Chapter 4: The Amazonian Genius
"So what should our first move be?" Shoji asked as he and Momo looked up at the building.
"That's a tricky question." Momo said as she contemplated her team's next move. "With Jirou's enhanced hearing, any move we make would be detected immediately. And that's without taking her sonic attacks into account."
"Then there's Asui." Shoji stated with his arms crossed. "Based on what she showed during the Quirk Evaluation Test, she's gotta be one of the most mobile members of our class."
Though there was one upside to this discussion; Shoji's impressive height meant that this was one of the few conversations she had where she didn't need to look down at the other person.
Still, he had a point. Tsuyu's frog-like abilities would make her a difficult opponent. And Jirou's hearing would make them stick like a sore thumb.
"If we had some way to block out Jirou's hearing, we could probably find a way to sneak up on them." And with that, an idea popped into the black-haired woman's head.
"Shoji, I think I got a plan." Momo said as she took out one of her calorie bars.
Meanwhile…
"Hear anything yet?" Asui asked over the com-link.
"Nothing yet." Jirou answered as she kneeled before the fake-bomb, one of her jacks embedded in the floor. The two girls had decided that Asui should act as their advance scout, sticking and crawling across the halls while Jirou kept her ears out for any sudden movement. "Wait a second."
Jirou heard something that sounded like two metal pieces clapping. Like one of those wind-up monkey toys. It was small and moving...but then Jirou heard a second pair of clanging cymbals. And then another...and another...and another! Soon, it sounded like there were hundreds of cymbals clanging, to the point that Jirou's hearing was overwhelmed, forcing her to retract her jacks in pain.
"SHIT! Asui, what the hell is going on!?"
As the frog girl saw what was making the racket. What she saw was hundreds of cymbal monkeys running through the halls of the building.
"Huh. You don't see that everyday, ribbit." Asui commented as she crawled on the floor roof. "Jirou, it looks like Yaoyorozu created a whole bunch of those old clapping monkey toys."
"A bunch? More a crazy stupid bunch of them! I can't pinpoint the other team out through all this noise!"
"I'll try to see if I can sneak up and capture them one at a time." Asui said. "You just keep the bomb safe."
"Roger." Jirou said, wondering how the hell Yaoyorozu could've made so many of the little things. But then she remembered what the black-haired woman said about her calorie bars. She could either eat one and then hulkout, or create hundreds of small objects. And it seemed that she picked the former.
While Jirou stood guard while looking at the door, she failed to notice a small camera fly spying on the purple-haired woman. Outside on the ground floor, Momo was viewing the camera feed from her wrist pad.
"Shoji, I've found the floor that Jirou's on." The black-haired woman said into her earpiece. "I'm going to try to secure the bomb."
"Go ahead. I'll try to keep Asui busy." The multi-limbed man said over the comms. Momo then began to plan her next move, creating a grappling hook gun. The black-haired woman looked up and aimed the grappling gun towards the window where the camera fly was and fired. The hook latched itself to the window, and with a press of a button, she was pulled up towards the window. Momo then created two C4 charges and attached them to either side of the window.
Jirou jolted to attention when she heard the sound of two small explosions blasting one of the windows apart. Momo leaped through the smoke and attempted to run towards the bomb...but Jirou blasted the black-haired amazon away with a sonic blast.
"Sorry, Yaoyorozu, but I ain't letting you near the bomb." The purplette said with her jacks raised up.
"You can try, but my team is going to win this exercise." Momo said as she pulled a metal staff from between her cleavage, much to Jirou's embarrassment. The black-haired woman rushed towards her, and Jirou was forced to avoid swings from the metal pole. She managed to knock the poll back with one of her jacks before blasting Momo away again.
The punk woman knew she didn't have to beat the ravenette. She just had to keep her on her toes long enough to let the timer run out. But there was a question in her mind that was shared in the monitor room.
"Why doesn't Yaoyorozu just hulkout and overpower Jirou?" Uraraka asked the class and All Might continued to watch the fight.
"It's obvious why, round face." Bakugou said, surprising the brunette with the rude nickname.
"It'd take too long for Momo to bulk up." The class turned and saw Izuku walk back into the monitor room.
"Ah, Young Midoriya. I assume Tokoyami is being taken care of?" The blond pro asked, getting a nod.
"Although, Recovery Girl did scold me for temporarily blinding a fellow student." Izuku said with a nervous chuckle.
"Yup, that sounds like her."
"What did you mean it would take too long?" Kaminari asked the quirkless greenette.
"You guys remember how I timed Momo's transformation during Eraserhead's first test?" Izuku asked.
"Ah, I do remember that, Monsieur." Aoyoma stated. "If I recall, it took Yaoyorozu almost three minutes to get tres chamois."
Hearing the french-enthusiast say that made a realization pop into Mineta's head. "So that's she not doing it! She'd be a sitting duck if she tried bulking up right now."
"With all the stuff she's made, she probably doesn't even have enough calories in her body to do that trick." Toga chimed in.
"That's right, guys." Izuku explained. "Momo's hulkout technique (though she's workshopping the name) requires time, calories, and concentration to pull off. None of which is really available during a fight."
"Ah, yes. The classic 'transformation conundrum.'" All Might stated. "Most rookie heroes with transformation or body enhancement quirks quickly find themselves overwhelmed by not having ample time for their quirk to apply. This is why most of them train their quirk so the transformation is only a few seconds rather than minutes."
Izuku nodded in agreement with his hero. "Momo's not at that stage yet."
"So Jirou and Tsuyu got this match in the bag!" Hagakure said with excitement as monitors not only showed Jirou and Momo's fight, but also the battle between Shoji and Asui, the latter using hit-and-run (or rather, hit-and-leap) attacks to keep her physically stronger foe at bay.
