CYA: What Defines A Hero: Good Path

by lumpeistbark3

this story revolves around the Entirety of Class 1A being isekai'd into the one-punch man world. The story contains light spoilers post-season 6. The story goes up until right after the psycho sister's arc so I guess spoilers for one punch season 3 as well. the alternative path on A03 is to be uploaded later here.

51. Month 3: Bonus: Week 1-2:Storm Passes(G)

HA executive meeting: Hero Association execs

In response to the monster invasion, an emergency meeting was held by the hero association's top executives. They all sat in the dimly lit room around the circular table, attempting to make sense of the situation.

"According to numerous reports from yesterday's attack, multiple financial backers and association executives were attacked, given the recent traitor reveal from the previous day as well. We can only assume that was the way the monsters were able to correctly identify them all, along with their location. If Miss Exma had not acted, then there is a likely possibility that even more information would have been leaked," a dark-skinned man remarked, making everyone turn their attention to the woman in question.

"How were you able to diagnose that he was a traitor?" Another man asked. This man had a mechanical eye; his name was Sekingar.

"It was a matter of chance; the tiger monster that usually accompanies the forest lord had mentioned that he caught a whiff of the monster's scent, and I acted appropriately," she replied simply. This garnered several murmurs across the room as that information sank in.

"You trusted these monster claims? why?" The original speaker remarked

"Because the boy was there, it had no other choice but to tell the truth, and if it was lying, we would just do away with it regardless." Exma stated coldly, and all the men in the room nodded at that.

"Speaking of the forest lord, he, along with the metal bat, was in charge of protecting Mr. Narinki and his son Waganma. Given the reports described, did your interrogation provide any more context to the situation?" A man spoke up.

"Let's not beat around the subject; is there a chance that the tiger was compliant with the other monsters' demands and gave up the child willingly, as his father believes?" Another man piped up directly after, and all eyes and attention were instantly put on her once again. She made a side glance to sitch before she replied.

"No, it is unlikely that the tiger acted out of any self-interest on either itself or on the side of the monsters attacking; even while unconscious, the boy still maintained control of the creature. However, he is still young and rather skittish compared to some of the others in his group. The monster was given the order to protect him before falling unconscious; how the creature carried out that order is up to them. His best guess was that the tiger monster must have concluded that it could not have escaped and hoped to negotiate; instead, he found that they simply wanted the boy, and so he gave it to them, thereby succeeding in completing its order." Exma said this gained several grumbles from the circle of men and one other woman.

"So we know for a fact that the monsters were targeting the child, so they wanted a hostage that was important to the hero association, but why? Are they attempting to provoke us even more?" Another man said.

"Either way, we can't react too hastily; they took the boy hostage instead of killing him, so they must have a plan in action to use him to get to us. Given the leaked information, they likely know that Narinki was our largest investor, contributing 7% of our funds." Another man remarked, making everyone break out into minor side discussions before coming back together to discuss more.

"So what are our next plans of action?" A man asked, and at this point, no one spoke as they just looked at each other with very serious faces.

"As painful as it is to admit matters are in the monster's hands at the moment until they come to us and tell us their terms for the boy's release, we can't force their hand if we wish for the boy to be returned safe and sound. We just need to find a way to placate the father until then," Sekingar remarked, pinching the bridge of his nose for a moment.

In the next moment, things took another major turn as someone came into the meeting and laid out a piece of newspaper in front of all of them. This newspaper officially revealed that the "monster association" was behind the attack the previous day and even leaked that they were able to garner information due to having a monster within the hero association headquarters. It even leaked information to the public about the hostage situation.

The only good news that had come from this mysterious newspaper was that the monster adviser Gyoro-Gyoro indeed had a plan for the coming months, and the child would live until then if the hero association did not attempt anything foolish.

The point of this article was clearly to cast doubt on the hero association and discredit them. Whatever this gyoro-gyoro is planning, they will all need to be more vigilant than ever, and they cannot afford to show any more weakness.

The conversation switched over to other topics, the first of which was the situation revolving around their S-class heroes and their status. They were the strongest of the heroes and the pillars of the very association, so any attack on the monster's base would be predicated on them leading the charge. The status of most of the S-class was lopsided. Tank top master was going to be discharged from the hospital fairly soon enough, but four other S-class heroes were wounded during the previous day's conflict. Green Savior Deku, Frozen-Phoenix, Genos, and Metal Bat were all injured. Their injuries thankfully ranged, so they were all discharged within the month, so they should still be up to full battle strength if given enough time. Darkshine had been shaken up at least somewhat since the other day, but he physically seemed ok for the moment, and all the rest were fine.

The next topic to be discussed was full of positives, and this was the confirmation of the hero hunter being captured by Bang and Bomb. While he didn't discuss where he was keeping him, he assured them that he was contained for the moment and would be that way for the foreseeable future. It was the single bright spot of the sour meeting, which is why it was saved for the end. While some voiced concerns that Bang should kill the man so that they could be completely safe, others argued against it, stating that they didn't have the time or the power to enforce such a decision and that even if they did, they would risk Bang becoming an enemy, which they couldn't afford in the current climate, so they took their victory where they could get it, and now they could focus all of their attention on the monster association.

After the meeting was concluded, Exma pulled Sitch to the side to discuss the problem with the teens; despite her temperament, she couldn't get all the details from the man. He did confirm that the forest lord did indeed not have the power to control monsters, but this just raised several questions about why the monsters followed his orders and did not cause havoc in that sitch.

More importantly, some of the monsters from the breakout also didn't attack, and he still did not know why. He guessed that maybe treating them humanely caused some of them to change their tune and react differently than normal, which was his best guess for now. He argued that he would have liked to run studies on things of such nature and even pondered the future of monsters and humans somewhat coexisting. Exma was floored by that remark but was more confident in moving on with her next discussion point as she explained to the man the situation that the non-killing army has found themselves in as they have access to spies within the monster association.

He questioned why she hadn't brought any of this up during the meeting, and she explained that such information likely wouldn't sit well with any of the other executives and probably write any information off as traps laid out by the monsters, given that they wouldn't trust them at all, and he had to agree with that sentiment. So from that perspective, she wanted to have another meeting with the teens, as they likely have the best information about the monster association, but she wanted to wait until they were all out of the hospital so that no information was left missing. Sitch agreed with that, and then they could hopefully find a spin on where they got their information when they informed the other executives.

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The Hospital Chronicles: Class 1A+

Three days pass by as the class continues to come to terms with everything that has happened. Most of the group had luckily been relatively unscathed from the conflict; both Bakugo and Todoroki had still been bedridden and only recently woken up two days after they were admitted to the place, but they would be required to be in the hospital for the remainder of the week. Although they were uninjured, the teens spent some time in the hospital as well. This time, all of them were undergoing muscular and bone enhancement surgery to better shape them up for injuries to come. They also gave them to Bakugo and Todoroki to help speed up their recovery.

Along with that going down, Drive Knight was still at work helping with their awakenings. Given that three of them had awakened so far, he wanted to continue his work and see if he could iron out any more kinks that might occur. The teens also got to work, helping out with the city's reconstruction. Momo was such a hot commodity that many cities were bidding for her to "help" with repairs, but she knew that it was just so that they could save money on repair costs, but she offered her help anyway. The continuous creation also served the dual purpose of helping with her quirk training; creating construction blocks and equipment was a lot of work, and she wasn't the only one as she was often joined by Mineta, given his new awakening, spent more time around her. Initially, she was against it, but she didn't want her preconceived notions of the boy to get the better of her judgment, as she wanted to slightly reward his new change in character or at least give it a chance, and she wasn't too disappointed. Maybe a few glances or comments could have been better, but overall, he was doing fine.

Mineta's awakening granted him a power that was similar to her own; he could create things with his Popoff orbs, but unlike hers, he couldn't create human-made materials or machines. His creations were limited mostly to elements and things that could be created by combining the elements of the periodic table. He luckily could think of the shape he wanted things in his orb's property to be in creating walls and domes. The reason he had stuck around Momo was mostly that he had to learn about the elements before creating things, which required a decent amount of effort on his part. She could have pawned it off to Iida to teach him, but due to their similarities, she took up the mantle of the teacher.

Uraraka was also helping out when she could with the reconstruction efforts, being reminded of her parents and wanting to help out with her zero gravity, which allowed loads to stack past their initial carrying capacity, allowing them to move a greater bulk of materials to the workers that needed them. Most of the group had gone out of their way to start helping the community, partly or mostly just because they wanted to help whenever they could, but partly due to the major backlash they had started to receive around the towns they would patrol under. People were usually a bit dismissive of them and their non-killing group, but now it had turned into an almost deep loathing that sometimes would border on hostility to some individuals.

Koda had it the worst of all, especially when he would be seen with torax or aki. People would have either two reactions: fear or outrage at him. Despite the good he tried to do, it was never enough. People were simply too paranoid about monsters at the moment, with the monster association still at large. Even some of his boxing friends weren't completely exempt. His coach told him that a few had dropped out or swapped classes just to be away from him, but his coach didn't mind, and he still wanted to teach him. The only city where they were mostly still given some benefit of the doubt was U-city, and they imagined it was mostly due to Tokoyami and Toru's efforts; the pair were even labeled the twin angels of U-city by the people they rescued.

The only good thing was that eventually, things would calm down. Just given enough time, the world tended to get over things rather quickly, and by the fourth day, people had once again started to ease up on their group, although their reputation was still mostly negative for the moment. Given the recent destruction around the continent, numerous schools and institutions were put on hold for the week, and some changes This left both Jackie and Sigismund with a plethora of more time on their hands, allowing them to hang around the class some more. Tokoyami was partially surprised that his parents would want that, but given what had happened recently, they deemed it to be the best place for him to be, and they still wanted him to go outside and explore, and it would be the best place for him to accept himself for who he is.

Jackie, on the other hand, used most of her spare time to be around sero, the summer couple didn't know if they had much time left and if they were going to get the most out of it even if it was to the detriment to the others around them, that got tired occasionally of their PDA, Jackie would split off her other time with her new martial arts style of the head first rushing style in that same token toru would undergo her practice in the pressure point killer fist her practice was delayed for some time however due to the master having been beaten by Garou sometime previously and she asked to join exactly when their master had returned seemingly more invigorated by his defeat then distraught as he worked his class harder than they were before which went quadruple for her given she was not only new but also from a rival school however she welcomed the challenge.

Both Bang and Bomb had gone mostly radio silent since they had captured Garou. No one knew where they were, so that left their students with other things to do. Charanko and Ojiro would mostly just train together, and Midoirya said he would pop in now and again when he got the chance. He was still in the hospital getting work done on his damaged arm, but he was making a good recovery, according to him.

It was the morning of the fourth day after the incident, and the doctors had finally allowed their checkups for their two classmates. Most of the class split between the two so that they wouldn't crowd them before switching between them. Bakugo was still himself despite his injuries, yelling full blast and not caring about most of them, but they all knew that at this point it was likely just a cover to see that all of them were ok. He calmed down once Midoirya told him what had happened. He seemed more interested in the monster Goketsu than the monster Asterius, who was the one who saved his life from the monster's clutches.

He was curious if Midoirya was the one who defeated him, but he shook his head and remarked that if the fight had continued, he would have lost. He was only able to keep up, but he felt that the monster still had the strength to spare, even with all of his quirks. Midoirya told him that Saitama was the one who defeated the monster, and Bakugo huffed at that and thought it made sense. Speaking of the bald idiot, his mind drifted to Silver Chain. He did promise her to set up a meeting between them, but he guessed that would be on hold for now.

He then started to wonder if the girl was doing alright; he didn't know if she would visit him, and part of him actually hoped to have seen her, but maybe she was hurt as well. If a monster like Goketsu was around along with Saren's host, there could have been other dragon-level threats dispersed around, and no matter how strong she was, she likely had limits, unlike the baldy, she didn't exude that aura of almost invincibility to her that he felt when he sparred with that guy. He was almost tempted to ask about her, but he wondered how much he wanted to deal with in his current predicament but decided against it. Two chatty brats would likely mention her eventually, but to his surprise, they didn't. He was momentarily surprised by that fact but let it slide, he guessed he would have to ask after all.

