Power Quaking - Chapter 3.1

“Can he do that?” Midnight asked, wincing as she looked up at a large room spanning screen, and the scene being projected on it.

Asphalt torn asunder, towering buildings raining down in chunks of debris. And of course, who could forget the absolutely trashed scraps of green metal that were once villain robots.

“No rule against it,” Vlad grunted, a frown on his face as he watched Kano take a massive leap through the chaos he caused with one punch, not even taking a moment to assess the damage he did or even admire his own sheer power. Instead he plowed through the rain of ruins and came down at the end of the block, just in time to catch a speeding three pointer with a simple punch as easily as breathing it looked to the kid and tore through the green villain robot like paper mache, “How many points has he got already?” he asked, turning his head to the right to look at the scruffy dark haired man standing by his side.

Aizawa grunted, “Thirty seven with that three pointer he just took out,” with his lips pursed into a frown, the erasure hero paid very close attention to the incredibly destructive hero candidate.

That was an above average passing score already. But it was to be expected of a boy who could demolish an entire street block with one punch. The villain robots were set up in buildings all over the test sight city, hundreds of each, and there were usually two or three per building in the first block alone to catch candidates off guard quickly.

“How impressive, it hasn’t even been thirty seconds yet on the clock,” Principle Nezu chirped in, leaning comfortably back in his chair and taking a sip of his tea. He turned to look at Aizawa himself, “You must be quite proud, if it weren’t for you he quite possibly would have died before he got strong enough to actually endure his quirk,”

“Oh, that’s the brat you helped out that got you into teaching?” Vlad asked in interest.

Aizawa grunted again in answer. He looked down at the screen just in time to see Kano lash out with his leg in a forward kick, his leg clad tightly in a tightly compressed white bubble. As soon as he finished the motion, the bubble launched itself down the road in a shape reminiscent of a crescent blade, cutting both the road and the two pointer he was aiming at in half, “Tch,” he clicked his tongue, “This brat, abusing the loopholes to rampage to his heart’s content.”

Once upon a time, he had gotten a request from the Hero Association. To oversee the conditioning of some brat who’d nearly died upon activating his quirk. He’d been paid quite handsomely to watch over him at all times so that he could erase his quirk if it began to hurt him too badly again, and help train the boy to condition his body enough to the point where he could endure his quirk enough on his own to go back to his everyday life.

He’d spent three months with the brat in this very school, overseeing him alongside Recovery Girl. Along the way, he’d even taught the brat the basics of his own combat style to work as a base for him to learn from as he grew up - so that he didn’t have to rely on such a quirk. Especially when the boy despised it himself. Somehow, he’d become fond of the kid and come to like teaching him, so at the advice of his friend of many years, he’d taken up a teaching position at U.A.

He hadn’t expected the kid’s body to grow so tough so quickly, even at that age. Truly, his physical growth rate was absurd. It hadn’t taken him long to understand why the association had been interested in him from the get go of his quirk manifesting.

That was ten years ago.

“He was peculiar, even as a child,” Recovery Girl herself commented, “His body adapted to the physical training he was put through rapidly and his physical abilities grew even then to the point that without using his quirk, you’d think he had a superhuman one regardless.”

Yeah, that had thrown Aizawa himself off. Whether it was endurance or strength training, his body adapted and grew quickly - even martial arts were quickly and efficiently moulded into his muscle memory.

“Not only that,” the short old lady continued, “For the life of me, I can’t understand how he survived the awakening of his quirk. He broke near every bone in his body and even his organs had been damaged quite badly, the only conclusion I could make is that his quirk isn’t merely something used for destruction, or that it somehow pushed his body into overdrive and ramped up his body's natural healing rate just to live.”

'Young Midoriya….' All Might should have been watching the screen his young successor was being displayed on, and he was, but most of his attention had been stolen by that of the young mans older twin brother and the devastation he wrought, 'I see, having to grow up in the shadow of one like this, it's no wonder your belief in your self was practically non-existent.'

Few quirks alone, could unleash such destruction with a single swing of a fist. Such a blow, could probably even stagger him. Even young Midoriya's frankly hero worshipping incredibly detailed explanation on his brothers quirk, understated the sheer power the boy wielded.

Then again, it was unlikely young Midoriya had ever been around the boy at a point where he could unleash his quirk so massively before.

