Chapter 12: Battle Training

Everyone in the observation room stared in shock at the battle they had just witnessed. Most having been too enthralled by the duel between Midoriya and Bakugo to notice what had happened with the others. The practice building had been demolished, leaning on another building for support as the left corner had been completely destroyed and in its place was a hole nearly twenty feet deep. Everyone watched as the smoke began to clear, hoping to see that Izuku had survived; all except All Might himself as the Symbol of peace raced towards the destruction with the speed of a bullet.

Mineta and Tsu both looked to each other, their faces dripping with fear and worry. Had they just watched their best friend Die?

"Look I see someone walking out" Kirishima said as a darkened figure limped out of the smoke.

"It's Midoriya, he's alive" Mina cheered as the tension visibly left the room.

"Oh my god, that was too intense" Sero said, his shoulders slacking in relieved tension.

"They were really going at it" Mina said in bewilderment, she had witnessed her fair share of fights in grade school but this was something more. "Hey Mineta do Izuku and Bakugo know each other?" she asked as all eyes turned to him.

"Umm… Bakugo went to the same school as us." he said, freezing at first before answering which only furthered her suspicions. Coupled that with what Tsuyu had said about them meeting in the hospital after the blast in Mustafu, the pieces began to fall into place.

And as she looked at the screen that showed Bakugo; tired and beaten, a small smile spread across her face and a single thought came to mind.

"Good job Midoriya"

Izuku let out a long sigh, a slight stream of smoke coming out of his lungs as he coughed. He could barely feel the left side of his body and the right side felt like it was on fire. Happy though to still be among the living he looked around to see that he was inside what once was supposed to be the lobby, or at least what was left of it. Looking down at his ruined costume he felt his mood darken, the entire left sleeve had been destroyed and it was only the collar that was keeping it from sliding off. He felt a lone tear fall from his eye as he looked at it.

"I'm sorry mom"

"Young Midoriya, are you alright" the voice of All Might asked as Izuku lifted a shaky hand towards his ear only to find that his ear piece had fallen out. He then felt a hand on his shoulder and realized that he was actually there. Looking up he saw the mountain of a man standing before him.

"I'm okay sir, just need some juice" he answered; his world spinning as he looked for anything electrical.

"You seem rather burned, I will call for the nurse" All Might said but Izuku shook his head as he heard the telltale sound of electrical discharge. Moving towards the sound he found an exposed wire and gasped it, the letting the thousands of volts wash over his body as the pain and numbness faded.

"I feel better now" he said, his mind now working in proper order. All Might, looking surprised at the display of accelerated healing gave a thumbs up as the sound of several footsteps grew closer.

"Midoriya we did it" came the voice of Ochaco, cheering as she walked down the ruined steps with Toru helping Reiko walk down and Iida not far behind. Her excitement was infectious as jumped for joy, making Izuku smile as well.

"Great work Ochaco, your plan worked" Midoriya said as the evidence of his victory finally came into view. Turning his head he looked further down the street to see his former bully walking up to them, a thousand yard stare in his eyes as which made the victory so much sweeter. His body wasn't glowing anymore but steam still wafted off of him. And his arm, once broken now seemed fine. It seemed he healing factor as well.

All Might seeing the boy went to check on him, and put a hand on his shoulder, the action seeming to pull him out of whatever tailspin of thought he was in. "Do not be discouraged young Bakugo, as long as you're willing to learn, a defeat is only an opportunity to improve" he advised.

Izuku could only shake his head at the number one heroes attempt, he'd tried to by nice to Bakugo for ten years and it didn't get him anywhere and he highly doubted that would change any time soon.

"Now then children, we shall review your battle in the observation room" All Might said as he turned and led them to the rest of the class.

As soon as Izuku entered the room he was swarmed by his classmates; smiling faces of astonishment filling his view. Well… most of them.

"If you ever do something crazy like that again I'll kill you myself" Mineta warned; pointing a shaky finger at him as he struggled to keep from leaping for joy at his friend's survival.

"That was insane Midoriya, how did you survive that" Kirishima asked, fang filled mouth smiling wide.

