Originally I planned to just drop another 5 chapters next Thursday but might as well just drop 1-2 chapters daily leading up to the 1st instead
Hero Up: Class 1A
Shoji woke up in the morning and was surprised to find a suit in front of his door, with a note attached to it. The note read, if you are to continue with your hero duties wear this, It's an high tech mesh that would cloak your arms or other duplicated appendages in a metallic shine.
Shoji looked at the suit for a moment examining it, it was a jet gray upper body costume that cut off at the neck. He tried the suit on and found that it fit like a glove covering over most of his arms but leaving his two "normal" arms exposed, he tried using his quirk with it on a found that it wasn't restrictive at all, the fabric stretched along with his new arms, and like the letter said it made the arms look more mechanical than physical to the casual observer.
he tapped his additional appendage and found that it even felt more mechanical than physical. If the arms weren't directly connected to him, even he would think that they were made of metal instead of flesh. He wanted to now test other options besides fists, he first attempted to use extra eyes and was shocked that he could actually see through the metal, they took the appearance of just metallic circles instead of human eyes, he tried ears next and unlike with eyes the tech shirt bent around the shape of the ear giving the imprint of it from the outside perspective.
He tried to listen in and see if he could hear the same as before, which he could, the only difference being a slight whirring sound that was so silent that it could easily be drowned out by mostly anything else around him. Feeling satisfied that he won't be impaired by the techsuit he put on his tank top on top of it and continued out towards the common room with everyone else. He was surprised to see a similar tech suit on Ojiro's tail. Approaching his friend he asked about it.
"You received the same letter as well, I assume?" ojiro took a glance behind him and saw shoji in his top techsuit.
"Yeah, people here aren't used to people with tails so this was their idea to calm them down, Make my tail look more machine than man. So it looks more believable I guess." ojiro shrugged.
"Any problems with flexibility?" Shoji asked.
"Nope, I can barely feel it, if I'm being honest. What about you won't it get in the way of using your quirk?" ojiro questioned.
"I thought it would but the technology here is remarkable, it seems, no difficulty at all." Shoji replied by demonstrating creating multiple arms from his back. As everyone started to file into the common room the same question was asked again and again upon seeing the two, with each addition. But a surprise came in when tokoyami came into the room, well they assumed it was tokoyami given the head shape. The teen that came in had a mask on that looked bird shaped colored all black, with a non-transparent visor on the top near the eyes colored a dark purple. Kaminari thought the helmet looked familiar to a bird version of that guy from code zero.
"You're going for a new look tokoyami, ribbit." Asui commented, dark shadow came out and tapped the button on the side of his helmet, the helmet began to retract, turning into a sort of mask that covered the lower part of his face and beak.
"Apparently the association doesn't like my appearance very well and ordered me to wear this for hero activities." he said casually.
"He likes it, don't worry." dark shadow added.
"Well in any case, hopefully people can become more accepting of our more unique and magnifique classmates." Aoyama said with a smile and a subtle look at mineta. The class went about the day again when another abnormality entered the fray they didn't know, everyone just stared at the girl in the doorway, she was a white girl with white hair and blue eyes.
"H…Hi, everyone." the girl said timidly with a wave, the voice and the inside of her mouth gave the girl away. Almost the entire class screamed her name in shock.
"TORU!?"
"Yeah, it's me." she answered somewhat shyly.
"What happened to you!" Mina practically screeched as she went to examine the girl from up close.
"Well… the association didn't want an invisible girl on the streets doing hero work so they made me this. It's essentially a skin suit that can mimic the human skin tone, enhanced contacts that can move with my eyes, and a bald cap with special enhanced fibers, along with body paint" she said shyly
"Wait a bald cap?, you're saying you had hair this entire time?" mineta question which got him a poke in the ear from jiro, sending the small boy rolling on the floor in pain.
"What the idiot probably means to say is that how you look normally?" jiro asked
"Oh, oh .. is it is it!?" Mina almost jumping up and down beside her.
"Yeah, I got as close as possible to how I normally look. I can change the color of my skin, eyes, and hair if I want to actually. " the girl said shyly, looking around the class and seeing some other additions on other mutant types.
"Wow, well what are you going to do now? Being invisible was kind of was your only thing." kaminari mentioned but before jiro earjacks could reach he received a smack on the back of the head by ojiro with his tail.
"OW!, what I say?" Kaminari said while rubbing the back of his head.
"It's about what you shouldn't have said." ojiro said stoically. Turning to meet the eyes of toru, he flushed and looked away and continuing to speak
"While basic on the surface all of our quirks can be used in unique ways that some wouldn't think of right away."
"He's right even if you are no longer invisible, you can still do that shining light thing right?" deku mentioned, toru nodded in reply.
"Right! And don't forget if her powers were "just being invisible" you wouldn't be around right now, bro." Kirishima remarked to kaminari.
"He's right, This is actually a pretty good time for you to focus on your light manipulating abilities since being invisible is no longer an option." Momo suggested.
"I'll give it a try. Toru replied, the morning routine is like usual, everyone getting ready for their day with their hero.
Lost Cat: Geno's group, Tank tops , Yaoyorozu, shoji
The teens were just about done in the common area when this time a complete stranger entered through the door, going by his outfit they speculated it to be someone from the association he wore the traditional black dress uniform and had glasses with an undercut hairstyle. Being the president of the class Yaoyorozu was the first to speak to the individual.
"Good morning sir, what brings you here?" she asked politely.
"Good morning madam, I'm here to inform the hero's working under tank top master and Demon cyborg of their current situation. I would be pleased if we could discuss these matters alone, if you all don't mind." the gentlemen said with a slight bow and a sly smile.
"Is there something wrong?" Midoriya asked, slightly worried.
"No, no nothing if I can help it, the details of which are only being discussed with those who need to know." the man said assuredly to the teen."
The teens gave a hesitant look to their classmates as they walked out of the room, and as soon as the last person was out the agent looked at the remaining teens in the room. He looked over to Shoji and began to speak.
"I assume that you are the C-class hero Tentacole correct. I hope the techsuit is to your liking?" he said calmly. Before replying bakugo quickly interfered.
"Hurry it up, no need to act like you care, what did you want to talk about?" he said, slightly agitated. Only receiving a slight chuckle from the agent in question, skipping over the pleasantries his body language changed into a more stern state.
"I stopped you all today, due to your teachers really, I've currently assigned the tank tops to civilian evacuation. I will take you to them."
"That doesn't explain us." bakugo remarked.
" You two are under Genos I assume? Well I will be back for you two at a later time and take you to him, for now you have the morning and much of the early evening free to do as you may.
I will be back for you and take you to your mentor as well, we have a mission for him.`` With that said the agent took shoji and began to escort him to his car. The drive was pretty silent as they made they're way to a residential district, only to be greeted with multiple tank toppers minus master. They both began to step out of the car and went to conversate with the tank tops.
"How does the evacuation go?" the agent asked tank top Vegetarian.
"It's going fine as expected, we're getting the rest of the stragglers now." Tank vegetarian said as he looked over to shoji and a small snarl gracing his face.
"PHILOSOPHER!, your pet monster is here. " he said with somewhat antagonistically
"There is no need to yell, I'm right here and please refrain from calling our new recruit a monster, Master was pretty clear to treat him as one of us, I hope I won't have to report your behavior." philosopher said from behind him frightening him slightly and earning a glare from vegetarian.
"Once everyone is evacuated, I want you all to place guards on all four corners of the area to make sure no one enters." the agent told them.
"Me and Shoji will handle the west exit, it's the furthest entrance from the city so I assume you wouldn't mind the "monster" being away from you." philosopher mockingly mentioned. Earning another glare from the Vegetarian, before he turned and walked away stating.
"Fine by me, I don't want anyone bringing down the name of the tank top and if we can avoid any more rumors the better."
Shoji was a bit confused by the interaction but decided to ignore it for the moment, he went along with philosopher into the city searching for more people to evacuate, using his quirk that allowed them to find numerous individuals that were still lagging behind and help them away from the area. Shoji received numerous looks from the people he helped, some were even scared and tried to run away from him, when he only wanted to help, others asked straight up about him being a monster to which he refused. A teenager suggested that he pulled off a good prank by pretending his metal arms were real before and asked him about the trick, to which he had no real answer but decided to go along saying that he could make his arms look real if he wanted to.
Now shoji and philosopher stood by the west exit. It was an extremely boring task but it left shoji time to ponder about his experience and the strange conversations people brought up about him.
"What even happened here to require people to evacuate?" Shoji asked philosopher.
"I don't really know, the agent you were with only talked to Master who then relayed to us what tasks were to be done. When we were told that we're getting paid by the hour for this project the Tank tops hardly cared for what the purpose of the evacuation was. " he said shrugging.
"I..see" was all Shoji replied with a bit astonished by the group's complicity.
"Going by your reactions earlier, you don't seem to know of the report that was done on you by the police?" philosopher inquired.
"What!?, what did the report say about me?" Shoji answered with extreme curiosity.
"It tried to play you as a monster and they wanted to use you as evidence that the association is creating their own monsters and sending out hero's to defeat them to boost their own standing, the article is not directed towards you but just an attempt for the police to gain at least some footing again." philosopher answered.
Shoji didn't reply. He was consumed by his thoughts on how that made everything make sense, the new techsuit and how the people reacted to him in the area. The police didn't even bother asking for any comment from the association and only looked to shame them which apparently worked as they had made immediate efforts to less monsterfy him and his classmates.
"Don't worry about it too much, The association is planning a response to the allegations some time next month I believe, going off sweet mask's interviews. "
"Do you think it will make anything better?" shoji questioned
"Probably, he holds a lot of power over the media and masses. If anything I'm more worried about the police once the backlash starts." he said chuckingly mildly to himself.
"Why did the association and police come to be at each other's throats in the first place?" ojiro inquired.
"That's a tale lost to time, I assume it was due to the loose nature of the association versus the more rigid confines of police work. Those often not fit enough to be a hero become a police officer instead which can also add a bit of envy and jealousy to the mix of business."
"Interesting." was all shoji managed to say as philosopher suddenly snapped his head forwards, doing the same shoji noted a couple of individuals approaching the gate there were five in total three of which sported weapons of some kind, shoji braced himself ready to fight before they got closer and he recognized one of them.
Momo and kaminari arrived inside drive knights lair proceeding towards they're practice area, surprisingly the area seemed to be rearranged from previously their practice area was in front of the storage area near the large PC screen from earlier. As they approached drive knight turned to look at them.
"Good, you two have arrived. Today will be similar to yesterday for you chargebolt but you on the other hand creationist have a special experience planned for today."
" What do you have in mind for me?" momo questioned suspiciously
"While going over numerous forms and exercises are beneficial, I would like for you to learn from someone with true combat experience."
"What!, why does momo get to have the cool stuff?" kaminari whined
"Really? Who would that be?" Just as she was about to speak there was a sound from behind her signaling that someone had walked in through the door.
"That should be him right now."
A man approached them from the darkness, he had a suit that seemed to be made of black bandages with a crown of dark spiky black hair, he carried a spear weapon with a large spear head.
"YO! The names stinger" he said holding up two fingers to his head in greeting.
"He was the hero with the closest compatibility towards staff combat, while not entirely the same you can learn alot from watching him in action." drive knight said to the girl.
"My Bamboo shoot spear and I are pretty amazing. But we got to go quickly, we already received our mission and we're gonna have to meet up with everyone else. " he said while rubbing the handle of his spear.
"You should go don't worry about your friend here, he will be kept safe, as you should be." drive knight said, looking at stinger.
"Don't worry about it, short of a demon it will be a piece of cake." he said, twirling his spear in his hands. Yaoyorozu shot one more quick glance at kaminari, and he shot her a thumbs up signaling that it was cool, taking a deep breath she continued along with stinger towards the door before being stopped by drive knight calling out to her and throwing her a small device, she pressed the button in the center and the device extended out into a full length staff it was bit thicker than the one they trained with before but only slightly heavier than she would have suspected. Pressing the button again she turned back around to follow stinger away. As the two were walking away from the facility stinger decided to make some small talk.
"So girl what's your name? Your hero name, that is, there is no need to tell me your real name if you don't want to." he said, carrying his spear behind his neck.
"It's no problem at all, my name is Yaoyorozu but my hero name is creati-creationist" stuttering on her new hero name.
"Oh cool, going by what drive knight gave you I guess your primary weapon is a staff? Well I'm not one to judge but you should definitely think about using a spear instead, much more killing power you know? " he said casually, turning to look at her as he held the collapsible staff in her hand, inspecting it and putting it in one of her waste pockets.
