We watched as Ashido-san and Shishida-san climbed up the outside of the building. Ashido hollowed out hand and foot holds with her Quirk. Shishida followed half a meter behind her.
Kirishima-san seemed to be expecting that, because he was waiting for them, alone, on the fifth floor. Standing in front of the staircase leading down. The hallway was fairly wide, but the building's floor plan was more enclosed than the one we had fought in.
"The bomb's below us," he said, "All you have to do it get past me."
"Why should we do that?" Ashido-san asked happily, "I can just melt through the floor."
"But you don't know where the bomb is," the red-haired boy countered, "Or Yanagi-san. Remember, if either of you damage the bomb, we win. So whether you melt through the floor or you smash through it, all Yanagi-san has to do is move the bomb under you. Bomb breaks, our victory."
"Fine," Shishida-san adjusted his glasses, "But do you honestly think you can defeat both of us?"
"I don't have to," Kirishima smirked, "All I have to do is hold you off for eleven minutes and change. Sounds pretty manly, right?"
Kirishima-san and Shishida-san exchanged a series of attacks. Kirishima's style was far rougher, though he made up for it by seemingly not caring if he was hit. Shishida-san, on the other hand, started off fighting in a fairly skilled manner. But with each series of blows, he got a little bigger, a little quicker, a little shaggier, and a little less refined.
Ashido-san, meanwhile, was trying to slip past them. Literally, using some sort of mild yet slick version of her acid, she was sliding around behind them, trying to find an opening. Kirishima's statement had apparently stopped her from using a stronger acid. And given their close combat, she couldn't splash our classmate without hitting her partner. Kirishima seemed aware of this, and kept himself carefully in position to block her.
Then Shishida-san landed a heavy uppercut to Kirishima's chest, throwing him back. Kirishima was a bit slow to recover, and Ashido shot down the stairs as Kirishima returned to his feet.
"Hmmm," Tsuyu frowned and vocalized suspiciously.
"So you saw it too?" I prompted, causing both 1-B students to turn and look at us.
"Did you catch that?" Mashirao prompted Cassandra. The other martial artist nodded broadly.
"What do you mean, Kendo?" the plain boy with the enormous ego asked his classmate.
"The red guy didn't dodge," the karate expert answered, "Or even try to stop himself or recover. He let the pink girl through."
When Ashido-san exited the stairs onto the fourth floor, she discovered what those of us watching already knew. It was a set of glass offices. The floor was not technically open, but you could see pretty much the entire level.
"She's not here," she yelled back up the stairs, forgetting or ignoring her earbuds.
"She's not?" Shishida-san growled and glared at Kirishima, "You said if we got past you, she would be down there."
"First off, Villain," Kirishima-san pointed at himself and grinned, "So why did you trust me in the first place? Second, maybe Yanagi-san decided not to go with the plan. Maybe she didn't trust me to hold you both off, so she ran. You would know her better than I do. She does talk a lot once she gets going, but I don't know if she's a good teammate or..."
Shishida-san roared as he rammed his shoulder into Kirishima's chest.
"Huh, I almost felt that," his reinforced skin didn't even flex from the blow, "I guess that means you might be in the same league as my grandma."
Shishida-san continued to hammer away at Kirishima-san. My classmate was being forced back, forced to block, and not able to counter.
Then I noticed a triumphant flash in his eyes. Tsu must have caught it, too, because she tensed.
"Now," Kirishima said firmly.
Shishida-san wound up for a heavy right cross with the full weight of his now monstrous body behind it.
Kirishima dropped and rolled to the side.
The elevator doors opened.
The bomb floated out. Directly into the path of Shishida-san's fist.
The plastic case cracked and then shattered.
The electric timer, still counting, tumbled to the floor.
Shishida-san's eyes widened as he snapped back to his senses.
"The Hero team has destroyed the bomb," All Might announced, "The Villain team wins."
"That was a neat trick," Yanagi-san told Kirishima as she hopped out of the shaft, "Getting him thoroughly agitated. Forcing him to break the bomb."
"I could only do it since you told me about his power," Kirishima told her, "And it was your idea to get Ashido out of the way."
"Still, using the rules like that..." Yanagi-san mused.
