"So who do you think will be our teachers for today?" Ashido asked. It was the first day of dedicated training for the sports festival. We were going to push ourselves to the limit and go beyond them to show what we were made of at the sports festival.

I placed a finger to my chin, "No idea honestly. There are thousands of pro heroes. Any one of them could have been asked. Anyone of them could have been refused. So I have no fucking idea who is going to make us hate them for the next month or so," I shrugged then, "Kirishima?"

Kirishima grinned, "Its UA! They had to have gotten a really manly hero for them to take the time to teach us for a month! If there's multiple then they're all manly as hell!" He was doing fine. Good. I didn't want to see him discouraged over the death of All Might.

Ashido laughed, " I think they're going to get someone big. A big name hero to teach us wouldn't hurt and they'd probably agree," I could see one of the top ten doing that. Maybe Ingenium? Or Crust? Perhaps Edgeshot? All good heroes who I imagine would be happy to help.

I nodded, "Probably. But hey they would go for practicality rather than some team of big names as well. So who knows? Oh hey we're here!" I pointed to gym Gamma. My home away from home for the school year, "Lets go in now,"

They nodded and we entered. We saw a majority of our classmates and 1-B here, "Good your not late. That leaves Sero, Satou, Ojiro, and Shishida," I turned around and saw Aizawa. I could also see different pro heroes training different people already, "Alright. Since you three came together I'll interview you together. What kind of skills do you think your lacking?" He started off as he read a clipboard.

Ashido, Kirishima, and I scrunched our faces in thought. I was the first to speak up, "I need to learn hand-to-hand combat. I know I won't be in a situation where my quirk helps for long so I want to be prepared for that situation. I could also train my quirk. My hands ability to produce Nitroglycerin can be trained. I want my saliva glands to be better. I already know how to train that though," I could also learn how to use a weapon but that didn't need to be brought up right now.

Aizawa nodded, "Okay then. You are more aggressive than Defensive or Capture so you go to the Skycrawler. Ashido what about you?" The Skycrawler was here? Okay that was fucking awesome! The guy is seriously badass and his quirk is really cool... Ashido could learn a lot under him too actually with the way his quirk works. I thought he was in America though?

Ashido hummed in thought, "Same as blasty here! I could use some offense other than my quirk but I'd also like to train it to be better," Makes sense. As I thought, the Skycrawler would be a good sensei for her. With the way his quirk works, its almost like her using her acid skating.

Aizawa nodded again, "You go to the Skycrawler too then. Kirishima?" Kirishima... Who would be a good teacher for him? I looked around and saw Crust beating up Tetsutetsu who was defending and a few other students watching. Huh. The number six pro hero was here. Neat.

Kirishima grinned, "Defense obviously! I want to make my defense better somehow but I have no idea how to do it. Nendo-bro has ideas but I want to try them somewhere safe this time," I chuckled at the mention of "safe" there was no safe when it came to my ideas, "Not funny dude,"

Ashido chuckled as well, "Come on, it was pretty funny," Ah I remembered the day oh so well. Me and Ashido's acidic explosions managed to burn Kirishima's hair as his quirk was activated. Good times.

Aizawa sighed, "Anyways. Crust is your best fit then. You three go to your respective teachers for the day whilst I wait here for the last four to show up," We began to walk in separate paths with Ashido following me silently. Likely being sad her horn buddy wasn't here. Seriously those two did everything together... It kinda made me feel left out sometimes to be honest. We were all friends but they were closer with each other. No use in being sad though.

Currently the Skycrawler was alone. He perked up and looked to us, "So Eraserhead actually sent people to me huh!" He looked excited, "So how about you show me what you can do and then I'll teach you," He grinned, "Lets fight!"

He prepared for battle and I looked to Ashido and gulped. She gulped too. As confident as we were in our abilities... The Skycrawler was considered one of America's boogeymen. To the people he was a symbol of hope and help. To villains he was someone that was dangerous.

I could tell we were going to lose.

I rubbed my sore stomach, "Did you really need to kick it that hard?" The man had been brutal. No punches were held back. I found that I respected the man far more now. He was kind but very much a harsh teacher.

