Chapter 25
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Supportive Heart]
It was 6:43 A.M. Sora had just woken up from an early scheduled sleep, yawning and rubbing his eyes as he sat himself up on the couch that he has been so used to snoozing in. After folding the blanket and adjusting the pillow he had laid on the night before, making sure that the furniture looked like nobody sat on it, he made his way to the kitchen and began grabbing some ingredients from the fridge.
Inko and Izuku shouldn't be up yet, Inko certainly, so the Keyblade wielder figured he'd make some breakfast for himself and the family before he left. He sometimes would surprise the two with dinner before Inko got home from work, and Izuku from his self scheduled training, but Sora wasn't usually up this early, so it would be a nice change of pace for the three of them.
Even though Sora's specialty was making the meals from Le Grand Bistro back in Twilight Town, he wasn't against trying out some recipes from a cookbook. And thanks to all the times Little Chef had given his assistance, Sora was a pretty decent cook, as evident when the family he cooks for asks for second helpings.
As he carefully, yet still stylishly prepped the family's meal, he ended up thinking about a few things, about how he couldn't wait to do this stuff for Roxas and the gang at Twilight Town, maybe even help expand the menu with some new ingredients from this world as well. While they eat, Sora could tell them all about this adventure while they catch up with each other again. Maybe if he finds a way to make a gummi ship of his own, he could use it to fly back and bring them here, assuming it doesn't break apart before that, or if he could even find any gummies laying around.
The swordsman had just finished grilling the set of fish he planned as the main course and was adding some furikake to the eggs on another dish, then mixed iruka in some extra rice they had around. These dishes looked even better than the pictures in the book. He was proud of himself for getting these right on his first try. He placed some condiments on the table, sat down and prayed "Thank you for the food." Before digging into his well earned breakfast.
Once he finished his meal, he found a comfy set of nice clothes and got changed into them before grabbing his backpack and the Munny pouch. He was about to head out, but before he did, he took out a piece of paper and wrote something down.
"Heading to U.A. for that errand I told you guys about yesterday. Made some breakfast before I left, so dig in. I'll stay safe and be home before dark. Hope you two have fun today, doing whatever you have planned. :) Sora. P.S. There's seconds stored in the fridge if you're still hungry."
After placing the note on the dining table, he made his way out the door to start the day.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Among Kosei]
While Sora was walking to the station to get to U.A., he was noticed by multiple people who asked many questions.
"Hey, isn't he the guy with the weird looking sword from the Sports Festival?" A passerby asked.
"Hey, don't say it like that!" Another person spoke up. "That sword could knock you across the block if he swung it hard enough."
"Yeah." A third bystander agreed. "That quirk is awesome!"
"He was so strong for someone so young." A female civilian cooed.
"And he's cute too." Her friend added while the two giggled and blushed.
"Man, he's one tough cookie." A guy commented. "Guess taking two waves of Villains can make you a badass."
"Oh yeah, he was one of the guys in Class 1-A, huh." A girl recalled.
Sora just smiled and waved at the people as he passed by them. He wasn't used to having people pay this much attention to him, but it wasn't unwelcome. In fact, it felt a bit refreshing. Being a Keyblade wielder was really hard work, but he barely gets a chance to hear any praise that's directed towards him because of being constantly on the move.
Normally Sora would still be doing the same here, but ever since U.S.J., the Heartless haven't been showing up much, if not at all. Sure they would still pop up occasionally, but they were so easy to manage that it felt like doing pest control. Maybe every Heartless that was on this world went to U.S.J. and since Sora took out most of them, the rest that are still around aren't able to do much? Wishful thinking sure, but it had enough evidence to be seen as the situation.
He boarded the next train and in the cart he heard more people talking about how they recognized him from either The Villain attack a Month ago, or The Sports Festival, and it kept him in a chipper mood. He got off the train at the stop he needed to be at and continued walking. It was about 20 minutes until 10 A.M. so if Sora just kept the pace he was at, he'd make it in time. When Sora got to the entrance, he had five minutes to spare, so he waited out front for a specific someone.
