Heroes - Team G vs. Villains - Team I
"Alright, Tsuyu! Are you ready to be the best villains ever!?" Mina asked, trying to get her team pumped up.
"Just about, though I am worried about her," Tsuyu replied, pointing to the vine-haired girl. Tsuyu's costume highlighted the froginess of her appearance, with hers being a green bodysuit, flippers that resembled frog toes, a large tan belt that matched her gloves and shoulder straps, and goggles with big lenses that made them look like frog eyes.
"Heavenly Father, may you forgive me for my sins, for I have to enter the role of a villain in order to become a hero," she prayed, her eyes closed and hands clasped together. Her costume was a very simple white robe, giving her the appearance of a saint in a renaissance painting, though her black boots were out of place.
"Don't worry, it's nothing serious," Kojiro said, softly. The scarecrow-like boy wore a yellow jumpsuit with orange bands around his neck, waist, wrists, and ankles, while he wore white shoes and gloves. "She just prays time to time."
"Well, whatever the case, what're your Quirks so we can plan out how to trap those stupid heroes?" Mina said, trying to get into the spirit of villainy.
"Mine's Cemedine," Kojiro replied, as a white substance dripped out of one of his eye(s?). "It lets me shoot out a glue-like liquid from my face, and it can be used to trap people or attach things together."
"Ooooooh, yours is sorta like my Acid!" Mina said, as a white substance dripped out of her hands. "I can make acid of any strength and fluidity by changing the solubility and viscosity!"
"The Quirk the Lord our Heavenly Father bestowed upon me is known as Vines," Ibara said, as the vines on her head moved around. "I can control and grow the vines on my head, allowing me to bind foes, grab objects, and create barriers."
"Mine's Frog. Let's me do what a frog can do. Easy to explain, really," Tsuyu said, giving a small ribbit.
"Well, now that we all know each other's Quirks, let's come up with a-" Mina began.
"Team G is now entering-" All Might interrupted, when a burst of frost came out of nowhere, making Team I scream from the sudden cold as ice covered them.
"Alright, so, what are your Quirks?" Nirengeki said, looking at his teammates. He was a chubby young man dressed in flexible foam-like armor that had lines resembling muscles, while a blue square monocle-like device covered his left eye.
"I don't need to know your Quirks," Shoto said, walking away from his teammates. His costume was a plain white shirt with matching pants and boots, with a ice-like armor covering his entire left side, even his head, with a glowing red eye on his head.
"Dude, that's kinda missing the point of this exercise," Yosetsu said. He was dressed in a burgundy baggy suit with a collar that went up to his neck, black torso armor, white boots, brown shoulder pads, a bag hanging on the back of his belt, and a white-and-blue striped headband. "We're a team, you know."
"Well, my elegant Quirk is Navel Laser! I can shoot a beautiful shining laser from my belly, though I can't do it for long, 'cuz I'll get a tummyache otherwise," Yuga said, gesturing to the belt on his stomache.
"Weird. Well my Quirk's Weld, it lets me fuse objects together so long as I touch them first. It works on organic and inorganic material, and I can undo it, too," Yosetsu explained.
"Mine's Twin Impact. I can follow up any impact I cause with a second one remotely and at any time, and it'll be stronger than the initial one," Nirengeki followed up.
"Team G! You may now enter the building to capture the warhead or villains!" All Might said over their earpieces. In an instance, Shoto touched the side of the building, and covered it entirely in ice.
"S-s-shit, that's cold!" Yosetsu shouted, shivering as the temperature suddenly shot downwards.
"M-m-magnifique!" Yuga added, as Shoto entered the building by himself.
"S-s-should we follow him?" Nirengeki asked. "I-i-it'll take a while for him to find the room with the warhead, right?"
"S-s-sure, l-l-let's go," Yosetsu answered, the three cold teammates entering the building and splitting up to search.
Shoto opened the door, and found the four Team I members in front of the warhead, shivering from the cold, with Tsuyu looking rather sleepy in comparison. Admittedly, it took a couple more minutes than he would've liked to have found the room. He wished he had a teammate who could've determined where they were, like Kyoka or Mezo, to have cut the time shorter.
"T-t-there you are, h-h-hero!" Mina said, her teeth clattering. "L-l-l-looks like you were f-f-f-foolish enough to c-c-c-come alone!"
"Y-y-yes," Ibara added, attempting to move her vines to capture the boy, though they cracked and broke from being frozen. "Y-y-you s-s-still have a chance t-t-t-to repent f-f-for y-y-your s-s-sins."
"Do you really think you four can beat in the state that you're in right now?" Shoto scoffed, smirking at his shivering classmates.
"Y-y-you d-d-don't know u-u-until you tr-tr-try," Kojiro responded. He tried shooting out his glue from his face, but it didn't reach far. "I-I-I guess n-n-not."
Tsuyu simply yawned, as her eyelids grew heavy with sleep. Shoto walked past them, as Mina tried to grasp at him, though she was frozen in place thanks to the ice covering her shoes. Shoto touched the warhead without difficulty.
"T-t-t-the warhead has b-b-been captured! T-the Hero Team Wins!" All Might announced over the intercom. It seems like the frost had affected the monitoring room, too. After he touched the warhead, the room began to get warm as Shoto used his fire to melt the ice around the warhead and in the room.
"G-g-g-good ol' Todoroki," Setsuna said, as nearly everyone in the room started shivering from the cold that Shoto's ice caused. "S-s-still as overpowered from the r-r-recommendation test, I s-s-see."
"Y-y-yea. I ha-ha-have to remember to make a winter v-v-version of my c-c-costume," Fuka muttered, cursing the fact that her vest did not have a zipper. She looked to Hiroshi, who just stared at the CCTVs. "A-a-a-aren't you cold?"
"Hm? Actually, no," Hiroshi shrugged. "I mean, it does feel colder than before, but not by much."
"Y-y-you maniac," Denki said, closing up his jacket, Kyoka following suit as a cacophony of zippers started being pulled up. "Y-y-you're the one with a r-r-ruined gym outfit with h-h-h-holes."
"I guess Hero possessing me gave me some sort of immunity to the cold?" Hiroshi replied, rubbing the back of his head. "Still, doesn't look like Asui's doing too good in this cold. She looks like she's about to just pass out from it."
"M-m-maybe it has something to d-d-do with her Quirk," Kyoka said. "D-d-do frogs hate the cold?"
"F-f-frogs enter a sorta hibernation state called brumation, where they stop all activity and go into a very deep sleep," Fuka answered. "M-m-maybe that's it."
Soon the two teams came back into the room, Yosetsu, Yuga, and Nirengeki looking as downtrodden as the Team I members, save for Tsuyu, who seemed to be nodding in and out of consciousness.
