My Hero Academia

Tales of the Foreigner

Chapter Eleven

Preparation

"It still baffles me that you can eat that much without gaining weight." Mineta said as he along with some of his classmates watches Heather devour the cart full of food with ease.

"After the workout I got today, I pretty much earned this." Heather said before finishing up a well-done steak and quickly went on to drink the bowl filled with miso soup.

"Wait so you're not angry or depressed about what happened?" Kaminari asked as Heather shook her head.

"What he said stung hard like the beating I got, but he's not wrong." She said after finishing the bowl of soup. "I've been locked up in a guy's basement for a long time. I'm...not the smartest banana of the bunch. I'm not up to date with a lot of things this world has to offer. I can barely stand on my own two feet without the wind knocking me to the ground. The list goes on as to how I am."

"She's not wrong about that." Jiro said while scratching the back of her own head awkwardly.

"If I'm going to be part of the U.A Sports Festival, then I'm going to have to step up my game to the extreme." Heather said before looking at her friends. "And I need your help to do this. I know this is asking a lot, and I can understand if you don't have the time to-"

"Say no more Heather, we'll help you out!" Mina said as it took Heather by surprise.

"Y-You'll help me out? Really?" She asked as Momo, Jiro, Mineta, Kaminari, and Mina nodded in union.

"Of course. As a fellow classmate and a friend, it's our job to help each other. As we're going to help you train so you can join the sports festival with us." Momo said as Heather smiled.

"Thanks. I owe you guys, big time….So how do we do this? The training I mean."

"Hm. Well, you got the speed thing down. But the problem is...you're light as a feather." Mina said as it caused Heather to blink.

"Really? I mean with all the food I've been eating, I shouldn't be that light." She said before feeling Mina lift her up with just one hand by the back of her shirt. "...Okay, point taken."

"Wow, you are really light. I mean like I can totally toss you into the air like a beach ball….In fact."

"Don't you dare." Jiro said with a deadpan expression on her face. "And put her down. I'm pretty sure she finds it uncomfortable being treated like this."

"I'm not against the idea...though I think it's against the rules to do that." Heather said before being placed back into her seat.

"As I was saying, you're light as a feather. So we need to get you some shoes with some weight in them. Like some metal on the tips of them." Mina said as she placed a hand to her chin. Trying to think of an idea of how to make this work. "Maybe we can get the support people to help?"

"That might be hard to do." Kaminari said. "Remember, she's kind of a label as a villain due to her circumstances."

"Then we'll have to make them ourselves. But before we can do that, we need to get her fit before the festival." Momo said before pulling out a notebook from her bag. "From what I saw, you are lacking in three areas. Stamina, strength, and endurance. The speed you got down...all be it due to the wind knocking you off your feet. But without stamina, you won't be able to make it far in the first obstacle which is running and fighting faux villains. Which are robots if you don't know what they are?"

"...Isn't that kind of unfair?"

"Maybe, but that's where your quirk comes in. Which we'll also be training you on as well." Jiro said as she looked over at Heather's arms. "We'll have to ask Nezu if we can use the field to test out your quirk. We know that she can freeze stuff like Todoroki, but different."

"From what happened to Bakugo, it's a clear sign that her quirk involves cryostasis. Liquid Nitrogen to be accurate." Momo said, which caused Mineta to tilt his head.

"Isn't that what Todoroki has?" He asked as Momo shook her head.

"Todoroki's ice can damage human cells, Heather's ice can preserve human cells. Which is an incredible quirk, but also dangerous. Mainly because if someone accidentally pushes the person or thing, they would shatter into pieces and die." She said as the color in Heather's skin turned pale upon realizing this along with the other.

"B-But it's a good thing you don't have to worry about that happening. With our training, you'll be able to control your quirk without any problem whatsoever." Mina said while patting Heather on the back. "Anyway we need to work on your stamina, strength, and endurance. Let's focus on your running."

"Coming up with a training regimen might be difficult, but shouldn't be a problem. I'll ask some of the teachers what would be a perfect training regimen for you-" Before Momo could finish her sentence, she heard the sound of a familiar heroic laughter echoing.

