I've returned... kind of. This isn't a full comeback. I've still got two more chapters to finish to round out the six I normally get ready before posting. Work, writers block, vacations, and a small break I took from writing this is why it's taking so long. When I get those done I'll post the other five. Now, there's a couple of reasons I'm posting this one now instead of later. The first, and major reason, is I've been wanting to get this one out for people to read for awhile now and just got tired of keeping you guys waiting. The second is to announce somethings. One being I've got two new fanfics up, 'Ghosts of the Past' and 'Hitokori'. They'll be stuff I'll work on when I need a break from writing this fic. Personally I like the way 'Ghosts of the Past' turned out more than 'Hitokori'. I'm currently debating whether to keep it or rewrite it. Moving on, the third and final reason is to announce I now have a Subscribe Star. If you like my work and want to support me monetarily you can (link here: www . subscribestar.c o m (/) zmanxv(Remove spaces and parenthesis, this site is crazy about not allowing you to link to just about anything)). If not, don't worry. I'm not going to put any fan work behind a pay wall. With that out of way let's reply to a few reviews.

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Battle Trial Arc

Chapter 19: Brains vs Brawns

A confident Momo slowly walked into the building with a very nervous Minoru closely following behind. While the short statured boy would normally be ecstatic about working with, by his estimation, the most beautiful girl in class as well as seeing two other beauties go to battle. Not to mention said partner's red leotard and gold skirt like utility belt left little to the imagination. The looming battle and the known strength of his opponents prevented any such excitement. Why is it that the one time I get paired with a total bombshell I get stuck against not one but two people who make my quirk practically useless. Ashido can probably just melt my balls and even if I do pin that Nora girl down she's probably strong enough to rip out whatever she's stuck to.

"Maaaaan how are we gonna win?" Minoru muttered.

"Just follow my lead and victory is granted." Momo stated.

"How can you be so sure. I don't know if you realized but my quirk is practically worthless against those two. It's basically going to be two vs one." Minoru pointed out.

"Cause I've already set us up for success." She declared as she used her quirk to form an earpiece and planted it into her ear. "Let's see what their talking about."

She turned on the device as Minoru realized what she had done.

"Well my quirk's [Acid]. It let's me secrete acid from my skin. It's also the reason my skin's pink." She heard Mina say.

"Sweat my quirks [Electro Muscle]. I generate electricity and use it to empower my muscles. I can also absorb electricity so I'm completely immune to all electrical based attacks, though I can still feel pain from them." She heard Nora replied.

Momo smirked confidently.

"Information is the key to victory. Know the enemy and know yourself, and in a hundred battles you shall never be in peril." Momo stated.

"Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' right." Minoru replied.

Momo stopped dead in her tracks and turned to give Minoru a surprised look.

"Yes, I didn't take you as one to read it." She expressed.

"Well… I kind of only did cause I thought it'd help pick up chicks." He admitted sheepishly.

"Of course you did." Momo expressed with a sigh. "Anyways let's get the preparation underway."

"Yes ma'am!" Minoru replied.


Later, outside the building…

"And start!" All Might announced.

With a mighty leap Nora took herself and Mina up to the top of the building. With a silent nod the two made their way into the building. They quickly bolted their way through the building in search of the bomb.

"As long as they didn't expect us coming from the roof we'll be in the clear." Nora noted.

"Like hell they did I doubt they even knew you could jump that high." Mina confidently declared.

Little did they know Minoru had been hiding, waiting for them to come in. The minute they had, he threw two sticky balls with tracking devices on their backs. Damn she was right not only are they expecting traps but they even thought to avoid any all together by going in via the roof. Too bad she bugged them though. We know their whole plan. He steeled himself as he went to trail Nora. I just have to make sure they don't find me for as long as I can. Ideally, I'd like to keep it that way until the end of the match, but you never know when things can take an unexpected turn. If they do I need to make sure I'm found by Nora. I don't stand a chance against Ashido.


On the first floor…

Momo stared at the tracker in her hand. It had been a few minutes since the start of the match and her opponents have yet to reach the first floor.

"Hmm… so far so good." Momo muttered. "Looks like someone's about to reach this floor though."

