AN: Ugh, it's been a crazy month for me. But I won't bore you with the details. Let's just enjoy the chapter.
Izuku let out a few chuckles as he made his way to the van, Ryukyu, Mirko, and Nejire trailing behind with satisfied smiles. The girls waiting at the van all noticed that Izuku's face was practically covered in lipstick marks. "Had fun?" Kyoka asked.
Izuku just nodded.
"More conquests," Yui said.
"Don't phrase it like that, please," Itsuka muttered. "By the way, Midoriya, I want to say sorry again for before. I still can't believe I did that."
"It… It's fine, Kendo," Izuku said as he started to rub the lipstick off his face.
"Here, Izuku," Ryukyu produced a handkerchief from her qipao and handed it to Izuku.
"If you enjoyed it you could always join, Itsuka," Yui bluntly said.
"YUI!" Itsuka screeched with a blush.
"I'm not hearing a no~!"
"I wouldn't mind doing this again," Mirko spoke up.
"Why did you join in so easily, Mirko?" Toru asked.
"Yeah. You only met Izuku once before, right?" Kyoko asked, having heard about their brief encounter at the end of his internship with Ryukyu.
"Uh, well…" Mirko blushed bashfully.
"She's been interested in Izuku since the Sports Festival," Ryukyu revealed with a smile. "She even has a picture of him fighting Todoroki."
"Ryuko!"
Izuku blushed slightly while the girls all giggled. "I guess we shouldn't be surprised that Izuku has fangirls," Kyoko smirked.
"But we still only officially met today," Izuku pointed out.
Ryukyu looked at Izuku in confusion. "Izuku, supernatural beings fall in love much faster than humans. Didn't you know that?"
[She's not wrong,] Ddraig said within Izuku's mind.
"That's-!" Izuku paused. "That… actually explains a lot."
"It kinda does," Kyoka nodded.
"Yes. The same is true for humans who fall in love with supernatural beings… That, or if you're a battle maniac idiot," Ryukyu glared lightly at Mirko.
"Is that supposed to be a jab at your best friend?"
"And if it was?"
"Oh boy," Nejire sighed with a smile as Ryukyu and Mirko got into a playful argument. "There they go again."
"This is normal?" Toru asked.
"Pretty much!" Nejire replied with a smile. She then leaned to where she thought Toru's ear was and whispered. "There's a betting pool at the agency about when they'll confess to each other and who will confess first."
"Really?" Toru questioned.
"Yep. I betted it'll be Mirko first and it'll happen by Halloween," Nejire whispered to the invisible girl, the only reason Mirko hadn't heard her was due to her playful argument with Ryukyu.
"Well, what are you waiting for, Romeo Dragon Emperor?" Mizu asked as she pushed Izuku toward the two arguing heroines. "It's your responsibility to rein them in, now."
"R-Right," Izuku nodded. He then approached Ryukyu and Mirko. "Uh, girls, that's enough. There's no need to-MMMPH!?"
Suddenly Ryukyu grabbed Izuku by the head and shoved his face in between the valley of her amped breasts. "You're shorter than both of us, Rumi, so you can't do this as easily," the Dragoon Hero taunted.
Mirko pouted. "Oh yeah?!" The Rabbit Hero grabbed Izuku and did the same thing; smothering him with her beautiful breasts, though it was a little awkward due to the height difference. "At least me and Ryuko are the same size in one department. Right, Izuku?"
'Why am I surprised?' A blushing Izuku thought as Ryukyu and Mirko continued to press his head against their busts.
"Good thing Nezu doesn't have any cameras in this area," Mizu sighed while Itsuka facepalmed in embarrassment.
Kyoko felt an eye twitch as she stared down at her own bust.
"Let's join in," Yui suggested.
"Yeah!" Nejire nodded.
"How about no?" Mizu said. "Your group is the first to finish their exam and we need to get back to the main building. Odds are the other exams are almost finished by now."
"How long did it last for us, by the way?" Itsuka asked.
"About 10 minutes, give or take."
"…There was no way that was all 10 minutes," Kyoka muttered.
"I wonder how everyone else is doing," Toru spoke up.
Final Exam Team 1: Villain Capture
Ground Gamma
"How the hell is he so fast?!" Rin demanded as he, Kirishima, and Monoma ran after Zero over the long network of pipes and heavy machinery.
Tsubasa and Shoji split off from them earlier in an attempt to cut off Zero's path, though that had proved more difficult than they imagined. Every time either group got close Zero darted away, using his Quirk to float over any obstacle.
Kirishima jumped onto the roof of one of the few actual buildings in the area. "We'll never catch him at this rate!"
Monoma then stepped up. "Not to worry my fellow student! …And 1-A boy."
"Hey!"
"Now that I have seen the way Zero has been moving, I have concocted the perfect plan the capture him!" The blond declared.
"…" Kirishima and Rin both gave Monoma a skeptical look before they looked at each other before Rin spoke up. "Uh, Monoma, that's great and all, but I think I have a better idea."
"You didn't even let me explain my plan!" Monoma protested.
"I'll hear it out once we meet up with the others, okay?" Rin offered.
"…Fine," Monoma muttered.
Zero landed on a large storage tank (the kind that store oil and gas and were, thankfully, empty) and glanced back, seeing that he lost the students. 'Hmm, what are they planning?'
The Fourth Ranked Hero glanced at his watch, seeing that only about 17 minutes remaining.
'They still have some time, but every second counts in a real-life scenario,' Zero moved off the oil tanker and landed on a small office building. 'I doubt they gave up. So what are they up to?'
*BRAKKA! BRAKKA!*
Alarmed, Zero quickly started moving away from what sounded like machine gun fire, taking cover behind an AC unit. Risking a glance, Zero saw Rin standing on several pips a distance away from him.
"Take this!" Rin raised his arms, shooting out all of the scales he had to at least try to damage the pro.