The Skycrawler nodded, "Yes. Yes it was. Alright you two. I know how you fight and what you can do now," He looked to Ashido first, "You are very athletic and flexible. Combined with your quirk this gives you great mobility. But you suck at hand to hand combat," Ashido groaned at that, "We can fic that though! We have a whole month to do so. And Your quirk can be trained as well. I see why Eraserhead sent me you two now," He nodded to himself and waited for Ashido's response.

Ashido stood up, "Alright... Crawler-sensei," He flinched at the name but I decided to pay it no mind, "I'll do my best,"

The Skycrawler nodded, "Good. Now as for you Nendo, You also completely suck at hand to hand combat. You to are flexible but not to the degree of Ashido. And your far slower. With your clay attacks they are strong but you can't land a hit because they are too slow. And when that fails you over rely on your quirks natural hand to hand capabilities to help you," He sighed, "Your quirk needs to be worked on and you need to learn hand to hand combat,"

I slumped to the ground at that but I quickly stood back up fully, "Alright Crawler-sensei! I'll do my best to learn from you!" That made the man grin again. He didn't flinch at me calling him Crawler-sensei so that was good.

He stood up at full height, reminding us he was an adult, "Perfect. Thats all I expect from you. Although your not really suited to my style of combat so I will need to have you train with someone else for that. I can help you with the basics though," I remembered Kendo's offer at the hospital then and there. Good thing the weekend was coming up!

I nodded, "Alright sensei. I already have plans set to learn Martial arts so you don't need to help much there," The man looked visibly relieved then.

His grin grew, "Good. Now then. Since I've gotten the baseline for your abilities down. I'll tell you ideas on how to train your quirk. I already got information from Eraser," He thought for a second, "Ashido, You can use your quirk for mobility a lot like how I can use mine. You just need to add gloves to your costume for that. Acid proof. Anyways you can also store your acid and use it as a sort of Acidthrower for you,"

Ashido nodded and grinned, "I thought of the second one thanks to Nendo and Midoriya but The first idea sounds good as well! I'll see if I can try those as soon as possible then sensei!" This is why I thought the Skycrawler would be a good fit for her.

The man nodded, "Good! I'll be excited to teach someone my ways. Nendo, You have a good grasp on your quirk for having known what it could do for only a few months. That is impressive. But you can do better. Training your mouths to be better and faster is obviously a good idea. So is training your hands saliva glands to be quicker and more controlled. But I have a different idea,"

I listened to the man intently and only grinned.

"Your good at dodging but can you take a hit?" Kendo was brutal. She loved to fight too. As I did sometimes but her love for fighting was worse. Currently, I was getting my ass kicked before getting my ass Kicked by the SKycralwer again in another hour.

I grinned despite the odds being against me, "Oh yes I can. But I'd prefer not too," Shigaraki beating my chest in proved it too. I dodged another punch but then I felt a chop impact my side and recoiled right away. Kendo took advantage of that and punched me again.

I recovered this time and the girl grinned, "You learn quick. Just an hour ago you would have been hit by that and taken down. I'm impressed. At this rate we'll get you up to snuff by the sports festival even," Oh joy. Out of all the people I might have to fight, I didn't want to fight Kendo the most. Her punches already hurt like hell. Even more than Kirishima's. And she wasn't using her quirk.

I humorously chuckled, "I'm only learning this fast so I don't get my ass kicked by you as brutally," I blocked another punch and winced, "You are by far the worst person I have sparred with or fought. At least Yoarashi has mercy," There was also Shigaraki but that wasn't a fight. More like a toddler trying to punch an adults legs whilst they didn't have arms. Yoarashi at least held his punches and allowed me to think and get better.

Kendo laughed, "You say that when yesterday he sent you into the wall sixty seven times in one spar. I'm honestly amazed you had the willpower to even fight him after that. He is a beast and I have no doubt he will kick a lot of our asses at the sports festival, " She wasn't wrong. I had only beaten Yoarashi once. Exactly once. I had no idea why he didn't try to spar with Bakugo or Todoroki. He sparred with everyone. Me the most and Midoriya the second most. But he avoided those two like the plague.

