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“And with that our forty second and final competitor reaches the finish line! The Obstacle Course is over!”
Izuku watched as Aoyama sluggishly dragged himself into the arena.
Midnight cracked her whip and drew everyone's attention. “Now I'm sure all of you are wondering who our top four are and it will be revealed…”
She drew out her sentence as the crowd and students leaned into her words. “At the start of the next event!”
The entire stadium erupted in screams of frustration.
“GOD DAMN IT JUST REVEAL IT ALREADY!” Bakugo screamed as explosions popped in his hands.
Izuku gave a tired sighed as Midnight continued talking.
When the top six had passed the line only two positions were clear. Iida had fallen in Honenuki’s mud trap and had won sixth place while Honenuki just barely came behind everyone else to claim fifth.
That left himself, Shiozaki, Todoroki and Bakugo as the top four. The issue? U.A. was drawing out the results so no one knew who actually came in first.
Midnight lashed her whip towards the screen “Forty two of you qualified, so for our next roaring events we have!”
This time the cycle went by faster this time as the event was revealed.
Cavalry Battle
“A Cavalry battle! Those of you at the top will suffer the most.” Midnight announced as the screen changed to display the rules.
“These are the rules you will abide by or be punished thoroughly.” She said while licking her lips.
“The game itself will last fifteen minutes! Individual point values have been assigned to you based on your placement in the race. Your group value will be displayed by a headband!”
She gave a sadistic smile as she turned to look at the top four. “As for the point’s themselves, starting from Can’t Stop Twinkling in last place, each placement is worth five more than the last. But here’s the kicker.”
She pointed her whip at the four and spoke. “First place is worth ten million!”
The four quickly ceased any movement they were making as the crowd turned on them. Suddenly the need to place first wasn’t so important.
“Maria!” The girl in question flinched as Midnight called on her. “You placed fourth! You’re safe from the ten million!”
Shiozaki gave a sigh of relief as Midnight pointed to the top three. “You three however, feast your eyes upon the leaderboard!”
White Fox
Points: 10,000,000
SnowTorch
Points: 205
Dynamight
Points: 200
Maria
Points: 195
Mudman
Points: 190
Recipro
Points: 185
Tsukuyomi
Points: 180
Cellophane
Points: 175
Red riot
Points: 170
Real Steel
Points: 165
Vintage
Points:160
Tailman
Points: 155
Welder
Points: 150
Froppy
Points: 145
Tentacole
Points:140
Sugarman
Points: 135
Uravity
Points: 130
Creati
Points: 125
Alien Queen
Points: 120
Anima
Points: 115
Reecho
Points: 110
Spiral
Points: 105
Airlock
Points: 100
Chargebolt
Points: 95
Plamo
Points: 90
Emily
Points: 85
Lizardy
Points: 80
Battlefist
Points: 75
Gevaudan
Points: 70
Vantablack
Points: 65
Rule
Points: 60
Long Weizi
Points: 55
Rocketti
Points: 50
Shemage
Points: 45
Jack Mantis
Points: 40
Phantom Thief
Points: 35
Mines
Points: 30
Prism
Points: 25
NightHide
Points: 20
Comic-Man
Points: 15
Mei-Dei
Points: 10
Can’t Stop Twinkling
Points: 5
Izuku froze as he saw the list.
“That’s right ladies and gentlemen! Our first place winner is none other than your Hero of The USJ, WHITE FOX!”
Izuku mentally groaned. Now he was gonna have to deal with the fallout of that reveal!
“DAMN IT.” Bakugo screamed. “Fucking Deku!”
“What did you want a major target on your back?” Todoroki stared at him confusingly.
“I could care less about some stupid ass points!” He replied.
Midnight cracked her whip and put a cease to the conversation. “Enough! With that reveal out of the way we can get back to the rules!”
The scream flashed to show All Might wearing a headband. “Headbands are to be worn on your foreheads. The goal is to swipe as many as you can to raise your team's score before time runs out. Any stolen headbands are to be worn around your neck to make it more difficult to manage as you steal more and more.”
“If your headband gets stolen or if your team falls down, you can get back up and keep playing until times up, however if the rider touches the ground you’re out!” Midnight looked at the student’s and gave a wide grin. “Now would be the time I would say trying to knock over a team on purpose is a big no no.”
