another month another two chapters, next chapter published on the 15th
FYI spoilers for the neo-heroes arc in this.
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Week 1
Post-festival woes: Class 1A
The day after the festival was predictably a day of just recovering from the previous night most of the teens were held up in their rooms until the evening dreading what they drank the prior day; others that were more stable had managed to get out and check on others and ensure that they were doing ok. The two few couples that had snuck into each other rooms were thankfully covered by their friends ensuring that they got to their rooms Asui kept a look out for the others in the hallway while she went to her own room, Midoriya thales Asui for her help and waved as the two left his doorway. Toru had received a text from Mina to come towards Kirishima's door immediately which the girl obliged already filling out the rest of the details in her head, she proceeded her way there not really bothering to put anything on so she wouldn't be seen and she told Mina that she would knock to indicate that she was outside. the girl immediately busts the door open and closed it behind her not even sparing a glance or passing a word to Kirishima who what little she could see was out of it on the bed. Toru had already begun to use her awakening to shield the girl in a skin of invisibility, she was surprised when Mina just started walking not talking or anything it was bizarre but the girl seemed just as out of it as Kirishima was, so to get the girl in the mood again she teased about what the two were doing spending the night together alone in a suggestive tone but that strangely only served to make the girl look down even further and rub her hand through her hair in frustration even slightly pulling on her horns as she released them at that toru knew something was up and asked the girl what was wrong but she didn't really elaborate on much of anything just saying she didn't feel so well and while initially, she believed that it was due to the alcohol from the previous day now though she felt that there might have been more to it than just that as the girl went into her room and closed the door behind her.
Other abled body teens that were up and about were Tokoyami, Sato, and Iida. Iida ensured to his class that he would be handling requests if anyone needed anything that they didn't have in the home given everyone's temperament. The day progressively became more and more normal as everyone started to come down from their hangovers but that didn't mean that everything was completely like it was before a number of the couples were noticeably more distant from each other in comparison to how they used to be, the only exception of this being Midoriya and uraraka who seemed just fine with everything. No one talked about what had happened the previous day and mostly just preferred to leave it at that but there was still tension there not only for what happened the previous night but also what Midoriya had said previously it lurked in the back of their minds the entire day as they were recouping and recovering. Bakugo was the only one that had left that day but he didn't tell them where he was headed or who he was going to see and only remarked that he had "business" to take care of.
Saitama gorge
Silver chain or sylvia first thoughts when becoming a monster were jumbled and confused she felt her body breaking and coming together at the same time but eventually her conditions subsided and the only thing left was a feeling of euphoria, she felt fantastic and truly free she tested herself and was shocked at the power she had grown from eating the monster cell but through it all she remembered herself and what she wanted to achieve but even with her new body her new form she didn't believe that she could do it, she had left to go and see her target but at the slightest glance in her general direction filled with blood lust she instantly retreated her body instinctively fled from the man and returned back to where she had first transformed, she took a moment to admire her body, she had sprouted large silver hair along her head and arms and legs along with herself becoming somewhat larger in size, she had sprouted some animal like ears on the top of her head increasing her hearing ability as it twitched and flowed her hand also came with large extended nails along with serrated sharp teeth. The most important aspect of her that changed, however, was that she was now capable of cloning herself up to 6 times, she tested the ability and while she could create a perfect clone of herself once all other clones would be weaker and weaker as she went along she concluded that they were splitting the strength of the perfected clone between itself, she felt all of the clones and all things seen were directly related to her just like her living metal clones but even more so she could feel the experiences of them, touch, smell, taste all of it like she was actually there and she used that to her advantage as she waited close by to her transformation site and just like she knew Bakugo was there by himself.
Bakugo made his way over to the indicated area it was nearing the indicated time the girl told him about, he could have made it their quicker on his own but maybe his nerves were getting the better of him afraid of what he might find or what he wouldn't he still didn't know what outcome would he think would be worse the girl just laying their dead on the ground all that talent, skill, and…. beauty wasted on nothing or if she wasn't their which meant that her monsterization was an actual success which meant she could have taken on a fairly awful transformation not even just thinking physically but also mentally there was no telling if she would even still remember why she decided to take the monster cell in the first place, but there was something else something deeper down that he wouldn't like to admit but he was a tiny bit scared to approach the place alone, if she did succeed and she completely lost her mind there was a chance that she could still be there waiting for him and at that point he would be helpless , he couldn't beat her when she was just regular human he couldn't imagine how strong she would be now that she was a monster going off that martial artist that also transformed she was undoubtedly going to be a dragon and supposedly those things takes multiple of the S-class to take out so maybe there was some hope for her to get revenge in that case right, although he was still conflicted on if he should hope for that flash despite being more than an asshole was still a hero currently and given how powerful the monsters could get this world needed powerful heroes to keep them at bay. Even back in their world the current number hero despite doing some horrendous things still retained his title and status due to the emergency, he doubted he would stay that way after everything is over…..if it ever will be over he thought solemnly thinking again about what Midoriya told them all during the festival…he hoped his folks were doing ok.
Bakugo thoughts stirred from one sour thought to the next until he finally arrived at his location, he scanned over the area the gorge was fairly large but it was mostly empty and vacant so he would likely find a body if one was scattered about and given that he didn't meant that the transformation was successful now he half smirked at that but it turned into a inquisitive expression when he did find something in the gorge as he went to land by said object he slowly approached keeping a lookout mostly do to paranoia, she was transformed now but that didn't mean she was still herself hell he didn't even know if that now meant that they were enemies if he and his class were going to go around killing monsters now there was no telling what could happen and if they met each other on the field of battle then what? He threw those questions off to the side for now and approached the object they were boots? He carefully approached and examined closer not touching or moving it at all in the event that it was a trap of some kind but they were obviously for him as the theme matched too well for his hero costume to be for anyone else.
it held a similar color scheme but was more circular at that bottom half reminding him of a mine you would find in the military which worked well with the muted primary green color it supports after he deduced that nothing was up with it he approached the boots and picked them up as he did so something whizzed over his head and crashed landed a little further beyond. Him but he didn't look at the object first he looked at where it came from but found nothing there he hesitated for a moment and even tried a fake out looking away and then quickly turning back again nothing was there at least he couldn't see anything so deciding to drop it he turned to look at what the hell was thrown his way. There was decently sized crater he approached cautiously and saw something in the center it was a silver ball of some kind he picked it up and held it in his hands, he was momentarily surprised when the thing opened up like a flower and inside of it was a letter he took the letter out and watch with interest as the ball dissolved in his hands, he was very tempted to follow it along to it's source as he would find her but is she hasn't show herself yet then she must not want to and he didn't feel like being knocked out at the moment so he let it go. He instead focused on the letter and read what it wrote.
Dear kaTsuki
If you are receiving this letter then that would have meant that my transformation was successful, I likely will leave for the Monster association after having given you this and I once again want to thank you for not telling anyone what I was planning for your generosity, I only felt it fitting to offer some of my own. The boots are yours I custom-made them for you, and given your ability revolving around sweat I found it to have a well of untapped potential for you so to that end, the boot will support you in those endeavors it pools the sweat in your feet to a point and allows you to ignite it providing you with even more options than you have now if I had more access to your gauntlets I would have liked to give more synergistic effects but I hope this will serve you well in your future endeavors. I do not know if our paths will ever cross again given that you are leaving sometime this month but I hope for the best for you and your world. I also hope that you do manage to make your dream of becoming the number one hero a reality as I know you can do it.
"Goodbye" he heard from his left along with undoubtedly a kiss on the cheek Bakugo was so stunned by the voice and feeling that he hurt his neck turning so fast but despite that, as he turned there was nothing there but the wind of the girl's departure, he stared off into the distance in some hopeless attempt in thinking that he could potentially see her but he saw nothing of her turned back to the letter and gripped it somewhat tighter before folding it and storing it in his pocket. He still didn't know how to feel about it all but he smiled knowing that at least the girl was still herself as he picked up the boots and started his trek back home he wished her luck as well on her goals, this world had that green brat of a hero so they should be fine. Bakugo rushed home and essentially banged on Midoirya's door.
he told his rival that they were going to be training from now on and Midoriya while surprised simply accepted he asked what happened to silver chain of course but Bakugo didn't give him the true answer and told him that she simply gave up since she wasn't going to get any information from him stating that she knew he was lying to her the entire time which was sorta true but he was also not wanting to spread her business around and partially being guilty that he just offered up to the monster association another powerful monster but she only had a problem with one person so she shouldn't cause to much trouble right? He thought internally. Midoriya accepted the reasoning and off the two went for the most part the two practice it was Bakugo getting the hang of his new boots, midoirya commented on it and he lied again saying that it was something new he had the cyborg cooked up for him, he felt that he needed a bit more power to his style.
Midoriya again accepted the information before the two continued their training session he was curious about how far he had come since all his training and after some test runs he found that he reached up to 50% full cowling and he was partially disappointed by that fact even though since the war that jumping up a whole 20% he still felt like it wasn't enough for him especially with everything going down but he would continue to try and get better he doesn't know if it will matter in the end but he wasn't going to take any half measures just because it looked bleak back home if he was going to be going down he would go down swinging and he was going to be damn sure to take at least a dozen of them down with him while giving all for one a black eye at that.
She could now feel it almost like a 6th sense that was guiding her towards them, monsters somewhere underground she found an abandoned building and proceeded inside, inside said building she found a large hole and she proceeded through it. She walked for a couple of minutes down the large tunnel and was soon approached by a group of monsters, who took one look at her and gestured for her to follow them down deeper into the tunnels. There were a couple of twists and turns here and there before they arrived towards a main hallway guarded by two hulking cyclops guards defending a large doorway as the group entered, the small tunnel system changed into a more elaborate and decorated stone design almost like a house. The monsters continued to lead her further down the base and came upon an even larger doorway. The monsters left and remarked that gyoro-gyoro would tell her when she would be able to enter and she simply nodded and there she waited for a few moments before she was surprised to hear someone inside of her head telling her to enter, was this gyoro-gyoro an esper? She wondered as she made her way inside.
She was greeted by a rather large-looking green monster that had many eyes scattered about its body; it was currently sitting in its chair with its two main eyes closed. It greeted her with a question.
"Judging from your aura..you aren't a natural monster..who were the ones that recruited you? And what were you before?" gyoro-gyoro asked, traditionally when speaking to a higher up Sylvia would kneel but now she didn't.
"The two ninja monsters were the ones that recruited me….before I was an A-class hero." Sylvia replied simply
"A-class huh, and the ninja…hmmm do you have a bone to pick with Flash?" gyoro-gyoro asked
"Yes," Sylvia replied immediately and she didn't know if it was just her new monster form or just herself for the reason the response came off so bloodthirsty but gyoro-gyoro seemed pleased nonetheless.
"Interesting. I shall test you." Gyoro-Gyoror remarked before suddenly Sylvia found herself enshrouded by an invisible force so she was right? This monster is an esper, she felt the enshrouding slowly constrict down on her and when it showed no sign of stopping she started to fight against it pushing out and away but every time she did the forces increased upon her two or even threefold, there came a moment when the creature actually looked at her with it's one singular large eye and actually and the forced dramatically increased again but she still resisted powering through even taking a step or two forwards towards it but as it lifted one hand she fell to a knee by the time the second hand came up she was forced to kneel completely with her head to the floor and soon after the power was lifted and Gyoro-Gyoro let out a very pleased laughed.
"Oh those ninjas definitely know how to pick them, you are strong. This is a momentous occasion. I will ensure that those two are properly compensated for bringing in such a specimen. I doubt you were "just" an A-class hero if this was how you turned out" gyoro-gyoro spoke mostly to itself.
"Speaking of which I wish to see them, where are they located?" Sylvia asked and gyoro-gyoro allowed it, sending a telekinetic message to the two in question the two of them arrived moments later both were a bit surprised by the girl's presence.
"Despite so many failures following up on the invasion it seems you have managed to approach a success, this girl…ah how rude of me what is your name…new cadre of the monster association." The two ninjas were surprised but they stowed it away just as quickly as it came.
"Silver chain." Sylvia remarked simply.
"Well silver chain, you are joining the ranks of the monster association cadre, each cadre represents a dragon-level threat so you should consider yourself proud but you aren't undefeatable as we've learned the hard way so far. Speaking of which, you are perfectly in time for a mission to recover them. This mission will be proof of your loyalty to the cause before you are officially crowned." gyoro-gyoro remarked and Sylvia nodded in understanding before she and the other two were dismissed.
