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Shota Aizawa never really liked the entrance exam. 

He never bothered to pay attention to it due to how biased it was, he found it illogical that it favored physical and combat type quirks over mental type ones, rather than having a balance of both.

So when it came time to spectate the entrance exam he never bothered to pay close attention to it. He was however not expecting to recognize a boy with long green hair tied into a ponytail with a single purple butterfly hair clip. He remembered seeing him about ten months ago, needless to say it was not a fond memory.

He got off the wall and walked up to the control panel while turning towards Nedzu. “The kid in site C with the butterfly clip, what's his name?” Sure, while he technically met the kid ten months ago he never stayed around for the aftermath and just let Tsukauchi handle it.

“Hm?” Nedzu’s ear perked as he began typing. “Ah yes, Izuku Midoriya, age 15 his quirk is Thermodynamics, which seems to act in a similar fashion as one our newest recommendation students.”

Shota noticed that Yagi had flinched at the name, he didn’t get the chance to address it as Hizashi spoke up.

“Something about the little listener piques your interest, Sho? I can see why, the amount of precision he has with a quirk is insane.” He stated as they watched Midoriya create and toss three icicles into a robot with precise aim. “Though i wouldn’t say it’s similar to Endeavors kid, he seems to lack the same amount of raw power he did.”

Shota turned towards Mic with a passive expression. “No interest, I recognized him from an incident ten months ago. Aand trust me he doesn’t lack the raw power Endeavors kid has. If anything he might have more.” Shota thought, the area of the incident was not a pretty sight.

“and pray tell, how do you know that partner?” It was Snipe that chimed in while Nedzu silently chuckled to himself as he drank a cup of tea.

“I know this because the incident ten months ago was mostly done by him.” He spoke noticing Yagi shiver in the background. “And it was such an issue that Best Jeanist himself had to respond before I got there.” 

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Izuku honestly didn’t know what to expect from the entrance exam but it definitely wasn’t robots.

“So even U.A’s entrance exam would’ve been biased against her.” He sighed at the thought as he melted another 3-Pointer.

“Though something about this exam is fishy, no way it’s just destroying robots right?” He didn’t get to continue his thought when the ground shook snapping his attention back to his surroundings. At first he had no idea what it was before the ground shook again and he looked behind him. 

“What the fuck U.A” He thought to himself. Looming down the street was a giant robot the size of a building that just placed its hand on top of a building as if it was casually petting a dog. 

Now the normal thing to do here would be to run and by all means he would have. Until he heard a scream and saw a girl stuck underneath rubble about to be cru-and he’s already moving.

He probably should’ve made a plan first, this was a ten story tall robot but hindsight was twenty twenty. He came skidding to a stop in front of the girl and instantly acted, placing his hand to the ground and swiping to send an ice spike right through its chest, he then placed the same hand on top of the spike and sent a sea of white flames to melt it and the robot’s torso.

He let out a heavy breath emitting a small amount of smoke and frost before turning towards the girl.

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Ochaco Uraraka officially hated robots.

She didn’t know what to expect from the entrance exam but she didn’t think she would be trapped underneath rubble about to be crushed while everyone else ran away.

Wasn’t this the hero course entrance exam? Fucking cowards.

Hopefully the robot wouldn’t actually crush her or the teachers would activate the kill switch to i-holy crap is that kid sprinting towards the robot?!

She honestly wasn’t expecting someone to turn back and help her, she definitely wasn’t expecting said person to ram an ice spike through the robot's chest and then melt the torso like it was nothing. 

She stared in awe as the green hair boy exhaled smoke and frost? That couldn’t be healthy right? Before she knew it he had walked over and lifted the rubble off her. 

He gave a slight smile towards her and walked away without saying anything, she was about to call out to him when Present Mic announced the exam was over. Had the green haired boy scored enough points? Surely U.A would let him in after that right?

She didn’t get to continue her thought as an elderly lady walked over to her and asked if she had any injuries. Once her ankle was healed she walked out the testing site and made her way to the booth Present Mic  was.

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Back in the spectators room the teachers stared in awe, this kid had just dealt with the 0-Pointer in less than a minute and didn’t even look winded.

“Dibs.” Vlad King said, being the first to break the silence. “I want this kid in my class.”

“Now wait a minute.” Aizawa protested. “Class A is meant for the kids that have difficult to train quirks or quirks that are more likely to cause a quirk incident, he would fall underneath that category meaning he’s in my class.”

“Nice try but U.A also keeps kids with similar quirks in separate classes, and since you already have the Todoroki kid and I'm not willing to trade any of my recommendation student’s, the kid’s in my class.” Kan countered.

Nedzu took a loud sip of his tea drawing their attention to him. “What Kan said is true Aizawa, so by all means Izuku Midoriya is in 1B.”

Aizawa grumbled but conceded. “Fine, but if Kan gets him I want the kid in site E with the copy quirk.” 

Nedzu instantly pulled up the file. “Ah yes, Neito Monoma age 15 quirk Copy, seems like a fair trade off to me, don’t you think Vlad King?”

Kan gave a huff and simply nodded. ”Fine by me, that Midoriya kid seems to prefer controlled attacks rather than large scaled ones. He’ll do fine in my class.”

While the conversation was wrapping up, one Toshinori Yagi stood in the back slightly pale. 

He had failed that boy and his family. 

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Shota Aizawa was annoyed and wanted this meeting to end. 

He really should’ve paid attention to the entrance exam before he made a bet with Nemuri. Five kids with non combat quirks or quirks useless against robots pass the entrance exam he failed and previously called biased.

He would be damn proud if it wasn’t for the fact three of them weren’t even in his class. So now he had to sit through the meeting as Kan smiled smugly the entire time.

“And with that the last student has been placed! Any objections?”  Nedzu chimed in with a clap of his hands.

Oh well, better to ask now just in case. “I have one, are you positive I can't get Shihai Kuroiro?” He asked. “Stealth training would essentially do wonders for the kid.” 

The fact Kan’s face was even more smug than before was astonishing. “You already have Toru Hagakure for that reason and who honestly needs it more, and if i recall you said Class A is mostly meant for the kids that have difficult to train quirks or quirks that are more likely to cause a quirk incidents meaning i have first pick on him.”

He heard Hizashi and Nemuri snicker in the back. Traitors the lot of them.

He simply sighed and shook his head. Vlad was gonna hold this one over his head for a while, along with the fact he also got the Midoriya kid. “Fine, i have no other issues.”

“Excellent!” Nedzu clapped his hands. “We can now begin sending the letters out. However since this year Kan and Aizawa were more vocal on who they wanted in class it has given me a wonderful idea!”

The staff team paused, Nedzu’s idea were one of two things, brilliant or scary and headache inducing but still brilliant nonetheless.

“I purpose more joint exercises from the beginning of the year, that way you can still teach the students you didn’t get and build unity between the hero courses early on.”

That, actually was a great idea, why hadn’t they done this before? It would’ve saved so many headaches in the past with hero students fighting and annoying each over petty rivalries rather than making healthy ones.

“I’m all for it.” Vald King said. “But ultimately it comes down to All Might since he’s the main one who teaches heroics.”

The room turned towards Yagi who seemed to shuffle nervously. ”I see no issues with it, though since i’m new to teaching we should make it where i teach joint heroics classes while Kan and Aizawa focus on individual class heroics.”

“I see no issue with that.” Nedzu spoke. “Anything to add Kan? Aizawa?” When both shook their heads no Nedzu continued. “Splendid! Now Yagi I do believe you have thirty six acceptance letters to record.”

Yagi’s face paled at the number. Oh this was gonna take awhile.

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Izuku sat on his bed twirling a yellow butterfly clip in his hand as he thought of new ideas for ultimate moves. While he knew he wouldn’t wear any other ones beside his purple one it still was a nice memory of what once was.

It had been nearly a week since the entrance exam and he was starting to get impatient. His mom wouldn’t let him head to Takoba beach to train since she didn’t want him overworking himself so soon, so he was stuck in the house for the time being.

He was about to get up to grab a snack when his mom came bursting into his room.

“Izuku! It’s here, it's here!” She didn’t get the chance to continue as she suddenly noticed the letter was no longer in her hand. She looked towards Izuku's bed and noticed there was nothing there besides some fading frost and small flames. She turned towards Izuku's desk and saw him sitting there right as a small disk dropped onto the table.

Izuku was practically vibrating in his seat as he watched the projector pop up.

“BOOYAH I AM HER-” Izuku swiftly put his hand over the projector, stopping it as his eye twitched.

Inko noticed a small flicker of black flames on Izuku’s shoulder and went to calm him down. “Now honey I know you don’t like All Might but we have to at least finish the video to see your results.”

Izuku frowned but relented. He grabbed the disk so he could rewind the video and set it back down to play.

“BOOYAH I AM HERE AS A PROJECTION!” The number one hero exclaimed before backing up from the camera and clearing his throat. “Now you may be wondering what I’m doing here, it’s simple really. You’re looking at U.A’s newest faculty member!”

Well fuck.

“But enough of that, let’s get on to what really matters, the results! You passed the written exam with flying colors guaranteeing you a spot in Gen-Ed, however it’s the practical exam you excelled at!”

The projection changed to three clips off Izuku during the entrance. One involving him firing off icicles into three robots, the other where he freezed the floor around him and punched the stun robots with a flaming fist that released on impact and the final clip was him quickly forming a spike made from ice and jamming into a robot that had managed to get too close.

Inko nearly flooded the room right there, she was proud of the amount of progress her son made with his quirk over the years.

The projection switched back to All Might. “In total you scored 67 Villain points which would place you in fifth!” Izuku gave a slight smile he had passed. “But wait there's more!” Or not, fuck.

“Notice how I said Villain points, what type of hero school would we be if we didn’t award our participants for their heroic actions!”

The projection switched to show Izuku creating a burst of fire under his feet to quickly catch a small purple haired boy that had fallen off a building while trying to scale it. The next clip showed Izuku delivering a heavy ice enhanced front-facing axe kick to save a boy with short brown hair that was backed into a corner by a 3-Pointer, the only thing in between them was a strange wall of air.

“And of course, How could we forget your most heroic feat!” The clip of him taking down the 0-Pointer appeared to rescue a brown haired girl with pink cheeks on screen.

“Wait, you never told me you fought a giant robot.” Ah, he knew he forgot to mention something, whoops.

“Throughout the entire exam you showed you were willing to put others before yourselves, even going as far to turn around to save a fellow competitor while everyone else ran. Earning you 84 Rescue points!”

“Rescue points, So there was a chance for her to pass the exam after all.” Izuku thought with a smile.

“This brings your final score to 151! Making it my pleasure to say.”

“Welcome to your hero academia.”

He passed, He was gonna be a hero for both of them and nothing was going to ruin that for him.

🦋

In the underground a masked figure gained an idea. An awful idea, a wonderful, awful idea. 

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“Izuku, it’s almost time to go! Are you all set?” She called out. Her response was a white blur towards the front door, a frosted floor and her phone buzzing. 

She walked over to the counter and unlocked her phone.

Green Fox: I got everything! I’ll see you when I get home.

She gave a soft smile, it was nice to see him happy especially since he took the incident the hardest out of the two of them. 

Though she still couldn’t help but worry about him, she knew fully well he was capable of protecting himself specifically because he would sometimes vanish for weeks to stay in the forest and then come back but it still always scared her to watch him leave.

She gently removed the red butterfly clip off her phone case and stared at it.

But he always came back and that was enough to put her mind at peace.

🦋

Izuku was excited to be attending U.A it had always been the both of their dream to attend and now it's real even if it was only halfway.

Keyword: was. Currently he was bored out of his skull as what appeared to be a giant talking stoat, gave orientation.

Why was the hero course even here? Half of this stuff they aren’t even allowed to attend and why the hell was a class missing? Not to mention he could also barely see, they were arranged in seat order and he had the luck of being stuck behind someone who was six feet, but hey it can’t possibly get any worse.

“And now, for our newest faculty member who’s personally teaching first year joint heroics, All Might!’

“I AM HERE, TO TEACH THE NEXT GENERATION!” The Symbol of Peace said while sliding onto the stage.

Ah he forgot about that, god damnit. 

Wait did they say first year heroics? FUCK.

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Orientation finally came to an end and he finally got to take his seat. Just then their sensei Vlad King clapped his hands to gain their attention.