"Well I appreciate the advice, I'm not that in favor of killings things so I'll stick with the staff for now and while the staff is one of the weapons I'm most proficient with, my main talent lies in my ability to create things." she said smiling and using her quirk to make a concrete shield making the hero in front of her almost stop in his tracks gawking at her.
"WOAH! I guess they call you the creationist for a reason huh? What else can you create? Can you create something like money or clones of yourself?" he asked, stepping a little too close to her liking. She took a step back and answered him.
"I can't just create anything, only non-living things or objects. I first need to know its molecular structure and how it goes together, while I can create money technically that is very much against everything I stand for as a hero so I don't do it."
"Sheesh, I see you're a bookworm in more ways than one. I'm guessing that your power requires open skin as well cuz there's no way a bookworm would dress like that on purpose." he said, giving a cheeky smile before turning around and walking again. Leaving a conflicted momo in his wake.
"Don't worry about onlookers, most of the people who were about to meet are professionals, they're all a part of the A-class, what class are you anyways?"
"Um…well C-class.: she said shyly.
"C-class huh? Well don't let that get you down, I'm sure with your power you can move up pretty quickly, it only took me six months to get to where I am now and I'm still gonna go farther all the way to S." he said enthusiastically.
The two continued to walk and talk until they got into a residential area, they began to approach, three other individuals one in a gas mask and ski's , one a blonde with a ponytail with an upside down peach headband , and lastly a dark skinned man with a bald head and big lips.
"What took you so long stinger." the man in the gass mask and goggles said.
"Calm down Genji, I just had to pick up a stray along the way. If an S-class asks for a favor then you do it. Let me introduce you to creationist, and creationist this is lighting genji, peach terry, and heavy kong." each gave a greeting in return as stinger introduced them.
"She's here to witness me be awesome and learn a thing or two, if she is not mesmerized by my awesomeness first." he boasted
"Well if anything she can learn how to not behave like you." peach terry commented
"Indeed, while I value your strength in combat, your personality seems to be a bit much." heavy kong added.
"Whatever you guys are just mad that I'm more popular than you all. Let's get the show on the road." he said moving forward, everyone moving behind him.
The group walked further into the rural area coming upon the edge of the designated area of their target. The group got to the hero checkpoint where two heroes stood in front of an entry barrier. Momo realized who one of them was and moved towards the front of the group to greet him.
"Shoji, what are you doing here?" momo asked
"I could ask you the same thing, the tank tops were charged with protecting this area from intruders. While everything can be settled, what about you?"
"I..I don't actually know but I assume there is some threat in there that we're going to neutralize" momo said looking over her head at the group behind her, only receiving a glare in return from Heavy kong but it wasn't directed at her but shoji?
"Do you know that hero?" she asked slightly quieter than before.
"No but I have an idea of his problem, turns out.. The police thought I was a monster that the association is using to fight." causing the girl to gasp. Meanwhile the group of heroes were talking to tank philosophers, who said they couldn't get in under orders of the association but lighting max produced a piece of paper from the same association member allowing them entry. So that's what this is Philosopher thought to himself as he let the group through. Before moving through heavy Kong approached Shoji and looked at his metallic arms..
"You know it's not funny to joke around like that kid, monsters are a menace to society we can't be seen associating with them. You should keep those arms of yours like that so people won't get the wrong impression." he commented as he passed, putting a hand on the boy's shoulder.
"Understood." was all shoji said in reply. Momo was shocked by the interaction, wanting more details from her classmate before being called over by stinger.
"Go ahead, I'll tell you guys about it later, be safe in there." Shoji said
Momo nodded and continued on with everyone else.
"Is that a childhood friend of yours?" Tank philosopher asked
"Something like that, A classmate from school." shoji commented
"Oh I see, well I can imagine we'll meet some other soon as well." he mentioned coyly flashing a sly smile as he looked into his book as Shoji stared at him suspiciously.
The group were walking down the center of the street with stinger in the lead walking casually with his spear behind his neck. He spoke to the group as he continued forward.
"Interesting, there are two of them. Do you guys know anything about that?" he asked as he walked forward.
" No, the agent mentioned only one pet, not pets plural." Genji said as he continued to walk forward
"Hopefully this unknown variable doesn't make this mission above our expertise." heavy kong said, slightly balding his fist. Seeing the confusion on the girl's face , peach Terry addressed her.
"Miss Creationist, we are currently being hunted by two monsters, don't give yourself away by turning to look at them, simply be ready for a fight." the man said calmly, she understood and tried to calm her nerves that were lighting up her body.
"Don't worry man I'm sure we got this, Creati can you make us some smoke bombs?" stinger said confidently as he strode forward.
"Umm…I uh.. yes I can." she said somewhat nervously.
"Good, I want you to move to the center of the formation and wait for my signal, not too fast we don't want to give anything away." stinger said as they continued walking, doing as she was instructed she went towards the center of the group and created two smoke bombs. She tried to slyly look around to see the danger but couldn't see anything until she noticed movement from between the houses and an eye that was staring at them as they moved on. Suddenly stinger signaled for the group to stop moving and turned to face them.
The atmosphere was tense, he held up 3 fingers then two and finally one, once the last finger went down. He yelled now which momo assumed was the signal as she threw the smoke bombs on the ground she head monstrous growls from each side of her, as the smoke clouded her vision she suddenly felt weightless as she was carried by stinger through the air and placed down a few meters away from the smoke, each individual of there party surrounded the smoke which was suddenly blown away, giving her vision of the quarry that had been stalking them for however long. They were cat-like beings that stood up like humans; they were much larger than normal, almost 30 ft tall, with an abnormally large head and mouth that showed incredibly sharp teeth with six eyes, two of which were much larger than the others. The individuals looked identical like twins and they both roared in their direction with their multitude of eyes, looking at different heroes from her party, shuddering somewhat as one eye looked directly at her.
"You play support, we'll take them on." Stinger quietly told her as he prepared himself for combat.
The other heroes charged at the two cat creatures, one of the cats lashed out with it's large claws at peach terry which he deflected with his sword, he slashed at the creatures wrist only dealing super facial damage before jumping back at a tail swipe, meanwhile heavy kong attempted to use his metal bracers to strike the cat who was focused on terry but his attack was deflected by it's twin, which avoided a spear thrust from stinger at the same time, using its tail to wrap around kong's arm and throwing him towards genji causing him to stop and catch the man using his skates to slow the impact but still resulting in him moving backwards a couple of feet.
The second cat used it's tail to swipe at stinger but he reacted quickly using his spear to jump out of the way, landing on lighting genji who was speeding back at the monsters. The cat monster successfully dodged stinger but was hit by genji in the legs with his batons it howled as it's muscles spasms, Seeing his chance peach terry tried to strike again but the second monster covered for its brother using it's mass to shoulder check peach terry into a nearby building crashing through the window.
Momo quickly tried to see if the heroes was ok but her movement must have triggered the monsters to her presence as one launched out pass the hero group and charged at her, she summoned three full body shields as the cat slashed at her, the shields were cut straight through but the blow missed its mark, she created a flashbang grenade and thrown it in the creatures face while using a piece of the shield to block her face from the effects and kept moving in the direction of terry, as she got to the window terry was already coming back out into the fight. Seeing the hero was ok she turned her attention back to the cat she blinded, rubbing its face and trying to clear its vision. Stinger attempted to stab it through the chest but he saw something out of the corner of his eye, quickly redirecting his spear into a blocking position which stopped the second cat's tail that was headed his way sending him back somewhat, the second cat covered it's brother while it regained its vision.
"They're covering each other's backs." Genji said
"Tell me something I don't know, we got to split them up. Peach, Kong. think you can handle one on its own?" stinger said
"I believe we can." peach terry said confidently brushing off some glass from his clothes.
"Problem is getting them separated." stinger said.
"I have an idea." Momo said calmly.
"Shoot." stinger said immediately.
"Well these creatures resemble cats in some ways right? So perhaps they are also deterred by the same smells, just give me time and I should be able to create a big batch of lavender oil that should separate them. If we can manage to pour it on one."
"Alright you do that, well hold them off just tell us when you're ready." stinger commented.
The act of the flash bang were finally start to wear off and the cat creature began to stare daggers at the girl, they both launched off their feet to attack the group, the previously blinded one going straight for momo but was intercepted by Heavy Kong using his braces to block the creatures bite. Terry used his sword to slash at the creatures chest causing some blood to spill from the fur releasing it's bite as it recoiled in pain, the pained screech from its sibling momentarily drew the other monsters attention enough for stinger to land a direct thrust to the creatures face but the creature dodged just in time and smacked him with its tail as he flew behind it.
genji charged forth at the beast using his batons the beast lept away before it could strike him, it than slammed its paws into the street causing numerous cracks and fissures to spring up in front of it, using the spare ruble it started launching rocks at genji forcing him back and cursing himself that the monster found his weakness, being on rocket boosted skates he couldn't accel on uneven terrain without the potential of falling, which in this instance can prove deadly. He retreated and had to go around, Onto the sidewalks to get back into the fight, giving Stinger a ride as well.
Heavy kong struck hard and hit the beast in the gut with his fist, if it felt pain it didn't show it and returned the jester sending the man rocketing back, terry approached at the same time and slashed its outstretched arm with his blade but the attack was withdrawn as he pulled the sword back as the creature slashed out with his claws in with it's other arm forcing him to parry the strike. Heavy kong struggled to get back on his feet, he was stopped by the creationist beside her was a large cannon.
"I'm ready, just lead one of them over here and get out of the way." Momo said confidently, Heavy kong was in shock for a moment from where the cannon came from but refocused and got back into the fight. He saw peach terry avoid another slash from the beast, just to end up next to kong.
"The girl is ready, we gotta get one to the cannon behind us" kong said
"Cannon?" terry said confused
"Yeah, I don't know either, but either way that's the plan, I'll try to get its tail and you cut it off ok? Then we retreat back."
Terry nodded in understanding and quickly dodged to the side as the creature attempted to bisect him with his claws. Terry cut into its arm some more causing more blood to flow. The cat attempted to whip its tail out, Heavy kong stepped in the way and barely caught the blow leaving it's tail vulnerable and peach terry took the opportunity to use his strongest attack peach ripper, the attack nearly cut straight through the tail in one hit but left it intact somewhat dangling causing the beast to unleash a guttural howl of pain. While not completely bisecting the tail like intended, peach terry assumed that it would be enough for the plan to commence.
heavy kong was already retreating back and he followed along with him and just like they intended the cat ran after them full of rage in its eyes. They both got a signal from the creationist and they dodged out of the way. taken by surprise the cat was hit directly in the chest with the oil, the heavy smell of lavender in the air permeated everywhere suddenly the cat creature began to rub itself and drag on the floor trying to get it off, the other cat shook it head from the scent granting another opening for genji to hit the cat full force shocking it slightly. The cat that was splashed with the oil began to run towards its siblings but as it got close the sibling let out a large hiss of anger and the doused cat instead began to run away in a different direction.
"Success." peach terry said.
" Thank you creationist, we will handle that one, you help them with this one." Kong said as he and Terry ran off to chase after the fleeing monster. The two hero's followed after the monster as it ran the smell of lavender making it easier to track down along with the blood trail it was leaving from its injured tail, the two followed the trail into a alley, and the scent was extremely heavy, they entered the alley way just to see nothing there, before either hero could react the cat dropped down from the ceiling, and smashing a double handed fist strait into Heavy kongs skull which plummeted the man straight into the ground knocking him out. peach terry reacted quickly slicing at the monster with his sword hitting the arm and causing slight bleeding, the monster quickly turned it's head and caught terry's sword with his teeth, he tried to pull it out with no luck and before he could fully dodge again the cat's claw came down slicing down his chest luckily the amount of space he created allowed him to only be hit by one of his claws but it was still enough to send him to his knees. He stared at the cat about to attack again when it began to flare up and it left without a moment's notice, Terry fell to the floor as he heard footsteps approaching from around the corner.
Bakugo was beginning to get restless with all this waiting. He already bored himself with the training room and briefly visited Kirishima and sato in the gym to pass the time. Todoroki on the other hand spent most of his time in the training room by himself, he offered to spar against bakugo but the teen merely scoffed and walked away to do his own thing. Eventually the intercoms rang inside the HQ for both todoroki and bakugo to meet in the common area #5 which they assumed were their normal meeting place and it turned out to be correct. They were met with the same man from before.
"Finally! I was getting bored." bakugo fumed.
"What are the details of the mission we are about to embark on?" Todoroki inquired.
