My Hero Automata

Chapter 7: Battle Trials

Summary: Finally, some action! And poor Katsuki suffers more than one blow to his ego...

Chapter 7: Battle Trials

The next day was a little chaotic. While all Hero Course students were required to take all Hero Course classes, not all of them were at the same place academically otherwise. Izumi and Momo were the biggest outliers, having long since completed enough University-level work that they'd already received multiple degrees. Momo already possessed Associate Degrees in Business and Science, with all of her general education requirements fully covered for Bachelor Degrees in the same. She would be finishing the remaining requirements for both during her time at UA. Similarly, Izumi was in an almost identical situation with degrees in Engineering and Computer Science. Unlike Momo, however, Izumi also had specialized certificates in Quirk Studies. She would not be pursuing her Computer Science degree farther, instead focusing on Engineering and Quirk Studies. Given that her connection to 2B gave her what was essentially a form of Cyberpathy, she didn't really need any farther instruction in Computer Science, making it an easy decision for her.

While Momo and Izumi were the most radical outliers, they were not the only ones with differing goals. No one without a considerable degree of basic intelligence passed the demanding requirements of the UA written entrance exam, which made it little surprise that over half of Group A had already completed at least some University level courses. Often through advanced programs at the quality high schools most had attended. Jirou had enough room in her schedule to take some music courses, Iida was already halfway through a mechanical engineering degree that would help with his Quirk, Sato was taking culinary arts extras, and even Bakugo was taking a few highly specific chemistry classes.

All told there were actually only five out of twenty students in Group A that were not taking classes from other tracks...and that played havoc with schedules. Thankfully, UA was a University for Heroics first and foremost, and had long since figured out how to balance everything. The Hero Course specifically had two centralized blocks of courses, one in the Morning for theory and another in the Afternoon for practical work. Each held sessions three days a week, in order to allow recovery time between days. Shorter, more specialized, heroics related courses were held at various times, with multiple teachers during the remaining two weekdays. This allowed students to slot them in when and where they could, around their other desired programs. Generally, it was possible to take up to two additional classes on a core day, or up to four on a non-core day.

As a result, they spent their morning doing an overview with Midnight. During the two hours of 'theory,' they had covered what they had learned from the Quirk Assessment Test, as well as addressed general questions about everything from Support Gear Requests to the general syllabus for the Heroics department. Afterward, however, they had all split up and hurried to their own interest-specific classes. Some of them were lucky enough to have met up for lunch, with Izumi and Momo being joined by Jirou, Iida, and Tokoyami for their own. For the most part, however, they didn't see each other until they returned to the Heroics department for their afternoon practicals. Which is where they all waited with bated breath to find out who their Special Heroics instructor would be. Sure, Izumi and Momo already knew, having had a couple of meetings between the reveal of his teaching at UA and classes actually starting...but they'd been sworn to secrecy on the subject. And most of the other students seemed to think he was likely to be teaching the upper years, rather than them.

His entrance, therefore, came as a complete surprise to almost everyone. And even Izumi and Momo were taken aback by the way he chose to enter. What with the door suddenly flying off its hinges...