Chapter 5
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." -Eli Wallach
The building was bare and well lit, only because of the really large windows, with only concrete and random objects filling some of the rooms. The room the bomb was stored in had random junk, and the bomb itself looked out of date, like it belonged to the 1900s and not the 23rd century. Bakugo was furious the whole way up to the room as he muttered to himself the whole ascension towards our bomb, something about a Dengaku? Whatever that is he wouldn't stop repeating the word with hardly hidden venom for it.
"So, what's the plan? Do you want to fight them directly or distract them and take them out while they focus on one of us?" I said after he didn't say anything for a bit.
He responded just a bit rudely. "How about this, you fucking dragonfly. I kill both of them, and win this whole exercise by myself, while you sit here and guard the bomb."
"You don't have to hate me for thinking about the assignment. I'm just trying to win this thing, the same as you dude." I said while looking at the roll of Capture Tape that All Might handed us before the exercise.
"Fuck off! I don't need your help; I'll win this by myself and put Deku in his place!"
After a moment of silence Bakugo looked to his right to see the face of confusion on Jonathan before he asked something. "What the heck is a Deku?"
"Fuck off!"
"Look how about this, whoever sees them first gets to engage them how they please, what do you think?" trying to compromise and work to the end goal is a lot better than nothing but it'd difficult with a teammate like this.
Bakugo agreed quickly and added his own demands as well. "Fine, but when I see them first, I don't want any interruptions and if you somehow make it to them. Leave Deku to me, I want his ass on my mantle."
Content with our deal I asked a question since All Might Never answered any before throwing us into the exercise. " So, we are supposed to act villainous and talk like one for this right?"
He responded crudely " Yeah Dumbass, that's the whole point of this is to think like a villain so we can understand one, you moronic fruit fly."
"I don't appreciate all these insults of being compared to insects, at least compare me to a bird or something better."
" START!"
Bakugo left immediately out the door, leaving behind Jonathan to stew in his own bitterness of being compared to bugs.
"Wait… What the heck is a Dengaku again?"
Before he left Jonathan made sure to lock the door to the bomb and quickly barricaded the door with literally Everything in the room before leaving through the window. As he flew outside, he passed by every window on the building before he passed a window and saw a brief flash of pink before it disappeared into the hall.
'Enemy spotted.'
Jonathan turned his quirk off as he entered the building and followed the Heros as he unfurled his Capture Tape. Preparing to win this whole thing quickly and efficiently. As he turned the corner, he saw the hero pair a little further up the hallway, they were nearing an intersection, but they didn't notice him behind them, nor did they notice the whistling noise that emanated from his jet thrusters before he launched himself at them arms spread out with a large strip of Capture Tape in between them before he disappeared.
A head peaked out from a window and just as quickly went down again before it rose again slower this time around. Looking around she could see no one and quickly went down to get her partner. "Presto! Just like that we're in. Man, this place is kind of unreal, it's all concrete." Uraraka said, looking around in awe.
"Careful there's lots of blind spots and plenty of corners to go with it as well." her partner said, keeping a near constant vigilant gaze around them.
As the hallways expanded the more monotonous the task became as the whole building was concrete and junk the further, they went along it, and the more Midoriya was losing himself in his thoughts.
' I still don't have any control of my own quirk, so I need to rely on Urarakas' Zero Gravity quirk and my current physical abilities for the time being. All I have to worry about is Kachan's rage and his partner speed…No Problem, right?'
Immediately as he finished his thought he turned around and saw Kachan's partner right above them with a long strip of capture tape. In his peripheral Kachan came at him from around the corner they were passing, palm outstretched, and a dangerous orange glow emanated from it, an animalistic smile spread across his face. They have him and Uraraka in a tight corner and she doesn't even know it yet. Grabbing her hand and yanking her hard to the ground, Izuku fell right after her as the two assaults collide violently.
"¡A LA VERGA WEY!" Garcia said most likely in his native language. And by the sounds of it, it was definitely not anything nice by the sound of it.