[Play KH3 OST The Laugh Floor]
Once those five minutes had passed, Sora saw who he was looking for, hovering through the entrance to the school. The boy waved in his direction and spoke up. "You made it!"
"Yeah...and so did you. Kupo." Moogle replied as he yawned, still half asleep as he flew his way to his biggest buyer. "You didn't forget anything, right, Kupo?" Sora gave him the pouch and he went over to a nearby bench to count it all. After a couple minutes were taken to make sure that the amount was correct, he flew back to Sora and said. "Let's get this over with, Kupo."
The two went into the building and went to the Development Studio and low and behold, Mei Hatsume was already in there, and Power Loader was passed out on the floor with an empty coffee cup in his hand. Moogle sighed and flew himself over to a locker that had his stuff in there, placing the pouch with all his belongings before closing it back up. It was at this point that the girl noticed him.
"Hey!" Mei called out. "My former rival! What's your name again?"
He sighed and responded. "My name is Moogle, and please don't talk to me right now, Kupo. I'm too tired to deal with you this early in the morning, Kupo."
"Tired eh?" The support course student repeated, before grabbing something out of her pocket and tossing it to him. "That should wake you up."
Moogle looked at what she passed him and was a bit confused. "Chocolate, Kupo?" He looked back at her and asked "Why are you giving me this, Kupo?"
"Well, I can't have Sora as a test dummy for the day if I don't start getting along with you, and you look like you're gonna pass out." Mei explained as she went back to work on her baby. "Chocolate keeps me awake and full of energy. Plus, it's better than coffee. I mean, just look at the teacher."
Moogle looked back at Power Loader, who was awake again but a bit groggy. Sora decided to help the Hero to a seat and explained why the two of them were here right now, but the teacher could barely keep himself awake.
"Point taken, Kupo." The merchant accepted the student's reasoning and started to unwrap the bar. He half expected it to be melted, but it was actually fine, still a bit cold too. He then looked back at Mei and noticed an ice pack in the pocket she had the bars in, keeping them cooled off. He was entertained by that and then began eating the bar.
Hatsume walked over to Sora and without warning, began feeling him up again, catching the boy off guard. "Okay, okay..." She analysed her test dummy. "If my measurements are right, then...yeah, yeah. Okay, I think we're good to go!"
"Uh...go where?" Sora wondered.
"To the forest area outside campus." She answered. "Where else are we gonna field test my babies?"
"Wait, but shouldn't you try and build everything before we start testing stuff?" The boy was confused.
"I was here all night last night doing just that." Mei explained. "But I have even more ideas for even more babies, so I'm gonna do some multitasking." She grabbed a camera and tossed it to Sora, telling him. "Go set that up a few meters outside the west wall, okay?"
"Um, sure." The Keyblade wielder accepted the task.
"Moogle, can you help me carry some of my babies out there with us?" She asked, clearly not caring that he was tiny and could barely lift anything.
"Do I look like a wagon, Kupo?" The tiny creature pointed out. "I can carry the camera, but the rest of your stuff ain't being moved by my tiny frame, Kupo."
"Ok then." She adjusted her plan. "Sora, give him the camera, and then you and I can get all the babies I have ready and bring them out to test."
Sora nodded to that and went along with it, giving Moogle the camera while he grabbed all the gadgets on the table and started walking with the two crafters. Hatsume had a big cart full of the rest of her testable babies, excitedly walking with the two world travelers, and Moogle seemed much more awake thanks to the chocolate as he flew with the two human kids.
[Silence]
The three of them were on outside the campus. Moogle was setting up the camera a few feet away from the west wall, facing it towards the open area in front of the forest, while Mei was strapping on a bunch of gear all over Sora. By the time she was done, the boy looked like he was a big clunky robot with a human head.
"Allright!" She cheered. "The camera's rolling, right partner?"
"I ain't you partner, and yes it's rolling, Kupo." Moogle told her.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Obstacle Course]
"Perfect!" She ran back and grabbed a remote. "Then let's get these tests started!"