"Oh I used my polarity wall" he said as he pointed his right arm away from everyone and emitted a large circular field that bathed room in blue. "It basically turns anything it touches into energy for me to use" he explained as he looked to Mineta who understood what he was getting at, pulling a ball of his head and throwing it at the shield. As soon as the ball and the shield made contact, the hair ball disintegrated with nothing left to show it had ever existed, the demonstration kicking off another round surprise and admiration for his powerful quirk… except for one.

"Well in spite of the results, the MVP of this match is young Reiko" The deep voice of All Might announced, surprising the whole class and most of all Reiko herself.

"Shouldn't it be one of the heroes, they won after all" came the anxious voice of Kinoko Komori.

"You would think so; why didn't I pick one of those three? Any guesses" All Might inquired as the tall raven haired girl raised her hand immediately.

"I can answer that. Reiko was the one who most thoroughly embraced this challenge and the one who most accurately adapted to her assigned role" she said as she explained further.

"Bakugo allowed his personal history with Midoriya to cloud his judgement, allowing himself to be lured away by Midoriya so he could not assist his teammates. Likewise, using such a powerful weapon like his gauntlets in the direction of the bomb was a foolish move.

"Similarly Midoriya also allowed his personal history with Bakugo to cloud his judgement, seemingly having no plan outside of luring Bakugo away. Also when he had thrown Bakugo to the ground he could have attempted to use his capture tape to secure a victory but instead continued to fight him. He allowed his anger to get the better of him."

"As for Uraraka and Hagakure; there plan was far too reckless, relying on too many variables that if not met could have been disastrous. If they had treated the bomb as if it were real they never would have gone through with it."

"And though Iida prepared for their enemies arrival, even using water as a means of locating Hagakure it was that same water that prevented him from stopping them."

"Reiko meanwhile kept a cool head throughout the exercise, sticking to her assigned role to protect the dummy weapon at all cost even while the building was falling. All in all she respected the spirit of the trial the most" she finished as everyone stared at her.

Even All Might looked to the girl in shock, stunned that she had been able explain it better than he could.

"Well…yes; that about covers it" he said as he quickly issued for the next round to begin.

Battle 2: Team G vs Team C

To say that Mineta was happy with his current partners would have been something of an understatement. There was the lovely Momo, whose costume played to all her strengths and Pony who had been surprised to see again after first meeting her. And while the horse legs were a bit of a turnoff she had a cute face. Truly the only way this could have been better would have been in Shiozaki had been on his team.

Out of all the girls in class he could confidently say she was the best. Sure some had bigger boobs, a nicer ass. But when everything was put together there was no competition. Maybe it was because she had been so nice to him; he wouldn't have been surprised if she had expected the worst when she had woken up to his face during the exam. Or maybe it was because he was a hopeless romantic beneath all the horny. One, the other or maybe both he didn't really know.

"So whatever happened to that guy you was sitting next to on the bus, the guy with the gas mask" Mineta asked Pony as they walked into the training building.

"Not know. Once he gone, no see" she answered back in broken Japanese, her face turning into a frown.

Mineta nodded his head along, after seeing him run away with that guy's gun he'd wondered what happened before he got there. He'd seemed like a bit of a tool but from the way she seemed to talk about him, maybe there had been more to him. It's not like he'd caught him at the best of times, going into a challenge you're all but certain to lose who piss anyone off.

"So what happened, during the exam" he specified as the American transfer student seemed to think it over.

"Pony was fighting robots then big robot come, many eyes. Many rockets shoot pony and make her hit head. Big robot come closer and pony scared it crush her. Then purple mist come and pony see big man fall, see Mustard take gun from big man and shoot robot. Got hard to breath, vision go blurry and dark but remember Mustard give helmet" She explained.

"Mustard?" Mineta said, confused by the odd name.

"It how you say… nickname. Funny joke I give about helmet" She said, smiling at the memory.

"If you two don't mind, shouldn't we focus more on the task at hand?" Momo chided.

Mineta rolled his eyes but agreed that it was time to get serious. After watching Midoriya's match with Bakugo he needed to keep pushing himself. Pulling his hair balls out he started sticking them to the floors and walls as they went and concentrating the most around the hallway that led directly to the bomb room and by the time they got in a small trickle of blood was beginning to flow down the side of his head.

