Ice, Fire, Love, Explosion: Season 2 | My Hero Academia

Chapter 23: A + B Slumber Party

3rd Person POV

Classes 2-A and 2-B have now been at their training camp for three sleeps, meaning that half of training camp was completed... and they had half of it left to go.

Today was their fourth day, and their third morning of camp.

The bright, fierce sunlight shone upon all the intensely training teenagers, as if bullying them since they were all sweating profusely... And the sun's burning rays only further exhausted their sweaty bodies.

Both classes were training their Quirks, just as they have been every early sunrise all the way to the beginning of sunset.

Near the entrance to the forestry, off to the side from the large, barren field where their classmates strengthened their own Quirks... were Miku and Vanessa, both down on their knees next to one another and catching their breaths, their breathing patterns quite heavy. While Vanessa had her right hand pressed to her chest and her left hand to her stomach, Miku held her head with both hands.

"... You good to keep going?" Vanessa glanced up at her best friend, who forced a few nods as she slowly began to stand up. "Y-Yeah..."

The two slowly yet at the same time quickly lifted themselves up onto their feet. Miku turned on her heel and took a few steps away from her best friend, who had reached into her black bra and pulled out her sharp, sewing needle; Her gym uniform shirt was fully unzipped. The moment Miku turned around to face Vanessa, the smaller girl thrusted the needle into her left forearm underneath the dozen needle-wounds above it, and blood hastily seeped from the wound, staining the dried blood already on the needle.

Vanessa quickly wiped the tip of the needle over her forearm to rid of the blood before shoving it back into her bra and grabbing her pencil from behind her right ear. She activated her Quirk and swiftly got to drawing something on her arm, lacing her drawing with her fresh blood... while Miku gritted her teeth, focused her mind and clenched her hands at her sides. Just as Vanessa finished the last stroke of her drawing and made sure to stand up straight, Miku bit down on her lip and her hands emitted a black hue.

Vanessa's entire body froze stiff, including the blood dripping from her deep wound. Her emerald irises turned a wooden brown, though her pupils remained the same black. Before her appeared a drawing of a medieval cannon from emerald sparkles; This was the thirteenth canon she had drawn today.

Vanessa's soul now empowering a canon drawing for the thirteenth time today, Miku dug her heels into the ground and fully focused her mind, her face scrunching up. The black hue emitting from her hands clenched at her sides never faded away.

A cannonball shot from the drawing and the second it was fired, Miku used Time Speed-Up on the cannonball, causing it to emit a black hue and shoot up into the atmosphere at double the speed it would have originally traveled at.

Whenever she used Time Speed-Up on living and/or non-living objects, it always caused the subject to speed up at twice the speed the subject would have originally performed the action at. It was essentially like the subject was a video sped up at x2 speed.

She had decided that for their camp training sessions, every day she would rotate between training using Time Reverse and Time Speed-Up with her mind... and today it was Time Speed-Up's turn. She had managed to get those two new abilities to work with her mind as an additional trigger to her hands just two weeks ago, and she desperately needed to train their endurance on her head so they could catch up to her high endurance of the Time Stop strain.

She continued to Speed-Up multiple cannonballs into the sky, the scorching atmosphere burning the drawings to ash.

Yet, just 47 seconds in—