blushed.
Mina pouted and turned around. "How can a hot guy say all that with a straight face." She grumbled and kicked the sand, she hit something and jumped.
"YEOWCH!" She fell on her butt. "Mina!" The girls were gathering around her. I pushed past Jiro and found a crab who had it's claws clamped on Mina's foot.
"Okay..." I knelt down. "I'm gonna take it out." I said as I took the crab by the claws to keep it from snapping at me.
"This little bastard has a strong grip." Mina muttered with a growl, I was able to get the crab to let go, "There we go." I got up and threw it into the ocean. Mina sighed in relief and massaged her foot.
"Much better, thanks Midori." She smiled and tried to get up but winced. "Oh dear it broke the skin." Momo frowned as Mina's foot was bleeding.
"Let's get her back into the tent." I said, now worried about the girl, as I picked Mina up, her blush came back in full force.
"Jiro, check if we have bandages, if not, Momo can make them." I took Mina back to the tent and sat her on the bench.
Jiro handed me some bandages and some rubbing alcohol that Momo provided. "Oh this is gonna sting." Mina frowned. "Just for a bit." I assured her as I poured some of the alcohol on her wound making her hiss.
I wrapped the bandage around her foot. "And done, we should make sure that there are no more crabs around." I said getting up.
"AHHHHH!!!!" We all looked out the tent to see crabs clinging to Kaminari's legs and swimming trunks as he tried to get them off.
I looked at Koda. "Can you umm." I pointed at Kaminari, Koda nodded and ran to help his friend. "I'll help the idiot." Jiro sighed and followed Koda.
Mina still had a blush on her face as she looked at the ground. "Are you okay?" Toru asked. "Yeah… his body is so hard…" Mina whispered the last part. "What?" "NOTHING!"
After helping Kaminari and making sure there were no more crabs around, I was helping myself to the food. I had a plate full of fried chicken. I was looking for Eri to share some but couldn't find her.
I walked up to Jiro who was looking out with a smirk on her face. "Hey have you seen Eri around?" I asked, Jiro pointed at an interesting sight.
I followed her finger and snickered as a napping Bakugo was being buried by Eri and Satsuki.
"Oh man.." I snapped a picture with my phone and watched as they kept burying Bakugo in sand with Kirishima watching.
"Make sure Bakugo doesn't go too hard on them." I told Kirishima as I went back into the tent. "Got it."
I sat down next to Kaminari, who had bandages on his leg. "You saw?" I asked and Kaminari nodded with a grin. "He's gonna be so mad."
Just as Kaminari said that, there was a shout. "WHAT THE FU- OW!" "Language!" I was sipping my drink but nearly spit it out as I heard that phrase, Ochako actually did it as Momo laughed and Shoto smirked.
"What's so funny about that?" Sero asked, confused as we were laughing. "Inside joke." Ochako giggled.
Bakugo walked in grumbling. Eri and Satsuki came in with Samidare following. The siblings went up to their big sister as Eri came up to me. "Hey, had fun?" I asked with a smirk.
Eri nodded with a smile, "Here." I took a fried chicken and handed it to her as she sat next to me.
"Deku… your sister." Bakugo growled as he walked up to us. "She's a kid, Bakugo." I smiled and reached behind me, handing him a container. "Your favourite." I offered.
The blond snatched the container and opened it, he huffed and looked at me. "Fine." He sat down and started to eat with a grumpy look on his face.
"No way, you guys really did hero work when you were in another world?" Kaminari asked. "I'm so jealous!" Mina pouted.
"We trained with the heroes there, and learned a few new tricks." Ochako smirked as she remembered the fighting moves Natasha taught her.
"Those guys were the real deal." Bakugo smirked. "And you fought an evil AI?" Sero asked, "Yeah, Ultron." I said the name with venom.
"Threatened to cause global extinction." Momo shuddered at the memory.
"What did he do?" Iida asked, the 5 of us who were there went quiet. "... Ultron used technology to raise a city into the sky, a makeshift meteor." Ochako explained, remembering when the city was lifted off the ground.
"Whoa." Kirishima looked at us. "So.. you were able to stop him right?"
Bakugo scoffed. "We're Avengers Weird hair, of course we stopped him." Bakugo smirked in pride.
"Avengers? what are you avenging?" Tokoyami asked. "It's the name of the super hero team." I explained. "Badass name." Kaminari gave a thumbs up.
"What happened to the people?" Sato asked.
"They were in the city as we were evacuating, we had to fight the robots and keep the people safe." Shoto explained rubbing his arm.
"Heh.. and Cap gave us a pep talk that was inspiring." Ochako looked at me. "Deku, do your impression, show them." I wanted to protest but I stopped and sighed.
"Fine." I cleared my throat. "The rest of us have one job, tear these things apart, you get hurt, hurt them back, if you get killed… walk it off." I said in my best captain america voice.
"Whoa, that sounds so manly." Kirishima looked in awe. "How can you walk off death?" Tokoyami asked.
"It's not walking off death, we couldn't afford to fail, the city was flying, people were panicking." Momo explained as she clenched her fist. "That was what being a hero is about."
"Well, then we got back up." I took out my phone as I showed them a selfie I took with the rest of the avengers as the helicarrier was in the background. "... Dude." Sero had his jaw on the floor. "What else happened?"
"Well, me and Bakugo had a competition on who had the most kills." I said as Bakugo slammed his hand on the table. "ICY HOT CHEATED, HE WASN'T EVEN IN ON IT!"
"What was the score?" Jiro asked. "I had 95 and Bakugo had … 72?" I thought back to it. "Todoroki had 113." I tried to remember.
