oops accidently uploaded the wrong chapter lol!
Well gosh it feels like it's been a log time hasn't it? guess the problem with receiving a chapter early means the next chapter seems even longer away, SPEAKING OF WHICH, you would be happy to know that this month will indeed be a THREE CHAPTER MONTH! so be excited for that but not only that because I hate! odd numbers this also means next month will also be a THREE CHAPTER Month. next chapter happens on the 15th and the next a week later on the 22nd.
Morning chaos: Class 1A
The next day the embarrassment didn't stop for the party goers, the crew of 6 woke up to snickering emerging from some person, Jiro was already the first to be awake and peered up from the mass of bodies laying on the ground.
"It seems that you all had an eventful time." Momo said as her, sato, shoji, midoriya, and todoroki all looked at their lying forms, Jiro's face grew immediately red at them all. The source of the snickers were from sato who seemed to be laughing at the position ojiro and toru were in. She was using his tail more so as a pillow and cover as it coiled around her head, mina and kirishima were essentially cuddling next to each other and she could only imagine how her and kaminari had looked before she got up and that just led her to the night before and the kissed they shared making not only her face light up even redder but her body increase in temperature.
"The goblin tricked us. " Jiro finally found her voice to speak again.
"Oh we know about that." Momo replied calmly, shocking Jiro from all of her other feelings at that moment and almost switching it to pure anger.
"Wait, you guy's approved of him drugging us!?" she shouted waking up the other pairs on the floor. This earned a bunch of gasp from the audience, their faces seemed like they had no idea of such an action.
"Wait hold he did what? We approved of him getting back at you for what you did to him when he was a girl but he didn't go over those details at all, what did he do to you?" Momo said, trying to ease the girl's worries. Midoriya was still equally confused until Shoji informed him that he wasn't made aware because he is a horrible liar, making the green-haired teen grumble a bit.
"He….he didn't do anything…. Horrible luckily…he just tied us together in pairs is all." Jiro remarked, the others began to completely come to and wake up and started to stand, the two pairs blushing madly as they unwrapped from each other and put space between themselves. The only one that wasn't bashful was Kaminari who seemed to be full of energy and excited which wasn't like him other notes.
"Oh…ok that's good. I guess as long as he didn't do anything to hurt you guys.`` Momo said, looking over them in earnest.
"You seem to be in a good mood, despite being pranked." Sato remarked to kaminari.
"HMM? Oh that's because I-I just love a good prank war is all.`` Kaminari corrected himself as he saw Jiro give him a sideways glance.
After a brief conversation the 6 went up the stairs to fully wash up and prepare for the day, while the others already awake went to go make breakfast. The class slowly all began to accumulate in the living room just as they had the common area. After informing Iida of what happened between the mineta and the group he rightfully started to lecture mineta about how heroes should definitely avoid doing villainous acts like he committed no matter if it is among friends, minate countered by commenting on how mina and company literally used their sick friends to attack him just to get him in a compromising position. Iida while not trying to take the heat off mineta upon learning of such action sat down mina, toru, and kaminari as he lectured all four of them about correct behavior and proper pranks to play on someone, that doesn't involve others getting hurt. He had the four of them all shake hands and have them all swear to him that this pranking would end.
"Not to mention mineta you dragged in kirishima, ojiro , and Jiro that had nothing to do with the situation, why?" Iida asked.
"I can answer that question." Aoyama said with some flair to his tone.
"I should also lecture you Aoyama as you were Mineta's accomplice in all this but Knowing him he probably convinced you to participate in his scheme." Iida replied
"Is that a no?" Aoyama questioned
"Please proceed." Iida replied.
"Well I think this will interest everyone as it deals with Tiffany's ability, the two of us learned that the reason that some of us weren't affected was because of our feelings either our feelings towards mineta himself or… the feelings for another." Aoyama said with a dramatic pause. This caught everyone's attention.
"So you're saying that everyone that resisted has feelings for someone else?" sato said
"That would explain midoriya." Shoji mentioned as both midoriya and uraraka shared a glance between each other, the blushes on their faces clearly visible, their hands slowly entwined with each other as they sat on the couch.
"Wait a minute but how do you explain bakugo and todoroki? Do they secretly have a crush on someone?" kaminari asked
"As if, love is nothing but a distraction." bakugo stated gruffly.
"Well it doesn't require you to love someone else if you felt intense negative emotion towards me it wouldn't affect you either, we assumed that because I recently beat bakugo in the tournament he was still just angry with-"
"Correction! you cheated me out of the tournament and I'm still waiting for my rematch half-pint.`` Bakugo said with more of his explosive energy even though it was morning, cutting mineta off.
"As you can see." Mineta finished after.
"We-well…what about todoroki?" Momo asked with some hesitance.
"Todoroki is fairly clueless when it comes to romance so we assumed that protected him. No offense" Aoyama said to todoroki
"None taken, I'm still coming to terms with most emotions honestly.." Todoroki said simply.
"What about tokoyami? Ribbit" tsu remarked as she spotted a glance from Jiro as the talks began.
"We only assumed that his angst and edgy personality kept it from affecting him," Aoyama explained.
"Actually he was affected somewhat but the thoughts were overwritten with someo-"
"Stop" dark shadow who was speaking immediately halted his statement when tokoyami finally spoke that word, he cowered for a moment before returning back inside of the teen boy.
"Things such as those don't react well with me, something similar happened with me and odd eye and his quirk as well, remember midoriya." tokoyami said simply
"Yeah he's telling the truth, and odd eyes quirk is supposed to force people to reveal their deepest secrets but it had no effect on him." midoriya explained earning a nod from tokoyami.
" well what about you aoyama you weren't affected and you were the closest to him for such a long time." uraraka pointed out.
"He was actually very disproving of my behavior given how close he was to some of the girls in the class." mineta said
"If it was going by how people think of you, then I'm surprised Mr. player over here wasn't affected, you must be down bad for someone, huh." Sero said with a joke bumping kaminari on the shoulder. kaminari chuckled a response before looking somewhere away.
"I guess I am," he replied back.
"So how does this tie back to taking the others again?" Todoroki commented, earning a sweeping round of face palms from several classmates.
" he took the others as he assumed that they were the crush that prevented them from being affected by Tiffany's ability. So tying them together for the rest of the night would be very embarrassing for them." Momo explained.
"Exactly in fact we have some footage the other day about these individuals outside the house that you all may like to se-." Mineta began before he was immediately taken away from the living room and straight upstairs by the three girls in question, all of them blushing like crazy about what was being said, him kicking and screaming the rest of the way for anyone to help him.
"Well It was only a matter of time for that I suppose." aoyama said casually
"Wait a second, who does Kirishima have a crush on?" midoriya asked
"Pinky obviously." bakugo said casually.
"BRO!" kirishima yelled
"It's fairly obvious." bakugo said casually with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Which means ojiro and toru, ribbit." tsu said
"And that leaves Kaminari and Jiro." sero said
The other two guys said nothing and continued on like they hadn't heard anything, just casually eating their breakfast even though their faces gave them away about whether or not their classmates were getting close to the truth or not.
The three girls harshly pushed mineta into the nearest wall, his small frame dangling above the ground as he was raised before he could say anything else, Jiro's earphone jacks in his face.
"Where is the video ?" Jiro said menacingly as all three girls stared him down.
"I-it's right down the hall, it's a maintenance room…it shows the camera feeds from in front of the house." Mineta said hesitantly, his body shaking in fear. He was harshly thrown in the direction of the door by Jiro.
"Show me." she replied silently as they all proceeded to the door and just like he said as they opened the door there located a ton of machinery like power switches for the house, heating and other utility devices. Mineta continued past all of them however into another section of the room which was simply a screen display of the front door and 30 feet in front of it.
"Here it is." Mineta said hesitantly as he gestured to the display before moving out of the way of the three girls.
"Did you record what happened?" Jiro asked, venom still dripping from her voice.
"No, why bother when it's already recorded?" Mineta reasoned.
"Good now how do we delete the footage from yesterday?" Jiro questioned
"I don't know if it's a good idea to delete all of it, the association could ask questions." Mineta said, which even in her angered state Jiro had to admit he had a good point. So she relented.
"Fine, we can delete just a section of i-" Jiro was immediately halted as she was put in an arm lock by toru as mina rushed to the screen in question.
"Hey what are you doing!" Jiro yelled.
"Sorry girl , me and mina were just curious about what you and kaminari were up to all alone and this is the perfect opportunity to see that, especially since you're so adamant in erasing it." Toru said. She avoided two attempts of Jiro trying to pluck her eyes out so she would let go but due to her invisibility quirk and reflexes she dodged both while tightening a hold on her arm lock in retaliation. Mina went to work on the computer where she touched the massive display and it brought up the controls, they were simplistic enough it had a category for past recordings, she quickly brought up the one from yesterday and started to rewind the footage back until she could catch on to movement outside of their house, luckily for her the machine already labeled movement on the display itself before small person indicator on the track she was rewinding to.
Rewinding backwards from the end of the day showed that fateful occurrence between all of them outside of the doorway between her and kirishima, then she remembered what they were talking about just previously in the living room which made this moment even more awkward as she watched it again.
"Mi-mineta, you and Aoyama were just joking about before, right? About Tiffany and her power, was it just another joke on us?" Mina said slightly. hopeful that…..that she was wrong? Wait, why would she hope for that? She would keep that thought for later she thought as mineta spoke.
"No…we weren't, that's really how Tiffany powers worked. It doesn't work on people either with negative emotions towards me or if they have strong feelings for somebody else." Mineta reiterated, making Mina turn back to the screen a blush madly dancing across her face as the scene from yesterday played in front of her.
"R-right ….ok." Mina said as she deleted the footage with her and Kirishima kissing each other's cheek, much to the dismay of Toru who was still holding Jiro back. Mina noted how not even a couple of minutes earlier from what she just deleted were both Jiro and kaminari just sitting their already he had flashed in with yellow lighting and was immediately debilitated while Jiro was put down but something didn't add up into her mind, Kaminari seemed to be much faster than then them so they should have arrived much earlier she thought so she rewinded it a little further back.
"She started squirming again, something must be juicy coming up." Toru remarked as she continued to hold Jiro at bay, avoiding more strikes from her earphone jacks to her head and enduring the strikes to her body. Toru was on to something as she rewinded to 10 minutes previously there they were standing there again this time however kaminari was fully functional and still in his new awakened mode, Jiro made her way to the stair before she was halted there was a moment before Jiro made her way towards him and in that moment she kissed his forehead which left both girls with a mixture of emotions.
"Really is that all you wanted to hide?" Toru said, holding the girl.
"Yup that's all, we can just delete it now." Jiro said as she stopped struggling slightly.
"Wait you guys left and came back, mineta is there a way we can get the audio."
"'Yeah it's in the settin-"
"NO!" Jiro screamed, making everyone look at her.
"Ohh that means we got to hear what they were talking about now." Toru responded as she tightened her grip on the girl, Jiro was spiraling out of options on what she could do, Toru was surprisingly stronger than she thought the girl was. Maybe those lessons she's undergoing are really helping her out after all. She pondered on what she should do as mina fiddled with the options trying to find the audio, once she found it she realized her time had run out and there was only one thing that could save her from this moment, knowing mina and toru they would undoubtedly bite at this. She took a deep breath and slightly apologized to tokoyami about what she was about to do.
"Ok here's a deal, what if I tell you about a possible class pairing that even you don't know about." Jiro remarked just as Mina was about to play the video with audio but the remark stopped her cold as she turned around, her eyes twitching to hear what the goth girl had to say.
"I'm listening." Mina remarked as she turned around to face her.
"First delete the clips, both of them," Jiro said.
"You don't have the power here." toru replied
"Yes I do, I know you two wouldn't turn something like this down especially coming from me, you know with all that I can hear with my quirk and all." Jiro said she could see the uneasy look on Mina's face as she stared back at her main accomplice before rubbing her hands through her hair and turning back around and deleting the clips of her and Kaminari in the footage. Jiro smiled as Toru finally let go of her, allowing her to stretch out her arms.
"Now out with it what do you know?" Mina said as she and Toru both gathered around her.
"Look I need you to take a chill pill with this one, alright. This ship is probably very sensitive and in its starting phases." Jiro instructed both of them.
"Ok now, who are they?" toru sked
"Tokoyami and Tsu." Jiro said simply, shocking all of the people in the room, even mineta.
"There's no way, someone like tokoyami being in love with someone seems too unrealistic." mineta said in reply.
"I never said he was "in love" with her but he might have a crush on her. His fur fluffs up like a bird when talking to her and dark shadow loves getting close to her, speaking of which did you guys not pick up what he was about to say earlier "some"- one else? And him not being affected by Tiffany's quirk puts the final nail in the coffin" Jiro explained. No one said anything for several seconds as they let that information sink in and fester, looking for possible arguments against or in the next moment thinking of other interactions that could reconfirm the possible theory. Both Mina and Toru were already getting antsy about the new gossip but Jiro really advised them to keep it down to themselves and just before she left she said one more thing.
"Oh and you know these walls are pretty good with insulation, I can barely hear anything through the walls but if people talk with the doors open or talking in the halls I can hear just fine. I bring this up because yesterday I heard some interesting information. Mina, I think you should ask toru what happened between her and ojiro on oku Island." Jiro said simply as she used the ensuing chaos to take her leave.
leaving only three remaining in the maintenance room. The mina badgered toru on what the goth rock chick was talking about but the invisible girl merely said nothing trying to shift the conversation back to tokoyami and his love life. After constant squabbling, Mina ultimately dropped both topics and turned her attention to mineta who was about to leave himself.
"Please tell me you actually recorded what was said." mina asked with pleading eye
"Nope I was telling the truth." Mineta said, shaking his head, Mina's posture noticeably slumped.
"But I do have recordings of all of your times in the karaoke bar." mineta said, making the girl rise back up before tilting away again.
"Oh…I need to see that." toru said but before anymore discussion could be had the display on the screen pinged a warning as it went back to the live footage for today, outside their home approaching the door was a women, the two girls were confused about who she was but mineta swear he looked familiar to her somehow. The three of them all began to head back down the stairs just as the door bell began to ring.
Iida was the first one to answer it to reveal a woman on the other side, the woman had blonde hair with a very voluptuous body with a shirt with cleavage window but what interested Iida was the lines on her face they almost made her look mechanical from further away but up close he could tell that it was makeup.
"Good morning madam, what brought you here today? An assignment from the association?" Iida asked formally.
"Good morning young man, Yes I am here among association business, I have to gather 8 of your members today for a special assignment. May I come in?" the woman asked. Iida nodded his head and escorted her to the living room.
"Everyone we have a guess for the day on behalf of the association…ms…ms…Excuse me I didn't quite catch your name." Iida asked.
"My name is Natalie Ver. 9." The woman introduced herself to the group, her eyes scanned over the class that were in the living room before spotting her shining star.
"Frozen-phoenix ah you never called like I said , so after that interview yesterday I decided to come to you." Natalie said, making her way over to the teen in question doing a typical french greeting. Earning envious gazes from some of the guys in the class and a spiteful gaze from one of the girls.
"Uhm…sorry I..lost track of time." Todoroki said simply not really knowing how to respond to such a comment.
"None taken at all, child, but I am here to collect on that card I gave you…we had some promotions in the works with the association but after that interview the other day, I just knew I just had to have some of you participate instead. ``Natalie remarked as she backed up to look over much of the class.
