Chapter 7 - Quirk Training

Time Skip (2 years)

It's finally time. I've spent the last 2 years training. My body no longer looks like your average 5-year-old's. Actually, I think there was a kid back in my old world that was a bodybuilder at my age. If that kid was here, he'd fit in easily with a nice physical enhancer quirk. Anyways, I'm currently in a forest, and I'm going to try to use my quirk. I live in Nagano, so I'm pretty sure this is the forest governed by the Wild Wild Pussycats. I don't know for sure, but it shouldn't be illegal for me to be here. I remember a scene in the anime when Bakugou and Midoriya went into a forest as kids. Bakugou fell off a log and into a creek which Midoriya tried to help him out of. Because they live near me, it only makes sense for that forest they were in to be this one, so I should be fine.

I go pretty deep into the forest, making sure I go up a pleasant hill so I'll still be able to see the road and get back without getting lost. "This will do," I find a nice clearing and set down the backpack I've been carrying. It has some water, protein bars, and some electrolyte flavor packets for my water inside. "Right," I look around cautiously to make sure nothing and no one is around. I sit down and get into a criss-cross sit. Ever since I've awakened my quirk, I've been feeling this weird energy inside of me. I'm pretty sure this is what my quirk runs off of. Back when I saved Aiko, this energy had just awakened, and I only felt a small amount of it. After teleporting, it drained all of the energy instantly, and I was rendered almost useless. This energy, I think, comes from my breathing. I suck it in like oxygen, and it circulates throughout my body, going to my muscles, organs, skin, bones, and even hair.

Going back to what I did back on the bridge, I've meditated on the event a lot and tried to relive it, same for the time I cracked the outamin leg. During these times, I've noticed I was able to release the energy out of my body and somehow make it influence the world. For my teleporting stunt, I somehow deleted the space between Aiko and me. As for the outamin incident, I added onto the force of gravity around myself. In both scenarios, I was feeling extreme emotions, and with this comes the scary part of my power. Although not often, there have also been a few more times than I used my quirk without realizing. I remember a time when I really wanted a candy bar but my dad said no. I tried to ignore the idea, but when we walked out, I found the candy bar in my pocket. 'If I can't learn to control my emotions better than I already have, I could accidentally hurt someone.' I breathe out a sigh to release the tension building up while thinking about the topic. 'If any other kid like Bakugou or someone got this quirk, it could've been a real hazard.'

I stop thinking about what-ifs and focus on my power. I try to do something simple, just push the energy outside my body. Slowly I manipulate the energy inside myself to gather to my fingertips. I then slowly start pushing out this energy through my fingertips and open my eyes to see what's happening. Purplish translucent energy is seen floating above my hand. It's a bit sporadic and untamed, but I put in some effort to form it into a ball, and it gives way to my will.

I look up towards a tree a few meters away from me. I bring my hand up and point it at the tree. I brace myself for some recoil and send the energy ball towards the tree. As it gets away from me, I can feel some of my energy sap away from me. It's not as tiring as last time, but still noticeable. 'Probably because I didn't expel all the energy like how I did when teleporting. As for the gravity thing, the energy was only spread out around me in close proximity; that's probably why I didn't notice any energy leaving me at the time.' The ball flies forward and comes in contact with the tree, I watch as the ball sinks into the tree, and I watch the outside of the trunk blast away from the energy ball. 'HOLY CRAP!' The ball smashes through the tree, sending wood fragments flying about. It's not done. However, I notice that the energy has dissipated greatly. Still, It continues to fly forward for another few meters before slowly dispersing and fading away. "That was loud," I'm still a little shocked by the destructive power of my quirk, definitely the right idea for me to have it than some other kid. "Right," I pull out a notebook and a pencil from my bag and start writing down how I felt and some other things I noticed about my quirk.

~I only used about 5% of the energy inside me. It had excellent destructive power, but it was more than necessary. From now on, I should regulate it more and only go for about 3% instead. As for an energy comparison between remote teleportation and this, I can't draw any solid conclusion. I'm not sure whether or not I have a greater energy capacity than I did back then. I'm pretty sure my quirk has developed. However, if the quality or the quantity changes at all, I'll have to regulate it even more.~ I keep writing and muttering to myself. I never really had this habit before coming here. A lot of hero's complemented Izuku for taking notes on other superheroes. It made him more adaptable or something. Because of this fact, I've adopted the habit as well. Of course, I'm not going to mutter out loud to myself in public. It just helps me think and vocalize what I experienced.

