27.05.2021

*insert my typical introduction cause I'm tired* with another chapter!

But before you dive into the story, let's answer some comments!:

Notasavior - YOU spoil ME by leaving so many comments! But you won't see me complaining! ;D

Bucio - Thank you for finally mentioning the menacing title! It's menacing for a reason you know! xD As for the Izu-Itsu-Momo dynamic, I've decided to focus on the IzuKendo (does anyone know a better term for this ship? One that rolls off the tongue easier?) in this whole story Arc, so there are still a few more interactions between them to happen both during the camp and after that.

CarEnthusiast - Sure can bud, but if you ever happen to join the military and go on a mission, please don't try to go all Selena Gomez on them, by trying to 'kill them with kindness', kay? We kinda need ya here!

RandomReader867 - Your comment made me immediately think about this Windows pop up message - 'Task failed succesfully' - it fits so well xD

WEEEB BOI - I try to have an amazing day every day of the week and it's way easier with all of you 'by my side' so to speak! I may be the one writing this mediocre piece of art, but YOU are the ones that keep me going!

Elsoem - Yeah... I don't really have an answer for that one? Guilty as charged? Sentence is Jazz? If I ever do another retelling of the canon MHA (nervously looks at the pile of started fanfics) I'll do my best to not make UA seem like a place run by a bunch of 'angsty 14yo on a LSD trip' - awesome comparison by the way, very detailed, have you ever been to a place run by teenagers on LSD? xD

young coffee god - Someone forgot their morning coffee I presume? Before you hang me, it's a joke. I'm kinda stupid like that, being serious is not really my thing. As for the formatting - 'Young Midoriya' had to be written in bold every time, as it was a set up for a joke, where this whole story is just Cybrex's biography movie adaptation, where Yagi Toshinori is the narrator, but the joke turned out to be not good enough so I scrapped it. I still love the concept though.

Damn, is it me or are you guys really leaving more of those each time? I've held you up long enough, dive into the action!:

They didn't usually help UA train their students on a regular basis, specialising in rescue operations, whilst leaving the fighting part to more combat oriented heroes, but whenever Nezu reached out to them - they knew they were doing something much more important than simple rescue work.

Don't be mistaken - helping people that were caught in the middle of a seriously destructive fight or an unanticipated natural disaster was fulfilling and made you feel like, well, a Hero.

But there was something about shaping FUTURE heroes that made it impossible to compare with any other task. Be it a parental kind of pride at seeing the students develop and grow or something as simple as bragging rights, when one of your students goes on to become famous and you get to say 'I raised that boy!'

All in all, the Summer Camp was an experience for both the guests and the hosts. And for one certain host, it was the painful kind of experience.

Mandalay and Ragdoll were standing off to the side, overwatching many different students to the best of their abilities, their Quirks helping them immensely.

They were mostly focused on catching and correcting any mistakes they could spot, sometimes engaging in a little chit-chat with each other when suddenly Tiger appeared next to them.

Ragdoll noticed him slowly making his way over to them thanks to Search, so she was the first one to turn around and greet him.

"Tiger! You're already done with your batch-", the words died in her throat as she took a good look at her friend's disheveled and dirty costume. "What's happened to you?"

Mandalay joined their green haired teammate in voicing her concern about his condition.

Whenever they held these training camps, Tiger was usually in charge of hand-to-hand combat focused students and in all his years as a Hero, he never found a student that could match his abilities, which was understandable. He had much more training and experience under his belt compared to the trainees.

So to see their physically strongest member so tired and clearly out of it was… weird and definitely unexpected.

"Could you do me a solid and- maybe take over my group for a moment? I need a nap", Tiger asked and slumped against a tree.

"I mean, no problem, but first you have to tell us what happened!", Ragdoll exclaimed.

"Oh, and whatever happens-", the man started saying, so out of it that he completely ignored Ragdoll's question, "do not fight Midoriya. For the love of all that is holy… do not try to fight him…", and with these last words the man fell asleep.

"Seems like we have ourselves an overactive kitten!", Ragdoll stated and decided to face the challenge .

"Just don't end up like Tiger!", Mandalay only shouted as she saw her friend walking away.

The green haired Heroine approached Tiger's group of students and saw them doing some unsupervised sparring. As luck would have it, Midoriya was currently fighting Kamakiri.

Both of their Quirks were currently active, Kamakiri's blades in full view and Midoriya's arm sparkling with electricity, as they traded and dodged each other's blows.

Ragdoll decided to not let her presence be known and opted to simply observe the fight. The bout looked even to her, but the tables were suddenly turned when Midoriya overstepped the boundaries by missing a jab, which gave Kamakiri the opening to kick his opponent in the chest, putting some distance between them.

Not wasting time, the Class B student rushed his sparring partner and started attacking him with a hail of blades and occasional fists. However, Ragdoll was taken aback when the Class A student managed to dodge most of the attacks whilst trying to remain on his feet under the onslaught.