As soon as they got in Mono wasted little time as she started producing sheets of steel and placing them over the door. As she worked he noticed the glare she gave him as he approached her. He half expected that, he had gotten quite the nosebleed when she demonstrated her quirk.

"What do you want" she asked suspiciously, turning to make sure that he couldn't look at her ass. Mineta simply smiled, he'd already had a good look at it on the walk here so it didn't matter. Besides; a nice ass can wait, now it was time to win.

"I've got a plan to deal with Kaminari" he told her as all that training and theorizing with Midoriya was paying off and he could see her expression turn from hostile to curious.

"What kind of plan"

"This was such bullshit" Kaminari seethed internally as they waited outside the building. When he had received his acceptance letter he'd been beyond happy, he'd been ready to be a pro. But then he met Midoriya, at first he'd been excited to meet someone with another electric quirk. And he was amazed at him fighting off those villains. But then he had met him and he'd thought he was full of it.

"High hundred millions to low billions" he'd said; Kaminari had been stunned, that was impossible, beyond impossible. How could someone just as old as him have quirk so much stronger and with no downsides?

"As long as I have something to drain, I can keep going" he'd said.

But then he had watched him take on that Bakugo guy with everyone else, and with every second that ticked by he felt his guts twisting, a heavy weight building on his shoulders. He had realized with horror that Midoriya hadn't been lying.

Just how much he could do and how much he couldn't?

And he had been so causal when he explained it. As if creating a shield that can disintegrate stuff and apparently calling down lightning from the sky was like taking an evening stroll to him.

"How the hell am I supposed to compete with that?" he thought to himself as he looked at his hands in dejection, arcs of yellow electricity dancing between his fingers before he balled them into fists.

"Hey what's your name again" came a female voice. Looking up he could see the annoyed face of Jiro looking back at him.

"Oh ah Kaminari" he stuttered out, his cheeks growing a shade of red as he looked at the cute girl.

"Right, so your quirk is like Midoriya's" she asked as he felt the anger beginning to fill him at the mention of his name. Of course he would be compared to him, he'd done it himself and he was kicking himself for it.

"Kinda" he said, the one word answer drawing an irritated look from her.

"Well can you "kinda" deal with the balls in the hallway" she asked as she pointed inside. Walking over to look inside he could see that it was covered in Mineta's small purple hair balls.

"Use a shockwave or zap them and see if you can get rid of them" she instructed as Kaminari furrowed his brow.

"I can't" he answered back as he watched the light in her eyes die at the admission.

"Oh, so what can you do" she deadpanned, sounding thoroughly unimpressed by him.

"I… I can discharge electricity from my body, but I can't control where it goes and it messes with my head if I use too much" he said, any feeling of self-worth disappearing like tears in the rain with every word he spoke.

"Oh… that's nice" she deadpanned, the light in her eyes fading in disappointment as the sound of the buzzer for the match to begin cut through the air.

"Whatever; we'll just walk around them. Come on Ojiro" she said turning away from him with Ojiro only giving him pitying hand on his shoulder before moving on with Jiro. Kaminari walked with them, his mind not all there as they moved through the building.

"Um, can't you use those earphone things to find out where they are" Ojiro asked, to which Jiro gained a smug smile. "Used to; recently my hearing has gotten a lot better" she answered.

Though they knew where to go it took them longer thanks to the floor being covered in Mineta's balls, with one wrong step resulting in losing a shoe.

When they finally reached the right floor and Kaminari saw the door the held the key to their victory further down the hall he felt a spiteful rage fill his body. He'd had just got here and already he was being looked down upon. He would not allow it; he was going to show them what HE can do!

"I'll go first" he said and Jiro quirked her eyebrow at the declaration, aiming to speak before being cut off.

"One of you, break down the door and I'll rush in and hit them with everything I've got" he said, glaring at the door like it owed him money.

Jiro gave him a look that all but screamed that shed didn't believe he could do it, but eventually accepted. "You better know what you're doing" Jiro said in snide exhaustion as she faced the door and plugged her earphone jacks into her boots. What came next was a wave on sonic energy that blew the door straight off its hinges. Kaminari didn't even wait for the door to hit the ground as he charged the opening, the bomb clear in his sight.