'He's staying around 25 meters away, outside my Quirk's reach.' Zero dodged another barrage of scales. 'Good thing I don't rely solely on it.' Zero drew a pistol. Loaded with non-lethal rubber bullets, of course.
Aiming the gun, Zero fired a couple of bullets at Rin. While one missed, the other did hit Rin, though his scale armor canceled out the bullet. The hero student began to move, firing more scales at Zero as he did so.
Zero was about to fire again when loud clanging coming from behind caught his attention. Zero turned just in time to see Tsubasa, having absorbed some of the metal of the storage tank, charged at Zero.
Zero easily avoided Tsubasa's attacks and attempted to use his Quirk on her, only to find that she wasn't being affected.
"Can't control us when we're armored up, can you?" Tsubasa smirked
"'Us'?"
"Right here, Zero!" A condescending voice from above answered.
Looking up, Zero saw Monoma, who currently had a similar appearance to Tsubasa, jump down toward him, wielding a broken pipe. Zero jumped away from Monoma's impact, only to nearly be hit by Rin's scales.
'I see… Yura's Quirk lets her take on the properties of whatever she absorbs. I can't control her bones when she's like that,' Zero avoided some of Tsubasa's strikes before avoiding a kick from Monoma and then dodging some scales that tore his cape. 'And Monoma can copy another's Quirk. He must've copied Yura's Quirk, and if Monoma manages to touch my skin, he could copy my Quirk and counteract mine. And Hiryu's attacks will impede my attempts to leave. Not a bad plan. But…'
Zero quickly fired his gun at the two, and though the rubber bullets did nothing to their steel skins, it did distract them enough for Zero to jump into the air and attempt to get away, setting off a small smoke bomb to avoid Rin's eye of sight.
'It was a good attempt but- Wait, where are the other two?' Zero got his answer as, from above, a scream slowly got louder. Looking up, Zero could only scream "What?!" as a hardened Kirishima slammed into him in midair.
"Caught ya!" Kirishima grinned as they fell before crashing into several pips.
Zero grunted in pain from the crash before he heard the distinct sound of handcuffs locking in place. He looked at his arm to see that it was handcuffed to Kirishima's arm.
Zero smirked beneath his mask, now realizing what their plan truly was. Monoma and Tsubasa fighting him up close while Rin fired from a distance was just a distraction so Shoji could launch Kirishima at him. It was a little risky since if he saw Kirishima coming, he would've either dodged or used his Quirk to change Kirishima's trajectory, but it wasn't uncommon for Pros to take risks like that. Zero himself had done more than a few.
'Not bad, kids. Not bad.'
[Team Monoma, Yura, Kirishima, Shoji, and Hiryu have passed the exam!]
Final Exam Team 3: Natural Disaster
USJ
Tetsutetsu grunted, the metallized young man lifting the remains of a collapsed roof, kicking up some fake ash as he did so. "Ugh! This fake ash gets everywhere! So glad I'm wearing the mask and goggles…" Peering inside, Tetsutetsu spotted a training dummy. One with a blinking green light on its chest. "Hey, I found one!"
Liana ran to his side and peeked inside. "Doesn't look like they can get out on their own," she said. "Mineta, get over here and help us support the roof," Liana called out as she climbed in.
"I told you my hero name is Grape Juice!" Mineta complained but did as he was told, using his sticky balls to help support the collapsed roof. Though he had to use quite a bit of his sticky balls to do so. "Ugh, this stupid dust is making it hard for my balls to stick."
Ignoring that comment as she made a few bone staffs to help support the roof, Liana gently wrapped her arms around the dummy and lifted it up, handing it to Jurota. "There may be more inside. Can you two keep this stable for a little while longer?"
"No problem!" Tetsutetsu smiled beneath his mask.
Nodding, Liana headed back inside to search for anyone else. As for Jurota, he took the training dummy to a designated safe zone where a few other dummies were already present, Setsuna standing guard. "Any sign of trouble, yet?" Jurota asked as he gently placed the dummy down under an available tent.
"Nothing yet," Setsuna said, the upper part of her head floating above the disaster sight to look for 'survivors' and potential villains. The other three soon joined the two, Tetsutetsu and Liana carrying another dummy.
"How many does this make?" Mineta asked.
"About 20 now," Liana and Tetsutetsu placed the 'rescued' dummy in the tent with the one Jurota brought. "How are we on time?"
"About 15 minutes remaining," Setsuna revealed.
"Hey, maybe the whole 'potential looters and villains' bit was just another one of Aizawa-sensei's deceptions," Mineta suggested.
*BOOM!*
No soon had Mineta said that, the walls surrounding the nearby Landslide Zone. About a dozen faux villains rushed out of the smoke, flanked by their leader, Guren.
"…Me and my big mouth," Mineta collapsed to the ground.
"Mom?" Liana muttered upon seeing her.
"Come on, guys! This town's right for the picking!" Guren exclaimed, acting like a villain.
"Uh, I'm not an ideas guy. So any suggestions?" Tetsutetsu asked.
"Lizardy, Real Steel! Keep the search and rescue going! Gevaudan, we'll deal with the villains. Mineta, you stay here and guard the civilians," Liana glanced over to her mother.
"Gotcha!" Tetsutetsu smashed his fists together in excitement.
"Why me?!" Mineta screamed. "Shouldn't the Bigfoot-looking guy be the guard?!"
"I am going to let that Bigfoot comment slide," Jurota muttered. "But I understand Crossbone's reasoning. I won't be able to pick up any scents with this mask on so my ability to locate the remaining survivors is limited. Your Quirk can help keep the villains contained."
"Let's go!" Liana and Jurota charged at the villains while Tetsutetsu and Setsuna headed back to the faux town.
"…If only some of these dummies were real babes, then it'll be worth it," Mineta mumbled.
"Greetings enemy mine!" Jurota grinned as he grew to his beast form and fought some of the faux villains.