"Participate in what exactly?" Momo asked, raising her hand.
"In a fashion shoot of course, this one focusing on the hero's of the association and some other notable individuals as well." Natalie said
"Pass." bakugo bluntly yelled out.
"Bakugo, this is no time to be rude to our guest." Iida berated
"Come on dude, why would you expect her to choose you anyways." Sero said with a snicker, which came to an erupt end as natilite confirmed it.
"Of the 8 of you I was allowed, he was one of the four boy's that I selected to come with me." natalie clarified
"As I said, pass." bakugo said again.
"Is the great god of explosions perhaps camera shy?" natalie teased in sultry tone
"Hah! As if I just don't want to waste my time on something as silly as modeling." bakugo said back
"I bet, how about this then if you can correctly guess my age than I'll choose someone else in your stead and tell the association that I simply changed my mind, just to make it fair you don't have to guess the direct number just within the correct decade would do 20s,30s,40, and so on." Natalie said.
"Hah and why would I waste my time on that?" bakugo barked out
"I didn't take the great god of detection for a coward.." she replied in a smug tone, earning a bunch of ooh from kaminari and sero. Midoriya briefly uttered to uraraka how the women is expertly playing his childhood friend and that bakugo's pride would prevent him from backing down from the challenge and just to confirm his thoughts bakugo agreed to the challenge and after five minutes of brainstorming and looking the women over he came out with his answer.
"Trick question, you're a cyborg aren't you?" bakugo said in full confidence, earning strange looks from some of the class and the women in question who bleached out a hearty laugh, before coming down slowly.
"I guess with people that aren't aware of me I can see how you can come to that judgment especially with my name and all but no I'm as human as they come."
"So what does the ver.9 mean in your name, ribbit" asui asked
"Well it stands for how many life changing experiences I've been through that completely changed my outlook on life. Now I'll give you a second chance young man.`` Natalie responded before turning back to bakugo. The explosive blond did another glance over before going forwards with his next guess.
"60s" bakugo said next earning confusing looks this time from everyone in their class
"Are your eyes working alright man." Kirishima said in slight worry.
"Oooh you came closer than most. I'll give you that, just add 20 years and you would have had it.`` This earned shocked gasps from the rest of the class.
"Wait, you're 80 years old?" Uraraka said in disbelief. '
"Bullshit." bakugo barked out in frustration.
"Oh it is very true and I can verify that once we get going to the shoot. My main business is an anti-aging formula company and I market my own product. " natalie said making bakugo grumble outwards in his seat, staring daggers at the women
" Well it really is working wonders I'll say." toru remarked
"Thank you." Natalie said in reply
"You mentioned that dynamite was one of 4 of the guys and of 8 overall? Who are the others going with you?" Iida asked
"Yes, I'm taking 4 females. Those would be neith, frogger, pink mist, and uravity. For the males they would be dynamite, green savior, frozen-phoenix, and red riot. Any further objections?" Natalie asked, when none came she was off stating that she would be waiting outside for them to get themselves ready and left out the door.
"Still trying to ransom us off as propaganda." Jiro remarked a little annoyed with that fact and if she were a little bit more honest with herself not being chosen for this event.
"It seems so but I wouldn't mind getting ransomed off to her, right guys." sero said jesting to mineta and kaminari.
"She is attractive for an 80 year old." Mineta said.
"I agree." kaminari said simply nodding his head.
Sero found the two teens' reaction or lack thereof fairly strange but he wrote it off.
"Oh guy's I didn't catch it at the time but did you guys notice our rank increased the other day? I Jumped up 90 spots from where they put me previously.`` Toru announced proudly, although she was still the lowest in the class, it was a sign of improvement for her.
"Now that you mention it I went one higher than initially as well." todoroki confirmed
"Yeah I went up 10." Jiro said.
"I went up 20." ojiro said
"I went up 44, no way. Just you wait, I'm coming for that tail wukong." Kaminari said with enthusiasm everyone began to begin to compare their ranks from previously with everyone mostly raising at least 10 rankings higher than previously all except the upper echelon in the B and A ranks of course which went as the class mostly predicted.
"Why the hell didn't I get a rank increase!" bakugo yelled his energy returning to him as the morning went on.
"Join the club but I guess I've been MIA for the past month." sero remarked
"I haven't really done many hero duties as I'm mostly just training with darkshine." kirishima remarked
"I have been gone for a month so I expected no change, but I'm proud of all of those who have good work, but we shouldn't keep waiting for everyone as always be safe out there." Iida said, escorting the group readying to leave outside the doorway and waving goodbye to them.
Swim shoot: bakugo, midoriya, todoroki, kirishima, uraraka, mina, momo, and asui
The group slowly got into the large limousine that awaited them outside of their home, Natalie was waiting for them inside and waved them in and as everyone was safely secured they were off to wherever they were going.
"So…what types of photos will we be taking?" momo asked
"Well some traditional shots of you all in your hero uniforms, followed by some in more casual/formal wear and followed by the most enticing swimwear.'' Natalie said, earning the group's attention and making the girls all blush.
"We …we will be separated for that part of the shoot. right?" Uraraka managed to mutter out as she couldn't help but look at Deku from the corner of her eye.
" oh heavens no, aren't you all just precious little youngsters, well to relieve you all of worry no you will not have to if you don't want to." Natalie assured which made all of the girl in the car take a relieved breath.
"What will happen to the photos taken? Ribbit." tsu asked
"Oh that ending is so adorable, is that something for your hero persona? As for your question, it will be published of course after going over the photos we shoot, we will publish some of them in magazines and the rest will be thrown out." natalie replied with a gracious smile.
"I see and it's simply a tick I have. ribbit ever since I was bo- ever since the attack." Tsu said, correcting herself mid sentence to continue to run with the association story.
"I sorry that you all had to go through something so harrowing at such a young age that's partly the reason I chose to go with all of you, due to initial reactions to the interview have people mostly pity you all, I want to show them that you all are still enjoying your lives and the gifts life's given you." natalie explained
"Thank you, that means a lot." midoriya said
"None needed as I've said my life's been through the ringer a handful of times but nothing compared to what you all experienced that day. This photoshoot is also partly to raise the morale of the people, especially once they heard that three upper A-class heroes were injured but I assume that was probably overshadowed by the announcement of the two newest S-class heroes, which I have the pleasure of dealing with today." the women said, looking at Todoroki and midoriya.
" you don't deal with the S-class often?" todoroki asked
"Sadly no most of the men in the S-class are barely useable material rather they range from PR nightmares like pri-pri prisoner , wear no clothes at all like darkshine, are machines like drive knight and genos, or impossible to get in touch with like zombieman, I was always envious of Cleopatra with her occasionally sponsorships with flash despite his nature he is obsessed with looks especially involving his golden hair." Natalie said in almost adoration, this statement however gained a snort of disapproval from mina and bakugo.
"Yeah that guy is obsessed alright." she responded with coldly,
"Not a fan, I take it?"
"Let's just say he's definitely the petty type." Mina said casually, making Natalie even more curious.
"He's a bit too obsessed with looks is what she's trying to say more so than his hero work even" kirishima added.
"Fascinating, Given that all of you train under a S-class hero of some kind you all have information that much of the world lacks, Don't be surprised if people start asking you all questions about them as they mostly keep to themselves most of the time. ``Natalie remarked.
"Any reason why?" uraraka asked
"No one really knows, given their ridiculous power people usually just try to leave them to their own devices, they are still famous of course almost anything they do would be noted on the web. If possible." Natalie commented.
"So I guess this means that you two are famous now, guys." kirishima said, looking over to todoroki and midoriya.
"Yes very much so, I have no doubt that you two probably already have fan groups being created about you at this very moment." Natalie said with a laugh.
"I'll try not to let it get to my head." Midoriya said with a slight blush on his face, todoroki simply nodded along with midoriya.
"Good, you boys are still young and all that attention could really mess with you and I don't want you guys to get caught up in any scandals with your female or male audience if you understand what I'm saying." Natalie said with a stern voice.
"Yes ma'am, fully clear." Midoriya said again with a little more heart than necessary, as a blush grew on his face at just the thought of something like that before he heard a menacing whisper in his ear.
"What are you thinking about deku?" Uraraka's smiling face was contrasted by her dark aura that she was giving off.
"Nothing, nothing I promise." deku replied hastily.
"You're wasting your time on telling these two idiots that the green one would probably malfunction just at the sight of such things and the other one is denser than a rock." bakugo said with a gruff voice.
"Besides one of them is spoken for…" mina said with a grin shooting her side eyes towards uraraka who blushed furiously.
"Oh, was I lucky enough to pick out the couple in the group? We could do a few shoots with just you two if you want to?" Natalie offered to the two, the two looked at each other for a moment, both of their face's purely red.
"Thank you for the offer but we wouldn't like to broadcast our relationship so publicly." Uraraka said.
"Oh it doesn't have to be for the shoot, it could just be for you two to keep for yourselves." Natalie replied, which got the couple thinking.
"In that case I wouldn't mind some photos of us together." Midoriya murmured quietly.
"Awww, look at the couple getting their pictures taken," Mina teased, making both of them shrink in on themselves. Natalie laughed at the girl.
"You remind me of someone that I used to know back in my school days, always worried about someone else's love life but their own, I take it you don't have anyone you're interested in?" Natalie asked the loud girl who suddenly stopped her grin and watched it switch into a confused and slightly embarrassed look.
"Ugh…nope..nothing like that…I ..I always wanted to know what love is so I…just play close attention to others that experience it." mina explained rather nervously for her usual self, natalie noticed a noticeable change in body language from the red haired boy he must have not have liked to hear that but despite the pink girls words her sudden change in tone and body language showed that she was not telling the entire truth, ooh this could be a fun photoshoot she thought.
"What about you dynamite, you seem to list their reason why they wouldn't be caught up in all that but what about you. The A-class still has plenty of fans." natalie said
"hmph like I care about anything like that, all I care about is fixing the association mistake in putting me in A, if those two looser made it into S then I should have been guaranteed." bakugo said scowling.
"I doubt many people would like him when they get to know him anyways. Ribbit." tsu remarked
"What was that froggy!" bakugo yelled
"Frogger," Tsu corrected simply in response.
"You'd be surprised there are all kinds of people in the world." Natalie said simply in return.
"I'm sure my bro bakugo will have his own fans, although will he actually acknowledge them or just tell them to get lost.'' Kirishima said, managing to get his groove back.
"He would probably tell them to get lost." Todoroki added, managing to make everyone laugh despite the serious answer he gave.
"Well they always say that you should never meet your hero." momo commented
"I don't remember asking for any of your opinions." bakugo said loudly.
The car ride ended shortly after the crew arrived in S-city in front of a large elaborate building that towered over those that surrounded it. The group made their way inside and up towards the elevator once the elevator door opened it revealed several individuals who were already there waiting. Some of the teens could recognize two of their members already there and one of them set something off in Mina as she remembered where she recognized the large tan women from taking a glance over towards Kirishima as she saw his eyes almost seeming to light up as he recognized her. As the two groups continued to meet up and discuss.
"Stinger you're here as well." Momo said as she greeted the man.
"Yup princess, I wouldn't miss out on a chance to show the world how awesome I am." stinger said, leaning on his spear as he stuck it into the ground. Todoroki was momentarily confused by the remark but he was even more confused on why a sudden anger for the man hit him in the chest. He threw that emotion aside for now and introduced himself to momo's former teacher as well.
"You know if I recall correctly, your other teacher was here as well but I don't know where she went after the elevator arrived. She simply disappeared." stinger said in thought, hearing that set momo's instincts into overdrive as she knew who he was referring to she scanned her surroundings for a moment and was about to turn around and block a strike that was obviously coming but before she could a sudden smack sound resounded from behind her and todoroki, as she turned around she was surprised to see that her protector was none other than bakugo shadow rings hand that was about to come down on top of her head just as she suspected was blocked by his gauntlets.
"That was slow, the other one would be ashamed." bakugo replied smugly.
"It wasn't your reflexes that I was trying to test, I have already attested that you're much sharper than the rest of your cohort. speaking of which you were a littler slow but you showed improvement from when I last saw you." shadow ring said complimenting momo, as she retracted her hand.
"Thank you for your praise. I never would have expected you to participate in this type of event and what does he mean by other one?" momo questioned
"A-class rank 12 silver chain…just think of a much bigger and stronger version of this one colored silver." bakugo replied in her stead.
"She is another of my clan, she was originally contacted for this by the association but she delegated the task to me. I'm surprised that you know that she does not make her presence known very often." shadow ring said
"Hmph, maybe you ninja just aren't as stealth as you think you are, besides I got a bone to pick with her." bakugo responded roughly.
"I would recommend refraining from doing anything reckless; she would likely make quick work of you." shadow ring said earnestly. Making bakugo even more angry and begin to yell at the ninja.
Overhearing such drama tsu turned to mina who she would have thought would have made a comment on bakugo and this mysterious ninja girl but the pink girls attention was fully occupied by the scene displaying in front of her. Kirishima was currently in a headlock by a large and muscular tanned girl, she wore basic Olympic attire which exposed her midriff and her long muscular legs. Kirishima was currently rubbing directly against her well defined six pack abs. Talking to him about reminding her to tell him to get into some sort of event that will be transpiring next week. If she remembered correctly the girl's name was Mizuki . She turned back to look at Mina who from her body language seemed angry. Her body was tense and her hands were nearly balled into fists as she watched the two making tsu smirk as she tapped her shoulder dragging the girl from the display.
"Wow mina I never knew you were the jealous type. Ribbit, ``Tsu remarked. This flustered the girl even more, making her wave her hands in front of her sporadically as she quickly denied the accusation.
"I'm not jealous , why would I be? jealous of what?" Mina questioned. Tsu simply gestured back to the two in front of them. She had let kirishima out of the head lock and were currently talking to each other while they exchanged phone numbers. Mina really didn't understand why she felt angry at that moment, Kirishima could converse with anyone he liked. It shouldn't matter to her …she didn't feel things for her middle school friend right? Memories of the past few days flashed through her mind again. Well there could be something there maybe…she didn't really know how to decipher these things.
"I….I don't care, it's fine he's making friends is all, but let's talk about something more interesting like you and tokoyami instead." Mina teased her voice and body finally coming back to normal. To Asui's credit she didn't flush or sputter like the rest of her victims she teased with relationships but Mina noticed that a slight blush came over her face but her voice showed no signs of being flustered by the remark, only a slight annoyance.
"I didn't think Jiro would tell you about that." asui replied simply, earning a snicker from the pink girl as she tapped her horns.
"You can never hide anything love related from me, I'll eventually find out sooner or later." Mina said with a wide grin, asui simply rolled her eyes and but slightly cheered up as she watched that smug grin Mina had fallen before being replaced by a fake smile as Kirishima and Mizuki came to speak with them.
Midoriya and uraraka were approached by someone completely new he had sharp eyes with a strange hairstyle that went in zig zags all over his head he a white button down shirt that and over that a black suit jacket draped over it, he continued towards them with an intensity that almost felt angry midoriya stepped in front of uraraka just in case. He stopped a couple of feet in front of them before pointing towards uraraka.
"I heard rumors of someone around trying to mooch off my gimmick so it was you." the man said as he shook his left arm free from it came a chain and mace the ball crashing into the ground of the floor and denting it. Uraraka noticed the similarity as she looked at the 5 black orbs she carried around with her.
