Hopefully, I should be able to get two chapters out this week. Sorry for the lack of chapters I hope to make it up. I was right.
Chapter cover- Hina in the center with her back turned away from the viewer.
Ch.24 Crushing hope
July 7
The final exam has come, we all passed the written exam now comes the practical exams, we're all in our hero costumes standing the teachers. They announce that we'll be fighting them due to the recent villain attacks. The goal is simple, one of us make it to the exit or put handcuffs on the teacher and do it in 30 minutes. If we're knocked out or fail to complete one of our objectives, we fail. In order to make it a little fair, the teachers will be wearing super compact bracelets (Created by Mei Hatsume) to handicap themselves. Not that it's going to mean much.
"Oh by the way, if you're knock out then you automatically fail." Mom tells u
The first match will be me and Tetsu versus Hina, which surprises me since I thought I would be fighting All Might but he'll be going against Ibara and Shihai.
Matches:
Match 1: Cortney Tan and Tetsutetsu vs. Hina
Match 2: Peace Miglow and Itsuka Kendo vs. Ectoplasm
Match 3: Shihai Kuroiro and Ibara Shiozaki vs. All Might
Match 4: Juzo Honenuki and Kosei Tsuburaba vs. Midnight
Match 5: Kinoko Komori and Nirengeki Shoda vs. 13
Match 6: Yosetsu Awase and Setsuna Tokage vs. Nezu
Match 7: Neito Monoma and Axel Gallavancer vs. Revival
Match 8: Togaru Kamakiri and Yui Kodai vs. Power Loader
Match 9: Kojiro Bondo and Pony Tsunotori vs. Present Mic
Match 10: Sen Kaibara and Reiko Yanagi vs. Vlad King
Match 11: Hiryu Rin and Jurota Shishida vs. Snipe
Ground beta
Me and Tetsu are making our way to the exit when out of nowhere Hina pops from an alley swinging her club, I try to block it but Hina is much stronger and sends me flying into a building. Tetsu goes to attack but Hina catches his punch and grinds him into the ground with her club.
This fight is going very tough since Hina isn't a stationary fighter like Cementoss, Peace told us Hina's quirk allows her to increase her strength the drunker she is, but the problem is that Hina can handle her alcohol. We can't win in a direct fight with Hina, so me and Tetsu are better of just running. The weights aren't doing shit to slow Hina down.
After getting unstuck I activate Devil Trigger and rush in to help Tetsu, "Stunner!" My attack is successful and I try to slap the cuffs on Hina but she recovers faster than I thought and steals the cuffs from me.
"Sorry kid, but I'm not letting you get the easy way out. If you can't beat me here than you can't call yourself a hero." Hina spits out after my pitiful attempt. Not letting her get the last word, I rush at Hina trying to ax-kick her head. She blocks it with her club but Tetsu is free to whale on her. Even though Tetsu landed a great series of hits on Hina, she's barely fazed.
We run away and make a break for the exit, but Hina isn't letting us escape that easy. I launch a Flush to try and slow her down but powers through it using her sheer strength. Hina swings her club at the ground, leaving a noticeable crater and shaking the ground below us forcing us to stop. She takes a swig from a saki bottle before trying to attack me again with Tetsu's help, we're able to stop her this time. Holy shit, Hina is stupidly strong since it's taking both me in second gear and Tetsu to block ONE of her attacks.
Hina let's go of her club allowing her to punch Tetsu hard enough to spin him around then bull-rushing me into another building, getting me stuck again.
A few days ago.
The teachers are deciding, who they're going up against.
"First up, Cortney. She's an all-rounder who will cooperate with anyone and quick on her feet. And there's Tetsutetsu, who relies on his quirk to brute force himself through any situation." Ms. Tan states the students who are first up.
"Let me deal with them," Hina says after taking a sip of her drink, "I can easily break through their defenses, plus I can shrug off most of their attacks." She explains why she wants to go against them.
Present
"Sorry to tell you kid but you failed." Hina says before taking a swig from a black saki bottle, "Ogre Shakedown!" then pummeling me further into the building with a flurry of punches.