"I had them in my sight, And I almost won this for the both of us." Garcia held his hands in between his thighs, before rubbing them together fiercely before forgetting about his conflict and asking his partner for more capture tape.
Kachan did not like that at all, so he started calling Garcia a flying Cockroach and every insult under the sun he could think of, and maybe a few above it as well.
"Uraraka, while they are distracted, I want you to run for the bomb and win this for us!"
"But what about you Deku? They're too much for you to handle, you might get really hurt or worse!" they kept looking at their opposition making sure they weren't overheard. But the two kept going at it none the wiser of their machinations happening right in front of them. Suddenly Izuku rose up from the floor and yelled out a war cry, though it was barely even one it's more similar to a screech from a toddler. "COME ON KACHAN YOUR FIGHT IS WITH ME!" Taking the challenge with glee and anger he charged forward completely ignoring Uraraka as she fled from the fight.
"Remember our deal...Deku…is all mine!" he said as he passed his partner who leaned against the wall and started mouthing something to himself, but it must be in another language as it was hard to read his lips.
"Come on then Deku! I won't hurt you TOO bad, just enough for a long trip to the nurse's office." Kachan said as he wound up a right hit that he always opens a fight with. Just as I grabbed his arm and lifted him up in a judo toss, his weight disappeared from my shoulder, and I fell over from the sudden loss of weight. Opening my eyes to Kachan's boots in front of my face, I looked at his partner who was in the exact same space as before, before I got decked across the face remembering to keep my focus on Kachan.
"Idiot I told you before not to interrupt my fight!"
Garcia lifted his hands in the air before giving his answer " And I did that. It's just that when I can stop something I stop it, just continue your bout for now. I'll just stand here for a minute or so and watch before I skin his partner and display her remains in the town square." Both students frowned in disgust from that graphic description as Kachan voiced it out loud. "What the fuck is wrong with you that's really heavy shit!"
"Really? Sorry, I hear of cases like that in the news often, and I just thought it was a common occurrence everywhere else."
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR SHITTY COUNTRY! And I don't need help or assistance with this scared nerd that wants to fight me, even though he's shaking in his boots he still wants to go. That's Exactly why…I HATE YOU SO MUCH!" Kachan said as he launched himself towards me with an explosion propelled kick, starting a back and forth that had them as equals before he heard his radio come to life and bring him a sense of relief.
"Deku, I think I found the room, it's blocked off, but I think I can get into it with a little bit more time!"
Breaking off the fight I began running to prolong the fight more and buy Uraraka time to breech the bomb room.
"Great job, I'll keep them busy for as long as you need!"
Hearing a bang and a subtle high pitch whistle I look around on the lookout for the enemy as Uraraka responds with a 'Be careful' and where she found the room just in case, she needs his help in breaking down the door.
"I will Keep up the good work Uraraka! You're doing great!"
Just as I finished talking to her, I felt my earpiece disappear as Garcia stood at the end of the hallway with my earpiece in hand as dread filled my body in realization of what was going on and my own stupidity for falling into it so easily.
"You know for a supposed 'nerd' you really didn't think for a second about this at all…Doesn't matter. I have a matchup to get to, but don't worry! You'll have front row seats in a sec. In the meantime, good luck, you're going to need it more than me or my partner." he taunted just as he leapt out the window and flew towards Uraraka.
I couldn't move to her position as a crackle, similar to a sparkler, sounded off behind me. The source of it was oozing fury that couldn't be described.
"The bastard may think that I didn't know about his intentions, but I don't really care, as I'll bury you now, then I'll have a funeral for him on a later date."
Kachan said as his gauntlet glowed a dangerous orange before the most terrifying words came out of his mouth.
"It's loaded."
A pink a black figure slammed itself against a door repeatedly before one final push cracked the door open, enough to put a hand through, the door was blocked off with a large pile of junk. 'It shouldn't be a problem; my quirk is perfect for this.'
Immediately she got to work on clearing the door, with the final object moved being a really large crate. Opening the door this time with all the stuff floating around it was surprisingly easy how this all would turn out.
'Then again that's what happens when you underestimate Deku and Uraraka Ochaco!'