'Anyways, I guess I'll try teleporting now.' I get up and get into a relaxed stance. I start feeling the energy flow inside of me and begin slowly manipulating it. Before I can try to do anything however, I hear someone ask, "Are you okay? What happened?" I open my eyes to find 2 of the Wild Wild Pussycats in front of me. They both wear the same outfit but with different colors. Each outfit consists of a sleeveless top decorated with straps and a bell. A large ruffled skirt goes down to mid thigh while a belt with a cat paw buckle rests around the waist with an electronic cat tail coming out the back. They wear large white cat gloves with retractable claws and boots lined with white fur. They also, of course, have cat ears on their heads that also double as communication devices. They seem to be very young, probably in their late teens or very early 20's. Based on the blonde hair and blue skirt, I assume that's Pixie-Bob. As for the green-haired one, I think that's Ragdoll. They both seem to be on high alert, and I presume Ragdoll is using her quirk, search, to look for anyone around.

"I'm fine. There are no bad guys here," I try to say in a reassuring tone. They seem to believe me, but Ragdoll still searches, and Pixie-bob still asks, "What happened?" "Nothing, I was just training my quirk." Ragdoll seems to look at the tree I knocked down and pokes at Pixie-bob. "You caused that?" Pixiebob looks over at the fallen tree and asks in apparent disbelief. "Yup, I'm really sorry! I didn't know it would be so loud, and I made sure no one was around before using it." I pull out my secret weapon of the puppy dog eyes to help in my mission."Please don't be mad; I don't have anywhere else to train without putting people in danger," it would be a real pain finding somewhere else to train. I don't know any other forests around here.

The pros look at each other, unsure of what to do. "Kid, you can't be using your quirk like that." Pixie-bob is still the one talking. Ragdoll is over there moving around all over the place, looking extremely animated and wanting to say something but Pixie-bob's eyes hold her back. "I know. It was my first real-time using my quirk. I was just testing how it worked, and I made sure to aim into the forest and not near the city." I point to the city down the hill, trying to show that I wasn't being reckless. Ragdoll finally steps in any kind of bends to the side to get weirdly perpendicular to Pixie and starts poking her, "Pixie, he's powerful! Didn't you use to train here when you were you-," Pixie quickly cuts her off with a chop to the noggin before she could mention her age. 'Looks like even in her late teens, Pixie is still adamant on people not commenting on how old she is.'

Ragdoll actually sinks into the ground and gets covered up to her mouth; this is Pixie's quirk, Earthflow, in action. Earthflow lets Pixie-bob manipulate any earth she comes in contact with to have a variety of effects. Pixie looks at me with a very domineering look, and I look back with a very innocent puppy dog look. We stood there for a few seconds. Pixie starts off the glare, probably adamant on me backing down. Then her eyes slowly become less and less 'menacing' before finally she breaks, "Oh, you're just so cute." She literally pounces on me, "Once you get older, you should definitely come and find me." She picks me up and rubs on me a little, 'Isn't this stranger danger? If I didn't know her like I do from the anime, I would definitely call her a perv and call the cops, heck I might still if she doesn't get off me.' She finally lets me go and releases Ragdoll while commenting, "Wow, you got some real muscles on you, don't yah? Do you have a muscle enhancement quirk or something?" Pixie has always been looking for love, for those who don't know, and it only gets worse as she grows older. I doubt she'd actually do anything to me, right now at least. I'm pretty sure she'll have no qualms when I'm 16 because she flirted with Izuku and them when they were 16. "No, it's an emitter," I say, and she looks a bit surprised at this.

"Really? Does it also give you big muscles?" She can't seem to wrap her head around the idea, so I just tell her, "No, I've been training since I was three. This is the effect of that." "Wow, you're so motivated; I didn't start training until I was 7," It's Ragdoll that talks this time. She's currently blinking like crazy and looks like she's having a seizure standing up; she was like this in the show, too, always so energetic. "Pixie, let him stay. He could be fun to play with." 'That sounds bad. What kind of playing are you thinking of ma'am?' Pixie thinks about it for a little bit, and I continue giving her the puppy dog eyes. "Fine, but you can only train in this forest, and you'll start walking further in to get to our facility to do it. Also, if we have the time, we might play with you too." 'Am I supposed to take that as training? Whatever, I might actually do that kind of playing too :3, but for now just regular training. :(' "Sure." And like that, I'll start training with the pussycats from now on, 'I'm excited to meet Tiger. He's my favorite out of the group. He even wears a fucking skirt for his hero outfit to stick with the syncronized suits, what a mad chad'

(Quick note, this character died when he was 15 and he's still in the mindset of a 15 year old)