I was going to wait until I got up to post this one so but you can't post on mobile for what I can see so might as well post before I go to sleep another chapter probably gonna go up after I get off work so probably around 8pm EST
Just a bunch of fancy poses: Bang, Darkshine, Metal bat, Zombieman groups
A couple of days have passed and after ojiro and toru both expressed the thought of the girl teaching under Bang's water stream rock smashing fist, Bang seeing the opportunity to have more students more than happily opened his doors to the hero association again in fact he extended the same deal to the associations that he had previously some months ago, any Individuals willing to learn or even just experience his martial arts is welcome to come and join in this demonstration.
The teens were waking up and going about their normal business in the common area when none other than, zombieman, Darkshine, and metal bat entered the room. Kirishima was the first of the group of students to rush over and greet his teacher, followed slowly by the other's.
"Yo darkshine. What are you guys doing up here?" Kirishima wondered bowing to his master.
"Bang had sent out invites to his dojo, to experience his martial arts and since we're all going, we decided to go together." Darkshine mentioned. At the mention of master bang ojiro and midoriya also made their way over.
"I guess bang, wants to give you a demonstration before you decide to join." ojiro said next to toru.
"I know right! I'm excited to see it." Toru exclaimed in reply.
"I wouldn't get your hopes up just yet, I had some Ideas about the martial art you should take on myself, but I'm no martial artist and Bang can shed some light on my opinion." zombiman replied leaning against a wall.
"Aww, but that's ok, as long as I can get stronger." Toru said, pumping her fist into the air.
"But I'm sure ojiro wants you to train under Bang so he could spend more time with you~" Mina teased from behind them, making several classmates chuckle, causing ojiro to blush extensively, hiding his face with his tail.
"Mina! Don't be mean. Besides, just because we may be learning under different teachers doesn't mean we can't still train together, alone~" she whispered that last part in his ear, making his heart rate increase and his face become even more red, his tail twitching a bit, Causing the girl next to him to laugh. Before anyone else could dogpile more on him the room was silenced by the harsh tone of metal bat.
"I don't care about any martial arts, just a bunch of fancy dancing if you ask me. All I need is my bat, and the only reason I'm going cuz the old geezer reminded me about our rematch. I'll clock him real good this time." metal bat said, tightening his hand on his bat. Causing numerous of their classmates to just stare at the teen in mock disbelief.
"Is he always like this?" Kaminari whispered to Koda, who only nodded his head in reply.
"I'm surprised he didn't get paired with bakugo or Kirishima." he continued to whisper towards koda but not low enough for the pompadour styled teen to not pick up on.
"Oh! You got something to say, sparky?" Bad said, pointing his bat towards Kaminari who only put his hands up in surrender.
"Nah, nothing man just seems that koda was an odd pick for you is all? You two seem like complete opposites." he said hesitantly, bad shouldered his bat again and replied.
"Well you ain't wrong about that, the association picked him not me. But other than being a complete wuss, his power does come in handy in the work the association has me doing." meta; bat commented. Earning a few glares from some of the teens in the room that he simply shook off.
"Either way, if you can learn something from that old man then by all means." metal bat said as he began to walk outside shouldering his bat behind his neck.
"While not for the same reasons I'm with metal bat, when it comes to martial arts, I'm just using this opportunity as a chance to spar with Bang he always tries to avoid me when I ask him to but he can't avoid me at his own home." darkshine said with a laugh as he to walked out of the room. Leaving only zombieman to let out a sigh from his colleagues' behavior.
"Well I guess I'm the only one going to actually learn something. Just meet us outside when you're finished here. " he said solemnly, taking his leave as well and they did say their farewells and wishes to their classmates before taking off as a large group, off to bang's dojo.
The large group got out of the limousine and stared up at the dojo on the large mountain.
"So that's bang's dojo huh? Did it have to be on top of a mountain." zombieman said as he let out a sigh in resignation.
"It probably gives him clarity or peace of mind." darkshine suggested
" I think you're onto something Mr. darkshine, back from where we're from it was common for martial artists to seek out isolated places for peace and high places to give better perspective." ojiro said, rubbing his chin in thought.
"Whatever reason doesn't matter, it ain't that far up.' bad said.
"You know a shortcut?" Toru questioned.
"Of course I do. The quickest way between two points is….straightforward!" he said while running forward towards the mountainside and leaping upwards.
"Well he isn't wrong about that." Darkshine said the following after him, passing him and landing on top in a single leap.
"So manly." Kirishima said, clenching his fist.
" I think that's the smartest thing I've ever heard him say, well it beats taking the stairs." zombieman said as he started towards the mountain side but instead of jumping like the other' he reached into his trench coat and pulled out a device that shot out a hook towards the mountain's submit propelling him upwards.
"Woah! An actual grappling hook, cool. Hey guys how about we race to the top?" Kirishima suggested.
"I doubt any of us could beat midoriya." tokoyami commented.
" A battle for second place then come on you guys it would get the blood pumping and ready for what's to come." Kirishima said with a wide smile.
"I'm up for it!" Toru said excitedly, even though she knew that she would undoubtedly come in last place.
"That's the manly spirit, come on guys," kirishima pleaded.
" fine. We need to get up there anyway." tokoyami replied
"I'm game." ojiro answered.
"Sure, but toru, koda, and kirishima would you like to get a head start? The stairs are somewhat longer, naturally." Midoriya said, kirishima offered a smirk and replied
"Who said that I'll be taking the stairs?"
"Well I'll take you up on that offer, 10 seconds ok? Come on koda" Toru answered as her koda and began to approach the stairs, getting next to the stairs as the group got ready to start.
The rest of the guys lined up next to each other facing towards the mountain and began giving toru her head start to climb up the stairs, as the time wined down for their turn to precede tokoyami clocked himself with dark shadow and as the race officially began he took off towards the skies. kirishima charged towards the mountain head first Harding his fist as he scaled the mountain straight up, ojiro used his tail to bound up the cliff face, as expected midoriya made the jump in just a single leap similar to darkshine, greeting tokoyami as he landed, followed closely by ojiro after sometime and than kirishima. They waited a few minutes for toru and koda to make the climb up the stairs before ojiro and midoriya stated that they would go and get them. Hopping back down the mountain ojiro on the side of the cliff next to the stairs, Toru was just somewhat surprised by the haste entrance as a blur sped passed him to further down the hill towards koda.
"I guess this means I'm the loser." she said, panting somewhat from running up the steps of the mountain side.
"Loser may be a strong term, let's just say you're in the fifth best place." ojirio suggested
"I could go with that." she reasoned. hunching over somewhat, before being surprised from being picked up by ojiro. Flustering the girl immensely.
"WHA- What are you doing!?" she said squirming in his grasp lightly..
"Getting you to the top obviously. We want to go in at the same time and that bat guy seems to get cranky real fast." and getting some payback for earlier he added on in thought. Hearing him, toru stopped squirming around and held on tight to him as he used his tail to propel both of them into the air, toru didn't know if her increased heart rate was from flying through the air like they were or how she was being held at the moment and if she was paying more attention she would realize that the heartbeat of the guy that was holding her was also accelerated along with a distinct blush on his face as he carried her to the submit of the mountain. Midoriya arrived just after as he began to lower to the ground unlike ojiro's bridal style approach of carrying, he instead used his black whip to wrap around koda's waist and used his float ability along with black whip to pull both of them up the mountain. He slowly reeled koda in before setting him on the ground.
"About time you got here, Sheesh!" metal bat said he proceeded to the dojo doors. Metal bat drew the group's attention just enough for kirishima to put his phone away, after sending an image of their two classmates in the compromised position to a certain pink haired girl in the class, before he was able to set her down. Both koda and toru thanked their helpers, as well as toru making a joke about how she wished deku would have picked her up as it seemed to be a more fun way than ojiro's was, ojiro said nothing in return and only taking Solas in the fact that she didn't use the word basic or normal to describe the action as well. The group began to make her way towards the door just to have it immediately slide open with bang front and center in the middle.
"I thought I heard a familiar voice." bang said as he looked at a bad approach, which only forced him to redirect a bat strike aimed for his head.
"I told you, ya old geezer that I'll come back to settle the score." metal bat said hefting his bat ready to strike again but pausing as bang held out his hand.
"I'll take you on again. Can it just wait until after my demonstration." bang asked
"Tch, sure whatever you say gramps." Bad said as he strolled inside the dojo.
"I hope that invitation extends to me also." darkshine said as he walked up behind metal bat. causing bang to just let out a sigh. He never had these many challengers since the dojo hunters started leaving him alone.
"Sure, after mr. Bad, I can spar with you as well." bang said, nodding his head in acknowledgement, receiving a nod in return from darkshine as he proceeded to the door. Followed closely by zombieman and the group of teens behind him, stopping toru with a pat on the shoulder.
"Given that you are the only female here, I assume that you are the one ojiro and midoriya have been telling me about. Ms. Toru correct?" he said with a graceful smile.
"Yup, that's me. Although zombieman may have different plans for me." the girl replied.
"Ah, I see well. Hopefully today's demonstration can change his mind."
With that everyone made it inside, midoriya and ojiro were partially surprised by how dressed up bang made his dojo. For this occasion there were banners decorating the walls as well as more decorated rugs that clearly outlined the arena. The students took up seats next to the front of the arena while the heroes all took up residence near the edges. Ojiro noticed the annoyed look on Charanko's face and asked his fellow disciple what the problem was. he responded with a tiny sideways glance at metal bat.
"That guy, he has no respect for bang or his martial arts. I don't even know why he came back a second time." charanko noted
"He did mention that he wanted to pay back from last time, what happened?" Midoriya said, curiously.
"We had a similar event like this a couple of months ago. He was here along with tank top master and his lackeys , and someone else ugh..dogman? I think."
"Watchdog man?" midoriya pointed out.
"Leave it to midoriya to know about heroes." toru commented
"Yeah, him and some association big shot. He didn't do much while he was here just fell asleep in the corner, metal bat on the other hand mostly just caused disturbances." he said getting angry just thinking about the event again. Ojiro chuckled slightly upon receiving a glare in return. He explained to him.
"You really do care for bang don't you?, I'm sure he doesn't mind so you shouldn't get yourself so worked up over it."
Any reply that charanko had died in his throat as Bang took center stage in front of them , he began like he usually did showing the group forms and stances of his martial arts, but quickly grew into more fast and fluid motions, that the group besides charanko never seen before. His pace and motions became so fast that they could no longer even see his hands moving anymore before immediately slowing down showing the motions and steps one by one seeming more like interpretive dance than a martial arts form before he finished his performance with a bow. The teens in front of him offered a round of applause at his performance.
"I don't know what I just saw but it sure looked cool!" Toru exclaimed, clapping her hands.
"It was so fast but I could have sworn that the move where you sped up was an omni directional defense?" ojiro asked, bang thrilled at the boy's observation.
"You are indeed correct, I call it the water stream Encampment a defensive option that repels attacks from multiple angles." he said confidently.
"Woah that sounds cool, like an absolute defense!" Kirishima muttered.
"A wise move" tokoyami commented as well.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah…you done now? I'm itching for my rematch!" bad said from his corner.
"You could learn a few things from these people in front of you about patience, young man. But sure it would always be better to show an in action demonstration. But not here I don't want another wall to break. " Bang remarked as he approached the door again and proceeded outside, followed closely by the rest of the group.
Bang brought the group towards the back of the dojo, it was largely mostly rocks and barren landscape surrounded by a couple of trees and a small stream passing down further back. He approached one end of the area and prompted for metal bat to step up as well, each opponent starting 30 meters apart. Bang discussed with bad the rules for this spar, it was a timed duel of 15 minutes in length or until the user can not fight any longer, with all of that said both opponents both took their stances.
"Oh man I can tell this is going to be tense! Oh koda, you've been with him the longest, who do you think is going to win?" kirishima asked
"Um, I don't really know about bang but bad's pretty strong from what I've seen." he mumbled in answer.
"Don't be fooled, Bang already showed this idiot the boot before, there is no way he'll lose now especially if he still just swings that bat around." charanko said confidently.
"I'll agree with charanko, from what I know of him so far bang's martial arts seems especially suited in dealing with straightforward attacks." ojiro reinforced.
"There is only one way to find out!" Toru said in anticipation, seeing the girl's enthusiasm Bang offered her the opportunity to declare the match start which she was more than happy to do. After a small countdown she yelled out the words fight and the two combatants charged at each other.
The two met in the middle bad was the first to strike attempting to deliver a savage blow to the old man ribs but the blow was easily diverted with a quick swing of the older mans hand, this did not deter the young man's attempt to attack continuing with ferocious blow after ferocious blow each of which were diverted or dodged by bang. The fight was a gracious display of bang martial arts. Each swing was a near miss, no movement that the master did was wasted. Ultimately culminating in the man using bad's own momentum to completely flip him over on his back. Only 5 minutes have passed of the battle so far and bang had clearly held the advantage, angering the younger man greatly.
"You're still just running away! Be a man, fight me straight up!" Bad said, getting to his feet.
"Fighting takes many shapes and forms in different individuals; they will not always fight the way you want or will cry unfair in actual combat as well." bang jested getting back into his stance.
