Chapter 61
[Silence]
All of the class was now off the bus, which had stopped inside a small spot of land that looked over a dense forest. A wooden log fence was constructed at the edge of the cliffside and acted as a guard rail for anyone who would stop to take in the view. There was also a black car there.
"Finally. I needed off that bus." Denki said.
"Let me get through! I gotta pee!" Minoru scurried around, trying to find any kind of toilet in the immediate area.
"Hmm. The view here is pretty nice." Sora commented as he went to the fence and took in the view.
"This isn't much of a rest area." Ejiro stated.
"I know." Kyouka agreed with him. "And where's class 1-B?"
"We don't really think we stopped here, just so you could stretch your legs, do you?" Aizawa told the class, getting all of their attention.
"Please sir. The toilet?" Mineta quietly begged him, which fell on deaf ears.
The black car then had both it's driver and front passenger doors open, and out came a female voice. "Heya, Eraser."
"Long time no see." Aizawa replied.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Wild, Wild Pussycats]
Two women, who were dressed up in color coded skirts and vests with moving cat tails, visors that had the design of cat ears, cutesy face paint on their cheeks, and wore furry boots as well as massive cat paws on their hands, and a little boy who was dressed normally, and wearing a red cap, came out of the car. As the little boy stepped out of the way, the two women introduced themselves.
"Your feline fantasies are here! Say Meow!" The woman in red colors said as she winked and posed for the group.
"Purrfectly cute and cat-like girls!" The woman in blue colors added on as she also posed for the group.
"You can call us the..." They both said in unison before they did a team pose. "Wild, Wild Pussycats!"
[Silence]
The students were silent, trying to take in what they just saw. Then Aizawa informed the teens why those two were here. "These are the Pro Heroes you'll be working with at the summer training camp."
Midoriya was of course already on top of explaining who they were, as he spouted out his knowledge of the Pussycats. "They're a four person Hero team, who specialize in mountain rescues! The pussycats were founded when we were kids, like forever ago!" That comment seemed to trigger the one in blue. "This marks their twelfth year working as..." He got interrupted when the blue Pussycat ran over to him and grabbed his face rather tightly.
"I'm pretty sure your math must be off." She said in a rather aggressive tone, in spite of having a smile on her face. "I'm 18 at heart." Her claws weren't digging into Izuku, but they were dangerously close.
"Understood." The One For All user replied, shutting himself up.
That last comment that the blue Pussycat made basically confirmed that you should not comment about age around her. More specifically, her age. Sora then realized something. "Wait. He said that the Pussycats are a four person team." He pointed out. "Are the other two with Class 1-B somewhere else?"
The blue Pussycat let go of Midoriya and responded to that comment. "You're quick to catch on. And what's your name?"
"I'm Sora." The Keyblade wielder introduced himself. "It's nice to meet you. I look forward to learning from you."
The red Pussycat then spoke for both of them as she said "Well then Sora, we look forward to teaching you."
He gave the pair a friendly smile, who returned the affection with smiles of their own. Aizawa then spoke up once again. "Don't just stand there. Everyone else, say hello."
"Hello. Nice to meet you." The rest of the class said in unison.
While Sora continued to look at the landscape in front of him, the red Pussycat walked over to the fence area that he was at and pointed towards said landscape. "We own this whole stretch of land out here. Everything you can see." She then pointed in a specific direction. "The summer camp you're staying at is there. At the base of the mountain."
"That's far." Everyone minus Sora said in unison.
"Then, why did we stop all the way up here instead?" Ochako asked.
Sora however looked down into the forest and his expression subtly changed. He didn't have a smile anymore, because he briefly saw a pair of glowing yellow eyes look at him before it retreated back into the dense forest. He pointed towards the direction that the red Pussycat pointed towards earlier. "That way. Right?"
"Yep." She responded as the blue Pussycat was getting ready to do something.
[Play KH BBS OST Up Down Adventure]
"Got it." The Keyblade wielder said as he summoned Two Become One in his hands, which surprised everyone, including Aizawa. "I'll meet you there." Sora told them. Then he jumped and flipped over the fence before diving down towards the forest below.
Sora reached the ground and quickly looked around him. There were a few things he immediately spotted, all of which weren't what he was looking for, but were still concerning. There was some sort of animal looking thing made of rocks and tree roots that made its way towards him. The boy was quick and jumped up to avoid it pouncing towards him. He then stabbed it in the head and moved his blade out by slicing through the head while the weapon was still inside it.
The creature fell apart but then another three seemed to come after him. Sora then switched Keyblades and used Oblivion to cut his way through these rock monsters with ease. Two Become One gave him better speed, but Oblivion was the best when it came to striking power in his current arsenal. When more rock monsters came, this time sporting various different attributes, like wings, horns, or extra arms and legs. The Keyblade wielder once again got to work, disposing of them quickly.