"Well," Kirishima grinned, "It has only been a week, but watching that guy starts to twist the way you think."
Tsuyu patted me comfortingly on the shoulder. She also didn't look at me, so I couldn't see her grin.
"Next match will be... Team J on the Hero side," All Might announced, "And Team I on the Villain side."
Kirishima and company had joined us in the monitor room. All Might praised the Villains for their plan and teamwork. And he critiqued Ashido-san for not doing more, and Shishida-san for losing control.
In the Hero room, Tokoyami-san met up with a tallish guy, with short black hair, dark eyes, and a modest build. He was wearing a loose windbreaker over dark pants and t-shirt
"Good afternoon. I am Tokoyami Fumikage of class 1-A. And this is my Quirk, Dark Shadow."
The shadow rose up from the floor and waved before vanishing again.
"Nice to meet you, though I think I saw you during the practical exam," the other boy said, "I am Kaibara Sen. And my Quirk can't introduce itself, but it is called Gyrate. It lets me rotate various parts of my body like a drill."
Kaibara-san held up his right hand, and his fingers started to spin in place.
"While I'm using my Quirk, whichever part of my body is spinning is stronger than normal. I can drill through wood and concrete, but not rock or steel."
"Hmm," Tokoyami-san considered that, "My Dark Shadow is partially autonomous, and can become solid or intangible at will. And as for my classmate who will be our opponent..."
All Might led the two Villains to another new building, then left to return here.
"Hey, um, my name's Sero Hanta," he seemed a bit nervous from interacting with a cute girl.
She was a bit shorter than me, and fairly curvy. She had long blonde hair, bright blue eyes, and a slightly equine nose that didn't detract from her overall cuteness. The horse hooves instead of feet and short horse hair tail cemented her look, though the single spiral horn in the center of her forehead made her more 'unicorn' than generic horse. She was wearing a leather dress and full length pants underneath. She had stirrups on her pant legs at the ankle, and wore a headset and harness reminiscent of a bridle and saddle.
"My name Tsunotori..."
A plane passed overhead, and I missed her given name in the roar. I decided to ask Cassandra if she had been able to read it off the girl's lips.
"But everyone call me Pony," she continued, "I sorry if my Japanese not good. My father is Japanese, but we not speak it much at home. I am from United States... Oh, and my Quirk called Horn Canon."
The pointed horn shot off her head, and then circled around the room. A new horn grew back in its place almost immediately.
"I can shoot up to ten horns, but only control the last three," she continued, "But I getting better, before I come to UA, could only control last two. And after shoot tenth horn, take longer time to grow new one."
"That could make things easier," Sero-san reached up to squeeze his chin, forgetting about his helmet, "See, my Quirk is Tape. I can shoot a pretty strong tape out of my elbows. I don't know if there's a limit to how much I can shoot at a time, if there is I haven't found it yet. Unfortunately I can't control it after I shoot it. But your horns could. You could attach it to your horns, and then wrap our opponents up. Based on Lions and Gazelles, a couple layers should be able to hold Dark Shadow."
Of course, at that point Sero had mainly seen Dark Shadow on a bright sunny soccer pitch. None of us had seen it go berserk in the dead of night.
Later, however, after Sero strengthened his Quirk and got some of Mei's babies, he reached a point where four wraps of his tape could hold a midnight rampaging Dark Shadow. For a minute or two. Or until Shadow calmed down enough to just go intangible...
"Ummm," Tsunotori pursed her lips and narrowed her eyes in thought, "I not know how your tape work on Kaibara-kun. His arms spin like drill..."
As they kept talking, All Might-sensei fetched the Hero team and brought them to the building.
"Brave Heroes," the Symbol of Peace proclaimed, "We have tracked a duo of dastardly Villains to their hideout. The our currently powering up their Seismic Agitator, which will cause Mount Fuji to erupt, connecting Honshu to the Korean Peninsula. Which might be useful, if it wasn't for the massive destruction it will inflict in the process. You must stop them before the machine reaches full power! Good luck."
"It looks like he really might have a different scenario for each group," Bondo-san answered Tsu's prior question.
"Go in through the front?" Kaibara-san suggested.
"Shadows are strongest in the dark," Tokoyami-san remarked cryptically.
