Summary: Group A gears up for the upcoming Heroics Tournament with some serious training! Kirishima gets shot! Jirou discovers how dangerous she really is. And poor Kamanri is thrown to a pink-haired wolf...
Chapter 16: Training Montage
Kirishima groaned as he rubbed the spot where his arm had just been shot. Again. For the third time in less than twenty minutes. This time, there was a tiny trickle of blood oozing from an equally tiny prick in his skin. It was slightly disappointing, but he supposed it did mean he didn't need to be shot again. It still hurt like a bitch even if he's discovered he was technically bullet proof. He flinched an instant later as Izumi seemed to teleport into place next to him, first aid kit in hand. She'd obviously seen the blood as well, as she let out a distressed noise and quickly grabbed an appropriately sized bandage from the kit. Swiftly moving hands deftly disinfected the small puncture and sealed it with the bandage, even as 2B displayed the results of the test. Momo, once she was sure Izumi had the first aid in hand, looked the results over and told him what they'd discovered.
"Okay, Kirishima, the good news is that you're pretty much immune to handguns. Even at short range and regardless of caliber. There are almost certainly some exceptions out there, particularly Quirk related ones, but they will be the exception, not the rule. Less good news is that your current limit seems to be right on 1,200 ME. Meaning that a lot of common rifle rounds will still be dangerous for you, particularly at close range. It's less of an issue in Japan than in most place...but guns are still a lot more common now than they were in the pre-Quirk era. So keep in mind that rifles are still bad news for you, just as they are for anyone else."
Kirishima grinned, not at all deterred. It was still pretty damn badass to know he could technically claim to be bullet proof! And that he'd been manly enough to test it!
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Jirou stared at the target dummy with wide eyes. Admittedly, she wasn't the only one. Given that said target dummy had a fist-sized hole right through its chest, Momo and Izumi could be forgiven for being nearly as shocked as Jirou was. The only one, in fact, that didn't seem to be at all surprised was 2B. She was hovering nearby, possessing a scout Pod with all the sensor gear they could stuff in it, and the other three people present swung their gazes to her as she let out a contemplative hum.
"It seems that the amplification effect of Ms. Jirou's Quirk is exponential, rather than linear. I suspected as much, given the degree of sonic energy required to make those boots of hers functional. Particularly with the sub-standard amplifiers in the boots themselves. Also as expected, so long as the QE pattern stored is hers, it cascades with itself when released all at once."
Izumi and Momo got in immediately, but Jirou looked lost. Seeing that, Izumi was quick to explain.
"Remember how we said we added QE capacitors to the new canon, so that your jacks don't actually have to be hooked into them all the time? What we were hoping for was that, since it's your QE pattern that is stored in the capacitors, you'd be able to withdraw your jacks for use in other ways while still keeping a 'stored' attack. Those kinds of capacitors can't hole a specific pattern for long, maybe twenty minutes at most. But it would have given you more flexibility, particularly if you add any of the other support gear we thought up."
Jirou frowned, waving to the damaged dummy.
"Yeah, I got that when you explained it the first time. But...what the hell does it have to do with that."
Momo rescued her from Izumi's no doubt hyper-detailed explanation by speaking up first, rolling her eyes and putting a hand over Izumi's mouth.
"It means that we accidently created something like Bakugo's gauntlets. When you released the stored energy plus your own new energy from your jack, they mixed together and exponentially magnified each other. The result was a much more potent attack than expected." Gesturing to the dummy, Momo lifted the hand from Izumi mouth to the top of her head, absently giving her a headpat as she finished her explanation. "Izumi and I thought they might mix, but we were expecting a linear improvement. Apparently, 2B anticipated otherwise."
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