"... He cheated." Bakugo growled. "I didn't." Shoto denied. "Shut it!"
Everyone laughed at that. Camie looked at me. "Were you able to get the city to come down?" She asked.
"No.." I answered with a frown. "The city was too high and there was no way to put it back, after we evacuated the rest of the civilians, we had to blow it up." I explained.
Everyone looked sad at the fact. "There wasn't much to be done." Shoto crossed his arms. "And… Ultron?" Toru asked. "Destroyed." I said with a scowl. "Every body he ever built, gone."
"I heard Vision destroyed the last body." Ochako said. "At least we don't have something like that." Shoji spoke up.
The mood was a bit tense. I knew what to do. "You know, I think I have a video of Bakugo two days after the battle." I smirked as I scrolled through my phone.
Bakugo looked at me in shock. "YOU SAID YOU DELETED THAT!" "Nope~" I smirked and showed everyone a video.
It showed me recording the kitchen, Natasha was sitting down eating some toast, Tony was drinking his coffee, Ochako and Melissa were chatting, Momo was eating some eggs and Pietro was sitting on his own with a wide grin.
Just then, Bakugo walked in, he was wearing pink Hello kitty pajamas and had make-up on with his hair done with purple bows.
Tony looked over and nearly snorted out the coffee. Pietro was holding in his laughter. "What?" Bakugo growled as Momo looked away trying to hide her laughter. Ochako and Melissa didn't care as they burst out laughing.
"What?!" Bakugo took out his phone and saw his reflection. "WHO DID THIS!?" Pietro broke out howling in laughter.
Bakugo saw the camera and marched towards it. The recording was cut there.
Everyone was laughing or in the more reserved case, smirking as Bakugo fumed. "GET OVER HERE DEKU!" Bakugo got up and chased me as I ran through the beach laughing.
"It was a joke. A Joke!" I laughed as I ran from the angry pomeranian.
The rest of Class 1A watched with laughter and smiles as I was chased. This was a family, one I needed to protect.
Sitting on a barstool, Tomura looked at laid out pictures of villains.
"Now I have enough allies in my party." The villain smirked.
Kurogiri was wiping a shot glass. "These are the best villains we could gather." The mist spoke.
"Yes, not just regular thugs." The voice on the tv spoke. "Be careful with this batch, Tomura, they aren't just NPCs" All for One spoke. "I understand, they're players, players who level up, they have their own goals." Tomura took out two pictures from his pocket.
"For once, I'm handing out the quests." He laid them down to show Bakugo and Midoriya. The picture of Midoriya was marked with a red X
"I want Midoriya alive, Tomura." All For One spoke. "I would like to speak to him."
Tomura looked at the TV. "Why?" He asked.
"Because of his quirk, Tomura, it intrigues me." Tomura stared at the tv. "Okay." He looked at the photos. "Now it's time to plan."
All For One cut the feed with his successor.
"Sir… Why does the boy's quirk intrigue you?" The Doctor asked.
"Because it is evolving, I can feel my little brother residing and I recognize those whips anywhere." AFO smiled widely.
"A quirk with that much power, I was gonna wait until Tomura was strong enough but now I think it's time to meet my little brother once again."
Chapter 22
Chapter Summary
The Start of Summer Camp!
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
I was packing my duffle bag for summer camp. I just needed a few clothes and bathroom necessities. I also packed bug spray in case.
I went through my closet to see if there was something I was forgetting. "Izuku." I turned to see my mom coming through the door looking worried. "I can't find Eri anywhere, have you seen her?" I frowned at that.
"No I hav… en't" I stopped as my eyes fell on a spare duffle bag with something… or someone inside. Mom followed my gaze and stared at the bag before sighing in relief as she realized where the little girl was hiding.
I went over and unzipped the bag to find Eri curled up in it, she looked up with her wide ruby red eyes.. She could fit in a bag… why was it that everything this girl did was cute?
"Eri, what are you doing?" I asked as the girl sat up from the bag.
"I wanna go with you." Eri claimed. I shook my head as I picked her up and placed her on the bed and zipped up my already packed bag. "Well, you can't, you need to stay here with mom, this is a training trip for my class." I said, patting her head.
Eri pouted. "Why can't I come?" I sighed. "Eri, there won't be much to do there, I'll be busy with training and very tired once I'm done." I explained to her.
There was also the fact that the League of Villains might try to kidnap Bakugo and bring harm, I don't want her in the middle of that.
"But I wanna go with you!" Eri stomped her foot on the bed and was about to fall but I caught her.
"Eri, look I promise, after the training camp, I'll play with you all day until school starts." I sat down and placed her on my lap. "Pinky promise?" Eri raised her pinky.
I smiled and wrapped my pinky around hers. "Pinky promise." I promised.
I took my bag and looked at my shield that was leaning against the wall. Melissa allowed me to keep it, I had permission from Nezu to bring it with me to the camp and Aizawa gave me the green light. I took the circular shield and placed it in a bag and left my room with Eri behind me.
Inko was waiting for me by the door. "There's a car waiting. Please be safe." Inko begged as she held my hand. I smiled and kissed her forehead.
"I'll do my best mom, but you know stuff like this will help me get stronger." I gave her a hug.
"Oh I know sweetie but I worry." I chuckled.
"Things will be alright." I didn't want to lie… But I had to. I looked at Eri. "Take care of mom okay?" Eri nodded. "I will." I smiled and got up taking my bags. "I'm off." I put the bags in the car and got in the back seat, Snipe was driving.
I looked out the window at the two I considered family. I swallowed the lump on my throat as Snipe drove us away.
