Aizawa watched his students get into place. "Now then, Bakugo, throw this ball just like you did the first day." The boy looked confused, but complied.
"It's exactly like the first day, so he should have this in the bag!" Sero shouted as the kids started getting naively confident about the situation. Irrationality was a long process to remove from one's self after all. He was still trying to beat it out of Mic to this day.
"Oh man, I can't wait to see what manly score Bakugo's going to show!"
"DIE!" Would it be wrong to put a muzzle on him and just say it's a part of his training?
The timer beeped and he showed them the score. "Hey, it only increased by three meters." Suzuki deadpanned. "Did you get weaker Bakugo?"
"I WILL KILL YOU DODGER!" Bakugo leapt to attempt it, but something struck the boy from behind. Seeing as nothing visible was in sight, Aizawa presumed Hagakure was responsible for that. That was rational of her.
"You all definitely improved, but it was only mental." He spoke up to them, getting them to focus. "Normally your bodies would improve naturally with all of our combat lessons and exercises, but we don't have the luxury to wait." Aizawa gave them his sadistic smile. "So we're going to push you all to the limits, try not to die."
"Will do Aizawa-sensei, thank you for giving us this chance!" Suzuki complimented, and he had to hide his face quickly. He couldn't risk anyone else knowing about this.
"Oh shit, I didn't think it was possible." He saw the Pussycats approaching, Pixie-bob laughing hysterically. "Definitely a keeper."
"Yeah, he's a bit of a softie when you get to know him." Kaminari grinned. He couldn't have that.
"Seeing as you're so energetic." He glared at the boy. "Let's start with you. There's a generator on top of that mountain. You're going to be introduced to one million volts every hour until it becomes nothing, then we'll double the voltage."
"It was nice being smart while it lasted." Kaminari sulked in defeat. "Momo, thank you for everything."
"This one seems highly set to torture him, are the others just as bad?" Yaoyorozu questioned his equality skills. Let's demonstrate.
"Nope, you Yaoyorozu, will actually be teamed with Sato." The two blinked. "You'll be eating and using your quirks."
"That … doesn't sound too bad." Sato blinked in confusion.
"The meals have been modified to Suzuki's meal size, based on Lunch Rush's menus."
"We're going to die!" Sato screamed. Ah, misery, you're a welcomed friend.
"This is going to be torture for everybody, isn't it?" Sero spoke up next.
"Sero, your job is to make tape until we give you the okay. Sunrise to sunset seems like a decent time, wouldn't you say?"
"Don't answer that, he'll find a way to make the pain worse." Ojiro groaned.
"Ojiro, you'll be teamed up with Kirishima. He'll keep his quirk active all day while you hit him with your tail over and over again."
"That sounds super manly!" … Well they couldn't all be winners. Especially when someone actually enjoyed training to death.
"Tokoyami, you're going to be training in a cave without light. According to your report you have trouble with Dark Shadow in the darkness. We're going to fix that."
The boy shrugged. "If it is to spare the burden of my friends, then I shall bear the chains that hold back the beast." Just say you understand.
"Ashido, you'll be making acid in both high quality and quantity, we have your cream stockpiled so don't give the excuse of it melting your flesh."
"Damn it! I thought I could've gotten away with that." Nice try, wouldn't work.
"Mineta will be plucking balls even if he bleeds to strengthen his scalp."
"WHYYY!" There were the cires he missed so much.
"Aoyama will be using his Naval Laser repeatedly in the sky at full power. We've provided a portable toilet for emergencies."
"Hooray for small miracles."
"Uraraka will be placed in a Zero Gravity ball to be bounced around to work on her nausea."
"I'm going to be hurling rainbows all day." How did you hurl rainbows?
"Hagakure and Shoji are paired, the latter tracking the former."
"How did we end up with the least strenuous task?" He admits, there wasn't much in terms of pure quirk use he could improve there, unlike the next case.
"Bakugo, I'm told you've recently undergone a Quirk evolution, correct?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Originally we were just going to have you constantly submerge your hands inside of boiling water, removing them only to cause large scale explosions to strengthen your arms. Now we're going to spend hourly rotations between your arms and legs."
"Bring it on. I'm going to kill this training!" Again, another spirit that looked forward to being tortured, it was a conondrum.
