Aisha, Dawn, Ezra, and Zaria observed the rising tension between the elementary children and the four remedial students. Aisha only hoped that Inasa, Shoto, Celia, and Katsuki wouldn't do something crazy against the elementary school children. She and her little sisters watched as the elementary kids began attacking Katsuki, Inasa, Shoto, Celia, and Camie with a variety of Quirks.
Just then, a small black floating sphere with sharp teeth was launched to Katsuki's direction at very high speed. It quickly tore off half of Katsuki's mask in a menacing manner.
"My binging balls'll make a feast outta you. Bet you didn't see that coming!" Tamashiro grinned. "These monsters are super fast and strong."
Then suddenly, a black-haired elementary child generated dust swirling out of nowhere and shot it out to assault Shoto, Celia, and Inasa at high speeds.
But more of the children's Quirk attacks kept coming towards the remedial students. A female child generated a bunch of petals from the two flowers of her head and directed them forward. Another black-haired child generated an electromagnetic field and shot it with great force from his hands. A brown-haired child summoned a large hammer out of nowhere and threw directly forward. The third black-haired child raised his arm and generated a large ring of yellow energy before throwing forward. And another brown-haired child opened his mouth and shot out a rock-like projectile from his tank cannon.
Katsuki, Shoto, Celia, and Inasa instantly defended themselves with their Quirks, leaving them unscratched from all of the kids' rough Quirks. Aisha smiled in relief as she saw that Inasa, Shoto, Celia, and Katsuki had no intentions of truly fighting elementary school kids.
Wow, these kids' Quirks are very impressive. Aisha thought.
Aisha immediately levitated her sisters and flew next to Celia.
"Are you guys okay?" Aisha asked. "That was intensely crazy."
"We're fine." Celia replied. "But I gotta say. These kids are pretty amazing with their Quirks."
"Pretty bold of them to attack without hesitation like that." Katsuki smiled crazily. "I'm almost impressed."
"They know that we're here trainees." Shoto said. "They likely feel they don't need to hold back against us."
"It's so sad! I wanna be their friend." Inasa said, trying to hold back his tears in his eyes. "Even if it wasn't part of our training."
The elementary children looked surprised that Katsuki, Shoto, Celia, and Inasa aren't scared of their powerful Quirks. But they weren't going to give in that easily.
Just then, a ponytailed girl formed a pink heart on her forehead and fired a straight-travelling beam of pink energy from her face that hit straight towards Shoto. Once the smoke cleared, Shoto reached his hand out to the little girl with an unusually appealing look on his face.
"Hey. Wow, you've got such a beautiful face, dear." Shoto spoke with an unexpectedly attractive smile. "Don't let that frown spoil the effect."
The little girl instantly gasped with pink blush on her cheeks as she became entranced by Shoto's alluring smile. But she's not the only one who immediately fell for Shoto's alluring tone. Aisha was completely stunned with a furious pink blush rising up her cheeks and a wide, starry-eyed smile on her face.
Unfortunately, Shoto unexpectedly dissipated into mist-like substance and revealed himself to be Camie.
"Sorry, hon, just a little illusion for ya." Camie said to the little girl with a devious smile.
The little girl and Aisha both stared utterly speechless that the appealing Shoto was nothing more than an illusion created by Camie with her glamour Quirk. Aisha's reaction silently caught Shoto's attention as he didn't believe that his childhood friend would be swayed by something like that.
"Wouldn't it be, like, so swoony though? Our school's mega old-fashioned and doesn't even allow us to go on dates." Camie said. "Ugh, it's just the worst."
"What the heck, Camie?" Celia said with a flabbergasted face.
Katsuki covered his mouth to contain his muffled laugh as the illusionary Shoto managed to get a laugh out of him. Katsuki then decided to imitate the illusion to his amusement. Aisha quickly noticed Katsuki's imitation and immediately levitated her phone out to capture a picture of him before sending it back into her pocket.
"You've got such a beautiful face, my dear." Katsuki spoke with an alluring voice. He dropped the imitation and covered her mouth to contain her shameless laughter. "That killed me, Glamouroki! Seriously, I might die!"
"Oh? I dunno, was it really all that funny?" Shoto wondered in confusion.
