AN: Professor Donger: Yes we are going to be pairing Izumi with someone, No I won't be saying who it is, this fic will also Update generally whenever we feel like writing it. This is a side project for both Damian and me, we just happen to be very into it. As it is, expect at least an update or two every month, maybe more if we keep going at the pace we are at. More Notes at the end.

"We are so dead!" Minoru was panicking. "Did you see what she did to Todoroki?! TODOROKI?! One of the strongest in our class! She didn't even break a sweat! What chance do we have?!"

Momo was incredibly tempted to slap the boy across the cheek to calm him down like she had seen in a few movies, but she knew better and just frowned at him. "We'll never know until we try, Mineta. Keep in mind, Flintlock was able to best our classmates because she had a plan and they didn't, at least not a solid one. While I don't doubt she has a plan for us, we just need a better plan than hers."

"But she has all those guns, gadgets, and bombs! We don't know what she'll do!" Minoru had grabbed one of the orbs off his head and began squeezing it like a stress ball.

"She doesn't know what we'll do either." Momo pointed out. She quickly put a finger to her ear and started speaking "All Might-Sensei, I have a question before we begin."

"Ask away, Young Yaoyorozu!"

"If we were to trap Flintlock-Sensei in Mineta's quirk, would that qualify as a win for us?"

She heard All Might hum before giving his answer. "That would qualify as a capture, yes. Though, she would have to be completely neutralized, unable to do anything before I could call the win in your favor."

Minoru perked up, "So all I gotta do is trap her in my ba-" an unimpressed look from Momo, and All Might loudly clearing his throat over the comms had Minoru rethink his wording, "-er I mean…. Quirk, my quirk. All I gotta do is trap her with it and we win?"

"Precisely! And of course, remove or destroy her sensor. Though, I doubt she'll just let that happen."

Momo nodded her head and made a sound of confirmation. "Thank you, All Might-Sensei."

"Of course! You have two more minutes until your prep phase is over! Good luck!"

"Alright, Mineta." Momo looked over the street plans. "Let's get to it."

"So, do you think they stand a chance?" Mashirao prompted as the clock ticked down with only one minute left.

"Yaoyorozu seems super smart," Denki pointed out. "Maybe she'll be the one to outsmart Flintlock-Sensei. They might be the first win."

Tenya rubbed his chin as he analyzed as well, "Mineta's quirk is also ideal for capture, and his small body makes him a tougher target to hit with ranged weaponry. I must agree with Kaminari, they seem the most capable of winning against Flintlock-Sensei."

Katsuki tsked from his spot near the edge of the group. "You idiots. Just because she's smart and he's short doesn't mean they're gonna win. Gun Nut has years of experience on them and had a plan for the other two teams, and she has more than just guns."

"Oh yeah, she has bombs and gadgets too." Ejirou realized, before giving a toothy grin and slamming his hardened fists together. "How manly can you get!"

"Do you just use the word 'manly' for anything you find cool?" Kyouka asks.

"Pretty much."

"Thought so."

All Might smiled wider and chuckled at how the students were discussing how the match could go, without him having to tell them to do so. Good, they're paying attention.

Now time to get the show on the road.

"Let the match begin!"

He hated this plan.

Why did he have to be the bait?!

Well, he knew why, but that doesn't mean he likes it! He was out in the opening, sneaking around and searching for any sign of the Gunslinger. So far Minoru hasn't found her yet, nor did she find him. Actually, he had a feeling the latter was gonna happen fir-

"Well, well, well." The PA system throughout the grounds echoed with the voice of Flintlock. "There seems to be a little rat in the walls."

Minoru froze and immediately ducked behind a car for cover. Where was she?! Was she on the rooftops?! The street?! Where?!

"Oh! Don't be scared! It's alright. It will all be over soon.~"

'Why is she so terrifying?!' Minoru mentally screamed as he continued to try and find her. He almost missed the movement in the reflection of the window of the store to his left. It was such a small movement, but he saw it.

And that's the only reason he was able to duck back behind the car in time before a gunshot rang out, the bullet going past just where he was and the sound of glass from the store shattering.

"I so do love a game of cat and mouse."

"Yaoyorozu!" Minoru whisper-shouted into his earpiece. "There's your gunshot! Get her!"

