Here it is, the 124th full chapter of Miraculous Quirks released on time as always. Training is going well for U.A.'s first year Hero Course students so why not keep it up with some special, long planned, training to see who's stronger, Marinette or the combined force of Class 1-B's girls. That is all the administrative stuff that I have for you, however, and there are no guest reviews to respond to or questions to answer so I will end this note here. Do keep the reviews coming as I enjoy hearing from y'all. That is all I have for this pre chapter note so that means that it is time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the 124th full chapter of Miraculous Quirks.
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Chapter 124: Gang Up on Marinette
Marinette stood still though her eyes took in the girls who'd formed a circle around her as she stood in the middle of Gym Gamma in her PE kit surrounded by the 7 girls of Class 1-B while the girls in her own class sat on a chairs and behind a protective barrier made by Momo by the door just in case to enjoy the fight and draw inspiration from it. Midnight stood off to the side watching and ready to act with Fei, who'd found the time to come though Marinette felt it was more just to watch than actually help but saying nothing now that all the girls had gathered and they'd made sure Mineta wasn't nearby.
It had taken a little longer than planned to set this up what with work studies so finding the time when all the girls in the first year of U.A.'s Hero Course were around wasn't easy. However, they'd managed it and now it was time for this long awaited sparring session to prove to Class 1-B that Marinette was the strongest girl in terms of combat by beating all 7 of their class's girls in a fight.
It was good training as well as it gave Marinette a chance to face a significant numerical disadvantage which was a weakness of hers and she was only going to use her ultimate item if she really needed it. If this went well in fact then more training like this would be implemented for the others.
Naturally it could also be used as cover for punishing Mineta for him many crimes, the latest being pretending to be a stray dog that the girls had found to get to sleep in their rooms that had led to Mineta getting dognapped and then saving the day. Regardless, he wasn't yet cleared by the girls, so punishment was coming for him under the guise of training as soon as it could be arranged, providing that Marinette showed the value of this kind of training today.
As for the standard training, it was going fine for all of them. They had their work studies which were going well and the best kind of training as they were real world training, school training like the hostage rescue exercise with Eri that they'd done the other week, and they'd been informed that soon random team ups would be coming which would help them even more so there was a lot going on.
So much so that they really didn't have much time for anything else though the boys in Class 1-A did do some White Day chocolate for the girls on March 14th to thank them for everything, Adrien making some for Marinette of course, which was to be expected but still very sweet of him. Naturally Mineta was Mineta during it, but he was soundly punished by the girls for his inappropriate chocolates and Midoriya gave Ochaco some personally, blushing furiously as he did, to thank her for being such a close friend to him and saving him during the joint training.
That had really set Mina off and Ochaco blushed a lot as well but the class's clearly not a couple but totally crushing on each other just brushed it off. Marinette knew that Ochaco appreciated it a lot, but she was still focused on being a hero, so the time wasn't right. As for Midoriya, that was more of a mystery to Marinette as she wasn't sure if it was because he'd finally accepted that he'd fallen for Ochaco just as she'd fallen for him, likely not, or if he'd guessed that she'd left him romantic chocolate on Valentine's Day, a slight possibility, or if he was just as dense as they came, which was most likely.
Regardless it was nice of him to do and some of the other guys also made chocolate for specific girls as well which took some heat of Midoriya's back. Momo got a lot from those who she helped with studying, Sato made the girls personalized confections for their role as his taste testers or in Marinette's case as his baking teacher, Kaminari and Tokoyami got stuff for Jiro for all the work she did with the band, Kirishima oddly got stuff for Mina which she refused to answer questions on despite hounding the way she'd hounded Ochaco, and Ojiro got something for Toru that she really liked.
Overall, it was pretty nice of the boys to do that, and the girls also got a lot from random guys around the school with Momo raking it in to her confusion as she still didn't understand she had a fan club, while both Jiro and Marinette got plenty because of the School Festival with all of Marinette's making it clear that it wasn't romantic in the slightest. As such it had been a fun day but not as eventful as Valentine's Day was so there wasn't more to focus on with it and Marinette for one had enjoyed learning of the Japanese tradition of White Day.
All that was behind them though and now it was time for training and this was being taken seriously. That was why the moment the girls were all around Marinette waiting for it to start. However, she didn't wait for a start order and just acted to start it on her own terms with a feint to the side where she knew Shiozaki was to get her footing and then push of it and launch herself at the biggest threat Marinette had identified in Class 1-B, and who she'd made sure that she would have a direct line to the moment she started this fight, Kinoko Komori.
Marinette had spent a good bit of time looking over what the Quirks of the 7 girls where, what she recalled from the joint training, and strategizing for them. In a situation like this she had the intel and as the Hassaikai raid taught her, along with the Sports Festival and her past life, intel beforehand was vital and if you had it you should use it. that was what she did now as she pushed off the ground hard with all her strength and flew at Komori.