However, Izuku merely smiled before speaking up again. "Don't count Momo out just yet. Bulking up is only one trick she's got up her sleeves."
Indeed, back at the fight, Momo quickly formed a new plan as one of her exposed thighs began to glow, pulling out what looked like a smoke grenade out of her leg. The ravenette quickly pulled the pin and tossed it near Jirou. The punk woman leaped back to avoid the blast radius, failing to notice Momo's nostrils glowing as the grenade exploded. But instead of fire or light, a strange, violet-colored smoke quickly filled the room.
And before Jirou could react, she ended up breathing in the smoke. Almost instantly, the sound-manipulator began to feel woozy before falling on her back, her eyes getting heavier as she watched Momo approach the bomb. The last thing she saw before passing out was the buff ravenette approaching the fake bomb and placing a hand on it.
"THE HERO TEAM WINS!" All Might shouted over the coms. Down below, Shoji and Asui stopped their brawl when they heard that.
"Huh. Momo must've beaten Jirou." Asui reasoned.
"It would seem that way." Shoji said before approaching the frog girl and shaking her hand. "You're pretty good in a fight, Asui. With some hand-to-hand training, you'd be quite the terrifying opponent."
"Ribbit. Thanks." Asui said as she shook her opponent's hand out of respect. "And please, call me Tsu."
Back on the upper floor, Momo took the unconscious Jirou out of the room and placed her on the floor. With another pink flash of light, Momo created some smelling salt, waking up the purple-haired woman. Jirou looked up and asked, "So, you can create smoke and smells too."
"As long as I know the chemical composition of something, I can create it."
"So why didn't you pass out?" Jirou asked before Momo pulled her nose plugs out of her nostrils. "Yaoyorozu, I mean this in the nicest way possible, but your quirk is bullshit."
The ravenette simply giggled at this. "I suppose that's one way to put it." The two women stood up, but Jirou was still a bit woozy from the strange knockout gas. And to her embarrassment and surprise, Momo picked her up in a bridal carry.
"Yaoyorozu! You don't have to carry me!" Jirou said with a light blush on her face, that only got worse when the amazonian woman smiled at her.
"It's fine. I'm the reason you're so woozy. So it's the least I can do."
Jirou said nothing, but mentally noted that even without hulking out, Momo was still pretty strong.
The four returned to the monitor room, and discussed who was the MVP of the match. And it was almost a universal agreement that Momo was the MVP of the match, having almost been entirely responsible for her and Shoji's win. But the ravenette was quick to say that she only got the idea for the cymbal distraction because of a comment Shoji made.
The final match between Uraraka, Koda, Ashido, and Kaminari was the definition of chaotic. It started with Koji using his quirk to summon a bunch of rats to spook their enemies. This caused the two to run out of the room, carrying the bomb with them (more like Ashido carrying the bomb and Denki helped). Not wanting to hurt the animals too much, Denki used a small burst of electricity to scare the mice away.
But when they turned a corner, Uraraka tried to attack them and attempted a zero-gravity leap towards the bomb. But Ashido was quick to act, spraying acid and forcing the brunette to evade. And that was before the pink beefcake used her agility and strength to keep Uraraka at bay. But when Uraraka did manage to tap Ashido and make her float, Kaminari retaliated by punching her with a taser fist.
However, Kaminari was unaware that Koda was nearby and summoned more mice to surround the lightning-user. And when one of the mice went up his pants, the blond panicked and unleashed a massive burst of electricity all throughout the building. This ended up knocking out Uraraka, Koda, and the mice...but also ended up knocking out Ashido. And as for Kaminari, that was when the class learned that using too much electricity caused his brain to overload, which made him roam around like an idiot for a bit. The match only ended by the timer running out, giving Kaminari and Ashido the win, but the medical robots took the knocked out students and the temporarily dumbed down Kaminari to the infirmary.
"All right, students!" All Might said as the remaining students were gathered in the city area. "I must say, you youngsters have certainly impressed this old pro."
"You're not that old, All Might." Asui said.
"Aw, shucks." The blond hero said. "Anywho, you'll be receiving reports from Aizawa later on. But for now, take the experience you've learned today to heart, so you can be better heroes tomorrow."
"Kind of hard to do that when you don't get to do anything." Toga said as she glared at Todoroki, not that the two-toned young man noticed.
"Either way, be sure to remember your successes and your failures." All Might said as he began to turn around. "And remember...PLUS, ULTRA!"
With that exclamation, the blond pro blasted away from the class with a burst of superspeed. With their teacher now gone, the heroes-in-training went to change out of their hero costumes.
"I'm gonna go check on Mina." Kirishima said as he left the changing room.
"Got it." Izuku said. And as he was about to walk out…
"So…" The greenette turned and saw Bakugou approaching him. "...are we cool to talk?"
"Sure, Kacchan." Izuku said. He had no idea why Bakugou was so calm now compared to their childhood together. But he had a feeling was about to learn why.
Author's Note: Ya, this chapter is a bit shorter compared to the last one. I feel like I've left you guys hanging for a bit, and I wanted to give you something before the weekend was over. But we got to see how versatile Momo can be with her quirk, laying the seeds for the harem, and some comedy. And next chapter, we're gonna get a major dose of the feels.
And I'm finally gonna announce what Ochako's physique is gonna end up as. Everyone's favorite gravity-manipulating brunette is gonna be superheavy, meaning she'll be one of the beefiest members of the cast before the story is over.
Now, we guys get to vote on which muscular build Kyoka will gain throughout the story. For a reminder, the choices are Light, Heavy, Superheavy, and Hulkout. The first choice to get five or more votes will win.
If you guys need a refresher for each of the different physiques, go back and check out Chapter 3 for the details.
So cast your votes and have a safe day!