My Hero Automata

Chapter 50: Training Camp Split Up!

Summary: Time for the Training Camp! Well, this story's equivalent, anyway ;-).

Chapter 50: Training Camp Split Up!

The day after the meetup at the UA dorms, everyone had trickled into the vast underground motor pool that the University maintained. Most of them had been there at least twice before, for the Entrance Exams and USJ trips, but both visits had been limited to the intra-school section of the complex. Even the bus they'd taken to the USJ had been a middling range, electric and unarmored model. Those they were surrounded by now, however, showed subtle signs of having been dusted off from an earlier era. Recently redone paintjobs couldn't quite hide the fact that these buses had been part of a mothballed fleet in service prior to All Might's reign. While they weren't armed, they were most certainly armored, if not overly obviously so. From quick scans Izumi and 2B had done of them, they also had a far more military-spec drive train, run-flat tires, and several other features that would have been more at home on a light APC than a normal University Bus.

Clearly, Nedzu wasn't fucking around with getting UA back to a war-footing mindset.

Of course, that revelation wasn't really the important aspect of the morning. Far more critical had been getting everyone sorted out into the correct areas for their chosen camps. There were six specialized Terrain Training camps available to all years, and both Group A and Group B were scattered among them. The single largest group was heading to the most popular option of Urban Terrain. UA might have impressive fake cities, but no matter how much effort they put into those constructs, there was a vast difference between working in them and a living, breathing city. Real cities were far more chaotic...and also happened to have a lot more things that could go badly wrong if you weren't trained to function in them. Since the vast majority of heroes spent their careers mostly in city centers, it made since that the group gathered around that bus was by far the largest group. From Group A's first years alone Kaminari, Aoyama, Iida, Sato, Sero, Shoji and Bakugo had all chosen that option.

Even so, there was some representation of their Group in each of the loading areas for all the other terrain groups. Aside from Urban, those groups were Arctic, Forest, Mountain, Rural, and Water. Arctic was by far the smallest group, since Japan only had limited population in its far northern regions that saw regular Arctic conditions. That particular group, of which only Tokoyami and Shiozaki were present from the First Years, would actually be moving to the airport and taking an international flight to find suitable training conditions. All of the other groups would be sticking within Japan, though spread all over the islands.

Momo and Izumi had surprised several people by their own selection, finding themselves joined by only Jirou from First Year Group A when they selected the Water Terrain training camp. Though they'd quickly discovered that Tsunotori and Tokage had joined them from Group B. A mix of four second years had joined as well, along with the slightly surprising addition of a member of the Big 3 in the form of Amajiki Tamaki. Everyone had their own reasoning, of course, and the first years had all taken to sharing their own among themselves as they waited for the staff, who were busy double checking everything was set.

For Momo and Izumi the explanation was actually fairly simple. Their disaster relief training prior to UA had given them an extremely solid grounding in Urban Terrain, along with passingly decent familiarity with Rural environments as well. Of the remaining types, the two had chosen not to go with their strengths, but with their weaknesses. Neither of them had any training beyond UA's basics in water rescue or combat...and Izumi in particular couldn't actually swim in her transformed state. Frankly, it was a struggle to do so even in her untransformed state, and the same problem applied to Momo. For very similar reasons, even. Essentially, and despite what anyone might think simply looking at them, neither of them were actually naturally buoyant. Their respective Quirks had caused both of them to develop far denser body mass, without increasing the surface area of their bodies much, to the point that it took serious effort to swim.