Jiro was happy, of course she was. Kaminari finally had someone, other than Iruma, who believed in him. Plus he was a pervert, for sure, it would be ages until he found a girl that didn't care. And Yaoyorozu was a nice girl who deserved happiness, there were definitely worse options …
So why did it bother her so much? Like Jamming-whey said, his life wasn't her business, she shouldn't care about who he hangs around with, or what he thinks about other girls…no, it was just because he was a pervert who would eventually screw up any relationship with any girl he managed to date. He'd mess up, and she'll be there to laugh at…WITH him when that time comes.
"Gah, this is annoying." She grumbled. A ding drew Jiro to her phone. She picked it up and read the message.
"Are you doing okay?" From Koda … she turned at the boy three feet away. For a guy with a quirk that literally relied on conversation he wasn't much for one.
"Yeah, just peachy." She groaned. A thought suddenly came to her. "Hey, you were with Kaminari the whole time during internships, right? What exactly did you guys do?"
The boy went back to furiously typing on his phone before she got a ding, looking back at hers. "I mainly spent my time making friends with the animals there." Right, like the squirrels. "Kaminari tried to get smarter, he wasn't happy with the progress though."
"Yeah, he probably got too distracted looking at middle-aged women in short skirts." She rolled her eyes, mentally face-palming at the image.
"No, he mainly spent all his time with Mandaly going over hostage scenarios, planning, negotiating, spent hours at night covering ever base he could think of."
"... Fuck." She slapped her own forehead. "He probably got way too insecure about it …" She looked at Koda. "Hey, when you had friends before UA did they ever … joke around with each other? Like, an insult without meaning it?"
"I mainly spent time with the other animals, like the stray squirrel or opossum that snuck into the vents." Right, animal guy. "But the few people I did hang around with did that, mainly making jokes about how quiet I was, or how blocky my hands are. I knew they didn't mean much by it, but it stung a little hearing it over and over." Damn it, why couldn't life just be simple … she just needed to get the apology out. Then she could move on with her life.
"Your time starts now." But first, beating the loudest and most annoying teacher at UA.
"You wouldn't happen to know where Mic-sensei is now, do you?"
" "He's at the gate already. I've heard from a few birds a while ago that he's not the biggest fan of the outdoors."
"Great, that's an advantage." They began running. "Try to get a few animals closer, we'll see what they can do while we close the dista-"
"HURRRYYYYY UUUUP!!!" And now she had THAT little sentence ringing inside of her cranium. She could do nothing but scream.
==
"Come on Jiro, pain passes, and so will you!" Kaminari cheered on.
"Surprised you're cheering her on." Mineta called out. "She's the one always drilling her jacks into our heads.
"Eh, after a while you get used to it." Not really, it was almost as painful as the buzz in his brain whenful he turned stupid. "Besides, why would I want her to fail? She'd hate it if she didn't pass something you did."
"Exactly." Momo nodded. "That's pretty much the consensus of all women … I really hope your score isn't affected too badly." She turned over to the pair of girls that went up against Thirteen.
"We came to a mutual understanding, so everything works out in the end." Uraraka answered as both girls were hanging off Iruma's side. "There's just some things we have to live with no matter what."
"Yeah…no matter how painful it is." Hagakure sounded like she was biting her lip. "But look at you two, getting all close and comfy together." She pointed her gloved hand at him and his partner.
Kaminari tilted his head. "Well we talked about some stuff in the mock city, and just realized we clicked." It was amazing how much in common he shared with the top of the class Momo.
"It's a little more than that Denki. You pushed me forward when I was about to give up." The slightly taller girl was slightly leaning on him…was this happening? Did he black out from using his quirk and this was just an elaborate hallucination? "Thank you, thank you for everything."
"N-no no problem, Yaomomo!" Get it together! Don't screw this up! You have ONE chance to make this count! "He-hey, ah, after exams are over, do..do you want to head out somewhere, together?"
"Sure, that sounds lovely. We can all head over to the mall." Oh … that was nice he supposed. Super platonic with everyone there. "I do need someone to help me pick out a swimsuit after all." …
'Brain, status report!'
'It's no good! It couldn't handle processing such a blessed opportunity happening in his life! He's shutting down! He's shutting down!'
'Quick, system reboot! I don't pay you to stand around all day doing nothing'!
'You don't pay me at all. In fact, none of this is real. We're just an abstract metaphor to represent the process of thought'
'Does that mean we've just been sitting in here doing nothing?'
'Eyes say yes, they're repeating his name over and over!'
'Quick, heart, do something useful!'
And that was what led Denki to punching himself in the face. "I'd love to help."
