"What? Class A needs supplementary lessons! That means some of you failed. Huh? Isn't that strange? I Thought Class A Was Supposed To Be Better Than Class B, But Now This?! Wow!" Monoma said with a wide smile. Kendo whacks him on the neck, knocking him out, apologizing.
"Class A's bus is this way please line up in order," I hear Ida shout.
"Wait Akumi," I hear Youta say before I entered the bus.
I stopped and turned around, "Yeah, what is it?"
Youta hugs me, "I know it's dumb to say this since our class will be going to the same place but, stay safe."
His warmth felt nice as I hugged him back but this was quite daring of him. "Don't you think this is a little bit embarrassing? There's nothing dangerous that's going to be happening."
"Knowing you, it's better to tell you now than later," he says and lets go of me.
All of class A got on the bus and I had a seat in the front next to Aizawa. As the bus was now driving off Aizawa announced, "We'll be stopping in about an hour. After that, we'll…" He turned back and noticed the class wasn't listening and chatting amongst themselves. "Well, at least you are."
"Huh?"
"Listening. You're listening to me right. You've been staring at me since we got on the bus."
"Oh sorry. I'm just a bit worried."
"Well, worry not. We've taken extra precautions for this training camp. Since you know what is going to happen."
"Best of luck." My voice slipped out.
"Huh?"
"Did I say that?"
He rubs his eyes then says, "Almost forgot that the other one can hear us. I'll let you know, "Akumi". You may know what is going to happen next but you don't know what's going to happen now." One hour later the bus comes to a stop, "Time for a break!" Everyone got off the bus. We were at a cliff with an outlook of mountains and forest below. There was a car parked by the edge.
"Gotta pee, gotta pee…" Mineta said with shivering legs.
"Wait, this isn't a rest stop," said Kaminari.
"Right? And where is class B?" Kirishima added.
"Of course, we stopped here for a reason," Aizawa comments.
"Heya! Eraser! It's been a while." A woman's voice called out. "With sparkling eyes, we rock on!"
"Cute, cat, stinger!" We hear another woman's voice.
"We're the Wild, Wild… Pussy-Cats!" They both said at the same time and struck a pose. I notice a little boy next to them.
"These are the pro heroes who'll be helping us out this time. The Pussycats."
"They're a four-member hero team who all work under the same agency," Izuku explained. "This veteran team specializes in mountain rescue operations! They've been in business for twelve years now…"
The woman dressed in blue was about to put her paw gloves on Izuku's face but I moved to intercept it with my left hand. "Uh…? Little lady, you must be the one we were told about." She looks at me with a peculiar smile.
"This whole area here is our territory." The woman dressed in red changed the conversation. "Your lodging is at the foot of that mountain over there."
"So far away," a lot of the class said.
"Huh…? Then why'd we stop halfway?" Asked Uraraka.
"Let's. Get. Back. To the bus? Hurry…" Sero says as everyone slowly backs to the bus.
"It's nine-thirty right now. If you kick it into high gear. I'm thinking around noon at the earliest," the woman dressed in red said menacingly wagging her tail.
"Oh… No…" Kirishima reacted with a sweat drop on his face.
"Run!" Shouted Ashido. "Back To The Bus! Hurry!"
They all made a dash towards the bus. The woman dressed in blue placed her hand on the ground as the woman in red said, "Kitties who don't make it there by twelve-thirty won't be eating."
"Sorry kids," Aizawa said as the woman dressed in blue slammed the ground causing the ground to rise and soften sending everyone except the little boy, the two women, Aizawa, and I off the cliff. "The training's already begun." My hand reaches out for Izuku but gets restrained by Aizawa, "Don't worry this is training remember. He won't be in any danger of dying."
"R-right…" I said sheepishly.
"This private is our private territory, so feel free to use your quirks! You've got three hours to reach the facility on foot! Through this forest of Magic Beasts!" The woman dressed in red shouted over to the group who fell off the cliff.