He then heard the ground tremor behind him and saw the earth where Class 1-A was suddenly move like a wave, before it launched the other members of Class 1-A into the forest, where he started. At first, Sora was worried, but then he remembered something. Class 1-A aren't pushovers. These creatures were a cakewalk for Sora by himself, so they shouldn't be a problem for the others.
But then he remembered something else as well. That yellow pair of eyes he saw before it vanished into the forest. None of these rock monsters had those, and he only knew of one type of creature that did. If they were here, he was going to make sure that he deals with every single one of them, before they have the chance to grow. He then doubled back to where he saw Class 1-A land. His first priority would be to get them to the camp, so that he won't have to worry about them ambushing his friends in the forest, where they would be clearly unprepared.
[Silence]
Elsewhere in the forest, An Earth Core dug its way under the ground and away from the commotion, as if on command. In spite of it being near many hearts that it could have had the chance to collect for itself, it followed this instinct and went far from the commotion, staying underground as it did so, to avoid being seen by these rock monster constructs.
[Play KH2 OST Hesitation]
Once there were none of these constructs anywhere near the area it was at, it resurfaced, only to get immediately stabbed in the mouth by a Keyblade that didn't belong to Sora. The Heartless struggled for a moment before the blade was jammed deeper into its body. Then in a brief showing of merciless brutality, the wielder of this blade conjured dark Fire with it, and held up the Earth Core with his blade as it burnt into ash from the purple flames.
The Figure then muttered out. "This is why I never bothered using you. You don't listen to me as well as the others do." He then unsummoned his Keyblade before jumping into the branches of the tree that had more than enough foliage to conceal him. "I need to keep the Heartless I left here in check. If not, then his plan is going to be ruined."
Another Heartless, this one being one of two Stealth Sneaks he kept alive, tried to break away from the group to go hunt for hearts, but the Figure held out its hand and an orb of darkness that had a red hue in its aura was formed, before it was sent towards the large lizard Heartless, forcing it to the ground and making it struggle, before it eventually submitted.
The Figure then sensed something off in the distance, and he was familiar with this feeling. "He's already here." he realized. "Damn it..." he now had to figure out how to deal with this situation. "I'll have to adjust my part of the plan accordingly."
[Silence]
Elsewhere, on another roadside, Class 1-B was getting off their bus. And they too looked on towards the horizon to see mountains and a forest below. "Whoa. Talk about a view." Pony commented as she leaned on the wood fence that was built at the edge of the mountainside.
"You said it." Setsuna agreed with her American classmate. "I don't mind stretching my legs out here."
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST The Era is Hot]
"Who said that you get to stretch your legs?" Vlad King spoke up, which caught the class's attention.
"Uh...What do you mean by that, Mr. Kan?" Juzo nervously questioned.
The 1-B homeroom teacher then pointed in a specific direction towards the base of another mountain. "Over at the base of that mountain is where you'll be staying for the night. And your guides..." He pointed at the edge of the mountainside that they were on. "...are right below us."
"WHAT!?" Most of the class responded.
"You better get started on your descent, or I'll throw you down myself." Vlad King stated. "And before you say that this is unfair, Class 1-A is doing the same thing. You wanna prove you're better, or at least on par with them? Then make it to the cabin at the same time or before they do."
None of Class 1-B was stupid enough to object their teacher's orders and they all went over or under the openings of the fence and made their descent. While Honenuki made the descent significantly easier for most of the class, due to his softening quirk making the mountainside nowhere near as coarse, other students still used their quirks to the best of their abilities to help with their own descents as well.
Tetsutetsu of course had his steel skin protect him from any hard landings, while Neito used that same strategy, due to his copy quirk And Hiryu used that strategy too, due to his scales quirk having a similar effect. Itsuka used her big fist quirk so that she could use her hands to grip and slowly slide down the softened mountainside. Tsunotori used her horns and helped out her fellow classmates Kojiro and Nirengeki with them, as well as herself. Reiko used some rocks with her quirk and floated herself down. Ibara used her vines to descend into the trees. Jurota slid down normally, with Sen, Yui, Kinoko, Manga, Juzo and Shihai. Togaru used his arm blades to slow his descent by stabbing them into the mountainside whenever he needed to slow down. Kosei did a similar method by blowing solid air below his feet and letting that stop him before he let himself continue downwards, while Yosetsu did another version of that with his welding quirk. Tokage just floated down with all her detached body parts.
The 20 students had managed to make it down and then Tetsutetsu spoke up. "That's hurdle one cleared. What's hurdle two?"
[Silence]
That answer came when a masculine voice spoke up. "Ah. The litter has arrived."
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Wild, Wild Pussycats]
The class turned towards the voice and saw a muscular man and a medium height woman in color coated skirts and vests with moving cat tails, visors that had the design of cat ears, cutesy face paint on their cheeks, and wore furry boots as well as massive cat paws on their hands.