"Anyway! Let's do the thing we were talking about before, guys!" Inasa said. He turned to the embarrass Aisha. "And since you weren't with us to discuss the plan we had, I just need you to help me lift the kids and your sisters to get the strategy started."
"Okay, whatever you say." Aisha said as she shook off the embarrassment out of her mind.
Inasa crouched down and channeled a strong wind current to move some of the elementary children high in the air while Aisha enveloped her sisters and the rest of the elementary children up in the air with psychokinesis.
"You kids are amazing, I'll give ya that!" Inasa shouted with a smile. "Thing is, there's more to heroing than just power! Here I go!"
Shoto generated ice to support the projectiles the kids threw from her right hand and molded them into an ice slide playground. Camie emitted a mist-like substance and formed a dreamlike illusionary setting with aurora borealis inside the building. Inasa and Aisha began carrying the children up the slides. Shoto then shot fire to the hoop rings that added entertainment to the enjoyable children.
"Whoa, wait?" A male child gasped with wide eyes. "I didn't know these guys could do this!"
"What the heck did they do this place? I'm loving it!" A ponytailed girl exclaimed.
"I can't make complex structures out of my ice yet, so I used the objects you made as a frame for my design." Shoto explained. "Fortunately, you have some amazing powers."
Few elementary children began gathering around Shoto, Celia, and Aisha, begging them that they all wanted to try the slide.
"Line up, everyone." Celia smiled.
Aisha and Celia learned that Katsuki, Shoto, and Inasa planned to broaden their perspectives by showing the children how impressive they are, so they can set them on the right path. Shoto and Aisha exchanged smiles, knowing that they successfully won the children over. But one of the elementary children was still unconvinced by the ice slides and stood merely with his back against the wall, leading Katsuki to approach the kid leader and casually take his hand before dragging him to the ice slides.
Endeavor, All Might, Amazonite, and Vondergeist watched the absolute success that students have had with children.
"Why is it so important to be the strongest?" All Might spoke. "Tell me, Endeavor. I'm sure you have a reason. So, what is it?"
Endeavor, Amazonite, and Vondergeist quietly watched Shoto and Aisha's contentment with the children.
The training trial eventually came to an end. Katsuki, Camie, Celia, Aisha, Shoto, and Inasa along with the elementary children began cleaning up the gymnasium by destroying the ice slides with their Quirks.
After the gymnasium was cleaned, all the remedial students were gathered right in front of Gang Orca.
"Work together and win the hearts of those children." Gang Orca congratulated. "You did a good job despite having such vague instructions."
Wait, so you did that on purpose? Aisha, Katsuki, Celia, and Inasa thought with sweatdrops.
"The rest of you also did well. Remember everything you learned today and keep working." Gang Orca added. "You students have so much potential…uh…I mean, don't you dare fail!"
"Sir, yes, sir!" The remedial students understood.
Camie, Inasa, Celia, Aisha, Shoto, and Camie changed back into their student uniforms and headed towards the exit.
"After what we put together in there, I think we're meant to be friends, don't you?" Inasa smiled. "Our Quirks just work so well together."
"You think so?" Shoto asked.
"I can concur to that." Aisha agreed.
"Me too." Celia grinned.
"Yeah." Camie concurred. She turned her attention to Katsuki. "And Bakugo, you're actually not bad if you don't talk. Try shutting up."
"You shut up!" Katsuki snapped.
Katsuki, Shoto, Aisha, Celia, Inasa, and Camie exited out the building. Katsuki, Inasa, and Aisha gasped to see All Might and Present Mic talking with the Shiketsu High School teacher and Seiji. Endeavor only turned away with his crossed arms while Vondergeist and Amazonite listened to the conversation.
"Ooh, what's going on, Shishikura?" Camie asked as she approached in front of Seiji. "You schmoozing with All Might? Seriously, the Symbol? What were you talking about? Like, Hero stuff or what?"
"We were talking about you, fool!" Seiji shouted angrily.
"For realzies? That's sweet." Camie said.
Shoto, Aisha, Celia, Inasa, and Katsuki then began approaching the group.
"The reality is that by attacking you the League went after a school other than UA." The Shiketsu teacher explained. "Up until now, our schools haven't had an especially close relationship with each other. But we were talking about coordinating in the future for the sake of sharing information. We still don't know why you were targeted, Miss Utsushimi. But hopefully together we'll get a better idea of what the villains want."