"Normally these are skills they wouldn't learn until their second year. But we're here because they need to learn now. Hence the sped-up pace," Aizawa says. "They'll need their provisional license for quirk use in an emergency. A temporary permit to cut loose and mimic a qualified, approved hero. You take over from here Pixie-Bob"
"Ooh, leave it to me!" The woman in blue answered, "My fur's standing on end!"
"Time to move, Kota," the woman dressed in red said to the boy.
The little boy stares at the group below and says, "So stupid." He turns and gives me the stink eye, "And why aren't you down there?"
I looked at Aizawa, "Why am I not down there?"
"You are not down there for three reasons. Reason one I will tell you when the rest of the students arrive. Reason two, this counts as battle training, and as Principal Nezu said you are not to take part in it in the concern of you losing control. And reason three, it would be easier to stop you if you ended up losing control here rather than if you were away from me and next to them."
"Oh… I see…" I turn to look at the boy, " Well there you have it."
"That just makes you more stupid than them." The boy says as he walks to the car.
"Don't mind him," said the woman dressed in red, "He's going through some tough times. Of course, we've heard about your situation also."
"I look forward to working with you," I bow my head.
"Ah, right. We're looking forward to it also."
Aizawa and I got back on the bus. It was a quiet ride to the facility but it only took twenty to thirty minutes at most to reach. When we arrived at our rooms I didn't have much luggage, to begin with just a bag of extra clothes and makeup, so I just placed it on the bed without unpacking. At the facility, Aizawa led me into one of the classrooms in the building. "Now let's begin with the work you've missed. Starting with your hero name…"
We're now waiting outside. Needless to say, they didn't make it in time for lunch. Everyone was battered and bruised as they were limping towards us.
"It'll only take three hours. Yeah, right…" Sero groveled.
"So hungry. I'm going to starve to death," Kirishima cries out.
"Sorry. I meant by our standards," said Mandalay
I rush over to Izuku, "Are you okay…?"
Izuku stares at me for a moment before answering, "Y-yeah, a little bit bruised, but this is nothing compared to breaking bones."
"Hey! Why was Akumi exempt from this torture!" Mineta shouts angrily.
"Yeah, why does she get special treatment," Ashido joins the protest.
"She couldn't participate because of fairness. If Akumi and Uraraka had worked together you all would have easily flown over here without learning anything. Class B's Youta Okazaki will also be exempt because his quirk would allow everyone in his class to simply fly over without trouble. So don't think this is a special exemption just for her."
"Well, couldn't you just tell them they couldn't do that and still make them participate," Yaoyorozu raised a hand.
"You do know that both Youta and Akumi specialize in taking command and going with the best outcomes with what they are given. And if given an entire class with multiple useful quirks in their command you all would have been able to make it here in no time even without having them fly you over."
I block Pixie-Bob from touching Izuku's face. "Wow now, aren't you an overprotective one? Well, that only applies to him right…" She says as I intercept her from touching Katsuki. "What, him too? Well, how about them." She goes over to Ida and Todoroki and my body doesn't seem to want to move. "Ah, so those two are off-limits for me… I get it, you've already staked your claim on them. It's fine, I'll make do with these two." Pixie-Bob said with a wide grin.
I then notice Izuku with a hand outstretched talking with the little boy. Then my body sense danger as it moved by itself to quickly protect Izuku. I catch the boy's fist before it makes contact with Izuku's groin. "Umm, Akumi, what are you doing?"
"Huh," I blinked. "What am I doing?"
The boy got out of my grip and walked away, "The last thing I want is to be with some wannabe heroes."
"Enough trying to find loopholes in Akumi's absence. Go get your luggage from the bus. Drop your things off in your rooms, then come to dinner in the mess hall. After that, you'll bathe. Then it's bedtime. The real training starts tomorrow. Now hurry up." Aizawa said, pointing his thumb towards the building.
Everyone got to the bus unloading their items one by one, then leaving to their rooms. Along the way, I walk with the girls and they began to complain to me about how lucky I was to be exempt from the torture they'd just endured. But they all seemed to think that maybe if I was there, things would have been easier.
