The Next Day, after the School Closing Ceremony
The shopping trip came and went, and for the most part, was uneventful. The only exciting part was Izuku finding out that the gym equipment and athleticwear store that had some limited edition All Might merchandise that he bought on impulse, much to the others' amusement ("I bet that he'd even get All Might speedos!" Mina joked, while Izuku hastily hid said speedos, while Hiroshi forced a laugh down his throat). As for the closing ceremony, Principal Nezu had revealed to all the students that since the boarding school experiment with the Hero Course students was a success, that they'll be making the full transition for the next semester, to the grumbling of a few.
After the closing ceremony, the Hero Course girls were walking the hallways, chatting about summer break and the special training camp.
"It's depressing that we won't be able to go anywhere too far for too long," Kinoko said, slumping forward as she walked. "Kills the summer break mood..."
"Can't be helped," Fuka sighed. "They don't want us to miss the start of our special training, especially since we're already living here and all."
"I'm so bummed that I can't visit my friends back in Texas..." Pony said, the usually exuberant girl more downcast this time around.
"And I was hoping that my family's annual trip to Europe would be unaffected, but it seems like I won't be joining them, unfortunately," Momo said, shaking her head.
"How bourgeois..." Ochako whispered, feeling slightly jealous of the vast lifestyle differences between her and Momo.
"At least we got a couple weeks before the start of our special training to relax for a bit," Setsuna said, shrugging.
"I wanted to go to the beach..." Toru whined, leaning backwards for dramatic effect.
"Well, let's make the best of it!" Mina said, trying to forget the impending doom that was her special summer school hell. "Maybe... Maybe we can ask Aizawa if we can use the school pool for fun!"
"Yea, that sounds like a super fun idea!" Pony said, perking up and nodding. "We can still have a lot of fun here!"
"It would be nice to rest my dreary soul in water and enjoy myself while I can," Reiko said.
"Swimming would be great!" Fuka said. "Get to show off how long I can stay underwater that way!"
"It'll be good to soak up some sunlight that doesn't involve hero training," Itsuka said, imagining herself sunbathing.
As the group of girls chatted about their pool party and what time they'll have it, they failed to notice that around the corner behind them were three boys who had overheard their plans. Three boys who, at the very moment, where running thousands of their own plans and ideas through their heads. They sped off, ready to enact them.
The Day of the Plan
"It's nice of Aizawa and Vlad King to let us use the school pool to train," Izuku said, as he finished putting on his sunscreen. "I'm surprised that you three would want to do that."
"Yep, we wanna be at our best! Plus Ultra, right!?" Denki said, as he, Minoru, and Kosei grinned widely. It was so simple, getting Izuku to agree to help them ask the homeroom teachers for permission to use the school pool. If it had just been the three of them on their own, they were surely going to be denied. But thanks to having someone like him asking with them, they had expected nothing.
"I can't wait to see the girls in their swimsuits..." Minoru whispered, though Izuku overheard him.
"Wait, what?" Izuku said, raising an eyebrow. "The girls-"
"Let's go, guys! To paradise!" Kosei said, as the three ran towards the pool entrance. The sunlight shined as they got out.
And were greeted by a shirtless Tenya wearing goggles, a swimming cap, and the school-issued swimsuits.
"About time you got here!" he said, to the shocked and horrified trio. "Was wondering when you'd all get here!"
"I-I-Iida!?" Denki stuttered. "W-What are you-"
"I invited them to the poolside training!" Izuku said, walking behind them. "I mean, we asked Mr. Aizawa and Mr. Vlad King to do it. So I thought that I should invite all of the guys, too."
Sure enough, as the trio looked around, they saw that almost every guy in their classes was there, wearing the school-issued swimsuits. The only ones that weren't there were Rigel, Mashirao, Koji, Yuga, Hanta, Hiroshi, Jurota, Mezo, Eijiro, and Tetsutesu. But to their horror, none of the girls were here at all either.
"Where're the girls!?" Minoru cried. "I thought-"
"Oh, the girls and the guys who aren't here are at the school lake for a party there," Izuku said.
"School lake!?" the trio said, their eyes bulging out.
Minutes after the three left to get Izuku
"Hey Hiroshi!" Fuka said, catching Hiroshi's attention as he walked out of the teacher's office.
"Oh hey girls, what's up?" Hiroshi said, stopping to chat with them all.
"We're having a pool party!" Mina said, with a grin. "At least, we're going to ask Mr. Aizawa and Mr. Vlad King if we can use the school pool for one, since we can't go to the beach and all."
"Pool party, huh? How about the school lake instead?" Hiroshi said, smirking.
"We have a lake!?" the girls said, their jaws collectively dropping.
"Yea, Lake Lambda. I was actually asking them if I could use the school pool to do some underwater training with Hero, but they said that it probably wasn't going to be deep enough for what we want to do. They also said that the USJ's flood zone's been undergoing some renovations, so that was out," Hiroshi explained. "So they told me about the school lake. It's a small manmade one that they use for lakeside rescue training. It's got a beach and a few facilities. Even has a nurse's office with beds, so if you want to nap in a building, it's possible. I got permission to use it tomorrow."
"Where is it?" Itsuka said, her calm demeanor hiding her excitement.
"Just a little away from the main campus like every other training site. It'll just be like, a day trip or so. They haven't gotten around to updating the security system there, so Midnight's going to chaperone for me just in case."
"New plan, let's have that party at the lake instead!" Mina said, as the girls all cheered in agreement.
"Yea, I bet that they'll let us wear our actual swimsuits there instead of the school-issued one!" Setsuna grinned. "That'll be way more comfortable, and it'd feel more like a party then!"
"You should ask some of the other guys if they want to join, too, I'm sure that they'll like to," Hiroshi pointed out. "After all, we won't be getting a lot of free time within a couple of weeks."
"They'd asked me if I wanted to join, but since we already made plans to do poolside training here, I said no," Izuku told them. "The guys that went with them were in the room with me when I was talking about the poolside training when they came and asked, and decided to go with them instead. Especially since they said that they needed some help with carrying the picnic supplies."
"Buh- Uh- I- Er-" Denki said, his brain frying at what happened. Meanwhile, Minoru was crying so hard that he cried tears of blood instead. Kosei spaced out, as he stared at the sky, defeated.
"Sounds like if you wanted to just play around, you should've waited and asked instead," Sen said, figuring out what they were probably intending to do.
"Let's not waste any time, you three! We should get to our poolside training!" Tenya said, pulling the three so that they can begin their stretches.
At Lake Lambda
"Wow, it's so pretty!" Kinoko said, looking at the manmade beach and lake. The small lake was a clear blue, and the beach had fine white sand. A small river coursed through the lake. Large tree-covered hills surrounded the lake. Nearby was a building, which was rather plain, being a simple rectangular building, though it did have a nice looking porch and deck.