"Oh it's just a simple monster extermination operation." the agent said, waving his hand dismissively, gesturing for the boy's to follow him. As the teens followed behind the agent todoroki casted a slight glance to bakugo who returned it with his own, something about this didn't feel right. The car ride was uneventful, they eventually arrived at their destination. The teens were initially confused as they had arrived near a park area and a kids league baseball match was currently going on in the center.
"I need both of you to remain here, I will return with Genos." the agent said before taking off in the direction of a bench where demon cyborg sat. as he approached the bench genos addressed him.
"You're abusing your power by calling me here. I figure that this is a more personal request for you to be meeting me outside of headquarters?" genos askes stoically.
"That's quite an attitude for a new guy." he jested as he sat on the bench next to the genos.
"But you are correct, A creature I have been secretly raising escaped confinement. I want you to destroy it." he said worriedly.
" This creature was defeated by another hero wasn't it?"
"I will worry about regretting it later. you will also be appropriately compensated, you must begin searching right away."
" Will there be a monster evacuation warning?" genos asked seriously
"I have already cleared the area under the pretense of investigating pollutants. This requires the utmost of secrecy." he said wiping the sweat from his face. Genos turned his face to look at the other two teens.
"How much do they know?" genos asked
"They only know that there is a monster extermination, not that the monster was a pet so please keep that information to yourself." the associate member said.
"Fair enough, I'll accept your request. Where is the area?"
"Just follow me, I will take you there." the agent said standing up and proceeding to the car with genos following behind. The duo didn't say anything to the cyborg as they continued back into the car, the drive was somewhat tenser the the ride over to the park but nothing extreme, the car stopped in front of the checkpoint barrier, todoroki and bakugo got out and saw a familiar figure walking up to them.
"Bakugo, todoroki you guys are going in there too?" shoji asked
"Too? Someone else went in there?" todoroki asked
" Yeah, momo got here a small time before you all showed up" shoji replied
"What? " Todoroki said a bit in shock.
"Why would ponytail be in there" bakugo asked quizzically
"I don't know, she was accompanying 4 others and a battle was probably imminent." Shoji remarked.
Genos had begun to walk forward into the area using his sensors to track down the monster, they marched around attempting to listen for anything or see anything that would signify a battle taking place. Todoroki was worried for Yaoyorozu, they didn't know much of anything revolving what they were going up against and being unprepared can lead to injury or worse. He was about to ask for answers from genos before something caught their attention. A heavy scent that permeated the air smelled like lavender? Genos sped up his march into a jog and turned the corner of the street just to bend down and touch something on the street. Was that blood? It led into the alley. The three of them jogged towards the direction to see two men down on the floor.
One of them writhing in pain began to sit up using his sword to balance himself in a kneeling position.
"Who are you?" genos asked with a serious expression
"I am A-class hero Peach terry, that is A-class hero Heavy Kong" he said pointing to the unconscious person behind them.
"You are the new S-class hero demon cyborg correct?, like you we received a request to destroy a monstrous creature."
"Did you find it?" genos asked
"Yes, but there were two of them, we assumed it would be better if we split them up and wipe them out separately but we underestimated its strength and we ended up like this."
"It fled without devouring you?" genos asked surprised by the act of mercy
"No, I believed it sensed your approach. EEP!" the hero let out a cry of surprise as it looked up above genos. A large monstrous meow left the creature's lips and genos activated his jets but before rocketing off towards the creature he told the two students.
"You two take care of them, I'll handle this." and before they could comment or reply he immediately set off into the monster knocking it back and away from the alleyway. Todoroki didn't really care about what the demon cyborg said at the moment.
"You said that there were two of them, what happened to the second one? Also you said we, did your party have a girl with you? Her name is Yaoyorozu and her hero name is creati.`` Todoroki said with urgency.
"You're referring to the creationist I believe, yes she was with us. She's battling the other one a couple streets down. She's with lighting genji and stinger." Todoroki was relieved that she wasn't fighting one of those creatures alone but he still wanted to go check up on her.
"Hey! Do you idiots need help getting out of here or are you ok?" bakugo questioned.
"Ugh..no.. I can still move, the wound isn't too crippling to move, you want to go help your friend I understand. I'll take heavy kong back to one of the checkpoints on the outskirts." bakugo nodded in return and turned to see Todoroki almost immediately speeding away, he quickly followed after him using his explosions, leaving peach terry bewildered in their wake.
The cat monster leaped at Yaoyorozu just as she predicted, she was quickly saved by lighting genji picking her up setting her down out of harm's way, the cat attempted to leap again at them but found its feet stuck in some sort of sticky substance, it attempted to free itself from sticky substance but lucked favored them again as the lighting genji charged ahead.
"Stun baton two handed style maximum electricity! HERE I GO!"
Forgetting its feet for the moment the monster launched a strike at the hero, Geji quickly avoided the blow, using its arm as a ramp to get towards the creature's large head and delivering a double baton strike. The creatures howled in pain and recoiled from the blow but recovered quicker than genji expected punching genji out of the sky, he signaled stinger to attack before landing softly into a crash pad and rolling onto his feet. Stinger came from above the creature spearing down and cutting off the creature's right fore-leg before jumping away towards Yaoyorozu and genji as a large metal net was shot out at the monster, restricting it more.
"Are you good genji?" stinger asked
"I'm fine, I have enough charge for one attack."
"Alright! The next is the kill! creati you with me?"
"Wait..wait kill? I thought we were going to capture the creature, do we really have to kill it?" Momo said recovering from the shock of seeing the creature's limb being cut off.
"Well obviously that's what we came here t-" stinger turned around only to see a massive behemoth standing behind the group. Momo and Genji turned to see what had caught the hero's attention to see a behemoth that was twice the size of the creature they were currently facing. Stinger thought fast and quickly grabbed momo like a duffle bag and hopped on genji and the three of them sped away as the creature yelled out a loud guttural screech that permeated throughout the city.
"Run! Run! We can't fight something like that!" stinger said fearful
"What a monster!" lighting genji said as he continued to try and escape.
"Creati, can you create some more flash bangs?" stinger said worriedly as the creature began to catch up to them. She quickly created two flashbang grenades and handed it to stinger who threw them directly at the creature bouncing off its face and exploding in a blast of light, the creature was momentarily stunned, Rubbing its eyes. Stinger found that they made progress but not as fast as he liked.
"Creati, can you create something fast to transport yourself?" stinger said seriously.
"I .. ugh. Can but it will take some time." she said.
"Well get to it, we'll try and give them the runaround and give you more chance to escape. The extra weight is slowing us down. We need to get you out of here first." stinger said confidently leaving no arguments for her to protest, she complied and started making a vehicle having to have stinger lift her up by her armpits so that the creation could fully come out. she created a moped, Shocking stinger somewhat.
"Really not even a motorcycle or something?" he said in disbelief, but quickly shaking his head and refocusing.
"Alright, well give you time, give me some flashbangs and some grenades of that sticky substance." Stinger said as he put her down on the scooter, she obliged and began to drive away.
"I'll try and bring back up, don't worry." momo said as she drove off.
Lighting genji changed direction charging forth back towards the monster whose eyes just began to clear, it quickly attended to it's child caught in the net and saw as the two heroes drew closer, as the third ran off into the distance, the two hero's threw two more object at them but thinking quickly the mom monster quickly hacked up a massive hairball that intercepted and encased the object muffling the effects of the flash. The hero charged forward but as they did stinger caught something out of the corner of his eye. It was a little girl running towards something. Quickly informing lighting genji they redirected into an alleyway after the girl, the kid monster began to pursue but was halted by its mother, it pointed forward further away down the street towards the girl further away and it obeyed and ran after her while the mother followed behind the other two heroes.
Yaoyorozu was fatigued, retracing their steps to get towards the gate so she could signal for help, no doubt they probably heard the roar from that larger monster so they may have already left to investigate so hopefully she would run into them earlier than she expected to. But before she could think more about it a sudden rock hit the back of her bike sending her spiraling towards ground she quickly created a pad for her to slide on as her moped went flying off in the distance. She looked back as the smaller creature charged at her with one arm, the bleeding appeared to stop which suggested some sort of regeneration but she had no other time to think as it threw another rock at her directly forcing her to dodge out of the way. She created her concrete gun and began shooting but the shots barely affected the creature as it charged forward, even as she shot at its feet, she began to back up as she created a large wall of steel to separate herself from the creature but it didn't matter the creature completely punctured through the wall nicking her side, causing her to stagger back from the cut clutching the wound and while making a band-aid to put over it to stop the bleeding, the monster threw the steel mass away and continued forwards, momo didn't know what she could do everything she created this creature would just break through like some toy, she remembered drive knight had said how her materials were brittle but- that's it, she quickly fished into her pocket and pulled out the staff that drive knight gave her pushing the button and activating it, as the creature lunged at her with it's arm hoping to skewer her as she blocked with the staff she was pushed back a few feet but she was surprised that it wasn't further perhaps the staff have some sort of shock absorption? She really couldn't think about that now as the beast jumped at her again, she couldn't avoid the beast this time only holding the staff between her and it's massive paw, which left her pinned under it. The creature slowly lowered its head down hoping to bite her but she suddenly heard a familiar voice from her side.
"Yaoyorozu!" it sounded like todoroki and almost to confirm her her theory, she suddenly felt the chill of cold and the monster in front of her was almost completely frozen from the legs up the only part not frozen was part of its paw that was pressed against her, she slid out from under the monster and looked at her classmate who stared in shock as he noticed the bleeding bandage on her side.
"Are you ok?" Todoroki asked immediately, noting her wound.
"I'm fine it wasn't a deep cut, but how come you are here?" as she said that bakugo arrived next to him, angered that the fight was over already.
"Demon cyborg received the same mission those chumps did from the association." bakugo said indignantly
"Speaking of them, where are they? did they abandon you?" she saw certain anger fill todoroki features but quickly shook her head.
"No, no nothing like that. They tried to give me time to escape but I guess the smaller one came after me instead."
"Smaller one?" bakugo inquired curious
"Yes there was a much larger one double the size of this one, they're probably fighting it right now. We must help them." she said getting to her feet but slightly staggering from the loss of lipids for the day
"Hold on, me and bakugo will handle this. You just get back to shoji near th-" todoroki was interrupted by a loud shout from the heavens drill stinger. Suddenly the cat monster caged in ice was pierced completely though the skull and its body falling towards the floor unceremoniously. It was stinger who came up to the three of them.
"Whoever managed to freeze that thing thanks for that." he said smiling widely as he tossed his spear on his shoulder.
"That thing was completely helpless, there was no need to kill it." Todoroki said somewhat coldly.
"It's what were sent here to do, come on now it's just a monster anyways it what we do. " he said dismissively, earning a glare from all three teens present but momo snapped out of it first.
"What happened to the larger one?" she inquired.
"That? I don't know when we went back to fight them but we found a little girl still here so we rescued her but I wanted to check to see if you were ok, so I let them go on without me. She said that she came here with some B-class, but also ran into the new S-class hero demon cyborg, he'll probably take care of it." stinger said and as he spoke there was a resounding boom that resounded around the area. The group of 4 chased down the sound to come up to a scene of the monster having been completely obliterated and burning on fire.
"Dang the demon cyborg works fast." stinger said with a whistle. The group began to walk back down towards the exit and spotted a teen holding a cat away from a bald man and demon cyborg upon noticing their presence genos addressed them.
"I see that you two managed to find your friend and stinger you were assigned this mission as well?" genos remarked.
"Yup and don't worry I think we got all of them, thanks for taking care of the mother by the way we definitely couldn't fight that thing on our own." stinger said, holding his hand out for the cyborg to shake. Genos only looked at the hand then pointed towards saitama.
"It was my master that defeated the mother, not me." genos said pointing towards the bald B-class. Only getting a laugh from Stinger in return. To the sudden glare of genos.
"That's a good one and here I thought you were the ultra serious type. He began walking towards where his friends were near the checkpoint passing genos and patting his shoulder ignoring the glare and unknowing of the hand that stopped genos from punching him in the face. Before turning and looking over his shoulder at creationist.
"Yo, you coming? I didn't really get to show you my skills very much here, given the circumstances." Momo hesitated, casting a glance between him and her friends. Before thanking Todoroki for saving her life and continuing forward after stinger. Genos began to stare at the two teens which agitated bakugo enough to point it out.
"You got a problem, trashbot!" he sneered.
"No, I was just thinking about your classmates. Doesn't one of them have the ability to control animals? Why would the association ask master of this child's quest when they could have just used him?" Genos said curiously in thought hearing that Saitama turned at his student surprised and yelled.