Kamakiri pulled his left arm backwards and angled it horizontally, aiming to deliver a high slash right to Midoriya's shoulder, which would no doubt win him the fight. The greenette however had different plans. He saw the blade being pulled back and grinned in excitement. As the finishing move was nearing its target, Midoriya acted.

The teen ducked a bit and let the weight of his body carry him backwards for a moment, before shooting both of his hands behind him in an impressive almost-handstand, which he held for just a few short moments.

Kamakiri seemed to put too much strength into his swing and was unable to stop it in order to put up some kind of defence. Midoriya used this to his advantage as his right leg quickly shot into the ground, stopping his fall completely and giving him the leverage he needed to pull off his move. His left leg shot out to the left, before snapping back and nailing Kamakiri right in the side, painful, but not fighting ending in Ragdoll's opinion.

She was soon surprised however, when she saw that Midoriya didn't even try to reset him position and instead watched in amazement as his entire body started to turn when he pushed off the ground with his left arm, leaving a hand-shaped imprint on the ground, his right leg going higher and higher, surpassing his left one and stopping on level with Kamakiri's head. Time seemed to freeze for a second when both participants and audience realized what was about to happen.

Kamakiri tried to desperately raise his right arm, even going as far as trying to reach higher with his blades to try and mitigate the incoming damage.

The plan proved fruitless as the leg suddenly snapped back with all of his opponent's momentum and nailed him right on the head.

Dazed, Kamakiri tried to put some distance between them to try and reset their stances, but Midoriya once again had a different idea. The green haired teen landed as if he was about to start doing push-ups and both of his legs shot out backwards in a double horse kick, hitting Kamakiri straight into his unprotected chest, forcing most of the air out of his lungs and sending him to the ground, as Midoriya landed almost effortlessly in front of him.

"Phew, that was a close one!", the greenette exclaimed, only a few beads of sweat on his forehead as he turned towards the other students. "Who's next?!", he yelled with a confident grin.

And only in that moment did Ragdoll finally look at the other students from Tiger's group, all of them looking about ready to fall over and let sleep claim them just like her friend had done a few minutes ago.

"What did I just get myself into?!", she thought with a nervous smile on her face. "This boy is an absolute demon!"

Students sighed in unison as they once again let the warm water envelop them after a day full of work.

"I hate how this evening dip in the hot springs is all that we need to balance out the sheer horribleness of our stay here…", Setsuna grumbled and slid into the water to the point where only half of her face was visible.

"What do you mean?", asked Ibara as she cleaned her vines from the grime.

"Like, when we start thinking back to this training camp, which part do you think we will remember? The gruesome hours filled with strenuous activities or this nice bath that we got to have daily?", the green haired woman explained before sinking back into the water.

"I think you do have a point Tokage", Yaoyorozu agreed after giving it some thought.

"Hey, don't you Tokage me Vice-Prez!", the 'Lizard Tail Splitter' Quirk user shouted with a smirk. "I think it's high time to switch to calling each other by our first names, don't you think?"

"I mean, we do live together, you know? And we fought for our lives together back at the USJ", Mina stated as everyone was reminded of that painful and scary experience.

"Yeah, you seem like cool guys to me", Kyoka stated as she stopped rubbing one of her jacks to give them a thumbs up.

"That's a shroomtastic idea!", Komori exclaimed and her classmates groaned before laughing collectively at the pun.

Their peaceful conversation was interrupted however, as they once again heard a commotion on the boys' side of the hot spring.

"- with the chairs guys?", Midoriya asked, audibly confused.

"This here is Fort Polk and you are hereby prohibited from inciting physical activities in its walls!", Kaibara shouted and the girls almost pictured him waving some sort of a flag to go with his speech.

"Don't worry guys, I wasn't going to propose any additional exercises today!", and once again they could hear this guy's smile in the way he talked.

Silence befell the hot spring as the girls listened intently to what was going to happen next.

"Awase", they heard Todoroki speak up, "hand me that chair please", he asked calmly.

"Eh, Shoto?", the green haired man questioned his friend's actions.

"Real Midoriya would never pass up an opportunity to make us train more! Prepare to die, Villain!", and with a battlecry worthy of a Viking berserker, Todoroki began his onslaught.

"Put down the fucking chair right now! Ouch! That hurt!", Midoriya exclaimed and the girls heard doors open and close two times, followed by rapid slapping of wet feet against the wooden floor.

"Come back here you coward!", they heard Todoroki yell out in the distance and the girls couldn't hold back any longer.

All of them started laughing full force and even Shiozaki had trouble holding in her own chuckles, while Setsuna had to literally crawl out of the water as she started to roll on the ground whilst holding onto her sore stomach.

"Best. Training Camp. Ever!", they all thought in unison as they desperately tried to calm down and finish their bath.

"Alright you newbies!", Tiger shouted as they began their morning assembly. "Today marks the halfway point of this Training Camp, which means that we will double down on exercising to make the most of the time we have left!"

His enthusiastic statement was followed by a deceptively well-coordinated groan from the students in front of him.