They didn't have time. A window shattered above them. Sero-san swung out and down the side of the building, letting out an incoherent battle cry. Tsunotori-san was clinging to him tightly, but her screams and tears made her seem less enthusiastic.
"Ah, Dark Shadow and Drill Man," Sero-san announced grandly as they landed, "You have come to stop us. But you are too late. Our plan for the great Japan/Korea highway will finally be realized today!"
"Good improvisation," Kirishima grinned at the monitor.
"I thought Tokoyami-kun was the biggest chuuni," Tsu groaned.
"Well, it is part of the lesson," I said sheepishly.
"Given the current state of the world," Yanagi-san interjected, "Can anyone be called chuunibyou, if they aren't claiming to have actual magic?"
That got a round of nods, and a weak chuckle from me.
Unaware of our commentary, Sero-san pointed one elbow at each member of the of the Hero team. Strips of cellophane shot at each of the other guys. Both Tokoyami-san and Kaibara-san dodged. Despite looking a little green, Tsunotori-san fired two of her horns. They skewered the tape. And then circled back.
Tokoyami-san launched Dark Shadow, but the shade looked thinner than usual. The horn dragged the tape away from it. It began to wrap Tokoyami's legs. Dark Shadow pulled back, and began to claw at the tape, as did Tokoyami himself. But they were not strong enough, and just got more tangled up.
Kaibara-san's arm began to spin at the elbow. He jumped back. He swung his arm down at the tape, just behind the horn. Tsunotori's missile kept going, with just a small banner behind it. Unfortunately for 'Drill Man', the other end of tape stuck to his arm. It wrapped around the limb. Until it was taut, where the pull of the wrapping had slapped the tape into his back. Sero-san let that strip go. Then he fired another one, and a third horn carried it back towards Kaibara-san.
At the same time, Sero charged Tokoyami. Though Tokoyami was now thoroughly bound, Dark Shadow had phased through the tape, and rose up to defend its master. Sero-san cut off the tape entrapping Tokoyami-san, and took out the capture tape. Dark Shadow was carrying it too. Sero dove towards Tokoyami. Dark Shadow tried to cut him off. Sero shot out a line from his unoccupied elbow. He pulled himself to the side. Dark Shadow fell past him.
The tape from Sero-san's right elbow finally seemed to run out, but by that point Kairbara-san was looking almost like a mummy from the neck down. His forearms had been spooled by so much of the cellophane that he almost looked like that old American comic strip sailor. Tsunotori-san cautiously approached him, and bound his wrists with the capture tape. Then she put a strip around his waist and arms, just to be sure.
Sero-san and Dark Shadow had each captured one opponent's wrist. And Sero looked to be cornered and out of tape. Then two spiral horns tore through the specter. Giving Sero enough time to seal Tokoyami's other arm.
"Villain Team wins," All Might-sensei proclaimed from the front of the room, the speakers carrying his voice to the rest of the training arena.
"And no major injuries yet," Recovery Girl said as she entered the room, "Though it appears I will be needing a lot more solvent.
All Might declared a short break, so that Tokoyami-san and Kaibara-san could get cleaned up without missing the next match. After they joined us in the monitor room, he went back to the lottery box.
"So is everyone going to going to come here?" I wondered, "Instead of going back to the waiting rooms."
"You and All Might-sensei are better commentary than Aizawa-sensei," Sero told me, "I think he might have fallen asleep."
"And we don't want to have to listen to Monoma gripe," Tsuburaba-san offered.
"Next we have Team A as the Heroes," All Might announced, "and Team D as the Villains."
Then more normally to the rest of us, he added, "Be back in a few."
He met the two 'Villains'. Mizuno Ami from our class. And from 1-B, a short stocky boy with grey hair. He was wearing a black jumpsuit with a high collar and white belt. I wondered if he was a fan of the old series DBZ, because he had what was basically a Scouter over his left eye, and what looked like the Dragon Radar on the bag of his right hand.
"This will be your base, young Villains," All Might told them, "The bomb is just inside the door. You have until the timer starts, to prepare."
"Good afternoon," the young man bowed to Ami-chan, "I am Shoda Nirengeki. I call my Quirk 'Twice Impact'. It allows me to cause an attack to repeat, and the repeated attack is roughly twice the strength."
