Waves:

It had been a minute at most since Izuku entered the area for the day's physical assignment: a run down, spacious 1-story building with 4 civilian dummies scattered throughout the structure. The assignment was supposed to represent a situation where villains would strand heroes and civilians alike under a continuous assault without means of escape. One pair of students would protect the civilians from a wave of Villain Robots similar to those used in the entrance exam, until another pair could arrive to extract the remaining civilians and escape the area.

A physical assignment was enough to make Izuku uncomfortable, as there was not much he could do without said quirk injuring his body, and those robots despite being the weakest variety available would still be impervious to quirkless attacks. While it was possible that the use of a single charged finger flick would be enough to take down one of the attackers, there was no way to know just how many could come. And the building was not in a good state, so a bad move could cause the structure to come crashing down on the civilians, so until the other pair arrived-

"Hey, Earth to Midoriya. Can you hear me?"

"Wha-Aaahh! I- Yeah, I hear you." Midoriya said with a leap backwards. He had started to mutter to himself without noticing his assigned companion standing just a few meters away from him. To emphasize the scenario of the exercise, Aizawa picked the defender pairs at random, regardless of quirk compatibility or existing relationships. A surprise attack on a patrolled area would require the heroes to be able to work efficiently with one another in the ensuing emergency despite not knowing one another, which was something that Izuku knew quite well after being forced to fight for his survival alongside Asui and Mineta in the USJ incident.

That didn't mean he was prepared to work with people that, if he was being honest with himself, all he knew about was that they were in the same class as him and a faint understanding of how their quirk worked.

"Good. For a moment I thought that you had fallen asleep with your eyes open. That would make you quite the sleep-talker."

Izuku was not sure of what to think about Kyouka Jirou, the user of the Earphone Jack quirk. He had no previous interaction with her, not out of avoidance of her or any dislike between the two, but from a lack of need from either to acknowledge the other's existence. All he knew about her was that she was informal and not above being less than polite at others, especially Kaminari. He was not sure on how to respond to her show of sarcasm, still recovering from the scare she had given him. "S-sorry about that." Midoriya forced out. He may have fought villains not so long ago, but the prospect of talking to a girl still made him stammer a lot, especially if the girl in question seemed able to mess with him for any small thing.

"Don't be, I had to force myself to stop you. Your famed muttering might be pretty useful as well as entertaining if you can listen to it properly." A smirk formed in Kyouka's mouth for a second before returning to its usual neutral expression. "Those robots are not a big deal. One stab from these and they just fizzle out." On cue, the jack of her right ear rose up to her head before it shot out and cracked a robust piece of concrete. "It's not like you failed the entrance exam, didn't you?" Izuku's face went white like a sheet when she mentioned the exams. It was true that he had passed them, but he only managed to do so by saving Uraraka from one of the massive zero point robots, breaking his right arm and both legs to do so, and risking a lethal fall afterwards. He hadn't even come close to incapacitating one of the other robots and while he was considerably stronger than before due to his ten-month training, he still was unable to put holes in solid concrete with his quirkless strength alone. If they were going to pass this trial, then Izuku would need to break a few bones. Again.

Neither had time to continue the conversation though, before a voice blared through the building

" Team C Civilian Defense Trial: Start!"

Followed by the sound of metal crashing against the pavement of Ground Beta. The "villains" had been released outside, giving the unlikely team a green light to move freely outside of the building, as well as start moving the dummies without damaging them. During his muttering, Izuku was able to come up with a strategy that would buy them some minutes, but it would rely on Kyouka's quirk working as he thought it would. "Jirou, can you hear where the robots are coming from?"

For a moment he thought that he saw Kyouka's eyes widen slightly, before she stabbed her jack through the wall to their right, being the only outer wall in the room they were in. She stood still for a second before pointing towards the direction she was facing, behind Izuku. "The closest ones come from there." Of course there would be more than a handful of them, but at least that gave Izuku a general idea of where would be safe for now.

