"Did you have a good day at school, sweety?"
Izuku looked up at Inko from his spot on his back, and finished tightening the bolt on the sink before answering. The last thing he wanted was oil and dirty tap water to spill all over him.
After he had finished that, he smiled, nodding to his mum. "I did! There were plenty of interesting Quirks and people to analyze, and Mr grumpy-pants made us do a bunch of tests, which were surprisingly fun."
Inko giggled, covering her mouth with her hand as she wiped down the bench. "Izuku, you really shouldn't call Mr Aizawas such names! He's just a little socially awkward, I'm sure of it."
Izuku just smirked as he pulled himself out from under the sink, drying his hands on some paper towel. "If he's not super grumpy, then how did you know exactly who I was talking about?"
Inko smiled as she swatted him with the tea towel she was using, and he laughed, dodging out of the way. He smiled at her and gave her a quick hug, before heading towards the next job he needed to do.
He liked spending time with her like this. After he was found by Nezu and Aizawa he had spent less and less time at home, so times like this were special to him.
He finished up working on the kitchen for the day, and then he and Inko spent the day watching old movies.
Izuku arrived early the following morning, as he usually did.
The only other person there when he entered the room was Iida, but after a while, people started to trickle in. First it was Todoroki, then Yaoyarozu. Eventually, everyone had arrived, and they were just waiting for Aizawa.
Or at least, that's what everyone else thought.
Izuku was like, 95% sure that Aizawa was pretending to be asleep under the podium in the front of the room, but he would let the man have his fun. Around 5 minutes after the last student sat down, which was Ashido, the sound of a zipper opening filled the room as Aizawa rose from behind the podium.
"Welcome to your first class of Hero 101."
Izuku smirked at the man while the other students freaked out a bit, sitting up a bit straighter. Aizawa continued on for a few minutes, taking the roll and doing some minor announcements.
But Izuku wasn't really listening. From what he had seen about the school schedules, today was the first lesson of active combat training. And when he heard the newest member of the UA faculty approaching, he knew that he was right.
'THUD THUD THUD'
"I AM HERE! ENTERING THE CLASSROOM LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!"
Izuku covered his ears as the room around them exploded into cheers and conversations about All Might. He chuckled as Aizawa dropped into the corner of the room and re-zipped up his sleeping bag. What was even the point of getting out of it the first time?
Izuku listened intently as All Might went on a rant about heroism, and how costumes fit into the way they worked. It was nothing he hadn't heard before, his studies in Psychology with Nezu often went into how visual stimuli affect people, but it was fun to hear the basics from someone like All Might.
As All Might revealed the costume cases to the class, Izuku smiled, getting up and rushing to the change rooms.
He really hoped he allowed to have all of his tools.
"Yo, Midoriya. Is that a Hero Costume or like, a military uniform my dude?"
Izuku looked up at Kirishima while he finished putting on the last bit of his armour. He looked down at his suit, a black, near skin-tight jumpsuit made out of protective materials, which was then covered by dark grey plates of armour.
He had his combat knife on the back of his belt, similar to Aizawa, and a hoster on his right hip, which housed his favourite toy, and a loop on his left which housed an extendable metal baton.
On his head was a solid helmet, padded on all sides to cushion any blows to his head. It didn't have a gap for his face, but it did use a screen on the inside to give him a view to the outside, as well as a voice-commanded HUD for various uses.
There were a few dark green lines surrounding the most prominent plates of armour, specifically on his knee pads and chest plate, but for the most part it was entirely black.
Answering Kirishima's question, Izuku just shrugged. "Well, to be fair, Heroes are basically just a paramilitary force hired by the government. Also, my Quirk doesn't have many physical benefits, so I need all this armour and stuff.
Izuku pulled on the last of his outfit, a pair of gloves, and started to move around, testing the suit out. "Also, my plan is to be an Underground Analytics hero, so a flashy costume wouldn't do me any favours there."
Kirishima gave him a blank look, before smiling widely. "That's so manly bro! I was wondering if the drabness was just because you weren't good at designs or something, but to have your path planned out so thoroughly already!"
He held out his hand to Izuku to grab. "I know you missed the ice-breakers last night, so let me introduce myself! The names Kirishima Eijiro! You ever need a shield, just hit me up, alright my man?"
Izuku nodded to him, clasping his hands with Kirishima. "Nice to meet you, man. Sorry I wasn't able to join you all last night. Been to busy helping my mum renovate her kitchen, you know?"
Kirishima just clapped Izuku on the back, smiling. "No worries! It's super manly of you to spend your time helping your family out either way!"
They chatted for a while longer until they reached the rest of the class, at which point Kirishima gave him a fist bump and headed off to say hi to… wait, Bakugou? How could the epitome of a 'himbo' even stand Bakugou? Whatever. Not important.
