ASX-000 - She actually does that in one of the not-yet written fanfics which is full crack, and somehow Lunch Rush being a genuine eldritch abomination (that simply likes to cook human food) feels like a great addition to any full-crack story with Aiko Midoriya.
PLPanda, PokeKing Charizard and AngelFallenDemon - What else can I say except Praise Aiko? :V
The Archivist of Nyx - Especially when it's Dark Shadow that's saying it. There are some lovecraftian themed stories out there, and in almost each and every one of them Dark Shadow isn't what it seems to be. So yeah, worrying xD
Detrametal - Dark Shadow's clearly a good boi :V And Yagi playing tabletop games isn't anything that crazy. Wait until Nedzu shows up with his Warhammer Fantasy Skaven army, that's where things get crazy, yes yes.
Dragonjek - Small progress, yes, but a welcome one.
PokeKing Charizard - I already made him an irredeemable douchebag (probably, Dabi might have overexaggerated stuff intentionally) in Cure to Evil, TTB is significantly more optimistic, so there is that.
(***)
On the morning of the exam day, Eraserhead entered the classroom only to see a crowd of twenty-four Aiko Midoriyas' staring at him. Girls wore wigs, designer eye-contacts, and appropriate clothes. Boys were spared from the last bit. Well, at least most of them. Those who weren't overly buffed went for the full course.
Izuku Midoriya looked absolutely done with his life.
Shota Aizawa promptly left the classroom, returned to the teacher's lounge, screamed loudly and freely (then he screamed again when he received a message from Nedzu telling him that class 1-A just earned few bonus points on the exam for 'successful psychological warfare'), before returning to the classroom and pretending that nothing has happened.
Hearing about Present Mic's reaction did little to improve Eraserhead's ruined mood.
(***)
Theoretical exam finally ended (it was almost hilarious to see Aizawa-sensei doing his best not to look at the class in front of him while he was supposed to see if anyone was cheating). Then, the practical exam came.
"We've decided to change the contents of the practical exam!" Principal Nedzu announced after emerging from Aizawa's scarf. He was met with twenty-four deadpan stares. "But it turns out that you already figured it out. Yaoyorozu, Midoriya, am I correct to assume that both of you came with your own lists of predicted pairings?"
They did. Nedzu quickly gave those a read. Then he beamed at them.
"Correct! Both of you!" Principal said, throwing his little hands around. "That's another set of extra points for the two of you… although how many, well, that depends on how well you prepared your classmates for this!"
(***)
Exam 01: Inasa Yoarashi & Shoto Todoroki vs. All Might
For as much as All Might regreted that fact, letting him be his son's teacher was already a major stretch, only possible due to his reputation as the Symbol of Peace and the fact that Shota Aizawa was there (together with Nedzu) to spot any signs of favoritism.
No one was going to let him be his son's opponent in an exam. That would be going way too far. On the other hand, there was no one but him among the faculty who could be a reasonable opponent to the 1-A heavy-hitters like Yoarashi and Todoroki.
He wasn't sure what he expected, but certainly not Yoarashi simply taking off and proceeding towards the exit at a lightning pace. Where did Todoroki even go?
He could see his son's hand in that. If there was someone who had an acute interest in noticing One for All's weak spots, it was certainly Izuku Midoriya. And with both kids being his friends, they were certainly following his plan. But what was the plan?
All Might lacked aerial mobility. He wasn't Nana. He threw a chunk of concrete (the size of a car, he wasn't one for half-measures) at Yoarashi, but he dodged it. Air pressure attack was a very bad match-up against his quirk, as it only slowed him down for a second.
He decided to jump and grab Yoarashi. He realized that he just fell for Izuku's trap when he was hit in the side by Todoroki's new super move - a concentrated ray of fire and heat that actually sent him flying sideways.
Yoarashi was a bait, with Todoroki following him on the ground, ready to snipe All Might if he tried to engage. Shoto wasn't strong enough to actually wound All Might, especially at that distance, but it was enough to throw him off course.
And, as it was already stated, he had almost no ability to change his course mid flight. It was a pain in the ass. And if he went after Todoroki, Yoarashi would have a clear shot for the escape gate.
Good plan. But he was All Might, goddamnit!
He used his air pressure attack to change his course after Todoroki sniped him again. Then he elbowed Yoarashi down to the ground.
Kid responded by unleashing a tornado on All Might. The handicap bracelets actually helped by making him heavier and thus less likely to be taken off the ground. The Symbol of Peace punched Yoarashi through a building (oh shit, was he overdoing it, Shuzenji was going to kill him).