"I couldn't see where it came from." He heard Momo tell him, and he deflated at the thought of what he had to do next. "Keep draw-"

"Yeah! Yeah! Draw her fire, I know!" Minoru took a few orbs off his head and got ready. He quickly glanced out into the street and planned his pathing. "Okay, okay, you got this. Here I GO!"

He threw one of his orbs onto the ground and jumped on it at an angle that would send him flying across the street. Before he could hit the side of a building, he threw another orb where he would land and bounced off that. He continued to do this and eventually heard another gunshot, though this time he didn't see the bullet himself due to how fast he was moving around the street.

"Slippery one, aren't you!" He heard Flintlock say before another shot rang out.

This went on for a bit longer until Momo was finally able to call out a location.

"The roof of the flower shop!"

Minoru knew which building that was. He quickly bounced himself into another alley and out of sight.

Meanwhile, Flintlock was indeed on the roof of the flower shop. She was having way too much fun trying to nail Minoru mid-flight. It was a real test of her aim. Now, if only she can find out where he went-

"GOTCHA!"

"What?!" Flintlock turned around, only to have a purple projectile slam into her and kick her off the roof. Sly kid, he somehow managed to get behind her.

She fell onto a car in the street below, lucky the fall wasn't too bad. She looked up and saw a hellfire of Minoru's orbs coming at her. She quickly drew her revolver and shot a couple of them of course, but a few slipped through and hit her, pinning her arms to the car below.

"Haha!" Minoru jumped down from the roof, hands outstretched and making grabbing motions. She didn't like the look on that face. "Victory's mine!"

"Social distancing!" She yelled as she lifted a foot and kicked him over and into the street behind her. "Six-foot rule!"

"Gah!" Minoru rolled around on the ground and looked over at Flintlock, readying to go in again, and maybe this time grab his pri-

A loud, tearing noise had him freeze, as he saw Flintlock's left arm rip free from his quirk. Well, it didn't rip free from his quirk itself, it tore out of the armor that was stuck to his quirk's orbs. She got up into a crouch and reached over to her right arm to tear it out of the armor as well. Minoru's eyes were stuck on Flintlock's left arm though.

'Who the hell wears armor over armor?!' He thought as he saw that her left arm was completely covered with some sort of material, metal? Maybe plastic?

She easily ripped her other arm free, which didn't have armor underneath and looked at Minoru.

"... You really should have moved while I was busy with that." She says, and faster than he could react, she lifts her revolver and shoots him right in his sensor, launching him back and eliminating him.

"Minoru Mineta has been eliminated!"

Flintlock twirls her gun and holsters it in a fluid motion, as she walked over to Minoru to make sure he was okay. Suddenly, she stopped.

"So, you thought you could sneak up on me, Miss Yaoyorozu?" She turned around, and Momo walked out confidently from her spot in an alley. "And you expose yourself? Not very smart."

"You have no way of taking me out at this distance, sensei," Momo stated.

"I have my revolver." Flintlock moves her cloak a bit to show off the silver gun.

"Which is empty." Momo proudly stated. "Nine shots, then you reload."

Flintlock smiled behind her mask, impressed. "I see someone's been paying attention."

"I kept count. You used all your shots against Mineta."

"How certain are you of that?" Momo froze as she heard that question.

"What?"

"How certain are you that my gun is completely empty?" She could practically see the smile behind that mask.

Flintlock's hand inched towards her gun. At the same time, the light of Creation glowed from Momo's hand as she was readying her own weapon. "Tell me, Miss Yaoyorozu…."

"Are you feeling lucky?"

The air was tense as the two women stared each other down, neither moving an inch.

"Twice," Flintlock randomly said, "Could you set the mood for us?"

"You've got it! A good ol' fashion standoff!"

"Wait, what?" Momo quickly flicked her eyes to the left, and saw Twice standing on the sidewalk, holding up a boombox. She also noted that he was missing his green bandana.

The man pressed a button, and suddenly, music one would hear from an old western film about cowboys began playing. But Momo had other things on her mind. What was Twice doing here? Wasn't he manning the monitors? And why was he playing music?!