Bakugo waited until the other half of the class was about to swap between each other, halting Kirishima from leaving. When they had all made their way out, he asked Kirishima in a hushed tone about the girl, and he showed some signs of shock. His eyes started to move in an awkward side-to-side motion, which he initially thought implied something bad had happened, and he grabbed him closer and demanded that he spill the news. His shocked gasp turned into a hesitant shake of his head. Wait, did Silver Chain die? Who the hell killed her? How? He demanded that he tell him again, with his voice rising into his normal yelling tone.

Kirishima was mumbling something, and Bakugo carefully tried to read his lips to garner any information, and the only thing he could get out before the rude awakening was "They're still here." Kirishima worded before a sharp, painful screech was heard right next to him as Mina and the invisible girl had seemingly popped up on the other side of his bed. He breathed a sigh of indignation. He had forgotten about that invisible girl's new ability. A silent growl left his lips as the two nosey people laid into him about his question to Kirishima and why he was curious about the ninja. Through their ramblings, he garnered enough that the ninja was okay, and that was all he needed to know before cutting off one of the duo's energy by mentioning their beach day. With that, Mina died down almost completely, and they left shortly after as the next group came in to greet him.

Todoroki wasn't the talkative type but he appreciated all of his friends coming to visit him in the hospital, so he tried to force a smile mostly through the interaction although all that came up was mostly just a slight smirk, he was glad that Midoriya was able to make it in time to save bakugo and some members of the class of the had awakened their abilities which was nice to hear, they all said their peace and were making their way to leave for a moment but momo had returned giving him a get well soon basket, he could hear as they opened the door bakugo yelling something about not liking the contents of his but as he gazed at his basket he was ok with the things included but it was momo presence alone that truly brought a smile to his face.

"I heard that you have been spending more time with Mineta; I hope he hasn't been giving you a hard time." todoroki started.

"No, nothing like he used to be; he's been behaving himself; his new awakening was similar to mine, so he's tutoring under me." Momo replied simply, and before looking at him and chuckling for a moment, Todoroki looked at her suspiciously because of the action.

"I guess this is how you must have been when I was undergoing my operation," Momo remarked, and Todoroki's face tilted in confusion before realization dawned on him.

"So Kaminari told you?" Todoroki said, and Momo nodded her head.

"Yes, although he may have been exaggerating a bit when he said you threatened Drive Knight on my behalf." Momo asked, curious to hear his perspective on events. Todoroki looked down at his hand before looking back at her face. There was a slight red tint to his features that Momo noticed.

"It is not a complete fabrication; I did somewhat threaten him. I grew curious about the operation, and when Kaminari finally relented and let me see you, I heard you screaming in pain. I may have overreacted." Todoroki remarked that there was a slight embarrassment to his tone as he looked down and away from her. Momo quickly lifted his head and offered him a smile.

"You shouldn't be embarrassed by that. I'm flattered by your concern for me; the procedure, despite being unconscious and numb, was more painful than Drive Knight had admitted it would be." Momo said, and Todoroki couldn't help but smile back at the girl. Her hands were always so soft and gentle, and it always felt so right when he felt it on his skin, and he hated when it slid away.

"Have your awakened powers revealed themselves to you yet?" Todoroki questioned: It would be a shame if she went through all that with nothing to show for it, he thought. but she shook her head.

"Unfortunately they still avoid me, it is still alright though Drive Knight has collected enough data from me and the others for the rest of our classmates to undergo the procedure with more safety and hopefully a faster procedure process. it's for the best I suppose the class wants to do the rest of the reveals together like a reveal party of some kind." momo remarked. todoroki let out a small delightful huff as the girl said that she was always so kind to everyone he thought but then he thought about the time before he was knocked unconscious and what had happened in the stadium, he looked down to his left side, and let out a small amount of flame, seeing that it was red he started to ponder something Momo concerned question drew him out of his thoughts.

"No I wasn't cold, I think I awakened as well. during my fight with, that bakuzan monster. I...Unleashed blue flames." todoroki replied, momo gasped a moment in surprise but she couldn't figure out what to say to that was it a positive thing or something negative she never really knew his thoughts on his brother's situation as she found it too intrusive so she waited for him to speak up about it.

"If that is my power then I'm glad I have it, in that moment I felt more connected to my brother than I've ever had." todoroki said but Momo was confused despite saying he was happy to be connected to his brother his facial expression however seemed to show signs of confliction or sadness, she still didn't feel comfortable directly addressing it so she decided to opt for something else.

"do you know what the catalyze for your awakening was?" Momo asked simply she heard that Mineta and Shoji were due to being in a fight well Mineta said it was his feeling of being useless while Shoji was likely out of desperation to save someone because believing in tank top power was a little too much but she may just be too much a women of science to believe in such things but it was her turn to be quickly struck from her thoughts when the first thing that came from the boy's mouth completely shocked her.

"you... um ...what I meant to say was our friends...Midoirya, Iida, Uraraka, Tsu... then you. That monster bakuzan had said that he would kill all of you in front of me after we declined the monsters offer just as he was about to use a martial artist as a live example...at that very moment I stopped thinking of the thing as a human or monster, more like a nomu, just a vile creature or abomination and I tried to finish him off right then and there. but even with that, I still failed." Todoroki commented.

Momo had just caught back up to what the boy was saying her heart had skipped a beat when he said that he awakened because of her and while he clarified what he meant, she was still slightly flushed and honored by the remark and acknowledgment. the fact that he put her on the same pedestal that he does Midoirya and Iida was slightly surprised he must have not just been trying to comfort her when the two spoke during that night and just remembering that night and how it ended just made her flush even more, she wondered how he thought of it and she was tempted to ask but her mind was back in the situation when Todoroki suddenly sprouted blue flames from out of his fingertips.

"Oh? Did you figure it out? As expected of someone of your caliber." Momo replied immediately, interested in the blue flames that he was producing from his fingertips it was only a small flame like that out of a lighter the interesting bit was that after several seconds the flames had slowly started to turn normal again before he turned it off.

"Yes at least I think, I tried to recreate what I was feeling at that moment before I unleashed my final attack, I remember being in my phosphorous white form and then letting out an attack but instead of feeling cold I was hot incredibly hot, from what I can tell the only explanation I can come up with is that I absorbed heat from the surrounding area it would also explain why my attack had such an unintended range to it." todoroki explained and momo nodded her head in understanding.

"so you assumed that this new power allows you to draw the heat from the environment, not only increasing the effect of your ice capabilities but also storing the heat you drew into yourself which you can then use to enhance your fire attacks making your flames blue." Momo speculated and Todoroki let out a small chuckle but nodded his head in confirmation.

"Those are my thoughts exactly, it is no surprise someone as smart as you could figure it out. " todoroki replied making the girl blush but modestly.

"I'm not smart enough to figure out my ability, however," she remarked dismissively

"You should be fairer with yourself, I had a frame of reference to draw from, but in your position, I likely wouldn't be able to figure out how my ability worked either, but I'm sure you will figure it out eventually." Todoroki said earnestly making her cheeks tint red.

"thank you Todoroki, I'll be sure to keep trying at it." Momo remarked, momo wanted to say more, to thank the boy for believing in her so much and she wished that she could do more for him just so that she could show him how much she appreciated his encouragement part of her wanted to kiss him on the cheek again similar to that night before and this time instead of running away judge his reaction about it but her body was way too nervous and hot to commit to that thought.

the two sat in comfortable silence for a moment as Momo tried to think of something the two would cast glances at each other occasionally making eye contact before departing again, momo cast a glance over to the gift basket and while the class attempted their best efforts they couldn't give the boy his favorite food given they would have to make it from scratch which they didn't have the ingredients for at the moment.

Her mind flashed to some instance of him enjoying a kind of microwaveable soba back in their world and wished that she could conjure it for him but she didn't know how it was made so it wouldn't work. a small thud was heard in the hospital room as something dropped to the ground beneath her and rolled around on the floor. both teens' eyes narrowed in on the object and both were stunned by what they saw, the half-half teen more so even having a slight gasp with his look before he turned to her eyes wide open as his normally expressionless face had a soft joy to him even despite his injuries, momo was going to pick the object up but todoroki was faster despite his injuries he could still use his quirk and he used his ice to maneuver and pick the object up and rapidly took to his chest and hugged it, it was fairly funny sight momo thought as he hugged the instants soba if it wasn't for the words he said next.

"thank you Yaoyorozu, you are a goddess with all the beauty and smarts of one as well." the boy said absently mindedly as he almost seemed to caress the soba, to the compliment Momo's mind almost completely went blank and her face completely flushed as she covered it with both of her hands, she made small peepholes to see what was happening as Todoroki seemingly looked down at his arm in pure horror he twisted himself around as much as he seemed to have misplaced or maybe incinerated the soba can she had created for him was he that excited for soba?

"Sorry, if I offended you, I may have misspoken there in my excitement but please, please can I have it please." the teen begged but she was confused what did he want from her has she given him something?

"No, No you didn't misspeak at all it was just a bit surprising to hear those words from you but...they made me happy to hear." momo clarified, and this time it was todoroki turn to be slightly confused.

" ok then ...can I have the soba back? it kind of just disappeared." Todoroki explained clearing his hands and spreading them out noting the object's disappearance.

"so...ba? what's that? I don't think I need to remind you that requires me to know the molecular structure of something before I can create it. " momo, now Todoroki was just as baffled as she was, was he just imagining things just now? that's unlikely given the ice on the ground was this some sort of joke or something?

" umm...I remember that but you just created it just now...do you not remember?" todoroki questioned as he glanced over to the ice still on the floor, momo followed his eyes to the floor and tried to remember but the only thing that happened was she started to get a headache as she tried to remember.

"umm, I don't think that's quite right, are you feeling ok Todoroki?" Momo asked with worry, and Todoroki was still confused and partially on edge now, did she get hurt in the invasion after all? some sort of head trauma that would give her short-term memory loss? but indeed they would have brought it to him if that was the case, no thinking about it, even more, Yaoyorozu had directly told him that she didn't know how to create soba previously in the store so unless she lied to him for no reason things were simply not adding up could it be some sort of shapeshifting monster? but then how did it get that object it was clearly from their world and not from here he would know he checked numerous sources and no city has had it so there was something strange going on, wait could it be?

"Momo! Could you create something for me? anything it doesn't matter I just want to see your quirk in action." todoroki said suddenly surprising the girl who looked at him with even more confusion but complied with his request anyway, creating her signature Russian nesting doll that she was so fond of and todoroki watched intently as he looked at the pink glow that shrouded her hand before the doll slowly rose to completion and she set the thing down on his bedside table and correctly asked what did he want to prove with it. he then asked her to create soba but she once again believed that she couldn't she surprised him one step even further stating that she didn't even know what that was, ok so something was going on here he realized but he wanted to keep going with his theory for now and hopefully it could shed some light on things.

"Momo, I understand how your quirk works but I want you to try and create something that you don't know how to create but know exists." Todoroki, momo was at first confused as the two statements seemed to conflict with one another but she trusted him and she attempted to do so, she needed to create something that she knew existed but knew nothing of what it was made of she thought for a moment of things she could create thinking of the heroes drive knight selective for her and her weapons but thinking of weapons and drive knight focused her attention to something else entirely.

She had remembered some time ago that Drive Knight had shown her something it was a large black box container of some sort and it allowed him to take on different forms for transformations, and if she believed she understood where todoroki was going with this was correct then this would prove to be the ultimate test in proving if his hypothesis is correct.

so she concentrated on that image and tried to remember the object in question and attempted to conjure it into life it seemed to be a success as another clunk hit the floor this time metallic in nature. both of the teens looked down at the relatively large metal object, it was almost 3 ft tall in comparison. momo looked at the object and then back at todoroki who looked at her with a knowing grin.

"Well I guess we know what your awakening is capable of now, unlike your normal creation power that gave off a pink glow when you created that it gave off a green glow instead." Todoroki said. momo was practically speechless from the reveal and her admiration for the boy only grew as he helped her with something she's been struggling with for the past week now.