"OH, your dead old man!" bad roared as he came back at the man, charging even faster than before and swinging even harder at the older gentlemen but this didn't matter much at all to bang , the blows would continue to be deflected and dodged. Their fight almost seemed to be happening in multiple places at a time as bang dodged around the arena dodging, the blows would start to kick up dust more and more almost obscuring the spectators vision but it would abruptly come to a stop as bang would land bad on his back another time but this time he didn't stay and flipped back on his feet using his back to strike again causing bang to leap back and start the song and dance all over again.
"Is it just me or is he getting faster?" midoriya wondered out loud
"You're not wrong the further they go the harder it is for me to follow what's happening." tokoyami confirmed.
"Same here." ojiro stated.
"This is just a rumor but it is said that metal bad gets stronger the more damaged he gets." zombieman said while taking a puff from his cigarette. Causing the teens to finally take their eyes off the battle for just a moment.
"Wow, that's so MANLY!, I wish I had something like that." kirishima nearly screamed
"But how?" midoriya questioned, quirks didn't exist here so how could such an ability exist? Midoriya thought. Zombieman only shrugged in return.
"Don't know, he doesn't either. He just calls it "fighting spirit." zombieman said.
The fighting was just coming to a head when bang managed to knock him down one last time before time was up. Although bad didn't listen to the time as he continued on to attack.
" times up, you've lost." bang said finally.
"I didn't lose anything, you never even hit me!" Bad nearly exclaimed slamming down one more time hitting the mountain side causing a minor vibration to shake through it, he went to strike again but seeing bang made no movements to stop the blow mid swing as the bat nearly grazed the man's gray hair.
"Tch, whatever. If this all martial arts have to offer then it's as pointless as I imagined. My sis piano lessons are almost done anyways." Bad said, shouldering his bat again before walking off.
"Let's go cody." bad said as he strolled past the teens.
"It's koda!" Toru clarified on his behalf.
"Same difference" he waved his hand back brushing her off.
"Rude, don't let him treat you like that koda." she pleaded to the quiet kid who stood up to follow.
"It's fine, he…he's just a little rough around the edges." he said in complacency with one last goodbye to his classmates he left with the man. It was quite comedic to see bad lift koda up and jump down the cliff side with him screaming the whole way down. Bang started to make his way over to the group, As he approached he looked towards zombieman who had started to put out his cigarette.
"So zombieman what are your thoughts?"
"Well I can see why they call it the ultimate defensive martial arts, but I was thinking of something more offensive." zombieman said politely
"The rock smashing fist is equal parts offense as well as defense" charanko defended.
"With that I have no doubt." zombieman acknowledged
"You seem to already know the style you're comparing it to." bang summarized
"Indeed, the art that I planned for her was the whirlwind iron cutting fist. I assume you're familiar with it. " As soon as the name left his lips bang eyes shot open in surprise but he quickly regained his composure.
"My brother's martial art? What made you pick it?" bang as asked in almost disbelief
" Well I think it would be best suited for her power. Show them." zombieman commented, toru did as instructed she zipped down the front zipper of her skin suit to the surprise of bang and charanko there was nothing underneath just empty air.
"Her body is normally invisible; she has the ultimate defenses when it comes to hand to hand combat, already pairing it with the ultimate offense would make for a devastating combination." zombieman explained, bang rubbed his chin in thought before replying.
"I see how you could come to that conclusion and I can't exactly find fault in your logic either, but are you sure she would be able to use it. They seemed to be adverse to killing things and that art is nothing but such actions." bang reasons flashing a glance towards midoriya as he talked and he could see that the girl noticeably squirmed at the words used to describe the whirling cutting fist.
"I had considered such possibility, which is the reason that I brought her here first before traveling towards Bomb's dojo. The choice is ultimately her's to make." zombieman said with a shrug.
"I don't know if I ever actually want to k-kill someone." the normally energetic girl mumbled quietly.
" You may not have the whirling iron cutting fist holds many offensive techniques that can subdue targets, that's just what it's most famous for. You should at least see it for yourself before making your decision, I will be fine with any choice you make. " bang said, not trying to completely scare the girl from at least going to see his brother.
"Alright then I'll go see, are we going now?" she asked, looking towards zombieman. Who nodded his head and began towards the stairs, offering their thanks both toru and tokoyami bowed and then left with zombieman.
"Well with that out of the way, I guess it's my turn. " Darkshine said.
"Yes, I believe I kept you waiting long enough. darkshine ." bang gave a nod and proceeded back to the arena.
"OH, man it's darkshine time, I'm super curious how this will play out." kirishima said, pumping a fist into the air.
"I'm curious how he will perform compared to metal bat." Midoriya said curiously.
"It doesn't matter Bang won't be defeated." charanko said with admiration.
The two opponents stared at each other down under the same rules as the the previous bout, the two settled into their places and kirishima did the honors of starting the match, unlike previous were the challenger charged forth to attack bang head on, darkshine took a more measured approach which bang mirrored both slowly steadily approach the center of the arena very casually the tension desne as they met, the first one to launch an attack was darkshine a straight jab that bang redirected away with both of his arms. The force of the blow blew away all of the dust kicked up by the previous duel, he stroke out with his other hand which bang slid to the side with his knee instead, kicking back out quickly to knock darkshine leg from under him, the blow landed but barely moved the wall of muscle, but the movement was enough to cause an imbalance to cause darkshine to trip over somewhat, attempting to capitalize on his fall forwards darkshine attempted to grab bang with his extended arms coiling back in on the olderman, but bang was one step ahead avoiding the grapple by jumping up and over the man and using his back as a springboard to flip through the air away and landing some paces away.
Darkshine was surprised somewhat but recovered quickly and got back up from his fall and charged forth, bang dodged out of the way of the charge and was nearly taken off guard from the reverse back swing of darkshines massive fist, ducking under the blow and than side stepping another jab from darkshines other hand. The side that bang dodged to pulled him into range of darkshines other hand gripping the older man's arm and pulling his fist back to launch another punch which was redirected to the side but that was just a feint for darkshines actual attack which was a headbutt, but bang was able to scrunch his body down and below darkshines legs, darkshines grip on bangs arm acted as leverage for bang to complete the flip ending with darkshine on his back and bang stepping back some more waiting for him to rise once again. The struggle went this way multiple times, but unlike with metal bat every time darkshine was knocked to the ground there was nothing but a smile on his face as he got back up and tried to attack again. Until the time was finally up.
"Wow, even darkshine couldn't even lay a finger on him." Kirishima said, amazed.
"Like I said, bang is the best." charanko said triumphantly
"The muscles don't seem just for show, that's for sure. I could feel the power behind those punches from here" ojrio said
" Yeah darkshines a beast, this was the first time I saw him in action in real life, I saw him inside of a simulation before but this wait….." Kirishima stared at Midoriya as he stopped talking.
"W-what is it, kirishima?" Midoriya asked as his friend just stared at him.
"Midoriya you should challenge darkshine!" he yelled
"W-what, why?"
"Because it would be super awesome, the simulation had data from all might before but we couldn't see the fight due to the drama that came from it. you have the same power so it will be just like the same thing. " Kirishima said in excitement
"Oh, you and this all might have the same power? Would you be willing to spar with me? Demon cyborg said that he was a dragon level threat but my fun was spoiled early. " darkshine said
"Umm… sure I suppose." Midoriya said , getting up and proceeding to the arena. Hearing kirishima faintly as he began to walk away.
" Oh yeah , alright now we are talking. This is gonna be so manly." He said as he got his phone out ready to record the upcoming battle, Ojiro just let out an amused smirk from his antics but was curious himself about where Darkshine stood and more than that he wanted to see where he stood, how far was the gap among them.
"Do you think it's OK, for him?" Charanko asked, worried about Midoriya.
"Don't worry about Deku , he's really strong as well. I believe he was classified as an S-class hero."
"What!? No way! " charanko replied in disbelief.
"Yup rank 14 I believe." Ojiro stated.
"I think that would make him the youngest in the association's history and he's higher than metal bat, if he knew no doubt he would want to prove that he was better." Bang jested as he moved over towards the spectators.
"I think Todoroki was ranked 17, if I remember correctly." Kirishima commented
"Oh so he's ahead of pri pri prisoner and Tank top master is he. I would love to meet him someday." Bang said.
"Well he's not really a brawler like us, he can shoot ice and flames from his body so he's mostly a ranged fighter. I know he's trains under demon cyborg."
" In that case I'm sure I'll see him soon. I tried introducing him and his master to my arts but my attempts have failed so far. His master holds great strength far surpassing that of my own with proper training he would be unstoppable. " Bang said, a little disheartened.
"Woah really?" Kirishima asked , receiving only a nod in return. Before anyone else could comment more charanko signaled the match to begin. Darkshine began stretching and went into and took a wide stance, presenting himself as open as possible before stating.
"I let you get the first shot in, no need to hold back either, nothing has ever hurt these muscles." darkshine said confidently.
"He ain't wrong, I hurt myself punching him, even in unbreakable!" Kirishima yelled from the sidelines.
"He isn't bluffing, Even I would have trouble actually damaging him." bang said to confirm.
Believing them he nodded in understanding and then powered up full cowling going all the way to 100 percent, his hair immediately brightened and raised and lighting began to billow around his body. Darkshine whistled in surprise the grin on his facing wedding somewhat in anticipation. Midoriya launched towards darkshine who stood still just as he said he would, the punch lands squarely in his chest making the large man surprised take a step back, almost in disbelief, He felt that punch, it was similar to his own, he touched his chest and felt a phantom pain there, not painful to react completely but enough to feel where the punch had landed. He looked up from his chest with a large smile on his face.
"Wow, you're definitely strong enough to be in the S-class. Now I hope you're ready for my counter." darshine said getting ready to attack midoriya, he charged forwards towards midoriya, and delivered a straight punch midoriya used a cross block to stop the massive blow the power of which sent him back several feet before he skidded to a halt, his arms were shaking somewhat from the punch but he could still move them just fine. Darkshine showed a surprising amount of speed as he closed the gap on midoriya in no time, throwing a jab that midoriya narrowly avoided, midoriya jumped back away shooting out numerous concentrated air burst but darkshine simply let the attacks wash over him seemingly not even phasing the man despite the fact that the wind that the attacks kicked up was gigantic eclipsing the dojo itself. Forcing the others to buckle down from the force being emitted. Midoriya changed tactics using his black whip to wrap around darkshine and propelling himself foot first while simultaneously drawing himself closer with the black whip increasing his speed to increase the power of his jump kick, but to his surprise the kick was simply grabbed by darkshines massive hand, midoriya acted quickly swinging his other leg around trying to perform another kick twisting his body to deliver another kick this time aimed for his head but darkshine reacted quickly again using his other hand to grab the kick, before midoriya could think about what to do next he realized that he was spinning, darkshine began to spin midoriya around before slamming him into the ground, midoriya immediately used his smokescreen to cloud his movement and hopefully the shock of the maneuver would loosed darkshine grip on him which succeeded. He managed to get out from under darkshine, and was about to try and attack in the cover of the smoke but a sudden wave of air cleared all of the smoke from the area.
"You are just full of surprises, aren't you?" darkshine said with a grin as he prepared for the next attack. Midoriya racked his brain on what else he could do, darkshine didn't give him the opportunity charging forth launching multiple right hand jabs, midoriya attempted to dodge each one while returning some punches of his own, he didn't have much luck in the exchange his punches lacked the oomph to significantly stagger darkshine while the returning blows he successfully dodged around most of but the ones that did land would stagger him causing even more blows to land, midoriya jumped back from the exchange before jumping back in he had a little bit of fa jin stored in his left hand and he began to charge back at darkshine using a 100% Delaware smash , darkshine reacted in kind becoming enthrall with the battle and used his Superalloy Bazooka, the two punches collide sending a massive shock wave that shook the mountain they stood on bang breathed a sigh of relief as that last clash spelled the end of the spar, as the smoke and dust cleared both combatants fist were still connected and it was midoriya that flinched back first slightly shaking his hand in pain.
"That was a great match!" darkshine said, holding out his other hand for midoriya to shake.
" It was, you're really strong Mr. darkshine." Midoriya said in admiration.
"THAT WAS AWESOME!" They both heard Kirishima scream as he put his phone away, he had hardened one hand and both his legs and dug them into the ground to not get blown away meanwhile ojiro hung onto him with his tail as bang stood there.
"Well at least there wasn't damage done to my dojo." bang said as he looked over to the tree's and surrounding area with some potholes, cracks , and some of the trees were upturned. Well not too much damage was done to his dojo he thought again as midoriya and darkshine made their way over.
"So what are we about to do now bang?" darkshine said, bang rubbed his chin in thought for a moment before looking over to ojiro and charanko.
"Would it be too much for you if you take them out for patrol? Ojiro expressed wanting to and charanko can use the experience " bang questioned.
"Sure, I don't patrol very often but it could be fun. Everyone cool with that?" Darkshine received a wave of excited confirmation before the group left towards the city while bang stayed behind to clean up the mess from the matches.