"What the!?"
It popped out of nowhere, right on the door a sentence was carved into it with something in English, objectively not my best language. It took a minute before I figured it out, but it was really creepy.
"ABANDON HOPE ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE!"
It is crudely carved in bold letters, and it definitely wasn't Bakugo because this isn't like him at all, even though I just met him.
"Come on out Garcia! I'll take you on! RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!"
A light whistle sounded off as she challenged him, but it was impossible to tell from which direction.
'Damn I was hoping he would show himself with that taunt.'
Looking up there was still nothing to show where he was, none of the objects moved or even a small shadow gave him away. ' This is just a distraction Uraraka, touch the bomb and let's finish it. Just like Deku knew you could!'
Focusing on the bomb again Garcia stood there, his arms folded with his visor down and his sleeves up to his forearms burnt off.
"You know I don't understand? How come we only get one roll in between us? It just doesn't make too much sense to me. But anyhow I think I'm done messing around with you."
A loud explosion sounded off with the building shaking and our balance being thrown off from the intensity of it. Rebalancing myself, my heart beats violently against my chest as I check to see if Deku was okay.
"DEKU! Are you alright, what happened!?
"Oh, it's Deku. I was thinking it was something else. But I don't think he'll be answering anytime soon."
As All Might Checks on Deku and scolds Bakugo for using his gauntlets recklessly, Garcia throws a small object, the size of a pebble, catching it a little clumsily and observing it, revealed itself to be Deku's earpiece as I Checked really quickly to confirm if it was, which unfortunately it was.
"Did anyone say you could look away from me?!"
Garcia was already in front of me. In a quick reaction, I palm struck him, making him float off the ground and causing him to start spinning away, throwing a barrel and crate to keep him busy enough for me to get to the bomb.
Garcia said something as he stopped spinning midair and started gunning for me, already avoiding the barrel and turning the crate into splinters by flying straight through it at a much faster speed than before.
"Sorry for lying earlier. This time I'm serious so I'll end it in one hit, okay?"
'What a dick!'
"Not Happening! We're winning this now!"
Just as I threw a barrel, he flew past me and crashed into the wall behind me. 'That's what he gets for underestimating me!'
"If you wear a helmet, make sure it actually protects all of your head."
An impact hit the back of my head as the floor approached quickly as I heard his plans for me.
"Now let's go say hi to our partners, yeah?"
A large part of the room below the one with the bomb in it was charred and partly on fire, as Izuku Midoriya fought to the best of his abilities against his childhood friend, Katsuki Bakugou. As Midoriya Dodge another explosion, trying to find a way to best Bakugo as well as win this exercise, but nothing came to mind as he was effectively trapped.
' I can't keep this up forever, if only I had the earpiece, at least then I would know how she's fairing against Garcia.'
His wish was granted when he saw Urarakas body fly right at him with Garcia being the sender. Leaping up in the air Bakugo paused his assault watching as Uraraka came at Midoriya, as he caught her, landing on his back taking the brunt of the landing as he started checking her condition.
"What the Fuck?! I said don't interrupt my fight with Deku!"
"You also said you would take them both on by yourself, yet you let one of them get away, it's funny how that works."
Midoriya was able to get his partner to return to consciousness, facing his opponents who never took their eyes off of them while they went on a back and forth. "Uraraka are you okay!? What happened to you?"
She didn't respond immediately she regained her senses the best she could as she stood against Bakugo and Garcia with him. Her head throbbed in pain from the blow that Garcia dealt to the back of her head. If she couldn't win before right now it looked even worse as there was nothing to use against her opponents and not only that, but they're also more than capable of avoiding any attack she could throw at them.
"Sorry Deku! Garcia had me in a trap the moment we met." Not only did she feel horrible for letting her team down, but she also felt down right disrespected for being treated so casually in their fight. The biggest problem with that is that she really wasn't a threat to him, any attack was avoided, her trump card was rendered useless and backfired hard, and even if she did hit him with something he could very well shrug it off as demonstrated when he flew himself into a wall and the crate that she threw at him.