Komori was so stunned by the sudden start that all she could do was widen her eyes, she didn't even get any spores off like she'd been planning to release the moment the fight began, before Marinette reached her, cocking her right knee back and slamming it into Komori's jaw with a loud crack. Nothing had been said, no start given, and already Marinette had taken down the first of Class B's girls.
That was because the moment that Komori was kneed she was out cold right before she was blasted back from the blow and into the nearest wall with a crash, the force slowing Marinette down enough so that she landed on her feet just past where Komori had been standing. Komori's unconscious body stuck to the wall for a few seconds before she slid down it and to the side to lie in a heap at the base of the wall as the fight officially began.
"This is a real-life situation ladies." Marinette said as she did another cut on the ground and turned to rush her next target as the 6 remaining girls of Class B processed what had just happened. "Villains won't wait for an announcement to attack you, so I won't either."
"Shit, Marinette's right." Kendo said as she was the first to recover from Marinette's surprisingly savage and unannounced start, which Midnight said nothing about, and took charge of her classmates. "We planned for her girls though Kinoko was key to that but I anticipated her going down early given what Lucky Charm can do so commence the plan for if Marinette took out Komori in the first moments. Pony, Ibara, Reiko, get that range started, Setsuna, harass her as best you can."
"It will be done; I must punish this sinner for what she has done." Shiozaki said as she clasped her hands before her and closed her eyes in prayer while sending out her vines at Marinette who was rushing her for what appeared to be real this time. "She escaped last time we clashed but not again."
Marinette just grinned as she continued to run at Shiozaki as she heard the sound of Tsunotori firing off her horns to her side and acted accordingly. This was another feint to throw off Shiozaki, who was offensively probably the strongest in terms of raw power of the 7 though not as nasty Komori could be with her mushrooms, to throw the devout and straightforward girl off, as the moment the vines neared Marinette cut again and leapt into the air with a spinning cartwheel to the side to avoid the whipping vines that were coming at her.
As she did she looked out for the 4 horns coming at her and evaded the first two before landing on the next two the way Tsunotori used them to make herself fly and pushing off them so that she could reach the blonde through the air while sending the horns to the ground to break there, and at Tsunotori who was her real second target. The American girl had a brief look of shock on her face before she fired off two more horns that Marinette twisted away from as she bore down on Tsunotori while vines, a swarm of various pieces of metal, and a good portion of Tokage's body began to converge on her from all sides.
All of this, coupled with two more horns from Tsunotori, forced Marinette to twist and move in the air as she closed on her target. She could reach Tsunotori with her initial leap but with the harassment of metal and Tokage's various body parts Marinette was getting slowed down but the minor hits she had to take from the storm she couldn't avoid so she used them as footholds to further her moves, and completely evading the vines, as she moved while also ensuring she deflected plenty away in the process.
It was a hectic onslaught designed to occupy her and it took all of her acrobatic skills to evade, use, or knock away the things that came at her. This strategy also had the added benefit of hurting Tokage whenever she hit one of her body parts that were noticeable just bare skin as a U.A. PE kit wasn't specially made with that girl's Quirk in mind.
Overall it was a good strategy to use as it had the potential to force Marinette to focus on the various small attacks which could distract her enough to be caught by Shiozaki's vines, or at least keep those in the forefront of her mind. Kendo's plan was shown to pay off just as Marinette was closing in on Tsunotori, who had backed up but hadn't tried to evade Marinette's approach, as the American girl had only been sending two horns at Marinette at a time and only when Marinette had broken the ones before them. Marinette should have realized this because Tsunotori could control up to 4 horns at a time.
Tsunotori was only sending two at a time at Marinette because she had not forgotten about the first two that Marinette had evaded as they hadn't been broken and as such Tsunotori was using them to loop around and then at the right moment. It was a move the girls had practiced if Marinette gave Tsunotori the opening, which she had by evading the first two, and so Tsunotori was waiting for that moment to present itself as Marinette neared her.
Finally, as Marinette was forced to use some of the larger metal pieces to keep her airborne path toward Tsunotori, while punching away some unidentifiable part of Tokage, the opening Tsunotori needed presented itself. She didn't hesitate and swiftly sent both of her horns that Marinette had forgotten about speeding at the French girl from her left side to hit her and blast her away. It would like she'd done with Ojiro only Marinette was lighter so only two would be needed. She'd even sent out her other two to distract Marinette even more as she'd just broken the last two Tsunotori had sent out.
The idea was good and the vines and metal pieces Yanagi was controlling parted to let them through unimpeded as the girls had practiced but that was what gave it away to Marinette and she glanced over to notice the horns coming. Regardless, she let out a curse in French as she knew that she'd messed up and did her best to act accordingly.