She shook her head and refocused on Flintlock, the woman being unphased, not moving an inch. She was so still, she might have passed for a mannequin. The longer they stood there, the more Momo was getting nervous. What if there was one bullet left? Should she make a shield? Should she dodge to the side? Should she make her own-?

"I AM A TUMBLEWEED!" Twice shouted as he rolled into and through the road from Momo's right.

"What the…?" Momo watched as he rolled past. Wasn't he just on her lef-

BANG! A gunshot rang out

A bird screech was heard.

Momo gasped as the wind was knocked out of her, and she felt pain flair in her chest as she fell back. It's like everything was in slow motion. She looked and saw the pieces of her sensor as it shattered. Flintlock with her gun drawn and pointed at her. Was she seeing double? Because she swears she sees two Twices.

"Oomph!" Time resumed to normal as she hit the ground not too gently. She just laid there on her back, staring up at the sky. She was wrong about the ammo count. She wasn't fast enough. Her sensor was destroyed.

"Momo Yaoyorozu has been eliminated! Flintlock wins!"

She didn't know what to say, except…

"I…. lost?"

"Oooowwww! It hurts!"

"Sorry about that, kiddo." Flintlock gave Minoru an ice pack to put where he was hit. "My gun packs quite a punch."

"Alright!" All Might gestured to the losing team. Minoru was busy with the ice pack while Momo just held hers against her chest as she stared down at the ground. "Who could tell me what they did right?"

"Oh! I know this one!" Denki, surprisingly, was the one to volunteer. "They baited her with Mineta, and made her waste ammo! I remember that from a video game I played once! You had to draw out the sniper's location by exposing yourself, and then fire back when you found out where he was."

Kyouka scoffed. "This isn't a video ga-"

"He's right." Flintlock pointed out.

"... HE IS?!" A good portion of the class shouted.

"He is. He may have recognized it from a game, but it was a valid strategy. I was hidden, they needed to find me. So they forced me to expose my location using Mineta as bait. It was a big gamble, but it worked. Once they knew where I was, they then moved in on me. Speaking of that," She turned to Minoru. "How did you get behind me without crossing the street?"

"I used the sewers." Minoru moved the ice bag to a different spot.

"Ah! Clever thinking, Young Mineta! She had zero line of sight of you when you were down there. Brilliant!"

"Though," Flintlock put her hands on her hips, "maybe be less…. grabby, next time. But yeah, solid plan."

"It was Yaoyorozu's idea," Minoru admitted.

"The grabby part?"

"Oh, no. That was all me. No shame there." Multiple groans were heard from various people in the room, including All Might.

"I… see." Flintlock said in an unreadable tone.

"I meant the rest of the plan was hers. I wouldn't let myself get shot like that. I'm not suicidal." Minoru pointed at Momo as he gave her credit for the plan.

"Well, then I must say, brilliant plan, Young Yaoyorozu. Your team almost beat Flintlock!" All Might gave her a thumbs up.

"But I still lost." Momo quietly said. "I miscounted the bullets. I was wrong. I wasn't fast enough. I-"

"You are here to learn." A hand landed gently on her shoulder.

"Huh?" Momo looked up at the mask of the woman who bested her.

"The whole point of this exercise wasn't to win," Flintlock said in a whisper so the others wouldn't hear, while All Might continued talking to the class about the importance of confidence, but also not to underestimate an opponent. "The point was to learn. Not everyone's perfect. Everyone here has something to work on, you included. Now, you know where you can improve. Honestly, the simple fact that your plan almost nabbed you the victory against me, and on the first day no less, earns you a pat on the back. Don't sell yourself short. You have a lot of potential, understand?"

Momo couldn't stop herself from smiling at her sensei's praise. Despite losing to her, Flintlock was still impressed with her.

She nodded. "I will, thank you Sensei."

"Question!" Pony raised her hand.

"Yes, Young Tsunotori?"

"There two Twices? They are twins?" She pointed at the monitor where the class would have watched the whole thing happen, meaning they would have seen the Twice with the boombox and the one that roleplayed as a tumbleweed.

"Ah, so you finally noticed." Flintlock gestured both arms towards Twice, who dramatically went into a superhero pose. "Twice here… can clone himself!"

On the monitors, in different locations, whole crews of Twices came out from all over the place. Cars, alleys, sewers, stores. They flooded the screens.