Hatsume pressed the button and Sora suddenly began to hear the humming that was coming from all the machines on him. He was slightly starting to regret doing this, but it was too late now. Sora began zooming around the area, as he instinctively went "GYAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Mei smiled, nodded and then pressed another combination of buttons to make Sora come to a sudden halt, which caused him to fall forward, only to be pushed back up by two rods that came out of his shoulders. After that he then felt a bunch of sticky liquid splash on his legs as a small container that was strapped onto his waist was dropped and it burst open, blasting the substance all over where he was standing, hardening seconds later.
Another press of a button and Sora's entire body was starting to rapidly vibrate to the point where the dried up substance was starting to crack and eventually break off. After he stopped vibrating, he heard another press and he felt his back start to heat up.
"Wait. The jet-pack isn't supposed to shoot out that much fire." Mei contemplated. "Too much fuel being used maybe?" As she was pondering the problem, it then exploded and she freaked out. "Ahhh!" She ran over to Sora and pulled the burning object off Sora's back, she dropped the hunk of metal on the ground and fanned it off before pulling Sora back onto his feet and checking his back for a second. "Aw yeah! Unintentional success of the kinetic sock!" She put a skin tight bodysuit on Sora that she made in the hope to protect the wearer from too much force being pushed on the wearer, and it worked. "I thought I fixed the bugs with the jet-pack. But hey, the All Terrain Booster Boots worked just as planned, and so did the sticky bomb and the auto balancers I made before the Sports Festival but didn't get to test."
Before Sora could say anything, She pressed another button and the gadgets on his arms began to spring to life as they launched multiple wires to the ground. Mei activated the boots again and combined that with the auto balancer to make Sora zoom around the trees to see if the wires would hold, with everything in the way. It was also so she could test the last of her babies on Sora's chest.
When her test dummy was in position, she pressed some more buttons and the wire-hook arms began pulling Sora back to her. The chest piece on him began working and when the swordsman got close to a tree that the wire wrapped around, a hook came out of one of its sides and latched onto the tree, making Sora do the same thing he normally would do with his flowmotion it detaches itself after correcting Sora's angle and this action happened over and over again until he was back in front of Hatsume.
The girl was cheering for her apparent success as she celebrated though one of her babies did explode, progress was much better than before. But her excitement was cut short when she heard another voice.
[Silence]
"HATSUME!" She and Moogle recognized the voice. It came from an older female with very long blonde hair that was tied back and rolled up so it would be out of the way of her face. She wore similar yet much more flamboyant engineering clothing, compared to Mei's dirty and plain getup. But the most noticeable part of her appearance was her ridiculously long eyelashes.
"Oh hey, Bimbi Kenranzaki, right?" Hatsume recalled.
"I was about to repair and upgrade Togata's mask after he broke it during his work study and I walked into my tools scattered in the studio." The now named Bimbi exclaimed. "Were you tinkering all night using my tools?"
"My stuff stopped working close to sunrise, so I just grabbed your tools." Hatsume explained.
"You could at least clean them off and put them back where they were." Kenranzaki pointed out, sounding a bit annoyed with that answer. "Do you even take care of your tools after you finish your building sprees?"
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST U.A. Corridors]
"Usually it's just build as many of my babies as I can, test them all out, repeat the process for five days or until I run out of chocolate to keep myself awake, then I go restock on that before going back to making more babies, and after all that is done, I take a bath before I sleep the entire weekend." The First Year told her upperclassman and former rival. "And that's literally all I do."
"Wait, checking on your tools after using them for that long isn't on your to do list, Kupo?" Moogle pointed out. "No wonder half of your stuff is basically a ticking time bomb, Kupo! You're rushing and on top of that, you're probably using broken down tools, Kupo!"
"Ohhhhhhh." Mei realized. "So that's why they're been breaking apart. I thought it was faulty design or not enough components."
"Those two factors are made from rushing and or using worn out tools Hatsume." The Third Year student informed her underclassman. She then sighed and said. "Before you continue testing anything else, you're going to double check everything you've built in that bin of yours, back at the Studio, and I'm going to show you how to take care of your tools, so you don't take any of mine without asking."
"I'm coming too, Kupo." Moogle said. "If you're gonna be using Sora as a test dummy for the day, I need to make sure he doesn't blow up anymore than he already has, Kupo."
