Heroes of Tomorrow

Part 5~Learning

Usu stopped as he saw All Might standing in the door. "Everyone's workin' hard, huh?"

Aizawa turned with a grumble. "All Might."

"Yeah, I am here. Because I have the day off, and I don't have anything else to do." All Might change his shape into his buff form as he laughed.

"Will you please focus on recuperating and lesson planning?"

All Might poofed down in size as he laughed. "Hey, why the cold reception? They're workin' their big moves now, right? There's no way I could miss being here for this. I'm still a UA teacher, you know." All Might looked up at Midoriya as Uzu awkwardly sidestepped his teachers, trying to not get their attention.

"And where have you been?" Aizawa narrowed his eyes on Uzu as he laughed, opened his wings and flew off.

He flew over the students, spotting Bakugo having the time of his life and Naka slowly forming a clone about the size of a cat. He stopped just above Akiko; she was sitting with a book, glancing over its pages. "Weird," Uzu muttered as Akiko stood up.

She held her hands together, interlocking the fingers in a weird manner so one was pointing up, and the other was pointing to the side.

Her vines rushed out her hands, interlocking with each other as they surrounded the Ectoplasm clone, which Uzu swore had a sword. The clone tried to escape, but it couldn't do anything.

"Of course, it won't work when facing a fire quirk, but for most things, they won't be able to escape. With the vines still attached, I can change the cell size as I wish, and any attempts to escape will cut you; blood will swell the vines up, making it harder to escape." Akiko pulled the vines to the side, dumping them on the pile. She looked over the slash marks the clone had made before grinning. "Not even a cut."

"Impressive, your speed of creating the wall was faster this time too."

Akiko hummed, looking at her hands. "I think it's like charging up. If I prepare to send out the vines, I have greater control over how they'll come out, and they come out faster. I wonder."

Akiko stepped back, holding her wrist steady and aiming her fingers out the wall. She closed her eyes before flicking her fingers. Vine thorns shot out and broke through the cement.

Akiko stared in shock before she hissed. Her fingers were going numb. "Guess there had to be a side effect." She laughed before turning away. "Let's keep working on the wall; I have some more ideas."

Uzu flew on, landing on his perch as he greeted the clone. "So listen, I have ideas." Uzu grinned as he grew out four wings. They were bigger than the ones that he had been using but smaller than the ones he could have needed. Uzu grew out an extra set of legs, and he flapped.

Ectoplasm couldn't fight against the gust, falling off the cliff as Uzu knocked himself over. "Right, need more to stabilise. "Ectoplasm?! Can I have another guy?!"

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The class ended as Aizawa called them over. "Regarding your costume improvements. Once you've figured out if anything needs to change, head to the development studio here. Get the experts to help you out and give suggestions. They'll know what to do. Now go and rest."

The students didn't have to be told twice as they dispersed.

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Akiko hummed to herself as she walked the familiar path out of the school. She had found a small section that had a faulty sensor. It wouldn't send the information to the main system when leaving there. Ava had tried to use it to sneak in, but it was fully operational and wouldn't let her.