“BUT WHERE’S THE FUN IN THAT?!” She said, cracking her whip. “Use your quirk’s to your heart's desire! You have fifthteen minutes to make your teams!”
🦋
Izuku watched as the teams were formed. So far his only members were Kodai and Tokage who were the only ones who weren’t in on the rest of 1B’s plan.
His classmates had wisely decided that Izuku could not make it to the final round. Everyone knew the final rounds were always one on one fights, and of course letting the most dangerous person into them would be nothing but disastrous for their chances at victory.
Izuku honestly couldn’t be mad at that, he actually welcomed the challenge.
But that still brought the issue of only having three members in their group and while Kodai’s and Tokage’s quirks were perfect for this, he still would prefer a whole team just to be on the safe side.
“Hey you still need one more right?” Izuku turned around and was greeted with the sight of a purple haired Gen-Ed student.
On closer inspection of his hair he realized this was the short boy he saved back during the entrance exam. What the heck type of training did he go through to be almost near Izuki’s height in under a month?
He looked at the leaderboard and saw the boy came in eleventh and was simply listed as ‘Vintage.’ Given his name was hidden it means he was gunning for the hero course and had been allowed to hide his name.
“So I guess that makes our fourth huh green bean?” Upon seeing Midoriya nod Tokage gave a wide grin. “Well then have any input for a plan, Vintage? We haven’t really decided on position’s yet other than White Fox here being the horse.”
Minoru smiled. “I have one but it will require us to technically use a loop hole.”
He watched as the three of them looked at him confusingly and continued. “All Midnight said was that the rider can’t touch the ground.”
“She never said we had to stay in formation.”
🦋
“FIFTEEN MINUTES ARE UP AND THE TEAMS HAVE BEEN MADE! LET’S LOOK AT THAT LEADERBOARD!”
Team Vintage:
Vintage, White Fox, Rule, Lizardy
Point value: 10,000,300
Team Real Steel:
Real Steel, Maria, Welder, Mudman
Point value: 700
Team Dynamight:
Dynamight, Red Riot, Alien Queen, Cellophane
Point value: 665
Team SnowTorch:
SnowTorch, Creati, Recipro, Chargebolt
Point value: 610
Team Froppy:
Froppy, Tentacole, Uravity, Tsukuyomi
Point Value: 595
Team Airlock:
Airlock, Spiral, Vantablack, Sugarman
Point value: 405
Team Prism:
Prism, Reecho, Anima, Phantom Thief
Point value: 285
Team Battlefist :
Battlefist, Emily, Shemage, Rocketti
Point value: 255
Team NightHide:
NightHide, Tailman, Mines, Mei-Dei
Point value: 215
Team Long Weizi:
Long Weizi, Gevaudan, Jack Mantis
Point value: 165
Team Can’t Stop Twinkling:
Can’t Stop Twinkling, Plamo, Comic Man
Point value: 110
Team Vintage stood in the center of the arena, all eyes on them.
“Everyone ready?” Tokage asked.
“Ready/Mm/Hm”
Izuku stared at Bakugo’s team, he would sadly have to ignore them this round he couldn’t afford getting his teammates disqualified if he did something too excessive to the bomber.
“LET THE CAVALRY BATTLE…”
“BEGIN!”
Izuku quickly dropped both hands to the floor and froze over the entire arena ground in thick ice. “HIDDEN FOX!” He mentally screamed as his hands ignited, the arena flooding with a thick layer of steam.
“Fuck i can’t see!”
“He’s playing to his style! Watch your headbands!”
“DAMN IT DEKU!”
“Starting right off the bat Team Vintage blinds the entire competition! Let’s see what they’re planning!”
Hiryu kept turning his head to see through the steam. His efforts stopped when he saw Midoriya blur right past him, headband in toe. “WHITE FOX JUST STOLE OUR HEADBAND, HE’S OVER HERE!”
What he got in response wasn’t what he’s expecting.
“RULE JUST STOLE OURS!” He heard Tsuburaba call from the other side of the arena.
Wait what?
“VINTAGE AND LIZARDY JUST TOOK OUR’S!” Kendo yelled.
This didn’t make sense, Hiryu knew he was nowhere near Tsuburaba or Kendo, and while Midoriya was fast on his own, he wouldn’t have been able to carry his entire team with him that quickly.
