Chapter 65: Return to Japan + off to camp
Beros sighed as she walked through the dark streets of wherever the hell she was. She knew she was in Japan, yes. She just wasn't sure where in Japan.
At least she managed to get a change of clothing.
The clothing she was wearing she wasn't proud of. A black leather jacket that was missing its zipper, a black bra, leather shorts that felt far too short, and leather boots. She didn't like it, but it was all she could get her hands on. She didn't have any money, so had to beat up the members of some female gang and hope she could get some money off of them. Sadly they weren't carrying any hard cash on them, and a credit card is useless without the pin. So she just took their clothing and hoped some of it fit. Leaving her looking like a goddamn hooker. Literally, she's already had like ten guys trying to 'buy her time'.
She of course told them to piss off, because she wasn't going to sell her body like that. She had standards, and she wasn't going to sell herself, even if she was desperate for cash.
The moment she got some money, she was going to get herself more appropriate clothing. The problem is, how was she going to get it?
She looked down at her right arm, at the bandages that covered the stump. Without her right hand to draw her bow, she could not use it. She was, effectively, quirkless.
A part of her felt like she should be happy about it. But then, why did she feel so empty without it? It was her quirk, her unique ability, no one else had an ability just like hers.
She frowned. Her Papa, the man who took her in. He put a lot of time into training her to use her bow. If she could no longer use her bow, then she couldn't use his training.
She sighed, now how was she supposed to avenge him? She couldn't kill Argonaut without her bow.
She stopped, eyes widening in shock. His name. Why couldn't she remember Papa's name? He was the man who looked after her for over twenty years, who taught her how to use her bow. The man Argonaut killed. The man whom she swore to avenge. The man who was basically her father in all but blood.
How could she not remember his name? How could she so easily forget it?
Her good hand slowly moved up and brushed over the scars on her head. The shrapnel from the explosion that killed Papa. The same shrapnel that almost scrambled her brain. She would have suffered brain damage from it. Now that she thought about it, she couldn't remember anything about Papa.
Tears started to fall from her eyes and she collapsed against a nearby wall. How could she forget everything about him? She spent more than twenty years being looked after by him, how could she forget him?
His face, she couldn't even remember his face! Why couldn't she remember what he looked like?
She cried. Argonaut had taken more than just Papa from her, but also her memories of him.
He was going to die a painful death for this!
"You ok?" a voice asked beside her, sounding concerned.
Beros looked up towards the voice, finding a young woman with a very curvy body and long shiny red hair that looked well cared for, standing nearby.
She wore a pale purple blouse with frilled cuffs, its collar upturned. A short, navy blue dress with a low collar, a thick brown belt, dark red gloves, purple thigh-high socks, a pair of black boots with knee-high protrusions, and a black domino mask over her eyes. There was also a pearl string necklace around her neck, with a gemstone that looked vaguely familiar. It was pinkish-brown and was cut into an odd nine-point star. She also had a black choker with a small red circle in the middle around her neck. There was an emblem in the circle that also looked vaguely familiar.
"Leave me alone," Beros replied, wiping the tears from her eyes. "I don't need your help... Unless, you know where I can find a Dreadnought?".
The woman smirked. "You want to find a Dreadnought? That's strange, most people who know about them would prefer to hide from them, not seek one out".
Beros' eyes went wide with shock as she looked at the woman beside her. No way she was this lucky to run into someone who knew a Dreadnought so quickly. "Y-you know where I can find one?"
"Perhaps," the woman replied with a shrug. "I know of a place where I've seen one before. But I can't guarantee that there's one still there. It's been a while since I saw one there".
"Show me," Beros demanded, taking a step towards her. She may have lost Humarise, she may have lost her papa's memories, and she may be unable to kill Argonaut, but she still needed answers to what happened to Humarise and who those four freaks were. The Dreadnoughts sounded like they had the answers she needed, and this might be her only lead to find them.
The woman smiled. "Follow me then," she said before she turned and walked down the street. Beros following along behind. "It'll take a day or two to get to it. It's deep in the mountains and very far off. We'll need to take a train, and maybe steal a car".
"I can live with that," Beros said calmly as she followed her. She's killed people before, what's a little carjacking?
"Great," the woman said. "So, what's your name?".
"Just call me Beros," Beros replied with a huff.
The woman smirked before she focused on the path ahead. "Call me Slice then".
Beros nodded as she kept pace with her. She did not know this, Slice, woman, yet, something told her that she could trust her. So, trust her she will, because she needed answers, and the Dreadnoughts hopefully had them. And if this woman has seen them as well, then all the better.
The I-Expo was fun. After beating the ass of that British moron, Izumi and the others decided to watch the students of Millennium, Iscariot and Hellsing have their tournament. It was fun to watch, Izumi got to see them use their quirks up close and see how well they had improved since the start of the year.
She was also able to get to know Saiko a little better as well, as well as see her quirk in action. It was so much easier to analyse a quirk when you see it work in person. May have also given her an existential crisis as well, but that comes with the territory. She really should stop doing that.
They looked around the expo some more, brought some souvenirs and got a lot of autographs from the heroes there. She had gotten so many in fact that she was worried that she'd run out of space in the five notebooks she had brought with her.
Her friends were rather surprised that she had been able to fill them up so quickly.
Unfortunately, like all good things, their visit to I-Island had to come to an end, and they had to return to Japan the next day.
Melissa had been there to wish them goodbye. And to remove the goggles she had made. She said that she was going to make a new pair for her. One that could be taken off. So that was nice and useful.
But she will have to wait for that. Melissa sadly didn't have a licence to produce support gear for foreign heroes yet, but she's working on it. So until then, she'd have to ask Mei to make a substitute.
Anyway, one long flight later, they arrived back on Japanese soil.
"Japan. Home sweet home," Ochaco gasped as they walked through customs. They had taken All Might's plane back, but Toshinori himself had remained behind. Something about helping David with a project. So it was just them, Inko and Eri. Their classmates were all on different planes.
"I'm just glad to be back," Inko said. "I've never really liked travelling abroad".
"Well, hopefully, we don't have to do this often," Izumi said. She knew her mother disliked flying and leaving Japan. It's one of the reasons why she didn't want to leave with Hisashi to the moon. But, it was nice to see her getting out and about, having fun.
It's been a long time since they've been able to just go out and have fun.
"You do know that you can leave the country without me," Inko said. "As long as you're properly supervised that is. Don't want you going off and picking a fight with the first villain you see".