"I am Mizuno Ami. My Quirk is Ice Water; I can control both ice and water, and the closer it is to zero, the better. May I ask, how does your Quirk work? If I were to bash the wall with water using five Newtons of force, then pull the water back into my tank, and you were to repeat it, what would happen? Would more water appear?"
"No, the wall would just be hit with a ten Newton impact," he shook his head, "There's no visible source."
"And what is your range?" Ami asked, "Both distance and time."
"Any attack I can see happen," he answered, "And I must repeat it within seven seconds."
Ami considered that. So did I. And Shoda-san frowned regretfully.
"Unfortunately, my Quirk is not really suited for this," he inclined his head, "If it we did not need to hold back, it would be different matter."
"Actually I may have an idea," Ami said carefully, "But first, can you tell me about your classmate on the Villain team, and then I will do the same?"
"Wow," Ochako-chan exclaimed, "You look like Greek goddess."
The other girl was about the same height as me. She had flowing white robes and an elegantly sculpted face. Her hair was what stood out, it was set of waist-length, thorny vines. The vines fluttered and she blushed at Ochako's compliment.
"Oh, sorry," Ochako's ever present blush deepened, "I'm Uraraka Ochako, from class 1-A. Oh, you knew that. Umm... My Quirk is Zero Gravity. I can make things I touch weightless, and then when I put my hands together, they go back to normal. I kinda wish we were on the Villain team, because I could just float the bomb out of reach. Unless Mizu... Ami-chan can lift herself. So yeah, the Villain from my class is Mizuno Ami, and she is a really powerful hydrokinetic... Sorry again. I'm a little excited and nervous, so I'm kinda babbling."
"No, that is fine," the plant girl smiled kindly, "I am Shiozaki Ibara. As you might have guessed, my vines are my Quirk. I call it Vines, and I can grow them, and control them. I can also detach them, but I can no longer control them after they are detached."
"Can they absorb water?" Ochako-chan asked.
"I haven't tried."
All Might escorted Ochako-chan and Shiozaki-san to the building.
"Thank you for coming," he boomed to them, "We have tracked a pair of thieves to this building. They have stolen a Thermal Negator. If it is not deactivated, it will reduce everything in a twenty kilometer radius to within a few degrees of absolute zero. Needless to say, that would be a destructive and deadly result. You have fifteen minutes until we reach..."
The whole time All Might-sensei was talking, the building behind him was shaking. He trailed off at a particularly large boom. And in the monitor room, we were watching Ami-chan and Shoda-san in awe.
"Alright, go," All Might ended his exposition prematurely.
The ladies ran forward and pulled the doors open. Which was fortunate for them, because if the doors had opened inwards, they would have been stuck. Inside, the entrance was covered almost to the top of the door in a layer of dripping wet rubble. They quickly hollowed out an entry using their powers; Ochako making the rubble lighter, and Shiozaki-san pulling it out with her vines.
Only to find the entire floor was covered with debris. And the inside of the building had been hollowed out. The floors and rooms of the second, third, and fourth levels had been knocked out and compacted. Only the support beams were left behind. There was a gap in the fourth floor ceiling, where the stairs up had been.
"What do we do?" Ochako asked, "Try to go up in here, or go up the outside?"
"My vines can reach," Shiozaki-san said, "But I suspect that your Mizuno-san will just knock them down, with Shoda-kun's help. Can you make us both weightless, so we can float up?"
"I can," Ochako said hesitantly, "But I get nauseous when I use my power on myself. I'm still working on that. Plus, you would have to pull us up. Otherwise it would be be too slow, and they would be able to stop us."
"Hmm," Shiozaki-san considered that.
"How strong are your vines?" Ochako asked, looking around, "Like 'how much can they lift' strong, not 'how much damage can they take' strong..."
"I would not expect them to be able to arm wrestle Midoriya-san. But they should compare to anyone without a Quirk to enhance their strength."
Ochako reddened and mumbled something. Then she lightly slapped her hands against her cheeks. She picked up a section of steel I-beam. It had to have weighed 30 kg, but I noticed she deliberately touched it with all five fingers. Also the edges were incredibly smooth, having been cut with a water jet and an enhanced copy of said spray.