"WHAAAAAAAAAT!"
Out for a stroll: Metal bat, Koda
"Achoo." koda silently sneezed, his way
" the hell?, how you gonna catch a cold in this weather?" metal bat said as he was walking
In front of koda he said as they were walking around the city.
"no , no.. it must have just got caught in my nose." he said quietly slowly pacing behind his hero.
"You have to learn to speak up more, say things with your chest. if you keep the way you are, people will just walk all over you." metal bat said as he looked over the shoulder at the timid teen. He only received a nod in return which only earned a suck of the teeth from the hero. As the duo continued to walk through the streets, nothing seemed to have been happening today. As the duo went around the city looking for any signs of danger. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary or wrong until Koda saw a woman being harassed by some men in the alley way. He looked to call metal bat over.
"Metal bat, there are some guys harassing some girls over there." koda said
"So? I don't care about petty criminals, but by all means stop them if you want to." metal bat said casually walking away, leaving exasperated koda in his wake. The teen took one last look at the supposed hero that walked away from someone in distress, before dashing towards the alleyway with the men and the girl. He stopped at the entrance of the alley and yelled to get the villain's attention.
"HEY! Leave Her Alone." Koda said with a serious expression, the five men turned to look at the kid and began to laugh at how ridiculous he looked. The five men looked like the standard for street thugs, piercings, leather jackets, tattoos , the works, no matter the universe they all remained the same.
"Listen kid, given the outfit I guess that you're a hero, huh? Probably a C-class given that I never saw your face anywhere, a relatively new one at that, Just for the record Mr. Hero, I have a B-class bounty on my head slasher so I suggest you better run off before it starts looking ugly for you." the villain held out a pocket knife in front of him threateningly. Koda didn't move or budge from the threat, instead screaming instead down the alleyway with his anivoice
"Haha, what did you scare him that ba-" the villain behind slasher was cut off as heard movement scampering behind him, a swarm of rats began charge forth throughout the alley at the five men, who all turned to look at the amass creatures, they served out of the way of the girl and went straight for them. the 4 villain's tried to retaliate shooting their weapons at the swarm but barely denting its number the 4 were consumed kicking and screaming in as the rats clawed at their body, the slasher was performing much better alternatively he was blur as the blade slashed at the oncoming rats bisecting multiple at a time but jumping back from being overwhelmed he changed tactic and charged at the Koda instead who hesitated and took a step back nearly avoiding a slash to his neck as he tripped over his own feet in fear.
The slasher was above him looking down, preparing to stab him while he was on the floor. He tried to brace himself for the attack but none came as the blade fell unceremoniously to the ground beside him. He looked to the side and saw metal bat standing next to him.
"I told you that you need to work on your body, animals won't always be there to save you." metal bat said as he stood up holding the unconscious slasher before putting him on the ground looking in the alley way.
"Hey, call them off" he said motioning to the rats in the alley that were still attacking the men and some even started attacking the girl. Koda tried but the rats seemingly stopped for a moment before another roar set them back into a frenzy and began their assault on the two of them instead.
"What?" was koda only reply as a larger creature dug up from the ground, it was a large mouse that was twice his height with spider legs protruding from its body.
{Who is that making that incessant noise! Who dares control my children!} it said anger in his voice. It narrowed its eyes at the two heroes than at him causing him to shiver from its gaze.
{YOU! You think you can control my kind? That only belongs to me, the mouse master.}
The creature charged directly at him but was intercepted by metal bat.
{Wait!, I'm sorry if I put your kids in harm's way, we can just leave and go our separate ways.} koda responded in his anivoice, getting in-between the two.
{You humans believe you are so superior, killing when you believe it just and begging for mercy when you can't escape the consequences. But not me, there will be blood spilled for every one of my brood killed a human shall die in its place!} It charged at Koda again with its front spider legs coming down to pierce his body but was intercepted by metal bat again.
"I don't know what you two were talking about but it seemed to just make him angrier, leave this to me."
Metal bat ready himself and charged at the beast, swinging his bat which missed the monster barely using it legs to jump away, he ordered his mob of rats to charge the hero and stood in awe as metal bat slammed his bat into the mob sending most of them scattering and those in the epicenter being squished into the ground, eneraged by this mouse master leaped down from his rooftop charging at the hero, unleashing webs from it's mouth that the hero dodged, metal bat swiftly dodged the webbing and drew back his bat, swinging with full force and knocking the rat monster head off sending it flying through the alley way. With the loss of their master the rats all began to run away from the area escaping back into vents and sewer away from the gathering crowd. Metal bat hefted his bat on his shoulder looking disappointed.
"That was barely a workout." metal bat said dismissively before looking at Koda.
"You ok?" he asked the still stunned teen on the ground.
"Uh…yes I…guess" he mumbled. Before meeting the hero's eyes.
"You came back to help me." he asked.
"Of course I did, I ain't gonna abandon ya, I just wanted to see what you're made of." he said encouragingly. Before he could reply he was suddenly hugged by a women but she was taller than he was her ample…bosom was directly in his face causing the teenager to blush fully and almost completely shut down even as she stopped hugging him, he could barely make out what she said from his heavy blushing and he doesn't even remember answering the woman if she had any questions for him. But he was slapped out of his trance by metal bat who wrapped his arm around his neck.
"Well things ain't too bad you caught us this bounty with that stunt along with the monster you managed to summon here."
"Bounty?" koda questioned
"Yeah, that guy said he was a B-class bounty. So there is a reward for bringing him 's one of the best ways to make money besides fighting monsters directly." he said pointing to the unconscious guy on the ground.
"I…I see." well that was one bright side to all this, but there was these nagging thoughts that he inadvertently killed mouse master by summoning his brood here and now those rats will be without a leader and-
"If you're worried about that monster don't be, whatever it said it was full of shit, if we didn't stop it today it would have just rampaged another day and caused some actual damage."
Metal bat said, looking at him directly, only seeing a nod in reply from the teen.
Combat Training: Zombieman, Tokoyami, Toru
"You both look different. The association I assume?" zombieman said as he looked at his two proteges. Receiving a nod from tokoyami he answered.
"Apparently our appearances have caused quite a stir among the populace so they issued us this stuff to ease their concerns." he said indifferently
"Yeah, we don't know what fully happened but momo messaged us that something happened with shoji yesterday they thought he was monster.'' Toru said next to them.
"By they I assume you mean the police?" zombieman inquired
"I don't really know, we tried to press for details but both of them couldn't text much as they're both on a mission right now." toru replied
"Why would you assume the police are the ones that caused trouble?" Tokoyami asked suspiciously.
"There is a bunch of bad blood between the police and the association, there is a bunch of bad blood between the two powers. As such they share almost no information with each other, let alone secrets like you all. If memory serves me correctly the only other mutant type were informed of was with Tank top master, meaning he was with the tank tops at the time of the incident no hero will mess with the tank toppers. It's the only possible explanation."
"A very thorough examination." tokoyami said with some cynicism only receiving a shrug in response from the hero.
"Wait! Why would the hero association and police be fighting against each other?" zombieman only let out a sigh before begging to tell the two of the rivalry between the two factions and how badly the police were losing. After some questioning from the teens their conversation grew silent.
"Where are we going anyways?" tokoyami asked as they walked through the forest where seemingly no one was present coming towards a clearing with a single tree stump in the center.
"I wanted to take you guys away from everyone so that you can have some peace of mind but the association beat me to that."
"So what did you want us away for?" Toru asked.
"Combat training" said simply gesturing for them to stop as he continued forward, taking off his jacket near the tree stomp and sat down with his desert eagle in his hands, making the kids nervous.
"Relax." he shot at the ground near the teens revealing that the round he just fired were made of paint. "I ain't gonna go hard on you two, I just wanna see what you all are made of. Ready?" he said, relaxing again. The two teens looked at each other, actually looked at each other tokoyami noted still getting used to visually seeing toru, she had a somewhat worried expression that he shared but maybe it was just him but maybe saw a bit of excitement in her features? It was hard to tell.
"I'm game for this." she said nodding in tokoyami direction
"As am I" tokoyami nodded in return.
Both teens turned their heads back towards zombieman and nodded, he gave them the go ahead to start whenever they were ready and started their attack on the hero dark shadow began the assault charging at the hero, zombieman waited for the shadow to approach him and knocked it aside when it got to close dodging out of the way of one claws as it passed, tokoyami worried for his friend that struggled to get up, it shook itself off and began to attack again it enlarged its hand attempting to crush the hero who still sat there on the tree stomp, the hand came down fast and the hero didn't move a muscle instead only extending his hands outwards and stopping the blow cold earning a shocked gasp from tokoyami, zombiman used his other hand with weapon and shot it directly at tokoyami he was too slow to dodge the bullet it stroke him directly in the chest forcing him and dark shadow to fall backwards.
Toru noticed dark shadow began to retract towards tokoyami, she charged next, noticing the hero raising his weapon again she started using her warp refraction to blind the hero as she closed the distance. She successfully landed multiple punches on the heroes face and body but it felt like she was attacking solid steel instead she was sure that she was taking more damage from the exchange than she was as he didn't even try to attack her back, she at least could attempt to blind him so tokoyami could maybe do something but as she went to poke his eyes out she felt a searing pain on her leg causing her to fall to the floor holding her leg in pain.
Tokoyami recovered and could finally see again as toru went down next to the hero who looked down at her from his seated position questioningly, tokoyami charged dark shadow forth but not at the hero but at his friend to his surprise however the hero threw her right at him, he caught her but suddenly fell back as tokoyami took 3 more shots to his chest, but he fought through the pain and reeled dark shadow and toru back towards him. He was shocked that the hero didn't even have to move to defeat them but there was also the issue of toru and his quirks being direct opposition to each other. The hero suddenly disappeared and he found a strong punch to his stomach that floored him, toru was dropped by dark shadow and immediately went to his master aid, only to receive multiple shots to its face forcing him to the ground. Toru recovered enough to stand and went to help her down friend charging at the hero standing above him who raised his weapon but then lowered it, thus letting the girl attempt to hit him but blocking each attempt with one hand before shooting her in the stomach once which had her writhing on the floor. He walked back to the tree stomp and sat back down putting his jacket back on, lighting a cigarette before calling the exercise.
"Well I didn't really have much expectations but it did let me get a read on you." the students were still recollecting themselves from the damage before walking towards the hero as he spoke
"I was kinda disappointed in you guys lack of teamwork, you two didn't fight together very often?"
"N…no. Our quirks are too incompatible to fight together. Dark shadow weakness is light and excessive light like she can emit hurts him.`` Tokoyami said huffing.
" Yeah, I'm not much of a fighter myself." Toru said, holding her stomach slightly chuckling to herself.
"I noticed, but why? You're completely invisible. You should take advantage of that, at least you should practice in martial arts to better know how to take down an opponent. " zombieman stated matter of factly
"I never really thought of that before, me being invisible kinda limited my options in participating in activities." toru replied meekly
"And that light thing, what was that about?" zombieman asked
" My quirk, along with invisibility, gave me the ability to manipulate light. I reflect it off myself to blind those around me."
" Interesting, well for you tokoyami I see that you let your quirk fight for you but that doesn't mean to neglect training your own body." he let out a puff of smoke above him.
"Now that I know your weaknesses, we can learn to work past them starting with you." he pointed towards toru. "Being invisible won't be enough to win against everyone , I'll try to find a martial arts teacher that can help you and you should work on your light manipulation more. For now though both of you need some physical training." he said as he looked at the two teens. gestering for them to follow him for a run through the forest.
Abandonment: Bang, Charanko, Ojiro, Midoriya
Just as the day before, the training began with a several kilometer run around bang's dojo and just like before midoriya and bang took off to go patrol the streets, this time however ojiro didn't have to antagonize Charanko to continue with his run the kid just silently continuing forward behind him as he ran behind him, deciding to keep up his fellow students motivation he looked over his shoulder and flashed the Charanko a sly smile before using his tail to throw a few rocks at the blonde teen behind him, Charanko reacted quickly dodging a few and even catching some others, This successfully angered the teen again and he began to attempt to throw the rocks back in ojiro's direction but they mostly all fell flat so he decided to increase his pace to get closer but that had the adverse effect of tiring him out quicker meaning the rocks he threw held little power behind them.