The Twice with the green bandana pressed a button on the console. A notification that the audio was on, displayed in the corner.

Suddenly, all the Twices raised their hands towards the monitors, waved, and at once said, "YO!"

Silence.

"... Okay, that's trippy." Kyouka voiced her opinion. She then looked at the one wearing the bandana. "So, is he…?"

"He's the original," Flintlock confirmed, "As marked by his stylish green bandana."

"Green is the best color! It's the color that strikes fear into the heart of eeeevillll!"

"..."

"It's also my favorite color. No, it isn't."

"Wait, so all those Twices have been running around the whole time repairing the training ground?" Ochako asked, amazed.

"Sort of. Can't really fix a broken window that easily. Now, can I?"

Flintlock just shook her head and stretched. "Well, I'm gonna go get some water and get ready for the next match."

Minoru, who was busy staring at her toned arms, quickly snapped out of it and raised a hand quickly, remembering his question.

She nodded for him and he took that as his go-ahead to ask his question.

"Sensei, what's with your left arm?" He pointed to it curiously "When you tore off the sleeves of your costume I noticed it, but your left arm is still covered in armor, what's with that?"

Everyone except Twice and All Might turned to look at the gunslinger in confusion before they noticed her arm, now that they actually took a good look, her suit was indeed missing its sleeves, specifically the gloves and sleeves that led up to her elbows, exposing the hand and flesh for the right arm and what seemed to be a type of metal-polymer for the left.

Flintlock paused and looked at her left arm before turning back to Minoru with a shrug. "It's my squeezin arm." With that, she turned and walked out of the observation room but not before shouting "Twice! Make sure the ones that fought drink water!"

Everyone stared after her in confusion for a moment, Twice took the opportunity to start handing out water bottles to all of the students. Once he reached Minoru he shoved the water bottle in his face and growled at him.

"Don't try to touch my sister. I saw what you tried to do…" with that, he returned back to his station, but not before turning his annoyance onto the students "Drink your water! This is a threat!"

All Might nervously chuckled "Alright… while she goes to sets up!" He once more spun his bingo machine before pulling out a ball with the letter A. "Team A! You're up!"

"Oh God, we're gonna die…" Pony muttered while Ochako patted her on the back.

"Come on Pony! We've got this!"

As the two made their way down to the field to prepare the rest of the class turned to the monitors. Only for Kyouka to speak up.

"Did anyone else hear that strange noise Flintlock-Sensei's gun made? You know when Twice let us listen in on the conversation between Her and Yaomomo?"

Everyone looked at her in surprise, none more so than Momo herself. "You mean the bird?"

Kyouka nodded "When she fired that last shot it sounded more like a bird's call or screech than a gunshot… I thought I was hearing things."

"It sounded like a hawk…" Koda muttered in the back of the class, but everyone had been so quiet that they heard him and turned to him much to his surprise and embarrassment. "I know birds, my quirk lets me talk to them after all… and, well it sounded like a hawk or a falcon…"

The class remained contemplative after that, waiting to see what else their teacher had in store for them, all the while Twice was busy typing away at his console, giving orders to his many clones both through the HUDS in their masks as well as mentally. Luckily for him, he was wearing a mask, because without it the class would have definitely seen his shit-eating grin.

"This is not good. This is not good. This is not good." Pony was frankly, freaking out. She was pacing around Ochako so much that the gravity girl was starting to get dizzy. So making the executive decision as her teammate, Ochako grabbed Pony with four of her five fingers to stop her pacing, before slapping her across the face. Zeroing out her gravity and causing the American to float, though she was too distracted by the slap to notice.

"Pony calm down will ya!?" Ochako shouted, she quickly put her hands together and released her quirk's hold on Pony, she then began shaking the dazed American firmly. "We're gonna be fine! We gotta show her how we roll! And freaking out isn't gonna help!"

Pony quickly held a hand up to her cheek, face flushing enough to cover the angry red handprint that now adorned her cheek. "..."

It took Ochako a moment before her own blush formed and she bowed quickly "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry!"

"Do that again…" Pony muttered in a daze, unknowingly (and thankfully) swapping to English as she spoke.

