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[onaroll]

Anri's been slowly becoming more of a fixture at UA High - a sort of strange cryptid that hangs around the 1-A kids. Sometimes she helps with Foundational Heroics, using her frankly overpowered shadow Quirk to construct training dummies and structures to help with Quirk training.

Today, however, she's just serving as an intermediary for an international pro to assist in some classwork - a hero from France named Amelie Amaryllis-White.

(Amelie has found it is remarkably simple to get a hero license when you have the right connections.)

Amelie is smiling as she addresses the class.

"Bonjour! It is an honor to meet all of you, my name is Amelie Amaryllis-White. I'm here today to show you why you need to be cultivating a deeper relationship with your fellow students in the Support course. As such, we'll be having a series of sparring matches. You are allowed to use your full capabilities; meanwhile, I will be relying totally on a variety of support items. If you can force me to use my Quirk, that will count as a win for you!"

Smiling, she pulls out a golden belt shaped like a lock and a pair of keys. Wrapping the belt around her waist, she presses a button on the side of the lock.

SHUT THE DOOR!

Holding up the keys, she inserts each one into the side of the lock-belt, turning them to the side and producing an audible click as the lock closes.

DIAMOND! UNICORN!

She raises her right hand in front of her face, showing off the pink diamond embedded there, and sweeps her arm to the side with a cry of "Henshin!" as golden bubbles of energy rise up around her, popping and fizzing like a flute of champagne.

HOLDING BACK! THE RESTRAINED ELEGANCE!

When the light show is over with, Amelie is wearing a white bodysuit with pink-gold accents. Her feet, hands, and chest are covered in light, flexible-looking armor with the same pink-gold color of her belt, and covering her head is a sleek helmet with two large, compound 'eyes' set beneath a small, spiraling horn. Placing her right hand over her heart, she does a little bow before striking a pose.

"Kamen Rider Yuri, standing back!"

With a flourish, she produces a slim rapier that mimics the design of the horn on her helmet, gesturing with her free hand.

"Who would like to try first?"

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[floaty_girl]

"I dunno about you, but I suddenly feel completely outclassed.

And kind of aroused."

Uraraka stretched as she looked at her classmates who either were in various states of embarrassment and/or mortification. She knew Iida was probably making silent box-faces under his helmet by now and Izuku's face was beet red.

"I guess I'm first! Let's go!"

And she just. Charged right in, scraping the ground as she did to tear it from the moorings with antigravity to hurl it at Amelie as she launched herself up and around.

"Holy shit, she can move," exclaimed Eijiro as Kirishima was galavanted into the fight, seconds after he saw Uraraka charge in. "Me too!" And the redhead charged in too, swinging a hardened fist at Amelie while Uraraka came down with a kick.

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Hm. Alright! Amelie raises her rapier and catches the kick on it, twisting away to catch the punch and using that momentum to slam Uraraka into the ground.

“Ah! A straightforward and effective hardening Quirk, paired with an antigravity Quirk! Well then, let’s see...”

With this, she takes out the keys from her Driver and slots in another pair.

AMAZONITE! PEGASUS!

HOLDING BACK! THE ROYAL WINGS!

The accents on her armor and bodysuit switch from pink-gold to a bright apple red, and her horn vanishes to be replaced by a pair pf small, stylized wings on her shoulders. Her rapier is swapped out for a small shield shaped like a pair of folded wings, and she sets it on her forearm and activates it, the wings folding out and locking into place. She aims her wing-bedecked arm at Kirishima and leaps backward, firing a series of energy arrows at him from her arm-mounted wingbow.

[floaty_girl]

Kirishima blocked the first energy arrow and ducked under the second before getting pummeled. Fast, he was but he was built like a brick and he was expecting to take the hits. Instead, he focused on his durability and his own hardening quirk intensified to take the damage, as he rooted himself temporarily to weather the attacks.

Uraraka, surprised by Amelie's fast reaction time, wasted no time and swung up onto her hands into a handstand as she kicked upwards with her foot to try and catch Amelie upwards on the jaw. She brought her fingers up and exclaimed, "Release!" As she brought the chunk of pavement she had floated up in her initial attack to bring down across towards Kamen Rider Yuri's side.

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The wings of her bow retract and Amelie holds the shield over her head, catching the rock and flinging it off to the side.