Next Day
The Organization: ?, Momo
As everything was coming down and getting back to normal Momo was contacted by the organization it was a simple message not even a message really only a destination that she was directed to go to, so when she suddenly had to step out for business only todoroki knew where she was headed however that was the furthest thing from her mind when he offered to accompany her believing that he was going to ask her out right then and their however it did not seem to be much to her somewhat disappointment, instead he asked if he could accompany her during her outing just to ensure that everything would be ok wherever she was going, Momo didn't know if she could make that choice so she texted the number that had given her the directions and asked if she could bring along one of her friends and of course this was answered with an immediate no causing todoroki to worry even more about her but she assured him that she would be fine although she wasn't so certain about that in actuality as she began her trek to the designated area once their she was picked up by two individuals both wearing a suit and tie one of them called Erimin never opened his eyes but could still seemingly see her as she approached his hair was clipped back and put into some weird multi-prong shape that made it seem like a large spider was on top of his head, the next person that accompanied him was named Destro he seemed normal enough with a shaved head but had heavy dark circles under his eyes almost making it appear that he was tired or lacked sleep but he was also rather calm and comforting.
The two greeted her before opening the door for her to enter a limousine she half expected the person behind the machine to be there but no it was just an empty car with only her in it along with complimentary drinks and snacks for her to enjoy as they moved she didn't know exactly where they were headed but she fairly sure going by the street signs that they were headed in the direction of U-city and she was correct soon seeing the signs and crossing. There was no talking during the ride towards the location which only built up the girl's nerves. She was half-expecting that her escorts would also be robots but she guessed that whoever she was meeting wasn't that paranoid to not trust anyone about whatever they were planning, as the car pulled up to the locations she saw the rather large building with multiple windows, and pointed tip staring back at her well she guessed the phrase "hiding in plain sight" was the optional phrase for this circumstance as she was assured out of the car and brought up to the buildings to the highest floor again neither person spoke to her the entire time making that eerie feeling as she continued and entered into the room of course before entering said room she was requested to hand over her phone or any other electronics on her person and that anything discussed within shall be kept secrete and Momo nodded before proceeding inside. There was one other person in the room in front of a decorated table and wall.
The person swiveled around in his chair revealing a unique man on the other side he had introduced himself as Fuzzy which initially she believed likely wasn't his real name and just an alias but given how this world's naming conventions worked it may very well be if most traditional or regular names were taken already. he was a well-dressed man with a suit and tie, hair tied into two braids framing the sides of his face, his eyes were very unique having vertical slit pupils along with having spiky eyebrows, several facial tattoos, and multiple ear piercings. The aura he gave off while mysterious and odd was somewhat comforting despite the situation. He rose up from his chair and greeted her with a handshake which she allowed and both of them proceeded to sit down.
"I know you probably have dozen of questions for me and my intentions and I'll be sure to answer them all in due time however I think we should start at the very top and work our way back from there…as I said my name is fuzzy and I am the great-grandson of the late great seer Shibabawa" Fuzzy remarked but seeing the lack of reaction on her face and her only answering with a nod made him cautious but he continued on nonetheless.
"Similar to her I have the power of clairvoyance, although I do not know what she saw, I know enough that it will be trouble not only for a city but the entire human race as we know. The last word she uttered before her death was "The earth is doomed" and unlike the association, I'm taking the warning as a serious matter not pawning it off to a simple fellow without any resources to actually support him." fuzzy stated.
"You're referring to sitch." Momo said.
"Indeed however unlike him I want to bring about actual change and the start of that change will be starting with our main force of defenders, heroes, however, the heroes of the association are mostly inefficient and incapable." fuzzy stated.
"So you're hoping to create your own association to rival it and offer a better path? Is that why you were going to assist the monsters just to better your business position?" Momo accused, the man shrugged his shoulders before answering her question with another question.
"Do you know why? In the three years that the hero association existed, hasn't another competitor risen against it?" Momo slightly gasped at the implication of where the man was going with this and he nodded before holding up a thumb drive and sliding over to her.
"The hero associations are definitely not the saints they claim to be, they are as corrupt and scummy as they come…they targeted fledging organizations and threaten them, or if that fails a "convenient" monster would show up near the area of business and destroy it down to its foundation." fuzzy remarked.
"If you have this, why haven't you gone public with it?" Momo immediately questioned looking at the drive and then backed up to the man.
"Because I would be immediately discredited, of course, the hero association has this world wrapped around its finger they could do and say anything and the crowd would be swayed by its influence. the monster association and the recent capture of the executive son presented itself as a unique opportunity for me and my associates." fuzzy remarked.
"You have co-conspirators?" Momo questioned
"Of course some from within the organization itself, how else would I come upon these files? There is also my co-founder Blast's son himself." this did give the expected reaction from the girl.
"Blast has a son?" Momo questioned and Fuzzy nodded his head.
"Yes, and his frustration with his father only extends to the association as well... With him aboard it will prove even easier to have solid backing from the public given the legendary myth they built around the man himself. " Fuzzy remarked, uncoupling his fingers from each other in a bragging gesture.
"How is your hero agency going compared to that of the association?" Momo queried.
"That's the easy part they have laid the groundwork for us upon which we could improve upon we've been watching the folly of heroes of the associations..they're separated and segregated from one another so that was the first place we sought to correct, our agency the Neo Heroes will be reliant on each other and emphasize teamwork over all else and for that reason, we are getting rid of the antiquated ranking system in replace for just being a neo hero answering to a single Neo leader that would be given on a case by case basis. Along with a more rigorous training program and facility that strives to build up the weakest members instead of just emphasizing the strong." Fuzzy told her and Momo had to admit that it did sound better than what the association had but something caught her attention.
"You're referring to yourself as the neo-heroes? So are you affiliated with the neo-hunters?" Momo asked and the man let out a chuckle.
"Why of course? Did you think they arrived to help you all in the fighting that night by pure coincidence? Once we announce ourselves they will be the first among our ranks along with Blue, two promising martial artists, and we are currently in talks with a famous sumo wrestler as well. " Fuzzy said with a smile.
"You seem to have things well underway, what do you need from me?" Momo questioned
"Well given your unique talents we are hoping to keep as many secrets as possible, see while we want to foster an association of hard work through training we also understand the gravity of the situation we are in monsters are getting more and more powerful and heroes are struggling to keep up with that strength so to help alleviate that issue we are planning to implement battlesuits for all our members this would bring the strength of a C-class up to that of on par or even exceeding that of an A-class hero. Of course, requesting that many materials take time but more importantly manpower, and with more people involved we have more potential for leaks with you we can bypass those concerns" Fuzzy replied and Momo nodded. But she still felt a bit uneasy, using her quirk in this way was extremely against the law…of her world but even without laws the jobs she would be taking away from people from doing this was also a problem.
"I can see your unease but I ensure this is for the benefit of the human race and to sweeten the deal I will offer you and your friends your own customized battles suit along with the schematics for the G4 and G5 robots, I'm sure this would help you all in the battles ahead." and at that, Momo froze as she thought about back home and how things are going wrong before her mind flashed back to what she told todoroki previously…she needed this being able to summon two demon level robots at her command one of which was as strong as the Nomu that all might fought in the USJ would be a huge boon for her and her friends, but was it the right thing to do? Bakugo going off his words would think so because he did want them to get stronger "by all costs." so maybe…..she thought back again to what Midoriya said that night, how gigantomachia had been freed …anger coursed through her just thinking about it and with that anger she quickly reached her hand out and agreed to the man and his terms he seemed nice enough and his goal was a noble one at least his methods to get there a bit less so but if the association truly did what he said they did on the thumb drive he was simply playing by their rules just without getting his hands dirty himself. But Momo held no doubts that he wasn't telling her everything as the two of them along with his bodyguards were going further down in the base to get to work as there wasn't a moment to waste given that she had to learn about these battle suits in the first place.
Later that night
Girl talk: 1A Girls
All of the Girl in the class was prompted by Mina to get together in Yaomomo's room to go over everything that had happened on the night prior just to ensure that everyone was ok and doing fine given that alcohol was around along with the guys. All of the girls agreed they all entered the room at separate times and each of them noted Momo's larger bed than the rest which toru was sure to tease the girl about it although Momo was quick to put off any speculation of having someone else join her in bed and remarked that it was just more "normal" for her to have a larger bed and it just felt better to have which everyone could agree with. The group mostly discussed idle chatter and how they hadn't really met up together like they were in some time since but others noted that they would often do this with the 1B girls and that may have been why, the thought of them bringing hopes and prayers for their safety back home. After that, they quickly switched topics back to what they were actually here to discuss.
"So…is there anything people want to confess about what happened that night?" toru asked excitedly and at that, almost all of the girls' faces began to flush red with embarrassment but none of them said anything, being fully content to just stay silent looking down at their hands.
"Oh come on girls it was what we were here to discuss …how about I choose …mi-uraraka…I saw you coming out of Deku's room the other day, care to explain? Did anything juicy happen?" toru remarked, she was going to initially say Mina but the girl was again completely out of it, unlike the others who seemed embarrassed she was different almost like she was scared or worried about something, she guessed something major happened with her and was projecting with this gathering and discussion hopefully getting everyone else out of the way first would elevate her worries if she knew how the others acted on that day. Uraraka quickly looked up and hastily flung her arms around as everyone looked at her and her ever-reddening face before she shielded it by covering it with her hands and accidentally using her quirk and making her float upwards towards the ceiling and it was there where she spoke facing the ceiling instead of them.
"Look, look we didn't do anything alright. We just umm slept together …NOT in that way …Just cuddling that's all." uraraka stated.
"You wore some odd clothes for just a regular sleepover. Ribbit." Tsu remarked making the girl palm her fist into her hands causing her knuckles to touch her face and apply gravity on herself once again and immediately started to fall from the sky she was caught by Tsu although she was at this point trained enough to prepare for the landing by sheer instinct the tongue only helping her just come to a standing landing verse a crouched one, she turned her back to them as they waited for a reply to Tsu's jab but she clutched her hands on both of her shoulders and shimmied in place for a moment thinking about what she should say or how she should say it.
"Well ummm…while nothing did happen…I ummm….I wouldn't have minded anything happening…I guess you could say that I was offering?... He just seemed to be hurt and stressed even during and after the festival and I didn't know what else I could do for him and I heard that is a way that guys you know "relieve stress." so … I guess I was just going to go and….see what happens I suppose." Uraraka remarked quickly, trying to explain her rationale through her nerves, she didn't want to give off the wrong impression. But it seemed that wasn't really a concern as all of the girls cheered her on for her choice and thought it was very considerate and that empowered her enough to face them and again and proceed back to her seat face still flushed.
"So you're saying he denied your advances? Aww Midoriya really is a pure wholesome boy." Toru remarked.
"So you guys just snuggled together? Ribbit?" Asui remarked with a finger to her chin. Uraraka's face reddened even more.
"Umm, while we didn't do anything too explicit…umm there definitely is a lot more than just sleeping… a lot of making out and some light touches here and there but he didn't want our first time to be like that." uraraka said and everyone understood and toru watched as Mina slumped even more in on herself…did something like that happen to her she wondered she looked around and saw Momo also looking at the girl with some sympathy did she know something? But she wanted to quickly switch the topics for her sake and carry on to the next person.
"Well, what about you yaomomo? We know something happened back there with Todoroki. What happened?" toru asked with a massive grin, Momo was completely dumbfounded by the question her face reddened completely as she thought back to that night and what she did, hell what she was about to do.
"Well ….Ummm…that was….I kind of assaulted him….I wasn't thinking clearly and we were alone …I forced myself on to him even suggesting um…some rather explicit activities" Momo said in shame looking down, toru whistled.
"I never expected that from you, yaoMomo."
"How did he react?" uraraka asked curiously.
"Well I don't know really its still a bit fuzzy but I'm fairly certain before any more inappropriate touching could commence he likely had enough and completely froze me with his quirk and after that, he didn't talk to me for the remainder of our time there." Momo replied
"That's why you were so damp when you came back" Jiro commented and the girl nodded.
"It seems that you worked things out though, right?" Mina finally spoke up with an unusually squeamish and weak tone, especially given the topics they were discussing.
"Yes, yes later in the night I came to his room to apologize to him personally, in fact in a way our bond was strengthened from the act as he revealed to me that he would ask me out but just at a later time he hasn't done it yet but hopefully it's soon," Momo remarked and everyone was surprised by that and praised the girl on her success. Mina included the girl showing hints of relief on her face and toru being emboldened by that, wanted to keep the topic going and hopefully get the girl back to herself soon.
