Rejecting the rules

-The next day-

After the work experience ended, all the students returned to UA and started catching up with each other.

"Whoa! You got to do villain clean up! I'm so jealous!!" Mina gasped after hearing what Jiro got to do during her work experience.

"It was just guiding evacuees and logistical support stuff." She shrugged.

"So you didn't get to do any fighting?"

"Nope."

"Still cool though! What about you Tsu-chan?"

"Pretty much the same, though we did catch a stowaway from a neighboring country." Tsu explained.

"Yo Aiden!" Kirishima called out after arriving. "Heard you and Iida had a run in with the HeroKiller and got saved by Endeavor."

"Oh yeah! I heard about that to, how you doing bro?" Sato came over and joined the conversation.

Seeing that his classmates were genuinely worried for him, Aiden smiled and said he was okay.

Even the distant Momo looked at him with a complex expression.

"Are you sure you're fine?" She asked.

Nodding his head, he wanted to change the subject fast so he asked about her work experience. As it turned out, both she and Kendo worked with the same hero. But since he spoke to Kendo and Mina on the way to school he already knew what happened.

While all of this was going down, Ojiro brought the conversation back to the HeroKiller. "I heard on the news that the HeroKiller and League of villains were connected. I shiver at the thought of what might have happened if that guy showed up during the USJ incident."

"Urgh, don't go putting such scary images in my head!" Mina chimed in.

"He was scary though." Denki said. "But did you see that video of him when he was talking to Endeavor? I don't know if it was his tenacity or one track mind but, didn't you think he was kind of cool?"

The class fell into silence as their heads turned to look at Iida. Looking down at his injured arm, he had a complex expression on his face.

"He was certainly... a man of conviction. I understand why some people would consider him as someone cool, but he chose to spread his cause by killing others. No matter what beliefs he holds, just the fact that he used murder as a means to an end proves that he is no better than the villains that spread chaos."

Hearing his speech, Aiden clicked his tongue and turned away. The history of the human race was filled with nothing but violence. If you wanted to make a change violence was certainly the easiest way to get your message across. A perfect method? No. But it was definitely effective.

---

The next lesson was headed by All Might. He called it a rescue training race. Apparently they were supposed to get into teams of 5 and navigate their way through the training ground and get to All Might. Whoever got to him first would be the winner.

For Aiden this was the worse type of exercise. Sure his agility was good, but since he focused on battle techniques he neglected improving that aspect of himself. But Aiden wouldn't be Aiden if he gave up in the face of such a challenge. While he didn't really care about becoming an actual hero, he refused to let himself fall behind a bunch of teens who had lived nice comfortable lives.

Taking a look at the buildings and construction area, Aiden started to form a plan in his head while All Might was going over the objective.

"If I use all of them at once then I should theoretically be able to cover the distance with little to no difficulty..." He mumbled to himself.

"Yo Aiden! Wanna join our team?" Mina interrupted him.

Looking to his side, Mina, Momo, Shoto and Tsu stood waiting for his answer.

Doing some quick calculations in his head, he took a minute to answer the group.

---

Standing at the starting line, the group of five looked at each other and nodded.

"Who do you thinks gonna win?" Jiro asked Kirishima.

"My money's on Tsu-chan. She has that jumping ability and she can use her tongue as a rope."

"Nah, Aiden's totally got this with his shifting ability." Denki spoke up.

"Actually." Deku suddenly chimed in. "I think that even if Aiden-san uses his shift like he did before, he still wouldn't be able win."

"Eh? What makes you say that?"

"Remember the obstacle course in the sports festival? I noticed that Aiden-san's shifting speed wasn't consistent."

"You mean..."

"Yeah. He can only shift that fast for a limited amount of time."

Hearing one of his secrets get exposed, Aiden felt pissed. This green haired shit stain was divulging his secrets to not only the class but also All Might. Since he was voted class rep, he cared for his class's reputation, but that in no way meant that he trusted them. It also meant that he didn't trust that they wouldn't go running their mouth around other people.

"GO!!" All Might's voice echoed.

Pushing his frustration down, Aiden went over his calculations once more before starting. Watching his group use their own methods to gain a lead, Aiden stood at the starting line and took a deep breath.

'You can do this, there's no flaw in your calculations, all you need to do is get the timing right.'

"What's he doing?" Bakugo looked at him in annoyance. While he would never admit it, he saw Aiden and Shoto as his rivals and couldn't bear seeing one of them lose to someone other than him.

Just as he was about to say something, a sharp purple aura burst out of Aiden's body before congealing around his figure.

"What the fuck!?"

"Muscles tightened, blood circulation increasing, astral energy operating at 100%" He spoke in a low voice.

Using his marionette ability to forcefully keep his muscles tightened, he made sure that the purple aura congealing on his body was stable. After various conversations with Mei about his Astral energy not fully obeying the natural laws of energy, Aiden came up with an idea. If it was true that his astral energy didn't follow the same rules... Does that mean that it could reject certain rules and reshape them? If so, doesn't that mean that he could reject and reshape the laws of gravity?

Stomping his foot on the ground, he lowered his centre of gravity and made the astral energy congealing on his body heavier.

"Um guys... Did Aiden just sink into the ground?"

Without paying attention to the words of his classmates, he kept getting heavier as the tightened muscles in his legs strained to push back against the downward force. Just as he was about to sink further into the ground, a loud bang sounded out.

*BOOM!!*

Reversing the gravitational pull all at once, he pushed against the ground with all his might and shot through the air at an incredible speed.

*SWOOSH!!*

"What the fuck!!"