"I can't believe we've never had training here," Kyoka whistled. "Would be nice to do a class here sometime..."
"Lake Lambda's not only great for training, it's great for relaxation, too!" Midnight said, taking a deep breath as the guys unloaded the bus with their picnic supplies, and Ardiana's projector orb was floating around everyone. "It's one of the older training grounds that UA has, but ever since Thirteen made the USJ, most water-based training is done there. Aizawa said it was better that way, since students might forget that they're suppose to train here. He was also the one to push for the building here to look like that instead of something more lakeside appropriate."
"Figures Mr. Aizawa would want something like that," Ochako said, laughing a bit.
"Well, you guys have fun now," Hiroshi said, popping his joints and stretching a little bit.
"You're not joining us?" Setsuna asked.
"You all do remember that the reason I'm here is to do underwater training with Hero, right?" Hiroshi said.
"Can Hero even breathe underwater?" Eijiro asked, scratching his head.
"He can breathe in space, so breathing in water isn't a problem," Hiroshi answered, rearing his right hand back. "It's more that we need to get use to the idea of possibly moving around in water so fighting won't be hard."
"Aren't you going to change into your swimsuit?" Itsuka asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Why would I need to? I'm going to be transformed into Hero for this."
"Hold your hand and call out-!"
"HEROOOOO!"
Light covered Hiroshi and Hero in his Muscle Hercules form appeared. "I'll be at the other side and at the bottom so you all don't get caught up in it. Have fun, everyone!"
Hero waved goodbye to them all, as he leaped into the air and landed feet first through the water on the other side, disappearing from everyone's sight.
"Let's go get changed, guys! Can't waste our party time just standing around!" Mina said, as everyone headed towards the building to change into their swimsuits. Before they went into the changing rooms with the others, however, Pony pulled aside Setsuna, Ochako, and Yui to talk to them.
"Hey, Tokage, Uraraka, Kodai," Pony whispered, looking at them with urgency.
"What is it, Tsunotori?" Setsuna asked, raising an eyebrow at the horned girl.
"Are... are you going to talk to Hiroshi and Midoriya about your crushes?"
"I-I don't have a crush on Deku!" Ochako said, blushing at Pony's accusation.
"Seems like you do with how bad you're blushing," Setsuna teased.
"You're one to talk!" Ochako pouted. "Aoyama also pointed yours out!"
"Oof, touché," Setsuna remarked, also blushing now. She began to shift her foot in place, looking side to side. "Listen, I... I think I need to put that off for now..."
"... Same..." Yui mumbled. "That was... not how I wanted others to find out..."
"... Yea, I think we'll need time to really sort out how we feel," Ochako sighed. "Let's not focus on that right now, anyway! It's time to have some beach fun!"
"Yea, Uraraka's right! We can think about romance stuff later, let's just party for now!" Setsuna said, as Yui nodded in agreement.
"Okay, but I'll tell you guys right now, you'll feel a lot better if you got it off your chests and tell them the truth sooner than later. If you keep putting it off, there's a chance that they might find someone else," Pony advised, dropping surprisingly wise advice. "It really helped me when I told my boyfriend Danny about my feelings for him."
"Geez, when have you been so wise- wait, boyfriend!?" Setsuna said, as she, Ochako, and Yui both stared at Pony, processing what she just said.
"Yea, I have a boyfriend back home over in the States," Pony said, pulling out her phone. To their shock, she showed them a bunch of pictures of her and a boy who had shorter horns, and a brown birthmark around his eye. "We've been going steady for half a year before I moved here with my family. It's one of the reasons why I'm kinda bummed that I'm not going to be able to visit Texas."
"How come we've never seen him when we video chat with your friends?" Ochako asked.
"He's shy," Pony said, shrugging. "He keeps getting nervous about meeting you guys, especially Hiroshi and Hero, so he always bounces early from our video chats."
"Oh, we are going to talk to this guy soon," Setsuna said, scrolling through the pictures Pony had. "But right now, let's get changed for beach time!"
At the school pool
"GAAAH! This is torture..." Denki muttered, having finished his tenth lap in the pool.
"We were played by our own impatience," Kosei groaned, having grabbed a can of orange juice from the color that Tenya brought.
"If only Hiroshi didn't find out about the school lake!" Minoru cried, slamming his fists against the pool's concrete. "He's turned this paradise in a living hell!"
"What truly impure thoughts," Fumikage said, crossing his arms. Shihai looked away in shame, having agreed to do the poolside training since he thought Kinoko was going to be at the pool too.
"It's pretty nice to switch up our training regiment," Izuku said. "Hope that Hiroshi is doing fine with his own."
"I hope he's suffering!" Minoru muttered, furious that he's probably enjoying his time looking at all of the girls and their swimsuits.
Lake Lambda, underwater
"Wow, we even have some fish in here," Hiroshi said, as Hero walked along the lake's floor and fish swam by him. "They really went 'Plus Ultra' here."
"To think that UA would have even have its own lake like this," Hero said, as he watched a large one swim over him. "Just how did they make Lake Lambda?"
"Judging from the giant hills around here, they probably hired people with earth manipulation Quirks to dig the lake before using people with water manipulation ones to redirect a river to here. Terraforming and altering landscapes isn't an everyday job, and you have to go through the proper channels to even get a Quirk work license, but it pays super well.
"This world and how Quirks have affected it never ceases to fascinate me," Hero said. He scanned the area, making sure that it was deep and far away from the others. "I think this is a good spot to start our underwater training."
"Alright, let's start!"
Lake Lambda, above water
"Wow, looking good, everyone!" Setsuna said, eyeing everyone's swimsuits. Hers was a green bikini top with a blue bikini bottom, both with a scaly pattern like her hero costume, while her hair was tied back in a ponytail. "Good choices in swimsuits."
"Thanks!" Kinoko said. Hers was a red bikini with white polka dots, much like her hero costume. Instead of a bikini bottom, though, she was wearing a slightly poofy swimming skirt.
"This... this isn't too much, right?" Ochako said, rubbing the back of her head. She was wearing a pastel pink bikini with a blue swimming skirt. "It was the cheapest swimsuit I found, and all of the one piece ones I found were kinda ugly."
"I think it looks fantastic!" Mina said, flashing her a thumbs up. Hers was a slightly frilly white bikini, which contrasted against her pink skin greatly.
"Yea, I'm not one for fancy looking swimsuits myself," Itsuka said, dressed in a teal athletic bikini.
"... I should've worn something else, I feel ridiculous," Kyoka said, having seen everyone else's. Hers was a yellow-and-white striped two piece.
"I think it looks nice on you, Jiro!" Momo said, dressed in a simple red one. Yui's was identical, but with a white stripe instead, and she wore a sunvisor.
"It's a good look on you!" Pony said. Her was one of the most standout ones, being a Texan flag-themed bikini while big star-shaped shades laid on top of her head. Her bikini bottom had a hole for her tail, and she was wearing special swimming socks to cover her furry shins.