"I assume that none of us have any o-o-objections to naming Young Todoroki as the MVP h-h-here, right?" All Might said, as the three Team G members agreed, reluctantly.
"Kinda hard not to when none of us actually got to do anything," Yosetsu grumbled, crossing his arms.
"Indeed, I did not get to show off my fabulous cape," Yuga lamented.
"Did we even really need to come out with Todoroki at all?" Nirengeki questioned, as their teammate coldly ignored their discontentment.
"Not much to really dissect here," Fuka shivered, as the others looked at her. "Though I g-g-guess Todoroki could've held back, since the warhead could've gone if it were sensitive or to prevent causing hypothermia for the villains."
"Y-y-you doing okay, Ts-Ts-Tsuyu?" Mina asked, the Team I members still reeling in from the cold.
"I'm... just feeling... a bit sleepy..." she mumbled, as she wobbled about.
"You need to borrow a jacket or something?" Hiroshi asked, taking his ruined jacket off. "It's not much, considering the holes and all, but it's better than nothing, right?"
"No, allow me, Furinji," Momo said, walking over. She turned around to face away from the crowd, pulling down her leotard's top to expose her back while she made a blanket much like earlier, Fuka pulling it out for her. Denki and Minoru were about to attempt to run to look at her, but Hiroshi grabbed the two and pulled them away.
"None of that, please. Let's hear what teams are next," he said, as they struggled against his surprisingly strong grip on their clothes. Soon enough Momo put her leotard back up and helped Fuka wrap Tsuyu in the blanket.
"Thanks... you two..." Tsuyu said, as she buried herself into the blanket's warmth.
"A-alright, let's warm ourselves up for the next teams!" All Might said, as he drew the balls for the next teams. "Heroes! Team D! Villains! Team H!"
Heroes - Team D vs. Villains - Team H
While Koji's birds gave them the heads up that none of the rooms with windows had the bomb and his mice that they're somewhere on the second floor, Team D was caught off guard by Fumikage's and Shihai's surprisingly compatible Quirks. Meanwhile, Toru had snuck up on Kinoko and wrapped her capture tape around her, though Reiko managed to capture the three by using her Quirk Poltergeist to wrap her and her teammates' capture tapes around the three Team H members. It was ultimately Team H's victory, though, as Manga had used his Quirk Comic to block the door with several walls of onomatopoeias that Rikido couldn't break through in time before he went dumb from sugar withdrawal.
Heroes - Team J vs. Villains - Team C
"Dammit, not only am I stuck on a team of all dudes, the other team is also all dudes!" Minoru cried, slamming his fists onto the ground. "I wanted to face Team B! I was robbed of my chance of tying Uraraka, Kendo, Tsunotori, and Fuka with my capture tape! Damn that Midoriya and Hiroshi for getting harems!"
"Do you really think it's smart to say something like that about Hiroshi's little sister?" Denki said, crossing his arms. "I mean, not anymore happy about our turn than you, but come on, the guy's got a giant alien in him."
"Yea, you're barking up the wrong tree right there," Kosei replied, hands behind his head. "I bet he'd murder us. She's gonna be an unattainable girl..."
"Argh, your perverted drivel is driving me insane," Sen grumbled, as he walked out. "Seal the door somehow, I'll try to get their attention in the meantime and hopefully will get a good fight instead of wasting time here."
The three boys muttered and grumbled as they followed through with Sen's orders, shutting the door and using Minoru's balls to seal it shut.
"Nice, there's no way they're going to get in here now," Minoru said, puffing out his chest. "My balls are super sticky and nothing will force them open!"
"Yea, way to go, Mineta!" Denki said, giving him a thumbs up. "So how long will they stay there?"
"Oh depending on how I'm feeling in the morning, they should last an... entire... day..." Minoru trailed off, as the three boys stared at the door. They looked around the room. No windows. Or other doors.
"You idiot! You sealed us in a room with no escape!" Kosei said, as he and Denki punched the short boy in the head hard. "How will we get out!?"
"Gaaaah! This is why I wish I had a girl on my team!" Minoru screamed. "At least I wouldn't be stuck with you idiots!"
"You're the only idiot here!" Denki rebutted, as he paced around trying to think of a plan. "Come on, we gotta think, there's just gotta be a-"
The door, the door's frame, and surrounding bits of the wall exploded in front of the boys, as Jurota and Mezo used their impressive sizes and strength to break into the room, Jurota roaring with all his might. The three boys screamed and hugged each other tight at the intruding heroes, who ignored the panicking villains and rushed to the warhead.
"The warhead has been captured! The Hero Teams wins!"
"Furinji, is something wrong?" Izuku asked, noticing Hiroshi's glowering at Minoru while he and his team got their evaluation, with Sen seething at his teammates for their relative uselessness.
"I don't know why," Hiroshi replied, tapping his foot in furious thought. "But I want to punch Mineta after All Might's done talking with his team."
"You and me both, Hiroshi," Fuka said, shuddering. "Whatever those three were talking about earlier is making me shiver in my boots for some reason."
"Either way, our turn's coming up, guys! Let's give this our best!" Ochako said, giving Izuku and Fuka a thumbs up, which they both returned.
"Now, certainly but not least," All Might said, as he pulled the roles for the last two teams. "Heroes! Team B! Villains! Team B- Shoot, not again! Well, I guess it's safe to say that Team F is the Villain Team!"
"Ah yes, the best for last!" Neito announced, to the stares of his classmates. "We will show you 1A students the superiority of 1B-"
"Calm down, Monoma," Juzo said, having to drag him along. "Remember, our teams are split between two 1A and two 1B students. Well, in Team B's case two 1A and three 1B students."
"Then we will show 1B's superiority by being the MVPs!" Neito cried, his voice echoing down the hallways.
"Hey, Fuka, Midoriya, Uraraka! Good luck to your team!" Hiroshi said, giving his sister a fist bump who walked off, and offered it to the other two. "Hey, you two give me one, too."
Ochako smiled and gave him a solid fist bump, though Midoriya's was a little more half-hearted. "Something wrong, Midoriya?"
"... I don't get it," Izuku said, looking downcast. "How can you be so confident like this? I-"
"Hey, Midoriya, we gotta go!" Pony shouted, getting the boy's attention.
"Oh, sorry, I'll be there! Sorry, Furinji, I just had... never mind," Izuku said, running off to join his team. Hiroshi raised an eyebrow as he watched the green-haired boy disappear out of the room.
"Hey, Jiro, Yaoyoruzu," Hiroshi said, getting the two girls' attention. "You got any idea why Midoriya's acting weird? He asked me why I was so confident."
"He didn't tell you?" Kyoka crossed her arms. "Guess he's still sorta embarrassed. He told us that for a long time, he thought that he was Quirkless. Well, after Bakugo yelled out something along the lines during our Quirk Assessment. He's probably shocked from your confidence, even when you're Quirkless."