"oh no I didn't want you mooch off you I promise this was something that tornado of terror recommend for me is all.'' Uraraka said quickly, trying to dismiss the misunderstanding.
"tch , tatsumaki eh?" the man said as he picked up the chain and ball he had.
"Please excuse needle star, he is not very polite, he doesn't mean any harm despite his brutish behavior." another voice came as a girl approached from behind the man. She was dressed very similarly to the man but she wore all of her suit properly and neatly tucked in. She had blue highlights in her hair and a flower on the very top which complimented her look.
"I'm not a part of your little fan club anymore, you don't have to try and make up for me anymore." needlestar said in annoyance.
"You still wear the clothes so people will still think you're a part of us." the girl replied.
"Hello, who are you and what group are you talking about?" midoriya asked
"Oh excuse me, you can just call me lily, the group that we're referring to is none other than the legendary fubuki group of course! A B-class group that is all about the legendary blizzard of hell fubuki herself B-class rank 1 ``Lily replied happily.
"She's tornado's sister." needle star added, shocking uraraka a bit.
"Wow I didn't know she had a sister." uraraka said
"They don't get along very well. The group being one of the reasons. " Lily responded with less energy.
"Is that the reason why you left?" midoriya asked needle star
" No, her crazy tantrums and being flung into walls was annoying but manageable. They kicked me out simply because they were a bunch of pansies." needle star stated.
"Throwing people into walls surely sounds like tatsumaki." Uraraka said with a chuckle.
"To clarify he was kicked out due to his bad behavior as you can already tell from his lack of manners." Lily responded, earning a grunt of disapproval from the man. The crew conversed for a moment for a moment before Midoriya noticed two other people there who seemingly shield away from the heroes present. He approached the two to offer his greetings.
"Hello, are you guys heroes as well?" midoriya asked
"No, I'm a martial artist, my name is Lin lin." the girl said
"I'm a hero but not under the hero association." the other man spat out with venom
"Do you dislike the hero association?" midoriya questioned.
"I don't trust them and they reek of greed and corruption. I lead a group of brave civilians out of Y-city called neo hunters and I am their leader accel." the dark haired man responded simply.
"Does that mean you don't trust us?" midoriya questioned
"No exactly, the heroes that work under the association are just tools they use but you all? Specifically your little group, the non killing army, are extra suspicious to me."
he remarked but before midoriya could ask him to clarify what he meant Natalie brought all the conversations to a close as the shoot was about to commence. The groups were separated into male and females while they got their measurements taken. Mina being the curious person she was asked lin lin what was up with the bells that was attached to her head, after explaining to the pink girl that it was for her martial arts of the palm bell fist and that a key component of this martial arts was that the bells on the top of her head was to never make a sound even while moving and performing martial arts and the playful girl took that as a challenge to make the bells on her head make a sound by jumping at the martial artist and attacking her just to get the women to move around all of her attempts failed however no matter how much the girl moved around to avoid mina the bells remained silent, it was so shocking in fact that mina called her out for it having to be fake but lin lin demonstrated that they were real by shaking the bells themselves and true to her word the bells Jingled, completely deflating mina's claim.
The guys side of things were a lot calmer, mostly with midoriya trying to figure out why accel didn't trust them, between stinger and bakugo's ego clashes against one another, their was another hero their as well darkness blade but it became super apparent why everyone stopped talking to the man as he would constantly boast about himself through the conversation, leading the guys to mostly tone him out completely he reminded him of a dark monoma . The first rounds of pictures were in their hero costumes. They were Originally Separated by men and women during their shots one side would begin and then the other. But then Natalie would like to mix and match between the guys and girls based on certain themes. The first theme that she chose was poll weapons and she called up lily, stinger, lin lin and momo.
"Oh you two practice the spear as well?" momo asked
"I practice with the staff? My full hero name is Lily of the three section staff." she explained, as she began to get her staff out it was as the name implied it was broken down into three sections which allowed her an easy time to carry on the band of her pants, she quickly snapped the poles in place before brandishing it towards momo.
"What about you?" lily inquired
"I fight with a multitude of weapons but the staff is just one of my favorites." Momo explained as she used her quirk to show the girl creating a perfect replica of the staff drive knight gave her so long ago pressing the button in the center and watching it extend to its full length.
"Wow talk about compactness and that was your ability in action wasn't it? I saw the interview the other day but seeing it in person is something else, what about you lin lin what wea-" lily sentence cut off in her tracks as she stared gapping at something behind her, momo turned around and was equally surprised by what she saw, the relatively small girl carried two massive polearms in each hand. One was Guandao and the other Fangtian ji. Both weapons were slightly taller than her form entirely, making momo curious on how proficient she was with each weapon.
"You seem…equipped." Momo said slightly, still in surprise.
"Yeah these are just two of my 4 main weapons. I also have a sai and sword as well.`` Lin Lin said in a cheery mood, she carried the two weapons gracefully despite their size and the bells still didn't ring as they moved.
"Talk about a walking armory." stinger joked as all of them started to proceed to the shoot.
the initial position that the group shot had stinger out in the center his bamboo spear pointed towards the camera as momo and lily were on either side of him holding their spears in a guarding positions and directly in the center crouching down in front of stinger was lin both of her polarms pointed towards the camera as well. The group of three shot several more pictures together. Before they were gestured off, the next group of people featured lin lin, todoroki, and darkness blade.. Natalie had asked Todoroki if he could form a sword with his ice or fire and he could make a sword out of ice during the shoot. The next group was another similar weapons and group of uraraka and needle star despite his initial greeting he really didn't hold any ill will towards the girl and was happy that she found a style that suited her he was momentarily shocked that her orbs didn't include the spikes that his did but it made more sense when she had told him that each of her orbs weighed 20 tons which he wouldn't have believed at first given how the girl handled them but even he heard the interview the other day and this girl was the one that could manipulate gravity so it was no surprise their, he even shared a few pointed in how to fight with them.
The next group was for the body builders Natalie remarked as Kirishima and Mizuki took the stage both doing several poses that mimicked weight lifters, he was really into it mina thought as she looked at them posed for the camera kirishima really started to build some muscle she thought as the light made them more pronounced then usual. But every time he looked at Mizuki and smiled she felt something akin to anger rise up within her like she was bitter about something but she couldn't figure out what or why. She must have shown something in her body language as well as uraraka mentioned something about it.
"Are you alright?" she questioned
"She's just jealous of Kirishima and his new friend. Ribbit." Tsu remarked, nodding to the posing pair.
"I told you I'm not. I don't even like him like that, at least I don't think so" Mina whined. Making both girls laugh.
"You know that's how it started with me and deku….there was this one time that Hatsune had fallen on top of midoriya and for some reason I kinda felt angry bitter towards the girl even though I didn't even know her yet….are you feeling something like that mina?" Uraraka questioned.
"I…..I…..maybe." Mina said, turtling up on the chair she was sitting on to hide her face.
"Well I'm not one to judge but maybe you do feel about him in that way." Uraraka said simply but the pink girl didn't respond right away, only replying with a nod of her head. Making the two other girls chuckle a bit in response.
The next round of shoots was in casual clothing, the first pictures included most of the guys, they were in what could only be described as mafia wear. All dressed in black and proper, they actually reminded lily of what the fubuki group wore almost everyday. When deku was ordered to take his jacket off revealing his all white button down shirt and his black chest piece combined with his black gloves made him look completely villainous, uraraka was teased about almost drooling over this "villain deku" ecstatic he had going on in that moment. The next couple of images were simply group shots of everyone looking serious at the camera, mostly switching between wardrobe to show off the clothes they were wearing. The last round of shoots was for the swimsuit portion and the atmosphere was certainly more awkward for some of its members, especially with the way natalie organized some of the shots they were definitely showing off the form very well bordering on sexually, not only for the girls but the guys as well. The only ones that were slightly uncomfortable with the shoots were the girls of 1A as the guy's simply didn't care enough besides midoriya who tried his best not to stare at his girlfriend to much and kirishima who attempted to do the same with mina, especially when they had her wear a pink bikini that nearly matched her skin color making it appear like she was wearing nothing at all. But after those shots were done, everyone was free to go and as a bonus for coming they were allowed to keep all the clothes they had tried on that day.
Offense versus Offense: Bomb, Toru
Zombieman, toru and tokoyami were making there way over to bombs dojo to dropped the girl off discussing a variety of topics, toru being curios about the events in the forest two days ago, having been sidelined for the event mostly due to her just not being ready for such a mission, zombieman didn't cut any cornerns when telling her that she wouldn't be going only saying that her powers wasn't good for the environment and that she was simply to weak and kind to go on what was an essentially kill mission with him ad tokoyami.
Part of her began to doubt herself again remembering how even though she went up a total of 90 spots in the association ranking she was still far below the next member in her class, by a whopping 100 spots, she was still a little peeved that mineta of all people scored that much higher than her but that only made her think of next goal which seemed even further away, ojiro who himself got a rank increase by 20 spots now was located 230 spots ahead of her and due to her mostly being cooped up in bombs dojo all of her days nothing would really change that going forward, she wondered why she was given such a boost in the first place, unless.
"Zombieman, did you have something to do with my sudden rank increase? I can't imagine anyone else factoring in it." toru suggested as they walked, he didn't turn to speak to her directly, merely replying with a thumbs up.
" yup, you showed much improvement training under bomb and I can see that your trying your hardest so I just mentioned that to the association and I guess they took that under investment when assigning your rank." zombieman said, putting his thumb down.
"Thank you very much. I hope I don't let you down." Toru said with conviction, raising her fist in the air.
"I see that you have forgone the makeup and contacts that the association gifted you, but kept the suit. why?" tokoyami remarked
"Yeah the whole contacts things were cool and all but they took so much time to apply and take off its not worth the hassle , I kept the suit because well I assume bomb would still like to see what I'm doing when we practice so I have to wear it and it's surprisingly breathable.'' Toru said, looking at her arms and hands.
"Smart thinking." zombieman said casually.
"What about you, you're still keeping the helmet?" Toru asked. darkshadow had manifested and mischievously pressed the button under his beak activating the helmet and speaking for him.
"I told you, he liked the helmet." dark shadow said before quickly disappearing again as tokoyami deactivated it.
"It is complementary to my look." tokoyami said somewhat bashfully for his normal self.
"I never took you one to care about looks…or is this for someone else perhaps?" Toru said in a teasing tone.
"What are you implying?" Tokoyami asked quizzically.
"Nothing , a little birdy just told me some interesting news is all, I mean you were able to resist that monster's spell despite someone as stoic as Shoji being affected just seems fishy is all. could there be someone you are trying to impress?" toru said
"You shouldn't believe everything you hear, I wasn't affected simply because things such as love don't exist in my dark soul." tokoyami said a bit too thematically for toru's liking but she let the conversation die their as they reached bomb's dojo at the edge of the crater.
Zombieman and tokoyami had bid their farewell as she continued forward unlike previously however most of their class was waiting outside instead of inside like usual as she made her way down all eyes turned to her and she was momentarily hesitant as they all looked at her with a mixture of reaction mostly all just sympathetic stares, suddenly she was surprised from behind as Jackie wrapped her hand around the girls back.
"I knew you were hiding something but I didn't think it would be this big. your totally see through aren't you." the dark skinned girl remarked as she peered at her hand on the other side of toru's skull.
" You're not weirded out?" toru asked
"Me? Nah some of the other might be but we exist in a world full of monsters and abominations an invisible girl is hardly anything to be too concerned about. Besides, you can get some pictures from inside the guy's locker room." Jackie whispered the last part in her ear making toru blush.
"I'm definitely not like that." toru replied almost immediately, making the dark skinned girl laugh.
"I'm just kidding, I know that you're basically spoken for at this point, hell the world basically knows it after that interview." Jackie responded, making toru groan in annoyance.
"I really need to beat mineta up for saying that about us but why are we waiting outside?" toru asked gesturing to the rest of the class
"Oh that, according to the early risers bang had wanted to speak to his brother for a moment before class began I guess the conversation is longer than initially thought it be." Jackie replied. making a knot form in her stomach, could they be talking about the man they met the other day? She wondered a couple of minutes later bang had finally exited the bombs dojo the brothers shared one last look amongst each other before bang began to walk away as he did so all of the class started to proceed inside the dojo, toru told Jackie to go without her as she wanted to talk to bang herself just to confirm her suspicions.
"Greeting master bang, how are you?" Toru opened first.
"Ah miss toru, I'm doing fine, I hope my brother isn't working you too hard now is he." bang said with a smile.
"No, he's a great teacher, what brings you out here anyways?" Toru asked casually.
"Oh I just needed to speak to my brother about some things." bang said vaguely.
"Was it about garou?" Toru murmured quietly, the name took bang off guard and his eyes slightly widened and his smile faltered for a moment.
"I…..I know this isn't my place but …I..I'm just worried about my friends, we….we ran into him the other day and he mentioned you to ojiro specifically and with talks of a hero hunter on the loose I'm just." Toru's voice came soft and low as she spoke but bang's comforting hand on her shoulder set her at ease slightly as he responded.
"Don't worry as long as I have anything to say about it, I'll make sure that they are as safe as possible under my protection. You should run along now, you don't want to be late for your classes." bang said, patting the girl's shoulder before continuing to walk past. She nodded her understanding and continued forward. Ojiro would probably talk to him some more about it later, she figured.
Toru continued on into her class room and her lessons began, surprisingly the class wasn't anywhere near as strenuous as it was previously it was almost like bomb was only stalling for time and getting them pumped up but not wanting to overexert them.
"Oh brother. Who do you got being this time?" Jackie suddenly asked one of the guy's being near her.
"It's probably going to be the Pressure Point Killer Fist, they're ''rivals" after all.`` The man said Toru tried to remember his name. She believed Fred, he was one of the best in the class.
"Alright I bet you 10$ bucks that it's the tiger fang true fist gang." Jackie said in a joking manner.
"I'll take that bet." fred replied
" What are you guys talking about? What's about to go down?" Toru asked the two.
" a rival dojo is probably coming here to challenge us." fred remarked
"Really? Is this some sort of set date or something?" Toru questioned.
"No nothing like that, the most likely reason I can assume is because of you." fred replied
"Me? Really what did I do to cause a rival dojo to come challenge us?" Toru asked, pointing to herself.
"Come on girl, you and your friends are the talk of the town currently not to mention name dropping bomb on live broadcast in an interview with sweet mask and king himself. I don't think a person on the continent wouldn't know about it and with all those eyes on bomb dojo, it would make the perfect opportunity to try build brand recognition by beating him" Jackie explained.
"Very well explained." bomb said as he suddenly appeared next to the trio, surprising both of the girls.
"Sorry for causing trouble master bomb." toru said in a somber tone
"No need for an apology, , it is fine. It was bound to happen sooner or later regardless."
"So who do you think will be showing up today master bomb?" fred asked, bomb rubbed his beard in thought for a moment.
"If I had to guess, it will probably be the pressure point killer fist." he reasoned, fred only smirked at Jackie who rolled her eyes.
"What is that style like?" toru asked
"It's an offensive style similar to our own, as their name implies they attack a person's pressure points to either disable or kill." fred explained
"Wow that sounds tough to beat, I'm curious why zombieman didn't include that one for me to try out?" she thought aloud.