“STOP HIDING LIKE YOUR DAMN SISTER YOU FUKING DEKU!” And with that a large explosion roared through the arena as the steam vanished.
Looking around for Midoriya’s team he finally saw it. Midoriya was standing on one side of the arena, while Kodai was on the other. Looking up he finally sees Tokage carrying their fourth member while floating above them.
“What a twist! It seems like Team Vintage split up! Is that even allowed?”
Midnight hummed to herself before speaking into the mic. “There's technically no rule against it so I'll allow it! However if anyone tries to bend the rules again it’s insta disqualification! As for you four.” She said pointing to the members of Team Vintage. “If you’re not near each other by the end of the fifteen minutes you’re out!”
Setsuna gave a wide grin as she floated above the crowd. “Looks like the plan is approved.”
Mineta gave a sigh of relief. “Thank god, I honestly didn’t know if they would allow tha-LOOKOUT!”
Setsuna quickly floated to the right as she avoided a forest of vines lashing at her. She moved once again when Team SnowTorch launched a flash grenade at her followed by a glacier.
“Hang in there Grape boy, this is gonna be a rough flight!”
On the other side of the arena Team Dynamight was chasing after Midoriya.
“Stay still you fucking coward!” Katsuki called as the damn extras carrying him missed Deku again.
“Should we really be going after Midoriya bro? I thought we were going for the ten million headband.” Shitty hair asked.
“Just shut up and get me close.” Katsuki said as he started to move so he could jump off. “Get ready to catch me tape arms, and Don’t break formation. If I get disqualified because of you extras I'll kill you.” With that his palms popped as he blasted off.
“And Dynamight takes to the sky! Didn’t Midnight just ban that?”
“His team is still technically in a formation plus they're still by each other and as the rider he’s still not touching the ground. Another smart way to get around the rules.”
Midnight turned off her mic but you could vaguely hear her say. “Damn first years.”
Bakugo caught up with Midoriya and started yelling “JUST ME AND YOU DEKU, FUCKING DI-” He was swiftly cut off as Izuku lazily raised a frozen palm towards Bakugo face.
And set off an explosion.
Katsuki felt himself fly backwards before tape arms pulled him back.
“So how was the flight?” Racoon eyes asked while snickering.
“FUCK OFF!” Katsuki was anger was at an all time high, that fucking Deku was copying him!
He growled as he watched the damn coward vanish again as he got back onto the formation. “Change of plans we’ll get Deku later.”
He’ll wait until the tournament round when the focus was entirely on them.
🦋
Shoto slammed the rod Yaoyorozu had made onto the ground and directed another glacier at Tokage.
While he silently cursed himself for limiting his ice by being the rider he wasn’t too worried, the other teams barely possessed a threat and were a mere annoyance.
So imagine his surprise when he saw it get shattered by a giant ice cube appearing out of nowhere.
Looking closer he could see Kodai standing on top of the edge of it looking dead at him with an impassive stare.
He calmly watched as the girl reached for something in her pocket. There's no way she had anything in them, the hero course was banned from bringing any sort of support items.
His calm demeanor didn’t last long as he saw her throw something into the air right as five large ice cubes appeared in the air.
Shoto’s eyes widened as he screamed. “RECIPRO!”
“I’m on it!” Iida replied as he kicked into high gear and started swerving around even more falling ice cubes.
“Looks like Class 1B’s Rule is ruling over the battlefield! She has Team SnowTorch on the ropes!”
This was an issue, there was no telling how many of those cubes she had. He shouldn’t have assumed Midoriya wouldn’t have supplied her with ammunition.
To make matters worse Iida had backed himself into a corner and an Ice cube was coming right at them.
Suddenly he felt Kaminari let go and run off. “Kaminari what the hell?!”
“Don’t break formation!” Kaminari called back as he continued running towards the cube.
“This is so dumb this so dumb THIS IS SO DUMB!” Denki ramped up his quirk to its highest point, ignoring the burning feeling as he jumped into the air.
“HEAT LIGHTNING!” He screamed as he kicked the incoming cube.
BOOM
The rest of the teams froze in awe as Kaminari kicked and exploded the giant ice cube, the ones boxing his team in shattering as the air expanded harshly.
Izuku stopped and stood in pure shock. He could feel the heat from that attack from the other side of the arena. Izuki had explained to him why electricity types were the most dangerous but they were never to this degree!