Ojiro laughed at his fellow disciples' attempt, simply flicking the thrown rocks away with his tail or attempting to return them back to the sender, however as his attention was on what was behind him he didn't pay attention to where he was going and ended up slipping and falling down over some rocks. His fellow apprentice didn't help him up but only laughed at him as he continued by as well as throwing a couple rocks at him as he passed. Ojiro wasn't mad at him though but he did want to get him back so he quickly got up and dusted himself off and ran to catch up to him, cheating somewhat and using his tail to catapult him forward. The run came to an end with Ojiro in the lead as he bounded over Charanko, smirking at him as he passed and reached the stairs of the dojo.
"T…Tha…that was..cheating..and ..you..know it" Charanko managed out between breaths.
"All.. fair in love..and war" ojiro breathed out, panting slightly.
"Having an augment isn't fair, I wish I had a tail like that. Did you make it yourself?" Charanko asked as he sat on the stairs
"Well I didn't make it myself, it was just kinda given to me." ojrio said through a half chuckle as he used his tail to wipe the sweat off his face.
"Can I try it? It looks super cool, I like how it looks more mechanical now than before where it looked more fleshy." Charanko reasoned.
"ugh…I…it was custom made for me, no one else can use it." ojiro hesitated somewhat trying to come up with the lie.
"Well I guess, that makes sense, wouldn't want someone taking it from you and using it against you. but what's with the hair on the end?" Charanko said, rubbing his head somewhat.
"I….really don't know, maybe it helps with regulating temperature?" was his completely honest answer.
"I do know that people love to touch it, my friends have a habit of absentmindedly rubbing their hands through it, maybe it's something that can help civilians remain calm in dangerous situations." ojiro reasoned with some more thought to it.
" Interesting." Charanko said as he looked at his fellow disciple's tail.
"Go ahead." ojiro said absently, shocking the teen as he knew what he was thinking, stretching out and touching the hair on the end of his tail and sailing how soft the fabric seemed and how real it felt, he took his hands away a moment later and the two sat on the steps catching their breath before going up towards the dojo, after getting inside and hydrating both students began to practice forms and counters of the water stream rock smashing fist.
"You said that your tail can be used to comfort people, so I assume you want to be a hero?" Charanko commented, blocking the right jab from ojiro.
"Yeah well I am already a hero technically, I'm C-class rank 90." ojiro said blocking an overhead kick.
"Woah, that's cool." Charanko said grinning, jumping over a sweep kick
"Well, what about you? Why are you practicing martial arts?" Ojiro asked, redirecting a roundhouse kick, but at that question Charanko froze. As he thought to himself of why he was still there he couldn't say the real reason was just to look good for girls so instead he said.
"I just wanted to get stronger, besides…I don't want to just leave bang by himself since everything that happened." as he said that bang and midoriya came back in from their patrol and they all went to their seats as bang began to speak on what they will do next for the day.
"For today I would like to go over one of the techniques of my martial arts, a state of being called Abandonment, it is the art of visualizing and anticipating your opponents moves and weaknesses, combined with the rock smashing fist you should be able to catch and pierce your opponents attacks and defenses respectively." he lectured.
"We will split off into two teams of two, I will give your opponent a pattern of moves that you are allowed to use. We will rotate partners after sometime" the group split up into midoriya with bang and ojiro with Charanko.
Bang and midoriya stood a couple of feet from the other, Bang had given him the paper of the moves he could perform which were a right jab, a right roundhouse kick, a left elbow, a left snap kick, and spin hook kick. Midoriya had put the paper to the side and instructed as waited for his teacher to signal the exercise to begin. He did and Midoriya instantly raised his full cowling to 100% and waited for his teacher to make a move, he used his eyes to wander all over the designated limbs as he waited for one to move. Maybe he should be paying attention to his center of body instead? It allow him greater chance of seeing all his movements besides staring at one specific body par-. Suddenly Midoriya took a light jab to his face and stared at his teacher.
" You think too much. It slows your judgment which inversely slows your movement." he said calmly as he got into a stance again. Midoriya nodded and took a stance again, staring at his teacher wondering how he would strike next, a sudden flash appeared and Midoriya held his guard high just to feel a light tap to his gut. Bang performed a low roundhouse kick to the stomach instead of another jab that midoriya was aspecting.
"I don't think I would do the same move twice do you?" he said with a jovial smile
The test went on like this for sometime midoriya not being able to properly predict where Bang was going to strike next, he even attempted to use his danger sense to better anticipate the attack but he received no luck on that front either bang held no killing intent for him to notice. The rest of the training went the same way for ojiro and Charanko neathier were able to properly predict each others attacks very well but ojiro managed to block some instances and when the time came to switch partners the same outcome played out although midoriya did better in reacting to ojiro's blows but that could have been do to a number of other factors of how he knew him better and how much faster he was then his classmate even when having powered down to 15% full cowling to make the match somewhat more fair. The exercises continued like this for the remainder of their session.
Light's camera, Action!: King, Sweet mask, Mineta, Aoyama
Mineta and King were still practicing for the upcoming game tournament next week, He struggled on a way for him to bring up the interview that Aoyama mentioned, he was reminded of the importance of the interview when momo sent a message to the class group chat speaking of the something happening to shoji the other day, not to mention how in the morning the more unique members of his class were given clothes to alter their appearance. He caught Aoyama eyes staring at him a few times in the morning and after momo had sent that message he was immediately privately messaged by Aoyama asking if he had asked king about the interview yet, to which he replied no, to Aoyama dismay.
Mineta : Why didn't you tell the class about the police report anyways?
Aoyama: If shoji didn't talk about the events of the other day then I have no right to do so either.
Aoyama: Although the truth will probably be revealed later on today which is even more reason for you to get confirmation on that interview so we can deliver some good news as well.
Mineta: Don't worry I'm on it!
The only reply he got was good luck in French surrounded by sparkle emoji, he returned from the bathroom and took a seat next to king who offered him a controller.
"Um…king. I have a question for you?" mineta started hesitantly
"Shoot." he said casually wondering why the teen was so nervous
"How do you feel about live interviews?" oh king thought, someone in the association probably wanted him to do an interview, probably on the A-city incident it was pretty recent and I doubt people would be satisfied with just the couple of statements he put out. But he didn't really feel like doing things live, it was too much pressure and he wasn't really a fast thinker.
"Does it have to be live?" king questioned
"Ugh, I don't know, let me check?" Mineta sent a quick text to Aoyama which after a moment he replied with a no.
"Sorry, it seems it has to be live, sweet mask demands it.'' Mineta said worriedly.
"Sweet mask?" king said hesitantly, his forehead beginning to sweat a bit, sweet mask was always shady in his eyes and his demeanor was colder than he let on. He had a real hatred of phonies and he was the biggest phony around.
"Ugh… tell.. Tell him I'll pass." he said gently wiping his head of sweat. But the sudden motion of mineta standing up frightened him enough to jump back and look at him directly. He had a serious expression on his face.
"Please reconsider king, this is really important to me and to my friends as well." He was puzzled by his dedication to wanting him to take the interview.
"Why? What's the interview going to be about?" Mineta shuffled with his phone a bit and then showed King his screen.
"This! Its a police report about one of my friends, they think he's a monster but that's not true his powers like mine just took on a different shape because of this incident my other friends who looks different also have to disguise themselves to continue to do hero work and I don't want anything to happen to them by other heroes if something goes wrong." he said seriously nearly begging
King read the police report and looked at the teen in front of him, he weighed his options of what he should do, he doesn't really owe him or his friends anything and even if this was the focal point of the live interview most likely the sweet mask only wanted him their for his status and nothing else but that didn't mean the interviewer couldn't wonder from topic and ask him all sorts of random questions that he wouldn't be able to answer or worst couldn't answer in fear of outing himself.
He then remembered Saitama's words, if he truly wanted to be a hero then that means he would help people in need and this kid and his friends needed his help, if he could help them and alleviate public worries about the association then he lived up to his name at least somewhat. He watched as the teen sat back down withdrawing his phone from his face, looking somewhat dejected.
"I'm sorry for getting all in your face, you barely know me or any of my friends you don't have any obli-"
"I'll do it." King stopped Mineta's speech, which made the teen do a double take.
"Really you will?" he wanted to make sure he heard correctly
"Yeah, sure. I can brave it for you guys, nobody should be forced to hide themselves from society, especially if they're in charge of protecting that society." Mineta was nearly in tears from his speech, not only was King strong but he was compassionate as well. He gave the man a quick hug and furiously typed on his phone sending aoyama that King was in on the interview.
Aoyama was ecstatic once he received the text message from Mineta, he was still practicing on the mirrors in the gym, all he needed to do was wait for sweet mask to come back in from wherever he was at the moment. He managed to to finally reflect his laser off five of the 10 mirrors in the gym. Sweet mask had replaced the one he destroyed much to his annoyance, however he couldn't deny the results he was begging to understand the trajectory of his laser more and more as he went on. The door suddenly came open with sweet mask with a towel behind his head in his usual dark outfit. He stopped his training for the moment to sweet mask annoyance but he continued on towards the hero nonetheless.
"Sir, Sir. King has agreed to the interview.`` Aoyama said in a cheery mood. Hearing the news that the teen said sweet mask quickly bit back the remark he had on his lips.
"That is good news, I'm still finalizing the details myself but I will let you know when a precise date is set. Now I want to know more about you and your friends, and not just the stuff the association told you to say either." he said sternly before calming down somewhat.
"Telling people a lie is always more convincing when you mix in a little bit of the truth so I need more information from you about you and your friends abilities and powers." he rationalized.
"Well, um as you may or may not know me and my friends are not of this earth, You could say that we're aliens." he said calmly
"Interesting if that is true How did you come to learn our language?" sweet mask queried.
"Well me and my friends think that we are from a parallel earth." aoyama said
"So the multiverse exists." sweet mask sat in thought on the potential of such a discovery could make.
"Well how did you all get here? Is your universe technologically savvy?"
"That I do not know, we were just brought here by some being in the middle of a big fight." he said solemnly at the mention of what happened.
"And in this universe everyone has powers like you and your friends?"
"Yes." Aoyama then went on to explain all the categories quirks can manifest as and how society in their universe worked.
"Fascinating, very fascinating. If I weren't so inclined I would have liked to create a story revolving around your adventures but that is for another time." Aoyama flushed, thinking of his life as a story, then was incredibly saddened by his life as a story.
"Now back to training, I will cross reference what you told me with the information provided by association and we will hopefully make a believable story to fool the public, If I find that you were lying to me.." he said with a tightening fist to get his point across. Making Aoyama furiously shake his head at the thought and quickly move away from the hero back towards his training nest, good thing he told him basically everything he knew he thought as he shot lasers at the mirrors again.
Let's Get Physical: Pig god, Darkshine, Kirishima, Sato
Sato and Kirishima just began walking down towards the gym area, talking about the mysterious hero association agent that greeted them earlier and speculated what he could have wanted from Shoji and the rest. Kirishima was confident in whatever it was that if bakugo and todoroki were involved they could handle it an he would actually feel sorry for any creature having to fight them, but sato was unconvinced reminding kirishima about that monster they fought in the simulations that defeated them in seconds.
Kirishima grimaced at the remark but still thought that such a being was probably rare in this world otherwise there wouldn't be such relative peace going around, kirishima also remarks that he wish he could've had some time with the machine just for training purposes, genos said that it had recorded the nomu that they have fought previously which he could use as a scale he needs to climb to. The two continued talking as they walked towards the gym, opening the door to find darkshine doing some light workout routine before stopping and addressing them as they got into the room.
"Hello, I hope you all had a good breakfast!" he exclaimed as he approached them. Both of them nodded their head in agreement before Kirishima asked about the plans for the day.
" More of the same, more strength training , Have you figured out what type of body shape you're going for?" Both Kirishima and Sato said they would go for a Mesomorph build as it provided a good proportion of muscle mass throughout the body. Although Sato was curious about another physique that caught his attention in his search.
"Is Pig god similar to a strong man in terms of his physique?" sato questioned Darkshine about his teacher. Darkshine hummed in thought about the question for some seconds before answering.
"I…I don't know really. I've never seen him around in the gym that I workout at but that could be due to us maybe having different times we decide to work out in, I've never seen him fight either, from the stories I've heard of him say he is truly ravenous when it comes to fighting." darkshine said, his hand jestering in thought.
"That reminds me, when can we get a chance to patrol the streets and fight some villains. All this training is nice and all but I'm not gonna know how much I progressed unless I go out and do something.`` Kirishima said, slamming two hardened fist together.
"Patrol? Oh I don't really do such things. I'm mostly just the bodyguard of the association headquarters. Some more of the smart monsters try to attack here trying to get rid of the head of the association. ``Seeing the disappointment on Kirishima's face, he continued.
