The Insectoid Hero (BNHA X Male Stun the Insect Reader)

Chapter 7: Preparing for the Sports Festival

It was the day after my fight with Bakugou. Fortunately, thanks to my friends providing eyewitness testimony and All Might explaining the functions of my quirk, I wasn't in serious trouble, but Bakugou and I did receive detention for 3 days. I was glad I got off easy, but Bakugou was taking every chance he got to try and fight me again, saying he would have beaten me if everyone hadn't interfered.

I decided to go the passive route and just said no every time. This enraged him to no end, and only seemed to make him more determined to fight me. Did he have a death wish, or was he just plain crazy? Apart from Bakugou constantly trying to start fights, everything went on as normal. I talked to Todoroki and thanked him for stepping in yesterday. He just said "Don't mention it," and walked off. Well, from what I had observed, he was very withdrawn, but he wasn't a bad person.

I had talked with Midoriya about training together after school, or in my case, detention. He agreed and we settled on a time and place. After serving detention with Bakugou, undoubtedly the worst hour of my life since leaving the lab, I joined All Might to meet up with Midoriya for training. To be honest, training with him had been All Might's idea in the first place. He said it would be beneficial for the both of us.

He had already told me how he had passed his quirk, One for All, to Midoriya and how he couldn't control it just yet. When we arrived, Midoriya was surprised to see All Might with me, on account of I forgot to tell him that he would be joining us. All Might explained I knew the situation of his quirk, and I told him that I'd be happy to help him get more control over it.We started out slow, building his control over it a little at a time. I had to say, he was progressing pretty well.

I had also gotten the okay from All Might to give him some lessons in hand to hand combat I thought would be beneficial. He caught on quickly and had learned a decent amount in a short time. I was honestly worried about what would happen if we went up against each other at the sports festival. Meanwhile, I was working on improving control of my beast form.

When I wasn't doing school work or training, I was researching recorded cases of people who had the same quirk as me and whatever cases I could find of Hyper Beast users. I found an article that had been published by people who had the quirk that explained what they did to gain control over it, and even extend the time they could hold it. I wrote down every useful piece of information I could find. The first step would be to increase my endurance.

All Might helped me with this. He had gotten heavy duty weights for me to use to increase my strength and endurance. I had received a set of ankle and wrist weights, each one weighing 20 pounds. It was hard to move at first, but as time progressed, it became easier. When I removed them, the difference was clear. I was much stronger and faster than I was before. The training I put myself through in a few days had yielded more results than what the doctor had me do in a month. The next part wasn't as easy as making myself stronger.

Every source I found said that the hardest part was working to keep your mind calm while transformed, that was the key to control. When I brought this up to All Might, he suggested I think of something that would help to keep me calm, an emotional anchor of sorts. I began to think of what could work. My mom? No, I didn't remember her very well, so that wasn't much help. All Might? No, he was more of an inspiration than a calming presence.

I don't know why, but my mind wandered to Yaoyorozu. She could work. She was kind, supportive, cared about others, and she made me believe in myself when I was about to give up on being a hero. I realized two things. First, that she would be the perfect thing to help keep me grounded. And second, that I was falling in love with her. It was the second thing that really stuck out to me.

I then transformed into my Hyper Beast Mode. As soon as I heard the voices, I thought of Momo. The more I thought about her, the quieter the voices became, until I eventually couldn't hear them. "You in control kid?" All Might asked me. I nodded my head, not being able to speak in beast form. "All right, now let's see how far you've come." he said, before changing into his muscle form. "Let's do this." he said before launching himself at me. I rushed him and we started fighting.

Well, we weren't full on fighting, more like sparring. But in spite of that, I could tell a difference between my previous transformations and now. My power didn't surge in response to my emotions, I could hold the form easier, and I had total control over my actions. We had to stop after a while because All Might couldn't hold his muscle form any longer, but we continued to work on my control.

The week passed and both Midoriya and I came far in our training. He could now wield 20% of One for All without breaking any bones, and I could use Hyper Beast for 10 minutes without wearing myself out, and still had full control over it. We still had a few days before the sports festival, so I decided to work on my electric abilities. I could now generate a ball of condensed energy much easier, and could even launch a controlled stream of lightning.

Meanwhile in school, I kept a lid on about my training, and held myself back in class so that my classmates couldn't tell how far I'd advanced. I had been spending the week gathering information about my classmates' quirks and whatever weaknesses they had. Some proved more difficult to find than others. I realized who the biggest threats were. Iida, Todoroki, Bakugou, and Midoriya.

Iida was fast, and with his Recipro Burst, he could make himself temporarily faster, but would burn him out if he used it too long. Todoroki's quirk gave him an advantage over me. His cold had already proven effective in defeating my beast mode, but I observed that if he used his ice too much, it would freeze his arm and slow him down. I'd have to increase my cold tolerance if I wanted to beat him.

Bakugou's quirk was versatile and he'd proved he could be creative with it. I'd have to defeat him quickly if I wanted to win. Midoriya was a threat in that he knew how much power I was actually packing, as well as he was smart and very observant. He told me he's actually kept a journal cataloging all his classmates' strengths and potential weaknesses, and I had a feeling he'd tried to find mine, but whether or not he came up with one remained to be seen. My advantage against him was that I could use more power than him.

I could tell the sports festival may put me through some of the biggest fights of my life, but the weird part was, I was excited about it. But, there was one thing I couldn't get off my mind, that being Momo. Every time I was around her, I wanted nothing more than to tell her how I felt, but I couldn't muster up the courage. I had finally had enough of my cowardice and talked to All Might.

"Yaoyorozu huh?" he asked. "Yeah, for some time now. I want to tell her, but I can't find the confidence to tell her. What should I do?" I asked him. "You should tell her how you feel. That's the only way you'll ever know if she'll return your feelings. And even if she doesn't, I'm sure she'd still want to be your friend." he told me. "Thank you All Might. Okay, I'm gonna tell her tomorrow." I said.

Easier said than done. It was almost the end of the day, and I still hadn't told her. "Come on, you can do it." I told myself. I walked up to Yaoyorozu in the hallway and tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around and spoke to me, "Oh, hi (Y/N). Did you wanna tell me something?" she asked me. I steeled my nerves and spoke. "Yeah, can we talk in private for a minute please?" I ask her.

"Sure." she said, following me to a hallway where no one was around. "So what did you wanna talk about?" she asked me once we got there. It feels like my heart is gonna jump out of my chest. I take a few deep breaths and start speaking. "I have a confession to make." I say. "What is it?" she asks. Well, here goes.

"I'm in love with you." I say as I clench my eyes shut. She goes quiet. "I think I first started to fall in love with you when you remade my mother's locket. You barely knew me, and just saw me attack your friends, but you helped me get back the thing I cared about most in the world. You've been so kind to me, and you made me believe in myself when I was ready to give up on being a hero. You're such an amazing person and I'm so glad I got to meet you."

I then feel her bring me into a hug. "I love you too." she says. "Really?" I ask her. "Yes. You're such a good person. You're kind, sweet, and you care about others. In spite of everything that's happened to you, you still want to be a hero and help people." We stay there for a couple minutes before we walk down the hall to our last class of the day. I was on cloud 9 the rest of the day. We decided to keep our relationship to ourselves for now.