Before I start, I like to thank xZealHakune and DrZenkai with Quirk Under Pressure and The Heart of a Hero for quirk ideas and costumes for Class 1-B. This will be Class B's trial arc, so enjoy.
Chapter cover- Cortney and her Mom' demons looking down at the reader.
Ch.12- United we stand
April 2
The things my mom told me was shocking, but it will rest between us. Today is battle training, I can't wait to see what my classmates can do.
"I am here...for your training!" The No. 1 hero announces, most people dream of standing next All Might but I'm being taught by the best hero that was.
"Is that how he always starts things off?" Pony whispers to me.
"It's his freaking ringtone." I reply.
"Your hero course begins officially. We'll start with a special Heroes vs. Villains exercise." He says in a more teacher tone, he then points to the wall which reveals several briefcase-like bags.
"Your hero costumes made to your design and specifications." I grab my costume as everybody grabs theirs.
"Suit up and meet me in training Ground Beta!"
"YAY!" We all cheer.
Training Ground Beta
I based my costume on the Viking Berserker. I have my gauntlets and gloves on with a leather vest with fur trailing the lining, the sides open and stitched up like chain mail with my binding and wrappings underneath. I have Brown pants with greaves going up to my legs and the shoes and bag, I normally wear.
"Now you all look like real heroes. Most people think villain attacks happen outside, but the most heinous crimes occur indoors, so to simulate this you'll be fighting in there." All Might says pointing to the building behind him.
"The teams have been already selected and will be drawn now."
"Wait we don't even know who our teammates are?" Pony asks upon learning going down.
"Because heroes often team up on the spot with whoever is there. So you have to be able to team up with anyone." Axel responds.
"The first up for the heroes are team A, Cortney Tan, and Yosetsu Awase, and the villains will be team K, Peace Miglow and Jurota Shishida." We step forward, I'm paired with a kid with a white bandana with thin blue criss-cross stripes and Peace is paired with a beast of a man. No, I'm not joking, he looks Beast from X-men.
"I'll explain the rules now. The villains have five minutes to stash a dangerous weapon in the building. The heroes can not enter or look inside the building during the prep time. The villains can set traps and prepare themselves, but once prep time is over the villains have to be in the weapon room. After the five minutes are up, you have 15 minutes to fight out, the heroes win if they capture the villains or secure the weapon. The villains win if they capture the heroes or defend the weapon until time runs out." All Might says.
"How do we capture someone?" I ask.
"With this." He pulls out some White tape, "Capture Tape! Wrap this around your opponents to 'capture' them." He gives us each some capture tape and a small earpiece, "You can keep in touch with your teammates with these and I can talk into them just in case. Your classmates and I will be watching you from the monitoring room, if I see anyone go too far, I'll be stopping the fight."
"Don't go easy on me Peace." I say
"I won't!" She says just out of earshot.
(Note- The weapon only weighs 10 kg or 22 pounds.)
Perspective Peace
I know All Might say we had a dangerous weapon, but this is what planes used to drop during WW2. I need to find out what my partner can do.
My partner hero costume is an Orange bodysuit with a red stripe down the middle, an Orange utility belt and suspenders with Camo boots and he's like 20 cm taller than me, my observation is cut short as he suddenly stops.
"It seems you and Cortney know each other," Jurota exclaims
"Yeah, she's my best friend." I disclose the state of our relationship.
"Then you know what her quirk is then?" Yeah, I better warn him.
"Yes and let me fight her because she will destroy you. She gets stronger the more damage she takes and is trained in CQC. Also, we might want to find a spot for the bomb." We get moving again until we find a defendable room.
"Alright." He puts down the weapon and continues our conservation, "It's a good idea to know each other's quirks. As you can see my quirk is Beast, it gives me the powers of an animal."
"My quirk is Dragon Slayer, I can ignite myself and I get stronger when I use my quirk. My fighting style mainly revolves around my gauntlets, but I need to reload them every 40 shots."