The motley crew of darkshine, kirishima, midoriya, ojiro, and charanko began to walk the streets of z-city. So far nothing of note happened so far in the city, only petty criminals that were quickly apprehended by the teens until suddenly an alarm rang out through the city, there were two demon level threats in the area, the group immediately ran to the area and were surprised by what they found. There was a giant dragon knight and what rode on top of it was an equally massive man in a full suit of armor, it flew in the sky raining fireballs around in the sky. Midoriya, ojiro, and kirishima immediately got to work in protecting the fleeing civilians from the fireballs or debris from crashing buildings, charanko just cowered behind darkshine who stood motionless in the center of the street.
Midoriya had just finished saving a couple of civilians from a collapsing building before having his danger sense immediately flare up quickly turning around just in time to see a fireball heading directly for him, he immediately turned to the citizens behind him and wrap them up with his black whip as the fireball slammed home directly in his back he felt the heat wash over him as dust immediately covered his vision, kirishima and ojiro immediately came to his aid asking if he was ok, after confirming he was alright he instructed the the two to get the civilians to safety. They both agreed and left with them, midoriya shot out of the smoke towards the rooftops, next to the dragon and it's rider, he looked at the hero curiously then back down towards the where the fireball went seeing the other hero escorting the civilians away.
"For each person you save, 100 more will take their place." the rider said in a mystical almost dead voice. He raised his hand and it began to glow with a dark purple aura, beneath the dragon a dark purple aura appeared on the ground rising from the portal were knights in oblique and dark armor, wielding all sorts of medieval weapons such as swords and shields, some with even maces and spears. Midoriya immediately rushed forward soaring through the air and snatched the villain from on top his mount, crashing him onto the roof of a building nearby the action immediately closed upon him being tackled; only 10 knights had emerged from the portal. Upon being closer to the man or so he thought was a 3 meter tall giant but as he looked in his eyes, dead eyes stared back, another pulse of aura suddenly pushed him off. Skidding to a stop near the rooftops edge.
"Why are you doing this? Who are you?" midoriya asked
"I was betrayed long ago, I warned of the rising seas, the imminent apocalypse, but they did not listen even after finding proof in the dragon's but they were afraid of the power it granted me, they lured me away and sealed me in a tomb but I was awakened under the depths. And now I'm back to reap what is sowed." the rider stated in a scornful tone.
"But these people today, likely have no clue of that. Why take out your anger on them?" Midoriya tried to reason.
" the sins of the father pass on to its sons." was the riders only response. Before lashing out at midoriya a sword manifesting in his hands and slashing at the boy which nearly avoided the blow, midoriya shot back with his airforce gauntlets but the rider raised his other hand summoning a magic barrier and it reflected back at him, catching him off guard and catching him in the face. Midoriya recovered quickly and bounced straight at the rider.
Below the 10 knights charged forth at the group below, kirishima, ojiro, and darkshine stood ready to face them while charanko still cowered behind them unsure of himself. The group charged forwards as the group met the heroes kirishima hardened his body to block the strikes of two swords swiping down at him, ojiro battled a knight that held spear and shield user along with mace wielder narrowly avoiding a thrusting stab from the spear and countering with a tail swipe which was blocked by the user shield before using it as a platform to launch off as the mace wielder tried to swing at him. Darkshine simply charged ahead towards the dragon completely obliterating five of the knights that tried to stop him, surprised by the act charanko began to crawl backwards out of the way of the fight but before he could another knight was in front of him bearing down on him with twin daggers he let out a shriek of terror but was surprised when the assailant was knocked aside by ojiro's tail.
"What are you doing? get up!" ojiro demanded, scaring the boy into action. Ojiro took a glance at his fellow disciple and saw how he was shaking. He was clearly terrified of the enemies in front of him, maybe from a lack of experience he thought.
"Don't worry they're weaker than they look. " he tried to encourage him but seeing that it was no use he tried a different tactic.
"Did bang teach you to be a coward? He wanted you to experience hero work and this is it. Are you gonna run away and fail him?" ojiro chastised, this time the boy looked at him almost in mock anger at the notion which drew him into a determined state of mind. Ojiro noted that his body stopped shaking and he got into a stance ready to fight.
The two knights that ojiro was fighting earlier charged forth ready to attack the two disciples as the third knight that attacked charanko went invisible before their very eyes, the knight with the spear thrust forth again trying to gore ojiro which he evaded grabbing the weapon he closed the distance and punched the knight in the face which it guarded with his shield leaving it open for ojiro to wrap his tail around his leg and spin the knight and throw him into a nearby wall concurrently the mace wielder attacked charanko with renewed determination to not disappoint bang , he pivoted away from the first mace strike, using the moment to spin completely and deliver a reverse roundhouse kick that was blocked by the knight. The knight attempted to grab his leg but he quickly pulled it back and did an open palm strike to the creatures chest, staggering it somewhat in the process, but it recovered quickly and began to swing its mace above his head which he then threw it at charanko, he saw the attack coming a momentarily panicked but after thinking of bang and his training calmed he managed to redirect the trajectory of the ball back towards its master which landed squarely in its face knocking the knight on the ground, his celebration was short lived after he was suddenly tripped up by ojiro before he could ask why, the boy yelled to him to dodge as the third knight tried to stab him on the ground he quickly rolled away on the floor avoiding a stab before the knight disappeared again causing the two boys to face back to back and wait for it's next strike.
Kirishima had just got done beating the two sword wielding knights when he stopped to look at his friends. They were back to back looking at their surroundings searching for something. He looked towards darkshine who held the dragon's jaws in his hands completely halting it in place before he could explain how manly that was he saw the dragons mouth begin to smoke and it's body began to show lines of it building up energy, he looked back in the way of his friends who were in the direction the flames would go and yelled for them to get out of the way, ojiro looked over to kirishima and saw him gesturing to the dragon and got the message and went to grab for charanko before bouncing away with his tail, the knight tried to take the opportunity of him losing focus to strike but didn't land a direct hit merely scoring a mark on his tail which didn't go through, but before it could chase after the dragons fire came streaming out of its mouth down the whole street incinerating everything in its path, including the knight itself. Kirishima sighed in relief as he saw his friend had leapt away in time turning to look and see if darkshine was ok and was un-surprised when he was just fine holding the dragon's mouth shut before delivering a punch that completely evaporated the beast in one blow.
"ALDUIN!" was the cry of the rider as he continued to fight midoriya on the top of the rooftop, the momentary distraction was enough for midoriya to speed in and tackle the man off crashing down to the streets below, quickly using his black whip to tie him up and restrain him.
"Alright! We won!" kirishima hollard as he got closer to them all, followed closely behind by ojiro and charanko.
"Yeah we did! I was so awesome." Charanko said with supreme confidence.
"Didn't you just sit around and hide for most of it?" darkshine replied, cutting the man's self-congratulations short.
"He just needed some motivation, it's his first time doing hero work." ojiro defended giving the older boy a nod which was returned.
"Now all that's left is getting this guy behind bars." Midoriya said as he turned to look at the rider who seemed to be grieving over his pet, mumbling to himself before suddenly becoming ashe alarming everybody followed by a sudden sound drawing their attention elsewhere as a sword covered in dark purple aura rushed into the sky and away from the scene.
"That was weird." Kirishima mentioned.
"You can say that again." charanko commented.
" Well onwards we go." Darkshine said eager to continue on, completely uncaring of what just happened and soon the rest followed, Midoriya took one last look in the direction the sword flew to before turning to follow as well.
A tag along: Tatsumaki, Zombieman, Uraraka, Tokoyami, Toru
Uraraka was back at the training field again between cities, she was surprised that the place wasn't hollowed out by now given how much rock tatsumaki must have been excavating for her but she was also surprised by the amount of pettiness the heroin had for such a simple comment yesterday which carried on to now, she had increase the gravity she exerted on her to 3 times instead of 2 which made it even harder to move, as a result she was directly pelted with multiple small pebbles that would strike all over her body they didn't hurt as bad as she would thought but they everywhere. She couldn't avoid them or maneuver away, so she just began to block them and try to keep them away from her using her own rocks.
"OK! I learned my lesson, I won't talk back ever again!" she yelled over the rocks pelting her, causing them to stop in their tracks and hover around her instead.
"Good! Weaklings like you should know there place and listen when the strong are talking." the girl said indignantly, uraraka only sighed and nodded her head in defeat, she was curious why this girl was so high on being strong, while strength is needed for being a hero but their other things that hero's need such as compassion, forgiveness, or inspiration but she shows none of that especially to heroes she finds weak, sero was right she does remind her of bakugo in that way. She silently chuckled to herself at how sero was spot on about the girl before being immediately knocked out of the experience as she was hit in the gut by a fast moving rock making her hunch over somewhat in pain.
"What are you doing losing focus!" Tatsumaki yelled. Causing uraraka to groan somewhat before quickly recovering in time to dodge the next rock that was aimed at her. But the attack still caught her by the foot, messing up her landing and forcing her to the ground. She knew that the attack wasn't going to stop so she quickly began to roll away from her initial landing avoiding another rock that hit the spot she was previously. Suddenly the ground beneath her raised up completely shooting her into the air, thinking quickly she immediately touched her self to prevent herself from falling but realized that instead of floating upwards she was being dragged back down by the rocks that clung to her, she quickly releasing them from her grappling hook she was still being dragged downwards at the same speed, that confirmed a theory of hers that tatsumaki powers overridden hers and she continued to fall towards the ground multiple rocks flew up to attack her.
She attempted to pivot and spin out of the way of the oncoming barrage but with her increased gravity on her body along with the weightlessness of her motion the movement proved difficult, only being able to avoid one-third of the barrage, although it wasn't completely negative as each hit slowed her descent to the ground somewhat to a more survivable fall but to prevent the fall all together, she used her grappling hook to hook on to one of the rocks that passed her, forcing her body to jerk upwards a bit again slowing her speed again before letting go and sticking the landing on the ground.
"Hmm, that was an acceptable performance." was all tatsumaki said as she picked the girl up again and began to fly over towards another city, uraraka mentally preparing herself for what's about to come. They flew further than she was used to and when they landed Tatsumaki ordered her to remain there as the familiar sirens were heard over the area, the threats levels highlighted were that of 2 wolves and a tiger.
The area she was in seemed to be abandoned a shopping centers with multiple stores were boarded up with and the cars were empty of passengers a but before she could take more of the scenery in the store front of a auto-mechanic burst open and a large robot appeared it was appeared to be a mix match of materials from the shop itself along with a couple of cars parts, it spotted the girl and immediately became hostile letting out a mechanic screech than charged at her, uraraka thought on her feet and grabbed some of the rocks next to her choosing the larger 40 ton rock and using her quirk on it and picking it up with her grappling hook to throw at the charging robot, it attempted to catch the rock but was surprised by the weight, the hand that attempted to catch it compressed and crushed intiself sending sparks flying out along with a screech of pain making uraraka wince from the sound.
the robot looked at its crushed arm and back at the girl before changing tactic, picking up a car and throwing it at the girl she wanted to dodge to the side but was hesitant as she was still under the effects of three times normal gravity, she instead launched two 20 ton rocks at the vehicle affect fully canceling the momentum of the vehicle out causing both the car and rocks to drop towards the ground. The robot creature charged forth behind the vehicle closing the distance and leaping at the girl, she used her increase gravity to her advantage dropping down fast but not without touching the it with her quirk and attaching the grappling hook to it's foot as it passed over, she quickly used all her strength to slam the robot around her towards the ground crippling it.
She breathed a sigh of relief but before she could catch her breath a sudden explosion rocked from behind sending her flying back, it was an even larger machine that had a wrecking ball as a hand and another arms with a drill, it looked to be made of construction tools given it's branding a yellow codding on it shoulder was a smaller machine almost the same size as the one she just fought that had blue highlighting and made of common kitchen appliances as it held only knives as weapons along with the body of a stove.
The big machine screech at her and shot out it's wrecking ball with surprising speed, she heard someone yell her name in the back of her mind but was to focused on what in front of her to check what's happening, suddenly she felt weightless as she was lifted away from the blow and three large shots rang out around her, she looked at what moved her only to see dark shadow following the line of his body back to the source she found toru and someone else next to tokoyami, the stranger was the source of the shots as his pistol still had smoke pouring out from the gun, once she was set down she checked back to the machines that were attacking only to see each of them fallen over in a heap, from headshots which surprised her given that the distance from here to their was at least 500 meters and his gun held no sights for visual enhancement. But before she could think more on it, darkshadow made a comment that made her flush with embarrassment.
"Wow, you sure gained some weight while we were here." he jested with a small laugh.
"DARK SHADOW!" tokoyami immediately boomed, bonking the shadow on the head.
"OMG! I can't believe he would just say that! Don't mind him uraraka. Even if you did gain weight we would all still love you just the same. I'm sure Midoriya would to.`` Toru tried to ease the girl's worries only making the girl flush even more in embarrassment.
"No, no, NO! It's just that tornado, increasing my gravity by three times its normal, HONEST!" Uraraka protested, covering her face with her hands and not floating upwards, which convinced her classmates her story was true.
" Oh, sorry." Toru said, rubbing the back of her head.
" Apologies for that, dark shadow." tokoyami demanded
"I'm sorry." dark shadow said with puppy dog eye, curling up in front of uraraka. Who patted the shadows head before it quickly fled inside of tokoyami.