“WHAT A SURGE! Chargebolt lives up to his epithet by destroying a giant ice cube in a single lightning kick!”
Denki hit the ground with a heavy thud as he groaned in pain. Looking at his left leg he saw the leg of his gym uniform leg had been reduced to dust and his shoe was nothing but melted rubber. To make matters worse two of the lightning rods attached to pants leg that he was allowed to have for his safety were completely melted.
Suddenly he felt himself get sweeped up from the ground and started carrying him away as Kodai had started her ice assault again.
“That was wonderful Chargebolt! Though a heads up next time would be greatly appreciated next time!” Iida called as he continued swerving around ice cubes.
Denki chuckled and moved himself back into their formation. “In all honesty I had no idea what I was doing.”
“Figures.” Todoroki bluntly stated as he calmly snatched Aoyama’s headband without a second look. ”It paid off in the end but don’t do anything that risky again, what would you have done if you broke your leg?”
Kaminari at least had the decency to be embarrassed as he rubbed the back of his neck. “I guess you’re right.”
“But nonetheless, good work Chargebolt.” Yaoyorozu chimed. “Now let’s focus on getting more headbands.”
“Right!”
🦋
“He’s over there!”
“I got him!”
“Just stay still!”
“He’s over here!”
“Give up!”
Izuku was currently having the time of his life.
He front flipped over a wad of glue and immediately side stepped Tsunotori’s two horns before vanishing out of the volley of scales Rin aimed at him.
Cartwheeling out of the way of Fukidashi’s ‘Boom’ onomatopoeia, he back flipped over the swarm of thirty horns Yanagi was controlling for Tsunotori before ducking below the rope of vine Shiozaki launched at his back.
Activating Prowl again he appeared right next to Tsuburaba’s team, running up the air wall they made and flipping right over them as he started running off.
Dropping to his knees, he slid across the ground to avoid Dark Shadow’s claw swipe right before jumping into the air to avoid Honenuki’s liquefied ground.
Somersaulting through the air he entered a nose dive, avoiding Asui’s tongue and Shoji’s arm’s. Rolling to his feet he raised his arm into the air and torched Uraraka’s meteor shower before sidestepping Shishida’s punch and vanishing again.
He realized their plan was to keep him away from Tokage the moment Midnight announced they needed to regroup before time was up; however they failed to see one crucial thing.
They were being played.
Sure, while Izuku couldn’t get to Tokage and Vintage right now, neither could they. As long as he kept this up the ten million headband was safe.
Even better, Izuku could keep this up for a while.
Thermodynamic's biggest drawbacks were mostly internal as Izuku’s preferred fighting style of small attacks completely avoided the other issues of hypothermia or overheating. Even then the most he was doing now was just using Prowl so as long as he didn’t over do it and stayed well below his vibration limit he’d be fine.
“How the hell does he keep doing that!” Tsuburaba called.
“I don’t know but it’s fucking annoying! Fight me you furry!” Kamakiri called.
That was the best insult he came up with?
“Let me try.” Kaibara said. “Bakugo could kick your ass!”
That one got Izuku to chuckle.
“Hey where our headband go?”
“Our’s is gone as well!”
Wait what?
“Typical class 1B.”
Him and classmates turned to look towards the voice, just to see Team Prism reveal themselves.
“And in a surprise twist, Team Prism steals most of Class 1B headbands! This is thanks to their rider! Her quirk; Peekaboo let’s them disappear and reappear anytime someone says “yeet!””
🦋
Hizashi clicked off his mic and paused at what he just said. After quickly rereading the false quirk description Hagakure provided for him, he turned towards Shota. “Shota what the fuck?”
Shota took a long sip off his coffee and grinned. “Who knows, might save her life.”
“When would that ever save someone's life!”
The sipping got louder.
🦋
“How disappointing…” Monoma spoke. “Your class was so wrapped up in targeting the oh so great hero of the USJ, that you failed to consider my class sneaking up from behind and stealing your headbands. Though it’s sad to see so many of my classmates betray 1A and team up with the en-HEY”
Toru swiftly cut him with a swat to the head. “I thought Yaomomo told you to stop antagonizing 1B! Now stop monologuing and get moving, they’re coming our way!”
“YOU BASTARDS AIN’T GOING ANYWHERE!” Hagakure turned around, only to be met with a harsh explosion to the face.