"I hope you don't dislike my teachings that much." bomb said in jest.
"No, no, no …it's not that I'm proud to be trained under you master bomb but I guess it sounds less deadly than yours so for someone like me it would be better." toru explained
"Well the main problem I can see is that as you are a hero so the monster that you may face may not always be humanoid in nature and there is no telling even if they were they would share the same pressure points that a normal human does." bomb said.
"Well that's all nice and dandy but as humans that makes them rather annoying to face. I would much prefer the tiger fist style." Jackie grumbled and just as she said that a knock was heard on the front door as bomb went to see who the challenger was, the three continued to conversate.
"What's so annoying about facing them?" Toru questioned.
"They can paralyze certain parts of you by attacking, it's extremely annoying especially when they can't even reverse when it's all over. So whatever body part is affected is just limp for hours." Jackie said in mild annoyance .
"Just don't get hit." Fred said in a joking manner avoiding a swing made on him by Jackie.
" can't you just block?" toru questioned
"That's the thing they want you to block, it allows them a better shot at disabling your arms, static blocking is almost more harmful than good. "Jackie complained again, before getting bumped on the shoulder by fred who pointed to the door revealing who toru believed must have been the pressure points master as she grumbled even more and fred let out a laugh.
"Guess you owe me 10 bucks." Fred said with a snarky grin.
"How about instead I let you take me out on a date instead?" the girl said with puppy dog eyes, fred simply rolled his eyes.
"Yeah I win by spending even more money. I told you you're too young for me, I'm four years older than you." fred. said in a monotone voice.
"Fine, I'll give you it by the end of class." Jackie replied.
The group of three stopped conversating as the other dojo school entered the dojo and bomb got everyone's attention the rival class were weirdly similar to each other they all had long brown or black hair with unique eyes that almost seemed blank in color with no pupils found in any of them but maybe they were just really pale coloring instead. Bomb addressed the class and just as the other two predicted this was a clash of dojo's, unlike the dojo crushers she faced precious this was a purely one vs one exhibition matches after the match is concluded both participants will return to their stations so that the next to can go up, both sides would choose 5 members from each dojo to participate. Bomb scanned over his students and chose her, jackie, fred, cadia, and jeff. She was momentarily surprised by him picking her but maybe he trusted her that much to represent his dojo and if that was the case she wouldn't let him down she wouldn't lose this time around.
Bomb took the group towards where they would be fighting and it completely baffled her unlike bang where they simply had a little small traditional arena bomb had what could only be described a entire rock stage raised above the ground above it was a similar platform to the arena floor that made her question what it was normally about, Jackie explained that due to how their martial arts worked they could not use it full force against their fellow martial artist, so instead bomb opted that they could use it on the stage itself to get an upperhand on your opponent instead. Huh toru never thought of it like that , she only thought about the gruesome aftermath of killing someone else with that technique but she guessed using it on the environment can also give you certain advantages in a fight.
The first matchup was with both of their star pupils of the class, Fred versus another man that went by jason. The two climbed the steps up to towards the arena and did a bow before the match commenced jason rushed towards fred with a palm strike fred quickly sidestepped the attack and fainted a kick stopping the attack short for some reason only to return with a left hand strike to jason face forcing him back as he reeled from the blow toru noted how jason other hand was downwards two finger pointed outwards towards where she assumed his kick was about to go. Jason quickly recovered and charged forwards again but before he got within range Fred had stomped with his right leg and suddenly a circular hole opened up in the rock and Jason fell though completely to the mat below instantly disqualifying him from the match and ending in freds victory.
The next match up went fairy similarly these weren't drawn out battles but quick short burst engagements that lasted no longer than 5 minutes each, bombs dojo had already won 2 matches and only lost 1 so far, jackie was next up on the chalking block, the battle between her and the guy was neck and neck battle that culminated in her being paralyzed in her right arm but delivering a direct blow with the whirlwind that toru was at first concerned over but as the circular cutting came she only blushed as she must have held it back just enough to only cut her opponents clothes completely freezing him in place as he tried to recover any dignity he had left allowing the girl to kick the man off the stage. As she got to her seat she had the most proud of herself smile on her face.
"Did you really have to embarrass him in front of everyone like that?" toru asked
"Hey they're the ones that came here looking for a fight, I just gave it to them..good luck in your match by the way." Jackie said simply as she was called up to the stage.
Toru's opponent was another girl named Jessica. She had brown hair similar to the rest of them but distinguished herself by having a pink rose on the upper left side. The two bowed and commenced their battle , toru made a mental note of the holes in the stage from the last battle as each opponent carefully approached each other. Jessica made a bold decision to jump over one of the smaller holes to reach her, striking out with multiple finger pointed strikes aimed at her abdomen, toru had luckily backed away just in time to avoid the strikes she replied with side kick of her own but the blow was struck by another finger strike, she felt a sensation run up that leg for a brief moment but ignored it for now as Jessica still came at her, she grabbed a palm strike aimed at her chest before being struck in the right shoulder by the girls other arm, she replied with a hard kick to the girls abdomen sending her skidding back. the two reset for a moment and their was momentary look of surprise on the girls face as toru could still mover her right arm she guessed the suit had gotten in the way or messed up the girls aim.
The next clash toru was even more cautious of the girl's hands, trying to work in counter attacks after her dodges or fluid blocks. Toru eventually found one of her punches land directly on the girl's chest but that was just bait to trap her in, Jessica recovered quickly trapping toru's arm in an arm lock and striking multiple times all throughout her one arm. She could feel the exact moment where it just went numb. Toru got free of the grip by performing a one armed cartwheel, that she doubled as an attack as she reversed the grip to throw the girl on the ground before performing an axe kick that nearly connected but was countered by Jessica's rising fist directly on the ankle. Jessica used toru recalled state to get up and reset how things were.
Toru was momentarily panicking; her right arm was disabled and her right leg was damaged from that last attack, hampering her ability to dodge. Millions of thoughts ran through her head on possible things she could do but she ceased them and took a calm breath. She remembered watching him train once and maybe that could help her here as Jessica charged her again, she extended her working arm outwards and deflected the first strike away from her and then followed closely by punch directly to the girls left kiddy, staggering the girl back just enough for toru to perform a donkey kick with her good leg the attack connected to the girls gut the force sending her off the stage. But she didn't go completely quietly. In the previous exchange she had struck her left leg again and it felt like jelly for the remainder of the day along with her arm still being disabled but she did it she won.
She hobbled down the steps of the stadium and nearly fell on the last one but Jackie was there to catch her catching her with her good arm.
"Hey look, we match!" Jackie said in jest talking about both their disabled right arms. Earning a laugh from toru in return. Bomb approached the two and with Jackie helped she bowed.
"I won! master." toru said excitedly
"That you did, that maneuver you pulled it reminded me of my brother teachings" bomb said. Toru nodded before looking away slightly bashfully.
"I…it might have been… me and ojiro practice together when classes are done and I may have picked up a few things from him. I don't mean to disrespect you by doing so." toru murmured
"No no it's quite alright, it shows your dedication to martial arts but I would be careful when you two fight together." bomb remarked to the sparking her interest.
"Why is that?" toru asked
"When me and my brothers techniques combine it unleashes a devastating technique in of itself. But the bond that you two share along with training together could push that ability even higher so just fair warning." bomb, explained making the girl nod before leaving and giving a thumbs up in understanding. Bomb soon later met with the other dojo leader and discuss among themselves as everyone began to return, toru was shocked when bomb suddenly punched the stadium they were fighting on and completely evaporated the rock structure just as the next rock structure above it dropped down.
"You never quite get used to seeing that, let me tell you." Jackie remarked.
"No kidding." Toru replied simply as the two girls limped back into the main area with everyone else.
Weaving vs binding: atomic's disciples , Sero
Sero and the disciples were back near the council's headquarters again waiting around for further instructions; the disciples were busy practicing amongst themselves while Sero was busy on his phone. Before suddenly as if out of nowhere he saw an old man start to walk in from the passage. The three disciples stopped practicing for a moment to address him.
" ? What brings you out this way?" Iaian asked the man named bang, the name rang a bell in sero's head as he thought about if he heard that name before.
"I'm just here to talk to atomic samurai, no need to mind me." bang replied
"He's currently in a meeting so he may be for some time." Iaian replied simply.
"That is fine, I have time to wait." he said simply as bang went over to sit down besides sero, the disciples continued to practice amongst each other.
"You're not going to practice as well?" bang asked sero, which surprised him for a moment.
"What? Me nah…I would only slow them down, and they wouldn't have much to teach me anyways." sero remarked
"Ah yes you were the one with the ability to shoot out tape. I guess it is fair to say that in a group of sword wielders that you have a hard time fitting in. What is your name by the way? I have met a couple of your friends so far and teach two of them, Midoriya and ojiro." bang replied
"That's why your name sounded familiar to me, my name sero. And you hit the nail directly on the head, a strange group to put me under if you ask me." sero remarked
"I wouldn't be so sure, training with some of the best swordsmen in the world can prove beneficial to you, they present your biggest weakness and seeing how they operate could give you a better understanding on how you can best counter them." bang explained
"Huh when you say it like that, I can see where you're coming from but against them it's practically meaningless I can't even see them move most of the time." sero replied a bit annoyed
"They won't slow down for you to practice with them?" bang asked, a bit confused.
"They aren't the most welcoming bunch. Especially with their masters challenging me." sero said simply
"And what would that be?" bang inquired
"It's a challenge that if I manage to land even a single piece of my tape on them then he would essentially disown them." sero remarked, causing bang to let out a chortle.
"That surely sounds like something Kamikaze would say , I can't really blame them for keeping their guard up around you then. But you should try to observe them as much as possible. You can still learn much just from watching someone." bang explained
"I'll try to keep that in mind." Sero remarked.
Sero noticed the door starting to open from the council chamber and quickly rushed to get into position along with the rest of the disciples he was about to gestor to bang to do the same but bushidrill forced his head down telling him that bang doesn't need to do this as he is seen as strong by atomic samurai and he respects his strength.
"Bang you're here?"
"Yes I just wanted to talk to you for a moment." bang said simply as he casually approached the man, the two discussed for a moment and started to walk away bang halted the man and gestured to Sero for a moment before whispering something in the samurai's ear. He seemed hesitant at first but relented.
"You three take the kid up to F-city, if he really is all about subduing his opponents with tape I at least want him to be the best at it." Kamikaze remarked as he and bang continued walking away and later simply disappearing from view.
"Yes master." Iaian replied as the three got up and looked at Sero who gulped in worry.
"Ugh… What's in F-city?" Sero questioned as the group passed him by and started walking, and he followed along.
"C-class rank 3: Monster ropper shell '' Bushidrill said simply , that name to ring a bell in his head wasn't that the name that the announcer said in the interview the other day?
"Why does he want me to meet him?" sero asked
"Come on kid, you need to open your ears at some point, he wants you to compare your skills …he wants you to be better but I doubt you would be." Okamaitachi said
"I doubt so as well, he is 122 ranks below him after all." Iaian remarked
"Ranks aren't everything especially down in the C-class but the discrepancy is quite far nonetheless." Bushidrill Kinda countered, which gave sero at least some hope that one of them had faith in him but that was immediately crushed when Okamaitachi spoke next.
"So do you think he has a chance against him?"
"Oh no likely not, I haven't seen this ropper shell in action but from what I've heard about him and his style of fighting monsters he's fairly more mobile than our friend here which is ironic given his ability." bushidrill claimed simply.
"Well that is to be expected, given that he hasn't had his ability for that much time." Iaian said simply, causing everyone to turn and look at him for a second time.
"Were sorry for your lost. Me and my master were there on that day as well. It was probably only thanks to the walls of the association headquarters that we survived unharmed from the ship's initial barrage" Iaian said. Sero for a very brief moment was slightly confused about what they were talking about before he caught on about their cover story and he tried to play along as best he could.
"It's ok…I don't blame you guys..for what happened. We all can get surprised sometimes. " Sero remarked, trying his best to look remorseful and downtrodden and hoped that would fool them enough and apparently it did as the crew started walking again. The rest of their walk to the nearest shelter was mostly sero bullshitting about his life before the incident and what he wanted to be before all those events happened, eventually he ended that line of conversation with the clichéd its too painful to talk about reason and while getting some looks they ultimately relented and he mentally kicked himself as he remembered that this world have much more detached emotions then their own. Getting over the potentially millions of deaths of A-city in a mere three days was still a hard pill to swallow for him.
The group eventually managed to get to the station and their they were on their way to F-city, the trip wasn't very long, which was to compliment the train itself not that the distance between the city was short, the association paid no expense with this system it could reach speeds of mach 5 when push to it's limit to ensure that heroes can get to places in a timely manner. The group arrived in F-city and started their journey. Walking around the city, Sero remarked on how they were going to find the hero, especially if heroes aren't even guaranteed to be in the city they were assigned in but they assured him that all they really needed to do to find out if he was located in the city was a tied up monster. And that's what the group did, they patiently walked around the city until a monster alarm rang out. It was a low threat monster of wolf and the group quickly made their way through the town to the designated area. And just like the disciples said the monster which was like a small goblin creature with multiple arms and along with additional miniature legs extending out of its normal legs was completely hogtied each of its hands were attached was tied completely together to a different one or his legs. Sero had to admit it was impressive to say the least.
"I guess you are all out here looking for me?" a voice from behind the group said, sero turned to the voice finding a blonde man with a bowl cut approached them he had a line of rope wrapped around his shoulder.
"You would be correct." Iaian replied
"Let me guess it's about the new hero here." the man said casually.
"Yes, our master wants him to test his skill against yours." Bushidrill said. The man let out a sigh before approaching sero himself and examining his elbow shooters.
"Well I guess, I'm curious about you myself." ropper remarked
" Well given how we are so comparable it makes sense." Sero remarked and offered his hand to shake and the man did, after waiting for the association to arrive and arrest the creature the group of them all went to a secluded area in this case it was an abandoned basketball court.
The two took to the opposite ends of the court before Iaiain signified the beginning of the fight and sero having the range advantage struck first sending out his tape from his right elbow to wrap around his fellow hero only for it do be dodge under, he tried again this time from his left for the same result, ropper closed the distance with each dodge and evade he performed , before he got close however sero used his tape to launch up the wall up and away from his fellow hero, the disciples weren't lying when they said the hero was agile with his feet, he shot out multiple bands of tape and tried to limit that advantage as best he could using an eclipsing barricade tape before he shot tape directly at the hero which he still dodged out of the way of. Sero made back down to the ground where upon his arrival he immediately found rope at his feet but before he could move out of the way the rope was pulled taught wrapping around his ankle and pulling him down toward the ground in the next instant ropper was on him and he was completely tied up unable to move.
"You're just shooting your tape out willy nilly, you can't trap anyone like that. Not if their fast enough to avoid it. try to be more creative with your strategies" ropper remarked.
Idiot, how do you not even know what you are capable of? Sero heard a second voice ring out before he could respond but it was one he could not recognize it wasn't the disciples and from what he just heard it definitely wasn't ropper so who?
I'll show you how it's done, the voice said again before sero began to black out, by the time he regained his senses he was pinned to the ground with Iaian's sword to his throat he was utterly confused on what was happening.