Liana created a bone staff and knocked back a few of the villains before charging at her mother. Guren smirked before her arm glowed as she caught Liana's bone staff. "Not bad, Liana," Guren smiled before the bone staff caught fire. Liana let go of the staff and jumped back.
"I suppose there's no reason for me to hold back now, is there?" Liana asked in a rhetorical tone, bone armor growing over her arms until they were three times the size and had long claws.
"I suppose not," Guren smirked in return, raising her arm in preparation.
Liana charged at Guren, but the Fifth Ranked Hero blocked Liana's attack outright with her left hand, to Liana's surprise. With a calm smile, Kallen squeezed Liana's bone-clawed hand as she whipped her foe high over her head and slammed her onto her back onto the ground.
Undeterred, Liana swung her other arm at Guren, but her mother avoided the attack by jumping back. "Radiant Wave Su-" Guren tried to fire an attack, but her daughter closed the distance between them in less than a second, kicking Kallen in the face.
Guren tumbled along the ground for a moment before she skidded to a halt. Wiping a pit of blood off her lip, before smiling. 'That's my girl.'
As they were fighting, in the town, Tetsutetsu ran as fast as he could, looking for the remaining survivors. "Hey, Lizardy, you see anything?" He asked through his comlink.
"{A couple of villains managed to get by Gevaudan and Crossbone,}" Setsuna answered. "{They're nearby, so be careful.}"
"Gotcha!" Tetsutetsu turned a corner and stopped, spotting about four villains looting a small shop. He nearly went to confront them but stopped. 'No, wait. I need to rescue the survivors first. Dealing with these guys will come after.'
At the safe zone, Mineta was frantically throwing his sticky balls at the approaching faux villains, keeping them away from the rescued civilians.
*BUUURRR!*
Everyone stopped at the sound of the klaxon.
[All civilians have been rescued. Team Kozuki, Mineta, Tetsutetsu, Tokage, and Jurota have passed the exam!]
"Oh, we're done?" One of the faux villains asked.
"Huh? So these guys are the last ones?" Tetsutetsu muttered, having rescued a robot family that looked like a plain brunette mom, dad, a kid, and a baby from a basement.
Liana groaned as she deactivated her Quirk, her arms a little stiff now. "You did good, Liana," Guren smiled. "Your dad would be proud."
Liana let herself give a small smile.
"About time," Mineta sighed in relief.
"Hey, kid, is there a way to take these balls off us?" One of the faux villains, who was stuck to another one, asked.
"Uh, they unstick in a few hours to a day at most," Mineta answered.
"A DAY?!" He exclaimed. "I have a date tonight!"
Final Exam Team 4: Crime Scene Investigation
Ground Beta, South Section
"So how do we start?" Hyde asked, he, Kaminari, Mina, and Pony looking to Kuroiro as he looked over the files Snipe gave him.
"I am unsure," Kuroiro admitted.
"Shouldn't we go over what we know and try to reconstruct how this happened?" Kaminari asked. "You know, looking over the crime scene, eyewitness statements, and looking for any contradictions?"
Everyone present gave the electric blond an odd look.
"What?" Kaminari asked defensibly. "I've played Ace Attorney and Danganronpa so I know a little about how investigations work! Granted, I only played them on easy, but still!"
"Oh, I love those games!" Pony smiled.
"…Better than nothing, I guess," Hyde shrugged.
Kuroiro nodded as he separated the files. "There is a lot here to analyze, so we'll need to split up. Chargebolt and Night Blade will look over the surveillance footage. Pinky, Rocketti, you two investigate the room the victim fell from. I'll look over the witness statements."
About three minutes later, Mina and Pony were in the room. It was a large and pricey hotel room that only the upper class could probably afford to stay in.
"That's… a long way down," Mina gulped, looking down from the balcony where the victim fell.
Pony looked around the hotel room, looking for any potential clues. It wasn't long before she spotted something.
"Is this… a bullet hole?" Pony questioned, having spotted a small hole in the wall. She glanced back at where Mina was, realizing that the bullet hole was on the other side of the room away from the balcony. The glass for the sliding patio door was broken and shattered into a million pieces. Most of the glass was on the balcony outside the room, but some glass was inside also.
"Was he shot at?" Pony muttered.
"Huh? What's that?" Mina asked.
"Well, I was just wondering if the guy was shot," Pony explained. "There's a bullet hole there, and some glass inside the room."
"What? You saying he was shot or something?" Mina asked.
"Maybe…"
"{Does anyone have anything to report yet?}" Kuroiro asked through the comlink.
"Well, Rocketti thinks someone may have been shooting at the victim," Mina replied.
"{He was shot?!}" Kaminari exclaimed.
"It looks like it," Pony replied. "What about you boys?"
"{Well, me and Kaminari have been going over the video footage from around the time the guy fell,}" Hyde answered. "{Nothing stood out, though.}"
"Shouldn't there be cameras in the hotel room?" Mina asked.
"{We checked, and the only camera isn't facing the balcony,}" Kaminari answered.
"{As for myself, one statement did catch my eye,}" Kuroiro began. "{A housekeeper in the room directly below heard odd sounds coming from above. Almost like someone was moving something.}"
"{Anything else?}" Kaminari asked.
"{Not much, I'm afraid,}" Kuroiro replied. "{Though, a hotel guest did report seeing something flying between the hotel and the building across the street.}"
Pony glanced at the office building across from the hotel. It was only taller by a few stories, but other than that it doesn't stand out much.
"Hey, look at this!" Mina called from the balcony, leaning against the railing, her back facing the ground several stories below.
"What are you doing, Mina?!" Pony exclaimed in English as she rushed to the pink-skinned student.
"I'm not sure what you said, but look!" Mina pointed to the balcony above them.
Pony leaned against the railing and looked. "Huh?" The balcony above was cracked with a couple of chunks missing from its front.
"You think that might be a clue?" Mina asked.
Narrowing her eyes in suspicion, Pony stepped away from the balcony railing and looked toward the office building. "I think we should look around the roof of the office building."