Then he realized that despite what he expected, Todoroki didn't take advantage of the situation to snipe him again. All Might realized what was going to happen, right in time to hear Yoarashi bellowing laughter.
All Might's attempt to reach the exit gate before Todoroki - with Yoarashi still operational and on his back, with a mobility enough for All Might to be unable to outrun him with his handicap bracelet - was futile from the start.
Yoarashi, it turned out, was two baits wearing a trenchcoat. And All Might fell for both.
(***)
Exam 02: Rikido Sato & Eijiro Kirishima vs. Cementoss
Midoriya and Yaoyorozu had correctly foreseen the match-up, and had simple advice for their two classmates. Do not fight, because you cannot win. In their own words, the faculty wanted to test if two close-quarters combatants with clear time limits to their abilities would deal with an enemy that lacked said limits.
In short, an endurance fight was going to be their doom. Once that became obvious, Kirishima and Sato actually created a plan on their own, one that received enthusiastic support of both of their class Big Brains (they weren't going to always be there for their classmates, they needed to make them think for themselves a bit!)/.
Sato didn't swallow his sugar cubes right at the start. Instead, when Cementoss popped up to engage them in combat, Kirishima began to shatter his attacks, while Sato simply ran away, and began to move towards the exit gate. Forcing Cementoss to cease his attacks and pursue Sato in order to stop him from passing the gate.
When he caught up, Kirishima immediately proceeded to fight him again, allowing Sato to (once again) disengage and head towards the gate. Cementoss, naturally, broke the battle again to pursue him (and probably prepare his last stand by the exit gate, the only place where he could face them both at once and Sato couldn't simply run away).
It was a mistake. He realized this when Sato suddenly turned towards him (now boosted with sugar), engaging him together with Kirishima, but from both sides at once. Forcing him to split his attention to two combatants capable of shattering his attacks at once. Needless to say, they managed to get close enough and promptly capture him.
(***)
Exam 03: Kyoka Jirou & Koji Koda vs. Present Mic
The exam was going just as planned, until a massive army of worms and bugs and other crawlies amassed itself into a humanoid form in front of him. Small one. One wearing Aiko Midoriya' clothes. And then it began to move towards him, gesturing as if it wanted to hug him.
Present Mic promptly ran through the exit gate himself, screaming in abject horror. Nedzu calmly announced that he is sending the English teacher to Hound Dog after this. The other teachers present there unanimously agreed.
(***)
Exam 04: Uraraka Ochaco & Aoyama Yuga vs. Thirteen
It really wasn't worth being called a fight. Uraraka didn't even need the help from Midoriya and Yaoyorozu, though she did have them proofread her plan. All she really needed was some combat analysis of Thirteen courtesy of her boyfriend, and that was something that she actually received a few weeks ago. For a completely unrelated situation.
Step one of the plan - Pretend to struggle. Throw objects at her with her quirk. Have Aoyama shoot her with his naval laser.
Step two of the plan - After their valiant struggle, get caught up at once by Thirteen quirk. Hold on to something, preferably together.
Step three of the plan - Let go at once, make Thirteen freak out due to her fear of her own destructive quirk, forcing her to deactivate it. Use the momentum given to you by said quirk before it's deactivated to close the distance.
Step four of the plan - Engage her in melee, that she has absolutely no skills in. And promptly capture her.
Step five of the plan - …
Step six of the plan - Profit! And she likes those.
(***)
Exam 05: Tenya Iida & Mashirao Ojiro vs. Power Loader
It might have been the faculty's first victory (or at least not a humiliating defeat). It was a good match-up - Power Loader's quirk allowed him to change the arena into a death trap, seriously limiting the mobility of his opponents.
Unfortunately, he failed to take into account the fact that Iida managed to improve his flexibility of movements recently. He managed (although narrowly) to avoid falling into any of the holes, and after a long period of struggling, he managed to get to the exit gate together with Mashirao.
"Well." Power Loader said to himself, watching their victorious exit from one of his holes. "Crap."
(***)
Exam 06: Izuku Midoriya & Momo Yaoyorozu vs. Mr. Principal
In all honesty, the biggest variable that they had to face when predicting the match-ups, was themselves. They suspected that they would be either left to face Eraserhead (in order to test how would they fare without their quirks against an enemy that was probably a better tactician than them, at least when it came to planning details in the field and in front of the enemy), or Nedzu.
In the end, Nedzu simply couldn't pass such a delicious occasion to use his brain cells. So he decided to go for it himself. Izuku suspected that this would have happened, just as he was pretty sure that Monoma and Nakahara were going to face Nedzu as well.
