Chapter 69: Cutting Through Iron
Katsuki was practiclly growling as Iida had grabbed his arm and leading him to the designated training ground.
When they arrived, Hibiki didn't look confused why Iida was there.
"How long did you wait until you brought him here?" asked Hibiki.
"We waited 10 minutes until it was decided that I would bring him here." Said Iida.
Hibiki tried not to laugh at this.
"Fucking asshole!" yelled Katsuki.
"Save it for when we get started." Said Hibiki.
Katsuki smirked when he said that.
"I'll give you a minute to get out of here class rep." said Hibiki.
"Thank you." Said Iida who sped away knowing it was probably better to get out of there fast considering Izuku's reassessment.
"Okay… let me explain something before we get started." Said Hibiki, "I held back during the exam."
"What?" asked Katsuki.
"I didn't go all out during the exam for multiple reasons…" said Hibiki, "Including part of the reason is that we told to hold back to give everyone a chance."
Katsuki snorted, "Like that worked for everyone…"
"You want to be a maze created by Nezu?" asked Hibiki, "Because that was pretty much one of the exams…"
"Wait… seriously! That is fucked up!" said Katsuki.
"But you kind of expect it you know…" said Aiko, "A super intengent maybe mouse thing putting humans into a gaint maze... makes a sick ammount of sense if you think about it."
"Are we going to do it?" muttered Katsuki.
"Class rep is in the clear so…" said Aiko.
"All right then! There's something I want you do for your first move." Said Hibiki.
"What?" asked Katsuki.
"Unleash the biggest explosion you can on me." Said Hibiki.
"What?" asked Katsuki.
"I told you that's what I want." Said Hibiki.
He noticed that Hibiki didn't have his visor or headphones on him.
"What are you up to?" asked Katsuki going into Zoro mode.
"Just do it and you'll see…" said Hibiki with a shrug.
Katsuki grabbed his explosive swords.
He also had a regular sword that Momo made for him.
But he wasn't going to use that just yet.
He channeled a bit of his sweat into the sword.
"Explosive Cannon!" he called out.
That was when Hibiki was engulfed in a large explosion.,
Katsuki activated his observation Haki, while it wasn't as strong at Izuku's, he had a good sense.
His eyes winded as the smoke and debris cleared and he saw what he sensed.
"You know that was less powerful than what I was expecting." Said Hibiki.
Hibiki was covered in amor that was that was a mix of blue and yellow.
"I told you I was going all out…" said Hibiki.
Katsuki's eyes winded, he remembered the gauntlets that he used during the exam.
"So you have full set of armor." Said Katsuki.
"I haven't told you how I was hero in my past life yet… I had nothing close to a quirk, I was just a normal guy…" explained Hibiki.
"Who graduated MIT as a teen." Said Aiko.
"Okay a normal guy with genius intellect." Amended Hibiki, "But yeah… I wasn't a Norse god, I wasn't a super solider from world war 2 nor did I have spider powers… just a guy in a suit."
"Why I get the feeling that there's a snarky line involving that." Said Katsuki with a sweat drop.
"Take the suit away and you're left with a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist…" said Aiko.
"Why did I ever tell you about that…" he muttered, "But the point is this an armor specially built to handle explosions… you can go all out with your quirk and you don't have worry…"
Katsuki looked at Hibiki and grinned…
While he knew it didn't matter if he won or not… he still wanted to beat him…
Especially since Hibiki didn't know about that…
"Hibiki… I really don't like that grin…" said Aiko.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Said Hibiki.
Meanwhile… Izuku was almost at the observation room.
"Midoriya!" called out Iida.
"Oh hey Iida…" said Izuku, "Did Kacchan get lost?"
"He did…" said Iida.
"Thought so…" sighed Izuku with a sweat drop not sounding surprised.
They got to the observation room to see that the fight had just gotten started.
Izuku saw that Hibiki was in full armor.
"He's in his armor!" said Izuku who's honestly been wanting to see it.
"He is…" said Momo.
"Is that really a big deal?" asked Sato.
"That's how he was a hero in his past life." Said Izuku.
Everyone had heard about it in some way or another that their mentor was one in his prevoius life.
"Though I think Kacchan's going to give him a hard time…" said Izuku.
There was an awkward silence…
"What?" asked Kaminari.
"Well… it's something from his past life…" said Izuku who clearly wasn't going to give more information.
There was an awkward silence in the room.
Everyone knew about the insane abilities that Izuku had…
"So creating tornados…" said Todoroki
"It's just one thing he can do…" said Izuku.
No one said anything after that, though Aizawa did have to fight off a headache.
Back in the training ground.
Katsuki decided to toy around with Hibiki a bit first, first by showing off a bit of using all three of his swords.
"All right let's do this…" said Katsuki using all three swords.
"You can talk coherently with a sword in your mouth." Said Hibiki.
"Don't anger him." Said Aiko.
Hibiki sweat dropped.
The fighting was pretty even at this point, due to the fact that neither one of them were using their quirks.
However Katsuki decided it was time it finally and truly mess with him.
He put away his explosive sword and out his mouth.
He gave off a rather demented grin.