"Alright, can you keep them out while I move the dummies to the back?" When the two entered the building, Izuku took note of where certain rooms were located, as well as which halls were impassable for the two of them without having him use One for All. While the storage room opposite from where the robots seemed to be coming from wasn't failsafe, it was in the interior of the building, meaning that the villains would not be able to get a lucky shot on it, and it just happened to be opposite from where the closest ones were coming.

"You do know this is not the first time I've faced those, right? I'll be fine." With that, the two of them dashed in opposite directions to prepare for the assault. A minute later, as Izuku found the first civilian, any doubts he had about Kyouka being able to handle the wave outside were dispelled as he heard whiplashes followed by a faint fizzle and the crashing of metal into the ground, all heard through the earpiece they were given. Incredible that even a quirk considered "weak" by hero standards is still capable of taking down iron machines, he gushed aloud in his mind as the exact sound sequence repeated every few seconds.

Midoriya recalled where the civilians were located and one by one moved them to the storage. A pair of the dummies was surrounded by debris from particularly worn down parts of the building, delaying the green haired hero a few seconds. They weren't particularly heavy, but they were spread throughout the building and took him a few minutes to locate and move them all to the storage. He had settled down the last dummy into a corner when two noises startled him: A sharp thud coming from the earpiece followed by what Izuku could only describe as an distorted electric boom, and a sequence of metal grinding against the floor could be heard through the halls of the building.

"Urgh… that should be the last of them for now."

"Jirou, are you alright?" Izuku delayed for a moment despite the possibility of a new wave coming closer to him. It wouldn't take more than a moment to make sure the rocker teenager was all right, and the new arrivals still sounded far away from him.

"I know what I signed up for, focus on the robots closing in… great, I can't single out where they're coming from, other than far away from me." Izuku understood then what the initial clang came from, a direct hit on Kyouka's head near one of her ears that managed to weaken her hearing and quirk for the moment. For now, he was alone in finding the villains closing in on the building, and without a moment to spare he ran towards the sound of metal and engines approaching through the halls. How did they get inside? The only opening I saw when we arrived here was the demolished wall in one of the smaller rooms at the side… Oh.

An opening was made in the building so that a wave of bots could make a more silent entrance. The initial wave was unleashed to distract pairs so that they would leave the rest of the building defenseless while the villains attacked the civilians with impunity. By the time the attack was noticed, it was possible that only one or two civilians would still be uninjured, and that was if they were lucky enough to have the dummies spread out at the beginning. In this situation, even an exceedingly powerful hero would be unable to protect all the civilians from an attack on multiple fronts, thus a spread out team would be far more capable to defend the area.

"Jirou, stay where you are! Keep trying to hear for more waves of enemies that could approach."

"Don't need to tell me twice."

The noise drew nearer as Izuku ran through the halls, his heartbeat increasing as he thought on how to deal with the threat. I'll have to make each strike count. If Jirou can deactivate the low threat villains with a stab of her jacks or whatever that noise was, then even just one finger of mine should be enough to demolish one or even more of those… but these walls could crumble if I were to send one of those robots flying towards them, and too much damage to the structure would cause the building to collapse. I'll have to take as many of them down in as few shots as possible!

Izuku was running down one of the halls towards the room before he heard a loud crash towards said area. His senses now more alert, he continued through the path and reached a turn. He looked to his left and noticed that the situation might have been worse than he expected: in a large space, the villains were crawling through several openings in the walls around the area, moving in different directions. While none of them happened to be facing towards him, that only increased the chance that, if he did not take care of them right away, or at least drew their attention to him, they would scatter and make finding them much harder, increasing the odds that a stray could reach the civilians and fell them in an instant. Crap! I hope this works… Izuku looked at the ruined area in front of him, noticing walls and arches around the robots in a battered state, yet they were still standing. A hole in a distant wall revealed the opening he had noticed earlier, and taking into account the possible escape route, he held on to his right index finger with his thumb and aimed at a hole in an opposite wall to the opening. Three robots lined up perfectly there for this gambit to work, as the raw energy of One for All coursed through the arm and into the hand. Picture the egg in the microwave! The energy was packed into the index finger, and subsequently released as he released said finger: "Delaware… SMASH!"