"Mom!" Izumi groaned. "I don't always get involved in villain attacks. It's not like I'm actively looking for them. I just, keep being in the wrong place at the wrong time".
"If we had some sort of precognitive quirk then we might be able to avoid situations," Durandal remarked. Annoyingly, he did not have access to Sir Nighteye's quirk, before he went missing the man kept his distance from Durandal, so the robot was unable to copy his quirk. And now that he was missing, presumed dead, there was no way they could ask him for help in the matter.
"That may not work," Ochaco said. "Even if we knew it was coming we'll still probably be caught off guard by it".
Izumi nodded. "Probably," she said before they reached the longest part of any trip through an airport.
The insufferable wait for their luggage.
"Why does this take so long?" Izumi groaned.
"This is also why I hate travelling abroad," Inko said with a sigh, holding Eri who had fallen asleep.
"Why does this always take so long?" Izumi asked. "You'd think in this day and age they would have found a faster way to sort luggage?".
Ochaco nodded in agreement. "Yeah, you would think that would you? Guess there's only so much you can do to improve something. Also, if it's ok with you, I'll just go to the toilet real quirk".
"That's ok, dear," Inko said with a smile. "We'll look out for your luggage".
Ochaco nodded before she went off to the toilets.
They weren't hard to find, there were signs pointing the way. They were a bit out of the way, but it was nothing she wasn't used to.
Once she was finished, she left and headed back to the others. And accidentally bumped into someone as she was leaving the women's toilets. "Oh, sorry".
"That's ok," a female voice that sounded foreign said. "I wasn't exactly looking where I was going either".
Ochaco looked up at the woman she had bumped into. She was a curvy woman with bright blue eyes and blonde hair, wearing a form-fitting royal blue suit over a high-collared white dress shirt. The logo of the WHA on the suit's short sleeves.
Ochaco paused. There was an odd feeling or sensation coming from the woman, but she couldn't put her finger on what it was.
"Are you just going to stand there?" the woman asked before a familiar voice shouted "Sister!" followed by the woman getting tackled from behind by a familiar red-haired girl.
"Rolls!" the woman growled. "What have I told you about sneaking up on me?".
Rolls peeked out from behind the older woman. "Come now sis, shouldn't you be able to sense me coming? What are you even doing in Japan anyway?".
"I'm working on a case," the woman replied with a sigh. "There was what we believe to be a murder nearby. And no, you can't help me".
Ochaco gulped. There was a murder nearby. Hopefully, the heroes and police can find out who did it.
Rolls pouted. "Oh, and here I thought you liked me helping you out," she said before she noticed Ochaco. "Oh, hey Ochaco. Didn't expect to see you here".
"Hi, Rolls," Ochaco waved before pointing at the older woman. "Who's she?".
Rolls smiled. "Ochaco. Meet my older sister Clair Phantom. Also known as the Otheon pro hero Clair Voyance. Clair, this is Ochaco Uraraka. She's the friend I mentioned".
"Greetings," Ochaco said nervously. Rolls did say she had an older sister who was also a hero. 'Wait, she's Rolls' sister. Does that mean-'.
"Yes I'm a telepath," Clair's voice spoke into Ochaco's mind. "My sister has told me about you, and your situation. All I can say is that I'm sorry you had to go through all that. Normally you wouldn't have been abandoned like that, but, even we aren't infallible".
Ochaco nodded. She still didn't have the whole telepathic communications thing sorted out, and she knew better than to talk to someone normally when they were speaking to her telepathically.
Also, it explained why she couldn't sense her. She was probably hiding her presence.
"I advise you to be careful with your thoughts from now on. It's far too easy for you to project them, and you have no idea who would be listening in," Clair continued.
Ochaco nodded again. There was still so much she needed to learn, but it wasn't easy for her to learn. there was no one she could ask at UA who could help her. Apart from Eri, she was the only person like her at UA. There was no one else to teach her. And calls with Rolls can only do so much. And with the summer camp coming up, her training will hit a roadblock.
"Well it's good to meet you," she said nervously. She had to say something since standing around just staring at each other looked suspicious.
"It's nice to meet you as well," Clair said. "Now, whilst I would like to stay and chat, I have a case to solve," she said before she walked off.
"Sorry about her," Rolls said as her sister vanished around a corner. "She's in work mode. She gets all serious and job-focused. But she's a lot better when she's not working".
"Right," Ochaco said with a nod. Not what she expected from Rolls' older sister, but she did say that she was a hero, and some of them are a bit job-focused. "Well, I'm surprised to see you again so soon".
"Yeah, small world isn't it," Rolls said, rubbing the back of her head. "Didn't think we'd be arriving at the same airport at around the same time. But I guess it's because we both have summer camps to attend tomorrow. And we're with the Wild, Wild Pussycats would you believe it".
"Yeah, well, I hope you have fun," Ochaco said. "We don't know where our summer camp is yet, and we're not allowed to bring phones with us to the camp, so I won't be able to call you whilst we're there," she said. Which was a shame as there was still so much she needed to know.
If only there was a faster way to learn all of this stuff.
"Yeah. I wish I could help you more, but we aren't allowed to bring phones with us to the camp either," Rolls said. "Guess with the recent attacks on UA, no one wants to take the risk of their students getting attacked as well".
"That's probably the case," Ochaco said. "Well, I'll talk to you later," she said as she waved at Rolls and headed back towards Izumi.
Unknown to the gravity girl, however, someone was watching her. An armoured figure with a skeletal metal hand, watched as she walked back to her girlfriend.
The figure turned and walked into the crowd, using the cover to vanish from sight.
"Seven down. Two to go".
Izumi slept like a log that night. She needed to. With the summer camp starting the next day, she needed to be well-rested for it.
She didn't know where the camp would be taking place, none of them did. She had thought that it would be with the Wild, Wild Pussycats, but they'd already announced that Seiai Academy would be attending their camp this year, and she didn't know of any other heroes who ran summer training camps. Hell, she didn't know the Wild, Wild Pussycats ran a summer camp until the press conference they had after they became teachers at UA.
The rest of the Snuggle Squad™ slept like logs as well, so thankfully no one ended up in any compromising positions during the night. Except for Himiko and Tsu, but since they started off in a compromising position, they didn't count.
Sadly Nejire could not join them for the first-year summer camp, since she was a third year and they had their own training camp to attend.
"So, where do you think we'll be going to for the camp?" Hanta asked as the entire class, plus Inko and Eri, left the dorm.
"I don't know," Rikido replied, scratching his chin. "I would have thought they would have told us where we were going".