In all honesty, it was probably the easier option to counter than Eraserhead. So there was that.
They separated immediately, forcing Nedzu to separate his attention between two distant targets. Izuku began to rush towards the exit gate (using his quirk to its fullest), while Momo started to prepare.
Nedzu came in like a wrecking ball. Literally. He actually managed to stall Izuku's charge by some controlled demolition for a while. Said while lasted until a 152mm artillery shell hit the foundation of his construction crane and it began to collapse.
Nedzu glided out of it. Or so they thought. Izuku rushed towards it (it was pretty close to his position), hoping to capture the Principal. Then he realized that there was no reason for the rat to fly towards him after the crane was destroyed, so he quickly ran away.
Correctly so. It was a decoy. The crane was remotely operated, and the Nedzu that flew out of it was a fake. Fitted with explosives. There were more cranes at the field, and when Izuku realized the deception, they all began to move.
In the end, they 'won'. Izuku used his quirk to bulldoze through the collapsed buildings (or jump above them) and his agility to scale some of them. All while Momo was bombarding the cranes from afar, doing her best to clear his route or at least derail the on-going disaster dominoes of buildings set up by the principal.
Nevertheless, it was the closest fight of them all thus far, and Nedzu secretly hoped that the remaining exams were going to be clear student victories. Simply so he could rub his achievement into people.
(***)
Exam 07: Fumikage Tokoyami & Tsuyu Asui vs. Ectoplasm
Fumikage had a powerful and dangerous quirk that, however, had a single weak spot. If someone got really close to him… then suddenly Fumikage was forced to practically fight them quirkless.
Tsuyu was there to assist in that. It was a close fight, with Ectoplasm endless waves of clones forcing them to be on their toes at all times. All according to the faculty' plan. Although the plan was significantly changed with the increasing despair of being so thoroughly defeated thus far.
It's not like they didn't expect the majority of the students to pass. It's just that thus far, not even a single one of the students was meaningfully defeated. Not even temporarily. Sero turned out to be a deception. So far, students were crushing the faculty, and that, even with sizable handicaps, was atrocious.
Ectoplasm wanted to change that. He managed to intern them through the use of his massive clone. Things looked nice, he just had to restrain the raging Dark Shadow (who was pretty busy charging at him while screaming 'FOR LADY AIKO' repeatedly, seriously, what the hell).
Then it suddenly snuck the cuff onto his leg. Cuff that Tsuyu apparently snuck in inside her stomach. He learned later that it was actually one of their plans, not even created by Midoriya and Yaoyorozu, merely greenlighted by them.
Well. Shit.
(***)
Exam 08: Minoru Mineta & Hanta Sero vs. Midnight
"Nemuri." Eraserhead told her before she left the teacher's little nest. "I'm not telling you to save our reputation, but… please save our reputation." The bags under his eyes are significantly more pronounced than they were thirty minutes ago.
"Oh, don't worry, Aizawa!" She smiles at him. "It's Mineta we're talking about, he'll probably have other things on his mind than fighting. You know, with me around."
She discovered that this statement was patently incorrect five minutes later. She managed to get Sero under her quirk easily enough. Mineta immediately panicked and began to retreat towards the direction from which they arrived.
She should have figured out that she was walking into the trap, because why else would Mineta leave his balls around during his and Sero's march towards the exit gate. They improved his mobility enough to let him avoid her… until he suddenly stopped and waved at her with a wide grin.
One second later she was suddenly attacked from behind by totally-not-unconscious Sero, whose tape bound her tightly. If not for herself falling into a trap like a rookie, she would probably make a pervy joke about that.
"How?" Was all she managed to say.
"Well…" Sero scratched his neck while Mineta was making happy noises in the background. His voice sounds odd. Then again, she didn't get to hear him earlier in the fight. "Your attack is a form of a gas. One of our vice-presidents can create everything that she has a blueprint of. She has a friend in the Support Course that can create a blueprint of a gas mask through her sleep. You really should have checked if I was truly unconscious before passing over me, you know?" He opens his mouth wide only to pull some contraption out of it.
A short-term mini-gasmask, except not exactly a mask. But enough to keep him from succumbing to her quirk for the crucial minute or two. And with Mineta leaping towards the exit, she had no time to stay next to him longer than that.
Fuck. Aizawa is going to kill her.
(***)
Exam 09: Hagakure Tooru & Mezo Shoji vs. Snipe
"Do not worry." Snipe said to Eraserhead before leaving the faculty room. "I have that in the bag, y'all can chill down."
He lost.
