I Am Iron-Man (MHA) Chapter 36: Battle Training (Patreon)

[Third Person's PoV] 


“Looking good, everyone,” All Might cheered with a thumbs up. “Looking presentable is a big part of being a hero. You want to appear dependable and give the reassurance that everything will be alright.”


Mineta was observing the girls with a pervy expression, while Tony and Melissa just stared at Hagakure.


“What?” she asked, noticing their gazes.


“Why the hell are you naked?” both Melissa and Tony asked at the same time.


“WAAAAAAH! YOU CAN SEE ME!?” she screamed as she went and hid behind Melissa.


“It’s a bit difficult, but we can see your outline as you reflect light off your body…” Melissa explained.


The floating gloves went and covered her face. “This is the only way I would be able to use my quirk; otherwise, my clothes would be detectable.”


Both Tony and Melissa sighed. “We are building you a new suit…” they both said once again simultaneously.


“Huh? Would you really be able to do it?” Hagakure asked shyly.


Tony and Melissa nodded their heads. “It's honestly a very simple procedure,” Melissa said.


As they continued to discuss Hagakure’s wardrobe situation, the others looked around their surroundings.


Iida raised his hand. “This is like the Entrance Exams. Will we be battling robots in the cityscape once more?”


“No, Young Iida,” All Might said as he went into further detail of their training exercise. “You will all be experiencing an indoor battle training exercise. Although most fights against villains often occur outdoors, more often than not, you will have to face villains indoors.”


“Now then, everyone will be split into two oppositions: that of a hero and that of a villain. You will all then battle in a two vs. two indoor battle,” All Might started explaining.


Everyone immediately started asking questions:


“What determines victory?”


“Are you going to expel us if we fail like Aizawa?”


“How will we divide ourselves?”


“Don’t I just look absolutely fabulous?”


“Woah, woah, everyone calm down! Give me a chance,” All Might said as he motioned for them to calm down.


All Might took a paper from his pocket and began to read it like a script. “Alright, listen up everyone. The villains will be hiding a nuclear weapon in their hideout. The hero will have to go in and take care of it. The hero will have a limited amount of time to either capture the villain or secure the weapon. The villain either has to capture the hero or wait till the timer is up.”


“Who will be heroes or the villains will be decided by drawing lots!” he announced, taking out a box.


“Let’s see…” All Might muttered as he rapidly counted while moving his finger. When he was done, he said, “It seems we have a bit of a situation. Due to the number of people, there will be a 3 vs. 3 as one of the fights. Alright, show of hands, who wouldn’t mind being the two to pull lots out to see which team they will be in?”


Tony and Melissa raised their hands, and as All Might saw them, he nodded his head. “Alright, you two will be the last two to pick.”


They all soon drew lots, making their teams. The ones with three members on them were the letters C and I, which were unsurprisingly the two letters All Might pulled out from the hero and villain slot, respectively.


Tony and Melissa looked at their lots and saw that Tony had the letter I, which meant he was the Villain, while Melissa had the letter C which meant she was the Hero. 


“Yes, I’m the villain!”


“Yes, I’m the hero!”


Both Tony and Melissa turned towards each other, narrowed their eyes, and scoffed before turning away and walking towards their teammates.


Tony’s teammates consisted of Momo and Shoji, while Melissa’s consisted of Todoroki and Aoyama.


“Hehehehe, it looks like we’ll be the villains,” Tony said to his teammates, rubbing his hands together.


“Why do you want to be the villain so bad?” Shoji asked.


“Well, big guy, it’s because, for one, it’s fun. And two, who wouldn’t like to be a rebel once in a while?” Tony said proudly.


“Since the teams have been decided, both teams get into positions. I, alongside the rest of your classmates, will be watching your battle via the CCTV. The villains will get a five-minute start to prepare. When the timer is up, the heroes sneak in and stop the villains. Good luck, everyone.”


All Might, alongside the others, went to the showroom where they watched everything from the CCTV.


Tony, alongside his teammates, were near the nuclear weapon they had to defend.


“Alright, here’s what we’ll do. First, Momo, I will need you to make some things for me…”


…


Todoroki, without much emotion, turned towards the others. “Stand back and don't step foot inside if you don't want to get frostbite…”


“What are you planning to do?” Melissa asked.


“Just wait patiently…”


“Based on your costume, I'll assume you have an ice quirk. Based on your words, I’m going to assume you’re planning on freezing everything. Am I wrong?” Melissa asked.


Todoroki stared at her for a bit and shook his head.


“Yeah, I thought so. But you see, that won't work…”


“Why?” Todoroki asked.