"Thank Todoroki, your insight is truly amazing." the girl praised but the boy shook his head.

"It wasn't just me, you helped as well by creating that soba package just now, I think you were simply too smart to consider trying to make something without actually knowing about it first it seemed completely counterintuitive to how your quirk normally operates," todoroki explained his perspective and he was again right but she couldn't help feeling like she owed him something in return and given her new ability she had just the idea for it and it would be a good surprise when he gets home, but her head started to hurt again suddenly.

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momo started to have visions of something, it almost felt weird as she examined a battle taking place on a desolate street corner, she saw a large mechanical samurai-like robot for a moment before her vision changed again this time into a pitched battle with her and most of her classmates along with darkly clad people with spears but something was wrong they were getting violent even herself, she had summoned a machine gun and started to use it to obliterate some of the monsters present, which was in the complete juxtaposition of where she was threatening to use the machine gun against monsters in that same street but before she was forced to instead multiple missiles rained down from above and their drive knight appeared before them.

~()~

She was seemingly able to clear her head just as the same sound that permeated her weird visions bled into real life. Then her mind began to work overtime on what was about to occur as the jet-like engine noise proceeded to get closer to their position, and she soon realized her mistake. Drive Knight would not appreciate her creating one of his materials without his knowledge, as it could symbolize a breach of security at the highest level, and he would immediately like to investigate. Momo quickly threw herself over Todoroki, much to the surprise of the teen himself, creating a shield to guard him and herself against the sudden crash that seemingly entered the room from the outside. She was still surprised with how fast he had come, but that didn't matter at the moment as she felt the minor impacts of concrete and dust bouncing off the shield and peeking over it just to reveal Drive Knight.

"What is the problem, knight? Is there a monster attack?" Momo questioned it immediately, but the cyborg paid her no mind as its seemingly red eye searched around the room in some sort of desperate fashion, seemingly not finding what it was looking for. It turned its sights on her with an almost menacing glare. Momo was about to question what the cyborg was looking at, but feeling the cold beneath her and realizing how she had landed on Todoroki, she immediately hopped off the injured boy, blushing madly at how that might have looked, but before she could get caught up in that, a sword was to her throat by none other than Drive Knight himself. The noise of his entrance, of course, caught the attention of others in the hospital, and the first ones in the room were her friends Jiro, Kaminari, Midoirya, and Uraraka, all of whom had rushed to the room along with the others, who mostly stayed outside the doorway for now, not wanting to make the intense situation worse.

Jiro immediately questioned what was happening but the cyborg completely ignored her and asked Momo about the transformation box she was completely at a loss for words, she didn't know what the cyborg was referring to, and neither did the others and Drive Knight simply drew the electrified blade even closer to her instead remarking that she was lying, his readings picked it up coming from this location and given its lack of presence and only she had knowledge of it she must have been the one to create it but momo didn't know anything about it she couldn't possibly have made it she replied in defense and midoirya tried to come in her defense believing that maybe he received false reading to throw him off?

Drive Knight thought of such an ability but denied the possibility of it. Such an accurate reading would mean a total security breach of his systems, and his quadruple redundant data locks and firewalls should prevent such incursions, especially if they weren't detected. Already, he performed three more self-diagnoses to confirm his words to be true and continued to glare at the girl.

the room was completely tense things and quiet, no one made much movement fearing what Drive Knight might do if startled or worse threatened by anything but it was todoroki who made the first move in this stalemate, he had just recovered from what just happened, and what he just felt at that moment he had never been so more aware of momo's hero uniform as he was just then.. he had partly froze his body to prevent a shameful reaction but after calming back down and returning to the situation at hand he noticed the blade hover closely to momo throat and reacted quickly raising a wall of ice that completely separated the blade from its target and tracing it down the length of it but drive knight quickly broke off the connection but before he could counter-attack Todoroki told him to wait and he would explain what happened with the black box and at that moment Drive Knights attack which was already in motion stopped cold as the blade had found it's way to his throat instead.

"Quickly," the robot remarked, completely serious. Drive Knight had also raised his other hand, this one in the shape of a blaster of some kind that Kaminari knew the power of, but Deku remained stuck in his presence, even taking a step closer, but Todoroki warded him off to ensure Drive Knight even more they weren't setting up a trap of some kind. Midoirya trusted Todoroki, and their classmates would wait outside, but they said that they would be listening in on the conversation from out there. As they left, Drive Knight finally stood down, retracting his weapons, and waited patiently for the boy to explain.

"We were trying to figure out her new power from her awakening since she's been having trouble with it, having found a clue. I asked her to create something she didn't know how to do but knew that it existed. and so she created that black box that you're talking about." Todoroki said, and Drive Knight digested the information.

"So why did you lie?" the driver said, looking at Momo.

"I didn't lie, I... I don't remember ever creating such an item or even knowing of such a thing." Momo said, looking at Drive Knight, and then to Todoroki, What was he saying in such a situation? He wasn't one for jokes or games, and he couldn't have picked the worst time to start. Drive Knight looked back over to Todoroki for an explanation, and he looked at him and replied with some bitterness in his tone.

"She's not lying; well, in terms of her perspective, she isn't, but that's due to your meddling, I bet; it must be a side effect of some kind to the operation. It seems like she can temporarily create anything she knows is real with her new ability; however, the problem lies when she loses focus or concentration, the object disappears, and she seems to lose all recollection or even the existence of such an item." Todoroki explained, and Drive Knight stood there for a moment, thinking about such a possibility.

"Is this as far as you've researched? Will these items return to her eventually?" Drive Knight questioned him, saying that if he were speaking honestly, he would not mind such a thing. Todoroki simply shook his head and responded that he didn't know.

"In that case, Neith, you're coming with me." Drive Knight demanded, didn't ask, Todoroki noted but demanded that she go with him, and before he could raise an argument, momo's hand on his shoulder stopped him as she simply accepted and continued over to the machine, not without thanking him for his assistance in figuring things out for her, and off the two went filling up the whole the Drive Knight had created with some other substance, likely quick-dry cement, but the color was off from the rest of the wall, making it still stand out even more.

his class quickly filled the space upon their departure and asked if what he said was true and he confirmed that it was, her power evolved to a point that one of its very few weaknesses was almost completely gone, she could practically do anything now that she set her mind to and he meant that in the most literal sense possible given the power in question but he was still somewhat worried about her going off with drive knight and it must have shown as Mina began to tease him about it during their remaining stay there before they all left out for their patrols for the day even though according to kaminari it was more along the lines of just busy work as most monsters seemed to have disappeared for the time being.

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Bakugo woke up in his hospital bed. It was the dead of night, but the reason he woke up was that he felt something was off; something or someone seemed to be watching him. His intuition screamed a flag of warning, waking him up.

"Come out already; I know you're there, Silver Chain," Bakugo announced to the seemingly empty room as he sat up in his bed to await his most likely arrival. As he said the girl's name, she seemingly manifested from the shadows, nearly surprising him as she appeared right next to his bed, towering even more over him than she normally does.

"I was informed that you wanted to see me." Silver Chain remarked quietly. Of course, they would phrase it like that, but he guessed it wasn't that far from the truth.

"Sure, you took your sweet time." bakugo bit out

"I came at a similar time to our regular meetings." The girl remarked simply. Is visitation even allowed that late? Bakugo wondered for a moment; he couldn't see the time, but if it was about the time they usually met, he would guess not. Her getting in here undetected was likely a simple task for her to accomplish, as this place didn't have too much security going around.

"I just wanted to see if you were doing fine, given that some strong monsters were going around. but going by how you look, I guess you did just fine." Bakugo said, and the girl nodded her head.

"There weren't many strong monsters in O-city, likely due to its limited number of strong heroes. I heard about the two dragon-level monsters that attacked S and C cities, but I was given orders to help in V-city instead. I fought alongside a few of your companions during that time as well." The girl said that, and Bakugo was partially curious. She knew he was in C-city at the time; did she worry about him? He doubted it.

"Yeah, there were at least five dragon-level monsters that we know of at least: the giant centipede that attacked S-city, some dumb monster martial artist named Goketsu; he was the reason that I'm like this, but don't get it wrong, he was strong Demon. Cyborg said that he was above even Carnage Kabuto, a monster that you couldn't even beat yet; there was another one, a martial artist from the tournament that transformed into a monster with a monster cell; he was a dragon as well, but weaker than Goketsu; a former swordsman from the samurai council; and some dog-like thing that broke out several monsters from prison." Bakugo explained, and the girl was partially at work, writing down everything he said, but one thing did stick out to her from what he said.

"Monster cells, what are those?" Silver Chain asked.

"They turn people into monsters if they eat it; the monster association likely wanted us to join up with them after we ate it. Bastards were likely going to use me as bait." Bakugo said through gritted teeth.

"But doesn't monsterization give a massive increase in power? If so, why would you refuse such an offer? Isn't the reason you training so hard is to gain more strength?" silver chain prodded.

"No, a power that's just given like that always comes with some drawbacks, not to mention I hate handouts. I want to get stronger with my strength, not some borrowed ability, even if I could fully control it," Bakugo said.

"but what about your goals? Didn't you want to make up for your failure? and catch up to your rival, it would be the easiest path forward." Silver Chain argued, and Bakugo was curious. She seemed persistent about this, but he remembered that they were alike in that regard. She had a target that she wanted to kill. He was curious about who this target was; it had to be a human of some kind. But he didn't want to pry too much into the girl's life to outright ask, but he would tell her off if she was thinking stupid thoughts.

"The easiest path isn't always the best way to go about it; I'll get stronger on my own, and I know I'll eventually surpass him sooner or later, and I'm sure the same goes for you as well," Bakugo replied confidently. The girl hesitated a moment before responding; her eyes locked with his almost as they shared a knowing glance at what he was talking about. The girl let out a stunted nod of approval.

"Yeah, of course." The woman said he didn't like that stutter, but he let it slide for now. The two talked about the events of the monster invasion in more detail, this time focusing on the non-killing army and the monster association plans with them, along with details of what's happening. Once that topic was exhausted, the two began to say their goodbyes.

"Stay safe out there," Bakugo commented, and the girl did another take before, likely surprised to hear it from him.

"I will, and I hope for your fast recovery," Silver Chain remarked.

"It would be faster if you used that healing technique on me again." Bakugo commented, but the girl shook her head.

"It would be better for your body to naturally develop than through the mystic arts; you will be stronger for it. Do you want me to come visit you again?" Silver Chain asked as she was about to leave.

"Sure, I got the time; after all, I wouldn't want you to get the board out there without me... or rather, shouldn't you use the opportunity to train on your own without me holding you back?" Bakugo asked. There was a slight pause in the room as she contemplated that.

"Should I change the question to, Would you like for me to come to visit you again? I mostly train during the day since not much has transpired anymore, and both monster and criminal activity have plummeted." Silver Chain asked again.

"Well, in that case, I wouldn't mind it. I still have to get you that one-on-one with the caped baldy, but you will have to wait until after I'm out of this place because I'm going to enjoy seeing you loose for once," Bakugo said with a grin.

"Well, I will wait until then. Have a nice sleep, bakugo," Silver Chain remarked.

"You have a good night's rest as well." Bakugo replied in kind, and with one last nod, the girl simply disappeared again, leaving Bakugo with a weird feeling of contentment.

Limiter: Zombieman, Dr. Genus

Zombieman sat alone on top of a rooftop in the dead of night, monologuing to himself. He had thoroughly prepared for his moment by caving out of this area for the last couple of days. The back exits are blocked now. In the past couple of hours, nobody had entered except for the gorilla, who said the gorilla had to be none other than an armored gorilla, a monster from the house that Genos had to confirm for him that he indeed let live after it told him of his master's whereabouts, and here it was again, this time showing him the way as well.

Is he still working on other members? or are they simply away at the moment? Either way, this chance was the perfect opportunity for him. The command center should be in an observation room inside. The occupants that had moved in were mysterious; their backgrounds were shrouded in mystery, along with multiple massive shipments of large quantities of equipment, some mysterious powder, and crates filled with smelly substances. His investigation should match his guess perfectly; it must have been "them."