Perspective Cortney prep time
I do a last-minute check to make sure nothing is up with costume and look over to my partner, besides the bandana his hero costume consists of large metal shoulder pads, a dark blue-gray sleeve shirt, black wrist bracers, light blue pants held up by a black leather belt with a large silver buckle and black boots.
"That is a lot of dark colors, anyway, my quirk is Berserker it allows me to absorb damage, and increase my strength. What's yours?"
"My quirk is Weld, I can weld any two objects I hold in my hands together. What can the dog do?" Sometimes I forget Chibi is on my head.
"Chibi's quirk is Paint Brush Arts, he can use his ink to do things like cutting some something which I won't use on a person because it could probably them cut in half." We spend the rest of the time coming up with a plan.
"Heroes vs. Villain Training: Begin!" The game starts and we make a break for the weapon. The first two floors are empty, when we get to the third floor Chibi starts barking, I stop and start looking around.
"What's up?" Yosetsu also stops.
"Keep going, go find the weapon." Just before he's at the steps, "Hey Yosetsu…" He looks at me, "Good luck." I give him a thumbs up and get one back just as he leaves, I have to dodge out the way.
I turn to where the shot came from and see Peace come out her hiding spot.
Monitoring room (Note these scenes take place in 3rd person)
Inside the monitoring room, the other students are about to watch the fight unfold.
"Cortney has incredible reflexes, and her dog was able to alert her to her opponent's presence." A girl with Orange hair notes.
"Yes, that is true, but the fight is just beginning, so it's impossible to tell who will." Axel remakes.
Training Building
I have to say Peace's costume came out well. She took inspiration from Natsu's original outfit, she's wearing a light purple scarf around her neck, a sleeveless, Gold trimmed, black waistcoat with a giant zipper, zipped all the way up, a black cloth around her waist that reaches her knees, held by a leather Brown belt with an oval-shaped silver buckle also holding two ammo pouches and yellow utility bags, White knee-length trousers with light blue ribbon ties and open-toed sandals.
I can't admire her costume for long before she launches herself at me. I grab her arms as she's flying and flip us on our backs.
"You always start a fight off by throwing yourself at the opponent." I tell Peace but she retaliates by firing her gauntlets into my shoulders.
"First gear." I grunt through the pain, I kick up to feet while using the momentum to slam Peace into the ground.
Monitoring room
"Students, tell me what Cortney is doing." The orange-haired girl answers.
"She's holding down her opponent. Giving them no time to think and little options."
"Cort is trained in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a fighting style which specializes in grappling." Pony adds.
"Where she learn that?" Tetsu ask.
"She learned it from her older sister, and she told me it's all about momentum, her own or her opponent's a fight is all about momentum." Pony answers back.
Training Building
Peace managed to slip away when I threw her. She gets to her feet and takes aim the ceiling.
"Grand Flash!" I can't close my eyes in time and get blinded, Peace takes the opportunity and knocks me to the ground and pummels my chest with a barrage of shots. As my sight returns, I start charging power through all my fingers.
"Straight Flush!" I knock Peace away, I take a look at my costume and see a hole from where the attacks hit.
At the same time, Yosetsu found the weapon, but Jurota is standing in the way.
"I just have to reach the weapon." Yosetsu says to himself and makes a break for it but Jurota nearly claws him.
"I will not let you pass me." Jurota pushes his glasses up before lunging at Yosetsu.
In my fight, me and Peace are on even footing, neither of us are willing to give an inch. Until Yosetsu pings my earpiece.
"What's up?" It seems like Yosetsu is fighting as well since he's firing off curse words left and right.
"I could use a little- fuck, help. Jurota is stopping me from getting the weapon." I just smile, knowing that's already been taken care of.
"It's coming, just buy some time." I tell Yosetsu before getting back to my own fight. I spot Peace doing the same thing.
"Sorry Cortney but my teammate needs my help, so I'm ending this with my next attack." She takes a deep breath and flames start to form in her mouth.
"Fire Dragon Roar!" A giant pillar of fire shoots out consuming the entire hallway.
Monitoring room
"End the fight All Might, I think Cortney might be hurt." Tetsu begs.