She went to pick up the bomb and made her way out of the room. She made sure to check that she would avoid whoever was coming before she made her way up to second floor. She set up in another room and made sure to keep an eye on the tracking device. This should do, they've already searched this floor so they won't think that the bomb was in this room. Good thing this things so light even if it is a bit cumbersome.

She noticed one dot on her screen searching the first floor with another searching the third. She smirked lightly. As long as this game of cat and mouse keeps going victory will be ours. Though I shouldn't be too cocky. Our opponents are no fools, they'll realize our little game sooner or later. When that time comes victory will ride on two things. First is my successful capture of Ashido. Next Mineta has to hold out against Nora till I'm able to arrive and provide back up. Even then, with her monstrous strength I doubt we'd have any way of easily capturing her. Hmm…

We could try and go for a run out the clock option. However she could opt for simply ignoring us and blitzing for the bomb. In that case would it be best to stay behind and defend. No I don't think Mineta could hold her off long enough on his own. Also what if he gets taken out before I can get there to help him. Her brow furrowed as she mulled over what to do. Come on think there has to be something I can think of to obtain victory. Wait… Suddenly it came to her. She smiled lightly.


Half way through the match…

Nora search grew more and more frantic every second that passed. Despite everything neither she nor Mina had yet to find the bomb.

"Come on how did they hide it so well. Did that Yaoyorozu girl make an invisibility cloak or something." Nora muttered.

She turned the corner and crashed into Mina and fell to the ground.

"GAHHH! Sorry." They both said in unison.

The try to sit up. Only for their backs to be stuck to the ground.

"Huh?" They both expressed.

Mina reached around and felt something soft and sticky. Her hand was now stuck to it.

"Mineta sticky balled us. But when did he do that?" Mina noted.

Generating some acid, she melt the ball was ease. However she noticed something else that didn't melt to her relatively weak acid. She looked to see the tracking device that had been attached to the ball.

"Is this some sort of tracking device?" Mina questioned.

Nora's eyes widened as she had an epiphany.

"I figured it out now!" She exclaimed. "They've been tracking our movements and moving the bomb around the building to prevent us from capturing it."

"I see that make sense. No wonder we couldn't find it." Mina noted.

"Yep… so… mind getting me out of this?" Nora asked.

"Oh, sure gimme a sec." Mina replied.

She went a freed Nora from her sticky bond. They both returned to their feet. Creating a more corrosive acid, Mina melted the trackers.

"With that taken care of, she'll have no idea when or where were coming." Mina stated.

"Yeah, we best hurry before she has time to…" Nora began.

"GRAPE RUSH!" They heard shouted from behind them.

Minoru came charging in, despite being scared out of his mind, and rapidly threw several sticky balls, trapping his opponents. Though he purposefully missed a few.

"Mineta!" Mina exclaimed.

"He must have been following one of us!" Nora pointed out.

He skidded to a stop and turned to face his opponents. I have to buy Yaoyorozu as much time as I can. If Midoriya can face done that monster of a man Bakugo, then I can face done two babes. Even if one is arguably more terrifying than Bakugo. Mina had already melted away most of his sticky balls with ease, and Nora just tore herself out of whatever she was stuck to. Minoru gave them no time to think and immediately resume the offensive.

"Oh… want to play little man." Nora taunted.

She stepped forward to smash Minoru in with a punch. However before the punch connected the grape-haired boy popped off a sticky ball, stuck it to the ground, and bounced himself off of it. Nora smashed through the ground but got the ball stuck to her hand. She turned back to face him. He twisted in midair and through several more balls. Mina stepped forward and melted them all with a veil of acid. Quickly Minoru threw a ball behind him to bounce off of. With the balls he's scattered about the hallway he began to bounce all around. As he did he threw countless balls. Mina and Nora could do little to defend.

"GRRRR… this is so annoying!" Mina whined.

She tried to melt them as quickly as she could but to no avail. Nora grew more frustrated as she tried and failed to knock Minoru out of the air. She grinded her teeth. Her eyes darting around to keep track of Minoru. Sticky balls slowly accumulating on her.

"AHHH! ENOUGH!" She shouted as she threw her fist forward.