"If they want to hollow out the building," Ochako smiled dangerously, "Maybe we should help them?"
She extended the weightless metal to Shiozaki-san, and said, "Would you please use a couple of your vines to throw this at the ceiling as hard as you can?"
Shiozaki-san noodded. Her hair wrapped the beam chunk, and spun it out like a sidearm fastball. The metal slammed into the wooden panel, heavily cracking it. Then the beam just floated.
"Why did that work?" Kirishima looked confused.
"Even if it doesn't have weight, it still has mass," I explained, "Like even if you were floating in deep space, and fired a gun, the bullet would be weightless but would still have force to damage something. The fact that it doesn't have weight just makes it easier to accelerate, it doesn't decrease the impact."
"Release," Ochako-chan clapped her finger tips together, and the improvised missile fell.
"How many of those do you think you can throw at once?" my classmate asked, looking like she was trying to count how many vines there were on Shiozaki-san's head.
"That was a dangerous plan, young Uraraka," All Might said, once we were all gathered, "You could have injured Mizuno or Shoda, or destroyed the bomb."
"I was confident that Ami-can and Shoda-san would avoid falling," Ochako said, "And Shiozaki-chan could catch them if they didn't."
"We did catch the bomb," the plant user added.
"Yes, which is why you are the MVP for this round, young Shiozaki," All Might-sensei nodded, "Using your vines as a slingshot, catching the bomb without damaging it, and deactivating it."
"It was Uraraka-chan's plan," Shiozaki-san reminded him.
"As collapsing the lower floors was young Mizuno's," All Might lectured grandly, "But simply having a plan is not the same as executing it. Okay, let's begin the next round... The Hero team will be Team S. And the Villains will be Team H."
"Can I asked you something, Ami-chan?" Tsu prompted.
"Of course," the hydrokinetic smiled tiredly.
"How did you do it?" Tsu asked, "I mean, I know basically how a water jet works, and that Shoda-kun's power made it a lot faster. But how did you know what you could cut, to avoid bringing the whole building down."
"By the thickness of the beam," Ami-chan explained, "By how they were connected. And also by the sound they made when we hit them."
Then the bluette turned to me.
"What you have done, Mi... Izuku-kun?"
"Umm... I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing," I told her, "Though I guess I might have hidden the bomb in the rubble?"
"Ah, it's Momo-san," Ochako-chan exclaimed, looking at the Villain monitor.
With her was a boy who looked like a mantis. Or at least a mantis with green hair, human hands, and a black cloak. But his cloak was rougher than Tokoyami's.
"Hello," Yaoyorozu-chan bowed to him, "I am Yaoyorozu Momo, and my Quirk is Creation. I am pleased to meet you, please take care of me."
The other student looked flustered by Yaoyorozu's attractiveness and her formalness.
"I... I," he switched from the rougher 'ore' to the more neutral 'boku', "am Kamakiri Togaru. My Quirk is Razor Sharp. It lets me extend strong, sharp blades from my body, but I mostly do my fingers or forearms. Just... er what does 'Creation' do?"
"I can convert my lipids into other items, as long as I understand them and have enough mass to work with. I can create chemicals if I understand their make-up, and machines if I know their structure."
"Huh." Kamakiri-san grunted, impressed. Then he coughed and asked, "So... umm, do you have any ideas for what we can do for the exercise?"
"Please, do not change how you talk on my account," Yaoyorozu reassured him, "And I might. How precisely can you cut?"
"Damn, that's cool but freaky," Awase Yosetsu told Shoji-san as my multiple armed classmate spawned an additional eye from one arm, and a full leg from another, "No offense."
"I've been called worse," Shoji-san shrugged to off, "What does your Quirk do?"
Awase Yosetsu was taller than me but shorter than Shoji-san, though his spiky black hair made him look taller. He wore a loose fitting jumpsuit with pauldrons. He had a belt with random bits of wood and metal strapped to it, and a pair of small bags slung across his back.
"Weld? It does just what it sounds like. I can weld shit together, just by touching it."
He took one of the blocks of oak, and a tube of copper or brass. He touched them together. There was a flash of light at the connection point. The he released the metal, and it stayed connected to the wood. He handed it to Shoji, who tested the bond.
