章 2095: 25
Chapter 25: First Heroics
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Izuku was sitting with a few classmates, including Mina and Toru eating breakfast while the tv played the morning news. Izuku looked over at the tv as the news anchor talked about vigilantes. It happens every year after hero schools startup. Those who didn't make it in are mad, and a few of them decide they can be a hero without school and go out on their own. It usually dies down a few weeks later once they're all arrested.
"A stand out among this new batch of vigilantes has put sixteen villains in the ICU in the past week as well as leaving several civilians with burst eardrums and burn wounds. He has been described as a loud and brash young man who claims to go by the name Lord Explosion."
Izuku choked on his rice and looked at the tv as his friends looked at him worriedly. The news anchor kept talking about this new vigilante, and Izuku stood suddenly. "I need to go... uh talk to Nezu about something. I'll see you guys in class."
Izuku was out the door before anyone really had time to question what was going on with their classmate.
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Nezu smiled as his office door opened and Izuku stepped in, looking slightly ruffled. "Ah, Midoriya. What a wonderful surprise. Would you like some tea? You look like you could use a cup."
"Um, yes, sir... have you seen the news this morning?"
Nezu nodded as the student sat across from him as he poured two cups of tea. "Yes, I have. I take it that you saw the bit about the vigilante Lord Explosion."
Izuku sipped his tea and nodded. "Yes, sir... that's uh definitely Bakugo."
"Oh, and how can you be sure?" Nezu said. He had his suspicions, but he wanted to see what Izuku knew.
"Lord Explosion was a name Bakugo came up with when he was a kid. He wanted it to be his hero name... you said you would tell me how his punishment went. I'm guessing it didn't go well."
Nezu nodded. "At first, it seemed that Katsuki Bakugo was going to change. I had All Might speak to him-"
Izuku choked on his tea and looked at the head of UA. "what? I-I didn't think you would do that. How did you do that?"
Nezu chuckled as he set his cup down. "Midoriya, I am the head of UA, and All Might is an alumni. If I want to talk to a graduate, all I have to do is tell them, and they will come and see me when they can. All it took was finding a time where All Might wasn't busy and then having Bakugo come in at the same time."
Izuku hummed and sipped some more tea before saying. "So Bakugo. What happened?"
Nezu sipped his tea before speaking. "Well, at first, it seemed to be going well. Bakugo managed to stick to the terms laid out, but the boy is quite a bit more clever than I gave him credit for. There was an incident a year ago with another student. When we went to contact him to let him know his punishment we found that he had disappeared and his parents didn't know where he went. Presumably, he knew his chance was gone, so now he is operating as a vigilante. My guess is to, in some twisted way, try to show us that we were wrong about him."
Iuzku slumped in his seat and rubbed his face. "I'm sorry, sir. If I hadn't been so adamant about-"
Nezu held his paw up. "It is not your fault. I listened to your suggestion and went along with it. I saw my friend in you, and I hoped that a kind yet firm approach would work on someone like Bakugo, and it seems we were wrong. Now we must deal with the consequences of it. Though you are a student so leave this for the heroes to deal with and go enjoy your time here. You have your first heroics class today, after all."
Izuku finished his tea and nodded. "Yes, sir... thank you for everything you've done, sir."
Nezu waved him off. "Run along to class now. You don't want to suffer Aizawa's punishment for being late to homeroom."
Izuku thanked him for the tea and managed to get back to class a few minutes before the bell, much to Tenya's relief.
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Morning classes went normally, and at lunch, Izuku's girlfriends held him back and asked him what happened. He explained how the vigilante mentioned on the news was Bakugo. They were understandably annoyed that Izuku's former bully was still running around and hurting people.
They ate lunch with their friends and headed back to class, where they waited for the heroics teacher to show up. No one knew who it was going to be until the door swung open, and a booming voice announced. "I am here coming in like a normal person!"
All Might strutted in as the class freaked out. Mina, Toru, and Izuku just sat there stunned and surprised to see their mentor laugh and hold his hand up to silence the class. "Now, now I know you're all very excited, but hold some of that energy for class; you're gonna need it. On your first day during the entrance ceremony, you all partook in Aizawa's assessment test. That test was to show your resilience and creativity when faced with a situation where you may not be able to use your quirk to its full ability. Today's class will be specialized to help you show us your current limits so we can better guide you to the best hero you can be."
