Tsuburaba was currently in a predicament. There was no way he could escape it, as his quirk focused on defense and containment. He was really divided on escaping it though, after all, who wants to escape something so pleasant.
"Sorry about this, I usually try not to carry people for this long, but we really made distance from where the cage is." The girl managed to speak as she dragged him along.
"No, it's fine, I get it. If it wasn't for my quirk I'd probably be escaping by now anyway." He said, trying his best to not look at her. Come on, think of a casual conversation! "So … sports?" Wow, he didn't think it was possible to be worse at conversation than Tetsutetsu.
"I did track during middle school. Long jump was actually pretty difficult for me, since it was hard to judge what counted as 'non quirk use'. I basically had to jump as non-frog-like as possible." Oh shit, that actually worked?!
"Yeah, Mutant Quirks are really hard to judge as 'using quirks' since they have them on all the time. There was this one boy who had a metal sword for an arm and kinda messed up his tests. He was great at calligraphy though."
"I once saw a quirk that just made someone a giant floating baby head." Asui added in. "It was being followed by a platypus in a fedora."
"Like a quirked animal or a crazy student?"
"No, I'm pretty sure it was a normal Platypus. It just started walking on hind legs for no reason."
He laughed. "Have you ever noticed how weird the world is?"
"Not until I came to U.A. Something about class just makes me realize how okay I was with it before then. It concerns me, but sometimes I miss the ignorance." They arrived at the cage. "Well, I guess this is where we depart."
"Oh yeah, it was nice talking with you." He spoke, before remembering his predicament with a blush. "So how do you um … wanna do this?"
"Huh…usually I only wrap people this much when I'm flinging Mineta out of a window." Asui's face got a little red. "I'll put you in the cage, and retract it from the bars." She shook. "Ah…try not to look at me when I do."
"No problem." He replied in a squeaky voice. Best day of his life.
==
"Okay Shinso, as your Senpai in heroics, it is my duty to give you some decent nuggets of wisdom in how to run for your life properly." He calmly explained.
"You're really endearing me to your class." Shinso rolled his eyes. "I feel so inspired by your brave acts of heroism. I'm totally looking forward to seeing us in the same class."
"First lesson, sarcasm will keep your sanity in check and your calm stays cool. Keep and never lose it." He spoke, grabbing the boy's arm. "Next lesson, know your enemy. When he's in human mode he can't smell us out." He dragged them into a narrow alley. "So give him reason to stay human as long as possible."
"So keep insulting him using Tsubara's voice. That way he has to constantly tell himself not to respond." Yes, people understood what he was getting at. "So I'm basically the bait."
"Not yet, we can't bait him like we are now. My shocks didn't squat and our heavy hitter was sent flying. If we want to knock him out we need something stronger." He spoke. "Our main priority is keeping a man like that away from the field, use us as a lure and regroup when he's far enough away." They had an hour to take advantage of, no need to rush things.
"Seeing as how the horn hasn't gone off for 1-B's side, we're not down a teammate yet. So there's a slight chance we can lead him back to Red Riot." Shinso nodded.
"Exactly. Now get running. I can hear his footsteps closing in."
"I WILL CRUSH BUG ZAPPER AND TALK MAN!"
"Lesson three. When you hear threatening screams and you know they know where you are, book it faster than your legs can carry you!"
"Oddly enough, that was lesson four of Aizawa's training." The gen ed student used the capture scarf he was wearing to keep himself airborne. "Hey, wait up Geavudan! We need to face them together!"
"Nice try, the same trick isn't going to work twice!" Wait, how did he say that without activating the quirk in question? "I punched my ears until they started ringing!"
"You have a lesson on how to counter stupidity that works?" Shinso asked him.
"Not really. If we did, then someone would've managed to get a hit on Iruma during combat training." The guy actually made not having common sense work for him. "So unless we have feral survival instincts that can make us out animal the animal, we should just avoid it as much as possible!"
Hopefully the others were having better luck right now.
==
"Take this you overgrown weed!" She shouted, cutting a few vines. Man, was this the stress reliever she needed to have. She couldn't take it out on Ochako seeing that they were on more amicable terms.
"You'll pay for your crimes of corrupting my angel!"
"Oh, are we back on this again!? I thought we were done having this conversation!"
"He doesn't believe in god. Even a pagan one! That alone could only come from corruption of other sources!"
"Yeah, his shitty parents that I helped throw into a cell with the help of his new mom! So not only have I given him the best birthday gift, I practically have the in-laws blessing!" Two birds with one stone.
"So are we just gonna … ignore that?" Red Riot asked his opponent, who kept their distance and forced the former to defend her.
"You really want to get in on that conversation?" Long Weiz asked, shooting scales at the two 1-A members.
"Good point, I'll stick with getting pelted by scales." Yeah, this was a personal fight, Kirishima, stay out of it!
"You've manipulated the events to weasel your way into his life even more than you've already have. Even so, even with his lack of faith, he still called me an angel!" Shiozaku grabbed her too her stupid flower filled hair. "Which means my crusade is clear. I shall stick to his side and help guide him on his path of righteousness."
"Well you know what?!" She shouted, running straight after the girl. "Why don't I show you the light?!" She held her hands forward. "Flash Grenade!"
"My eyes!" The girl shouted.
"Your faith has blinded you!" She shouted, throwing a punch. "Bakugo was right, religion is bullshit!" She shouted, tossing a haymaker at the bitches face.