Using her horns to carry herself and Mina over to the office building's roof, the two began to look around. Right away they found something odd. A steel cable, about 18 meters long, with a hook on one end, along with a device that looked like a zip-line handle.
was hastily hidden between two air handling units.
"What's this thing doing here?" Mina asked.
"…I think I got it!" Pony cheered.
"Huh?" Mina tilted her head, still not understanding as Pony called the others.
"We found a cable with a hook and a zip-line handle on the roof across from the hotel."
"{A cable and handle?}" Hyde asked.
"{Why is that important?}" Kuroiro asked.
"Me and Pinky can see the room the victim was staying in," Pony continued. "I think the victim was shot at first, then the killer used the cable to get to the room from here."
"{Which explains why that one witness saw something flying between buildings!}" Kuroiro realized. "{And then the culprit broke into the room, which would've been easy since the glass door was broken because of the shooting earlier, and then dumped the body over the balcony.}"
"Seems kinda stupid of them to just leave the cable here, though," Mina pointed out.
"{They were probably in a hurry to get away from the scene,}" Kaminari said.
"{Okay, we know how they did it. But that doesn't tell us who did it,}" Hyde pointed out.
"{It has to be someone who's got good aim to both shoot someone and shoot a cable across a street,}" Kaminari pointed out. "{Like Snipe-sensei…}"
An uncomfortable silence hung in the air as they all realized the same thing. "You guys don't think…?"
"I do," Pony replied to Mina. "Where is Mr. Snipe?"
Several blocks away, Snipe, instead of staying near the 'crime scene' to gauge the students, was headed toward the south gate. He occasionally looked over his shoulder to see if he was being followed. 'Still not real comfortable being the 'culprit' in the case those kids are solvin', but the rat ordered it.'
As he passed an alleyway, Kuroiro partly emerged from the shadows. "I found him. And our suspicions appear to be correct. He's making his way to the southern gate."
"{Okay, we'll be there soon. Keep an eye on him,}" Hyde replied.
As Snipe continued to make his way to the gate, he stopped upon seeing Hyde and Pony standing before him. "Well, I'll be damn. You kids figured it out, did ya?"
"That you were the culprit? Yeah, we did," Hyde confirmed as he drew the Insulator while Kaminari and Mina appeared behind Snipe.
Snipe smirked beneath his mask. "Not bad, kids. But let's see if you're just as good at playing Hide and Seek," Snipe tossed out a smoke grenade, which began covering the area with a dense smoke screen.
"Smokescreen!?" Pony quickly fired her horns at where she was sure Snipe was at, only for Snipe's bullets to shoot them out of the air.
"Get to cover, quick!" Hyde called out, rushing behind a tree. Pony ran behind a car, the windows of which shattered from Snipe's gunshots. Mina and Kaminari quickly hid behind a building as Snipe shot at them.
"Can't you zap him?"
"And risk zapping everyone else and turning brain-dead? I'd rather wait until I really need to!" Kaminari replied to the pink-skinned girl.
"I can hear you two!" Snipe called out, shooting at the ground in front of the two.
"EEK!" They both screamed.
Hyde peeked out from his hiding spot for a second. The smoke was still pretty thick, and Snipe could hit any of them at. 'What do we do now?'
"Psst! Night Blade!"
Blinking, Hyde looked to the shadow of the building just behind him. There, Kuroiro's face was visible for a moment, along with some capture cuffs before they disappeared into the shadow.
Hyde stared at where Kuroiro was before he realized his plan. 'I get it.' Hyde then ran out and swung the Insulator, cutting the tree down, which allowed its shadow to connect to the shadow of the building. "Come and get me, you cowboy reject!"
"Them's fighting words, partner!" Snipe shot several times at Hyde who ran as fast as he could but thickly stopped. Looking down at both his shadow and snipes, they just barely connected to the shadow of the fallen tree. Smirking, Hyde raised his hands in defeat.
"Aren't you giving up a little too easy for a Hero?" Snipe asked as he walked toward Hyde. "And what's with that smirk?"
"Oh, just felt like smiling is all," Hyde replied. "Smiling at how you fell for a distraction," he said, confusing Snipe.
"Huh?" Suddenly, Kuroiro appeared from the shadows behind Snipe and quickly handcuffed his left wrist.
"Got you!" Kuroiro shouted, altering the Pro as he realized just what happened.
"What? How did you…?" Snipe questioned as the buzzer went off.
[Team Kido, Ashido, Tsunotori, Kuroiro, and Kaminari have passed the exam!]
Final Exam Team 5: Infiltration of a Villain Lair
Practical Exam Arena 1
One of the faux villains yawned as he sat in a storage/break room, reading a newspaper. He knew he was supposed to help give the students a "realistic" scenario, but he just wished it wasn't so boring.
"Psst! Hey!"
"Hmm?" The faux villain turned his head, seeing Iida behind him. The faux villain didn't even have time to register who they were before Iida quickly kicked him, knowing him unconscious as he landed.
"I could've handled him!" Bakugo and Kamakiri both said as they climbed in through the open window. "Stop copying me, asshole!"
"Will two please be quiet?" Iida groaned as Sero wrapped up the unconscious faux villain in his tape.
"Yeah! Do you two even know the meaning of stealth?!" Sero quietly exclaimed.
"They're right," Honenuki said. "Bakugo's Quirk would make too much noise, and you're not exactly subtle yourself, Kamakiri."
"Hmph!" Bakugo and Kamakiri both turned away from each other.
'I will be very surprised if they pass this with flying colors,' Sero mentally said as he finished wrapping up the faux villain. "So what now?"
"Now that we're in we need to find the boss villain," Bakugo said.
"That much is obvious," Honenuki pointed out. "But we don't even know what they look like. Plus this house is kinda big. He could be anywhere."
"Maybe we should head for the basement," Kamakiri suggested. "That would be the most protected part of the house, wouldn't it?"