"Lion's Song!" he called out as he swiped at one of Hibiki's arms.
Hibiki though his armor could take the attack.
He was wrong as it cut through the armor… and the arm started to spark.
"What the…" muttered Hibiki.
"The damage… it has been completely cut though. Only missing your skin." Explained Aiko, "I'm ejecting the arm…"
The armor's arm below the elbow popped off, breaking off into two pieces.
Hibiki looked at his arm, not even. The clothes under his armor was unaffected.
"You can cut through metal!" he yelled.
"I can…" said Katsuki.
"You were uber tier weren't you?" asked Hibiki.
Katsuki only grinned.
In the Observation Room it was quiet.
Because they saw that Katsuki had just cut through the armor.
"Did he just cut though metal?" asked Kaminari.
"He did…" said Izuku.
"You knew about this, didn't you?" asked Kirishima.
"Yeah…" said Izuku.
There was an awkward silence.
"He's only getting started isn't he?" asked Kirishima.
"He is…" said Izuku.
It should be noted that Momo was also watching in interest.
She had been wanting to ask Katsuki to teach her some things after all.
Back in the training grounds.
"Okay! Ready any and all backups I set aside for this… also engage in quirk settings!" said Hibiki.
"Should I play the agreed upon song?" asked Aiko.
"Yes!" said Hibiki trying to not to smile.
He knew it was going to piss Katsuki off BUT he couldn't help it… especially since he noticed that Katsuki did think it was funny the first time.
The song began to play.
Katsuki heard the song and got pissed off.
"What the fuck!" he yelled.
It was once again He is a Pirate.
"What… you thought it was funny the first time!" joked Hibiki.
"I didn't remember my past life at the time you fucker!" yelled Katsuki.
"Oh it's one of those fan edits where it's on a really long loop! So I got my bases cover this time!" said Hibiki.
Katsuki glared at his opponent as he prepared all three sword again.
And this time he channeled Haki into his explosive sword.
"And can he can coat his swords in Haki…" said Hibiki.
Aiko: You should have seen this coming!
Hibiki sighed… honestly he should have…
Hibiki sent out a mix of both some sort of concussive energy blast from his suit while on the other hand sending out his quirk blast.
Katsuki managed to dodge and even cut one of them away.
"Okay…" said Hibiki unsure how to respond to that.
He decided to take to the air.
However Katsuki sheathed all but his mouth sword.
Aiko :did you forget… He can't fly like Izuku but he can still launch himself into the air… and also uses his mouth to fight.
"This is going to be a really weird fight." Muttered Hibiki.
Aiko: You just realized that now?
Hibiki tried to black Katsuki out of the air but it was no use, as it was clear that Katsuki was able to anticipate his attacks.
However it was clear that Katsuki. Had an idea to make things worse for Hibiki.
Katsuki launched himself higher into the air, he took out of the sword from his mouth and aimed an attack for Hibiki's helmet.
A piece of it was cut off over Hibiki right eye.
"(Shit!)" yelled Hibiki, "Back up armor now!"
Due to the fact that helmet was damaged he was unable to get in contact with Aiko.
Suddenly the entire armor opened up and fell, however he was still flying thanks to his quirk as the music was still playing.
"How the fuck are you still flying!" yelled Katsuki as he landed.
"I'm assuming you asked out how I'm using my quirk… wireless earbuds." Said Hibiki, "Also I can't hear you are the moment… and I can't hear Aiko. So yeah… you have a huge opening for the next 30 seconds or so…"
He saw the smile.
He knew he had to do something to buy some time.
He began to shoot the out spheres of energy, Katsuki dodged them but when they hit the ground they spheres exploded with the song playing.
Hibiki saw the something fly towards him
"About time." Said Hibiki.
The thing that flew towards him broke apart and reformed around him as his armor.
Aiko: Miss me?
"You totally said (Language!) when I said (Shit) didn't you?" asked Hibiki.
Aiko: You know it!
Aiko: Should I change the song?
"Probably a good idea to calm him down even if it's just a little… not a good time to troll him anymore." Said Hibiki.
Aiko: I'm sticking to epic American movie songs.
Thankfully Hibiki kept up the armor's fraction for the flight so that it wouldn't be affected.
Katsuki had recovered from the attack as it was clear that the song was cut off.
He was dreading whatever song was going to come.
He wasn't expecting Duel of the Fates.
He really didn't know how to respond to the change in song.
"Look you're pissed off enough as it is… better give you one less reason to be pissed off during this time." Said Hibiki.
"Whatever…" muttered Katsuki.
Though it did make him want to ask a certain question.
But he figured it would be best until after the match.
Still but it was for the best if he still fought Hibiki. After all he still had a lot to show off.
Hibiki was still in the sky and sent out many attacks.
However Katsuki decided to once again use an explosive version of the tornado attack with "Explode Cannon!" which was much more powerful than the first in thanks to the built up sweat.
However Hibiki still flew in the air.
"Sorry kid… but you should have known I was prepared for your explosions… every single set of armor I set aside for this I made sure could withstand the strongest possible explosion." Said Hibiki, "You should have realized that."