"Don't sell yourself too short, Kyoka," Fuka said, hand on her hip. She was one of the few girls wearing a one piece, hers being a sky blue one. Another was Tsuyu, who was wearing a green-and-white striped one, but instead of it being a leotard style, had pant legs that stopped mid-thigh. The most conservative though was Ibara's, who was basically wearing a short-sleeved navy blue wetsuit that stopped midcalf.
"... Thanks guys," she chuckled, blushing a bit.
"I'm so ready for some beach volleyball!" Toru said, as a blue and pink bikini bounced around, the only sign that the invisible girl was there.
"I am as well," Reiko said, wearing a soft pastel purple two piece and shades.
"Boy, Kaminari, Mineta, and Tsuburaba sure are missing out," Hanta laughed. His was an orange gold swimming trunks with white trim.
"Yea, I wonder why they decided to do poolside training instead of going to Lake Lambda," Eijiro said, his being black with a red flame pattern on the left side.
"I would've thought that those three would've been the ones who would want to take a break the most!" Tetsutetsu said, dressed in form fitting competitive gray swimming trunks that " Y" on the side.
"I think if the three had known that Lake Lambda existed, I am sure that they would have liked to join us," Jurota said, adjusting his swimming goggles. Everyone present right there stared at him, as he stood there, with no sign of wearing anything as his long fur-like hair covered everything.
"Are... are you-" Hanta began to say, hesitantly.
"I am wearing speedos," Jurota assured them. "Wearing them is very liberating, since longer sleeved clothing can get rather stuffy during warmer months."
"A fashionable choice in swimwear, I must say!" Yuga said, also dressed in a black speedo, though he was still wearing his belt around his stomach. Mashirao, Koji, and Mezo came out soon after. Mashirao was wearing black swimming trunks that were modified to fit his tail, Koji was wearing red and yellow swimming trunks, while Mezo was just wearing the school-issued swimsuit.
"Didn't have one of your own?" Fuka asked.
"Never really needed one besides what I was required to get for school," Mezo stated.
"So we're just waiting for Rigel and Midnight now-" Setsuna began to say, when Rigel came out of the building. Everyone stared at him. He was wearing tacky Hawaiian floral print swimming trunks, a buttoned-up Hawaiian floral print shirt, large goofy pink-framed plastic shades, and a straw hat.
"... What?" he asked finally, after several minutes of silence. "Am I not dressed right? Kaminari and Mineta told me that this is what you wear at the beach during our shopping trip."
"Yea, if you're a middle-aged white tourist, maybe," Kyoka stated bluntly. "He played a joke on you!"
"My uncle from my mom's side gave my dad the same type of clothes as a prank," Pony said, nodding.
"Really? But they said it was a good look for me," Rigel said. Ardiana's projector orb flew towards him, and her image appeared, though she was 'dressed' in a very flattering bikini-version of her usual 'clothes'.
"I warned you that they might have been pranking you," she sighed, shaking her head.
"Well, what's done is done. I still like the color of these," Rigel said.
"You might want to take your shirt off, it might be annoying to swim around in," Kyoka said.
"Oh okay," Rigel said, unbuttoning the shirt and pulling it off, revealing his well-defined muscles.
"Oooooh, I like," Mina said, her eyes taking in the sight.
"So only Midnight's left..." Fuka said, dreading to see what the teacher would be wearing. "I really hope it'll be school appropriate-"
"Alright, who's ready to have some lake fun!?" Midnight said, coming out of the building. To most of the student's shock, she was wearing a wetsuit that didn't show off her curves, a towel around her neck, shades, and a big sunhat.
"... Huh, not what I expected," Fuka said, crossing her arms.
"What? Were you expecting something more risqué?" Midnight said, striking a sexy pose while sticking her tongue out before sighing. "... When you're my age you have to start thinking about protecting your skin from the sun."
"Honestly I'm glad that you're wearing something more conservative than usual," Kyoka mumbled.
"So where's Saiphza? I wanna play some ball with him!" Setsuna said, looking around for the robotic dinosaur, when he began to run up to them and roared. But this time, instead of being the size of a one liter bottle, he was now the size of a toddler. Setsuna squeaked in excitement. "He can choose what size he can be!? I LOVE THAT!"
"Yea, it's pretty useful," Rigel said, as Setsuna petted Saiphza. "Unfortunately, shrinking with living beings inside him is really difficult, and I haven't figured out how to adjust for that."
"Come on, Saiphza! Let's go play ball!" she said, leading him to the water after grabbing a beachball. Soon enough, everyone was enjoying their beach time. Itsuka and Yui chose to lay on the beach chairs they had brought to sunbathe. Midnight was sitting underneath an umbrella to watch them all. Eijiro and Tetsutetsu decided to cook some hamburgers for lunch, and everyone else was in the water. Even Ardiana, though it was her projector orb projecting her image into the water.
"Go long, Ochako!" Tsuyu said, smacking the beachball with her tongue.
"Coming your way, Hagakure!" Ochako said, bumping it to the invisible girl.
"Head's up, Ashido!" Toru cried, smacking it to the pink skinned girl.
"Get it, Ardiana!" Mina said, hitting it to the EM Being. It passed through her head.
"... I think you have forgotten that I cannot interact with physical objects on my own," she said, when the beachball came to a stop in the air.
"Do not fret, for I have caught the beachball," Reiko said, holding her hand out. "Tsunotori, catch."
"I got it! I got it!" Pony shouted. Unfortunately, it had gone a little too high with Reiko's throw, and it landed on top of Pony's horns, popping and deflating on them. "... Nuts."
"Don't worry!" Fuka said, grabbing another beachball as the other girls helped remove the deflated beachball off Pony's head. "I mean, with some of our Quirks being kinda pointy, I think it's safe to say that we should always bring multiple beachballs. Look sharp, Setsuna!"
Fuka sent the ball flying with her Gale Breath. Setsuna's hands and head came off her body as she went to grab it, and she turned towards Saiphza. "Go get it, boy!"
She threw the beachball as fast as she could to Saiphza. Saiphza opened his mouth and caught it, popping this beachball with his teeth. He stood there for a while, before growling disappointedly at himself for destroying another one so soon.
"I-It's alright, Saiphza!" Setsuna said, as she went to comfort the robotic dinosaur, petting and cooing over him. "You shouldn't be upset! We have plenty!"
"Yep, here's another one," Fuka said, grabbing a third beachball. "Though I think it'd be safer if you just bump it with your nose or the side of your tail next time, Saiphza."
At the school pool
"How is that a swimming race!?" Yosetsu said, shaking his fist at Katsuki and Hanta after he reached the other side of the pool. Most of the teens present had gotten bored of just the endurance exercises, so they decided to have swimming races instead. However, the two boys he just raced against had basically soared over the pool, Katsuki propelling himself with an Explosion, and Hanta using his Tape to pull himself towards the other side. "Neither of you touched the water!"