“All right, listen up! Welcome to Class 1B Heroics, for the next three years it’s my job to whip you into shape so you can be the best hero you possibly can be. Now underneath your desk are gym uniforms, put them on and head outside, any questions?”

He noticed a girl with green hair raise her hand, Vlad King didn’t even bother calling on her and just said. “Yes the uniform works with your quirk Tokage, same goes for you Kuroiro.” She promptly put her hand down.

“Any other questions?” When he saw no one else raise their hand he continued. “Good, be outside in five minutes or be prepared to run laps around the entire campus.” And with that he walked out.

When he got to the hallway he felt a cold and warm breeze pass by him, looking forward he saw Midoriya speeding down the hallway towards the changing room, on closer inspection he also saw Kuroiro traveling through the shadow’s on the wall along with multiple parts of Tokage flying by.

“[Sorry sensei.]” “Coming through.” He heard the monotone voice of Yanagi and the apologetic tone of Tsunotori from behind. He stepped to the side just in time to see Yangai and Kodai traveling on a floating enlarged book and Tsunotori on her horns.

The sheer amount of pride he felt could not be expressed in a single smile, those kids understood the assignment. In heroics every second counted, you can’t waste too much time getting ready.

Those kids understood that and best of all they didn’t even hesitate. This was gonna be an interesting three years.

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Vlad was shocked to see that he was actually the last one to the field. On closer inspection to the surroundings he saw that there was a vine ladder, steps made from air and multiple mushrooms growing down the wall all trailing from the window and into the direction of the changing rooms.

Holy fuck these kids jumped out the window.

He clapped his hands to gain their attention. “Alright you hellions! You should’ve done a physical assessment test in your middle school, we’ll be doing something similar to that.” He walked over to the ball throw basket and took one of the balls. 

“Since most of you have barely got the chance to train your quirks, this test will let us see how well you can use them so we know what to focus on. Let’s see… Heads up Midoriya!”

He quickly threw the ball at the green haired boy, not enough force to hurt him but just enough it would catch his attention. He gave a wide smile when he saw Midoriya frost his hand over and catch the ball in a single movement. “Kid has some nice instincts but how well does that translate to quirk control?.”

“You placed first in the entrance exam and set a new record for it. Step into the circle and throw the ball.”

Once Midoriya moved into the circle Vlad noted that the frost the kid originally made now covered the entire ball and that the temperature suddenly dropped.

Izuku knew exactly how he was gonna do this, he kept the ball ice cold, drew his arm back. He tossed the ball and at the last moment he rapidly heated it up while releasing a sea of white flames. 

BOOM.

The air around the ground quickly expanded and went wild. Vlad watched as the other student’s instantly hit the deck and covered their faces to prevent damage to their eyes. At least that’s one less lesson they had to cover.

When the wind and dust finally died down it revealed Midoriya standing in the circle, the fire fading from his right arm.

“Here in U.A you’ll learn how to use your quirks in the most effective way.” Vlad stated as he turned the device around to show that the ball went 905.7 meters. “That’s what it means to go beyond.” 

He watched as his students readied themselves, none of them willing to back down. Let the test begin.

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The test went well in Izuku’s opinion.

He had scored first in the 50-Meter dash clocking in at 3.08 seconds. Two girls Yui Kodai and Ibara Shiozaki and another person named Jurota Shishida, destroyed the grip strength test, the former shrinking it and crushing the device and the latter two crushing it normally with their quirks.

The standing long jump was interesting to say the least. One girl telekinetically surfed books across the pit while another appeared to be floating on horns? Now that was an interesting quirk.

The main highlight of the long jump was when a silver haired boy named Shihai Kuroiro asked him to create flames over the long jump. Seeing no issue he happily obliged and watched as Kuroiro sunk into the ground and appeared on the other side of the stand box.

Another student who produced blades from his body and slightly reminded him of Bakugo tried to claim it wasn’t fair since he had helped only to get shot down since Vlad King said “anything goes.”

The test finally came to an end and Vlad King addressed the class. “Alright you hellions, that was the last test. Since going over your individual scores would take too long just pay attention to the leaderboard.”

Izuku Midoriya

Ibara Shiozaki

Setsuna Tokage

Juzo Honenuki

Sen Kaibara

Jurota Shishida

Itsuka Kendo

Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu

Yosetsu Awase

Pony Tsunotori 

Togaru Kamakiri

Kojiro Bondo

Reiko Yanagi

Kosei Tsuburaba

Yui Kodai

Shihai Kuroiro

Hiriyu Rin

Manga Fukidashi 

Nirengeki Shoda

Kinoko Komori 

“Don’t get discouraged if you aren’t satisfied with your placement. In the long run the first year assessment test overall means nothing, it’s just to see where you're at. Now get changed and head back to class. There's a packet on your desk detailing what was stated in orientation since I know none of you actually paid attention.” He said glaring at them.

Well fuck, were they that obvious?

“You’re dismissed, the rest of the day is essentially a free day so get to know your peers.” With that he walked away. 

Izuku was about to leave until he heard someone shouting. “Oi Green bean!”

He turned around to see the girl who raised her hand earlier, Setsuna Tokage if he remembered correctly. She appeared to be walking with Shiozaki and dragging a thrashing Kamakiri along.

“We're starting a green hair cult, wanna join?”  FUCKING WHAT?

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He walked out the U.A gates, now holding his Green Haired Membership Card. Where the hell did she make this and how did she get his blood type?

He put the card away when he felt someone following him. He turned around and was met with the sight of Yanagi trying to sneak up on him.

“Boo” she said with her arms raised above her head before sagging “How did you know i was behind you?”

He gave a smile and simply set his hand on fire hoping she got the message.

“Ah so your quirk lets you sense changes in temperatures such as breathing?” Upon seeing him nod she continued. “Well that’s disappointing, means I can't scare you.’

“Mm!” The two turned back towards the gate to see Kodai speed walking towards them.

“Oh that reminds me, Midoriya give me your phone.” Yanagi said, holding her hand out.

Izuku tilted his head to the side, slightly confused. He pulled his phone out and quickly unlocked it before handing it to her. 

He watched as she rapidly swiped and tapped the screen before handing the phone. “There, I noticed that like Yui, you don’t like talking much so I thought it'd be better if you still had some way to talk.”

Izuku looked at his phone, eyes quickly widening, Yanagi had added him to a group chat between her and Kodai, he had another person he could actually talk to other than his parents and Vlad-sensei!

Right as he was about to thank her a car horn drew their attention.

“Oh that’s us Yui, See ya tomorrow Midoriya!” “MM!” With that they ran off towards the car.

Izuku waved them goodbye as he checked the time, noticing he was about to miss his train he quickly ran off.

The first day had gone great, she would’ve loved it.

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The first day hadn’t gone so great.

He was expelled.

Minoru Mineta sat at his desk staring at the two lists he made.

He had placed last in the quirk assessment test and just as Aizawa-sensei promised, he was expelled and transferred to Gen-ed.

Before he left, Aizawa had told him to reevaluate what it means to be a hero and why he wanted to be one, So he made two lists.

The end results sickened him. He had been motivated for the wrong reason and had basically done everything the opposite of heroic.

His mind flashed back to the entrance exam where the green haired boy with a fire and ice quirk had saved him. He was heroic, he didn’t cower in fear at the first sign of trouble nor did he hesitate to save anyone, he just acted. 

While he had been frozen in fear and was completely useless. Hell at the entrance exam it finally occurred to him he had barely even bothered to train his quirk or body.

Oh god he was like one of those school idiots who thought they can skate by with only their quirk wasn’t he?

Fuck.

He turned to look at the calendar and then looked at the student calendar, he wouldn’t have enough time to train for the sports festival, it was happening in a few weeks and the way he was now he would be demolished before he even got a chance to even think about winning the chance to transfer back.

Regardless he still had some work to do, he still had next year's sports festival to prepare for.

Minoru Mineta was gonna earn his seat back, and he’s gonna be the best damn hero he can possibly be.

 OMAKE!

1: Why Izuku is called Green Fox in the family group chat:

It had been the first winter since Izuku’s quirk manifested, the family was sitting at the table enjoying a nice meal when suddenly, Izuku’s hair rapidly turned white before their eyes.

Izuku, who liked playing with his long hair, saw the whole thing and screamed bloody murder as his quirk spiked.

They needed a new table and industrial heater after Izuku finally calmed down.

🦋

They were sitting in the doctor's office waiting for results

Dr. Akitomo, who had an analysis quirk, walked in the room and addressed the family as Izuku followed her out.

“Good news, little Midoriya’s hair turning white isn’t anything to worry about. It appears to be tied to his quirk.” She pulled out a few documents and DNA’s test.

“As you can see, besides Midoriya’s hair turning white, it also became thicker to trap more heat, along with his skin changing to adapt more freezing temperature than it was originally capable of when his quirk first manifested.”

“So what exactly does this mean for him?” Inko asked

“It means he has a secondary mutation that’s similar to an Arctic Fox, his hair will change white during the winters along with his skin adapting to even colder temperatures, the same around spring his hair will return to it’s normal green.”

“I’m a fox?” Izuku the little angel he is asked. “I’m a fox! I’M A FOOOOX!”

Izuku proceeded to run around the office, randomly screaming at people that he was a fox.

Looking back, Izuku was glad he had social anxiety so he wouldn’t have to speak about that scene ever again,

2: Hero Student’s and their damn cults

Shota Aizawa walked by the class 1Ultra Heights Alliance while taking a nightly stroll since he couldn’t sleep.

He was not expecting to hear chanting coming from the dorms.

He walked up to the front door and quickly unlocked it to see what was happening.

He was met with the sight of six green hooded figures who all looked at him, their faces hidden.

They quickly scattered, one dropping their cloak as he heard footsteps run from it, one jumped to the ceiling and turned invisible another exploded and flew away in pieces, one shot out vines and jumped through the window, one cut a fucking hole through the wall and ran out and the last disappeared so quickly it left a trail of fire and ice.

Damn green hairs, Shota didn’t get paid enough for this shit.

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Izuku sat in his seat with his feet on the desk.

His classmates were practically vibrating in their seats waiting for their heroics teachers to show up. I mean it WAS All Might.

Despite how Izuku appeared he did not hate All Might. He actually respected him a lot for the work he does and is willing to show that respect during a professional setting like on the field. No, his issue was with Toshinori Yagi, the man behind the persona.

After the incident Izuku had done some digging and found out the fucker was posing as his own secretary and claiming to be quirkless at that. With that and the shit he pulled during the incident solidified his opinion of the blonde oaf.

“I AM… COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!”

“He’s actually here!” “Hey look, he's wearing his silver age costume!” “So Retro.” His various classmates chatted as the number one hero walked towards the front of the class.

“HERO BASIC TRAINING! The class that will put you through all sorts of training to mold you into the best heroes you possibly can be! No time to dally today's activity is this!” He pulled out a card that simply said 'Battle' “BATTLE TRAINING!”

Various students gained a grin at the thought, and while no one would prove it they could’ve sworn Izuku smirked.

“And for that, you’ll need these!” He pressed a button on a remote. ”Costumes designed specifically for your quir-” He was cut off when one of the students popped out the wall and grabbed the seat 4 suitcase.

“Snooze ya lose!” Kuroiro called out.

[“Oh you’re fucking on!”] A voice he recognized belonged to Tsunotori called out. He watched as she grabbed the seat 11 suitcase and surfed away on her horns. 

“Now hold on a second!” All Might said as he tried to get the two to stop with no luck.

“Cram it All Might!” Kamakiri said as he grabbed the seat 3 suitcase and jumped out the window.

Soon after the rest of the class followed, Yanagi and Kodai grabbed the seat 6 and 19 suitcases and surfed out the door on them. A hairy boy with glasses that Izuku recognized as Jurota Shishida grabbed the seat 9 and 17 cases, handed the latter one to Kojiro Bondo as they both jumped out the window.

“Hey you just can’t d- Stop that! Sit back do-” All Might's  protest died in his throat when he suddenly felt cold as Midoriya suddenly appeared behind him, he attempted to stop him only for Midoriya and the number 18 suitcase disappear into fading flames.

He really had to ask how he kept doing that. 

He sighed and turned back towards the class only to notice they were all gone as well, using Young Midoriya as a distraction.