"you said your under tornado of terror? My condolences." zombieman stated simply.
Earning a chuckle from the brown haired girl, but suddenly zombieman was forced to the ground cratering it and his neck bending at a weird angle.
"AND WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!" tatsumaki yelled, coming down from the sky. Zombieman recovered quickly and brushed himself off, twisting his neck back into place.
"Hello to you too." zombieman said casually.
"What are you doing here anyways?" she said, crossing her arms under her chest
"We were just passing through and heard the alarms , so we decided to help. Just in time she could have been hurt." zombieman said, only receiving a scoff at the notion.
"Oh please. I was protecting her and she was gonna be fine from that hit." as she said that uraraka began to glow green.
"So you were just watching this take place?" zombieman said, causing another dispute between the two heroes arguing back and forth. The teens step to the side and let them at it.
"Sero wasn't kidding she does have a temper similar to bakugo's" toru jested making tokyami nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, tell me about it. Where are you guys going?" Uraraka asked.
"While heading towards a martial arts dojo for toru." Tokoyami answered.
"Yeah, we just left, midoriya and ojiro master bang and were going to head towards his brother's dojo next!" Toru exclaimed excitedly.
"Oh that sounds cool, can I come with?" uraraka asked
"Sure the more the merrier." Toru said.
"I'm sure your teacher may have something to say about that." tokoyami mentioned nodding towards the floating heroine. Uraraka interrupted the arguing hero's to ask Tatsumaki to see if she could leave, after some initial dispute she reluctantly agreed to allow her to go with them but stating that their training the next day will be even harder, she began to fly away but uraraka still felt the increase in gravity on her and when asked about it, tatsumaki just blew her off. She sighed seeing that this was the best outcome and went along with the others towards bombs dojo. The walk towards the dojo wasn't very eventful and the group had finally made it to bombs dojo which took longer then they expected if it weren't for needing to take brakes every now and again so that uraraka could catch her breath. They finally came upon the edge of bomb dojo it was similar to bang's in some ways but instead of the tranquil height atop a mountain, bomb's was on the cratered in the ground surrounded by jagged edges the landscape was barren only stone structures and monoliths dotted the landscape.
"Ok, seriously there's no way her power extends this far! She has to be stalking us or something" Uraraka exclaimed tiredly as she sat down on the ground.
" I wouldn't say anything if I were you." zombieman remarked just before uraraka seated position became a flattened one. Toru and Tokoyami both reacted in shock about what's happening to their friend and they were mostly powerless to help her, after a minute or two the gravity effect entirely dissipated.
"Espers channel their power with their minds, so being clouded in it I assume they can hear your thoughts or something." zombieman said casually.
"Try…telling…me…that …sooner…next time." uraraka said between breaths
"Are you alright?" Toru said with concern.
"yeah , I'm fine now… seems like she let me go, completely now." Uraraka said, lifting her hand and dropping it down.
"Must be so surreal to be back to normal gravity." tokoyami mentioned, earning a nod from the girl , who tried to stand up and tip over slightly as she stood up a little too fast.
"Just got to get my bearings as I go, I've slowed you guys down long enough." she said with conviction.
The group progressed towards the dojo, the dojo seemed to just let out it's class and the crew was shocked to see a number of different students disembark from the dojo, most pass by easy enough some given a wide birth to tokoyami even with his new helmet on while some stopped to say hi to zombieman or ask for an autograph, the hero politely declined and the group continued forwards and stopped in front of the man they assumed was bomb, he was an aged old man similar to his brother with flowing long hair in the back, bald on top, with an long beard all as white as snow and he wore a traditional green and blue martial arts robes. He waited for the group to come closer to him before he spoke.
"I guess you are the ones Bang called me about. But I see there are more of you than he said there would be." he started looking over the group.
"We picked up a stray on our travels. But we're mostly here for this one." zombieman said, jerking a thumb towards toru.
"Hello sir, my names toru." the girl said, walking for and reaching out a hand for the man to shake.
"Hello miss toru. My brother informed me about choosing between him and myself." the older gentlemen said while shaking her hand.
" Yes, Mr. Zombieman said that your style would suit me better than your brothers given I'm naturally invisible."
"As I've heard from my brother, which begs the question why did you settle on my martial art?" bomb asked zombieman.
"Because you and bang are held as some of the best martial artists in the world, also given our shared partnership in the association it offered connections that could allow her to be accepted. I ultimately chose you over bang because it would feed into the strength of being invisible, naturally she wouldn't be targeted very often in combat which leaves the more defensive options of your brother's style moot on the other hand if she is always given the first strike I would like for her to finish the target with that strike." zombieman explained starting to lean on the dojo support pillars. The olderman digested the information while stroking his beard, while the teens almost looked in shock at the man.
"You guys must have gone over this with a lot of thought." Uraraka murmured to her friends.
"No not at all, that's just him." toru shook her head in disbelief at the thought zombieman had put into finding her a martial art to study.
"He has a very keen mind and is very analytical." tokoyami mentioned.
"So you hope to lean her into the role of a glass cannon, why?" bomb asked.
"Well to be invisible, she has to be completely naked, she has little choice but to be." zombieman reasoned.
"I see and what about you young toru, do you agree with zombieman's sentiment?" bomb asked
"Well…I can understand the logic behind what zombieman said. What concerns me is what your brother told me about your martial art. From what I can understand It's pretty deadly compared to his." Toru hesitantly said. Earning a laugh from the old man.
"Yes well that is true, but don't worry it's not some instakill technique you must have the intent to kill behind it to achieve the desired effect. observe " bomb said as he walked away towards one of the numerous stone monolithic that dotted the landscape. This one was a thick rock 10ft tall and wide. Bang approached the rock he sprouted three fingers from his hand in a claw shape and thrusted forward to teens' surprise. The rock was suddenly cut in perfect circular chunks in the different places, the top going further while the rest tailed behind.
"WOW! That's incredible." Uraraka said, clapping her hands.
"And frightening," Tokoyami said as well, which mimicked toru thoughts on how she would be able to even use such a technique on a living being, making her shake slightly in thought of the aftermath something like that would cause. Noticing her trembling form, Uraraka placed a hand on her shoulder.
"It's ok, you don't have to use that technique if you don't want to" she assured., earning a nod of thanks from the girl. Bomb approached the group again.
"I won't force you to make the choice currently and I can understand how some may think of that technique as brutal but I also teach other moves as well, the whirlwind is usually an augment to the basics." he said, making toru become a little more relieved.
"For now may I ask you to show me how you fight currently, if you do choose me to instruct you, I would like to see where your current abilities lie." bomb said.
"Oh, ugh.. Sure but who am I going to spar with?" Toru asked.
"I'll do it!" Uraraka immediately replied. With that settled bomb took the crew inside and as the other sat down and uraraka and toru took up their position. Bomb announced the two to commence and they two girls charged towards each other.
Games and Rivals: King, Saitama, Genos, Bakugo, Todoroki, Mineta, ?
Mineta and king were just on their way towards the gaming convention. Mineta took a look at king wardrobe as they stepped outside and was curious.
"Why are you wearing that king?" he said somewhat to loudly for kings liking
"Shhhs not so loud, because if I were to go out normally I would draw too much attention, so I use this mask and shades to conceal my identity and live life at least somewhat normally." king said. Mineta nodded in comprehension but he didn't understand why king didn't want the attention, undoubtedly he would have fans that would love to meet him, maybe even entire female fan clubs dedicated to him, if that were him he would love the attention and adoration. He gushed just thinking about it. The two approached a rather quaint lounge that he would expect for a gaming event; it was a small space with tables scattered about with a stage in the front. A man in a tuxedo stepped on the stage and started to speak. They talked about all of the rules, regulations, controls that will be used for the game and mineta got a kick out of seeing the bunny suits some of the women wore around the place after choosing their characters the two were ready for the tournament. King chose a pink anthropomorphic koala in a red bikini, while mineta chose an anthropomorphic rat character. King was in the first round and his opponent was a big gorilla fighter, from experience he knew king was wicked strong at this game so he wasn't really worried about the match up but the advent of the VR system could maybe change things, after all pressing buttons and inputs were would be at a disadvantage against someone moving their bodies. Right?
"This better not be, another one of your errands, trash can." bakugo said as he and Todoroki followed behind genos.
"Master has stated that a large-scale battle will take place soon at his location, it is of the utmost importance that we go as quickly as possible." genos said, somewhat jogging. He slowly entered into the massive building not paying attention to any of the branding which halted the two teens at the entrance.
"You seriously don't think that toaster is serious?" bakugo said, holding back his anger.
" I…I don't know, he made it seem like a real threat, maybe his master conveyed the event poorly." Todoroki tried to reason, the teens looked around the big stadium seeing all of the branding for a worldwide competition for a game called wild animals. The two caught up to their master just as he questioned why everyone would be so calm in an imminent large-scale battle.
"Because it's not a real battle, you idiot." bakugo stated as he marched up to the cyborg.
"It's a world wide tournament for a game of some kind." Todoroki said approaching as well.
"Exactly-" a gong rang out through the arena and saitama started away from the group into a large waiting area filled with people in front of a large stage, where a skinny man in a tuxedo began to announce the importance of the event, how it was taking place all over the world, how anyone could register, and most importantly was the 5 million yen cash prize, which got the attention of saitama. Both saitama and genos charged forth into the crowd to register followed by a reluctant bakugo and todoroki, once at the registry genos was turned away from being enhanced by cybernetics which was against the rules and after a large and protracted argument with him and bakugo both he and todoroki registered for the tournament as well. The crew were now walking down towards the tech area.
"Why would you have us register we don't even know how to play this stupid game!" bakugo exclaimed with his hands in his pockets walking down the hallway.
"You won't have to worry about that." was all saitama said.
"And why do you say that?" todoroki inquired, saitama only pointed to a area in response, in the direction he pointed at was a girl in a bunny costume, who was giving the input options the game has on one side their was regular controllers/pads/or arcade machine but on another was a vr system where the game mirrors your body movements.
"So that's why you're confident in your victory sensei!" genos exclaimed next to him, which his master nodded in return.
"Yes, that means the person that is strongest in real life will also be the strongest in the game world. That 5 million yen is as good as mine." Saitama said, balling his hand into a fist in front of him.
"Oh you think you're the strongest in the world? Aren't you just a B-class nobody?" bakugo mocked.
"Master Saitama's results were undoubtedly tampered with by the association. He broke every record available but was still placed in C-class. Someone must have had a vendetta against him and once I find out whom, I will incinerate them for their intrusion.`` Genos said immediately in his master's defense. Saitama put a hand in front of Genos, signaling him to stop.
"I told you before don't go burning people on my behalf and as for you um…explody guy.. Just watch, I'll get to the finals only using one punch." Saitama said seriously. After some time of getting adjusted to the VR headset and getting them calibrated for their body types the contestants were ready and to the surprise of the crew Saitama was the first match of the tournament. Just as the match began, it had ended a second later to the surprise and shock of the crowd, the only voice heard was the sound of laughter as bakugo was mocking and pointing at how fast the supposed strongest lost the match.
Genos was almost enraged by the opponents lack of class even taunting his masters character once he was defeated but he was calmed down by Saitama who dispatched what he considered wisdom to him which he wrote down in his journal. The next round Todoroki was up, he wasn't too well versed in hand to hand combat and he really didn't care much about winning this tournament but he would give the match his best either way. He approached the machine and stepped onto the stage putting on the VR headset being launched into the virtual world of the game.
The backdrop of the stage was setting sun on a cliff face of the ocean. The character he chose was that of a dog anthro, while his opponent was that of a snake anthro. Todoroki tested his movements and just as advertised his character model moved along with it, his opponent did the same shooting off a few punches and a couple of kicks as the clock continued to countdown. Todoroki steeled himself as the start sign flashed on screen, the serpent immediately leaped forward with a punch, todoroki sidestepped the blow sending out a punch that was deflected by his opponents other hand, his opponent launched out with a side kick that his todoroki in the stomach staggering his characters leaving him open to a follow up combo that that left his character in the air.
he finally had a moment to recover and find his footing again and launched another straight punch at the charging man that was easily dodged, and reciprocated by a knee to the gut, todoroki managed to block the incoming punch aimed at his face but was too slow to counter, instead being forced to block a flurry of punches from his opponent seeing the barrage weigh somewhat he tried to attack again only to be countered and hit with another flurry of blows that ended with a combo of kicks that finished him off and ended the game. As he got back to the group bakugo was still laughing.
"Really that's all you got icy-hot, I could have seen that faint from a mile away." bakugo joked.
"Although , rather vulgar, I agree with his assessment. Your hand to hand combat skills are lacking." genos commented.
"Hand to hand combat wasn't focused much in my training." Todoroki commented.
"You mean to say, you neglected it in your training. Focusing on your attributes are important but your body is still the most important aspect in a fight.`` Genos said matter of factly.
