It's time to see what kind of training Izuku and Bakugo will receive now that they are apart of Project Velocity. How will it help them become better heroes.
Alright time for a bit of a confession. Originally after last chapter, the story was suppose to do a bit of time skip to a few months before the UA Entrance exam. And the training arc of the next few chapters are didn't exist. As I edited and got ready to post last chapter, I had to have a talk with myself about whether I would do the time skip or try to create a training arc, since I'm the not the best at writing training arcs. I spent half an hour going over this in my head and the biggest factor was in the story I wish to publish as a book, there going to be at least one massive training arc. And I need to start gaining that skill at some point.
So the follow chapter is really my first attempt at a training arc of any kind. Will I eventually come back and rewrite to make it better? *shakes magic 8 ball* It says, "Most likely" but that will most likely not be until much later this year, maybe even beginning of next year.
But as always I do not own any rights to MY HERO ACADEMIA or any of their characters.
With that, finger's crossed, let's start with a bang
The coming weekend, Izuku and Bakugou were brought back to the training faculty along with Inko and Mitsuki. They rode to the fifth floor where they found Mareo waiting for them. When they walked out of the elevator, he turned away from an overturned whiteboard and looked at them, putting a smile on for them. "Good afternoon and good news the Council has approved the training of Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo. Today will be Day One of their training to become pro heroes.``
"I'm pretty new to this and Inko has explained a bit, but how exactly will you be training our sons?" Mitsuki asked, she had never had an interest in becoming a pro hero. She had always chosen to be a fashion model as her dream career and she didn't expect there to be much overlap.
Mareo gave a small chuckle as he walked back to the whiteboard and flipped it around, "Anticipating this, I took the liberty of writing some stuff down." On the whiteboard were several different items ranging from nutritional balance to increase muscle growth and recovery time, to the amount of training that would be done each day to maximize growth in skill and muscles, while not damaging the body.
Mitsuki and Inko looked over the board. Inko didn't remember Project Velocity being this organized when she was being trained. It seemed in the years since she left, the program had become more refined. The two mothers looked down at their sons, as it was clear they had a lot of work they would have to deal with. Yet they looked more eager than ever before.
"This is a …." Inko paused as she tried to figure out the best word to use.
"A bit much," Mitsuki said, not worrying about finding the right word, "They are only five years old."
Mareo looked at the board and saw how misleading it could be, "Oh forgive me, much of this information wouldn't come into play until later." - Mareo flipped the whiteboard back around - "For now we'll begin with the basics. Learning what limits their quirks have."
"But you have their government quirk files." Mitsuki said.
Before Mareo could ask, Inko did so, "A file can tell a story, but not the whole story. When I first joined the program, it was believed that I could only pull small objects to me, but as my quirk was tested and stretched I learned that I could do more than just pull small objects to me. I had telekinesis in its entirety."
"Precisely, that is why it's common for someone to change their quirk file as they get older, as they come to better understand how their quirk works. We don't have that time so step one is figuring out how exactly their quirks work. How does that sound, boys?" Mareo asked, looking at Izuku and Bakugo.
They looked at each other, then back at Mareo and began nodding their heads. They couldn't wait to learn what the limits of their quirks were. How powerful they could become. It got them one step closer to becoming pro heroes, and they were excited.
And that is how their training began. Over the next month, Mareo trained the two boys to understand their quirks and how they can be used in different ways, sometimes in ways that were unorthodox. Izuku learned the range of his quirk was a mere 200 meters, but through training and practice, he was able to slowly increase that range and his accuracy. He was able to place nearly every shot into the center of the target, something he always smiled at no matter how often he got a bullseye. Bakugo focused on his quirk recoiling on his body and how he could use the momentum generated by his explosion to move around his enemy and attack from different angles. They often came home Sunday evenings exhausted and this caused their mother to believe their schoolwork would suffer, but every Monday they were up out of bed and eager to go to school. They paid attention in class and were the top students, earning the highest scores in each of their classes, especially P.E. And then when the week was over, the boys were excited as ever to train.
In the coming year, as the two practised with their quirks, they earn a strong fundamental understanding of their quirks. By the time of his sixth birthday, Izuku was able to increase his range to 300 meters and learned that he could hold a total of 60 bullets, and he could hold them for two weeks before they disappeared and need to be replaced. While Bakugo learned that while it was only the sweat from his hands that could be ignited if he wiped the sweat on a different part of his body, he could still ignite it.