"Really?" Hiroshi put his hand on his chin in thought. "Why 'thought'? Does that mean his Quirk manifested recently?"
"Indeed," Momo replied. "Though it seems like it might be a bit... too powerful. He broke his finger during our Quirk Assessment Test, and from the sound of our classmates who were in the same testing grounds as him, he broke his arms and legs taking down a Zero Pointer robot to save Uraraka."
"Yea, I was there!" Eijiro interrupted. "It was insane! One second, he's on the ground, the next, he was in the air and threw a super powerful punch that knocked the Zero Pointer's head off!"
"No kidding?"
If there was one thing that Hiroshi knew and understood the ins and outs of, it was being Quirkless. From a young age it was drilled into his head that he'll never manifest a Quirk, as they typically manifest within the first four years of a person's life. It was almost unheard of for a person's Quirk to develop any later than that. Something was weird about that. He turned to Setsuna, who caught what Kyoka and Momo said, too. They'll ask Izuku about it later. Right now, they'll gonna have to focus on the CCTVs to watch Izuku and Fuka do their best for their turn.
Katsuki grinded his teeth as he overheard that conversation. Deku had lied to him for so long, and hearing so many idiots talk about how his Quirk just recently manifested drove him nuts. How long can he keep up that bullshit? At least that alien bastard was telling the truth. But everything he saw from the CCTVs... it was unbearable, seeing all these Quirks that could be better than his. Especially that icy-hot bastard.
All Might looked back at Hiroshi, realizing his suspicions. The boy was also Quirkless after all, he'd know everything about the condition himself. He gulped silently to himself; hopefully he doesn't attempt to dig into this too much. He may be a good kid, but he told everyone about what could've been a major secret; he doesn't want to know what he'd do with the information of One for All's existence.
"Hey Midoriya, you alright?" Fuka asked, as they went over the floor plans of the building. "You seem a little out of it."
"Oh! Y-y-yea, I'm fine," Izuku replied, snapping out of his thoughts. "Just... thinking about all these amazing Quirks we've seen, you know?" It was half-true, he was also thinking about how fearless Hiroshi was facing off against Katsuki and how ready he was just to protect Momo and Yui with his body.
"Speaking of, we should talk about what we know of Team F's Quirks. Judging from Iida's costume, he must have a speed Quirk like that pro hero Ingenium, right?"
"Oh yea, he does look like Ingenium with that armor!" Izuku replied. "We should ask after the exercise is done."
"You're right on the money about him having a speed Quirk," Ochako answered. "And Sero's lets him shoot these like, tape things from his elbows?"
"Would explain his oddly shaped elbows..." Fuka said, thoughtfully. "And I know that Juzo's Quirk is Softening, it lets him soften any solid object, putting it into a semi-liquid state. Saw it during the first recommendation test I took. That just leaves Monoma's Quirk."
"It's Copy," Itsuka answered. "We were classmates in middle school. It lets him copy up to three Quirks at once, but he can only use one at a time, gets all the strengths and weaknesses, and they last only 5 minutes. He also needs to touch you to copy it; even a few strands of hair would be enough to do it."
"So we know all the basics of their Quirks," Fuka thought aloud, her hand on her chin. "We should talk about ours now, we got only three more minutes left. I'll go first."
"My Quirk's Gale Breath. I'm able to take super deep breaths and can release them as one big intense blast of air, or several smaller ones. I had this special respirator and backpack system created where I can store and compress the air I breathe, allowing me to blast air through my gauntlets-" Fuka pressed a button on her palm with her index finger, letting a small blast of air out, "- or fly using my boots and backpack." She pressed a button on her index finger with her thumb, getting a little jump in the air from her boots and backpack. "Downside is that if there's any sort of gas around and I breathe it in, I'll pass out and I have to keep refilling my backpack with my breath."
"Mine's Horn Cannon!" Pony said, as her horns popped off and flew around, while new ones grew in their place. "I can launch and control up to four horns around!" Sure enough, she launched the newly grown horns off, and another new set grew in their place.
"Mine's Zero Gravity! If I touch any object with all five tips of my fingers, I can make them lose gravity for a time by touching my fingertips together, and than deactivate it by touching them together again. Downside is that I get nauseous if I use my Quirk on too many things at once," Ochako explained, showing them the pads of her fingertips.
"My Quirk's um... Super Power. It lets me increase my strength immensely, but it'll break my arms or legs if I use it..." Izuku said, his gaze shifting around.
"Really? It's that strong?" Fuka asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Y-y-yea, but only because I'm not used to it yet!" Izuku replied, waving his hands around a bit. "My Quirk only manifested recently, so I'm still figuring out how to control it! I've actually figured out that instead of putting it all into my arms or legs, I can put it all into one finger, meaning I can use it ten times!"
"Really?"
That was suspicious. If being Hiroshi's sister taught her anything, it's about Quirklessness. Namely that most, if not all, Quirks begin manifesting in the first four years of a person's life. Quirks that manifest later in life are almost unheard of. She's gonna have to talk to Hiroshi about this.
"Yea... I thought I was Quirkless for most of my life, and, well, it didn't get me many friends. Honestly it got me a lot of bullies, even Kaccha- I-I mean, Bakugo..." Izuku said, looking at the ground.
"I see..." Fuka said. She admitted to herself, she thought that would happen to Hiroshi when they were growing up. While he didn't get many friends, he never really got any bullies, save for Kenji and his dumb friends, but they picked on everyone. Honestly, with everything that's happened to him, her, and Setsuna as of late, she's been questioning a lot of her past actions now. She didn't expect that Izuku was friends with Katsuki, though, judging by that nickname he almost used for him. "I'm sorry that happened, but trust me when I say this, but being Quirkless doesn't make you helpless. I learned that too recently when I should've known a long time ago. So let's give this exercise our all, right?"
"Right!" her four teammates said, when All Might gave the signal.
"Team B! You may now enter the hideout! Secure the warhead or capture the villains!"
"Alright, so what are the Quirks Team B have?" Neito asked, as they had the robots set up the bomb in the highest floor and the farthest from any windows or staircase. "We need to know so that we may assert our superiority as the better team!"
"Well, Uraraka's got a Quirk that let's her make things lose gravity if she touches them," Hanta answered, his faceplate flipped up. "And Midoriya's, got, well, some sort of super strength Quirk. It breaks his limbs if he uses it, though, so I'm not sure if he'll be using that here."
"Indeed, his strength when using it is unmatched! Well, maybe excluding Furinji's and Hero's," Tenya replied. "I would not want to see what would happen if the two came to blows..."
"And if my memory's correct, his sister should have a wind Quirk," Juzo said, as he paced around a bit. "I think it's based on her breathing, though with that support gear she's probably come up with a way to store it."