"it's time... I'm going in." Zombiesman said to someone over his hidden com link that the person he was talking to was none other than Tsukuyoimi. The teens would be covering the back exit, and if something did go wrong, he could request assistance from his friend Green Savior along with his improved capabilities at night, which began to rival his strength, so the kid could take care of himself.

"Roger, I'll be sure to inform you if I see any movement on my end. Be careful in there." Tokoyami replied over the comm system in his helmet. Zombieman didn't reply, as he quietly repelled down and continued forward. He was almost too excited when he finally found them. He's been chasing after them for years now. The two of them went way back to the evilest organization in the world that was trying to redefine humanity as we know it, no matter the number of casualties. The recent occurrences made him realize that they could potentially be behind it, but he could never catch even a tail lead on them until now. The great prophecy, the being pulling the strings behind the monster association, must be behind it all. There is no mistaking it.

He braced himself on the door and pulled out his firearm before taking a deep breath in, breathing out, and yelling before bashing into the doorway and proceeding inside.

"Today you meet your doom! house of evolution!"

"Oh, are you a customer? Just one moment, and I will be right with you." The gorilla remarked

"Hmph, how many times did you change your hideout location? This time it's a Takoyaki stand in disguise. Well, I'm not falling for it. I followed your trial here. I now go by zombieman—the hero with the immortal body, or does experiment No.66 ring any bells?" Zombieman said this while pointing his gun at the gorilla behind the stand.

"Is there a hero here for the House of Evolution? I'm sorry to tell you this, but the house of evolution is no more." The gorilla remarked, simply making the zombieman gasp in shock, but he recovered quickly and asked Tokoyami if he was seeing anybody trying to flee from the back, and Tokoyami responded negatively: no one had tried to escape yet. Zombieman then asked to see Dr. Genus, and the gorilla surprisingly went to go get him. The man himself appeared before him almost completely in casual clothing with an unamused expression. He even extended him an invitation for tea and to sit down so they could discuss. Zombieman was hesitant for a moment but agreed, even telling Tokoyami to come in with him to sit down on the talks.

"Who would have thought that the S-class hero zomebieman would be a specimen from the house of evolution? I remember No. 66 quite well. the only success of the immortal series, an excellent specimen that destroyed my facility and disappeared. It's been what? 10 years ago, I knew you would come for revenge one day. Are you a hero now? you've managed to change." Genus remarked, and it was almost like, in response, the hero quickly stepped up on the table and, with his axe raised high into the air as he sought to bring it down, it was blocked by the shadow creature originating from the teen. Zombieman expected that reaction and had been counting on it, so he didn't let his anger get the best of him before he could get any answers but still gave the sentiment of doing such to the doctor.

"You wish to kill me? Go ahead with my motivation shattered. I lost direction in life. I care not if I die." Genus commented simply.

"I've seen the damage done to your lab; it wasn't much, and you're still alive. As long as that remains, you could rebuild it as many times as you like. What happened to you? ANSWER ME, DOCTOR GENUS!" The zombieman questioned, then yelled as he struggled against the shadow creature again before he began calming down as the doctor replied.

"I'm surprised that you managed to find my base of operations. The reason I stopped, huh? The answer is really simple... He suddenly showed up before me. I witnessed a power far greater than any artificial evolution. My research was nothing in comparison to his; that was my conclusion. he had removed his limiter."

"Limiter?" both zombieman and tokoyami questioned.

"No matter how much effort you put into it, every living being has a limit to how much they can grow. Too much power brings complications to the wielder that create wider issues; they could become rampaging and mindless monsters. That's why God created every living being with a range of growth that ensures their sanity and survival. This growth restriction is what I call a limiter. However, this man pushed himself so far that he surpassed his limitations and removed his limiter!"

"So you're saying that this power that removed his limiter was strong enough to blow away your whole ideology? There exists a guy who obtained such power with no cost." Zombieman questioned.

"No, there was a cost; in exchange for power, he became bald, and due to his strength, he had an overwhelming feeling of isolation after annihilating the strongest warrior in my research history with one strike; his expression told me everything." Genus countered, and that got Zombieman's attention.

"Zombieman, you don't think-" tokoyami began

"Yeah, this strongest monster—did it happen to be carnage Kabuto by any chance?" Zombie Man questioned this, which was a surprise from the doctor as Zombieman finally stepped off the table and sat back down next to Tokoyami.

I was sure that I destroyed all of my data in the facility and got rid of the body as well. How did you figure out its name?" the doctor asked.

"I fought and won against it, I might add. In a simulation of a cyborg that was there on that day, he was also an S-class hero, and he was the one who gave me the location of the base. Your ultimate creation was strong, but along with me, Dakrshine was able to beat it, and from that, I figure that four other individuals in the S-class would have as well." zombieman commented.

"but not to the same ease as that man did. Those heroes were born with enough potential to become that strong and eventually obtained their power through hard work or talent. Others obtain their power by mechanizing their bodies or through experimentation like you. It's also true for people like myself who were born with genius-level intellect or for others who could be born with these talents. But he is different; he was supposed to be just an ordinary person with an ordinary birth. Through sheer effort alone, he pried open the door of his limits and broke his limiter. Now he can grow continuously, unimpeded. His power, which goes beyond the limit, seemingly breaks common sense.

Just remembering that makes me laugh at how ridiculous my ambitions were. There was a spark of that ambition that returned when I heard about the mutants of the non-killing army and their capabilities, but that faded fast as well. Given that you met the cyborg, you likely met the man himself. What is his name?" Genus was questioned; Zombieman only knew his hero's name and looked to Tokoyami to answer.

"His name is Saitama," Tokoyami said.

"Saitama huh? That man claimed to be a hero, but is he not in the S-class?" Genus questioned him, and the zombieman shook his head.

"We don't know how he wasn't if he has the power you claim he does, but he's progressing up the ranks quickly enough; he will probably be S-class within the next year or so." zombieman said as he lit a cigarette and smoked it, just taking this all in.

"Is there something else you want to know?" genus asked.

"Why takoyaki?" Zombieman asked.

"While researching cloning through limb regeneration, I discovered a method for unlimited octopus tentacles." Genus commented simply.

The four of them talked some more about the current events and a little bit more about the non-killing army, but the two heroes slowly bid their farewell and started to make their way back into the night. There was silence between them as they walked.

"So what are your thoughts now?" Tokoyami asked, and the zombieman let out a sigh and rubbed his head.

"No matter how you look at it, there is something up with that Saitama guy before I clear him of suspicion. I would like to test him myself, but first I have to just think about everything. You can head on back. I'll travel home on my own." zombieman said

"Alright, if that is what you wish." Tokoyami said this before summoning a dark shadow and flying off and away.

Reality punch: Saitama

A group of monsters huddled slowly in an alleyway, and as the mass of them gathered around the recent newspaper article, one monster spoke up among the mummers.

"The Monster Association, eh? They didn't publish the location, but I found it. It's in Z-city.'' One squat monster said it was yellow with fly-like eyes, four arms, and small angel wings on its back. His words caught the attention of all the monsters present as they stared at him, and he continued with his speech.

"Only our kind can sense where it's located in the city; that's because of the distinctive aura that monsters give off," the yellow creature said.

"I heard about a group of monsters in the Z-city ghost town before this monster association; they must be planning some kind of revolution!" Another monster piped up, adding to the yellow monster's claims.

"This article must not just be for humans; it also must be a message to us monsters everywhere." Come here. "They're calling for us!' the yellow monster remarked again.

"Then what are we waiting for? let's go! We're going to join the monster association!"

Another monster cheered and this got all the other creatures to join in a silent cheer before the mass of monsters began to make their way over to Z-city due to the destruction and damage dealt by the monster association there were more vacant areas that allowed the monsters more room to maneuver on their travels they quickly found other like-minded creatures and joined together to create a large mob once they had reached near the gates of the ghost town they had long since abandoned all subtly and started to move out in the open their numbers warding off any trouble for the most part as the heroes were probably all too busy licking their wounds still or so they thought as they crossed the gates the supposed uninhabited zone they had found a person their and going by his get-up he seemed to be a hero sticking out with its yellow costume is it an envoy by the hero association some suggested are they there to discuss terms of surrender some murmured.

Ultimately, this led some of the more brazen monsters to directly go up to the human and ask him why he was there. He simply replied that he was just trying to get his trash to the bin before the truck arrived. The monster saw through the blatant lie and tried to attack the man and hurt him into telling the truth, but the monster that was about to assail him simply evaporated into nothing but a shower of red droplets away from the man. The monster group rightfully paled at the sight and slowly backed away. The two others that approached him similarly evaporated, their chests being completely blown out as their bodies slumped backward on the street in front of him.

The yellow man turned to look at the rest of them and only questioned them; he simply wanted to take out the trash, and he was about to run late, so if they wanted to live, just walk away now. A few monsters were actually about to do just that, but one opened its mouth. It had been deduced that this hero must have been a test for them set by the monster association and that if they defeated him, they were to be allowed to join; if they were scared of this "nobody," then they would never accept them, and with that, the monsters rallied together and charged at the man, who only let out a sigh as he put his bags in one hand and balled his fist.

The bodies of several dead monsters lay in the street. Nothing was moving anymore or trying to attack him, so Saitama just continued with what he was doing. He had no time to stop and think, so he just kept moving towards his destination with a slight jog. There have been a lot of monsters popping up near his home lately. Were they after him? If a monster were coming to his home to challenge him, the least they could do was be strong. Well, at that point, he was probably asking for too much; they needed to be at least stronger than Genos, which is a low bar, but at least at that point, he would at least give him a reason to move out on his own. Saitama thought with a sigh as he got to his destination.

---

The next day

Saitama was walking aimlessly back to his house, he had simply gone on a random Aaron for the day he had stopped by a comic shop and decided to pick up a copy of the latest issue of one of his favorite hero stories but despite it being one of the latest issues of said comic it still ended off on a cliff hanger which was a real shame. this comic was mostly about the protagonist hero and his bitter rival, the hero had just gotten defeated and had to focus most of the issue undergoing rigorous physical and mental training to defeat him by using a new "killer move" to defeat Saitama thought about how he didn't even have a killer move but thought again of how in practice he likely wouldn't need one killer moves are things used against people you couldn't defeat otherwise and that just wasn't the case for him there was no one around that could survive just a normal punch of his anyways.

the story also had some magical final boss that was, supposed to be the one pulling the strings behind everything but real life usually wasn't like that there has been an increase in monsters around here so there was a chance of something like that existing maybe it could be strong but going off the monster he fought so far he doubted it.

"hey you human, are you so burning with justice that you came here despite the hostage?"

"or did you think your simple looks would act as some sort of stealth shield so you could sneak in a rescue the captive before the main event?"

"Hey! Are you paying attention here chrome dome? we are the ones who will replace the cadres, watch as we forge this new legend of terror, us the tempest brothers!"

but Saitama had paid the background noise no mind as he continued to read he was so engrossed as he accidentally bumped into something and excused himself before continuing forwards.

"Hey, do you have any idea what kind of situation you're in?"

"This is a crisis for all of mankind non shall be spared."

"We the three tempest brothers will rend your bones."

Saitama finally looked back to see who was speaking, of course, it was a new batch of monsters three of them in fact, one of them reminded him of a monster in the book but unlike in it, it paled in comparison in terms of the power it was giving off thing would just go down in one punch just like the rest of them would, he sighed for a moment thinking about how he wished his life could be like the comic book he was reading, it just made him feel even more annoyed that even without his hero suit on he still get harassed by monsters.

"Listen I'm not a hero right now, beat it," Saitama remarked in a serious tone, dripping with killing intent the monster thankfully he thought seemed to get the message apologized, and let him continue on his way without further incident. maybe being a hero wasn't all it was cracked up to be were his final thoughts as he headed back inside his home.