"Unfortunately, it's a one way deal. And it's a pain in the ass to get them back apart.
"Still," Shoji-san finally separated the bits, though the wood broke at the point of contact, "Mac would have loved to have a Quirk like this."
"Mac? Is that some Hero?"
"No," Shoji-san shook his head, "Just a fictional character I liked when I was younger. It is from a long time ago, I'm not surprised you don't know it."
"Greetings, young Heroes," All Might burst into the room, "Please, come with me quickly."
He led them out of the room, talking quickly, "A pair of villains have assembled a device they call 'Heaven's Dark Arbiter'. Even given that villains tend to give their devices frightening and hyperbolic names, it still sounds like something we do not want activated. Even though we don't know what it does..."
"Good luck!" All Might-sensei concluded, before vanishing in a flash.
"Go in the front?" Shoji-san prompted. Awase-san nodded. They quickly moved inside, but a cursory look showed the first floor was empty. This building had both an elevator and two sets of stairs. Shoji-san and Awase-san chose the northern staircase, and proceed up.
The second floor was a mostly open floor plan. It looked like an old living room. There was an entertainment case with no electronics, a set of moderately damaged couches and easy chairs, a few low tables, and rugs scattered over a cheap wooden floor.
There were also boxes. On the floor, on the furniture, pasted to the walls, pasted to the ceiling. One half-heartedly tucked behind a loveseat. I counted seventeen. They were made from particle board and floor paneling, secured by corner clips. They varied slightly in size, but were roughly square and about 750 cm on a side. Though the sizes weren't all the same, all the sides were smooth and perfectly rectangular.
"What the hell?" Awase-san demanded.
"Decoys," Shoji said, a frown in his voice, "They want to slow us down. After Shishida-san's actions, we know we have to be careful. If we just smash the boxes, and one does have the bomb... But if we waste time searching them, it would be easy to run out of time."
"So should we ignore the boxes?" Awase-san said thoughtfully, "Just find and capture them?"
"That may be for the best," Shoji nodded.
They hurried up to the third floor. That level was divided into a number of offices. And there were more of the boxes. They kept going, and the fourth floor was like the fourth floor in our building had been; open to the north and rooms to the south. And again more boxes.
Shoji-san and Awase-san reached the fifth floor, and froze as if expecting a trap. Because Yaoyorozu-san was sitting on a folding chair, not three meters from the stairs. Her helmet was off, some of her zippers were undone, and she looked exhausted. When she saw them, she casually held out her wrists to them.
"What is this shit?" Awase-san looked around cautiously for Kamakiri-san.
"He isn't here," she told them, "I do not know where Kamikiri-kun is. And I am spent from making the boxes and their contents. Too much so to fight you. So you may capture me, but I cannot and will not tell you anything."
"Damn it," Awase-san growled. But Shoji looked at her through narrowed eyes.
"Contents?" he prompted.
Of course, we had been able to watch as Yaoyorozu manufactured digital clocks that looked very similar to the bomb. Made stink bombs and flash grenades. Even just some pillows. And also the clips to complete the boxes and glue to put them on the walls. Beyond the insides of the boxes, she had also made some rugs in addition to those originally in the building, to cover up the holes in the floor as simple pit traps.
She didn't answer him, and instead just gave both guys a mild yet knowing grin. Shoji-san sighed, manifesting three separate mouths to do it. Then he wrapped Yaoyorozu's wrists in the capture tape, just to be sure.
"You think he's moving the stupid things around?" Awase-san asked, as they went back down.
"Unless he is just hiding to ambush us," Shoji decided, "The question being, do we dare split up?"
The answer was yes, they dared. And no, it was a bad idea.
Kamikiri-san was actually in one of the boxes on the second floor. As soon as Awase-san opened it, the matis boy tied his wrists with the tape, covered his mouth with it, and then forced him into the box, before closing it again. Then hid in the first floor stairwell.
Unfortunately, Shoji ran out of time searching the fourth and third floor. So Kamikiri didn't get to fight him.