"1.3 million volts" he screamed, unleashing all his power as a surge of yellow electricity flowed out of his body. He was going to do it, he was going to win!

"VILLAINS WIN!"

"Huh?!" he said as his mind slowly came back to him.

Kaminari looked around to see what happened and realized quickly he wasn't standing on the ground but was stuck to the wall by a pair of horns and saw the horse girl and Mineta looking at him with pity.

"Sorry man" he said as he pointed a gloved finger to a large metal rod imbedded in the floor.

'A grounding rod' the thought feeling like a punch to the gut as tried to see what had happened to Ojiro and Jiro. Quickly he found Ojiro resting against the wall and nursing his ears while Jiro stood there, red as a tomato and missing one of her boots.

"Sorry but you were just outmatched" Momo said, as she held a flashbang in her hand and Kaminari hung his head. He had failed.

Battle 2: Team B vs Team I

Shihai, Shoji and Todoroki stood by the building in silence, waiting for the buzzer to sound so that their battle could begin.

"So what's the pl…"Shihai tried to say but was interrupted by Todoroki raising his hand.

"Wait" he said as the buzzer rang and the trio began to move towards the entrance. Without warning Todoroki pressed his hand to the wall of the building and covered the building in a thick sheen of ice. With a quiet slap something small fell from behind the doorway; looking closely Shihai was shocked to see that it was a human ear. Todoroki picked up as if it were just a dry leaf.

"Now we can talk" he held the severed ear in his hand and plugged it.

"Shihai what is your quirk" Todoroki asked, boy having half his body covered in ice.

"My quirk is called Dark, it allows my body to merge with anything dark coloured" he answered as Todoroki listened.

"Good, go in and deal with Juzo" he commanded as Shihai looked at him in anger.

"And who are you to boss me around" he challenged, already sick of his attitude as Todoroki turned to look at him.

"Do you want to win or not" he asked, he voice only mildly tinged with annoyance.

"Juzo's quirk allows him to soften any non-living thing he touches and swim in it as if it were water; your quirk allows you to move freely in darkness. I will destroy the lights, you will find Juzo and deal with him" he said in an almost tired tone as cold air began to circle around him and ice began to flow from his foot. The frost flowed up the wall and across the ceiling until it reached the lights, growing colder and colder until the lights shattered, covering the lobby in darkness.

Not having a better idea Shihai accepted the plan with a huff as he walked forward. Standing at the precipice he picked up a people from the ground tossed it at the tiled floor, the pebble immediately sinking into the hidden trap. Taking in a deep breath he leapt forward and allowed deep into darkness. The darkness was his friend, the darkness was his home and he would find any who would intrude upon it. His sense of sight had been taken from him in this watery abyss but he could still hear, still feel and that would be enough. Moving like a shark through the mud and capture tape in hand he pounced on that feeling and felt the muscles of his prey tense in surprise.

"Like the trapdoor spider and the tarantula hawk wasp, the predator has become the prey" he waxed poetically as he wrapped his arm around his throat in a chock hold. Juzo tried to escape the hold, instinctively trying to pull him off. But he would not let go as the pair thrashed and flailed, Shihai only increasing the pressure around his neck as his other hand attempted to wrap him with the tape. Just as he managed to tie the tape around his bicep Juzo erupted from his watery home like a whale breaches the surface of the ocean and right into the bomb room where Kendo and Setsuna were waiting.

Before Shihai could flee back into the darkness he was grasped by a pair of massive hands.

"Good job getting him her Juzo" Kendo said with a smile.

"Not fast enough though" he answered back as he coughed and rubbed his throat, showing the capture tape wrapped around him.

"Dammit, we can still win this if we" Kendo tried to say before the sound of ice cracking and slow footsteps could be heard further down the hall. Closer and closer it came until the eyes of Shoto Todoroki appeared.

"You can try and fight, but I'll just freeze you solid" he said in a calm and intimidating tone as he walked up to the bomb and touched it.

"HEROES WIN" came the voice of All Might as the buzzer sounded. As he did Todoroki began to melt the all the ice, turning the building into a sauna.