(***)
Exam 10: Kaminari Denki & Ashido Mina vs. Eraserhead
Eraserhead turned out to be the faculty's last hope (as the Villain Rehab had their exams organized a bit differently) to save its face. He was supposed to push the two loafers of 1-A to their limits.
While, naturally, being on the lookout for whatever nasty plan Midoriya and Yaoyorozu prepared for them.
The plan turned out to include using Mina's acid to melt things along their way, producing acrid smoke that was seriously impeding his ability to use his quirk. Oh, he did it, of course. He actually managed to capture her.
Yes, he made sure that his capture scarf was acid-proof. And electric-proof. What he didn't expect was that Mina could make her acid capable of conducting electricity.
He looked away from her for a second or two, in order to give Kaminari an intimidating monologue. It was enough to make her cover herself in non-conducting acid, which in turn was covered in conductive acid. Oh, and she also spread it over the capture scarf that he was holding her in.
Did he mention that the Support Course created a device that allowed Denki to guide his electric discharge to some point, negating his short-range issues? With the only weakness was the fact that he had to throw an object somewhere to have the electricity go there?
Did he also mention that MINA WAS CARRYING ONE OF THEM ON HERSELF?
Eraserhead was promptly hit by an equivalent of a powerful taser, from a distance that shouldn't be possible. And with his capture scarf (there were some electronics involved) going haywire and letting her go, she was in perfect position to capture him.
"PRAISE AIKO!" She shouted, throwing her hands in the air, while Denko was doing some form of awkward dance routine in the background.
Eraserhead screamed internally.
(***)
"Heya there, how did…" Ms. Joke entered the faculty room with a smile on her face. She was temporarily 'hired' to help in the exam of one of the Villain Rehab Courses, and she got the occasion to see the inner workings of her school's fated archenemy!
(and also see her children, she didn't since the school festival, videochats aren't enough!)
Then she realized that she entered a morgue for dead teachers instead of a faculty room.
There was a large table in the middle of it. She could see Principal Nedzu drinking a tea at the top of it. There were also nine teachers (including All Might), but they were all lying face-down on the table.
"That bad?" She decided to ask. Eraserhead let out something akin to an 'uuughhhh' which made him sound like a hungry zombie.
"We were crushed." Nedzu chirps in. "Well, I think I had the closest thing to an actual fight, but the rest… especially Present Mic…" The teacher in question wails quietly into the table. "... well, I think we should really consider making this year's students graduate ahead of schedule. Sure, there was a major handicap, but…"
"Change three years into two." Eraserhead finally says. "We have half a year behind us, we can survive that much." He sounds like he was trying to persuade himself.
Uh-oh. The provisional licensing exam was going to be fun. She should probably whip Ketsubutsu representatives a bit more if they want to survive it.
(***)
1-A Classroom Chat
Mindhack: I'd like to announce that all members of the Villain Rehab Course have successfully passed their exams.
Vampire: Yay!
GravityGirl: :D
BoomBoom: Good because I'd fucking kill you all if you failed after me tutoring you.
ClassPresident: Bakugou pls
BoomBoom: YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO TEACH CAT EYES AND CRUSTY FACE ANYTHING
BoomBoom: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HELL I'VE BEEN THROUGH, NERD
ClassPresident: Okay this is fair
Vampire: HEYYYY! :(
Vampire: That's rude!
Mindhack: But true.
Vampire: TOSHI ;_;
GravityGirl: Himichan, you passed, that's the most important thing right now!
Froggy: True. Prove them wrong and get better before the next exams.
Vampire: :D Ochachan, Froggy-chan! I knew I could count on you! :D
TurboMan: If I may ask, what were your exams like?
Mindhack: At least part of it was about self-restraint and testing if we're… well, better people than we used to be. It tended to be rather personal, so… I'd prefer to not go into details.
ClassPresident: Also I came to believe that we had some external judges on that, just to make sure that there are more heroes out there thinking that the Villain Rehab Course students aren't pure evil.
BoomBoom: I had to fight Ectoplasm copies without being too aggressive. Fucking bullshit.
BoomBoom: And they were rather talkative. trying to make me angry
BoomBoom: -CENSORED-
BoomBoom: WAIT A SECOND WHO SET A CENSORSHIP HERE
BoomBoom: WAS THAT YOU YOU -CENSORED- NERD
BoomBoom: DO YOU THINK THAT THIS IS A -CENSORED- GAME YOU -CENSORED- -CENSORED- ?! -CENSORED- YOU!
ZapZap: LOL
ZapZap: So much about not being too aggressive XD
ClassPresident: Bakugou, stop!
