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' Jirou Kyoka '
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"Ah, I see," Iida mused, his voice muffled by his medieval-style helmet. "I understand! Please forgive my rudeness!"
"NO SWEAT!"
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From there, the groups were to be randomly matched against each other as 'heroes' and 'villains', with the latter hiding and defending a fake nuke while the former tried to find and capture them. The groups had ten minutes to plan between exercises, then fifteen minutes to reach their objectives.
"Huh. So it's basically an expanded version of our entrance exam," Hagakure had commented to Shinsou. "Except, you know, not working alone and not going up against third years."
The first pairing pitched Group C as the heroes against Group E as the villains. The two groups were given ten minutes to strategize and otherwise prepare. In the meantime, Kyoka and the rest of the class followed All Might to an observation room lined with screens showing dozens of views of the building from a variety of angles.
Together, they watched as Shouji carried the 'nuke' to the top floor, then, after a brief discussion, Aoyama was left behind as a defender while Ashido and Shouji rushed back to the ground floor.
There, they watched as Shouji's extra arms transformed into extra sets of eyes and ears that waved through the air and Mina knelt down at the top of the first flight of stairs, pressing her hands to the floor. A moment later, smoke began to rise from the concrete.
"What's going on?" Pikachu frowned, glancing towards the group still strategizing outside.
Bakugou rolled his eyes. "She's setting traps, ya' idiot," he deadpanned. "Her quirk is Acid. Obviously they're going for a time game, using Pinky to keep them busy and Six Arms to keep a lookout while Laser Boy watches the weapon."
"VERY GOOD, BAKUGOU-SHOUNEN!" All Might beamed.
"IT'S AN EXCELLENT STRATEGY, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF EACH GROUP MEMBER'S STRENGTHS! WHEN TIME ENDS IN TWO MINUTES, WE'LL SEE THE HEROES' RESPONSE!"
The 'heroes' response', at least initially, was to send Todoroki forward. The dual-toned boy laid one hand against the wall, and Kyoka and the rest of her classmates gaped as ice swept from his fingertips, rapidly encasing the entire building.
Like, they could feel the cold from the observation room it was so intense. "T-TAKE NOTE OF T-TODOROKI-SHOUNEN'S T-TECHNIQUE, CLASS!" All Might called, shivering.
"HE USED HIS POWER IN SUCH A W-WAY THAT IT WOULD HOPEFULLY N-NEUTRALIZE THE VILLAIN TEAM WITHOUT COMPROM-M-MISING THE WEAPON ITS-SELF!"
"Yeah, on most teams that would've worked," Bakugou agreed, pointing at the screen, "but against these guys…"
Kyoka quickly saw what Blasty meant by that. Mina's acid easily melted through Todoroki's ice, and she quickly freed Shouji as well.
Aoyama had a harder time of it, but he could shoot lasers from his stomach, so he managed to get free, too. Still, the ice would slow them down, not to mention muffle sounds so that Shouji would be less effective at identifying the locations of their pursuers, so it wasn't like it had been a wasted strategy.
The heroes walked through the front door, Kirishima in the lead and Todoroki at the rear, while Yaoyorozu walked between them, pulling a strange device right out of her stomach.
"What's that supposed to be?" Sero frowned now.
"It looks like one of those spy thingies in movies," Hagakure commented. "The hearing whatchamacallits."
"She's trying to figure out where the villains are!" Uraraka realized.
"THAT'S RIGHT, URARAKA-SHOUJO! IT'S A SMART MOVE! A HERO SHOULD ALWAYS GATHER AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE WHEN WALKING INTO A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION!"
Things progressed steadily from there. Mina and Shouji continued higher and higher through the building, the latter informing the former of the heroes' whereabouts, while they continued setting traps throughout the various hallways and stairwells.
Mina got them good a couple of times, like at the first stairwell, where she weakened and carved away a portion of the cement so that it collapsed underneath them.
Kirishima managed to quickly harden his hand, driving it into the cement to keep from falling before reaching back to try to catch Yaoyorozu's hand, but he missed, so Todoroki-who hadn't yet reached that portion of the staircase-had to catch her instead.
But Todoroki's ice slowed the villains down, and almost ten minutes into the battle trial and on the third floor, Mina tried to get too ambitious-melting away an entire portion of the floor-allowing the heroes to catch up.
Instantly, Todoroki stepped forward, ice flashing out from his right foot and immobilizing Shouji and Mina in seconds.
Mina tried to use her acid to free herself, but Kirishima got there before she could. Kyoka couldn't hear them from this distance, and their voices weren't projected on the screens, but she could tell that the pink-haired girl was yelling dramatically while the redhead wrapped her and Shouji in capture tape and let Todoroki and Yaoyorozu run ahead.
Without any traps blocking their way, they reached Aoyama and the 'nuke' in no time. Another flash of ice and some tricky maneuvering from Yaoyorozu to avoid Aoyama's last-ditch attempt at firing his laser later, they had captured the weapon.
Kyoka's classmates cheered as All Might announced the hero team's victory. Kirishima used his Hardening to chip Shouji out while Mina just used her acid.
Todoroki meanwhile stepped forward to press his left hand to the ice encasing Aoyama, and it instantly transformed into steam.
"Dang, that guy has two quirks?" Sero and Pikachu gaped.
"NEXT UP, THESE GUYS!" All Might announced, holding up Group D as the heroes, and Group B as the villains. Hagakure cheered, and Iida groaned.
"It may be for training," he sighed as he, Uraraka, and Tokoyami began to make their way towards the next building, "but it still pains me to be aligned with the villains."
This fight was considerably more one-sided than the last. Uraraka had the brilliant idea of making the nuke float, then wrapped the capture tape around it and had Tokoyami's Dark Shadow attach it to the building's outer wall, out of reach from any window and just too far down to grab from the roof. With that done, the three of them took up strategic positions around the building to spy on and ambush the hero team.
Iida took Kouda down first, since his ability to control animals made him an excellent spy, and they didn't want to risk him discovering the location of the bomb too soon.
He was fast enough to zip in, snag him with the capture tape, and zip away again before the other heroes had a chance to react. After that, it was three on three.
Uraraka took down Satou, darting in when he and Ojirou split up to look for the weapon on the second floor. One touch, and he was floating up by the ceiling. Iida arrived a moment later with the capture tape, then he and Uraraka set off to look for Ojirou together.
Tokoyami found Hagakure trying to sneak up the stairs to the fourth floor. Or rather, Dark Shadow did. Honestly, Kyoka had lost track of her.
She only found out later that she'd squeaked in surprise when Dark Shadow swooped overhead and that was the only reason she was caught.
Surprisingly, Ojirou gave them the most trouble. He managed to take Iida by surprise by leaping through the window of one of the rooms and bringing his tail down on the back of his head hard enough to give him a concussion before darting away again, seconds before Uraraka managed to tag him.
Ojirou used his tail as a climbing tool, getting to the higher floors by climbing out the windows and skipping the stairs entirely, on top of which it meant that he very nearly captured the weapon before the villain team could get back to it.
Fortunately however, Dark Shadow managed to get him around the waist and haul him back a few feet away from the paper mache nuke, holding him firm until Uraraka could float herself out the window and get him with the capture tape as well.
Uraraka threw up and very nearly passed out after that, but still grinned and managed a shaky, "Worth it!"
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