"By the way, here's your ear back" he said as he tossed it to Setsuna, the woman glaring in anger at her defeat even as she reattached her ear.

Battle 3: Team H vs Team J

"Are you ready Sero" Kirishima said, pumping himself up and jumping on the spot as adrenaline filled his system.

"Hell yeah" Sero affirmed as he covered the bomb room in his elastic tape.

After seeing the overwhelming power of Todoroki and the determination to win by Izuku, the two boys were more than eager to prove themselves.

"By the way, what's your quirk" Sero asked to the third member of their group.

"Oh, my quirk lets me bind things together at the atomic level" Yosetsu said as he demonstrated his quirk by binding a traffic cone to the wall.

"That's awesome, your quirk is perfect for this" Kirishima praised. "Go out there and fuse all the doors shut"

Nodding in agreement Yosetsu went to work.

"So do you have a plan" Sero asked him to which he shook his head.

"Beyond reinforcing every door from here to there no. Why do you?" Kirishima admitted as Sero began to smile.

"Yes I do"

Tsu rolled her neck they waited for the buzzer. All of their opponents quirks were either defensive in nature or couldn't be used to their full potential indoors; still though that didn't give them an excuse to be arrogant. They needed to stay on their toes if they wanted to succeed.

"Don't worry you two; with me at the helm victory will be ours" Came the eccentric voice Monoma, a wild look his eyes and a smile just as deranged.

"Who made you the leader?" Tsu asked, eyeing the loud blonde and wondering if she would end up finding him or Bakugo more insufferable by the end.

"But who else has the tactical brilliance?" he asked gesturing to himself as if the answer was as obvious as the sun in the sky. As he finished stroking his ego the buzzer for the match to start rang through the air.

"Firstly might I have your hands" he smiled as both Tsu and Tokoyami looked to each other. While they hadn't talked before they could each tell that they didn't want to follow this guy's instructions.

"I promise, our victory will be quick if you do" he continued "I'll even let either of you go in first if you'd like"

Both looking to each other, they each extended a hand towards the pompous blonde. Monoma wasted no time shaking Tokoyami's hand with that same smile. But when he shook her hand his smile faltered and turned to one of confusion and… disappointment? After that the trio moved to the building's entrance but found it locked tight.

"I 'm a man of my word, which one of you would like to go first" he asked as Tokoyami volunteered. He eyes before two massive spectral arms erupted from his cloak, the taloned limbs smashing through the door and crumpling it like paper.

Sparing little time to assess his power they moved in with quiet steps, listening for any unfamiliar noise in the silence. Though as Tokoyami entered the darkness Tsu could have sworn she saw the darkness reach out and swirl around him.

With Kirishima on their team they were all but expecting him to bursting out of a wall. But as they moved from floor to floor they did not find him, all they found was more locked doors.

"Where are they" Tokoyami whispered, they checked every floor and they were running out of time.

"This is the last room" Tsuyu told him, her own anger beginning to show. She wished she could use her hydro-sense to find out where they were like Izuku could with his radar pulse. But she had learned while training she could only sense things if they were in the same body of water.

With a grunt Tokoyami smashed the door to the final room open, the door getting caught in Sero's tape that covered the room like cobwebs.

Moving in they didn't see anything; but for a moment they heard something, something falling.

From behind them something hit the ground hard, sending up a cloud of dust and launching Tsuyu and Tokoyami flying into the web of tape.

"HAHAHA it worked Sero" came the voice of Kirishima as he pulled himself out of the floor and looking up he could see where he had come from. High up on the ceiling were the smiling faces of Sero and Yosetsu. She could see that they had used Yosetsu's quirk to climb their way up and stuck the bomb to the ceiling.

"Sorry Tsu nothing per…" Kirishima tried to apologize before an ear splitting scream filled the room.

"AHHH MY ARM, MY ARM. SERO HELP ME" came the desperate plea of Monoma as everyone tried to look through the dust that had still not settled.

"Oh my god; Monoma are you okay" Sero answered back both he and Kirishima racing to help him. But they were both caught off guard as two black spectral hands erupted from the cloud and grasped them, one in each.