"Come on guys, I can't do that much," I say.
"You're being too humble. If you were there we would have been able to fly over everything," said Ashido. "And even if we couldn't, you could have told us the best moves to make in the battle so we wouldn't be so tired."
"Can you even float our amount of weight Uraraka?"
"I can easily float all of us. Darn if only the teachers didn't know about that then maybe we would have had lunch by now," Uraraka replied.
"I assume you weren't just lazing around when we were fighting for our lives. What were you doing while we were not here," Yaoyorozu asks.
"I was just catching up on a lot of the important things I missed like choosing a hero name."
"Oh, that's right. Izuku and Bakugo chose some pretty wild names. So what name did you decide to go with?" Hagakure said.
"My hero name… It's Akumi."
"Just your name? Like Todoroki and Ida. Well, I guess it's even hard for you to think of a name."
"Yeah it's just my name but it's spelled differently. With the Aku standing for evil and Mi for beauty. Put it together and you get, Evil's Beauty, Akumi"
"Doesn't that sound like a villain's name," Tsuyu says.
I close my eyes, "Yes it does. Even Aizawa said it wasn't a good name for a hero, but… It's the name that hits closes to home. Like how Izuku chose Deku as his hero name or like how all of Katsuki's names were rejected for being too explicit."
"So what logic did you use to convince the teachers to accept the name," Jiro Asked.
"My quirk… It can turn me from hero to villain like a switch. Don't you think there's some sort of beauty in evil doing heroic acts?"
"Midnight was pretty strict with what is allowed and not allowed. If I had a logic like that I might have gotten away with Alien Queen."
"I'm sure if you wanted the name enough you would have thought of a better alternative than Pinky."
"Hey! It was hard to think of anything better than the best with the clock ticking down. And Pinky is a great hero name."
We continued our conversation as they each dropped off their belongings in their room. Then we made our way to the mess hall. There we regrouped with the rest of the class and saw that there were more students from UA also here. I met with Youta again and we exchanged greetings. Food was then brought to the tables. Everyone then sat down with their respective classes and began eating.
(Retold but in Third Person)
"What? Class A needs supplementary lessons! That means some of you failed. Huh? Isn't that strange? I Thought Class A Was Supposed To Be Better Than Class B, But Now This?! Wow!" Monoma said with a wide smile. Kendo whacks him on the neck, knocking him out, apologizing.
"Class A's bus is this way please line up in order," Ida shouts.
Before Akumi entered the bus Youta who was watching from afar noticed Akumi with a dark gloom over herself. "Wait Akumi!" Youta shouts, walking up to Akumi.
Akumi stopped and turned around. "Yeah, what is it?" She responded
Youta hugs Akumi, "I know it's dumb to say this since our class will be going to the same place but, stay safe." Looking behind Akumi, Youta sees that the gloom disappeared."
"Don't you think this is a little bit embarrassing? There's nothing dangerous that's going to be happening," Akumi chuckles.
"Knowing you, it's better to tell you now than later," he says and lets go of her. Youta sees Akumi's normal cheerful smile back on her face and decides not to say anymore.
After that little interaction, the rest of class 1A got on the bus, and Akumi was seated in the front next to Aizawa. As the bus was driving off, Azawai announced, "We'll be stopping in about an hour. After that, we'll…" He turned back and noticed the class wasn't listening and chatting amongst themselves. "Well, at least you are."
"Huh?" Akari responded.
"Listening. You're listening to me right. You've been staring at me since we got on the bus."
"Oh sorry. I'm just a bit worried." She crossed her arms, gripping her elbows tightly, and sat further into her seat.
"Well, worry not. We've taken extra precautions for this training camp. Since you know what is going to happen."
"Best of luck." Her voice slipped out.
"Huh?" Aizawa noticed for a moment a grin on Akumi's face.
"Did I say that?"
"Almost forgot that the other one can hear us. I'll let you know, "Akumi". You may know what is going to happen next but you don't know what's going to happen now."