Marinette managed to get her left arm down and struck the higher of the two horns with the bottom of her first to send it away while twisting so that the two that had just been fired at her missed though both grazed Marinette with one scoring a line along her collar bone and another on her right bicep and they both drew blood. However, the lower of the two horns that had come from the side got past Marinette's attempt to bat away both horns and slammed home, point first, into Marinette's side right below her ribs.
She let out had grunt of pain but spun with the impact, getting her hand down and yanking the horn out in a move that splattered some of Marinette's blood with it before crushing it in her hand to stop Tsunotori from using it to move her away. The blow had thrown Marinette off course, but Tsunotori had turned to keep facing her which was just what Marinette needed and she used one of the girl's own horns that had just grazed Marinette and which Tsunotori had looped around for a second hit to push off it and close the final distance to the girl only she was above the American.
"You're too much of a nuisance." Marinette said as she flipped so that she was upside down, her head over Tsunotori's, before she grabbed the blonde's horns as blood from the wound in Marinette's side ran down her side. "Now be a good girl and go to sleep."
Tsunotori was so shocked that she didn't shoot of her horns before Marinette finished the flip she'd started and came down still holding Tsunotori's horns as she landed in a similar fashion to how Bakugo had grabbed Todoroki's hair and shoulder in the Sports Festival final. However, rather than toss Tsunotori like Bakugo had done to Todoroki, Marinette jut lifted the other girl off her feet, well hooves as Tsunotori had them and a small tail as well, and brought her round and over her head in a smooth move.
As a result, Marinette slammed Tsunotori into the concrete ground, hard. Basically, Marinette had caused the girl to belly flop the ground from face to hoof with an audible boom from the impact. Thanks to grabbing Tsunotori, Marinette had ensured that the other attacks stopped for a moment to prevent friendly fire as she body slammed Tsunotori.
At the same time Marinette created her first item of the fight, something to kill those damned vines from above and she felt her Quirk activate as she rose let go of Tsunotori's horns, the girl just lay there on her chest out cold from the impact, and turned to Shiozaki for real this time. Shiozaki had vines flowing everywhere and the moment Marinette rose she sent them at her but the giant watering can with a shower nozzle attachment tipped an poured a powerful, inorganic, weed killer right on the vines that were coming at Marinette only it's location was almost right above Shiozaki's head.
"There's more than one way to kill those vine." Marinette said as she ignored the pain in her side and pushed off the ground and at Shiozaki, breaking into a full sprint as the weed killer did its job and the vines withered from it. "Against you I can't rely on one trick to get past them. You've seen me use a heated blade, now it's time for a more chemical approach."
"Sinner!" Shiozaki yelled though she was losing control of any vines on the other side of the weed killer now dousing her hair and she had to detach them lest the stuff spread closer to her scalp. "You'll…"
Shiozaki didn't get to finish that as Marinette had reached her by then, dismissing her watering can in the process, and slammed her shoulder into Shiozaki's gut at full sprint in a low tackle while wrapping her arms around Shiozaki's legs as she lifted the girl up. The weed killer had ensured that Marinette could use her enhanced speed that was afforded to her because of her enhanced constitution to close the gap to Shiozaki and tackle her, which was now easier as she'd detached a lot of her hair, and thus finish Shiozaki off.
The girl let out a gasp as the air was driven from her lungs before she was off her feet as Marinette ran a few more paces before coming to a stop and toss Shiozaki into the air in a specific manner. The purpose of that was to shift her body so that Marinette could grab Shiozaki from behind, her arms around the other girl's waist as her legs were above Marinette's head as Marinette locked her thighs on either side of Shiozaki's head.
From there she pulled Shiozaki, now with short hair, down to the ground as she dropped in a sitting position and piledrove the religious girl's head into the ground. Without her vines to cushion her, and the initial tackle winding her thus breaking her concentration, Shiozaki had no hope and was out the moment she hit the ground though Marinette did make sure that the move just knocked her out.
As soon as Marinette felt Shiozaki go limp she let go and rolled back into a handstand that she used to push off the ground and flip with a spin to face towards her next opponent. Marinette hadn't landed when Shiozaki's legs flopped to the ground and she lay on her back, head to the side, and clearly out of the fight.
Marinette still didn't take a breather though as the moment she landed she locked eyes with who she was about to go after next as the metal bits and less pieces of Tokage began to come at her again having backed off as she dealt with Shiozaki. Marinette didn't let them reach her however as she pushed off the ground as they came at her and ran right at Kendo as she finally brought the fight to not only the leader of Class 1-B's girls but in a lot of ways the leader of Class 1-B in general.