He sighed again and walked out the door grumbling how 1A hadn’t been this difficult.

🦋

Izuku walked out the changing room still amazed at how accurate his costume was to what he submitted since one of his major concerns was the company changing it.

He had gone for efficiency over style so it wasn’t anything too major. At first glance it appeared to simply be a plain white hooded cloak, a fox mask and some snow boots, but underneath the cloak his costume consisted of a black full body jumpsuit with burnt orange knee pads and elbow pads along with white fingerless glove that was made to withstand his quirk. Around his waist was a white belt with two cable wires. Overall perfect for twilight heroics.

He turned towards where an annoyed All Might was standing next to Vlad-Sensei and what appeared to be a hobo?

Oh class 1A was here as well.

“Now before I was so rudely cut off 1B.” He stared at the class with a glare.  “I was gonna inform you that todays heroic class along with a few future ones were gonna be done with Class 1A.”

Oh maybe they should’ve stuck around instead of running out.

[“I have no regrets.”] Tsunotori said in english, the few that understood her snickering.

[“I’m fluent in English, Young Tsunotori.”] All Might quickly responded, causing Tsunotori to pale as Izuku held back the urge to laugh.

“Get on with it, we don’t have all day.” The hobo teacher next to Vlad said. Izuku wasn’t exactly sure who he was, he looked familiar meaning he probably heard of him in passing from one of her rants, he just couldn’t place a finger on it.

“Sensei! This appears to be the same area used for the entrance exam, will we be performing cityscape procedures!” A boy in armor that looked similar to Ingenium asked while chopping the air.

“Nope! You’ll be moving onto step two, Indoor Anti-personnel Battle Training!” All Might responded.

Vlad-sensei stepped in front and began speaking. “While it appears most villain battles are outside, statically the majority of crimes and villain battles happen inside.”

“That’s why today you’ll be split into Villain teams and Hero teams and face off in a two-on-two indoor battle!”

“So no basic training?” He turned to see a girl from 1A  with green hair and frog-like costume had asked the question, hopefully she had the chance to run before Tokage grabs her.

“Practical experience teaches the basics! The distinction here is you won’t be fighting disposable robots!” Holy fuck was he for real? Just throw fourty teenagers, most who haven’t had any chance to train their quirks properly or safely into battle with each other? Were they asking for injuries?

“What Determines victory?” “Can I just cut everyone away?” “Are you going to expel someone like Aizawa-Sensei did?” “How do we divide ourselves into teams?!” “How Fabulous is my cape?” “How bad can we hurt others?”

Wait a damn second. Was that fucking Bakugo.

He didn’t get to continue that thought as the hobo teacher eyes flashed red, his scarf lifting to reveal yellow goggles. “Silence!”

Oh.

Oh fuck that was the Erasure Hero: Eraserhead. Now he remembered where he saw him from, she had always been obsessed with him always going on a rant about his fighting style. He was also the last thing he saw before he passed out the day of the incident.

“Now if you all would stay quiet, allow me to explain. Teams have already been decided and aren’t up for debate. The Villain team will be hiding a bomb within one of the various buildings, their objective is to make sure the heroes don’t get to the bomb while also making sure they’re out of the building before the bomb goes off.”

He saw multiple hands raise up as Eraserhead sighed.

“The bomb isn’t a real bomb, when the time's up it will simply release a non harmful smoke. If the villains are still in the building by the time it goes off both teams lose.”

So the villains need to protect the bomb along with getting far away from it? That's one hell of a disadvantage.

“That being said.” The hero continued. “The Hero team objective is to not only locate and defuse the bomb by cutting the wires, they also need to capture and restrain the villains. So you can have the bomb completely defused, but if the villains capture you shortly after you lose.”

Oh.

Well fuck, now that’s a major disadvantage, the villains could just stall for time and go for a draw if things get rough.

“A Villain is only considered captured if they are unable to move, unconscious or wrapped up in capture tape.” Right as he said that Vlad walked up with a box full of capture tape and proceeded to toss them to each student.

“Now then, these are the teams.” Aizawa pressed a button on a remote as a screen popped on display.

Team A: Yosetsu Awase and Mina Ashido

Team B: Sen Kaibara and Tsuyu Asui

Team C: Togaru Kamakiri and Tenya Iida 

Team D: Shihai Kuroiro and Ochaco Uraraka

Team E: Itsuka Kendo and Mashirao Ojiro

Team F: Yui Kodai and Denki Kaminari

Team G: Kinoko Komori and Ejiro Kirishima

Team H: Ibara Shiozaki and Koji Koda

Team I: Jurota Shishida and Rikido Sato

Team J: Nirengeki Shoda and Mezo Shoji

Team K: Pony Tsunotori and Kyoka Jiro

Team L: Kosei Tsuburaba and Hanta Sero

Team M: Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu and Fumikage Tokoyami

Team N: Setsuna Tokage and Shoto Todoroki

Team O: Manga Fukidashi and Toru Hagakure 

Team P: Juzo Honenuki and Katsuki Bakugo

Team Q: Kojiro Bondo and Neito Monoma

Team R: Izuku Midoriya

Team S: Reiko Yanagi and Momo Yaoyorozu

Team T: Hiriyu Rin and  Yuga Aoyama 

“Midoriya.” The boy turned towards Aizawa.

“Your teammate was expelled, you’ll be going in solo and no you won’t be getting any sort of handicap.”

Well then, Plus Ultra it is.

“NOW THEN! Let’s see who the first match is!” All Might said, turning the student’s attention to the board.

Match 1

Team J: Nirengeki Shoda and Mezo Shoji(Heroes) vs Team C: Togaru Kamakiri and Tenya Iida(Villains) 

Chapter Text

The match had already begun and needless to say it was a lot more brutal than anyone had expected.

“FIRE!” Nirengeki screamed as he punched Iida, who promptly went flying through a wall. “Shoji get to the bomb!”

Shoji quickly ducked out of the way as Kamakiri bounced off the walls to lunge at him. “Working on it!”

He extended an arm and caught the green haired boy by the leg before throwing him down the hallway. Once he was sure Kamakiri was out of the way he started sprinting down the hall.

He didn't make it far as suddenly a recovered Iida sped by Shoda and swiftly kicked Shoji backwards. “You won’t stop us Her-AGH” He was cut off as Shoda tackled him to the ground and wrapped the capture tape around him.

“Young Iida has been captured! 10 minutes before the bomb goes off!” All Might’s voice came in their ear pieces.

Togaru propped himself up against the wall as he stood up. “Damn it, there's only 10 minutes left and it’s now two on one. I won’t be able to stall them or capture both of them before the timer runs out.”   

He started running down the hall. “I may not win this, but I can still make sure neither of you beat me as well!”

Shoji prepared himself for Kamakiri’s attack only to be confused when the mantis kid jumped over him and ran past Shoda, his eyes widened in realization and took off after him. “HE’S GONNA SET THE BOMB OFF EARLY, STOP HIM!” 

Shoda quickly got himself off Iida and started chasing after his classmate, only to stop and dodge a piece of falling ceiling. “He’s trying to slow us down, at this rate I won't be able to catch him.” "SHOJI EXTEND YOUR ARM NOW!”

Shoji did just that but it was too late, Kamakiri had already reached the bomb room and was already jumping towards it.

“IF I CAN’T HAVE VICTORY NO ONE WILL!” With that he thrusted both arms forward and stabbed the bomb.

The entire building flooded with smoke.

🦋 

“MATCH OVER! The bomb has gone off with both teams inside, Both teams lose.” All Might called, but the students didn’t really pay attention as a new realization hit them.

This entire scenario was actively against the hero teams. If the villains could just set off the bomb early it meant they now had to act even faster as the timer was now useless. There was nothing stopping the villains from throwing the match in a last ditch effort to stop the heroes like Kamakiri did.

It also means they had to be a lot more careful when they fought around the bomb to not accidentally set it off.

“I see you all realize this isn’t going to be as easy as you thought it would be.” The class turned towards the voice to see it was Aizawa. “In heroics the odds are against you most of the time, you won’t have the luxury of “easy.” 

Vlad King spoke next. “We’ll review what happened during the matches after lunch during Individual heroics since there's ten of them we have to get through.”

“With that done and said, here's the next match!” All Might pressed the remote as the next match popped up.

Team R: Izuku Midoriya(Heroes) VS Team M: Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu and Fumikage Tokoyami(Villains) 

Izuku stood up straight seeing his name. Just his luck that he would not only end up on the team with the biggest disadvantage but also in what appeared to be three on one if Tokoyami’s quirk was actually as sentient as it appeared.

He let out a sigh and started formulating a plan. He could make this work, he just had to play to his strengths.

Fast and Efficient. 

🦋  

As Izuku was preparing his match his classmates were discussing.

“I kinda feel bad for Midoriya, he was already at a disadvantage by going in solo but now the match is actively against him.” Sero said.

Bakugo scoffed. “The shitty nerd would’ve lost regardless anyways, he’s a coward that constantly runs.” 

Yanagi raised an eyebrow at that statement. While minor, she could tell that the boy's words were laced with a certain tone.

Fear.

Not only that he spoke as if he was familiar with Midoriya, so that raised the question, what exactly did Bakugo fear about Midoriya? 

“I think he’ll be fine.” Reiko turned to see it was Kaibara who spoke up. “It takes a lot of skill to have that much precision with an elemental quirk, let alone the two that are known to be the most difficult to control amongst the type along with being polar opposites.”

“I can vouch for that!” A boy with blonde hair that had a black lightning bolt spoke up. “I may not know which one he specifically has but I can attest that elemental quirks are extremely violent, if what you say is true it most likely means he trained like hell to get them under control.”

Shoto Todoroki stared at the screen more interested in the match now, there were only three element type quirks that fell under the hard to control category.

Electricity type quirks since most were known to harm their users along with being the most violent of the three since one out of control shock could result in the death of many.

Fire quirks for obvious reasons as most like Endeavor’s and his left side don’t come with the ability to control the flames once released, resulting in a chance for the flames to spread and cause severe damage to surrounding areas or bystanders if left unattended.

There also were more violent types like his classmate Bakugo’s explosion which focus on the more raw destructive side of fire quirks. The only reason they weren’t the most difficult of the three is because they were extremely common, meaning there were more known procedures to handle them.

And the final being Ice quirks, while powerful ice quirks like his right side were rare, they were known as the second most violent elemental quirks mostly cause it was near impossible to shape or control the output to prevent bystanders from suffering hypothermia, not to mention difficult to remove without some type of heating quirk to melt it.

While these weren’t issues for him any non-legacy kid wouldn’t have the training to remove those risks due to quirk laws.

If what the brown haired boy was right and he possessed two which were the opposite of each other that means Midoriya had an ice and fire quirk. He should’ve known someone would’ve done the exact same thing as his father.

If he turned out to be right he wasn’t too worried about it, with the sports festival coming soon Midoriya will make a great example to show he didn’t need his father’s fire.

🦋 

Tetsutetsu set the bomb down and looked towards his teammate. “This should be a good spot, it’ll take awhile for him to find it if he somehow manages to get past us.”

“Indeed, that being said, do you have any valuable info about our foe?” Fumikage spoke.

“Not much unfortunately, all I really know is his quirk lets him create fire and ice and that he’s silent and fast, you can be looking right at him and he’ll just vanish! It’s extremely manly.”

“So it seems our foe is one with the shadows, in that case we should probably look for him together, even if he manages to get past us and disable the bomb, the chances of him overpowering the two of us are slim.”

Their earpieces buzzed to life. “The match has begun! Heroes may enter the building!” With that they ran off.

🦋 

“They already messed up.” Juzo said.

“Oh? How so Honenuki?” Yaoyorozu asked her fellow recommendation student.

“From what I've seen from Midoriya he specializes in stealth, I didn't even notice he was standing next to me during the quirk assessment test until Vlad-sensei called on him, not to mention he’s fast. Leaving the bomb unattended was a mistake.”

“I’m gonna have to agree with Honenuki on this one” Tokage said, floating over to the pair. “The way green bean handled the quirk assessment was insane, if I didn't know better i would’ve assumed he was a recommended student, that sorta level of quirk control isn’t usually normal for someone who isn’t legacy, at least I don't think he is.”