His eyes drifted to the screen displaying his young successor just in time to see him jump up and kick off of a lamp post to boost himself above a one pointer and drop a heel kick atop its head and cave it in, bringing him to seven points, arcs of green electricity sparking around his body.

Young Midoriya's own take on using One For All as best as he could currently. Full Cowling, with a maximum of five percent power.

It had been a couple of months now since he'd passed his quirk on to the boy, and he'd finally begun to make progress. It was lucky the boy already a good physical foundation and the basics of fighting drilled into him by his brother growing up despite his lack of belief in himself.

It was not perfect, but it would be enough, that he was sure of!

Odd though. He was sure young Midoriya had told him in length about how the boy had planned to go attend Shiketsu Hero Academy, with a girlfriend or something like that.

Though now that he thought about it, while in the beginning his successor had talked about his older brother a lot, in the last few months the boy had barely mentioned him.

"Annoying brat," Aizawa groused, "What was all that crap about asking me to help get you into the Recommendation test for Shiketsu if you were just going to come here anyway?"

Speak of the devil, it seemed even Aizawa knew of the boys plans initially and no idea why he was currently taking the normal entrance exam at U.A.

All Might glanced back at the screen showing off Kano Midoriya and winced as he punted a three pointer at a two pointer a few metres away and destroyed them both in a metal crunching collision.

'Such monstrous physical ability too.' All Might thought. Even with Full Cowling, young Midoriya wasn't up to par with his brothers physical abilities never mind taking his quirk into account.

"Hmm, actually on the topic of Shiketsu," Principal Nezu rapped his furry chin, "Something odd came about with them lately in the last few days, I was very surprised."

"Mmm?" Aizawa grunted, turning his attention to the principal along with the others.

"Their top first year student from last year, she's requesting a transfer oddly enough," Principal Nezu replied, "She wants to join U.A this year, a young girl with an illusion type quirk, Camie is her name."

'Camie…where have I heard that name before?' All Might tapped his chin, before dismissing it. It would probably come to him later when he was having a good soak in the sub to relax his muscles.

"Camie huh?" Aizawa mused, before clicking his tongue, "Looks like another problem child is joining this school, lovely, just what we needed."

Oho, it seemed Aizawa knew who she was! She must have been a really impressive student if even he cared to keep track of her!

Well, All Might supposed there was a reason Shiketsu was called the U.A of the west!

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This…was a lot more boring than he thought it was going to be.

Unleashing that first attack, had been amazing. It was rare he ever got the chance to unleash such an attack, especially above water. To train his quirk, he had to go places where he couldn't do a lot of damage.

His place of choice being the ocean. There he could dive under water and unleash his quirk without destroying anything…much.

Initially he'd nearly did some damage to some fishing spots, before he was stopped by a local hero who worked on the ocean. The hero had thankfully been very understanding and showed him a place not far from the port where he could let loose a bit.

He sparred with the hero quite a bit when he was free nowadays, he was a big tough guy who was an expert at fighting under water after all.

Here and now though, Kano had to hold back again after unleashing his first attack. Because, now all the other examinees were in amongst the testing grounds.

As such he couldn't be demolishing entire buildings and streets with his quirk anymore lest he want to crush others.

Honestly, after the first punch…the exam turned boring.

'This sucks.' Kano thought, even as he flashed a thumbs up at the drone he had monitoring him from above while he held a two pointer up above his head with his other hand

"No, no no!" a sharp scream of denial sounded behind him, "I thought I got the right button, so why is it still going?!"

Curious, Kano looked over his shoulder just in time to catch sight of a three pointer chasing after a floating pair of shorts and tank top.

A floating pair of shorts and tank top stained with sweat that looked like they were practically painted on a rather voluptuous figured body.

He could practically make out everything.

Usually he'd probably think something along the lines of 'nice'. But, right now he was more concerned with the question of…if he'd need to censor this apparently invisible girl before he could upload his video?

Would he get a strike for this if he didn't?

Shrugging, Kano wound his arm back before bodily throwing the two pointer robot in his hand through the air into the three pointer. It smashed into it and they both crumpled to the ground in a broken heap.

It weighed roughly around a ton or so, but Kano could lift way more weight than that. He didn't know his max amount currently, because he had no access to any facilities that could let him test that out, but he did know it was over ten tons.