"So, I'm not as much a threat as those three." Kendo said as she saw the challenge but let Marinette come to her as she set her feet in a strong stance with her arms up as the attacks from Yanagi and Tokage peeled off to avoid getting in Kendo's way. "Well then let's see that enhanced constitution of yours handle my ultimate move; Double Jumbo Fist!"
"I'd be a fool to fight you head on in any kind of close combat that would allow you to use your hands Itsuka." Marinette said as she saw the double palm thrust that would activate into Kendo's Quirk right before contact and blast her back as she timed her own move to them. "You're better than me at martial arts, I need mobility to beat you."
At that, and before Kendo could enlarge her hands, Marinette leapt up and into the air with a spinning flip. The move forced Kendo to activate her Quirk earlier than planned but Marinette had gone for height rather than distance to both ensure that she evaded Big Fist and land behind Kendo within striking range.
To beat someone who not only specialized in close combat but who could also defend well against range the way Kendo could Marinette needed to be agile, swift, savage and above all else behind Kendo. That had been the purpose of her leap and it had worked so that as soon as Marinette landed, and before Kendo could turn, punched the other girl hard in her back, striking her in the right kidney.
Kendo let out a gasp of pain at the blow, her eyes wide as she arched back from it and staggered forward from it but Marinette wasn't done as she grabbed Kendo's off ponytail in her left hand and yanked her head back and down. As Marinette did that she also leapt up with a forward flip at the same time to finish the sequence she'd planned for facing Kendo one on one.
The last thing Kendo saw, through tears of pain at the kidney blow that she really had to give Marinette props for, it was a great stunning blow in close combat after all, was the soles of Marinette's sneakers as she came down in a double stamp on her face. It was the last part of Marinette's sequence and would aid Kendo's fall to the ground by driving her headfirst into concrete.
The stamp was what knocked Kendo out though the ground would have done it had she managed to remain conscious after the stamp but the last thing that went through her mind as it happened was that Class 1-A wasn't wrong, Marinette Dupain-Cheng was unquestionably the current top girl in combat in the year, if not the top overall. That was all though as Kendo was out cold before she hit the ground and her body crumpled into an unconscious heap there.
Marinette used the stamp to actually push off Kendo's face and flip high into the air, creating a surprisingly heavy capture gun that similar to the one she'd used on Hado in that training session a while back, and began firing the capture putty the moment that she had it in her hands. This was all part of the plan for after she knocked Kendo off the battlefield though she was glad she was actually in the air for this part.
That was because it made this part a lot easier as she was able to fire from more angles as she twisted her body in the air. The capture putty was being aimed at both the metal now being sent at her again and the pieces of Tokage still flying around to capture them and force them to die before Tokage could reform them on her body. Marinette wasn't going to get them all but she was going to get enough to force Tokage to pull the rest back and use a lot of energy regenerating the dead pieces which was part of the plan when it came to the recommended girl in Class B.
For good measure Marinette also fired off some shots at Kodai and Yanagi forcing the former to enlarge some of the metal she'd been feeding to Yanagi to block it and the latter to leap out of the way of the attack thus putting her further from Kodai who was a great support for Yanagi as their Quirks worked well together. All this was playing to Marinette's hand and she landed on the ground but kept the item as she looked at those two, Tokage wasn't a threat at the moment so she could ignore that girl until it was time to deal with her.
"Do you know why I left you three for last?" Marinette asked casually though she got no response from them either because it was Kodai who was just not that talkative, Yanagi who was just watching Marinette closely, or because she'd actually hit the mouth part of Tokage and she was forced to regrow it on her body from where her head and eyes were floating and glaring at Marinette. "It's simply, you're the least threatening to me in a fight."
Marinette paused there as she looked around to see Tokage as she knew that that girl would say something but she couldn't at the moment. It was a good way to avoid her provocative nature at least.
"You see, Komori is scary because of that area effect of hers and her microscopic spores are nasty to deal with." Marinette continued after a moment as she turned to make sure that she was looking at the only remaining person who posed any offensive threat to Marinette in Reiko Yanagi. "Shiozaki and Tsunotori have ranged attacks that are annoying to deal with and Kendo is talented at close combat but you three are more support and tactics so I didn't have to focus on you right away. Now, though, let's end this."
With that Marinette raised the gun and fired off some capture putty at Yanagi in a strafing pattern to occupy the girl as Marinette began to rush her. Instinctively the girl used Poltergeist to grab one of the enlarged coins that Kodai had used to protect herself, make it float, and pull it to her to block the shots at her upper body.
That was just what Marinette had wanted, Yanagi's limit was about her own weight and Marinette's slight build meant that she was probably lighter than Yanagi so Yanagi could make her float and toss her around if she wanted to. Naturally Lucky Charm could be used against that but this was easier and less annoying for Marinette to deal with as the putty stuff hit the coin that was raised off the ground. Well, that and given the weight of the gun she may have just tipped the scales of what Yanagi could lift with Poltergeist.