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Week 2: Monster Association meeting

A few more days passed and it was nearing the middle half of the second week both Todoroki and Bakugo have been dismissed from the hospital but they are still unable to return to hero work until the following week and would require a few mandatory checkups before they would be cleared for active duty, upon returning home Todoroki was surprised to find in his room a package full of three instant soba packages he was overcome with joy at the sight and he knew just who to thank so the first thing he did before he did so was completely freeze over both toru and mina once he found them before making his way over to momo and giving the girl a large hug which lasted a fairly decent amount of time while the girl was surprised initially but she eventually returned it, the two shared a deep embrace before it got sort of awkward for the others in the living room at that moment which was Jiro but she didn't tease them like the others would but just hinted that she was still present and Todorki finally relaesed the girl from her grip and immediatly appologized for his actions and that he just really apprecitated her gift to him and admitting that hugging her felt...nice.

making Momo blush heavily and Jiro let out a whistle of surprise. momo stuttered out a response telling him that it was alright and that she ...also enjoyed the hug and she was happy that he helped her with her quirks power, speaking of which he was curious and asked about it.

Momo explained that there wasn't much more to talk about since they had mostly figured it all out at the hospital that day, similar to her creation ability her new ability that she has called conjure, she can create anything that she has visibly seen work, and function with her own eyes it even extends to just videos of the object as well but it doesn't extend to pictures unless she has a good frame of reference for the object she is trying to duplicate, however, a minor side effect of the procedure was that once she lost concentration of the thing she had conjured up it would disappear and along with it all of her memory of that object from her mind for the next hour. Todoroki was shocked and if he were somewhat honestly upset by that news, if that was just a minor side effect he couldn't have wondered what a major one would have been but she told him that Drive Knight has been working on how to fix her and it shouldn't take that long to accomplish which she was thankful for.

the two conversations were having were put on slightly of a hold by Jiro partly due to feeling like being a third wheel and also to tell them that she began hearing the rush of feet as both Mina and Toru made their way downstairs to question what just happened and why Todoroki froze them like that so suddenly, Todoroki was blunt as ever in his response and he simply wanted to show his appreciation to momo without being hassled by the two of them which both girls took offense to given that they were in their rooms at the time meaning he actively sought them out to disturb them instead but he merely shrugged his shoulders at the accusation saying that it was just for insurance, making both of the girls pout even more at the half and half teen and just to spite him the two girls decided to stay there in the living room with them for the remaining of the time just to be their if anything else happened between them and be even more teasing then normal.

when a bell was heard at their door they were confused as no one was supposed to be arriving at their door for at least the next couple of hours all of them had been given off for the weekend not only to celebrate the return of their two members from the hospital but also due to a meeting revolving around the monster association, as Mina went to open the door she was mildly surprised by the person on the other end they were kinda lopsided and their eyes seemed to be in a heart shape but the uniform was definitely from the association so she asked what the man was there for and he simply said he was their for grape-a pult and while hesitant Mina called the grape boy down she hoped he didn't do anything since he has been doing better from his previous habits so she asked and the man didn't really give much of response other than it was important, it was giving off very creepy vibes and as she allowed Mineta through to talk to the man she whispered her thoughts to the others and they all prepared themselves for something that could happen and to make matters even more severe torax had come out of his extended home stating that he smells an unfamilair monster nearby the gang hurried up towards the door as Jiro heard the muffled scream of mineta for a moment along with the screech of something that she could only be described as piercing the group of them quickly left outside and were surprised to witness minta in the clutches of someone but the boy didn't seem like he was struggling much at all.

To the people watching it was pretty clear why the girl was directly nuzzling him into her bosom like a small doll that a girl was excited to receive for Christmas. The person holding him was someone he had known or more importantly, it was someone they had all seen before at least briefly the woman was the same girl that they had saved the night after the monster invasion, Clair although the woman would like to now go by godded glasses.

the woman was extremely grateful to all of them for saving her life that day especially Mineta she went on to invite herself into their home carrying mineta meanwhile, telling those who were there physically about how Mineta fought such passionately and courageously for her sake and he wasn't even one of her love slaves and since that time she couldn't get the boy out of her mind she titled him her love knight her protector she remarked sitting down while caressing the boy over top of his head much to his enjoyment. the teens opted to let him enjoy his little pampering session for the moment not even mention how Momo and Toru had also helped out. the teens questioned what the girl was doing there besides that and she simply remarked rather angrily that she was out for revenge against that "bitch" DO-S, before going on a tyrant of how she had used to treat the monster as an idol and role model it was her main reason she joined up with the monsters in the first place once she ran away from them.

soon enough others started to trickle into the living room as Momo notified them of their guest, saren and sero had teleported in spectacularly for a moment glasses freaked out slightly hurting mineta as she crushed him in her arms making him squeal for a moment in pain, they eventually calmed her down and explained the situation revolving around harigiri and saren and she noticeably calmed down. With Saren present, he explained what he had heard during the meeting regarding her and how she was likely betrayed to save the other monster's life given that your powers are so similar and that got the girl even more furious as she punched into the wall in the building which rang out with a resounding clang of metal although there was no dent in the structure and the monster did shake her hand clearly in pain from the exertion.

Midoriya and uraraka had just come in after the loud bang sound and were slightly worried but everything was calm enough again soon after, midoirya did express worry about the people just standing there outside and Goddess Glasses almost forgot about that before mentally sending them a signal that they could leave and just relinquishing her hold on them. the teens were curious about what her power was and in simple terms, she called it her love beam if she hit someone with the beam that originated from her eyes and glasses once struck that someone was her "love slave." which would do anything for her, she was so happy to gain the ability as it resembled her idol but now that was all for nothing and all she wanted now was to kill that harlot which they took to mean that she will join them against the monster association.

the class and a couple of the monsters had all started to make their way out of their home, the association agents that had come to pick them up were confused by the extra addition of goddess glasses but the teens managed to convince them that she was with them and that they should inform both sitch and exma of the change in people coming which the agents did and said that it was ok for her to come with them. Given that the transportation was fit for 20 people along with the monster cart in the back for saren, torax, and aki she would have to room with the monsters but mineta said she could take his seat and he could just sit on her lap which she agreed to and they were all off towards headquarters. given the secrecy of this meeting and those involved, they had to go to a more discrete location instead of the main building.

the crew all disembarked from the vehicle and proceeded inside, they slowly moved inside without much trouble as they got into the building however there was a brief spat between both Sweet Mask and torax, they weren't the only new addition to the main party given Aoyama had told him about what had been transpiring between them and the monsters. the star was incredibly angry at the tiger for its action in giving the kid over to the monsters and not attempting to fight them off, torax ever the calm monster it merely shrugged its shoulders stating that fighting a battle that it couldn't win and would endanger everyone else he was protecting would have been foolish and incurred even more damage to the city from that centipede endangering numerous others lives before countering that shouldn't "heroes" prioritize the lives of the many over the lives of the few and this got the star incredibly angry as a "monster" was challenging him to hero etiquette.

Aoyama saw the veins in the star neck bulge out menacingly as he continued forwards towards the tiger with a threatening aura that everyone felt but for midoirya, it was even more crushing with his danger sense, even with that he moved in front of the tiger along with Koda, Kirishima, Jiro, and more of their class to block his path making him stop and glance at each of them menacingly before sighing out and letting it go instead opting to look over the other monsters present he saw one of the sword saints which was now a monster as well although it appeared to be human as well, the next person he set his gaze on was someone completely unfallmiar to him and solar flare did not mention someone like this in any of his reports to him and likely knowing that aoyama began to explain the stranger introducing her as goddes glasses and how she is also a monster and how she was betrayed by the monster associaiton on the day of the invasion but they rescued her, saren added that she was apart of the organization much longer than he was going off of Haririgi memories he was recently turned the day before the attack while she had been involved for months.

Sweet Mask while slightly more angered that there were even more monsters around simply welcomed any more information they could gain from the girl and continued forward nonetheless showing them to the meeting room that Sitch and exma had made out for them. it was a spacious place with 25 chairs and a large space for the more animal-like monster off to the left side. after a moment of introductions, they immediately got to work on quizzing the two monsters present that were from the monster association but they were nothing but hesitant to take their word from the monsters so readily so they had each monster speaker take up noise canceling headphones before they had asked their question to one of them before having the second monster dawn the headphones and ask the same question to the first.

"First off we want to know of the monster's objective?" sitch asked first.

"that is simple they simply want to kill humans, the extinction of humanity." Goddess Glasses and saren both stated.

"if that was their objective, what are their goals with taking a hostage?" Sweet Mask asked before taking a glance at the tiger to the side.

" They want to exterminate humanity but before they can do that they need to get rid of its guardians which are you all, the hero association. The invasion was just a test of sorts seeing how strong some of you are compared to ourselves. they want to provoke you all to action against them on their terms for the best chance of victory." both monsters stated.

"in terms of monsters, how many of them pose a genuine threat? I'm referring of course to disaster level." Sweet Mask asked

"I don't know, I was an applicant to become a cadre which meant that I was at least a dragon-level threat, I did not meet the others but they had told me that there were others. on that level judging from what I saw of their base I can say that this gyoro-gyoro and monster king Orochi are at least dragon level as well." Saren said.

"there were many disaster-level demons stationed there at most two or three dozen, including myself. other than that majority are fodder with tiger and wolf-level threats. the dangerous beings are the sub-executives, cadres, and monster, King Orochi. All of them are disaster-level dragons. there are 14 of them in total." Goddes Glasses remarked. this gained a gasp of surprise from sitch and only sitch as everyone looked at him before he reorganized himself and gestured for her to continue, she did so by listing out their names but she didn't know their abilities or powers as they were rarely seen very much where she was stationed.

"And where exactly, were you stationed?" exma asked eyes narrowing in on her.

"I was just in the lower bowls of the association, where I and DO-s love slaves were together between the two of us, we had about 1098 people trapped down there as well," she remarked casually before balling her fist in anger about how all the people she claimed will now be in the hands of that vixen but relented when she saw the eyes on her and she simply remarked to ignore that momentary outburst.

"Make that count 13, gokestu was put down by Caped Baldy." bakugo replied simply.

"don't you mean? green savior?" Exma said.

"No." bakugo said in confirmation, they had been trying to get this sorted for a while now but no matter what they did or said they would not allow the "unknown" B-class to take much of any credit with the monster's defeat and the man himself didn't care much for taking the credit if anything when midoriya approached him about it he didn't seem to care about much of the hero work going on along with the monster association only remarking that, that was why so many monsters have been showing up recently.

"This is no time for games brat, green savior given you have fought one of these cadres can you give an idea of its strength?" Sweet Mask immediately said turning to midoirya.

"I know for a fact that the creature was strong, stronger than me at least, I doubt I could have defeated it by myself. " midoirya replied simply also alluding to having help but not outright stating the other hero's name.

"genos referred to a monster by the name of carnage kabuto for a reference of strength I assume you all know more about that?" sitch said.

"Yes it's a monster from genos and his master's past they had us run a combat simulation against it along with a few other heroes including darkshine while he had defeated the monster it took him 15 minutes to do so." midoriya spoke up before revealing said device and putting it on the table in front of him. and this time sitch wasn't the only one that was surprised but exma was as well.

"Are all of the cadre that strong glasses?" exma asked

"I...I don't know. from what I've heard goketsu and elder centipedes were tied in strength, they were both Orochi top Lieutenants so I assume not." glasses commented.

"this monster King Orochi you speak of? Have you seen his capabilities? or do you have a benchmark of where he stands." Sweet Mask asked

"Goketsu regarded him and another dragon-level monster as far beneath him and would be "squashed like an ant" if they were to attempt to go against him." todoroki added in a comment.

"No, no not really, I do know that they were weary of Miss Tatsumaki DO-S's mission was to capture her sister to lure her out so that they could attack her by herself." glasses responded. and Sitch did a sigh of relief at that. it was at least some hope for the situation if things got really bad and this monster king started to act.

"Now what about them? what did the monster association want with the non-killing army?" Sweet Mask asked.

"gyoro-gyoro wanted to recruit them of course, there have been monster empathizers that have joined their ranks and accepted monsterization from the monster cells and they hope the same thing would happen with the non-killing army. we were all going to separate them and talk to them each separately but they didn't show up so that was that. DO-S sent her goons after me because she knew what the price of failure was." glasses remarked with some bitterness to her tone at the end and saren confirmed her words stating that he witnessed one of the monsters get eaten by the monster king and she was spared do to her ability and glasses missing presence.