He quickly surveyed the costumes of his classmates, wondering why all the girls had been given skin-tight suits. He had been there when Nezu had gotten the initial designs that had been sent in, and he could have sworn that Yaoyorozu had submitted a design very different to her current suit.
He would have to talk to Nezu about it later.
"LOOK AT YOU ALL! FROM THIS POINT ONWARD, YOU ARE ALL HEROES IN TRAINING!"
Izuku smiled, cracking his knuckles as All Might started explaining what they were going to be doing today. It was a fairly simple exercise, to be honest.
The 'villain' team, made up of 4 people, would be defending a building that housed 2 'hostages' (large bags of sand). The hero team had to infiltrate the building, and either put capture tape around all 4 of the villains, or get both hostages out of the building safely.
While it sounded hard for the Hero team to accomplish, the Villain team wasn't allowed to intentionally cause damage to the Hostages either.
Izuku was already thinking up a multitude of plans for safe extraction, instead of listening to All Might when he heard Iida speak up next to him. "All Might! Are you sure that lots are the best way to assign the teams?"
Izuku clapped the boy on the shoulder. "Out in the field, Heroes don't really get to choose who they team up with. This is a good way to start preparing us for the chaotic world of impromptu team-ups!"
Izuku zoned out again to continue planning until his name was called. Moving forward, he reached into the box filled with their lots, and pulled out the small ball. It was white and emblazoned with an E.
"BECAUSE THERE ARE AN ODD NUMBER OF YOU DUE TO NEZU'S NEW SYSTEM, ONE TEAM WILL ONLY BE HAVING 3 MEMBERS! GOOD LUCK TEAM E!"
And of course, it was his team. Nezu probably planned it to go like this.
Izuku looked around to see who his two teammates were. Holding the ball over his head, he moved around the group and eventually found his teammates. Looking between the two, he was already running combat simulations in his head.
Kaminari and Hagakure gave him an odd look as he started mumbling again, before Hagakure tapped him on the shoulder. "Uh, it's Midoriya, right? Are you OK?"
Izuku 's eyes flicked to the lack of space she took up and nodded. "Yea, I am. Just thinking of some possible plans for us. But it really depends on who we're versing."
All Might kept on smiling the whole way through as the students got into their groups. After he saw that everyone was with who they should be, he continued.
"ALRIGHT EVERYONE! FIRST UP WILL BE TEAM B AS THE VILLAINS, AND TEAM D AS THE HEROES! EVERYONE ELSE, YOU'RE WITH ME IN THE VIEWING STATION!"
Izuku and the others of 1-A followed All Might back to another building, full of screens, watching the teams fight as they prepared for their own matches.
The first fight was over quickly.
Team B was comprised of Yaoyorozu, Asui, Uraraka and Ojiro. And while Yaoyorozu's Quirk was definitely in the top tiers, it wasn't really able to do much against their opponents Quirk's. Or more realistically, Quirk.
Not that it mattered in the end.
Team D was a heavy hitter, mainly due to the fact that Todoroki was on their team. Aoyama, Koda, and Jirou didn't even get a chance to enter the building after the buzzer went off before the entire thing was filled with ice.
And that would have been that, if Aoyama hadn't been as shocked as he was.
Todoroki's ice springing into existence was incredibly sudden, and Izuku really couldn't blame Aoyama for what happened. The boy had yelped and jumped backwards away from the door, accidentally letting off a short blast of his navel laser.
Into a building that had basically been turned into a huge mirror.
It had bounced off almost every wall in the building before eventually finding its way into the hostage room. Luckily, it didn't hit any of the people who had been encased in waist height ice.
Unfortunately, it slammed right into one of the Hostages. And as the rules stated, Heroes causing significant damage to the Hostages would be an instant loss. Todoroki was told to free everyone, and everyone returned to the observation room.
Todoroki hadn't stopped scowling since All Might had announced the fact that they had lost.
The other fights weren't as entertaining as that one, but Izuku watched them with just as much enthusiasm.
This was what he had been training for. His team, Team E, was going to be the heroes, with Team A being the villains. Izuku was a bit upset that Bakugou wasn't on Team A, but he would get over it.
Team A had Iida, Ashido, Sero, and Mineta. Once they had been told who they were fighting and what team they were on, Izuku had pulled his two teammates over, as well as Yaoyorozu.
He got them into a huddle and lowered his voice. "Alright, so here's the pla-." He noticed that Momo had raised her hand and stopped, turning to her. "Yes, Yaoyorozu?"
She looked at the three of them before mumbling. "Why am I here for your planning? I'm not a part of your team."
Izuku smirked. "You may not be, but your integral for my plan to work. How about this, you make me a few items, no questions asked, and I will owe you a favour that you can cash in at any time, within reason."