"Now- hic, what happened to the other one?" Hina says drunkenly, looking over my unconscious body.
"RIGHT HERE!" Tetsu yells while punching Hina in the jaw but she is unaffected.
"Sorry buddy, but you and your girlfriend are failing today." Hina stammers out preparing to end our exam. I managed to stay conscious during Hina's onslaught but I'm at my limit, I probably have only one attack left before I'm done.
"Tetsu," I call out, Tetsu slips past Hina and pulls me out. I have to rely on Tetsu to keep me up. I hold out my left arm and dump every bit of power into it, I find enough power to stand on my own, Tetsu punches Hina in the chest but she just mocks him.
"Is that really the best you have?" Hina jokes.
"No. Because I'm here, Tetsu's Jackhammer!" I add my own power to Tetsu's punch finally bypassing Hina's defenses getting her to let out an audible grunt. Not letting up we trip her up and I manage to get our handcuffs back and get them on her. Giving us our passing mark.
"And that's how we do it," I say to Hina while using Tetsu as a crutch.
"Team Tetsutetsu and Cortney have passed." An announcement reveals our results.
"We did it." Tetsu cheers out, but I can barely move.
"Um, Tetsu you're gonna have to carry me. Because Hina punched the feeling out my legs." I explain, Tetsu switches to carrying me princess style and I fall asleep in his arms.
Monitoring Room
Axel and Neito just watched what went down to try and come up with a strategy for themselves but their both speechless.
"Hey, guys what happened?" Pony enters to see their expressions.
"Cortney got the shit beaten out of her." Axel bluntly responses, and how else is he to describe the events that took place?
"Peace and Itsuka please report to Ground Delta." A voice announces the next match.
Ground Delta Perspective Peace
We're up against Ectoplasm and he probably is going to keep us busy with his clones before landing the finishing blow against us.
Thanks to Endeavor, I can now fly using my quirk and not solely rely on my gauntlets. However, I can't carry someone during flight so Itsuka stuck to the ground, as we're making our way to the exit multiple Ectoplasms appear.
I blast a few of them away but they just keep coming, "I was right he's trying to tired us out." My assumption was correct but the problem is getting past them while using as little of our resources as possible.
"BOOK IT!" I yell to Itsuka who knocks the clones in front of her away. As they try to chase after us, I breathe out a wall of fire to give us some cover. Our whole strategy is to avoid fighting as much as we only get rid of the clones in our way because when we kill one Ectoplasm can make new one.
It seems our plan is working as after a while we stop seeing Ectoplasm clones, and we're in front of the exit spotting what has to be the real Ectoplasm.
"Good job getting this far, but that's as far as your going." Ectoplasm praises us before exhaling a massive clone of himself, "Giant Bite Detention!"
The clone catches us, leaving us unable to move, my fire isn't having any effect on it meaning, "Itsuka I have to use blue flames when I get us free…Take out Ectoplasm." I tell Itsuka.
"Don't count us out just yet." I say as Ectoplasm tilts his head to the side confused, wondering what we have up our sleeves before he can say anything, I ignite into my blue flames burning myself free then grabbing Itsuka throwing her at Ectoplasm, "GO!" I yell Itsuka before Ectoplasm can react, Itsuka enlarges her fist and smashes into the ground.
"G-go work." I mutter out in my daze.
"Team Peace and Itsuka have passed."
"Woo." I try to say but I have to put my zipper in my mouth, trying not to burn out.
"So that's the purpose of the zipper." Itsuka responds to me.
Monitoring Room
"That's two. Hey Recover Girl, how many people failed in Class A?" I ask out of curiosity.
"Five people in total." I put Neito in a headlock before he can go into his crazy mode.
"Focus you, crazy idiot, we're going against Cortney's mother, and I need you sane." I don't need him focusing on one-upping Class A. We need to come up with a plan.
"Alright alright, uncle!" I let him go.