One hour later the bus comes to a stop, "Time for a break!" Everyone got off the bus. Looking out they see a cliff with an outlook of mountains and forest below. There was a car parked by the edge.
"Gotta pee, gotta pee…" Mineta said with shivering legs.
"Wait, this isn't a rest stop," said Kaminari.
"Right? And where is class B?" Kirishima added.
"Of course, we stopped here for a reason," Aizawa comments.
"Heya! Eraser! It's been a while." A woman's voice called out. "With sparkling eyes, we rock on!"
"Cute, cat, stinger!" They hear another woman's voice.
"We're the Wild, Wild… Pussy-Cats!" Both women said at the same time and struck a pose.
"These are the pro heroes who'll be helping us out this time. The Pussycats," Aizawa told the class.
"They're a four-member hero team who all work under the same agency," Izuku explained. "This veteran team specializes in mountain rescue operations! They've been in business for twelve years now…"
The woman dressed in blue was about to put her paw gloves on Izuku's face but Akumi moved to intercept it with her left hand. "Uh…? Little lady, you must be the one we were told about." The women noticed Akumi's eyes were a lifeless yellow color.
"This whole area here is our territory." The woman dressed in red changed the conversation. "Your lodging is at the foot of that mountain over there."
"So far away," a lot of the class said.
"Huh…? Then why'd we stop halfway?" Asked Uraraka.
"Let's… Get… Back… To the bus? Hurry…" Sero says as tension builds.
"It's nine-thirty right now. If you kick it into high gear. I'm thinking around noon at the earliest," the woman dressed in red said menacingly wagging her tail.
"Oh… No…" Kirishima reacted with a sweat drop on his face.
"Run!" Shouted Ashido. "Back To The Bus! Hurry!"
They all start rushing back towards the bus. The woman dressed in blue placed her hand on the ground as the woman in red said, "Kitties who don't make it there by twelve-thirty won't be eating."
"Sorry kids," Aizawa said as the woman dressed in blue slammed the ground causing it to rise and soften, sending everyone except the two women, Aizawa, and Akumi off the cliff. "The training's already begun." Akumi's hand reaches out for Izuku but is stopped and restrained by Aizawa, "Don't worry this is training remember. He won't be in any danger of dying."
"R-right…" She said sheepishly as her eyes reverted to green.
"This private is our private territory, so feel free to use your quirks! You've got three hours to reach the facility on foot! Through this forest of Magic Beasts!" The woman dressed in red shouted over to the group who fell off the cliff.
"Normally these are skills they wouldn't learn until their second year. But we're here because they need to learn now. Hence the sped-up pace," Aizawa says. "They'll need their provisional license for quirk use in an emergency. A temporary permit to cut loose and mimic a qualified, approved hero. You take over from here Pixie-Bob"
"Ooh, leave it to me!" The woman in blue answered, "My fur's standing on end!"
"Time to move, Kota," the woman dressed in red said to the little boy who was with them.
The little boy stares at the group below and says, "So stupid." He turns and gives Akumi the stink eye, "And why aren't you down there?"
Akumi looked at Aizawa and asked, "Why am I not down there?"
"You are not down there for three reasons. Reason one I will tell you when the rest of the students arrive. Reason two, this counts as battle training, and as Principal Nezu said you are not to take part in it in the concern of you losing control. And reason three, it would be easier to stop you if you ended up losing control here rather than if you were away from me and next to them."
"Oh… I see…" Akumi turns to look at the boy, "Well there you have it."
"That just makes you more stupid than them." The boy says as he walks to the car.
"Don't mind him," said the woman dressed in red, "He's going through some tough times. Of course, we've heard about your situation also."
"I look forward to working with you," Akari said, bowing her head.
"Ah, right… We're looking forward to it also." The woman was a bit confused by this reaction compared to the earlier action she saw Akumi do.