I was waiting by the buses as the rest of my classmates arrived, I watched as class A and B arrived, I looked at the students in class B.
I took out my small notebook and was thinking of how enhancing their quirks would work, some of their quirks are mutant and I wasn't sure how it would affect them. I frowned and snapped the book shut, putting it back in my pocket.
"I've been waiting for this summer camp all summer, Deku!" I leaned back as Ochako was right in my face. I smiled. "Me too."
"Hope you have everything you need." I put my hands in my pockets. Mina and Kaminari were cheering for camp. I chuckled at their antics.
"I HEARD SOME OF CLASS 1-A ARE TAKING EXTRA COURSES, DOES THAT MEAN THAT THEY ACTUALLY FAILED THE FINAL EXAMS, THAT MUST BE SO EMBARRASSING ESPECIALLY SINCE YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN US, YOU ALL MUST BE WALLOWING IN SHAME!!!" Monoma was cut off by a karate chop to the neck from Kendo.
"Sorry about him." Kendo apologized with a nervous laugh. "Oh no worries." I waved her off. "It's nice to see everyone out of the sports festival." I grinned and looked at the other members of class B. "Nice to see you too Midoriya." Setsuna smirked.
"I see why Kendo doesn't-" But Kendo covered the green haired girl's mouth with a blush. "We should get on the bus." She dragged Setsuna and Monoma into the bus.
"What was that about?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. Ochako growled as she had more competition. "Eh must be the nerves, everyone on the bus." I told my classmates as I entered the bus.
The bus ride was very loud, I was glad I brought an MP3 player with me so I could listen to songs as we went through the mountains, I stared out the window.
I could feel One For All steering inside me, I hadn't spoken to the previous users in a while, I closed my eyes, I had to think of that later.
We finally stopped, I put my MP3 player in my pocket and got out with the rest of my classmates.
"What a weird rest stop." Kirishima muttered as he looked around. I saw the black car parked on the edge of the cliff. "Where's class B?" Kaminari asked.
"Hey Eraser, long time no see!" A woman called out behind him. We all turned to see who it was.
"Rock on with these sparkling gazes!" The woman in a red cat-like costume started. "Stingingly
cute and catlike!" a second woman in a similar outfit but in light blue continued. "We're the Wild Wild Pussycats!" The two women posed with a kid behind them.
I stared at the two for a moment, Mandalay and Pixie-Bob, I smiled a bit, my gaze moved to the kid behind them wearing a red horned cap. Kota.
"Oh I remember them, they're a rescue team of four that started around 12 years ago-" Kirishima was cut off by Pixie-bob who covered his face with her cat gloves. "I'M 18 AT HEART!" The woman had a manic grin on her face.
I started to sniff the air. "I smell something." I muttered. Camie who was next to me turned to look at me. "What is it?" She asked. "I smell… a midlife crisis." I whispered. Camie slowly nodded. "You know, I smell that too." She responded with a smirk.
"This whole area here is our territory." Mandalay spoke up and pointed at a mountain in the distance. "Your lodging is at the foot of that mountain over there!"
"Wait… then why did we stop here?" Ochako asked, now feeling nervous about the whole situation.
"Umm… let's get back on the bus shall we?" Sero started to back up as did the rest of the class.
"It's 9:30 AM right now, I'm thinking… around noon the earliest." Mandalay smirked with a dangerous glint in her eyes. I couldn't help but smirk. "Is that so?" I asked.
My classmates made a run for the bus. "Sorry kids, the training has already begun." Aizawa said in a non apologetic tone.
I, on the other hand, ran to the ledge and jumped into the forest. "BANZAI!" I fell as I heard a loud crash as my classmates were forced off the ledge. I pushed off the cliff and jumped off a branch to slow my fall and landed on my feet.
"This is private territory so feel free to use your quirks!" Mandalay shouted at us. "You have three hours to make it to the facility on foot!" Mandalay turned and saw Aizawa walking to the ledge with the vibranium shield.
"What's that?" Mandalay asked in confusion. "Support Item requested by Midoriya." Aizawa answered and threw the shield off the cliff. "MIDORIYA, HEADS UP!"
"What's so special about it?" Pixie-Bob asked with a tilt of her head. "More than you think." Aizawa responded with a tired tone.
I brushed myself and helped Camie up. "Come on guys, you need to work on a better landing strategy." I laughed then I heard Aizawa call from above. "MIDORIYA, HEADS UP!"
I looked up and saw my shield falling down the cliff. I used black whip to catch it and bring it to me. "At least I can use this." I smiled as I put the shield on my arm.
"They let you bring that?" Bakugo asked with a growl. "I requested it, I don't think they would have allowed you to bring your gauntlets though." I responded.
"YOU GOTTA MAKE IT THROUGH THE BEAST FOREST!" Mandalay called from above.
I turned and looked at the forest. Danger sense flaring. "Guys, stay vigilant, I'm sensing danger." I
advised as I walked forward.
"How many?" Momo made two pistols, "How close?" Todoroki asked as he ignited his palms.
"So far.. 4 and how close… BRACE!" I jumped back as a beast made of stone came through the trees and tried to squash me. "THIS IS NOT A REAL BEAST, IT'S A PRODUCT OF PIXIE- BOB'S QUIRK, IT'S MADE OF STONE!" I shouted as I used FC to throw the shield and it broke through the beast.
I landed and caught the shield as it bounced back to me. I saw Bakugo leap forward and blast another beast. "Jiro, Shoji, I need you two to get a scope of how many are coming our way, I can only sense immediate danger." I ordered and the two nodded, getting to work.