"Hmm, maybe," Honenuki nodded.
Sero opened the door and peeked outside, seeing no one was in the hallways at the moment. "Coast is clear. Let's go!"
A faux villain walked along the halls as he headed for the stairwell, not seeing anything out of the ordinary. "Second floor, all clear." He said into his radio, walking by a closet. Once he was gone, the closet door silently opened as Iida poked his head out before exiting.
He was followed by Honenuki and Bakugo, but Kamakiri and Sero tried to exit the closet at the same time and ended up getting stuck. Struggling for a moment, the two managed to get out, only to collapse to the ground. Sero quickly got up and said, "I'm fine."
"Good for you," Kamakiri groaned as he got up.
Making their way to the stairwell, the group made their way down to the basement. Luckily there weren't any villains using the stairs at the moment, though two villains were guarding a large, metal door that led to the basement.
"How do we get past these two?" Sero asked.
He got his answer when Bakugo and Kamakiri suddenly sprung forward and took out the two guards in a couple of seconds.
"…Good teamwork on that one," Sero deadpanned.
"I think at this point subtlety may no longer be an option," Honenuki added. He walked up to and touched the thick, metal door, softening it to the point it splattered onto the ground…
…just in time to see a kunai being thrown at his face.
"AH!" Honenuki yelped and ducked down, the kunai embedding itself into the wall.
"So you've found me, heroes," Edgeshot declared dramatically. "Sooner than I expected, but no matter. You won't be able to capture me."
'Edgeshot?!' Sero internally screamed.
"We won't let you escape, villain!" Iida declared.
"We shall see." Quick as a bullet, Edgeshot propelled himself forward as he entered his thin, ribbon-like form and moved past them and through the open doorway.
"After him!"
Edgeshot had to admit, this was a little fun, outmaneuvering Ingenium's younger brother and his classmates. Due to the weights he was given, Edgeshot can't use his Quirk effectively. Even with the Ultra Compressed Weights slowing him down, Edgeshot was still able to easily make it up to the ground floor and nearly reach the foyer, though that had the downside of there being more room for some of the students, particularly Iida, who managed to speed past Edgeshot, Sero on his back.
Iida quickly skidded to a stop in front of Edgeshot as Sero quickly got to work, creating a wall over any exit in the foyer.
Edgeshot returned to his normal form as he addressed the two students. "Where are your comrades?"
"Keeping yours from interfering," Iida replied.
"Hmm, yes. I only did about 5 sidekicks here," Edgeshot lamented.
"Then you should've brought more, you ninja bastard!" Bakugo grinned as he, Kamakiri, and Honenuki ran to the pro from behind.
Sero suddenly shot his tape from his elbows and tied Edgeshot up. "Can't give you an opening, buddy!" Sero grinned as he shot more tape. Soon Sero's tape had now completely surrounded the Number 7 Hero. "Nowhere to run, now!" Sero grinned beneath his mask.
Edgeshot smirked beneath his mask. "Are you sure of that?" The pro suddenly turned into his ribbon form and shot forward, easily escaping Sero's tape trap… while also nearly stabbing Sero, who was only saved by Kamakiri.
"You forgot he could do that, didn't you tape arms?!" Bakugo growled as he tried to attack the Number 7 Hero.
Edgeshot could only manage to get thin enough to avoid the students' attacks due to the Ultra Compressed Weights, with the onslaught from both Bakugo and Kamakiri putting him on the back foot. However, this caused him to neglect Iida and Honenuki for a moment.
"Here," Honenuki gave Iida some capture tape. "We need to catch him now."
"Right," Iida nodded as he readied himself. 'I only have one chance to end this,' Iida gritted his teeth as he put his Engines into overdrive. "Recipro… BURST!" Iida sped forward at blinding speed, catching Edgeshot off guard as the teen Ingenium delivered a kick to the Pro. The kick stunned Edgeshot for a brief moment, which was all Iida needed to wrap the capture tape around Edgeshot, this time making sure that the Pro would not be able to slip out.
[Team Iida, Sero, Honenuki, Kamakiri, and Bakugo have passed the exam!]
Final Exam Team 6: Bomb Retrieval and Disarming
Practical Exam Location 2
Aoyama trembled on the ground, holding his stomach due to overusing his Quirk. Next to him, Milia stood protectively over the Japanese-French student. Their team had managed to locate where the bomb was… along with the dozen or so faux terrorists guarding it. Luckily their leader wasn't with them in the room so dealing with most of the terrorists was simple enough.
Things got complicated when Best Jeanist arrived, using his Quirk to mess with everyone's attacks, Tsuburaba and Awase especially. The only costume Jeanist's Quirk couldn't affect was Aoyama's, which was mostly made of metal, so Aoyama took it upon himself to distract the Number 6 Hero while his teammates dealt with his sidekicks and disarm the bomb.
Of course, Aoyama's stomach issues soon proved to be a problem. Eventually, Aoyama could no longer handle it and collapsed, forcing Milia, who discarded both her dress and cloak, wearing only her boots, mask, and leotard as she faced Best Jeanist.
Behind them, Ochako Tsuburaba, and Awase looked over the bomb, trying to find a way to disarm it. "Only a couple of minutes left before it blows," Tsuburaba muttered nervously.
"I'm gonna kill whoever said 'always cut the red wire'!" Awase grumbled, finding that every single wire on the bomb was either black or gray. The bomb itself was disguised as an 8-drawer tool chest, with dozens of sticks of what looked like dynamite inside with dozens of wires connected to a timer. Which was now at 1 minute and 30 seconds.
"I cannot allow you to stop us!" Best Jeanist declared.
"Don't you know that if the bomb goes off, you'll die too!" Milia pointed out.
"An acceptable sacrifice to achieve our goals," Best Jeanist brushed off Milia's words. Jeanist's denim cloths then split into fibers in an attempt to capture the students, but Milia managed to cut the fibers with her claws before they could reach while Aoyama, in a brief moment, sat up and shot a laser at Jeanist, breaking the pro's concentration for a moment.