"Sometimes though the association sends me on some special missions from time to time and I'm sure your friend here could take you out whenever pig god decides to roam around town like he does." darkshine said, gesturing to sato next to him, who flashed kirishima a thumbs up in response.
"So the association hands out people special quests to complete? I guess that answers why that guy was there today asking for people." sato said off handily
" Yes the association has many members that can hand out personal or association related quests, this usually revolves around a bonus reward upon completion as well. " darkshine remarked
"I hope to get one someday." kirishima remarked with a cheeky grin
"I'm sure you'll get your chance, for now let's train up those bodies of yours, your muscles will thank you for it later." darkshine said as he made it over to some of the machines. As the boys did, they're regular stretches for the day. Their training routine for the day, the beginning workout focused on more of the upper body and the second half after the break would focus on the lower body keeping a nice balance of symmetry. On their break time kirishima caught sato typing on his phone, sending a message to Iida.
"You're worried about him?" kirishima questioned with a raised brow
"Yeah, he's by himself out there with a stranger no less who may not have the best attention for him. You heard what demon cyborg did with bakugo and todoroki." sato mentioned
"Yeah, but maybe not all of the S-class are like that. Mr. Darkshine seems cool." Kirishima mentioned hearing his name darkshine turned to the two teens after he exited the gravity chamber.
"Pardon?" he asked
"How is the hero flash? I think his name was, our friend went with him for a special mission for the month and sato is worried about him.`` Kirishima mentioned. Darkshine rubbed his chin in thought before speaking.
"Flashy flash I think you mean, if so you have nothing to worry about he's one of the top rated heroes in terms of combat even among the S-class heroes." darkshine said with confidence
"With that I have no doubt but what worries me is how he is around people?" Sato mentioned. Causing darkshine to pause momentarily in thought.
"He's a pretty straight forward guy, although a bit mysterious. He's genuinely nice to people in his own cold way as long as you don't impede him in some way he's nonchalant although he's a bit obsessed with looks ." darkshine chuckled somewhat.
"See he's ok I bet Iida is having a blast right now." Kirishima said with a smirk. Sato nodded in return feeling somewhat better about the situation, Iida had been texting the group chat suggesting he was ok or at least able bodied. Speaking of group chat, he saw a message from Yaoyorozu talking about something happening with Shoji the other day. Some of his classmates tried to press for further details but he said that he would explain later. With that the two teens break was over and they both got back to work. Eventually by the time of the second break was over, Sato was using most of the time to get ready to leave saying farewell to both darkshine and kirishima as he exited the gym doors.
Sato just got done saying goodbye to Kirishima and Darkshine walking towards the usual area that pig god would hang around which unfortunately for him was usually around a kitchen of some sorts where sato would be able to bake him sweets. Mentally preparing himself for the task he steps into the room to find pig god already having a whole palette full of sweets prepared.
"I guess this means no cooking for today?" sato said as a joke and somewhat seriously.
"Yup, today I wanna see what you can really do with that quick of yours, I even got the Association to whip up something for ya." pig god said still mostly focusing on his tray of sweets while throwing a small container at the teen, which he caught and inspected then began to open.
"You told me you needed 10 grams of sugar to get your quirk going so I got the guys to create an easier way you can digest them, carrying packets of sugar on you in battle can be dangerous if the packets get ripped open and some spills out or if you aren't able to digest the whole thing in time." pig god said, eating his sweets. Sato opened the small container inside were some chocolate balls, they closely resembled whoppers or milk duds from back in their world but a little smaller. He looked back up at the hero with shock on his face, surprised by his consideration for him.
"Thanks! Yeah this will surely help in the process as well, how many of them do I have to take for my quirk to activate?" sat curiously hyped by this new advancement.
" Just one." the hero said casually.
"JUST ONE! No way." he said ecstatically mind was blown by that statement. Now he could activate his quirk by simply popping one pill, he hoped it would taste good at least.
"Yup now follow me." pig god said as he put down the now empty tray of sweets and picked up a bag of chips as he left the room sato quickly following behind as he led them through the halls of the association. They came to another gym room, this one more suited for boxing if he had to guess going by the ring in the center, punching bags, punch machines, and other machines around. Pig god continued to the ring as sato followed.
"Alright before we begin I would like for you to ask you what would happen if you were to eat multiple 10 grams of sugar does anything special happen? What if you were to eat 10 grams activate your ability and that eats another 10 grams?" pig god questioned.
"Well for each additional 10 grams I ingest post activation I gain more time to use my quirk. For eating more at one time, I'm not really sure but I don't believe it has any added benefits."
"Interesting. That's something we're going to have to test, then for now pop one of the pills and let's see what you got." pig god gestured to the container on his hip which sato gave a nod at and began to take one of the small round candies from the container and ate it. Thankfully the taste wasn't bad; it tasted like a normal piece of chocolate. As he swallowed he felt the power begin to course through his body, muscles began to enlarge and strengthen with power, he also felt that familiar numb feeling that was on the precipice of his mind the feeling was very faint but it was their and as he came to learn would steadily grow until he was overwhelmed by it. He slowly put the container down and got into a stance, but hesitated for a moment as he saw the rather relaxed pose his opposition was in, still eating on his rather large bag of chips.
"Don't worry about me, you can start when you're ready." pig god said. Sato nodded and not having much time began with didn't argue with the hero and trusted in his abilities.
Sato rushed forwards immediately wanting to test the hero first starting with a straight punch to his surprise the hero didn't bother blocking or evading from the attack he just sat there eating away on his chips, he was even more shocked when the punch landed and it didn't even make the hero budge. His hand was seemingly absorbed by pig god's stomach before stopping somewhat around his wrist, the hero didn't even bat an eye. He performed another straight punch with his other hand to receive the same result, he back up slightly from the hero and decided to use his super combination attack sugar rush, the rush of blows still didn't phase the hero but he decided to keep it up all the same but he began to get slower and slower as that numb feeling increased inside of his mind, before it could completely set in however he went back towards the container he left in the corner of the gym and quickly digested another one.
"Oh? Is your time limit that short? " pig god questioned
"Yeah I managed to get it to around 5 minutes at first it was 3."
" what happens when the limit is up? I saw that you were starting to slow down."
" Yeah, the closer I get to my limit I start to experience symptoms of hypoglycemia or sugar crash if you will. I have lower brain cognitivity, decreased intelligence, and lethargy." he mentioned idly.
"I see, well in that case. I want you to see the limit all the way through this time alright, Remember I want to test if taking in multiple 10 grams of sugar initially would affect you in some way."
"Ah! Sorry about that." sato said, rubbing the back of his head.
"No problem, let's see what else you got."
With that said sato once again charged at pig god releasing a flurry of blows that didn't affect the hero at all, his attack style reminded him highly of pri pri prisoner and his angel rush attack but it was lacking something that he couldn't pinpoint maybe he could get them together whenever he inevitably breaks out of prison again. Pig god thought as he absentmindedly took flurry from the teen, occasionally moving his chips bag out of the way of an oncoming punch that threatened to hit it and cause a mess and just like sato said after nearly five minutes pass sato began to slow down until he finally halted where his body was stock still with his mouth agape swaying slightly side to side. Pig god picked the child up waiting for the teen to get his bearings which took around an hour worth of time and after a quick snack break they were at it again.
This time in the ring sato ate two pills at once but he didn't feel any stronger than he did originally.
"Remind me to get the recipe to make these things myself, they would be fantastic upgrades for hero work." sato mentioned idly as he launched a punch at pig god, which unlike before the hero blocked.
"No problem, I'll have the association send me them and I'll get it right to you. It doesn't seem like you got any stronger than previously but that's alright at least we tried, keep going try to get a punch through. " pig god states as he waited for the teen to attack and sato obliged him launching into a flurry of punches.
Fetch: Watchdog man , Asui
Asui was back in the center of Q city next to watchdog's mans podium, feeling as the wind blew to and fro, from her face as watchdog man leapt from the podium and returned with incredible speed, her face grimaced slightly as she looked as his paws became more and more dirty with no doubt blood from the monsters he killed protecting people, she didn't hate him for it, but he was obviously strong enough to simply knock them unconscious so they can be picked up by the authorities so why doesn't he. She wondered, deciding to just ask him she pulled out a snack from the bag that was given to her and asked her question.
"Why don't you capture the monsters you face, ribbit." ending her sentence with speak, waving the treat for dogman to see.
"Because their monsters and it sends a strong message." watchdog man said simply.
Asui sat puzzled by the response, monsters were a blanket term that could list numerous individuals which if things were different could have included some of her friends. But some monsters were originally human, doesn't he have any remorse for just killing them. As she thought of images of Jordan down in that exhibit.
"But weren't some of those monsters originally human? Don't you think there is a chance we can save them or at least turn them back into regular humans again? At very least get their memory back. Speak. Ribbit. "
"From the history of mysterious beings there have been no cases of monsters being re-indoctrinated." he said stoically, asui mumbled under her breath
"Not if you just kill all of them, they won't." To her surprise the hero heard her but also he replied without the speak command.
"Why do you care so much?" he asked, slightly tilting his head while looking at her but before she could reply he had dashed off but quickly returned and waited for her reply, like nothing happened.
"Well, I just think killing when you don't have to is wrong, most of my friends think the same. Especially if the crime they commit doesn't warrant it." she said confidently. Watchdog man seemed to be mulling that over but momentarily whined at the hero who was puzzled for the moment but she quickly understood what the hero wanted and tossed him the treat in her hand. As he was eating, watchdog man seemed to have a flash of an idea if his raised eyebrows were anything to go by, that or if he really liked the treat that asui had today dahlia mentioned how the snacks for the day were her favorite of the bunch. Maybe they were his as well, when he was done with his treat he looked at her again and began to speak again, shocking the girl how she didn't have to prompt him to speak up.
"Maybe I can't be more lenient but that doesn't mean you have to do as I do." watchdog spoke, leaving the girl a little confused on what he meant.
"If you can capture and defeat the monster before I arrive I would have no need to kill them, deal?" he droned on with some hint of sarcasm in his voice. Well it wasn't what she initially thought she would get from the man asui was happy to get anywhere in this conversation of sparing monsters, reaching into her pocket and grabbing a handful of treats to give to the hero for his offer but that was when reality struck her hard as the hero dashed away in the blink of an eye, invisible to her senses and returned just as quickly while simultaneously snatching the treats she grabbed from her bag out of her hand as she thought on how she would ever get to a scene before this man in front of her.
"That's not fair, you're so much faster than I am." she said
"Just get faster." was his simple reply, which ticked asui off somewhat.
"Well how did you get so fast?" asui questioned
"Training." was all watchdog man said in return. Asui nearly gave up with her line of questioning but saw his body language subtly change his, his head began to raise and his body began to tense, she never noticed this before and figures this was him reading himself to charge out again into the city, she reacted quickly, shooting out her tongue and attaching to watchdog mans back, he launched off the platform and began to run but tsu only clue that anything was happening was the feeling of being weightless and suddenly coming to a stop sometime later. She let herself recover from her mental debilitation and she caught up to the scene that was happening in front of her.
There was a strange being in front of the two heroes, it was like a reptilian creature with horns, extended mouth, large fangs and claws. With spiny dorsal fins on its back going down it's spine. He had large webbed toes and a long tail. The creature looked at them and fear instantly grew on it's features as its sights turned to watchdog man, who was sitting down patiently waiting.
"You get one freebee." was all watchdog man said as he sat completely still. Making asui question about what he meant by that, did he let her hitch a ride on him? Before she could ponder the thought any more however the creature began to run away.
"You have 10 minutes." watchdog man said as he laid down where he was gesturing for froppy to follow the creature. She did immediately hopping after the creature which ran away, it's large bulk made him pass through the narrow alleys of the street slowly, she caught up in no time jumping in front of the creature halting it's progress.
" Surrender, please." asui seemed to almost beg the creature. It either didn't understand her or didn't want to listen to her as it charged forth thrusting it's claw at her which she narrowly avoided, she crawled up the side of the alleyway and dropped down with a dropkick that caught the creature in the chest but the attacked barely budge the behemoth, now up close froppy could tell that the creature was much bigger than she thought double her height and width easily. She jumped away as another came down towards her ripping into the sides of slowing the blow down allowing her to jump out of the way towards the upper part of the alley again and camouflage. The creatures roared in challenge and stroke where she was with it's long tail forcing her to dodge out of the way and then recloak somewhere else but the tail continued to almost land spot on each time.