"And Kendo's enlarges her hands," Neito muttered, rubbing his hands together. "Only one we don't know is Tsunotori's... excellent, that is an exceptional array of powers I can copy."
"Hm?"
"Oh, haven't I talked about my marvelous Quirk? It is Copy!" Monoma said, smugly as he looked down on his 1A teammates. "It allows me to copy up to three Quirks, giving me them all their strengths! However, I also gain their weaknesses, as well as only being able to use one at a time, and I only retain them for 5 minutes at a time. But a simple touch, just a strand of hair allows me to take their Quirk for myself! Speaking of, let me copy yours, I'll be able to work without needing you 1A students!"
"Ignoring that last part, my Quirk's Tape," Hanta explained, pointing to his elbows. "I can shot tape out of my elbows and use them to bind people and seal anything, and it helps me with mobility by acting like a grappling hook."
"Mine is Engine," Tenya followed. "It is a mutant-type Quirk that gives my calves engine-like muscles and muffler-like protrusions that enhance my running speed."
"Oh, that explains why your suit looks like Ingenium," Juzo said. "He's got a similar Quirk, right?"
"Of course! He is my brother, after all!" Tenya said, puffing out his chest in pride. "But that's for another time."
"Mutant-types!? I can't copy those! Gah, you 1A students are useless!" Neito bemoaned, yanking his hair out of frustration. "The only thing more annoying would be if you had accumulation-type Quirks, since I can't accumulate what's required within five minutes!"
"U-useless!?" Tenya cried, aghast.
"Ignore that," Juzo said, getting in between the two before an argument could start. He pulled off a glove. "Just copy mine, Monoma. It's Softening, and it lets me soften solid objects into a semi-liquid state, though it can be undone if I touch it again. I have a plan. Iida, since yours is a speed Quirk, you go ahead and run interference with Team B, while me and Monoma go ahead and soften the floors leading to the room so that if they get past you, they'll just fall through. Sero, go ahead and use Tape to seal the door. Also set up a tape blockade around the bomb, in case they do get through the door."
"Hmph, as expected of our class's other recommended student," Neito said, adjusting his costume's tie before touching Juzo's hand. "I suppose I'll just have to make sure I copy Team B's Quirks to make due!"
As the four went to work on their plan, All Might's voice rang out in their earpieces.
"Team F, the heroes have entered the hideout! Protect the warhead or capture the heroes!"
"So who do you think has this in the bag, Furinji?" Mina asked, as they watched Team B enter the building. Tenya had began speeding down the stairs to meet them, while Neito and Juzo had gone around softening the floors near the room with the warhead, and Hanta had finished setting up his tape blockade trap around the bomb and sealing the door with several thick layers of tape. Ochako and Izuku split away from Team B to spread their search for the warhead, while Itsuka and Pony formed another team, with only Fuka operating on her own.
"Honestly, Team F's got a pretty solid game plan right now," he said. "Out of all of the teams, they got a good front fielder with Iida's speed, two trap makers with Sero and Honenuki, and an all-rounder with Monoma, since it looks like his Quirk lets him copy other ones. Team B's got a lot of work to go through to deal with them."
Katsuki scoffed; he hated that Quirkless bastard was right. From what he's seeing, the defense Team F's putting out would be hard to get through.
"But I wouldn't count them out yet. After all, heroes always have to work hard to turn the tides, right?" Hiroshi followed up with. "We just gotta wait and see."
"Look! Monsieur Iida has confronted Madame Furinji's group!" Yuga said, pointing to the screen with his sister, Itsuka, and Pony, as Tenya turned the corner and ran towards them.
"Show us what you can do, Fuka," Hiroshi whispered to himself, smiling.
"Alright, we're about to search the second floor, Midoriya, Uraraka," Itsuka said over the earpiece, as they walked around the hallways. "So far, so good."
"Depending on how fast Iida is, we should be seeing him soon," Fuka said. And not a second later, they saw Tenya turning the corner and running at them full speed.
"There you are, you heroes! You will not stop our nefarious schemes!" he shouted, coming in for a kick, only for Itsuka to enlarge her fists and block him. He jumped off them, landing backwards several feet away before sprinting towards them again. "Nice try, but you will not stop us with feeble techniques such as that!"
"How about this, you dastardly devil!?" Fuka cried, getting into the silly roleplaying that Tenya was engaging in. She took a deep breath, and released a gale of wind from her mouth, while pointing her gauntlets and releasing the stored air for an added boost.
"Blow all you want, you'll run out of breath soon enough!" Tenya said, as he struggled against the wind, attempting to plant his feet on to the ground. However, the gale wasn't slowing down in the slightest. In fact, it didn't seem like it was ending any time soon. "I-i-impossible! How can you keep exhaling all that air!?"
While he fought against the gale, Pony took this chance and launched her horns towards Tenya, firing an additional two. He couldn't dodge them in time, since he'd lose his footing otherwise, though it was for naught, as the horns got him by the cloth of his costume. The combination of wind and the force of the horns sent Tenya flying backwards, hitting the wall behind him, with the horns pinning him down. The second Fuka let the wind die down, Itsuka and Pony rushed him, wrapping their capture tape around his wrists.
"Iida has been captured! 10 minutes remain!" All Might's voice said over the intercom.
"H-h-how could you keep that up!? Your lungs shouldn't have all that space!" Tenya said, still trying to make heads and tails of what Fuka had done.
"Ever heard of circular breathing?" she asked, smirking. "I breath in through the nose while breathing out my mouth. While I do need to breathe in deep to add enough pressure to make the wind powerful, I can keep it going by using circular breathing."
"Impressive, Furinji! However, you will not stop my cohorts in the dark! Our scheme shall not go hindered!" Tenya said, as the three girls shook their heads.
"Well, then, our comrades in the light shall do their best to thwart you!" Itsuka said.
"Indeed, we shall capture you and your villainous bomb!" Fuka added.
"Justice will look down upon us heroes as we attain victory!" Pony said, to the confusion of the others.
"Pony you're talking in English," Fuka deadpanned, as the half-Japanese girl covered her mouth in embarrassment. "Oops, sorry," she replied, blushing.
"Well, anyways, we should keep searching. I doubt it's on the second floor now, if Iida's down here," Itsuka said. "And considering how fast he was going, he must've been at least around the fourth or fifth floors, probably even the sixth, to build up speed."
"Y-y-you'll never find our bomb! It shall go off, and we shall-"
"Yea it's totally the upper floors," Fuka said, as the captured teen gulped. "Midoriya, Uraraka, you got that? Let's head up and search them."
"I'll stay behind and guard Iida," Itsuka replied. Fuka and Pony nodded, and rushed to the stairs.
"Got it! We're heading up now!" Ochako said, as the two went upstairs and searched the fourth floor. However, the instance they started walking up the stairs to the fifth floor, the stairs instantly softened, and the two fell down.