"Wait, wait I'm cool …I'm cool." Sero tried to say, raising his hands up slowly to demonstrate that he wasn't a threat. Iaian hesitated for a moment then relented letting sero stand up as he took a look around he realized that all of his tape was gone from the area instead the what seemed like paper mache knives, kunai, and shuriken was scattered around the place instead. Monster ropper shell had multiple cuts on his costume but thankfully none of it was dripping with blood other than the cut on his face. What the hell happened here he only blinked.
"Yo kid don't tell you've been holding back on us." Okamaitachi said loud and abrasive, confusing sero.
"What do you mean?" sero questioned
"What do you mean! What do I mean! The whole controlling your tape thing psychically and hardening it is, what that was all about!" she said getting in his face
"I…I did what now?" as he observed the scene again and picked up one of the origami pieces and true to the girl's words it was as solid as steel and they were embedded into the walls of the area and seemed to have cut straight through the fencing. Just what the hell happened here.
Final Trump Card: Bang, Charanko, Ojiro
Charanko and ojiro were busy sparring against one another as bang ran his aarons he told them, the old man had left so fast that he wasn't able to talk to him about garou. The two apprentices completed their run before following along with their exercises an some light sparring charanko had improved a lot over his time spent with the young man ojiro thought previously he would almost be able to comfortably beat the young gentlemen about 70% of the time during their sparring sessions but now that percentage has dropped down to about being an even 50%. It seemed that with every win the man got the more confidence he gained which inversely made him a better martial artist as well, ojiro noted. However the man had a fatal flaw as ojiro got more into their sparring he started to use his tail and the flaw immediately reared its ugly head again as he knocked his fellow disciple off his feet.
"Hey…hey…come on dude that's cheating." charanko stated as he held a hand up in the air.
"It's not really something that's a part of me. I should be able to use it in a fight." ojiro replied simply.
"Yeah but that thing is like a bat in practice." charanko complained again, ojiro could already see his stance faltering as his confidence dropped, if he didn't feel confident in himself his martial ability immediately dropped., ojiro knowing that fighting in such a state was pointless decided to drop the argument and do things his way the two spar for some more time before deciding it was enough and moving on to the next exercise.
Bang had left them instructions on what to do while he was gone and the next assignment was something called image training, charanko explained that this exercise was an extension of their traditional meditation but taken to the next level, you were supposed to use your imagination to simulate battles against certain opponents using this method to work not only work on yourself but to simulate your opponents moves by artificially going against them, creating counter measures for any action they may take. Ojiro understood what he meant; it was similar to the VR experience that genos had shown them a week ago.
Charanko advised that the two of them should probably go outside for this exercise as outdoors usually helps him with this the most due to the tranquil atmosphere. Ojiro nodded his understanding and continued with the apprentice outside the dojo, they went over to a pond located near the dojo and there they sat down in meditation. Ojiro didn't really know who in terms of opponents he wanted to simulate to fight against in his mind, he thought about starting off small and going for one of his classmates, someone that was nearly his equal so he chose shoji.
The battle in his mind with this shoji clone was rather intense, shoji had the ability to sprout out multiple arms spontaneously from his body, which proved difficult to combat in a traditional battle, he had to work on his foot work making sure to keep away from all of his arms, alternatively he used this shadow image of shoji to continue to practice the water stream rock smashing fist the shadow shoji using his octo blow technique and ojiro working on trying to deflect all of the punches that was coming his way, he wasn't successful in this endeavor completely multiple punches managing to get through before he was simply overwhelmed by the barrage and knocked out of his concentration.
Ojrio looked over to his fellow disciple who looked to have a dopey grin on his face, it was clear to him that whatever he was envisioning at that moment was not an opponent that he was supposed to be fighting, and to confirm his suspicions the young teen murmured his thoughts
"Once I hear the screams of the damsels, I proceeded to go save them! And once they're saved, I shall...!"
Ojiro merely rolled his eyes before starting to concentrate again the next shadow opponent that he conjured up in his mind was tokoyami, he never had a chance to fight the dark teen but there was a chance that the two could have met if he stayed in the sports tournament so that was the location that he envisioned in the middle of a stage of a large crowd president mike announced the start of the match and the two went at it, ojiro was immediately put on the defensive as he had to dodge around dark shadow being shot out at him, due to the speed and size of the shadow he couldn't do much of anything but move out of the way, he was finally able to close the distance and thought he would have an advantage but dark shadow suddenly eclipsed tokoyami's form the punch that he threw was completely blocked by the shadowy energy. He tried multiple strikes even using his tail but nothing seemed to get through the shadows defenses he was able to deflect the strikes he received from tokoyami in return before performing a maneuver he wasn't expecting where the strike divided amongst each other and struck him in the face again knocking him out of bounds and falling back into reality.
When he returned back he heard another murmur from his fellow disciple.
"What a villainous hottie! Since hand-to-hand combat is my forte, physical contact is unavoidable."
Now ojiro was simply confused about what the guy was imagining at that moment, but it did bring up an interesting question for him about his next target. Did he know any villains that he could try this against? He originally thought of trying to imagine fighting garou but that simply resulted in underlying his thoughts of bang and basically imprinting garou's imagine on top of it, which he didn't know how far from the truth that would be, he was bangs best student after all. But that basically only resulted in him getting blitzed and pulverized which made him slightly scared of the white haired man but he moved past that and tried to imagine a more manageable foe, leaving probable hero hunter behind to focus on someone else and that person was none other than the hero killer from their world stain….he originally didn't know much about stain or how he fought but that being showed him how so he went off that.
The fight took place in a closed off alleyway as the hero killer approached him, he prepared himself , trying his best to avoid the criminals knives he threw his way before trying to counter with some attacks of his own but his counters while they connected were never clean enough the hero killer was relentless and even a light scratch that drew blood would spell his end. He challenged this image of the hero hunter 10 times and only won 3 of them. That last encounter ended with him getting slashed, stabbed in the chest making him completely unbalanced himself in reality and nearly falling in the pond they sat around, he heard another murmur from the other discipline.
"After saving these kids, I might have to ask something from their pretty older sisters in return. I'm not a Lolicon!"
Ojiro decided that enough was enough and dragged charanko from his thoughts with a light slap to the back of the students head, surprising him greatly as he robbed the back of his neck.
"What the hell man? What gives?"
"You're not taking this seriously." ojiro said simply.
"I am, I am …..I'm just giving myself a confidence booster." charanko said defensively
"Giving yourself false confidence will only continue to harm you in the long run."
"tch…I know that." charanko murmured a bit discouraged, seeing the look on his fellow apprentices face he tap him on the shoulder and gestured over to the stairs, he obliged as both students went over near the steps that led up to the dojo, overlooking the city and giving a great view of the setting son, their both apprentices sat looking over the landscape in silence before ojiro spoke.
"What's the reason you practice martial arts? And I mean the real reason?" charanko was a bit taken back before sighing.
"Well the real reason I wanted to practice martial arts was to be "cooler" for the girls. " charanko admitted, before letting out a chuckle.
"I was fully prepared to quit almost a year ago, but then garou rampage happened and I was suddenly the last student which by default meant I was the best so I attempted to capitalize on that. I know, pretty pathetic right." charanko said, rubbing a hand through his hair.
"I wouldn't call it pathetic persay, everyone has a reason for seeking strength and no one reason is more important than another but your reasoning can affect your dedication to the craft, given that you're still single and can't find anyone , you must have thought that continuing with this was rather pointless right?" ojiro asked, charanko nodded.
"So why did you stay?" ojiro asked next
"Because I felt bad for him, you know after that guy's rampage all of his students simply up and abandoned him just like that, he didn't deserve that, bang is the kindest person I've ever met even when I showed no talent for martial arts he still kept me here, kept trying to push me to do better and I didn't want to betray the trust he had in me." charanko said earnestly.
"I see but to truly honor him you need to change the very foundation on why you joined in the first place. " ojiro explained
"I can see that but I don't know what else to really motivate me." charanko replied
"What about for bang himself, when you fight for bang's dojo and reputation I notice you find a sort of inner strength if you focus on that I'm sure you could be better than you are now." ojiro said, gaining a smile on his fellow disciples face.
"Yeah, yeah maybe you're right. Why do you practice martial arts?" charanko asked turing the question on him.
"I practiced martial arts at first just so I didn't fall behind my friends and those around me but now ….I practice so that I can better myself." ojiro said.
"That's …wise." charanko said simply
"Wise indeed." bang's voice suddenly called from right beside them, freaking both students out and causing Charanko to nearly fall off the side of the mountain, luckily ojiro was they're to catch him with his tail, after safely securing the boy back on the ledge they both apologized to bang for slacking off but bang waved it off stating that it was quite alright and that he should be the one apologizing for wasting their day.
"You can leave charanko and as for you young ojiro I believe that you have something to talk to me about?" bang said, surprising ojiro slightly before he nodded his head, the two apprentices were about to head their separate ways before charanko halted ojiro and asked if they could exchange numbers just in case something happens, ojiro smiled and gladly agreed. After that was done ojiro and bang proceeded back into the dojo with one last farewell to charanko who began to take the arduous task of walking down the stairs.
"How did you know that I wanted to speak with you?" ojiro asked
"On my journey I had a brief conversation with young toru." bang explained
"I see, so she told you that we had a run in with Garou the other day." ojiro said bang nodded his head.
"She remarked that he said something to you directly." bang inquired
"Yeah…he said something along the lines of you can't hide him away forever." ojiro said, leaving out the rude remark on his age but it seemed that there was no need.
"He probably prefaced that by making some comment about my age." bang asked, ojiro merely nodded
"That sounds like something he would say." bang said simply, before rubbing his chin in thought.
"Bang…..that attack on the association was he the one that-."
"Yes he was." bang answered again, quickly cutting him off. Ojiro simply maintained a neutral expression.
"And he will be hunting heroes?" ojiro questioned
"That is what he said he will do" bang said simply in a stoic expression, ojiro was a bit nervous in that case, what if he came for one of his friends, hell what would happen if he came for him? He took out some of the best heroes this world had to offer that wasn't in the S-class what hope would he have. Bang seemingly sensed his doubts as he spoke next.
"There is no cause for concern as long as you're around me he will not attack you but in the case that you find yourself in his sights I would like to teach you something, it is not within the scrolls you have but it should prove fruitful to you in dire situations." bang explained gaining ojiro's intrigue.
"Is this technique dangerous?" ojiro asked.
"Yes, it is. awakening breath is a technique that draws out the very limits of your body but if used irresponsibly can have devastating negative impact on the body as well such as double edged sword. " bang explained
"Would I be able to beat Garou with it?" ojiro asked mostly out of curiosity rather than wanting to fight the man to find out. But bang simply shook his head.
"No, while the technique offers a significant increase to abilities it doesn't work miracles. The gulf between you two is simply too large, but it may provide you enough time to escape and find help." bang instructed, ojiro nodded his head in understanding, taking in a moment to understand the severity of such a technique before nodding his head to bang to continue on with the explanation.
"The technique requires the users to be in a certain state of mind to function, it is an all or nothing gamble of a technique which requires the situation to be one that has your life on the line in the conflict. Without that the move will not function to its utmost potential." bang said
"I understand." ojiro said.
"I hope you do. I will first show you the breathing technique in itself and after that we can put it into practice but forewarning I will not be as gentle as I normally am, I will need you to experience that your life is really in danger. Do you accept?" bang said
"I accept." ojiro announced fully prepared for what's to come
The next 4 hours was something of a blur to the young apprentice; he had never felt such an intimidating presence from anyone and had never been hit so hard by anything in his entire life, he almost thought bang was really going to kill for a moment and that's when it clicked. Bang had stopped his assault on the boy for a moment to admire the change in the boy..
"That is an interesting development." was all ojiro heard before he blacked out and fell unconscious.
Tank Top Emergency: Tank top army
Shoji was surprised when he walked into the tank top headquarters that suddenly in front of him tank top tiger, blackhole, doctor, and even vegetarian were all prostrating themselves before him.
"We are so sorry young man, if we knew what you had been through we wouldn't have spoken so out of turn about you." tank doctor said
"You embody the true ideals of a hero even through your adversity you still try to help others." tank tiger said.
"You are worthy of the tank top completely!" tank top black hole yelled out
"I'm sorry for being so dismissive of you. " tank top vegetarian said in a quiet voice
Shoji was stunned by the display, he looked around the room and the only other people in the area were tank top, philosopher, girl, and stitch . All thee looking on at the display as if waiting for him to say something.
"It's ok, I knew when I first decided to do hero work that something like this would happen. I don't blame you for seeing me as a monster. I accept the apology nonetheless. " Shoji said simply, the four of them began to slowly raise their heads to look at the teen, before he was rushed by two of them, both tiger and blackhole, and gave him a bear hug thanking him for forgiving them, calling him an official tank top now.
"He isn't an official tank top yet." tank philosopher remarked, garnering strange looks from everyone in the room.
"What? Don't tell me you're getting bad feelings now, you've been in his corner this whole time don't tell you're getting cold feet now? Did that preposterous book tell you something that we should know?" tank doctor said as he turned to look at the man.
"No, nothing like that although it did say something special would happen today but what I mean by that is our newest member can't officially join without getting his very own tank top." tank philosopher said before tossing a tank top his way. Shoji caught the shirt and unraveled it into a black tank top with green and pink octopus tentacles that extended away into the sleeves.
"Well, what are you waiting for? put it on!" a tank girl yelled from the back, which stirred a chorus of chants of him putting on the tank top and he hesitantly obliged by taking off his current tank top before putting on the new one he was just given and immediately he began to start feel off like all of a sudden he felt stronger for some reason? Maybe it was just the crowd and round of applause he was getting from those around them. He thanked tank stitches, for his work although he lamented internally about how his outfit doesn't really match anymore well the colors still went together at least and that wasn't the only top the man had made for him he gave him a total of 30 total of identical tank tops to the ones he had just put on but before they could completely indulge in his celebration an alarm started to ring inside the building. And everyone started to get ready, all of them approaching a television screen.
"What's happening, what's going on." shoji asked
"That's the tank top Emergency alarm, it means that big troubles are on the horizon and everyone is needed on station." tank vegetarian replied.
"Everyone?" Shoji said mostly to himself in speculation as the TV screen suddenly turned on, revealing tank top master.
"You all heard the alarm, the situation is in U city, some type of monster assault, I won't be able to get there until later on but vegetarian, philosopher you two are in charge of the defenses." tank master said simply before hanging up the call. There was a brief moment of silence.
"Well you heard the man guy's it's time for us to head out." tank vegetarian said, starting to head outside soon followed by everyone else shoji included.
"Are we really mobilizing the entire Tank top army force?" Shoji asked tank girl more secretly.
"Yup we are if a city requests our help in full then we go." she said simply
The group of 7 got into the car and started out towards the nearest shelter to hop on the train towards U-city as that would be faster than traveling from G-city in traditional transport the troop made a minor pit stop at hero association HQ itself and waited from everyone to gather in one place before everyone minus master headed over to U-city
Once the entirety of the tank top armor arrived in U-city they were immediately hurried over to one of the mayors offices there the mayor explained that several witnesses have recently seen movement in the forest. After sending in a few heroes to check on the rumors we have come to realize that there appears to be an invasion force preparing to attack the city soon. We don't know when but assume it will happen today. Shoji was surprised when the mayor began to share what they were going to be going against the creatures, reminding him of goblins, orks, and kappa's from mythology and fiction in their world but he guessed that it was a real threat here . they weren't the only heroes either along with the 20 tank toppers, there were four other hero's along with them one called himself death gatling which honoring to his name carried a minigun in one of his hands everywhere he went he mostly kept to himself a lot of the time but he was still a respectful and courteous to his teammates. The second hero was shooter he was another long range type similar to death gatling but instead of a gun he used a bow and arrow which shoji found peculiar but he was damn good with it shoji had to admit his draw speed was lighting fast and fairly accurate being able to land direct marks from a distance of over a kilometer away. The third hero was one in extravagant regal looking knight armor colored mostly purple with white and gold highlights, with a pile bison on his right arm.