"They're not telling us for security reasons," Tenya explained. "Due to our year being involved in several villain attacks, keeping the location of the summer camp a secret will help to prevent another attack on us".
"Yeah, that kind of makes sense," Hitoshi said. "It feels like every time we've left UA someone from our class has been caught up in a villain attack. It'll be nice if we could just leave UA once and not get attacked by villains".
"It feels like someone put a curse on our class to suffer constant misfortune at the hands of villains," Fumikage remarked.
"Hear hear, ribbit," Tsu agreed before her tongue shot out of her mouth, snagged a bee that was flying nearby, and ate it.
"I knew it!" Denki shouted, pointing towards Tsu.
Tsu croaked. "What, I'm a frog. We eat bugs. My parents eat bugs, my siblings eat bugs, we are bug eaters, ribbit. OK so it's not enough to saturate our hunger, but they make for great snacks".
Izumi nodded along, notebook in hand. this was very interesting information.
"I am seriously starting to wonder where she keeps those," Inasa remarked.
"Don't bother, not even I know where she keeps them," Durandal said as they approached the meetup point. Their sister class, 1-B, was already there. As well as their homeroom teacher, as well as their own homeroom teacher and the homeroom teacher for 3-A, Blossom.
'Ah, there's one-B,' Izumi thought. 'Now, who are they again? Let's see. Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, Katsuki Bakugo, Shoto Todoroki, Itsuka Kendo, Mashirao Ojiro, Pony Tsunotori, Ibara Shiozaki, Jurota Shishida, Hiryu Rin, Juzo Honenuki, Kosei Tsuburaba, Sen Kaibara, Shihai Kuroiro, Kinoko Komori, Mezo Shoji, Setsuna Tokage, Togaru Kamakiri, Reiko Yanagi, Yosetsu Awase and Camie Utsushimi. I think that's everyone,' she thought, listing down the names of the twenty students from their sister class.
"Alright, is that everyone?" Shota asked loudly.
"All members of class one-A are present sir," Momo responded with a nod.
"Good, that just leaves two," Shota said.
Ah, right, Izumi almost forgot that Chiharu and Mei were coming along to the camp as well.
"Sorry we're late!" Chiharu shouted as she, Mei and Isaac rushed over to them, carrying their stuff.
"Mei, is Isaac on aeroplane mode?" Kaina asked.
"Yep!" Mei replied with a smile.
"Good," Kaina said before addressing the rest of the two classes. "Now, as you all know, we've had a bit of a villain problem this year. So, to try and avoid another villain attack, we're taking steps to avoid being tracked by them".
"That means no phones or electronic devices," Shota added. "Anything that has Wi-Fi, internet, or can be controlled by a phone you will not be permitted to bring with you. As you have all already been told, but if any of you have brought anything that has not been authorised, you will be kicked out of the camp and sent home!".
"Sir!" Tenya said, raising his hand. "Where are the buses? Aren't we using them to get to the campsite?".
"Oh, those," Shota replied, glancing off to the side. "We're not using them".
"What?" most of the gathered students gasped.
"But then, how are we supposed to get to the camp without them?" Tsu asked.
"That's a simple question," Kaina replied before turning to Blossom. "Blossom, you're up".
Blossom nodded before a massive swarm of black cherry blossoms swarmed around them. Everyone let out gasps of surprise before they were fully enveloped by the cherry blossom.
The swarm of cherry blossoms rapidly swarmed into the air, carrying the teachers and students off towards the campsite.
Of course, this did not go unnoticed. From the nearby treeline, Yuga peeked out from behind a tree, an annoyed look on his face.
He cursed, in French of course. This was not good. After the difficult operation that was planting trackers on all of the school buses, his hard work was all for nought. Because someone decided not to use them!
Damn that Blossom. Why the hell do the heroes have a transportation quirk as well?
It didn't matter, he failed. Without those trackers, the League will have no idea where the camp is taking place and will be unable to attack it.
Looks like Tomura will have to get his revenge at a later date.
It took the swarm of cherry blossoms about half an hour to reach the campsite, well the 'rest stop' anyway. Safely depositing the forty-two students and two teachers on the side of the road.
"Wow, that was a surprisingly comfortable ride," Tetsutetsu remarked.
"Where the hell are we?" Yosetsu asked, looking around.
Izumi looked around as well. The first thing she noticed was that Blossom, Inko, Eri and their luggage were nowhere to be seen, and the swarm of cherry blossoms was flying off over a large forest. 'Why weren't they deposited here?' she wondered.
"I smell a logical ruse," En remarked inside of her head.
Izumi nodded before she looked around and observed their surroundings. If Eri and Inko weren't deposited here then they must be heading off to the camp. Which means they were close to it.
They were by the side of a road overlooking a massive forest, on the other side was a large cliff. So no clues as to where they were. And two busses with forty girls wearing Seiai Academy uniforms standing outside of them
Wait what?
Izumi took a double take. What the hell were forty students from Seiai Academy doing here? Wasn't this UA's summer camp? Why were they here?
And she recognised two of them.
"Wow, this must really be a small world," Rolls remarked, a rather surprised look on her own and Saiko's faces.
"We really have to stop meeting up like this out of the blue," Saiko said with a sigh.
"Yeah, guess so," Izumi said, rubbing the back of her head. This was rather awkward.
Looking over the Seiai students, Izumi noticed that they had been separated into two groups, probably their homeroom classes. Seiai 2-A and Seiai 2-B.
Rolls and Saiko were in Seiai 2-A, their homeroom teacher standing behind them. Izumi recognised the woman as the Armoury Hero Yoko. She was a tall woman with thigh-length straight red hair, golden yellow eyes, and had a slender, bodacious form. She wore a light striped shirt with white sleeves and puffed shoulders, a green tie, a red-brown pencil skirt, high heels, and had glasses over her eyes.
The only reason she wasn't fangirling at seeing her was because of something else. The girls of Seiai 2-B, who were, well-.
'Why are they all so big!' Izumi thought, blushing heavily as she remarked on the size of the Seiai 2-B girls' bahonkas. Seriously, out of all twenty 2-B students, only two of them looked like they didn't have a pair of melons on their chest.
And then there was who she assumed was their homeroom teacher, whose bust was just as big. She was a tall woman with purple hair tied into a ponytail, and red eyes covered by a pair of glasses. She wore a white dress shirt that revealed a lot of cleavage and part of a black camisole underneath it. Tight black skirt with black stockings, and black high heels.
Izumi did not recognise her. She knew she was a hero, she just didn't know which hero she was. So she was probably an underground hero.