"Seems like I caught myself two arrogant heroes!" Neito said, as he leaped down from the stairwell to face the two. "Now I shall show you the might of 1B!"
"Um, you do realize that three of our teammates are from 1B, too, right?" Ochako asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Silence! I shall not fall for your mind games!" Neito exclaimed. He rushed the two Team B members, hands outstretched, no doubt to attempt to touch the exposed parts of their heads and bodies. Ochako moved to the side, and touched him with her fingertips, removing his gravity.
"Got you!" she said, smiling as Neito began floating up. However, he gave off a grin of his own.
"No, I got you!"
He touched Izuku, and suddenly, he started floating as well. Ochako gasped, realizing that he must've gotten a strand of her hair while he floated up. Izuku struggled to move in the air, when Neito got close to a wall and jumped off, flying towards Izuku and yanking off his mask. "Now it's your turn!"
He slapped Izuku across the face, Izuku gasping as he realized what this meant. Neito copied One for All.
He's gonna break his arms using it.
"What!? An accumulation-type Quirk!? Your super strength is based on stockpiling!?" Neito screamed, almost clawing at his face. "Gah, first I get stuck with two teammates with mutant-type Quirks, and I'm stuck with only using this Zero Gravity Quirk!? Honenuki's not even nearby so I can refresh my copy of his!"
Izuku sighed a breath of relief. No one else was gonna be breaking their bones today. Still, he needed to win this exercise, broken bones or not. He turned his head to look at Neito, who lunged at him, with his capture tape out and ready to wrap around him.
"If I can't get use your Quirk, I'll just have to capture you instead!" he shouted. The two collided hard, Neito having misjudged the amount of force he put into his push, making him let go of his capture tape, though it floated alongside the two as they began to wrestle one another, having not realized that he held it with all five fingers. Ochako reluctantly used her Quirk on herself, and joined in on the fray, her capture tape ready. She held in all the nausea she was causing herself, as the three wrestled in the air. Amidst the struggle, Ochako and Izuku managed to each grab one end of her capture tape, and successfully wrapped it around Neito's arm.
"Monoma has been captured! 7 minutes remain!" All Might's voice announced. Ochako released her Quirk, throwing up off to the side as Neito landed hard onto the ground. Izuku was still in the air.
"Um... I'm stuck," Izuku said, as he laid against the ceiling. "I think Monoma has to release his copied Quirk on me."
"And why should I?" Neito said, crossing his arms. Ochako sighed, and grabbed his hands, and forced his fingertips together, returning Izuku's gravity to normal.
Izuku landed hard onto the ground.
"Ow..." he moaned, getting up. "We better hurry, we only have 7 minutes left!"
"Right, and these stairs are still soft," Ochako said, touching the stairs, which jiggled under her poke. "Deku, let me use my Quirk on you so we can go up!"
"Alright, we better take Monoma with us," Izuku said, grabbing the captured boy. Ochako once again activated her Quirk on the three, holding back her nausea, and released as soon as she could. "Let's go!"
"Man, Team B's managed to get Iida and Monoma like nothing!" Eijiro said, as Team began converging on the sixth floor.
"Maybe, but here's where it'll be tricky," Momo said, pointing to Juzo, who was using his Softening Quirk to go through walls and check where Team B's members were. "Honenuki's out covering his bases with his traps. With his Softening Quirk, he's made it difficult to get to the warhead room without falling through the floor."
"Not to mention that if they took too long with trying to break down that sealed door, he can sneak up on them and soften the ground underneath. They're gonna have to try to capture him to and force him to undo the softening," Hiroshi said. "And that's if they can break through the door, Sero covered that door with tape. And they're gonna have to avoid all those tape traps, too."
"Excellent points, you two! Honenuki's Quirk does make this difficult for the hero team to get to the warhead, but it isn't impossible!" All Might said, turning his head slightly to the two students. These two were incredibly astute, that will definitely help them as heroes. He returned his attention to the CCTVs, and saw that Fuka and Pony had confronted Juzo. "Let's see what these two will do."
"Alright, Honenuki, two of your teammates have been captured," Fuka said, as she and Pony prepared themselves for anything. "You can either come quietly, or we'll force you to!"
"Hm, how about no?" Juzo said, as he walked backwards through a wall. Fuka and Pony ran to grab him, only to collide with a now solid wall.
"Ow! My nose!" Pony said, rubbing her face. "That was mean, Juzo!"
"Sorry, but I wanna win, so you'll have to try to catch me!" Juzo replied on the other side of the wall. He moved out of the room through a different wall, only to come across Ochako and Izuku, who had removed Neito's gravity again and tied his wrists up and pulled him along like a balloon.
"Honenuki! There you are!" Neito shouted. "Help me!"
"Sorry, Monoma, villain code: any ally captured is already dead, and you need to look out for yourself," Juzo said, as Izuku lunged for him, but he went through another wall. "Your sacrifice will not be in vain."
"HONENUKI!" Neito screamed, as the two pairs met up.
"He went through that wall!" Izuku pointed, running into the wall but it was solid once again. "Ow!"
"Yea, we fell for that too," Fuka said, rubbing her red nose. "Oh man, that's gonna be sore for the rest of the day..."
"Where's Kendo?" Uraraka asked, noticing that they were one teammate short.
"Itsuka's downstairs keeping an eye on Iida, so we shouldn't have to worry-" Fuka started to say, when the floor underneath became soft. The four almost fell through, though Fuka used her saved air to blast herself upwards, while Pony used launched her horns and managed to catch Ochako and Izuku before they hit the floor. The four of them landed to an area of the floor that was still solid, dragging Neito in the air along with them.
"Right, we can't keep still for long," Izuku muttered. "We gotta keep moving around and either catch Honenuki or go for the warhead!"
"We gotta split up to find him, let's go!" Fuka said, the other three nodding and going down different hallways, though when Ochako turned the corner Neito hit it.
"Ow! Curse you, you 1A students!"
"Sorry!"
Izuku looked around, wondering where Juzo could possibly be, when he popped out of a wall, hands outstretched with his capture tape ready. He rolled out of the way, almost falling into another softened floor trap of Juzo's. He pulled out his capture tape, but Juzo ran off, going through another wall. Izuku pounded on it. No good, it's solid again.
"Maybe... Maybe I can catch him if I do this!" Izuku muttered to himself. He took a deep breath, as red marks formed on his finger. He braced himself, and flicked it. The wind pressure from the flick was immense, breaking through several walls and tearing his glove apart, catching Juzo off guard.
"What the-!?"
"Got you!" Izuku shouted, running towards the startled boy. He tackled him hard onto the ground, and within seconds, managed to wrap his capture tape around Juzo's arm.