“Oh y'all talking about Midoriya?” They turned to see Kosei Tsuburaba. “He saved me during the entrance exam, he even took down the 0-Pointer on his own, it was like he wasn’t even trying!”

The recommendation students all looked at each other confused. “0 Pointer?”

“Ah the recommendation exams must’ve not had them, it was essentially a giant robot the size of a building.”

Tokage whistled. ”Glad I took the recommendation exam instead.”

“The Bomb has been disabled!” They all turned towards the screen to see Midoriya stand up and vanish from the camera's view.

“H-how? It’s only been five minutes and he passed by none of the other cameras.” It was Komori who asked the question they were all thinking.

“He moved quickly that’s how.” They turned to see Iida walking in with Shoda, Shoji and Kamakiri all with ice packs in their hands.

“While he avoided the majority of the cameras, the ones he did walk by he did so quickly to the point it looked like he never did, I only noticed due to having a speed quirk and thus faster perception.” 

“Midoriya’s choice was a smart one.” The students turned towards Vlad as he continued. “In situations like this it’s always the best choice to go with the action that will save the most lives, if the test had been set up any differently he would by all means have won by now.”

“But no fight is truly over until the villain is behind bars” 

🦋

 “The Bomb has been disabled!” All might’s voice said through their coms.

“WHAT!?” Tetsutetsu screamed as he and Tokoyami started running down the hall. “How the hell did he get past us that fast without any of us seeing?”

“No time to worry about that, we now know where he is. We can still capture him to win the match and if push comes to shove we can set the bomb off manually like Kamakiri did for a tie.” 

“Right this should be eas-GAH.” He was cut off as the wall beside them exploded and his face was met with an icy knee.

Izuku dropped to the floor, quickly grabbing Tetsutetsu by his shoulder straps and throwing him through the opposite wall he came in.

“DARK SHADOW!” He heard Tokoyami scream and instantly hit the deck avoiding a claw swipe.

He rolled towards the wall before quickly scaling it, leaving melted footprints behind as he jumped off and delivered an icy downward kick to Dark Shadow’s head, freezing her in place.

“DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME.” He turned towards the voice only to be met with a steel fist.

Tokoyami watched as Midoriya went flying through the wall and had a finally free Dark Shadow go after him.

“Um Fumi? He’s not here.” The shadow bird said.

What? He had clearly seen Midoriya be launched that way, was this what Tetsutetsu meant by disappearing? “Be on guard, he can be anywhere.”

“Right! I won’t let him get the drop on me agai-” He was cut off as suddenly a cable wire dropped down from the ceiling and wrapped around him “OH COME ON.”

Izuku pulled him up to the ceiling before jumping down and slamming him to the ground. He quickly threw the steel boy down the hall and let the wire return. 

“You won’t get away from me this time!” Dark shadow lunged at him only to falter as Midoriya’s cable wire ignited with white flames and lashed at her.

The wire forced Dark Shadow back as Izuku quickly ran up to Tokoyami and kicked him down the hall.

He quickly let the flames on the whip die down as he turned around while pulling out his second wire and wrapped them both around a recovered Tetsutetsu who was sprinting at him.

Tetsutetsu's eyes widened as he watched Midoriya frost over the whips before heating them up, a small explosion meeting his steeled skin. “OUCH! Did you just try to blow me u-GAH.”

He didn’t get to finish as Midoriya suddenly appeared behind him and delivered an iced over elbow to the back of his neck knocking him out.

“RUN FREE DARK SHADOW!” Izuku turned around to see Dark Shadow clearly bigger than she originally was.

As Dark Shadow went to swipe Midoriya she was only met with confusion as the boy vanished into small flames and ice vapor. “He vanished again, Fumi!”

“What do you mean he vanished? You were looking right at hi-”  He didn’t get to finish as suddenly he felt a warm and cold breeze pass him. He turned around and was met with Midoriya delivering a roundhouse kick. 

Izuku raised his hand, sending a wave of flames at the newly enlarged quirk and watched as Dark Shadow screamed and retreated back into Tokoyami.

Seeing his theory confirmed he quickly wrapped Tokoyami in both his wires and ignited them.

Fumikage was about to scream but he soon noticed the flames didn’t have any heat and were just emitting light, his eyes widened as he realized they weren’t meant to harm but were meant to stop Dark Shadow from coming out. 

He tried to wiggle out the grasp only for Midoriya’s to pull them back as they tightened around him. He winced in pain and only gave up trying to struggle when All Might’s voice appeared in his ear confirming his worst thoughts.

“Young Tokoyami and Young Tetsutetsu are unable to continue! With the bomb disabled it means the Hero team wins!”

🦋 

Izuku walked back into the viewing room and was quickly met by Yanagi and Kodai

“Well done Midoriya, you do have to tell me how you do that disappearing trick one of these days.” Her phone buzzed as she saw Midoriya had pulled out his phone and texted in the group chat.

Green Spy #6: That’s for me know and you to never find out >:D

Yanagi sagged in disappointment. “Rude.” Her phone buzzed again, she noticed it was Yui this time.

The Quiet One: Where did you learn to use cable wires like that? 

Green Spy #6: My dad gave me instructions on how to use them during calls.

Before Yui could text to ask why his father knew how to use Cable wires to fight, All Might drew their attention.

“With that amazing display let's get on with the next match!”

He turned towards the screen and confirmed he had heard correctly earlier, he just had to get stuck with both people he hated for the next three years.

Team P: Juzo Honenuki and Katsuki Bakugo(Heroes) vs Team Q: Kojiro Bondo and Neito Monama (Villains)

Why the hell did U.A. let a murderer into the hero course?

Chapter Text

“DIE!” Bakugo screamed as he blew up Bondo.

Izuku watched as her killer stomped into the bomb room and just blew up the wires to win the match.

Those near him could clearly tell he was angry given how the temperature in the air kept switching from overly hot to extremely cold and back.

Izuku just didn’t understand it. Why was he here? How was he here?

He knew Aldera was shit but did they actually let him get away with it? Did they really just decide not to put it on his record just cause he was their precious star student? 

If that's the case Izuku was really starting to regret not sending the school to the ice age while his mom reminded everyone that organs are small objects.

He snapped out his thoughts when Tsuburaba addressed him “Um are you ok dude? You’re kinda messing with the temperature and emitting black flames? frost? I thought your quirk was white?” 

Izuku at least had the decency to look embarrassed although Tsubaraba couldn’t see it due to the mask. He pulled out his phone and quickly handed it to the brown haired boy.

Kosei raised his eyebrow and confusingly took the phone. He noticed the screen was open on new contact so he added his info and handed it back to Midoriya. 

Once Midoriya had his phone back he saw the boy quickly type as his own phone vibrated in his pocket.

Green Spy #6: Sorry about that! My quirk gets a bit out of control when I'm annoyed or angry, nothing to worry about.

Kosei raised an eyebrow at that as well. What had Midoriya annoyed so much that it affected him on a quirk level? “Is that also the reason your flames are black instead of what I presume is the usual white?”

He saw Midoriya nod as another text came in.

Green Spy #6: Yeah, no need to worry tho! It hasn’t been an issue for 10 months now.

Well that was ominous.

“One more question. Why is your name Green Spy #6?” He could’ve sworn he saw Tokage and Kamakiri panic for a second.

Green: What name?

Before Kosei could point out the obvious name change, All Might grabbed their attention once again.

“With two wins for the heroes and a Draw let’s get on to another match!”

Team I: Jurota Shishida and Rikido Sato(Heroes) VS Team F: Yui Kodai and Denki Kaminari(Villains)

Kosei turned back towards Midoriya to see he had disappeared and was now standing near Yanagi.

“700 Yen one of the floors caves in.” Yanagi said to the green haired boy before her phone chimed.

The IceHot One:  No dice, that’s a rigged bet and you know it.

The Quiet One: Coward

The IceHot One: You don’t even know what the bet was??? Aren’t you meant to be planning

The Quiet One: Perhaps

The Haunted One: Yui your partner is sparking, focus

The Quiet One: Fine 

The Quiet One has logged off

The IceHot One: 700 yen Villains wins their first match of the day

Yanagi looked up from her phone and glared at the fox masked boy, “And you got on me for trying to rig the bet?”

He snickered and quickly vanished as she went to kick his shins.

The Haunted One: How do you do that? There was no ice or fire that time.

The IceHot One: My dad taught me it when i was four and no i won’t teach you just so you can scare people easier

The Haunted One: Rude

🦋

Denki Kaminari was a little bit nervous as he prepared for his match.

Both his opponents were built like a brick wall, and while sure he had plenty of training thanks to being a legacy kid it didn’t help ease his worries.

Also didn’t help that his partner didn’t talk as well, now he didn’t have an issue with that but it had been the main reason Monoma and his partner had lost since apparently Bondo didn’t talk either.

But despite all that he was gonna make this work somehow.

He turned towards Kodai who was putting her phone up “Alright we need a plan, do you mind telling me your quirk?”

He watched as she pulled a barrel out of her pocket and whispered the word ‘release’ as it grew to a normal before shrinking again.

“A quirk that lets you change the size of things? Ok, that's pretty cool now for a plan.” “What would mom do in this scenario?” He said to himself, pulling out a pen and spinning it to help him think.

He looked at the bomb and paused.”Do you think you can safely shrink the bomb without setting it off?”

Kodai shrugred and began walking towards the bomb. He slightly tensed as she reached out towards it, praying it wouldn’t go off.

He relaxed as he saw it shrink to the size of a spin top. “Ok now that we don’t have to worry about them disarming it, all we need is the match to start and make out way out the building if we're lucky we can avoid confrontation and just take a time win”

“MATCH 4 BEGINS, HEROES MAY ENTER THE BUILDING” With that the two took off.

“Watch the walls, they might try to burst through them to get the drop on us like Midoriya did.” Denki said

“Mm”

They continued to make their way down the hall only to freeze when they heard someone yelling.

“SUGAR RUSH!” Sato screamed as he came bursting through the floor. He quickly grabbed Kaminari by the leg and threw him back down the hall. “NOW SHISHIDA.”

Jurota gave off a beastly roar as he came through the hole Sato made and slammed his hand onto the ground.

Yui's eyes widened as she saw the surrounding floor crack and then cave in. “They’re trying to bury us!”  She reached into a pocket and pulled out a miniature pillow “Release” She calmly called as she used the now enlarged pillow to cover her head as the debris fell.

Jurota and Sato quickly jumped down onto the debris, seeing no sight of Kodai or Kaminari. 

“Good work Sir.Sato, I do believe the plan worked perfectly.” He said, shrinking out of his beast form.

“Agreed, hopefully they aren’t too injured, you made sure to only collapse this room's floor right?”

“Why of cour-'' He was cut off when he heard the sound of cracking as the air became static. He turned to see what it was, only to shield his eyes as debris went flying.

Denki popped out of the rubble, his quirk fully surrounding him as he quickly slammed his fist together charging the gloves his mom designed for him.

“SHOCK WAVE!” He slammed both arms to the ground as he let his lightning wave over the floor towards the two heroes.

Shishida bulked back up just in time as he and Sato were met with a nasty shock.

Denki quickly moved up to Sato, coating his fist in electricity as he punched the sugar quirk boy in the stomach to keep him stunned while he destroyed the boy's belt and kicked him away.

“HA! Well isn’t this a shocking twist heroes?” He gave a smug grin right before a recovered Shishida swatted him away.

“Sir.Sato, are you alright?”

Rikido stood up slightly twitching. “I’m fine, he destroyed my sugar canisters though.”

“That is an issue. We should head to the bomb, he won’t be able to use his quirk effectively in the room unless he wants to risk an early explos-AGH” He was cut off, as an enlarged marble hit him in his head.

Sato's eyes widened as he turned to see a bruised up Kodai throwing something at him.

“Release.” Suddenly three metal discs expanded and were flying at him.

He rolled out of the way only to hear Kaminaris voice behind him.

“Hey there big guy!” Jumped onto Sato’s back and slammed both his hands onto the boy's back as he amped up his voltage. “These lightning rods mom designed are really great!” 

Sato twitched rapidly before he slumped over and passed out. Denki quickly took out the capture tape and wrapped it around him.

“Young Sato is out! 15 minutes remain!” All Might’s voice called.

“That’s one dow-WOAH.” He jumped out of the way as a piece of rubble flew at him, He turned to see it was a battered Shishida.