He saw the confusion on Hagakure's and Kaminari's faces, but kept eye contact with Yaoyorozu. After a while, she nodded slightly. "Fine, what do you need, Midoriya?"
Izuku's smile came back in full force. "Let me explain the plan first so you know exactly what I need."
"First, we gotta get Hagakure onto the roof."
Izuku did a quick scan of their opponents heads as All Might announced that they could start.
"Alright guys, the Hostages are on the 3rd floor, 3 rooms back and to the right. It has 2 windows, a door, and an access point in the floor above."
He brought up the map on his HUD and sent it over to the wrist-mounted screens that he had gotten Momo to make for the other two. He marked the other two's entry points with Yellow and Blue dots, for Kaminari and Hagakure respectively.
"We're going in, Hagakure, start climbing."
There was a hiss, followed by dull thud's coming from the roof of the building. The special grappling hook that he had gotten Momo to grabbing onto the edge of the building. Izuku nodded to himself as he saw Hagakure's boots and gloves rising into the air.
Kaminari and himself entered the building, and Izuku used his Quirk to help them avoid the patrols of Iida and Mina. The other two, Mineta and Sero, were standing guard in the Hostage room.
Izuku and Kaminari went low, dodging under some loose bits of tape that Sero had set up in the hallways. They reached a T-intersection, and Izuku had Kaminari head left after a few seconds, making sure that he wouldn't come face to face with Iida.
Izuku smirked as he heard the crackling of Hagakure's comms turn on and off 3 times quickly, their signal that she was in place and ready. He got Kaminari's confirmation a few seconds later.
Izuku moved towards a corner and reached down towards his right hip, pulling out his masterpiece. A handgun, well, more like a hand cannon, painted pure black with dark green highlights.
Izuku did a quick scan of Mina's mind and saw where she was in relation to him, and twisted a dial on the gun. It was designed to be similar in function to a weapon called a 'LawGiver' from an old movie called 'Judge Dredd'.
He twisted the small dial on the back of the gun to a setting labelled 'stun', and waited for the soft click that signified that it was ready. He stomped on the ground, letting the loud 'thud' get Mina's attention.
Watching through her own vision, he waited until she was close, before rolling out from behind the corner, firing at her. She never even got the chance to yell out before the stun round hit her, causing her to hit the ground.
It was oddly satisfying to watch that from her perspective.
Quickly tying her up with the capture tape, he got into his own spot and prepped his entry device, before turning his comms on. Smiling, he moved back from the door and began their breach.
"GO!"
All Might didn't know what to say.
Was there anything to say? Other than something like; 'why does Midoriya have a gun?!'. He knew that Midoriya had a connection to the principal, all the UA staff members seemed to be aware of that, but he hadn't known the depth of that connection.
He just had to sit back and watch with the rest of the class as they made guesses and theories about Midoriya's Quirk. All of them were in awe as Izuku coordinated himself and two other classmates into a secret-service level stealth mission.
Or at least, it was a stealth mission until the explosions started.
Izuku laughed as he heard all 3 breach charges go off at once.
Once Yaoyorozu had agreed to help them, Izuku's plan had been solidified. They probably could have won without her assistance, but this was both easier, and allowed him to indulge his flair for the dramatics, something that Nezu was proud to have fostered.
He had made sure that they were only powerful enough to blow through the weak plaster walls and ceilings of the training building, to ensure that none of his opponents were harmed too badly.
After deeming it safe, he rushed into the room, firing at Mineta, who was still coughing up smoke. The stun round hit him square in the forehead, and he dropped like a fly, allowing Izuku to wrap the capture tape around him.
"MINETA MINORU HAS BEEN CAPTURED!"
He heard a grunt and looked over to Sero, who was now face down on the floor, unconscious, with a boot on his back. He nodded to Hagakure, who had dropped down on the boy from the room and was now tying him up with the capture tape, and saw Kaminari standing next to the opposite doorway.
"OH, UH, HANTA SERO HAS BEEN CAPTURED!"
Izuku tapped into Iida's mind, watching through his eyes as he neared the room, summoned by the explosions. He held his hand up to Kaminari, who started to spark slightly. Counting down on his fingers, he nodded to the electric boy.
'3… 2… 1…'
'Now!'
As he closed his fist, Kaminari let out a huge burst of electricity through his arm, catching Iida right as he was about to enter the room. The poor boy didn't even have a chance to slow down before his brain went into safety mode because of Kaminari's attack.
Izuku just gave the boy a thumbs up before lifting one of the hostages in a princess carry, Hagakure grabbing the other. Kaminari didn't notice it, however, because he was in derpy mode.
Guiding Kaminari, he and Hagakure exited the building and waited out front for the robot helpers to bring their opponents back to the viewing room. Izuku smirked as they got near.
He knew he would be having to answer a lot of questions about that.
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