“Very good! You’re compensating for your weakness at long range! But it won’t be sustainable in the long term, you need to figure out a way to make use of it without property damage!”

She lashes out with a kick and slips past Ochako, heading for Kirishima with a shield strike.

[floaty_girl]

Kirishima released his rooted stance as he charged forward, arms still covered with ridges as he knew he was a close in specialist. His mind raced as he followed Uraraka's lead as he grinned. "Property damage is all well and good, but utilizing what you've got is another thing, right, sensei?"

Swinging his arm forward to meet Amelie's shield strike, Kirishima also took the opportunity to notice Uraraka who had gotten up. Their eyes met and she nodded, as she kicked off a car door which had been laying as part of the Random Debris as she shot it at Amelie's back.

But this one wasn't meant to hit her, as he caught it in his swinging arm as he swung it to meet the shield head on with his impromptu shield.

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The recoil from the impact knocks Amelie's arm away, and rather than waste precious seconds getting her shield back into position she spins into a pirouette that puts her halfway between the two students. Taking out two more keys, she slots them into place.

MOONSTONE! EARTH PONY!
HOLDING BACK! THE ENERGETIC STRENGTH!

The red highlights change color to seafoam green, and her shield is replaced with a pair of gauntlets that resemble hooves.

"Both of you can make most effective use of your Quirks when you're close in, and you can make effective use of teamwork to gain an advantage. Right now, your greatest weakness is that neither of you had a way to keep me in place."

Amelie very deliberately hits the button that activated her belt in the first place.

CHAINED HEAT!

She slams her gauntlets together and drops into a boxing stance, the weapons starting to glow.

GIGANTIC KNUCKLE!!

As she starts to punch, the gauntlets grow in size until they're larger than either Uraraka or Kirishima, still glowing with the golden light of her belt.

[floaty_girl]

"She's got a point," said Kirishima as he held up his impromptu shield, the dented car door held defensively as Uraraka closed the gap between her fingertips, gauging her next move. "We don't have a net or anything..."

Looking around, Uraraka frowned for a moment at their surroundings. Property damage was meant to be kept to a low, even with the scattered debris. And yet, she was still making notes on the terrain as she said, "Kirishima-kun, hold her attention for ten seconds, I've got an idea!"

"You got it!" Exclaimed Kirishima as he armored up even further, becoming more spikey as he crouched low for a frontal assault. Charging in, he met Amelie's moves with a standard one-two boxing combo, fists up with the shield augmenting his defense.

In the meantime, Uraraka scanned the area before she noticed a torn, broken lamppost and a fallen flag. Going over to it, she undid the rope. "Mm, this might work," she said, taking the flag and a length of the cord.

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MOONSTONE! PEGASUS!
HOLDING BACK! THE ENERGETIC WINGS!

Snapping the shield instantly into the bow mode, Amelie sweeps Kirishima's legs out and hits the button again.

CHAINED HEAT!

The bow detaches from Amelie's arm and grows in size until it resembles a longbow. Dashing forward, she hooks one foot underneath Kirishima's body and kicks him into the air before pulling back on the bow.

GIGANTIC ARROW!!

The result: an arrow of golden light the approximate size of All Might is fired at Ochako. Don't worry, though! Kirishima's body is functioning as the arrowhead, so it's just going to be blunt force damage!

[floaty_girl]

Kirishima is surprised by the move, and he exclaims, "WHOA!" as he's launched at Ochako. He doesn't have much room to respond but he knows that he has to lessen the impact against Ochako who was grabbing the fallen flag and the rope.

Bringing up the door, he diverted his hardening so that he would be less rigid across the arms and legs and more shock absorbant across the body. "Heads up!" he yelled at Ochako, knowing he had no way to move.

"I got you!" Exclaimed Ochako, her hands already in motion as she lightened the flag. Her hands touched again and she took the impact full force, but her hands clamped down onto Kirishima's sides, activating her Zero-G onto him. At the same time, she loosened the grip on the flag and held the ties of the flag still mounted on it, making a makeshift drag net which slowed the attack considerably to allow them to slam into a building with a dull crash instead of a loud fabulous impact.

"You okay?" asked Ochako.