Bimbi then noticed Sora. "Oh, so that's why that boy is here." She walked over to inspect him. "The First Year who won second place in the Sports Festival yesterday, now passed out standing up from who knows what you just did to him."
"He's passed out, Kupo?" The merchant looked and noticed that it was true. Sora passed out from that event. How? He's been through way worse. Was this just too sudden or something? "Uh...can one of you girls help him out of that stuff and back to the Studio, Kupo? I would, but I can't hold his weight, Kupo."
Kenranzaki groaned and started taking all the stuff Mei strapped onto him off. Sora finally fell forward when she took off the auto balancer that was keeping him on his feet. "Such crude and bland design. Where is your sense of beauty Hatsume?"
"Huh?" Mei responded, unsure of what she meant as she began wheeling off her bin full of her babies. "What was that? Didn't hear ya."
"Nevermind." Bimbi said as she wrapped Sora's arms over her shoulders and dragged his body with her. Moogle turned off the camera, grabbed it and then flew with the two girls back to the Development Studio, where they saw a trio of Third Year students waiting for the support students.
[Silence]
"Heyo." The blond student greeted them. "You find who you're looking for?"
"Yes. But I do have a small request." Kenranzaki spoke up. "Do you mind waiting here a while before I fix up your headpiece? I need to check on one of the First Year's equipment to make sure she doesn't blow up the boy I'm dragging again."
"Yeah, sure." He answered. "You want me to take him off your shoulders while I'm at it?"
"That would be appreciated, thank you." Bimbi replied as she handed Sora over to the blonde. "Just sit him down on one of the stools you brought out in the hall."
"Gotcha." The blonde followed her instructions as he placed Sora on a stool and let him lean on the wall. "Geez. The guy looks like he had a seizure."
"Wait a second." The girl of the trio noticed something. "Is that the First Year who got second place yesterday at the Sports Festival?"
"Now that you mention it, yeah. He does look like the guy." The blonde replied. "Wonder what he's doing here." As he said that, Sora stirred for a second, before finally waking up and wondering where he is. "He's alive. Heyo, you looked like you were gonna be out for a while."
"Ugh." The Keyblade wielder groaned as he was coming back to reality. "Where am I right now?"
"You got dragged back to the Development Studio by Kenranzaki, and she asked us to watch you." The dark haired Third Year finally spoke. "I'm not good at this kind of stuff, so I don't think I could have done it without you two here."
"Oh come on dude." The blonde spoke up. "You gotta stop doubting yourself over everything you do. It cost you the Sports Festival yesterday and that was the third time this happened."
"I'm not like you two." The dark haired boy explained. "Positivity isn't my strong suit."
"We need to work on that chicken heart of yours." The girl spoke up.
"Uh...what?" Sora was confused as he heard this conversation happen in front of him, but then he recognized the blonde student. "Wait, aren't you the Third Year who got first place at the Sports Festival?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. And you're the First Year who got second place, am I right?" The blonde replied.
"Yep." The Keyblade wielder stood up and offered a handshake to the blonde. "My name is Sora."
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Momo Yaoyorozu]
"Mirio Togata." The third year introduced himself as he shook Sora's hand. "Nice to meet ya Sora."
"You too Mirio." The swordsman said before looking over at the other students. "How about you two?"
"My name's Nejire Hado." The girl spoke up in a bubbly tone. "And 'chicken heart' here is Tamaki Amajiki." The dark haired boy just leaned his forehead on the wall.
"Nice to meet both of you too." Sora said in a cheerful manner.
"So Sora, what brings you here on your day off?" Mirio asked the boy.
"I promised a fellow First Year named Mei that I'd help her with testing her gear if she played nice with my friend Moogle, who works in the Studio as a Support Item Manager." Sora explained. "She strapped me to a bunch of her stuff and I don't really remember much after that."
"I think we can put two and two together." Togata responded while Nejire jumped in between the two.
"Hey, hey." Hado got in Sora's face. "I just gotta know. How does your quirk work? You did so many things during the Sports Festival, I wanna know how you do it. Can you tell me? Can you? Can you please?"