Yanagi clearly wasn't done with the block, however, and with such a large item she actually turned it and threw it at Marinette to try and catch her with the edge of it just as Marinette tossed her gun away, dismissing it in the process. It was clear that the move was to try and hit Marinette with the solid edge of the enlarged coin or at least force her to leap into the air where Yanagi might be able to grab her with Poltergeist and then slam her down into the ground before Marinette could counter it. It was a good plan, shame that Marinette wasn't going for a leap this time.
Instead, Marinette did a feet first baseball slide and slid under the coin that was thrown at her, which Yanagi then had to move to the side to avoid Kendo's unconscious body as that had been behind Marinette when she ran, and at Yanagi's feet. Thanks to having to move the coin out of Kendo's way, the silver haired girl had no way of avoiding it with her mistake so Marinette slide both feet into Yanagi's ankles and took her legs from under her in a hard slide.
That was a shock to say the least for the girl and she lost her focus on her Quirk and the coin fell to the ground with a slight tinkle as Kodai had released her Quirk before it was a threat to Kendo and had tried to call out to Yanagi that she had it but Marinette slid into her before Kodai could tell her that. All that was bad enough but as Marinette slid she cocked her arm back so that the moment Yanagi was above her she trust up with a palm thrust that caught Yanagi right in the diaphragm, not that Marinette was actively aiming for it, paralyzing it and causing her to gasp as she was blasted into the air by Marinette's strength.
Marinette wasn't done yet though as she rolled over as her slide ended and flipped off the ground and into a crouch before she leapt into the air to get above the still rising Yanagi. The force and angle of Marinette's strike had caused Yanagi to spin 180 degrees as she was blasted into the air so now she was looking up at the ceiling as Marinette reached her but with the shock she was in she couldn't do anything as Marinette flipped over and drove a straight legged heel kick into the center of Yanagi's chest.
There wasn't much of a sound and no cracking sound at all, as Yanagi's modest bust absorbed most of the blow but what little air Yanagi could take in after the shot to her diaphragm was driven from her lungs and she was sent hurtling down to the concrete before even reaching the apex of the thrust up. She hit it a split second later with a jarring thud, her eyes white, mouth open, and limps splayed as she just lay there unconscious as Marinette fell down and landed over her in a straddle so as to make sure she didn't land on Yanagi, and turned to Kodai.
Of the two remaining opponents, the raven haired, stoic, girl was the bigger of the two threats so she was Marinette's focus as Tokage continued to reform where she was though her throat still hadn't regenerated so she couldn't yell out to her classmate. Marinette didn't mind that as she stepped over Yanagi and began to run towards her 6th opponent of the battle.
As she did she held out her hand and sparkles formed as she activated her Quirk to get something to counter Size and a second later a taser materialized and fell into it. Almost instantly Marinette's vision grayed and first a coin in Kodai's hand flashed, then her hand did and finally the taser and it came to Marinette what she had to do. As soon as she it did, and her vision returned to normal, she leveled the taser at Kodai.
Kodai knew what it was from the crackling of electricity and had no way to resist it if she was hit by the taser so she enlarge a coin to defend a shot but rather than fire Marinette leapt up and over her as she neared the other girl. That got Kodai's attention and she enlarged another coin to make sure that it was over her head right as Marinette fired the taser. It was a good idea but had one big flaw, metal conducted electricity and Kodai's hand was still on the coin as it was hit as she needed physical contact for Size to work. That, and she did have to hold it above her head.
As such the electricity from the taser coursed through the metal and into her, shocking her and making her drop the coin onto her own body as she fell down with a shriek of pain from the jolt she took as Marinette landed with a twist to face Kodai. The other girl managed to get her hands together under it despite the spasming she was going through and utter a single word.
"Release."
Marinette watched as the coin she'd used to block the overhead attack returned to normal, though not the one she'd enlarged when Marinette began to run at her, and as the taser had run its course she dismissed it. It seemed that Size worked a lot like Zero Gravity, not that that would matter now as Kodai continued to spasm and Marinette slowly walked towards her as the electricity ran its course.
"You're too reliant on metal items Kodai." Marinette said calmly as the girl showed that she was still conscious and tried to get up as Marinette approached. "They're useful and work well alongside Yanagi's Quirk but there are ways to get past that kind of defense. Try getting some rubber bits as well just in case you face an enemy who uses electricity."
Marinette wasn't sure if Kodai had heard her as the girl was still trying to get up and had managed to make it to her hands and knees. Unfortunately for her, Marinette had reached her as she got to her hands and knees so it was over for Kodai.