"Maybe so." Todoroki said simply. As they were talking it was bakugo turn to fight. He was a 5th round participant, he chose the character of a lion, a king fitting a king he thought as he approached the stage and grabbed the VR headset, he set it on his head the backdrop was a navy shipyard. Bakugo's opponent was a lizard man, he watched as the counter counted down. He smiled with anticipation. The match began and bakugo was the first one to move running straight at the lizard man, launching numerous punches and jabs to gauge his opponents defenses; he jumped back just in time to dodge a kick from the lizard man before coming back for more, he countered another snap kick pushing it off to the side before landing a punch straight into the lizards face followed by multiple others, ending in a strong uppercut sending his opponent flying upwards. His opponent recovered in the air and landed, bakugo didn't want to give him any quarter and charged forth and throw another punch but his opponent jumped over it and tried to deliver a dive kick, bakugo leaned away from the attack and using his opponents falling momentum along with his own upwards momentum launched a punch that went straight to his jaw, knocking the lizardman out and ending the match.
He handed the machine back to the worker and walked back to his group with a smug smirk on his face.
"That's how it's done, you extras." bakugo said confidently.
"The player you fought was clearly inexperienced, let's see how long you can keep this up." genos said in challenge.
"That means we got to stay huh?" Saitama sighed out in annoyance.
The spot Kings selected was a pretty luxurious location each group were separated into different rooms setup each with a controller or VR station, mineta was unsure of which input method he should take but ultimately decided with the controller as he wasn't the best at hand to hand combat in his class, especially without the use of his quirk. King's was in the first round and it was over in a flash, his first bout was a lot closer, even though he trained with king for this event if you would call just getting beat up training, he eventually managed to pull out the win and move on to the next round.
"You managed to beat that guy. You may have some talent in this game after all." king said
" It was close though, I almost guaranteed to lose the next round since my next opponents are probably going to be better than that." Mineta lamented.
" So you're gonna try the VR controls then? " king said
"Probably , but can you do something for me?" Mineta asked as he got closer to whisper into king's ear. "Can you convince the worker over there so I can use my quirk? It's not technically cheating as it's my natural ability." mineta whispered looking at the worker over by the vr area.
King thought for a moment and considered the small teens request who looked at him with his best pleading puppy dog eyes.
"Fine ." king conceded, making the teen jump in appreciation. King took on another round and again it was over in an instant, his hands blazing across the controller in a number of combos and actions that completely overwhelmed the opponent. And just like that, mineta match was next. Mineta and king both proceeded towards the vr station area and mineta immediately started to take off four pop off orbs from on top of his head getting a rise out of the employee but before he could say anything about it. King tapped the person on his shoulder drawing his attention and he gasped in shock as the king had removed his shades and mask to reveal his identity.
"Mr. King!" the employee said in shock.
"I would like for you to overlook my friends here." he said simply staring in the man's eyes. Making him gulp before speaking.
"B-but Mr. king that's tampering…it defeats the sportsmanship of the tournament." the employee said sheepishly.
"I can't tell you the details yet as it is classified but that is his natural ability no rules are being broken here." king said upon the look of doubt on the employees face he continued.
"Look, let this slide and I'll give you my autograph and a picture to authenticate it." king reasoned, bringing a smile to the employee's face, who quickly agreed and left the room to go and get something for him to sign. He came back with a magazine and he took a picture with king. Anything else they did was blocked out as Mineta put on the VR headset he had laid out his pop up balls in a cross around him.
The backdrop of this fight was an empty room of just white space, it reminded him of the matrix room at the end, his opponent was a lion, he did a mocking gesture before the match began and mineta responded in kind, the match began and the lion immediately rushed him launching a barrage of punches that mineta dodged out of the way from due to his small size, he tried to strike back but the punched was grabbed by his opponent which his opponent used as as an opportunity to strike him in the gut and throw him to the ground. Mineta got up quickly and stepped back onto his pop off which launched him forward in the game at rapid pace catching the lion off guard and landing a punch directly in the lion's face.
he continued the barrage with a 4 hit punch combo ending with a kick to the stomach sending the lion full screen. The lin quickly recovered and charged forth swiping low, mineta used the his pop off ball to dodge the attack and the one opposite to charge back for a counter the lion was more expecting this time and blocked his counter attacks, trying for another grab mineta had dodged by going low he bounced back and hit the lion in the back but the lion reacted quickly launching a back swipe that caught mineta in the face. The two opponents sized each other up from across the screen and mineta decided to strike first he quickly launched off with his pop off ball straight towards the lion who blocked the strike but he wasn't done he began launching his own barrage hit and run tactics to keep the lion on the defensive. Mineta believed he was wearing the lion down with this offensive but was surprised when it read the direction of one of his attacks and was about to punch him square in the face but before the punch could land the match came to an end. Mineta had won as he had more health remaining by the end. He cheered in celebration.
Bakugo nearly exploded the VR system in his hands, he had that bastard dead to rights, if it wasn't for the time limit he would have won for sure. He handed the machine back to the employers and grumpily marched back to the group.
"It was a close match." Todoroki commented.
"Can it icy-hot" bakugo snarled.
"Interesting, I saw the mouse's first match and his movements seemed far faster and smoother than before." genos mentioned.
"What, you're saying they're cheating or something. Makes sense the only way that chump would beat me.'' Bakugo sneered.
"I'm not sure, he could have just started using the VR controls." Saitama reminded.
"but if he was that good with the VR controls why wouldn't he start out with them?" Todoroki asked, only receiving a shrug in return. The groups started back towards the viewing area with numerous screens showing fights taking place all throughout the world at different venues. Bakugo insisted that they stay at least until that rat fucker goes down, they sat and watched as the matches continued the rat to bakugo dismay won another match again but this time he was up against another legend in the tournament he was against the dragon. Who has been beating people with just his kicks multiple times now. The rat was no different. He went down hard as soon as the match began a barrage of kicks met him and instantly defeated him leaving a grin on bakugo's face. Saitama was finally relieved that they could leave the event now but unfortunately for him the rest of his party was adamant in seeing who would win the competition outright, the three top contenders being the dragon, wolf, or koala. The last of the semi finals was between the wolf and the dragon, the match was what the fans had been anticipating a fight between martial artist.
"Is that Silver fang?" genos noted as the wolf finally began to fight back
"The old man doesn't play video games." Saitama noted.
"But how do you explain what we just saw?" genos commented.
"Could be a student of his." Todoroki commented.
"Doubtful, he only had one student whose skills are severely lacking compared to the wolf." genos stated matter of factly.
"WOAH! Look at them go.`` Mineta watched as the two characters brawled trading blow for blow. That dragon guy sure was strong but the wolf seemed to be able to keep up with him just fine.
the wolf and the dragon were trading blow for blow the two were almost equal in skill.
"finally someone that can actually fight." ? remarked eternally to himself as a wicked grin grew on his face.
he was currently on the defensive of the dragons ferocious attacks before he was just measuring his opponent the entire time seeing if he was actually worthy to force him to use that technique ultimately decided that he was and soon the blue trails started to coat his hands as he deflected a jumping kick form his opponent and in exchange traded with a blow of his own that struck dead center but his opponent pleasantly surprised him and countered his own counter with an attack of his own stopping him from following up on the attack he just land the two space themselves out before continuing on with the exchange he the opponent was more than his equal but he wasn't going all out just yet and he could tell that his opponent wasn't either so he wanted to take things up a notch just to draw out his full power
"What happened?" Mineta asked in confusion, the wolf just stop completely in it's tracks as the dragon seized the opportunity to win
"The wolf probably overloaded the controls and froze the system by moving too fast." the worker said, before looking over to king who was about to go next.
"Is that why you decided to use controller king? The inputs probably wouldn't work with how strong you are." the employee continued.
"Y-yeah let's go with that." was king's hesitant response.
"Not that you need it, but I'll be careful with that dragon he seems tuff." Mineta warned.
"Don't worry, I got this." was king 's reply full of confidence. The finals was finally here and mineta was on the edge of his seat ready for the bout to begin but despite how good the dragon was king was just too much, just like his other matches he completely overwhelmed the dragon and won the fight in an instant.
"Way to go king, you won the tournament!" Mineta yelled. All of the people were escorted back out into the lounging area where king was called up towards the stage to give a few parting words.
"I heard this was the last invitation, so I figured I'd give it a try. Sorry, I guess I'm too strong."
The philosophers: tank top squad , child emperor's group, great philosopher.
The day was going somewhat normally for Shoji and the tank tops , he quickly got into the routine of training out with the tank tops, some light sparing , and the occasional patrol that the tank top army would require of him. This time however unlike previously however where they're patrol was limited towards the city surrounding the headquarters this time they were traveling in a car to a faraway city designated Y-city. Shoji was accompanied by his usual crew of tank girl and tank philosopher who had a particularly cheery smile on his face.
"You're excited to go to Y-city? I assume." shoji asked to make conversation
"You could say that, it's not about the city itself , really but who is in it that piques my interest." tank philosopher replied.
"Someone you know is stationed there?" shoji questioned
"My brother-" he managed to say before getting interrupted by a surprised gasp from tank girl.
"What! You never told me you have a brother!" she exclaimed.
"Have I not mentioned it before? Well surely you should have noticed the similarities between us and our styles if you met him before. My brother is the great philosopher." he said simply making the girl pause in thought searching for an image to go with the name and remembering seeing him once on her patrols before.
"Oh yeah, that makes complete sense now that I think about it." she said, slamming her fist into an open palm. Tank philosopher nodded and looked back to shoji.
"As I said he's my older brother A-class rank 13." he stated simply.
"That reminds me, what rank are you?" shoji asked
"Me, I'm A-class rank 15, second highest in the tank top army behind veteran. Of course that's disregarding master of course." he said simply.
"So your brother is stronger than you." tank girl said somewhat mockingly.
"Well he is my older brother for a reason now isn't he?" tank philosopher said with a smug grin at the girl's exasperated expression.
"I might not be the only one with connections to the city, you may have some as well." tank philosopher said, looking at shoji.
"I don't believe I do if that 's what you're implying." Shoji said a bit curious.
"Did your book tell you that?" tank girl said more curious than mocking
"No and I presume you do because you said that your friends were assigned to other S-class heroes, which includes child emperor, his main laboratory is in Y-city." he reasoned.
"Oh, well in that case, yes you are correct on that, two of my classmates train under him." shoji confirmed.
"Oh I get to meet your friends, I'm curious if they are as unique as you are." tank girl said as she rotated her hand in a jester trying to use the right word to describe his quirk.
"I'm the most unique among my friends, debatably, they are more laid back when it comes to their quirks one has the ability to produce sound and the other the ability to shoot acid." shoji informed the two heroes.
The rest of the car ride was spent mostly with idle chatter and discussion of random topics and their life before becoming a hero. The car eventually came to a stop at the center of Y-city and the crew got out and started walking the streets. Nothing seemed to be happening so far and Shoji hadn't been getting as many strange looks as he had been previously but some people still stared at him when he thought he wasn't looking. An alarm finally came on signaling two threats of threat level tiger or above but the directions were in opposite directions to each other so the group decided to take on one of the threats together while and book it to the next location if the situation was necessary.
The group ran towards the where the threat was located to see a big mountain of a man fighting what appeared to be an equally giant mutant ape being with golden bands around their wrist and a decorated neck chain with red lunar shapes and black orbs around its neck. The giant seemed to have been talking to the creature as he held it in an arm hold but another creature almost identical attempted to strike from the side of the giant man only to have hit's chest caved in by tank philosopher. Who approached the man who held the beast in a death grip.
"What have I told you of waiting until after you confirm the enemy number to question them brother." he walked up to grab his book from the dead carcass as his brother chuckled lightly.
"I was not fated to die this day brother." great philosopher said as he overpowered the creature slamming it towards the ground using the book close to his chest and slamming it over the creature's head, crashing it on the concrete and busting the creature's head open on the concrete.
"Because I was fated to save you." tank philosopher said as he picked his book, back up both of the brothers chuckling lightly at each other.
"Oh brother, now there's two of them." tank girl sighed as she facepalmed. Shoji was going to join in when the group heard a bunch of shouts and growls all around them, signaling that there were many more opponents than the two they just faced. Using his quirk he created multiple ears to see if he could tell where exactly the noise was coming from and to his surprise it was all around them he quickly yelled that they were surrounded an as he said such more of those ape like being began to came out of alleyway and rooftops, 10 more of the creatures had sprung up surrounding the group of heroes.
"Oh man, we're in the center of the circus." tank girl said.
"We should regroup so we don't get separated." shoji said as he pointed towards the brothers.
"What you scared?" tank girl teased.
"No I just think-"
"Calm down kid, I'm just joking around. It was a good idea." she said as they made their way towards the two brothers going behind them and facing the apes at their backs.
"How strong is one individually? Can we take them" tank girl asked
"They are somewhat stronger than the average wolf level monster. But not much to write home about." great philosopher said as he stroked his large beard
"You hear that tentacole, they're somewhat tuff." she extrapolated.
The howling began to get louder and the apes around them started to jump around, they all began to jump down towards the group of heroes and rush them. Immediately two fell completely towards the ground as two books burst through two of their chest. The rest continued to charge at the group of heroes. Shoji sprouted multiple arms from his back ready to brace the charging apes, once they were in range he shot them forth targeting two apes that were coming at him one of them managed to dodge out of the way of the limb, holding onto it and biting down with its massive incisors.
