Bearing down for the basics(Open)

"I've got a lot of catching up to do..." Ren mumbled to himself as he walked down the path toward the Ground Gamma facility, glancing at the pages full of notes on his phone. What had originally been planned as a standard two week internship had turned into an extended leave of absence; nearly two months tucked away training in the Alps with his uncle. Uncle? Father? That one was still weird as hell for the boy. Sure, he'd been lying about his parentage since he took the entrance exams, but now it was kinda true? In order to strengthen his cover from the Yamaki family, his uncle had gotten official adoption papers written up for Ren's false alias. Legally at least, "Renard Wolff" was now actually a real person: son of the Rank 9 hero, Siegfried.  That certainly made parts of his life a lot easier, but man was it strange to think about.

The other primary consequence of his extended training was of course that he was extremely behind on his school work. For the three days since his arrival back in Japan, nearly every waking moment had been spent either doing paperwork, attending make-up lessons, or studying. He hadn't even had much of a chance to catch up with his classmates yet, just immediately going from one task to the other. He'd finally be getting a bit of a break from all the cramming today... but only because he'd signed up for an extra-curricular training session. Oh well, that was just how things were going to be for awhile. Or so Ren told himself, but he couldn't stop himself from letting out a sigh anyway, white breath streaming from his lips and cooling the air around him.

That was one thing he definitely already missed about Germany; he'd gotten used to being back in the cool mountain air. The heat in Musutafu was oppressive by comparison.... but at least for now it was a little less of a problem. As he slipped his phone into the pocket of his jacket, he looked down at his free hand, flexing the armored glove a few times. Although at first glance he just appeared to be dressed in fairly normal clothing; a blue parka jacket, a yellow scarf, an old T-shirt, and a worn pair of gray jeans, beneath it all he was donning a full armored body suit. The thing was stuffed full of all sorts of tech that he had little to no understanding of, but with how much he'd used the suit over the past month, he was far more comfortable in it than he had been before. Moving around wasn't much of a problem anymore, and while his face was currently exposed to the outside air, the rest of his body was nice and cool, sealed off from the world. Lessons where they were allowed to use their equipment were rare, but the boy wasn't about to complain about it.

Walking into the training facility, it occurred to him that the last time he was in this building he got kicked around by a bunch of the training bots with Elke... Things would go quite a bit differently this time he imagined. Not just because he'd gotten stronger since then, but because he was dealing with a whole new teacher this time around. He'd long come to the understanding that just about every single staff member at UA was a little crazy in their own special way. This one was likely to be no different, as evidenced by the fact that they were expected to find their way to the center of the simulated maze before the lesson even began... and that the air in the building smelled heavily of... fish? Ren sniffed a few times just to make sure that he wasn't imagining it, but no; it was definitely there. Oddly enough it actually made finding the center of the labyrinth easier, as he ended up following the scent to it's source.

As Ren turned the last corner, he came face to face with a figure nearly twice his size. The dark-skinned woman towered over him, body twisted with the sort of animalistic features that were so common with mutation quirks. Of course he'd heard her description before, but there really was no mistaking this teacher, was there? Brushing off his initial surprise at her appearance, the boy approached and gave a polite bow as he introduced himself. "Mai-sensei, right? It's nice to meet you Ma'am. Ren Wolff, reporting for training."

Yukiko was enjoying herself as she feasted upon her fish delights. A few bites here, a chomp there. The idea of the maze was to see both if they were able to find there way here as well as if they were paying attention on their way in. Somethings were changed and added on the way in after all, Yukiko wondered if that would catch their attention, especially with what she had planned in mind. And then, her nose picked up another entering. Seemed things would pick up finally. Then, another shortly after. Two of them meant the bare minimum of what she wanted to accomplish could be achieved at least, though no guarantees could be promised. But, didn't meant she couldn't mix things up along the way. They shortly entered, addressing her and then, each other in a way. Yukiko grinned accordingly at one being a fellow appreciator of puns. "As Unbearable as it is for me, the Principal has given me a grizzly ultimatum: No puns during coursework. So anything involving training or classwork is strictly for that only, aside for that, yes. I am Yukiko Mai. You may call me by any appropriate name in this room but while in the field, it's by our Hero names only for obvious reasons. Now, let me explain what's the situation here." Yukiko would state as she then when towards the room. She approached a few of the dummies, 'lightly' nudging one of them. Her light nudge causing it to shudder loudly even though it was clear she only barely touched it. An obvious demonstration of it both being a training dummy and her abilities being the real deal. She then walked to the weapons chests. One of them was empty and the other was filled with odds and ends of things. Some actual weapons, some....not so much at first glance. Yukiko soon pulled out a pencil.

"Tell me, what do you see?" She waited a few solid moments for some solid answers before chuckling to herself. "If you answered a pencil, you're wrong. If you answered a weapon of opportunity, you are correct. Today's training will consist of three parts: Unarmed combat drills, improvised weapons training, and sudden teamwork drills. In today's training, you will be graded on your ability to learn what you are taught, your ability to integrate what you learn with your Quirk and less on relying completely on your Quirk, and your ability to enhance areas where you are not as proficient. It's pretty hard to fail but if you do fail, it counts as actually failing in an actual classroom combat course so keep in mind if I tell you to keep your head out of your ass." Yukiko said as she went to the empty chest and then pointed at it. "To ensure that it is a completely improvised weapons scenario, all your hero gear and weapons will be secured in this chest until the end of the training. Let me explain now the drills. Improvised weapons drills will consist of you each going to a chest, getting an improvised weapon from it and clearing a section of the maze with training dummies and other traps using only that weapon in tandem with your Quirk as you have to work together. Sudden Teamwork drills will consist of surprise interruptions by me and you having to overcome that. As the end of overcoming me will be an unarmed combat training drill. Oh and I will not be explaining these rules to any late arrivals. That will be your job as if explaining the situation on a Hero Mission or Crisis so make sure you get all the details. Any details missed means you both lose points off your grade." Yukiko said with a toothy grin as she knew that was a lot to absorb but that was the whole idea, Heroes were meant to be leaders so she might as well start training them to take on that burden now. And that meant if you were first on the scene that when others arrived you had to quickly and clearly communicate details of an entire situation rapidly ASAP so things could be handled readily and plans could be made accordingly. "If you don't have any questions you may begin, I'm heading forward now." Yukiko began to walk forward, only to stop if any questions were to be asked.