A Hero of Old

Training interlude.

It was 4 in the morning, much to the displeasure of class 1A as they stood in their PE uniform.

"Good morning hero hopefuls." Came the newly familiar voice of Izuku Midoriya as he stood in front of all the students, receiving many tired moans in response. "Today, for the first hour as a warm up, I'll be taking you through the training regimen of the royal knights. This will be tough on you and your bodies, especially without proper training or magic power, but I've been told by your teacher that it's your problem, not mine."

More tired and now pained and frustrated moans were let out from the crowd of students. "I'll start with 5% of the royal knights' warm up difficulty and slowly increase the pressure until the hour is over."

"Do you think we aren't good enough extra?" Came the voice of Bakugou. "Think we're too weak for your stupid warm up?"

"No... I don't." That shut Bakugou up. "Trainees with attitudes like yours died within minutes of the warm up level. And they had magic. You lot don't have a speck of magic power at all and you want to start at 100%?"

All the students were awake at this point. Most of them were gulping in fear of what would happen to them now that Bakugou had spoken up. Some mentally cursing him.

"Now, spread out. I don't want you collapsing on another student if you can't handle it. Hold out for as long as you can, till you collapse. Begin!"

Immediately, all the students felt twice as heavy, some of the students without as much physical training dropped to one knee.

"Argh! What the hell!" Yelled Bakugou.

"What... is... this?" Asked Kaminari.

"This... is raw magical power. A power used for centuries until the fall of the Argonian Empire. However that came about over the last 3000 years. Its uses range from applying pressure like I am now to creating supernatural forces of nature and even creating things from seemingly nothing." He explained while applying pressure.

The minute passed and he had slowly increased it to 7%, more students were on their knees. Those left standing were the ones with stronger physical strength than others. Mineta however, was on his hands and knees.

"Sir!! Can I please rest!?" He cried out

"Push through it, keep going, you won't be able to help others with a weak body like that." Izuku called out.

In a rare display of determination, Mineta stood back up. "RAAAAAHHHhhh..." he shouted before promptly passing out.

A wide grin spread across Izuku's face at the display. "Well, that was certainly something." He said as he used his expert control of his magic power to stop applying pressure to Mineta's unconscious body.

The next 20 minutes passed similarly, students passing out from the strain placed on their bodies, until they were down to 6 people left. This group included Akatani, Bakugou, Sato, Iida, Yaoyorozu, and Shoji. They were currently sitting at around 40% of the knights warm up level. To be completely honest, Izuku thought they would all be passed out by now. Especially without magic power, but they were surpassing his expectations. He liked that.

"Oh, by the way, it slipped my mind but you may use your quirks to try to make this easier for yourself."

"Yaoyorozu, can you make me some sugarcubes please?" Asked Sato.

"Sure, here Sato."

Yaoyorozu made the sugar cubes and threw them as best she could at Sato while making herself some metal crutches to help take some of the weight. Sato ingested the sugar and bulked up, immediately loosening up as he could take some of the pressure better. Bakugou had tried letting off some explosions but decided Against it as it just put more strain on his arms but didn't relieve any pressure. Iida couldn't use his quirk to help him, while Shoji grew a few extra arms to help hold himself up.