They watched as their teacher pulled a remote out, and the left wall started to open up. "Of course, no hero is the best they can be without their costumes. Grab your case, get changed, and meet me at Gym Alpha. You've fifteen minutes to be there, or Aizawa will complain to me."
All Might laughed as he left, and the students scrambled to grab their cases and head to the changing rooms.
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The class was dressed and gathered outside Gym Alpha in ten minutes. All Might told them to wait outside while he finished setting up, so they all took the time to check out their costumes.
Mina was pretty happy with her suit. A sleeveless blue and purple camo bodysuit with knee-high plum boots with beige trim. On her arms were a set of plum and beige bracers that went from her wrist to her elbows. The bracers had small nozzles barely sticking out of the top of them pointed forward. They had been Izuku's idea back when they talked about costumes. The bracers added protection to her forearms as well as providing a way for her to have a ranged attack. She also wore a black reinforced cropped jacket with a white fur collar. She left it unbuttoned and slipped on her white mask over her eyes.
She hadn't seen Toru, but her girlfriend was excited, to say the least, so Mina walked over towards Izuku, figuring their invisible girlfriend would be over there.
Izuku blushed a bit as he saw Mina and muttered. "You look really good in that."
Mina chuckled. "Maybe I'll see if I can wear it outside of class... maybe on a day off."
Neither noticed Kyoka blink and look over confused before going back to talking to Momo. She knew Izuku and Toru had something going on since she heard them flirting during Aizawa's test, and she knew Mina was close to both of them, but why was she flirting with Izuku?
Mina smiled and checked out her boyfriend's costume while he blushed. He was dressed in a pair of heavy-duty red boots that looked much like his usual sneakers. Tucked into his boots were a pair of dark green cargo pants, but instead of pockets for storing things, there were sections of cloth that covered three sides of mesh patches all along his legs which allowed his quirk to slip out. His top was a green compression shirt with a dark purple harness over it. The harness, along with a red utility belt, held all his pouches for medical supplies and other items. Clipped on either side of his belt were the two fans Nemuri had given him back in high school. The last two things were a black gas mask with purple prohibited signs on the filters and a black mask over his eyes.
Mina bit her lip a bit as she stared at his chest. "You look really good, Izu. you got more than just that one compression shirt?"
Izuku rolled his eyes. "Maybe I do, but more importantly, have you seen Toru?"
"Ta-da, I am here!" Toru suddenly announced, making the two jump and look in the direction of her voice.
Her partners looked overseeing... a pair of floating iridescent pink gloves with black trim and a pair of boots on the ground that were the same color. Izuku sighed and rubbed his face. "Toru, please tell me that isn't your costume."
Toru giggled and stepped back. "Nope. watch this."
Toru's partners and the rest of the class watched as her gloves and boots disappeared, only to start reappearing along with the rest of her costume. Every part of her costume was the same iridescent pink with black trim from her knee and elbow pads to the sleeveless bodysuit that stopped at her midthigh. Her head had a pair of pink oval goggles with tinted lenses. Toru did a little spin and said. "it's pink, which is super cute, but I didn't actually ask for it to be that. Apparently, it was a side effect of whatever they did to make it work with my quirk."
Izuku muttered to Mina. "Can we take these costumes to the dorm?"
Mina chuckled. "I wanna see her visible self in this."
Toru felt her face blushing. "S-shut up."
They weren't able to tease their partner anymore as the doors opened, and All Might stepped out and smiled. "Well, well, well, they say the clothes make the hero, and I have to say you all look so cool. Now come on in, we've got a lot to do today and only a class period to do it in."
The class entered Gym Alpha behind All Might and took in the sight of the various equipment and devices littered around the gym floor. "This is Gym Alpha, also known as the Arcade."
All Might pointed to a console a few feet from the door. "Over by the door is a control panel where you can scan your ID and use the equipment to test the limits of your quirk. The system keeps track of everyone who uses the equipment and will place you on the leaderboard, but that's something you can check out later on your own time."
The class followed him deeper into the gym, where they found Aizawa waiting. "For now, Aizawa and I will be helping you run through tests relevant to your quirk. By the end of class, we'll have a good understanding of your current upper limits, and we'll be able to formulate a lesson to help you all improve."