The robots barely managed to notice Izuku before a massive shockwave blasted through the area. In an instant, the bots closest to Midoriya's target folded as if they were made of paper and then were sent flying into the walls and corners of the area, demolishing the walls around several of the other villains and bringing the rooms crashing around them. With adrenaline flowing through his body, Izuku sprinted as fast as his body would let him towards the hole through which the bots entered as soon as he recovered from the recoil of the blast, managing to leap through the opening while the large room he was in began to fall apart. Now outside the building, Izuku still ran away some distance from the chaos, just to make sure the debris crashing down behind him didn't hit him. Once the noise settled down, Izuku finally stopped running and put his hands on his knees, breathing heavily as he recovered. He turned around to see the building at his back, and while it could have gone better, he concluded that from the time he made to get to the now demolished section, the destruction didn't spread wide enough to risk the storage room.

"Midoriya! Can you hear me? Are you ok?"

"Y-yeah, I'm ok Jirou. S-sorry for the noise there." Izuku was expecting his teammate to lash out at him considering that she was probably still hearing through the ground as the side of the building crumbled behind him. While her voice was definitely tense, it seemed to convey concern rather than anger, since for all she knew he might as well be stuck in the debris or worse, and her quirk wouldn't help hear his steps since they would be drowned out in the destruction nearby. Izuku heard a frustrated sigh before Kyouka continued talking.

"Well, I don't pick up any more sounds coming from there, so good job with that." Izuku let out a sigh of relief. He didn't expect the chain reaction to take out the entire wave in one shot, instead counting on Kyouka eliminating the stragglers that remained. "However, another wave is coming from the opposite side, and it includes some heavier machinery." And just like that, Midoriya tensed up again. That was closer to the storage where he had located the civilians, and an even more difficult wave was approaching it. Jirou had already proved herself capable of handling a wave of easy villain robots, but this one included tougher robots, and Izuku was unsure whether a stab from the earphone jacks would be enough to deactivate them. Making things worse, he would have to run around the debris and the sides of the building in order to reach the new wave, and that would take him two or three minutes at least.

"I'll be right there! Try to keep them outside the building while I get there." Izuku wished he had a better plan than to hope for the best, but unless whatever team had been assigned to their rescue arrived soon, this was their best and only option. He needed the villains outside the building, as he couldn't afford to demolish the area near the storage. It would risk the civilians and even if they somehow were still standing, the debris would make it much harder to extract them from the training grounds once it was time to do so. A sharp silence lingered as Izuku started running around the building for a moment before being cut short by a single laugh from Kyouka.

"You know, I'll give you this one since I haven't got any better ideas."

Without delay, Izuku ran even faster than before. He was halfway through the backside of the building, the only one that hadn't been attacked yet, when a loud noise once again rang through his earpiece; the electric boom that sounded shortly before the second wave arrived was now being broadcasted to him, and it just kept on getting louder and more erratic. He could barely hear his own breathing as his right ear began to ring louder and louder. Is that… the noise of Kyouka's amplifiers? That's what is keeping the robots at bay? At times the noise would fade away before going silent for a few seconds, just to start all over again, louder than before. Midoriya struggled to keep on going as the dreary note overwhelmed his senses, and yet he didn't stop running for a moment as the noise got progressively worse with only a few short breaks, wondering if his ear would go deaf from the pain.