This sent a surge of pain through his body but he powered through with his other attacks which hit the smaller ape straight on landing multiple punches that staggered the ape backwards falling back to the ground. tank girl charged forth at the apes instead fighting in the mist of three of them, she had managed to eliminate one quickly jumping into the air and wrapping her legs around one of their necks breaking it and the using her momentum to throw the body at the next ape charging her, the third ape stoke forth with its claws but she countered quickly using trapping its arms and flipping it over onto its back, quickly breaking the things arm in the process but before she could deliver a final blow the ape that had been knocked over by the dead body recovered enough to punch the girl off it companion, quickly jumping on top of her and trying to claw her throat out.
she held both of it's arms at bay but that still left its fangs, it began to reach down to try and bit her neck but she responded in kind launching a swift head but briefly disorientating the ape but it recovered quickly with new vigor forcing its arms down stronger slowly overpowering the girl and to make mattress worst the one the arm she broke was coming back for revenge before it could exact that revenge however elongate arms wrapped around one creature while 5 fist landed in the face of the creature on top of her. Knocking it off, she looked to see Shoji tossing the one he wrapped up into the ground, knocking the beast out cold which was then quickly followed by a book to the head by tank philosopher. A loud thud sound from behind her which was great philosopher slamming his book into the chest of the ape shoji just knocked out. As she stood up she realized that the battle was over.
"Thanks for the save their- your bleeding" she remarked seeing the blood on one of his additional arms
"Don't worry about it, my dupli-arms are dispensable." he explained.
"Oh well that's neat." she said.
"One battle won and another awaits" the great philosopher preached.
"We should hurry as well." Tank philosopher said shooting a warning glance at shoji but before he could ask what it meant they took off, he had a bad feeling as he and tank girl attempted to follow them to the other monster attack.
"Remind me to kill that little twerp, when we're done" mina screamed
"Just focus on surviving." Was jiro's immediate reply.
Both mina and jiro both were running away from a gelatinous blob monster abomination.
The day started normally enough for our two heroines, more Live testing for their upgraded tools and equipment, however this time upon hearing the monster alarm for the city, child emperor told the two that they should go alone despite their protest sitting that he needed to complete work on his brave giant project that mina was still peeved at him for not letting her get anywhere near even going so far as to put safeguards to stop her from closing within 500ft of the designated area.
The two heroes decided to just leave given that the monsters could be rocking havoc that very moment. Due to the panic state of the civilians around them, Mina didn't have to play 21 questions with almost every fashionista she came across even though she was more prepared this time given her time with toru and adjusting her Colors of her skin suit. As they got to the scene of the presumed threat, the area was eerily quiet, nothing seemed to be moving or making a sound but the shop windows were broken open and cars were overturned, the landscape clearly indicated that something had happened in the area.
Jiro went to work using her quirk to search the area for any kind of noise only coming up with some squishing and squelching sounds instead, figuring that nothing else was in the area she decided to check out the noise with mina. What the two came up apon was a towering 20 feet tall blob that seemed to have a singular eye in the center, it turned to face them and to their shock they noticed that somebody was inside of it, from the looks of it there was a hero with armor and a red scarf.
The blob took a couple of steps towards the girls which they began to back up from it.
"Any ideas?" mina asked
"We need to get that guy out of there before he suffocates." Jiro explained.
"That much is obvious. But how?" mina said
"I have an idea, but you'll need to get around it." jiro said pointing behind the blob, having an idea what she was going to do, mina threw her a thumbs up and began to run towards the beast it reciprocated trying to grab her but she easily managed to dodge under its attempt using her acid to skate along the ground at a fast paste, once she was behind the creature who turned around to face her jiro shot out a sound wave directly towards the trapped human as she expected the sound waves had enough force to launch the person out of the blobbed mass and directly towards mina but she miscalculated the force and the guy ended up sailing further away than she had anticipated but mina thought quickly using her quirk with maxim viscosity to shoot out two strings of rope and catching the man in web she made. The man quickly took a deep breath, and opened his eyes in a panicked look over his surroundings He pulled free of the restrictions and was immediately on guard from a pink girl running up to him. Seeing this, Mina slowed her pace and put her hands out in front of her.
"Easy..Easy. I'm friendly, are you ok?" she asked the man. He visibly relaxed somewhat and coughed while answering her.
"I'm…I'm fine, thank you for rescuing me. I'm the C-class hero red muffler." he said
"Hello I'm C-class hero acid cherry but you can just call me pinky." mina smiled, shaking the guy's hand.
"UGH, Guy's save the introductions for later!" Jiro said as she was getting cornered by the beast blasting holes in the creature only for it to regenerate like nothing happened.
"Oh got to go!" mina said quickly
"I'll find help!" red mufflers yelled back as he saw the girl running away.
Mina continued forwards toward the giant creature and she switched her acid to that of maximum acidity and shooting them forth towards the creature, to her surprise the creature absorbed it but howled in pain none the less and she watched as he acid moved through the creature and was quickly expelled back towards her and at jiro in front of it, thankfully jiro used her arm amps to dodge out of the way.
"Watch where you're aiming!" she yelled at her friend.
"That wasn't technically me." Mina replied, as she avoided a swing from the monster, its hand changed into a ball with spikes on it.
The shockwave of the impact sent Mina spiraling but she was stopped by jiro. The two of them faced down the monster but instead of attacking them it reach its hand out to a near fire hydrant breaking it open and absorbing water into its form increasing it's size before it stopped and began to shoot the water out of appendages on its body forcing the girl to begin to run away. The monster chased after them shooting out water that tore the streets apart around them or tossed over cars on shots that strayed to wild. The blob tossed a car in front of them, halting their progress forcing them to turn around and face it. It shot out a huge water gust at them and mina and jiro both reciprocate using they're quirks in conjunction to resist the effects but they were fighting a losing battle, they eventually lose but mina thought ahead summoning part of her acid-man on one side of her body to not burn jiro as blob creature grabbed them, feeling the burning sensation from mina acid the blob monster threw the two girls away, they both tried to brace for impact before being caught by two extended arms.
"Shoji!" They both said in unison as he reeled them in, they noticed a girl next to him and was going to ask about it but as he put them down the monster made they're way towards the three. A two flickers were caught in their vision as two men jumped from the rooftops on top of the monster coming down. They heard the two voices sound out as two books crashed into the monster completely exploding it.
" Raining philosophy! Philosophical tank volley!"
The brothers landed in the center of where the monster was and took up their books and walked towards the group of teens.
"I assure these are your friends tentacole." tank philosopher said.
"Fate was on your side, today." great philosopher said.
"Ugh, thanks for the assist." Jiro said to the two book holding heroes.
"Yeah, that thing was crazy!" mina exclaimed
"Ugh, guys…" Tank girl said as she began to point towards where the creature, its blobs starting to reform around the center of the eye piece but before it could fully resemble a blur completely charge and ripped the eyepiece out destabilizing the blob again, the being that did appeared in front of the clearly it was mechanical but it had a dog appearance to it, with the things eye in its mouth, the blob was continuing to pursue the eye but as it got close the machine bit down breaking the eye thing in half. Where the blob liquid just stopped moving completely and fell towards the ground. Mina recognized the robot in child emperor's laboratory and to cement that fact she began to hear his voice through the machine as it turned around.
"Being so focused on my work, I forgot to give you a way to contact me if something went wrong." child emperor said bashfully.
"We could have been killed! You're definitely gonna let me touch all the things once I get back." Mina said angrily, making Jiro roll her eyes which allowed her to notice that another person was approaching them. It was the guy from before.
"I Bought reinforcements" he huffed.
"Thank you." Jiro told the guy.
Mina continued to chastise child emperor until the kid finally offered a peace treaty of a free meal at any place they want in the city for the entire group that is there, which she happily accepted and decided on of course the most expensive place in the city to the objections of no one present.
Show business: Sweet mask, Watchdog man, Aoyama, Asui
Aoyama was starting to get the hang of this reflection thing, he was now able to reflect his laser off of eight of the 10 mirrors, he had just been narrowing in on the 9nth mirror sweet mask broke in disrupting his concentration. The laser he fired had almost hit the star but the star thought quickly using his watch to deflect the blow back to him, Aoyama wasn't fast enough to dodge in time and was hit in the center of the head knocking him on his back. Aoyama noted how the attack didn't really hurt as much as he expected, nothing compared to a blow from sweet mask.
"Get up, we're going." sweet mask said in annoyance. The remark quickly stirred Aoyama in motion.
"What? um … where are we going sir?" Aoyama said curiously.
"I am having a concert in Q-city, you will be running security for the event along with a few others, not that you should be needed if mutt has anything to say about it but I digress." sweet mask said simply.
"Mutt? Do you mean watchdog man?"
"Why yes, are you a fan or something."
"No, it's just that one of my friends is training under him."
"I see, I have been meaning to search out your friends, what can you tell me about this one."
"I'm sure it's one of the girls, her name is asui and her quirks give her the same abilities of a frog."
"A frog? Sounds frankly useless." sweet mask said rubbing his chin.
" It may not sound strong but it's better than you may think, she can extend her tongue, excrete toxins, and even go invisible." Aoyama said, defending his friend.
"I see, we shall see."
With that said the two took off towards q-city, aoyama new suit, that sweet mask had commissioned has not been completed yet and the man had told him that he would like for him to only reveal it to the public during or after the live interview next month. So Aoyama was still in his original hero costume, the dent in his right shoulder plate having been buffed out. As the two made it to the event space and got out of the car, a large gust of wind met their presence forcing Aoyama to shield his eyes, once he was able to open them again he saw a man in a white dog costume in front of him on all fours, in a stance indicating danger but as aoyama turned his head he saw nothing to be on edge about.
"I see you're as rude as ever, watchdog man." sweet mask said, brushing off his clothes, when he received no response from the man but a slight growl.
" and as vocal as ever. Don't mind me, I'm just here for my concert. Feel free to do as you please but don't interrupt the show for my fans." sweet mask said with a not so friendly tone, only receiving another growl in return.
"As for you solar flare, you are to ensure that nothing interrupts my concert. I don't care if you have to put your life on the line to do it, familiarize yourself with the area, my concert starts in 2 hours." sweet mask said walking away, Aoyama was a bit taken back by the use of his hero name but he guessed that the place had a similar convention as in their world where in the field hero's don't use their real names but their hero names. He was brought back to the forefront when he heard the sound of sniffing next to him, he jumped back as the dog costume wearing man and jumped back a bit.
"Well hello there sir. You may not know me, but I'm' friends with one of the people you know. A hero named froppy." Aoyama said, holding out his hand, which the hero held out his paw for a shake instead and nodded.
"You smell similar." was all the hero said moving past him and following sweet mask, stopping outside of the event and sitting down. Aoyama went and stood next to the strange hero trying to come up with conversation but often time than not being ignored or only having short replied answers once in what felt like ages, feeling like the hero behavior indicated that he didn't want him around , he was about to leave and go to elsewhere around the arena, until he spotted a green suit that he recognized in the distance, after a few more minutes the figure was easier to make out and he definitely who the person was, it was froppy he waved his hand at her approach yelling out a French greeting before meeting her in the nearly full parking lot along the way. Hugging her before pushing off and noticing her short of breath.
"Why did you rush here, is there an attack coming?" Aoyama asked, worried. Asui showed him the GPS tracker and pointed at watchdog man before huffing out.
"Watchdog man never takes this long to return so I got worried. What are you doing here?" asui asked
"Sweet mask has a concert here and I'm working security." Aoyama said as the two made their way back over towards watchdog man.
"Doubt you have anything to worry about with watchdog man here, he eliminates all threats to the city almost instantly."
"I don't think he likes me very much." Aoyama said bashfully.
"Oh don't mind that, that's just how he normally is, with everyone." she said, petting the hero on his head, she noticed how the hero was physically tense.
"What's wrong? speak." asui looked down looking concerned
"I don't trust, sweet mask.. He smells wrong."
"Does he smell like us?" Asui asked, confused.
"No, like a monster." he said simply causing asui to gasp in shock.
"That can't possibly be true. Sweet mask is a legend to the people, he is also one of the head administrators of the hero association.`` Aoyama tried to reason but started to realize the harsh clash in his personality which could be attributed to it.
"I don't know, the association told me that monsterization can occur in humans through many things such as a fixation or desire. It could be something like that and he doesn't even realize it. Ribbit." asui said, putting a finger to her chin in thought.
"Doesn't matter." was all watchdog man said. Before any more conversation could be had about the topic the alarms went off, it signaled that the monster was a wolf level in the area. Asui was shocked to see that, watchdog man whined but failed to move. He moved his head up and down as he sniffed the air, he then looked towards tsu.
"You go." was all he said, shocking asui even more, he was really serious about sweet mask being a monster to the point where he didn't want to leave the area. But this was a chance for her to save a monster and if it turns out that sweet mask is a monster, he could revolutionize everything about this world and how they see monsters. Watchdog man then gave her the directions they would need to take to get to the designated area and bumped into her with his head begging her to go.
"Alright, aoyama wanna come with me? I could use some backup. Just in case." asui said, seemingly snapping Aoyama from his stupor and he nodded his head and continued along with the girl, surprising him in the fact that the monster was exactly where dogman said he would be. The monster was a humanoid man with draconic scales and covering half of his body, and a lizard shaped head, he wielded what appeared to be a scythe that held a draconic appearance with red accents on it. It turned to look at them and laughed.