"Cray-cray." Camie commented.
"Additionally, this means we can organize joint training exercise someday." Seiji said to Camie.
"Next time, I'll beat you up one-on-one." Katsuki spoke as he came up behind Camie.
"You still behave and speak like a back-alley thug, you hoodlum!" Seiji yelled. "Remember your place!"
"Yeah, you don't get to be the one to tell me that." Katsuki muttered.
Then, Endeavor started approaching towards Shoto and Aisha.
"Shoto, long time no see. You've changed quite a bit." Endeavor commented.
Endeavor raised his hand on his son, but Shoto rejected his father's hand by slapping it away in a disrespectful manner.
"Not interested." Shoto snapped with a cold glare.
Endeavor stared at his hand for a minute and clenched it down before looking back at his son.
"Shoto..." Endeavor said. "I want you to know I'm proud of you, son."
Aisha noticed the shocking aspect on Shoto's eyes under his impassive look on his face.
"Because of that, I swear I'll become someone you can be proud of, too." Endeavor declared. "Not just as the number-one hero, but as the man that you call father."
Shoto stared at his father's sincere declaration and then looked away awkwardly.
"I don't care what you do." Shoto said.
Inasa unexpectedly punched himself in the face and walked forward towards Endeavor with a bleeding nose and mouth.
"Endeavor! Just so you know, I'll be rooting for you!" Inasa greeted with a smile.
"Same here." Aisha smiled as she looked back at Endeavor. "You definitely got my full support all the way."
"Thanks a lot. Both of you." Endeavor replied with a small smile. He turned to Inasa. "Also, you're bleeding."
All Might and the Shiketsu teacher bowed each other respectfully. Inasa and Celia waved the UA teachers and students with a good-bye smile before leaving with Seiji, Camie, and their teacher. Katsuki, Aisha, and Shoto began walking their way forward towards the bus that can return to their school.
Shoto halted and looked back to watch Endeavor leaving forward. He continued walking forward and let out a small smile on his face that caught Aisha's attention.
"Is that a smile I see?" Aisha asked with a grin. "It's been such a long time since I saw your smile."
"Wish I can say the same for you with that illusion." Shoto remarked.
"Shut up." Aisha said with an embarrassed growl.
Few days later, it was the end of September and the beginning of October.
All Might, Tarot Chariot, Aizawa, and Nezu escorted Izuku, Kirishima, Uraraka, Tsuyu, the Big Three, Luna, and Diana to Sir Nighteye's funeral. It was everyone's final chance to pay their respects and say goodbye to him.
All the teachers and the hero agencies have made their decision to postpone the work studies program. Due to Sir Nighteye's death, his sidekick Centipeder took over his agency. He and Bubble Girl will be waiting for Mirio's return once he's fully recovered.
As for Eri and Nico, they both finally regained consciousness and recovered at the hospital.
But Eri was still emotionally unstable and her Quirk could go out of control at any time, so the hospital had to take precautions, and she couldn't have visitors. But there was some progress, though. The doctors discovered that the horn on her forehead seemed to power her Rewind Quirk. As her fever went down, it began to shrink into a size of a bump as a positive effect.
Nico, on the other hand, was still tangled to his loneliness that his Quirk began projecting large black energized hands all around him in a comforting manner. Despite his fever went down, no visitors can visit him either. The Shatrix also recovered from their injuries and stayed together until they are allowed to leave the hospital.
Back in U.A. High, Class 1-A students were having a difficult time solving a tough equation in math class with Ectoplasm. A few minutes later, everyone began exiting out of the classroom while some of them stayed inside.
Selene, Diana, and Aisha walked over towards Luna, who was packing her pencil and notebook into her backpack.
"Hey, Luna." Selene said. "Wanna join us for lunch?"
"Sure. I'm starving." Luna replied with a smile.
"I know Aisha is happy that her provisional license courses are over." Diana said with a sideway grin.
"Not really, but I'm getting there." Aisha agreed with a heavy sigh.
Aisha, Diana, and Selene started exiting out of the classroom. Luna put on her backpack and followed after her friends. She halted and looked at Katsuki over her shoulder with a neutral face, knowing that she has to forgive him one day. Luna let out a sigh and headed towards the cafeteria with her friends.