Still, how the hell did they not have back issues?
"Yomako," Kaina said with a smile. "Been a while".
"Indeed it has, Kaina," Yoko, or Yomako as Kaina had called her, replied with a smile.
Izumi blinked. So those two knew each other? made sense when she thought about it, the two were known for being snipers, so there was a high probability that they were friends.
"So, is this a rest stop or, or what?" Denki asked, looking around nervously.
"No," Shota replied. "This is the campsite. For all eighty-two of you".
A loud what came from all eighty-two students. Eighty hero course students, plus two dual course students, from two different schools sharing a single campsite. That was just a recipe for both disaster and chaos.
Wait, if there were Seiai students here, then that would mean-.
"Rock on with these sparkling gazes!".
"Stingingly cute and catlike!".
"Wild, Wild Pussycats!!!" Mandalay and Pixie-Bob sang as they performed their 'Hero Introduction', complete with hero poses. Their intern, Shuichi, was standing nearby.
Izumi, of course, beamed at the sight of them. Despite seeing it at the UA sports festival, it was always cool to see the Wild, Wild Pussycats introduction.
"So wait, all eighty-two of us are staying at their headquarters?" Ochaco asked, looking surprised.
"I thought this was just going to be us?" one of the Seiai 2-A students, a girl with long light brown hair and dark blue eyes, asked.
"It was, originally," Mandalay replied. "We just agreed to host UA's first years as well at the last minute".
Minoru gulped. "I am not going to survive the next two weeks".
Mandalay nodded. "Yep. We've had bigger groups before, so this is nothing new," she said before she pointed at the mountain in the distance "Our headquarters is right at the base of that mountain over there!".
Izumi gulped. That was a long distance to cover, and they had to climb down to the forest below first. She suddenly looked down at the ground, noticing that they were standing on soil, whilst Pixie-Bob was present.
Fuck.
The moment Danger Sense pinged Izumi leapt onto Ochaco, closed her eyes, and held onto the girlfriend for dear life. With good reason, as moments later the ground violently shifted beneath their feet, dragging the eighty students down the cliff and into the forest below.
"FOUL!".
Of course, thanks to Ochaco, she and Izumi were left floating over the devastation.
Ochaco levelled a glare towards Pixie-Bob before floating down the cliff, holding Izumi tightly.
"I think someone hates you now," Shuichi remarked.
"Yeah, maybe I should have given Izumi a slight warning ahead of time," Pixie-Bob said. "Hound Dog did say that she had a fear of heights and falling".
"Will she be ok?" Mandalay asked.
"Hopefully. She's got Ochaco looking after her," Kaina replied. "I just hope she gets over it before she graduates. Fears like those can easily hold her back".
"What's wrong with her?" the homeroom teacher for Seiai 2-B, Suzune, asked. "We might be able to help her if we know she developed her fear".
"Let's just say she was involved in something that she's still recovering from," Kaina replied with a frown. "Can't say more due to how traumatic it is for her. We're working to help her get over that fear, but it's slow going. Hound Dog says that it's like something holding her back, but he's not sure what it is. It's going to be a long time before she's fully recovered, and has gotten over her fears. We're not going to be able to do much for her here".
"Well, as long as we don't have a repeat of this, she should be fine," Shota said, pointing at the landslide Pixie-Bob had made.
Pixie-Bob sighed. "Yeah, sorry about that. Should have checked UA's student files more closely," she said as Mandalay walked over to the edge of the cliff.
"You have three hours to reach the camp!" Mandalay shouted down at the students below. "Kittens who don't get there by twelve-thirty don't get lunch!".
Shuichi looked down at his watch. "So, how much of a headstart do they have?".
"About an hour and a half," Mandalay replied as she walked back over. "Should give them plenty of time to run. Those kittens won't know what hit them".
"You know, I kind of feel sorry for them," Shuichi remarked. "She won't hold back you know".
"She's a hero," Kaina said. "When lives are on the line, we can't afford to hold back. The students need to be aware of that".
"But sending her after them," Shuichi gulped. "Isn't that a bit, overkill?".
"Well, sometimes you have to beat the lesson into them," Suzune replied with a shrug. Her friend was always a bit punch-happy.
Shuichi sighed. He was really glad he was an intern and not a hero course student because he did not want to face what those students were about to go up against.
Hopefully, Mandalay and Pixie-Bob will be distracted during the camp. God knows he needs some time off being 'seduced' by them.
"Don't be too sure about that~".
'Oh fuck me!'.
"Later".
Shuichi promptly fainted. His prayers for help unanswered.
Will his torment ever end?
"So, who's the cute lizard boy?" Suzune asked.
Apparently not.
Chapter 66: The Beast/Hell forest
"Can I open my eyes now?" Izumi asked, still holding onto Ochaco for dear life, eyes closed shut.
"No," her girlfriend replied as they floated down slowly. "But I'll tell you when you can".
"Ok," Izumi said, waiting for Ochaco to give her the all-clear.
Ochaco meanwhile was downright pissed off. The teachers knew Izumi had panic attacks when she fell from a great height. Yes, they were working to help her overcome them, but throwing her off the side of a cliff wasn't going to help her, if anything it'll make getting through the forest harder.
Words were going to be had once they reached the campsite.
Hut hey, on the plus side she's sharing the campsite with Rolls, so that was a plus.
It didn't take them long to float down to the ground safely, landing just as the other students were clambering out of the dirt.
"Alright! Anyone not dead sound off!" Setsuna's head, which wasn't attached to her body, shouted. "Also has anyone seen my body anywhere?".
There was a grumble of groans and moans as seventy-nine heroe students from two different schools clambered onto their feet.
"Who shouted foul?" Hiryu asked as he brushed himself off.
"That would be me," Setsuna replied.
"Well, it sure is different from last year," a Seiai girl with tanned skin and dark brown hair that was tied in a long ponytail, remarked as she got up.
"At least we shouldn't have to fight each other in our swimsuits whilst over a pit of melted marshmallows," Saiko said as she got out a thermos flask. "Making this armoured was the best decision I ever had".
"Pardon!" Minoru gagged. What the hell did these girls have to do during their previous camp?
Izumi blushed heavily. That was not an image she wanted in her head.
"You have three hours to get through the Beast Frest and reach the camp!" Mandalay shouted down from above. "Kittens who don't get there by twelve-thirty don't get lunch!".
Ochaco glared up at her. "I am going to have words with them once we get to the camp".
"Ur, Ochaco, is it ok to let go now?" Izumi asked shakily.