"Should've made a rule about that, loser!" Katsuki barked.
"I'm pretty sure the term 'swimming race' already entails that!"
Lake Lambda, underwater
Hero kept shadowboxing, moving around in the water and fighting against the resistance.
"Man, moving underwater like this is a lot harder than I thought," Hiroshi said, as fish swam away from the practicing Ultraman. "We're using our strength form and it's still tough."
"We are using it at Human Scale, so that's a factor," Hero replied. "But that is the point after all. Getting used to underwater battles at this scale so that we're better prepared."
"Hm... I wonder if we can get permission to go to a beach resort so we can try doing underwater training there at different scales. Since I'm pretty sure we'll be fighting in the ocean more often than in lakes."
"Wouldn't hurt to ask, but knowing Mr. Aizawa, he'll turn us down."
"Maybe if we ask Principal Nezu directly, it can happen."
Lake Lambda, above water
"I think I'm going to take a nap in the building," Rigel said, popping his back and yawning. "Gonna take a shower so I don't get any of the beds dirty."
"I shall join him," Ardiana said, as her projector orb flew towards him. "I need to let my projector orb recharge for a while."
"Have a good nap!" Ochako said, as Rigel and Ardiana went inside the building.
"Yea, I think it's time that we took a break from playing in the water," Fuka said, as everyone in the water walked out. "It's about time to eat, I think."
"Yep, the burgers are done!" Eijiro said, waving them over. "Help yourselves to whatever you want on them!"
While everyone began to eat their lunch, Saiphza went over to the umbrella and curled up on a blanket underneath it to enter rest mode, when it noticed a pair of glowing blue eyes in the shadows of the trees. It started to hop up and down, and it went into the forest to confront the eyes.
"Saiphza? Where are you going?" Setsuna said, getting up to follow the robot dinosaur into the forest. Seconds later, Setsuna screamed and a flash of light radiated from the forest, startling everyone, and another scream followed.
"BAR-OW-SSA!"
"Alright, I think that's enough underwater training for now," Hero said, popping his shoulder.
"Yea, let's get back to the others, I need a break," Hiroshi replied, yawning.
Hero jumped up from the lake floor, and began to approach the lake's surface when he sensed something.
"An alien!? Here!?"
"Wait, a different alien then Rigel and Ardiana!?"
"Yes! The depth of the water must've affected my mask's sensor! We need to hurry!"
"Shit, I hope Rigel and Ardiana can take care of it!"
Inside the Lake Lambda building
Rigel snored loudly, tossing and turning in the bed he chose to sleep on. Ardiana's projector orb was near a wall, a power adapter sticking out of it and plugged into an outlet. A cartoonish image of a sleeping Ardiana was projected from her orb.
"Bar-ow! Quit it! Get off my leg!" Alien Barossa said, shaking their leg as Saiphza refused to. They swung their strange gun onto it, hitting it like if it were a bat. On their back was a big jar-like backpack, which had the shrunken Hero Course students and Midnight in it, who were banging their hands against their glass prison.
"You're not going to get away with this!" Itsuka said, her voice squeaking thanks to her decreased size.
"Yea, you're going to get your ass kicked!" Pony cried out. They all tried to break through the glass, but found out that due to their decreased size, there wasn't much they could do.
"I guess we should've made connecting Lake Lambda's security system to the main campus a priority if we were going to do this," Midnight sighed.
"Get'em Saiphza!" Setsuna shouted, cheering on the robotic dinosaur. "Bite the shit out of this asshole's ankles!"
"You stupid little robot! Take this!"
They pointed the gun at it, and fired it. To the alien's surprise, the robotic dinosaur did not change size, and it continued to keep its jaw clamped on its leg. "What!? Why aren't you-"
They stopped talking when they noticed that Saiphza was beginning to get bigger. "Baroshit!"
With one well-aimed swing, Alien Barossa smacked Saiphza's eye, startling him and making him let go of their leg. Alien Barossa scrambled away from the now human-sized robotic dinosaur. "Okay, time to get out of here before-"
All of a sudden, something flew out of the water like a cannon, catching Alien Barossa's attention. Hero landed in front of them, as water began to fall down like rain. "Baroshit."
"Another Alien Barossa!?" Hero said, realizing just what he sensed. "So I bet that you're here to take revenge on me for the death of your youngest sibling?"
"That's right!" Alien Barossa said. "You'll pay for killing Alien Barossa 100,000 of Generation 25's Brood 4! He might have been a pain in the ass, but he was our pain in the ass! And that paycheck he got from his employers wasn't enough to quell our thirst for vengeance!"
"Oh thank god he can speak Japanese," Hiroshi said.
"Actually that's a she," Hero said.
"Wait really? How can you tell?"
"Did your monkey-brained host call me a guy!?" Alien Barossa said, stomping her foot. "Can't you tell from my bigger wings and ears, and that my proboscis swirls the other way!? Ugh, this is why I hate mammalians and their obsession with mammaries!"
"Preaching the choir!" Kyoka said, as everyone stared at her. "Oh what, like we don't know people like that?"
The girls all muttered and conceded to her point, thinking to three certain boys, while some of the boys present just shook their heads in proxy embarrassment for them.
"Miss Kyoka? Where are you!?" Hero said.
"They're right here!" Alien Barossa said. She turned around, revealing her jar-like backpack full of Hero's and Hiroshi's friends. "The best revenge is revenge through proxy! I'm gonna get a great price for these weird little humans! They're gonna be a novelty for some aliens! Or experiments, who knows?"
"I wanted to have collectibles, not be a collectible!" Kinoko cried.
"I think the experimentation part is the most pressing matter here, Miss Komori," Jurota said.
"What the- everyone!" Hiroshi said, as Hero finally noticed the gun in Alien Barossa's hand. "How'd they get so small!?"
"A Micronizer Device!"
"That's right! Had to beat up a Dada to get this bad boy!" Alien Barossa said, patting the back of her Micronizer Device. "After I heard about how one of my cousins got one, I had to get my own!"
"Release them at once!" Hero said, readying himself to battle.
"... No!" Alien Barossa shouted. She turned around, and took to the sky before Saiphza could nip her ankles.
"Saiphza! Where are Rigel and Ardiana? I didn't see them in the containment device!" Hero said, noting the missing Alien Hunter and EM Being. Saiphza opened his mouth, and played a clip of Rigel and Ardiana going inside to take a nap and rest. "Okay, go and wake them up! We're going to need to get them to help us stop that Alien Barossa! I'll go and catch up with them with-"
Inside Hero's Inner Space, Hiroshi held his arm out as he turned the Hero Hand's dial. "MUSCLE! BURST! ORIGINAL! FLASH!"
"Wind faster than a flash of light!" Hiroshi called out, slamming his hand onto the stylized H. He reared his arm back, threw his hand into the air, and yelled, "Fly UP! HEROOOOO!"