"Koda, I need you to talk to the animals and guide us through this place." I looked at the rocky student.
"We got more coming in all directions!" Jiro called out. "The forest is too dense for me to get a clear number." Shoji added as he scanned the area with his quirk.
"Okay then, let's get to it, Class A!" I charged into the fray with my friends behind me.
I used my shield plus super strength to bash through the rock monsters, I dodged one and watched as bullets tore through its head. I looked to see Momo with an assault rifle… Was it legal here?
I shook my head and jumped back as danger senses flared once again, a rock monster tried to crush me and I threw my shield once again, it tore through the beast and embedded itself into a tree. I landed and let loose a 30% sweeping kick sending a couple of smaller beasts flying.
Todoroki slid through the floor creating a thin sheet of ice to slide on, he left spikes of ice in his wake, impaling the beasts, he caught sight of the shield and reached out. Taking it into his hands, he realized how light it was, but it was so strong. He turned around and did what he saw Midoriya and Rogers do, he threw the shield with all his might.
The shield was able to cut through the beast's arm and ricochet off a tree and hit the beast on the back of the head. Kirishima saw the shield flying towards him and he caught it with both hardened hands, he stumbled as he caught it. "Whoa." He looked at the shield. "Midoriya's shield." He marveled at how light it was, "WATCH IT!" Ojiro warned Kirishima as he was handling his own golem, Kirishima looked behind him and saw a rock golem ready to smash him, thinking quickly, he used the shield to smack the beast back.
The red head was surprised by how strong it was as the body crumbled from the impact. "Throw it to me!" He looked to his left to see Uraraka running by with a rock monster behind her. He did as told and threw the shield like a frisbee to the gravity girl.
Uraraka caught the shield and threw it at the incoming monster behind her, the shield cracked the beast's head and Uraraka finished the job with a flying kick "Widow martial arts." She whispered.
Tsu, who was hopping from tree to tree behind her, Tsu stopped and caught the incoming shield with a tumble, she looked at it and watched as Uraraka lifted two rock monsters with her quirk.
"TSU!" The frog girl took a chance and wrapped her tongue around the shield strap and used a vine to swing, she threw the shield at the first monster, it cracked the dirt as it bounced off. She wrapped her tongue around the second one and sent it crashing into the ground.
The shield struck a random beast and was caught by Momo who looked at Aoyama. "Aoyama, fire
at me!" She ordered. "Are you sure about that?" Aoyama asked, unsure about firing. "It'll work, trust me!" Momo saw Hakagure running from a beast.
"Hakagure dodge!" The invisible girl jumped out of the way just in time for Aoyama to fire a naval laser at the shield; it reflected off the shield and hit the beast, blasting it into pieces.
"Thanks Yaomomo!" Toru waved and ran off. Momo saw Iida running by, kicking through more golems. "Iida battering ram!" She threw the shield and Iida caught it.
"Battering ram? What… Oh!" He looked at the line of golems charging at him, now getting the idea. "Recipro BURST!" He held the shield in front of him and rammed his way through the line of stone monsters.
He ran past Sato, Camie and Koda as they were fighting a beast of their own. He found Tokoyami jumping away from a golem. "I'm coming!" He charged forward and got in front of Tokoyami as the golem struck the shield.
"Dark Shadow!" Tokoyami called out and Dark Shadow emerged with a right hook, smashing the beast.
"Throw it GLASSES!" Iida looked up and saw Bakugo flying through the air with his explosives, he landed on top of a golem and blasted it's head off.
Iida threw the shield to Bakugo who caught it and jumped off the collapsing golem.
He turned to see Kaminari and Mina back to back. "HEADS DOWN!" He spun and threw the shield with the help of his explosive quirk, the two ducked just as a dragon-like beast came up behind them, the shield tore through the middle like a hot knife through butter.
Bakugo caught the shield with a grunt. "Thanks!" Kaminari grinned with a thumbs up. Bakugo rolled his eyes and blasted off with the shield on his arm.
"Deku!" I looked up and saw Bakugo throwing my shield back, I jumped into the air and caught it halfway. I launched black whip and pulled myself back to the ground hard, shield first!
I slammed into the ground and the shockwave was strong enough to put a few golems off balance as Bakugo finished the job by blasting them apart.
"Shoji, how far are we?" I asked as I walked up to him. The dirt monsters stopped coming, giving us some breathing room.
"Still far." Shoki responded. I sighed, "Well.. no time to lose." I looked at the approaching beasts.
"Let's GO!" With that, Class 1-A charged into battle once again.
Pixie-Bob was waiting outside of the lodge with Aizawa and Mandalay. Kota was waiting , it was currently 2:42 in the afternoon.
"They're here!" Pixie announced, surprising the others. "Already?" Mandalay asked, walking up to her partner.
Class A emerged from the forest, exhausted.
I had my shield on my arm, said arm was sore to the point it felt like it was about to fall off. I gave a tired grin. "So… how was that?" I asked.
"5 hours, I'm impressed that you all managed to make it through that so quickly!" Pixiebob smirked looking at Bakugo, Iida, Todoroki and I. "Especially you 4! No hesitation! You will be perfect heroes some day… I CALL DIBS!" Pixiebob started to … "Mark" us.
"Knock it off!" "Stop!" "Quit it!" Our protests were ignored as Pixiebob continued her marking.
The girls looked on with jealous looks. "Is she alway like that?" Aizawa asked Mandalay. "No… she's worried about her age…" Mandalay looked embarrassed.
"Umm speaking of age-" I was cut off by a big gloved hand on my face. "I'm 18 at heart." I shivered at Pixiebob's tone.