That didn't mean she would lie down and quit, she would fight back with all that she had and find another way to win this exercise. The only problem was she couldn't think of one now and they couldn't run to the bomb as they were on the last few minutes of their match.
There was essentially no escape from them and no time to brawl them out of the way for an exit.
Midoriya suddenly, like a light bulb over his head, an idea had come to him that could work. Quickly he relayed it to his partner while Kachan and Garcia kept up their argument with greater fever. "Uraraka, I have a plan but it's really risky and it might not work, but it's better than standing here and waiting till they engage us, or till we run out of time."
"I'm all for some risks Deku. Besides, I'd like to win my first exercise for my Hero Career to start and end with Victory!"
"Right then here's the plan. First I'll distract them both, then when I say now, I'll launch you up after I punch the roof out and you float through it and touch the bomb."
Uraraka looked in front of them and saw Bakugou push his partner a bit not even looking at them while Garcia kept looking between Bakugo and them, trying to resolve the situation, but Bakugo couldn't care less about them in that moment.
"Right then ready…. Go!"
Quickly Midoriya ran straight at them with Ochaco right behind him, but keeping a little bit of distance hands ready as she ignored the splitting headache, she had for listening to Deku for the signal.
"KACHAN! STOP STANDING THERE AND FIGHT ME!"
Stopping immediately, he turned to face him, before leaving a few parting words to Garcia. "Remember Deku's all mine! Keep watch on Round Face and keep her from escaping this time." He said before he began running at Midoriya with a furious determination before they began winding up their attacks and just as Midoriya attack was to connect with Bakugos face he veered it away and launched an uppercut to the ceiling, blowing a hole through the ceiling as he took an explosion to the face. Midoriya didn't stop though, immediately he followed that move up with his other arm around Urarakas waist. As he launched her through the roof as she started to ascend the floors rapidly.
"Oh Shit!" Garcia yelled out as he quickly flew at a large chunk of debris intercepting it before it fell on the two other remaining members on the floor. Struggling to hold it he started to put a lot of power in his thrusters as he stopped the chunk from falling and slowly started to push it away. "Hey Bakugou! Can you blast this piece off me please?" Bakugo was stuck there like a fish out of water, gasping for air, as he looked through the hole. "Seriously, at least pursue her man! she's getting to the bomb!" reminding Bakugou about the objective, he blasts himself towards her in hot pursuit. Ascending quickly as she lands on the floor that the bomb was on, he frantically sped up, doing his best to reach her before she secured the bomb.
But it was too late by the time he arrived she leapt on it, winning this whole thing in a last-minute turnabout.
"HERO TEAM WIN!" All Might yelled through the Speakers and Earpieces of the building.
" PLEASE RETURN TO THE OBSERVATION ROOM TO REVIEW YOUR MATCHES! AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE INJURED THE RECOVERY BOTS WILL TAKE THEM STRAIGHT TO RECOVERY GIRL!"
The Chunk Garcia was holding onto was rammed away from Midoriya, into a wall, before he stomped out in anger.
'I Did it! I won against Kachan; victory incarnate.' As Izuku Midoriya finished his thoughts he passed out as the medical robot caught him and took him away as his partner was taken to the nurse with him. Passing All Might he goes up to comfort Bakugou in an attempt to console him of his mindset.
At least he tried to.
we returned to the observation room but didn't see the hero team there. Apparently, they both suffered significant enough injuries that required them to stay with our nurse, Recovery Girl. I was still upset over our loss and the way it came about, but it's not like we had any real consequences for it, but it sucks that the first exercise and real show of ourselves started with failure, but in this case, I would not want to be the winners.
Guess this is the 'You should have seen the other guy!' situation?
"Wow Jonathan you really played your part like an old scary slasher villain. It was like a movie in the form of a battle i almost thought a old man wise to your ways would have popped out and helped Uraraka and Midoriya beat you, till the next movie of course." Toru said in excitement as her arms flailed about.