Had the girl had a way to attack Marinette she would have kicked Kodai in the gut to send her away before ending her, but Kodai was still recovering from the jolt so Marinette ended it quickly with a controlled chop to the back of Kodai's neck causing her to gasp and collapse to the side unconscious and lying on a still enlarged coin from her first attempt to defend against Marinette. The entire battle Kodai hadn't moved from her spot.
With that done, Marinette turned to the only remaining Class B girl, a floating but clearly exhausted Tokage who was trying to reform her body as fast as possible but Marinette had killed so much of it between the earlier defense and the capture gun that she'd forced Tokage to reform a lot and the girl was clearly nearing the limit that her body could handle. She could maintain her hover but that was it as she reformed with her throat finally reforming to connect her head to her torse and allow her to speak again.
It showed Marinette that currently Tokage was just her forehead, right eye, nose, mouth, throat, and torso down to just below her bottom so she'd gotten her upper thighs formed as well. Her left shoulder formed as Marinette approached and her arm began to regenerate from there.
One thing that Marinette did note as she approached the final standing, well floating, Class 1-B girl was that all she wore was a purple bra that showed off way more cleavage than it should even with Tokage's decent bust size and panties, or if Marinette was being more accurate a thong, with a slightly scaly pattern to them. It wasn't hard for Marinette to realize what the underwear was made out of and at least Tokage had the sense to wear it.
"Enjoying the view?" Tokage asked with a grin though there was a noticeable note of exhaustion in her voice from all the reforming she was doing as Marinette walked towards her. "Like you I get special lingerie due to my Quirk. I have to wear these when I'm in my PE kit so that I don't flash people if I use my Quirk, not that I'd mind you seeing the goods Marinette. So, what do you think? Nice and perky, right, good handful too and not overly large like Yaoyorozu's. Go on, I don't mind if you cop a feel of them, they're nice and soft too so feel free to enjoy them while you have me at your mercy."
"You know I don't swing that way, though I will say as someone who has felt Momo's impressive assets there's not much that can really compare to them." Marinette said surprising Tokage, but she continue. "I don't mind that you do and I respect the use of your sex appeal as a distraction, Miss Midnight is here and I'm sure she approves, but it won't work on me."
"I do, keep it up Tokage." Midnight called out from the sideline speaking for the first time. "Girls, remember that male criminals can be really dumb when it comes to hot women like us. They can get easily distracted by a good set of tits and a coy word. Use that to lure them in and then beat them to a pulp, got it. We will be having an in-depth lesson on how to use your womanly wiles in combat soon."
"I'm dreading that." Marinette said with a sigh as she neared Tokage while her own class muttered before she turned all her attention to the last Class 1-B girl and addressing her by her first name as she'd done the same to Marinette. "Setsuna, please yield so we can end this. You've seen what I can do, your class landed one good hit on me, that's all, and as smart and skilled as you are we both know that in a one-on-one fight I've got the strength on you as you just acknowledge. You're exhausted, reforming, and a talented scout, disrupter, and tactician but you're no brawler. Give up, you can't beat me now."
"If you think I'm going to just roll over and be your bitch Marinette you've got another thing coming, though if you do want to dominate me in that manner in private with Agreste to assist you then I'd be more than willing to experiment." Tokage said with a grin as Marinette stopped in front of her. "I'll try most things once, haven't even decided my own orientation yet hence the experimentation ideas, but I'm not going to yield to you even if I know I'm beaten, after what you did to the others I can't let myself be the only one still conscious. You want to beat me and my class then you'd better knock all of us out to win."
"Fine let's see if I can convince you like I did Toru, she at least had the sense to accept when she was beaten." Marinette said before her arm thrust out faster that Tokage could react, not that she could at the moment with how much she had to regenerate as she got her right shoulder formed, and grabbed Tokage around the throat and began to squeeze. "Now, I'll ask one more time before I knock you out, yield Setsuna, it's over."
"You did this to Hagakure, damn, she must know how good this feels then." Tokage said her tongue flicking out and licking her lips, her voice ragged as she gasped for air but never faltered while Toru blushed from where she was watching not that the others noticed that of course. "They weren't wrong, choking is a great aphrodisiac, and your touch is firm but gently, I like it. Look down, Marinette, see what you're doing to…"
Marinette didn't let Tokage finish as she was fed up with the provocative and dirty way the girl was acting, which was just part of her personality and a good battle tactic, and proceeded to slug her in the stomach with her left fist. The blow caused Tokage to gasp in pain and lurch forward, which was aided by Marinette letting go of her throat and begin to fall to the ground. She never hit it that way however because as she fell forward Marinette brought her right knee up and slammed it into Tokage's forehead hard enough to knock her out and no more before stepping back.