Katsuki kicked off Invisibitch as he snatched their headbands away, upon seeing copycat try to touch him he let off an explosion and flipped over him. “NOT THIS TIME YA DAMN EXTRA!”
Rearing his arm back he let the explosion build up before he let it loose. “FUCKING DIE! ”
BOOM
The rest of Team Prism was caught in the crossfire, the formation instantly falling apart as all four went rolling across the ground.
“Oooh and there goes Team Prism, rolling right out of the competition! Such a shame and with only five minutes left in the event!”
Five minutes left? That means they just needed to get their headbands back and stall Midoriya and the tournament round would be smooth sailing.
If they could find him.
“Where the hell did he go?!”
“Yall were meant to keep your eye on him!”
“He’s over there!”
Class 1B, Team Froppy and Team Dynamight are collectively turned to see Midoriya sitting on a giant ice cube with Kodai, Tokage and Vintage all the way on the other side of the arena.
“Oh he’s with his team!” Pony innocently pointed out before her eyes widened. [“OH SHIT HE’S BY HIS TEAM!”]
🦋
All four members leaned over the edge as they watched all the other teams sprint towards them.
“Do you see this shit Team Vintage?” Setsuna jokingly asked.
Mineta snorted at that. “This worked out way better than I expected.”
His teammates nodded their heads.
“Agreed, did you see Todoroki’s face when Kodai started dropping ice cubes on them?” Tokage asked.
Mineta gave a bark of laughter “I’m so getting that framed! You could see the exact second he realized he was screwed.”
The two's conversation ended as Present Mic’s voice called through the stadium.
“The fifteen minutes are up! It’s all over ladies and gentlemen!”
A resounding “damn it” from their classmates graced Team Vintage's ears as Izuku began melting the ice cube, slowly sinking to the ground.
The first to confront them was Tsunotori, who was so worked up she started speaking english. [“You cheating cheaters that cheat!”]
At that point Kaibara came up behind her and held her back. “Look at what you three have done! Tsunotori’s so worked up she switched languages!”
“Is this normal?” Mineta asked.
Tokage simply grinned and wrapped her arm around his shoulder. “Welcome to the hero course Grape boy.”
“Ahem.” Midnight spoke into the mic, addressing the students. “If you would direct your attention to the screen, Present Mic will announce the four teams moving on!”
“Thank you Midnight! In first place they managed to keep the ten million headband and practically ran the competition, it’s Team Vintage!”
Izuku smiled under his mask as he heard a low growl from Bakugo. Music to his ears.
“In second place, after failing to get the ten mil they picked off the other teams to secure a win, it’s Team SnowTorch!”
While the rest of his team was happy to be moving on Shoto couldn’t help but glare at Team Vintage. He was second again and it hadn’t even been close this time.
Between Kodai nearly overwhelming them and getting nowhere near Tokage or that Gen-Ed kid to snatch their headband he couldn’t help but seethe at the fact his loss barely had anything to do with Midoriya, the only one here who should’ve posed a challenge.
"In third place after making an explosive display of power in the final five minutes it's Team Dynamight!"
While his team cheered, Bakugo himself was unusually silent, just glaring at Izuku.
"And finally in fourth place we have Team NightHide! Where the heck did they come from?"
The other teams confusingly turned to see a purple haired Gen-Ed student still resting on the shoulders of Ojiro, Shoda and a pink haired girl from the support course.
Midnight cracked her whip gaining their attention. “With that concludes the end of the second round! Now for the event you’ve all been waiting for!”
The screen behind her spun again as the words came to stop.
One on One Tournament
“Prepare for battle! It’s time to decide the one true winner of the festival!”
Omake
Pro Hero Prism:
“This is the easiest heist ever!” Criminal number one said.
“Yeah, not a Hero in sight. It’s easy pickings!” His partner replied.
Suddenly they heard footsteps and paused. “Fuck Prism is here!”
“Relax, I got this.” One criminal said as walked to the center of the room. “YEET!”
The others looked around trying to see if anything changed.
“See? She’s not here after a-GAH” He swiftly cut off by a punch to the face.
“LARRY!” One called before him and the others were knocked out.
Toru let herself appear as she stepped over the unconscious bodies. “Huh, I guess my first year Sports Festival was worth it.”
Though she didn’t know why she could hear Present Mic screaming.