As this was all happening during Ibara and Shihai's exam. He was not holding as the first thing he did was obliterate the street he was on with a single smash but when it looks bleak Shihai with some help from Ibara manages to hold him back long enough for Ibara to escape.
"Team Ibara and Shihai have passed." But it looks All Might hit his time limit before he could say something making Ibara run away thinking she hurt him.
Switch perspective Cortney
"That hit the spot," I say to Tetsu as I rub my stuffed belly as we try to find the screening room as we search for it, I hear someone crying.
"Is that Ibara?" I ask recognizing her voice, Tetsu also hears it and we find Ibara in an empty room in the fetal position.
"Ibara, what happened you passed against All Might of all people, so you should be happy."
"…I did something awful… and no matter how much I apologize and repent… I can never make it up." She says as she cries her eyes out, I whistle for Chibi while that happens me and Tetsu seat down next to our friend to support her.
"I don't know what happened and I know you don't like fighting…but-" The words I need fail to come up as I try to word my next statement.
"I-I was forced to attack A-All Might," Ibara explained while falling apart again, lip quivering and body shaking, "an-nd when I-I found him, he-he coughed up blood." Ibara scrunched her dress between her hands and squeezed her eyes shut again. "I h-hurt All Might that badly… I'm a terrible person!"
I give Ibara the biggest hug I can, "No your not, because I think the teachers are trying their damndest to kill us, and the blood thing. Tetsu cover your ears." Tetsu covers his ears and I whisper into Ibara's ear what's going with All Might, which causes her to do a complete one-eighty.
"And trust me you're in better shape than when Dekuy and Kachy went against him, you're able to move still. They couldn't move afterward." I finish off, before pulling Tetsu's fingers out his ears, just in time for Chibi to find us with All Might in tow.
"I have something to say." I kick All Might in the stomach as hard as I can, "YOU WENT OVERBOARD AGAIN AND YOU'RE A TERRIBLE TEACHER!" Followed by a short rant All Might must have burned up the last of his power for the day as steam starts to pour out of him.
"Young Shiozaki I'm sorry for forcing to get violent but-" I stop him there so he doesn't transform back to normal in front of us.
"Just go." All Might doesn't have room to argue so he just books it out of there as fast as he can, once he's gone I turn back to Ibara, "Hey Ibara how much do you weigh again?"
"68 kilograms, why?" Ibara looks at me with worry in her eyes.
"Could you ride on Chibi's back? I need to see how well Chibi can move while carrying someone." Ibara pats Chibi on the head while waiting for her answer.
"Alright." She gets on Chibi with her legs to the side and Chibi barely seems to notice her as he leads us back to the screening room with everyone who has gone already plus Axel, Neito, and Pony.
"Hey, Ibara you good?" Axel asks, to which she gives him a nod.
"Yes, Cortney and Tetsu gave me some encouragement so I'm fine now."
"Currently Cortney holds the worst beatdown award, and you hold the award for most collateral damage for slamming All Might through a building." Axel jokes.
"You smashed All Might through a building!? Fuck you, Hina sent me into a building twice and pummeled the living shit of me, if you don't know, Hian hits like a fret train." I yell at Ibara with some fury in my voice scaring her because our fights ended differently then I expected.
"I'm fine now." I reassure everyone, "Look, the next match starting." Pointing to the screen.
"And Juzo and Kosei hold the speedrun award." Axel comments and they got the award fair and square as Juzo used his quirk swim under the ground while Kosei kept Midnight busy, Juzo slapped the cuffs on her ankles and that end of it.
Meanwhile, 13 has Kinoko in their grasp and it looks like his fight or flight instinct are about to kick in, will he make a break for it or save Kinoko?
"He's fighting," I say out of the blue and in what seems like a blur Shoda is standing where 13 was, holding Kinoko while 13 sails through the air.
"Team Shoda and Kinoko have passed." Everyone is staring on in shock wondering what just happened including me.
"Did anyone get the number of that truck?" I half-joke/seriously ask that super move Shoda pulled out was on par with my Sixth gear in terms of speed. We're stuck like this until the next match.