"Todoroki, you'll also be placed in boiling water, with the objective to control the temperature through constant freezing and heating."
The boy nodded silently. Not much to work with there.
"Asui, you'll be climbing with your tongue and general body improvement."
"I'm not going to be able to eat right for the next few days." Fair complaint.
"Koda will be increasing his range with vocal exercises and screaming."
"All will bow before me." …He wasn't going to touch that.
"Iida, you'll be running from sunrise to sunset, the only breaks you get are fueling."
"I shall perform this duty to the best of my abilities!"
"Jiro will be hitting rocks with her jacks until we tell her to stop."
"This is gonna suck." The girl whined.
"And Suzuki, you're not going to be using your quirk at all."
"What?" Most of the class asked, confused.
"Your quirk simply relies on muscle growth, not other factors. So we brought in someone to help with that." He gestured to the other pussy cats.
"Rock on with these sparkling gazes!" "
"Oh great, they're all here." Kaminari groaned, Koda looked exasperated with him.
"We've come to lend a paw and help!"
"Coming out of nowhere…"
"Stingingly cute and catlike!"
"Wild, Wild Pussycats!" The rescue team of heroes completed their chant, this time with the other two members joining them, Ragdoll and Tiger.
"So many Cat-Samas.." Suzuki looked on with wide eyes. "Nice to meet you!"
"Can't say the same brat." Mandalay could hold a grudge. "Tiger, this is your partner."
The buff man walked up. "Pleased to meet you, kit, I look forward to beating you up!"
"That's what Rabbit-Sama said to me everyday." Well that explained the drastic improvement.
Pixie Bob took a sip of her smoothie, hearing Vlad walk up to her. "Want some tuff guy?" She asked him.
"No thanks." The man waved his hand, watching as one of his students, Rin, shot out as many scales from his arms as possible to increase the amount he could produce as well as rapid fire time.
"I have to say, I'm impressed by how well your class has taken to the training. They've adjusted to it a bit easier than 1-A." Kendo and Tetsutetsu were double training, working on beating each other up while toughening their bodies to handle more stress and power.
"One of the perks of not being the class thrown into the spotlight. We've had more time for MY brand of training. I've made sure to whip them all into shape." He spoke, turning to another student, Tokage, extending her body parts to their maximum range, and being forced to regenerate if they were lost.
"These little kitties are great so far." Ragdoll giggled, looking over at Kodai, who was expanding and shrinking objects rapidly in order to try and increase the maximum sizes. "Some already show great progress." She pointed to Shiozaki, who extended her vines to multiple sizes and lengths, even if her hair looked thin and worn out from overexertion.
"KABLAMO! DAMP! BOING! PEWAWAWAWA! FEWWWW! DURARARARA!" Manga was creating various sound effects, now running rampant, in an effort to build up his throat muscles. "GAOH! KABOOM!" That last one created a small bomb shapped 'Kaboom'. "SON OF A-" The boy that blew himself up was his own business.
"Alright…one more…one…more.." Tutsunori was shooting out multiple horns out of her head, as well as expanding the amount she could mentally control at a time. Next to her was Kinoko, who made as many mushrooms as possible in the hardest environments.
Another duo was Yanagi and Awase, the former using her quirk to lift human sized objects and multiple of them, breaking them apart. The later was to then grab rubble and weld it together, the bigger the better.
Monoma was taking random quirks and holding onto them for as long as possible, or as many as possible. "So many genes … how could any living thing take this level of strain …" Yeah, it was a good thing he was using them one at a time. Imagine something using multiple quirks at once!
"Still, a good beating or two is all that's ever needed every once in a while." Vlad pointed to a group of 1-B students, quite a few of them mainly needing to focus on plain muscle growth. Tiger was incharge of that group..
"Why…why…" Although it didn't look like it was going well, for her at least. "HOW DO YOU KEEP DODGING!?"
"Because you keep trying to hit me. Rabbit-sama kicks way faster, so you really need to keep up." The Suzuki boy spoke, the other students, being Shoda who needed to actually improve the power within each impact, and Shishida who needed to be strong enough the lack of late intelligence didn't matter, stared in awe.
"Wow, the guy is something else." Shoda bowed his head. "A Wolf against a Tiger…who knew the wolf was more feral?" Shishida gave a silent grunt of acknowledgement.