The class was split, and each teacher brought them to various pieces of equipment. Izuku stood in front of a tall cylindrical machine with a hand-shaped indentation next to a screen. Aizawa yawned and said. "This will suck up your gas as you produce it and measure how much you can make."
The teacher slipped Izuku a sheet of paper. "By the way, this was Nemuri's high score when she left UA."
Izuku unfolded the paper and saw that by the time Nemuri left UA, she could produce. 'Three hundred and fifty-three cubic meters of gas... Damn, that's a lot. Can I do that?'
He looked over to Mina, who was running a similar test. Her machine was built to see how much liquid a user could produce, and it could scan the content and give out information like composition and acidity level density of the liquid and so on. Aizawa instructed Mina to keep the acidity low. They would test how acidic she could make it later.
Mina flashed Izuku a smile as their teacher left, and the two got to work. Toru was instructed to blast the wall with a laser at a strength that wouldn't injure herself and to keep it up for as long as possible.
Momo was ordered to make the densest object she could and make as much of it as possible, while Ochako was given various weights and told to find the maximum weight she could float.
By the end of class, everyone was exhausted as they gathered around All Might, who laughed. "You all did wonderfully. Get some rest and be ready for the next heroics class. It will be even more exciting than today and remember to give it your all not only on the physical side but the mental side of your training. Now I must be off, be sure to return your costumes before you leave."
Aizawa hummed as All Might left quickly. "I'll have some suggested exercises for you by the end of the week. In the meantime, like he said, don't slack off."
Everyone noticed their homeroom teacher stare at a few students in particular before dismissing them.
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Izuku sighed as he pulled off his costume in the changing room. He had managed to produce almost half the amount of gas Nemuri could. As he packed it up, he heard a strangled noise from Minoru and turned to see the boy quickly trying to look like he wasn't up to anything. Izuku slipped on his shirt and walked over to the short boy who was quickly trying to put a poster corner up. Izuku leaned down and whispered. "Whatcha up to, man?"
Minoru squeaked and looked up. "No, I just uh saw this poster corner was peeling, so I was trying to put it back."
Izuku hummed and pulled the poster back, seeing the small hole in the wall. He looked down at the shorter boy and asked. "Did you look?"
Minoru shook his head quickly, and Izuku continued his questions. "Are you lying to save your skin?"
"N-no, I'm not lying. I just saw it." Minoru said, trying to back away but stopping as Izuku put a hand on his shoulder.
"Good, I'm glad you can be honest with me. Now... did anyone else notice?" Izuku glanced around, seeing most of the other guys had left or were almost done.
Minoru shook his head, and Izuku smiled. "Good, then we can go report this terrible thing before anyone uses it. Because it would suck for someone to take advantage of the girls in what should be a private room for them, wouldn't it be?"
"Y-yeah, man, of course."
Izuku stood and gently pushed Minoru from the wall as he covered the peephole. The two got dressed and returned their cases. As Minoru informed Cementoss about the hole in the wall, Kyoka approached Izuku, who was outside the teacher's office. "Yo Green."
Izuku smiled. "Hello, Jiro. how are your ears feeling?"
"Huh?!" Kyoka made an over-exaggerated face as she cupped one of her ears.
Izuku laughed, and the punk girl smirked. "My ears are fine. Fine enough that I heard you talking to Mineta in the changing room."
Izuku raised an eyebrow. "Were you eavesdropping?"
"Only after I found the peephole. I tapped into the wall and stuck my other jack into the hole. I figured I'd keep my ears on it and stab whoever tried to use it, but you stopped the little perv before he could." Izuku ignored how disappointed Kyoka seemed at the idea of not being able to stab Minoru.
Izuku chuckled nervously. "I'm glad I didn't let him look. I wouldn't want you getting in trouble for attacking another student outside of class."
Kyoka shrugged, and both of them looked over as Cementoss and Minoru came out. The short boy looked at Kyoka, and his face paled, but she just scoffed and looked away as Minoru took Cementoss to where the peephole was.
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The next day was standard classes, and as they were leaving to go back to the dorms, Izuku hung back with Mina, who was organizing her notes. Toru had to desperately pee during the entire last period, so she rushed out right at the bell.