"It is," Ochaco replied gently.
Izumi nodded before she slowly allowed herself to put her feet down on the ground and let go of Ochaco. Once she was sure she was standing on solid ground, she slowly opened her eyes.
"You ok?" Ochaco asked, a concerned look on her face.
"I-I'm fine," Izumi replied shakily. "But, Danger Sense has become unreliable for the moment. It's like the very ground beneath us is a threat to us. But, with Pixy-Bob around, that's to be expected-" she said before there was a loud explosion, and a part of the ground blew up.
"I am really getting tired of these fucking logical ruses!" Katsuki shouted, one hand sparking with small explosions whilst the other was around Camie, helping her stand.
Izumi shivered. Right, she almost forgot, 1-B was here as well. That meant two weeks in close proximity to Katsuki.
She's been at this camp for less than ten minutes and already she hated it here.
"Alright people, you heard the teachers!" Tenya said, chopping his arm. "We have three hours to get through this forest! I suggest we all work together to get through it".
"Izumi, do you know anything about this Beast Forest?" Hitoshi asked, knowing full well she was a hero nerd and would probably know about this place.
"No. It never came up in any documents about them," Izumi replied, shaking her head. "If anything she's got the name wrong. Their agency is supposed to be located in the Endo forest, not Beast for-AHH" she yelped as someone grabbed her from behind and started to grope her breasts.
And it wasn't Mei.
The woman behind her had long, soft blonde hair with a blue headband that had a ribbon on each side of her head, and bright blue eyes. There was a rather perverted expression on her face.
The girl giggled. "Squishy squishy, squishy squishy," she said in a perverted tone. "So many new boobs to squish!".
Ochaco, reacted to the pervert accordingly, and punched the girl in the face. Hard. Sending her flying over towards the Seiai girls. "Back off creep!" she fumed, absolutely DONE with today.
"Wow," Tsu gasped as most of the class's jaws dropped. "Who knew that Ochaco also had a feral side".
"I feel like stabbing that girl," Himiko remarked, a cross look on her face and brandishing a knife. She did not like the idea of a non-Snuggle Squad™ member getting handsy with their cinnamon roll.
Minoru covered his face with his hands. He was not going to survive the next two weeks.
A Seiai girl with long, straight, refined-looking black hair that went down to her thighs, and dark blue eyes, sighed. "Five minutes, Katsuragi. Can you keep your hands to yourself for five minutes!"
Another Seiai girl with light brown hair tied into two thin bun-things on the sides, and dark green eyes with glasses over them, sighed. "And here I hoped that we could get through this without antagonising the UA students".
"Izumi, you ok?" Ochaco asked with a very worried look on her face.
"I-I'm fine," Izumi replied shakily. Honestly, she preferred Mei's 'measuring' to whatever the hell that was. "I was just, caught off-guard".
"You know, I'm annoyed that Danger Sense didn't go off for that," Hikage remarked, sounding annoyed.
"Second, please stop planning murder!" the Third user said. "You've got your murder-planning face on".
"I'm not planning murder," the Seconds user replied calmly. "I'm just planning to maim or seriously injure someone. If she dies because of it then it's her own fault for not seeking medical attention".
Izumi sighed. And now the vestiges were planning to murder someone. Great. Fantastic. Just what she needed. Also, why does Second keep getting so protective of her?
"OK people!" Saiko said loudly, using a megaphone Izumi had no idea where she got it from. "I know we may be off to a rocky start but we've got bigger things to worry about, like getting through this fores-!" she said before there was a loud, bone-shattering roar.
"What the fuck was that?" Yosetsu asked, looking around.
There was another roar, followed by the sound of a tree falling down. The gathered students then watched as several sinister beasts walked out of the forest. Each one's body was made up of soil and stone, with grass and other plant life covering parts of them.
"Pixy-Bob's earth constructs!" Izumi gasped. "I didn't know that she could make so many!"
"Oh, they're hers!" Ochaco grinned before she lept over to a nearby fallen tree, removed its gravity, and proceeded to use it like a baseball bat to smash several of them in a single swing. "I am going to enjoy breaking these!".
"And she's gone feral as well," Durandal remarked. "I'm starting to think it's contagious".
Izumi blushed. Why did she find this hot?
Ochaco grinned as she proceeded to smash up the remaining constructs. "Well, that was-" she remarked before the constructs all reformed around her. "-easy," she said before sighing. "I really hate that woman".
One of the earth constructs pounced towards Ochaco, only for it to be kicked into dust by Izumi. "She's reconstructing her constructs! We'll have to keep moving, otherwise they'll overwhelm us!".
"You heard the vice-pres! Let's go!" Mina shouted before she and the rest of 1-A, plus Mei and Chiharu, charged into the forest.
"Wait, vice-pres?" Katsuki said looking confused. Wondering how Izumi became the vice president of class 1-A. He shook his head. "Damn it," he growled before he blasted himself into the forest, quickly followed by the rest of 1-B.
"Well, what are you girls standing around for?" Rolls asked, looking at the shocked Seiai 2-A and 2-B girls. "We're second years! Get moving!".
The Seiai girls quickly got moving and chased after the UA students, catching up quickly and joining the fight against the earth constructs.
It was almost shocking how many constructs Pixy Bob was sending against them. And she was reforming them after they were destroyed.
Izumi was right, they had to keep moving otherwise they would be bogged down fighting these things. Luckily, they had their quirks to help them.
Tenya, Eijiro, Koji, Toru, Denki, Hitoshi and Rikido were kicking or punching them apart, with Koji summoning a few animals to help. Neito was helping out as well by copying Eijiro's quirk. Inasa was smashing them apart with his tornadoes, which had the added benefit of spreading their remains out and making it harder for them to reform. Minoru and Hanta were using their quicks to stick the constructs in place, with a few of Minoru's balls having detonators thanks to Momo. Mina was just melting them with her acid whilst Kyoka was using soundwaves to break them apart. Fumikage was using Dark Shadow to smash them up, the darkness caused by the forest canopy making it excellent conditions for the living shadow. And Yui was just shrinking the constructs and stepping on them. It was simple but effective.
The Snuggle Squad™ were doing well as well. Tsu was jumping from tree to tree using her long tongue to grab the smaller constructs and smash them against the ground. Himiko was stabbing all the things, Momo was making anything that they needed, Mei had opted to wear Isaac and was one of those energy stun guns that looked like the Dead Space Plasma Cutter to cut the constructs up (Izumi was still waiting for permission to use the one Mei made for her), and Chiharu, whilst she couldn't use her mines, thanks to her Chiharu flattener, could still blast the constructs apart with explosions.