"FLASH HERMES!"
"Flash Hermes!" Light covered Hero and shattered around him, revealing him in his Flash Hermes form. Soon, he took off to the sky while Saiphza went into the building to get Rigel's and Ardiana's help.
"You better watch out! Hero's coming to kick your sorry ass!" Eijiro threatened. He and the others were laying down on their stomachs, Hanta having taped them all down so that they don't slide around in the backpack. "And when we get back to regular size, we will, too!"
"Oh shut up!" Alien Barossa said, smacking the backpack with the Micronizer Device to shut them up. "You don't think I don't know that!? Ultras have been killing aliens like us for ages! I'm gonna have to get off this planet quickly so I can to sell you off!"
"This isn't good..." Fuka muttered. "Hero and Hiroshi have been transformed for over an hour and a half now, they're going to need to change back soon..."
"And no good comes from attractive people in jars..." Setsuna shuddered.
"Stop right there!" Hero shouted. They all turned their heads and saw the Ultraman speeding towards them as fast as he could, though Alien Barossa was still quite ahead thanks to their head start.
"Take this!" Alien Barossa shouted, firing her Micronizer Device at Hero. It didn't affect him, and he kept on flying towards her. "Baroshit, right, Ultras are immune to size-changing technology..."
"That's pretty useful for them," Hanta said. "Wish the same could be said for us."
Alien Barossa pulled out another gun, and started firing at Hero, though she kept missing since she wasn't looking where to aim.
"Hero, we're about to reach UA's main campus," Hiroshi said, noticing that they had flown a great distance. "The security drones and robots might be able to give us an edge against Alien Barossa!"
"Right, and I think I know how to take them down!" Hero said. A small sphere of green wind energy formed in his right palm, and he fired it at Alien Barossa. She dodged it by moving up and to the right.
"Ha! You whiffed it!" Alien Barossa shouted, when the wind ball curved all of a sudden and slammed against her stomach. "AAARGH! My gas pocket!"
She clutched her attacked gut, and began falling towards the main campus.
"She's falling towards the school pool!" Hiroshi said, when Hero spotted something.
"Wait, is that-"
"Uh oh."
At the school pool
"Figures it'd be those three in the finals," Sen sighed, crossing his arms as Shoto, Izuku, and Katsuki prepared themselves for the final race.
"Too many of you guys cheated," Yosetsu complained, remembering how almost everyone just used their Quirk to soar over the pool instead of swimming.
"Honestly, I'm way too curious to see how three of the best of 1A will do in a race against each other like this," Juzo said, rubbing his chin in thought.
"This will make good intel," Neito muttered, as he stared at them.
"We already have Hero Classes with them, do we really need more intel?" Nirengeki pointed out.
The three racers took deep breaths, ready to give it their best to win. Shoto's right side began to create frost, Izuku's body began to spark with green electricity, and small sparks flew from Katsuki's palms.
"Ready? GO!" Denki shouted. Before the three could start, something fell from the sky, landing in the pool and drenching them all.
"Ack! What was that!?" Hiryu said, when they got their answer as a gold-and-silver alien with glowing blue eyes climbed out of the pool.
"Argh, chlorinated water! That baroshit stings my eyes!" the alien cried, rubbing its eyes as it looked around. "I guess since I'm here, I'll get some more humans to sell!"
"Alien Barossa!" Izuku said, recognizing what alien it was. His eyes only widened when he saw what was in the backpack on Alien Barossa's back. Or whether, who.
"Fuka!? Tokage? Midnight? Everyone!?"
"Midoriya, everyone, watch out for this asshole's gun!" Fuka shouted. "It can shrink and teleport people into this backpack!"
"Another alien, huh? I'll-" Katsuki said, but before he could do a thing, Alien Barossa fired her Micronizer Device at him, shrinking him and putting him in her backpack. "FUCKING BULLSHIT!"
"Oh great, there goes my ears," Kyoka deadpanned, as Alien Barossa began firing at random, hoping that in the process, she'll hit someone. And hit people she did. She managed to get Denki, Kosei, and Minoru, who were in the middle of deciding whether or not shrinking was hot until they were caught (it's not). Yosetsu, Neito and Sen were next, as they accidentally bumped each other when attempting to dodge the ray. Togaru tried to charge her with his blades out and managed to dodge the first blast, but he underestimate how fast it could fire and was struck by the second one. Tenya was split between running and not due to pool rules, and that hesitation got him captured. Shoto managed to protect himself, Nirengeki, Kojiro, Hiryu, and Fumikage by erecting ice walls, while Izuku kept moving around fast enough with One for All to dodge most of the ray. Juzo Softened the concrete below him and swim into it, and Shihai blended himself with the shadows to avoid the blasts.
"You all can't avoid me forever-" Alien Barossa said, when Juzo popped up from below her, and pulled her into the ground, trapping her from the waist down. "Gah!? What!?"
She tried to pull herself out, but found out that the ground around her had solidified. "B-Baroshit! What is this!?"
"I'll be taking these," Juzo said, popping out from behind her. He pulled her backpack off and took her Micronizer Device before she could fire it.
"No! My merchandise!" she yelled, trying to turn around and grab for it.
"Are you alright, everyone?" Juzo said, looking at his shrunken classmates and teacher.
"It's getting cramped in here with everyone, but I think we're good!" Setsuna said, flashing Juzo a thumbs up.
"You all better be keeping your hands to yourselves!" Kyoka warned them.
"You kidding!? I think I'm touching more dudes than girls!" Denki said, being pinned between Minoru, Kosei, and Hanta.
"Yea, it still applies!" Hanta said. "Keep your mitts to yourselves!"
"Everyone! Are you alright!?" Hero said, landing onto the ground and looking around.
"Aside from a few of us being shrunken, we're good!" Hiryu said, peeking around Shoto's ice wall.
"You won't get away with this!" Alien Barossa said, still trying to yank herself free from the ground fruitlessly. Soon enough, security robots and drones appeared, and started pelting her with bullets and robotic claw punches. "Bar-ow! Bar-ow-ssa!"
"That's what we should be saying," Nirengeki said, as he and the others went to Hero's and Juzo's side. "How do we unshrink them?"
"Just turn this dial to here and fire the Micronizer Device again on them," Hero instructed, when they heard an explosion coming from Alien Barossa. They looked, and saw that she had pulled out a bomb-like device, having freed herself from the Softened ground, and destroying some of the security robots and drones around her. She looked around, and made a break for Tenya's cooler, pulling out a can of orange juice.
"Starches and sugars can make us Alien Barossas grow!" she shouted, prying the can open and opening her mouth by unwinding her face's proboscis. She dumped the juice as fast as she could before Hero could stop her.
"Oh that is still unnerving!" Fuka said, grimacing at the giant hole in Alien Barossa's head. Hero managed to tackle her just as she finished drinking the orange juice, grappling her in a bear hug.