Denki prepared to attack only for Shishida to turn away and run down the hall.

“What? What is he doing?” And then it dawned on him. He quickly moved over to Kodai and stopped her from chasing after him. 

“He’s gonna try to set the bomb off early, even if he does somehow find it while it’s small, as long as we're out the building when it goes off we win.”

Kodai gave a nod as they both took off for the entrance.

🦋

Jurota was not having a great time, he dug through every room and when he reached the last one he saw it.

The bomb was in the middle of the room, only it was small.

Fuck.

Hopefully it still going off would still be enough for a draw.

He raised his arm and brought it down, only to stumble when the bomb expanded to normal size and his claws ripped right through leaving him with a face full of smoke.

“The Bomb has gone off with the villains out of the building! Villain team wins!” All Mights voice ranged

They were out?! So he blew up the bomb for nothing!

🦋

Izuku and Yanagi walked into the Medbay to check on Kodai.

He quickly spotted an unconscious Bondo and a bandaged Monoma. He felt bad for them, Bakugou never did know the meaning of the word restraint, he really did a number on them. 

He internally winced when he saw that Tetsutetsu was still knocked out. His arms were wrapped in bandages indicating Izuku’s explosion had pierced through his steel skin.

They approached Kodai and saw she was one the few without bandages.

“I see you’re fine Yui, congrats on the win.” Yanagi spoke.

Kodai quickly pulled out her phone.

The Quiet One: Thank you Reiko.

The IceHot One: You Know when i saw the pairing i expected a wall or two to be broken not an entire floor collapsing 

“Agreed, nice job with the pillow.” The only talked of the group spoke.

The IceHot One: Speaking of pillows, did you really request a pillow with your hero costume?

The Quiet One: It came in handy didn’t it?

“She has a point.”

“The Bomb has gone off with the villains inside! It’s another Draw!”

Wait what?

The three turned towards the screen just in time to see Todoroki remove his hand from the building wall and wave away the smoke.

On closer inspection they saw that the entire building was frozen.

Did Todoroki ignore what happened in the first round? Man was Tokage was gonna tear him a new one.

Better question is how the hell did they miss the match announcement? Had they really been here that long?

“Well that's impressive, can you do that?” Yanagi asked.

The IceHot One: I can but prefer not to, as you can see wide attacks like that aren’t really practical, it set the bomb off early.

“That makes sense, you should probably go help them melt the ice.”

The IceHot One: I don’t think that’s necessary anymore.

Reiko turned back towards the screen and witnessed Todoroki melt the Ice with his other side.

The Quiet One: So he has fire as well? 

“Well that’s convenient, two first years with Ice and Fire quirks”

The IceHot One: Well he is Endeavor's son, it makes sense he has a Fire quirk.

They turned back to the screen as All Might begin talking. “With that quick match and the ice all melted, We can hop right into the next match!”

Team B: Sen Kaibara and Tsuyu Asui(Heroes) VS Team S: Reiko Yanagi and Momo Yaoyorozu(Villains) 

“Villain team? I guess it's time to start the Haunt.” With that she took a few lugnuts out of her pockets and surfed out the Medbay.

The IceHot One: Did she say Hunt or Haunt?

The Quiet One: Yes

Izuku looked up from his phone and glared at Kodai who simply gave a smug smile

The IceHot One: That's it, i’m teaching Yanagi to disappear so she can scare you

The Quiet One: Wait No

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Sen Kaibara stood in front of the building as he and Asui looked over the building layout plans.

“You said Yaoyorozus quirk lets her create things right? If that’s the case we’re in a bad position, Yanagi quirk is some sort of telekinesis and Yaoyorozu is unlimited ammo.”

Tsuyu placed a finger on her chin “What if we split up ribbit? Majority of the hero teams stuck together in fear of being overpowered and letting the villains escape the building.”

“But if one of us enters from the front and distracts them without actually engaging, the other can enter from the back using a window and deactivate the bomb!” Kaibara finished. “With the bomb disabled we can then focus on capture.”

“The Match has started! Heroes may enter the building!” All Might's voice called.

“Let's hope this works.” Kaibara spoke as the two split up.

🦋 

“It did not work , it really did not work.” Sen thought as he ducked behind the wall to avoid a cannonball.

Apparently Yanagi and Yaoyorozu also had the idea to split up and with just his luck, he ended up against the recommended legacy student.

He flinched as he heard the cannon fire off again, the wall he was behind starting to crack.

Well fuck.

He started spinning his body and drilled himself to the next floor down. He wasn’t in the position to be taking on Yaoyorozu just yet, his fighting style was close combat, a style he had no chance at if he couldn’t even get past the cannon fire. His best choice was to fallback and meetup with Asui until he could come up with something that worked.

🦋 

Meanwhile in the bomb room Asui also was having a bad time as she dodged around a flying disk.

She had made her way into the bomb room easily only to be met with Yanagi and a swarm of disks she was just barely avoiding. 

She finally caught a break and shot her tongue out towards Yanagi only to notice she couldn’t move her body at all. Her eyes widened as she finally noticed the purple glow around herself.

“Got you.” The monotone voice of Reiko said right before she waved her arms and threw Asui through the wall.

Tsuyu gave a groan as she stood up to shake the rubble off her. This was an issue, if she stayed still it meant Yanagi could use her quirk on her and just throw her out the bomb room, if she kept moving to avoid being hit it left little room to attack from range.

Which meant she had to get up close and she had to get up close fast.

She rushed back into the room and decided to take a page out of Kamakiri's book from the first match and constantly jumped around the room in random patterns.

Reiko watched as Asui blurred through the room trying to keep her eyes on her. The moment she lost sight of Asui she felt a swift kick to her back.

When she went to attack with her disk it was too late as Asui was already bouncing off the walls again. She then felt a kick to her sides as she staggered for a second.

A second was all Asui needed.

She felt both of Asuis’s leg connect to her stomach at full force as she launched backwards but before she could hit the wall the green haired girl was already behind her, kicking her again and thus beginning the barrage.

She felt a kick from her right, then her left, then above, then from behind, left, above, right, behind, right, in front. Reiko didn’t have time to process the attacks as suddenly she was kicked into the air where the onslaught worsened.

In hindsight maybe fighting someone with a frog quirk in close quarters wasn’t a great idea.

Asui's assault picked up as the attacks started to blur together, she didn’t even know someone could attack this fast. 

The last thing she saw before everything went dark was Asui’s tongue wrapping around her as the girl pulled her in quickly and delivered a powerful kick to her stomach as they slammed into a wall.

Tsuyu quickly unwrapped her tongue from Yanagi and made sure she was ok, once she saw the girl was just unconscious she quickly pulled out her capture tape and wrapped it around her.

“Young Yanagi has been captured! 15 Minutes till the bomb goes off!” All Might voiced called

With that Tsuyu gave a sigh of relief as she began walking towards the bomb. 

Two down, one more to go.

🦋 

Sen rapidly spun his body as the cannonball flew towards him. The moment it made contact sparks flew as it collided and spun off him without any harm.

After trying and failing to get away from Yaoyorozu he had to think quickly about what he had to do to get out of this scenario and so he did what he did best an spinned.

He gave a smug grin as Yaoyorozu’s eyes widened as she saw the cannonball deflected. The shock didn’t last as she made a second cannon and began firing at once.

Sen didn’t wait as he amped up Gyrate to the fastest he could go and rapidly started spinning down the hall.

Momo kept firing the cannons over and over again, each time they spun off Kaibara with little issue. He was starting to close the gap when All Might's voice rang through their earpieces.

“Young Yanagi has been captured! 15 Minutes till the bomb goes off!”

Her eyes widen as she realizes she was now alone in the match along with the bomb left unattended. She started to fire the cannons faster only to come to a horrible conclusion.

They were empty and Kaibara had finished closing the gap.

She quickly lept backwards as Kaibara stopped spinning and slammed a drilling fist into where she had just been standing. She quickly created a Bo-staff and quickly blocked his next attack.

Kaibara grinned as he applied more pressure onto the staff, drilling right through to snap it in half.

She quickly moved out of the way and swiftly used the broken Bo-staff as an escrima stick and swept Kaibaras leg as he began falling head first.

She quickly pinned the boy and wrapped the capture tape around him.

“Young Kaibara has been captured! 12 minutes till the bomb goes off!” 

“Son of a gun that hurts.” Kaibara said as he sat up to rub his head. “By the way did you have to use cannons?”

He was trying to stall and she knew this, she simply ignored him  and started running towards the bomb.

She could do this, she just needed to capture Asui and they could still win.

“The Bomb has been disabled!” 

She froze.

If the bomb was disabled a win was impossible now, her only option now was to either to manually set the bomb off and go for a draw or accept a complete loss. A draw is better than a loss.

She started running down the hall again and entered the bomb room. She didn’t have time to think of a plan when she suddenly heard Asui scream “Ribbit!” as the world went dark.

🦋 

Reiko's eyes snapped open as she sat up and quickly realized she was in the Medbay.

She turned to her left to see Midoriya and Yui playing Odds and Evens before they noticed her and pulled out their phones, her following suit. 

The Quiet One: How are you feeling?

“I’m not hurt, Asui hits hard but I don’t think i broke anything”

The IceHot One: Yanagi you broke 2 ribs

“Oh” she didn't know that part, she guessed it did make sense given how many times Asui had actually hit her in the sides.

The Quiet One: did you not know your ribs were broken before you passed out?

“In my defense, I was under constant fire and the moment I wasn't, I passed out.”

The IceHot One: She has a point

Reiko felt her sides to make sure she was ok before she stood up. “Well since i feel fine let’s get out of here, i wanna see the other matches.”

The IceHot One: Race ya

She looked up to see Midoriya vanish, she wasn’t one to take a challenge lightly as she took out a few of her disks and surfed out.

The Quiet One: This isn’t fair at all

Yui sighed as she put up her phone and walked out the Medbay, maybe she should shrink a bike and put it in her hero case.

🦋 

The next four matches were not worth watching after all.

Team H which had Shiozaki and Koda as heroes against Team O with Fukidashi and Hagakure was completely one sided as Shiozaki did exactly what Todoroki did but actually made sure none of the vines actually touched the bomb while Koda had a literal bird disable the bomb.

It was an impressive show of control and made Tokage even more mad at Todoroki. Poor boy looked like he saw the face of death.

Team A with Awase and Ashido against Team L vs Tsuburaba and Sero was another one sided match as neither Awase nor Ashido could get through Tsuburaba's air wall around the wire panel needed to disarm the bomb while Sero and Tsuburaba chilled outside.Thirty minutes later the bomb went off thus giving the Villains another win.

Team T Aoyama and Rin vs Team E Kendo and Ojiro was a slaughter. Ojiro had flipped over Aoyama’s navel blast and knocked him out in a single tail hit while Kendo used her enlarged hand as a shield against Rin’s scale before knocking him out. It was the fastest match that wasn’t a draw.

The final match had disappointingly ended in a draw.

The teams were Team D Kuroiro and Uraraka vs Team G Komori and Kirishima. The match had been fine, Kuroiro snuck in to disable the bomb while Uraraka swiftly dealt with Kirishima by just having him float on the roof. So with the Bomb disabled, her teammate captured and a building full of moist air needless to say Komori made her choice the moment it was clear she could make as much mushrooms as she wanted. Match ended with the bomb being manually set off from a mushroom growing inside of it 

With all the trials done they were dismissed for lunch.

So there in the teacher lounges sat A shrunken All Might, Vlad King and Eraserhead as they reviewed the matches.

“I’m impressed.” Kan spoke, “I honestly expected a lot more Draws and Villains win due to how it was set up, wasn’t expecting alot of heroes to wins”

Shota looked at the win ratio and sure enough Kan was right, out of ten matches it was four hero wins, three villain wins and three draws. 

“That may be true, some of them need a lot of work, especially the ones who got draws” He bluntly said. “Not to mention a lot of them lost due to lack of communication like Bondo and Monoma, a major issue they need to work on.”

“Aren’t you being a bit harsh, Young Aizawa?” Yagi chimed in. “In door combat is always one of the hardest things to handle and this was their first heroic lesson.”

