Battle Trial [2]

Aiden and Momo walked to the 5th floor where their bomb had been placed. They talked about their quirks and what to expect from their opponents. Aiden clued her in on the abilities that both Kirishima and Sero possessed and the two came up with a battle strategy.

"That Sero guy will most likely stick to ranged combat and try to capture the bomb with his tape." He explained. "Kirishima will probably try to engage us with hand to hand combat, his quirk will make it difficult to truly damage him so we should get rid of him first."

Momo quietly listened while nodding her head. She found it a bit weird that he had so much information on their opponents despite this being the second day of school.

He continued. "I think you should take care of the bomb while I take out the heroes."

"Can you do that?" She asked rather shocked. Although she didn't know the extent of his quirk's abilities, from what she saw during the apprehension test he seemed to lack combat capabilities.

"I'll be fine." He smiled. "But if you could create something for me then our chance of victory would become 100%."

'100%!'

"What do you need?"

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After 5 minutes had passed, he started walking towards the lower levels and left Momo to guard the bomb. The two of them had earpieces that All Might had gave them for communication.

"Everything ready on your end?" He asked.

"*Sigh* If you actually manage to take them out then everything I've prepared would be useless."

"Better safe than sorry right. Besides its just a precaution in case one of them gets past me."

"*Sigh* Whatever you say."

Smiling at her attitude, Aiden continued making his way down.

After walking for a few minutes he heard some noise. It sounded like Kirishima and Sero were talking about something. Closing his eyes, Aiden blocked out all sound and focused on their position. Waiting for them to walk into his range, he slowed his breathing and felt his mind sharpen.

He had multiple ways in which he could handle this situation, but since he preferred efficiency over flashiness he chose to deal with them in the fastest way possible.

Once the two entered his range, he astral shifted above them and pulled out the items that he asked Momo to make for him.

"Eh!" The said in surprise.

Seeing that the two recognized him, Aiden couldn't help but grin and release his hold on the flash grenades.

"Shi-

*FLASH!!*

"ARGHHH!!"

"MY EYES!!!"

Shifting around the corner he waited for the white light to fade before charging back out. Seeing the two of them covering their eyes, his gaze locked onto Kirishima. From what he had learnt during the quirk apprehension test, Kirishima's ability only allowed him to harden his skin and didn't affect anything else. Meaning that his weight and physical strength didn't change.

Appearing in front of him with shocking speed, Aiden used a judo technique to flip the blinded Kirishima and flung him through a nearby window.

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Seeing the falling Kirishima, the students of class 1-A fell into silence. Before this they were debating on who they thought was going to win, Mina of course had full confidence in Aiden and couldn't imagine him suffering a loss. The rest of the class wasn't as confident as her as they thought that Kirishima's ability gave him the best combat potential out of the 4. It was only after seeing the one with the best combat ability being flung out of the window that they understood why Mina had such confidence in him.

"Fucking show off." Bakugo gnashed his teeth still enraged over his loss to Midoriya.

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Once Kirishima was dealt with, Aiden turned his attention onto tape boy. Taking advantage of his blinded state, he rained down a hail of punches onto him and eventually knocked him unconscious.

'So this is the power of teamwork' He stared down at his fist. 'Nah, I could have gotten flash grenades anywhere.'

Although he wouldn't deny Momo's contribution to the take-down, he felt that he could have dealt with the situation on his own and didn't really need any support. But since this was a training exercise he decided to keep those thoughts to himself.

"The villain wins!" All Might's voice rang out and signaled the end of their turn.

Walking out with Momo, the two shared a knowing smile.

"Told you I could do it." He smirked.

"I never doubted you for a moment." She said righteously.

Aiden looked at her with suspicion but decided to let it go as he couldn't be bothered to argue.

"Whatever."

Seeing his reaction made her smile.

"Aiden!! You were so cool!" Mina charged over excitedly.

"You make it sound like I'm never cool?" He raised his eyebrow.

"I didn't mean it like that! I-I just..."

Laughing at her nervousness, he ruffled her hair until she calmed down.

Seeing how close the two were, Momo subconsciously touched her own hair and wondered what it was like to have someone ruffle her own hair.

[A/n: Its not that great.]

After that, the other matches proceeded with little to no incidents besides the first. By the end of it All Might brought the class out of the training area.

"Good work everyone!! Apart from young Midoriya there were no big injuries!"

'Obviously, that guy's such a weakling that he was the only one in a class of 20 to get injured.' Aiden rolled his eyes after remembering the first match.

All Might continued. "For your first full training exercise, you all did wonderfully!!" He praised.

'When is this gonna end?'

Looking at the rest of the class he saw that their eyes were shining.

'Is he that impressive?'

"Now, I'm going to share that critique with young Midoriya. Change your clothes and head back to class." And with that All Might ran off.

'....'

The class was left in high spirits and the students started discussing their matches with each other. Out of the rest of the students, only two people didn't seem to want to discuss the outcome of their matches. The first was the quiet Todoroki while the second was the arrogant Bakugo who was still in a state of shock after losing to Midoriya.

Feeling someone's gaze on him, he couldn't help but look up. Seeing that it was Aiden he immediately lost his cool.

"What you looking at fuckface!?"

Feeling the hostility radiating off of him, Aiden couldn't help but want to put the arrogant little shit in his place.

"You lost to a weakling like Deku, you have no right to talk to me." He scoffed.

"THE FUCK DID YOU SAY TO ME!!" He exploded.

[A/n: Not literally.]

"Sorry, I'm afraid I can't hear the words of losers." He cupped his ears before walking off.

Just as he was about to attack Aiden, Bakugo was blocked by the red haired Kirishima who merely shook his head.