"Honenuki has been captured! 4 minutes remain!" All Might's voice announced over the intercom.
"Whoa, that Midoriya guy's that strong!?" Yosetsu said, his eyes almost bulging from his head.
"He broke through all those walls with just a finger flick, impressive," Jurota observed, adjusting his goggles.
"Yea, but his finger's all busted," Kosei said, wincing at he looked at Izuku's flopping broken finger as he picked Honenuki up to his feet.
Hiroshi frowned; if Izuku had really grown up for most of his life thinking he was Quirkless, he certainly didn't seem like it with that ridiculous strength. Though with the way he took a moment to brace himself, it looked like he hadn't had enough time to get used to it. It was like his Quirk wasn't made for his body at all. Granted, he's heard cases where someone's Quirks were a danger to themselves and others, which could be the case for Izuku. Still, just for a Quirk like this to pop up for him...
Something was off about it. He shook it off, however, and watched the CCTVs as Team B reconvened where Izuku had captured Juzo.
"Is your hand alright!?" Pony shouted, looking at Izuku's messed up right index finger.
"It's fine," he lied, gritting his teeth. "We gotta go find the warhead, though! We don't have much time to waste!"
"I checked along the rooms with windows, not there," Fuka said, seemingly pushing it aside at Izuku's insistence, though her eyes remained on it. "And judging by the fact that you just... blew up several walls worth of rooms and that the rooms Honenuki went through were empty, we only have three rooms to check now. Uraraka, float Honenuki."
"Right!" she replied, touching the newly captured Team F member, who floated up and joined Neito.
"So this is what this feels like," he said, as they were dragged along by Ochako. "This is kinda fun, honestly."
They then turned a corner, and the two floating boys collided with a wall.
"Ow!"
"Sorry!"
Eventually, after seeing that two of the rooms were empty, they stared at the last door, no doubt the room with the warhead. Fuka jiggled the doorknob. Locked.
"Alright, stand back everyone," she said, pointing her gauntlets at the door. She took a deep breath, and let loose a gale of wind. After several minutes, she stopped blowing air, and the door was still standing. "Damn, Sero must've really taped that door up well."
"Let me try!" Pony said, launching her horns at the hinges and doorknob, breaking them. They tried pulling the door off. No good.
"What do we do!? We only have a few minutes left!" Ochako said, as she started to fret.
"Hahaha, you Team B fools! Victory is ours!" Neito taunted, when Izuku took another deep breath, and readied to flick his right middle finger.
"Wait, Midoriya, you don't-" Fuka began to say.
"SMAAAAAAAASH!" he shouted, flicking his finger. The wind pressure knocked the door and all the tape holding it in place backwards, slamming into Hanta, who didn't expect the door to be sent flying into him like that. The wind blew all the tape traps he set away, and he bumped into the warhead, which wobbled a bit.
"Quick! Secure the warhead!" Izuku said, wincing at his now two broken fingers. Ochako ran into the room, leaped over the dazed Hanta, and landed onto the warhead.
"Safe!" Ochako said, sighing a breath of relief.
"Nooooooo!" Neito cried.
"Are you insane!?" Fuka yelled at Izuku, who flinched at her, not expecting to be scolded.
"The warhead has been captured! The Hero Team wins!" All Might announced.
"There are two MVPs this round, and they're Honenuki and Sero!" All Might said, pointing to the two Team F members.
"Really!?" Hanta said, pointing to himself.
"Yea, you did seal up that door pretty well," Hiroshi complimented. "It definitely delayed Team B from breaking in, and your tape trap could've worked, since if they were sticky enough to keep the door from being blown away by Fuka's Quirk, they could've been stuck in the tape themselves for a while. It's basically what Mineta could've done if they actually took the time to plan."
"Aw shucks, you're making me blush," Hanta said, rubbing the back of his head. Denki and Kosei stared at Minoru, and gave him a hard whack after being reminded of their embarrassing failure. Sen followed them with his own kick to the boy's butt, before smacking them in their backs to remind them that it was a team effort of stupidity.
"And Honenuki's softened floor traps did force them to go slow to avoid falling through, which took up time for them to search for the warhead," Momo added. "And he made full use of its ability to move through walls and solidifying them to prevent them from following, until Midoriya used his Quirk to shatter all those walls."
"Speaking of, I have several complaints about that!" Fuka said, turning towards her teammate.
"Um, it's alright, Young Miss Furinji, you don't need to-" All Might said, but Fuka went off anyways.
"What were you thinking!? Not only were you unnecessarily injuring yourself in an exercise, but you also used that sort of power on a door to a room containing a warhead! Sero definitely collided with it after the door landed on him, and it wobbled a bit! What if it were a real one and it was sensitive!? Not to mention that an injured hero could be a liability because uninjured ones would need to look after them! I know we need to take this seriously, but not to that level! I expected reckless behavior from Bakugo, not you!" Izuku flinched at the dressing down he was getting from her. She was right about all of that. It hurt a lot, but she was right. Fuka took a shallow breath (though for anyone else it would be a deep one), and sighed. "But you did take initiative when time was running out, and we did get through, so I've got to thank you for that. Just promise me that you won't do anything like that again, alright?"
"... Yea, of course," Izuku said, half-promising her. For some reason, the way she talked felt like she had done this sort of thing often before.
Katsuki glared at Izuku, gritting his teeth. Not only did that alien bastard show him up, but Deku, fucking Deku, did too! His exercise sucked, he never got to actually enjoy that fight with the alien bastard at all, since that Quirkless bastard was in control for nearly the entire time. Izuku caught Katsuki's stare, who simply turned to the side to avoid direct eye contact.
"W-w-well, in any case, you should go to Recovery Girl and get that healed, Young Midoriya!" All Might said, heavy beads of sweat dripping down his face for some reason. "As for the rest of you, class is dismissed! Now, watch how a hero makes an exit, like they got somewhere to be!"
With that, All Might broke into a quick run, kicking up giant clouds of dust that obscured him.
"He's fast!" Eijiro said, realizing they could no long see him.
"You need someone to go with you, Midoriya?" Hiroshi asked, looking at his classmate's busted up fingers.
"I'm fine, t-thanks," Izuku replied. "I can get there myself, Furinji."
Izuku walked off, splitting from the rest of the group as they headed back to the locker rooms. Hiroshi watched as his classmate disappeared from view, both of out concern and frustrating curiosity.
Back at class, Katsuki had already left before everyone, and the students divided into their friend groups to talk. Hiroshi took another look at his ruined gym outfit, noting to himself as he packed it away again that he's going to need to make whatever costume he'll design a lot more durable than this and his other gym outfits. As he packed the rest of his things, Denki approached him, clearly agonizing over something.
"Hey... Kaminari, right?" Hiroshi said, confused at the teenager approaching him. "Is something wrong?"