Before Izuku knew it, he had reached a corner. He hadn't been aware of how fast he was running, trying to outrun a threat that would keep on outrunning him no matter how fast he went. He made a sharp turn, barely keeping himself from losing balance, and saw the scene in front of him: a multitude of robots steadily advanced, pushing aside the wreckage of other villains that were unable to withstand the increasing force of Kyouka's sound wave. Speaking of which, she stood only a few meters now away from the advancing wave, her teeth gritted and eyes forced unto the oncoming wave. A small line of red could be seen on her ear, though it appeared to have dried a while ago. She's overexerting her quirk… at this rate she's going to end up hurting herself!

Once again, energy coursed through the user of One for All, this time more chaotically than before. He was able to focus it down to his left arm, then his hand, and finally his index, middle and ring fingers. Before unleashing his energy, he let out a scream that he barely managed to hear himself:

"Jirou! Get inside the building!"

On cue, the sound wave stopped and Jirou dashed into the building, her jacks dropping to her sides as she covered her tinted ear. Izuku thanked that she could hear better than most others, as he doubted anyone else would be able to hear his voice over Kyouka's attack. He was able to get close to one of the Medium Villains, which reminded him of scorpions unlike to the wheeled Easy Villains, and formed a fist with his left hand, before unleashing the energy of One for All into a direct punch.

"Texas SMASH!"

The robot was immediately launched through the air and into another one, away from the building. Pieces of it flew through the air hitting several of the remaining robots and incapacitating them, and the few that remained were dented and rendered immobile by the shockwaves sent by the force of the attack. Izuku made sure to aim it so that the building suffered the least amount of damage possible, and besides all of the shattered windows, the structure proper showed no new damage. Izuku was finally able to take a moment to catch his breath, let the rush cool down and think about how he would explain the broken fingers to Recovery Girl.

Or he would have, but he had to make sure of something beforehand.

He ran inside the building and noticed Kyouka sitting down against a wall; her hand covering the ear that he earlier noticed had a distinct dark red falling from it. Izuku was unable to express his concern since Kyouka had an idea of what he was going to say and answered accordingly.

"First wave, one of those struck me clean in the ear." She then raised her jacks to her head. "I can still hear with them, so let's get back to business." She then stabbed the ground with them and focused on listening for any signs of incoming danger. While Izuku was confident that the dummies had not suffered any damage so far, it never hurt to check on them in case the shockwaves, debris or any stray villain had managed to damage them or otherwise inconvenience the upcoming extraction. As he made his way back to the storage room, he heard a new voice in his earpiece.

"Rescue Team D to Defense team C, we are approaching the crisis point. Can you hear me?" The voice spoke in a firm tone and voice that Izuku immediately recognized.

"I-Iida? Yeah, I can hear you!" Izuku wasn't sure of the communication range of the headsets, but Tenya couldn't be too far off if just now they were able to hear each other. The pair just needed to hold on a bit longer, and Kyouka had not alerted them to any further waves just yet.

"Finally! Ahem, Team D will arrive within the minute to assist you in the extraction of the civilians, so please continue protecting the innocent lives from the criminals while we arrive." Sometimes Izuku wondered how Iida could sound so serious while using an exaggerated vocabulary as such, and he didn't seem to be alone in thinking this as Kyouka's voice made it known soon after.

"Somehow I doubt that's how actual heroes speak, even the more flowery ones." Not a moment later, yet another new voice forced itself onto the conversation.

"Hehe, he's been like that the whole exercise, don't mind it. You two doin' okay?" The female voice was much harder to recognize, as it was almost as unknown to Izuku as Kyouka's was just an hour ago, but he did recognize it as a hyperactive, cheery voice that could often be heard from the other side of the classroom… yet he couldn't quite put a name to it.

"Y-yeah, the civilians are still untouched so far."

"Alright! It won't take long before Iida and I get there, so hang on for a sec."