The woman in yellow then spoke up while twirling around before striking a cat-like pose. "Here to lend a helping paw!"
The man in brown then struck a pose of his own, though his pose was a bit more macho. "We're champions serving up justice! With our tails."
"Call us..." The two spoke in unison as they did a two person team pose. "The Wild, Wild Pussycats!"
[Silence]
It was silent after that, until Tsuburaba soon broke it. "I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that these two are our guides to the camp ground."
"Oh silly little kitten!" The yellow Pussycat spoke up. "You're already on the campgrounds!"
"We own this entire stretch of land." The brown Pussycat informed the students. "Your objective is to make it to the cabin that you'll be residing in for the next week, before the end of the day."
"Objective?" Kamakiri repeated, sounding a bit annoyed. "Aren't you supposed to guide us there?"
"Oh, we will. If you take too long." The yellow Pussycat stated.
"We're only here to give you a direction to go." The brown Pussycat stated. "After that, you're on your own till after dinner. If you make it before, you can have some."
"But if not, then I'll find you and escort you to camp myself after I had my meal." The yellow Pussycat finished for her partner. "Oh, but we won't be saving any dinner for the lost boys and girls. So do your best!"
Both Pussycats then pointed in the same direction, before announcing "The cabin is that way!"
Class 1-B could already see that this is going to be a...different kind of training, compared to what they were used to, but that wasn't going to stop them, so they all began their hike through the forest.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST My Hero Academia]
Back with 1-A, the class was now being targeted by the rock creatures. After a failed attempt of Koji using his Anivoice to deter them, and Minoru no longer holding his bladder, the other students went into action. Izuku activated Full Cowling. Shoto froze one of the creatures' legs. Tenya kicked off one arm, while Katsuki blew off the other, before Midoriya landed the finishing blow with a smash to the head.
[Silence]
"You guys took that beast down in seconds." Rikido saw those four in action.
"It was awesome." Hanta complimented.
"I'm relieved...and I relieved all over myself..." Mineta shamefully uttered out.
"You showed that thing who's boss." Ejiro said.
"We're not done." Bakugo stated.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Combat Training]
Another rock creature, this time having wings, took flight. "Hey, come on!" Denki spoke up. "Don't you think this is a little unfair?"
"What now?" Mina asked. "Do we run?"
"Not good." Sato said. "If we don't make it to the camp fast enough, then we won't get anything to eat!"
"He's right!" Momo took charge. "We have no choice but to cut through these woods, using the shortest possible route!"
As everyone nodded to that, Iida gave out a rallying cry. "Alright. LET'S GO CLASS 1-A!"
"Yeah!" everyone except Katsuki replied.
Mezo used his quirk to spot multiple more rock creatures. "I spot three up ahead, and two pairs flanking each side."
Kyouka had her earphone jacks on the ground as she listened for them. "So seven total." She then shouted towards the group. "They're coming!"
A winged rock monster went for the group, but Sero had his tape at the ready. "Alright. I got this one!" He leapt into the air and launched his tape at one of the wings, swiftly constricting them, before he then pulled with all the strength to force the creature down to the ground. "Sato! Kirishima!"
Rikido threw some sugar cubes in his mouth and then quickly bulked up, while Ejiro activated his hardening quirk. The two of them then pummeled the downed creature, finishing it off.
"Dark Shadow!" Fumikage yelled out, calling forth his quirk to attack a rock creature with tusks. Dark Shadow slammed it's claws at the creature, before Mashirao assisted him with a powerful tail strike to stagger it.
"Aoyama! You're up!" Ojiro exclaimed.
Yuga then struck a pose and said "Bonjour." before firing a naval laser right through it.
"DAMN IT!" Minoru screamed out as he threw many balls from his head, trapping a rock creature that had spikes on its back and a tail. "If it weren't for these monsters, my pants wouldn't be wet right now!"
As the creature was stuck, Kaminari ran up it's tail and back until it got to its head. "Mineta. Get out of here!" He then let loose. "1.3 Million Volts!" The shock attack was strong enough to fry the creature, but that was all the electric student had in him, as he short circuited.
"Flock my birds of the forest!" Koda commanded the animals around him. "Remove this evil beast and restore peace to these woods!" The birds did as commanded and attacked a rock creature with horns on its head.
Ashido ran under and slapped its leg with acid. "Take that!" The acid then caused it to tumble to the ground.
Another creature that had tree roots acting as tendrils on its face was focused on Toru as she exclaimed. "Oh no! I'm 'completely helpless'! It's gonna eat me!"
"Good, Hagakure." Yaoyorozu said. "Perfect distraction."
Toru ran past Mina, who high fived her when they passed each other. "And you!" The acid girl threw another batch of it at this creature's leg, making it tumble as well.
"Everyone, quick! Take cover now!" Momo ordered the others before two cannonballs struck the creatures head on, destroying them. They came from a cannon that Yaoyorozu made a moment prior.