Ochako tilted her head in confusion "What was that?" That snapped Pony out of it, causing the American girl to shake her head quickly before she got a determined look on her face.

"Nothing! I needed that!" She quickly bounced on her hooves and shook herself out. "You right! Who cares if we lose! We go out like Americans!"

Ochako chuckled, "I'm Japanese… anyways. I had a thought. The other teams kept trying to catch and beat Flintlock-Sensei. What if we just run out the clock instead? They did say it counted as a win."

Pony, despite her struggle with Japanese, understood what her partner was saying and nodded vigorously.

So the two girls put their heads together and planned. Before either of them knew it the buzzer to start went off.

The two moved quickly, they knew from watching the other teams fight that Flintlock liked to start out a few blocks away towards the city center no matter what she was doing. Ochako thought it was to give the students a fair chance to prepare but that didn't matter. From what they saw of their teacher, they knew that she was fast, insanely fast, so her starting near the city center wasn't as much of a handicap as it probably should have been. So they only had a minute, maybe two before they were engaged by Flintlock, Ochako reasoned. So they were going to play the world's most deadly game of Hide'n'Seek with their sensei!

The two quickly made their way into one of the many abandoned buildings and prepared to look for an area to hunker down, when they noticed that the building wasn't as abandoned as it seemed. The lights were on for one, and the building was lined wall to wall with guns galore. Behind the counter, wiping it down like one would a bar, was one of Twice's clones.

They looked at him, he looked back at them, before Ochako shouts, "Have you been here the whole time?!"

Twice put his hands under the counter and shouted at them "YES! I HAVE! YOU KIDS ARE BLIND!"

Neither of them really knew how to respond to that, well Ochako didn't know how to respond to that, Pony was busy ogling the guns.

"Is that an M4? Woah that's a SPAS-12! Why is there a Winchester Model 1887 in here? Oh my gosh, she has an AWP!"

Before Ochako could admonish her friend for getting off track, she heard a faint "Kobe!" from outside followed by the sound of a metal object rolling across the floor.

Looking down she saw a grenade of some kind come to a stop next to her "Shit!" She grabbed Pony and quickly dragged her up the stairs further into the building, a few seconds later the grenade detonated with a sound similar to an antique camera going off and a flash.

"Sis! you dick! My eyes! My beautiful eyes!"

The two ignored the angry shouting downstairs and quickly found themselves inside of a large open room with a few random objects scattered about, with no other door than the one they came in from which Pony had shut and locked, and a few windows with views on the outside. Pony quickly looked at Ochako in fright as the sound of running grew louder and louder "What we do?!"

Ochako, thinking quickly, turned Pony around and hopped onto her back. "JUMP!" was all the warning she gave her friend before five of her fingers touched Pony's shoulders, negating the American's gravity. Ochako then negated her own gravity before Pony jumped, and they both floated to the ceiling.

Flintlock kicked the previously locked METAL door off of its hinges before sliding into the room. "Knock knock!" She enters the room, her revolver drawn. She didn't lookup.

Ochako tapped Pony on the shoulder and pointed at Flintlock, who nodded and readied her horns. Ochako then put her fingers together as Flintlock walked beneath them. "Release!"

"Huh?" Flintlock looked up, but before she could aim and fire, the two girls landed on top of her. Her gun was knocked out of her hand. "Damn." Her left arm grabbed the nearest girl to it, which was Pony, before grabbing one of the straps of her hero costume and throwing her across the room.

Flintlock then rolled to avoid the hand of Ochako, which almost touched her with all five fingers. She came out of her roll standing, Ochako getting on her feet as well. Ochako quickly grabbed the nearest object, which was some kind of metal sphere, and negating its gravity picked it up and threw it at her teacher.

Ochako's quirk worked by negating the Earth's gravitational influence on an object, but the object she touched still had mass, so when she threw the ball at her teacher it didn't just float towards her it flew! She quickly brought her hands together and returned its gravity, expecting Flintlock to either dodge or get hit.

She didn't expect her sensei to catch the heavy sphere with one hand and casually chuck it out the window next to her, shattering the glass.

"... Oh shit."

"Yeah, that's about the right reaction." Flintlock then closed the short distance between them. Ochako tried to go for the grab again, only for Flintlock to redirect her hand to miss, grabbed it, and twisted Ochako's arm and forced it behind her back. "Catch yourself." Was the only warning Ochako got before she was tossed out the window screaming.