Izuku smiled as he looked down at the notes Mina had written. "You're getting good at taking notes."
"Hm, now if only I could study well, I might get better grades than you," Mina said with a chuckle.
Izuku rolled his eyes. "Well, if you and Toru would stop being so distracting while we're trying to study together. That might actually happen."
Mina packed her stuff away and stood up, leaning into Izuku's personal space. "You don't let us take enough breaks."
"If we had it your way, there would be nothing but breaks." Izuku shot back.
Mina pouted before shifting to a grin and quickly kissing her boyfriend. Izuku returned the kiss but rolled his eyes. Once they had separated, he said. "You can't just kiss me whenever I have a point."
Mina wrapped her arms around his neck. "You sure?"
Izuku sighed as he wrapped his arms around her waist, and she leaned up and kissed him again. "Pretty sure."
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Tsu noticed it right when Ochko entered. The brunette was deep in thought as she sat on one of the couches. The other girls, minus Toru and Mina, were all nearby, as was Denki, who was playing some game on his phone as he lounged in a beanbag chair. Tsu tilted her head. "Is everything ok, Ochako?"
Ochako hummed. "Oh yeah... just uh went to get something I left in the classroom, and I saw Ashido and Midoriya making out in the classroom."
A couple girls blushed, and Tsu ribbited. "That's odd... I thought Toru and Midoriya were together. I saw them in the kitchen last night. It looked like Toru had kissed him."
Momo sighed internally. She had her own theory, but she wasn't sure if it was her place to say anything. Kyoka spoke up next after translating a part Pony didn't understand. "I uh... may have accidentally overheard Toru and Green flirting during Aizawa's test, and then later it seemed like Mina was flirting with him before we went into the Arcade."
Pony perked up and blurted out. "Midori is two-timing."
Kyoka slapped her face. "Pony, you can't just blurt that out."
Tsu ribbited. "That is what it looks like, but also Midoriya seems like too nice of a person for that kero."
"Maybe he is, or maybe he's just a good actor," Kyoka said as she pointed her jacks at the frog girl.
Pony nodded. "Lots of guys like that back home. Pretend to be nice, but they're not."
Momo opened her mouth to speak, but Denki beat her to it. "I saw Ashido and Hagakure all up on each other this morning. Pretty sure the three of them are just in a poly relationship."
Momo stared in shock before quickly nodding and speaking up. "I have also noticed the closeness between the three of them and thought that it may be that. Though I didn't feel it was polite to ask if that were the case."
Ochako blushed. "That's a real thing? I don't think I've ever heard of an actual relationship like that."
Tsu ribbited and nodded. "Neither had I. It's not something you see a lot, so I didn't consider it, but it would make sense."
Momo sighed internally as the others came around to the idea. She didn't like the possibility that Izuku wasn't as good of a person as he seemed. "They don't seem to speak of their relationship, so I suggest we don't ask. If they want us to know, I'm sure they'll tell us."
"You guys talking about relationships? Who's dating who?" Toru asked, practically popping up behind Ochako, making the gravity girl yelp.
Tsu croaked as she looked at her invisible classmate. "We were discussing you, Mina, and Midoriya."
Toru giggled. "Oh yeah, we haven't been super subtle, have we."
"So you guys really are dating?" Kyoka said with a little red dusting her cheeks.
Toru laughed some more and hopped over the couch to sit between Tsu and Ochako. "Yep, for a couple years now. We all met in or around the beginning of high school, and then before the first year was up, we were dating."
The door to the dorms opened, and Mina walked in shortly, followed by Izuku, who both noticed the gathering on the couch. Toru waved them over. "Hey, we're talking about how the three of us are dating."
Mina giggled and grabbed Izuku's hand. "Oh, did we get caught finally?"
The group explained how the conversation came up, and by the end of it, Mina and Izuku were blushing, and everyone was pretty sure by how Toru fidgeted that she was embarrassed as well. The trio answered a few questions about their relationship before heading up to Izuku's room before dinner.
Notes:
No one-shot to promote this time mainly because I didn't work on the two ideas I have.
Also, I asked Reddit but haven't gotten anything so does anyone know any Camie/Iuzku fics?
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