It connected with Minoru squarely in his face. The grape-haired boy was sent flying away and tumbled on to the ground. He didn't move.

"Take that you grape haired pervert!" Nora shouted.

"Finally, here let me get you deballed fast so we can go after Yaoyorozu." Mina stated.

"Yeah thanks." Nora returned.

After getting rid of all of Minoru's balls from Nora, the duo ran on ahead to find Momo leaving Minoru lying on the ground. One punch was all it took. My body feels like one big bruise. I hope I bought Yaoyorozu enough time to prepare. Suddenly he heard something in his ear.

"Mineta I don't know your condition but everything's set. If they get past you I'll be ready for them." Momo stated.

Minoru smiled lightly and raised his hand to his ear piece.

"Copy that, they're on their way to ya, be ready." He stated lightly. "I'm down for the count. It's up to you now."

"Understood, get some rest." She replied. "I'll win this."

Minoru relaxed and let sleep take him.


Later, a room in the middle of the third floor…

Momo stood in front of the bomb staff in hand. Her eyes fixed on the doorway like a hawk. She steadied her breathing and steeled herself for her coming opponents. After several minutes she saw her opponents round the corner and come charging at her. She took a battle stance and prepared herself for the coming fight. With Mina and Nora, they were both surprised to see Momo standing out in the open.

"She probably has a trap ready for us, she's trying to bait us into them by staying out in the open." Nora noted. "But let's see if she's ready for a little demolition."

Nora bolted ahead a bit. However, instead of going through the door. She burst through the wall. The minute she did Momo smiled with confidence. Using the time Mineta bought her she set up two traps on the walls next to the door meant to capture Nora. They were several straps made of graphene. She set the grips up so when the wall was shattered it would cause the grips to fly in a way that the straps would wrap around Nora, locking her in place. Momo had set herself where she did to make them think to avoid charging in through the door and aim for the wall instead. With this she successfully captured Nora in one fell swoop. Nora struggled in vain to break free of her bindings.

"Ahhh come on why can't I break out?! What are these things made of?" Nora expressed in annoyance.

"I'd suggest you stop struggling. Without Ashido's help your not getting out." Momo stated as she stepped forward. "Those straps are made of graphene. It's about 200 times stronger than steel. It is one of the strongest materials known to man. It's also highly elastic and incredibly light. Even with your incredible strength you won't be getting out of it anytime soon."

She locked eyes with Mina, who had stopped when she saw Nora get captured. Mina faced down Momo. Met with Momo's stone cold gaze Mina grew more anxious, unsure of what the best course of action would be. The clock was ticking down to the end of the match and Mina had little time left. She charged forward towards Momo, who made no movements. Right when she was on her she threw forth a veil of acid and went to somersault over Momo.

However Momo, having predicted her move, made herself a shield to block the acid veil. She then slammed the butt of her staff into Mina's gut stopping her dead in her tracks. The pink-skinned girl could do little to counter before another quirk swing to her jaw knocked her out. Before she could recover she wrapped her up in the capture take.

"The heroes have been captured. Villain team wins!" All Might declared.

Momo let out a sigh of relief.

"My goodness that was much tougher than I had anticipated." Momo expressed.

"Miss Yaoyorozu free Miss Ashido and Miss Valkyrie before reporting back for your grading." Glynda directed.

"Yes ma'am." Momo replied.

Mina groan as she returned to consciousness.

"Huh… wha…" She expressed slightly dazed.

She then felt that capture tap that was around her.

"Awww… I got captured didn't I?" She moaned.

"Yeah… but you both put up a good fight so don't feel down." Momo assured her. "Here let me get you two freed up."

"Thanks," They replied.

Momo went over to free Mina up first. Said girl returned to her feet.

"Gah! You really got me." She expressed as she rubbed her jaw.

"I know, I'm sorry. I tried to not hit you too hard but I need to make sure you'd be knocked out or I wouldn't be able to capture you." Momo replied with an apologetic bow.

"It's fine. Can't be worse than what Nora did to Mineta." Mina returned.

"What did she do to Mineta?" Momo asked, slightly concerned.

"Punched him as hard as I could." Nora stated.

"Welp… he's getting a free ride to recovery girl." Momo noted. "Along with a broken bone or two."

