Friday February 14, 2020 9:27 am
Everyone was in homeroom listening to Mr. Aizawa's lecture distractedly as they worried about what they would all be doing tonight.
"Are any of you listening to me?" Mr. Aizawa exclaimed and everyone in the class sat straight up in their seats. "I have been up here lecturing for over an hour and some of you haven't looked up at me once! What is going on in here?"
Everyone in the group was completely silent until Mr. Aizawa's eyes got angrier, "Someone tell me what is going on right now or I am putting you all under house arrest until someone addresses what is going on here!"
"NO!" The girls screamed. "You can't put us under house arrest! We are going on dates tonight!"
The boys all slumped down in their seats with embarrassment, "You're telling me that you aren't paying attention to my lecture because you are going on date? YOU ARE LETTING LOVE DISTRACT YOU?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Everyone's cheeks turned a deep shade of red, "If you are all too preoccupied to pay attention to my lecture, then we will move on to endurance training. Grab your things, put on your costumes, and meet me in the training arena by 10:00 or you WILL be under house arrest for the whole weekend."
Mr. Aizawa stormed out of the room and the class let out a sigh of relief. Everyone started to quickly gather their belongings and Bakugo scoffed, "If the girls hadn't been so dumb and blurted that out about our dates, he wouldn't be so damn pissed off."
"He was pissed off anyways. We were all distracted. Even you," Todoroki reminded him.
Bakugo's cheeks got bright red before storming out of the room, "Whatever."
The class all arrived on time though breathless which Mr. Aizawa took note of immediately, "If you are already out of breath, how do you expect to last through this endurance training? You are all weak. You're weak physically and you are weak minded! How could you possibly allow yourselves to get distracted by something as simple as a Valentine's Day date? Relationships are nothing to mess around with if you aren't mature enough to keep your cool. How many top heroes have you seen that maintain stable romantic relationships? If you think you're mature enough for this, then you'll have to buckle down and really focus on your training, not be staring off into space daydreaming. When heroes get into relationships, people get hurt. Villains use those relationships against us and the people we love end up dead!"
A very dense air fell around all of the students as his words settled in among them. They had all been so excited to be going on dates that they didn't realize how dangerous these distractions could be. Uraraka knew this firsthand as she had been distracted worrying about Midoriya before but as the feeling wore off and she was clearheaded she realized how much less effort she had put into her training while he was around. Midoriya, on the other hand was still head over heels in love with Todoroki and found himself constantly distracted while he was thinking about him. But in this moment all Midoriya could focus on was what Mr. Aizawa had said. It sounded like he had spoken from experience. Did he lose someone that he loved because he got distracted? Is that why he wouldn't go out with Ms. Joke? Who did he lose? How had Midoriya never heard about it before now when he spent his entire childhood studying pro heroes and their backstories?
"WHY ARE YOU ALL JUST STANDING THERE? GET TO WORK!" Mr. Aizawa exclaimed.
The class scattered and went to the stations with their names on them to begin working on their endurance, "You better get to work. You can take as many breaks as you need, but you must each stand on your platform for 5 hours. Your platforms were designed to test your endurance based on your quirk. I was saving them for another time, but since you all seem to be so distracted today, I think it's best to keep your heads in your training. If you want to get to your dates on time you will have to stay focused on completing your assigned tasks."
Each platform was set up with 4 simulated enemies that would dodge and attack the heroes. Their goal was not to destroy the enemies, but to avoid them for 5 hours without getting knocked off of their platform which was only 25 square feet. They were allowed to take as many breaks as they wanted by pushing the blue button next to their platform but couldn't leave the training arena until they had been on the platform for a total of 5 hours which was measured by a clock which was also next to their platform. Some of them were starting to panic when the buzzer went off and the simulated enemies started charging at them causing them all to leap into action.