Ochako immediately used Zero Gravity on herself and stopped herself from having a nasty fall. She would then land on the ground and take a moment to process what just happened. Flintlock just defenestrated her!

Meanwhile back up in the room, Flintlock had walked over to the window, picking back up her revolver along the way, to make sure her student actually did catch herself. She looked out the window and saw that Ochako was alright. "Good, she's a quick thinker."

"SORRY FLINTLOCK!"

Flintlock perked up and turned around, only to receive a powerful kick to the stomach from Pony that launched her out the window. As she went flying, she couldn't help but yell back, "You missed the 300 reference!"

In English, of course. She wanted Pony to understand.

Pony watched out the window as Flintlock pointed out her left hand and used the grappling hook she had to slow her fall. As she descended to the ground she pointed her revolver at Ochako.

"Ochako! Look out!" Pony yelled and pointed. Ochako saw Flintlock and immediately took cover around the wall of an alleyway as bullets began to whiz past her.

Pony couldn't just leave her partner out there. She was about to get into position to use her quirk and fire her horns at Flintlock, but the moment she got onto the windowsill, a bullet being shot at her had her ducking back into the room. She couldn't use her quirk effectively from this far away, and Flintlock had the range advantage. If only Pony could match her firepower….

….

"Wait, I can!" Pony then ran back through the now destroyed doors, and down the stairs. She re-entered the room filled with guns and ran up to the man still rubbing his eyes. "Twice-Sensei! Need gun!" She urgently yelled in her broken Japanese.

Twice then immediately stopped rubbing his eyes and stared at Pony, shock written all over his face, which was somehow visible through his mask.

"What?! No way Jose! These guns are off-limits to anyone else besides Flintlock! I'm gonna need to see some ID!" He held his hand out and made a motion for Pony to hand over her ID.

"But, come on! You gotta make an exception!" She desperately yelled in English.

Twice responded in English as well, "Sorry kid, rules are rules. ID, or scram!"

"But, um… we're American buddies! Pleeeeaaaasssse!" She put her hands together and gave Twice her best puppy dog eyes.

Twice simply stared at her unmoving for a bit, and for a moment Pony thought she was gonna have to find some other way to save Ochako. Until…..

Twice shrugged. "I see nothing wrong with that argument! One sec kid!"

'It worked!' Pony mentally cheered.

"Alright! This should do it! Have fun kid! I am so gonna get in trouble for giving you this!" Twice says as he lifts up a big gun. It was mostly white, with red trim. The barrel reminded Pony of a Minigun, but the gun itself was too compact to be a real Minigun.

"... Is not overkill?" Pony cautiously asked.

"Hm…. Maybe. Overkill is the best kind!" Twice then placed the big gun on the counter for Pony to take.

Pony grabbed the gun from two grips, one where the trigger was, the other on the left side of the gun, and picked it up. It was heavy, but Pony was luckily strong enough to hold it.

"You're gonna need these!"

"Huh?" Pony looked up and jumped back in surprise to see more than one Twice, four more in fact, making it five total in the room. The extra four were now carrying drum mags of ammo, filled with blanks, of course.

Pony would have questioned it further if the sound of gunfire outside didn't remind her why she needed a gun in the first place.

"Ochako!" She then turned back to the Twices, and the ammo they held. "Hold for me?"

"Roger!" They saluted.

Meanwhile, outside, Ochako had managed to evade Flintlock through the alleys, the Gunslinger having been on her heels for the past few minutes.

"Uraraka!~ Where are you?~" She heard throughout the alleys.

She couldn't stop the whine that escaped her as she neared the exit of the alley that led into a street. "Pony, where are you?"

Before she could enter the street, a figure rounded the corner in front of her. Ochako ran straight into it and an arm shot out and pushed her onto her butt. Ochako looked up and gasped at the sight of Flintlock standing over her. She drew her revolver and cocked the hammer.

"You had a good run." Flintlock said as she aimed at Ochako's sensor. "But I'm afraid this is the end of the line."

"Ahem!" Someone cleared their throat from the end of the alley that Ochako came from, and the noise of metal wiring reached her ears, Flintlock immediately turned to see who had approached her.

