"Alright guys, it's betting time." Jiro heard Ashido announce.
"Gambling is not becoming of us Heroes in Training!" Iida shouted.
"But it's not illegal." Mina pointed out. Iida simply grumbled and stepped back. "So what's the wager?"
"How long Mineta can last before he fails." The pink girl nodded and placed two hundred yen for one minute. "The perv's going to be struck frozen the moment Midnight starts winking at him."
Jiro rolled her eyes. It almost wasn't funny knowing how this match would go. "I say he lasts two minutes tops, three hundred yen."
"Two? I'm going for one." Ochako placed three hundred yen of her own.
"That's still too much hope for him. I say ten seconds." Tsu bluntly accessed placing a nice four hundred into the hat.
"I say he passes." They all turned to Kaminari, placing three hundred. "What, someone has to be on his side in all this."
"Yeah, I'm going with Mineta too!" Iruma placed a single Yen into the hat.
"That's all you're betting?" Shoji asked with a raised eyebrow … or eyebrows with multiple eyes growing.
"That's all I have." Well he was losing either way, it's better to not lose much. Still sad though.
"I shall bet on Sero crossing the finish line without Mineta then." Shoji placed a reasonable bet of two hundred yen.
"Come on Mineta, you can win this!" Kaminari yelled at the screen. "For 1-A!"
"Go Minoru! You can do this! Your balls are the best!" Toru immediately covered Iruma's mouth the moment he finished that sentence.
"Iruma-kun, sweety, I think now's a good time to teach you about innuendoes, and how to avoid them."
"But his innocence." Ochako argued.
"He can say something or know something, take your pick!"
"We can't destroy his fragile mind this quickly, especially when Nedzu's about to torture him in a few hours! He'll be scarred for life before Nedzu finishes the job!" She was just gonna watch the match and ignore that shouting match.
==
Sero stretched his arms out. "Okay Mineta, we pin her down, then we make a break for it. We can't fight a Pro head on or we'll end up like Kirishima and Sato." Six feet under.
"Got it. Just let me tie her up with your tape, and we'll be good." Mineta agreed easily, already salivating at the mouth from the idea. "Five seconds to touch such an exposed mature beauty like that, heaven's coming my way."
"Mineta, don't do the thing. Normally I'd ignore you since something else more important is going on, but as my partner, you can actually drag me down." He did NOT need to fail because his partner was getting handsy.
"Fine fine …"
"Your time begins now!" Sero rushed in, swinging from the rooftop before landing. He quickly realized he didn't have anything to swing around here, already at a disadvantage from terrain alone.
"Damn it, they planned for me to instantly want to take the high ground. We have to go on foot from here." The exit wasn't that far ahead anyway. "Stay close. She'll probably force a direct confrontation, and one whiff of her quirk and we're both out."
"Direct is a nice approach … and facing me can be very confronting." And there she was. They turned to the woman strutting her way to them, a smirk of a predator on her face. "It seems my cute little students are in need of some discipline."
"You can discipline me." He smacked his partner. "I mean we'll win for sure!" Mineta peeled off a few sticky balls as Sero shot out some tape.
"Ooh, I do like it when they submit easily~" Her sultry voice made it really hard to focus on aiming, especially when she had plenty of rocks to hide behind. "There's plenty of time for all of us to have fun before the buzzer goes off.~ Why don't we make the most of it~?"
"Yeah, let's take some time to oogle each other.." He was already leaving a trail of nose blood.
"Mineta, don't you dare ditch me!" Sero whisper shouted.
"She hides behind rocks, we need to get in close somehow!" … Damn it the pervert was right. Relenting, they began to steadily make their way to the teacher blocking their path.
"Oh, you've caught me red handed~ I guess you'll have to cuff me, leave me all vulnerable and defenseless. Who knows who'll come along and do who knows what to me~?" She held out her own arms, before a pink mist was emitted into the air.
Options were limited, if they breathed in it would be the end. Sero wasn't effective with tape, it was too straight and effective if missed, and no structure was around to take advantage of. All that was left was … "Don't make my sacrifice in vain!" He snipped Mineta, taking a swing and launching him away.
"Sero no! You bastard!" … This was a mistake.
"Aww, I guess I can share some alone time with you, sweetie~." Maybe it wasn't a mistake, Sero thought, as he fell into blissful unconsciousness on a warm pillow.
==
"Bastard, bastard, bastard, bastard! I'll never forgive you for this!" Mineta only got a glance at what happened as Sero flung him into the air. His unconscious body fell, his head hit Midnight's right boob, and now he was resting right on her lap! The utter fiend!