Aizawa and Akumi then got back on the bus. It was a quiet ride to the facility but it only took twenty to thirty minutes at most to reach. After placing her belongings in her room, Aizawa led Akumi into one of the classrooms in the building. "Now let's begin with the work you've missed. Starting with your hero name…"
Pixie-Bob, Mandalay, Kota, Aizawa, and Akumi are now waiting outside. Needless to say, they didn't make it in time for lunch. Everyone from class 1A, besides Akumi who didn't take part in the exercise, were all battered and bruised as they were limping towards the building.
"It'll only take three hours. Yeah, right…" Sero groveled.
"So hungry. I'm going to starve to death," Kirishima cries out.
"Sorry. I meant by our standards," said Mandalay
Akumi rushed over to Izuku, "Onii-chan. Are you okay…?"
"Yeah, a little bit bruised, but this is nothing compared to breaking bones." Izuku answers. He noticed a yellow hue in her eyes that no one else seemed to notice.
"Hey! Why was Akumi exempt from this torture!" Mineta shouts angrily.
"Yeah, why does she get special treatment," Ashido joins the protest.
"She couldn't participate because of fairness. If Akumi and Uraraka had worked together you all would have easily flown over here without gaining any experience. Class B's Youta Okazaki was also exempt because his quirk would allow everyone in his class to simply fly over without trouble. So don't think this is a special exemption just for her."
"Well, couldn't you just say they couldn't do that and still make them participate," Yaoyorozu asks.
"You do know that both Youta and Akumi specialize in taking command and going with the best outcomes with what they are given. And if given an entire class with multiple useful quirks in their command you all would have been able to make it here in no time even without having them fly you over."
Akumi notices a sneaking Pixie-Bob and blocks Pixie-Bob from touching Izuku's face. "Wow now aren't you an overprotective one," Pixie-Bob says, noticing again the lifeless yellow in her eyes.
"Sorry. My body just moved on its own."
"Well, that only applies to him right…" She says as Akumi intercepts her from touching Katsuki. "What, him too? Well, how about them." Akumi's eye color changes to red and a menacing aura slowly emitted out. Pixie-Bob quickly goes over to Ida and Todoroki with no reaction from Akumi. "Ah, so those two are off-limits for me… I get it, you're already staked your claim on them. It's fine, I'll make do with these two." Pixie-Bob said with a grin.
Akumi notices Izuku with a hand outstretched talking with Kota. Then Akumi moved to quickly protect Izuku. She catches the boy's fist before it made contact with Izuku's groin. "Umm, Akumi, what are you doing?" Izuku asks concern because he feels a menacing aura around Akumi.
"Huh," Akumi blinks and the aura dissipates. "What am I doing?"
Kota got out of Akumi's grip and walked away, "The last thing I want is to be with some wannabe heroes."
"Enough trying to find loopholes in Akumi's absence. Go get your luggage from the bus. Drop your things off in your rooms, then come to dinner in the mess hall. After that, you'll bathe. Then it's bedtime. The real training starts tomorrow. Now hurry up." Aizawa said, pointing his thumb towards the building.
Everyone got to the bus unloading their items one by one, then leaving to their rooms. Along the way, Akumi chose to walk with the girls as they began to complain to her about how lucky she was to be exempt from the torture they'd just endured. But they all seemed to think that maybe if she was there, things would have been easier.
"Come on guys, I can't do that much," Akumi says.
"You're being too humble. If you were there we would have been able to fly over everything," said Ashido. "And even if we couldn't, you could have told us the best moves to make in the battle so we wouldn't be so tired.
"Can you even float our amount of weight Uraraka?"
"I can easily float all of us. Darn if only the teachers didn't know about that then maybe we would have had lunch by now," Uraraka replied.
"I assume you weren't just lazing around when we were fighting for our lives. What were you doing while we were not here," Yaoyorozu asks.
"I was just catching up on a lot of the important things I missed like choosing a hero name."
"Oh, that's right. Izuku and Bakugo chose some pretty wild names. So what name did you decide to go with?" Hagakure said.
"My hero name. It's Akumi."