"Please, you don't understand I'm trying to save your life. ribbit " she hopped away from another tail strike, she used her hand to gather mucus and throw the substance at the creature but the mucus had no effect which shocked her. She puzzled on what she could do before the creature leaped at her; she managed to dodge but the tail caught her mid-leap and struck her to the ground. The creature clinging to the wall, jumped down at her it's claws ready to pierce through her body, she was helpless to avoid the attack but before the creature could land she saw a flash of movement and suddenly the creatures blue blood rained down from the sky above her some droplets touching her face, it was completely bisected in half by watchdog man. Who still maintained his stoic expression.
"Times up" was all he said as he made his way from the alley leaving a stunned asui behind.
She didn't know what to say at the moment or how she felt about the situation. Whatever that creature was it was definitely different from what Jordan is, it could have been originally some animal maybe? Can animals become monsters? It would make sense why she couldn't speak to it. If it was an animal then I guess its death was for the best? Releasing something like that into the wild could have dramatic ramifications to the wildlife or any unlucky passerby, either way it didn't matter now, but next time hopefully she could spare someone else from such a fate of this creature she thought as she walked from the alley way.
What goes up must come down: Tatsumaki, Uraraka
Uraraka was once again in their training field between cities. She was going through her and Tatsumaki's equal usual training regime with her trying to throw heavier and heavier rocks at the girl, while dodging around return fire from the mystical hero. The rocks this time around where heavier than she was use to if she had to guess they were all around 40 tons each which meant she couldn't hold that many at a time but she was determined to at least land one hit on the flying hero if she could, although given that the rocks she uses and that are around her were all created by tatsumaki, she didn't know how she would be able to land any blow on the girl without having it just be redirected back at her. These espers powers as this universe calls it seemed to be incredibly strong and hold great utility. She couldn't spare any more thought on the matter as she quickly dived out of the way rocks that were thrown at her, the shockwave sending her further than she initially planned. As she began to stand up to fight again, she found that she was surrounded by many small pebbles with no room to evade or dodge, she then looked up to the flying girl in defeat.
"Let's try to spice things up a little, I'm starting to get bored again," Tatsumaki said as the rocks around Uraraka dropped towards the ground. Uraraka shook herself from the dust that quickly clung to her suit and looked ready for what came next.
"What do you have in mind?" she questioned.
"This." was tornadoes only reply, as she snapped her fingers and a small green aura surrounded uraraka and she immediately fell to the ground feeling an a invisible nearly crushing weight stopping her from moving and barely being able to breathe, she feels as her chest is getting crushed into the ground, she feels her bones shake and vibrate under the strain, and her head is nailed to the ground no matter how hard she tries to lift it. She thinks she hears the hero in the sky say something but her ears had long since popped, muffling most of the sounds she heard around her as she focused on only still breathing. The sudden pressure suddenly releases to her utter relief, she tries to stand up but her knees buckle from the sudden movement and she is only able to flip around on her stomach looking towards the sky to a very dissatisfied tatsumaki looking down at her.
"Really? You can't even handle 10 times gravity!?" tatsumaki said with a huff
"You…you …can …increase …gravity?" uraraka said through a ragged breath.
"I just said that, didn't I? Let me know when you're ready." tatsumaki said drifting away somewhat while in a relaxed position. Uraraka took her moment to catch her breath, she tested her body seeing if there was strain in moving her legs or arms. Once satisfied she started to stand up and turn to face tatsumaki.
"Finally done with your nap?" tatsumaiki said sarcastically
" I'm ready, but maybe you could go a little easier?" uraraka let out a small chuckle while rubbing the back of her neck. Only receiving an eye roll from the floating hero in return, before she lit up green again and felt the same feeling as last time but thankfully much much milder.
"How much higher did you raise it, this time?" she asked, feeling the effects even on her mouth as she had to use more strength to form the words she wanted to say.
"Only two, I was debating three times but might as well work our way up." tatsumaki said, twirling her hand in an unimpressed manner.
"Well I thank you for that." Uraraka replied bashfully.
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever, just get ready, don't worry about trying to fight back, just worry about moving." tatstumaki said as she gathered around a number of small rocks around her ready to attack.
"Wait, wait your not gonna even give me ti-" the rest of her statement died in her throat as tatsumaki sent the rocks flying her way, uraraka jumped out of the way and felt herself pulled towards the ground incredibly faster than she expects barely avoiding the rocks behind her, she sprung into a combat roll and kept running as rocks kept landing behind her. She felt herself tire much more quickly than she would have thought. Tatsumaki made her evasion harder by completely changing the landscape around her such as slightly raising/lowering platforms in front of her, blocking off pathways, or pulling roots up from the ground to trip her up. This multitasking focus on the environment combined with the increased gravity caused uraraka to get hit far more often than she would have normally the blows were not as hard hitting as she would have expected she assumed tatsumaki was still going easy on her, slowing the rocks as they neared her body, now instead of a punch to the gut that were the hits before, they felt like a playful jab, it was still painful but not enough to completely holt her momentum. They continued to train like this for some time before Tatsumaki stopped her attack and picked the girl up , along with a couple of the larger rocks which hinted to Uraraka that they were going back into some city again to fight monsters.
She was finally dropped down into the city, instead of a park; however it seems that they were in an abandoned park. The alarms were blaring again with multiple threat level wolf threats being around. Tatsumaki only said to deal with this and left the heroine alone again, flying off into the distance. Uraraka was at first was confused on where she should go, everyone seemed to have already evacuated and she couldn't hear anybody screaming to let her know where the monsters are until suddenly a large buzzing filled her ears quickly turning she tried to dodge the large stinger aimed ripped at her, she successfully did so but her suit was partially cut by the surprised strike she realized that the gravity effect was still on her which meant that tatsumaki was either close by or her range of control was phenomenal. But we immediately drew her attention to the giant mosquito in front of her.
She nearly yelped at the site of the creature. It was nearly human sized. She immediately cursed her luck as it separated her from the rocks tatsumaki brought with her. The mosquito flew at her again diving right for her face, using her enhanced gravity to her advantage she ducked quickly under the attack and rolled back towards he weapons, she quickly used her quirk on the rocks and hefted the rocks but as she turned back around she noticed 3 more nearly human sized mosquitoes next to the one that she dodged she mentally sighed, of course there would be more of them, their always are she thought, she threw rocks at two of them but they dodge out of the way and charged at her.
she dodged again as she picked up more rock and through them, this back and forth went by numerous times before she finally managed to land a hit on one, putting it down for the count, she began to run away as the other three charged at her with renewed passion trying to skewers her she managed to dodge two of them while using her gunhead martial arts to grapple the third and slam it into the ground using one of her rocks on top of it to knocking it out.
she turns in time to twist her body out of the way of another piercing stab that sliced her costume around the waist. She backed up to view her surroundings, she noticed that one of the bugs were missing and quickly turned upwards to look at it quickly seeing that the other mosquito was diving down head first at her, she quickly raised her one of her rocks to block the strike which it did, crumpling the stinger the creature had and it flopping around before beginning to fly away from the scene, the other mosquito charged forth again but stopped mid charge to strike laterally across uravity chest, she sidestepped the stinger, but was hit by it's legs instead she decided to roll with the blow to create distance and threw another rock at the bug but it quickly flew to the side to avoid the rock, uraraka had used her quirk on the creature and due to its new found unbalance couldn't recover in time as it slammed directly into metal gate, tangling it up as it struggled to move. Uraraka was done and took account of the damage she incurred other than a few cuts here and there to her uniform. She was fine but that left what to do with these bugs she wondered, but her thoughts were interrupted as tatsumaki floated down next to her.
" Sloppy." she said as she floated down with one of the paralyzed insects in stasis.
"You let one get away, do better next time. I won't be around to clean up your messes forever you know." she chastised as she snapped her fingers and all of the mosquitoes whirled into a tornado of nothingness. Uraraka didn't really feel bad for them either, mosquitoes were just a menace to society, giant ones even more so, but she turned to address tatsumaki's comment.
"It flew away, what do you expect me to do? Float after it?" uraraka reasoned. Not liking the snarky reply she received from the girl, she increased the gravity on her to 4 times, causing uraraka to fall to her knees.
"I expect you to do better!" she yelled as she lifted her away and flew off, towards their training area again.
The real world: Child emperor, Mina, Jiro
Mina and Jiro began to walk into the child's emperor's lab, only to be greeted with their items right away near the front of the door. They both began to put them on as they saw child emperor approach with a lollipop in hand, wearing his small backpack.
"Today were going out on patrol, I want you guys to have some real combat experience with your new items." he stated as he approached the two girls.
"Woohoo!, we can finally go out into the world.`` Mina exclaimed, lifting her arms into the air.
" Don't you think it's a little too soon? I don't want any accidents to happen while we're out there." Jiro said as she stared at her pink friend who slowly brought her hands down to behind her, turning her head bashfully as she whistled to herself.
"It should be fine, monsters usually cause some collateral damage after all and you two need the experience with them in the field, it will also help with finalizing them." child emperor said simply as he continued past them out of the laboratory. Mina quickly followed behind flashing her tongue out in a mocking gesture as she passed her punk rock friend, who only shook her head in return and followed along with them.
The three of them were currently on the streets but nothing seemed to be happening as they walked, occasionally mina would be stopped by a random passerby asking her what type of body paint does she use to get that color for her skin leaving her speechless to retort only stating its a secret recipe that her mother created. Making Jiro hold in her laughter after each occasion, one even questioned her horns on her head and attempted to touch them but she quickly stopped them saying that she was just really into cosplay and power walked ahead of the group around a corner. Jiro let out a laugh as she neared the corner turning to see a grumpy mina glaring back at the laughing girl.
"I hope you keep laughing once I get my revenge." Mina said as she crossed her arms in front of her.
"Calm down, we wouldn't want your body paint to come undone from getting so worked up." Jiro commented with another chuckle before Mina could reply to the sassy comment, child emperor interrupted.
"Somethings about to happen." he said monotone voice looking at a device in his hands instantly drawing the two girls attention, on the screen was an outline of the city from an aerial perspective, they're was a blue dot which they guessed signified their current location and a red dot a little further away. Just as they were about to ask what it meant but were stopped by an alarm blaring they both recognized how similar it was to the one in their training simulation the other day. The alarm rang out with an automated voice of there being a tiger lever threat in a specific area designated, the two hero believed that the red dot on child emperors screen was the area stated by the announcements and their suspicions were confirmed as they made their way over to the zone, passing numerous civilians running away. They eventually got to the scene and were surprised at what was causing such havoc. There were a great many creatures, 10 or so large bunnies the size of large dogs, they're teeth were razor sharp and were foaming from the mouth.
"What are those?" Jiro said as they gazed upon the raging rabbits.
they seemed to attack anything around them, crashing into windows, biting and chewing into car tires and even more. One of the creatures recognized them and screeches alerting the others to their presence, it launched through the air with surprising speed, but was cut in half by one of child emperor's metal tentacle there was a buzz saw revving at the edge of the tentacle instead of the traditional spider like limbs they used to have, the rabbits cry ended in a short screech of silence. The action shocked the two teens behind him as its split body passed by them, blood splattering on the ground in front of their feet.
"Likely someone abused them turning into this or they ate some plant monster." child emperor said casually, still sucking on his lollipop, before looking back at the two teens and smiling.
"Well good luck." he said as his backpack sprouted spider legs again and jumped up and away, using his spider legs to climb a small building, Overlooking the scene and sitting down. Jiro was about to comment on what the hero was doing before she was roughly shoved out of the way by mina who immediately used her gloves pressurized nozzles to spray another rabbit that jumped at her, forcing it back and sticking it into the ground, unable to escape with maximum viscosity.
Jiro quickly found her footing and looked as three more rabbits charged at her, thinking quickly she used her super mover heartbeat surround, the loud sound suppressed all three rabbits at one time, each beginning to shake their heads before falling to the ground unconscious, in the meantime mina was covering her spraying her acid at the bunny attempting to save their friends from the sound waves but the sticky substance was forcing them back, jiro turned to help her friend just to see one rabbit sneaking up behind mina from the rooftops, she was about to shoot at it with a concentrated sound wave blast as it jumped but before she could it was immediately cut in half by one of child emperor's metal arms this one having a blade on the end. She briefly shivered as the body fell on the ground lifelessly but turned her attention back in front of her, only five bunnies were left.
She used her ground amplifiers for a greater area of effect, she used the same move on the other bunnies and the same effect started to occur the bunnies started to rub their head from the piercing sound, but as they were going to fall two burrowed under ground to avoid falling unconscious while the other three fell to the ground. Mina looked around suspiciously.
"Are they gone?" she questioned.
