"I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused!"
Yuko laughed as Izuku bowed in front of them, smoke coming out of his nose as he apologized.
"Deku, thanks for all your hard work!" Uraraka cheered, for what? Yuko didn't know.
"'Hard work"? Why does he look so angry, anyway?" Yuko laughed even more as Kyouka pointed it out.
"I don't know, but it's funny!" She clapped, looking at Kyouka who sweatdropped at the girl.
"Iida, I'm sorry for disappointing you!" The greenette shouted at the male, who awkwardly accepted it.
"Right... I'm glad you know what you did wrong. But what's the matter?" Iida asked the question they were all wondering. Well, everyone but Yuko, who was still trying to still her giggles at the angry male.
"I'm going to catch up with everything I fell behind in these past three days!" Izuku declared.
"That's great! I love stuff like that!" Kirishima grinned.
"In your seats, everyone." Aizawa ordered, Yuko letting out a squeak of surprise, before she quickly scrambled to her seat.
"Morning." He greeted, after everyone was seated, "now that Midoriya is back, we'll go into more details about the work studies." He looked over at the door, "please come in."
The door slid open, Yuko looking over with a tilt of her head, "we'll have people who experienced it first hand tell you about how these are different from the internships. Listen carefully."
Yuko grinned as a familiar face came into view, "the three third years at U.A who stand at the top of all U.A students. Also known as the Big Three."
"The top of all U.A students... The Big Three..." The class stared in awe at the group, while Yuko grinned at one of the three.
"Big Three!" Mina cheered.
"The crown among the splendid U.A students..." Iida muttered.
"The ones closest to pro heroes among us..." Momo stated.
"I heard that they're the ones we're supposed to be like..." Kyouka added.
"There's someone really pretty, too... They don't seem like it." Denki whispered from beside her.
"Okay, can you please introduce yourselves briefly? Let's start with Amajiki." Yuko's eyebrows furrowed, giving a small shake of her head.
Everyone tensed as the elf eared male gave them a intense stare, "it's no good..." Yuko frowned as the male began to shake, "Mirio, Hado... Even if I look out on them imagining that they're potatoes, everything other than their heads remain human. I still can't see them as anything but human. What should I do? I can't...say anything..." Class A blinked in confusion at the shaking male.
"My mind's...blank...I can't..." He turned, facing the wall, "I want to go home." This caused Class A to look over in shocked confusion.
"Um," Ojirio frowned, "you are the top of U.A's hero course, right?" The blond questioned.
"Oh, listen, Amajiki! That's called having the heart of a flea! Even though you're human! It's so strange!" The blue haired female, or "pretty girl" as Denki called her, smiled.
"This is the flea, Tamaki Amajiki." The female faced them with a smile, gesturing to Tamaki, "and then, I'm Nejire Hado. We were asked to talk to you guys about work studies. But wait..." She kneeled in front of Shoji blinking at him.
"Hey, hey, why are you wearing a mask? Are you sick? Trying to look cool?" She moved closer, causing him to move back as much as he can.
"This is because in the past..." She interrupted him, jumping up.
"You must be Todoroki, right? Right? How did you get burned right there?" She pried.
"That's..." She turned to Mina, pointing at her.
"Ashido, if your horns break off, will new ones grow in? Can you move them? Well?" She looked over at the pervert of their class, not allowing Mina to answer.
"Mineta, are those balls of yours hair? How do you get a haircut?" She quickly turned to Tsu, "Asui, you're a tree frog--not a toad, right?"
She faced the class, bouncing on her feet, "there's so much I want to know about all of you! It's so strange!"
"She's got the natural airhead thing going! It's cute." Denki sighed dreamily.
"She's like a kindergartener..." Mina awkwardly smiled.
"She wants to know about my balls?" Minoru drueled, "wait a minute, that's sexual harassment, you know!" Yuko threw a piece of balled up paper at the male, annoyed.
"That's not what she meant." Hanta waved off.
"Hey, hey, Ojiro, can you support your whole body with your tail?" Nejire continued to question.
"U-Um..." Mashirao sweatdropped.
"Hey, hey, tell me! I wanna know!" She grinned, moving closer.
Aizawa looked over at the last of the Big Three to be introduced, "isn't this lacking rationality?"
"Don't worry, Eraser Head!" The male with the blond hair, Mirio Togata, waved, "I'm going last to wrap things up, right?"
He looked over Class A, bending with his hand cupping his ear, "the future's gonna be...?" Yuko tilted her head in confusion.
"Gonna be what?"
"Grim!" The male smiled, "that's what you were s'posed to say, right?" The male straighted, rubbing the back of his head.
"All right, so my call-and-response was a huge fail!" He laughed, moving to stand behind the teacher's podium.
"Well. you guys look like you're not sure what's going on, huh? We're third years who suddenly appeared to explain about work studies that aren't even required. That's confusing, right?" He placed a hand on his chin, looking them over.
"You guys got your provisional licenses, right? This year's first years are really...energetic, right? Besides, it looked like my jokes didn't work earlier, right?" This grabbed both Nejire's and Tamaki's attention.
"Why don't you all fight me at once?" Yuko blinked, straightening out in her seat as she processed his words.