Oh, it was just Pony with a big gun…..

OH SHIT! IT'S PONY WITH A BIG GUN!

Flintlock was honestly too shocked at the fact that one of her students had one of her guns!

"What the fu-"

"Howdy." Pony smirked before opening fire.

"Okay, I'm just gonna say it. Tsunotori is badass!" Denki shouted with a raised fist, Kyouka surprisingly nodded along with him in solidarity.

"Twice-Sensei just… gave her a gun?!" Momo muttered in horror…

All Might would have been trying to calm his class down but he was busy trying to hold Tenya back with one arm while the young man was busy trying his absolute hardest to get close enough to yell into his headset.

"Tsunotori! Put that gun away this instant! This is absolutely unacceptable behavior! You aren't even properly licensed to be wielding…" and on the rant went.

Twice, meanwhile, was busy having an emotional crisis. On one hand, this was hilarious and Himiko would be laughing at Izumi getting her just desserts for once. On the other hand, Izumi was going to kill him!

Screw it. He was already in trouble, may as well save himself a copy of the recording for him and Himiko.

Everyone refocused as they saw Ochako, who due to being prone on the ground was spared from the hail of bullets, make her way to Pony's side.

"Where did you get a gun?! More specifically, one like that?!" Ochako pointed to the gun in Pony's hands, a wide smile on her face.

Pony meanwhile didn't answer, she was in her own form of heaven. She wasn't just holding but firing one of Flintlock's guns. 'Flintlock's! And I'm shooting it at Flintlock herself!' She thought with glee as she kept the bullet hell coming.

"Hello! We are here with the ammo! Lock and load rookies!" Ochako looked down the alley as wice… er…. Twices ran up to them with ammo.

'Twice-Sensei?! You gave Pony a gun?!" Ochako shouted over the sound of gunfire.

"TWICE! WHAT THE FUCK!" Flintlock yelled from around the corner of the wall where she had managed to take cover.

"Tsunotori made a convincing argument! She used 'The Eyes' Big Sis!" One of the Twices defended themselves.

"Yeah?! And so does Himiko! How are you not immune to those by now?!" Flintlock sounded pissed.

Just then, the bullets stopped firing. The only thing coming from the gun was a clicking noise.

"... Uh oh." Pony's smile fell when she realized the mag was empty.

Flintlock perked up at the lack of bullets, and quickly turned the corner and took aim. Luckily for the girls, and the Twices with them, Ochako thought fast and used her quirk on a dumpster next to them and placed it in front of them for cover.

Flintlock fired on the dumpster, but her rubber bullets just bounced off ineffectually. She was about to run towards their position to engage in close quarters combat, when four horns launched up from behind the girls' cover and flew at her, forcing her to dodge. She quickly shot one out of the air, only for another to come up from behind the dumpster to replace it.

"Ochako! Hurry!" Pony told her teammate as she used her quirk to buy them time. Firing wave after wave of horns at their sensei.

"I-I don't know how to reload this thing!" Ochako was so confused. She's never even touched a gun, much less used one before. She's never even heard of one that looked like the one in her hands.

"Oh, here! Let me help! It's easy, how are you confused?!" One of the Twices offered their assistance.

"Twice! Don't you- gah!" Flintlock barely dodged a horn.

"Aaannnd there! See? It's easy!" Twice had shown Ochako how to reload.

"Thank you Sensei!" Ochako then negated the gun's gravity so she could hold it easier, then held the gun like how she saw Pony hold it. She peaked around the corner and started firing at Flintlock. She had trouble with the recoil at first, especially with the gun's gravity negated, but got used to it quickly.

Flintlock cursed and dived behind another dumpster further up the alley. Peaking around it to take potshots at the students every so often.

The onslaught of horns and bullets continued, until…

BZZZZZ!

"TIME'S UP!" All Might's voice echoed over the speakers of the training grounds.

"Wait…" Ochako breathed out in disbelief. "Time's up? T-that means…"

"TEAM A WINS!"

"We won?" Pony said in disbelief. She then started laughing. "We won! WE WON!" She then hugged Ochako so suddenly that the gravity-defying girl dropped the gun onto the ground. "We won, Ochako!"