"Just your name? Like Todoroki and Ida. Well, I guess it's even hard for you to think of a name."
"Yeah it's just my name but it's spelled differently. With the Aku, standing for evil, and Mi, for beauty. Put it together and you get, Evil's Beauty, Akumi"
"Doesn't that sound like a villain's name," Tsuyu says.
Akumi's eyes widened as she smiled. All of the girls could feel like something inhuman was staring at them. "Yes, it does. Doesn't it?" Akumi said with an eerie tone. "Even Aizawa said it wasn't a good name for a hero, but… It's the name that hits closes to home." Akumi slowly turned her head to look at each of the girls with shining red eyes, one after the other. "Like how my brother chose Deku as his hero name or like how all of Bakugo's names were rejected for being too explicit."
"S-so what logic did you use to convince the teachers to accept the name," Jiro asked, a bit nervous because of the change in Akumi.
"My quirk…" Akumi then stops and closes her eyes. "It can turn me from hero to villain like a switch. So shouldn't my name reflect that of my quirk? But that reason was promptly rejected. So then I told them it's because I would be so beautiful to villains they would stop being villains."
"Midnight was pretty strict with what is allowed and not allowed. If I had given logic like that. I might have gotten away with Alien Queen." Ashido says, trying to steer the conversation away from that name.
"I'm sure if you wanted the name enough you would have thought of a better alternative than Pinky." Akumi opened her eyes with it being green again.
"Hey! It was hard to think of anything better than the best with the clock ticking down. And Pinky is a great hero name."
They continued their conversation as they each dropped off their belongings in their room. They then made their way to the mess hall. They regrouped with the rest of the class and saw that more students from UA were also there. Food was brought to the tables. Everyone then sat down with their respective classes and began eating.
(Back to First Person)
"Ah… the open-air hot spring bath is the best," said Hagakure.
"Yeah the water knows how to shape your figure," I say.
"This is so nice after all the training we've done today," Ashido exhaled as she stretched.
"Yeah, that reminds me the boys are just on the other side of that wall there aren't they," said Jiro. We all look at the wooden wall. "I can only think of one person who would even think of trying to climb over that thing."
"I'm sure everyone here will agree if that person does. Akumi, you have our permission to blast him away," said Yaoyorozu, covering herself with her arms.
"Oh don't worry about that. Only one boy will be able to see us. And it's not who you guys think it would be."
"Who is it? As class vice president, I need to punish whoever it is," Yaoyorozu said with a menacing aura around her.
Just then we heard popping noises going up from the other side of the wall and everyone got ready to attack whoever it may be. But as the noise reaches the peak of the wall we see Kota, the little boy, at the top then a scream from Mineta.
"Mineta is truly the worst."
"Thanks, Kota!" Ashido shouts.
"That's not good," I say.
"Why? What's going to happen next?" Ashido looks at me, worried.
"Even little boys like Kota can be flustered seeing your naked body, Ashido." Ashido then blushes and we look back up at Kota and notice him falling off to the other side.
"Oh no," Ashido got up. "It's my fault I should—"
"Don't worry. Izuku caught him. Besides, any boy would fall over like that if they saw a bunch of beautiful girls naked." I say.
"Was he the boy you mentioned that would see us," Uraraka asked.
"Yep. That's him."
"How did you know that?" Uraraka asked as I could feel everyone staring at me.
I scrambled my head to think of how to respond, "That's for me to know and for you guys to not. Or at least that's what Aizawa would tell me to say."
"You know everyone's still worried about you ever since you left and came back. Now and again we see you change expressions so suddenly. I know we haven't known each other for long but that isn't normal is it."
"It's not like I'm trying to make you guys worry. I just can't help it. It's almost like every time I explain my situation something bad happens."
"You can explain it to us when you're allowed to. Us girls need to stick together. We are always here to listen," said Ashido. "And besides this isn't the time to talk about all that negative stuff. We're in a hot spring, so just sit back and relax."
"Yeah! I think I will," I replied as I lay back into the water stretching my arms and legs.