Combat Training

The next day was the official first day of school. In the morning are the regular required classes, such as English and math.

After that is Lunch which is in the cafeteria, where we can eat gourmet food for reasonable prices.

Momo, Kaminari, Kirishima, Mina, Jiro, and I were all eating lunch together, and I was collecting more information on Mina and Jiro's quirks.

"Hmm, so can you control the strength of acidity, or is it just one kind?"

Mina holds up her finger and emits a creamy white substance from her finger and it falls onto the table, "Yup, I can control the strength of the acid solution."

"Interesting."

I continue eating my ramen and Kirishima asks me something, "Hey, Shiro?"

I look up from my bowl, "Mmh?"

"You seem pretty close to Momo. Do you guys know each other from before U.A?"

I nod my head, "Yeah, we are childhood friends."

Kaminari gives me a jealous look, "Must be nice, having a pretty childhood friend."

After lunch is… Hero Studies.

We are all waiting in the classroom, when suddenly we hear, "I AM…"

The door flies open and All Might throws himself through the door, "... COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!!!"

Everyone's eyes widen as they see the Number 1 hero walk into the room with his yellow, red, white, and blue costume, bunny ear hair, and gleaming smile.

Everyone is excited to see All Might as their teacher, and I think to myself, 'If I were to fight against him I'd definitely lose, but his quirk probably has similar properties as Muscular. It would be a good experience.'

"I teach Hero Training. It is a subject where you train in a different way to learn the basics of being a Hero. Let's get right into it. This is what we'll be doing today," and he pulls out a white card emblazoned with red words saying BATTLE, "Combat training!"

'Combat training, huh.'

"And to go with that we have these." All Might points to the wall and 4 shelves pop out each with 5 numbered boxes.

"Costumes made based on your quirk registration, and requests you sent in before schools started," I was excited about these. If they had done what I asked then my abilities would improve even further.

"After you change, meet up in Ground Beta."

"Yes, sir!"

*A little bit later*

All of the students walked out onto the field in their hero costumes.

All Might is standing in front of us, his trademark grin on his face, "They say the clothes make the man, young men, and ladies. Be aware… from now on… you are heroes!"

My costume was a simple design. A white dress shirt, covered by a black light kevlar waistcoat. The back of the waistcoat had several rings sticking out in various places. My pants were made of the same light kevlar as my waistcoat. The aesthetics were not that important to me.

AN: The cover

What was important was my support gear.

Several metal bands with rings at the ends of them ran across my limbs, placed in between each major joint. Multiple compartments were sewn into my pants and waistcoat for various tools. Several decks of lightweight metal cards made from a special alloy, and several plastic tubes for homemade blends of chemicals and medicines.

I quickly looked at the other people's costumes and noticed that only a few of them had support gear.

'Hmm, what a waste.'

All Might sticks his thumb up, "Mmh! That great everyone. You all look cool! Now shall we begin, you zygotes!"

Iida raises his hand, "This is the battle center from the entrance exam, who will we be conducting urban battles again?"

'I wonder what they did for the entrance exam.'

All Might answers his question, "No, we will be taking it 2 steps further."

He then begins to explain how the smarter villains work indoors, so we will be practicing battling inside buildings.

"For this class, you'll be split into villains and heroes and fight 2-on-2 indoor battles."

'So it's a battle of teamwork as well as strategy.'

My classmates barrage All Might with a number of questions, and he silences all of them before clearing his throat and pulling out a notebook.

'A script?'

"The situation is that the villains have hidden a nuclear weapon somewhere in their hideout. The heroes are trying to dispose of that. The heroes need to either catch the villains using capture tape or get the nuclear weapon back within the allotted time to win. For the villains to win, they need to protect the nuclear weapon the whole time or catch the heroes, also using the capture tape"

He pulls out a yellow box, "Teams and opponents will be determined by drawing lots!"

I get paired with Tsuyu, "Yo, Asui, guess we are a team, huh?"

She nods her head and sticks her thumb up, "I look forward to working with you."

All Might reaches into his boxes and pulls out two balls. One black, and one white, each labeled a letter to represent each team.

"Team A will be the heroes, and Team D will be the villains! Everyone else, let's head to the monitor rooms."

As we walk over to the monitor rooms, I see the 4 people who stay behind.

'Izuku, huh? And Bakugo too? This might be interesting.'

All Might calls out, "Villain team, you guys can head inside first and set up any defenses you will need. In 5 minutes, the hero team will break-in, and the battle will start."

'I hope I get to be a villain. The advantage of home base would make this much easier.'

All Might guides the two teams to their building while the rest of us sit back and relax, waiting for the round to start.

Momo walks up to me and asks, "Hey, Shiro? Have you done your thing yet?"

I shake my head, "Not completely, I have most of them, but there is one factor I have uncounted."

She looks at me with a puzzled expression, "What is it?"

I gesture at the screen which is currently focused on the hero team, "See the kid in the green jumpsuit."