Before he could respond Kan interjected “Speaking of Monoma, why did you switch his team? Seat 19 from Class A and Seat 18 From Class B were meant to be paired together, That’s Monoma and Midoriya. You expelled your seat 18, it would’ve meant Bondo had to do the assignment solo.”

Aizawa gave a tired expression. “It was a test to see if Midoriya really could actually control his quirk, from what i saw months ago the kid clearly had no control.”

Vlad king clenched his jaw. “You don’t get to play your stupid logical ruses with my students Aizawa. You said you didn’t stay the whole incident to learn about the aftermath or the cause so you know next to nothing about Midoriya to be making that conclusion, and even if he didn’t have control over his quirk having him without a partner would make no sense”

At this point Toshinori took a step back, deciding he wanted nothing to do with this conversation, especially since it was gonna be bringing up that day again.

Aizawa sighed. “I’ll admit I may be wrong in my conclusion, but I don't regret changing the teams. If Midoriya quirk was anything like it was during the incident he would’ve been fine solo either way.”

“And how exactly do you know that?”

Shota looked Kan dead in the eye and spoke. “That kid managed to hold off seven pro heroes before Best Jeanist got there, and even he was struggling to contain the kid’s quirk until I got there.”

Vlad paused and looked down at Midoriya’s file. Eight pro heroes? He knew Midoriya was good but he wasn’t giving 8 pro heroes a run for their money good just yet. More importantly, why wasn’t this incident on his file?

Yagi looked at the floor as he remembered that day. He had already used all of time and pushed his limits already during that day, he was just forced to watch as the incident went down.

Sekijiro looked back at Aizawa “What exactly happened during the incident? If I'm going to be teaching Midoriya I need to know what happened and what exactly he’s capable of.”

Aizawa sighed once again. “There’s not much I can tell you, other than those black flames Midoriya was making during Bakugo’s match were present during the scene. I was confused at first why his flames were white during the entrance exam, until I noticed it during the trial and how he was staring at Bakugo and finally made the connection.”

Vlad gave a grunt. “And what connection would that be?” He had also noticed Midoriya’s demeanor changed when Bakugo appeared, but he didn’t think too much of it. 

Aizawa took Midoriya’s file and stared at it.

“His flames turn black with raw rage.”

🦋 

Izuku headed to the gates as he walked beside Yanagi and Kodai. 

“I’ll pay you 700 yen just to teach me your disappearing trick.”

The IceHot One: It’s not gonna happen 

“How about we make a bet?”

Before Izuku could even respond to that he heard a familiar voice scream.

“DEKU!” Bakugou screamed as he stomped towards him. “What the hell does your shitty ass think you’re doing here?! I was meant to be the only one from that shitty school attending here. You're shitty si-” 

Whatever he was gonna say next died in his throat as Izuku looked at him.

His whole body froze, his mouth became dry and suddenly felt like it was suffocating him as Midoriya just stared at him. 

It was exactly like that day.

Reiko watched carefully as the whole ordeal went down, Midoriya’s demeanor had completely changed, she could only see one emotion in his eyes.

Pure hate.

Just what exactly had Bakugo done to make Midoriya this mad? 

“Shut Up Bakugo .” Izuku spoke, saying Bakugo’s name with Malice as he turned back around and disappeared.

Yui stood wide-eyed as Midoriya left, she had heard Midoriya talk when they were playing Odds and Evens earlier and it had been one of the nicest things she heard, to hear it with such malice in the tone scared her. 

Suddenly her and Reiko’s phones chimed.

The IceHot One: Sorry about that, i really just dislike him 

The Haunted One: I think dislike is an understatement 

Reiko turned back to look at Bakugo, He didn’t move after Midoriya left he just stood there shaking for a few seconds before sprinting off the opposite direction of the train station.

The Quiet One: He just ran off as if he saw death himself, Midoriya what happened 

The IceHot One: Story for another day now onto more important things 

The IceHot One: No i will not be making a bet with you Yanagi

Reiko just stared at her phone before looking at Yui, she could see it in the look in her eyes that she was just as curious as she was. So the question remained.

What happened between Midoriya and Bakugo?

Chapter Text

The next day in class was pretty mundane in Izuku’s opinion.

Vlad King had them choose class presidents and for some ungodly reason he had won Vice.

Now he would’ve simply resigned but Yanagi stole his phone before he could tell Vlad-sensei and when he went to get it back Kodai shrunk it.

Traitors the lot of them.

So now he was at lunch with the traitors, Tokage, Kamakiri and Kendo who were desperately trying to get him to go over their presidential duties as he just sat there banging his head on the table until he was enveloped in a purple glow.

“Stop that, you’ll split your head open.” Traitor number one said.

“I still say you’re overexaggerating, it’s just a stupid class position not the end of the world.” Kamakiri spoke.

Tokage was next. “He’s right, Green bean, you’ll do fine. Sides you could always just shove off all your work onto Class Prez here.”

“WHAT?”

“Either way you got seven votes for a reason Green bean, the class clearly trusts you.”

Itsuka glared at Tokage. “As difficult as she is, Tokage is right Midoriya. If you didn’t vote for me and voting for yourself wasn’t allowed you would be the Class President.”

Kodai unshrunk his phone and handed it back to him.

When a message came through to Yanagi’s phone she read it outloud. “‘Traitors the lot of you.’ So does that mean you’ll do it?” 

Izuku gave a heavy sigh and just nodded his head.

“GREAT!” Setuna exclaimed while she leaned over the table. “Now i have a question to ask that’s been killing me, are you a legacy kid? Yaoyorozu, Honenuki and I were trying to figure out if you were but none of us ever saw you at any hero gala’s so we weren’t sure.”

Before he could type out a response a blaring alarm started to ring.

“ALERT LEVEL THREE SECURITY BREACH, ALERT LEVEL THREE SECURITY BREACH.”

“HOLY SHIT WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE.” Some random second year screamed, starting a panic.

Izuku gave a heavy sigh as he calmly walked to the hallway only to pause when he saw that it was crowded with people trying to shove each other just to get out.

U.A High everyone, the number one school in Japan.

He pulled his phone back out and sent a message to Tokage who was still sitting at the table with the others.

Green spy #6: Can you float an eye above the hallway and see what’s going on? 

Green spy #4: Got it green bean

He watched as Tokage’s head flew over the crowd before looking around and flying towards him.

“Well I found the intruder, it’s just the press.”

The press? Sure they were annoying earlier but there's no way they would’ve gotten past the U.A. barrier, something doesn’t add up.

His body suddenly ran frigid. He felt it.

Setsuna watched as Midoriya randomly perked up. “Hey you ok green be-” She didn’t get to finish as Midoriya quickly vanished.

She gave a disappointed huff. “Well that's just rude.”

🦋 

Izuku sprinted down the empty hall as he made his way towards the true intruder.

Despite how Thermodynamics appeared it wasn’t just a simple Ice and Fire generating quirk.

While he couldn’t physically see them, Izuku was instinctively aware of every atom around him, every shift in temperature made to them, every new one and every shift made in them. He had to in order to use his quirk properly. 

When he was younger he was aware of every slightest movement and it was extremely annoying as he would be actively aware of even the slightest breeze of wind.

As he got older he got better in determining important changes and filtering through useless ones eventually getting it to the point it was sixth sense. It was the actual reason he felt Yanagi sneak up on him rather than a simple shift in temperature.

So when he felt a heavy shift appear in one of the office rooms out of nowhere with no prior movements he knew something was up.

As soon as he reached the source, his hair ignited to hide his identifiable green hair and busted down the door to All Might's office.

His attention instantly snapped to the hooded intruder. As soon as he saw they were holding a piece of paper Izuku didn’t hesitate. His fist ignited on fire, as he sent a simple compressed ball of white flames right through the paper.

“What the hell!” The hooded intruder yelled while dropping the burning paper. “Sensei never said there was a random NPC guarding the schedule!”

“Schedule? What does he want with All Might’s schedule plan?” Izuku didn’t think about it too much as he quickly vanished, appearing behind the intruder to deliver a swift roundhouse kick to send them into the table.

He watched as the Intruder stood up, placing their hand on the edge of the desk that slowly turned to dust under their grip.

Well that wasn’t good.

“I don’t know who you are but if I can’t get away with the schedule, I can at least get away with hurting U.A’s pride.”

With that the intruder was quickly in front of him, five fingers reaching towards his face.

Izuku's body went rigid, the room was too small to vanish in now that the intruder was actively aware of him. 

He quickly spotted the remote to the costume cases on All Might’s desk and the sliding wall panel that held them.

If he was gonna fight he was gonna need more room and a way to make sure the press didn’t identify him.

Thank god U.A. made it so that Teachers could give students their Hero Costumes anywhere from campus.

With the plan now in mind, he quickly stomped his foot onto the floor.

🦋 

Shota really hated the press.

“You all need to leave, before we arrest you for tresspas-'' He didn’t get to finish as suddenly the building behind him had a glacier explode out from it.

Why did everything about this scream Midoriya?

Suddenly he saw a teal haired boy launch out from the glacier and hit the ground.

He was about to see who exactly that was because he knew for a fact it wasn’t a student, until the press started swarming around him even more, now trapping  him in.

He really hated the press.

🦋 

Tomura hated everything about this.

This was meant to be a simple in and out quest, he wasn’t expecting a god damn miniboss.

He needed to get out of here but he can’t reveal Kurogiri to the public, if knowledge they had a warper got out it would make their plans for tomorrow useless.

Luckily the press once again made a perfect distraction, as he darted to the wall to climb over it.

He didn’t get far as white flames rained down in front of him, a white figure in a fox mask jumping down shortly after.

The fox brat slowly stood up and stared at him, all while cracking what appeared to be wires across the ground as they ignited in white flames.

Well that was intimidating, it’s only the third day of school. What the hell were they teaching these kids?

If he wasn’t so annoyed he would’ve found it impressive but as of now he just wanted to leave.

He dodged to the side as one of the wires lashed out of him, he decided to get close to decay the kid again only for him to vanish.

Oh great the mini boss was a fucking Rouge.

He quickly felt a swift kick to the side of his head. As he went tumbling he felt the wires wrap around him and pull him back towards the brat as they froze over to restrict his movements.

No getting out of this one without help.

“KUROGIRI!” He screamed as purple clouds surrounded him and severed the wires while pulling him through.

He may have revealed their hand but it was better than getting captured before the level even began.

He’d just need something to counter the Miniboss.

🦋 

Izuku stomped the ground in anger as the mystery intruder disappeared.

Not only did they get away, they also had a person with a warp quirk on their side making them more dangerous 

He turned around to see Vlad King and Aizawa walking up to him. Looks like they finally got the crowd under control and slowly got them out of here.

“Mido-” Vlad started to speak, but was quickly stopped as Midoriya rapidly shook his head. “Nineteen what happened.”

Izuku sighed in relief and pulled out his phone, this was gonna take awhile.

Midoriya I: While the students were panicking in the hallway my quirk alerted me to someone randomly appearing out of thin air so I went to investigate.

“And you didn’t inform a teacher why?”

Midoriya I: Simply given that they appeared out of nowhere in the matter of seconds, i didn’t want to waste time incase they got away

Shota leaned over Kan’s shoulder to read the message. “And what exactly was the intruder doing Mido-” His mouth was quickly covered by Vlad. “Alright, why are we not saying his name right now?”

Vlad simply pointed to the press and said “Twilight program.”

Oh that made sense.

The Twilight program was meant for U.A. students who wanted to go in to Twilight heroics, a type of heroics that involved both Limelight and Underground heroics all while keeping the heroes civilian identity hidden. 

The Twilight program was the hardest program to actually graduate from. 

Twilight students had their entire identities hidden from the public; their student files weren’t on any computers and only physical copies of them were kept along with their name not appearing on the public student roster until hero names were picked with the additional bonus of having their names and quirk hidden during the sports festival. They were originally meant to be only known to their classmates and teachers.

The reason it was the hardest to graduate from was because the press was so damn persistent. 

A few years back even before he was a student, some random U.A student leaked the knowledge of the Twilight program in retaliation to being expelled and the press took it as a challenge to find out and reveal these student's identity, hence they could no longer go into Twilight heroics with their civilian identities public.

The last group of people to actually succeed in graduating from the program were Present Mic, Vlad King, Thirteen and Snipe, they were also the last ones to even enroll in the program.