"Team Yosetsu and Setsuna. Practical exam: begin." The match immediately begins with Nezu trying to bring the entirety of Field Gamma down on them while stopping them from escaping forcing them to confront him if they want to pass.
They try to capture Nezu while he's in a crane but he manages to slip past them, "It's kinda cute how Nezu runs." I comment, I mean his body isn't built for running up-right so he's running on all fours. They manage to trap him in a corner when they go to grab him, Nezu jumps over Yosetsu's head and scurries off however before he can escape Setsuna sees him off with some dead weight. She grabbed Nezu's tail and singling the end as Yosetsu grabbed the arm as he was trying to escape.
"Team Awase and Tokage have passed."
"Hey, did Axel and Neito go already?" Pony asks which I rely to.
"Yep, Neito took Tetsu and Itsuka's quirk and bolted while piggybacking on Axel's back."
Switch perspective Axel
We're fighting in a city area meaning we don't know where she'll be or how she's fighting us.
"How come we aren't just flying to the exit?" Neito questions me seeing how easy that would be.
"Because could easily snipe us. So just make a break for the exit- *BANG* Before I can finish my sentence a bullet lands right in front of our feet, our eyes trail where the bullet came from and in front of us is Ms. Tan with her chain in one hand and a revolver in the another.
"You got another thing coming if I you think I'm even considering letting you run." I try to wrap her with my scarf but she counters by throwing her chain to stop it, Neito enlarges one of his hands trying to smash her but she catches it effortlessly using her free hand and takes aim with her revolver, right at Neito's head. He hardens in response just as she pulls the trigger.
Neito withstands the shot but I see him crack, summoning my wings I grab Neito and take flight, "I thought you said flying was a bad option?" Neito ask me.
"It only takes two shots before those rounds bypass your steel, so you can't rely on it for defense. We need to come up with a strategy." I inform Neito as something meets us in the air.
Suddenly we're hit by a paralyzing sound grenade causing us to crash-land on a roof where we find Ms. Tan on the building across from us, "I told you already you are NOT escaping." Luckily the sonic grenade didn't affect us too badly and we get ready to fight but Ms. Tan suddenly throws her chain faster than I can track and wraps me in it.
"I'll deal with you one at a time." says walking towards Neito I need to break free to help Neito he only has one minute left, this time Neito attacks with an enlarge fist.
I transform into Chibi so I slip out of my entrapment, I transform back and while her back is turned, I wrap my scarf around her and toss into the air and into an alley before grabbing Neito and running for the exit with my engines on full blast.
"Great job back there, listen, Ms. Tan lost her chain so we don't have to worry about that thing again-" Out the corner of my eye I see Ms. Tan chasing us from the buildings with her sniper-rifle in hand.
"White Sting." Time slows as I see the bullet travel towards us.
"AXEL!" Neito pushes me out the way and takes the full brunt of the attack himself, I see his unconscious body.
"Neito Monoma has failed." An automated voice announces.
"Pathetic." Mom laughs out, "He had so much potential but he wasted it saving your sorry hide." she is taking her role as a villain seriously but she doesn't mind that she could have really killed Neito.
Monitoring room
Everyone is speechless at the events unfolding even Recovery Girl but the people taking it the hardest are Itsuka and Cortney. Itsuka because she just watched her childhood friend get blown up and fail all without the teacher giving a single care, and for Cortney, she got a first-hand look at her mother old persona and it's absolutely scary, she really was a murderer, she didn't check to see if Neito ok, she just moved on.
Fight
"Your next," Ms. Tan says while pointing her gun at Axel, "Give up now and I'll make your end swift." she spits out.
I'm not letting Neito's sacrifice be in vain in order for me to win I need to go plus ultra, I pull up the left sleeve of my costume and hold my arm in front of me thinking what Kirishima and Tetsu told me about hardening then biting down on my arm as hard as I can.
Instead of biting into flesh, I make contact with steel, I'm amazed that worked that I temporary forget about the fight. My bubble is popped, when a bullet whizzes past my face.