"That was amazing, Momo!" Ashido complimented.
Ochako made contact with a rock creature that looked like it had a shell on and made it float. "Tsu! He's all yours!"
"Leave it to me!" Asui said as she jumped up and ensnared it with her tongue. She then used a vine to hold herself up as she swung with all her strength to throw it into the air. She then let go of the creature and hid with Uraraka.
"And now, release." Ochako said as she deactivated her quirk and let the creature drop, taking it out once it hit the ground.
"I've spotted more of them closing in!" Shoji yelled out.
Katsuki and Shoto took out another creature by themselves, but Bakugo was not too pleased with the assist. "You're in my way there, icyhot!"
"Then pick another route." Todoroki told him.
Izuku and Tenya ran towards the other three creatures. "Midoriya! Now!" The class rep instructed.
"Right!" Izuku did as he was told and jumped from tree to tree, before smashing one of the monsters. While Iida kicked through another monster. The third one was about to attack from the air, but it was soon cut in two by the waist, and through the attack came Sora, who landed next to his friend. "Sora!" He was glad to see him.
"I doubled back to help out." The Keyblade wielder stated. "You need help?"
"If you're offering it." Midoriya replied. Then another five rock creatures went for the pair. "Let's go, Sora!" He activated his full cowling again.
"Right!" Sora replied as he activated his flowmotion and the pair blitzed towards the creatures.
Back on the mountainside, the Blue Pussycat was making fight sounds and punching the air as she commented on the battle below "HA! YAH! So you're ganging up on me now! Well I can fight dirty too! HA! HA! Scratch! Haha!"
The red Pussycat then called over to the boy. "Kota. We're leaving."
The boy now known as Kota said "Idiots." before he went back into the car with the red Pussycat.
[Silence]
Back with class 1-B, the group kept trekking their way through the forest, until they came across a chasm that seemed to stretch past their field of vision on both sides, meaning that walking around was not going to be a good option. "Are you kidding me?" Awase spoke up.
"So now there's a chasm in the way." Rin said. "This feels like the obstacle course from the Sports Festival, all over again."
"Except this time, there's an absence of platforms and attached wires." Shishida pointed out.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST U.A. Reporting for Duty]
"So bottomless pit 2.0 basically." Tetsutetsu said. "Eh. This won't stop us." He activated his steel quirk once more before running to the edge and jumping off as far as he could.
"Tetsutetsu!" Kendo shouted out, concerned for her classmate.
"Come on. Come on. Come on!" Tetsutetsu repeated to himself as he reached the halfway point before he began to fall. "Crap!" He fell down, but was still on a trajectory that would get him to the other side of the chasm. At least the wall part of it. When he reached the wall of the other side, he jabbed his hands into it, forcing him to stop, but even with his steel skin. That hurt his arms. "Ow...Okay...Maybe not the best idea."
"Oh my god! Don't scare us like that Tetsutetsu!" Pony yelled out in English.
"You worried Tsunotori so much that she spoke in her native language!" Kaibara reprimanded his steel skinned classmate.
"Are you okay?" Tokage asked her classmate as she detached her head and floated it over to him.
"Yeah. I'll manage." Tetsutetsu told her. "I can climb up from here."
Monoma then spoke up. "Any ideas that don't involve blindly jumping forward with our quirks on?"
Shiozaki then used her vines to make a pathway. "If we go one at a time, then this will hold." She told them.
"Let me help." Bondo meekly said as he used his quirk to spray out glue and let it dry on the pathway's sides that connected the two points of the chasm. "That should make it more stable...I hope..." Kojiro was uncertain, but knew that this would help nonetheless.
"Here." Yosetsu went over to the center portion of the vine bridge that wasn't covered in glue and welded it to the side of the chasm, before walking over to the other side and doing the same thing. "Now it should be able to hold more than one person at a time."
"I appreciate your assistance." Ibara thanked her classmates.
While Tetsutetsu climbed his way up to the cliffside, most of the other students took the bridge that was made by Shiozaki, and firmly in place thanks to Bondo and Awase. One person decided to get over the chasm her own way. Setsuna had detached her body parts and floated to the other side with them. The class then pressed on.
[Silence]
After about five hours of fighting in the forest, Class 1-A reached the edge of it at 5:20 PM. Aizawa, Kota and the red and blue Pussycats were waiting outside the cabin for the class, and the blue Pussycat spoke up. "Heh. The litter is almost here."
"That took a lot longer than I expected it to." The red Pussycat commented, thinking that the class would get there at around Noon, considering that it was 9:30 when the class began this exercise.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Among Kosei]
Out of the trees came the entirety of Class 1-A. All of which, except Sora, were exhausted and dirtied up. The Keyblade wielder was dirtied up, but he's dealt with much, much more difficult fights than a couple dozen groups of larger than average rock creatures. Some were not faring as well as others though, and most of the class collapsed to their knees or leaned on another classmate. "You said it would only be like three hours." Hanta said.