With every new skill they learned, they practised and trained until they had perfected it. Then came learning Karate and Judo. It was two weeks after Izuku's sixth birthday and it was Mitsuki's train to drive them in. She dropped them off at the front of the building and waited until they were inside. Once inside the two boys rode the elevator to the fifth floor, where they found Mareo waiting for them. Behind him were two people dressed in Martial arts attire, both having black belts tied around their waists.
The gentleman on Mareo's right was of a large frame and tall statue. He held a narrow look on the boys, as he had his hands folded against his chest. His black hair was cut to right above his shoulder and slicked back as had to impede his vision. He had a weathered look, with a scar that started under his left ear and followed back his jawline and ended at his chin.
The woman on Mareo's left was of a shorter stature and smaller frame, but she didn't look less immediate. Her blonde hair was braided behind her head and went down to her waist. Her piercing green eyes made it feel as if her stare was going straight through Izuku and Bakugo. While the man was barefoot and had no gloves, the woman had a pair of fingerless gloves and socks on.
"Good Morning, Boys. I'm glad to see you are eager to train as ever. Today I would like you to meet your new instructors. Sensero Hakaku and Sensei Hitomu, here are Hero Public Safety Workers, but they had agreed to train you in the art of Karate and Judo. You will train with your respective sensei, and then every two weeks you will switch and train with the other sensei. And when they agree you have the basics down, you will be trained on how to use your new skills in tandem with your quirks. Any questions?" Mareo asked and when neither of the young boys spoke up he continued with, "For now Midoriya, you're with Sensei Hitomu. Bakugo you're with Sensei Hakaku.
The two boys bowed and yelled, "Thank you for teaching us."
"Dismissed, now change in your uniforms." Mareo said, waving the boys off to get changed. While the boys disappeared to change, Sensei Hakaku leaned over To Sensei Hitomu and whispered.
"Mareo undersold how eager they would be towards being trained. I could feel my frozen heart being thawed from their smiles."
"Well don't get your hopes up. Everyone's eager in the beginning, they all eventually break and then the real training begins." Sensei Hitomu said.
The boys return shortly after, wearing martial arts attire that Mareo had set aside for them. Sensei Hitomu looked at Izuku and said, "Alright Dye Job, looks like you're with me for the next two weeks. Come with me."
Izuku bowed, then followed Sensei Hitomu to a different area of the floor where some padded floor mats were waiting for them. Izuku looked them over, then turned to Sensei Kuma to ask a question, "How are we going to begin…"
He was interrupted as he saw a fist getting close to his face. He jumped back and landed on his hands as if to springboard himself further away from Sensei Hitomu. However he did, he put his feet back on the ground and began to stand, however, Sensei Hitomu was quicker and swept Izuku's feet out from under him. Izuku fell and hit his head on the pads. If it wasn't for the pads, he would have likely been knocked unconscious.
"Sloppy and lazy. Mareo told us you have some close quarters training, but obviously you are still a novice. You need to train until skills like those until they become second nature. Until You can act as such without having to think about it, or you would have reacted towards my follow up attack and not currently be on the floor. Your reflexes are good, a positive side effect, no doubt from your enchanted eyesight. Sensei Hakaku and I's purpose here is not just to teach you the art of Karate and Judo, but to expand your mind in the art of martial arts. To teach you the skills to win against any opponent and part of that is reading your opponent's movements and reacting accordingly." Sensei Hitomu said as she held out a hand to help Izuku to his feet.
Izuku got to his feet and readjusted the shoulder of his gi as it had begun to become loose. As he did, in his peripheral vision he saw Sensei Hitomu attacking. With her advice still in his ear, instead of jumping back, Izuku dove to the side and quickly rolled out of the way. However as he sprung back up to his knees, Sensei Hitumo was waiting for him and put Izuku in a headlock.
"You were quicker and more effective this time, but a well trained opponent knows the same move won't work twice. After every fight anyone could improve and become better, but those who can improve themself during a fight are those who always find victory." Sensei Hitomu said as she increased the pressure on Izuku's neck. The edge of his vision was starting to go black, but he would still breathe, "But this isn't like those video games you kids play. You're the only one that level ones, while you learn about your opponent's moves, your opponents will be studying your's. There are steps to mastering a skill. First there are the basics, improve upon those to have a solid foundation. Then comes advancing your skills, learning attacks that have more risk, but more rewards. But always be cautious, as there is always room for failure. Then comes mastery, your movements and skills are now second nature. You are able to react and fight through years of practice and training, your body and mind become one."