"So the monsters aren't completely unionized in their efforts?" sitch questioned.

"No, they aren't, the strength of the monster king drew the others under him it is that unfathomable strength that keeps them from killing each other most of the time that is." glasses remarked.

they continued to discuss some of the monster associations structure and where it was located they correctly assumed that it was somewhere in the ghost town and it was underground also as expected child emperor was getting to work making a satellite to comb over the area and would be able to identify if that was true or not, the next order of business revolved more around the teens this time around not only their spies in the monster association but the monsters that had decided to stay behind in the prison cell the two most notable being the three demon level monsters game-berus, lord great white of the seafolk, and scaledon.

Why they had decided to stay both sero and Koda had to answer these questions to save these monsters' lives given that the dog creature had emerged from the cells as a sort of sleeper agent that disguised its true strength, the three-headed dog that midoriya had brought during their beginning month being the culprit for the breakout. The association couldn't afford something like that to happen again when the heroes gathered to assault the monster association base.

The two boys were tasked with asking about their reasoning and sero's was simple enough the shark creature after having received the body of its father ate it and described him feeling the last moment of its life and that there was some monstrous shadow in the back of his mind that told him he should remain where he was.

He said that compared to that shadow the dog creature was practically nothing at all so in simplest terms he was scared of the hero that put down the deep sea king and thought its survival was better just staying put for the moment. game-berus was more cynical in his reasoning it said that it didn't care either way for which side would win if the monsters won then he would be freed eventually and if the humans won then he would still be alive Besides Scaledon didn't leave so he decided to stay as well scaledon remarked that as long as he can eat yummy things and not be experimented on again he would be content for where he was at the moment, Koda especially extending out that experiment comment for extra clarity for sitch who simply nodded in understanding.

The next thing on the list of the topic was the hostage at first sweet mask advised that maybe Glasses should return to the association but that was immediately shot down given the circumstances they believe that she is dead if she had been found alive one of two things were to happen either they simply kill her right off the bat for coming back in defeat or they kill DO-S for lying and while glasses hate to admit it DO-S was likely more useful to them then she was, she had her powers longer and she's more experience worst case to worst they would just ask both of them to fight to the death which she would win not handily she remarked but she would lose and nothing would become of her doing that.

Torax piped in and said that he could infiltrate the association for them, they needed to locate the child which would be fine besides he didn't have any association with them and they wouldn't suspect them since he was the one who gave the child over in the first place.

Sweet Mask thought that it was because of that reason that they couldn't trust him but he kept his thoughts to himself they needed information and information is powerful no matter where they got it from in fact a true hero would go through any means to ensure that they have the best information possible to ensure that everyone performed excellently when the time to perform came just like a recital with that mindset in mind he took charge of the meeting and decided what they would do, the tiger would infiltrate the association and find the child whereabout in the base, he will be chipped that will constantly scan his surroundings and give them somewhat deep analyses of the base and it's construction once he located the child he should find the best opportunity to return and tell them, Torax naturally accepted give that he was the one that proposed it but he let the star assume that this was his plan all along.

The meeting continued for 10 more minutes before things could all be settled sweet mask had left for another idol meeting he had to attend and Aoyama followed after him with the VR device in hand as per his request, he wanted to test how strong this carnage kabuto was first hand. with their departure it became a question of what they would do with godded glasses, mineta was the first to say that she could stay with them but they simply didn't trust her enough and they wanted to keep her under watch she could have been a monster association spy for all they knew which she took offense to obviously but let the comment slide, they also argued that without the tiger their that was also a demon than if she does cause trouble without the presence of the other S-class in their group who would stop her, especially with such a troubling ability that she has to brainwash people so no she wouldn't be allowed to leave the association at least not until they were able to verify at least some of the information she gave them which would determine on the tigers report whenever it gets back.

Mineta was greatly saddened by the news but the monster girl allowed it, the only thing she wanted was to be there for when they launched their attack against the monster association she would even lead them to DO-S pleasure room which was located next to an abandoned subway which should allow them an easy time getting the civilians away to safety although they may remain monsters for the rest of their lives. this garnered shocked looks and the women explained that merely being under one control was only part of DO-S powers depending on the amount of time someone is under there, their bodies will start to undergo some transformations mostly to please their mistress and other times for labor, she didn't know if her powers would get that far yet since she was still relatively new to them.

After explaining who she was it became an even more moral question of if she would be allowed to roam free at all given that she was a prior criminal and then turned into a monster to boot but Exma gave Clair a bit of leeway in his regard stating that she would be under the guise of the rated heroes and her hero name would be goddess glasses and she would accept that however rated heroes were still imprisoned serving their sentence until they are needed and it is up to the A-class heroes themselves to pick the ones that they want to go for but given that she would be considered an S-rank bounty that could make things fairly tricky but for now that's where she will be located starting immediately.

Exma escorted goddess glasses away leaving Sitch and the rest of the teens but before he too left midoirya had questions for him multiple mostly revolving around Blast and his whereabouts or any updates from the man regarding when they would be going home sadly sitch had no clue he hasn't gotten in contact with him ever since he left. bakugo asked if Blast would be participating in the fighting with the monster association and Sitch again shook his head surprising the group. bakugo immediately demanded to know why and while skittish about it sitch eventually told them, telling them about how Blast can't be on earth for a set amount of time, not only due to what he was fighting but also due to what he contained inside of himself that power he has doesn't come without a cost he said ominously. that had managed to sate their curiosity for the moment and with that done sitch and everyone went their separate ways, thinking about the mission ahead of them.

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Secret Operations Go: saitama, zombieman, Class 1A+(1A, Jackie, silver chain)

One day passed after their meeting, and Kaminari and Toru continued with their scheme of getting the potential couples on a date day, but their planning seemed to always fall through in one way or another based on who was going and the conflicting personalities and interests they all shared. However, they were finally able to narrow it down at least to a respectable amount of events, which would cost them pretty heavily if it were to be paid for by just one person. Luckily, multiple people were involved in this situation, with the original two collaborators being Aoyama and Mineta, along with Kaminari and her. The four of them would pay for their couples essentially the entire day of events. The couples would meet in O-city as planned, then go to an amusement park, followed by a rock climbing exhibit, skiing, and finishing it up with a poem dinner.

The goal was to tire both Kirishima and Mina out so that they would be at least more welcoming of the poem dinner or at least a lot less rowdy during the event. to keep it all as inconspicuous as possible, and how they would get everyone over to O-city was where the first event came in a simple and harmless expedition to an amusement park, which would be great for everyone.

Once everyone was at the amusement park, the potential couples would be handed additional information about other events taking place, which everyone would show up to on their own time. The problem was keeping it all radio silent and ultimately deciding that it was a rather pointless endeavor. They had to let everyone but the couples know of their plans. The biggest hurdle was getting Iida to go along with it naturally, but given that, unlike last time, this time nothing bad was going to happen, he opted to let them continue, and he would play along with them. In the meantime, it did help that both Tokoyami and Asui, along with Todoroki and Momo, had been getting along better recently after everything that happened, so he saw it as a nice treat for them.

That only left the glaring issue of Bakugo and Silver Chain's involvement, particularly how they were going to convince either of them to go where they wanted them to and stare at them. While Iida didn't want to say much, he did remark that it would probably be easier than they thought and that Bakugo may harbor feelings for the ninja, which she may do to him as well, but despite all of their begging to know how he came to that conclusion, he wouldn't budge about not telling them. Ultimately, the day came, and they just had to hope that the other two would play along.

They were planning to go and check if Silver Chain was busy on the day of the event, and unfortunately, she was simply telling them that she had plans outside of her hero work for the evening during that day, so they had to simply scratch those plans entirely, but it did save them money, so that was a plus out of the situation, they figured. She may join them in the amusement park or at least come visit them, as they did tell the hero of their amusement park adventure in the early part of the day.

The day arrived, and they finally made all their preparations. Koda had to leave Torax behind as he was about to be outfitted with his secret scanner for his infiltration into the monster association base, so the class plus an extra notable Jackie all disembarked towards the amusement part of the attraction in O-city. While this was mainly a reason to get the couples to O-city, another part of the reason was to earnestly just have a fun time given everything that happened recently to release some tension and see what type of things they had in this universe for park rides. When they all finally managed to get into the park, they all grabbed their groups and parted ways to explore the large area.

The girls mostly just stuck together, visiting numerous shops, roller coasters, and even a few haunted attractions, which, surprisingly, Jackie explained to them was likely due to the upcoming festival of the lost event that was at the end of the month. It was a celebration and mourning of the loss of life that may have occurred earlier in the year. They hold the event mostly twice a year. She remarked bitterly that the monster must have had a cruel bit of irony to launch their attack when they did, or maybe they were trying to be nice about it; she didn't know.

She took that as an opportunity to ask them about their group's whole gimmick of not killing monsters and whether they would change after seeing the destruction they'd done. The question was a bit sudden and almost sounded accusatory of the girl, but they let it pass and simply answered that they would, as they have met good monsters before and that not all monsters are evil, or at least they weren't incapable of doing good. Momo took it one step further by describing a similar event in their world that happened with a similar level of destruction occurring and that when the villains struck out, the heroes continued to battle only to detain them, not kill them, and they even spared the most regal offenders, deciding to lock them away before terminating them. Jackie just huffed at that and remarked that the heroes in their world were either massive saints with massive hearts or just people trying to stay in the job, but realizing she was offending them, she quickly pivoted and pointed out another attraction to draw everyone's attention away and switch topics.

The guys had broken off, but they each separated further into smaller groups of five and one group of four: Koda, Shoji, Ojiro, Sato, and Tokoyami all went one way, while Bakugo, Kirishima, Kaminari, Sero, and Mineta went another, and the last four, Midoirya, Iida, Todoroki, and Aoyama, went another. They would meet up again later on. Bakugo's group went to the most extreme of rides first, most being the extreme drop master. It was a challenge to see who would let out a scream or shout first, and this ride was extreme even compared to their words; it was a 500-foot-tall drop, and it wouldn't only stop you but oscillate up and down between the two. To make matters even worse, people waiting in line who were super premium members could alternate between when that happened, which made it a living nightmare of going back and forth very rapidly and sporadically.

The loser of the first bout was none other than Mineta. It was a good thing that they didn't eat before going on the ride, as they were sure that at least a couple of them would have puked up their lunch from being shaken so rapidly. The next challenge was a smaller one, a simple shooting contest. While none of them played sports that well, Sero won this challenge in a blowout, but Bakugo called his BS and said that he was using his quirk to cheat and alter the path of the ball.

Sero simply whistled that he was a sore loser, making Bakugo even angrier. The next event they went to was one that Bakugo was sure he couldn't cheat on, as it was another basic one this time. It was a free-for-all laser tag game between the five of them, and surprisingly, Mineta was the one that won this one, his small size coming in handy for avoiding detection and setting up surprise attacks. The third challenge was purposely casual in comparison to before, after eating food, as it was the most twisted and windy roller coaster in the park with a crazy speed, so it was definitely who could hold in their food, which would be the challenge.

The next group of Shoji, Koda, Ojiro, Tokoyami, and Sato had a minor problem that Aki was with them, causing people to steer clear of them or prevent their entry to some rides, forcing someone to be left behind, but Shining Light had the idea of using herself to be the caretaker, and Tokoyami agreed, using his bestowal on the bear and Shining Light revealing herself to act as the handler.

Their group didn't go on too many exciting rides, mostly content with just sightseeing and exploring more of the same attractions that didn't have much of a line to them, so they didn't have to wait for long. They also managed to travel around some of the shops and stores just for some trinkets, tokoyami definitely wanted to visit some of the open haunted attractions around one being a haunted themed boat ride that took them through a large dark cave complete with amitromics, fire, and even a fake cave in a sequence that led into a large slide out into a splash at the end, Tokoyami saw the flash of green near said zone recognizing it to be asui who seemed to not be paying attention next to the other girls although he was sure that Jackie was attempting to keep their attention focused on her which he assumed was supposed to be a joke on her part although he couldn't imagine how uncomfortable it would be to walk around while wet so he sent shinning light to their direction she used her wings and created a barrier that block the water, from going that way unfortantly the people hoping to be splashed were a bit dissipointed by the mysterious shortcoming of the water and even jackie was perplexxed that was until they looked over into their canoo, he heard asui say her thanks for the save and Tokoyami felt content with his actions despite the teasing he endured for the remainder of their time until they actually met up with the girls at the end of the ride.