Sora backed up a bit from her suddenly being in his face, but he chuckled and rubbed the back of his head before he responded "Sure." He then explained his quirk the same way he did with everyone else, adding in the info he told Katsuki during their match so they could understand everything they saw so far.
"Holy cow dude. That Quirk is awesome." Togata complimented.
"Thanks, but it only got that way after using it a bunch, getting creative, and pushing myself over and over again." Sora explained.
Tamaki muttered to himself. "That's...interesting."
"Ohmygosh. It's just like you Mirio, right, right?" Nejire spoke up and tugged Togata's shirt sleeve a few times.
"Actually, yeah." Mirio agreed with her. "So you got a complicated Quirk too huh?"
"What's yours?" Sora asked curiously.
"Permeation." Togata replied.
"Uh...what?" The swordsman didn't know the definition of that word.
"Mirio can make his body pass through anything." Amajiki explained, not taking his head off the wall.
"Oh, that is so cool!" Sora praised his upperclassman. "You're basically untouchable if you know how to use it right. That's amazing!"
Togata chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. "Thanks dude."
"So why are you guys here?" The First Year wondered.
"I'm just here for a patch up on my gear." The blonde answered. "My headset got busted during my work study and I asked the support course to take a look at it. I asked Tamaki to tag along with me because it would be better than just staying home all day."
Amajiki replied. "I still don't understand that reasoning Mirio. I'm most comfortable there and you know that."
"We need to get you comfy outside of home to Tamaki." Togata commented.
"And you Nejire?" Sora questioned.
"I saw Amajiki and Mirio walking to school, so I tagged along just because." Hado explained.
"Well I'm glad you did, cause I wouldn't have been able to have this fun chat with you guys." Sora said, earning a laugh from Mirio and Nejire while Tamaki was still silent. The group continued their chat while the Support Course was doing their thing.
[Silence]
While that conversation outside was happening, Bimbi, Mei and Moogle had just finished laying out Hatsume's tools and were looking over them.
"Of course they're all overused." Kenranzaki pointed out.
"Jeez, talk about busted, Kupo." Moogle commented. "We'd need tools to fix these tools, they're so banged up, Kupo."
"You two know where they keep the spare stuff?" Mei asked.
"Power Loader has the keys to the utility closet, but he left to go get coffee and won't be back for a while." Bimbi explained. She then sighed and said "I guess I have no choice. We'll use my tools to check your inventions and make sure they don't explode. Just don't break them Hatsume."
"Got it." The First Year replied. "I promise not to break your stuff Kenranzaki."
"You better not." The Third Year emphasized. "I'll need them after we're done with this."
"Let's just get to work, Kupo." Moogle requested. "The sooner we start, the sooner we finish, Kupo."
[Play KH2.5 Remix OST Shipmeisters' Shanty]
"Yeah!" Mei cheered before grabbing a chocolate bar, eating the whole bar and then grabbing the tools she needed at the moment.
The other two followed her actions, grabbing the tools they needed and began inspecting the invention in front of them. Now came a montage of inspecting one of Hatsume's many babies, if it was fine, they move on, if not, they explain to Mei what she did wrong and help her properly build, frame, wire, or a combination of the three to her baby as they supervise her.
About halfway through the inventions, Moogle noticed a headset with a broken visor and deduced that it was the gear that Kenranzaki was supposed to look at. Seeing as she was busy at the moment, explaining what Hatsume did wrong with the current invention she was looking at, he decided to take a minute to head to his locker. Once there, he fiddled around in it before grabbing a certain mineral and taking it over to the headset. He grabbed a spare visor laying around and then got to work.
Bimbi had just finished helping Mei out when she ended up noticing Moogle tinkering with the headset. She ran over and spoke up. "Hey, what are you doing to that?"
"Relax, Kupo." The merchant reassured her. "Just reinforcing it and replacing the visor, Kupo. Making sure that it won't break so easily again, Kupo" He just finished the process and then decided to test them out. "Give me some space, Kupo."