Ochaco, meanwhile, was still welding the fallen tree she had picked up earlier, quoting 'I'm going to use this to ask some questions from our teachers'. A sentence filled Izumi with both dread and arousal.
Why was her girlfriend so hot when she was terrifying?
Izumi meanwhile was using One for All at 12 percent and was using her now perfected fighting style, Shoot Style, to good use, kicking the constructs apart. Ok, so Danger Sense was useless due to it telling her the very ground she was running across was her enemy, but the other quirks she had were still usable. Save for Blackwhip as she still hadn't gotten that one under control.
Durandal meanwhile had pulled out the chainsaw and was going full Bladewolf on the constructs, even if Izumi didn't quite get the reference.
The 1-B students were pulling their weight as well, smashing up constructs left and right. As were the Seiai girls, but they were doing far more damage to the constructs numbers and doing so much faster than the UA students. As expected from second years. They've had a good year's more training than them.
They even had weapons with them, which included a slingshot, bow, hammers, spears, oddly designed pistols, a rifle, large gauntlets, armoured boots (which were worn by the pervy girl), scythes, some odd-looking robot thing, a freaking bucket and frying pan, and a hell of a lot of swords. Seriously, one of them was holding six swords in her hands for crying out loud!
Wait, where did the Seiai girls get their weapons from? They weren't carrying them when they left the bus and Momo certainly didn't make them.
Well, wherever they got them from, they sure knew how to use them, as they were tearing through constructs like something straight out of a hack-and-slash game. A few of them were using their quirks, but most of them were using weapons.
Most of Seiai's hero course students didn't have combat-oriented quirks, but a few did. Rolls was just ripping the constructs apart with her MIND! Another girl was using small amounts of ice to break them apart, another had turned herself into a horse, and another was making holograms of people to distract the constructs, among other quirks that were being used.
Izumi was going to have fun analysing the Seiai girls' quirks. But later, once they were out of this forest, and Danger Sense stopped ringing inside of her head!
Meanwhile, with the teachers.
"Well, they appear to be making good time," Ragdoll remarked whilst at the safety of the camp, using her quirk to keep track of all eighty-two students. Unfortunately, her quirk could not help her keep track of the two robots that were with them, but they were probably close to their owners. "If they keep this pace up they should be here in about four to five hours".
Mandalay sighed. "That's still too slow. We need to speed them up a bit".
Shuichi looked down at his watch. "Hour and a half is up. That means she's heading after them now".
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Yomako asked. "Those two aren't going to go easy on them".
"Villains are getting stronger and bolder," Shota replied. "And like it or not, All Might's retirement is coming, sooner rather than later. We need to prepare these kids for the hell that is to come with his retirement. They need to be the best, the greatest even. To do that, we need to put them through hell".
"Besides, our first years survived Gran Torino," Kaina added. "They can survive those two".
"I'm sorry, who's Gran Torino?" Yomako asked.
"Don't ask," the four members of the Wild, Wild Pussycats plus Kaina and Shota replied.
Meanwhile, back at the road the students were thrown off of. The homeroom teacher for Seiai class 2-B, Suzune, stood at the side of the road overlooking the forest.
Her phone suddenly started to beep. "Looks like their head start is up," she remarked as someone landed beside her, cracking the ground beneath them.
"Indeed it is," a masculine-sounding female voice said beside her. "Let's show these students a thing or two".
Back in the forest, the eighty-two students had made good progress. They were about a third of the way through and were cutting through Pixy-Bob's constructs like they were paper.
Things were looking up, up until Izumi suddenly cried out as she collapsed onto the floor, clutching her head.
"Izumi!" Ochaco cried out as she rushed over to her girlfriend to see if she was okay. "What's wrong?".
"Somethings coming!" Izumi cried, panting heavily. Danger Sense was going off like a tornado siren. Just like it had gone off against Torino. "Something strong and powerful is chasing after us".
Several of the UA students shuddered. "Please tell me it's not Gran Torino?" Mina begged.
Izumi shook her head. "I can't tell who it is, but the feeling is almost like his. I don't know how far away it is, but it's approaching us fast".
The UA students did not even need to be told to run. Sprinting as fast as their legs could carry them. They did not know if it was Gran Torino chasing them, but if Izumi said that it was as dangerous as him, then they didn't want to face them.
"Fucking double time it people!" Katsuki shouted, really not wanting to play another game of 'dodge the angry old guy' again. Especially now that he was no longer old.
Ochaco dropped the tree she had been holding and picked up Izumi, using her quirk to make her lighter to carry. She then rushed off after the others, carrying Izumi in a bridal carry.
For Izumi, however, her head was killing her. Feeling the constant danger from the ground beneath them for the past hour and a half was not helping her head, not helped by the stunt their teachers pulled on them earlier. And with the sudden appearance of this new, dangerous threat, it was just too much for her to handle. She could hardly think.
Sometimes she wished Danger Sense had an off switch.
The Seiai girls meanwhile just looked on in confusion as the UA students rushed off as if the Devil himself was chasing them.
"Does anyone know who this Gran Torino is?" a well-endowed girl with short and rough brown hair with braids going down each side, and a blue eye, the other being covered by an eyepatch, asked, speaking with a Hungarian accent.
"No," Saiko replied. "But I have a feeling that I don't want to know who they are, seeing that they apparently put the fear of god into two UA hero course classes".
The rest of the Seiai girls simply nodded in agreement before booking it after the UA students. None of them wanted to meet either this Gran Torino or whoever it was who was chasing after them.
The next two hours or so were spent running for their goddamn lives from an approaching unknown horror. The students, knowing that there was something utterly terrifying chasing after them, stormed through the forest. Any of the earth constructs they came across were bypassed and ignored, only attacking the constructs that could not be avoided.
None of them, not even Durandal wanted to be around when the threat caught up with them.
With the threat of imminent death fast approaching them from behind, they were very well motivated to move much, much faster than they were previously moving at.
Unfortunately, thanks to Danger Sense constantly blaring inside of her head, Izumi was practically out. She wasn't unconscious, the pain in her head prevented that, but she was practically unable to do anything.
At least she had a caring girlfriend to carry her.
"We're close!" Rolls shouted. "I can sense the minds of the teachers! If we keep this pace up we should be there in ten minutes".
"Great!" a Seiai girl who had short, messy, dark blue hair and a welding mask over her face, remarked.