The next group of guys was more straight-forward on the rides they went on; they went to a simple go-cart track, and Iida was even more strict than the workers about not bumping into each other and speaking about the dangers of a crash that could happen or damaging the equipment for somebody else to use. Todoroki was still confused by everything; he thought that they weren't allowed to drive motor vehicles without a license, yet they allowed teens to do so here.

He was also a hazard on the track given that he drove completely slower than other racers and treated it like driving a real vehicle, as he didn't understand why they would attempt to completely speed up and potentially hurt himself for no reason, although they explained that he needed to go faster for the safety of the others, which didn't make sense to him, and Iida simply explained it as matching the speed of the road and how cars should do so as well as if they were on the highway. Todoroki understood that and mostly kept pace with Iida, who was in last place due to his safe driving standards anyway.

The next attraction the group went to was something of a sharpshooter contest; they all didn't have much experience with guns of that nature, but Midoirya's shooting style served him well in the contest, but overall, it was Todoroki who won. He explained that he had seen Momo practice with a couple of rifles, and he picked up a few pointers that helped his aim. Speaking of that fact, Aoyama mentioned how the two of them had been getting closer as of late, and he simply agreed with a shrug, but he did the most unexpected things for the usual stoic teen as he directly asked Midoirya what it was like to have feelings for someone.

This gained a few surprised remarks from the group with his honesty, and some also asked the question surrounding Momo, and he nodded his head in confirmation. So to give him the best answer possible, they all started to brainstorm ways to describe what it was like. Given Todoroki's childhood, they understood that it was likely a new feeling, and they didn't want to overcomplicate things for him, so they had to describe it in more basic and straight terms because Todoroki was known for taking figurative terms seriously.

Aoyama's explanation was almost completely thrown out in this regard, as he was almost incapable of making up a reason free of similes or flavory language that only seemed to confuse him more. Midoriya was fairer in his approach, trying to take his experience with Uraraka into account. Midoriya described it best as being happy to be around someone similar to a friend or close family, but on a more intimate level, someone you wouldn't be scared to show weakness to and who would hope to be there with you during your darkest moments to help you through it.

Iida took a more scientific route and explained how your mind would release dopamine in this person's presence, describing some of the micro-body movements that he could undergo, like smiling more often, increased heart rate, redding of the cheeks, increased body temperature, and even affinity for being close to one another. They all explained that to him, and he even took a page from Midoirya's notebook and decided to write it down in a micro journal to hopefully reference later.

Soon afterward, the girls texted everyone to meet up again over by the water park section of the park, and so they all went and grouped back together. unsurprisingly one of the first rides they were to go on was a group water slide that took them five at a time to go down a giant rotating cylinder, the next attraction the class partially separated again going on two different water rides one being a tunnel of love type ride which all of the couples and few of the others took a chance on mostly by Toru blinding them and leading them in that direction until it was too late for them to leave, the others took their time and went on an interactive ride this involved having little small launchers on each side of the boat in a group of four that would progress along a track which either side of was full of obstacles that the passengers were to hit for points.

The Tunnel of Love Suspects were the predictable partners, but the ride was not just a simple, slow-moving tunnel that they were accustomed to but also an interactive ride that allowed the passengers to rock the boat along the water at a speed that was anything but slow, as they had fast sections and slow sections. The rocking was used not only to splash water on your partner, who may not have been expecting it, but it was also used to move your partner closer to yourself, bump shoulders, or give accidental kisses, depending on the position.

The pairs took to these sudden changes differently from group to group; Kaminari being the person he was, used the rocking feature to get Jiro splashed with water more often than not much to the girl's annoyance, but he would weather the ear plucks for the joke as he continued. Sero and Jackie were basically in a competition to see who could splash each other the most during the ride. Midoirya and Uraraka would try to do it when either side would least expect it. Ojiro and Toru were special in this regard; not only could Toru simply block herself from being splashed by water, but she could also block Ojiro's controls from him, so he couldn't even attempt to ultimately scoop her up with his tail and throw her on his side when she pressed the button again and got her that way.

Kirishima and Mina were mostly just enjoying the ride similar to Sero and Jackie they would splash each other at any given opportunity, the two hesitant couples were tsu and tokoyami, they were mostly just enjoying the slow ride although asui initiated some splashes and tokoyami would occasionally return the favor of his own, Todoroki and Momo didn't splash very much at all but todoroki did use the boat rock feature to move them closer together to where they were touching although momo thought that he just didn't understand how the machine worked he confirmed that he did but that he just wanted her closer, making momo flush completely, the last bit of the ride was more of the relatable to a tunnel of love a nice smooth sailing ride to the end.

The boat would reconfigure to make the occupants closer as well, and above them, they had a camera where the prompt would ask the "couples" to kiss for the camera, and that's when things got fairly awkward for the three of them. Mina and Kirishima only blushed but looked away from the camera; Asui had only placed her head on Tokoyami's shoulder; and Momo wasn't going to do much of anything, but she was shocked when Todoroki acted like pecking her on the cheek during the flash.

Everyone got off the ride, and everyone, seeing the rapidly blushing and practically speechless Momo, rushed over to the pictures off to the side after laughing at Orion seemingly appearing to kiss the air, which he grumbled at as Toru must have retracted her awakening once his eyes were closed. There were some minor awws as they saw the Asui and Tokoyami picture, but there was a metaphysical mic drop as the Momo and Todoroki picture came to be. Seeing the cold and hot boy kissing her on the cheek made all of them turn to look at her.

Momo was completely speechless still and turned away not to see the stares, but she still felt them on her back. Todoroki, however, was unphased; he simply remarked it was what the ride instructed, even going further and asking if he did it wrong, going by their looks, making the others laugh it off and carry on. Mina and Kirishima's were just standard; nothing happened. The funny thing about their picture, however, was that under it was labeled Wussing Out, and when the others came over to check it out, they echoed the sentiment. The two could have done something for the camera by comparing their picture to even Asui and Tokoyami's.

the teens spent the rest of their time in the wave pool, things were cool for the most part that was until it had broken down, causing the audience to boo and get annoyed before starting to take their leave, midoirya being the hero he took the opportunity to help out and he would use his full cowling to make massive waves in the water while they got the system working again and after being teased for a moment and not to be outdone bakugo went out to "help" as well although the waves under his explosions weren't exactly safe for the faint of the heart his explosions creating massive waves that sent the water some times to high into the air and washing over everyone even if they were not indirectly in the pool causing some gripes to be levied his way luckily it was about time for them to leave and the wave machine was up and running again so their assistance was no longer needed but appreciated as the two of them got some coupons for a couple of shops nearby.

their fun day wasn't over yet however as the next place they were going was to be a large rock climbing exhibit but bakugo said that he would have to pass, along with midoriya and tokoyami who suddenly appeared with their hero gear on, they shocked by the sudden change in wardrobe as they believed they were about to go do hero work but they explained that they were simply going to go over and test the Saitama and see how strong he was which got the groups to interest even more so when they had exited the park and had found silver chain waiting for them there, they had a brief conversation and where they decided to just all go together.

their test shouldn't take more than 30 minutes or so which meant that they would only be 15 minutes late to their reservation for the mountain climbing event and everyone was curious about how strong Saitama was after finding out he was the one that defeated gokestsu. bakugo noted that silver chain had shifted her weight from one foot to another which suggested that something was up with the current developments so he took her to the side and asked her to tell him of any problem he could tell them to fuck off if she wanted him to, he knew that she didn't like to reveal her strength to so many people unless necessary for the occasion but she shook her head first she complimented him for being able to notice that but about the issue, he reminded her that most of them likely wouldn't be able to see anything even if they were to spectate so it was a needles concern on her part although if he could stop them from recording the encounter it would be well appreciated and bakugo nodded to that and told the rest of them the rules if they wanted to come and watch which they begrudgingly agreed to.

Now to get there was a bit tricky, given that only three of them had their hero outfits ongoing at any extreme speed they ran the risk of tearing their clothes off from the strain, so toru had to do a lot of the work here as well, caging their entire class inside of a large light cage and tokoyami and midoriya would have to pull it forwards with them, to make it easier on them uraraka suggested to lighten all of them and together they all lifted up and away the distance between O and Z city was about 36,000 km so to get there it would take them about an hour if Midroiya slowed down to match pace with Tokoyami and Bakugo so instead they opterd to do simply help Midoirya out granting midoirya shinning light for the moment increasing his speed even more and allowing him to store up some kinetic energy for fajin allowed him to get to the location in less than five minutes, the strain of that was so great it threatened to even break toru's barrie but she managed to withstand the forces at least until they got to Saitama's house but even with all of that silver chain was already their and standing down there with her was zombieman smoking his cigarette.

Zombieman was partially surprised when the ninja and supervisor of O-city arrived suddenly he would have never guessed that she was the one who had offered to duel Saitama. zombieman had originally approached the man hoping to test him out but he wasn't "feeling it" and he said that he might as well come back today so he could just knock all of the challengers out at the same time, only remarking that sparky had someone that wanted to do the same, sparky he assumed he was referring to dynamite but him bringing her? what did she want to gain from this he wondered and asked as such when they were waiting around for the rest to get there and she wanted to test his strength and if his strength is what they were led to believe it was question him on how he had attained it and in that sense they were the same in that regard.

the non-killing army arrived down and tokoyami immediately went over to check in with zombieman, the S-class hero remarked that he was there but left to someplace that they call the training ground or genos calls Saitama gorge and he must have assumed that someone was with him to show him the way because he left soon after that just like the bald hero disappeared from his sight. bakugo and todoroki knew the way to the location and they quickly led the group over, down in the gorge was Saitama just sitting down on a rock mostly just in his thoughts. now it was just a matter of who would go first between zombieman and Silver Chain on who was going to test the man but bakugo remarked that midoriya should go first as a benchmark he's about as strong as darkshine at 100% and he could push even further with his other quirks, he was also the less skilled between the three of them and they all agreed so they all sat up top on the cliff while midoirya went down and talked to Saitama there was a brief discussion before the match was about to begin.

Saitama sat up and even from this distance the man seemed almost completely not interested in the events taking place almost as if he was just going with the motions, midoirya had charged up to 100% full cowling and charged at Saitama with a Detroit smash the clash was immense as a ton of dust was kicked up by the blow but as the dust settled it showed that Saitama merely just raised the back of his hand to block the strike, midoriya continued with a roundhouse kick which was completely dodged by Saitama before he poked midoriya in the forehead and surprisingly he was sent flying backward grimacing in pain he recovered using his black whip and came back at Saitama but the bald hero complete disappeared from his sight and appeared behind him and caught his shoulder and chucked him clear into a rock column that shattered upon impact collapsing down on top of him.

Midoriya quickly rose up out of the air using his float to fly and then began using his airforce air bullets to pelt the man over and over again but the targets wind gust just washed over the man like a wave and the man then dissipeared again and an explosive pain set off in the back of midoriya as he was uncerminsouly karate chopped in the back forcing him to crash down into the ground, as bald hero let himself fall down smoke suddenly sprung up from where midoriya was and engulfed him their were several more ground shaking impacts before the smoke was suddenly cleared and a crash was heard right beneath the platue that they were standing on top of midoriya was just embeded into the rock depowered and shinning light retrived him as the class gathered around as the mossy haired teen snapped awake, uraraka asked if he was ok and he was for the most part but a bit sore and he guessed whoever next could go and zomebiman allowed silver chain to go before him, he already seen enough from that display just now actually to tell that at least he was at least S-class no doubt about that.

