As they walked down the halls of UA carter kept quiet, and had a smirk on his face. Finally they arrived at a large door, and carter turned to them and spoke, "okay everyone, i have something to tell you! UA now owns several animus...es? Animi? Whatever, they are the training devices i told you about."
At that they all remembered when he explained the animus. Specifically, they remembered the part about it causing brain death.
"Wait doesn't that cause brain damage? Like hell we would be dumb enough to use them!" said kaminari.
"The bleeding effect and the potential neurological damage it can cause, are ONLY POSSIBLE IF YOU ARE SYNCHRONIZING YOUR ANCESTORS MEMORIES! Even then you would need to stay in the animus for days. but , this specific set of them are LOCKED in a specially made program for you guys to spar." this peaked the classes interest. He continued, "the program just renders an arena, and the users. Nothing else, no memories, no bleeding effect! Got it, this means you are 100% safe to train with them." he then turned around and opened the door revealing a room containing 6 animus machines, all hooked up to a console in the very center of the room.
"Any volunteers!" carter shouted.
"I will try out this device!" replied Iida, as he shot his hand up like a student would.
"Great! Anybody want to spar with him?... oh come on, please, someone? The combat AI are good but they never come close to an actual human…" carter said.
"I guess I will go against him" kaminari replied.
"WONDERFUL!" carter yelled. He continued "Now we can get starte-" but he was interrupted by bakugo with, "HEY! YOU QUIRKLESS EXTRA!"
Carter shot back with, "Yes, you arrogant, pint-sized atom bomb?"
BAkugo growled, but continued, "If we can fight anyone, and not get hurt for real, then I WANT TO FIGHT DEKU!" Izuku flinched at the statement.
"Fine bakugo, but know this, every day inside the animus is equivalent to about 68.43 minutes in the real world. And finally, you will probably wake up tomorrow with sore muscles. Because the animus with disable your motor functions, thus building muscle memory through small rapid movements all over your body, so don't think this is the easy way out, it is more of a better way to get more training in short time." carter directed the majority of that statement to the entire class but bakugo got the info he needed as well as the go ahead to fight deku, he was gonna roast that bastard, finally.
The next 5-6 minutes was simply getting Iida, Kaminari, Izuku, and Bakugo hooked up, and prepped for the animus, as well as familiarize the animus with all of their body-types physical strength, and quirks. Carter them ran to the center console, took a moment to input some quirk info, and then said, "ok it's ready! I will need all of you to lay down on your backs along the glowing circles, got it!"
The four complied, and carter began the sequence of getting them all into the virtual arenas.
Once the four were out cold, carter directed the rest of the class to watch the two large screens at the back room wall, on the left was Iida vs Kaminari. They were in a very sci-fi version of the roman coliseums. On the right was Izuku vs Bakugou, they were placed in a similar arena but in had a SHIT TON of different and numerous obstacles, from spikes, to large pillars, even a small hut or two. Then, Aizawa tapped carter's shoulder and asked, "why are katsuki and midoriya in a different arena carter?"
Carter responded with, "well, the animus sparring program takes the data of the people fighting in it and tries to make a arena suited to their power, and quirks, as well as several other factors. Aizawa understood this reasoning. He even explained how stupid and irrational it was to not let those with the most power succeed. So it would also be irrational to expect the most powerful individuals to be given tasks as those built for weaker and/or lesser individuals.
Inside the animus:
For a moment or two nobody could move their virtual bodies, but then a voice came from the either-like glow of the animus-scape, "welcome to the animus, program: Sparring, combat type: One on One match. Rules: first, do not leave the set boundaries" suddenly a large glowing ring of light appeared close to the ground. It encompassed nearly the entirety of both arenas, except for a small 3-foot wide gap between it and the arena walls. " Second, do not desynchronize your opponent-" then a holographic person appeared and ran through several animations that said 'desynchronized here = dead IRL'. "finally, you must pin your opponent, or force them outside the boundaries."
Bakugo then yelled into the blank nothingness above, "WE GET IT! NOW LET'S FIGHT FOR FUCKS SAKE!"
The voice then said, "Ready, match begins in, 3… 2… 1… begin!" just the, they could finally move, and bakugo wasted no time, he instantly used his quirk to fly at Izuku, with anger and… pride?
The fight with Iida and Kaminari was very short, and was re-done countless times, kaminari at one point asked to the emptiness above, "hew why do i still short out my brain when i'm in this thing? That ain't fair!" Carter then turned to everyone watching both fights and said, don't think that because this is virtual that you won't have the real life drawbacks of your quirks! That would make the use as a training device redundant! Remember you all have flaws, we all suck in our own shitty ways. HEROS learn to work at minimizing the negative impact of said shittyness. So please don't take this for granted!" then he turned back around and went back to overseeing the console.
Back with Izuku and Bakugo, their fight was as powerful and spectacular as expected, their quirks were perfectly replicated in this program, and they used that reality to their advantage. Well, except for izuku. He still broke bones and felt the pain of such damage too.