"Yeaaah…" Nora expressed. "I don't feel bad about."

"Same here," Mina added.

"Surprisingly good teammate, horrible pervert. I won't lie that hearing that is a little cathartic" Momo expressed.

After a little bit Nora was freed of her bonds and the three headed off to the CCTV.


Later, In the CCTV…

"Excellent work everyone. That was quite the match." All Might praised. "I think it goes without saying that the MVP of this match was Young Yaoyorozu."

"Thank you sir, though I couldn't have obtained victory without Mineta's assistance." Momo expressed.

"Being humble I see. A good trait to have so long as you don't play down your own contributions." All Might complimented.

"Indeed, now how would like to explain why Miss Yaoyorozu was our choice for MVP?" Glynda questioned.

"Uh me, me, I know!" Ruby exclaimed with raised hand.

"Go ahead Miss Rose." Glynda replied.

"Yes… it's cause she came up with an effective strategy to counter Mina's and Nora's overwhelming power. She even thought ahead and bug the outside so she could hear everything they were talking about." Ruby answered.

"SHE WHAT?!" Nora and Mina exclaimed.

"Also when they caught on to her little game, she was able to, with a little help from Minoru, set up an effective trap to stop them from having any shot at retrieving the bomb." Ruby continued.

"Correct you are young lady. Nice job catching that she bugged the outside." Glynda praised.

"Seriously when did she do that I never noticed anything?!" Mina questioned.

"Remember students an effective strategy and quick thinking can give you the edge over any opponent." Glynda continued.

"Right you are!" All Might exclaimed.

Geez that's another one of my students better at this than me. I'm gonna need to step up my game. He thought to himself.

"Now let's move on to the next match." All Might stated. "Which will beeee…"

He reached into the hero and villain bin. After shuffling around for a bit, he pulled two out.

"These two!" All Might declared.

Out of the hero bin he pulled a ball labeled 'H' and a ball labeled 'F' out of the villain bin.


Later, in the nurse's office…

Minoru groaned as he was carried in by robots.

"Stupid weak human not knowing how to dodge." The front robot stated.

"Superior robots are far better at dodging than the likes of you lowly humans." The rear robot added.

"Oh goodness another one already." Recovery Girl sighed as she walked over to Minoru.

Said boy was currently being laid on a bed by the robots.

"Alright young man what happened to you. Looks like you took one heck of a hit." She noted.

"Nora punched me as hard as she could." Minoru answered quietly.

"Welp that's definitely a few bones broken." She noted. "Get some rest. You'll need to recover some strength before I can administer any healing."

"Understood." Minoru groaned.

"Honestly, this is only the first training session and already two injuries. If this keeps up I'll be having a chat with All Might and Glynda." She expressed as she walked away to take care of some other things.

The grape-hair boy stared up at the ceiling.

"Why did I have to have those stupid robots carrying me. Why couldn't I be like Midoriya and get a cute girl to carry me in." Minoru groaned. "Speaking of which I wonder…"

Minoru faced bleached the minute he looked to his left. In the bed he saw a sleeping Izuku with a sleeping Ochako hugging him like some sort of body pillow.

"Oh that no good lucky son of a bitch plain looking broccoli headed asshole. Oh heeee gets a total hottie hugging him in his sleep. But IIIII get a bunch of racist robots talking about how their better than me. Would it have been too much to ask for Yaoyorozu to carry me back, allowing my head to rest between her wonderful chest?" Minoru grumbled.

"Yeeees." Someone replied.

Minoru looked around frantically for the source voice.


Ruby: Man it's good to be back, even for a little bit. Oh I am going to tease Izuku so much if I find out about this in cannon.

Jaune: Unfortunately I don't think you do.

Ruby: Yeaaaaaaaah, anyways we should let everyone know what happens in the next chapter.

Jaune: Yep, so next time it's Asui and Tokoyami verses Hagakure and Koda.

Ruby: And things get... interesting to say the least.

Jaune: Yeah no kidding who would seen THAT coming.

Ruby: What that 'THAT' is you'll have to wait to find out.

Jaune: Next time, Chapter 20: Animal friends.

Ruby: Catch you guys then.