"Who's the kid?" I pointed at Kota… at least I hoped I was pointing at him. "Oh that's Kota, he's my nephew." Mandalay looked over to the boy. "Kota, come and introduce yourself."
I walked up to him and leaned down to offer my hand with a smile. "I'm Izuku Midoriya, it's nice to-" I intercepted his punch. "Now that's not nice." I said my face turned from a smile into a frown. Kota growled and pulled his hand away and stomped off.
"I don't need to be nice to a bunch of hero wannabes!" Kota snarled.
"Kota!" Mandalay sighed as the kid went inside. "I'm sorry about him.." She apologized and I waved her off.
"It's okay." I looked at the door. Izuku helped him with his faith in heroes during the invasion of the training camp….
Something I needed to worry about later.
After unpacking our bags, we made our way to the canteen and what we saw were tables filled with food.
I watched my classmates scramble to get to their seats.
I took my seat between Camie and Bakugo. I took some piping hot tonkatsu pork cutlet. " Itadakimasu!" Everyone cheered and started to chow down.
"We're only doing this for today, don't expect this kind of pampering to continue." Mandalay said as she took a bowl of mashed potatoes and put it on the table.
I took a bite and saw Kota standing by the wall, glaring at us.
I looked back to my food and frowned, that kid had so much hate…. I had to do something.
The doors opened and Class B came in, looking exhausted from their time in the beast forest.
"Hey guys!" I grinned. "Glad you could make it!" Kirishima spoke up after me.
"Class A made it before us, DID YOU USE A SHORTCUT?!" But Monoma was cut off by Kendo who chopped him over the head, knocking him out. Kendo looked ready to murder the copycat. "Shut up…" The boys sans Monoma instantly charged for the food.
I couldn't help but laugh as Tetsutetsu and Kirishima were eating at the same pace, I swore I was seeing double.
The girls sat down in the remaining seats and got their own food. I stole a piece of chicken from
Bakugo who screamed at me but I paid him no mind.
After finishing the meal, both classes were in the changing rooms. I wrapped the towel around my waist, I had never been to a hot spring in my previous life. I was excited to try it.
We went to the boy's side and the two hard heads jumped right in, "NO RUNNING!" Iida scolded the two.
I stepped into the hot water and sighed in content. "This is amazing." I sat down and relaxed as the other guys did the same, with no Mineta, there was no one to bother the girls.
I sighed in content as I looked up at the sky. "Dude this is the best." I looked to my left and saw Kaminari swimming up to me. "You better not discharge or you'll kill us all." I said plainly. "Oh don't say that, I have enough control for that not to happen." Kaminari waved off my worry.
I rolled my eyes and leaned back, closing my eyes, I tuned out the sounds of my classmates to enjoy my soak.
"Setsuna, I don't think you should be doing this." I heard from the other side of the wall. "Come on, it's just a little peak." I opened one eye and looked at the wall separating the boys from the girls.
I looked to Shoji who nodded at me, confirming that I wasn't hearing things. "Hey, can someone pass me a bucket?" I asked standing up.
Ojiro gave me a bucket, which I filled with water, "Todoroki, I need ice." I held the bucket towards him, he obliged and put some ice in the bucket, enough for it to become cold. "Tokoyami, I need dark shadow."
Momo frowned as Camie and Setsuna were using their quirks to peep on the boys.
"Don't pretend you're not a little bit curious." Camie smirked as she blew out her illusion mist to cover Setsuna's head.
"I am." Mina grinned and came up. "Setsuna, come on don't." Kendo tried to stop her friend. "Just a little peak."
"The lord would not approve." Ibarra commented with a frown on her face. "Shroom, I'm also curious." Kinko smirked.
"Almost." Setsuna's head was almost over the wall but then Dark Shadow appeared with a bucket and doused Camie and Setsuna with cold water.
"AHHH!" The two screamed as they fell into the hot spring. "We can hear everything you're saying." Izuku called from over the wall.
Camie surfaced with a pout. "No fair!" She shouted. Setsuna reattached her head and took a bucket to douse herself in some hot water. "That's better."
"That's what you get." Kendo smirked as the girls laughed at the two's expense.
We got out of the hot spring and were getting ready for bed. We had a long day of training tomorrow.
I was walking back from using the bathroom to the room where class A was sleeping in. I spotted Kota who gave me the hardest glare he could muster and walked off.
"Geez, that kid really hates me." I mumbled. "Don't take it so personally." I jumped and turned to see Mandalay and Pixie-bob behind me.
I blushed in embarrassment since I was only in a shirt and boxers… "Ummm what do you mean by that?" I asked, hoping to divert their attention.
"Kota… hates heroes… to say the least." Mandalay looked at the hall where her nephew went. "Why?" I asked.
"Kota's parents were heroes.. Who died in the line of duty." Pixie-bob looked away solemnly, "They were fighting a villain to protect civilians, no better way for heroes to meet their end. But he didn't understand, to him it was like they left him all alone, while society kept praising them for what they did." Mandalay sighed sadly.
"I don't think he likes us very much either but… he doesn't have anyone else." I looked at them with a sad look on my face.
I remembered the story.. But hearing it again made my heart ache. "I'm sorry." I mumbled.
"It's okay, maybe one day he'll understand, get some rest, you have a long day tomorrow." Pixie- bob shooed me away.
I went back to my sleeping bag and fell asleep, she was right. Long day.
Class A was up at 5:30 am.
Myself and a few others were used to waking up so early, others…. Not so much.
We walked through the forest to a clearing just outside of the lodge. I saw Mr. Aizawa waiting for us in the clearing.
