Chapter 15: Team battles Part 1

A new day at UA meant new heights to reach and new obstacles to overcome. Class 1A would finally have a heroics lesson. Just as Present Mic finished with English and left the classroom, a large man barged in at a supersonic speed.

"I am here". All Might proclaimed. "I'm coming in like a normal person!"

"Wow, we going to have Number One Hero as our teacher!" Hagakure exclaimed.

"This class rocks!" Jirou wasn't far behind.

"Does this guy even know how to teach?" Diavolo wondered. "I thought all he is good for is punching and screaming."

"He was hired by principal Nezu, sir. I am sure he knows what he is doing."

"Brace yourselves, my students! Today we will conduct our first practical exercise in the form of team battles!"

"Shouldn't we go over basic training first?" Momo raised her hand. "Aizawa-sensei's test showed a massive disparity in our physical capabilities."

"Afraid of losing, Nerd?" Katsuki grinned.

"I'm merely stating facts."

"Fear not, young Yaoyorozu. This exercise will put a bigger emphasis on teamwork and strategy instead of raw strength or speed. Your physical training will be conducted in future lessons. Now, your hero uniforms are in the changing rooms. Put them on and meet me at the entrance to Battle Center B. I'll be waiting there." He ran out of the classroom as fast as he entered.

"Hell yeah, time for some fun!" Mina was ecstatic.

Izuku's hero costume consisted of a classic all-black suit, dark blue gloves, black dress shoes, a utility belt and a crimson cape. It also included a black metallic helmet with green glowing eyes. Every piece of the costume included the UV absorbing layer on the outside. His belt included pistol bullets for ranged combat, sleeping pills, potent sunscreen and a few vials of blood.

"Midoriya, I've been wondering." Shouji asked while they were changing. "Did people ever freak out about your vampiric nature?"

"No, but that's mostly because I've been keeping the ugly parts under wraps. I receive blood donations from a certain hospital. Besides, if things go dire I can forego using The World."

"Don't even think about it, brat!"

"It must be nice to have that as an option!" Giant sighed.

"I feel bad for you, Shouji-kun." Little vampire thought to himself.

Students gathered in front of the Battle Center. Boys looked with surprise at a pair of floating gloves waving at them.

"Hagakure, is that you? Are you naked right now?" Iida screamed at the gloves.

"Only one way to find out." One of the gloves invited the blue haired boy in. The other slapped a lower part of Tooru's body.

"This is extremely inappropriate!" Tenya was red like a chili pepper. "Cease with this behavior at once!"

"Come on, don't be such a prude, Iida." Mina wrapped her arm around what should be the invisible girl's head.

Their argument was stopped by All Might's arrival. Hero started explaining the exercise.

"You will be randomly divided into six pairs and assigned a hero or villain affiliation. First, there will be a 10 minute preparation stage. Then a team of villains will need to protect a fake bomb for another 10 minutes, while the hero team has to defuse the bomb by touching the tiny screen on it. Alternatively, either team can win by putting on these handcuffs on both of their opponents. If you are cuffed, you are out of the game. The location will be a warehouse in the battle center. Everyone else will be observing efforts of current teams. Anyone got questions?"

"Yes, sir!" Iida karate chopped the air. "What's the point of villain teams? We aspire to become heroes, not oppose them."

"To beat a villain, you must be able to think like one. Exercises such as this one will teach you how to anticipate bad guys' moves and counter them."

"Understood, sensei!"

"Can we blow shit up?" Ash blonde smirked.

"Language, Bakugo!" Tenya got irritated.

"While collateral damage is sometimes unavoidable, try to minimize it as much as possible. Heroes often have to pay for destructions they cause."

"What a load of crap!"

"What if there is a power mismatch between teams?" Momo asked. "If two combat oriented students were matched against support quirks, the fight would be too easy for one side and impossible for the other."

"In real life, you may often get thrown into unfavorable positions, including a difference in power. The best thing you can do in these situations is leverage your strengths while playing around your weaknesses. You will be judged on how you approach the situation, so you may still get a high score even if your team loses."

With no more questions, students drew pieces of paper from a box.

"All right, first fight is team E as villains versus team C as heroes!"

Yaoyorozu and Shouji were assigned to disarm the bomb, while Midoriya and Hagakure had to stop them.

"Alright, Shouji-san. First things first, we need to understand each other's abilities. My quirk allows me to create any non organic object as long as I know its chemical structure. Time it takes to create something depends on size, complexity and my leftover energy."

"My quirk lets me grow many arms at once, not just six you see now. Additionally, I can grow extra organs on my arms to help with recon. My eyes and ears are exceptionally perceptive, so we shouldn't get jumped by the villains. Forgive me for asking, but is Hagakure actually naked?"

"No." Momo face palmed. "It's just a dumb joke that girls decided to play along with. Her costume is basically camouflage uniform that she makes invisible."

"She can do that?"

"Yes. The gloves she wears are to indicate her position without dropping invisibility. And to make boys sweaty, I suppose."

Mezou's quiet laughter did not escape her ears.

"MY costume is designed this way to accommodate my quirk. I don't care what you or anyone else says." Genius pointed a finger at the giant.

"I didn't say anything."