So imagine Shota’s surprise to see someone actually enroll in the course again.

“My apologies, Nineteen. Do you know why the intruder was there?”

Midoriya I: I found them in All Might’s office holding a paper, when i destroyed it they mentioned it was a schedule.

“All Might’s schedule?” what could they want with All Might’s schedule? “Did they mention why they needed it?”

Midoriya I: They mentioned a sensei but other than that no, after I burned the paper I kicked them into the desk.

Vlad chimed in this time, “Yeah about that, what exactly led you into bursting a hole through the building using a glacier? You listed you preferred controlled small attack when you signed up for Twilight.”

Midoriya I: It was necessary on my part, the intruder had a 5 point activation quirk that turned anything he touched into dust, he got too close and I had no room to move to my best advantage so I took the fight outside.

“In which you took your hero costume to prevent the press from identifying you.” Seeing Midoriya nod Vlad gave a heavy sigh. “Overall you did good but we'll discuss your punishment later.”

“No need for that Kan.” The group turned to see Snipe walking up to them, Principal Nedzu resting on his shoulder.

“Young Nineteen you’re free to go, please return your hero costume to the case and don’t worry about the damages to the building but please melt the ice if you would.”

Midoriya gave a nod and quickly vanished.

Aizawa gave a heavy sigh. “I gotta find out how he does that.”  He turned towards Nedzu with a raised eyebrow. “Don’t get me wrong the kid did well in handling an intruder but why did you let him off easy?”

“Why the answer is simple Aizawa!” Nedzu said while clapping his hands together. “We can simply look at the U.A. gate.”

Shota narrowed his eyes as the group began walking to the gate, he was curious on where Nedzu was going with this but he was even more curious on why the gate hadn’t worked in the first place. Then he saw it.

The gate was dust.

Midoriya had mentioned the intruders' quirk, which only meant one thing.

“I see you’ve come to the same conclusion I did Aizawa, this wasn’t a mistake or a simple press break in. This was an act of war.”

Vlad gave a heavy grunt. “Should we cancel Class A’s USJ trip for tomorrow? They currently hold the cards in their hands and we don’t know what to expect.”

Nedzu shook his head. “No, in fact I'm making it so both classes attend. While I doubt there will be an attack tomorrow as the one man who could plan an attack in a single day has been dead for six years now, if the campus is attacked I want the students far away from the event’s.”

“What are the chances of that person not actually being dead?” Aizawa questioned.

Nedzu got off of Snipe’s shoulder and stared at the dusted gate.”That’s the scary thing about this Aizawa, I don't know.”

“I truly don’t know.”

Chapter Text

Shouta sat in the front of the bus wrapped up in his sleeping bag.

Despite what Nedzu said his instinct was screaming something was wrong about this.

If U.A. was attacked, All Might, Thirteen and him were in charge of making sure the kids stayed in the USJ. Vlad had been selected to stay on the main campus as extra muscle in case the campus was attacked.

But everything about this felt wrong as if there was this looming sense they made a very huge mistake.

And it scared him.

 🦋 

Izuku was worried about this trip.

Originally his class was meant to be going next week but it had been bumped to today and none of them knew why.

Except him.

He hadn’t told anyone about the events of the break in as he didn’t see a reason to. He knew Principal Nedzu was preparing in case the campus was attacked by keeping the first years far away from the attack.

But he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong. He really wished he had retrieved the schedule to read over it so he would have an idea of when and where they were gonna target All Might rather than destroying the piece of paper.

“Midoriya.” He was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Asui address him.

Once she saw that Midoriya was paying attention she continued. “I tend to say what's on my mind. You and Todoroki’s quirks are nearly identical ribbit. Are you two related?”

He shook his head no, pulling his hood back a bit to show his green hair. Right after he did, Tokage joined the conversation. “It’s kinda cool that you two have the same quirk without being related, I mean what are the odds?”

Next to join was Kaminari, who Izuku recognized as Kodai’s battle trial partner. “Wait a sec Tokage, It’s not the same quirk exactly though! Midoriya can make fire and ice from either side of his body while Todoroki can only use one or the other, he also does that cool disappearing thing.”

A boy with red hair he recognized as Kirishima joined the conversation as well. “It’s kinda nice to have not one but two simple elemental quirks though, you can do a lot of flashy stuff!”

He watched Kirishima raise his arm and hardened it. “My Hardening’s strong against others, but unfortunately, it doesn’t do much.”

“Don’t say that!”. Tetsutetsu said as he stood up from his seat to officially join the conversation. “Your quirk is awesome bro! We're basically the sword and shield of our classes!” He finished the statement by turning his fist to steel and slamming them together

Kirishima smiled and copied the gesture. ”Yeah you’re right! but if we're talking about flashy and strong quirks, Bakugo's quirk fits the bill as well huh.”

Izuku reigned his anger as Bakugo’s name was mentioned.

Kaibara was the one to join the conversation this time. “Yeah but he’s so angry all the time.”

“Ribbit, yeah he doesn’t seem like he’ll be popular.” Asui chimed in.

“What the hell?!” Bakugo screamed as he jumped out of his seat. “You wanna fight?!”

“See?” She said pointing at him without even looking.

Kaminari nodded his head. “We haven’t known each other for that long, so it's amazing that everyone knows his personality is crap steeped in sewage.” 

Katsuki gripped the railing in front of him “What the hell is that vocabulary?! I’LL KILL YO-” He stopped himself as he felt the temperature change. He turned towards Deku and noticed how he had his hand clenched as if he was restraining himself. Katsuki could only think one thing.

Thank god.

He gave an angry huff as he sat back down in his seat. “Whatever ya damn extras.”

“What a vulgar conversation.” Ibara chimed in, to which Yaoyorozu agreed. 

Uraraka spoke up next. “It’s true but I like stuff like this too, it’s entertaining.”

Izuku loosened his fist and smiled under his mask. It was nice knowing that his classmates wouldn’t be treating Bakugo like how he was at Aldera, she would’ve loved them.

It was then when Aizawa stood up and walked to the entrance as the bus came to a stop. “Stop messing around, we're here.”

 🦋 

What was it with U.A. and long winded speeches?

When they arrived at the USJ they were greeted with the Space Hero Thirteen, who Uraraka was more than happy to express their excitement in meeting. He internally chuckled at the brown hair girl's antics thinking about how she would’ve loved to meet Uraraka.

Thirteen was now giving a speech on the dangers of quirks and how they should be responsible with them, he couldn’t help but glare at Bakugou during the entire speech but then his body suddenly went rigid.

He turned towards the plaza to see a familiar purple cloud forming in the area as the lights shut off.

Aizawa-Sensei noticed instantly, immediately preparing himself. “Thirteen, protect the students.”

A hand reached through the portal grabbing the edge of it and stepping through. Izuku recognized him instantly and everything clicked.

The attack was never planned for the campus.

The USJ was the target.

Denki was one of the first students to realize what this was and reached for his earpiece but nothing. “Aizawa-Sensei I tried to contact the main campus, no dice they have someone blocking the signal.”

Aizawa grumbled and kept his voice to a whisper “Jiro and Shoji if either one of you can hear me tell Midoriya to break down the door. Then immediately tell these five to get out and run to the campus to get help; Iida, Kuroiro, Tokage, Yanagi and Tsunotori, in that order of priority, make sure to tell them to be careful. We don't know if they have people guarding the outside.”

Both Jiro and Shoji heard him loud and clear, slowly moving so as to not alert the villain.

As more villains stepped through Kirishima spoke up, not aware of what was going on. “Um Is this like the entrance exam where the lesson already started?”

Aizawa quickly shook his head. “No, those are actual villains.” Despite most of them knowing once he confirmed it the situation became very clear; They were officially under attack.

“Thirteen and Eraserhead huh?” The intruder from yesterday now covered in severed hands said as he walked by a giant black bird. “The schedule said All Might was here, did that cheating fox brat get it changed?”

Aizawa put on his goggles. That confirmed all their suspicions from yesterday.

Izuku turned to see Jiro tapping him on his shoulder before leaning in to whisper. With the message received he gave a nod and prepared to slam his foot on the ground.

As more villains came out the portal the hand villain continued. “And I went through all the trouble of getting a crowd for him. I wonder if he’ll come if we kill some kids?”

Aizawa was about to jump down at that statement but was cut off as he heard an explosion happen behind him.

He quickly turned around expecting to see a villain only to be relieved to see a small ice trail leading from the wall's remains to Midoriya who had blown up the entire thing.

“We got it covered here Aizawa-Sensei!” Shoji called out as the five he ordered made their way out the wall. “Deal with the villains!”

He quickly gave the boy a nod and jumped down. No kids were dying on his watch.

“Everyone out the door!” Thirteen called as she redirected the students.

“I'm afraid I can't allow that.” The students froze as the purple clouds formed in front of them. “With so many students escaping I simply can’t allow more  to leave.”

Bakugo, Kirishima and Tetsutetsu instantly moved to attack the villain ignoring Thirteen's protest.

“Farewell students.” The mist villain called as their purple clouds filled the surrounding area.

Izuku instantly attempted to use Prowl to avoid the clouds only to be swarmed instantly.

Suddenly he felt himself falling.

🦋 

Tsuyu landed on the flood zone boat when she arrived. 

When she stood up she noticed Kodai and Kaibara had landed with her.

Kaibara groaned and looked over the boat. “Well looks like the mist guy messed up his aim.”

Confusingly both girls looked to see what he meant.

“That's a lot of villains ribbit”. She then paused as a thought donned on her. “How do we know that none of our classmates actually fell in and only we fell on the boat?”

Kaibara’s eyes widened. “Oh fuck, should we jump into check?”

Before she could answer the water began to boil. “I guess not ribbit.”

“What the hell? The water is heating up!”

“What the-  none of you mentioned you could do this?!”

“The water is turning to ice over here!”

“Which of you bastards are doing thi-” Sen watched as the villain who was talking got pulled under.

What was going on if it wasn’t them messing with the water?

“What the hell? What happened to Larry?!”

“How would i know i barely know hi-GAH” Kodai watched as more villains got pulled under, there was only one explanation she could think of.

Suddenly a white figure shot out of the water and landed on the boat. They froze only to relax to see who they saw.

It was Midoriya who had a villain wrapped in one of his cable wires and pinned under his knee, steam trailing off him indicating he had evaporated the water that soaked his body.

The villain he had captured kept screaming “You damn brat!, when i get out of this i’ll fucking kill yo-GAH.” His eyes rolled back as Izuku delivered a quick elbow strike to his head.

“Huh, looks like we didn’t need to jump in to save him.” Sen chimed.

Midoriya stood up and pulled out his phone.

Tsuyu’s phone buzzed. She pulled it out of her costume ignoring Kaibaras cry about them having waterproof phones and went to read the message Midoriya just sent her.

“Ribbit apparently there are sixteen villains left down there, Midoriya knocked out six before he jumped out.”

Kaibara blinked, they had only been here for like five minutes and he already ambushed six of them? “Ok first off did he just leave five villains floating underwater to drown?”

Her phone chimes again as she reads the next text. “Unless those gills were just for show they should be fine.”

Wait, didn't most water quirks have fake gills? “Ok second question, how the hell did you guys get each other's numbers? It’s only the fourth day and you’ve legit never talked to each other.”

Asui looked him dead in the eyes and spoke bluntly. “The green tells no lies ribbit.”

He watched as Midoriya nodded sagely and turned to Kodai who looked done with this.

She pulled out her phone and texted Izuku.

Red and White: When the disk lands, jump down and freeze the water

Green and White: Got it

The two approached the edge again as the villains started screaming.

“Hey ya damn kids what did you do to Lar-” “Shut up about fucking Larry!” “Larry was a good man!”

Izuku watched and waited as Kodai pulled out a disk and threw it into the air. She placed her hands together and spoke. “Release.”

The disk enlarged to be the size of the boat and immediately slammed into the water. He watched as the now spiraling water pulled the villains in, as soon as they were all in the center he jumped down and slammed both his hands into the water.

Sen watched in awe as all the water in the flood zone was encased in ice only to snap out of it when Asui started to shiver and curl up. Wait what was her quirk again? She’s basically a frog? 

Fuck she’s cold blooded.

“Hey Midoriya chill with ice, Asui is cold blooded!” He shouted over the boat as he wrapped his jacket around her.