The fourth hero was a self proclaimed trap master and his name reflected such trap tengu he went by he wore a crows helmet that concealed his face from everyone and a black box presumably full of traps or materials needed to make them. Trap master had set up numerous traps of the would be battle field in preparation for the assault and after some initial back and forth between tank vegetarian and death gatling on who should be officially in charge of the coming battle until they eventually decided to just separate the group into 12 members each label both as commanders to save each person's pride.
The time of battle was approaching the battlefield luckily was in a particularly desolate part of the city due to the city being still under construction moving further outwards towards said forest shoji had a monetary thought on thinking the reasons the monster were going to attack was due to the expansion that would probably lead into their home but none of that mattered now that the battle began multiple goblins started to emerge from the forest and immediately sprang into tangus traps which ranged from wired netting that constricted those captured into the metal wire tearing off limbs and completely embedding into flesh and those unlucky enough to get trapped into groups were crushed as well, but they continued to flow out of the forest charging with reckless abandon even as their comrades fell around them. Numerous traps continued to spring up as they charged death pits, spiked coffins, and large bear traps that would sever goblins in half; it was a slaughter.
But their was so many of them the traps soon became overwhelmed by sheer numbers the goblins were supported by the kappa creatures as well these creatures were larger almost the size of a full grown man that hard out shell it used to bulldoze through the traps but that's when the range shooters struck out death Gatling rake their file with numerous bullets from his Gatling gun, failing number of them even through their outer shells, others were failed with arrows, the poison already creeping through their veins as they fell over. Shoji was a part of the defense team, a team of 8 tank toppers assigned to defend the long range support if the assault got too close. Now the orgers were advancing through the tree. These were tall beasts each towering at least 8ft tall, they had makeshift shields and weapons which they used to great effect using them to block the bullets but even with that it didn't save them completely, only delayed the inevitable his bullets would eventually pierce through but he started to run out of ammunition as the horde kept coming and suddenly over the treeline rocks began to crash down around their foothold.
The two captains immediately began to issue commands the forward team would push through the remaining forces and destroy the artillery that was currently reigning down on their position. 10 tank toppers led by vegetarian charged into the forest from the side just as another volley launched forward, and just as those left another stream of ogres, goblins, and kappas, given the lack of manpower the defense team was sent forth as the ranged attackers went back to reload. Shoji immediately saw the difference in his combat ability as he started fighting he tried his signature octo blows technique against one of the kappa type creatures but the power was off as his punches landed the creature seemingly crumpled in on itself before dropping to the floor, he was surprised by how quickly it did was their something to this tank top thing after all? He started to think as before he continued on with the battle. Another change was that his growths would explode out at a quicker pace allowing him to strike even harder. The fighting immediately turned in their favor as the range support came back and started to supplement their force, the field was nearly clear now but rumbling from the trees punctuated a another turn of events, the 10 tank tops sent in to take care of the artillery were falling back several members were slightly injured but they seemed panicked about something. Tank top vegetarian wasn't seen for a moment until he came flying out from the tree line. He had a swollen lip and was bleeding from the mouth.
"Damn that thing is a cut above the others." tank top vegetarian said as he spit out a mouth full of blood.
The trees started to crumble on the distance and soon after a giant armored cyclops began to emerge from the forest, it was easily 12 feet tall behemoth armed from head to toe in black metal armor along with a strong metallic shield that looked similar to the material of A-city shoji thought along with a giant metal metal spiked bat.
"That must be the chief, everyone back up, I handle this." death Gatling said confidently as he aimed his gun at the cyclops, death shower the man said as a hell storm of bullets lashed out at the creature, the cyclops reacted quickly raising it shield at the barrage and unlike the smaller ogre's shield this one held firm completely dispelling the barrage of bullets with seemingly no effort at all, shocking the group entirely, shooter was next aiming for the gaps into the beast armor only for it's skin to simply repel the shots on it's own.
As the beast drew closer both tank top vegetarian and tank top philosopher tried to take on the beast but it was hopeless their attacks were rebuffed by the creature's massive shield sending both of them flying away. Shoji quickly stretched out his hands to catch them before they fell towards the floor. The heroes were discussing what their next moves were but that was when he.
"You guys perform honorably now I will handle this." tank top master said as he suddenly appeared next to them, the tank topper all cheered in celebration and praise, tank top master approached the monster as it roared out a challenge. Master charged at the behemoth with his first signature move with his tank top tackle but the creature used its shield to block the strike but even with that the sheer force of the blow was still enough to push the creature back a couple of feet. Surprised but not disheartened tank top master and the creature continued to battle, each blow that the two clash producing a shockwave that began to remind shoji of a similar battle, one between all might and that high-end nomu back during class but unlike that time, master was clearly the superior through the conflict, no blow was able to even touch him and each blow he returned with was either blocked by the shield or slipped through the monster defenses and struck home causing the creature to puke up blood and stagger. The fight ultimately came to a head when master had feigned another punch which the creature was attempting to block but he alternated for an attack with a large rock which he threw directly at the creature's head completely turning it into red mist as its body slumped to the ground. The tank tops whooped and cheered for their master success along with all the other heroes present besides one death Gatling who shoji could only describe the glare he was sending the masters' way was envious before huffing and turning away. A short clean up later everyone decided to go and get something to eat not only to celebrate their victory as a group but also to celebrate their new member.
A new leash on life: metal bat, pig god, koda, aki, sato
Koda was a bit nervous about going out with Aki, even with the benefit of the world wide interview explaining that there was a chance that he would have had a sort of beast within him in the chaos of battle and heroes simply not knowing any better could lead to complications out in the world but he also didn't want aki to just stay at home forever as a house pet, that wasn't completely fair to her either. so he was willing to take the chance, metal bat should be able to ward anybody trying to cause trouble he thought. Another alleviation for his worries was that he wasn't alone today, apparently pig god and metal bat were chosen to go on some sort of mission together which meant that him and sato would be together offering him some safety being with someone he fully trusts.
The two were walking within the halls of the hero association HQ currently where they will be briefed on their situation.
"What do you think the mission will be?" koda asked sato
"I don't know probably something to do with a monster if I had to guess, given their track records so far."
"You're right about that, I hope it doesn't mean we have to kill them though." Koda murmured out as he looked at Aki who was walking down beside them.
"I'm sure that's the reason they chose us specifically, with pig god and you. I'm sure we can just incapacitate the monster. All we're probably gonna have to do is keep metal bat from killing them." Sato said with a chuckle, Koda nodded in understanding and seeing things he could see where that made sense.
{Where are we going} Aki asked from below, making Koda turn his attention to the cub.
{We are going to go on a mission, I should have asked you this before we left but….how do you feel about fighting? The mission we're about to go on could be dangerous and I don't want you to be hurt.} Koda asked the cub, which shook it's head.
{I don't mind fighting and if the mission is dangerous than I want to be there to protect you, I'm bigger and stronger than I was before I can do it.} Aki said earnestly, putting a slight smile on Koda's face as he rubbed the cubs snout, making her shake his hand off.
"What was that about?" sato asked
"I just asked her if she wanted to participate in this mission , I don't want to force her into something she doesn't want to do." Koda replied, and Sato simply nodded approvingly.
The three of them made their way into the room and greeted both of their masters before they too sat down and waited for the briefing to begin, the association member who was the bearded worker from before was addressing them again and he believes this was the first time he ever gave his name which was bushou. The meeting didn't take very long at all the basic gist of the meeting was that due to wanting to clear up anymore bad blood between the association and the police force, they had decided to divulge some information about a monster fighting ring happening in I-city, the police were to understaffed to attack the place head on and were building up a task force to attack the facility but the losses and potential injuries of said attack would probably be too high of a cost for the payoff they believed so they gave the information to the association as a part of a peace offering.
And that's where their group comes: the 4 of them were instructed to bust the fighting ring and capture all involved, bushou added near the end that the monsters were expendable but can be captured as well if possible. Which made koda sigh with relief, he had a disdain for neglectful owners but he had an even more for malicious pet owners. Those that would raise an animal or any creature really just for fighting for sport or money were sickening to his mind. He was almost happy that they were the one taking on this assignment saving those poor defenseless monsters from those horrible people.
There was some light talking between the party as they all made their way down into the subways where they were whisked off straight towards I city and they arrived there in no time, the information they have of the location wasn't much to go off limiting the search to one specific district in the city. But that still left a lot of ground to cover to find the place, luckily they had aki after a small amount of searching around she had picked up the scent of monsters close by and with that the group followed the cub all the way directly to their target. The building contrary to the group's imagination wasn't in some run down place but an upkeep establishment. Almost not even a speck of grim anywhere which originally made the group think aki was wrong but koda held strong and believed in her and after some initial dispute they decided to go inside but they couldn't just bash the door in so they cooperated and asked to enter and search the premises the man that opened the door was sly but not sly enough to hide the clear nerves in his tone and movements but he showed them around the building and it was like a warehouse of some kind, sato and koda kept a sharp out on their surroundings just in case they were getting setup for an ambush but none seemed to come the guide seemingly finished his tour and was attempting to usher them away before aki had used her sense of smell to locate a hidden basement and just as the man began to panic and reach into his pocket metal clocked the guy over the head knocking him out cold as they went down their to check for themselves.
The before they went down their koda had instructed aki to try not and kill the monster they meet only try to knock them out she was a bit confused but she accepted his request nonetheless, she also powered koda up with his new feedback ability before they went down and good thing to as soon as they went down into the cellar all hell broke loose. The man that was showing them around must have had a discreet way of informing his compatriot that they were around as as they got down the cellar stair they were immediately fired up by several gun men, bad who was in the lead seemingly deflected numerous bullets with his bat as pig god stood in the fire the bullets simply disappearing into the man's bulk before ricocheting back out again, sato and koda could only sit behind the two heroes until the criminals guns ran empty, several seeing the heroes still completely fine after there assault broke there spirits as several of their numbers of them made for secret exist away from them. That wasn't all they did, some of the fleeing prisoners released some of the caged monsters as well to distract the heroes as they got away.
koda , sato, aki , and pig god all started to deal with the monster as metal bat went after the fleeing criminals, koda simply not trusting the hero to keep his word and not kill them with his strikes. The battle was a mix of human and monster targets there were 10 monsters in total but only 6 of which actually joined the battle once released others simply sat in their cages, koda could already see the signs of scars and malnourishment on their bodies as well as missing limbs and body parts on others that chose to not participate, not all of the criminals ran 3 stayed behind with the monsters going by their lashes and whips koda could only assume they were the "tamers" and to their credit the monster focused their attacks on them just as they were instructing aki, sato, and koda each took on one tamer and were currently fighting them.
"You…I heard about you the other day, what makes you think you're different from us?…control monsters' minds, you think it's ok just because you do it for a different reason ha! Don't make me laugh." the tamer said as he fought Koda, what he said angering the normally quiet kid which resulted in him doing a hard right slug to the man's jaw sending him flying into the nearest wall cratering it immensely While exclaiming.
"I am nothing like you!" His anger must have crept into aki as well as she reared back on her hindlegs and snarled at the tamer while doing a paw swipe that went completely down the man's chest causing bleeding. sato had just finished with his tamer and the battle finally calmed down, the monsters that were fighting were all eaten by pig god and than thrown back up into their cages and locked away, the crew went to search for metal bat and found him on top of a pile of guys and in the back of him was giant hulking beast that's head was cracked open down the middle.
"They had a special one in the back that seemed stronger than the rest," metal bat said casually.
The group gathered all of them up and called the association to come and pick everything up, now that they finished up it was just a waiting game now. Koda was trying his best to console the monster and make sure that they were ok and fine but Aki started to sniff the air again.
{what is it} koda asked
{I smell another monster} aki said
{really where?} Sato asked.
Sato and koda left with the bear as pig god and metal bat stayed behind, the two took multiple turns until they reached a storefront it was a for a jewelry/clothing store aki seemed to pay no mind to the panic she was causing into the environment leaving the two boy to try and calm the situations as they tried follow the bear. Just as koda finally told the bear to stop aki did and she stopped in front of an exhibit that shocked him, sato made his way over just as he finished talking with the store owner before he to was left stunned with what he saw, sitting their on display was a necklace made of familiar scales that reminded them of a certain monster.
A living cheat code: Saitama, King, Mineta
"What!? How did you do that? I didn't even know that character could do that.`` Saitama complained as he and king continued to play their game.
"King is great at any game he plays." mineta commented
"A little too good if you ask me." saitama murmured in reply
"Don't be like that you're getting better…look you were able to actually move a step that time." king said, angering the bald man even more as he mashed the buttons harder continuing in vain to do anything against the legend in the fighting game they were playing, king decided to completely style on his bald headed fan picking a character and only relying on only it's counters to do damage it was a long drawn out battle in comparison to the instant losses that king would usually dispatch on his opponents but the battle still went by quickly saitama's anger clouding his judgment and just constantly attacking and falling for the counters until his inevitable defeat, after such a humiliating loss he nearly slammed the console on the ground but thought better of it and thrusted the device back into mineta's hands but the small boy didn't take it offering it back to saitama as he addressed king.
"Hey king, while I like to laze around and play videogames like the next guy, aren't you getting bored? I mean we have no chance of beating you in any of these games." mineta complained
"You never get tired of winning." king replied simply.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that, without some struggle life just gets boring trust me." Saitama said in response.
" Well what do you guy's want to do?" king said relenting
"We should go on patrol!" Mineta exclaimed excitedly.
"Ah that sounds very exhausting…..oh saitama how about you take the boy out." king suggested.
"Sure I need to take my anger out on something anyways." Saitama said casually.
"You aren't coming to king?" mineta asked
"Nah, don't worry as I said Saitama is strong, he'll take good care of you while you're out there." king remarked turning back to his game and Mineta reluctantly agreed to take one glance at the hero in question; they shared very similar costumes and couldn't knock his fashion sense.
The two heroes shortly after, the two traveled around M-city and for all 10 minutes everything was peaceful and quiet but immediately after words a monster siren started to blare warning of a tiger level threat close by to the duo. The two quickly made their way over to the scene and encountered a monster that looks vaguely like a land shark with giant mutant gorilla arms sprouting out down through its body like a centipede that it used to move through the street overturning cars and other things that got into its way.
"You want the first crack at it?" Saitama asked casually as the beast noticed them and started to charge their way, frightening the small boy somewhat as he rapidly shook his head.
"No, no, no ….it's all yours and watch out it's coming this way!" Mineta screamed as he used his pop off orb to jump out of the way of the large beast just as the monster went to swallow them whole but to his surprise saitama didn't move at all and just sat there the the teen was shocked when the bald man was simply swallowed whole in one gulp but in that next instance a large explosion directly from the creatures jaw. The top of the creatures head was blown clean off as saitama remained where he stood just standing their still with a casual expression on his face the only hint of emotion was the one of disgust as he step out of the monster remains that lingered on the ground, mineta was stunned by the display, rushing over to check over the creature and examine saitama 's work.