"Where is watchdog man, is he too scared to fight me!" he boasted shooting out a fireball at the hero that they both dodged.
"Trust me, you will be happy that we caught you instead." asui said as she launched her tongue at the man wrapping it around him restraining him.
"Ha I'll watch where you stick your tongue if you don't want it to get burned." asui noted that the man's body temperature was quickly rising to almost burning levels, the heat forcing her to drop the man and quickly retract her tongue making it swell somewhat in her mouth. The man opened his mouth and shot out a long stream of fire chasing asui retreating tongue but aoyama interfered canceling out the strike with his naval laser. Asui quickly charged the man attempting to throw her mucus on the guy but it quickly evaporated upon touching his body , she sucked in a breath as she avoided a swipe from the man's scythe, cutting it clear though a car that was behind her. Aoyama shot out another naval laser while he was distracted, hitting the man in the shoulder somewhat staggering him.
he quickly recovered using his scythe to shoot out another fireball at aoyama which he countered with another naval laser, he was suddenly kicked in the back by asui sending him flying forward but he righted himself by digging his scythe into the ground swinging around it and using the momentum to kick asui back, breaking it out of the ground and attempting to bring it down on the girl, but it was knocked of course as a reflected naval laser hit it on the side knocking it from its path and embedding it in the ground next to its target, he was hit in the back by another laser and quickly swung around to shoot another fireball at aoyama but was tripped up by asui causing the fireball to launch straight into his face knocking him out. Aoyama came over to check if Asui was ok, helping her stand up.
"Thanks for that, a new trick?" asui questioned.
" Yeah, sweet mask has me working on it to change my angle of attack, I can only do it off reflective surfaces though." Aoyama gestured to a window he used to deflect the laser.
"Well it saved me so it's still worth it. ribbit" she mentioned.
"So, what do we do with him?" Aoyama gestured to the villain below.
"Hmmmm, I don't know. I never really captured someone before, watchdog man usually kills them. OH! I know." asui hasilty got her phone out and called the q-city representative dahlia, explaining to her the situation and monster they needed to pick up. After arriving, Asui introduced Aoyama and they had a brief chat before making their way back towards the stadium.
"Do you really think that sweet mask is a monster?" aoyama asked
"I mean, watchdog man is never wrong in his judgment, you see how he was able to guide us to where the monster is? He also could smell that I was different just upon meeting me. ribbit"
"Oh so that's what he meant by I smelled the same." Aoyama said as his smile turned into a frown.
"What's wrong? Ribbit" she said, jogging in front of him and walking backwards.
"It's just that it really must be painful to hide your true self from everyone around you. He's like me in that way." he murmured the last part.
"What did you say?" Asui asked. Snapping him from his eternal turmoil, and raising his hand and flashing a big most realistic smile he could manage.
"Just that all his friends, fans, and family would probably hate him if the truth came out." he said, his smile dropping again, Causing asui frown.
"Yeah, this world really does have some serious monster-phobia, but wouldn't that be even more reason to come out to turn that perception around?" asui questioned out loud not suspecting a response. As she turned around to walk forward again.
"Do you think people will actually accept it or just turn against him because they're afraid? Think about the advent of quirks, and the war we just fought with the liberation front. Quirks were once considered abnormal and odd, people were scared of them, some of them still are.`` Aoyama said seriously leaving her speechless, the rest of the walk was spent in silence both just contemplating this world and their own.
Diversify: Drive Knight, Yaoyorozu, Kaminari
Yaoyorozu and Kaminari were both back with drive knight like before he stationed them in their separate containers, Kaminari still continuing to train with absorbing and discharging his power at the same time and rapid transitions between the two. Yaoyorozu on the other hand was combat sparring with drive knight himself using spears, she noted that the techniques that he was using were the same ones that stinger was performing the other day. As she was blown back by a blow that sent her spiraling across the room, she was preparing to get up and fight again when she was halted by drive knight's outstretched hand.
"You have improved slightly in your foot work and combat stance. It is safe to assume that your time with stinger has improved your combat ability." drive knight said with momo nodding in reply.
"Yes he gave me some pointers on how to wield the staff as well as the importance the movement of the body can have on your attacks with staff type weapons."
"Good, I had hoped as such, I have other propositions for you to learn under a multitude of heroes similarly." drive knight said with a monotone voice.
"That's fine but why? You seem to be able to freely download different combat styles at will, can't you just teach me?" Momo asked curiously.
"Learning the forms and styles are one thing but having a living breathing person that has experience and a feel for the art will be more effective as an instructor. If you can mimic their style and alter it to make it your own, it will make you a better fighter."
"But wouldn't that just make me a jack of all trades?" momo asked.
"People often only remember part of that statement, the saying goes "a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." " As he spoke hole opened up next to drive knight rising up from the ground was a black metallic box that went up to drive knights hip.
"Even I have different weapons used for when I'm out in the field. Observed." as he spoke quickly as a flash drive knight body transformed, first he transformed into a centaur hybrid, then a motorcycle, and finally a golden variant of himself before going back to his original form. Momo was shocked by the speed of the transformation; she didn't even see the shapes of the box move or his body in mid transformation once, only the final product of the transformation.
"I was interested in your ability due to that possibility of creating anything necessary from a given situation which is why I was disappointed by your use of it in combat." drive knight continued to monolog. She wanted to counter by saying that combat wasn't the main focus of being a hero back where she was from but he wouldn't understand what she meant, but thinking of how everything that was going on back home she started to wonder if that was the best option for her to take with her quirk, she hoped to mostly be a support based hero but with the decline of heroes there is no guarantee that she could stay off the frontlines for long.
"Ok, I understand. I'll try to learn all I can from the heroes you have presented for me." Momo said with conviction
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"Excellent." was drive knights reply before the glass on the side of the arena they were in started to glow and present 4 different folders. She approached the glass and looked at the titles of each folder they read; blades, ranged, guns, and misc.
"I understand your hesitation towards firearms so I decided to separate them into a different category. Miscellaneous stands for weapons that don't fit into the other categories." driveknight said as he approached behind her. She thanked him and then looked over the categories available. She ultimately decided on choosing the blades folder, she didn't have much enhanced experience with blades although she was somewhat familiar with them, she remembered creating two for her and jiro during the USJ incident that happened so long ago. As the folder opened, she saw something peculiar. A number of names were grayed out. They were the top 4 A-class heroes, they looked familiar to her somehow though like she had seen them before.
"The blacked out ones are disposed of for the moment, they are atomic samurai's apprentices, they were in the gym for him when you were picked up. Given that your friend was with them they were my first choice. "
"I thought they looked familiar. What about this one?" she said pointing to someone with the name spring mustache."
"It seems he as well is gone, his master as well as atomic samurai are a part of the council of swordsmen which seems to have had some matters to attend to, away from here."
"Oh, they had left on some mission. Away from the continent."
"Really? interesting ." drive knight said curiously, making a note to check up on that. Momo checked over the rest of her options, a majority of them were from A-class heroes and there was one B-class hero named Wild horn. Ultimately she decided on one of the heroes called shadow bind he was a ninja hero that wore traditional ninja garb.
"Interesting choice, any reason you decided on that hero in particular?"
"He reminds me of someone from my past." she said simply.
"She. That is a girl." drive knight said simply.
"Oh, well thank you for the correction."
"It's an understandable mistake, common really but for now, let us continue with your spear training." drive knight said proceeding back towards the center of the arena. To begin practicing again.
Are you human: Pig god, metal bat, koda, Sato
Sato had the beginning of his day to himself since kirishima and darkshine had left out that morning for their thing at silver fang's dojo but he didn't let that stop him from going to the gym like he would normally lifting weights and do all the standard exercises that darkshine had them go over the previous day, he took a curious look at the gravity machine and considered using the device but thought better of it, he was the only one in the room and he didn't know how the device work or if it had any safety function to prevent the person inside from being crushed like a pancake, so he ignored and continued training by himself. He was interrupted from his training by pig god stepping into the gym. \
"You're alone today." he said, making his way across the area to the machine sato was at.
"Yeah, darkshine and kirishima had some business with bang."
"Oh that, I do remember the association message about bang's invitation, you didn't want to go?"
"Ugh, I didn't know what to do really but given that you didn't show up as well. I thought you wanted me to stay here."
"Makes sense, well I'm glad you did stay because we're venturing out today, partially the reason why I came here early so you weren't too tired just in case of a monster attack."
Sato was excited by the news of going out into the world, he was curious about what this world had to offer and the association's base was starting to wear thin with how gray and metallic everything looked. He immediately got off the machine being mindful to clean it off and reset the setting to default before following pig god out and into a waiting car.
"Where are we going? Sato inquired
"Where headed to R-city." pig god said simply
Sato didn't really know a lot about the places here, from his friends in class he gathered that the cities weren't much different from what they were used to but things such as brands and certain things would be foreign to him. He was curious about why the cities didn't have actual names but only alphabets attached to them instead, while simple and easy to get the instruction out to the public of a threat but it people probably didn't really identify from where their from like they did back at home especially people from America for that example. That train of thought got him thinking of sports and things of that nature, what did this place do for entertainment and things of that nature, instead of lingering on these questions he decided to ask pig god.
"Entertainment huh? Well I know today was a major video game tournament going on and occasionally there is a thing called the super fights tournament that all the top tier martial artists come to to fight and see who is the best. The cities constantly compete for a safety rating as well."
"Safety rating?" Sato asked, confused.
" The safety rating is something held by committees of each city to tell which is safest as the name implies, this rating helps people and businesses to decide where they would like to settle it also helps the association distribute heroes more effectively."
"Fascinating." was all sato said as he digested the information, a safety rating that would drive business to or away from a city, was this world really that dangerous? He wondered. As pig god continued to talk about the things people do to pass the time, there were indeed sports like baseball here and other smaller sports that sounded familiar to their world, but most multi-city events were done by the committee each city held.
As the two arrived at R-city and began their pacing about their were immediately alerted to a monster attack going on the monster had a threat level of tiger, the two heroes made it to the scene to see a four armed monster, it looked like a generic muscular cyclops walking through over turning cars and throwing them at the fleeing civilians pig god quicker then his bulk would imply intercepted the car with his body saving a girl and her father from being crushed by a car they thanked pig god for his help as they continued to run away from the scene. Sato quickly opened his pouch and popped one of his pills and charged forth to the threat while yelling his super name SUGAR RUSH!
The monster recognized the charging hero and smiled happily, he stood still ready to receive the attack, as sato neared to deliver his barrage center mass he found that each blow was blocked by one of the creatures hands, not a singly blow got through which surprised him jumping back before the monster could retaliate but the monster only laughed before pushing forward to match him, the speed of which complete overtook his speed moving backwards appearing in front of him again and punching him straight in the gut with two of his arms sending sato flying into a a shops window and drawing blood from his lips, that he wiped off as sato made to stand up, the monster was in front of the store, taunting him but quickly came to a halt as a shadow eclipsed him, he quickly turned doing another strong punch to the gut of the man behind him but to his surprise the large man didn't move and inch or react at all, he tired again on receiving the same result and then did his own barrage of blows using all four of his arms too attack but none of it phased the wall of fat before him, suddenly he found his arms restrained in a bearhug, impossible to move from the hold he was suddenly lifted into the air and watch in horror as the hero more importantly supposed human in front of him jaw somehow dislocated and opened to swallow him whole.
Sato sat in utter bewilderment, disgust, fear, and many more mixed emotions as he watched the cyclops that was bigger than he was get swallowed whole his legs failing as his upper body was already in the supposed man's mouth and down his stomach. he was so shocked that no words left his lips, he felt that familiar numbness start to take over his mind maybe it had spread faster than he thought and he was just seeing things he quickly took another pill from his container and he was instantly revitalized and the numbness in his mind was pushed back making him see clearly and to his dismay he still saw the scene as before the creatures feet were just going down the hero mouth and out of site, his stomach bulging out of somewhat with the monster inside it, the hero than took a step towards him holding out his hand towards the young hero which took a hesitant and shaky step back, surprising the hero somewhat until realization dawned on him and he slowly retracted his hand and took a step back to give the boy some room, he just stared at him with wide eyes. The teen managed to find his voice again as he spoke in an astonished tone.
"Wh….what….did you just do? Spit him out!" sato exclaimed, taking a tentative step forward.
"Can't it's dead." pig god said calmly. Shocking the teen by how calm the man was with what he just did, he looked at the hero's stomach which was somewhat bulging before but almost already returned to its original size. He thought back to what darkshine said and how the way people described his fights as ravenous. Did that mean he eats every monster he encounters! He wondered
"How…why…" sato didn't understand his mind, just didn't comprehend what he just saw, this man, monster? Just ate a monster and digested it in a matter of seconds.
"Are you even human?" was the one question that sprung to his lips.
"I am, my body is just unique." pig god said simply not wanting to give his secrets away, taking the hint sato didn't pry further scared that he two may become this man's next meal or whatever he did with his victims.
"What happens to the people you eat?" sato questioned, starting to walk closer to the edge of the window as pig god backed up to give him room.
"Depends on what I want to do with them. Could be destruction or salvation." pig god said simply.