"Ok now Jiro the unusually subdued rocker, what did you do? Did you "rock" Kaminari's world the other night?" Toru teased and Jiro's face notably contorted into one of revulsion.
"Ew gross and who made you suddenly leader? How about you go yourself before you call on me." Jiro said handily but even through her expression toru could see the blush on her face suggesting something did indeed happen between them.
"I'm the leader since you all were quiet and everyone else seemed to agree, so you can't complain now, I'll go after you. How about that?" toru offered instead and Jiro looked around and saw everyone looking at her just sighed before continuing on just trying to get it over with.
"We didn't do anything too explicit, we kind of just …..teased each other while we were dancing with our quirks." Jiro commented.
"What does that mean?" Momo asked and Jiro's face reddened even more but she said nothing.
"I could take a swing at a few guesses if you want." toru remarked and Jiro quickly shook her head not wanting her to give any superfluous information that likely wasn't true.
"Well while we were grinding on the dance floor he playfully sent some shocks into me and I responded in kind with my own quirk poking him at first but one thing led to another and it became vibrations in certain areas.." Jiro spoke and got quieter and quieter as she did so.
"Oh, were these areas certain erogenous zones?" toru asked in a teasing tone.
"I'm surprised you even know how to use that word." Jiro countered, causing toru to take mock offense but everyone was surprised by Asui's next question.
"Did you guys finish? Ribbit." Asui asked, suddenly sticking true to her true blunt self, no hold bars.
"Tsu!" Jiro silently screamed at her muffled by her hands as her earphone jacks twirled every which way.
"It's….a valid question." Mina remarked, speaking out again with a small chuckle and everyone proceeded to wait for the girl to respond.
"NO! No nothing like that…the song changed and I quickly left after that." Jiro said.
"Oof poor Kaminari." toru remarked with a laugh before yelping in pain as the girl poked her in the arm very hard.
"Your turn." Jiro demanded and while rubbing her shoulder toru obliged.
"Sheesh alright, well for me it was a little spicier than the rest of you… I and Ojiiro went streaking! he still owed me for seeing me naked so I wanted him to strip for me and to make him feel more comfortable and entice him. I got naked too." she said with no shame. And all of them were somewhat surprised by that.
"I'm fairly sure that was much harder for one of you than the other." uraraka pointed out and toru full-on nodded with no shame.
"Yeah, Ojiro was so panicked and scared the entire time. I was in my element so I was completely fine with it." toru remarked proudly.
"So you two just went around the festival naked?" Jiro asked in somewhat disbelief and the girl nodded.
"Wait, how long? was that the reason when we met up you guys were invisible?" uraraka asked.
"Maaaybe." toru remarked whimsically.
"That's the only thing you two did?" Mina questioned.
"Well yeah, of course, we got a good look at each other's bodies and I won't lie. I wanted to sate my curiosity if Ojiiro got "bigger'' all over in his great sage mode, he does although We didn't touch very much, at least with our hands but quirks were another story." Toru remarked simply.
"Wait for ojiro I can understand but for you what does that mean?" Momo asked through a horribly red face and instead of responding, Toru simply began to use her light manipulation to cover Momo's chest, moving it around and making it giggle before pulling it back and touching it which got the message across, Jiro shattered the construct and quickly wanted to move on from the conversation as all of the girls faces reddened.
"Well, Asui your next…did you get up to anything during the night?" toru asked.
"You were gone with Tokoyami for a while even after Midoirya went to go check up on the two of you." uraraka remarked and toru was awed at that.
"Ribbit!? Midoirya was there for how long?" Tsu asked, surprised and shock clearly evident on her face. Uraraka put her hands up.
"Not that long he said that he saw the two of you kissing and that was about it before dark shadow told him that everything was alright and he left." uraraka explained, Jiro overheard Tsu mention something about talking to Tokoyami about that but it was drowned out by Toru's squeal of excitement.
"Oh, it sounds like something really juicy happened between the two of you. spill, spill." toru said excitedly.
"But first, how was Tokoyami, I know he wasn't doing so hot when he just suddenly took off like that," Mina said tempering down her friend but it again drew curious glances from some of the others around her.
"Well…he wasn't feeling very well over what happened to sigismund he still feels responsible in some way but more than that what Midoriya said about the heteromorphs bothers him greatly he worried about what's going to happen back home with them and how the "normal" people will react to it given the already degrading temperament it was when we left. ribbit" Tsu explained and everyone stopped for a moment to just think about that before Asui continued.
"We talked about it and due to a previous brawl he was somewhat scared to get close to me, he believed that he was dangerous so he wanted to distance himself from me so I just told him how I feel and things spiraled from there and we had…outercourse ribbit. The clothes stayed on though so we had to go home to clean up before coming back. "Asui remarked simply that everyone was stunned by that last statement.
"Outercourse?" Momo questioned
"Sex without penetration" Toru replied, still baffled along with all the other girls.
"Are both of you…..ok with what happened?..you know since alcohol was involved." Mina murmured out, the question was an acceptable one but by now all the girls had picked up on Mina's strange behavior and her particular questions, Asui simply shrugged her shoulders.
"Yeah we're both fine with it, I was more sober than he was if anything and I initiated it, ribbit. Although he still felt the need to ask me out properly yesterday." Asui said simply and everyone clapped for her new relationship and that left one last girl for the rest of them.
"Did something happen, Mina, you can tell us." Toru said, holding a hand on the girl's shoulder
"Well, I don't know what happened…." Mina spoke suddenly and her voice was low and somewhat shaky.
"I just don't know what happened…I had just woken up in Kirishima's bed, naked so..maybe something happened maybe it didn't he didn't know either. It was just an extremely awkward situation all around and still is." Mina spoke simply, and she could feel toru rub along her back.
"What's the last thing you remember?" Jiro asked.
"Well not much, the overall night is murky for me I guess I was drinking to much, but the only thing I have to go off of was a text from Kirishima it was a confession of him telling me that we wanted to be more than friends…I guess after having read that I just wanted to see him and things heated up from their? But I guess that's where my problem lies…that text seemed a little too well timed?" Mina suggested.
"Are you trying to say he was trying to manipulate you into coming to his room?" Momo asked
"That doesn't sound like Kirishima at all. Ribbit." Tsu commented
"Yeah, Kirishima isn't like that at all, " uraraka added . and Mina nodded.
"You're right I don't know, I want to believe that but it's just this nagging feeling in my head. It just makes me feel weird…and somewhat scared." Mina said before murmuring the last part but Jiro caught it.
"Can we see the text message?" she suggested and Mina nodded, gave the girl her phone and she checked it out and her eyes widened at it as she noticed a key detail.
"This says that the message was sent at 12am, we didn't get home until 3am." Jiro remarked, passing it to yaomomo which confirmed
"We were only relieved off security duty at 11pm so I doubt this was a completely drunk text at only an hour into going around." Momo said.
"Yeah and didn't Iida take our phones sometime after that for safe keeping?" uraraka pointed out.
"Yup. ribbit." Asui said.
"Which means this was a preplanned text from sometime before that." Jiro commented.
"And has nothing to do with what happened…"Mina silently finished, balling her hands into a fist and releasing them and shoving her open hands into her face, all this time she was avoiding him…for nothing…of course, Kirishima wasn't some malicious person he wouldn't do that to her or anyone.. She is an idiot.
"Hey I'm sure you two just need to discuss what happened and everything is going to be ok." toru said.
"She is right, I know that Kirishima likes you a lot and he wouldn't do anything to hurt you or betray your trust."Jiro commented
"I'm sure he is just giving you space and waiting for you to talk about it. Ribbit." Tsu also spoke out in support and ina wiped her face from the invisible tears that fell there and pumped her fist.
"You guys are right, I'll talk to him soon. I just need to get my mind straight " Mina remarked and to that end the bubbly girl had came back in full force going back over the what the others did that night as now that she was uplifted from her worries she had a load of things to say, that she didn't say before as she was mostly barely paying attention unless she could relate it back to her own situation.
One night later
Mina finally worked up the nerve to come forwards and talk with Kirishima, she still had her reservations based on how the teen had been acting over the course of the past couple of days, he had kept his distance and barely spoke with her since the incident, making her feel as though that now that he got what he wanted along she was no longer important to her but she knew that was just her mind playing tricks on her or maybe trying to tell her something she didn't want to believe. While the girls thought Kirishima was too caring to do something like she was thinking but on the other hand they also believed that her worries aren't something to just discard or to have just some faith in him and to talk to him about it and see how he feels, so here she was in front of his door, she was semi worried about not having texted him previously of her attentions and just showing up randomly he could be sleep or he could be in the gym but she guesses she could check their next if he didn't respond here. She tentatively knocked on the door and there she waited surprisingly Kirishima opened it a couple of seconds later but what actually surprised her was Kirishima himself, he didn't have his hair dye or gel in so his hair was back to it's black and low hanging self that it was in middle school combined that with his red eyes, she initially took the person for sero being possessed by saren but his sharp teeth gave him away when he has first seen her his face went through a couple of emotions happy at first, sad, and then shy or embarrassed she guessed as he quickly opened the door fully and the two stared at each other for sometime before Mina coughed and looked away.
"Kirirshima,I think it's about time we talked about what happened" Mina remarked grabbing at her hand Kirishima didn't say anything and he was about to give way for her to come in but he seemed to think better of it shaking his head mostly to himself.
"R-right I think it would be better to go downstairs for this.." Kirishima remarked, stepping out of his room and Mina agreed, stepping back and giving him space to enter the hallway before the two of them started to walk down stairs in silence both being too shy to even look at each other. As the two got down and made their way into the living room, they sat down at the table across from one another and sat and stared once again. There was a nervous silence between the two of them before Mina broke it with a heavy sigh.
"Ok, I guess we should start with the message, did you plan for it to come up alongside the festival with the alcohol?" Mina questioned and Kirishima's response was immediate, shaking his head in denial before blushing again and rubbing the back of his head. In embarrassment.
"I didn't know about the festival by the time I sent that." Kirishima admitted.
"Well why did you plan to send it during that time?" Mina asked
"It was supposed to be just a countdown clock to push me to….confess to you during the last month, I set it up way before…." Kirishima said by taking out his phone and showing her the setup in question true to the boy's words, the message was from the beginning of the previous month during the invasion.
"I really wanted to confess in person but so much had happened on that day in particular that it completely slipped my mind…I didn't mean for anything like what we did to happen." Kirishima remarked and Mina scrunched up her nose at that.
"What do you mean what we did? Do you remember?" Mina asked and was surprised when the boy's face reddened even more signaling that he did but he told her that he didn't but almost like he was sensing her thoughts he quickly added.
"Look I didn't lie to you, I truly didn't know what happened that day my mind was just as fuzzy as yours was but after I noticed how you were distancing yourself from me I tried my hardest to remember and suddenly I started to remember everything in exact detail…I think it was my quirk awakening…it's something more than just hardening others I think." Kirishima explained, looking down at his lap with an extremely red face.
"Well don't just sit there and leave me in suspense, what happened?" Mina asked seriously, partially standing up and getting in the boy's face only making him back away just as quickly btu he held out both of his hands for her to take while still looking away.
"I-it's too embarrassing to say…I want to try something with my quirk first and see if that works, given me both of your hands." Kirishima explained and Mina sat back down and did as asked. Kirishima squeezed both of her hands and started to concentrate, he wanted her to remember what happened that night, Mina saw her body slowly harden but as the hadenring made its way to her body up to her head she started to see things or more like remembering things, it was like it was happening right in front of her…it was her and Kirishima she had just finished reading the text that was sent and she slowly made her way over to his room what followed as he opened the door was her full on kissing him with such intensity, this eventually devolved into caresses and touches but evidently she wanted more as she saw some of her acid burn some of his clothe suggesting that she wanted him naked and Kirishima eagerly obliged as the two of them disrobed what they did next didn't seem as bad as she initially thought they just….. Used each other visual presence to help each other get off and while embarrassing it was manageable and when the two ….finished.
she believed that was it but oh boy was she wrong as there was a round two…she was curious if Kirishima's refractory period was affected by his quirk and after explaining what that term meant he definitely said that wasn't how it worked even demonstrating what his hardened self would look like which seemed more painful then enjoyable but something did happen and he was ready again? Maybe it was the sound of disappointment in her voice and he activated this other ability of his but the whos or whys, Didn't matter to them as the two continued at it this time there was touching a lot of touching, Mina removed her hand from Kirishima's hoping to stop the show their but also becoming intimately aware of the difference in the size of their hands but that unfortunately didn't end the memories as they still continued they used their hands to pleasure each other before finally the memory ended as the two of them went to sleep exhausted but incredibly happy and satisfied.