"Don't end! It's not over yet." Pony intercepts.
"What do you mean young Pony?" All Might questions Pony's statement.
"Keep watching." Axel explains.
Training Building
"Aced!" A blast of wind kills the flames and goes on to hit Peace in the back, while she's stunned I tackle her and get her in a grapple to keep her down.
Monitoring room
"What was that?!" Even All Might is surprised at the attack Cortney just pulled off.
"That was the Drive technique, it allows her access to attacks, she wouldn't have normal." Pony explains.
Training Building
In Yosetsu and Jurota, it's currently a stalemate, however, that changes when the wall behind them is sliced to pieces and a white ball of fur slips past.
"Weapon Captured! The hero team wiiiiiiiins!" They both turn to find Chibi biting the weapon.
"Yes! DAMN IT!" Me and Peace shout respectively, I let go of Peace and help her up. Our teammates come over to us and I see Yosetsu holding Chibi.
"When did-" I interrupt Peace.
"When you first attacked me, Chibi made a break for it." We all go to the first floor where we are greeted by All Might with some stretcher bots by him.
"Thank you, hero team, for showing a splendid match, please go see Recovery girl."
"I'm all right, I'll go later I want to see what everybody else has in store. You guys going?" I reply Chibi yawns and goes to sleep on my head.
"I'm good too, Cortney didn't hurt me too badly. Yosetsu Jurota are you staying too?" Peace declines All Might's offer.
"Sure, we never landed an attack on each other." Jurota agrees and they stay.
"Suit yourselves." All Might leads us back to the monitoring room where we're greeted by everyone.
"Are you ok Cortney?" Tetsu runs over to me and I reassure him I'm ok.
"My vest is destroyed, but other than that I'm completely ok." Thank goodness I decided to wear my wraps because my vest is gone. Peace gave me her waistcoat, she had a red shirt underneath.
"ALL RIGHT STUDENTS!" All Might draws our attention back to him.
"While it was a great fight there were problems, who can tell me what they were." Axel raises his hand.
"Yes, you there young man."
"The biggest problem was massive collateral damage, while Chibi got the win because he cut down an entire wall to do it. A lot of problems could have occurred from that. Also." Axel turns his gaze on me and Peace.
"Peace you should check to see if you knocked out Cortney and tried to capture her, Cortney when you grappled Peace you just held her down, you didn't even try to use the capture tape."
"Correct, a hero should always try to avoid collateral damage." All Might praise Axel's observations.
"It's time for the next match. I have already drawn the other matches. The next up for the heroes are team E, Setsuna Tokage and Yui Kodai. And the villains are team G, Pony Tsunotori and Ibara Shiozaki." They step forward and receive their capture tape and earpieces, he also gives Pony a map.
"That's where you'll be fighting, prep time will start once you enter the building." I wish good luck to Pony as she leaves.
Perspective Pony
I went all out on the horse part of quirk for my costume so people can hang on, I have a horse harness on my head, belts on my biceps, torso, and shoulders. A long, tight aqua blue shirt with light blue sections, red fingerless gloves, light yellow pants and aqua blue hoof guards with stirrups and the band Cortney gave me on my horn.
We reach the place marked on the map. It's just like the one Cortney and Peace fought in and the weapon is at the front door.
"You ready?" I ask Ibara, her costume gives her the look of a Greek goddess. She wearing a plain white robe and black knee-high boots.
"I hope I can be useful." I pick up the weapon and enter.
"Your prep time has started you have five minutes." We start looking for a place to defend/hide the weapon. We find a nice spot on the fourth floor and start thinking of a game plan.
"What is your quirk Ibara? I mainly focus on charging at enemies." Her quirk has to do with her vine hair.
"My quirk is vines, I can control the vines on my head." Her vines stretch out and wrap around my arm, she detaches the vines leaving a vine bundle on my arm.
"My vines grow back quickly, but if I do it too much and I can get dehydrated. Also, I can still control the cutoff vines." So that's why she carries water bottles.
"Ok, I have a plan."
"Heroes vs Villains training begin!"
