You're The Best Around : Karate War Training Montage Log

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The All-Trench Karate War | Training Log!

Who: Combat instructors, students, and anyone caught in the crossfire.
What: Training for the Karate War!
Where: Throughout Trench
When: Throughout April

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Uraraka Ochako | OTA

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[...He can't be serious.

Ochako, in her full Hero Costume expected some weird as hell training, but this isn't weird, it's goddamn insane!! She'd have no problem fighting various opponents, or training dummies, or her other classmates, but these poor bears were forced into this because they were hungry - they don't deserve to be bullied to make a point. That's just plain cruel!! There is no damn way Ochako's going to not fight to protect herself, but she's also...going to have to break the rules a little bit.

Meaning, if she gets an opening, she's going to absolutely float these poor animals up and out of harm's way. They can struggle and writhe in Zero Gravity, tucker themselves out, and then she'll release and hopefully scare them away. No dumb tournament, or dojo master's senseless pride, is worth a sweet animal getting hurt or even killed...what kind of Hero would she be if she didn't take all lives into account?!]

Don't hurt the bears!! It's easier to scare them off than to fight them! [Seriously. Most predators won't fucking bother if the fight isn't worth it. Expending too much energy when it could be used to hunt, or forage...they're smarter than they appear.] Take out the hives first!!

[Since those're gonna be the most problematic and difficult to "fight". It's real fucking hard to punch a bee, after all. Aiming her wrist guard at one of the incoming ones, Ochako fires off one of her wired grappling hooks into one and jerks it hard so it crashes into another. The hives explode, and of course the swarms are agitated, but...they begin to rage and buzz and attack each other instead of going for the humans. A pity, but some things really can't be helped.]

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[He's absolutely serious.

Honestly Johnny couldn't even be upset at the use of Ochako's powers in this case. It was kind of cheating but this wasn't the tournament itself. This was training and he wasn't putting the same rules on that. Plus she had to get in there, up close and personal and strike first to take down these bears. It might not be a hard strike but she was still taking his lessons into account.]

That's the fucking way, Miss Uraraka! Keep at it!

[Johnny's just watching from his hill top and not helping. But he's still happy to see go at his challenge with gusto.]

Just remember when a cobra gets caught, it slithers! Don't let these things catch you off guard.

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[There's...a small voice in Ochako's head - the nasty little part that seems to have grown louder after spending so much time with Bakugou - that whispers to her to whip a beehive right at his face with one of her wires, but Ochako beats it back. Mostly because she's having a hard as hell time keeping herself out of range of those large animals' claws and teeth. They're literally twice, maybe three times her size, and though she's no pushover, she also doesn't want to hurt these things.]

If I do that, I'm as good as dead...

[She grumbles under her breath, sidestepping a powerful slash of claws as one of the ursine behemoths rears up on its hind legs and then lunges forward. Pivoting on her heel, she smacks the bear on the backside, fingertips glowing, and it begins to lift up and off the ground, making confused and somewhat distressed noises as it floats harmlessly a good fifteen or so feet in the air. One down...too many more to go.]

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[Honestly he would probably appreciate the effort if she did try it. Not that he wouldn't also be a vindictive old man and try to find a way to make this somehow more difficult, but he would still think it was awesome.

He keeps his attention on her for the moment and he can tell that she's had some good training.]

Nah kid. Dying is for losers and you're with Cobra Kai right now. We don't train losers.

[He isn't going to step in himself quite yet but he'll raise up a hand to signal for a couple skeletons. Because she's taking the challenge head on he'll actually give her some help.]

Skelebro's run a distraction for her. Cobra Kai never dies!

[And to her benefit there are a handful of the terrifying skeletons coming Ochako's way to just kind of leap around and distract the bears a little while she does her thing.

They aren't a great distraction of anything but he's giving her a better fighting chance here.]

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[A sorely tempting thought, but Ochako is simply too nice, too polite, to actively strike at her teacher unprompted. If it were allowed, or even part of the training regime, she very well might have done that - it's a decent strategy - but she's too schooled to toe out of line unless given explicit permission to do so. Respecting one's elders is, ah...pretty big in her culture as well.

Though Johnny is making it pretty tough. His attitude is reminiscent of Bakugou, but also...not. Ochako frowns at the comment, biting her lip to still a comment she wants to say about one of her best friends being a bit of a loser...and he's a dozen times stronger, smarter, and overall better than she is. But doing that would mean losing focus, and Ochako really can't split her attention at all right now.

Th-Though...oh god. Oh god, why's it always skeletons?? Or ghosts. Or zombies. Or just anything supernatural and scary. Having them far away meant Ochako could keep her fear in check, but once they start to descend and head toward her, she balks a little, scuttling backwards with a yelp and coming very close to getting a massive chunk of meat torn out of her side. Thankfully, teeth crunch down on the very solid part of her belt, and her reaction time is spot on, rearing back and kicking up and outwards, the metaling heel of her boot making a sickening crack as it impact with bone. She winces a bit, because that was a bit much even for a defensive reflex, and the bear she knocks back immediately high tails and gets the fuck outta dodge. Not worth the trouble - smart animal.]

Sensei, this is cruel!! These bears are going to get hurt!