If it were possible to be any more surprised, Tsu wouldn't have believed it as Monoma walked out of the cloud completely fine and even more, with a dark spectral figure coming out of his stomach that looked like Tokoyami's.

"My my; rushing to help an injured hero. You guys make terrible villains" Monoma gloated through a wide smile.

"Tsu, Tokoyami; get the bomb" Monoma ordered and though neither liked him they didn't want to lose either. Tokoyami was the first to get out, using his dark shadow to tear away at the tape that held him in place. Tsuyu took longer as she covered herself in water and began to struggle, using the water to wear away at the tapes adhesive.

Tokoyami send his dark shadow after Yosetsu who had nowhere to run and couldn't risk jumping without risking getting injured, which only resulted in his swift capture. Once she was out she wasted no time and tried to leap up to the bomb but when she tried she barely jumped five feet. The realization that with most of her frog quirk gone, so too was her jumping ability.

Tokoyami had no such problems as dark shadows other hand grasped the bomb and secured their victory.

"HEROES WIN" the voice of All Might said

"Monoma how could you"

"This is super unmanly"

"I did it because I knew you'd fall for it" he answered as he released the pair, both of them staring daggers into the blonde who smiled like he couldn't care less.

"So your quirk allows you to copy other people's quirks" Tokoyami said as Monoma's dark shadow dissipated.

"Correct"

Battle 5: Team E vs Team F

Mina bounced on the balls of her feet, eagerly waiting with a determined look in her eyes as she watched the villain team enter the building. She had taken being last in the quick assessment test to heart and she was going to make certain that they won here. They would have five minutes before they could go in but they needed a plan. Unfortunately she had never been good at making plans beyond going to a place and seeing what happened, always going on intuition and flying by the seat of her pants, but that wasn't going to work here. She hadn't seen what the people on the other team could do besides seeing Ibara use her vine hair to throw the ball in the assessment test. She looked to her teammates, hoping to reassured of their chances and immediately cringed when she noticed Aoyama was spending his time twirling around his cape and striking poses in his new costume.

That left Kamakiri; the tall boy that looked like a human praying mantis hybrid with large pincers sticking out of each side of his mouth and a punk Mohawk. She watched as the boy observed the building and hoped he had some kind of plan as she walked up to him.

"Hey Mantis man you got a plan" she said, beaming a smile that fell flat as the man gave her a hard glare.

"Piss off" he muttered as he went back to looking at the building and left Mina to glare back at him.

"Great, as if one Bakugo wasn't bad enough" she sighed, slumping her shoulders and damning her luck.

Rolling her eyes at her situation, she could only do one thing. Keep it simple, if anything gets in her way melt it and as the buzzer rang she barely had time to recognize the green shaded blur that rushed by her.

Running after the green blur and dragging Mr. Twinkles with her as they moved through the building. Strangely though, as they moved the winding corridors she couldn't hear any sound of Kamakiri. She figured he would have found them by now. It was then she started to see mushrooms. Not many one or two here or there, but soon the walls began to be covered in it and it was getting hard to breathe.

Beginning to cough and looking to see that Aoyama was looking good either they both finally began to hear something… giggling.

"Sword guy thought he was tough, but he couldn't get past me" a high pitched voice cheered, as if she was delighted to just say the words.

"We need to get away from these mushrooms" She gagged as grabbed Aoyama by the hand, leading him away as the giggling continued to grow.

Even as they escaped to a lower floor the pair still coughed and gagged. What was wrong, what was her quirk? Then she felt something on her, followed by another and another. Looking down at herself she saw that mushrooms were growing on her body, sprouting full grown on her skin. Mina panicked, trying to brush them off which only seemed to spread them and make them grow faster.

Desperate to get them off she covered herself in her acid, the mushroom sizzling and dissolving. Turning to look at Aoyama she could see that he too was getting covered in mushrooms and quickly tried to get them off eve as he tried to stop her.

"No, you will ruin my magnificent cape, it is made of silk" Aoyama cried, as mina had to resist the urge to smack him upside the head. She paid his pleas no time as she covered him in her lower acidic goo. The metal of his armor being spared but his red glasses and cape burned away in a shower of slime.