"Hey why does midoriya still break his body with his quirk!?" momo, angrily, asked carter.
"As i said before, you still need to learn to counter your flaws even his, no matter the severity of such." he replied
Asui then butted in with, "yeah, but still. You could have at least made it to where he does not feel the pain. Isn't that a bit sadistic?"
Carter looked at her and replied with, "then how would he be reminded of how much he has to learn, and how much he still must master his power!"
Carter then got up and turned towards everyone, saying, "Remember this out of all the things i have ever said to you so far! A very wise person once told me that "he who increaseth sorrow, Increaseth knowledge. And he who increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow"! The two are forever linked, thus, you can only ever truly gain mastery and wisdom, through pain and sorrow. But with mastery and knowledge comes even more pain and sorrow, feeding into each other forever." this made everyone slightly depressed
After several more re-matches with Iida and Kaminari, they finally stopped, because kaminari losing can only stay funny for so long. After they had gotten conscious and 'unplugged' from their machines, uraraka ran to carter and asked him, "I need to use this thing before the tournament!" she said this with a very determined aura that caused even carter to be slightly scared of her.
He replied with, "of course uraraka, but i do believe we are out of time for this class for today, maybe tomorrow?"
She then responded, "ugh, fine"
("mmm, very upset, she is" FUCK OFF YODA YOU'RE IN THE WRONG STORY! "Much to learn, you still have." OH MY GOD WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE? Seriously! GET THE HELL OUT! "Understand, i do. Now leave, i will" thank god that guy is such a dick)
But, then kaminari decided to kick one of the animus devices. However, he fucked up (as usual) and stumbled into the main console causing carter to be knocked out of his chair. Just then the room began to flash red, an error message played, "WARNING! ERROR DETECTED IN CONTROL PROGRAM! PLEASE ADVISE! ERROR! FAILURE TO EJECT SUBJECTS! ERROR!"
Carter quickly got to his feet and began typing furiously at the console input, he also shouted at kaminari, "YOU FUCKING IDIOT! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!"
Aizawa asked carter, " CARTER! Whats going on ! are they gonna be okay!?"
"THEY WILL BE IF YOU QUIET THE FUCK DOWN, SENSEI!" carter snapped back
"SHIT! I need to put them into a synced memory now so i can repair the damage without risk to them" carte mumbled to himself. He then frantically searched for a memory that would not give away his true allegiance and nature, but he had to use mundane memories from the desmond file, he chose two short memories from the life of ezio auditore. Puting izuku and bakugo in separate memories for the time being
(BACK IN THE ANIMUS…)
This was the third rematch between bakugo and midoriya. Or it would have been if the entire arena did not disappear, along with the two opponents. They were separated entirely both in their own empty red voids with errors and warnings flashing at them. After several moments of this, izuku and bakugo found themselves in the body and mind of someone entirely different, still no sight of each other.
Izuku's memory:
He suddenly found himself in the body of a random person surrounded by renaissance italy, then realized that there was a little prompt in the corner of his vision saying, "find the templar captain." and "ignite the borgia tower". He very quickly realized what the prompt was talking about but still had no idea what was going on or even who he was looking through the eyes of? But then, he heard 'himself' think "this should send a message that the borgia are weak. Then more people to join the order" then 'he' thought "okay, now to find that bastaro capitan."
Just then the entire field of view for izuku turned blue with a glowing gold-yellow set of foot-prints leading to a very ornate-looking knight with a long cape and spear, standing at the entrance to a walled plot of land with a tower in the center. The tower bore flags with a red silhouetted bull, insignia on them, and the knights wore blood red clothing under their armor as well.
This however was a short lived observation as izuku started to feel a splitting headache after ezio began to use eagle vision again.
But by now carter had finally fixed the animus systems and immediately ejected bakugo an midoriya form their setups. They were instantly comforted by their classmates. Except for todoroki, whom walked up to carter and said, "I thought you said these were safe! Are you trying to kill us or do you not really understand what you are doing! Explain carter. NOW." carter then glared at todoroki and replied with, "hey, icy-hot. If you are looking for someone to blame, look at mister phone charger over their! He got so upset that he can't control his wattage that he decided to kick the animus, but his clumsy ass fucks up the most mundane tasks! And then he accidentally electrocutes the console! NEARLY FRYING YOUR FRIENDS BRAINS! I AM THE REASON THEY AREN'T DEAD YOU ARROGANT PRICK!" carter then took a deep breath and continued, "tell your friend over there, that if he does not learn to control his quirk even a little bit, and learns to not be such a child, then he can use the animus again. But until then, he is to dangerous to the health of the others using them. I only saved your friends asses by a hair! Sorry to be blunt but don't condemn what you don't understand!" he then let out a angry groan, and said softly, "i needed that" then he walked to the door and opened it. Carter said, "time to go ladies and gents! I think we have all had enough bull shit for one day!" he then turned around and disappeared into the busy halls of UA.
TO BE CONTINUED...