Midoriya offered to help carry the cube back to her room but she refused and powered on using her quirk on the object and continuing forward towards her room with midoriya following behind, uraraka had almost fell but he caught her, after a slight silence and both teens blushing madly midoriya helped her stand back up and led her back to her door. She thanked Midoriya for his help as she closed her door and he left to his room, as almost everyone in the class had a peaceful sleep, excited for what the next few days have to offer.