"Don't jinx it!" Minoru shouted.
"Oh come on, what's the worst that cou-" the Seiai girl remarked before she was promptly hit by a tree and sent flying into several more students, knocking them all down.
"I said don't jinx it!" Minoru screamed as another tree flew over him, knocking down several more students and putting a dead stop to their progress.
"What the fuck!" Katsuki shouted as he blasted a tree apart, only to get a punch to the face for his troubles. Sending him flying backwards into a tree. "Who the fuck did that?! I'll Ki-" he fumed before he froze, freezing up at the sight of the person who just punched him.
Several other students looked up and gulped. Standing amongst the remains of several smashed-up trees was a muscular woman with long, flowing black hair and reddish-brown eyes, as well as the owner of the largest bust in the room. She was wearing a tattered navy blue gakuran and matching coloured cap with metal epaulets, a rope belt around her waist and tengu-geta on her feet. Her rather large-sized bosom was wrapped up in a sarashi, with bandages wrapped around her hands and wrists.
"So, you're the next generation of heroes," the woman said, her voice lacking any form of femininity. "Let's see what you've got then".
All eighty-two students gulped. Everyone knew who Japan's current top ten was, and this woman was among their number. The Fighting Hero, Daidōji. Japan's number six hero.
Well, shit.
"Well, at least it can't get any worse," Denki remarked nervously before Minoru shoved one of his sticky balls into his mouth.
"What did I say about jinxing it!" the short boy shouted before, with a loud slash, every tree around them was felled with a single clean cut.
"Well, aren't you lot foolish," a female voice said before another woman landed beside Daidōji.
She was a tall woman with purple hair tied into a ponytail and red eyes. She wore a tight sleeveless navy blue shirt that didn't cover her stomach, a face mask, a red triangular-shaped scarf, baggy red pants with knee-length black high-top sandals, and grey cloth wrapped around her waist.
She was also holding two rings, each one had three sharp blades on them.
"Staying still when a new enemy approaches. Not something you'll want to be doing out in the field," the woman continued, brandishing her blades. "Let's correct that".
Had Izumi's head not currently felt like it had several people hammering nails into it, she might have been able to recognize who the newcomer was. Unfortunately, she did not, so her identity remained a secret to the UA students. The Seiai students, however, knew who she was very well, and were downright terrified. Especially the 2-B girls, because she was their homeroom teacher. The Shinobi Hero, Rin.
An unfortunate member of the last homeroom class Gran Torino ever taught before retiring.
Durandal said it best. "We are totally fucked!".
Fifteen minutes later.
"Well, great job in getting here within the time limit," Mandalay said, trying to keep a positive attitude despite the fact that all eighty-two students were currency lying on the ground, their uniforms in ruins.
It did not help that the only reason why they got here within the time limit was that they had practically been thrown/punched there, and were now looking worse for wear. Even Rolls, who had OP please nerf psychic powers, had her arse handed to her by the two pro-heroes.
There were only so many trees she could stop with her mind after all.
Maybe getting a member of the top ten to help out may have been a bad idea.
There were only two people who had managed to escape the 'slaughter'. Izumi and Ochaco. And they only escaped because Ochaco practically yeeted them both out of there, with the gravity girl currently glaring a hole into Pixie-Bob's soul.
Izumi was glaring at the hero as well, but due to how draining the past three hours were, her's wasn't as terrifying as Ochaco's.
At least Danger Sense wasn't going off any more. Spending the past three or so hours with it blaring inside of her head was emotionally exhausting.
Hitoshi slowly raised his head out of the dirt pile he was half buried in. "Who, in their right mind, thought it would be a good idea to have a member of the top ten chase us through that forest?" he asked, giving them a tired look that almost mirrored Shota.
"All Might," Kaina replied with a frown.
"I helped," Rin added.
"Not helping your case," Izumi growled before she pointed at Pixie-Bob. "You are now my least favourite member of the Wild, Wild Pussycats".
Pixie-Bob deflated. She knew the backlash was going to be bad but she didn't think it was going to be this bad! She really should have warned Izumi ahead of time, maybe had the UA students start at the bottom of the cliff. Still, why did she look so grumpy and irritated?
"Well, you got here earlier than expected," Shota said. "Normally we would have you start training after lunch," he said, pausing when all eighty-two students glared daggers at him. "But seeing how, rough, the journey here was, we'll give you the rest of the day off. So, you're all dismissed".
None of the students moved, or even acknowledged what the teachers had said. instead opting to stay where they lay.
Shota looked at them with a confused look on his face. "I ur, said you are dismissed".
"Do any of us look like we are capable of moving?" Sen asked, his head half buried in the ground.
"I can not feel any part of my body right now," Setsuna groaned, her body scattered across the place. She just did not have the strength to reform herself.
Kaina facepalmed. This had been one big mistake.
Later that day. After the students had regained the ability to use their legs.
Izumi let out a content sigh as she sat down in the warm bath. The warm water relaxed her tense and bruised muscles.
She didn't know that the Pussycats had an onsen, but apparently, they did, and they were allowed to use it.
There were no complaints.
Yes, she was in a bath with over fifty other girls, but she was just too exhausted to be embarrassed by being around so many naked girls.
At least the boob-groping pervy girl wasn't trying to grope her again. The UA and Seiai girls were keeping to opposite sides of the bath. Mainly because very few members of each group knew members from the other. But also to prevent a repeat of what happened back at the cliff.
None of the UA girls wanted to be groped by that pervy girl, especially those from 1-A. Even with Minoru promising to change his ways, they did not want to deal with that shit. Especially from someone worse than the smaller boy. What made it worse was that it was a fellow girl doing it.
Not at all fun.
"So, what do you think we'll be doing tomorrow?" Toru wondered, an indentation in the water being the only sign that she was present.
"No questions please," Izumi groaned. "Head hurt. Body hurt. Just want to relax. Worry about tomorrow later".
"Is Izumi ok?" Momo asked, a concerned look on her face. "She didn't seem to be doing so well after she sensed that we were being chased".
"I think her Danger Sense technique took too much out of her," Ochaco replied. "We were under constant attack for several hours by earth constructs. The very ground around us was a threat to us, not helped by having two heroes, one of whom was a member of the top ten, chasing us. It probably overwhelmed her".
Izumi groaned in agreement. Her head still hurt despite Danger Sense not having gone off for the past few hours.
"Well, at least that perv from Seiai isn't trying to grope us," Kyoka remarked. "God. Why is that girl like that?".
"It's because she gets stronger by groping the bodies of other girls," the voice of Rolls spoke into their minds.