"Whatever you do, do not turn the dial all the way!" Hero shouted, flying towards the sky as they both grew in size.
"What does he mean by that?" Hiryu said, as Juzo turned the dial.
"Alright everyone, stand back," Juzo said, as the non-shrunken teens stepped away from the backpack. He fired the Micronizer Device, and in seconds the captive teens and Midnight were released from their prison.
"Hahahaha! Oh man that's tickles!" Setsuna laughed after they finished growing back to their proper sizes. "Wonder if it feels that way for Hiroshi and Hero."
"... Wait, do you think that when Hero said to not turn the dial all the way, that means that we can grow big, too!" Izuku said, after thinking about what Hero warned them not to do. "Quick, Honenuki, hit me with it at full-!"
"No way, are you kidding?" Juzo said, stepping back from Izuku while Hero and Alien Barossa began to engage in fisticuffs. "He just told us not to."
"But we can help him out now-"
"Midoriya, I admire your youthful tenacity, but remember, you are still a student," Midnight said, making Izuku freeze. "Your special alien license is meant to only assist with human sized ones and to let you use your Quirk without preapproval. I doubt that Principal Nezu and the HPSC ever intended for you to use it against giant aliens."
"Y-Yes ma'am," Izuku said, rubbing the back of his head, when Principal Nezu, All Might, Aizawa, and Vlad King came to the pool.
"What happened!?" Vlad King said, as they looked around at the security robots, damaged ground, and then at Midnight and the students who were supposed to be at Lake Lambda. And finally behind them, seeing Hero beginning his battle against Alien Barossa.
"Security Robot #949, why," one of the security robots cried in a monotone, cradling the head one of the destroyed one. "You were so close to being promoted to medical robot."
"Well, to begin with, I think the next place that needs its security system upgraded is Lake Lambda," Midnight said, sheepishly.
"Of course..." Aizawa muttered, closing his eyes.
"This is bad, our time's a lot shorter than normal thanks to how long we've already transformed..." Hiroshi said, as Hero blocked an attack from Alien Barossa, who had pulled out a glove-like sword that fitted over her right hand. "We gotta make this quick!"
"You and all of those damned Ultras will pay for killing so many of us!" Alien Barossa cried, as Hero leaped away, before jumping towards her and kicking her in the stomach. "GAH! My gas pocket! Again!"
As Hero landed away from Alien Barossa, his Color Timer began to go off. "Damn, we're closer to our limit than I thought. If only-"
"Sorry we're late!"
Hero looked behind Alien Barossa, who turned around and was promptly rammed in the gut by Saiphza in his ship mode, knocking her down. Saiphza transformed into his dinosaur mode, and quickly released the energy barrier drones, surrounding the aliens.
"DAMMIT WHAT IS WITH YOU PEOPLE AND HITTING MY GAS POCKET!?" she shouted, rubbing her now very sore stomach.
"I am so sorry, I was really in some deep sleep when Saiphza and Ardiana woke me up," Rigel's voice said, coming from a speaker in Saiphza's mouth. The dinosaur himself gave a grunt of agreement and embarrassment.
"Indeed. It is regrettable that we had let our guard down like that," Ardiana's voice added.
"It's alright, you can make it up to me by helping me take down this space pirate," Hero said. The Ultra and the robotic dinosaur readied themselves, as Alien Barossa pulled out a laser gun.
"I am sick of you and everything on this planet!" she said, firing her gun. Hero created a barrier in front of himself and Saiphza, blocking the attack. When he released the barrier, Saiphza charged at Alien Barossa, swinging its tail into the space pirate and knocking her into the energy barrier. She raised her sword above her head and slashed it downwards at the robotic dinosaur, but he moved to the side, clamping his down onto her forearm. He pulled the glove-like sword off her hand, and slashed her with it, causing sparks to fly.
She pointed her laser gun at Saiphza, only for Hero to fire a wind bullet and knocking it out of her hands.
In Hero's Inner Space, Hiroshi held out his arm out as he turned the Hero Hand's dial. "FLASH! MUSCLE! BURST!"
"Fire that blazes brighter than a sunburst!" Hiroshi cried out, slamming his left hand onto the stylized H. He reared his arm back, threw his hand into the air, and yelled, "Burn UP! HEROOOOO!"
"BURST HELIOS!"
Hero's form changed into that of Burst Helios, and he began to launch fire bullets at Alien Barossa, who tried to put the fires out on it by patting on itself excessively. While she was doing that, Saiphza kicked her shin with its talons, causing her to hop up and down while holding that leg and on fire. Hero took this opportunity to charge at her and throw a punch.
"Corona Impact!" Hero shouted. A small pocket of heated air formed in front of his fist, which he punched into Alien Barossa's stomach, sending her flying backwards into the energy barrier, shocking her. Before she could recover, Saiphza leaned forward and fired a salvo of missiles from its missile pod, pinning her against the energy barrier as it kept shocking her. She staggered forward, trying to regain her bearings when she saw that Hero had created a flaming ring of fiery energy above him, while Saiphza had leaned forward once again, this time with his mouth wide opened, gathering energy in it and the cannons on his back.
Hiroshi slammed his hand onto the Hero Hand's stylized H, activating the finishing move.
"BURST! HELIORIC!"
"Let's burn through!" Hiroshi shouted, as the Hero Hand lit up blue.
Rigel removed the Omnirod from its port, and held it like a gun as he pointed it out.
"OMNIROD! DINO BLAST!"
"Wrecker Rex/Wrecker Rex!" Rigel and Ardiana shouted, as he pulled the trigger.
"Helios HALO!" Hero cried, throwing the ring of fire into Alien Barossa. Much like her youngest brother, she tried to stop it by clapping her hands onto it, but she missed it as her hands went through the middle of the ring. While that happened, Saiphza fired its beams, the three converging onto the space pirate as she began glowing red from the combined heat of the attacks.
"BARO BARO BAROSSA!" she shouted, exploding into a fiery cloud, leaving behind only a H-shaped mark of light in her place.
"Did she say anything about her 9,998 siblings avenging her too?" Hiroshi asked.
"No, she said that she's pissed that she wouldn't be getting any money from this after all the trouble she went through," Hero answered. "But I guess we still need to be on the lookout for more Alien Barossas in the future..."
At the school pool
"Is everyone alright?" Hiroshi said, as he, Rigel, and Ardiana went there to check up on everyone, with Saiphza back to his shrunken size following them. He put his hands on his knees, exhausted from staying transformed for so long, and from changing sizes and forms so much.
"Yea, we are," Fuka assured them, hands on her hips. "Besides being a little shocked that we got shrunk, I think we're all doing alright."
"Hiroshi, with this Micronizer Device, do you think we can use it to help you and Hero out?" Izuku said, pointing to the device in Juzo's hands. "I think we can be a lot of help if you two let us!"