Not only had the Ultra Compressed Weights shortened the range at which he could control threads, his dexterity with them, and the amount of force he could enact with them, but Milia was able to cut them easily with her Quirk. Combined with Aoyama's brief moments of where his stomach had settled, they merged to keep Jeanist at bay.
But that didn't mean much as the timer continued to count down. Ochako glanced at the timer. There was only 50 seconds left. There was no time left to disarm it. "Screw it!" Ochako cursed as she grabbed the bomb, removed its weight, picked it up, and made a B-line for the exit.
"Uravity?"
"Keep him busy! I'm-" Ochako stopped when, suddenly, Aoyama fired a particularly large navel laser through the side of the building, creating an exit. "Oh. Thanks, Aoyama!"
"Bien sûr mon ami!" Aoyama wined with a sparkle before he collapsed. "Oh, my tummy~!"
"No!" Jeanist tried to use his Quirk to stop Ochako but got distracted by Tsuburaba and Awase tackling him.
Ochako managed to get the bomb outside before throwing it upward, floating it high above and far away from the building before the countdown hit zero.
*Boom!*
In an explosion of paint, the bomb exploded harmlessly in the air.
[Team Uraraka, Takamaki, Tsuburaba, Awase, and Aoyama have passed the exam!]
Ochako sighed in relief. "Thank satan that worked…"
Final Exam Team 7: Cargo Protection
Ground Omega
Suzaku pulled out several talismans, creating dozens of large flaming blades, intent on using them to pierce the tires of the vehicles.
"Fig Tree!" Ibara's vines sprouted out of the ground, forming a protective wall between Suzaku's flames and the vehicles. The roots of the vines spread below ground toward Suzaku, Tobio, and Jin, intent on capturing them.
But the black dog Jin, a black blade extending from his forehead, quickly cut the ground, slicing the vine roots before they could reach his master and Suzaku.
"Minerva, Froppy, get the cargo to safety!" Momo ordered.
"Right! Let's get going, Miner-Kero?" Tsuyu paused, realizing that both Celica and the truck she was in were nowhere to be seen. "How are they already gone?!"
Tobio turned to the helicopter and yelled. "Bubble Girl, get after them!"
"On it, Slash Dog!" The pilot of the copter saluted before maneuvering the helicopter upward. She was a fairly well-built young woman with a rather slim build and light blue skin, short, ruffled dark-blue hair, and wide yellow eyes with thick eyelashes.
Her hero costume was a skintight dark blue and white suit with a mesh on the sides of her abdomen. The upper white area had a zipper down the middle. She wore knee-high white boots with aquamarine circles. Over her entire face was a transparent visor with an air filter on each side, and she wore plain white elbow-length gloves.
Tsuyu looked at the helicopter and got an idea. "Maria-chan, give me a boost!"
Seeing the helicopter flying off, Ibara nodded and used her vines to make a springboard, which Tsuyu then used to launch upward into the air before extending her tongue out, wrapping it around one of the skids of the helicopter.
"Did she just…?" Reiko muttered.
"Went for a ride," Ibara answered as they watched Tsuyu cling onto the helicopter.
Momo winced. "That's… one way to find Mercury-san, I suppose."
"You certainly have made interesting friends, Momo," Suzaku said.
"I certainly have," Momo replied, creating a bo staff.
Suzaku smirked. "Are you getting fired up, Momo?" The Himejima head generated a series of flames on her fingertips, which took the form of two words.
'COME ON'
Momo smirked also, her staff sparking. "I am, cousin."
As that was happening, Tobin glanced at Ibara and Reiko. "Guess we're dealing with you two, huh Jin?"
The black dog barked once in agreement before it leaped up in front of Tobio, shifting from a black-furred canine into a blade of midnight steel that was effortlessly caught by the man. A longsword of Japanese style, it was nearly a meter and a half long and from that should be considered unwieldy and impractical to use, yet he gave the sword a few practice swings like it was no issue using a sword unusually long. The hilt was long enough for two hands to grip, plain leather and worn, clearly showing the blade had seen use consistently. Lastly, there was a cord and tassel fastened to the end, on which hung a single bead. Though none could see it clearly in the light, the bead had two conjoined symbols. A wolf's head howling skywards towards a crescent moon.
"…Cool," was Reiko's first thought upon seeing the black sword.
"Don't get distracted, Reiko."
Tsuyu clung to the helicopter as it soared above Ground Omega, both looking for the cargo truck that Celica was still in and planning on how to take out the helicopter. 'I should've brought some earplugs, kero.' Tsuyu thought in discomfort, the roar of both the helicopter engine and the blades spinning being deafening.
Bubble Girl kept an eye out for the truck as she flew along the road, looking for any sign of where the truck could've gone. "How could that truck disappear so quickly?" She questioned before she finally spotted the truck… which had somehow gotten stuck on top of one of the rocky hills, a fair distance away from the road.
"Uh… I was positive we took the correct turn earlier," Celica muttered, holding an upside-down map of Ground Omega she had acquired from the robot driver, which was currently having technical issues.
"ERROR! ERROR! THIS-DOES-NOT-COMPUTE."
"…How the hell…?" Bubble Girl muttered before moving the helicopter toward the truck.
'…I'm not even gonna ask how Celica-chan got there,' Tsuyu internally grimaced. When they got close to the truck, Tsuyu hopped to the front window of the helicopter.
"What the-?!" Bubble Girl didn't have time to process as Tsuyu spread mucus over the window, blocking Bubble Girl's view.
Tsuyu then hopped off and landed on the truck before making her way inside. "Oh, hello Tsu!" Celica cheerfully greeted.
"Kero. Hello Celica-chan," Tsu quickly grabbed the map from Celica. "I'll handle directions from now on, okay?"
"Ah, Tsuyu~! I was gonna figure it out~!"