"Morning kids." He greeted us. I felt someone lean against my arm, I looked and saw Ochako still half asleep. I shook her awake.
"Today the real training camp begins. Ideally, you will come out of this stronger, strong enough to earn your provisional licence." Aizawa explained.
"More specifically, there's a growing hostile force out there." I stared at Aizawa, thinking of the future I'm trying to change. "Through this you'll be prepared to face it. So stay sharp and work hard."
Aizawa took the ball from the first quirk apprehension exam and threw it to Bakugo. "Let's start with this, give it a throw." He ordered the explosive user.
Bakugo grinned and walked up, "Fine, you asked for it."
I hummed. "His last score was, 710 right?" "Correct, I wonder if it'll be more this time." Momo commented as she heard my question.
"DIEEEE!!!" Bakugo blasted the ball into the sky, I watched with a deadpan stare. Bakugo being Bakugo I guess.
"711.3" Aizawa announced.
Everyone looked a bit surprised by the lackluster results.
"You may have grown in technique, mind and maybe body." Aizawa looked us over.
"But your quirks haven't caught up, that's why we're here, to train your quirks to the point of absolute agony." I couldn't help but gulp at his words.
"Midoriya." I jumped as he called my name. "Step up." Aizawa ordered, I nodded and walked over to stand next to him.
"Midoriya here has the ability to… enhance quirks." Aizawa explained, "Two have already had their quirks enhanced and seeing that, we have picked a select few to have their quirks enhanced." Everyone whispers to each other.
Iida raised his hand. "Sir, who have you picked for this opportunity?" He asked.
"I'm glad you asked, Hagakure, Utsushimi, Kaminari, Tokoyami, step forward." Aizawa ordered.
Said students stepped forward. "Let's start with Hagakure." Aizawa looked at me. I nodded and activated OFA, I rubbed my hands together, creating static.
"Umm is this safe?" Toru asked nervously. "Uraraka and Todoroki are fine so far." I mentioned as Toru looked at the two in question.
Uraraka gave her a thumbs up and Todoroki nodded. "... Okay." Toru took a deep breath. "Ready."
I put my hands on her shoulders and pushed energy through her body. Her body was starting to generate rainbow coloured electricity and then it dissipated.
"Wow… umm what- AGH!" Toru screamed and nearly fell to her knees but I caught her before she collapsed.
"Toru!" Mina shouted, worried. "She's fine, this happened to me also." Todoroki assured everyone. Aizawa watched with narrowed eyes.
Then everyone gasped as Toru started to appear.
I looked in shock and awe as I could finally see how Toru looked, her hair was pure white, her skin tone was very pale from light being refracted from her body her whole life, her figure was slim, not as build like Mina but pretty close.
"Are you alright?" I asked, Toru looked up at me and my breath hitched as I saw her beautiful light purple eyes. "Wow…" I helped her up.
"Ow… that hurt." Toru rubbed her head and froze, she looked at her hands, her visible hands.
"Toru, we can see you." Mina walked up to her best friend and jumped back when the now visible girl spun around. "MIRROR!" She demanded, Momo obliged, she created a handheld mirror and Toru took it, looking at herself.
Toru started to shake and sob. "I'm visible… I'm visible." I felt pride swell up in my chest as Toru admired her own beauty. Aizawa didn't speak, a ghost of a smile forming on his lips. A girl who was invisible her whole life, can now see herself, he would let her have this.
"How do I look and be honest!" Toru asked Mina. "Very pretty… I'm kinda jealous." Mina pouted.
Toru hugged Mina and squealed. "This is AMAZING!" She put Mina down and turned to me with a wide grin. "And you!" She tackled me and hugged me with everything she had.
"THANK YOU!!!!" Toru squealed. I chuckled and patted her head. "Your welcome Toru."
"Okay, that's enough." Aizawa spoke up. "Hagakure, can you turn invisible again?" Toru let me go and looked at the teacher.
"Ummm." She closed her eyes and she started to turn invisible again, her clothes started to turn invisible with her but it started to flicker.
I took out my notebook and circled around her as I took notes. "So you can create a field of invisibility around yourself and whatever you're wearing now." I smiled. "I don't have to go naked anymore!? YAY!" Toru cheered while making a lot of movement, I suppose it's hard to break that kind of habit.
"Is there anything else you can do?" Aizawa asked Toru. I looked at my notes and hummed. "I have an idea, but for now let's just work on helping you activate your invisibility again." Aizawa grunted but agreed.
"Alright, next up is Utsushimi." Camie came up to me with a grin. "Ready!" She gave me a wink. I simply rubbed my hands together and let the energy build up.
"Okay, this might sting." I placed my hands on her shoulders and just like with Hagakure, pumped energy into her. Her body was covered in dark yellow lightning before it disappeared.
We waited and Camie started to cough out her illusion mist. "Camie, let it out!" I ordered. Camie nodded and blew out a gust of mist, I hummed "Camie, can you make some random objects?" I asked.
Camie concentrated, I watched as the mist formed into some rocks and logs, I knocked against the newly made rock, it felt real. "Solid illusions, amazing." I smiled.
"Okay, we will have to work on your concentration in creating and maintaining these illusions." Aizawa looked over the illusions as they disappeared. "Got it." Camie gave a thumbs up.
"Kaminari." The electric user stepped up with a grin. "Ready and waiting." I chuckled and rubbed my hands again. "Okay then." I put my hands on Kaminari's shoulders and pumped energy into him.
Kaminari shook a bit and his quirk activated and he groaned. "Man this is strong stuff." He gritted his teeth.
I took a step back as then Kaminari shot out his hand to the side and a bolt of lightning struck a random tree.