Monitoring room
Setsuna costume consists of a short, thick red scarf, a short sleeve green bodysuit with the stomach tan with short suit legs.
Yui's costume is a simple, duel-colored cap on her head and a dark bodysuit with light patches on her chest, arms, and legs with elbow-length gloves and a belt sitting around her waist along with a small bag to one side and a short skirt under it. She has straps over both of her shoulders with tiny pouches attached at the front.
Setsuna follows Yui. They search the first floor and find nothing. On the second floor, they run into a few surprises a few vine bundles pop out from the wall and block the hallways and stairs, Setsuna is able to cut through them but it takes some time. The villains show themselves on the third floor, Pony charges Setsuna down a hallway and away from Yui. Yui keeps going, Setsuna drags her heels in the ground to stop her. She then throws Pony off her.
Training Building
"Hey catch!" I say to Setsuna before I fire off one of my horns, she blocks it, but I kick her in the gut while she's distracted, she nearly swipes me but I flip back to put some room between us. She tries attacking me, but I manage to dodge it by grabbing her arm. Setsuna smiles before her arm just falls off.
"EEK!" I throw the arm away and it floats back to Setsuna. I'm so freaked out that I completely forget about Setsuna. Who uses the opportunity to slash my back.
Monitoring room
The entire room is silent after watching what just happened even All Might is freaked out. Pony just ripped Setsuna's arm off and used the opportunity to her advantage.
"LOOK! Yui found the weapon." Cortney points everyone's attention away from that fight.
Before Yui can take a step towards the weapon, vines instantly wrap around her.
Training Building
"That's as far as you're going." Ibara states as she goes to grab her capture tape
"Do you think that's really going to help?" Ibara questions Yui's logic, but the vines around Yui start growing letting Yui get away.
Setsuna is much stronger than I thought since she can stop my charges. I'm currently on the ground due to my last attempt. I see Setsuna talking on her earpiece, seeing my chance, I press my hands down and do a spinning handstand.
Flashback 2015
"You want us to what?" I'm showing Cortney a concept book of ideas I picked up from animes.
"I want you guys to help me learn Sanji's fighting style, it's perfect for me and you said I have great leg strength." She's suspect.
"What brought this up?" Cortney is the one person I expected to be on board immediately.
"I want to be able to fight by your side. I'm useless if the only I can do is just charge." Cortney puts her hand on my head and mimics Luffy's famous smile.
"Alright, we'll do it, but don't expect me to teach you the Diable Jambe technique."
Present
I trip up Setsuna and backs off from me. I make it seem like I'm about to shoot another horn at her but run straight at her.
"Shippuu Dash!" I dash behind her and kick her in the back, I follow up by trying to stomp her, she rolls out the way but I crack the ground a little. She gets up and goes to claw me again, I wait until the last second.
"Grand Horn Blitz!" I dash out of the way and wrap my tape around her and finish it off by bucking into the roof with my horns. I check to make sure she can't escape, she struggles, but can't get out. I run back to the weapon room to give Ibara some help, it takes me a minute to get back, but I kick open the door to see Ibara keeping Yui busy, I charge Yui to the ground and slam my hoof into Yui's chest, she's reaching into one of her bags to grab something but I use the vines Ibara wrapped around my arms to lock her down.
"Both Heroes are captured, the Villains win!" All Might shouts, Ibara unties Yui and I go downstairs to cut Setsuna out the capture tape and we return to the Monitoring room. Cortney greets me with a fist bump.
"Good job." She says but she then yawns.
"You okay?" I ask because it looks like she's about to fall asleep.
"Just tired, I'm going to the nurse's office to sleep."
"I did get hit, I'm coming too." I add, just before she leaves, she gives Tetsu a kiss on the cheek.
"Good my iron shield." She leaves and I follow after her. In the nurse's office, we see a short elderly woman with a syringe in her hair, a doctor's lab coat touching the floor, a dress with yellow and red vest-like designs on the sides, two yellow buttons and a pink belt. She's wearing Pinks boots and a helmet with a visor and a syringe shaped cane.