"FROG-FLESHY-HAS-MAP! RESUMING-OBJECTIVE." The robot driver happily turned the truck around and went back in the direction they came from.
Behind them, the last of Tsuyu's mucus was wiped away from the helicopter's front window. "You're not getting away that easily!"
The fight between the students and the pros had moved away from the only road to into the forest. Thanks to all the damage caused by Suzaku's attack and Ibara's vines, there were plenty of objects for Reiko to use her Quirk, telekinetically throwing dozens of rocks and debris at Tobio. But the Slash Dog easily evaded most of her attacks, while using the black sword the cut through any of Ibara's vines when they got too close.
A little ways away, Momo and Suzaku's fight had heated up. Momo had created some iron sand, wrapped in a fire-retardant sheet, and formed it into a sword, using it to block some of Suzaku's fire attacks.
Suzaku then created a small flame bird, resting in the palm of her hand before it sped toward Momo. However, Momo simply moved the fire-retardant sheet to cover the flame bird before directing it at Tobio.
Tobio instinctively slashed at the sheet, which also hit the flam bird inside, causing it to explode in a large fireball. "Toby!" Suzuka cried out.
But she quickly breathed a sigh of relief when Tobio emerged from a shadow next to her unharmed, Jin accompanying him.
"Thanks, buddy," Tobio petted Jin, who wagged his tail.
Ikuse Tobio, AKA Slash Dog! Sacred Gear: Canis Lykaon. Also known as the Inugami of the Black Blade, it's an Independent Avatar-Type Sacred Gear and one of the Longinus. Taking the form of a big black dog that can sprout blades from its body that can "cut all things", both the dog and Tobio can move into shadows to take foes by surprise.
Suzaku smiled, but then she and Tobio noticed a large shadow looming over them. Quickly, the two dogged as a large fist made of vines hit the ground.
Ibara had completely wrapped herself in vines, the mass of vines resembling a monster of some sort, with a small opening in its center where she could see. 'I originally got this idea from an old American anime one of my clients watched. Avatar, I think? Time to see how well it works.'
Ibara directed the vines to attack Jin first, the black dog jumping to avoid the vines, only to be hit by several rocks thrown telekinetically by Reiko.
"Jin!" Tobio cried out, he and Suzaku ready to continue their fight against the students, when…
*BUUURRR!*
Everyone stopped at the sound of the klaxon.
[The cargo has been safely delivered. Team Yaoyorozu, Mercury, Shiozaki, Yanagi, and Asui have passed the exam!]
"We made it somehow. Kero…" Tsuyu ribbited in relief, the truck with the cargo having made it through the gate after losing Bubble Girl's helicopter… the truck itself was covered in mud, branches, and leaves somehow.
"Oh, come on Tsu. It wasn't that bad," Celica said reassuringly.
"Celica-chan, please never pick up a map again. Kero."
"Just like that?" Reiko asked in bewilderment.
"So it seems," Suzuka replied. "You weren't bad, Momo."
"Oh, thank you," Momo replied.
The helicopter Suzaku, Tobio, and Jin arrive on soon returned and landed, with Bubble Girl jumping out… who was somehow covered in mud.
"Kaoruko!" Tobio ran to Bubble Girl's side. "What happened?"
"TO be honest, Toby, I'm not sure," Bubble Girl removed her mask. "But one of the students needs to have an intervention when it comes to directions. That truck just kept getting lost somehow."
"We are so sorry for Celica," Ibara and Reiko both said.
"It's fine. But now I need a bath," Bubble Girl muttered. "Want to join me, Toby?"
Tobio smiled. "Sure."
Final Exam Team 8: Armed Robbery
Ground Beta, North Section
As much as she hated to admit it, Shoko needed to mostly use her fire for this fight. She needed to use her ice sparingly to keep her body temperature in check, even though the heat brought up bad memories. The skin around her scar started to ache softly, light enough to ignore but not to forget.
The inferno around them roared as she fed them more heat, corrupting the fire Endeavor had spewed out at the start of the test. Manga had used his Quirk to create walls to block both the faux villains' escape, but also to help keep collateral damage down.
"Turning this into a battle of stamina, are you?" Endeavor asked, having noted both how Shoko was not using her right side, along with realizing it was beginning to get hard to breathe. The Number 2 Hero pushed past the headaches to smile. "Not bad, hero. But let's see if you can keep it up!" He shot a blast of fire at his daughter.
Shoko stomped on the ground to create an ice trail to avoid the attack, the ice turning to steam in an instant, which caused a small steam explosion that pushed Shoko forward. The Half-Cold, Half-Hot user simply glared at her father, given it was obvious that Endeavor wasn't taking this seriously.
Nearby, at a reasonably safe distance from the raging inferno caused by Endeavor and Shoko, the other students were dealing with the rest of Endeavor's sidekicks.
Komori was of no help dealing with Endeavor. Not only were most of the mushrooms she could create flammable, but none of her fungal spores could even reach him because they would burn up instantly once they did. Instead, she and Manga focused on capturing the other faux villains since, despite their name being the 'Flaming' Sidekicks, not all of them had fire-based Quirks. Manga used his Quirk to increase the humidity of the area, which allowed Komori's Quirk to easily incapacitate them.
Kido and Burnin were the only ones to have escaped the fate of being covered in mushrooms. As such, while Komori secured the captured villains, Kaibara and Tokoyami fought them while Manga went to assist Shoko.
"Dark Shadow!"
"Aye!" Dark Shadow cawed out.
"Bring it on, kid!" Burnin smirked as she grabbed two chunks of her flaming yellowish-green hair, which soon formed into two flaming swords. She used the flaming swords to block Dark Shadow's attacks before she threw one of them at the raven-headed teen, Tokoyami just barely avoided the attack.
Endeavor's sidekick Burnin. Quirk, Blazing Hair. She can manipulate and control her fiery hair however she wants.
