Summary: Time to get back to work! Training montage go!
Chapter 34: Noses to the Grindstone
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While their first full Heroics day had been emotionally intense, that intensity thankfully faded away as the days spun onward. Several students had quietly visited with Hound Dog or, in cases such as Izumi, 2B, and Momo, they had sessions with their own long-established therapists. Yet, for all the trauma of events so far, direct and indirect, no one actually dropped out of the Heroics course. Even Mineta surprised a lot of people, perhaps even being the single most surprising person overall. Those who had thought him the most likely to fold after watching the bloody, messy fight against the Nomu, had all been shocked when it seemed to level him out instead. The pervert had actually gotten considerably more serious about his training and knocked off at least some of his more obnoxious behaviors. He still wasn't particularly well liked, but the general opinion of him had increased to the point of very grudging respect as the reality check seemed to have done a number on him.
For all that the emotional trauma faded, however, physical trauma rapidly began to take its place. Even as many of them had work start to pile up for their non-heroics classes, the Heroics practical sessions intensified to the point that no one, not even Izumi and Momo, left them anything less than tired and bruised. All Might had quietly admitted to them both that it was normal for the post-internships sessions to increase in intensity...but not this much. The staff was taking the fact that its first-year students might be targeted deadly seriously, and was doubling down that intensity increase. With any other group, in any other year, it might even have been too much. But this particular group showed just how much potential they had by digging in and fighting back. Something which, frankly, produced some spectacular results...
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"Match Start!"
At All Might's signal, two groups of students rushed forward. Not towards each other, but toward a third point. A point held only a trio of students, versus the two teams of three that were in the 'assault' group. Unfortunately, while a six vs three should have been unfair...the three students acting the part of villains had been deliberately chosen to make things rough on the attackers. Specifically, those three defending students were Kaminari, Jirou, and Momo. Two area-denial experts combined with a powerhouse. Worse, while the defenders hadn't gotten any time for prep that Momo could go crazy with, Izumi was not fighting in this set at all. Meaning that the 'assault teams' had no one that could match Momo for sheer power. Even Bakugo was slated to fight in the next round, in which Izumi would be one of the defenders. This left the attackers with only so many options, options complicated by the fact that the 'villains' were defending a shop front that they had 'broken into.'
None of which meant that the assault team wasn't going to try, or didn't have a plan. The entire point of this exercise was to force the students with more sane power levels, to confront unfavorable conditions and find a way to win. And they had to do it on the fly, with very little prep time. That, however, was where the growing level of teamwork Group A as a whole was starting to show came into play. While they hadn't known the specifics, not even who they would be facing or under what exact conditions, everyone in the Group had begun developing methods of working together. One of those was the first thing to come into play now. The instant Momo was spotted, Kirishima, the leader of Strike Team 1, called out to Tokoyami, who was leading Strike Team 2.
"Screwball Special!"
To his credit, Tokoyami didn't hesitate, despite that particular tactic being one of the more ridiculous in their arsenal. He and Dark Shadow merged smoothly into their Abyssal Armor state...then scooped the already hardening Kirishima up in a giant hand and pitched him straight through the front window of the shop. Even as Kirishima shattered the front window, he doubled down on his hardening with the super move Izumi and Momo had helped him develop. He still couldn't hold it for more than a few seconds...but that would have to be enough.
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