"How is he even dodging them?" Mandalay asked with narrowed eyes. "He's supposed to not be using his quirk and Tiger's quirk lets them bend mid air."
"Oh right, that's Aizawa's 'special case'." Vlad looked at the situation as if it was normal. "The kid's been in so many dangerous situations before to the point he instinctively avoids all forms of physical danger."
"He cannot be that good.." Mandalay tried to deny it.
"He beat Nedzu during the finals using nothing BUT instinct."
"Now that …" She looked at the boy avoiding hits. "Sounds like someone to go after." She licked her lips.
"In the pants." Her two teammates bluntly told her.
Hagakure held an advantage, but not for long. Every second Shoji was improving. Whether it was just her getting tired from moving around, or he was improving from noticing certain ticks and patterns, it was a slow battle.
"You're getting sloppy Hagakure." She heard him talk. "I'm able to keep you within a small distance now."
'Damn it.' She held back the need to verbally respond. She couldn't risk breaking training, lest the teacher's assume she was slacking off. She envied her partner, his training mainly required standing still and patience, she, an invisible girl, had to figure out how to become even MORE unnoticeable.
She already got good at that by following Iruma-kun around, it was nearly impossible for the boy to NOT notice her, which is what she loved the most about him. The only problem now was that it was ALL she could do! It would be so much easier if she knew for certain WHAT type of quirk she had beyond just being invisible.
"Standing still doesn't really help you. I can see the shadow." Shoji said to her, pointing his multiple eyes and ears in her direction." Was that always going to get in the way…
'Wait, what was it that Yaoyoruzo said? Light's not passing through me like a window, it's reflecting off of me like a mirror.' Toru never really thought about how her quirk worked because she figured not knowing whether or not it was an emitter or mutant type prevented her from doing so. 'If that's the case, then I can just focus on it … focus .. light entering my shadow.' She felt some strain, but took advantage of it, that there was something TO strain. More … more!
"Hagakure." Shoji stated, so close to her already. "Your shadow … is white?"
"Yes, yes, yes…" The light wasn't just bouncing off her skin now…it was moving around it…" Move…move….move…" She could do this! She would improve herself, to be more than just an invisible hero….she would stand out! For herself, for her class…for Iruma-kun! "MOVE!"
"AHHHH!" Shoji screamed as a bright flash of light came directly at her classmate, knocking him over. "My eyes! What…What the heck was that!?"
"My quirk…I found a new way to use my quirk!" Finally, she could make some freaking progress as a hero, as well as have a new way to protect Iruma-kun!
"Good for you." Her partner grudgingly lifted himself off the ground.
"Great, now we need to work on that." Aizawa walked by. "Thanks to this new development your plans have changed. Shoji will grow limbs until we tell him to stop, and you'll be manipulating light until we give the same command."
The two stood in silence for the next couple of seconds. "I'm sorry." She muttered.
"They've been waiting to torture us, there was no escaping it."
Mineta cooked with the rest of the class, which mainly consisted of transportation, as the tables were way too large to stand and work. Damn you height, first women don't look at you, now this!? Not to mention Bakugo was an actual cook, he could feel the lizard girl drooling. "It never gets any easier."
"Tell me about it." A 1-B classmate, the guy who made air shields, turned out to be his comrade in this. "You do all that you can, yet your efforts are never appreciated. You try to be as cool as possible, yet they keep overlooking you for either the nice guy or the loud asshole."
"So not fair." He nodded in agreement.
"Maybe you could try consideration?" Jiro poked in. "Maybe then you'd get some appreciation."
"Bullshit, Kaminari got Yaoyorozu." He pointed at the couple making sweets side by side.
"Yeah, because he talked to her like a normal person when she needed someone to talk to." The girl rolled her eyes. "He actually proved he's more than a perverted moron."
"I'm not a moron. I got one of the top scores in our class." The only exceptions being the super high scorers like over the top Iida, genius Yaoyorozu, perfectionist Bakugo, and hero house Todoroki. "Now I can't say the same for him." He gestured to his new friend.
"Solid B student all around."
"See, we're not morons." He nodded. "... Then again Iruma has three girls on him. Maybe being a moron is the way to go?" It could be a possibility. They wanted to teach and protect him, right?
"Wait, where is Iruma? Shouldn't we be guarding him? This is the only food we get tonight." Jiro asked around.