"You're….only….proving my…point…heathen!" Shiozaki wobbled in place, doing what she could to stand still. The vines began wrapping around her legs, but it mattered very little right now.
"You've spread yourself pretty thin in an environment where most plants can't survive." With a single tug, they ripped apart. "You're strong, Shiozaki, but my love and determination for Iruma-kun will always be stronger!" And with a final kick to the face, the bitch was knocked out.
"Okay, are you finally calm?" The remaining opponent asked. "Good, cause I came here for hero work, not crazy." But those were the same. "And so far neither of you has the opportunity to lock away my partner." The student produced more scales.
"Well now that the most insane part of the battle is over, I think now's the right time for me to lend a hand." A pink tongue wrapped around Shiozaki.
"Damn it!" The boy tried shooting a few scales at the tongue, only to be blocked off by Red Riot. "You know, you being thrown at us completely messed up everything. Damn you Gevaudan."
"That's the difference between our classes." Toru laughed. "When our wolf does something dumb, it usualy ends up helping us."
==
Shinso was at a complete loss for words. They were winning, so far. The guy he thought was a moron apparently had great survival tips. And when they met up with a running Froppy, she got them covered in mucus to hide their scent. His first hero class training experience, and he was on the winning team.
The only problem was that he felt like it wasn't enough. He was able to catch Gevaudan off guard once and then spent the rest of the time evading capture, running out the clock. Sure, it was a million times better than how he would've been at the beginning of the year, but he needed to show actual results.
If he was going to guarantee his acceptance into the hero course, he needed to go Plus Ultra soon. So right now came the current plan, involving a use of a magnetic pit, his scarf, and taunting words. "Your mother was a beta bitch!" He always excelled in the latter.
" Grrrrrrr! " Looks like they guy went to animal mode, which was probably so feral and enraged by this point he lost the concentration to form actual words. Going by the anger, his hearing was probably back in full, so that didn't bode well for Shinso.
"Three … two …" he steeled himself against the charging beast. "One …" timing was crucial. Too fast and the beast wouldn't fall into the trap. Too late and … not pretty. "Now." With a tug he sent himself high into the air, and the beast was now in an electric minefield.
"Bermuda Triangle, 1.9 million volts!" The half rational, half moronic blonde sent his quirk off widely, before the currents traveled right through the furry hero student, caught in between the electric lines and constantly shocked over and over again. "Booyakasha!" He was actually weighing his options between the two classes.
"That actually worked." Shinso muttered to himself. "You're smarter than you look."
"It's less brains and more determination to stick it to everyone that keeps calling me stupid." Chargebolt admitted. "Plus having a smart cool headed girlfriend doesn't hurt either." The boy shook his head. "Still dazed though, that last attack took a lot to take down a beast like-"
"Grrr." The two froze, looking over at the fried student slowly making his way to them … before getting stomped on by Froppy.
"You're welcome. Ribbit." She was clearly the real brains of the operation,
"Team Class 1-B have all been immobilized. What a travesty that has befallen this day." The disappointed tone of Vlad King echoed through the speaker. "Against all odds, Class 1-A has won the first joint battle."
"And I thought Present Mic had biased commentary." Shinso rolled his eyes.
==
This was the worst. Rin was sitting in the new and improved loser corner they made for Monoma after he failed his exam. This time with pity snacks like crackers and water bottles. "Everything went wrong. Literally everything went wrong." He sat down defeated with his team. "I thought Kaminari wasn't supposed to be smart." That got him pelted in the head from a water bottle.
"They're tricky little bastards." Shishida grumbled. "I spent half an hour chasing them all over the place. They really know how to hide themselves."
"And I was so wrapped up in my conflict I went on to ignore the obvious fact we could have done our best to switch opponents." Shiozaki muttered. "Forgive me lord." The fact she wasn't apologizing to Rin first didn't make his day feel any better.
"Yeah, well, they have experience, and it shows." Tsubura shrugged while eating his bun. "I actually had a nice conversation with Asui, so she's pretty cool." The entire team glared at him. "I mean … boo them?"
"Don't fret, my fellow Classmates, for this was just the beginning." The bright side of Monoma's egotism was that he didn't criticize any of them for failing. "We were going by how they acted during the sports festival, we didn't take into account that they improved on their terrible character as well as quirks. If the electric dunce can drastically change how he was, then that must apply to the rest of them as well."
"Actually Chargebolt just improved the most." The ponytailed heiress spoke up. "I'd say the one that has improved the least since the festival is … either Cellophane or Can't stop twinkling." Seriously, who had that as a hero name?
"Don't rub it in!" Sero called out, trying to ignore the laughing.
"Hey, you all called me dunce, I can rub it in however I please!" Kaminari shouted out.
"You were really great out there, Tsu! You pretty much swooped in and protected everyone!" Suzuki cheered on his classmates. "Oh Toru, your fight with Ibara was super good too. You both were really strong and determined. I almost couldn't tell who was closer to winning." Somehow the fact he thought it was close made him either a moron or a saint.
"My angel … believed in me …" To Shiozaki, it was clearly the latter. No matter how delusional it made her.
"You may have won this round, but you won't win the next 1-A." Monoma grinned. "For now you face a real challenge!" The team glared at him. "You know Kendo is one of our best, don't judge me on my phrasing!"
"Your class is so strong, Monoma! I can't wait to see what the rest of them can do!" Suzuki continued to unintentionally feed the man's ego. Yet a continuous cycle of destruction embraced them.