I blinked. "Wow…" I grinned at Kaminari. "How does it feel?" I asked. "I feel… more control, like I can grasp it better." Kaminari looked at me with a wide grin. "Thanks dude."
I waved him off. "No problem, you're the reason this is actually happening." I told him. Kaminari looked confused. "Really?" He asked. "I'll explain later." I said, knowing Aizawa wanted to get a move on.
I looked at Tokoyami, who understood and stepped forward. "What will happen if you do this?" He asked. "Hopefully, something good." I put my hand on his shoulders and repeated the process.
His body was covered in purple electricity for a moment before it disappeared.
I stepped back for a moment before Tokoyami's eyes widened and he doubled over, holding his stomach.
Soon shadows started to form over his arms, he growled and the shadows extended into astral claws. I grinned, "With Dark Shadow, you have long range attacks but with this, you can cover both." I said as Tokoyami looked at his new shadow appendages with interest.
"And I can still feel Dark Shadow within me, I have more options." He gave me a nod as the shadow claws disappeared.
"Now that you have these abilities, you will be training twice as hard." Aizawa said as he looked at the newly enhanced. "To gain a better hold of those new powers and fine tune your old ones."
"THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE!!" We turned to see 5 figures.
Mandalay, Pixie-Bob, Tiger, Ragdoll… My gaze lingered on Ragdoll… I will save her. I looked at the last person and my jaw dropped.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?!" I demanded as Himiko giggled. "I was brought here to help with training!" She cheered.
I groaned and rubbed my head. "Dude, you know her?" Kirishima asked. "Yeah…" Aizawa sighed. "Meet Himiko Toga, she's part of UA's Villain Reformation Program."
"VILLAIN!" My classmates exclaimed and got ready to fight. "REFORMED!" I shouted at them, glaring with intensity. "Midoriya, you can't believe that she's changed." Iida tried to speak but flinched when I gave him a hard glare.
"Everyone deserves a chance at redemption.. Stain gave you one didn't he?" I asked Iida who looked away and didn't say anything else.
I sighed. "Guys, she's fine, she's a good person… a bit weird but friendly." I explained.
"I didn't know UA had a reformation program." Momo commented. "It's new as of recently." Aizawa spoke up.
"Enough loligagging, we have work to do." Aizawa gave us a scary look. "Try not to die."
Chapter End Notes
Finally published this thing, honestly the beast forest was fun and hard to write, I wanted to be sure I got everyone from Class A and a little bit of Class B deserves some screen time. I hope you liked the enhancements I made to the quirks, I think that they have so much potential and just needs a small push. VISIBLE HAGAKURE! YAAASSSSS! Anyway, see you in the next chapter.
Chapter 23
Chapter Notes
Okay, now that we have the whole, copy cat out of the way, onto the newest chapter!
See the end of the chapter for more notes
The whole day was absolute HELL.
But this was supposed to help us with our quirks, I could understand it, but how did anyone not collapse from exhaustion?!
Uraraka was doing her improvised training. Hovering off the ground trying to stay up right as she lifted rocks and made them move up and down, left and right, she was having a hard time keeping the contents of her stomach in.
Iida was running around the whole area, but with Pixie-bob creating obstacles for him to dodge and weave through, I could tell Iida was getting tired from dodging all the roadblocks.
Momo and Sato were stuffing their faces while working on their quirks, nothing new there. I could imagine the nightmares the two will gain from eating all that junk nonstop.
Kaminari was generating electricity and shooting it at generators that were placed around him, he would then drain them and do the process again.
Bakugo was plunging his hands in hot water and then letting out an explosion and did the process over again. Same as the previous timeline.
Jiro and Mina were working on their quirks on the side of a cliff. Those girls must be in a lot of pain.
Tsu was using her tongue to climb the cliff side.
Koda was doing vocal exercises, his voice cracked a few times.
Sero was shooting tape at a rapid rate… and not stopping.
Shoji was working on his quirk by looking for Hagakure, who, with her new ability to turn on and off her quirk at will, was trying to hide from Shoji.
Kirishima was being hit by Ojiro, both working on their own quirks.
Tokoyami was trying to control Dark Shadow in a dark cave then 30 minutes later, he would come out and try to manifest his shadow hands again and try to use them.
Todoroki was in a drum of hot water and was switching between fire and ice at a rapid rate.
Camie was blowing out her mist and dodging a dirt golem to help her maintain her focus on her creations, Which wasn't going so well as she was dodging danger.
Aoyama was shooting out his naval laser continuously and was getting a really bad stomach ache.
And me? I had 3 different ways of training. One, strength training, doing multiple exercises under Tiger's supervision, the second, training with Black Whip, I had to stand on the edge of the cliff and use black whip to break incoming boulders, in order for the whips to become stronger. The last one was training with Danger Sense, I had to wear a blind fold with noise canceling earmuffs while Toga attacked me with a fake knife.
I didn't come out unscathed to say the least, but Toga was enjoying herself.
We would break at 12 and continue at 1 in the afternoon.
Class B were doing their own quirk training, some I understood, some I didn't but I couldn't focus too much on that or else Aizawa would punish me by increasing my strength training by making me carry large tires through the field
I admit, it helped with my muscles but it was painful on my shoulders.
Finally the sun had set signifying the end of the second day of training camp.
We were walking to the back of the lodge where Pixie-bob and Ragdoll were waiting for us.
"WE WEREN'T KIDDING WHEN WE SAID YOUR PAMPERING ENDED YESTERDAY!" Pixie-bob shouted. "IF YOU WANNA EAT, YOU GOTTA COOK FOR YOURSELVES!" Everyone groaned.