"Woah you just beat it so easily." Mineta stated as he looked at the carcass, he momentarily jumped as the top of its head landed next to him after another moment. Saitama simply stepped over it and continued to travel forward like nothing happened at all.
"Your power allows you to jump high?" saitama asked mineta
"You didn't watch the interview the other day?" mineta questioned, saitama simply shrugged
"My power is dealing with my pop off orbs on my head. They can stick to any surface and trap things that touch me. On the other hand, it allows me to just bounce off of them." Mineta explained.
"Wow that sounds like an awful super power." Saitama said bluntly.
"Hey! You could at least be a little bit nice about it." Mineta said hurt by the remark.
"I mean…there is not much else to say about it, compared to your friends it seems pretty lacking." Saitama said, making mineta even more discouraged as they walked nearly sulking in his self pity.
"I know that….that's why when king picked me ..i was so happy I thought he saw something in me that he could make better… you're his friend and why do you think he picked me over some of my other friends? It seems like he only chose me to keep me out of the way." mineta asked
"I…I don't know …I haven't known king very long actually, I only met him last month. But my thoughts would be that if you think you power or if you know your power is weak then work on something else. Strengthen your body and maybe your quirk will follow." Saitama replied. Mineta sat and thought on that for a moment I mean it's kind of true, he could try to work on himself physically but given the problems with his proportions normal gym and weight training just wouldn't' work maybe king had something he could do to try and fix that, mineta thought.
The two continued their patrol for about 2 or 3 more hours and had run into several other monsters during that time, mineta being stunned each time as saitama casually killed each monster with one punch no matter the threat level even a supposed demon level threat was no issue for the bald man. Just then another monster alarm kicked off, this time the threat level was only a wolf, it was actually just a centaur creature fully kitted out with a shield and lance like a jockey instead of a human head however it had a head of a horse which creeped mineta out severely. Saitama gestured for Mineta to take care of the monster as he had spotted a sale in a nearby grocery store, completely abandoning the kid to fight the monster alone. At first he was scared he never had to fight something by himself before but he quickly steeled his resolve. He needed to be able to do things by himself sooner or later, not only to prove something to himself but also to prove to king that he could do something in a fight, that he has what it takes to be a hero.
The centaur creature dashed at him and using his pop off orbs he quickly dodged out of the way of the creatures attack, he took off a pop off orb and put them in his grape launcher and launched them at the centaur before suing it's lance it attempted to knock the balls away only being partially successful some sticking to the lance instead. Now however the creature target where mineta was about to land he didn't have much in terms of mid air maneuverability so he was a sitting duck as he fell the centaur creature raising it's spear to gore him but mineta thought better stacking numerous of his pop of orbs together and directing it right on the lance tip just before the attack landed which instead of stabbing him bounced him away with the force, it did stop the damage out right as he crashed into a wall but it surely beat being stabbed.
The creature snorted in anger as it looked at it's lance covered in pop off orbs before charging at the purpled haired boy attempting to stomp him under its hooves, mineta waited for the centaur to close in and get ready to stomp on him before dodging out of the way, he used one of the pop off orbs that he threw early as a spring to bounce back at the centaur in the side knocking it off balance and making it fall. Before the creature could get up Mineta quickly used his pop off vineyard to wrap around the creature's legs forcing it to lie there defeated. Mineta let out a breath as he surveyed his work and his first solo victory. He was so happy for himself which immediately turned to agitation once the bald hero came back and offered him an ice cream pop that he got from the store he accepted but that didn't quell the rage he felt for the man to just abandon him like that. The two waited around for the association to pick up the monster and Saitama decided to just call it a day and head home back up to City-Z offering the purple boy a few encouraging words before heading off. Mineta went back to kings apart to tell him all about the monster he fought and beat while king was busy looking around for something. Apparently he had misplaced one of his portal consoles and needed help finding it before both realized that Saitama was the last one seen with it. King opted he would just go get it later and the two discussed mineta's time with the hero before playing some more video games.
Upgrades people upgrade: child emperor, Jiro, Iida
Jiro was a bit surprised that Iida would ask to accompany her to visit child emperor today, she thought that he had originally made plans with kirishima to go and visit darkshine the last time they spoke about it but seeing as how kirishima was taken away today she guessed he just felt nervous approaching his master without him or more likely he wouldn't even know where to look for darkshine at all. The two continued on their journey to Y-city taking the metro and exiting the station when Iida turned to her with a serious expression.
"I saw and heard the recording the other day." Iida said, making the girl's expression freeze completely, her mind immediately jumping to what he could possibly be talking about but just in case he wasn't she wanted to play the situation cool.
"Wha….what …ehem….what are you talking about specifically?" Jiro asked coughing to clear her throat slightly and hopefully to keep the blush that was growing on her face contained.
"I'm sure you know the incident I am referring to, as class president I stayed up late to ensure that you all made it home safe and therefore was watching the camera's for when you all came home and I saw you and kaminari….. Now in interest of your own feelings I made sure not to address this in front of everyone else but the same lecture that I gave to uraraka and midoriya goes the same for you two as well ." Iida explained, Jiro broke out into a full on blush and her heartbeat started to steadily increase as he spoke, she used her hands to cover her face to avoid having to look at the president's gaze. On one hand she was glad that she waited for them to be in private to address this because if he said this in front of the class she didn't know what she would do on the other hand is that the reason he came with her today instead of someone he's more talkative with?
"Now I don't want to come off as invasive but I want to address what the two of you did once you left the door for the first time….I just want to be sure that both of you are safe in any endeavors that you two partake in, while I don't condone those type of action since we are so young but-"
Jiro was mentally freaking out at the implications Iida was making towards them as she immediately raised her head a hot red blush completely covering her face and slammed her hand over his mouth to stop him from talking.
"YOU GOT THAT ALL WRONG!" Jiro yelled, yelling a little too loud and drawing some fleeting glances from the passing bystanders. She lowered her voice slightly but gripped his shoulder tightly.
"Look whatever the hell you were just referring to, did not happen… we just left to go talk ok, nothing more, nothing less." Jiro ensured the captain understood from the girl's outburst and unusually vulgar vocabulary that she was being honest with him.
"Apologies if I may have offended you with that remark, I just understood that a lot of things have happened to us over the coming month and that people have different ways of coping with what's happening to them." Iida said sincerely, almost ashamed of himself for even suggesting such a thing, Jiro cut the guy some slack but was still incredibly flustered.
"Was that the only reason you decided to come join me today?" Jiro asked to switch the subject away from yesterday.
"Mostly I also heard that, this child emperor is sort of like a creator of sorts? I wanted to see if he could create me another hero costume, my current one is damaged and I need to make some modifications to my new mufflers." Iida said, gesturing to his arms.
"Oh yeah then I'm sure he could create something for you, he's already made something for me, mina, and koda. He's like a younger and more level headed hatsumei." Jiro said with a chuckle earning a chuckle from Iida as well.
The two continued to travel for a moment before being halted by the sound of an monster alarm, the threat level was of wolf, seeing the confusion on Iida face she began to explain the systems the cities have in place when a monster sighting happens and she also showed him the app that is able tell her exactly where the monster was, the monster was only a couple of kilometers away from them so the two made a detour towards the danger area.
The monster were giant praying mantis that was 10x the size of the average person it was currently assaulting a building where people were taking shelter inside of, it's claws clawing out the outer edge causing indents to shape in the concrete, Jiro thought quickly using her arm amps to send two sound waves directly into the creatures chest pushing it back from the building, the creature immediately turned it attention to it's attacker before spring up with it's hind legs to jump at her, the attack would have landed but Iida was faster quickly moving her away before charging back at the creature avoiding it's attacks and launching a kick at the creatures hinds legs causing it to stagger downwards he raced around to the monsters front and performed a flip kick to the creatures head causing it stagger upwards again before dodging out of the way of Jiro next attack heartbeat surround hitting the creature directly in the chest, the creature let out a counter shriek that Jiro canceled out with her counter-balance move as Iida ran up the monster tail and knocked it out with a leg drop directly on its head.
Jiro had pawned off the waiting around to red muffler that arrived late , allowing the two of them to go towards child emperors lab after the initial surprise and wonder wore off Iida greeted child emperor and asked him if he could make a suit for him, he agreed without much hassle and the two got together to plan out the design as Jiro took her the moment to relax.
Keeping it stylish: drive knight, kaminari, momo
Both momo and kaminari were back in drive knight storage hub again, the two were both undergoing their traditional training they would experience between the two of them. Kaminari was currently in his "electro chamber" as he called it no, where he would constantly go but exposed to millions of volts of electricity to absorb and distribute he progress so far has been slow, he's currently working on how much electricity he could discharge before his brain gets fried he had increased the voltage to around 25 million volts which was impressive but it was still a dozen times lower than what he could absorb which he hoped to work on.
Momo on the other hand was currently training with drive knight again, practicing some of the lessons she was taught by her previous tutors, her training was currently in sword fighting but to keep her adaptable would switch on the fly to staff fighting, or switch again to hand to hand combat, then free form combat where anything went and she could use anything with her quirk to attack. After getting done with their second block of sparring drive knight halted the fight to speak to the girl.
"Your combat skills have seen noticeable improvement as expected. I believe it is overdue for you to choose your next tutor." drive knight said as the wall on their enclosure lit up again with the same categories again. Momo glanced over all the categories again, melee weapons, range weapons, guns, and miscellaneous. Simply out of curiosity she chose the miscellaneous tag just to see what was in there that they didn't fit in with the other categories. There were 8 people in this tab a lot of strange looking people she thought the only girl in the group caught her attention first she wore a blindfold and had large twin pigtails and similarly her name was twin tail, as she continued to examined them one of them were grayed out it was magic man remembering the name from the interview the other day of the hero's that was wounded, the next one that caught her eye was the S-class hero child emperor wasn't that the hero Jiro and mina was under? Being with them didn't sound so bad but what would she learn from the hero she wondered and almost as if he was reading her mind drive knight spoke.
"Child emperor is located here due to the fact that he fights mostly with tools and machinery that can range from a number of applications, given your ability you would be able to replicate some of his tools and materials that is if you can understand them….despite his age he is a child prodigy no doubt from his experience from working under himself." drive knight said. That name was the real name of the S-class hero metal knight which she found odd wasn't in the same category along with his pupil.
"Why isn't metal night located in this category then?" momo questioned
"There is nothing that I could offer him to accept to teach you, he will only appear before you if he takes interest in you himself." drive knight remarked and momo may have been imagining things but she thought she could hear a degree of anger dripping into the androids tone when discussing him. So she decided to drop the subject she thought about choosing child emperor but thought better of it. She was still trying to figure out all the things that drive knight gave her a month ago and she didn't want to add even more to that plate by choosing him and in the event she couldn't understand all the complexities it would render her time with him even more worthless, she backed out of that category and looked over the categories again and pondered her options again before selecting the ranged weapons category, she needed to bolster her ranged weapons armory she thought she only had only two ranged weapons so far with vastly different yields and capabilities, she figured it would be wise to have something else in between.
She was surprised when there were only three people in this category but she shouldn't really be that shocked with the rise of firearms other forms of ranged combat slowly drifted out into the wayside she concluded. The participant was a hero named air, golden ball , and the last one was shooter. It listed their weapons which momo found even stranger air used a massive boomerang, golden ball used a slingshot weapon, while shooter used a bow and arrow, and faced with those choices she didn't take long to choose a tutor.
"I'll choose shooter." Momo stated, she always fancied the bow to an extent and she had some history in archery when she was young playing with her neighbors kid she would often take her with them to their families range and fire a couple arrows down the field. Gosh she hoped that they were ok with everything going on back in their world, maybe she should have tried to stay in touch more often.
"Are you sure you want to practice archery? Firearms are vastly superior in terms of stopping power." drive knight stated dragging the girl from her thoughts of home.
"Ugh …yes I…I'm still not comfortable around firearms and the pain that it can cause." Momo said, rubbing her shoulders slightly.
"But you're fine with using cannons in combat?" drive knight stated noting the contradiction.
"I've only ever fired it at beings that are capable of surviving them." Momo explained. Drive night simply nodded.
"I shall reach out to him. In the meantime you can practice here." drive knight said simply as momo started to hear the room behind her begin to shift as she turned around 4 targets began to raise up from the ground they weren't that far away the furthest one only being 30 meters away from her current spot, and just in front of her a platform raised and on top of it was components.
"A key thing in archery is the synergy between the wielder and the tool, it would be better for you to craft your own bow as the start of your training." drive knight said simply, as he gestured to the materials on the platform before a holographic screen rose up and on it was a list of qualities that different bows have and how to make the bow have those qualities. Drive knight soon left her to her own devices as he went to check up on kaminari and started to practice with him instead and his more hand to hand focused training.
Ordinary Day : sweet mask , aoyama
Aoyama was currently practicing with his reps in his room, he still wasn't completely sold on his outfit it almost made him look villainous but going off of sweet masks records he assumed that was the case he did have style the teen had to admit but his clothing usually revolved around a darker color set which was maybe a hint of his darker personality that he kept under lock and key.
Thinking of this darker personality he was reminded of Tiffany and what happened to her while Mineta was fine and ok. Is she alright? She was a monster and aoyama knew full well what sweet mask thinks of monsters and anytime he would ask about the women sweet mast would just blow him off, searching up the news outlet she worked for he was somewhat relieved when he saw that the article that she said was writing about them was published and under her name but that didn't mean it was her actually, this world was weird in the fact that they didn't have last names that defined their family tree everyone only had first names given to them which made it confusing to differentiate people with the same name he thought.
Asking sweet mask about it when he arrived after being punished for stopping his training, only replied that such things don't occur here, they have a naming database that prevents repeats from occurring or in the advent that someone is powerful enough they could have that other person's names changed if the couple truly wants it for their child that badly. Aoyama was taken back by that news. It was hilariously complex for such a simple thing he reasoned. After some more time training, sweet mask had taken aoyama out to a fan singing in k-city but unlike before where he was merely security he was their with sweet mask, sweet mask had told him that the language he occasionally spoke was ]of a "rare dead language" which he found weird, did something happen to the French of this world? But he wanted him near the signing to essentially speak in French the entire time to fascinate his audience, there he would tell French stories that his mom would tell him as a child or just say anything that came to mind it didn't matter really as the audience didn't really understand what he was saying.
The book signing was rudely interrupted however by a disgruntled ex-police chief that tried to attack sweet mask with a knife, obviously this didn't really work out well for the man as he was firmly planted into the floor with only a single arm as the other continued to sign a book, like nothing out of the usual had occurred, the crowd was only shocked for all but a moment before they turned their attention back to sweet mask like the injured man was of non concern to them. The man was hauled away sometime later ironically by the police themselves. The police profusely apologized to sweet mask and received boos from all of the people in the area which Kinda made him feel bad for them, here they were suffering because of something he helped do….well that feeling wasn't exactly new to him either way, he thought as they continued with their day.