Mineta was no idiot, he was aware of how much of a pervert he came across as, and how much the ladies of 1-A saw him as such, but so what? He came to this school with one goal in mind, a goal he held close to his heart and would see through to the end no matter what! To become cool and get popular with girls!
But so far nothing has changed. And you know who got the most girls in class 1-A? Iruma! The coolest guy he's ever met! Saving everyone, taking on dangerous villains, heading headfirst into scary situations without care. The man just emanated cool with every step he took, and the ladies all followed him!
Being a hero didn't make him cool, he was cool no matter what he did! He was also the only one in class that never judged him or called him out for being a pervert! His friend was scared and worried all the time, and yet he still kept going. He didn't need to be the silent brooder like Todoroki or an angry asshole like Bakugo, he could just be himself!
Which ment Mineta needed to follow, he would grow as Iruma did every day, he would improve, and he would be … COOL! "Aww, has my Prey gotten tired? Finally given up?"
"No … I needed you in this spot!" He placed Sero's tape on his mouth and nose, taking in one last gulp of air. He was really glad it was scotch, and not duck tape. "A sadist like you would always chase after fearful prey like me!" His last words to his opponent spoke, he ran out from the rocks.
"Thens show me what you've learnt!" She swung her whip out in his direction. Wait for it … wait for it … now . He pulled off one of his sticky balls, placing it between her whip and the ground, locking it in place. "What?"
"GRAPE RUSH!" He cried out his latest special move with a muffled voice. "You could never resist going after someone like me, so I had to lead you far away from the gate where you couldn't reach me again!" And with that, he ducked right between her legs, getting a glorious three seconds of staring at her backside without getting slapped, before using all his willpower to begin running towards Sero and the gate.
This was by far the coolest thing he's ever done at UA, saving the day, passing the exam, and staring at the sexiest teacher without getting reprimanded for it. Surely a single girl was to fall in love at this awesome display.
==
"No."
"Fucking."
"Way."
Momo stood in shock with Jiro and Hagakure, along with the other boys and girls.
"Heck yeah, called it!" Kaminari shouted out. "Knew he would pull through!"
"Minoru was so cool out there! He trapped Midnight-sensei with her own whip! Awesome!" Iruma, probably the only one in the class that literally had no doubt about the match at all, cheered.
"The grape fucker did it …" Even Bakugo and Todoroki looked in bewilderment.
"Iruma-kun, I promise to never doubt you again." Hagakure clung to her crush as always.
"Didn't he call soulmates another word for a really good friend?" Iida reminded her.
"Hush you, we're past that." Hagakure proceeded to nudge Iida in the stomach.
"I feel so much less manly …" Kirishima looked down.
"I feel inspired!" They all turned to Ojiro. "If he can pass that, anyone can!" He has a point … if it wasn't false in her case.
"Yeah, if the class perv can actually do a good job, then there's literally no excuse for us to not pass." Jiro sighed, groaning as she was probably regretting saying anything positive about the boy. Momo would've felt just as dirty. "So let's all pass so we don't have to live in a world where MINETA of all people is better than you."
"Rub it in, why don't you." Sato joined Kirishima. She should really get some snacks or something.
"Damn it, I lost the bet!" Ochako cried out. "It should've been a shoe in for sure! Why'd he pick now of all times to have character growth!?"
"Wait a second…" They all turned to Kaminari. "… Me and Iruma won the bet!"
"I won a bet!" Iruma shouted. "Now I have two yen!" …She was happy Iruma was so cheerful, but she needed to teach the boy about money quickly before he did something foolish…again.
"This is why you don't gamble." Iida reprimanded them. For once most of the class nodded with him.
==
Midnight was many things. A pro, a woman, a night dream. But most importantly, at UA? She was a teacher. Here to help the next generation be better than them. To avoid mistakes they've all made before.
She's been given many names over there years to do given how passionate she took her job as a hero. Harlot, slut, hoar, the list could go on and on, but you know what, she took pride in every name given to her. She knew what she liked, and she was proud to show off everything she had.
And here she saw a kid not be dragged into the common hole a lot of heroes fell into. Only in it for petty reasons without much conviction. No, he fully intended to live up to his goal no matter what.
"He's gonna go far, isn't he?" She asked the robot trying to rip free her whip.
"Little busy."
"Some might say being popular with the ladies is a stupid reason to be a hero..but I say there's no greater motivator in the world for people like him…except maybe spite."
"Seriously, you're not helping."
"I mean, it's all about the passion. How much will you strive and resist temptation in order to reach that goal? I tell you, these kids are something else."
"I will cut off a limb if you don't shut up." Kill the mood, why don't you? Why did Power Loader program them to be such buzzkills?