"I…I..see" was also sato said, he didn't know where to go from here, he was at a loss for words, thankfully he didn't need to as another siren started this time it was for a threat level wolf and the attack was happening at a nearby school. Sato was stricken out of his stupor almost immediately and gestures for them to take off, which pig god agreed to, he surprisingly kept up really well with sato even in his sugar rushed state, they came upon an open area with a large armadillo or a sandslash from Pokémon, it was sniffing around on the grounds using its elongated to tongue to since its prey, the door seemed to have been banged on but held the creature from its assault. He saw pig god stepping forwards and tentatively held his hand out to stop the big man.
"I'll handle this, ok?" he said hesitantly and pig god nodded in understanding.
Sato podded another pill and charged the creature, the creature whipped its head around at the sound and saw the approaching teen and stood to its full height it was almost the same size as midoriya, it shot out its tail in defense, sato sidestepped the attack grabbing the creatures tail and then threw it away from the building, he wanted to place himself between the building and the people inside, the scales on the creature bristled as it's anger spiked and charged at sato, launching out with it's clawed hands trying to claw his chest, he dodged to the left and launched a punch to creature face staggering it backwards, he launched another punch with his right hand but that was caught by the creature clawed hand scratching his wrist slightly.
The creature lunged out again as with his other hand but that was caught by the wrist the two sat there in a power struggle one trying to overpower the other with each other's hand in their grasp. Suddenly sato heard a familiar screech, the creature immediately began to shake it's head and his grip loosened allowing sato to peel away from it just in time as a number of birds began circling around the creature, it tried to move away from them but the birds continued to swarm around him, causing the creature to lash out at them but most of its attacks only hit air, sato took the opportunity to pop another pill as the numbness returned, it cleared his mind and he noticed the birds were leading the creature away and sato chased after it, with pig god about to follow along before being stopped by a rampaging metal bat stopping in front of him.
"Where is it? Where is the thing dumb enough to threaten my sister." metal bat was pissed and out for blood. Pig god then noticed a rather colorful fellow following behind bad a bit out of breath. Before he replied.
"A lot of birds surrounded it and lured it away." pig god said while pointing off in the direction of a huge flock of birds some ways away now but before bad could follow it, he was stopped by the colorful fellow.
"Bad, please I got this, go check if your sister is ok first." Koda pleaded mostly for the monster's life, he knew if bad got to it, he would kill it on the spot. The only chance he has for it to survive was to distract him with something else that he would find even more important and he was right bad looking at him before nodding
"Pig god, keep an eye on him would ya?" he said as headed off to the building screaming his sister's name at the top of his lungs.
"I assume you're the one in control of those birds?" pig god inquired
"Yes my name is Koda. isn't Sato supposed to be with you?" Koda replied, looking around for his friend.
"He went after the monster." pig god gestured towards the birds again, making koda worry
"We have to go help him then." Koda said as he and pig god took off after the monster.
sato was catching up to the monster surrounded by birds it had chased them into a nearby forest area near the school and the birds finally stopped swarming him leaving him but before he could ponder why sato began attacking him getting hitting the creature in the back before jumping away from a tail swipe the creature had in retaliation, the two locked into combat once again before being interrupted by the same screech from before this time much closer , the creature realized that a number of squirrels from the tree started throwing acorns at him pelting him and then the birds came back but before they surrounded him again he stuck his tongue out and sensed another being behind him, assuming that he was the source of the noise and the animals it charged forth.
But was stopped by being tackled to the ground by the hero he was facing before, he quickly spun the hero off of him and out of the bird tornado surrounding them. Sato quickly got back up and continued to attack the creature, the birds would leave holes in their swarm as opening for sato punches to land directly on the creatures blind spots, the creature would only try and retaliate from where the attack came from but only hit open air as sato repositioned, this went on for sometime as the creature tired, the birds left all at once, forcing the creature to close its eyes, sato seized his chance and used his sugar rush barrage to fully incapacitate the creature. Sato raised a thumb up in the air signaling that it was ok for Koda to come out, he did and sato offered his friend a high five.
"Thanks for the assist man." sato said
"No..no problem. Now what do we do with it?" Koda questioned.
"We call the association and wait. They'll take him away." pig god said lazily.
Before the group can start the call however, they heard bad in the background screaming like a banshee and getting closer making koda nervous. Seeing the dismay in the two teens' faces, pig god thought quickly and ate the creature. To the utter shock of both teens present, bad had just shown up after he finished devouring the creature whole.
"Hey, is that monster dead yet?" bad said wielding his bat threateningly
"It's gone now." sato said dismissively, glaring at pig god while koda just stared at pig god in shock. Seeing the stares metal bat pieced together what happened and put his back on his shoulder and smirked.
"Good job, pig god that things deserve to be eaten and yeah I know it's weird as shit that he just eats things whole like that but it gets the job done so it doesn't matter." bad said before hearing his sister call his name and him gesturing for koda to follow along as the two walked away, sato almost snapped at pig god.
"What the hell man! That monster was totally defenseless; there was no reason to kill it." sato said angrily but his tune completely changed when pig god completely barfed the monster back up completely intact, now sato was confused but remembered his words from earlier salvation or destruction.
"You don't know metal back like I do, he wouldn't let this creature live if it threatened his sister in any capacity." pig god said calmly.
"Sato! The kids want to meet their savior." koda said as he continued back towards them before seeing the creature that pig god swallowed back on the ground in front of the two, he looked up to sato and he put up a finger to his mouth in a shushing notion, pig god told them that he'll get the creature to the association before sato began following koda back towards the school, both teens stating their thanks to pig god as they left.
Deliberations: Class 1A
The class was back in their original spot in the common room, everyone arrived and was conversing between each group, the second largest group was made of kirishima, mina, ojiro, toru, kaminari, and tokoyami. Most of the guys were huddled around Kirishima's phone as he showed the fight between darkshine and deku himself and smiling and gasping at the spectacle.
"Woah that darkshine guy is really tuff." kaminari said
"Yeah I know right, so manly." Kirishima said, clutching his shirt with his fist.
"It was something, the pressure was intense." ojiro said.
"I thought we felt something as we were leaving the space." tokoyami commented
"Yeah, like a strange gust of wind just blew past us." Toru said, waving her hands excitedly again even though she was visible to them all now.
"You don't have to do the whole waving your arms thing anymore, you know since we can see you now." Mina commented next to her.
"Oh yeah, it's just a habit at this point." she said, smiling bashfully.
"Matter of fact I know someone is having a fun time noticing you." she said as she took out her own phone and showed the girl a picture making the girl flush even more in embarrassment covering her face with her hands.
"Wha-how ….how did you get that picture!" Toru exclaimed silently before thinking about it, some about everyone that was there at that moment. Deku was preoccupied with koda at the time, Tokoyami was unlikely to take this picture, which only left one possible person.
"KIRISHIMA! How could you!?" Toru exclaimed, making the girl glare over in his direction. Making the red head teen rub the back of his head with an apologetic look.
"She bribed me." was all he managed to say under the girl's scrutiny. Jiro leaned forward and took a glance at the picture chuckling slightly before joining the conversation.
"Ah they make a cute couple." jiro teased.
"I know right!?" Mina added, making the invisible girl blush some more before more and more people started to see what all the conversation was about, soon both Ojiro and Toru were being teased about the compromising photo.
Another group was Sato, Koda, Shoji, Asui, Mineta, and aoyama. Sato had just got done telling them of his time spent with pig god in the field and how he usually fights by eating monsters making others question if he really saw what he thought he did but when the quiet boy Koda reconfirmed his stance, the group was much more convinced and somewhat concerned about that behavior.
"That seems weird.. To say the least." Shoji said.
"Inhumane if you ask me but he could be a monster like sweet mask then." asui said bluntly, making the other look at her in surprise.
" We don't know if sweet mask is a monster for sure, dogman could be wrong." Aoyama defended, making asui just roll her eyes.
"Dogman has a hypersensitive sense of smell he can tell if there's a monster in the city and is the main caretaker q-city, he even smelled a monster from 30 kilometers away on my first day and he could tell that I was different when we met from the regular people he said the same about aoyama to." Asui made her case to the rest of the group.
"That sounds pretty concrete. If you ask me, why are you so against the theory?" Mineta asked.
"Because he really dislikes monsters, hates them and kills them without a second thought. If he were one, why would he have such hatred for them?" Aoyama queried.
"Maybe he's trying to keep up appearances and is projecting." Shoji reasoned.
" Anyways, I don't think pig god's a monster. He says he's not one but essentially only said that he was just built different." making everyone in the group chuckle somewhat to that ending.
"It was like Shoji said this world really is just built different." Mineta commented. Making the small group chuckle somewhat.
The last group was everyone else in the class.
"Kacchan, you seem angry about something." Midoriya asked, causing him to scoff at the notion .
"I'm fine, I don't need you looking after me." bakugo commented.
"He's mad that he lost the video game tournament this evening." Todoroki said offhandedly. Making bakugo send a death glare in todoroki direction.
"AT LEAST I DIDN'T LOOSE IN THE FIRST ROUND!" bakugo barked.
"I'm not a close range fighter, it was to be expected." Todoroki shrugged his shoulders indifferently. Bakugo glared one more time at him and then marched out of the room.
"I'm confused, what does hand to hand combat have to do with a video game?" Momo asked, perplexed.
"The tournament had a VR system that allowed your body movements from real life to the game as well."
"Wow, that seems really advanced." midoriya commented.
"Yeah in a system like that I bet martial artists have a major advantage." Uraraka said.
"That's what I originally thought as well, but it seems the winner was someone using a controller instead." todoroki said
"That person must have had no life." jiro commented
"Well he won 5 million yen from the tournament, so I guess it was worth it." Todoroki reasoned.
"5….milll..MILLION!" uraraka nearly fainted.
"I stand corrected then. Who won?" jiro asked retracting her statement
"Don't know, they never told us to protect the individual, you had to be in the venue where he won to know who he was." Todoroki replied. The groups continued to talk and discuss about each other's day before everyone went off to sleep, ojiro was about to leave when he felt a tug on his tail, he looked to find it was toru, trying her best to be as incognito as possible to stop from being teased again, he nodded his head in understanding but continued his way out of the room with everyone else, before quickly returning as if he forgot something in the room.
"What's up?" he said as he sat down next to her, not too close but enough to not be weird.
"I just wanted your opinion about my choice I need to make, regarding the master I choose. Bang or bomb, bombs martial arts is just like bang described much more offensive than his, you should have been their he was able to cut the through boulder with just his finger tips its so awesome…and dangerous." she said her sentence trailing from excitement to hesitance.
"I can only imagine but aren't quirks dangerous too? When you think about it, we literally have a guy that can create explosions out of his hands for fun and between the two of us is not the most mentally stable of the bunch either." he mentioned making the girl laugh.
"Yeah that's true so are you saying I should go with bomb's teaching then?" she asked
"I don't know, Bang's techniques offer a great balance of defense and offense , I don't know how practical a purely offensive style would have over it." ojiro pondered.
"Oh, um zombieman said something about that, if I remember correctly he said he wanted me to be like a glass cannon or in my case an invisible cannon, my invisibility is the greatest defense so combining that with the greatest offense would suit me he figured."
"That makes sense, but also relies on the opponent not being able to find you, which may not always be the case." ojiro countered, making the girl ponder again.
"Well in that case you can be there for me. " she blurted almost too quickly, making the boy blush somewhat. " or anyone I'm with." she clarified.
"Well that could work just as well and it seems you made your decision."
"Yeah, i'll train under master bomb, and totally kick your but after I'm done." she mocked.
"Sure you will, we can go over defensive forms as well outside of class to better get you rounded as well." ojiro mentioned standing up.
"Aww, you do want to spend more time with me." she mocked standing up but slightly crouching back down in pain making ojiro take a step closer to examine her.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine earlier just had a few passing spars with ochaco because bomb wanted to see what I was capable of. That girl can really throw a person, you know that? That gunhead martial arts ain't no joke" she said as she stood up more slowly this time, only to realize ojiro offered her his back.
"What are you doing?" she asked skeptically.
"Giving you a hand, if your going to be training tomorrow under bomb if he's anything like bang your gonna need all the rest you can get." ojiro said, making the girl blush and her heart beat faster. She didn't say anything but his answer came in the form of a small weight being pressed into his back as her hands around his neck.
"You're such a boy scout. I bet you just hoped I pressed myself against your back " she said with a teasing grin. Surprising the teen and unbalancing them for a moment before he stabilized again and poked her with his tail.
"Don't make such comments when I'm carrying you and of course not…I just ..care about you." he murmured softly his face going red, the only thing she did in response was to hug his neck tighter and laid her head on his shoulder as he carried her back towards her room, he used his tail to open her door and then set her down in front of it.
"Aw, you didn't want to join me inside?" she teased before laughing at his embarrassed expression.
"Just try and get some rest." was all the boy said as he left for his room, which wasn't too far from her's only across and two doors down before he entered he heard her say goodnight and he replied in kind before they both went inside and went to bed.
technically added a little extra to this chapter in comparison to AO3 version, and yeah ships are in this story. most of it takes places in the deliberations portions of the chapters, just a heads up.