I sighed, "Touche," I felt another punch collide with my chest and winced as I was sent back and felt more pain in my chest.

Kendo pinned me down then, "Yield," She looked smug. Not the 'Oh I'm a douchebag' Smug but the 'Fucking finally' Smug.. It was weird to explain. I tried to push Kendo away but I found my arms being held down and a knee on my chest... I felt uncomfortable to say the least.

I groaned, "I yield now please get off of me," Kendo quickly let me go and I was no longer restrained, "Oh thank god... I'll beat you one day damnit," Mark my words. I'd beat her. Maybe not soon but I'd beat her. It was going to be painful for both parties most likely.

Kendo smiled, "I'd like to see you try. I know you could beat me if you stayed back and used your clay explosives. But we both know your to stubborn to use those," As much as I hated to say it she was right, "Now come on we need to make you not look like a walking bruise so Crawler-sensei can make you look like one again," She had joined in on the Skycrawlers training a day ago and noticed how the Skycrawler seemed to love kicking my ass in particular.

I glared halfheartedly, "Stupid mean class presidents and liking their friends getting their ass kicked by a pro hero," I felt a 'light' chop on the head and turned to Kendo, "Hey! What was that for?"

She passed me a water, "Don't say I'm mean. Children don't use bad words,"

There was a moment of silence before I burst out laughing, "Fuck off..." I then stood up and got ready to leave, "Thanks again by the way for agreeing to teaching me. Even If I look like a walking bruise after every time I come here it'll all be worth it in the long run," It would be once I beat a villain who had a nullification quirk or one that resisted explosions. I smiled, "Also your shoes untied," I pointed to the untied shoe.

She tied her shoe quickly, "Its no problem. Besides I'm happy to have you as a student. The last person I tried to train left after three minutes because 'I was too rough' Also you don't give up. Unlike certain people," I could tell she was bitter about something. Probably her last student, "And you don't complain that often. Although you are snarky," Yeah yeah. Of course, the guy who gets beaten up with ease when he doesn't have his quirk gets snarky, "Now come on lets go. If we're lucky you can spar with Yoarashi afterwards," Nobody wanted to spar with him unless they had too. Not even Kendo. All because they liked seeing me fail to get close.

I sighed, "Why am I always the one getting my ass kicked?"

Kendo grinned, "Because your the one that volunteers all the time!"

Oh yeah. Right.

I looked at Yoarashi as he was facing against Midoriya whom is now one of the best of our class. It had been 15 days since the start of our training. 'Damnit... When I think I catch up I just get left behind again.' I had been fighting Yoarashi for weeks now. He had been my measuring stick. The person I used to measure my power. 'Midoriya's control of One for All had gotten better but even then he can't beat Yoarashi... He's too strong'

It almost felt futile to try... but Midoriya wasn't one for giving up clearly as Yoarashi was beaming with joy, "YOUR PASSION IN BATTLE IS ONLY RIVALED BY NENDO'S AND MINE. YOU TRULY ARE IMPRESSIVE MIDORIYA!" Midoriya was crackling with green lightning and smiling.

He tried to rush in and punch Yoarashi but wind sent him back. Midoriya got out of the wall in time to avoid another strong wind, 'They're both much stronger than me,' It hurt too. I knew I wasn't anywhere close to being the strongest. 'They both just have so much sheer raw power. Both are hard workers and incredible people... How can I hope to ever be anywhere near as good as them?'

Midoriya grinned as he managed to get close to Yoarashi. He was imitating an older hero who was also here. Gran Torino. "DETROIT SMA-" More wind knocked into him sending him back. The durability of One for All made him hard to injure. Only few things could get past his 5% 'Only few things I can make...'

Yoarashi's grin only grew wider at the attack name, "SUCH AN AWESOME ATTACK NAME!" He sent more wind to try and make Midoriya yield, "BUT THAT WON'T BE ENOUGH TO STOP ME!" More wind crashed into Midoriya who was sent to the ground.

Midoriya got up again. Once more proving he had indomitable willpower. 'I couldn't even get up after one punch from Shigaraki.' Midoriya probably could. I was proud of him. If a bit jealous. Midoriya's quirk was perfect for fighting Yoarashi. He could get up and continue to attack. And even push through the wind. 'Meanwhile, I can only fan the flames and cause destruction. There is only so much I can do...' I thought bitterly as I watched Midoriya get pummeled into the wall one last time before he finally yielded.