Togake's now limp upper body, her legs and for that matter forearms hadn't regenerated yet, spun a few times in the air as it arced back before it laned with a thump on the ground. Tokage was on her back, head to the side, and out cold like the rest of her classmates.
With that Marinette rose to her full height and looked around at her handywork. Komori lay at the base of a wall on her side, Tsunotori in her chest, Shiozaki on her back with her hair splayed and wilted vines around her, Kendo in a heap where she'd been driven down, Yanagi spread eagled on her back with slightly cracked concrete around her, Kodai on her side on one of her enlarged coins, and finally Tokage on her back as the rest of her body continued to regenerate. The only one still standing and other than the dark patch on her left side that covered a good portion of her shirt and upper pants was Marinette.
"The entire of Class 1-B's girls are out for the count." Midnight declared after a few seconds to confirm that none of the girls were getting up and the moment she did an army of robots with stretchers sped in having been on standby this entire time while Fei walked forward to assist them. "Dupain-Cheng is the winner."
"Go Marinette!" Ochaco called out as the girls of Class 1-A recovered from the shock, more just how brutally efficient Marinette had been than anything else and cheered for her as she turned and smiled at them. "We knew you could do it."
"Way to show that we're still better than Class B!" Mina said as Momo made sure to move the protective barrier she'd made just in case. "They won't doubt you again after that."
"Thanks." Marinette said as she felt the adrenaline drain from her and she wobbled were she stood as the pain in her side finally hit her and she put her hand to her side check and was surprised by how much blood was on it when she pulled her hand away. "Er, girls, I could use some help. I think I've lost more blood than I realized."
That was a fair assessment as there were a good few blood stains around, some from Class B's but most were drops that Marinette had left as she moved around and as the robots took away Tokage, who was just unconscious with a concussion, they hurried forward to help her. As they did, Marinette unzipped her top and shrugged it off so that she was standing there in just her white tank top and pants though pretty much the entire left side of the shirt was red now.
With a wince, Marinette lifted her top up to just under her modest breasts and looked down and to the side at the small hole there. Tsunotori's horn hadn't gone in too deep, the wound probably wouldn't leave a scar with Recovery Girl's Quirk, but still it was noticeable and Marinette knew that she was still leaking blood from it as the other girls reached her.
Thankfully they'd had plenty of first air training and Momo had already made what they needed, using the sterilizing wipes to clean around the wound and wipe away the blood as Marinette hissed from the stinging of it before the taller girl applied an absorbent gauze pad to the wound and pressed it to Marinette's side. She then taped the sides of the pad to Marinette's abdomen and wrapped the whole thing tightly in a white bandage she made as wrapping around Marinette a few times. When she was done it was nice and tight with only a slight red dot where the wound was.
After that, Momo made some standard band aids for Marinette to put on the grazes after they were sterilized as well. Only then did Midnight, who'd approached them as they worked, speak to the girls.
"Not bad Yaoyorozu, you're getting good at that and with Creation having a ready supply of field dressings is really useful." Midnight said with a nod as the girls parted so that the teacher could address Marinette directly. "Now Dupain-Cheng, that was impressive to say the least. Your Quirk can be used for area effect at times, and I know you have a move for numbers that you didn't use so as to test yourself, but you rarely used Lucky Charm to win that match. I don't really have any major feedback for you, you won without making a big mistake other than failing to account for Tsunotori's horn control limit which you should have known despite the distractions, but I am sure the pain in your side is teacher enough for that."
"It is." Marinette said with a nod as the last of the girls, who Fei had helped patch up a little, was stretchered out and to the Nurse's Office. "I should have been aware and I did let the attacks from Yanagi, Tokage, and Shiozaki distract me from recalling that Tsunotori can control 4 of her horns at once. I rated Tsunotori high on my priority list and yet I failed there, I paid for it but pushed through to win. Didn't realize how bad it was though until the end when it all hit me."
"Her horns are sharp so they can do damage and you were in a battle; adrenaline can keep you going but be careful on that front." Midnight said. "Now, you mentioned you had a priority list which is a good idea when you know who you're up against. What was it and how did your combat meet it in the end?"
"Pretty much as I planned it." Marinette said. "My first target was Komori for the reasons I mentioned after I beat Kendo, she's the nastiest of the Class B girls to face given her versatility and ability to take down someone without seeing it. I can create an item to protect me from her worst spores but as I knew this would be a real world scenario and thus wouldn't have a start call I used that to take her out right away and preserve me Quirk just in case I needed something big down the line. In a real fight you'd take down the biggest threat first if you could."
"That is true and you did a good job there." Midnight said. "Then you went for Tsunotori over Shiozaki, why? Many would have ranked Shiozaki as the strongest overall of the girls in Class B."