"I'm sorry!" Denki shouted, bowing his head down to a befuddled Hiroshi.
"What's this about?" Hiroshi asked.
"During your team's turn, when you pulled out that canister gun, I said an incredibly dumb thing about you possibly cheating with it, and well, I-"
"Oh, I get it now. Don't worry about it," Hiroshi said, waving it off. "I already had a feeling that there were people who weren't really happy after all. In fact, I didn't really expect anyone to."
"I know, but still, I'm really sorry-"
"Wait, what do you mean you know?"
"Oh right!" Hanta said, getting into the conversation. "All Might didn't do this for the rest of us, but he shared a part of that argument you had with Bakugo before he literally blew up!"
"Really?" Hiroshi said, feeling a little red in the face. That speech was just something he made in the moment, and he certainly didn't expect anyone else outside of Katsuki, Togaru, Momo, and Yui to have heard it.
"Yea, it was right around the part where Bakugo said that none of us thought you belonged here," Tsuyu said. "He did it 'cuz most of us talked about our concerns for your safety or the circumstances you got in on, and well, it really upset your sister, so he did that to change everyone's minds."
"It was a most beautiful speech, Furinji!" Tenya said, tearing up as his hands moved up and down to salute him. "I'm sorry to say that I too had my doubts about you being here, but after what you said, you most definitely belong!"
"I'll admit, hearing it firsthand made me feel a little guilty," Momo admitted, giving a small regretful smile. "But after what you did to protect me and Kodai, well, I gladly welcome you and Mr. Hero to our class."
"You're amazing, Furinji! The way you just stared down Bakugo and called yourself 'Hiroshi Furinji, the No-Quirk Hero' and how he hadn't knocked you down was incredible!" Toru said, excitedly bouncing up and down. "You and Hero are just the coolest!"
"You just gotta let Hero talk to us more often!" Mina added, sparkles in her eyes. "I can't believe aliens exist! That's so crazy! I've loved aliens since I was little, and well, since I look like a movie alien!"
"That can be arranged sometime in the future," Hero said in Hiroshi's head. "Yea, Hero said that he'd be fine with that sometime."
"You're simply dazzling, Monsieur Furinji! Almost as dazzling as moi!" Yuga said, winking.
"I'm sorry if you felt that I wasn't actually being genuine about you being here, Furinji," Ochako said, a bit more somberly, though she gave a smile. "So I guess I'll just have to give you all the support I can!"
Hiroshi stood there, stunned, before tearing up to everyone's concern. "Sorry, it's just... I really didn't expect so many of you guys to actually change your mind so soon. I guess that's on me for being a pessimist, huh?" he chuckled, rubbing the back of his head. He looked at the clock. "I should get going now, gotta catch up with Fuka and Setsuna, you know? See you all tomorrow."
The others said their farewells, before going on to talk about how their exercises went and what they learned. As soon as he was out of view, Hiroshi's face turned grimmer, as he thought back to Izuku and how he said he was Quirkless until a while ago. When he got to the shoe lockers to meet up with Fuka and Setsuna, he noticed they had similar expressions to his.
"Thinking about Midoriya?" he asked, in a whisper.
"Yea, Setsuna just told me how Yaoyoruzu and Jiro said that he told everyone that he used to be Quirkless until recently, and he told me himself the same thing before our exercise started," Fuka replied. "That doesn't make any sense, Quirks that manifest later in life are incredibly rare, right? Like, there's so few cases they don't even reach go above triple digits."
"I know anything can be possible now since we know aliens exist," Setsuna said. "But Quirklessness and the like, well, we've got a lot of solid research done on them."
"We'll just have to confront him ourselves at some point," Hiroshi muttered, when they heard hurried footsteps. They looked, and saw Izuku running out of the front, as he ran to catch up with Katsuki. "Why's Midoriya trying to catch up with Bakugo?"
"He called Bakugo by a nickname before our exercise. 'Kacchan', I think. Maybe they were friends before?" Fuka said, as Hiroshi scratched his head.
"Hm... this could be important, Setsuna, if you will?"
"Right," she said, detaching the parts of her face with her right eye and ear, moving them silently and as hidden from Izuku's view as possible.
"Kacchan!" Izuku yelled, looking at his former best friend. When he got back to the classroom, they had told him that Katsuki and Hiroshi had already left for the day, though it seemed like Katsuki at least lingered around and sulked to himself before getting out to the courtyard.
"What do you want, Deku?" Katsuki grumbled, while unbeknownst to them, Setsuna's eye and ear hid in a nearby tree.
"... Today was really something, huh?" Izuku said, smiling a bit. "Even though Furinji was amazing, you did a great job too! You're still amazing, you know?"
"Shut up," Katsuki growled. "I don't need pity, especially from you! I lost to that fucking alien-possessed bastard, and that he had me on the ropes without even using him that entire fight! So stop looking down on me!"
"Wow, what a glowing review Bakugo's giving of you and Hero," Setsuna deadpanned, as she relayed everything to Hiroshi and Fuka. The three heard footsteps, and saw Momo, Kyoka, Tenya, Ochako, and Pony walking towards them. Pony had waited to talk to Ochako about their exercise, and the two evidently hit it off pretty well outside of class.
"Hiroshi? Fuka? Tokage? What are you still doing here?" Momo said, as Kyoka held back a scream upon seeing Setsuna missing parts of her face. "I thought you three had to leave."
"We're listening in on and looking at Midoriya's and Bakugo's conversation outside," Hiroshi said, pointing out the window that showed them a distance away.
"Why?" Kyoka asked. Ochako frowned at the implication that Hiroshi, Fuka, and Setsuna thought that Izuku was lying about his Quirk like Katsuki claimed.
"Indeed! Snooping around private conversations is very unheroic!" Tenya said, shocked by Hiroshi invading Izuku's privacy like that.
"What you guys said earlier about him being Quirkless until recently was... suspicious to me. I mean, I know basically the ins and outs of Quirklessness since I was born, and Quirks that manifest later in life are incredibly rare. And something about this conversation feels like it could be important..." Hiroshi muttered.
"It does seem rather odd, considering all the things I've learned about Quirks from you three and Principal Nezu," Hero said in Hiroshi's head.
"MIDORIYA GOT HIS QUIRK FROM SOMEONE ELSE!?" Setsuna blurted out, shocking everyone nearby.
"What!?" everyone else shouted, with only Hiroshi trying to remain silent.
"Sssh! Quiet! We can't let him know we're here!" Hiroshi said, putting his finger up to his mouth. That certainly wasn't something he expected to hear from Izuku though.
"But you really are, Kacchan!" Izuku said, clutching his newly healed fist. "Even though the odds were against you with Hero, you still charged head on to fight him! That's... that's really incredible you know! I always admired that about you!"