"Wh... What?!" The class chorused in shock.
"Fight you?"
"Out if the blue?"
"It's the most rational to have you all experience our experience, right? How about it, Eraser Head?" He grinned, looking over at Class A's teacher.
"Do what you want." Aizawa dismissed.
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Yuko rocked on the balls of her feet, standing beside Shoto, Aizawa on the other side of him. The rest of Class A -minus Katsuki- stood in front of Mirio as he stretched.
"Are you serious?" Hanta questioned.
"Totally serious!" Mirio answered.
"Mirio you probably shouldn't." Tamaki mumbled, "for the work studies, it would've been enough to say, "This is how it is, and I learned a lot from it." Not everyone is filled to the brim with ambition. We can't end up with kids who are unable to recover after this."
"Huh?"
"What does he mean "unable to recover"...? Eijiro questioned.
"Oh listen! Did you know?" Nejire spoke up as she messed with Mina's horns, "in the past there was a student who got so frustrated the student quit being a hero, and that caused all sorts of problems. Did you know?"
Yuko looked at the three third years with her head tilted, "it's tough, isn't it, Togata? If you don't think things through properly, this'll be rough. Really rough."
"Please stop." Mina pleaded the female.
"Please wait." Fumikage spoke, "there's a handicap in place, but we've fought with pros before."
"And we've fought with villains before, too." Eijiro grinned, "do we look like such weak small fry to you that you need to worry about is?"
Mirio nodded, "right, you can come at me anytime, from anywhere. Who's first?"
Eijiro hardened his fists, "I'll...!" However he was cut off by Izuku.
"Here I come!"
"Unexpectedly, it's Midoriya?!" Yuko tilted her head, before grinning,'he's living up to what he said.'
"This is a good chance for all of you!" Aizawa cupped his hands around his mouth, calling to them, "make sure you get the most out of this experience!"
"Problem child!" Mirio grinned, "that's good! You really are energetic!"
Izuku stretched his arms behind him, before kneeling, his signature green lighting surrounding him.
"The close combat team should surround him all at once!" Sato suggested, as the others followed Izuku's lead.
"All right! Well then, sir, thanks for showing us this kindness!" Eijiro grinned, his arms hardening, as the long distance team took stance behind them.
"I look forward to your teaching!" Izuku launched at the blond, but was surprised when his clothes fell off.
"Your clothes fell off just now!" Hanta shouted as a flustered Kyouka squealed, covering her face. All while Yuko instantly felt awkward, looking down.
"Oh, excuse me. The fine-tuning's tricky." Yuko looked up as Izuku sent a kick towards the third years head, the greenette sliding to a stop behind him.
Mirio looked back at him with a smile, his pants now on, "you went for the face, huh?" He was cut off as Hanta, Mina, and Yuga sent their attacks at him, only for them to fly through, Izuku quick to dodge as they hit the wall behind him.
"Wait!" Tenya ordered as the smoke cleared, "he's gone!"
Yuko's eyes widened in surprise when he appeared behind Kyouka -completely naked, might she add-.
"I'll start with the long-distance fighters!" The purple haired female looked back in surprise, letting out a yell as she once again grew flustered.
Yuko's eyebrows furrowed as her classmates grew confused with the male's Quirk, she too confused.
Her eyes widened as he took down Fumikage, Minoru, and Hanta all at once.
'He's strong! Damn, Night would've loved this...' She blinked as he soon brought down Mina, Yuga and Tsu, before moving onto the other long ranged fighters.
"Power!" He shouted, slipping on his pants. The close combat team all stared wide eyed and jaw-dropped.
Yulo pulled on Shoto's training jacket as if to ask him if he seen that, the half-n-half male also starting in shock at the scene.
"Mirio Togata..." Aizawa spoke, the two on-lookers looking over at him, "as far as I know, he's the man. closest to being number one...including the pros."
"Wow..." The girl mumbled, looking back over at the blond third year, "well, he's really strong..."
"He got more than half of them in an instant..." Shoto observed, "he's the man closest to being number one..." Yuko nodded as she looked over their classmates laying on the ground in pain.
"You two aren't going?" Aizawa asked them, "it's not like you aren't interested in being number one, right?" Yuko raised her hand slightly.
"I'm not."
"I didn't get the provisional license, so..." Shoto answered.
"And Night's currently sleeping, I didn't want to fight without my partner." The black haired female answered with a shrug.
"That's it for the long-distance fighters." Mirio declared, "all that's left are the ones on close combat, right?"
"I have no idea what he just did!" Eijiro shouted.
"He's strong enough being able to slip through things, but he can even warp?" Ochaco stated.
"Doesn't that make him unrivaled?" Mashirao nervously asked.
"Aw, stop that!" Mirio grinned.
"I think there's some kind of trick here!" Izuku informed, "whether he's applying his "slipping" power to warp, or applying his warp power to slip through things, he's attacking us directly, so as long as we go for the counter, there should be times where we can touch him!"
Yuko grinned at the greenette's observation, 'of course he'd be the first to figure something like that out.'
"If we can't tell what he's doing, then we should figure out assumptions with what we do know, and do whatever we can to find a way to win!" Izuku declared.