Sensei Hitomu released Izuku and allowed him to stand, "Now tell me what comes after mastery of skill."
Izuku paused as he couldn't guess. Mastery of anything was supposed to be the highest level a person could achieve. "I do not know Sensei."
Sensei Hitomu wasn't expecting Izuku to know. He was only six years old, and it wasn't something many learned of. "Few learn what the final step is, and fewer learn how to achieve it. So when you learn what the final step is, that's when you become unbeatable."
"I understand Sensei." Izuku said, with a bow.
Sensei Hitomu gave a small smile. Before she retired from being a Judo Instructor and became a worker for the Hero Public Safety Commission, she had seen many people come into her dojo. All eager to learn how to fight, yet the longest she had seen someone stay as eager as they were when they first walked in was one week. Past that, many dropped out, and those that stayed lost their spark to learn more. She was hoping Izuku wasn't like that, "Tell me, kid, what's your purpose here."
Izuku was confused and showed it on his face. He thought it was obvious, "Aren't I here to train in Judo and Karate." He didn't know that this morning, but that was what he was doing here.
Sensei Hitomu laughed and said, "You really are an innocent kid, Dye Job. Why are you here? What force drove you to get out of bed and made you come here to suffer through training that would make most grown adults cry."
Izuku thought about it for a second, still confused, and then he understood what his new sensei was asking. "I want to be a hero. To be able to rescue others with a smile on my face, as All Might does every day."
Sensei Hitomu looked Izuku in the eyes. Izuku believed in the purpose he had just stated, but under that, he had questions as to what that purpose meant. What skills, what training, and what practice would he have to learn to fight while always having a smile on his face?
"Fanboy, aren't you? So is the rest of the world kid, you say those words, but you are here to prove them. So let's start with the basics." Sensei Hitomu said, holding out her hand in a handshake gesture.
Izuku reached forwards to shake Sensei Hitomu's hand, however, Sensei Hitomu grabbed Izuku's wrist, lifted him above her shoulder and slammed him into the ground. Izuku tried to take a breath, but Sensei Hitomu was quick to wrap Izuku's arm with her legs and then cut off Izuku's airway with her ankles. "And step one is learning how it feels to be put into lock. You want to do it properly, you need to know how it feels to be on the receiving end. Feel how your body becomes locked and is now no longer able to move on its own. The force of your opponents becoming an immovable wall, that you have little chance of pushing back. To learn this, for the next two weeks, you'll be like this. You with your back on the floor, looking up at the ceiling. Once you have that, then I'll teach you how to free yourself."
The rest of the day, Izuku was put into different Judo locks of Bent arm, Leg arm, Cross arm, Straight arm and Knee arm. Sensei Kuma forced Izuku to hold each lock for ten minutes while instructing him to feel how the different locks moved his muscle, forcing his tendons to an extreme range of motion. How that prevented him from moving whatever was being locked and how it immobilized the other parts of his body.
When Izuku got home, he was never more grateful to be about to take a warm shower than go to bed. While Izuku and Bakugo were both trained in Karate, Bakugo focused more on Karate and Izuku focused more on Judo. Their skills over the six months improved greatly as their Sensis did not hold back and by the next summer began, Mareo saw it fit to have them being to learn how to use their new skills in tandem with their quirks. In terms of Karate Bakugo practised adding force to his attacks with his explosion, while Izuku worked on the timing of transforming his arm to suddenly increase the range of his attack and pushed his opponents away from in. For Judo Izuku learned to use the leverage created by his elongated arm to better immobilize his opponents without having to use much strength, while Bakugo practised using his quirk and the sound it generate to disorient his opponent for an easy takedown.
While they practised theses skills with Sensei Hakaku and Sensei Hitomu, the boys found it better to practice on each other. So Every first Saturday of each month set part for the boys to spar against each and train with someone of their own skill level. Once this began, their level of progress grew better then it had ever before.
I do not know how many chapter this training arc will last. Right now as of posting, I have two chapter to post. Then it would jump to the mini arc I have before the UA Entrance, then UA Entrance exam.
As I'm writing the next two chapters, some ideas might come to me. So the next few chapters might be delayed as I work everything out in my head and on paper.
So no sneak peak as what the next chapter will be.
So please Review and tell me what you think.