BoomBoom: DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO -CENSORED- NERD
GravityGirl: Bakugou Katsuki.
BoomBoom: WHAT THE -CENSORED- DO YOU WANT ANGELFACE
GravityGirl: Would you kindly -censored- your -censored- -censored-? We were supposed to talk about our villain rehab course friends passing their exam in -censored- nice atmosphere but instead you -censored- come here shouting -censored- expletives, thinking that you are -censored- -censored- because you suddenly can't use expletives in your speech, which by the way is a horrible -censored- thing when you do it out of your -censored- limited vocabulary in front of your friends who clearly didn't want to deal with this -censored- today and has explicitly -censored- -censored- you to -censored- you -censored- -censored -censored-. -Censored.-
Vampire: *mic drop*
Mindhack: This is beautiful.
BoomBoom: …
ClassPresident: o_o
CreativeSpirit: I'm horrified.
AcidParty: OMG xDDDDDDD
AcidParty: Angelface has a Demonmouth xDD
GravityGirl: … oh.
GravityGirl: IGNORE THIS MESSAGE IT WAS THE STRESS FROM THE EXAMS TALKING
Froggy: I mean, her parents have a construction company. She grew around construction workers. It was probably to be expected.
GravityGirl: STOP
GaleForce: absolutely awesome
GravityGirl: GUYS NO
GravityGirl: I'M SORRY
ClassPresident: Uraraka
GravityGirl: …?
ClassPresident: You made Bakugou stop talking by… well, pretty much yelling at him, just in text.
GravityGirl: Errr, and I'm really sorry for that! ;_; I'll never do it again, I promise.
ClassPresident: Uhm, no, I just wanted to ask if I can make a picture of this talk and frame it.
GravityGirl: …
GravityGirl: please no
ClassPresident: okay, but I'm buying you mochi for that
AcidParty: Oh this is wholesome. and super cute
Vampire: Yes xD
BoomBoom: I'm going to beat the -censored- out of some training mannequin.
BoomBoom: also, Angelface
GravityGirl: ?
BoomBoom: You have my -censored- respect.
GravityGirl: I DON'T WANT IT
GravityGirl: TAKE IT AWAY
ZapZap: xDDDD
AcidParty: I HAVE A QUESTION!
AcidParty: I think I just had a revelation
AcidParty: (also, what's the official status of the Church of Aiko, did Midori's parents agree to it?)
ClassPresident: Please do not worship my sister as a deity.
AcidParty: Hmph.
ZapZap: Not literally, but I can see her pouting at the screen.
AcidParty: yes
AcidParty: you have obtained the power of remote seeing by being insane enough to fortnite dance over fallen Aizawa-sensei
ZapZap: HEAT OF THE MOMENT THING SORRY
ZapZap: also bold words for someone who did the Praise the Sun pose while yelling 'Praise Aiko' over him
BlackDarkness: Dark Shadow received a conditional agreement to do whatever it wants, for as long as it doesn't inconvenience anyone. Mostly because it would ignore refusal either way. And I asked our class president to help me avoid religious war with my own quirk.
AcidParty: Oh, I see.
AcidParty: Well, the point is, Midori had some super-duper brilliant ideas on how to apply our quirks, yes?
ClassPresident: I'm not sure if they were super-duper brilliant and, well, Yaomomo helped a lot too
CreativeSpirit: …
BoomBoom: Nerd
BoomBoom: [IMG]
ClassPresident: What, why did you send me a picture of your ruined sandbag
BoomBoom: BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO BE YOUR -CENSORED- FACE IF YOU WON'T STOP TALKING -CENSORED- ABOUT YOURSELF, NERD
LeadSinger: wait is this wholesome or not
CreativeSpirit: Jury is split on that
AcidParty: Well, ignoring this
AcidParty: Do you think you could help us train our quirks? I know that the forest camp will probably be about that, but… I'd like to have some additional training, because, well
AcidParty: I felt like it was a close one.
ZapZap: I want it too! The gear you had the Support Course make me is awesome!
SugarRush: yes, I'd like to know more as well
OmletteDuFromage: Yes, same, but in a dazzling way!
InvisibleGirl: AWESOME IDEA!
ClassPresident: uhm
(***)
UA Staff Chatroom
Eraserhead: What is Midoriya doing rn? Does anyone know?
AllMight: He is probably in his room, doing some normal teenager things
AllMight: Why do you ask
Eraserhead: I just woke up from a nap
Eraserhead: I heard a boss music in the dream
Eraserhead: Something's bad is happening, I can feel it
AllMight: … you're falling into a paranoia.
Eraserhead: It's not paranoia if they are out to get me