"I guess it worked.." Kirishima said with some hesitance and Mina simply nodded
"Umm…I guess it's good we didn't really… you know, do it…"Kirishima remarked and Mina again just nodded. There was another long silence that felt like an eternity for Kirishima.
"I guess after seeing or remembering that I guess, you're probably mad at me right? I don't blame you really..I'll just leave you alone if you want." Kirishima remarked with a small defeated tone getting up to leave but he was halted by Mina's arm reaching out and stopping.
"I don't hate you Kirishima, we were both drunk, I can't put all the blame on you, I can shoulder some of it as well…but what do you want to do now? What does this make us?" Mina asked honestly, she was surprised when Kirishima got down on his knees in front of her and clasped her hand with both of his.
"I would be honored if you could take me as your boyfriend." Kirishima remarked with a red blush coming to his cheeks looking her directly in the eye and despite the vision she was seeing she pushed through her nerves and kissed him on the cheek before replying.
"I would be happy to Ejiro." Mina said and Kirishima's face lit up like a Christmas tree with joy and almost literally bounced around the living room.
"But Ummm I do have a request." Mina asked, halting all of the boy's joys as he quickly came back to her.
"What? anything!?"Kirishima quickly said.
"Ummm would you like to blur this memory? I don't want to completely forget it but having it like a 24k DVD playe….WAIT! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO REMEMBER THAT DAY WITH THIS LEVEL OF CLARITY!?." Mina was saying before completely yelling out as she realized the last part, taking both of the boys shoulders and shaking him rapidly, Kirishima flushed rapidly and looked away, rubbing along his cheek with a finger.
"Umm since Just a day now, as I said before when you started to become distant I really wanted to remember and try to figure out what happened, at first I thought that maybe you could check if you still had your hymen but reading about it that wouldn't really prove much of anything as it could tear from other things as well especially given our hero activities…one day I just kept trying to remember as I bashed my head against a wall over and over again trying to jog my memory and then it suddenly appeared.
At first, I thought I just had a concussion or something like that but after umm looking through it some more and some experimenting I believed that it was memories of that day um I would ask to compare what we saw and see if it's completely true and we remember the same events to confirm. if you want to of course it's still a bit embarrassing to talk about…oh if you're wondering if i…umm…"used" the memories then no..no." Kirishima explained before clarifying the last bit, Mina'a heart rate completely skipped several beats as he spoke but she was glad that he was being so considerate of her during this time as well so he was as troubled over it as she was but wanted to respect her space and wait for her to confront him about, which made sense since that was the type of person Kirishima was always so considerate and if these memories are correct this extended to the bed room as well.
"I see…well that's nice to know, but let's just go with assuming we saw the same thing. There's no reason to discuss it and embarrass ourselves even more but we're definitely blurring the memory alright? No clearing it up later kiri." Mina remarked completely serious as she gave her ultimatum and Kirishima nodded in understanding as he took both of her hands again before attempting to blur the memory a bit and after being satisfied with what they wanted they shared in an strong embrace, both ignoring what they were feeling from doing so at that moment making both blushed even more heavily but Mina ignored that as she wanted to test the limits of this new ability of his and what he could do with it and he had the perfect subjects as she had seen yaomomo and todoroki walk out as the two of them sat down at the table.
When Momo got the text message from todoroki that he wanted to go out for a walk she began to mentally prepare herself for what was to come she didn't know why she was so nervous given that she knew that he liked her and she liked him it should have been something very simple to just get over with but her heart just continued to pound in her chest and this was on top of what she should wear, shouldn't it be something casual? Formal?...seductive.. She didn't really have much indication of the outing or todoroki's intentions; he just told her that they were going to go for a late night walk and the time he would be going to her room, she ultimately decided to stop thinking about it too much before and put something casual on and being so caught up in her thoughts she was shocked by the sudden knock on her door she rushed over and quickly opened and was happy for her sense of wardrobe as she matched his atmosphere as well. There was a small silence as the two looked at each other before Todoroki got a hold of himself and offered Momo his arm. She graciously took it without a word and the two proceeded outside. They had noticed Mina and Kirishima in the living room and for a moment todoroki showed some signs of concern but Momo assured him that the normally noisy girl had other matters to take care and she wouldn't be bothering them as the two of them made their way out into the mechanical city.
The two of them walked some time from their home, their walk was still mostly in silence and for a time Momo was very worried given how nervous todoroki seemed to be, the two of them had went to the rooftops of one of the larger buildings giving a view over the large vast land and highway roads that lead away from large mechanical city.
"Yaoyorozu..I guess you can tell what I called you out here for, I don't think I need anymore time to uncover my feelings towards you I do like you a lot as more than just a good friend and judging by your actions from the festival I assume that you like me as well?" Todoroki began and Momo nodded slightly disappointed that he addressed her so formally.
"Yes I do…again I'm sorry for coming out so forcefully." Momo replied and Todoroki shook his head.
"It's fine..if I were being honest with myself part of me….liked it….but I knew that it wasn't the time or place either physically or mentally." Todoroki explained before there was another silence as she saw the teen rub his hands together, he was nervous about something and she had a feeling it definitely just wasn't about them going out.
"Yaoyorozu, do you think it's a wise choice to get involved with me? Given everything you know about my family, endeavor, toya….were all under a lot of scrutiny right now and I don't want to draw you or your family into that." todoroki explained and Momo was surprised by that, so that was why he was so nervous and now that she thought about it, it was a healthy concern even before all of the information that they now knew the girls who also found todoroki attractive were put off by him being the son of endeavor who from public perspective was not a very well mannered man and she herself was of no exception to that, adding on her mother would certainly disapprove believing that she should remain focused on her career before pursuing romantic endeavors but just like the festivals she didn't want to just focus on that especially with everything happening at home it brought her things into perspective, she didn't know where her life would be headed especially in the field of work she was hoping to go into so she didn't want to wait around until she was settled to find a partner or at least experience love which was what first changed her thought about todoroki especially once he started to become more open with the class, speaking of which the boy must have taken her silence as a sort of acceptance as he continued
.
"So for those reasons, I wanted to get your thoughts on only going out for the remainder of our time here and once we get back then…that will be the end of it?" Todoroki said and even his normally stoic voice tempered off into one of solemn acceptance but he was pulled from that when Momo pulled on his arm to get his attention.
"No shoto, respectfully if we are going to be together I don't want to be conditional or timed or anything like I appreciate the concern of my me and my family public image, I still like you in spite of you and yours…whatever drama or scandals comes up I'm sure that we will handle it together…I would just like a simple, traditional relationship until de-..until something happens between us to call it off okay?" Momo said hesitating for a moment as she it almost seemed to be proposing to him causing her to blush rapidly and turn away and hoping the boy didn't notice her slip up but those thoughts faded away as she felt todoroki take her face with both of his hands she felt the warmth and the cool each of them on her cheeks creating a weird but pleasant feeling to radiate off her face and he guided her to look back at him, she was shocked as he had leaned down to kiss her on the lips..this wasn't just a peck either but a full-blown kiss that had an intensity she really never seen in Shoto before other than when he fighting and she enjoyed it very very much, she didn't know much of anything about kissing but having been told that todoroki was going to confess to her eventually she made an effort to learn some things and Shoto likely did as well unless shoto secretly had a girlfriend in his past that he kept secrete from them she highly doubted that. She felt him pull away and despite not wanting it to end she allowed it as the two of them just stared at each other for a moment longer slightly panting.
"Was that…was that good?" Todoroki asked and despite the boldness of making the first move she could still hear the slight degree of the sadness in his voice, like he wasn't good enough so she brought a hand up and caressed over his cheek and as sweet as possible responded.
"It was perfect." before bringing him back down into another passionate kiss eventually the two separated again this time with some distance between them.
"Umm, I guess I did things out of order again but…I just didn't know how else to show how much what you said meant to me…which brings me to another point…I'm not the most emotionally expressive person in the class are you sur-" todoroki was speaking until Momo put a finger to his lips to silence him.
"Todoroki I'm sure..if I didn't know any better it would seem like you are stalling." Momo said with a small chuckle, pulling her finger back and watched as Todoroki cracked a small smile at her.
"I guess you're right…Yaoyorozu..would you be my girlfriend?" Todoroki asked with sincerity.
"Yes and shoto…call me Momo ok?" Momo answered with a nod before hugging him and whispering the second part into his ear.
"Ok…Momo," Todoroki answered as he returned the embrace.
The two of them started making their way back to the house after discussing some other topics, the most important of which being Momo's involvement with the organization or secret other hero agency that's being built up. Momo assured that they were at least agreeable in most instances but she had to admit that she still knew very little about them and didn't completely trust them. As the two neared the home they were suddenly surprised by both Mina and Kirishima the two of them were invisible and hanging around which they had assumed meant that toru was nearby but they were surprised that it wasn't the case and that it was Kirishima's new ability that he was calling red riot: adaptable and it was just as it sounded he could adapt to thing his body was either undergoing or if he put his mind to but after quickly rushing through the explanation Mina was more concerned about the two of them and is "it" official and the two looked at each other before both nodding and Mina yipped excitedly before Momo turned the question on the girl herself and Kirishima at that both of the two blushed but also said that they were going out now.
The group conversation ended with todoroki making a comment that deku would probably want to see his new ability in action and Kirishima wholeheartedly agreed and charged towards the association training rooms as then he could also show Bakugo as well and he was curious what he would manifest to deal with the teens explosions and Mina chased after him wanting to show toru and ojiro as well while they were their but something Kirishima mentioned got to Momo head as he heard that Bakugo was now training with Midoriya now instead of silver chain and what happened to the girl but todoroki shrugged his shoulders and remarked that he hadn't seen her around lately and bakguo hasn't either a pit formed at the bottom of Momo's stomach thinking about something fuzzy had told her about the monster association but she let it lye for now as she wanted to enjoy her night. The two of them went to watch a movie in the living room which was crushed by the two other couples that came in at a later time but overall it was an enjoyable night.
The next day
limiter: zombieman, adeas, tokoyami, koda
Zombieman and Tokoyami had gotten together to discuss what he found out on the day of the festival and zombieman was immediately interested although he remarked that he would have been more thankful if he found him immediately during the festival which Tokoyami apologized for although in his defense he didn't want to create a scene and that given the number of mosquitoes around and the monster ability to control them she could have taken hostages if they weren't careful which zombieman could see it from that point of view but he asked how they would find the experiment again and he believed that he had an idea so Tokoyami had requested koda's aid and all of them ventured into Z-city more specifically the location around he first encountered the experiment and asked koda to summon a bunch of mosquitoes, if she saw them as her children then the monster would undoubtedly take notice and interest if possible he could even use the mosquitoes themselves to track the girl down which luckily he didn't have to do as the girl made her way to them sensing the number of mosquitoes being drawn to the area of course she assumed it to be just koda when it was shown to be him along with Tokoyami and zombieman she seemed to loose interest relatively quickly but Tokoyami didn't want to give the girl the chance of leaving just in case as he cast bestow on the women and as fast a light shinning light dashed towards aedes clouding her in golden armor and forcing her to the ground where she was held their as zombieman made his approach pointing a gun to her face..koda was a bit upset with the actions thinking the two were escalating things to far. Aedes on the other hand wasn't too scared but rather annoyed.
"Oh good now there are two sour sports and here I thought you just wanted to hang out with me again." Aedes remarked in her binds, completely ignoring the gun in her face as she addressed koda.
"S-sorry." koda murmured and then was annoyed when zombieman poked the girl on the horn with the barrel of his gun.
"That's enough of that, dr. genus your creator, where is he?" zombieman threatened cocking his gun.
"Haven't they told you that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar?" Aedes remarked simply and the gun was pushed down into her face this time.
"And hasn't anyone told you that things would be easier if you just followed instructions." zombieman said again.
"Well then it seems we are at an impasse, you're not going to kill me obviously... It seems I'm your greatest lead to the good doctor and judging by your attitude you have to make it worth my while to sell out my father." Aedes remarked and zombieman still didn't look amused to entertain her so koda finally decided it was enough got in the way and moved the pistol from the girl's face and backed the other two off.
"What do you want?" koda asked.
"Well let me see…if the guy axes the doctor I won't have a place to stay anymore so there's that first and foremost."
"You can come live with us ….we have a vacant spot." koda remarked, suddenly turning to look at Tokoyami for a bit but being unable to discern what he was feeling from his helmeted head.