Momo quickly understands what I mean, "Oh, that's what you meant…"

'Based on pure power, the hero team will win, but… how much does he need to sacrifice in exchange for an equal amount of power. He broke his finger throwing a ball, what can he do, if he used his whole arm?'

A few minutes later, All Might is back and calls out on the intercom, "Now, let's begin the indoor person-to-person combat training with Team A and Team D. Start!"

The hero team begins their infiltration and we watch as Bakugo quickly finds them and catches the pair off guard and blows up a part of Izuku's mask.

Jiro is shocked, "A surprise attack, this early?"

Kirishima almost looks offended, "Bakugo, that's cheating! That's not manly at all!"

I shake my head while looking at the screen, "A surprise attack is a strategy as well. They are in a real battle right now. Everything is fair in love and war."

Bakugo charges again but then, Izuku sidesteps him, ducks under his arm, and flips him on his back.

'Not bad. Amature level, but not bad.'

Bakugo flies over to Izuku and they begin fighting, while Izuku's partner, Uraraka, heads off to find the bomb.

Izuku and Bakugo fight for a bit before Bakugo corners Izuku and aims one of his grenade gauntlets at him, 'Some kind of support gear? Too bad we can't hear anything.'

All Might, however, recognizes what that is, and calls out on the intercom, "Young Bakugo! Stop! Are you trying to kill him?!"

Bakugo ignores him and pulls the pin, a focused beam of explosion flies out and charges towards Izuku, 'How scary. Without any preparation, I don't think I would be able to block that.'

The building started to shake after the shockwaves from the explosion.

'Even if I had the preparation, it would still be hard to block that.'

All Might interrupt them, "Young Bakugo, the next time you use that, you will be disqualified and your team will lose. Causing unnecessary damage to the building you are in is a bad plan for both heroes and villains."

Based on the camera, Bakugo looks pissed but appears to agree. He charges forwards, and Izuku punches to counter, but Bakugo uses an explosion to flip over Izuku and fires another one into his back.

For the first time, I hear Todoroki speak, "Hmm, he is unexpectedly subtle."

'Ho? He gets it as well.'

Mina looks back at him with surprise, "What do you mean?"

Todoroki begins to explain, "He changed his course in the blast that doubled as a smokescreen and then did it again immediately."

Momo takes over the rest of the explanation, "Getting in a clean hit while fighting against inertia requires fine lateral adjustments to the power of explosions."

The other people look amazed at the skill, but even with that explanation, they don't fully understand what it means.

'He either has great combat sense or has a lot of practice. Either way, he's good. But why isn't Izuku using his quirk again? Is he afraid of the rebound? Or he doesn't want to hurt Bakugo?'

Bakugo continues to beat down Izuku and Izuku starts retreating. However, he heads to the edge of the building and gets cornered instead.

'What the hell is he doing?'

The two charge at each other again, and now I see Izuku's arm light up, 'I don't get it, nothing this kid does makes sense.'

Bakugo creates an explosion and Izuku uses his arm, and punches upwards, creating a huge air blast that breaks through all 5 floors of the building and shatters all of the windows.

'Oy, oy oy! What kind of bull shit is this? He's definitely hiding something.'

On the fourth floor, The blast of wind catches Iida off balance and Uraraka sends a large number of rocks flying at him as a distraction. By the time he realized what had happened, Uraraka had already touched the Bomb.

"Weapon retrieved!"

The smoke clears and Izuku's body is revealed, his whole right arm, a nasty shade of red and purple, and his left arm, black and burned from Bakugo's explosion.

'What a stupid way of fighting.'

Everyone is as quiet as they process what has just happened.

All Might presses the button for the intercom, "Hero… The Hero Team wins!"

Some robots come and cart Izuku away while All Might talks to Bakugo. Once All Might gets back, we start to go over the fight.

All Might clears his throat, "I'd say that that MVP was Young Iida."

Some of the people look confused, Asui raises her hand, "Not one of the winners, Ochako, or Midoriya?"

All Might asks us," Hmmm… why is that? Why could that be?"

I sigh lightly, and point up to the replays playing on the screen, "Iida played his role the best. Bakugo and Izuku know each other from before, maybe they went to the same school or something. Obviously, he dislikes him and acted recklessly, and also released a large scale attack indoors. So not him."

I continue on, "Similar problem with Izuku, not only he fought with his extremely stupid and reckless fighting style, but he also released an extremely large attack indoors. Adding in his injuries, did he really win?"

A few people looked shocked at my harsh analysis, but a few people understand what I mean.

"As for Uraraka, she let her guard down halfway, and her final attack was also extremely reckless. If that was a real bomb, then sending shrapnel and debris flying at it isn't the best idea."

More people start to realize the truth of my explanation, "So that leaves Iida, who was somewhat prepared for his opponent's arrival and assumed it would be a fight over the weapon. That's why he was late on that last attack.

The Hero team only won because they fulfilled the very basic requirement of touching the bomb. In a real-life situation, you touch the bomb, so what? You still need to get out of there, and I don't think you can do it if both your arms are broken."