"Young Winter! I am here!" All Might yelled while posing in dramatic heroic fashion.

"Whoa, All Might! What are you doing here!?" Kaminari asked as he, along with the others, were surprised to see him. Though Heather would have a blank expression on her face while eating her meal. Unphased by the world's greatest hero appearing behind her.

"Oh, I just wanted to check up on how Heather is doing." He said before eyeing some of the students at the table Heather was sitting in. "It's nice to see that you're making friends, Young Winter. I hope you guys are getting along with each other."

"Um, I am...at least I think I am...right?" Heather asked as she looked over at the other as they nodded. "Okay, good."

"That's wonderful to hear! It's nice to see the future of promising heroes being friends with one another." All Might said before hearing Momo speak up.

"Um, All Might sir. If you're not busy, I would like your help with something."

"But of course! What do you need my help with?"

"We need help figuring out a training regimen for Heather so she can join in the U.A Sports Festival." Mineta said as he leaned back a bit in his seat. "Mr. Aizawa put her through a test to see how fit she was...it didn't turn out so well."

"Yeah, she did...poorly. I mean she got the speed down seeing how she's light as a feather." Mina said as Mineta walked over to the bunny girl and picked her up to show. "But sadly she doesn't have the stamina, strength, or endurance to be able to last longer than most people would."

"To make a long story short, we got the idea of helping Heather's family find her by having her join the Sports Festival. That way it'll help you guys in your search. We ran it by Principal Nezu and he was okay with it."

"Wow, that's an excellent idea!" All Might yelled in excitement upon hearing. "Using the Sports Festival as a means to widen our search for Young Winter's family."

"It's a good plan. But in order for it to work, we need Heather to be able to at least be able to get to the second round of the festival. Hence why I'm asking if you have anything that could help us in training Heather." Momo asked as he noticed All Might reaching into his back pocket to pull out a small piece of paper and unfold it and handed it over to Momo.

"Meet me after school in front of the dorms. Mineta will know where to go so follow him. I'm gonna need to have a word with Principal Nezu. But that sheet of paper should have all you need to help Heather in her training." He said as Momo took the paper and started to look it over a bit before turning her attention to All Might.

"You sure this will work sir? I mean, I'm not one to question a hero's training regimen. But this seems like it could be...um...overboard?"

"Normally yes, but this is the Sports Festival. She'll be facing just about anyone in this school on the spot to get noticed by pro heroes. If she doesn't get to the second round, then it'll be hard for her to be noticed by someone that might know something about her family. So she'll need to go at this with everything she got. Plus Ultra Style!" He said while flexing his muscles a bit while smiling. "That is if Heather is up for the challenge?"

"Yeah, I'm up for it." Heather said with a confident expression on her face...though it's kind of hard to tell with the stains of food on her cheeks. "I'm not planning on giving up, no matter what." She said as Mineta placed her down as he wiped the food off her face with a napkin.

"Perfect! With that taken care of and checking up on Heather, I'll leave you all to your lunch. Until next time!" He said before dashing off towards the hallway of the school.

"Man, he's so cool!" Kaminari said with a grin on his face. "It's hard to believe he's a teacher in U.A."

"That's the world's greatest hero for you. He always has an answer to almost anything." Mina added as Jiro shrugged.

"Yet he still has to look over his notes when teaching." Jiro said as she looked over at Heather returning to her meal while Mineta cleaning up after her. Mainly wiping away any food that might've spilled on the table or on her face. "...Weird."

"What's weird?" Mina asked as she noticed Jiro looking at Heather and Mineta.

"Have you noticed that Mineta hasn't been..well you know...his usual perverted self?"

"Now that you mention it...yeah. So far he hasn't done anything that would land him in Recovery Girl's office...You don't think Heather might have something to do with this...do you?"

"It's hard to say...I mean, this is Mineta we're talking about. There's no way he would change...right?" Jiro asked as Mina shrugged. "...We need to keep an eye on those two if they're alone together, agreed?"

"Agreed. I'll inform the others about this just to be on the safe side." She said before returning to her meal while talking with Heather and the others at the table.