"I guess we timed it based on how long it'd take us." The red Pussycat stated. "Sorry."
"Now you're bragging about how much better you are?" Rikido responded. "That's so mean."
"I'm starving." Ejiro uttered out. "This is hell!"
The blue Pussycat then did something that should have been expected, but still wasn't expected. "MewMewMewMewMewMew!" She...meowed repeatedly. "I thought it would take you kids even longer! But you did much better against my dirt monsters, than I thought you would! You guys were seriously great. Especially..." She then pointed at Sora, Izuku, Tenya, Shoto, and Katsuki, who were all standing together. "THE FIVE OF YOU! It seems you have QUITE a bit of experience!" She then licked her lips, before pouncing towards the five of them. "I call dibs on these kittens! I'll groom them myself!"
The five of them all responded the same way. With extreme discomfort, as they all guarded their faces from her onslaught of attempted wet kisses, telling her to stop, over and over again. Aizawa commented on this action. "Mandalay...has she always been like this?"
"It's gotten worse lately." The red Pussycat, now known as Mandalay answered. "She's at the age to take a mate."
[Silence]
"Uh...speaking of people's ages..." Before Midoriya could finish that, he was once again grabbed in the face by the blue Pussycat.
"Choose your words carefully, boy." She threatened him.
"I've just been wondering since we got here earlier." The One For All user, pointed towards the young boy. "Who's that kid? What's he doing here?" The blue Pussycat let him go after hearing that.
"Oh, this little guy?" Mandalay realized she never introduced him to the class. "He's actually my cousin's son. He just lives with us now. Don't be shy, Kota. Say hi to everyone. You're gonna be around them for the next week."
Kota looked very disinterested, but that didn't stop Izuku from walking up to him and introducing himself. "Hey there. My name's Midoriya. I'm from the U.A. Highschool Hero Course. It's nice to meet you." He went for a handshake.
Kota kept the same expression on his face, but instead of reciprocating the kindness that was just shown to him, he quickly and strongly punched Izuku directly in the groin, before walking away, much to Sora and Tenya's shock and anger, and to Mandalay's horror.
Iida and Sora ran to their friend and let him lean on them. "That was a low blow!" The Keyblade wielder yelled out to Kota.
"You fiend of a child!" Tenya reprimanded the little boy. "A punch to the scrotum is unforgivable!"
Kota then turned his head towards the three and growled out. "The last thing I want is to hang out with some wannabe Heroes."
"Wannabe!? How old are you, kid?!" The 1-A Class rep replied to him.
"That brat's got spunk." Bakugo smirked as he said that.
"He's like a mini version of you." Todoroki commented, which triggered the explosive teen.
"What are you talking about!?" He responded. "You need to shut your mouth, before I blast you all the way to hell!"
"Yeah, sure." The Ice user was not intimidated.
"Enough playing around." Aizawa spoke up, catching the class' attention. "Get your stuff off the bus. Once your bags are in your rooms, we'll have dinner in the cafeteria. After that, you can bathe and sleep. Tomorrow, your training starts in earnest. You better get a move on."
As class 1-A began to enter the cabin, Sora stayed out, which Aizawa noticed. He also noticed the Keyblade wielder look back towards the forest, before looking towards him and soon after approaching him. "Mr. Aizawa." He spoke up.
"What is it?" The 1-A homeroom teacher replied.
"I need to go back into the forest." Sora told him.
"Why?" Aizawa questioned.
"I'm not a hundred percent sure, but..." The Keyblade wielder didn't want to say this, but he did anyway. "I think I saw a Heartless roaming around the area."
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST People Always Reaching for the Top]
The U.A. teacher's expression slightly changed to a more serious one as he asked. "When and where?"
"Right before I jumped down into the forest, I saw a pair of glowing yellow eyes. The dirt monsters didn't have those. And since this forest is pretty big, I can see the Heartless roaming around here happening."
Aizawa then looked to see the two Pussycats that were with them walk inside, before the other pair of Pussycats came through the forest, with Vlad King. "Make sure it isn't happening." He quietly ordered Sora. "I'll tell the others you went back to look for something you dropped."
"Got it." The Keyblade wielder said before he ran back into the forest and blitzed back in the direction that the class came from with his flowmotion.
The Vlad King then spoke up. "Where's he going?"
"He said he lost something in the forest." Aizawa told him. "He's going to retrieve it."
"Why not get it after dinner?" The brown Pussycat asked.
"It's his choice to make." Aizawa said. "Let him face the consequences."
"Okay...but if he's not back when it's bath time, I'm going to bring him back." The yellow Pussycat told him.
Aizawa knew that if he tried to argue, then there would be suspicions, so he just said "Understood," and walked inside the cabin, silently expecting Sora to deal with the Heartless before anyone else had the chance to encounter them.