Later that night, Luna sat on her bed inside her dorm room and began reading her manga book. Before she could drive herself straight to her bed, she heard a knock on the door.
"I wonder who that could be." Luna said.
As Luna opened the door, she found Katsuki standing outside. His face was faintly red with spiky bangs hiding his eyes.
"Oh, Bakugo, what are you…?" Luna asked.
Katsuki approached Luna through the door, making Luna back away from him with a mix of confusion and annoyance.
"Bakugo, what's going on…?" Luna asked again.
Luna's question got interrupted when Katsuki rushed forward and pressed his lips hard against hers without warning. Luna's eyes widened wide as she could feel her heart racing under her chest. Katsuki is really kissing her!
Then, Katsuki released the kiss, leaving Luna to stare at him with a blushing face.
"Bakugo…" Luna muttered.
"I…I want to apologize for everything I did to you." Katsuki apologized. "I didn't mean for what I did, but I couldn't shake the memory of your dad's retirement. I didn't know how much of that would affect you since you are his daughter. But now, I understand why you have kept it a secret, especially since we've already met the League of Villains' big boss." His voice then became sincere. "I also came to tell you how I really feel about you. Since the moment we spar back in junior high, I'm watching you and how you progress your power from the Sports Festival to the Final Exams, but I understand if you're unwilling to forgive me for my actions."
Listening to Katsuki's words really baffled Luna, making her incredibly speechless by the sudden confession. She was aware that Katsuki has been watching her Quirk development the moment they both enrolled to U.A., but she never knew that he had feelings for her, especially that she already has feelings for him back when she was partnered up with Katsuki and Izuku against her dad in the Final Exams.
Luna wrapped her arms around Katsuki's torso, causing him to startle with slightly wide eyes.
"I accept your apology, Bakugo." Luna said. "I never knew how you felt back when the villains kidnapped us nor how my dad's retirement will affect you either. Don't get me wrong. I always wanted to tell you and everyone else about me being All Might and Tarot Chariot's daughter, but I couldn't risk myself becoming a target. But now, you accepted and understood my reason, and I'm grateful for that. Let's get stronger together."
Luna closed her eyes and locked her lips onto Katsuki's. Katsuki's eyes widened wider, but he eventually wrapped his strong arms around Luna's waist and deepened the kiss once he closed his eyes.
The next day, Luna sat behind her desk and looked deep into her textbook while Midnight was teaching the class. She was so intensely thrilled by the kiss; she couldn't sleep last night. She hasn't really talked to her friends that much about it, but she made her decision to keep it to herself for now.
After the class was over, Luna and her friends noticed that some of their classmates started talking about Mt. Lady and Edgeshot have teamed up, and Kamui Woods plans to join them as well by the name "Team Lurkers" on the news article online.
"Hey, we should form a team together after we graduate to become pros." Diana suggested. "I've heard that there's a lot of heroes teaming up these days."
"That's not a bad idea." Aisha said.
"What team name you guys have in mind?" Selene asked.
"I'm thinking about a team hero name for a while." Luna responded. "How about…?"
"Everyone should be moving toward the gym now!" Iida interrupted suddenly. "Get yourselves into your costumes!"
Later, all Class 1-A students changed into their hero costumes and headed into the Gym Gamma.
"All right, class. Today, we'll continue working on your ultimate moves." Cementoss instructed. "If you haven't found a second ability, focus on finding one. If you already have two, then work on refining them until they're flawless."
All U.A. students scattered around to train either alone or together.
"Unbreakable!" Kirishima hollered.
Kirishima instantly activated his maximum hardening level by transforming his entire body extremely hard and rugged with a somewhat monstrous appearance.
God, he's so hot! Diana complimented with a furious blush and heart-shaped eyes.
"Bakugo, Sato, Midoriya, Yagi! Please use me as your own personal punching bag!" Kirishima shouted.
"Dude, that sounds super hard." Sato said with a sweatdrop.
"Sorry, doing some solo work today." Izuku declined.
"Yeah, same here." Luna agreed.
"That's okay." Kirishima said.
Then, Katsuki walked past Izuku and Luna.
"So, you made any progress yet?" Katsuki questioned.
Izuku gasped with wide eyes.
"No, not really." Izuku responded.