Suddenly Ms. Tan is in front of me about to punch me, I managed to block it with my steel-covered arm but still sends me backward, I use my scarf to grab her leg and before she has a chance to react I switch back to my engines.
"Recipro Exxxxtend!" Shooting past her while I drag her across the ground before I stopping and swinging Ms. Tan into a building, smashing her so hard that I leave her stuck but she's still up. I slap the cuffs on her where she returns to normal.
"Congrats'." She says but I leave to check on Neito, he's fine besides some damage to his costume using Tetsu's quirk, he negated most of the attack.
"Axel has passed." Back in the monitoring room everybody is cheering at Axel's plus ultra win, they go to check on their friends with Recovery Girl where is already with them.
"That was dangerous you could have killed them." Recovery Girl scolds Ms. Tan for her reckless behavior while hitting her with her cane.
"Yes, I know it was but it helped them go past their limits. And don't worry about Neito I was using a low payload for my explosive bullets, so at most he will have a concussion." tries to ease everyone.
"Still reckless!" But Recovery Girl isn't having any of it.
"Is Neito going to be ok?" Itsuka asks in a panic, Recovery Girl gives Neito a once-over.
"Yes, but he will not wake up until the of the exam."
"I-is fine if I stay with him?" Itsuka's request is accepted, her friends say bye to her before going back to the monitoring room.
2 hours later
"So Prince Crazy is awake." The first thing Neito hears upon waking is Cortney announcing his slumber.
"Ugh, my head." Neito looks around and sees Itsuka next to him.
"She stuck by you...also you've out for about 2 hours and everyone beside you passed, and to summarizes the other matches. Jurota tried to mall Snipe but failed, but Hiryu got through the goal. Yui yeeted Togaru past Powerloader and distracted him long enough for Togaru to get the goal. Pony stampeded Present Mic because he couldn't get out the way in time. Finally, Yosetsu and Reiko got the award for the most creative win, Yosetsu welded Vlad's blood down and couldn't get causing him to faint." While Cortney brings Neito and Itsuka up to speed, Neito is happy that he can brag to Class A, that Class B is better, but he still failed.
"Actually get out of your costumes and come back to class my mom has an announcement."
Class 1-B
"That the exams are over I have an announcement, everybody will be coming to the training camp even if you failed." announces exciting everyone , "It will be a week Bootcamp, and once again we'll be putting you through hell-" Only for the room to get dead quiet, "Especially for you Neito as you'll have extra lessons because you failed."
"Other than that the destination will be a secret until the day of the event, and the trip will be the week after the next. Have fun until then everyone." She says before leaving with her gone everyone gets ready to leave.
"Hey everybody-" Pony calls attention to herself, "I have a great idea, let's go to beach I hear Dagobah amazing."
"That sounds awesome let's do it!" Cortney seconds.
"I'll see if Himi come along." Axel follows up.
"And see if Bakugo wants to come too." Peace chimes up.
Everyone says their coming, "Wait, girls can you help me find a swimsuit?" Cortney asks.
Writer: And that's the end of season 2, I want to say thank you of reading up to this point and the movie special will be on hold until someone uploads it. Also, I have a few different chapters planned so expect season until next year (2019 for people reading this in the future) but that's all I have to say for now- Thanatos: Yes, next chapter will be a fluff chapter so expect a lot of cute. Delaila: And for those wondering about Chibi not being there for Cortney in the exams. His quirk could be dangerous so the school decided to just forbid Chibi from fighting and have his fate be connected to Cortney so if she failed, Chibi failed as well. T: For now that's all we have to say now- D: And remember- T, D & W: GO BEYOND PPPLUS ULTRA.
Minxs: So this the League of Villain. This isn't what I was expecting. (Enters)
Dabi: Who the hell are you?
M: Minxs. And I'm not taking hate from the living scar museum plus I think we're on the same side.
D: What do you mean, think?!
M: Hey mist guy, this is the league hideout right?
Kurogiri: Yes, unfortunately, Torma is gone-
M: That means we're teammates now so it's better that we're not on shaky ground.