Level 2: Button Mash

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Izuku watches as the man stands there, basking in his athletics. The teen merely lets out a sigh, as he walks down the stairs leading to the beach. He's not allowed to use the cleared path, so he needs to move from one trash heap to another. He takes a couple steps back upwards, before running down, and launching himself towards a pile of trash. He lands with his hands first, his legs hitting against the back of a television. He grunts at the impact and climbs up the pile.

Looking at the path leading to All Might, he moves atop the trash, various pieces sliding out as he does so (just stuff go be picked up as the cleaning process continues) before he reaches a thinner part of the pile. He takes a deep breath, and leaps across the piles, landing on a trash bag, where he nearly slips. He quickly stabilizes himself, his arms falling about for a moment as he does so, his deep breath released in relief. "You know, when this is over, I'm going to do exclusively Ex-Aid training! Maybe I'll even train with a higher level!"

"There will be plenty of time to explain to me what that means when you get over here!" All Might shouts back, earning a very audible groan from Izuku.

The teen continues through the pile, watching his steps carefully, so as to not repeat the slip up from his landing. Finally, he finds himself on a car roof, a far more stable surface than the rest of the piles. Izuku takes a moment to steady himself again, as he focuses on All Might. The boy steadies himself, quickly studying the remaining trash between himself and the man, before he books it off the car and leaps onto the trash once more. He jumps from large item to large item, fridge to TV to rusted truck and so much more.

Finally with one last leap, Izuku lands back onto the sands of the beach, standing before All Might with nary a drop of sweat on him. He walks over to the number one hero... Before tripping on thin air, falling face first into the sand. "Are you okay?" All Might asks, the boy pushing himself up and shaking off his head.

"Peachy." The boy responds, as he tries to get more sand out from his hair. "Man, I've been having a good streak lately and everything too. Guess the tripping saga had to start back up at some point."

"Tripping saga?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty accident prone. My aunt and uncle say I get it from my great-grandpa." Izuku explains, before he pulls out a notebook from a place that All Might can't quite seem to figure out. "This did give me the chance to find out I need to work on my parkour with loose surfaces. If I'm rescuing someone, I need to be quicker than that, while still retaining caution..." The boy begins to mumble, writing down his thoughts quickly, before closing the book and putting it back into the mystery space it came from, attention turning back to the blonde man as he deflates back into his more skeletal frame. "Ah, I didn't think it took that long!"

All Might launches into laughter, before a bit of blood leaks out, the man wiping it away soon after. "No, no. I just don't see the need to maintain it since I'm not doing a whole lot. That and it would snap you out of the nonsense you were launching yourself into."

"O-oh." Izuku stutters out, before All Might approaches him, laying a hand on his shoulder.

"Now then, what was this you were talking about with higher levels and Ex-Aid training?" The blonde asks, Izuku straightening up at the question.

"Oh! That's the name of the armor. Ex-Aid. It's short for, uh, Extreme Aid. It's powers are based on video games, and depending on what's used, there are higher levels. So far I've gone up to Level Four on my own training set." Izuku explains, pulling out a series of cartridges from the same mystery space as his notebooks.

All Might grabs the pink one the boy had used the day prior, looking it over. Mighty Action X... He remembers playing it in arcades when he was a young man, the mascot character Mighty being something of a comfort for him. He smiles, before giving the device back to Izuku. Two others lay in his hands, one red and black labeled as 'Gekitotsu Robots', the other red and yellow labeled as 'JuJu Burger'.

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⏰ Last updated: Jul 18, 2021 ⏰

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