"Well, I have, actually." Luna replied. "Thanks to the Divine Trinity, I was able to learn how to channel that power into armor fists."
The word "armor fists" immediately caught Katsuki and Izuku's awestruck attention.
"You what?!" Katsuki and Izuku exclaimed.
"I know it's a lot to take in, but it felt amazing and incredible." Luna explained. "When I activated it for the first time, it increases my strength and Quirk potential. Kinda like my dad's punches. I couldn't activate it now nor know how, but if it wasn't for that new level of power, I wouldn't be able to defeat Carina."
"Wow, that's so cool." Izuku smiled.
"What's the matter, nerd? I thought you were gonna surpass me and be number one." Katsuki scolded to Izuku. His voice went soft when he looked at Luna over his shoulder. "And one day, I wanna test that power upgrade of yours once you get it activated."
Katsuki walked forward to train with Kirishima.
"Kirishima, let me howitzer you!" Katsuki yelled.
"Bring it!" Kirishima yelled back.
"No way! You'll blow up the entire building!" Sato cried.
"Yo, Luna!"
Luna turned her head to see Diana standing on the more isolated area along with Selene and Aisha. She patted a comforting hand on Izuku's shoulder and turned around to head towards her friends.
"Good, you're all here." Diana said. "Check. This. Out!"
In an instant, Diana transformed her entire body into her rainbow form. Luna, Selene, and Aisha's eyes widened wide at the sight of their friend's rainbow-colored energized aura.
"Whoa." Luna, Selene, and Aisha said in jaw-dropping awe.
"And that's not all! Rainbow Pummeling!" Diana cried.
Diana rammed a massive hand-shaped rainbow-colored energy that broke the concrete into rubbles.
"Oh my god! Diana, we need details!" Selene squealed.
"Yeah, how did it happen?" Luna asked.
"It all started back at Esuha City." Diana explained. "When I was out on patrol with my parents, we fought with Solaria's robots with no problem and then I went off to face Solaria myself. And just like before, she used another stupid gadget to enhance her Quirk. It would've work if it wasn't for me finally unleashing her amazing form. Not only I kick her butt, that power felt incredibly amazing."
"Well, you're lucky, Diana." Selene said. "I have a long way to go."
"You and me both." Aisha concurred.
"Well, actually..." Luna spoke.
"Spill!" Diana, Aisha, and Selene said together.
"I guess…I can give it a try." Luna said.
Luna took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She inhaled and exhaled deeply before clenching both hands into tight fists. Pink energy started flickering around Luna's arms and slowly forming into an exoskeleton fists. Aisha, Diana, and Selene watched the process with wide eyes. After a few moments, the exoskeleton fists vanished out of thin air.
Aisha, Diana, and Selene's faces looked equally surprised.
"I know. I was surprised as you are when I first used them." Luna said.
"How did it feel?" Diana asked.
"Quite powerful. Like how my dad was." Luna replied. "It helped increasing my strength and Quirk potential. As my new move, I'm calling it…Exofists."
"Exofists? I like it." Diana grinned.
"Me too." Selene agreed.
"The name definitely fits." Aisha concurred.
"Also, back in class when I said I've already thought of our own team name, I was thinking on calling us Trinity Force." Luna said.
"Trinity Force? Like from your Divine Trinity Quirk? Why?" Selene asked.
"When I first fought Carina, it made me realize that the Divine Trinity was never a curse but a blessing just like what I told Nico when he felt that way. The reason I enrolled to U.A. is because I wanna to learn how to control it. I also noticed that I've been more driven to accomplish the Divine Trinity ever since the work study got started and after the announcement of my dad's retirement." Luna explained.
"Luna…" Aisha muttered sympathetically.
"I guess what I'm trying to say is that if we can't overcome any obstacle that brings us nothing but discomfort, then we won't be able to brighten the world as heroes we wanted to be." Luna concluded.
Diana, Selene, and Aisha exchanged understanding looks on her faces.
"Know what, Luna, you're right." Diana smiled. "And as for the team hero name, I think it's great. I'm down with it."
"Me two." Aisha agreed.
"Me three." Selene concurred. "Thanks for the encouragement, Luna."
Luna stared at her friends with slightly wide eyes. She then let out a thankful smile on her face.
"No problem." Luna said. "Now, let's get back to training."
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