"Young Shoji," All Might-sensei lectured us, "Excellent job using your Quirk to check the boxes, and avoid the worst of the traps and fake bombs. Though you might have gone quicker. Young Kamikiri, you did an excellent job cutting the box sides to shape, keeping yourself hidden to watch the bomb, and capturing young Awase. But the MVP this round is young Yaoyorozu, for coming up with the plan, executing it, and sacrificing herself to both buy time and press the Heroes into following where she was leading. Well done."
Awase-san scowled, but couldn't deny he had just followed Shoji's lead, triggered two of the trapped boxes, and ultimately gotten himself captured.
"Well then, for the next round we have Hero Team C: Misaka Mikoto and Shimooka Hikari. Versus Villain Team R: Todoroki Shoto And Fukidashi Manga."
"Why didn't he announce the teams for the other rounds?" Tsuyu asked me.
"Well, it only takes a few seconds for the teams to get together," Ochako-chan noted.
"Actually," I said sheepishly, "I think it took Aizawa-sensei until now to record them all."
Four Days Earlier:
"Seriously though, how did they do it?" Jirou Kyouka groused to her classmates and friends to be, "You said that Asui-chan and Midoriya-kun already knew each other and have been training together, right Mikoto?"
The brunette electrokinetic nodded, as did Mizuno.
"But they've only known Cain-chan for four days," Kyouka continued, "And their teamwork aside, their physical growth is abnormal."
"Maybe," Ami mused, "But you might not think that if you knew Midoriya as well as I do. His physical growth over the past year has been astounding."
"Wait," Toru waved her hands, "Just how short was he?"
"He was only a centimeter shorter," the bluette shook her head, "No, I meant his musculature. His muscle mass and flexibility have both grown by leaps and bounds."
"But his power is telekinetic," Momo protested.
"Maybe he is using it on his body?" Mikoto suggested, "Like I can use my electricity to twitch my muscles even when I'm sitting. That's why I'm stronger than I look. Maybe he did something like splitting his muscle tissues and stretching his tendons with his power?"
"That's not exactly how it works..." Ami interjected, "But something similar might be possible."
"And then maybe he could do the same thing for someone else?" Ochako suggested, "Like for Cain-san... Or for us?"
"But his power is Tactile Telekinesis, right?" Kyouko smirked, "Meaning it has a short range, and he has to touch whatever he is manipulating."
"Wait..." Ochaku's eyes widened.
"So..." Ami's jaw dropped.
"Maybe he gave them empowering massages?" Toru suggested brightly.
"MMmmm... Massages?" Ami, Ochaku, and Mikoto all gasped in unison.
Then the door opened. And all six girls turned to look.
"Hello," the subject of their conversation looked at them cautiously, "Sorry if I'm a little late."
He looked ready to run. That wouldn't do.
"That's fine," Kyouka said, her voice dangerously smooth. Mikoto reached out for the door's metal handle, and forced it shut.
Current status:
Name: Izuku Midoriya
Race: Human (Quirk metagene negative)
Age: 15
Level: 13
Active Title: The Gamer
Health: 403/406
Energy: 452/602
Attributes:
(S)trength: 43
(A)gility: 40
(E)ndurance: 40
(Q)uickness: 43
(W)it: 40
(I)ntuition: 40
(C)harisma: 25
(D)etermination: 46
(L)uck: 13
Unused Points:
Attribute: 36
Skill: 15
Talent: 1
Skills:
User has chosen to conceal (49) skills
Talents:
Studious
Gamer's Body
Gamer's Mind
Telekinesis, Basic
Inventory II
Reflective Dungeon
Free Runner
Ki Initiate
Tactile Telekinesis
Ki Apprentice
Focus: Telekinetic Aura
Energetic Student
Plus Ultra!
Clairvoyance
Telepathy, Basic
Telekinesis, Intermediate
Active Quests:
Save the Symbol of Peace - Percent Complete: ? - Time Limit: 112 days
Author's Note: Yes, Pony's horn(s) are different than canon, though what she does with them is basically the same. There is a story reason for this, but it won't come out for a LONG time. I'm happy to spoil it if to any individual who wants to know, but I'm not just going to throw it out in the general story early. The fact that I also think it fits her theme better and that Cow Lady has similar yet more anatomically appropriate horns are also part of it, but not the main reason.
