Not so bad after all.
A series of 1A and 1B oneshots as they discover that maybe the Explosive Beast of 1-A isn't as bad as he acts. Inspired by MHA fics by AnonymousTwit. First chapter Starts after the team battle between Team Bakugo and Team Tokage.
Bakugo is best boi and nobody can tell me otherwise.
A groggy Setsuna was helped up by Awase who had a small headache and was talking louder than he needed to.
Setsuna's pride was hurt. Badly.
She knew from the start of the class that winning against 1A wouldn't be easy. That was proved even more in seeing the previous battles as they gave a fight.
Even against Bakugo and his team, who she knew were a strong combination, shouldn't have been able to steamroll them as easily as they did.
That seamless teamwork of team 4A had been so much better than their own.
'You've changed too much!'
'I haven't changed at all. I still have the same goal since the beginning...'
'I'm going to surpass All Might and be the Number One Hero!'
Setsuna certainly believed what he said, even if she did think that it was weird about how easy of a time he had working with the other three, but that power was the real deal. Her separated pieces attacking him wildly weren't strong enough to stop anyone but he shouldn't have been able to just shrug them off as he basically did.
The downtrodden Team 4B walked alongside the cheering Sato and Sero, which felt like salt on the wound, as earned as it was. Jirou, and both thankfully and surprisingly, Bakugo, were a lot more calm about their victory.
"Man, who would have expected that to go like it did right?" Sero said aloud with his grin.
Awase responded while rubbing his head. "That should be our line. That was way beyond what we expected."
Jirou snorted. "Trust me, we didn't think Bakugo would work that well with us either."
Bakugo ignored their conversation as he kept a bored look while walking in front of them. Honestly she was still expecting him to pull a Monoma and trashtalk them any moment now.
Awase looked over to the explosive blonde. "But seeing Bakugo fly around so easily was pretty crazy too. It was definitely faster than I thought it would be." No doubt about that. He was even able to head to her position so soon after Sero taped that grenade to one of her pieces that she barely even heard him coming.
Setsuna twirled her hair as she grimaced. "I guess this is the difference between experience and training. I also hadn't thought you would be able to recover as well as you did when we made the first move."
Kamakiri rubbed his cheek, sore about the fact that they lost or that he was thrown hard into a wall.
"Bakugo was definitely a big help there." Sato said while rubbing his chin. He would have gotten taken out if Bakugo hadn't taken that blow to the chin(something that should have at least rattled him, only for it to not).
"Definitely. I hadn't picked up Kamakiri at all because of Tokage."
"And we definitely didn't expect Awase to show up out of nowhere like that."
Setsuna took comfort that at least they were caught off guard in the beginning. It helped her save what little face she could in front of the others.
"Back then..." Bakugo said quietly while looking forward and it seemed to quiet them all down.
"Back then, Headband had me fucking pinned for a few moments. If you idiots hadn't focused on retreating for your shitty hit and run plan, you could have taken out one of the others while I would have to focus on getting out." Then he snorted. "Or they could have actually bothered to use the grenades I gave em to save their own asses. But either way, having a plan and following it or even trying to make a new plan can only fucking help so much when your enemies don't intend on giving you any moments to breathe."
The advice(?) stunned his classmates while she and her own were trying to understand if he was insulting them or helping them.
As for Setsuna, she couldn't deny that what he said was true. The plan to try and avoid Bakugo may have backfired during the actual battle. It was originally so they could make a new plan and gather themselves, but in the end they didn't even get the chance to retreat, let alone plan.
"Look at you, helping out the enemy." Sero prodded Bakugo with a bigger grin. "Guess those extra classes have been helping eh?"
Bakugo just flipped him off and continued walking. "I would barely call it helping out the enemy when they were just plain outmatched by us. They would have needed a complex trap to avoid it being destroyed by my explosions and we would have interrupted them making it since we were aiming to make the first move too. Them losing was inevitable the way the match went. Headband is the only one who could withstand my attacks and doing just that leaves him open for Ears to take him down with us watching her back. Her whole damn class of Extras are too rigid and focused on what they think they can use against us to realize they're just leaving themselves open. Four Eyes, Ponytail, and Dunce Face are the proof of that."
Again, she had to wonder if he was insulting them or not, but Bakugo had confidence in his ability and for good reason. His explosions were practically the key to his victory, as they basically knocked out Kamakiri while leaving Bondo and Awase open for capture. Even she had gotten caught off guard by the grenade badly enough that he was able to sneak/throw himself right next to her. They would have needed a lot of rubble and glue to even trap them given Bakugo could make some huge explosions and the others apparently had his grenades.
Bakugo turned around just enough so she could see the side of his face and his eye. "Next time don't let your fucking team split up when your teamwork's your only strength in a fight and maybe you won't get bodied so damn easily."
His own classmates mentioned that he was being too harsh on her and gloating too much, but she couldn't help but think he had a point once again. Her team planned to separate him from his team to make taking them down so easily, but in the end it was Bakugo, the one they targeted and expected to leave behind his team and ignore them when they were in danger, who had managed to split them up and left them in the palms of his teammates.
"Geez. Ain't a guy like you too perfect for a fight? I know who'd be my first pick in a team fight, cuz I don't think we'd be able to win a rematch easily." As if his reflexes and quirk wasn't enough, he also had a good idea of what needed to be done in a fight and even knew what he could do alone and what he couldn't, that wasn't even including what he could do with his own quirk(which amazingly including flying and enhancing his own movements, both of which were difficult to do with explosions) even during Winter.
Kamakiri and Awase looked at her in surprise while Bondo didn't show any reaction, on the other hand Sero and Sato couldn't help but nod in agreement.
"Tch. I'll face you bastards any day of the week. Just get ready for another world of pain." She actually had to stretch her back at that. That stun grenade was vicious.
Jirou still rolled her eyes and had a small smile. "Well, if you want him on your team be ready for this guy to interject and ignore any plan he thinks is stupid."
"Shut it Ears! I only ignored your stupid cautious plan because it would have fucked us over and I was right!"
Sato and Jirou decided to just shrug, being used to Bakugo and his way of speaking probably. Seeing them, she couldn't help but think back to the way he talked at the Sports Festival. It was excessive like it was now, but at the same time, it felt muted as well.
She actually hoped Monoma would learn to hold back as well.
Sero on the other hand seemed to have some balls on him as he kept talking to Bakugo. "Do you ever approve any plan that isn't yours?"
This time when Bakugo turned around it was to Sero and Jirou, his eyes smirking even if his face was still pressed like he was bored. "I helped you losers kill U.A with music didn't I?"
Jirou blushed while Sero laughed pleasantly.
Setsuna and Awase could only exchange looks of pleasant surprise as well.
Maybe this guy wasn't so bad after all.