"Whatever. Back to Hagakure-san. I saw that she can make her costume and her body invisible, although it takes some time to kick in. She can't instantly evaporate. This makes me wonder: what are limits of her ability? If she can make the bomb invisible, she'll undoubtedly do it and try to hide a corner somewhere. We also don't know if she can move far away from the objects made invisible by her. May be there is a range cap?"

"Best thing we can do is track her down and interrogate her. Even if she's invisible, I can still hear her breathing and heartbeat, as long as there is not too much noise in the background."

"Good, now onto Midoriya-kun. We know what King Crimson does, and I've figured out Killer Queen's ability."

"How?" All of Shouji's eyes widened in surprise.

"I did my homework." Momo answered. "Two years ago there was an incident with a certain sludge villain. He was apparently coerced into surrender by a civilian whose quirk could turn objects and presumably people into bombs. Description of the civilian and the quirk align perfectly with Midoriya and Killer Queen."

"Remind me to never get on your bad side."

"If we win, I'll let you get on my good side." She smiled for a moment. "Anyway, we don't know what The World does. May be vampirism IS its ultimate ability, or maybe it's something else. It should be comparable to time erasure if World and King argue about superiority. Our best bet is to try and find the invisible girl, while being ready to fight off the devil. I'll make us some gear…"

10 minutes have passed and heroes entered the building. Yaoyorozu was holding a tranquilizer dart gun in her hands and looking around, with a strange looking blaster tied to her back. Mezou was multitasking like crazy: one arm was looking at a watch, another was listening for their opponents, two were holding steel sheets like shields, one more was holding a second tranq gun and final one had the second blaster.

"One is standing still on the top floor, and the other is walking near on the top of the stairs to the second floor."

"Great. We can avoid Midroriya completely by using a different set of stairs."

As they walked, Shouji got spooked.

"What? Impossible! He just teleported!"

"Are you sure? It might have been time erasure."

"No, the arrow on the watch didn't jump forward!"

"Calm down." Momo patted him on the shoulder. "How far did he teleport?"

"About 10 meters. I guess this is his ability. Oh no, he's walking towards the other set of stairs."

"Either he switches at random or can somehow detect us. Let's try to go through first stairs."

It was futile, as Shouji heard someone moving towards the original location.

"Ok, he can definitely track us somehow,"

"May be we should split up? I don't think he can catch both of us." Shouji suggested.

"Out of the question! We'll be easy pickings for him individually. No, we have to stay close. If he wants a fight, he'll get one."

Students approached the stairs; where two menacing figures looked at them from above. One of them sported yellow as the main color.

"You shouldn't have come here, heroes!" Izuku was doing his best DIO impression. "This is MY world, you are not welcome in my world. I am immortal and everlasting!"

"You don't scare us, villain." Momo remained calm. "We will stop you."

"Ho ho ho. Okay, let's make this interesting. If either of you can punch me within the next 10 seconds, I will surrender. If not, you will be in a world of pain."

"Get him!" The mutant rushed towards his opponent. Just as he almost reached his Izuku, he found himself at the bottom of the stairs.

"What the…"

"5 second left!"

Momo tried to shoot Izuku with a tranquilizer, but his quirk stopped the dart in midair.

"You won't get away with his!" Mutant cried and ran upstairs for the second time.

The result remained the same. Shouji was at the bottom of the stairs again.

"0! Time for pain, heroes!"

Suddenly he disappeared, and in his place a dozen bullets and a dart were flying towards Mezou and Momo. The giant barely managed to block the projectiles with his shields.

"He is crazy!"

"No, Shouji. He just takes his role way too seriously. I think I know what we need to do."

The heroes met Midoyia again on the stairs to the third floor. Even with a helmet, they could tell he was grinning at their misfortune.

"Now that you have tasted my power, you know you can't beat me. But I see great potential in both of you. Pledge your loyalty to me, and together we will rule this world!" He offered them a hand.

"Jesus, did he repeat this speech?" Mezou cringed internally.

Instead of answering they aimed their tranq guns at him.

"You still haven't learnt? Your puny darts can even harm me!"

"Care to test that theory?" Momo asked him with a smirk.

"Ha ha! You still think you have a chance? Fine, I will entertain you. Fire away!" Izuku stretched his arms to his sides and closed his eyes.

BANG!

Green head's left leg and his right arm were blasted off his body. He collapsed on the ground. Instead of darts, the guns shot something else, something that could harm a vampire.

"Impossible!" He screamed. "My suit…"

"Protects you from sunlight, but even it can't completely absorb high intensity UV rays." Momo aimed her gun at his head. "This was a gamble, but I'm glad it paid off."

"5 minutes left." Voice from the intercom informed everyone.

"Shouji, find Hagakure and make her show you the bomb. I'll make sure our King of the World doesn't stand up. Don't get close to him! Use different stairs."

"Yes, ma'am!"

Shortly after the mutant found the girl and the bomb near her. As he put a hand on the screen, the announcer declared hero team as the winners.

"Excellent!" All Might clapped. "When they come back, I want you to choose the MVP and provide feedback to the participants."

The rest of the students began discussing the results.

Author's notes: As you can see, I changed how Tooru's quirk works and made Momo more competent than in canon. I hope you don't mind.

The blasters were the original UV guns, but Momo made new ones that were disguised as tranquilizers.