"Hm, I- Huh? You wanna take over?" Hiroshi said. He closed his eyes, slicked back his hair, and opened his eyes to reveal the brilliant green.
"No," Hero/Hiroshi said bluntly as he took the Micronizer Device from Juzo. He raised it above his head, ready to snap it on his knees. "Alien technology can be too dangerous. I'm going to break this thing in half right now so we don't-"
"Hold on, Hero, I think I have an idea," Rigel said, taking the Micronizer Device from him. "I might be able to take this apart and improve Saiphza's shrinking abilities to allow him to shrink living beings down so that we could fit inside him when he's small. That's been an issue we've been having for a long time, and since this technology's capable of shrinking living beings without any adverse effects, I think it might help."
"Well, alright," Hero/Hiroshi said, after giving it a bit of thought. "But from this moment on, the Micronizer Device is contraband from you all. I appreciate that you want to help by using its reverse settings to make yourselves grow to Ultra size, but none of you have the experience to fight that big."
"That's a possibility?" All Might said, surprised that sort of technology existed.
"Yep, but as I've stated before, I'm not going to let alien technology be widespread or reversed engineered, at least not yet," Hero/Hiroshi said. "Considering all the alien activity as of late, I'm sure that will change eventually..."
"Man, our beach day got ruined," Toru lamented, slumping over.
"Yea, with everything that's happened, our allotted time at Lake Lambda's over," Itsuka sighed.
"And we need to go and get our things from there, it got left behind when we were all kidnapped," Kyoka pointed out.
As the girls became saddened by the turn of events, Principal Nezu put a thoughtful paw on his chin.
"Hm... I think it won't hurt to let you all enjoy the rest of today there!" he said, as they all turned to stare at him. "After all, there's nothing else scheduled to be done at Lake Lambda, and I think I'll be going there with other teachers to help upgrade the security system around there soon, anyways!"
"Hahaha! A superb idea, Principal Nezu!" All Might laughed, as the girls perked up and started to get excited.
"Giving them extended time off, how illogical," Aizawa grumbled. "But I suppose there's no harm in doing so while we're at the building and upgrading the security system."
"W-What about us!?" Minoru asked, as he, Denki, and Kosei looked to the principal. "Our time here's pretty much over now, and, um-"
"I think I'll let them decide on what to do," Principal Nezu said, as the boys' hope were dashed.
"... Well, I guess it won't hurt if we let all of the boys who went to do poolside training here come with us," Fuka said, after the girls deliberated.
"But you need tobe on your best behavior," Momo said.
"That is our condition for allowing you all to come with us to Lake Lambda," Reiko added.
"And we will punish you if you're not," Kyoka said, raising her earphone jacks up threateningly.
"Don't worry," Hiroshi said, taking over again. He wore a smile that had the most malicious intent behind it. "I'll make sure that they do."
The three boys gulped, and nodded, agreeing to the terms. Sen sighed as he popped his neck before seeing what Rigel was wearing.
"Dude, why are you dressed like a middle-aged white tourist?"
Later, at Lake Lambda
After a speedy ride using Saiphza (Setsuna was completely blown away by how comfortable Saiphza was as a ship), the girls were busy playing beachball with Saiphza, while some of the boys decided to play a very intense game of beach volleyball using their Quirks (with permission from the teachers, of course). All Might and Midnight were watching them, with All Might wearing an old timey one piece male swimsuit. Minoru, Denki, and Kosei were off a distance away, floating in innertubes.
"Well, today might've gone off the walls, but we did it, guys," Minoru said, satisfied as he stared at the girls.
"Don't stare at them too long," Denki reminded him. They looked over to the building, and saw Hiroshi glancing over at them every so often, while he, Rigel, and Ardiana were helping Principal Nezu, Power Loader, Aizawa, and Vlad King with improving Lake Lambda's security system. Cementoss meanwhile was creating gates and fences around the lake in addition to the giant hills that surrounded the lake.
"I don't even care, I just want to relax after all that endurance training and racing," Kosei said, taking a quick look at Fuka before his gaze went up to the clouds. "It's been a very, very long day now..."
"Yea you know what, you're right," Denki said, leaning back on his innertube. Soon, all three ended up falling asleep, unknowingly drifting away from shore.
"- And that should be it," Power Loader said, after checking the cameras and wires one last time. "Lake Lambda's now officially upgraded and a part of UA's new anti-alien security system."
"Good," Hiroshi said, glad that it was over for now. "And how are the other facilities and the special training site?"
"They've been prepared for a while," Power Loader replied. "We never got around to doing Lake Lambda's since we rarely use this place anymore after Thirteen made the USJ."
"Well, I'm glad that's changed," Rigel said, nodding.
"And with my additions, tracking and sensing aliens trying to intrude on UA property will be no issue," Ardiana said, nodding.
"Hey Hiroshi!" Setsuna said, waving at him. "You wanna get in the water!?"
"Sure, let me go get changed first," Hiroshi said, as he headed towards the building's entrance. "And hey, Principal Nezu, thanks for this again."
"It's no trouble at all!" Principal Nezu said, unflappably. "After all, your training camps will be some of the hardest trials you'll face soon!"
"Of course," Hiroshi chuckled. At the very least he was thankful that they still had some time to themselves to relax like normal teens.
At the seedy bar in a suspicious alleyway...
"So when are these three going to be ready?" Tomura said, looking at the three teens on the chairs. Once again, the color of their skin had changed, this time to matching the black of Virus and his allies. The cracks and veins have all but disappeared, leaving the Despair Cores the only things glowing. Their eyes have remained orangish red, and their hair was still inky black. The three breathed heavily, as Tomura nudged Kin'Ichi with his foot. "I have plans in mind, and I need all the best help I can get... though I'm not sure if they'll up to bat."
"Patience, Shigaraki," Virus said, his legs crossed as he read through the Meta Liberation War once again, while Illne was sitting across from him. "They're using the first batch of Despair Cores after all, so who knows when they-"
All of a sudden, the three started to grasp for something to help them up. Kenji enlarged his arms and pulled himself up using the counter. Kin'Ichi pushed himself up with his black Golden Hair. And Kumataro grabbed the table in front of him and pushed himself up. They steadied themselves, and began to scream.
"Oh never mind, seems like they're ready."
"Goddammit, I thought we were done with the screaming," Golkin grumbled, when shadowy energy started to form over them, solidifying into their new clothes.
Each of them got helmets reminiscent of Virus's and his kins', though Kin'Ichi's had an opening for his hair, Kumataro's appeared to have a movable mouth and two ear-like crests on the sides of his helmet, giving him a monstrous bear-like appearance, and Kenji's had openings for his horns.