"Shut up! God, shut up!" Katsuki cried, baring his teeth. "I don't need to be reminded that I lost! And that there are plenty of other Quirks just as, if not better than mine! And you! You keep lying about how your Quirk manifested late! That's almost unheard of anywhere! At least that alien-possessed bastard's honest!"
"I'm not lying, Kacchan!" Izuku cried. "I... I got my Quirk from someone else!"
"... What?" Katsuki said, a vein threatening to pop on his head.
"Someone... someone else give me their Quirk, which is why it manifested late," Izuku said, realizing that he blurted out the truth about his Quirk. He hadn't even told his mom about how One for All yet. "I... can't say who gave it to me, but it's why my body just breaks when I use it. But I'm gonna make it mine, and when I do, I'll be just as, if not better, a hero like you!"
Katsuki gritted his teeth. "Bullshit! A Quirk that can be passed down!? Nothing like that exists, even if aliens do! But whatever! You think you can beat me!? Well, I'm gonna beat everyone else in this class! I'll be the best fucking hero here, and not even that alien-possessed bastard can stop me! You won't even stand a chance against me by then!"
He stormed off, but before Izuku could say anything else, All Might ran past him, and stood in front of Katsuki, hands on his shoulders.
"Young Bakugo! That sort of self-respect and ambition is great for a hero, whether pro or in-training!" All Might said, apparently having caught the tail end of what Katsuki had said. "So take heed, young man, and apply what-"
"Shut up!" Katsuki said, tearing up. "You're the one I need to beat the most, and I'll be even greater than you!"
"This boy's will certainly be an impressive hero, if only he didn't have that attitude," All Might thought, as Katsuki walked off. He turned to Izuku, and looked at his apprentice. "So what is it that you two talked about, Young Midoriya?"
"Oh, I, um... I told him that I got my Quirk from someone else," Izuku admitted. While All Might was smiling, the shock was clear on his face.
"You told him about One for All?" he asked.
"I-I-I didn't tell him I got it from you!" Izuku clarified. "And he just... seemed to write it off as another lie, too."
"Hm, while I'm not happy that you told him that it exists at all, at least he didn't buy it," All Might said, his hand on his chin in thought. "But you can't tell people about One for All. It's a Quirk that bears a heavy responsibility, and-"
All Might and Izuku heard an unnatural ruffling in a nearby tree. It didn't seem like it was a bird. All Might took a peek into the tree, and was startled to see Setsuna's eye and ear, which likewise was also startled.
"It can't be-"
"We gotta GO!" Setsuna said, panicking. "All Might's the one who gave Midoriya his Quirk, and he just found my eye and ear!"
"What!?" Hiroshi said. "Call them back!"
"I'll leave them! I can grow a new eye and ear later-"
The group of teens began to rush out, realizing how big of a secret that they all had stumbled into. Hiroshi swung the doors opened, and saw All Might standing there, Setsuna's eye and ear in hand, while Izuku trailed behind him, staring at them in horror as he saw the missing pieces of Setsuna's face and his classmates.
"All Might! Um, fancy meeting you here! And with my missing eye and ear too, I was wondering where they went!" Setsuna said, grinning nervously. All Might was also grinning, though it was incredibly clear it was strained and a bit upset.
"How much did you hear?" he asked, bluntly.
"If we say 'nothing at all', would you believe us?" Hiroshi asked. All Might stared at him. "I'll take that as a no..."
This was certainly not how Hiroshi and Fuka thought their first day at UA would end.
Original AO3 Notes:
- Sorry if this doesn't seem like an exclusively Izuku chapter with the beginning parts and during his team's exercise. It sorta turned more into a cast ensemble sort of chapter instead, since I wanted to show off Fuka a little too. Hopefully she wasn't too dominant in this chapter and that Izuku can still be a considerable player to the story to you all. I definitely don't think it's a Hiroshi-focused chapter, though.
- I'm sorta breaking Ultraman canon now, 'cuz Hero/Hiroshi aren't exhibiting the cold/ice weakness Ultras have. Thing is, it's not necessarily applied evenly to all Ultramen, 'cuz while Ultraseven is stated and shown to be extremely weak against cold/ice, Ultraman Jack fought ice-based kaiju and aliens without issue according to the Ultraman Wiki. So it seems like it's more dependent on the individual how the cold affects them. So I decided to have Hero and Hiroshi be immune to it basically. If only right now for the joke that he isn't cold compared to everyone else, despite having a ruined outfit. But if he ever does fight against Shoto, it'd be tougher than Shoto would think/like. If you're wondering where I got that from, it's the Ultra Armor article.
- In retrospect, I wish I had put Reiko with Team H instead of Manga 'cuz I just came up with a "spooky" thing for them. Oh well, it's not really important, since most of these are just vignettes and jokes. Sorry if you guys would've liked Team D's and Team H's exercise be more focused on, but I wanted to speed through to get to Izuku's turn.
- If you're wondering how I chose each team. It was random. Completely random and on a whim on who went where. Only Team A, C, and E had any resemblance of a plan. Team J was formed basically for the joke that Team C's exercise only had dudes much to the three's dismay.
- I'm not actually entirely sure if Neito can copy mutant-type Quirks or not. He can copy transformation-types and emitter-types, sure, but I don't think he's ever been shown using mutant-types. The MHA Wiki certainly doesn't list any mutant-type Quirks under the Quirks he's copied, which is why I'm going on the assumption that he can't use mutant-type.
- I hope it doesn't seem like Hiroshi's like, absurdly smart, since he's able to keep up with Momo's observations and whatnot. I did mention in the first chapter via Setsuna that he'd "be a shoo-in at UA with how smart he is", implying that even if he couldn't pass the practical, he'd be smart enough to get a place in General Studies, no question. If I were to place him on an intelligence scale, he's probably the second or third smartest person in 1A. He doesn't have Momo's scientific acumen since she has to be super smart to use her Quirk, but he is pretty observant and a quick thinker. Probably has to do a lot with needing to deal with bullies and knowing how to handle himself. Fuka's got a leg up on him in terms of intelligence, too, since she's skipped a grade.
- I wasn't sure whether or not to have Hiroshi and the others discover Izuku's secret about One for All, but I felt like it had to happen, since Hiroshi grew up Quirkless like Izuku, and basically knew everything about the condition 'cuz of it. And that because Hiroshi's pretty smart, he'd get suspicious of what Izuku was claiming. Fuka and Setsuna too, since they grew up with Hiroshi. Momo, Kyoka, and Pony were there 'cuz I like those three a lot (especially Pony, she's cute and I love her design), and I thought it'd be pretty impactful if Tenya and Ochako also found out, too. I'll admit that having eight people find out at once might be a little much, but whatever.
- The timeline of events I feel like do sorta happen the same, just a little pushed back since it's been a few days since the Tyrannion attack.