"I should be asking you that!" Exclaimed Kirishima, getting up. The pair looked at one another and then grinned, swapping objects as Ochako released the Zero-G on everything before lightening the car door and Kirishima brandished the flag like a net.

"Hey, Amelie-sensei, thanks for the tips!" Exclaimed Ochako as they squared up again.

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Amelie chuckles, just a little.

"Tenacious, aren't you!"

She quickly swaps out the Moonstone Key for the Amazonite Key, but instead of placing the shield on her arm, it goes on her back, right between her shoulder blades. Kicking off the ground, the wings spread, and she starts to gently float.

"Just a little advice and you're already compensating! But look at what you're using! A car door, random chunks of rock, a tattered flag! Wouldn't these tactics be easier if you had things actually intended for the purpose? That's what I'm teaching!"

[floaty_girl]

"You mean like support items," said Kirishima, looking at his stuff. "A actual shield for Uraraka and maybe some long range stuff for the two of us..."

"And a net or like a capture cape like how Momo made during her exam," said Uraraka, realization dawning on her face.

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Amelie applauds.

"Oui! Parfaite!"

She shakes out her right hand as she says this and casts a minor spell, causing little bursts of light to appear. Placing her hand on the cheek of her helmet, her head tilts to one side.

"Ah, look at that, I got so excited I used my Quirk. It's your win!"

[on_screen]

The pair hi-fived as they swapped places with Hagakure and Mina, the pair stepping up to the plate. The invisible girl and the acid producer, standing at the starting area.

"Mina, got your earpiece in?" said Hagakure, and Mina nodded.

"Got it in, just say the word." said Mina.

There was a invisible nod. "All right. Okay sensei, we're ready! Let's do this! Go Mina!"

Mina's soles bursting with slime, she raced forward as Hagakure slipped away to the side, ditching her shoes and gloves as she did so, to melt into the shadows.

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

There's a pause as Ochako runs off to get in a fight and Anri mourns the loss of fingerpads. Well, on the bright side: Amelie's really strong, so it shouldn't be long before Ochako comes back. And then Kirishima joins in, and Anri is struck by a sudden thought.

"Do you think they'll be able to get her to use her Quirk?"

[buildingblocks]

"It's possible. Both of them are direct attackers, but it's a classic front line, back line defense," said Momo thoughtfully. "What hurts them is the lack of ranged options. Both are strong melee fighters, thanks to their choices in fighting styles. This could go either way."

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

A pause to consider.

"Well...there's kind of a reason the win condition is Quirk use and not actually defeating her, right?"

There's a pause as Anri tries to think of a delicate way to put it.

"It's not like anyone here could actually defeat her if she got serious."

Oh, right, Anri isn't good at being delicate.

[buildingblocks]

"I'm going to be honest and agree with you on that. Probably the one that comes close is Midoriya," said Momo, folding her arms. "His abilities grow exponentially each time I see him use it, and he'll be surpassing us all within years."

"Within a close standstill before she gets the upper hand. I saw what she did during the Giant Duck Battle."

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

A pause before she turns to Izuku.

"Do you think you'd be able to survive that level of attack eventually, Izuku-kun?"

[ironwoodtrees]

"I honestly don't know?" said Izuku. "It might take a few years before I could...?"

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

"She was firing nearly three thousand metal swords at twice the speed of sound. Per second."

Anri completely ignores whatever commotion her statement made to look at Izuku.

"But...yes. If it's you, I get the feeling you'd survive. I wouldn't fall in love with a man of any less than top quality, after all."

[ironwoodtrees]

Izuku's reply is a strangled "uh huh" as he manages to re-focus on the fight, that mental image now burned into his brain.

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

Anri covers her mouth with one hand and giggles at the reaction.

Mm, yes. Top quality.

[buildingblocks]

"I mean, this is Midoriya. He's constantly defying our expectations," ribbed Momo.

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

Nod nod.

There's a long pause as Amelie activates her Driver in the fight against Ochako and Kirishima. Chained Heat, hm.

"...no wonder one of her old nicknames was The Useless Lesbian."

...well, at least she said that softly enough that only Izuku and Momo could hear her.

[buildingblocks]

"... I'm beginning to sense a pattern in the belt design," uttered Momo.

"Huh? What do you mean?" asked Izuku.

"I'll tell you later Midoriya," said Momo, feeling suddenly awkward.