"Ooh…that could work..where is it?" Aedes remarked
"Ugh in the center of A-city….but it…it should be fine they don't bother you if you're around us." Koda replied.
"Going off our time in the festival I believe you so that could work out…but I also want to go out more..experience even more human things was fun and I want to do it again soon. There is this thing called nightmare day that I think would work. Well.
"Is-is she asking him out on a date?" zomebieman asked a completely confused Tokoyami who shook his head and just shrugged his shoulders.
"Well tha-that could be arranged as well, but can you just take us to the doctor?" Koda asked and after a few moments of consideration she shrugged her shoulders and accepted.
With that out of the way, Tokoyami recalled shining light, and off the four of them went Tokoyami carrying zomebieman while Aedes took koda to the small Takoyaki shop. Zombieman ordered that Aedes be kept outside and that Tokoyami would be looking out for her, he and koda would be going inside given his power of control over insects he would like for him to run a bit of reconnaissance, which he did the insects told him that two people were inside the shop one of them was strange however as he appeared to be more like an animal than a man which aedes confirmed that to be armored gorilla which made sense given that was one of the monster demon cyborg confirmed to leave alive and with no other hesitations zombieman moved in.
he braced himself on the door and pulled out his firearm, before taking a deep breath in and breathing out, and yelling before bashing into the doorway and proceeding inside.
"Today you meet your doom! house of evolution!"
"hmm? Oh, are you a customer, just one moment I will be right with you." the gorilla remarked
"Hmph, how many times did you change your hideout location? This time it's a takoyaki stand in disguise. Well, I'm not falling for it. I followed your trial here. I now go by zombieman...the hero with the immortal body or does experiment NO.66 ring any bells?" zomebieman said while pointing his gun at the gorilla behind the stand.
"Huh? A hero here for the House of Evolution? I'm sorry to tell you this but the house of evolution is no more.'' The gorilla remarked simply making zombieman gasp in shock but he recovered quickly and asked koda to control the insect and ensure that the other person in the shop didn't escape and asked Tokoyami if he was seeing anybody trying to flee from the back and Tokoyami responded negatively no one tried to escape yet. Zombieman then asked to see Dr. Genus and the gorilla surprisingly went to go get him the man himself appeared before him almost completely in casual clothing wiping off insects that started to surround him after koda stopped his control the man looked at the two with an unamused expression he even extended them an invitation for tea and to sit down so they could discuss, zombieman was hesitant for a moment but agreed even telling Tokoyami to come in with him to sit down on the talks.
"Who would have thought that the S-class hero zomebieman would be a specimen from the house of evolution, I remember NO.66 quite well. the only success of the immortal series, an excellent specimen that destroyed my facility and disappeared...it's been what? 10 years now I knew you would come for revenge one day... a hero now? you've managed to change." genus remarked and it was almost like in response the hero quickly stepped up on the table and with his Axe raising high into the air as he sought to bring it down however koda had stepped in between the two of them stopping the hero cold as the two looked at each other zombieman expected the soft teen to stop him especially since he was close with the other experiment, it was a preventive measure so he didn't completely fall into his emotions when he met the doctor.
"You wish to kill me? go ahead with my motivation shattered I lost direction in life I care not if I die." genus remarked simply.
"I've seen the damage done to your lab, it wasn't much and you're still alive as long as that remains you could rebuild it as many times as you liked what happened to you? ANSWER ME DOCTOR GENUS!" zombieman questioned then yelled as he threatened to swing again but when he felt insects climb up over him he began calming down again as the doctor replied.
"I'm surprised that you managed to find my base of operations, the reason I stopped huh? The answer is simple really...he suddenly showed up before me. I witnessed a power far greater than any artificial evolution. my research was nothing in comparison to him, that was my conclusion. He had removed his limiter."
"limiter?" Both Zombieman and Koda questioned.
"No matter how much effort you put into it, every living being has a limit to how much they can grow. Too much power brings complication to the wielder that creates wider issues, they could become a rampaging and mindless monster, that's why God created every living being with a range of growth that ensures their sanity and survival. This growth restriction is what I call a limiter. However, this man pushed himself so far that he surpassed his limitations and removed his limiter!"
"So you're saying that this power that removed his limiter was strong enough to blow away your whole ideology? there exists a guy who obtained such power with no cost?" zombieman questioned
"No there was a cost, in exchange for power he became bald, and due to his strength he had an overwhelming feeling of isolation after annihilating the strongest warrior in my research history with one strike, his expression told me everything. '' Genus countered and that got zomebieman attention.
"zombieman you don't think-" Tokoyami began over the radio
"Yeah...this strongest monster was it carnage Kabuto by any chance?" Zombieman questioned and this got a surprise from the doctor as zombieman finally stepped off the table and sat back down next to Tokoyami.
"hmm? I was sure that I destroyed all of my data in the facility and got rid of the body as well. How did you figure out its name?" the doctor asked.
"I fought and won against it, I might add, in a simulation from a cyborg that was there on that day. He was also an S-class hero and he was the one that gave me the location of the base. your ultimate creation was strong but along with me darkshine was able to beat it and from that, I figure that four other individuals in the S-class would have as well." zombieman commented.
"but not to the same ease as that man did. Those heroes were born with enough potential to become that strong and eventually obtained their power through hard work or talent. Others obtain their power through mechanizing their bodies or experimentation like you. It's also true for people like myself who were born with genius-level intellect or espers that could be born with these talents. but he is different, he was supposed to be just an ordinary person with an ordinary birth through sheer effort alone he pried open the door of his limits and broke his limiter now he can grow continuously unimpeded. his power that goes beyond the limiter seemingly breaks common sense, just remembering that makes me laugh at how ridiculous my ambitions were, there was a spark of that ambition returned when I heard about the mutants of the non-killing army and their capabilities but that faded fast as well, given that you met the cyborg you likely met the man himself what is his name?" genus questioned, zomebieman only knew his hero name and looked to koda.
"I-I think you guys are talking about Saitama correct?" koda said and Tokoyami agreed over the radio.
"Saitama huh? That man claimed to be a hero but is he not in the S-class?" genus questioned, zombieman shook his head.
"We don't know how he wasn't if he has the power you claim he does but he's progressing up the ranks quickly enough he will probably be S-class within the next year or so." zombieman said as he lit a cigarette and smoked it, just taking this all in.
"Is there something else you want to know?" genus asked
"Why takoyaki?" zombieman asked
"while researching cloning through limb regeneration, I discovered a method for unlimited octopus tentacles." genus remarked simply.
the four of them talked some more about the current events before zombieman gave Tokoyami the ok to bring Aedes inside along with them and the six of them all sat and chatted for a bit, Aedes mentioned how he didn't kill the doctor but zombieman just shrugged it off and felt that there was no point anymore. However, he would be keeping a close eye on them if they ever stepped out of line again. The group settled their differences and ate some takoyaki for their troubles for arriving but Aedes was sure to remind Koda of nightmare day and he promised her again that he wouldn't forget and they would plan something out before leaving. Zombieman was even more concerned about this Saitama guy now and was curious about what he could do, now that he mentioned it that was what he was doing before the whole monster invasion popped off, he must have gotten too distracted but if what the doctor said was true then maybe everything would work out in the end after all.
Week 2
Decisions are made: Blast, Sitch, Class 1A
Mdidoriya was finally ready to tell the class about everything he's learned so far about what was transpiring in their world, so just like last time her gathered everyone around in the living room just like last time and began his talk, he explained the same thing that he did a week prior of how all for one had freed Gigantomachia from his prison and artificial coma, he had also captured the former yakuza boss which he confirmed was for the purpose of snapping Chisaki out of his stupor and gaining the mafia bosses trust and with that, he was now able to use his quirk overhaul to properly fuse and take over shigaraki's body for all intents and purposes shigaraki was dead and now all for one held the body of a perfected Nomu comparable to all might himself in his prime.
Midoriya remembered when this particular revelation had occurred to him more specifically his vestiges and even more specifically Nana herself the pain that went through her at the moment completely flooded into Midoriya himself and he had at the time been fighting a random demon-level monster and well had completely destroyed it with a single punch at 100% full cowling but he didn't feel mortified or even cared about the creature at that moment and if he were being honest with himself even now that he had managed to calm down he held no guilt or worry about it. He and the vestiges spoke somewhat after the incident and it was there and here that he confirmed his intentions when going back home..he will kill all for one full stop, the pain, and damage he's done is too much for redemption and his "reasonings border far beyond insanity he often monologues to the captured all might of how he saw himself as a "demon lord." the ultimate villain seen in comic books and he simply wants to replicate that in the "real world" everything he's done is just a game to him and it's time for them to end it here and now.
Now Midoriya didn't know how his classmates would react to his declaration and full commitment to killing someone he would think others would find somewhat appalling or extreme but maybe that was just his former doubts playing tricks on him as his class wore completely neutral expressions to his declaration some even assuming expressions of what could only be described as being confused or fairly conspicuous. All of them agreed that the man had to go and would support Midoriya for doing it, that was if he could, which went unsaid given what they told them they all knew the danger of actually having Midoriya fight all for one even though he was the only one that could do it.
Midoriya nodded and continued on to what he mentioned previously again about how the heroes were given the green light by the government to use lethal force against the villains soon after gigantomachia was freed this was seen as a logical measure as if the heroes were "as good" as they said they were and how much funding heroes school receive then they should be able to deal with untrained and homeschooled villain fairly quickly without the limitation and this wasn't all for one talking but government themselves that were discussing it. Unlike before the government wasn't going to allow all for one to have his way just as easily and with the cases of destruction along with the stability of the very country at stake they have fully decided to step in and get involved and not just leave everything to the dwindling number of heroes. Speaking of which, the heroes were completely split on the government's decisions to allow such things as it was a slippery slope on how heroes would work now and what constitutes using said force in the chaotic landscape causing some friction between the heroes themselves one side spearheaded by hawks and lady nagant who were fine with the decisions and making those calls and endeavor and Mirko who weren't going to change their ways as they believed that it would make them no better than the villains themselves. The class immediately questioned who lady nagant was and after Midoriya had told them about the women some were skeptical about using criminals to help out given that even in the world that they were currently in that didn't work out so well the rated heroes that existed nearly all of them had used the monster invasion to escape into the wild somehow, in fact, some even joined up with the monsters themselves uraraka instinctively rubbed along her neck she remember that night with the monsterized pig mask women and Iida remembered that same night lady death while monsterized actually came to save him although it was only to prolong it till she the two of them had their final rematch.
Midoriya understood their commerce but believed that the women had only done what she did because of how they treated her and now that other heroes would be experiencing what she had to do by herself, maybe they could understand her more and forgive her, this was compounded by the military also being potentially involved out there as well, he was about to continue on but Tokoyami and Shoji questioned if there was any changes with the heteromorphs quirk holders and their riots and Midoriya shook his head after using them to secure gigantomachia he had no use for them and simply let them do as they pleased, using the possessed kurogiri they have been moving the civilians to detention centers to deal with at later times but this seemed to only rile them up even more, combined with their potentially being military support and the possibility of martial law enforced…things could heat up and get really bad especially if they are seen supporting the villains again which have been upgraded to a terrorist organization so if they are seen with them, then they will be held accountable as being terrorist and dealt with as such. At that, the two boys simmered in anger at what only the two knew along with Tsu who calmed Tokoyami down at least a little bit by leaning against him. Midoirya continued on to his next topic which was what were they going to do not just while they were here but back home about killing. Midoirya at this point was fully convinced that killing was a needed action heroes could commit but he wanted to hear the thoughts of his classmates, they were essentially going to return soon to a warzone back home and the original rules from which they were taught had changed significantly from their time which they were gone and the choice now was in their hands just how it was in this world.
Most of the class took a moment to think about that and some were quicker to answer than others, Tokoyami replied that the most important duty for a hero was to help others and maintain stability and if that involved killing dangerous villains or monsters in this world case then….it should be ok to occur and several of the class backed his opinion as well. Uraraka offered a different take, while she agreed that it could be necessary it shouldn't be the first thing they turn to and that they must remember that unlike in this world in there world the villian were people that they were fighting, with their own experience and reason to do what they did think that didn't excused them for their actions but it does make them at least sympathizable she spoke about how she had spoke with toga briefly during the war and how in the moment she didn't understand what the girl was trying to convey to her but now she did at least she thinks so and she wants to talk to her again because she truly didn't think she was a pure evil person just someone that's not quite their and someone like that shouldn't just be killed off and to add on to that todoroki remarked that the same could be said for his brother toya…despite having personally admitted to killing 30 people to the public and likely many more since then …he still didn't want his brother dead, he thought that he wanted to at first but now he wasn't so sure..he knew that it was simply put biased of him to say that since he was his family member but Momo and the rest of the class still found it to be valuable input to the discussion.