"Hello dearies, how may I help you?" She asks.
"I'm good, I'm just going to crash on a bed." Cortney states, before walking to a bed and falling asleep instantly.
"How about you, dear?" I show her my back.
"Is it bad?" I ask.
"No, but turn around." I turn around and see her stretch lips to kiss my head, I feel better but also tired.
"What did you do?" I take a seat on a bed as I can barely stand.
"That was my quirk, I can boost your healing, but it uses your own energy so you may feel tired afterward." She explains.
"I guess I'm sleeping here too." I lay down on the bed before falling asleep as well.
Monitoring room
"It's time for the next fight, and the villains are team H, Neito Monoma and Juzo Honenuki, and the heroes are team C, Nirengeki Shoda, and Shihai Kuroiro." The teams go up to All Might.
Neito, a blonde-haired boy costume is a navy blue tuxedo, a light violet shirt with a popped collar underneath, a purple tie with black dots, a belt with pocket watches attached and black dress shoes.
Juzo, someone who resembles a titan than a person, his costume is a dark suit with an armor kit and a helmet. Juzo's helmet is a dark round, elliptical helmet with light straight lines and light edges which only covers about 75% of his head and a bit of his hair and chin can still be seen finished off with metal boots. His boots are short but he has metal tube plates around his thighs and calves, and also wears short clear gloves.
They're told where to go and leave to start preparing. After Prep time is over, the heroes enter, the first to enter is Shihai, his costume is just black jumpsuit with light shoes and large wristband on his left arm with three rectangular indentations.
Following close by is Nirengeki, his costume is a black suit with a high collar. It has white lines on the along the edge, on his shoulder and on his chest. He also wears some sort of scouter over his left eye and a radar in the back of his gloved left hand. He won the award for the coolest costume, hands down.
The fight doesn't last very long, Juzo and Neito make Nirengeki and Shihai fall through the floor once, but Shihai absorbs Juzo into himself and Neito goes down pretty easy.
"The hero team wins!" Shihai spits out Juzo and Neito is escorted to the nurse's office.
Monitoring room
"On to the next fight. The villains are team I, Itsuka Kendo and Reiko Yanagi. The heroes are team B, Kosei Tsuburaba and Hirya Rin." Itsuka's costume is a black domino mask, light blue qipao dress, a black corset, brown utility belt, black booty shorts and dark gray shoes with a light gray lining.
And Reiko, a girl with a bang covering her left eye. Her costume is a white, knee-length kimono with a furred collar, three dark straps around her waist, knee-high socks and a black mask that covers her face from the bridge of her nose down.
After their prep time is up, the heroes enter and Hirya enters first while growing scales on his arms, his costume is a red Kung-fu shirt with a Green dragon design on the back and white cuffs, white pants with a black belt tucked in and black's shoes.
Kosei costume is a black domino mask, a red jacket, a black and orange striped shirt, dark red pants and black shoes.
When Kosei and Rin find the weapon, Reiko makes Rin float, then throws him out a window. Hirya doesn't fare much better, Itsuka enlarges her hands and smashes Hirya.
"Time's up! The weapon is safe, meaning the villains win." Hirya and Kosei are escorted to the nurse's office.
Monitoring room
"It's time for the last match of the day, due to the size of your class this match will be a 3 vs 3. The villains are team J, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu…" All Might does a double-take to make sure he said it right. "Sen Kaibara and Togaru Kamakiri. And the heroes are team D, Kinoki Komori, Kojiro Bondo, and Axel Gallavancer." He gives us our items and we head to our destination. Tetsu's costume is a dark green sleeveless jumpsuit with metal boots and metal straps over his shoulders, the straps connect at a red circle on his chest. He also has metal bands around his biceps and a mask.
Sen, a black-haired boy who hasn't said a lot walks up, his costume is windbreaker with rings around the base of the neck and arm with a large trench coat covering him and black glove.
Togaru looks like the roadrunner with a Green color scheme and Green mohawk and two big pincers on his face. His costume is a large, dark cloak and plain black trousers and boots. He has a mask around his eyes and a zig-zag pattern on his shirt.