Silver chain gladly took her turn and she didn't wait around for small talk, she sped towards Saitama with all five of her clones, Saitama skipped backward from the charge, swept a hand out behind him, and completely obliterated three of her clones almost instantly surprising her greatly she launched multiple shurikens in his direction before but he dodged each and every one with minimal effort but so much wasted movement but she was simply to slow to capitalize on any of it, dashing in using her clones as distractions, weapons such as katana's, kunai, and shuriken were all useless her physical attacks were always blocked or outright ignored even after she hit him with full force, was this person even human she started to wonder, his power just seemed absurd, she felt a jolt of pain as she was hit with in the shoulder which completely dislocated it, despite that she popped the joint back into its socket and continued to fight.

A shove to the stomach pushed her further out away into another earth column even as she attempted to use her clones to slow herself down but the impact still noticeably shook her and she dropped to a knee, she was about to stand up again but the bald hero was their directly in front of her she swung out with a katana but he vanished from her very eyes and the next thing that hit her was an explosion of force and sound, saitama had clapped his hands and the force sent her spiraling forwards she tumbled through the air unable to recover, her concentration completely shattered as her clones became practically useless and destabilized, her tumbling was stopped but not by herself but Bakugo as he had caught her, despite her clear loss he was smiling, he had told her that it felt good that she was the one being toyed with for a change but she shot back that he wasn't the one for proxy victories and his smile to into a snarky frown as he let go of her as she stood up on her own feet.

the next one to go was zombieman, he fared well worse than either, the person before and ended up surrendering at the end, he had tried numerous different ammunition types from high explosive, armor piercing, and even his demon piercing bullets but none of it work to the point where Saitama was yawning while casually deflecting them away and he surrenders quickly after when he empty two magazines, alternatively he wanted to test how strong Saitama was so he offered one final match up this time against all of them and Saitama merely shrugged his shoulders and accepted Midoriya, Bakugo, Tokoyami, Silver Chain, and Zombieman were all going to fight Saitama.

This dogpiled didn't turn out much better for the group as Saitama was just so freakishly powerful not to mention they didn't have much team synergy since they were just recently brought together the only thing that worked better was tokoyami using shinning light to boost up zombie man and let the rest of them go for it but light arrows were completely broken, bullets still deflected or just crushed itself against the man's suit, bakugo's explosions were a simple warm breeze, midoriya even used gear shift and attempted to slow the man down as much as he possibly could but even with that they could not land hits against the man if he didn't want it to but they still couldn't damage him at all and after midoriya clocked out due to the drawbacks of gear shift they all just gave up.

At the end of the battle, Silver Chain prostrated herself in front of Saitama, all but begging the hero asking for the hero in advice on how he got so strong Saitama didn't say a word and simply materialized a couple of index cards and gave one to her, he had known that this question would be asked and told genos to prepare them for him, he then went on a mini-answering spree of predictable questions they would ask.

"yes that's all I did, I don't care if you don't believe me, that is it," Saitama said simply, zombieman read the paper and was in complete disbelief at how light of a workout that was, and then Dr. genus words rang in his head again so he stored that for later and continued with his other issue with the man.

"yo, what are you going to do about the monster association?" zombieman questioned

"the monster what?" Saitama asked

"You know the group of monsters under your freaking house?" zombieman said with a sigh.

"oh yeah, that's well as long as they keep it down at night it should be fine," Saitama answered with a shrug.

"ugh...they have a hostage." zombieman remarked again in disbelief

"hostage huh, I guess I can go there now then," Saitama suggested and zombieman quickly shook his head.

"No, hold on don't be too hasty, You strong, I'll admit that but the monster has a boss someone that goes by Orochi he's their king we don't know how strong he is but he may even be comparable to you so, how about you wait for all of us to go together. sound good right?" zombieman said

"A monster boss, huh? sounds interesting, I guess I can wait." Saitama remarked before waving farewell and walking away, zombieman having what he wanted to know was about to head his own way but he was suddenly stopped by silver chain, she returned the question that he had asked her earlier and he told her that on top of testing the bald hero, he was following up on a statement a doctor of his gave him, curious she wanted more information and he obliged telling her that allegedly all living beings have a limiter that they can not surpass but he somehow found a way to and became someone that could get stronger infinitely. she looked down at the paper the man gave her then looked back at the S-class and asked who was stronger between her and flash, zomebieman was confused by the spontaneous question but answered regardless and while he complimented her abilities she was still a decent bit below flash as it stands but she could definitely make S-class with her current strength he could make a few references if she would like but she declined the offer and zombieman shrugged and took his leave as well, leaving the tall women looking down at the note.

"Yeah, the bald guy is insistent on that's what he did for three years, I'm pretty sure he's just full of it." bakugo remarked coming over to talk to the girl but the girl shook her head.

"No, I didn't detect any symptoms of a lie being told by someone, it is likely as he says." silver chain remarked, she stood up to her full height looked one last time at the paper, and was about to make her leave as well but mina yelled from the plateau asking if she wanted to go with them to mountain climbing. she looked down towards bakugo again and asked.

"bakugo would you like to change the nature of our relationship?" she said suddenly taking bakugo completely off guard by the sudden question.

"what the hell does that mean?" bakugo responded gruffly

"I mean do you wish to pursue a more romantic type of relationship instead of training partners." silver chain responded simply and at this, he nearly smiled but he quickly wrinkled his nose and his expression turned into an angered scowl as he thought about what suddenly brought this on from the pink girls question.

"No." bakugo said suddenly, this garnered a slightly surprised reaction from the girl giving her slightly widening eyes before returning to the normal gesture which was the most reaction he was likely to get from her.

"I see, excuse me I was under the presumption that you had liked me." Silver Chain immediately responded.

"Oh I do like you in that way, but due to the nature of our relationship, I'm saying no. I'm not an idiot." bakugo commented and silver chain nodded at that.

"I did not presume you so forgive me for my minor transgression then. in that case, I'll decline the offer. I would like to go train...alone." silver chain remarked before clarifying herself a bit more as she could already see the question form on the boy's lips, and with a single nod between the both of them she was gone, bakugo was slightly aggravated by that "minor transgression" but he guessed that he could do some rock climbing to clear his head as he met back up with the others.

after fighting out the three of them had to go back home and take a shower to freshen up before heading back to the event they had planned for the detour to take 15 minutes off their time but instead it to 45 minutes which meant they only had an hour and 15 minutes to experience the place, it was a large resort with numerous different type of rock walls that they could climb from beginners to ultra hard version and then a level beyond that which was rated for heroes, this was essentially an artificial mountain of landscape that people had to go through and along its edges, it had traps and false holds that could trip people up. bakugo went straight to the hero obstacle course followed by some of the guys while the girls and some of the less experienced guys went towards the starter areas these were mostly just plain basic tools that focused on grip strength and coordination the class would compete amongst each other to see who would do the best between them and surprisingly the girls won out a good majority of the time besides Jiro.

Asui was essentially a natural given her quirk allowed her to stick to any surface and due to that she had a good handle on balancing herself on walls she liked Mina was rhythmic on her way to the top, and uraraka had most of her reflexes sharpened to a point with her training from tatsumaki and momo likened this to her training with shadow ring that she still was continuing to that very day, kaminari was also very proficient in his rock climbing skills given that he would climb up that large rocky hill almost daily in his training despite that however he would just wait around Jiro well more likely show off around Jiro that was about how "easy" it was for him which had the likely reaction of him getting plucked and falling to the floor below which to him also reminded him of his brief time training with shadow ring.

the other guys were also struggling somewhat with the lower-level rock walls but they quickly got the hang of it and once all of them were successfully conquered by the class everyone went over to the hero difficulty-rated rock wall, this wall was massive in size nearly 100 meters tall at its complete height every 25 meters was a different category representing the different classes of hero starting from C to S, each tier was separated by pit stops and the person could decide when they would stop or continue going if they wanted to.

Bakugo and Kirishima were already around the A-class of the rank about to head into S if Kirishima's picture of the view was anything to go by, Mina had asked them to wait for them there and that they would be on their way up shortly and after a pause, Kirishima typed out an agreement followed quickly by bakugo who told them to hurry up. so the class all got to work making their way up the gigantic wall, 25 meters was much easier to think about but harder to envision on this type of terrain but they all managed to complete the task somewhat easily enough there were a couple of slip-ups that had forced them all to wait around a few times and forced them to wait around but they got their done quickly enough taking a quick pit stop so everyone was ready to get moving towards the next tier. the tiers would add additional challenges that would make them even more difficult as they moved up and up, they finally got to the pitstop of the A-class region and bakugo huffed out a greeting as you might expect given that they didn't have much time left to be in the place due to how slow they were.

they had around 30 minutes left before their time would be up and they would have to leave but they wanted to finish the rock wall challenge before they did so. the class set out to complete the wall but the S-class one was completely different than the rest it actually came with its own set of waivers directly that they needed to sign before commencing through with it, the wall forgone the cables of the previous levels making its free form, there were traps located throughout the course that included slippery surfaces, electric zaps, artificial wind gust, mini rumbles, and even more things such a random flashes as well which under the circumstances was extremely dangerous and while they did have a safety precaution still which was a largely invisible net that would catch them in the event that they fell and would guide them back down to the pitstop other were still reserved about continuing on with this challenge but they still tried it nonetheless, things went about as expected as the class failed this rock wall challenge even the people that were good in previous circumstances still struggled but bakugo was determined to reach the absolute top and even cheating and using his quirk to stay on the wall when he fell and that just opened up the powder keg for the rest of them as well.

with the use of their quirks, things became fairly simple for mostly everyone mineta simply created the micro path that he traveled up by, and toru used light steps to essentially walk up the rest of the way giving Aoyama, Jiro, and Koda a hand in the meanwhile, given there quirks wasn't suited for this, tokoyami, midoriya, uraraka, and bakugo just flew up on their power, kaminari and asui walked up the side of the building. Kirishima couldn't do what the others did since he risked damaging the building so bakugo just carried him up with him.

they all made it up just as soon as their time was up and given that they cheated weren't entirely celebrated as if they had done the thing legit but they welcomed the experience nonetheless, and the way down was a large downward rollercoaster that they all got on and enjoyed before the group left the place and went back home to get clean up again and then back again for a dinner party, this is where the groups had separated Asui still had a coupon for 20 people at any given place the hero association certified so taking that into account they left to another buffet along with the stipulation that the place allowed pets of some kind so that Aki wouldn't feel too excluded from events and board at home by herself and they found the perfect place for that although they would have to eat outside.

Certain individuals were given false information about the place they were going and the groups had left out independently from each other. ultimately culminating in the potential pairing ending up in the poetic/dinner while everyone else left towards the buffet, Mina was too late when things were in motion especially when she thought about the people who shared the carpools with her and the complete absence of the rest of the class at their destination.

the six of them, while initially confused about what was happening Mina explained how they all fell into a trap of kaminari's and toru's making, however, asui noted that she already knew about it since she asked Jiro about it sensing something was up with the spontaneous field day they were having. shocking everyone else present but she didn't mind it, it was a free show and a meal with friends there wasn't much else she could ask for. under that pretense, everyone was much more understanding of it and continued inside.

The group was seated and everyone sat by their partners and enjoyed the show and meal together, although there were countless times when the meaning behind the poems had to be told to todoroki Mina, and Kirishima as they simply didn't get it, along with the proper etiquette of snapping when someone was done instead of clapping but overall everyone enjoyed their time well enough before taking their leave and being driven home where the others had waited for them and were curious if anything happened on the trip but nothing substantial occurred everyone just said they had a wonderful dinner and thanked toru and kaminari for their time and went to their rooms. Tokoyami had sent dark shadow over to Asui's room to apologize for being "lumped in" with him for the night but the girl had claimed that she was fine it was an enjoyable night and that she didn't mind spending time with him, which the dark shadow nuzzled into her for as the feeling of happiness welling in tokoyami extended through to the shadow creature upon him internally returning said message.

Dark shadow reluctantly left as tokoyami felt he was taking too long to return and with that out of the way, the class all went to sleep happy with how the day turned out except one explosive teen who couldn't completely drown out the thoughts of the silver-haired girls question from earlier on in the day.