"You might want to take less than that." Kyouka interrupted before one final crash of steel against pavement echoed throughout the building and by extension the earpieces of the four teenagers. "Another wave of robots is coming from the backside area of the building, and they brought the heavy ones this time." The Hard Villains were quadruped juggernauts larger than the Medium or Easy villains, only dwarfed by the gargantuan Arena Traps. Izuku was confident in his chances against one of them, after all he was able to demolish one of the latter, but a large pack of them, or even a few amongst a unit of mediums and easies would spell trouble for the both of them, considering that Kyouka had just used her quirk on a massive scale for an extended period of time and Izuku was down 4 out of 10 fingers. Right now, the priority was to stall and await the rescue.

"Jirou, we need to move the civilians away from the wave! Iida and…"

"Mina Ashido at your service!"

"…Ashido, right. S-sorry. Iida and Ashido, move towards the front—"

"Crap."

"K-Kyouka? What happened?"

"Waves of bots are closing in from all fronts! Mostly the smaller ones, but we'll still need to cut a path."

After a small delay, the sound of machines closing in filled the air. They were completely surrounded, and no side was perfectly safe. The back was out of the question: they would need to fight through the strongest wave sent yet. The left side was impassable due to the debris, and the right side was closest to the strongest wave of them all. Going up or down was impossible: neither team was capable of leaping through the air for extended periods of time, not to mention that the roof may crumble under the combined assault of the villain rush on the ground, and none of their quirks was adequate to form a large enough underground exit on such short notice. In the end, there was only one way they could have a chance at escaping safely.

"We'll still need to move the civilians closer to the front. How long will it take you to get here?"

"I'd say about 20 seconds, Midoriya."

"Okay. J-Jirou, same plan as before."

"We'll cut a way through the villains and building. We detected the horde and while its numbers are impressive, they are quite spread out and favor quantity over quality." By the time Iida finished briefing the rescue team plan, Kyouka arrived at Izuku's position and immediately grabbed two of the dummies surrounding them beneath one arm each, and headed towards the front entrance.

"Thanks for the mission control, but we should get going now."

"R-right, sorry." Izuku took the last two dummies under his arms similarly to Kyouka and headed towards the exit as well. Sweat dripped down his forehead as he stayed alert for any threat, and the sound of machines approaching them just seemed to increase at every moment while the earpiece transmitted the sounds of steel meeting steel accompanied by frequent sizzling as acid burned through the metal. Kyouka led the way, using her earphone jacks at any fork in the road to avoid encountering any villains while heading for the exit. Her jacks took out the few robots that appeared on the way, Izuku noticing on how quickly they stabbed through metal without any problem, as well as their dexterity and the surprisingly large area they could cover. It seemed so simple compared to most other quirks in 1-A, and yet extremely effective and versatile in its applications.

Before he knew it, they were in front of a large series of doors. Only one more obstacle to go through, and they would hopefully pass the assignment. Iida and Ashido were also there, looking almost as exhausted as the defenders did. Their path could not have been easy for them either, it seemed. Izuku confirmed that the acid user was indeed the girl with black sclera and pink skin, who forced a smile out despite the slumped shoulders, bent knees and the sweat rolling down her skin, while Iida's breathing could be heard from behind his helmet and a few pieces of his armor were dented.

"We were able to make our way here safely, but the path we cleared previously is quickly fading. Can you hold on to the civilians for a moment longer?"

"Y-yeah, I'm sure of it." While it was true that his hands were in pain due to the broken fingers dangling from them, his arms proper could still hold on to the dummies for a few more minutes. Kyouka held on to her ones she carried as well.

"I'll lead the charge and take care of the bots in front of us. Mina should go at the back and make a "path" of acid so that the bots will either melt or slow down if they try to chase us."

"Got it!"

"I'll handle whatever approaches the sides then. Sounds like a plan to me."