Bakugo was mostly silent during the discussion which others found surprising given the boy was the first to yell "die" when fighting so they would have believed that he would have been all for it Kirhsima even remarked how he actually hasn't said it or even a variation of it very often since they got here, Bakugo looked just hardened as he remembered flash's words again as the kunai was to his throat. The memory brings a mix of anger and admittedly some fear, as he remembered blood, was drawn from the small puncture he did when he pressed it. Deeper rage ultimately won over his emotions however as he thought of silver chain and he could completely see how the bastard could just kill people seamlessly without hesitation he didn't want to be like that so as the class waited for him to speak he came out and said that there was no point in killing the extras below the boss, they're just being used as pawns and they're too dumb to realize it so just making them see reason with force should be enough. All for one was the main problem. Without him everyone would just collapse and go back to being normal weirdos or just petty crooks Bakugo said with finality and that's where the class left the discussion, they all agreed all for one had to go but those that served under him deserved at least a chance to live to right their wrongs, however in terms of the world that they were on it was mostly the opposite most monsters at this point were indeed to be exterminated each of them seemed to only cause more chaos and want chaos unlike in their world it was here that the majority needed to die while the minority could be kept in captivity or suspension in some hope of living a normal life again but that wasn't for them to decide.
3-Days later
The class wasn't completely surprised when they received a message from Sitch telling them that he had important news to discuss with them involving them going back home they had thought it would have been an official timestamp of when they could be sent home and how but what the man had conveyed to them was something entirely different.
"I have spoken with Blast and he has revealed to me that the cubes that you all arrived in were strange, they were continually closing in on themselves until recently they collapsed entirely… Blast speculated that these gateways would send you all home if put back into them but not wanting to endanger you all further by exposing you all to more of god's influence they have taken it upon themselves to travel themselves and come back so that they could retrace their steps and offer a safer passageway for your trip back home. All this to say you will be staying here just a bit longer." sitch concluded…there was a notable silence that hung about the room, sitch would have thought they would have been partially happy upon hearing the news he didn't know what they were experiencing in that bubble of there but he assumed it must not have been pleasant so when he saw multiple of their faces switch to anger or downright revulsion he was perplexed and then he was gasping for breath as several black strands manifested around his body and started to squeeze him tightly. The source of which was the green boy but the first one to speak was an explosive blonde his voice dripping in agitation although from his limited time with the boy, he didn't know if that was due to what he said or just his normal tone.
"So you're telling us that you guys decide amongst yourselves to have us skip out on our way home!? Without even giving us a say!" Bakugo yelled as taking a stomp forwards miniature explosion being launched from his hands all the while making Sitch begin to sweat even more.
"I…it was for all your best intre-" Sitch reply died in his throat as the black threads tighten again, he looked back towards green savior Deku, his question was a surprising one given the situation.
"Did you even ask us about our "interest" …do you think we don't have lives back home? That people aren't missing us or worried about us or us, them?" Midoriya spoke low and methodically as he approached, shielding his eyes with his hair as he approached the tied-up man, his black whip getting tighter as he approached.
"Where. Is. Blast." Midoriya demanded getting closer to the man and it was in that next moment where a black portal opened up behind Sitch and him along with Midoriya the only quick enough to react was Bakugo using his explosions to quickly cover the distance and join in the portal but soon after it closed before anyone else could do r say much of anything everyone was just stunned about what was happening and what was said to them…they would have to spend even more time here which wasn't too bad, they all were worried about back home, ever since Midoriya first told them that their stay was limited to about four something which they assumed to be at longest years everyone secretly hoped for the shorter option of four months and it turned out that they were right in that assumption but that choice was stricken from them and with their conversation a few days ago no one seemed to care much about that choice at all.
Now that everyone had managed to catch up and process what just happened, now the question was on where the three of them went and Iida remarked that the portal that absorbed them was similar to the one Blast made so long ago which meant that the hero was likely close by and true to that gentle rumbles started to rock the ground they stood on, toru remarked that was likely Midoriya punching something very hard having felt similar vibrations when he fought against bang a couple of months ago, Jiro took that one step further and saying that she could hear the conflict which meant it was close by so with that everyone took off and followed after them, no one knew what they were going to do when they got them but they would find it when they arrived.
As the class arrived as toru speculated Midoriya was punching something or someone incredibly hard his hair and body showed the clear signs of being at 100% full cowling but just like last time he tried it against this target it proved rather fruitless as he used one hand to block all of Midoriya punches even ones that had the signature red glow of fu jin as well for Bakugo's part his other hand was using his portals to warp away all of his attacks to the distance or right back at himself occasionally which only pissed him off even more but the explosive blonde wasn't one to get close to an agreed Midoriya given the shockwaves he was producing from his blows, the class were surprised by how strong it was in comparison to how it was in the fortress city itself, the group landed they were immediately tripped up by the tremors being produced by Midoriya's punches but he didn't seem to notice or care as he continued to hammer away in Blast direction but the hero noticed them waving at them with his other hand before he struck back at Midoriya flicking him in the forehead which sent him flying backwards towards his classmates but not only that at the same time he created a portal behind midoirya which sent him straight at Bakugo who was flying in the air striking him in the side fairly hard making both of them drop like flies but they didn't have to much of a hard landing as another portal opened up and despotied both of them clutching at their injuries as the class clouded around them.
"Do any of the rest of you want to blow off some steam? Because the decision is done, portals are gone, but one of my team went through and once they find a way back we could get you all sent back with no problem." Blast remarked to the rest of the class each of which gave him a death glare which he rolled his eyes at.
"Look I'm not certain what's going on back in your world that got you all so spooked but this only reinforces my choice to not have you all go through that again..you're even more susceptible to gods persuasion than before. I made the decision so don't take it out on sitch." Blast chided. the class mostly received more silence in return.
"Do you even know what's going on in your world?" Midoriya questioned recovering slightly although his head was still throbbing with pain, Blast raised an eyebrow signifying that he did not know.
"There's a monster association out there now, chock-full of a handful of dragon-level threats." Todoroki explained and the class was surprised at that when the hero merely shrugged his shoulders at that.
"I'm sure the association and Tats, can handle it." he brushed off as a portal opened up behind him as he was about to leave but he was halted by another of the teens what she said actually made him turn and face her with some hint of seriousness.
"Just how they "handled" the alien invasions that caused all this?" tokoyami spoke out as they sat in the empty lot that was the former A-city.
"Surely with your strength you should be able to just take care of it right? Why leave it to chance…do you not have family whom you wish to not get hurt? Even if we can take care of it, do you think the battle would not cause massive amounts of damage?" Momo challenged, she didn't want to outright come out and say that he had a son that he should think about as that could lead her and potentially fuzzy into trouble but that didn't mean she couldn't allude to it somewhat however as he focused his gaze upon the shrank growing somewhat timid and todoroki even stepped in front of her when suddenly around one of the man's hands showed a bright glowing energy, he gestured to it and replied.
"I can't exist on this world for too long, the more I'm here the more I poison not only those around me but the very planet itself…this is the nature of god's gift even if you are able to find a loophole, and make off with the power ..you're forever changed as I said I didn't make the decision to keep you here until a safer way lightly none-of you would want to live like this. If the threat is large enough I'll come to save the place but not yet…. The other S-class heroes can handle it." Blast said simply before turning back around and leaving without saying another word.
the sudden serious of his words took the breath out of the class but confusion was immediately on everyone face when they started to hear laughter and it was from none other than Midoriya it was clearly not one of joy it almost felt like he was attempting to laugh through the pain he was feeling which was evident when those closer started to see the tears prick his eyes but before they could console him he up and started to run away no one was fast enough to actually keep up with him at his pace but surprisingly Uraraka was traveling with him but she wasn't actually running but being pulled Tsu knew what was happening and told Tokoyami to bestow shining light onto uraraka and he oblige sending shining light out towards the girl and shielding her in armor and once Midoriya had jumped away Uraraka who was resting the pull being having stuck her grappled into the ground ripped off the ground after Midoriya somewhat matching his pace surprising everyone Asui explained that she was using her gravitic attraction ability it allows her to as the name implies attract two objects togather, if she heavies an object with her knuckles an then lighten a different one she can then attract the lightened one to the heavy one, that being midoirya and herself at the moment. some thought about going after them as well but Bakugo told them to just leave them be for now, she was the only one that could get through to him now.
Uraraka silently followed along Midoriya's trail she admitted that it was a bit of a brash decision to do this especially since Midoriya didn't seem to have noticed her following after him or his increased weight but he had been undergoing training with darkshine recently so maybe that was not too surprising, she had to remember to thank Tsu and Tokoyami for borrowing shining light..with her she could fly up to her boyfriend and try to talk to him, he didn't say anything and he wasn't surprised to see her there either which makes sense given his danger sense and everything. He wiped his face however from some of the tears that were already falling but told her how reckless she was being by going along how she did but uraraka disregarded that and just wanted to be there for him. he only nodded his thanks in reply and the two of them continued to fly together over the continent uraraka didn't know where they were headed but they were soon over a forest and mountainous range and the two landed over a large waterfall, Midoriya walked close to the edge and sat down next to the rushing water. Uraraka was landing and told shining light that she could head back to Tokoyami now and the quirk nodded before going back Interestingly enough shining light was different from how she normally looked her head instead of being looking like a traditional bird head instead of taking on the form of jackal head instead with glowing bright red eyes, uraraka pondered if this was what shinning light looked when Tokoyami was losing control similar to how dark shadow eyes would change from yellow to red.
Uraraka was sure that if Midoriya was in a better state then he would be interested as well for now however her boyfriend was simply sitting cross-legged next to the large waterfall, so she slowly proceeded next to him and sat down, she wasn't going to attempt to mirror his posture and meditate along with him instead just wanting to be beside him at this moment where he's clearly stressed, so she occupied her time by just viewing the environment it was a beautiful sight. Midoirya finally decided to speak after 5 minutes of silence, it was mostly about how he found this place through bang and how he would train here with his teacher to hone his abilities. he had to admit it did relax him being here and uraraka could see why, there was another pause before Midoriya unfolded from his stance and leaned down on uraraka, taking her hand in his which she returned and squeezed, Midoriya laughed again.
"Can you believe it? The people here are very different from us, Blast doesn't even care about his own planet..of course he wouldn't care about ours." Midoriya remarked simply.
"He had his reasons." uraraka somewhat defended and Midoriya scoffed at that.
"Hah! It's a dumb excuse, with his power he could handle the situation easily in short order. I don't know how strong the monster king is but I doubt even he would be a match for Blast. If he was, they wouldn't be hiding right now. " Midoriya mentioned.
"That's….that's fair but maybe this god creature takes priority? It did send us across space and maybe even time itself, its power is evident given that even he is worried about it." Uraraka replied and Midoirya mumbled his agreement.
"Well …it's just I'm starting to think that if the number one hero isn't willing to sacrifice some of his time to help out then….why should we..he said leave it to other heroes right? Might as well let them.'' Midoirya commented a bit bitterly, uraraka audibly gasped at the comment and quickly relinquished her hand from his and smushed his face with both of her hands.
"Midoriya you know you don't mean that... That's not who you are..as long as someone needs help you'll help them. It's the reason I like you, you are kind and caring" She finished her reply with a kiss on his forced puckered lips and after she pulled away he nodded in confirmation.
"So what's really bothering you, did something else happen?" uraraka asked and Midoriya nodded and looked away from her but she pulled his head back to face her.
"It…it's Eri ..again …I don't know how but she came upon stars quirk new order and it's a quirk all for one is interested in, he says that he's "above killing a child." but doesn't want another shigaraki mishap with the quirk so ideally he would switch it with someone else and then he could just kill them instead. new order, it allows someone with a touch to give an order against people or objects and they must do it." Midoriya remarked and uraraka could see his and all for one concern from such an ability, she couldn't really say anything to that as she didn't know how much of the situation the heroes had under control so the likelihood of all for one getting his hand on eri was in question…all she could do was be there for him as the two looked out over the waterfall and simply hoped for the best.