She backed up and Hatsume ended up stopping what she was doing to see this test. Moogle then flew to the ceiling and then threw the headset to the ground. Kenranzaki instinctively tried to catch them, but they hit the ground before she could reach them. She and Mei were surprised when they noticed that the headset wasn't damaged in the slightest. Moogle was proud of his work.
"That's amazing." The Third Year praised. "It looks just like it was before, but you made it incredibly durable now."
"Designing Support Accessories is my specialty, Kupo." He bragged.
"Support accessories?" Hatsume asked out loud.
"Very advanced support items that rarely anyone can make, let alone by one's self." Bimbi informed her. "I must say, I'm very thankful that you did that to the headset Mister."
"Least I can do, since you're helping us out, miss, Kupo." Moogle replied. "Now that this is finished, let's get the rest of these looked at and then go test them all out."
"Yeah!" Mei cheered as she went back to work with Kenranzaki at her side.
"This might not be so bad after all, Kupo." He thought to himself as he joined the two at the workbench.
[Silence]
What seemed ten minutes to everyone, was actually a few hours in real time. Everyone seemed to be so into the moments they were in that time just flew by for them all. Sora and the three Third Years were just hanging out, joking around and having a laugh, except Tamaki, but that just seemed to be normal for him. While the Support Course students and Moogle were just in their element, focused on work and helping out a fellow creative mind with her inventions.
Eventually, the Support Course trio exited the studio and greeted the Hero Course students, stating that everything is fixed up and ready to be tested. With that said, all of them ended up going back to the outer area of the west wall.
Once everything was set up, Hatsume strapped on him a rebuilt jet-pack, rebuilt and upgraded hover-soles, an electric booster and hydraulic bracers. She was about to continue the testing, but then Moogle stopped her. "I got an idea, Kupo." He said, as he grabbed the remote from her hands. He then casually flew over to Sora, gave him the remote, and said. "Go nuts, Kupo."
"Huh?!" Both Mei and Bimbi said in unison, very confused with Moogle's choice.
"I've always gotten the best results by just making my inventions, giving them to Sora, and telling him to go wild, Kupo." The merchant explained. "Plus, he'll figure it out after really fast, Kupo." He flew back to the two and then yelled out. "Do your thing Sora, Kupo!"
[Play KHBBS OST Go Go Rumble Racing]
Sora nodded and then pressed a button. He felt the jet-pack turn on and he suddenly went flying into the air, but this time he was in control of his actions. He took advantage of that and then pressed the same button to turn off the jet-pack. He pressed another one and felt the hover-soles activate. The boy decided to have some fun with this and did flips and tricks while in free fall, before turning on the jet-pack again to slow his fall enough for the hover-soles to not hit the ground.
He turned the jet-pack off again and then pressed another button, feeling the booster activate. He blasted forward and hovered around the forest area with precise movement and amazing speed. Sora was having the time of his life as he continued testing Hatsume's inventions.
Mei looked at the spectacle with stars in her retacle shaped eyes, amazed at how well Sora is handling her babies, making them do things that she's never seen done before. "They're even more amazing than I thought they could ever be!" She cheered as she grabbed and squeezed Moogle in her hands as she snuggled his face with hers. "I'm so glad we're working together now, because my babies are flawless!"
"Okay...OKAY, I get it, Kupo." Moogle was struggling to breathe. "I get that you're happy, but please...let me...breathe...KUPO!"
She let him go and then just cheered Sora on. "Go Go Sora! Show me how amazing my babies are built!"
Kenranzaki helped Moogle up and added her two cents. "Looks like you three are friends now."
"Don't cough cough...don't forget you too, Kupo." He spoke up.
"We in the Support Course look out for and help one another when needed." She replied. "It doesn't matter if you're First, Second, or Third Year. At least, that's what I was taught while I was here."
"Good mindset to have, Kupo." The merchant informed her. "We get trained to go into a business and make stuff for people, Kupo. It's best that you get alone with everyone you work with, old or young, Kupo."
"Even the extreme ones it seems." Bimbi added.
"Yeah, even the extreme ones, Kupo." Moogle accepted that as he watched Mei still cheering Sora on.