“Because we made these suits tailored to dealing with any kind of quirks, ice especially, so Tony will most definitely have a counter for them.”


“I see… So what do you suggest?” Todoroki asked.


After they finished discussing, Melissa gave her forearm a bit of a tap. From it came out a tiny flying machine.


“What does it do?” Aoyama asked curiously.


From her forearm, a hologram appeared connected to the flying machine. “It's a spy drone. It'll allow us to view what they are doing without being detected,”


Melissa controlled the fly bot and made it fly towards their windows. She saw Tony in his Iron Man suit leaning against the wall arrogantly while the nuke was surrounded by electric wiring.


“Can you see further into the room?” Todoroki asked.


“I can't get too close; otherwise, Tony will be able to detect it.”


“Alright, we can work with this. We will go with your plan,” Todoroki nodded without much of an expression.


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“Heroes may now enter!” All Might informed the heroes.


Melissa grabbed Todoroki and Aoyama by their collars and flew towards the outside window of the top floor and threw both Todoroki and Aoyama in. 


Once inside, Todoroki froze all the traps while Aoyama turned towards Tony and thrusted his hip, shooting his laser beam from his stomach. 


Melissa flew in behind them and put her hand on the nuke. Once her hands were on it, she turned towards Tony, looking smug, but her expression froze as she saw the suit of armor crumble into pieces as it was hit by Aoyama's beam.


Todoroki turned towards Melissa in confusion. “Your hands are on it. How come we haven't been declared the winner?”


“This room is a decoy—” Before Melissa had a chance to answer, two sheets came off the wall, revealing Shoji and Momo each carrying a large stick. They both put the sticks next to Aoyama and Todoroki's necks and electrocuted them unconscious.


In front of the nuke, Tony undid his cloaking and blasted a red repulsor beam from his palm, hitting Melissa and sending her flying into the next building.


Melissa stood up from the rubble, irritated, and flew towards Tony, where they both met in the middle with a punch.


As their fists connected, Melissa shot a repulsor beam from underneath, hitting Tony's stomach and sending him flying into the air.


Tony immediately stabilized himself and sent two repulsor beams from his hands towards Melissa.


Melissa turned her body, dodging the repulsors, and shot some of her own. From her shoulders, two miniature rockets appeared and flew towards Tony.


Two of the same rockets appeared from Tony's shoulders and flew towards Melissa's, creating a giant explosion that filled more than half the sky with black smoke.


---


Meanwhile, in the showroom…


“Are they trying to kill each other?” Mina asked.


“Ribbit… I thought they were going out. I don't think that's how a couple would behave towards one another,” Asui said awkwardly.


Bakugo sat on the couch, leaning forward with his arms on his knees and his hands interlocking, his eyes following their every move. His scowl was gone, replaced by a serious expression.


“Woah, even though they're quirkless, they seem so powerful…” Uraraka said in wonder.


“Are we really sure they're quirkless?” Jiro asked with an uneasy smile.


---


Tony waited for Melissa to pop out from the black smoke, but when she didn't, his eyes widened. “I'm not the goal…” he muttered with a smile.


Melissa flew back towards the building, but before she could enter, Shoji appeared wearing a large metal gauntlet. Instead of meeting him head-on, Melissa shot repulsors from her hands, making Shoji dodge out of the way.


Melissa didn’t hesitate to increase her thrusters and fly back into the building past Shoji and Momo, who had no choice but to move out of the way if they didn’t want to be injured.


Not long after Melissa passed by them, Tony appeared, flying after her.


---


In the showroom, everyone was following the CCTVs up and down and to the side as Tony chased Melissa while she searched every floor she passed.


All of their heads were moving frantically, trying to keep up.


Even Bakugo's eyes shifted rapidly before looking down and closing his eyes, his hands clenched into fists, releasing barely audible explosions.


---


Melissa blasted a door open with her repulsors and found a room filled with nukes. Her eyebrows twitched upon seeing them.


Melissa's HUD scanned everything in the room before she noticed something, but before she could act, Tony appeared behind her and tackled her through the walls, ending up outside.


As they ended up outside, they spun around before Tony landed on the ground with Melissa on top of him with her repulsors ready.


“Stand down, Tony. You were smart to have Momo make a hologram disk to fill the room with holograms, but that won't be enough—”


Tony's mask lifted up, exposing his face, which showed him sticking his tongue out playfully towards her as he put his hands behind his head.


Melissa’s eyes widened. “SON OF A B—”


“AND THAT'S TIME! THE VILLAIN TEAM WINS!!”