Hidden power: Zombieman, Tokoyami, Toru, Jackie
Tokoyami was continuing his training with zombieman after a bunch of physical exercises, the next part of his training came in the form of fighting with dark shadow the pair practiced their discreet aerial surveillance , tokoyami would stay in the middle of the forest while zombieman would attempt to attack him from his blind spots using either his gun or throwing rocks at the teen. Dark shadow quickly exited and entered the teen catching all of the rocks that was coming his way and attempting to block the bullets as well but some of them were just too fast, it almost seemed like zombieman was in multiple places at one time. Dark shadow was only partially successful in blocking the bullets he sent his way, tokoyami was struck three times in the chest and twice in the shoulder before he dropped to the ground, clutching his chest in pain.
"Sorry, they're just so fast." dark shadow mentioned looking at tokoyami writhed on the ground.
"I…it..is ok." tokoyami said as he regained his breath.
"Now would be a good time for a break." zombieman said casually as he walked up to the two of them.
"You think." dark shadow said sarcastically as he went back into tokoyami who began to stand up.
"So you've been holding back during our night time excursions why?" zombieman questioned
"I haven't, what do you mean?" tokoyami replied
"Back up in the mountains, your shadow guy was much bigger than when we spar here."
'Oh that, that was just dark shadow out of control."
"So it was his full power but you can't control it?" Tokoyami nodded
"I don't know why, while we share one mind, dark shadow is its own entity and it has its own thoughts as well." tokoyami explained
"Interesting." zombieman said casually thinking up something.
The day went by and toru was staying late for class again as the night rose zombieman decided to take the two further away from before suddenly cracking tokoyami upside the head knocking the boy out and having his body crash down into the ground. Just as he imagined the shadow beginning to leak out of him, its size much larger than previously, its eyes were completely red instead of the normal yellow color that he was used to as well, showing that it was purely the shadow in control.
"You puny! Mortal taking such a cheap shot like that.`` Dark shadow raged as he threw his massive hand outwards completely pushing zombieman back, he tried to grab a hold of him but the man had surprising strength being able to get out of his grasp.
"Chill out for a moment. I just want to talk to you, I guess this is the real you." a zombieman gestured on top of dark shadow's massive hand.
"Well I don't." dark shadow replied sharply forming a fist with his other hand, and launching the massive fist at the human but to his shock his hand moved his was only met with an equally powerful arm that stopped it cold.
"What the hell are you?" dark shadow remarked as he continued to try and push his fist forwards.
"I'm just a puny mortal." zombieman man said in jest which angered dark shadow more.
"Oh jokester, huh let's see if you can still joke without a jaw!" dark shadow screeched as he completely recolied his arms and was about to slam them both down on top of zombieman who took off his coat and sighed.
"Well looks like I gotta calm you down before we can talk." zombieman casually as he watched the massive fist come down on him.
Toru and Jackie were just starting to say good bye to bomb as they left from their late night training. The two were both proceeding up the stairs as Jackie helped her.
"Thanks for helping me by the way, you're right that school really does suck to face. My leg is still numb." Toru said in a joking manner., earning a laugh from the girl.
"I told ya, but hey at least you won, right…and you should be good to go in another hour or so, just in time for your training with your boyfriend. The girl remarked teasingly, making her other arm flail about.
"I told you he's not my boyfriend." Toru replied, making the girl laugh again.
"Yeah, yeah fran-" Toru turned her head to the girl as her voice trailed off, seeing the look on her face she asked.
"What's wrong?"
"I….I..owe you an apology, after hearing the interview about what happened to you guys….I realized how inconsiderate I've been towards your situation."
"No, no it's alright You couldn't have known it's al-"
"It's not alright….its not especially for me… I know exactly how it feels like not wanting to tell people you're an orphan ..because…because … I'm the same way." Jackie said, slightly tearing up, it was toru turn to feel bad. She really didn't know how to respond to her as what she's telling her was just a fake story and she right now didn't want to lie to her especially when she told her something that she holds close to her. Toru slowly stopped their walk and turned the girl's face to look at her.
"Look I'm going to tell you something right now that you can't tell anyone alright." Jackie slowly nodded.
"Look what they said in that interview is a lie , I'm not really an orphan, well technically I am an orphan as far as this world is concerned but in simplest terms I'm an alien." Toru said, gnarring a mix of emotions from the girl.
"You better not be playing with me. I'm not joking around here." Jackie said getting slightly agitated.
"I'm not playing games. Look, me and my friends are essentially aliens, maybe even from a parallel dimension. Look back where I'm from, nearly everyone has abilities like ours.`` Toru tried to explain to the girl but she was still pretty skeptical and she touched Toru's face as if to confirm something.
"You seem pretty human to me. Do you have any proof?" jackie said
"Well no but really we aren't from here. Here, look at my phone." Toru instructed before showing the girl a bunch of places that didn't exist as far as she could tell.
"Woah! You're for real? That..that's crazy…but you guys look just like us?" Jackie said in disbelief.
"Yeah we don't know how but we're stuck here for the foreseeable future." Toru said , making Jackie nod her head at.
"So I guess that does make you like me." Jackie muttered but before the conversation could last for to much longer loud banging could be heard as they crested the edge of bombs dojo, the two girls were a bit hesistant to follow it before realizing that zombieman and tokoyami weren't in their usual spot so with Jackie's help she took toru over to the source of the sound only to find a shocking discovery.
Dark shadow was currently stabbing through zombieman's stomach with his large claws as zombieman held his gun out towards tokoyami's unconscious body, the two seemed to be discussing something for a moment before zombieman noticed them.
"Oh spirit of light, perfect timing mind helping me with this?" zombieman said with a slight tilt of his head to dark shadow. Toru understood what the hero wanted and instructed Jackie to cover her eyes. Just then toru used her light refraction to completely cover the area in blinding light significantly reducing dark shadows size and forcing him back into tokoyami who began to wake up as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Are you alright!" Toru yelled out as zombieman went to get his jacket. Only receiving a thumbs up in return.
"Yeah you're definitely not from around here if you think something like that hurt zombieman, the guy is completely nuts when it comes to how much he can regenerate." Jackie said and the girl was right upon closer inspection the holes in his chest were completely gone, the only reminder being the holes in his clothes. The four of them continued for some time until Jackie said her goodbye and the others headed back to the association.
Deliberations: Class 1A
They had came together in the living room to discuss their day and everything seemed normal except for sero's tale of something strange happening to him during the day, the class mostly blew it off as their maybe being a monster nearby that controlled him and for a moment he may have believed him no one else seemed to have heard the voice that was suddenly talking to him in that moment but he warned them nonetheless that something like that could occur later on and to just be careful around him if his eyes turn all red. The class talked some more and when Iida expressed concern about some of their members not being their momo informed him that this was a natural although she didn't know why ojiro was late he was often here with the rest of them by this time.
So midoriya, momo, and Iida decided to wait for them..given that they were in the living room next to the doorway the crew was actually able to spot bakugo heading out and after asking where he was headed, he simply said that he was going to train and left with that, a couple of minutes later ojiro showed up carried over master bangs shoulder. Midoriya wanted to talk to the old man before he left but Ojiro stopped him already knowing the answer . bang bid his farewell and let the teens continue. Iida had gotten ojiro some refreshments so that he could cool down.
"Your hunch was right, the person that beat up all those criminals and heroes was indeed garou." ojiro said, accepting the drink and nodding his thanks.
"What does this garou want?" Momo inquired, and ojiro simply shook his head.
"Even bang doesn't know." ojiro said.
"We will have to remain vigilant then." Iida said sternly.
"How strong does bang think garou is?" midoriya inquired
"I don't really know for sure but he was bang best disciple and he was able to beat those top five A-class heroes from what I've heard without a problem so he must be comparable to one of the S-class at least, the one thing he told me was that if we ever do encounters him again was to run and find help if possible." ojiro said rather seriously, he turned an eye over to midoriya and amended.
"But I'm sure that was only for me and most of our class, I'm unsure if the same situation applies to you or maybe even todoroki." Ojiro said a bit discouraged.
"Just in case we should keep our distance and try to notify each other of his whereabouts if we happen upon him? What does he look like?" Iida questioned
"He looks like a well built man dressed in a black tight long sleeve shirt and gray pants but the most noticeable thing about him is his hair completely white in a V-shape." ojiro said.
"That should make notifying him easier than not many people have that sort of hair style even in this new world we find ourselves in." momo said
The group conversed more until the second late arrivals came, toru and tokoyami greeted them and left their separate ways to their individual rooms.
Bakugo was ticked off ever since this morning not only ridiculing himself into something pointless as a photo op but what both those ninja's said about him, they were looking down on him and he was going to prove both of them wrong right now… he scoured the training areas for any sign of the giant women he couldn't find her anywhere, ever since they moved into their own building he never bumped into her during his walk towards his training area which he figured made sense not like he cared much about it until now. He couldn't find her anywhere that was until.
"You seemed to be lost." bakugo heard a voice suddenly from behind him, quickly turning to find the exact person he was searching for.
"No, I'm not..I 'm exactly where I need to be." bakugo replied gruffly
" your training area is usually down the opposite path." the goliath said simply,making the blonde teen blood boil.
"I was looking for you. I want to challenge you right here, right now." bakugo said, pointing his finger in the girl's direction.
"Ah, yes shadow ring reported something of the sort about this, why challenge me if you are sure to lose?" she questioned
"If you are so sure about my loss then why not just show me to shut me up then? Are you scared that your confidence will be shattered once you're proven wrong?" bakugo taunted
"No….it would simply be tedious, knowing your type it would only provoke you into challenging me again some other time once you lost." silver chain said simply.
"All I hear is a whole lotta of excuses and no actions to back it up." bakugo said
"I have no reason to back up my words but I will grant your request nonetheless." silver chain said simply before disappearing around the corner. Bakugo followed after and directly into the room where he found the girl beckoning him.
As he stepped inside he first surveyed the room it was mostly a barren place filled with rocks similar to his training zone that he would always go to, it made since for the place to have multiple of the same biome type in the same field he thought as he locked eyes with the giant girl who sat crossed legged on the ground a few feet away from where he entered.
"I am ready when you are." she said simply, her eyes were closed and she almost seemed to be in a meditative stance more than a combat one that bakugo found even more annoying to him.
"You're not going to fight like that are you?" bakugo questioned
"I am." she said stoically in reply.
"tch , alright have it your way.: bakugo replied
"Begin, whenever you are ready." silver chain said again
Bakugo accepted the challenge, lifting his arm up before suddenly a knife was at his back, the girl was still present in front of him sitting down but what was behind him was a liquid metal imitation of her.
"You're lost." silver chain said from in front of him still not looking at him
"Hah! You think you can try the same move on me?: bakugo yelled as he had secretly planted one of his grenades on the floor behind him in anticipation for such an attack, the grenade exploded completely dispersing the liquid clone and using the force combined with a couple of more explosion to launch at the seated girl but she didn't move a muscle in response. Just as bakugo was about to launch an explosion directly in the girls face, he was suddenly knocked aside before he could light the explosion, the force of the blow sent him tumbling into the nearest rock embedding him deeply into it. He looked up at what the hell just hit him and was shocked to see another one of those liquid metal constructs before two more spawned beside it.
"Tch, cheap tricks, like that won't beat me." bakugo scoffed as he launched an explosion completely blowing up the rock he was in before he turned his cannon towards the four of them… he used his AP Machine-gun attack. the girl still did not move but the liquid metal clones did he saw one of them disperse into what appeared to be a shield and block the attack, while the two others continued forward unimpeded , he switch targets on the two approaching clones but they deflected they seemed to be dancing among his attack as they missed completely. He switched tactics directing his hands down wards to launch away from the clones closing in on him but just as the explosion launched him up into the air he was suddenly hit from above the third clone must have reposition he thought before the pain kicked in his left shoulder exploding in pain the blow sending him crashing down into the ground where he was kicked in the stomach and sent flying again this time towards the girl's real body, the last thing he felt was an elbow strike into his stomach sending him skidding across the ground, stopping right in front of the still crossed legged girl and after that nothing as his consciousness left him.
Silver chain considered the boy for a moment before sending her clones out of the area into the association she remembered that the teens lived close by but apparently they had changed living arrangements she found out switching tactic and found that person from before that seemed to know the explosive blonde and figure it was close enough, commanding one of the clones to bring the unconscious blonde to the person as she continued her training.
Toru and Ojiro were training together again although sensing that something was up Toru slowed down movements for her partner.
"Are you alright?" toru asked
"Ye…yeah …Just had some extra training time with bang today to figure out a new move out. That's all." ojiro said through harsh breath his body was killing him right now but he needed to keep going to continue to push himself through his limits if he ever hoped to catch up with them.
"Right…look you shouldn't push yourself to train if you're not feeling up to it." toru said
"I'm …completely fine." ojiro tried to confirm
"I beat you in offense, defense three times in a row now..without quirks." Toru said with a huff, her hands on her hips.
'Maybe you're just that good now?" ojiro commented hoping to fluster the girl away from the topic, but it didn't work.
"Flattery isn't going to help you here." Toru said although the comment did make her blush lightly but she continued reaching for his gi and removing the top portion she was stunned by what she saw: bruises ran all up and down his chest.
"What did bang do to you?" Toru said in concern.
"It was very intense training." ojiro said simply
"That's not training, it's abuse." toru corrected.
"It's not, he told me about it before and I accepted the consequences with open arms, the technique I'm trying to learn just requires more intensity than normal." ojiro said, trying to assure the girl that he was alright as he pulled his gi back on
"Well then you should be resting then , if this is how you are with just one day of this training then you should let your body rest and heal first right? Isn't that what you told me when I was just starting out?" toru asserted, ojiro merely nodded his head.
"Good now let's head back before- bakugo?!" Toru said, looking behind Ojiro to see Bakugo's unconscious form just laying on a bench behind them. And almost as if woken up by the name he lifted up from the bench like a zombie from the dead, before scrunching down and clutching at his stomach and shoulder. He scanned the room he was in before he locked sights on the two of them.
"You two saw nothing, got that." he said through gritted teeth before he got up and simply hobbled away clearly in pain.
The two martial artists seemed to watch him leave before looking at each other with a questioning gaze. Everyone made it back into their beds for the following night but near morning one of them started to stir awake and walk out of the room.
Midoriya was soundly sleeping in his room before a pang from his danger sense immediately awakened him along with the fourth user telling him to dodge out of the way, which he did, he instinctively activated 30% full cowling before turning to look at the threat he was facing but was shocked to see that the threat was sero and just as he informed them of before his eyes were a bruins bright red that lit up his room in the darkness, that wasn't the only surprise however as midoriya danger sense flared again and he dodged out of the way of tape that came from different angles of the room each slice biting and cutting directly through his bed but before this possessed sero could do anymore however he quickly sped towards the teen and hit him in the stomach with a 8% Detroit smash that forced him out of the room and caused him to bang into the wall just outside, the force of the impact must have awakened sero as he rubbed the back of his head and looked around as if he was clueless, before he locked eyes on midoriya who expression was just as surprised as his.
"See I told ya something is weird going on with me." Sero commented, and Midoriya simply nodded his head, but his mind already began circulating on possibilities to solve this issue if it could be solved that is.
for those interested kinda updated my profile just to have something on it as I can see the number of people that actually visited the thing, it's basically a bunch of ideas I have after this story concludes didn't give further mha cross over ideas as it would spoil things I have planned later on for this story but I'll give a hint of the crossovers just the first letter of the names series; A, A, T, and another one punch man one. until than see you guys later on the 15th.