In the forest area he pressed the last button and noticed that some rods that came out of the bracers were keeping him from getting too close to the trees and it gave him an idea on how to finish this test run. He turned the bracers off and then boosted his way towards the wall, heading straight towards the group. He then turned on the jet-pack for a split second and used it to boost himself a few feet in the air and perform a flip while he turned off the booster. He turned on the bracers again and using those in conjunction with the hover-soles, he stopped himself a meter away from the group.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Worthy Rival, Written and Read as Friend]
Hatsume was blown away with that spectacular finale as she ran up to and hugged Sora, cheering at how much of a success that was while Sora exclaimed how fun that was, as he hugged her back.
"That was so awesome!" He praised Mei's work. "Strap some more stuff on me! I want to go again!"
"Heck yeah! Let's do it!" Hatsume agreed.
The three third years watched this all happen and were talking about it. "Wow." Nejire praised with stars in her eyes. "Did you see that Mirio? He was doing flips and tricks and was so fast, but he was so carefree and he looked like he was having a blast!"
"He kinda reminds me of You Mirio." Tamaki pointed out. "You're both so positive and upbeat, and you've both got complicated quirks that took a while to master."
"He's got a bit of you in him too Tamaki." Togata added. "His Quirk has a bunch of utility like yours and he's really creative with finding combinations like you do."
"So he's got the best bits of both of you!" Hado commented.
"Yeah." Mirio agreed to that. "He'll make an amazing Hero one day."
"Did you check your headset to see if it works yet Mirio?" Amajiki asked.
"Oh. I was so distracted with Sora's show that I forgot about that." Togata replied sheepishly as he put his headset on and adjusted it to his liking. "Hmm...yeah, feels good as new...actually, a lot better."
"Really?" Nejire wondered as she tapped his arm. "Can I try it on and see? How much better is it exactly?"
Moogle noticed this and then explained. "I reinforced it with a super rare mineral called Electrum, Kupo."
"Electrum?" Mirio repeated as he took the headset off and handed it to his friend. "What does it do?"
"It makes whatever it reinforces almost unbreakable, but very comfortable, Kupo." Moogle informed him. "I laced Sora's costume and gym uniform with the same material so they don't rip apart every time he fights, Kupo."
"That's so cool." Hado praised as she was now wearing Togata's headset, feeling how comfy it was. "Can you do that with every costume?"
"I said the mineral is super rare, Kupo." The merchant repeated. "I would if I could, but I have to reserve it for support accessories that I made, Kupo. I just used the spare that I had to repay Kenranzaki for helping Hatsume and I out, Kupo."
"Well, thanks Mister." Mirio said, giving Moogle a thumbs up.
Moogle replied with a wave and then they all continued to watch as Sora did yet another test with another set of gear.
As this spectacle continued for the next hour, Sora finally finished testing every single one of Mei's babies. The two of them were just full of joy at how awesome today was for the two of them so far. Moogle was still there and happy that he decided to take Sora up on his deal, while the four Third Year Students had left to go on with their days in their own way.
[Silence]
The three of them made their way back to the Development Studio and when they finished putting everything away, Sora and Moogle walked out to the hall and noticed Nezu walking towards them.
"I see that you two were enjoying yourselves today." He pointed out. "I'm very glad that you did."
"What up Nezu?" Sora casually asked.
"You need to talk to me about this new Project, Kupo?" Moogle guessed.
"Yes, Moogle. If you could please follow me to the teacher's lounge." The principal stated.
"Alright then, I'll head out." Sora spoke up. "It's getting a bit late so I need to get home before it gets dark."
"Okay then, have a safe trip Sora." Nezu waved him off. As Sora left the area, he turned to Moogle. "How good are you with computers?"
And that's the end of this chapter. Sora meets the Big Three, Hatsume's future inspiration in the support course (Read School briefs 4 and you'll understand.) And he helps Mei and Moogle become friends. Pretty productive for what most people would call a filler moment. Day 1 of 2 has been written and the next chapter will set up who Sora has caught the interest of and will have to choose between when his internships come in. Their might be some you don't expect. Hope you enjoy and until I decide to upload again. ;)