Once the villains' prep time starts, I talk to my teammates to come up with a strategy. My costume is goggles like on my head, the capture scarf Cortney's mom made me, a dark blue hoodie with a lot of zippers, black pants with straps and zippers and black boots.
Kinoki's costume is a turtleneck dress with long sleeves and furred cuffs, which is decorated with a red and white fly agaric pattern, matching the one on her mushroom cap-shaped hat. She wears pale pink knee-high boots with thick tan soles and frilled shafts, patterned with the same fly agaric as her dress, and around her waist is a dark brown belt with a large golden buckle.
Kojiro, whose head looks like a giant glue bottle is my teammate. His costume is a pale, slightly baggy suit. Around his neck, wrists, and waist, he wears circular accessories which resemble the lower part of the cap of a bottle of glue, and around his ankles slightly thinner, taller versions of these.
"Alright, tell me what your quirks are." Kojiro points at the eyes holes on his face as a White substance leaks from it.
"What is that?" It takes all willpower to not laugh when Kojiro speaks.
"Glue." His whole head goes up like a puppet when he speaks.
"Cool. And what about you Kinoki?" Kimoki shakes her head and spores come out when they land mushrooms pop out.
"Mushroom spores awesome, my quirk is Data Reader, I gather information on people and can even copy mutation quirks, but it takes five minutes." I unzip the sleeves off my hoodie and tuck them in one of my jacket pockets. Then two extra arms and webbing appear on my arms, I dismiss them and pull up the zipper on the back of my pants, so the engines have room to appear. I dismiss them and zip my pants down.
"I have a plan," I tell my teammates.
"Prep time up, heroes enter!"
Just when we enter I stop them, "Hold up…" I summon my arms and transform the hands into ears and listen.
"They're all in the basement. Watch out." We walk into the basement and immediately attacked by a steel cover Tetsu, I grab him and throw him against a wall.
"Quick Kijiro glue him to the wall." Just before the glue hits Tetsu a spinning arm intercepts it. The arm belongs to Sen, he kicks me with a spinning foot and Kinoki manages to dodge out the way, but he grabs Kijiro and with the help of Tetsu they choke slam Kijiro.
"Now you're down a teammate." Tetsu taunts, I slide my goggles on and summon my arms once again grabbing both Sen and Tetsu followed by pinning all us to the floor.
"Kinoki spread out your spores and make a run for the weapon, all of them are distracted." Kinoki doesn't think twice about my plan she spread out spores and a bunch of mushrooms appears and one pushes against me giving me some extra leverage to hold Tetsu and Togaru down.
"Get off me. Sen stop her!" Togaru shouts, but Sen can't do anything.
"I'M GLUED TO THE FLOOR!" Sen states. Kinoki touches the weapon.
"The weapon has been captured, the hero team wins." I let go of Togaru and Tetsu, who rubs his face.
"That hurt, you know." Tetsu stares at me and I just shrug.
"Sorry, I needed to keep you down, but we have a bigger problem. How are we going to get the glue off Sen." The answer appears right before.
"I'll pry them apart." We all jump back at All Might sudden appearance and before we can say anything, All Might is already here and Sen is standing again.
We meet back up with everyone at the tunnel where we first met up, "You have great potential, I hope you continue to improve. Now get out your costumes and go back to class." He rushes out the last part before sprinting down the tunnel with a trail of dust following him.
"Um, he sure wanted to bounce." Itsuka says we head to the locker rooms to undress.
Kim: So you finally decided to show yourself, Mom. Why?
?: I wanted to give you something, hold out your hands. I hold out my hands and in a blackish fire appears a book that looks a lot like Cortney's Diary with chains covering it and two locks on it. One of the locks has two horns on it and the other has a dragon tail on the bottom.
Kim: What am I supposed to do with this?
?: Your partner unintentionally locked away their own heart. Once you lock that book I can begin properly training you. That's the last thing she says before leaving and I just stare at the book.
Kim: Open Cortney's heart?
Writer: BTW, I just revised most of the chapters.