[Silence]
Class 1-B soon arrived after the pair of Pussycats did, looking exhausted from not just the hiking, but all the excess obstacles that were in between them and the cabin, from the chasm, to a maze that they weren't allowed to go over or around, to the two Pussycats ambushing them near the end and keeping them there for a while. "Good job, kitties!" The yellow Pussycat complimented them. "You completed your first exercise!"
"Ugh...is this what the whole camp is going to be like?" Komori dreaded.
"Yes." The 1-B homeroom teacher bluntly told them. "There's no use complaining about it. Get your stuff off of the bus and put them in your rooms. After that, you'll have dinner in the cafeteria, and a bath after that. Then you can sleep and prepare for tomorrow."
Class 1-B just replied. "Yes sir." in unison, before they did as instructed.
[Resume Boku no Hero Academia OST People Always Reaching for the Top]
As they and the pair of Pussycats that were with them went inside, Vlad stayed out with Aizawa. "Did Sora actually drop something, or was it something else?"
"He thought he spotted a Heartless in the forest, so I gave him permission to sweep it and check, as well as eliminate the Heartless if they are here." The 1-A homeroom teacher informed him.
"I had a feeling that was the case, but I wanted to make sure." The 1-B homeroom teacher responded as he stayed out there with him. "How would they even be here?"
"This place is large and full of wildlife that could be hunted by them." Aizawa stated. "Them roaming around was always a possibility, no matter where we went for the training camp."
"At least we have Sora, to deal with them, since we can't permanently take them out." Vlad looked on the bright side.
"We are fortunate to have him, but if this happens too often, then his cover will be at risk."
"...Yeah..." Vlad King couldn't argue against that, and simply looked towards the direction the young Hero went off to, hoping that he would come back quickly, as to not be tracked by one of the Pussycats for taking so long.
Sora soon made it back to the base of the mountain that he saw the pair of yellow eyes and then made sure that he knew which direction that he saw the eyes move towards before they vanished. From where he stood, they moved towards the west side. Sora then walked in that direction, holding Oblivion in his hands, ready to fight.
He looked around and noticed the ground ahead of him looking cracked and unnaturally elevated, like something dug its way underneath the surface of the ground. The Keyblade wielder knew that the Earth Cores could do that, as well as a few other Heartless, but the Earth Core was the most likely to appear in a place like this.
He followed the trail and could feel a small breeze blowing in the direction that he was heading, almost acting as a sign that he was on the right track. While this was good for Sora to know, he really didn't want to see any Heartless here, and deep down, he was hoping that his mind had played a trick on him. Unfortunately for him, he was usually wrong about these things.
He then saw a cave up ahead and in that cave, came out a pitch black aura, signaling that there was indeed a dark presence here, much to Sora's disappointment. The Keyblade wielder pointed Oblivion towards the entrance of the cave, before shooting out a beam of light into it, briefly illuminating the cave to see what was inside it.
[Silence]
Inside the cave were four Earth Cores, who were alerted to Sora's presence when the cave was illuminated.
[Play KH BBS OST Rustling Forest]
As Sora was about to cast a Fire spell, he felt himself get shot in the back, and he staggered for a brief moment, before he looked at where he was shot, to see a Bouncywild was responsible. A second Bouncywild shot another rock from it's slingshot towards Sora, but he blocked the projectile.
As soon as Sora did that, six Powerwilds jumped out of the trees and surrounded him, while the four Earth Cores burrowed underground. Sora got in his combat stance and said. "Oh no. You're not ruining this trip too." The Powerwilds and Bouncywilds surrounding Sora got ready to attack the Keyblade wielding intruder.
One of the Powerwilds charged forward and attempted to claw at Sora's chest, but the boy saw this coming and blocked the attack and staggering the monkey looking Heartless, before countering with a horizontal slash, cutting it in two. A Bouncywild then shot a rock towards him, but he saw it coming and deflected it towards another Powerwild.
The Powerwild that got hit by the deflected projectile was stunned, but before Sora could attack him, one of the other four Powerwilds jumped towards Sora and wildly slashed in front of its body with both of its arms. Sora rolled under the Powerwild before it landed on the ground and then stabbed it through the back, killing it. Sora then threw Oblivion at the stunned Powerwild and the blade went through its chest, taking it out as well.
One of the Bouncywilds charged up a sphere of energy and then shot it from where it was at. Sora saw this coming, but before he could deflect it, he had to jump over a Powerwild sliding towards him. As soon as the boy landed, he swung Oblivion like a baseball bat and deflected the energy sphere back to the Bouncywild that sent it, killing it with its own attack.
Two of the three Powerwilds charged Sora at the same time, but the Keyblade wielder jumped over their claw swipes, before slicing through one with a downward slash and then grabbing the second one by the tail and throwing it towards the Bouncywild, knocking it out of the tree. Sora then dashed over to the two downed Heartless as they were recovering and cut them up.