"I doubt it." Jiro replied as she stuck her earphone jacks into the ground. She heard the mushing and grind of the ground being pushed aside as the creatures moved underground. She jested to mina to shoot her acid on two designated places and a moment later both bunnies launched out of the ground directly into the goo, trapping them. Squirming on the ground.
"Seems like they work pretty well!" child emperor said as he landed down with his spider legs.
" WHAT was that! You just fed us to wolves-bunnies!" Mina shouted at the kid hero.
"I knew you guys could handle it and I told you, this was a test for you guys, if I offered too much support then I wouldn't have been able to get the data I wanted." he said, sucking back on his lollipop. Jiro put a hand on her friend, calming her slightly as she went to speak next.
" What are we going to do with them now?" Jiro questioned gesturing towards the 8 restrained bunnies.
"I don't know, I'm surprised you two didn't kill them actually." he said a bit in confusion
"Can't something be done for them?" Mina pleaded.
"Ugh, I don't think so, there monsters there's nothing anyone can do to help them. It would be better to just kill them." he stated two metal arms sprouting out with blades on each limb as he proceeded towards the downed creatures only to have his path blocked by mina and jiro.
"I have an idea, we have a friend that can talk to animals, Let him talk to them, maybe he can calm them down, they maybe don't have to die." mina reasoned
"She's right, maybe he could help and rehabilitate them." Jiro continued. Child emperor seeing the seriousness on their faces, he only sighed and retracted his blades into his backpack.
"I doubt it will work, but sure we could give it a try, maybe even get some information out of it." he said as he took out a phone and dialed the association to come pick up the creatures.
"Who are you calling?" Jiro asked
"The association, they can come and pick all of them up and transport them to some caging area." he said as the association member picked up the phone, he watched as the two girls shared a high five.
How about a deal: Drive knight, Kaminari, Momo
As he watched his friend leave with the spear-wielding guy, Kaminari felt some worry in his mind for his friend but he was confident in her ability to take care of herself if something came up. He turned back to look at the cyborg in front of him, he was definitely seemed threatening from his black armor and his one large red eye in the center of his face but the color scheme did look badass in his eyes and no doubt the people who come against him would probably be scared shitless, especially in the dark kaminari pondered. As he wordlessly followed drive knight to the room with the generator from the other day, but before he could enter drive knight stopped him.
"Unlike previously, today I want you to attempt to absorb and discharge the voltage concurrently." drive knight said in a monotone voice.
"At the same time, do you think you can do that?" he clarified seeing the confusion on the boy's face. Kaminari thought for a moment before answering.
"I don't know but I can at least try." Kaminari nodded with determination as he started to enter the room, going to the center of the machine like before.
"I will fire 10 million volts in a continuous stream, are you ready?" drive knight stated, kaminari held up one finger.
"Let it rip!" he said in confirmation, and drive knight activated the machine and watch as the lighting began to get absorbed by the teen as he pointed his other hand to the ground discharging the electricity below him, the boy looked to be struggling a lot more than he was doing previously, maybe that girl had a point he thought as he watched the last of the voltage drained away from the machine and filter out. Kaminari breathed a heavy sigh of relief as the machine wined down, both of his hands were shaking somewhat highly, from the strain and he took a moment to catch his breath as he looked raised a thumbs up at drive knight behind the screen.
"I did it." he said, slightly winded.
"You Indeed have but you seem more tired than I expected. Your normal limit is 30x this amount after all." drive knight explained.
"heh , I don't know man you tell me. I never tried to do that before, perhaps I'm just getting used to it. Let's try it again" Kaminari said with a smirk. Drive knight simply nodded his head and obliged with the boy's request furthering his testing until the boy reached his limit and went into his "fried-brain" mode as he called it. Drive knight was still wondering why his body naturally went into that thumbs up state, was his body moving unconsciously or was it the work of his quirk sending multiple impulses into his body in a specific pattern? If that were the case then there could be potentially more to his quirk than just giving and receiving electricity, drive knight pandered and marked the hypothesis for further study. Once the teen finally settled down and became cognitive again he asked the teen of this anomaly but the teen was stumped as well stating only it was just a natural reaction, maybe that it mimicked his most common body movement drive night thought again.
"So how'd I do?" kaminari wondered
"You managed 100 million volts before you became completely overloaded, 3x below your limit but better than expected given your first time. It could be that your brain is simply being overtaxed by absorbing and discharging at the same time reducing the limit of voltage you can manipulate." drive knight speculated
"I see. So that means that I just need to train more and it will get better?" kaminari said
" Perhaps, it would not hurt to try." drive knight stated.
The two continued on like this for sometime before he heard the sound of the door opening behind him and the signs of two people walking towards them. Kaminari had just gotten through another bout of voltage so he was unaware of the individuals approaching them currently. Out of the shadows were stinger and momo.
"As I promised, the girl is back safe and sound." Stinger boasted, drive knight noted the band aid on her abdomen.
"But not exactly unharmed I see." drive knight said.
" Well the first mission was more difficult than we originally thought, some details were left out." stinger said, rubbing the back of his head.
" Don't worry about it, it's fine. Nothing but a flesh wound. I doubt it even leaves a scar." Momo defended.
"Unlikely indeed, I will fulfill my half of the bargain. You are dismissed." drive knight told stinger. Stinger nodded and took his leave saying goodbye to creationist before heading out.
The time was getting late and Kaminari still hadn't woken up completely from his weakened state forcing momo to guide him slightly out of the building but before she left, she came back to talk with drive knight.
"This spear is made of some remarkable material." Momo said as she held it out to the cyborg who refused to take it, pushing it back to her.
"It is yours, I have no need for it." he remarked off handily.
" why thank you. But ….um could I perhaps, have some blueprints of yours? I mean you called my hardest material brittle and after my time today I fully believe you, so I would like to better upgrade my equipment." She reasoned. Drive night stared at her for a moment and for a moment she may have thought she was being rude asking something of a person she barely just met but before she could apologize for her mistake.
"I can offer you some schematics of mine, but what would I receive in return?" he questioned her, momo thought for a moment, of anything she could offer in return to the cyborg for helping her she didn't have much in terms materials in this world but that train of thought lead her to what she did have that the cyborg wanted and probably what he was hinted at in the first place. Breathing a small sigh of resignation. She continued.
"What do you plan on doing with my blood if I may ask?' she said hesitantly, getting a small rise out of the cyborg, if his eye's slight movement was any indication.
"The same as I do for a monster's experimentation to see how the powers work and if it can be replicated." he said with a monotone voice.
"And if it can be replicated? What then?" momo asked
"Then I will use it to upgrade myself," he said simply. Momo took one more look at drive knight and began to weigh her options, after 5 minutes of deliberations she decided to go through with it, she exchange a couple of her blood samples for a 1 terabyte of files on schematics, although a large majority of the information was association knowledge only 2 percent was his own personal creations, drive knight thought as the girl walked away.
Deliberations: Class 1A
As is tradition at this point most of the class met in the common room, midoriya and ojiro were early but they were both surprised to find that tokoyami and Toru were already there. As they walked they were greeted by the other two.
"Hi guys!" Toru tried to say enthusiastically but her voice was strained.
"Greetings" was all tokoyami said before resting his head back down.
Ojiro noted toru's strained voice and sat down next to her.
"Ruff day?" he commented sitting down beside her.
"To say the least." she replied.
"What happened?" Midoriya sat down next to tokoyami. But it was dark shadow that surprised him from popping out and answering.
"These two had to go through some extreme physical exercise after having their butts whooped by their teacher." dark shadow said laughing a bit at their expenses. Finally mastering the strength to lift his head again.
"You couldn't even make him move with your attacks, if you don't remember." tokoyami mentioned as he glared at dark shadow who seemed bashful and retreated back inside tokoyami, who looked towards midoriya.
"Our mentor wants us to increase our physical strength before working on our quirk abilities." tokoyami said.
"OOH! That reminds me, OJIRO! Guess what?" Toru peaked up again, looking at the boy in the face, shocking the boy somewhat with this random burst of energy.
"W-What?" he said curiously.
"Zombieman said that he would find a martial art for me to study, so I can better use my invisibility!" she beamed which caused the boy to flash her a big smile.
"That sounds great, maybe you can ask him to train under bang with me and midoriya!, that way we could train together and even practice on our own." ojiro said enthusiastically, surprising the girl somewhat with his unusually upbeat mood. She saw his tail waving somewhat excitedly from side to side as well.
"That's a great Idea!I'll run it by him sometime and see what he has to say." she replied with equal enthusiasm.
" I hope you don't get too mad when I can kick your butt!" she said as she mimicked his hand placement when he got into a combat stance, causing him to chuckle a bit.
"You still have a long way to go before you can and I'm gonna keep getting stronger too." he replied, taking her wrist and moving them to a more correct position before he could even tell what he was doing, releasing her hands somewhat later with a flushed expression on his face. The others started to walk in one or two at a time. The next outburst was from Mina and Jiro walking in and observing the room, locking onto her target. Mina immediately made a B-line towards koda.
"KODA!" she shouted
"Y-yes" the shy boy flinched somewhat in his seat from the sudden attention.
"Me and jiro fought these huge rabbits today, we were wondering if you could talk to them and find out what's wrong with them?" she asked.
"Um….ok" was all the quiet boy said.
"Thanks! With any luck you can save their lives, and I could get a pet rabbit while we're here!" she said off to the side.
"Was that the real reason you wanted them to be rehabilitated so much?" jiro chastised
"No.." Mina said through a whisper, causing some folks to laugh at her antics.
The atmosphere became somewhat colder as Shoji entered the room, he was one of the last of their classmates to enter. Everyone had seen the messages that momo sent staging that something happened the other day with him and were eagerly waiting for details on what it could be. As everyone gathered around to listen to what happened, Shoji told the story of what happened, Aoyama chimed in on his part and shared the police report written of the incident, leading to many gasps and murmurs among his classmates, with recognition in some. He let them in on sweet mask plan to expose them all to the public sometime next month and ease public tension so they may not have to wear those additions anymore to their outfits.
"So zombieman was right about it being the police." Tokoyami said under his breath.
"So that's why you all got those weird items to make you look more mechanical." Momo mentioned.
" I'm curious though why didn't mina get anything, she doesn't look exactly normal." kiminari mentioned.
"Probably because she's a girl that's into body paint and cosplay." Jiro mentioned, holding in a laugh from the inside joke, earning a glare from the girl in question.
"Well they probably believe it's just tech, I could actually make my skin, hair, and eyes similar to mina's if I want to." Toru mentioned earning some shocked gasps from the group but none louder than Mina herself who stopped glaring at Jiro and instantly ran up and grabbed the invisible girl's hand.
"REALLY!?, OMG! , why didn't you tell me sooner, come on, we got to see how you look! I always wanted a sister!" she said as she basically dragged toru out of the room towards her room.
With that said everyone was mostly satisfied with everything and headed out towards their rooms for the night. As people started to file out however, Todoroki gestured for Momo to everyone filed out of the room. As she looked at those who still remained in the room, it was only those involved with the mission from earlier on in the day.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Something was bothering me about the mission today." bakugo was surprisingly the one to start, todoroki nodded his head in understanding continuing on.
"From what we were told it was a simple hit mission. Kill the monsters in the area and leave. But why all the secrecy?"
"What do you mean?" Shoji asked.
"Well if this was a simple monster attack why did they evacuate the neighborhood and block it off? Did you hear any alarms when you were there?"
"No and the people I helped didn't act like there was an imminent threat to their life in the area. Just seemed annoyed to be leaving , I do think I overheard the word contamination being tossed around though." he said rubbing his chin.
"What about you ponytail? Did those guy's mention anything out of the ordinary?" bakugo presumably asked momo. Who would have scoffed at the name but decided to just answer anyway.
"No, I don't think they knew anything either. They were each approached by the agent that approached you three in the morning, talking about this monster, singular but were surprised when they were others." she says as she rubs her head in thought trying to remember anything on the subject but coming up blank.
"Do you think the association did something wrong?" Shoji asked with a serious tone.
"I don't know yet, but it all just seems odd to me." Todoroki said.
"They don't seem like the type that dislike getting their hands dirty." bakugo said as he made his way to the door. Turning back to say one more thing before leaving.
"Keep an eye out, I don't trust these guys just yet."
shoji left sometime later stating that he would see if he could find anything out on his end and that bakugo was right to be cautious. Leaving only todoroki and momo there, they talk somewhat about what she was doing with the ragtag possy of heroes and their perspective of events, after one last check to see if her wound was ok and momo stating that it was fine , both parties went their separate ways into their rooms, where sleep took everyone in class 1A, two of which a little later than the others.