The energy around Kenji formed into a trench coat much like Virus's, though his had ripped sleeves, and the top was undone to reveal the Despair Core on his chest. Around his forearms were red cloth-like bracers that resembled the yellow fins on All Might's costume. On his waist was a gray belt with a buckle that resembled a jagged G. His jeans were now black and torn at the bottom of the legs, and his shoes were black and pointed.
For Kin'Ichi, he gained what seemed to be a untied black straitjacket with a burn-like hole for his Despair Core, with the long sleeves dragging along the floor. His pants became black, and heavy metal boots formed around his shins. His hair grew even longer and thicker, and it became strong enough to lift him off from the ground, his body limply hanging as his hair became his main form of mobility.
Finally, most of Kumataro's fur seemed to have fallen off, though this only showed that his muscles had almost tripled in mass to compensate for it. In place of his fur, he was wearing a black furred vest that was opened to reveal his Despair Core, and he wore hakama-like pants. His hands and feet were covered in a black bony material, with long, sharp claws on them.
"Congratulations! Seems like your powers have settled for the most part!" Virus said, clapping his hands together as the three looked at their new forms and themselves.
"This... this is great!" Kenji laughed, as his arms tripled in size and he smashed a table. "That Worthless Quirkless won't know what hit it!"
Kin'Ichi only laughed, smashing another table, though with his hair rather than fist. "I'm loving this!"
"Let's go out right now and DESTROY HIM AND EVERYTHING!" Kumataro screamed.
"I hope you three are ready to pay for those tables," Kurogiri muttered. Virus sighed as he walked over to the three of them, and in an instance, slammed each of their heads onto the ground using shadowy tendrils.
"Now now, that all can wait," he said, as the three struggled to get up. "You just got acclimated to those powers, after all! Why not train them for a while so we can get a good grasp of what you can do?"
"I don't need any fucking train- GACK!" Kenji said, as he felt Virus step onto his face and pressed down onto it, adding more and more pressure.
"I think you do. It took me and my friends to get used to ours, so it'll take some time for you to get used to yours," Virus said. "Otherwise, those powers of yours might just eat you alive."
"... Fine," Kenji grumbled, as Virus released him. "We'll do that..."
"Good! Now, I think some new names are in order for you!" Virus said, cheerfully.
"Well then, I want to be Power Punch!" Kenji said, thinking back to the hero name he wanted.
"Hair Raiser!"
"BEAR HANDS!"
"No no, those won't do," Virus said, waving the names off. "After all, you're not heroes! You're aliens! And I think I have the perfect names!"
"You-" Virus pointed to Kenji, "- are Germ."
"What the f-"
"And you-" Virus pointed to Kin'Ichi, "- are Worm."
"I don't-"
"And finally, you-" Virus pointed to Kumataro, "-are Bug."
"THE FUCK IS WITH THESE NAMES!?" Bug (formerly Kumataro) said, grabbing Virus by the collar. For his trouble, Illne appeared behind him, grabbed his arm, and twisted it around to his back. "AAAGH!"
"Well, since the name I'm using here is Virus, I assumed that you should all match with me and my allies!" Virus said. "Need to stay consistent, after all!"
"Can't we have better names, though!?" Germ (formerly Kenji) said, grinding his teeth. "I demand respect!"
"Hm... Maybe if you prove yourselves later, you might. You all are the newest members, so you have to work to get our respect," Virus said, as he walked towards the wall, Illne following. "Now, for your first lesson, using our shadow world to teleport! If you three are having trouble, have Kurogiri take you to the spot in the forest, he knows where it is by heart now."
"If only because your teleportation is ill-suited for anyone but your kind," Kurogiri stated, as Virus and Illne disappeared.
"Tch, only teleportation? No problem!" Bug growled. He charged the wall, only to smack into it, leaving behind a crack where he landed as he tumbled backwards.
"Move aside, let a real alien show you how it's done!" Worm (formerly Kin'Ichi) said, picking Bug up with his hair and tossing him aside. Mr. Compress and Magne stepped aside, letting him hit the ground hard. Worm dug his hair into the ceiling, and swung himself forward into the wall. Much like Bug, he collided with it hard, and fell onto his back.
"Amateurs," Germ muttered. He walked up to the wall, and began to press himself against it. He struggled as he kept pushing himself harder and harder against the wall, grunting and growling as he attempted to follow Virus and Illne. "Gaaaah come on work already dammit!"
"I suppose I'll prepare the portal to their hiding spot within a few minutes," Kurogiri sighed while he wiped a glass. Bug and Worm stood back up, and started to push against the wall like Germ, grunting all the while doing it. "This seems like it'll take quite some time..."
ORIGINAL AO3 NOTES:
- What's this!? A chapter so soon!? Well, there's a few reasons for that.
- I had a lot of difficulty with this and the previous chapter. The previous chapter I initially had planned to remove the shopping trip and have it be done off-screen 'cuz I was having trouble deciding how to write the Tomura bit, and even considered just not using it. And this chapter, which was always intended to be its own one, became a part of it as a result of that initial decision. But then I started have issues with how it seemed so completely different from the first half that I ended up deciding that I should go and split the chapter back into two, and decided to try and decide how the Tomura scene would work out. And... not totally satisfied with that scene, but it is what it is, I suppose, better that than a chapter with very dissonant halves.
- I was pretty far ahead with typing this up when I chose to separate them, which is why this ended up coming out sooner.
- Always had plans to adapt Season 3 Episode 1 this way (meaning that this one was a lot more fun to type out). Always thought it just made sense that there would be like, a school lake, since UA has enough resources and money for what are basically small cities as training grounds that seem to get regular repairs. Definitely thought it would be nice worldbuilding to talk about how useful some Quirks would be for terraforming.
- Will we ever see Pony's boyfriend in person in UHA? Chances are likely and very high.
- I'll be honest, I didn't know if I wanted to actually use Dada or Alien Barossa. On one hand, it makes perfect sense to use Alien Barossa again so that I can use the whole 'my family will avenge me' bit, but on the other hand, I could really use Dada or other canon sapient aliens more often. The reason why I chose to go with Alien Barossa in the end beside the family revenge thing is 'cuz, well, I'm not actually a fan of Dada to begin with. I know Dada is a very iconic alien from the Ultra Series, but I JUST never got into the design. It just never appealed to me in the slightest. Now Agent Adad, he's cool, I like that take on the design. But for the original, not really.
- I'll be honest, I completely considered having them using the Micronizer Device on Izuku and actually making him grow to help fight against Alien Barossa, but I decided against it 'cuz like, I feel like it'd bring up a lot of potential questions and stuff. Not to mention that I truly doubt they ever anticipated getting their hands on shrinking technology like that when they gave them all their special alien licenses.
- The sword that Alien Barossa is using is Alien Magma's glove sword thing.
- If you want some help with imagining what Kumataro's/Bug's helmet's mouth looks like, think of Belial's mouth, that's a pretty good approximation. In fact, if you can't tell, their personalities have been heavily affected by certain aspects of the Despair Cores.