The last Powerwild pulled out a large nut and threw it towards the boy, but he quickly returned it to its sender, stunning the Powerwild and giving Sora a free kill. As he was about to get ready to track down the Earth Cores, one of them appeared out of the ground as a tower. Sora then faced the Tower and got ready to topple it.
The Tower spat out a multitude of small boulders towards the Keyblade wielder, but he was able to dodge them without much issue. He then used his flowmotion to blitz around and strike the Tower from multiple sides in rapid succession, easily destroying it and revealing the Earth Core inside it, which Sora quickly killed with a Fire spell to its face.
As Sora landed on the ground, he was suddenly surrounded again by Heartless, this time however it was by four Creeper Plants, four Dire Plants, and two Poison Plants. Sora now got ready to pluck these plants as he got in a defensive position, ready to reflect the projectiles that would soon be coming his way.
As Sora predicted, multiple seeds came from every direction, but this Keyblade wielder could deflect hundreds upon hundreds of light bolts from Xemnas, so a couple dozen seeds that moved slower than those light bolts were nothing to him, as he effortlessly deflected the seeds towards the Poison Plants and Dire Plants, shredding them all.
Sora then blitzed towards one of the Creeper Plants and uprooted it from the ground, before throwing it towards another Creeper Plant that unrooted itself from the ground and tried to flee, taking both of them out with the force of the throw and the impact from them colliding.
Sora then used his flowmotion to blitz towards one of the last two Creeper plants and uproot it as well. As he was about to throw it towards the last Creeper Plant, it fired three seeds towards the boy, who then deflected them back at it, stunning the flower looking Heartless. Sora then cut the Creeper Plant he held in two, and shortly after that, he walked over to the stunned one and stabbed it through it's flowery face.
Suddenly another Tower erupted, but this time it emerged right under his feet, launching the boy up above the trees for a brief moment. As Sora reached the height of his launch, he adjusted himself and dived straight back down. The Tower's mouth was wide open and Sora decided to take an idea out of Goofy's book, diving into the Tower's mouth and tearing the Earth Core apart from the inside, until it fell apart, showing Sora standing in the middle of the destroyed Tower.
A third wave of Heartless appeared, this time in the form of two Chief Puffs and eight Puffballs. Not wasting any time, one of the Chief Puffs forms a tower with four of the Puffballs, while the second one attempts to do the same, Only for Sora to cast Aero at its position, scattering the Puffballs and Chief Puff that tried to form another tower. As the Chief Puff recovered from the spell, the four Puffballs that tried to support it were taken out by Sora.
As Sora went after the Chief Puff, the Puff Tower began shooting a plethora of needle-like projectiles towards him, forcing the boy to stop his pursuit and block the wave of needles coming for him. After the attack stopped, Sora Casted Aero again to stagger the Puff Tower, before he cast another Aero to send the lone Chief Puff flying around, slamming into multiple trees and taking a beating, before Sora got to it and finished it off.
The Keyblade wielder then went after the Puff Tower and hit it enough times to break it apart, causing the Puffballs and Chief Puff to scatter. Sora didn't let them get away however as he used Aero one last time to suck them back towards him, before he took out all the Puffballs. The Aero spell knocked the Chief Puff into the air, and Sora threw Oblivion at it while it was high up, destroying it and making white fluff slowly fall from where the Chief Puff was.
The last two Earth Cores came out of the ground as Towers and they both spat out multiple small boulders towards Sora. The boy was prepared for this however and used his flowmotion to dodge the rocks, before he went on the offensive and did the same trick he used for the first Tower, slicing up one of the towers from every angle until the Earth Core inside it was exposed, giving Sora the chance to take it out.
The second Tower dived under the ground and erupted below Sora's feet, however the Keyblade wielder let this happen to him and as he was sent up in the air, he dived down and did the same trick he did to the second Tower, entering through its mouth and killing the Earth Core from the inside.
[Silence]
As the Tower crumbled into sand, Sora stood there, looking around for a moment. At this point, the white fluff had reached his location and after accidentally breathing in some from his nose, he reeled back and sneezed. He rubbed his nose, only to end up sneezing again. This continued for about fifteen seconds. Then the white fluff cleared up.
Sora looked around and noticed that the dark presence was gone. "Hmm. I guess the fighting attracted the rest of them here. So...that was all of them?" He thought about it for a moment and after waiting a few minutes for something to happen, only for nothing to show up. He had a satisfied, and slightly tired smile on his face. "Sweet. Alright. I better get back to camp before the others start to worry." He walked off.
[Play Boku no Hero Academia OST Lunch Song]
Back at the camp. Class 1-A was having dinner in one cafeteria, while Class 1-B was having dinner in another one. With class 1-A, they were all very glad to have this food. "This looks so good." Izuku said.
As everyone there chowed down on the food, The class began to talk amongst each other. "So. You girls got stuck in a tiny little bunker, didn't you?" Hanta wondered.