"We did it, Pony! We beat her!" Ochako couldn't help but hug her friend back, laughing as well.

"WOOOO!" The Twices all had run into the store and retrieved some guns of their own, they started firing them into the air in celebration.

Footsteps approached, then suddenly the dumpster they were using for cover was pushed to the side and into the wall where it once had been before Ochako moved it. Both girls and the clones froze mid celebration.

Before them stood Flintlock, and despite her face being covered, they all knew she wasn't happy.

It was scary how easily they could feel how pissed off she was, but the shaking of her clenched fists definitely helped.

"Twice." Flintlock purred. Purred out, her voice dead calm despite her very obvious rage.

"Y-yes Ma'am?" All the clones shakily asked in unison,.

"You five. Plus the original. In the street near the observation room. NOW!" She ordered, shouting the "now".

"Right away!" They saluted before quickly running to do as she ordered, Ochako and Pony watching in awe and a not so insignificant amount of fear.

"You two." The girls jumped and started shaking. Were they in trouble? Was Flintlock mad at them for using her gun? Would she expel them?!

'I don't know what I'll do if Flintlock is the one that expels me!' Pony screams in her head.

Flintlock said nothing as she grabbed the gun back from Ochako, who nervously returned the gun's gravity, unloaded the magazine, put the half spent magazine on her hip, and quickly turned the gun's safety on, all with practiced ease. She then stared down the first winners of the Battle Trials, face unreadable behind her mask, the two nervously awaiting their punishment.

"... Good job, girls." Flintlock sounded…. Proud? She gave them a thumbs up.

"Wait, what?" Ochako couldn't help but ask. Confused and a little hopeful.

"You both are the first winners. Good job!" She sounded excited.

"You not mad?" Pony asked nervously shuffling her hooves across the pavement, kicking spent shell casings as she did so.

"Mad?! Are you kidding?! That was fun! So that's what it's like being on the receiving end of Sweet Business!" She looked at the gun in her hands and laughed. "Plus, you girls used the resources available to you, and instead of straight-up trying to beat me, you held out. You learned from the other fights. I'm proud. Besides, the only person I'm mad at is Twice for giving you the damn thing in the first place. But, fortunately, it seems he gave it to someone who knows how to use a firearm. Hm…" She hummed thoughtfully, before holding the gun out towards the girl in question.

"Huh?" Pony looked at the gun held before her, confused. "What?"

"Here." Flintlock said in English. "Why don't you hold onto this for me?"

"You… are you serious?" Pony slowly reached out, as if she couldn't believe it.

"I'm serious. Keep Sweet Business safe for me, would ya?" Pony took the 'Sweet Business' into her arms, being gentle with it as if she'd break it by just breathing on it wrong."After this class is over, tell Aizawa that I gave that to you, So you don't get in trouble." She advised the young heroine in training who looked up at Flintlock in surprise. Flintlock then reached a hand up towards her mask and removed the faceplate of it just enough to expose a single, green eye.

"She's in good hands, I know it." She then winked at Pony, before fixing the mask to cover back up her whole face. She then said in Japanese, "Now, if you girls will excuse me? She began walking away from the two with a wave "I've got a duplicator to talk to. Go head back to the observation room and tell All Might to start the reviews without me."

As she left the girls behind, Ochako sighed in relief that they weren't in trouble. Flintlock may be intense, but at least she isn't dead serious like Aizawa.

"Welk, I guess we should head back. Right Pony? Pony?" Ochako looked over to Pony, who was stuck staring straight ahead of her. "Um… Pony?" Ochako reached out. "Are you alri-"

"HOLY SHIT! SHE GAVE ME ONE OF HER GUNS!" Pony started doing a little dance, hugging the gun up to her bosom "Do you think she autographs? Mom gonna be jealous!"

'Well, at least she's happy.' Ochako smiled while rubbing her ears.

She was probably going to go deaf by the end of the year if this keeps up.

AN: Professor Donger: For those that don't know, Sweet Business is a gun from Destiny 2, the reasoning for it's inclusion in this story will be explained next chapter, don't worry this fic isn't a crossover.

Damian02: Definitely our longest chapter yet. We hope you found it worth the wait. Let us now what you think!

Next time!: The Battle Trials End!

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