"Kaminari, you bastard!" Mineta yelled, actually crying blood in jealousy. "I thought we were in this together!" Times change my man … times change.
"Hey, should Jiro be bleeding like that?" They all followed Iruma and, turns out, she was bleeding.
==
Koda held his hands over his head. The sound attacks were just too strong, it hurt. "I WAAANNNT PIIIIZZZAAAAA!!!" And they were also mildly annoying.
It was so loud that he actually forgot about using his phone and started signing towards Jiro, who was barely keeping the soundwave back with her own quirk. Made sense why she was picked to be here. Mic-sensei's was essentially a better version of hers. "Koda..I can't keep this.." Jiro started bleeding from the ears.
He waved his hands faster, panicking, not sure what to do at the moment. This was almost exactly like the internships! Back win Ragdoll was pummeling them with golem after golem, where Kaminari did everything he could to get them off Koda's back while he did nothing.
"Ko-Koda!" Jiro yelled pointing at a small mound on the ground. "A-bugs are animals, right?! You can communicate with them, right!?" She started wobbling a little. He let out a small screech, backing behind the tree. "Are you … scared?" She asked, jacking her plug into her legs. "Listen … I can hold him off. But I need you to get over it. We won't have luxuries like this in the future."
No, he couldn't…the bugs were just so creepy! They..
"Look, I can't tell what you're saying, but we're training to be heroes! We need to be able to use everything we can..too.." Jiro fell to the ground.
"JIRO!" He shouted, actually forming words for the first time in years if he remembered correctly. He couldn't let all her hard work go to waste! He couldn't let Kaminari's hard work go to waste. He was the king of the forest! Nature bent to his will!
"You pitiful creatures!" He commanded the ants. "You serve a new king now! Gather up all your allies and enemies and bow to me!"
"What's a king?"
"I don't know, but he commands it."
"You think he's single?"
"Shut up sharon." … He never expected bugs to be such conversationalists.
==
Present Mic was doing vocal exercises. He went a little hard on that last barrage, so he was giving himself and his enemies a chance at recuperation. He looked at his watch, seeing there wasn't much time left. "They're gonna lose at this rate …" Should he take it easy?
THUD. Uh, last he checked, there were no gigantification quirk users among the first years. THUD.
He pressed his com, a little concerned. "Power Loader, did you unleash a Zero Pointer recently?"
"Let me check … nope, everyone is accounted for." Well that can't be right.
"Then why does it sound like Mt. Lady is in the area?" He asked out loud as the thuds got bigger, and louder, and, holy shit! What the hell was that!?
"We are one! " A FUCKING Kaiju made up of ants, roaches, spiders, worms, and every manner of creepy crawly approached him. "We serve the all mighty king of the forest. We squash those not part of the hive. Prepare to be eviscerated."
Present Mic made sure to never yell. All that shouting in the classroom was what he considered quiet. After all, his quirk activated at a certain high tone. That control just so happened to shatter right about … now. "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" His screaming did nothing as the monster approached, step by step without a single care. Regardless he kept screaming, not out of trying to attack but out of genuine fear.
"You pitiful whispers are nothing. We talk as one, we move as one, we fight as one." The monster reached out it's hand. "Assimilation is inevitable. Resistance is futile. Your ass is grass."
Present Mic only had one option available to him. Passing out and hoping it was a scary dream.
==
Recovery girl smiled at the screen. So many students avoided injuries, and all they had to do was genuinely harm their teachers. She considered that a major plus over previous years. "What a big baby. Getting scared by a few tiny bugs." She thought Yamada would've gotten over his fear by now."
"How did it come to the point where we're more afraid of nice people like Iruma and Koda rather than the monsters like Todoroki and Bakugo?" Sero attempted to not look at the screen, the sight of the bug monster being a bit unsightly.
"Probably when we realized a nice person snapping is a very dangerous thing." Ashido answered.
"But I didn't snap, my bones are all fine!" Yes they were, Suzuki, please continue to keep it that way. You've survived having the oaf as your teacher for this long, you can keep it up.
"You'd still be adorable even if you went crazy, Iruma-kun." Hagakure continued to be less subtle than her quirk should've made her. "Just keep being yourself, it's the best you I know."
"Do you think 1-B has to deal with this insanity?" Shoji asked them. "Because a small part of me is considering a transfer."
"Well 1-B has Momona and Shiozaki, so they're not completely sane if that's what you're wondering." Todoroki answered.
"Seeing as I'm next, it seems I have to remind you extras who the real top dog is." Bakugo cracked his neck. She only prayed that Toshinori knew how to hold back … always had a bad habit of going too hard.