With a silent nod, the team charged towards the outside of the building. Iida led them towards an area that he and Ashido were able to thin out but not quite clear, steadily advancing through the army of easy villain bots. Iida's quirk, Engine, not only allowed for swift movement through the ground, but also added a large amount of strength to his kicks, allowing him to easily clear a path to advance. Kyouka continued to stab the robots swiftly as she had done throughout the rest of the assignment, and behind Izuku, Ashido effortlessly stopped any of them coming from behind, either dissolving critical parts of the robots or paralyzing them by aiming at the ground below them, making them unable to move as soon as they passed through the acid. A sound plan to reach the safe zone just a couple of meters ahead now, but slow enough that Izuku's grips began to slide. If the civilians slipped from him, they would slow down even more, giving the robots the chance to surround them, not to mention that the dummies could be damaged and count as a loss. Damn it, at this rate… just a bit more!

He unconsciously undid the grip on his hands, and his arms would have faltered as well at the last moment, just a couple meters away from the goal, hadn't he felt the weight of the dummies decrease minimally in an instant. A few more steps he took before putting the civilians down gently, and a loud horn indicated the end of the exercise.

"Defense team C and Rescue Team D: Four out of four civilians rescued! Mission Status: Success!"

Izuku knelt on the ground desperately catching his breath. The exercise had taken a lot out of him, and his body finally had a moment to catch up to the adrenaline rush he had on throughout the last fifteen minutes or so. Taking a moment to look around him, his teammates didn't seem much better, as all of them breathed heavily, desperately recovering from the nonstop tension. The only words he heard from any of the three students nearby before Aizawa would give them their grade were of a previously unknown voice that within the span of a physical assignment, became familiar to the green haired teenager.

"That… could've gone worse."

What little was left of the school day passed as Izuku would expect. While they were able to successfully to rescue all 4 civilian targets, he lost several points due to risking the structure of the building where civilians and heroes alike could be trapped in. He still passed as well as the rest of his team did, but not without a lecture about collateral damage for future exercises and a short visit to Recovery Girl to heal and bandage his broken fingers. One period later, and the students were dismissed for the day. Izuku thought back to the incident at the Unforeseen Simulation Joint a week ago, specifically when he was able to summon the use of his quirk without damaging himself at all. He still had been unable to summon similar results, and not from a lack of trying to either focus the energy of One for All even further or trying to stop the flow of energy just before the attack struck when training on his own, and with the announcement of the Sports Festival shortly after the incident, there was even more pressure on Midoriya to find a way to control his quirk in the two weeks they had to prepare.

Still lost in thought, Izuku stood up from his desk and began to walk out of the classroom before being interrupted by a low voice behind him.

"Hey Midoriya." Izuku leapt a bit before quickly turning to see his teammate from the physical assignment standing a few feet from him. With Uraraka and Iida having left a minute ago, Izuku was not expecting to talk to anybody else throughout the whole way back until he made his way home and thus the greeting took him off guard. Not helping was the fact that he still got nervous whenever he talked to people he did not know very well, and after the joint assignment he still didn't know much about her since besides some of her quips, she mostly stayed aloof throughout the whole thing except for her occasional smirk. She didn't give him anytime to greet her back before she messed with him a bit more. "Got your head in the clouds again?"

"S-sorry, I-I didn'tnoticeyouthere I didn'tmeanto—"

" Okay, I'm gonna need you to slow down a bit." Kyouka stared blankly at Izuku for a few as he stopped his gibberish before his classmate continued. "You know, I was worried that you would walk away from that mess earlier with one of your arms dangling by the side. I guess a couple of broken fingers is a step up from that." For a moment, Izuku caught a glimpse of Kyouka smiling at him. Not a smirk, he had already seen a few of them not long ago, this expression was softer and relaxed without a hint of teasing intent. His mind engraved the expression into his memory just before Kyouka's face returned to her usual frown.

"Oh! I- I… uh… thanks?" Izuku's cheeks were tinted pink when he realized his voice cracked after he forced out the only response he could think of for the… compliment? Congratulations? Not even that made sense in his head right now.