I grit my teeth and clenched my hand into a fist until my knuckles turned white. 'I will beat you both. Mark my words'

I watched the two shake hands and then an idea came to me. 'Support items are allowed in the festival...'

I walked to the support labs with the idea/design of the support item I had in mind. It took me a lot of coffee, an entire notebook, and hours of thinking and math and engineering that should have taken any support class student roughly an hour at most. Unless you were a genius. But I did it. I had designed the support item that would help me win the sports festival. To beat Yoarashi and Midoriya. I had faith I could beat Bakugo and Todoroki from long range. If I had to fight them. But the other two needed to be dealt up close. 'These should tank roughly half a C4's worth of damage before they crumple'

I had managed to get a meeting with Power Loader who told me that he'd have his student work on the idea. He said something about 'Letting someone else know my pain' with a deranged smile on his face. Now I was here outside the massive metal doors.

'What should I do? Should I knock?' I decided on knocking and suddenly everything in my body told me to dodge. I like a rational person listened and watched as the door was blown off its hinges and into the ground where I was standing. 'Note to self; Listen to self preservation more'

A pink haired girl stepped out of the smoking lab and so did Power Loader. I suddenly understood Power Loader. There was one every year. I had one in my school... And I am an explosives maniac myself, "Okay I will ignore that just happened and now I will ask if you need some sleep Power Loader-sensei?"

The man chuckled, "Probably but it sure has been hectic these past few weeks. Anyways Hatsume this is Katsu Nendo. He has a request for a support item," I could hear the 'you deal with her now' in his voice. She couldn't be that bad couldn't she?

The gleam in the girl's eyes suggested I needed to run, "Lets see what you've got here!" She grabbed the papers from my hands, "Ooh who designed these babies this is very thorough. I can make a good baby based off of this if you want? It'll be better than the design," I looked to Power loader who shrugged and mouthed the words 'She means inventions and good luck brave soldier' He walked away then.

I decided to ignore the weird phrasing and just grinned, "I designed those myself... It wasn't a quick thing sadly. Also thanks... Anything that can be improved will be nice," I was appreciative already. These were the best I could come up with.

Hatsume nodded, "Details, details. Now why do ya need them? Might help me design these babies to their best potential," Makes sense.

I grinned, "Well I'm kinda feeling behind my friends recently. They've been getting a whole lot stronger whilst I've just gotten more efficient. I want to change that. I designed these to give me the ability to use a majority of my firepower in the sports festival,"

At the mention of the sports festival the Pinkette grinned, "Sports festival you say?" She placed a hand around my shoulder, "Come on we have no time to waste then! If you do well in the sports festival with my babies then that means I get more publicity! So we need to figure out what'll be best to get ya ahead!" As I was led into the lab I felt like I was being led into the lions den, "I have a feeling we'll be good business partners,"

I had a feeling we'd be good business partners as well.

Why did I suddenly get the feeling of Power Loader going to sulk in the teachers lounge?

I loved this chapter to be honest. This took me a few hours to get out because I was lazy but this was just so fun to write. From the beginning and training from Koichi, to Kendo and Katsu sparring/Katsu getting his ass kicked, to my favorite part of the chapter; Katsu's feelings of insuperiority to Izuku and Inasa. I feel that this makes him more human, to Katsu meeting Hatsume. I loved all of it. And yes there will be another chapter of this. I kinda skipped Gunhead and Crust this chapter.

I won't next one because damnit I want to see the two interact with Katsu and other students. I imagine Crust will want to adopt Inasa. That or they will become brothers. Also another battle between Inasa and Katsu is likely. One to build up the tension for their fight in the sports festival. Could be anytime by the way. It could be round one or it could be the finals. Who knows.

I'm also excited to write full cowl Midoriya again and his POV in the sports festival. Obviously I plan on someone having a POV during the festival. Probably his during Inasa and Katsu's fight.

Anyways that's enough spoilers. Hopefully you enjoyed!

-Stalk