Averaging out the weights of a few cars in a junk yard was simple enough after all.

And at the very least, saving another person on camera would look good at least, "You alright?" Kano asked, walking over casually.

Honestly, he'd gotten over a hundred villain points at this point by his reckoning, so he wasn't too fussed about getting any more, especially when he wasn't having any fun anymore.

Only an idiot like Bakushitty would feel awesome beating the crap out of a bunch of paper mache robots.

"Ah yeah thank yo- It's YOU!" the curvy invisible girl turned to face him before…freezing? He couldn't really tell to be honest. "The crazy guy who blew up the first street and all those buildings at the start!"

He had a feeling she was pointing at him, and probably gaping at him. But he couldn't tell for sure.

"That is me yes." Kano smirked, crossing his arms. It was a great punch after all.

"Mou!" she lifted one invisible leg and stamped her shoe on the ground, "I had a real rough time getting over all the rubble you know!"

"My bad?" Kano shrugged off her words even as he apologized, "In my defence…" he trailed off.

The invisible girl was silent for a moment, waiting for him to continue, but he didn't, "In your defence what?!"

"Nothing," Kano laughed, "I couldn't think of one, I just didn't care about any other examinee, this isn't a team event after all."

"Ah…okay," the invisible girl had nothing to to say to that, her top rustling as if she were shaking her head, "Okay Mr. Crazy Strong Handsome Arrogant Guy, I need to go get more points!"

"You do you, potentially very hot invisible girl." Kano snorted, waving her off.

A girlish giggle erupted from the invisible space above her floating tank top, before she started moving, rushing off to get more points.

He watched her leave with an appreciative gaze, she had quite the perky round invisible backside stretching out those shorts of hers.

Once she turned a corner looking for villain robots to prey upon, Kano cupped his chin, "Now, what to do?" he mused?

And at that exact moment, the ground beneath his feet rumbled.

And a massive shadow rose up above the buildings of the testing grounds. A split moment later, terrified shouts and screams echoed throughout the city.

"….Huh." Kano blinked as he looked up, and up, and up.

And found himself staring into the head of the Zero Pointer villain bot. Which meant there was less than a minute less.

And also-

Present Mic was really fucking horrible at showing off the scale this thing would be. He hadn't mentioned at all it would be well over three hundred feet in size.

There was really no point to fighting such a thing. It gave no points, was absolutely massive and a whole other slew of negatives.

But what kind of hero would run away from a villain just because there was nothing in it for them?

Besides, this was a great opportunity for him to show off for the camera. Showing off footage of him dealing with such a massive foe? Was bound to get him a lot of attention when he uploaded it on his channel later!

With a grin spreading across his face, Kano tensed his legs, white shining around his feet, before he unleashed his quirk and leaped.

The ground exploded at his feet as he was launched rapidly into the air like a missile, one arm coming back as a white bubbled vibrated into existence around his fist.

Just a bit more than a second later, he struck like a gleaming white meteor rising up from the ground and smashed his fist into the Zero Pointer's head.

A wave of rippling quaking force erupted from his fist, spreading through the head of the Zero Pointer and shattered it to pieces.

But that wasn't enough.

He had to show more.

He couldn't just let such a giant body fall to the ground where other people were. He flipped mid-air and lashed out with both feet so hard air pressure erupted from the sheer force and shot him downwards, at the same time he held out one arm, coating it with a vibrating white bubble, "Quake Blade!" he roared as he went down, the white bubble expanding outwards in the shape of a blade and cleaving right down the middle of the massive Zero Pointer, splitting it in half.

Just before he reached the ground, he flipped around to smash his feet into the ground and land, gritting his teeth as he felt the impact travel up his legs and making them flare with pain.

He ignored it as he lashed out with his fist once more, clad in another white bubble of quaking power, "Quake Fist!" he shouted as he punched up and unleashed another glowing white wave of power that smashed up into both halves of the Zero Pointer and carried it high into the hair from the sheer power behind his quirk.

Both halves rose high up into the air from his strike and while up there, began to shake apart into small pieces as his quirk tore them aprt.

When it burst apart a moment later, all that was left of the massive robot was a rain of small pieces of debris.

He'd specifically cut it in half so both halves would be lighter and be easier carried by his Quake Fist.

With that done, he kept his fist high in the air, posing for his drone's camera. It was the true money shot after all.