"Real smooth. By the way, you did well back there. Not sure if you had to bring down a part of the building while you were at it, but we passed, and I've gotta say, for such a wimpy guy, your quirk is quite impressive." Her expression didn't change once during her simultaneous praise and shade thrown at her classmate. "Anyways, I'm still wondering why were you so tense before the exercise started. You made it through the entrance exam, didn't you? What was the deal with-"

Vzzzzzzt.

Kyouka stopped for a second before swiftly flipping out her phone and looked at the screen for a second before putting it back. "I guess I'll leave that for tomorrow. See ya." Without giving Izuku a chance to reply, Kyouka walked out of the classroom, leaving the green haired boy to wonder what had just happened. The only thing clear in his mind was the contrast between the sarcastic, aloof teenager and the still engraved smile she had given him. He hadn't spared a thought to her previously, barely knowing she existed, and now for better or worse she stuck to his mind like glue, if only so that he could try to comprehend what was the deal with her.

He didn't have an answer ready by the time he got home, not a conclusive one at least. Kyouka liked messing with him, that much was clear, but in contrast to her aloof nature, she seemed able to coordinate and cooperate with others just fine back in the physical assignment. She was also quick to make her opinion known, though both positive and negative ones had a quip or slumped tone as an attachment. And the more he thought about her quirk, the more impressive it seemed. A pair of long, dexterous, cable-like cartilage strings that ended in earphone jacks strong enough to pierce, concrete, rocks, and dent lesser metals without a problem, and aside from that it also heightened the user's hearing through solid objects, allowing its user to serve the function of a sonar. As if all that wasn't enough, when connected to an amplifier, the quirk unleashes a wave of sound capable of disabling targets on a large area.

Izuku gave a look at the new hero entry he had written. Ever since coming to U.A, he had started to take notes on the classmates he worked with in addition to the unending list of pro heroes. A few pages were dedicated to Uraraka's ability to inflict zero gravity upon whatever she touches, followed by some observations on Iida's Engine quirk, now updated by watching how he cleared a path through the last wave of bots they encountered. Accompanying each entry was a sketch on the hero represented in it, with observations on how their costume worked in tandem with their quirk. Izuku found himself raising his pen away from the paper, staring at the sketch he had just finished.

Kyouka's hero costume consisted of a jet black jacket that only reached down to the sides of her stomach, equally dark pants, a peach-colored shirt underneath the jacket that reached all the way to her thighs, and black boots with speakers to use her quirk on, which Izuku noticed was surprisingly casual, more befitting for a local rock concert than rescuing people, which made it stand out from the more elaborate and flashy designs in class 1-A. But there was still one more detail to fill in. While it was true that what he was thinking of would not be accurate to the usual appearance of the Earphone Jack user… he preferred to remember her this way, despite the strange school day she had given him.

He ended up drawing a smile on the sketch.

Wow, it's been a while, huh?

This is something I'll be writing for fun from now on. I thought up of this ship for laughs about a week ago and now here I am, coming back after a thousand years of laying dormant (and not really writing anything during that period). Real life sometimes seems to try its best to suck out all will to write you know.

Anyways, I hope you liked this introductory chapter. I'm trying to get the hang of writing back after being so out of practice but I had fun writing this and I have plans to move this story forward in the next few months at least. Reviews and comments are welcome, especially constructive criticisms. It means a lot to me that people are willing to say what they like and do not like when I'm working on something. Another ride starts from here on!

-InazumaFrost

PS. This story was inspired by QuirkQuartz amazing "Awkward Energy – MinaDeku", and if anyone reading this hasn't checked it out, I urge you to do so, even if you don't like the pairing it still has some incredible effort and writing put into it. If you liked this even a bit, then I cannot recommend AE enough.

EDIT: While I already mentioned it on my profile, I guess that it is more likely for my readers to know this if I announce it in the chapters proper: The fic has a cover image now! Drawn by nocunoct from Tumblr and Pixiv, an amazing artist overall. I cannot thank him enough for the ship art he made, and you can send him some love over here:

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