"All right, thanks!" Eijiro grinned, "Midoriya right after house arrest is amazing!"
"Then come and try to figure it out!" Mirio called, running at them, before slipping through the ground.
Yuko narrowed her eyes as she looked over the remaining students, 'based on what he's been doing...' She looked behind Izuku, just as Mirio appeared, Izuku seeming to have been expecting it.
The greenette launched a kick at the blond's face, the blond, though obviously surprised with the greenette, slipped his arm through his leg, while aiming his index finger towards the greenette's eyes. His arm slipped through the greenette's head, before punching him in his stomach.
Yuko rocked on her feet, practically jumping in place as she watched Mirio finish off the others.
Seeing everyone kneeling on the ground, clutching their abdomen, worried Yuko. The dragon rider quickly made her way over to the closer ones, helping them to their feet.
Once everyone was standing, they all stood in a group, in front of the Big Three.
"I tried to make it so you wouldn't be able to see my willy, but I'm sorry about that, girls." He apologized, "but anyway, you get it now, right?"
Yuko stared at her class with a awkward frown, "we all just got punched in the stomach without ever really figuring out what was going on..." Izuku whispered.
"Did you think my Quirk was strong?" Yuko was about to say something only for her classmates to interrupt.
"It was too strong!" Hanta shouted.
"That's not fair! Think about me, too!" Toru huffed.
"You could slip through things and warp! Are you a hybrid like Todoroki?" Mina angrily waved her fists around.
"Nope, I've only got one." Mirio answered with a grin.
"Just one?" Izuku repeated.
"I know! I know what his Quirk is." Nejire smiled, raising her hand as she jumped in front of him.
"Hey, hey, can I say it? Can I?" She asked excitedly, "it's Permeation!" She announced.
"Hado, it's Mirio's turn tight now." Tamaki mumbled.
"That's right!" Mirio agreed, "my Quirk'§ Permeation. What you guys called a warp was, as you guessed, an application of that." Nejire puffed out her cheeks as she pulled at Mirio's jacket, "sorry."
"How exactly do you warp?" Izuku questioned, beginning to write imaginary notes, Ochaco and Yuko staring at him.
"If I activate my Quirk through my entire body, then my body can go through everything. Everything. That means the ground, too." He explained.
"Oh, then that was...you falling into the ground?" Ochaco thought back.
"That's right. I fell underground!" Mirio confirmed, "and then, when I release my Quirk while I'm falling, something strange happens. Apparently, things that have mass can't overlap, so I get repelled! In other words, I get repelled to the surface in an instant. That's how my warp works. By changing the angle based on the direction of my body or the pose I'm holding, I can aim for where I get repelled to!"
"Sounds like a buggy game." Mina pouted, puffing out her cheeks.
"You could say that!" Mirio laughed.
"So you can avoid all attacks and move whenever you like in an instant. It really is a very strong Quirk--" Tsu began, leading to Yuko shaking her head.
"No, I made it into a strong Quirk." Mirio interrupted, Yuko tilting her head at him, "while my Quirk is activate, my lungs can't take in oxygen. Even if I breathe in, it'll just go through, right? In the same way, vibrations go through my eardrums, and light goes through my retinas. I can go through everything. That means I can't feel anything. I just fall even while I have mass. That's all it is. Does that make sense?"
Yuko stared at him in awe, "that's why, when I want to go through a wall, I activate everything but one leg, then release it in the other leg and land on it, activate my other leg and go through. Even for a simple action like that, there are a bunch of steps involved, right?"
"If it were me, I'd mess that up if I were in a hurry..." Denki admitted, looking back at Minoru.
"Besides, if I can't feel anything, I wouldn't be able to move." The short male added.
"That's right, as expected, I was always behind. In no time, I'd dropped to dead last. I dropped my clothes, too." He joked.
"In order to get to the top with this Quirk, I couldn't just stay behind." He began to repeatedly tap his head, "predictions! I had to think faster than those around me! Sometimes I had to be tricky! Above all, I had to be able to predict what would happen! And what made those predictions possible was experience! I built those predictions on what I knew! It ended up being kind of long, but that's why I wanted to fight you all!"
Yuko rocked on the heels of her feet, staring at Mirio.
"I wanted to show you through experience rather than words! In our work studies, we're not guests. We're treated as one of the sidekicks and as pros! That's really scary. Pros will sometimes end up watching people die. But those scary and painful things you'll go through, all of them are first-rate experiences you wouldn't be able to have at school! I changed the experience I got during my work study into power and took the top spot! That's why I think it's something you should do even if you're scared, first years!"
Yuko blinked, looking down at the ground, 'experience into power.' The class clapped, Yuko subconsciously joining in. 'Work studies? Pros? Yeah...'
"We'll be going back now. Say thank you." Aizawa ordered.
"Thank you very much!" The class chorused.
Yuko quickly ran up to the Big Three as they began to walk away, she slid in front of Tamaki, surprising him. She grinned, patting the taller's head, before quickly running back to her confused classmates.
"See ya Jiki!" She called, waving back at him, he returning it with a small wave of his own.