With a roar, Kaibara charged at Kido as his arm spun around the elbow joint with incredible speed, ready to tear into the sidekick's side. The pro jumped back and created a large loop with his bandages, allowing Kaibara through it. In an instant, Kaibara was suddenly thrown upwards. "What the hell?!"
"Nice try, kid!" Kido smirked. "Now let's *cough cough!*," Kido suddenly collapsed, the feeling of something suddenly appearing in his lungs.
Burnin began coughing as well, all the while Komori happily skipped between them. "Sorry about my Splitgill Lung Strike," she said to the two sidekicks. "But I had to take advantage of the opening Spiral and Tsukuyomi made," the mushroom girl smiled as she cuffed the two sidekicks.
Shoko was beginning to get tired, the constant heating and cooling down beginning to have an effect. But it couldn't much compare to how Endeavor was faring, given he looked ready to collapse soon. "Just… surrender already. You can't keep this up," Shoko pointed out.
"Heh…" Endeavor smirked. "Most villains don't have the brains to surrender." The Number 2 Hero readied another attack, when…
"FWOOSH!" Wind suddenly blew through, dispelling Endeavor's attack.
"What the hell?!" Endeavor exclaimed.
"DRIZZLE!" Manga exclaimed, causing a giant cloudy word to appear above them before it started to rain hard.
Taking this chance, Shoko stopped on her foot and sped toward Endeavor with an ice path. The rain was a double-edged sword in that, while it would make spreading her ice easier and weaken Endeavor's fire a little, it would also help cool Endeavor down. She had to act fast.
Endeavor, caught off guard by both the sudden wind and rain, quickly shook off his surprise and saw Shoko speeding toward him. The Number 2 Hero instinctively fired at her, but Shoko weaved around the fire and grabbed hold of his arm with her left side.
Endeavor was ready to throw her off only to stop upon hearing an audible click sound. Endeavor looked down to see a large handcuff snapped onto his arms that had come from Shoko. Normally, such a thing wouldn't have even stopped him at all as he could've just melted it, but then the loudspeaker crackled
[All villains have been captured. Team Fukidashi, Kaibara, Todoroki, Tokoyami, and Komori have passed the exam!]
While shocked at first, Endeavor felt a simile as he looked at his youngest daughter. "Good job, Shoko."
"…Hmph," Shoko said nothing as she placed her right hand on the ground, creating a small block of ice behind Endeavor. "So you can cool off."
"Thank you."
The final exams for the first-year students of U.A. have ended and their scores will be revealed tomorrow during homeroom. Unknown to the students, as they returned home, the League of Villains was slowly gaining strength. In the dark bar that served as their hideout, Shigaraki stared silently at a photo of Izuku from the sports festival. Kurogiri was behind the bar, cleaning one of the many glasses there. Miss E sat next to Shigaraki, enjoying a glass. Once again Muscular wasn't present, though this time Lailah had joined him, the two hunting in Kyūshū.
"Are you curious, Shigaraki Tomura? About this boy?" Asked Kurogiri. "Midoriya Izuku."
"The current Red Dragon Emperor?" Miss E said. "Do you think he's your Player 2 in your game?"
"That's what Master thinks," Shigaraki revealed. The door's bell rang before he could say anything more, though.
Giran entered without being given the signal, wearing his suit and a scarf despite the July heat. "Shigaraki," said the man. "Sorry, I'm late. Getting here without getting noticed was a pain in the ass. But word is that your little League of Villains is planning something big."
"You could say that," Miss E smiled beneath her mask.
Shigaraki clenched his fist with the picture in it, turning it to dust. "Giran, you're really pushing your luck. You know I don't like people being late. Especially, those I have business with," Shigaraki glared at the broker. "So, who did you bring?"
Giran simply chuckled. He stepped aside to allow the people he brought with him into the bar.
One was a woman around Shigaraki's age with short, golden blond hair and green eyes, wearing a dark red nun outfit with gold accents, a white veil over her head with yellow accents, and black boots with red straps in an X-shaped pattern. Any crosses on her outfit were painted out in black.
Another was a tall and glaring man with jet-black hair, and turquoise eyes, and looked like a well-done patchwork corpse with black slacks, a white shirt, and a black jacket.
The last looked to be a schoolgirl with platinum blond hair done in two buns, and she had a wild look in her yellow cat-like eyes.
"So it's really you, huh? I've seen you in the pictures," said the burnt man. "But I gotta say, you're way grosser in person."
"He's not what I expected, either," the apparent nun added. "Though that isn't necessarily a bad thing."
"Wow, it's the weird hand guy!" Said the blonde girl, a little too excited for Shigaraki's liking. "You're friends with my hero, Stain, right? Cool! Let me join the league! I wanna be in your group!"
AN: And with that the final exams are done! Been a while since I managed to get two chapters out in the same month. (gasps deeply) HOOOOO…! (promptly collapses).
In all seriousness, I'm glad I managed to get this done. Thanks to Walkero22 and Garnet_Pen on AO3 and REK on FanFiction for the suggestions for the chapter.
It's also the 5th universe of Hero Academia DxD, having been first published on AO3.
Oh, and Ryukyu explained that supernatural beings tend to fall in love easier than normal people. I brought it up because of how quickly the women in DxD fall in love, so yeah, supernatural beings fall in love at a different rate than humans despite emotional similarities.
And I think I just make Ryukyu and Mirko the Hakari and Karane of the fic. For those of you who know who Hakari and Karane are, good for you! For those of you who don't, check out "The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You", it's crazy funny and good.
Bubble Girl's hero costume is based on a design done by jellywalkerz-moved on Tumblr, found here:
jellywalkerz - moved tumblr com / post / 178177727792 / edited-hqneydqnt-s-bubble-girl-redesign-onto-a
But now Shiggy has Dabi, Toga, and… someone else. We'll learn more about her later.
And with that out of the way, we'll see both the results of the final exams next chapter along with a trip to a mall. Until then, stay safe, stay healthy, and don't be racist! Go beyond, PLUS ULTRA!