"There you big baby, now we need to" she tried to say before they heard footsteps coming from further up the stairs.

"Heroes you're running out of time, heroes come out and play" the voice said, singing the words like a nursery rhyme.

"What is this, a horror movie" Mina gasped as she grabbed Aoyama and kept running. What were they going to do, they couldn't run for ever. She then saw a window in another room; dragging the boy with her she slammed the door behind them.

Finally letting go of Aoyama she ran to the window and looked outside, the bomb was on the floor above them but it was on another side of the building and it left her with only one option.

"We're gonna climb outside" she said as she looked back to the terrified blonde.

"What! That is crazy, we will fall" he decried as Mina lifted her hand and acid began to drip from her fingertips.

"I'll create handholds and carry us up" she as she walked up to him, not in any mood to argue as Aoyama back away and tripped on his purple cape.

Aoyama whimpered a he clung onto Mina's back, the pink skinned girl lobbing a blob of acid at the window.

"Let's go" she said as she adjusted to the weight; walking up to the opening and hopping out. Using her acid she began to shimmy her away along the buildings wall.

"When we get inside, blind them" she said as she looked for the right window. Going and going she finally reached the corner of one window and looked inside to see Ibara and Kaibara watching the door and not looking out the window.

"Alright let's do this" she said as reeled her hand back and punched straight through the glass, throwing herself inside as if passenger weighed nothing. But in her haste she hadn't noticed that Ibara covered the floor with her vines. Ibara only needed to realize where they were before the vines lashed out like vipers, wrapping them both up in a cocoon.

"I'm sorry Mina" Ibara said they both she and Kaibara looked at the bound heroes. "Now all we have to do is wait out the clock"

'This was bad, this was really bad' she couldn't use her quirk to get out without injury Aoyama and if she didn't get out soon they would lose.

"They needed to get out and they needed to get out now!"

"Aoyama burn the vines" she told him doing her best to wiggle to one side of the cocoon and out of the lasers path.

"But you will be burned too" Aoyama said in hesitation but Mina would not have it.

"Do it" she repeated, tensing her jaw. She refused to accept defeat and if she needed to get burned so be it. As Aoyama audibly gulped Mina began to feel the heat build-up. But strangle she didn't feel it near her midsection where she thought it would.

Instead, to her shock it came from near her face as Aoyama pressed his palms to the vines and began to glow. Mina did not have the time to question though as she began to feel the heat wash over her. She bit her lip so hard it began to bleed as the vines began to smoke.

She watched, through a gap in the vines as the confident smiles on her opponents grew worried as more vines tried to reinforce the burning ones.

"More heat" she groaned as the heat increased and Mina pushed against the vines with all her might. Pushing and pushing, they finally overpowered the vines the two spilling out and into the rotating arms Kaibara.

Instinctively Mina pulled up her arms to defend herself, the attack hitting hard and sending to the left. The pain in her arms and face was awful and she thought she smelt burning hair but the realization of a drill arm bearing down on her gave her motivation to move.

Dodging out of the way of the attack she dosed the floor with her acid, melting the vines and forcing her attacker to slow down. Looking to see Aoyama she could see that surprisingly he was holding his own, dodging and letting out blasts of light from his belly button that burned and vines that came close.

"Why wasn't he using his hands" she wondered as she was nearly caught again as Kaibara leaped over the acid pool and tried to kick her, the limb sailing over her as she leaned back so far her back was parallel to the floor.

Using her momentum she kicked up and tried to catch him in the chin. But at the last moment he pulled his head away, the sole of her shoes just grazing him. Landing back on her feet she tried to punch him and found her attack redirected out of the way and his arm slamming into her neck and sending her sprawling to the ground.

Landing hard she turned only see Kaibara's fist. Desperate and out of options she reached out and gripped the rotating forearm with all he strength. And to her surprise and his pain she stopped the strike, the sudden change in torque dislocating his elbow and made him howl in pain.

And before anyone could properly realize what had happened the wall on the other side of the building burst open. Immerging out of the smoke like a monster from a horror movie was titan of mushrooms that screamed like a demon from hell. Everyone was too shocked by what they were saying before it blitzed past them and grabbed the bomb.

"HEROES WIN!"