Later that night
The class had a second surprise visitor for the day it was shadow ring, the female ninja had wanted to talk to Bakugo remarking that silver chain had not done her weekly check in and is unable to be found everyone was shocked from this but if Bakugo was he didn't show it very well but he responded all just the same he didn't know and he cut ties with the girl shortly after the festival of course shadow ring knew this, they had gotten silver chains report of such activities but she wanted to ask the angry blonde about what she said or talked about during said festival to gain any incite of where she might possibly be taking him outside and away from the others to discuss matters on their own in private..the two of them were gone for about 10 minutes before Bakugo came back seemingly even angrier than we he left and people were willing to just let him be however some were surprised when Momo actually approached him to have her own private conversation with the blonde and initially he blew her off but when the girl insisted even despite his threat and seeing the serious look in her eyes he relented and followed her out.
The two walked just somewhat out of the way of the home where Bakugo figured that was enough..he was cautious around Momo, she knew shadow ring before he knew of silver chain so when she too asked if he knew anything about the silver chain disappearing he was completely on guard.
"Like I told them mini-ninja I don't know anything. Are you some sort of undercover spy for them now? What does it matter to you?" Bakugo accused both of his hands crossed over his chest.
"Other than ensuring the safety of a fellow hero, I have no other ulterior motives. Bakugo you spent the most time with her and you definitely hold some affection towards them given how the both of you were during the festival but you seem rather undisturbed about her absence even more so than usual?" Momo countered earning a grunt of annoyance from the angry blonde.
"As I said during the festival we were just testing things out, she sprung it on me and I agreed but don't forget what she is, that whole thing was just her faking it just to squeeze more information about us, so why would I care about some manipulative bitch that went rouge or disappeared or whatever!" Bakugo shouted back at her, making the girl cringe back at the harsh words but attempting to parse through them to see if she could deduce something. she had some thoughts about what he said and if he were speaking his honest thoughts just then..he may have actually been, he may have felt betrayed by the girl's actions that day, did he actually like her? She was curious but set that aside for now.
For Bakugo's part, he hated that he had to lie to someone he cared about but he wasn't a snitch, and that what the two of them discussed wasn't something he should just share with just about anyone or everyone but he was still interested in why Momo was so interested if she really wasn't investigating on behalf of someone else why would she care enough to investigate further they barely spoke to each other he thought.
"So are we done here ponytail? She didn't care about me so I don't care about her. It's as simple as that. You definitely shouldn't care about her and just worry about yourself." Bakugo remarked simply as he was about to storm off past her but the girl again persisted grabbing his left wrist, halting him in place.
"Bakugo, I have become privy to certain… connections now and they have informed me that they had received information they were to pass on to someone else…which involved a kunoichi clan member, I do not know if this was the same village as hers but if her disappearance is-'' Momo statement stopped as Bakugo roughly jerked his hand away and quickly turned around with blazing speed as she felt the hard grip that highlighted his hands on her shirt roughly yanking her closer.
"Who are these connections?" bakguo remarked suddenly completely serious his eyes full of anger but before Momo could reply or say anything more the temperature around the two of them immediately dropped fast Bakugo's right hand was free and balled was nearly completely encased in ice despite that he stared at her for a moment longer before turning towards todoroki who had made his way towards the doorway his eyes blazing with anger as well, Bakugo rolled his eyes but let go of Momo's shirt Blasted the ice that coated his arm and leg. He sucked in a breath but began to march away but todoroki didn't seem satisfied with just that as he summoned even more ice to block his path and he demanded he apologizes to her Bakugo simply replied to make him but before the two could full on fight right then and their, Momo intervened pulling todoroki off and remarking that it was her fault she and that she pried too much into something that didn't involve her, she apologized to Bakugo and Bakugo didn't respond only nodding before just turning and continuing to walk away. Momo put Todoroki's hand down which was about to send an ice spike the explosive blonde's way as she kissed him on the cheek and the two went back inside.
Next day
A battle between sister and apprentice: Psycho sisters, Lily, Uraraka
Uraraka was somewhat surprised to find out that, she was thrust into an argument between Tatsumaki and her sister.. the argument was not only being done to her new placement but also in the fact that she was barring her sister and by extension the rest of her group from participating in the counter-offensive against the monster association, this was news to uraraka herself that there was being made a group for such a task the girl quickly and almost deliberately brushed her off on that topic only replying that those that were invited were going to be informed and if she wasn't then so be it. Part of uraraka wanted to think that part of that was her also preventing her from joining in the counter-assault due to her wanting to protect her just like her sister but she definitely doubted that very much as soon as the thought crossed her mind.
More importantly the two bickering sisters eventually came to a head and suddenly she was thrust into a fight against Lily, she had taken her spot in the ranking and Fubuki accused tatsumaki of having something to do with that taTsumaki rightfully said that uraraka had earned that rank on her own and that she was just a better teacher than she was so, of course, her sister couldn't take that completely lying down and struck up a deal with her overbearing sibling it was a competition between the two of them and if lily won then she would be allowed to participate in the raid against the monster association and if she won then she would stay home and listen to her like a "good little sister should" she also had another caveat of that she would get rid of her group but eve for uraraka that was going a bit too far and she wouldn't agree to fight under those terms just to be in fair to them.
Tatsumaki huffed at that but reluctantly agreed but she had suddenly wanted to call Midoriya for some reason and seeing through where the girl was getting at she emphasized to the girl that she doesn't need any "motivation" to try her best and maybe it was do to her new attitude or something in the look in her eyes but Tatsumaki seemed to believe her and sent her out with a stern but smug look on her face, the only caveat to the bout that uraraka would hold back no matter what was that her new even heavier spirals each weighting about 60 tons each, they had another version to them where they could each sprout a large spike near the head ends this was to give her attacks an even more deadly effect and pierce through hard armor but Lily didn't wear anything like that so it would definitely being overkill if the weight wasn't already but she didn't want to underestimate her opponent and believed that she should be able to handle it despite being two years younger than herself she was still well on her way into B-class and was scouted by fuki for her talent which may not mean much to somebe like tatsumkai but to her that meant something and she was fighting for someone she really inspired to so she wasn't going to be holding back so she wouldn't disrespect that by holdingback herself.
Tatsumaki had flown them off to their own island off the coast of X-city and there the battle would commence as both sisters lifted up several large boulders before pulverizing them in mid-air until the last one remained and when that one was to destroy the match began, Lily wasted no time, design forwards towards uraraka with incredible speed there was no pitfalls or traps that usually dotted the landscape which is now just clear so no one could call foul. Lily's charge while fast wasn't too quick for her to react to and react she did as she threw a single spiral out at the girl but the attack was quickly sidestepped by the girl in question she raised her staff high up into the air to swing downwards over top of uraraka's head but the attack was interrupted when suddenly the spiral that she had thrown previously came back and hit the girl in the back a combination of her reeling it in and her gravitic attraction increasing the speed and force but despite the initial gasp of pain and surprise the girl continued to attempt to follow through with her attack swinging the staff down, uraraka brought another spiral up to block the attack which it did but she was still struck on the helmeted head as the staff separated and the top bent down over the spiral and struck her.
Lily continued with her assault wrapping the three-sided staff around her hand, but uraraka wasn't going to just sit there and let her do it as she used the spirals on her other hand to sweep the girl's legs from under her given the lock on her other hand uraraka also was threatened to go down but she twisted her wrist and touched lily own wrist with her pads lightening the girl so when the sweep came she didn't fall towards the ground instead just began to spin in a circle while in mid-air. The locked three-sided staff on her wrist twisted as well but the padding on her arm protected her from most of the damage that would have been done. the girl spinning around was wide open to uraraka's next shot as she punched Spiral into her sendingthe girl careening back but she took her staff with her reconnecting it and sticking it back into the ground to stop her from tumbling off. The girl took a moment to recover from the hit, breathing heavily as she sucked in a breath and stood up from the heavy blow. She had to watch herself with the no gravity effect on herself but she could only stare in shock as uraraka threw another of her spirals the girl's way she pushed her staff out in front and blocked it but the force behind it and her no gravity pushed her up and away but before she could fly off she found herself being dragged back down by some force directly towards uraraka seeing this as her time as any she ready her staff and did a wide swing as she got close enough uraraka evaded the blow ducking under the swing but had to step back as the staff came undone again and attempted to strike her lower to the legs, as she stepped back lily continued forwards until she fell from her mid-air prison unexpectedly.
She recovered enough from the landing to spot uraraka charging her attempting to grab her being weary of close combat with the brunette she quickly snapped her staff into place and with its extended reach pushed it into her stomach as she approached striking her in the gut and lifting her up and attempting to slam her back down into the ground but uraraka recovered in time landing on her feet and backing away pulling at her spirals but lily being more aware now quickly spun around and avoided the 10 objects headed her way. The two sized each other up for a moment before the girl did something she didn't expect she started to hammer punches into one of the spirals and suddenly Lily found herself being pulled closer to them…no, not herself but it was her staff that she clutched in her hands started to be drawn more and more to the orb being struck by her fist and not wanting to be dragged along with it Lily relinquished her grasp and uraraka took that as her moment to rush the girl as the spear passed and got stuck to the spiral in the ground.
Now that her opponent was disarmed uraraka was confident in taking her down rather easily but she was blindsided when she went into her blouse and pulled out a collapsible staff, it struck her in the jaw but she avoided the follow up strike as she pushed through the pain and grabbed at the girls wrist stopping the next strike cold, she stepped in and delivered a five hard gut punches to the left side increasing the gravity on her opponent , the effects was immediate as she finally was able to break away but the next swing of the staff was slow as uraraka side stepped and launched another punch that struck the girl in the shoulder before avoiding another barrage of staff strikes uraraka dives forwards spearing the girl down before getting on top of her and wrapping her up in a choke hold, Lily didn't give up yet as she started to user her staff as leverage to pry the girl from her but it was mostly to late for that while somewhat successfully in getting uraraka off her the damage was done lily felt heavy she had to use her staff to stand up being weighe down by an invisiblele pressure but more than that she found her feet tied together by an invisible force she attempted to pull them apart but they were like magnets always pulling them back togather if she loosed focused even for a moment. Uraraka explained that it was her gravitic bind special move she would lighten one side of the opponent while heaving the other and they would attract to each other she did her next move selectively touching two of her knuckles in her focused released special that allowed her to release the effects of a specific object tied to each knuckle which in this instance were each of her spirals and with those released of their weight meant the spear which was lightened would gravitate to the next highest weighted aspect which was Lily herself and uraraka merely sidestepped and watch as the look of surprise caught lily face before her own staff bonked her directly in the head as it flew towards her, her increased gravity slowing down her reactions just enough to not block the strike from getting through and knocking her unconscious.
Uraraka wanted to wait for her to get up but Fubuki quickly rushed to her apprentice's aid, picked her up, and left most likely due to her sister teasing and remarks about her victory. The victory was bittersweet for uraraka but for taTsumaki it was the sweetest thing in the world and even offered to get the girl ice cream for her victory and improvement. Tatsumaki must have sensed that she was feeling somewhat down about the affair and reminded her that she did them a favor, weak people shouldn't be on the battlefield especially such an important one that was about to commence, Uraraka knew that but they could still help in some aspect she wanted to argue, but as she thought about the monsters that they had faced so far and the night of the invasion, maybe the green girl was right.
2 days later
Training Day/ nightmare day: The mutants+
The day was a special day for the class for two reasons, first and foremost for most of the couples around it was nightmare day which was essentially Halloween back in their world but just minus the candy the event was more just embracing the monster side of things and having spooky themes of course given the recent events they had thought the event would have been canceled but instead it seemed to only be glorified there was even publishing books of the monsters that had been seen during the invasion and how to cosplay as them, it only served to remind the teens how weird this world in comparison to their own and how different the people reacted to things, or maybe it was just how they cope with it or just the unique psychology but likely a combination of the three. Other than that however the second reason it was a special day was that it was a special training day for all of them, this training day was special because it was one of the first times since they had been there that they all actually trained together as a class.
The one that proposed the special training day was none other than Momo, she didn't give a solid reason for the impromptu practice only that they needed to be prepared now that they would be staying for a longer period of time there was likely chance that they will be apart of the upcoming battle with the monster association and that they all have undergone some significant changes from having awakened their quirks. They all agreed to it and even got the association to sign off on giving them a small plot of land on the outskirts of the large mechanical city things to help better facilitate all of them as none of the training areas was quite large enough to accommodate all of them and their wildly differing powers and skill sets, although it also wasn't just them that would be training in this large event but also a number of their acquaintances who also could spare the time notably the atomic samurai's disciples along with a newly reformed spring mustachio, along with some new teachers golden ball for Mineta, feather for Tokoyami, army man for Momo, Mizuki, Kirishima's and Sato's instructor bone, shadow ring, Mina's teacher forte, bang, and bomb. The class training mostly started out with basic training and exercise just to get everyone loosened up for the events. The goal of this practice was not only to just get better acquainted with each other but to different fighting styles and techniques that they might come up against fighting the monster again which they may come up against.