Mandalay elbowed him in the side and cleared her throat. "Don't take this anything he said too seriously", she stated and sighed. "The second week of your Training Camp starts tomorrow, which means that the first one ends today. Because of that we decided to go easy on you for the day and even organized a little surprise for all of you!"

"Surprise?"

"Really?"

"Could this be another name for some excruciating exercise?!"

The students started whispering amongst themselves about what the surprise might be, but were quickly silenced when Mandalay cleared her throat again.

"The surprise is called a surprise for a reason, you know?", she joked with a smile. "And 'going easy on you' doesn't mean 'no training for today', so I hope you rested well, because we are starting with some jogging!"

The students groaned together once again, but the mysterious prize awaiting them at the end of the day made the strenuous activities more bearable.

Staying true to Mandalay's promise, their exercises did finish earlier, which gave them a bit more time to relax in the springs before preparing dinner for themselves.

The food eaten and the dishes washed, the students gathered in the central clearing once more.

"Alright, everyone is here, so it's time to reveal the great surprise!", Ragdoll excitedly shouted.

"We decided that we could do a little contest to see which of the two classes is braver. And what better way to check this, than with a Test of Courage!", Pixie explained as murmurs spread in the crowd.

"Members of Class B will hide in the forest along a designated route and their sole objective will be trying to scare the other students, whilst Class A teams up in pairs to try and get to the finish without getting scared off! When all twenty students return from the forest, no matter if they made it all the way or not, the classes switch sides!", Tiger continued the explanation in his deep voice.

"Kota! Bring the props!", Mandalay shouted to the side and a teenager, probably just a couple of years younger than the trainee's themselves, soon appeared with a carton box.

"Where should I put them?", he asked politely as he approached her.

"Bring it over to the bench so that the students from 1-B can look through them"

The boy nodded and started making his way through the various groups of scheming students. He put the box down and turned around to look at the heroes in front of him.

One smug looking blonde was being really loud and pretty annoying when shouting something about 'proving that Class B is superior' or something, when an orange haired girl came up behind him and karate chopped him in the neck.

It was so comical that he chuckled quietly.

"They may be training to be Heroes, but I guess they are only a bit older than me", Kota thought to himself and took one last look around.

He was about to walk back to the cabin when he spotted a familiar mop of green hair. His eyes widened as they locked gazes, the student waving to him with a wide grin.

"How are you doing kid?!", Midoriya shouted in his direction and a smaller grin appeared on the boy's face.

"Cybrex! When Auntie told me about training some UA students I was wondering if it was you by any chance!", the excitement was evident in his eyes.

"I can see that you've already decided on the path that you want to walk, am I right?", the trainee stated as he noticed a considerable growth of muscle mass on the boy since their last meeting.

"Yup. I want to follow in my parents' footsteps and make them proud! That's why I've been training with Tiger every chance I can!"

"Oh, you gotta tell me all about it!"

"Mister Vlad!", the mentioned Pro turned around and he spotted Setsuna standing in front of him with Kinoko next to her.

"Do you need any help with anything?", he asked.

"You see, we were wondering if there was any chance to pair up Kendo with someone from 1-A", the brunette chimed in.

"We really would like a chance to scare our Class Rep!", Tokage quickly added with a toothy grin.

"I should've thought that it had to be something mischievous for you to take interest in it, Tokage…", Vlad sighed and massaged his forehead, though a small smile appeared on his face. "Do you have any ideas for how it could work?"

"We could exchange Kendo with Yaoyorozu, this way we will have a pair of Vice Reps and 1-A gets a pair of Class Reps!", Setsuna provided and awaited her teacher's response.

The Blood Hero thought about the idea for a brief few seconds before nodding to himself and turning to his students. "Sounds reasonable to me, I'll talk to Aizawa about it"

And with that the Pro was off and the girl high-fived each other.

"Wingwomen!", they shouted in unison.

Setsuna being a wingwoman is canon from a literal fucking masterpiece that is AkeenCarter's 'M-K Ultra' - fun fact, the name 'M-K Ultra' is also a... codename I guess for a project where the CIA tried to figure out if you could control the functions of human brain with drugs, electric stimulations and the works. It has nothing to do with the story, but sounds incredibly intrigueing.

Also unethical, but meh.

So, Hot Springs 2: Plastic Chair Strike Back and Midoriya being a master combatant along the set up for the Test of Courage! Bet all of you can't wait for that one!

Also, does anyone even remember that Kota appeared in this story like thirty chapters ago? Right before the Sports Festival. Yeah, he's a teen in this one. Eri will be too probably, but that's not for now to discuss.

Anyway, if you decide to keep following this story, I advise that next time you come strapped in and wearing at least some shoulderpads, alright? Cause this train is about to go off the rails! God I really hope that tearing off limbs will fit under the T rating!

PS. This is chapter number 50! I didn't even realize that I've written that many! Also, a quick info - there's almost always something to do around my house and we've recently started a quite big construction project and the schedule is quite tight so I'll be working my ass off with a shovel for the better part of the next week. No better way to spend your paid vacation I'll tell ya!

Have an amazing day everyone!