"That was the one that could have gone either way really, both are ranged specialists who can be problems from the start." Marinette said. "They had to go 2 and 3, it just came down to past battle experience against them and what was going on and in that situation Tsunotori made the most sense to go for as Shiozaki has faced me and might expect me to go for her."
"I see, you used that to your advantage, clever." Midnight said approvingly. "Shiozaki knew how you could beat her so she might be ready for that and for an early attack so by going after Tsunotori instead you put her on the back foot for a moment."
"That was the plan though Shiozaki did keep up her attack despite the attempt." Marinette said. "As a Hero Course student I expected her to do that though so I just needed to reach Tsunotori like I did to have the advantage. My plan was to either toss her at Shiozaki or Kendo to distract them or just slam her to the ground using her own horns and with the hit I took I opted for the second approach when I got hold of Tsunotori. I'd already decided on weed killer for Shiozaki as she'd faced heated blades before so I used that to distract her and beat her while also getting rid of a lot of vines. With those two out, the only range they had left was Yanagi and with her allies around I knew that she'd only use small items to annoy me."
"A good deduction, even villains will try to avoid friendly fire in most cases as those who fight in groups tend to be bonded by a certain brotherhood that would prevent it." Midnight said with a nod. "And you played on that well while also bearing in mind where Tokage's pieces were."
"I did and so by then I could focus on the last major threat I'd assessed." Marinette said. "At least of the big 4 threats as Itsuka is a close quarters expert. In the joint training exercise, she manipulated the battlefield to face Momo in a situation where she held the advantage but in this situation she couldn't do that but I would have to take the fight to her if I wanted to beat her which I did. Still, I needed to be behind her and to be brutal to actually take her down. I may have been too hard on her."
"I'd say that you did fine there, and Kendo will learn from what happened." Midnight said. "Hair is fair game in battle, and some enemies need limited restraint to be taken down. Didn't Togata do that to you in this very room last semester."
"That he did so I do know from firsthand experience that you can't hold back at times hence the strong kidney blow and the hair pull." Marinette said recalling that brief loss well as Togata really had her number there. "After that it was just a matter of trapping as much of Tokage as possible, Sero's strategy from the joint training exercise was a good one I just went further to exhaust her more, and dealing with Yanagi. Kodai's talented but her skills are best in support and defense when facing another human so with Yanagi out, and the main thing I had to make sure she didn't do was grab me with Poltergeist, it was straightforward. Neither Kodai nor Tokage could match me in pure physical combat."
"True, you handled that well and I'll be giving the other girls feedback on what they did well and where they need to improve when they come to." Midnight said. "But that is all that I have for you. Head to Recovery Girl and get patched up as well, you need it too. The rest of you, learn from this as Dupain-Cheng showed how to handle a group with efficiency even if I am sure her ultimate move would have been better."
"Will do." The girls of Class 1-A said in unison.
"Good, you're dismissed but don't forget that we have our girls only classes coming up." Midnight said with a wink as she smiled at them. "Our wiles are key in battle. Oh, and random team ups are coming so get ready for those. Ms. Wu, come with me to assist in the feedback for those 7, they'll be out for a while so we have time to prepare and review the footage from the cameras in here to make sure we cover everything."
"Of course, I'll assist as I can." Fei said as Midnight left the gym with Fei hurrying after her with a nod of praise to Marinette but nothing more.
"Ok let's go to Recovery Girl and make sure the others are ok before she patches me up." Marinette said but as he tried to walk she stumbled before Ochaco grabbed her arm. "And, er, help me get there as I'm still a little shaky after that."
"We got you Marinette." Ochaco said with a smile at her friend as she supported Marinette before the girls headed to the Nurse's Office.
As they walked they discussed Marinette's impressive battle and victory as well as training and the team ups, they did not mention Midnight's lessons as they didn't really want to think about them at the moment. The team ups were interesting and they knew nothing about them other than that they'd be random so they were eager to see what they were when they started up soon as their final semester of their first year at U.A. continued.
Well, there it is, the long-awaited Marinette v. all the girls of Class B chapter and in the end even all 7 of them couldn't handle Marinette. I know that her ultimate move, One Woman Army, could have handled that but this is training and Marinette needs to be able to fight such odds in situations where she can't use that move hence why she didn't use it. Even without it she won and proved to Kendo and the other girls of Class B that she is the strongest girl in the year. That is all I have for y'all, next up in the time skip arc are some fun chapters based off a supplemental manga that have been hinted at so plenty more to look forward to as we near the Paranormal Liberation War. As always, if you like it or have any questions please let me know in reviews or PMs, I will try to answer them as best I could and post any questions asked between uploads at the start of the next chapter and do follow and favorite this, so you are alerted to future uploads. Do keep the reviews coming as I like hearing from y'all as you enjoy my work, it motivates me to keep producing the best work I can for y'all to enjoy. Until next time.
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