After the initial wake-up exercises, everyone separated into their own little roles and training practice which was the opposite of what they proposed but it was just how it worked out for the moment, that wasn't to say overlap between classmates didn't occur, Tokoyami, Aoyama, and Asui had been practicing together along with feather in primarily clawed combat, Tokoyami despite being daytime swapped out shining light for dark shadow for most of the training session dark shadow being more accustomed to this style of combat for Asui she could summon the effects of hairy tree frog breaking the bones of her hands but to make it even more deadly she could also add the poison from the golden dart frog but she held that back for the current assignment, Aoyama and his navel nails were also similar in prospect to the work so he wanted to learn more as well, along with sweet mask personally knowing of the style himself and had been meaning to get in contact with the hero to discuss. the heroes flying acrobatic fighting would normally be hard to learn for most the two's unique fighting and quirk lent credence to this both of them in helping them learn Tsu normally hopped around when fighting and Tokoyami even with dark shadow could fly and maintain altitude which feather actually expressed some reserve of jealousy over, feather fighting style was recommended by zombieman when he noticed Tokoyami having a more lenient pension for deadly force given the malleable nature of his quirk, dark shadow could even mirror the claws on his feet to emulate the style, the targets of their attacks were on a number of villains bots that Momo had created for them to practice on slicing through them with utmost ease but not very much precision maintaining the rhythm of feather "Beautiful Play" fighting style was harder then it seemed but the three was adamant to learn all they could.
Uraraka given that having tatsumaki show up was a no go decided to practice with Sato and Kirishima but more specifically mizuki who hung around their group with bone, the girl showed her a multitude of submission techniques and holds that she could use in conjunction with her quirk to prove very effective in take down and ground to ground combat she doubled up her training by also subjecting the guys to increased gravity by 10 times each while they continued their physical work out, lacking any of the traditional weights from the gym the group of them were instead lifting massive boulders and supporting massive boulders which were also increased by their force of uraraka heavy knuckles by over 150x a piece, uraraka standard limit for now was somewhat above the 600 ton mark so she was struggling to keep it together while she practiced with mizuki even having to take several breaks to endure she didn't accidentally barf on the girl, in lieu of Tatsumki's absence that allowed her to just get rid of the bile almost immediately as it left her mouth. The net crossover was Iida with Mineta and golden ball he was their prime target for them and Mineta's pop-off orbs offered the perfect obstacle course for him to navigate through along with the hazard that Mineta could create with his pop-open orbs which tested how easily he could stop on a dime or switch direction.
Bakugo didn't truly think he would have a partner for the event and he was more than willing to train by himself really had to not that it mattered as earphone jacks and Sparky had joined him, Jiro did mention how she wanted to practice with Bakugo about moving more gracefully in the air and now that Bakugo had the new boots he guessed they were somewhat in the same boat, Kaminari for his part was mostly fine to sit on the sidelines but he was approached by shadow ring to practice with given is a new pension for eternal electrical control he had a much better chance against the girl than previously if he could use it that was, he still needed to keep his touch on the target for a good amount of time to do it safely which gave shadow ring ample time to take him down in good measure even with his training from volten his skills still had a long way to go before he could beat her even in his lighting god mode things proved fairly difficult. Sero for his practice was with the samurai-like normal, he was joined by Momo and army man as well. Momo way to keep sharp with her skills with bladed weapons while also focusing on her skills with ranged ones so a hybrid of her time was spent practicing with one then the other, she was hesitant to directly shoot at the disciples with her weapons but after iaian showed the ability to cut the thing bullets in half that simply fell by the wayside although she still kept it to semi-auto weapons and burst fire at that.
Toru and Ojiro were training with bomb while Midoriya had taken most of bangs ' attention. Instead of just practicing each of their martial arts, each bomb had told them of the aura sky-ripping fist which was a combo attack that he and his brother could perform and at their level with each of their styles they should be able to perform as well. It was a simple enough explanation of striking a target together using both of their styles but the drain it took upon them and their bodies was immense, toru was visibly shaken after performing the move even once and after the third time she had to rest upon risk her hands becoming inoperable for the foreseeable future, Ojiiro didn't fare much better having to take a rest himself although he still continued to practice the water stream with his tail which he still didn't manage to complete yet.
Mina was with forte still dancing they didn't have their in house studio like if they were in Y-city but their super headphones more than made up for it canceling out most of the hustle and busing sounds that existed around them from the other groups around them, she had dragged koda along with her from the group with Kirishima interested in what type of music would work with the naturally shy teen and after a bunch of trial and error and one accidental punch to the face on her part lead to her finally figuring out a song that she could use and it worked out perfectly her as their fist collide together over and over again or they weaved a slug or punch amongst each other, koda enjoyed the practice it was like fighting against himself which allowed him to see the flaws in his form and correct it at least he would have if that didn't mean actually hitting Mina even though the girl said it was ok he still wasn't one for direct physical conflict even if he's been practicing it for the past few months now.
The groups all began to slowly reconnoiter together this time Momo unveiled the new machines that she had these were two robots but one of the machines they were intimately familiar with although it was on a smaller scale than what they had been shown previously on the VGS. one of them was a smaller sized version of the G4 machine being only half the size of the original mechanization and a second one that was more similar to a samurai in appearance but that wasn't with its red orange coloring and samurai swords although being much smaller being merely 6ft, she wanted each of her classmates to practice with the robots although she was only capable of controlling two of them as if she created more it could cause "trouble." These robots were rated demon-level threats so it was just fine for them to go all out against them without worry at least for most of the ones below S-class and so that what everyone did, the larger G4-robot was more hand-to-hand combat oriented compared to the G5 unit which was better suited for weapons combat so everyone divided up as best they could with their variables and took the robots on. The samurai called first dibs against the G5 unit and the robot had handily beat them all while mirroring their style much to their shock but that had only made them want to challenge the robot even more so although they had to wait their turn for sero to try as well as others such as Tokoyami, Asui, and Jiro.
Jiro had seen the effectiveness of her ear blades and had decided to take things a step further including a blade attachment on her gauntlet themselves she also took what Kaminari said at the festival to heart, improving her body in ways that she could control such as building some muscle, improving her cardio, and agility for the thought of using her new vibe-blades these blades were similar to her ear blades being able to filter her vibrations into a target once inserted but more than that they could vibrate themselves increasing their cutting power. She practiced a lot with how much her vibrations can do and her ultimate technique so far was sending the vibrations into herself this allowed her to be semi-intangible to objects allowing her to pass through things almost like a ghost since Kaminari had dibs on naming one of her moves he called it syncopation, it was a music-related pun word and he argued: "it related to her skill as she was disturbing herself from the typical flow of the earth with her vibrations". She challenged the G5 robot and while she was clearly out-skilled her blades were incredibly dangerous even to it taking a chink out of its sword after rapidly deflecting her attack with it. Tokoyami had swapped back to shining light and fought the robot with his serrated sunlight blades and he matched it completely if he was being honest he felt that he could beat it himself really but he held off and simply stalled along with it focusing on his skill then typical power.
On the melee side of things, the others like Sato, Kirishima, Koda, toru, Shoji, and Ojiro all tried and fought the much larger robot despite its size towering over each of them it's speed was just as immense being able to block almost all of their attacks they threw its way, it never made a move against them only defending or taking the attacks square on. Toru and ojiro attempted to use their new combo attack against the robot but it definitely left an actual dent in the machine which none of them even managed before which was proof of how strong the ability actually was and worth the pain and exhaustion from performing it. The robot exercises continued but Bakugo had decided to sit it out not just because he didn't really fall into either category of hand-to-hand combat or weapons combat or the fact that he could but more than any of that he was suspicious of these robots they were originally enemies and he didn't know much about robots and machinery but if there was a chance they could flip out of control and actually hurt someone he wanted to be ready for that but when Momo implored him to fight with them he thought of something else might be up instead, although he obliged with the girls task not feeling like causing another scene especially as her lap dog was definitely keeping watch of them in the distance. He took things a step further and the G5 machine at least its armor suit revealed the smaller more hardy machine underneath.
The class truly started to mix and match shortly after that, Mina would train with todoroki and Bakugo with her plasma state being able to come up with a new move that allowed her to shoot forward her acid and plasma man special moves as an attack that she called alma. Kirishima, KaMinari, and oJiro all got reminded of their battle from before and each fought in their powered up stated KaMinari for his part actually was powered up from Mina's lighting that she could produce making the outline of his being a pure purple color instead of the traditional yellow although he didn't feel to different just a little "tingly" in comparison to regular lighting. The three-way brawl between them was a mix of difference of speed vs power, vs precision Kaminari was the obvious quickest among them being able to reposition from a bad position Kirishima was the strongest between them and the most durable mostly attempting to weather through either of their strikes and deliver some of his own, while ojiro was precise and delicate attempting to preserve his stamina by using as minimum movement as possible to deflect the attacks aimed his way but in the end, it was Kirishima that won out between all of them his red riot: adaptable completely making kirshima's body take on the properties of rubber which invalidated Kaminari and ojiro best attempts of injuring him which they could barely do already through the red heads hardening.
Midoriya and Uraraka practice together, going over her flying lessons from her own new boots that would release concentrated air from the soles similar to Midoriya's air smashes, Jiro practiced with shadow rings along with the disciples. koda, Shoji, and Tokoyami all spared against one another, aoyama, Mineta, and golden ball played a round of shot put to help out with the blonde's aim. Bakugo went a few rounds against todoroki of who had been learning his own martial arts called the Fire Dance Bullet Trail Fist this was a unique style of martial arts that focused on the user by overwhelming the opponent with a barrage of rapid-fire punches all over the body similar to that of a flame that would rapidly expand and consume things, todoroki being able to actually shoot flames out of his hand added fire to the style which with flaming punches, the style also put a lot of emphasis on footwork and pacing being able to continue to fight at optimal levels even given a hazardous environment such as extreme heat, he described his training as being on a small trail that was completely lit with fire on either side of it and having to progress through it without getting burned, it was suggested by demon cyborg shortly after his battle with elder centipede as he saw the usefulness of the water stream rock smashing fist.
Bakugo for his part didn't have many things he wanted to work on other than his Fuse state the state the internal explosions gave him an extreme boost in speed even being able to match Midoriya at 100% only with the negative of hurting himself in the process, the condensed explosion and automatic explosions allowed for greater damage but he needed to be essentially on the ropes to activate it so he needed to find out a way to active by himself, the cyborg suggested looking up someone called Bazuzu Explosive Fist but he was extremely unimpressed by said person in the super fight tournament so he didn't think he could learn much of anything from him in the first place.
The day ultimately came and went and the teen finally decided to call it once the night started to come given that some of them most notably all of the couples in class had things to do decided to end the training session allowing them time to relax and freshen up for the night time festivities. Koda had gone to go pick up Aedes and soon enough the class was out and away, they didn't have much of an idea of where they would be headed for nightmare day and decided to mostly play it by ear. It was a fun small get together which even included some drinking as they explored the events throughout the cities, the most notable of which being the elder centipede roller coaster being designed in S-city which was an actual small fly-through of the path the monster had done through the city using remote controlled kites, most of the being was spent walking around enjoying the sights visiting a few haunted houses ultimately ending in a club where some of the group dance the night away while others enjoyed from the sidelines. There was a minute of pause as the group as a collective had more visions from their memory but given that for the most part, it just seemed to be alternative events to what they already experienced it was pretty forgettable. The group said goodbye to Aedes and Mina and toru were both thrilled as the women had peck koda on the cheek as a goodbye but the quiet teen didn't entertain their questions about it on the journey home on he enjoyed it or not. The couples all went their separate ways as they got home with kisses and hugs before calling it for the day along with the rest of their classmates.
Yeah, the whole "heroes don't kill thing" I believe is fairly fucking bonkers given the level of destruction that's happening to their country as a whole and where the hell is the military? why are a few dwindling heroes and police force taking on a clearly larger threat than they can handle, in OPM case blast is a fairly selfish individual all things considered he could slap every single monster in the MA arc in an instant and present and leave before anyone even lifts a finger but hey he doesn't because whatever he's doing is really super important and needs his attention 24/7 but I'm just ranting hope everyone enjoyed reading. see you guys on the 15th