My partner, Katsuki Bakugo, was quite the whole way back. Not even reacting to Toru's reaction nor did he respond to it. The way he was acting seemed unusual, and it was kind of off putting to say the least. He kept his head down the whole time, stuck his own thoughts would better describe him. Shiozaki looked at Bakugo in concern, she was about to move towards him before All Might focused the classes attention on him. " OKAY KIDS WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW THE MATCH AND DETERMINE AN MVP FOR THE EXERCISE BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT MATCH. NOW DOES ANYONE CARE TO START US OFF? YES, YOU YOUNG LADY!"
Tsuyu Asui was the first to start the verbal beating, starting with the Hero team first. "Ribbit. The Hero team was really reckless and split up their forces without proper gauging of the situation. One of the reasons they won was mostly due to the fact if Garcia helped Bakugo beat Midoriya than they would have lost. And the Villans-"
" I'M SORRY, BUT I HAVE TO CUT YOU OFF BEFORE YOU REVEIL THE WHOLE OF THE SITUATION YOURSELF, YOU HAVE A VERY KEEN EYE YOUNG ASUI. DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING THEY WANT TO POINT OUT?"
He pointed to a boy with half his body covered in ice while the other half was dressed in a plain white garb. Shoto Todoroki wasted no words and showed hardly any emotion as he shared his knowledge to the class. " The Villans hardly worked off each other and didn't have a definitive plan of action, they also hardly communicated as if Garcia informed Bakugo that he took out Uraraka then Bakugo could have stalled Midoriya for time or asked for his help in defeating Midoriya as he was being read by him to a standstill till Bakugo changed tactics and moves."
" VERY NICE EXPLANATION YOUNG TODOROKI! ONE MORE PERSON BEFORE THE BIG REVIL? YOUNG YAOYOROZU, PLEASE TAKE THE STAGE."
The last person, Momo Yaoyorozu, carried a very dignified air around her, even in her really reviling costume. " The whole Exercise was a mess I will admit but to be honest the Villans had so many advantages that they would have won, regardless of if the heroes had worked perfectly, they had no real answer to Garcias overwhelming speed and they hardly had an answer for Bakugos raw power. The very reason they won was because the Villans themselves allowed them to consolidate together, allowing One on One fights to happen, and the Villans had more trouble talking and working together than dealing with the enemy. With Bakugo sabotaging accidently an early win, refusing to at least talk with his partner, and disregarding the bomb they needed to protect in favor of fighting Midoriya. Meanwhile Garcia allowed all of this to happen with barely any pushback, and not even telling Bakugo any information on his location or actions."
"UM...VERY WELL PUT YOUNG YAOYOROZU. I COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF. NOW THEN ONTO THE BIG REVIL THE MVP OF THE FIRST COMBAT EXERSICE IS... YOUNG GARCIA GREAT JOB! NOW DOES ANYBODY WANT TO SAY WHY YOUNG GARCIA WON MVP?"
Once again Momo quickly provided the answer before anybody else could raise their hand. " While Bakugo let a large attack go off in the building that they were to protect, Midoriya let off a attack that could have set the bomb off and almost brought down the building, Uraraka hardly did anything significant and even wasted time trying to read a few words on the door before even putting her guard up. Garcia took the role seriously and stayed on point for most of the match even when it got out of control at the end, he rescued Bakugo and Midoriya when things got out of hand."
" CORRECT ONCE AGAIN! NOW REMEMBER CLASS PLEASE KEEP DAMAGE TO A MINIMUM AND KEEP IN MIND THAT A MISTSKE IS ONLY ONE IF IT HAPPENS TWICE! NOW GIVE ME A PLUS ULTRAAA!"
"PLUS ULTRA!"
"OUTSTANDING, NOW THEN WOULD THE NEXT GROUP PLEASE HEAD TO THE BUILDING. WE HAVE MORE THAN JUST THIS MATCH TO HAVE AFTER ALL!"
I Almost had this done but I just didn't do it for a bit before. But Happy [Late] Cinco De Mayo!
I wouldn't normally care at all for the day if it wasn't for it being the French losing to just a bunch of farmers, cows, and somewhat trained troops.
Now all we need to do is take Quebec and officially kick the French out!
Have a good one