"What the fuck!" Mina gasped as she looked around for the source of the voice.
"Who was that?" Toru asked.
"That would be Rolls," Tsu replied. "She's got telepathic abilities like Eri, ribbit".
"Yep," Rolls spoke into their minds. "Before you ask, I'm not related to her. I'm British, she's fully Japanese. Anyway, I would like to apologise for the actions of one of the members of my sister class. Katsuragi's rather handsy. Not helped by the fact she gets stronger by groping other women. We've long since gotten used to it, but, you lot haven't, so Ochaco's reaction is compleatly justified".
"Just promise me that she won't do that to Izumi again," Ochaco spoke to Rolls privately. "I will throw her into orbit if she so much as touches her again".
"No promises," Rolls replied privately.
"Well that's good to hear," Mei said. She didn't like the idea of someone else 'groping' her friends. It's fine when she does it since she's measuring them, but that other girl looked like she was doing it for pleasure, and enjoying it far too much for the inventors liking.
"So, Rolls is a telepath like Eri, right?" Kyoka asked. "Can't she help her with her telepathy?".
"I can, and I will," Rolls replied. "Her powers are strong but undisciplined. She lacks the training required to properly control her powers. Telepathy and telekinesis may not seem like much, but, for a young mind like Eri's who's missed out on the basic training she should have received when her powers first manifested, she's dangerous".
"She has a point, Eri does seem, undisciplined," Chiharu said. "Everything rattles whenever she gets worried or scared. And she's practically always reading everyone's mind".
"Which is why she needs training," Rolls said. "Don't worry, I'm more than happy to help her. It's the least I can do".
Ochaco sighed, glad that Rolls had agreed to help Eri. and herself. There was so much about herself and her abilities that she still wanted to learn. Having Rolls her in person will speed that process up. Maybe she can finally tell Izumi the truth about her. Shouldn't be too hard, she already knows about aliens thanks to Melissa. Explaining how she's a hybrid of one of the most numerous and powerful species in both the Abyss Cloud, Odysseus Cloud and all the stars between.
"So ur, small question, where's Durandal and Isaac?" Mina asked, looking around.
"Up on the wall keeping an eye on the boys so that they don't peek at us," Mei replied, pointing up at the wall.
Indeed the two robots were up in the space between the two barth areas, keeping an eye on the boys whilst the person who was supposed to be keeping their eyes on them, Kota, whom Mandalay was still looking after since his parents were still in the hospital, played something on his phone with Eri.
Durandal would have preferred to have kept an eye on the Seiai girls, one of them did grope Izumi after all. But the two groups seemed to be keeping their distance from each other. Plus Izumi was surrounded by the rest of the 1-A girls, and was adequately protected, so he was keeping watch on the boys.
Minoru had looked up at them a few times. Durandal made sure to glare at him each time, causing the boy to shiver.
He wasn't taking any chances, not after that stunt that pervy Seiai girl made.
"So, Kota," Eri said. "How are your parents doing?".
"They're still in the hospital. But they're recovering," Kota replied. "It'll be a few more weeks before they're discharged".
"I hope they're discharged soon," Eri said. "I want to see them in action. They sound really cool".
"Of course they're cool, their heroes!" Kota said with a strained smile. "All heroes are cool. Well, mostly. There are some uncool ones though. But my parents are among the cool ones".
"You don't seem so sure about that," Eri said, looking worried. Head notch to the side. The voices around Kota's head telling her a different story.
Kota frowned and lowered his head. "My parents, they just-. They just keep getting hurt. I know each time they were saved, but, what if the next time something like that happens, and no mysterious individuals are around to save them? What if next time they die? I don't want to lose them".
Durandal lowered his head. So he was scared of losing his parents. He could understand why. They barely survived two mass murders, Muscular and Moonfish, and only because someone helped them. There was no guarantee that one of these mysterious saviours would be there the next time it happened.
Next time might be their last.
"You know, creator Mei might be able to make-" Isaac said before Durandal stopped them.
"Isaac," the Alpha-level AI said. "Let me handle this. You maintain observation mode".
"Understood, Father," Isaac replied.
"Good," Durandal said before turning to Kota. "Now kid-" he said before he finally realised what Isaac had said and turned towards the other robot. "Father?".
"Mother told me that my body was designed after yours, and a lot of the tech came from you," Isaac replied. "So, by that logic, you are my father".
Durandal sighed. "I am going to have words with your creator after this," he groaned. Not in any way shape or form ready to accept being a father. "Anyway, Kota. I know that you're worried about your parents, maybe even angry at them. You have a right to be. They are your parents. They shouldn't be scaring you like that," he said. "But they are also heroes. They have a duty to protect the lives of everyone around them. But, being a hero is a dangerous job. Heroes get hurt all the time. And sometimes, they die. It's something all heroes, and their families, need to be prepared for. Believe me, it hurts, knowing that the next time you see your loved ones could be the last, but you can't bottle these things up. Talk to them about it, and let them know how you feel. It'll help, not just you, but your parents as well. Don't let it fester, otherwise, it'll consume you".
"Isn't that what you keep telling big sis to do?" Eri asked,
Durandal nodded. "Yep. Even though there are some things that she still doesn't tell anyone about, it's like I find out a new thing that she's been bottling up every week".
"Wait, you can hear her?" Kota asked, looking up at him.
Durandal nodded. "Yep. Not sure how though, being an AI and all that. She has quite the interesting quirk. Telepathy, telekinesis, rewind. Quite powerful".
Kota nodded. "My aunty, Shino, said that her quirk doesn't work on robots. She said that their brains are incapable of receiving her messages".
"Indeed," Durandal said. "Even a positronic brain is immune to telepathy. It's all software and hardware, not wetware like a human brain. Maybe Eri's telepathy has a bit of technopath in it. I don't know. But it's powerful. Her quirk, as complicated as it is, is very powerful, and dangerous. She can throw someone across a room, break their bones, ravage their mind, or revert them into primordial soup. Promise me you'll keep an eye on her, ok? If she loses control, get out of there, call for help, and let a teacher deal with it".
"He's right," Eri added. "My cu-. My quirk, I can't control it very well. And I don't want to hurt you with it".
Kota nodded. "Don't worry, I'll protect her". Eri was his friend, and he wanted to help her. It's what heroes do, help people. She's been hurt too much already.
Durandal nodded before he focused back on the male students below, making sure that they didn't try to peek at the girls.
Hopefully, tomorrow will be a lot less hectic and stressful.