Kuro is laughing his ass off inside, 'Ahahaha, shit they got roasted!'

Bakugo is trembling in a rage after hearing my analysis, "So… are you implying that you could do better!? HUH!?!?!?"

I give him a side glance, "Fine then. All Might sensei, can I request that our team go next?"

"Are you sure?"

I look over to Tsuyu, "Asui, you don't mind yeah?"

She shrugs her shoulders, "We are all going eventually. I don't see any reason not to go now."

I look back at All Might who sighs, "If you insist."

All Might looks into the box and digs around for ours, "Team H will be the heroes."

"Tch."

He digs around for a little more and pulls out the next group, "And their opponents will be… Team J"

'Kirishima and Sero. I can work with that.'

Kirishima walks over to me, "Hehe, I won't go easy on you."

I grin, "Of course not," I glance at Bakugo who is glaring at me, "It wouldn't be any good if you held back."

We head towards our building and Asui and I both wait outside and start planning.

"Asui, you're basically a frog right?"

She nods her head. I look down at the building schematics and notice something.

"Ok, then how about this…"

I explain the plan to her and her eyes widen.

"That would work, kero."

I grin, "Also, can you help me real quick."

*Kirishima POV*

We had decided our location and Sero started throwing up tape everywhere.

"Hey, Kirishima, you are on friendly terms with Shiro right? Do you know anything about how he works?"

I shrug, "I don't know but he seems like the type to make plans."

Sero scratches his head and sighs, "That's the most annoying type"

We can hear All Mights voice through the speakers, "START!!!"

We both take battle stances and stay on guard for anything. A few minutes pass in silence.

Then, outta nowhere, several cards fly from the door and cut several layers of tape, and freeing up the hallway. Then we hear the stepping on the floor as someone walks towards us.

*Step*

I activate my quirk, and Sero readies his elbows

*Step* *Step*

I gulp and Sero wipes sweat off of his forehead.

*Step* *Step* *Step*

Slightly annoyed I yell out, "Shiro, stop messing around with us and fight me like a man!"

"..."

We see a flash of black and white in the doorway, "Catch me if you can!"

Annoyed, I charge forward and start chasing him, "HEY!! GET BACK HERE!!!"

*Shiro POV*

'Step 1, complete. Now It's up to her.'

I continue running, making sure that Kirishima is just able to see me, and not lose me, but far enough where he poses no threat.

I lead him to another room, where there is plenty of open space before I stop and turn. Kirishima quickly arrives, panting. Not letting him catch his breath, I attack.

Coating my fist in Bungee Gum, I start throwing several punches at him.

'His hardening makes it a slight problem, but it's a good opportunity to test this out.'

Kirishima is panting as he defends from my attacks while trying to recover, "You… sly… bastard…"

He swings his fist, and I easily sway to the side, dodging it, 'You know, after fighting the masters, his speed is pretty slow.'

I duck underneath another strike and pull my fist back.

*BANG*

With a snap, my fist flies forward and slams into Kirishima's gut. Despite his hardening, he still felt a bit of damage and takes a few steps back.

Back in the monitor room, a few people are confused as to what had happened.

Mina, looks at the screen questionably, "How did he do that? He hit Eijiro hard enough for him to take a few steps back."

The boys remember the compact muscles under my body and grimace, imagining if they had got hit by that.

But the camera angle changes and everyone can see my back.

"What is that?"

In the building, Kirishima grins at me, "Nice Shiro! You fight like a man!"

'Playtime is over then.'

Kirishima starts throwing more attacks and I dodge them all. He throws a hard right and I duck underneath. I tap his right hand with my right and tap his right foot with my left hand. I roll behind him and he looks at the situation he's in. A strand of Bungee Gum is connected between his right hand and foot.

He turns and grins at me getting in a fighting position, "Hehe, this isn't enough to stop me, Shiro!"

I shake my head, "I can't believe you forgot so quickly, Kirishima. I'm hurt honestly."

He looks at me with a puzzled expression, "What do you mean? How did I hurt you?"

I shrug my shoulders, "Don't you remember, Bungee Gum has the properties of both rubber and gum. And… I can control it at will."

"Eh?"

I sigh, and the Bungee Gum shrinks rapidly and Kirishima loses his balance and falls on the floor. He tries to regain his balance, but with 2 limbs disabled and stuck in a weird position, he's unable to.

"I take back what I said! The way you fight isn't manly!"

I sigh again and walk over to him pulling the capture tape out of my pocket, "So it' doesn't matter how you fight as long as you win in the end."

I start wrapping the capture tape around him, "There we go, that's 1 done. Now, Tsuyu should be finishing up soon."

On cue, All Mights voice rings out, "Hero Team wins!"

AN: This chapter was mainly focused on seeing his thinking process as well as some combat abilities.

How did Shiro and Tsuyu win? What was the thing on Shiro's back? Find out next time on Dragonba- ahem, MHA: Bungee Gum