"Oh, he said he wanted to cook something for all of us!" Uraraka explained. "And…wow, I just realized how dumb it was to agree to that."
"I don't care either way." Hagakure shrugged. "It's Iruma-kun's cooking. I would eat it even if he accidentally gave us all food poisoning."
"I think she's more worried about there being any food left to cook." Mineta clarified.
"He's cooked in the woods, yes?" Shiozaki asked. "Maybe he has enough restraint to wait until it's finished."
"HAHAHAHAHAHHA." Todoroki laughed out loud. It was so freaky to hear.
"Dude, the joke book isn't helping." Kaminari patted the guy. "Just wait until you think something is legitimately funny."
"But I did. The fact that anyone thinks Iruma has any restraint when it comes to food is hilarious." Fair point.
"So unless we stop him, we're going hungry?" Uraraka asked, and half of Class 1-A nodded immediately. "Iruma! Where are you!?"
"Right here, almost done!" They turned to the boy in question, who for some reason has a giant black pot over a campfire. "Hm, maybe I should put a little more onion." He grabbed an entire bag and dumped it all in without chipping or peeling them.
"... Suzuki …" Iida spoke up, looking at the boiling pot with concern. "You are aware of proper cooking procedures right?" He slowly asked.
"Of course I do, I learned it in the woods. If something is edible, toss it in a pot, heat, and stir. Repeat until you're out of food." The boy spoke innocently with a bright smile.
"I refuse to let my pallet get ruined by you." Bakugo deadpanned, staring at the pot as if it was the bane of cooking.
"Oh yeah, forgot he cooked in the woods." Mineta groaned.
"Though the fact he didn't eat it all as he cooked is impressive enough." Tsu croaked.
"Of course not!" Iruma shouted. "Stuff isn't edible if it's not cooked … except that apple back in america." Traveling pallet, nice.
Mineta noticed Aoyama clutching his stomach as he watched. "You're getting sick just watching this, aren't you?" He asked the sweating kid.
"Y-yeah, yeah, that's totally it. The fumes are getting to me." Aoyoma shook, looking away from him as he talked. "I should probably get some rest now before remedial lessons start." Poor guy, a sensitive stomach, a harmful quirk, and a night of torture awaiting him. What did he do to get such a rotten string of luck?
"Yes, I see. That's going to make the whole operation much easier actually. Thank you, i'll be sure to keep that room safe. Do not worry, they'll live another day. Toodles." Garaki watched as All For One hung up, smirking. "It's amazing what you can do with some insider information."
"Ah, another plan, gone off without a hitch?" The Doctor smirked knowingly.
"Of course it was. When have my plans ever had a hitch I couldn't fix?" The man asked.
"... The time you got your skull caved in by All Might and made me have to run everything for three years while you were unconscious?" He asked sarcastically.
"That was the beginning of something more long term if anything." Sure it was, buddy. "Things are falling right into place perfectly. I was afraid for a moment Tomura was going to mess things up with Baal's own successor, but it seems it's going better than I could've hoped. He actually scared a demon."
"And he decayed magic." That alone was giving him a headache. "How that works under any scientific principle is beyond me."
"I've come to learn there are some things beyond scientific principle, although that doesn't mean I can't exploit it for my own means. So, is the Chainsaw ready?" Oh yes, the new Nomu.
"Actually, if you don't mind, I wanted to test a prototype of the Under End model." Garaki asked his long term employer. "Figure a forest is the perfect place to throw something, possibly, uncontrollably dangerous."
"Sounds promising. Hopefully it causes more damage than the one we sent to the Netherworld."
"A fun key difference actually." Garaki chuckled. "While the one we sent to the Netherworld had intelligence of a High End, it couldn't use magic. This one is an inversion of that principle." He still couldn't QUITE mesh Bloodlines and Quirks together, so far any result just ended in low tiers. This latest one was made from a strong host, hopefully more promising results.
"We're so close to it. I can feel it. My dream, my true ambition." All For One grinned. "To be the Perfect Demon Lord." Yes, what was once a metaphorical pipe dream now held more value than ever. "Oh this will be incredible … and soon my brother will be here to see it with me."
"I still haven't enhanced Tomura, you said he wasn't ready. You'll have to force the boy to give it willingly."
"Why force what I can ask for easily?"