I rubbed my head, I had a massive headache from using Danger sense too much.
I looked to the side to see Toga eating a bento box… I gave her a glare as she winked at me with a giggle.
"Here are all the ingredients you need to makeeee CURRY!" Ragdoll cheered as she presented said ingredients.
I sighed as Iida was getting overly excited about making curry, I didn't say anything as my headache was subsiding slowly.
I walked up to a chopping board with utensils, I grabbed a knife and started to chop some vegetables.
I watched as everyone got into as Todoroki was starting a stove with his fire. I put the knife down as I saw Kaminari and Mina handing Todoroki two pans with curry and he used his hands as the stove, the two cheered.
I couldn't help but laugh at that, those guys were two peas in a pod. I saw Kota in the distance, watching with a scowl on his face.
We locked eyes and he turned walking into the forest. I sighed a bit as I continued with the preparation of the food.
I followed the small footprints all the way to Kota's secret hideout with a plate of curry in my hands as well as a bottle of water.
He was staring at the woods with a frown on his face.
"Hey, I figured you were hungry." I called out, Kota snapped to look at me. "How did you find
me?!" He asked with a harsh glare as he stood up.
"I followed your footprints leading me here." I explained with a shrug and walked closer but stopped as Kota stepped back.
So he didn't trust me … Fair enough, I put the plate down with the water bottle and stepped back. "I don't want it." He grumbled and turned away from me, "I don't like socializing with people like you. So get out of my secret base." He demanded.
I hummed with a nod. "Secret huh… well then you should probably pick a better place." I commented.
"... Improving your quirks, stretching them to their limits… Disgusting." I looked at the boy who had his fist clenched. "Flaunting your powers like that."
"... Is that what you think heroes do?" I asked softly. "Well duh! Heroes and Villains." Kota spat with venom. "Going around killing each other like idiots. Talking about your quirks all the time… All just to show off."
I stared at Kota who was looking at me with so much disdain… "Kid.. The world isn't like that." I started. "We don't do this to show off… We do this to get stronger to protect the people who need protecting." I explained.
"People can handle themselves can't they? Kota countered. "No they can't." I crossed my arms.
"Not everyone can breath fire, move objects with their mind, lift heavy objects like it's nothing, some people don't have quirks at all, those are the people who need to be protected from villains who want to cause harm." I explained. "Your parents chose to protect others."
"SHUT UP, YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!" Kota snapped. "GET OUT!"
I stared at him. "... Just think about what I said." I turned and walked away.
Kota watched with tears building in his eyes. "You don't know anything…"
Kendo stared at the ceiling, she was unable to sleep for some reason, everyone else was asleep, Monoma was taken for remedial classes with the other class A student's who didn't pass.
She sighed and got up, she tiptoed out of the room and went outside to get some fresh air.
Kendo walked out the door and took a deep breath, taking in the outdoor aroma, it was relaxing from the smell of the city.
She shivered as she rubbed her arms. "Should have brought a jacket with you." Kendo looked up to see Izuku Midoriya, wearing PE pants with a white shirt, standing on the roof. Kendo blushed as she was wearing only shorts and a pink T-shirt.
"Umm yeah.. I just wanted to get some fresh air." She explained, then frowned. "Wait, why are you up there?" She asked.
"I couldn't sleep, thought I would do some stargazing before I sleep." He explained, "Would you like to join me?" He offered.
Kendo blinked, alone time with Midoriya…. She blushed. "Let me get a jacket!" She ran inside as quietly as she could.
Kendo came back out wearing a PE jacket, she walked around, looking for a way up to the roof, "Up here." She looked up and saw Izuku leaning over the edge of the roof offering her a hand.
Kendo took his hand and he pulled her up with ease. "Whoa!" She was surprised by the fact he lifted her up easily.
"Come on." He smiled at her and guided her to a flat area and he sat down in the middle, she joined him right after.
"It's so much clearer here." Midoriya spoke up as he looked up at the sky. Kendo did the same and saw so many stars in the night sky.
She gasped softly. "Wow…" She muttered in awe. "Yeah." He responded as the two looked up at the sky.
"It's mostly cloudy in the city, that makes it very hard to see the stars." He commented. "Do you do this often?" She asked.
"Only sometimes, whenever the sky is clearest, I would take my sister to the balcony and we would look at the stars until they were covered by the stars." Midoriya smiled fondly at the memory.
Kendo smiled at that. "She's lucky to have you as a brother." She said as she looked at him and saw the moon reflecting on his emerald green eyes,
She turned away, her cheeks burning hotter.
Midoriya suddenly yawned and got up. "Well, we should get some rest, we have a lot of training to do tomorrow." He sighed as he offered her a hand to help her up, she took it and he lifted her back to her feet.
"Yeah.. yeah." Kendo smiled as they went down from the roof and made their way back inside.
Midoriya stopped at the door and looked behind him, he felt someone watching him, he originally came out here to place his shield in a good spot for him to grab it when things went down, but stargazing with Kendo was nice.
He dismissed the feeling and went inside
Nagant watched through her scope, she was perched up in one of the taller trees, watching her target.
She wasn't gonna go running with those other villains, she was better off alone.
The boy wasn't what she expected, he was kind and very generous, his interaction with the child had her questioning All For One's orders… but that might have been a mask.
Everyone wears masks.
Nagant glared at the boy and nearly jumped when he looked behind and looked around, he then shrugged and went inside with the orange haired girl.
She sighed and got up and made her way back to her makeshift camp.
She just needed to wait when the others made their move, then she would make hers.