"Yeah the real problem for him is cutting up his armor." Said Aiko out-loud, "Because he didn't think it was even possible."
Which she also put onto the screen.
"Thank you Aiko." Muttered Hibiki.
Aiko: n_n
"How many back armors do you have?" asked Katsuki.
"Please don't cut them apart…" said Hibiki with eye twitching.
"What too expensive?" asked Katsuki.
"You know what just never mind." Muttered Hibiki.
"It's a pride thing… he built of these you know…" said Aiko.
Katsuki just shrugged kind of getting it.
But that didn't mean he wasn't going to cut apart the armor.
After all it was important to show just how far he could do.
The arm or did it it's job protecting Hibiki from most of the attacks, but of course there were points where he would cut something.
He decided to bring at one point really so off she he could and cut the legs of the current armor he was wearing.
Aiko: Ejecting Legs! You might need to land…
"Okay you got a point." Said Hibiki.
He flew away from Katsuki deciding to lay low.
He landed due to the unitability of his legs at the moment.
"Send in the next armor!" said Hibiki.
Aiko: Right away! Just a heads he will find you before the armor gets here…
"Are you sure? I seem to be doing a good job hiding." Whispered Hibiki.
Aiko: You idiot! You didn't turn off your music…
Aiko: Also he has Haki…
That was when Katsuki suddenly jumped in.
"Of course…" muttered Hibiki.
That was when he grabbed all three swords with a piece cut that completely wrecked the armor he was wearing a blast of air.
The piece fell off.
But that was when he noticed something.
The armor he was wearing was the only thing damaged… none of his body, clothes or even the wall behind was undamaged.
Of coruse he should have noticed before, but it really hit him this time.
"You can completely control what you can cut…" said Hibiki who sounded a bit terrified.
"I can… but I'm going to go easy and wait until you have your next armor…" said Katsuki.
Hibiki just stared at him.
"Yeah… remember he can't hear you… all he can here right now is John William's epic music from a crappy movie…" said Aiko.
Katsuki just sighed.
That was when he saw the armor come in and Hibiki put it in on.
"I'm not going to repeat myself form earlier." Said Katsuki.
"Too bad already fed him the transcrpt as soon as his helmet was on…" said Aiko.
"I hate you." Growled Katsuki.
"I know…" said Aiko.
"Yeah she has that effect on a lot of people." Said Hibiki.
He then sent out a powerful musical blast.
This went on for a while, with Katsuki continuing to cut away piece of the armor at times, and Hibiki deciding it was better to only grab another armor if the damage was too much.
This went on for quite a while… but Katsuki deiced one final move… it was an attack he hadn't used often. But it was a one of his strongest attacks and would probably raise a ton of questions.
But he didn't care, it was about showing off what he can do.
Minds as well use it for one of his final attacks.
As the dust started to clear… Hibiki looked at Katsuki.
"Aiko… am I hallucinating?" asked Hibiki.
Aiko: No you are not… because I'm viewing this from many angles and I see it too…
Because Bakugo had three heads, and six arms.
"Logic doesn't exist in that pirate world… does it…" said Hibiki.
"Pretty sure Izuku admitted that he gave up on logic mutiple times… "said Aiko.
"Ah… right…" said Hibiki .
Hibiki ended up taking the attack thanks to the flurry of 9 blades.
Once Katsuki was done.
"I give up!" yelled Hibiki.
"Figures you couldn't take it all." Said Katsuki.
In the observation room., almost the entire room was gaping at what just happened.
"You knew he could do that…" said Kirishima.
"Yeah… never asked how though…" said Izuku.
They heard a thud and looked where it came from and Mineta was on the ground with his leg twitching slightly.
"Guys… Mineta just fainted…" said Kaminari.
Recovery Girl sighed knowing she would have to take care of that.
"Remember Midori was friends with a talking starfish in his past life…" said Mina.
"Oh yeah… I almost forgot about that…" said Sero.
"I tried to forget about it…" muttered Kyoka.
Aizawa just sighed, the only thing he was glad about was that this didn't happen during camp… granted the fact that Katsuki remember during camp still didn't matter…
The power levels were just insane…
Back at the training ground, the pieces of his armor fell off as he took out his ear buds.
"What the hell was that!" yelled Hibiki.
"Just something I learned how to do with my past life." Said Katsuki with a shrug.
Hibiki looked at Katsuki.
"I am not going to get a straight answer." Said Hibiki.
Katsuki didn't answer that.
"Of course… " muttered Hibiki.
"By the way… I was thinking." Said Katsuki.
"If you are going to ask me to make a lightsaber after getting inspired by the song and the answer is no…" said Hibiki, "And before you say anything I've already tried… I'm nowhere close…"
"Seriously?" asked Katsuki.
"Yuzu is a big Star Wars fan…" said Hibiki.
"Whatever…" said Katsuki.
And with that the reassessment was over… well there was still a lot to talk about.
Next Time: With the reassessments over, Katsuki knows he has to talk to Izuku about something... namely something Izuku told him at the start of the year and he finally put together the pieces. What will happen? Find out next time!
A/N: Finally... I was finally able to finish this part of the arc... just a couple more chapters for this arc...