"Why? Is the guys one really big?" Kyouka asked.
"Oh Yeah? So, can I like, come check it out later, or what?" Mina requested.
"Sure. Whenever you want." Sero told her.
As Ejiro and Denki were chowing down on rice, the two caught a whiff of something. "I smell beef." Kaminari said.
"Hey, wait! You got meat over there?" Kirishima noticed the blue Pussycat with some beef on her tray.
"Yeah." She answered. "Jeez. It's like you guys haven't eaten in a week or something. Anyway, today's the only time we'll be doing this for you. So make sure you kids enjoy it."
"Thank you!" Both boys replied.
"Hey, Kota." Mandalay called to him. "Can you bring me those vegetables?"
The boy did as he was asked and brought a box full of vegetables to her, but he still had that same disinterested look on his face, and Midoriya noticed.
[Silence]
Sora walked back to the base of the mountain and then sat down on a stump. He needed to take a moment to rest his legs from all the walking, running, jumping and hard landings he did in the span of a few hours. He wasn't exhausted, but his legs were starting to feel slightly sore. The boy then realized that he hadn't made a message for today, so while he rested, he pulled out his gummiphone and decided to record one.
[Play KH1 OST Treasured Memories]
"Hey guys. Whenever you see this, I made it to the camp with the rest of the class. Though it wasn't by bus. At least not at the end. We got dropped off at the side of a mountain and had to hike our way there, while also fighting off a bunch of rock monsters. They weren't Heartless though. Apparently one of the Pro Heroes had a Quirk that has her control rocks, so she made the monsters to keep us on our toes. Izuku said her name was...um...Oh right! Pixie Bob. I'm guessing she's the blue one, because I remember some of my classmates call the red one Mandalay while we made our way through the forest. After they got out of the forest and into the cabin, I went back out, because I thought I saw a Heartless. Turns out I did. I took it out though, and all of the others that were here too. There was no way I was going to let this trip get ruined by them, or anyone else. I gotta admit, running through the forest kind of reminded me of Deep Jungle, minus the whole getting lost and separated part."
As Sora was about to continue, he heard a female voice call out to him. "Hey little kitty!" The yellow Pussycat yelled out as she jogged towards him. "You missed dinner! You're gonna miss your bath too if you don't get back pronto! Luckily, you've got me, 'Ragdoll' to lead your stray butt back!"
"Oh. Gotta go." Sora stopped his message there and quickly sent it.
As soon as the now named Ragdoll reached him, she energetically spoke up. "Did you find what you were looking for?"
"Huh? Oh. Yeah." The Keyblade wielder then waved his gummiphone to her. "I found this here. I guess it fell out of my pocket when I landed here."
"Your phone, huh?" Ragdoll replied. "You kiddies and your need for technology! This is a camp! Get off your screen once in a while and soak in the air!"
"I...only use my phone to call and message people." Sora told her. "Other than that, it's usually put away."
"Still! Limit your phone use to as little as possible! Even littler than you already do!" Ragdoll emphasized that there was to be limited phone usage.
"Okay. I got it." Sora understood. "So, camp is that way right?"
"Yep!" Ragdoll confirmed. "Let's go get you a bath!"
[Silence]
"I could use one." The Keyblade wielder walked with her back in the direction of the camp.
[Play KH3 Re Mind OST Destati 12 Keys Update -cutscene-]
Back over at the cave where Sora defeated the waves of Heartless, the dark aura that was removed from that place was soon replaced by another, as the Figure walked towards the cave and looked at Sora's work, inspecting how well this Keyblade wielder was, compared to the last and only time he ever saw him. He wasn't impressed, which was a very big positive for him. It meant that this would be much easier for him than he thought. He extended his hand and snapped his fingers.
Suddenly all around him, multiple pools of darkness formed as dozens of Shadows, dozens of Neoshadows, dozens of Darkballs, dozens of Flutterings dozens of Earth Cores, dozens of Powerwilds, dozens of Bouncywilds, dozens of Sniperwilds a dozen Black Fungi, six Dark Plants, dozens of Creeper Plants dozens of Poison Plants dozens of Dire Plants, dozens of Puffballs and Chief Puffs to command the Puffballs, one Rock Troll, and two Stealth Sneaks came to where they were called.
The Figure looked at the mass of Heartless under his control, before he looked back at the cave that Sora cleared out. He let out a bemused chuckle, which then grew louder and louder until it was no longer considered a chuckle, but a full fledged evil laugh. He loved just how much of a naïve idiot Sora was.
And here is chapter 61. The crew made it to the cabin, and while Sora took out a few Heartless that were looking to spoil the trip, he only got a teaser of what is to come. Speaking of what is to come, the chapter will actually combine the end of the current episode that this chapter is on, as well as the third section of School Briefs Volume Two, as they are both basically the same thing, except one has 1-A's girls, and the other has 1-B's girls. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and until I decide to upload again. ;)