“C-call me Tsu, and thanks.” The girl said through a shiver.

He was about to say it’s not an issue when the surrounding area heated up. He quickly turned to see Midoriya right next to them.

He instantly jumped in surprise “HOLY F- DON’T DO THAT!” He said glaring at the boy who had the audacity to snicker as he typed on his phone.

Tsu’s phone buzzed once again as she looked at the text.

Green Spy #6: We should probably leave now, you and the others head towards the entrance, I’m gonna help Mr. Aizawa

Tsu nodded her head. “I agree, but if you’re gonna help Mr. Aizawa i’m coming with you.” Kodai gave a nod indicating she was also coming.

Kaibara nodded his head. “Well while you guys do that, I'm gonna head to another zone and see if anyone needs help.”

Izuku gave a nod and sent a text that said “meet ya there” before disappearing with prowl.

Kaibara watched as the fox masked boy vanished. ”Do you think he would teach me how to do that if I asked?”

“No.” Yui said bluntly before walking out of the zone, Tsu jumping after her.

He sighed. “Man I hate walking.” And with that he headed to the Mountain zone.

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Shota wasn’t doing too well.

Everytime he took down one villain five more were quickly tagging in to help them. It was starting to become an endless cycle as the ones he had already knocked out were slowly waking up. It was exhausting and he was just barely holding out by pushing his quirk to its limits.

And then his fucking elbow got turned to dust and the person who did it was now monologing. 

“And one more thing Eraserhead, I’m not the final bo-” Shota watched as Midoriya quickly appeared behind the hand villain and kicked him aside the head to send him flying.

Oh that kid was getting extra credit for a year, doesn’t matter if he’s in 1B.

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Tomura felt himself roll across the floor as his body harshly jerked to a stop when he felt a familiar pair of wires wrap around him.

Oh great.

The fox brat quickly pulled him in close and kicked him across the plaza once again.

He felt a wave of heat appear behind him as the brat kicked him into the air only to slam him back down using those damn wires.

He then felt the kid grab the wires tightly and proceed to throw him into the fountain via front flip as the wires finally unwrapped around his body.

Why was this kid so damn violent? He hadn’t even got time to breathe let alone process what was happening. And then he saw it.

Izuku ignited his closed fist with white flame. “Flash Heat: Hunt!” He thought to himself as he swiped his arm forward and curved two fireballs that slammed into both of the intruder's sides.

Shigaraki felt his body ache as the flames hit, before he could even begin to process the fact this brat attacked him with fire without hesitation he felt himself getting kicked through the fountain statue and rolling across the plaza once again.

Ok that was it. He was the one meant to kill All Might! He wasn’t gonna let some first year ruin his whole plan. “Nomu! Kill the fox brat.”

He watched with glee as Nomu instantly appeared behind the unaware brat and slammed his fist down.

Only to be disappointed when the brat sidestepped the punch without looking and disappeared again.

The brat was cheating! No way he would’ve been able to avoid Nomu without looking!

“Nomu stop playing around and kill the brat!”

But no matter how many commands he gave Nomu just couldn’t touch him, the brat was nimble and avoided him with ease even when Nomu wasn’t in his line of sight it’s like he knew he was behind him.

When he saw two more brats walk onto the plaza he gained an idea instantly. “You hero brats are all the same, you may be able to avoid Nomu, but can you avoid him and save them?”

Izuku nearly froze at the next words the hand villain said.

“Nomu, kill the girls.”

Kodai and Asui didn’t even get a chance to blink as the black bird appeared in front of them with his fist raised.

Izuku’s body moved without thinking.

And for the first time in ten months.

He understood why his sister moved that day.

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“I wanna be a hero Izu-ni, one that doesn’t hesitate to save people.”

“One that just moves.” 

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Tsu’s whole body froze, she was screaming for her body to move, to save Kodai but she just couldn’t.

Yui wasn’t faring any better either, her calm demeanor breaking a long time ago replaced with eyes of fear.

They were gonna die.

Tsu felt her body finally snap out of it when the temperature dropped.

And then the air around the plaza expanded.

Her and Kodai went flying back, rolling on the floor as the air harshly blew.

Tomura found himself ducking for cover and protecting his eyes. “Hey hey, what the hell was that?”

He looked to where Nomu was and instantly saw what had happened.

His blood boiled as he screamed in rage. “HOW?! HOW DO YOU KEEP ON INTERFERING?! IT’S NOT FAIR! SENSEI NEVER MENTIONED ANOTHER BOSS!”

Yui and Kodai had looked to see how they were still alive and they smiled in awe.

There Midoriya was standing right where they had been.

Holding back the Nomus fist.

“WHY WON’T YOU JUST DIE?! NOMU KILL HIM NOW!”

As the Nomu applied more pressure Izuku felt his right arm crack. The pain felt like agony.

But he wasn’t going down this easily.

A bonus of Thermodynamics was that it was easier to freeze or burn things on an atomic level if he had one thing.

Direct contact.

As the temperature dropped Izuku pushed his quirk to the limits, the sleeves of his suit ripping off as his arm froze over and spread to Nomu.

Once he couldn’t feel anything but ice from the monster atoms, he pushed.

And rapidly heated up every inch of it.

“Solar Force: SAUNA.” He internally screamed as the results took effect.

BOOM

Tomura rolled out of the way as the conflagration of white flames washed over where he was just was, the flying body of Nomu passing by.

Once the torrent of flames stopped he looked over to the fox brat with horror.

That was lethal force.

Sure Nomu was already dead but the brat didn’t know that. He knew hero society was violent and hypocritical but for a first year to blatantly use lethal force without a second of hesitation? It made him want to kill the brat even more.

A portal opened by him as Kurogiri appeared.

“Kurogiri, did you kill Thirteen?” He quickly asked while scratching his neck, that heat did nothing for his already dry skin.

“I was unable to, the students proved to be a tougher challenge than I had expected, five of them escaped before I even got there. I apologize, Tomura Shigaraki.”

He gave a growl. ”If you weren’t our ride out of here I would have turned you to dust.” He looked up at the now melting glass ceiling.

Holy crap how hot was that attack?

He turned to look at the fox brat again seeing him still recover from that attack. “Bring some more NPC here, if we can’t kill All Might i atleast want that fox brat dead.” 

Kurogiri obliged and quickly summoned those that were still conscious and available, which sadly wasn’t much but should be able to do the job.

He stepped in front of the crowd of villains and addressed their new target. “Well then Fox brat?”

“Shall we dance?”

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“Izu-Nii your quirk is amazing! You could reduce swelling from injuries with your ice or soothe the pain with heat!”

“You’ll be a Fantastic hero!”

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His arm was definitely cracked. 

So here he was taking his sister's advice once more. She had always been a quirk genius being the one to give him the idea of rapidly heating up his ice to cause explosions.

He hissed in pain as he froze over his entire arm again and let it rest, it was still usable at least.

He held his whip tightly as the hand villain now identified as Shigaraki addressed him.

He had no time to waste.

Instantly disappearing with prowl he appeared in the center of the crowd and slammed one of the villains to the ground head first.

The people with ranged quirks would be first.

He instantly side stepped as another person attempted to punch him and delivered a quick elbow to their stomach before throwing them into a large crowd that was huddled together.

Ducking as one of the range fighters tried to hit him in the back with a laser, he let it soar by him and into the person in front as he activated prowl and moved to a different section.

Now taking a page out of dads book he appeared above the crowd, pulled a few of them up with his wires and slammed his knee down on them as they fell.

He instantly let his wire unravel and sidestepped as Shigaraki's hand passed right by him. He ducked a kick from the dusty assailant and delivered an ice enhanced palm strike to the stomach before kicking him away.

He jumped off another villain's shoulder to get into the air again and swiped his arms to release a volley of ice shards onto the crowd pinning down most of the range fighters.

One villain with finger guns took the opportunity to fire at him while in the air. As a bullet grazed his shoulder Izuku grit his teeth and somersaulted forwards.

“Flash Freeze: Lunar Frost!” He internally yelled as he performed an axe kick on the villain and encased his entire body in ice.

Meanwhile a random hero on patrol had the urge to beat up a kid.

As he set down, the laser villain landed a hit on his back. He instantly activated prowl to appear behind them and delivered a roundhouse kick to their side before slamming them.

His quirk flared as he jumped away from a portal that formed behind him, narrowly missing Shigaraki’s hand.

Ok that may be an issue.

Another portal formed as he backfliped away only this time a claw villain was waiting for him and slashed right through his mask.

He instantly covered his eye and got out of the way of the second attack with prowl.

Now outside the crowd and standing on the other side of the plaza he took a moment to catch his breath and made sure his eye was ok.

The cut wasn’t deep enough so he didn't lose his eye, but knowing that didn't help much with the pain or keeping blood out of it.

He didn’t get time to worry about his eye as his body went rigid as something appeared behind him.

Igniting his now revealed eye to sooth the pain and keep it hidden he stepped out of the attack and turned to see who it was.

It was Nomu, moving perfectly fine and without any signs of damage.

He activated prowl and got far away from it. It didn’t make sense, he had frozen him on an atomic level and then burned him.

Nomus body went limp as Shigaraki stepped out a portal next to it. “I see you're confused, Nomus quirk is regeneration along with other quirks specifically given to him. He was made explicitly to kill All Might.”

Tomura scratched his neck in glee. “But after the break in you were a threat to the whole operation, after all burnt cells don’t regenerate. So I made a special request to Sensei.

Nomu screeched and charged at him, when he went to burn it his eyes widened when the black bird absorbed the flames into its skin.

“FIRE ABSORPTION!” Shigaraki cackled. “Isn’t that just wonderful? The perfect Anti Symbol of Peace and the perfect patch to deal with cheaters like you!”

Izuku blackfliped out of Nomus punch, only to be forced to move again as the crowd of villains attempted to swarm him.

He couldn’t deal with Shigaraki, the portal villain and Nomu right now.

But he could deal with the crowd of villains.

“Celestial force: Spring fountain.” He internally said as he slammed his foot onto the ground.

A large glacier instantly emerged over the crowd, an explosion following soon after as white flames heated it up. 

Tomura flew back as the air around the plaza once expanded, this time on a larger scale.

“Useless NPCs.” He grumbled. “Nomu, let's settle this.” He said rushing the brat once more, Nomu following behind.

Izuku gripped his wire and internally grumbled. “This is actually worse than the field trip to the Japan Hero Museum.” He paused. “No it’s not.” With that he vanished with prowl.

Tomura instantly turned around expecting the brat to appear behind him, only to be forced to duck when the kid appeared on his side. “He’s gotten slower.” He thought as he watched the kid backflip away from Nomu.

He closed the gap and stretched his hand out to the boy’s face, while Nomu appeared behind him. “Let’s see you get out of this br-Huh.”

The kid grabbed his wrist and forced his hand onto Nomu right before slamming him to the ground.

Right as Izuku went to knock him out a portal opened up below them and separated the two.

Nomu who had finished regenerating his chest and stood back up, prepared to charge.

Izuku wrapped his cable wire around his cracked arm and gripped his second one tightly.

“Come on Izuku you can do this, you just need to hold on a bit longer,all you need to do is-”

BOOM

Izuku's thoughts were cut off as he turned towards the front entrance. He gave a heavy sigh of relief at who he saw. Damn oaf couldn’t have shown up sooner?

“Fear not student’s, why? Because I Am Here!”  

All Might had finally arrived.

Chapter Text

All Might walked through the door, anger clear on his face.

He could see Thirteen, the back of her costume missing along with Aizawa, passed out on the plaza steps, his elbow in horrible condition. 

And then he saw Young Midoriya.

The boy's shoulder was bleeding out, while his other arm hung limp, clearly injured in some way, along with a part of his fox mask broken, his eye only hidden by white flames. If Toshinori had to guess from the blood that was running off the mask the boy's eye had been cut.

His fist clenched in anger as his eyes met the hand villain. He wasn’t gonna fail this boy's family again.

Ignoring whatever speech the villain was giving, he rushed forward crossing his arms.

“CAROLINA SMASH!” He yelled as he slashed his arms as the black bird met his attack.

Tomura watched with glee as All Might's attack met Nomu, only for it to turn to horror as he rolled out of Nomu’s path as it skidded back.

“That shouldn’t be possible! Nomu has shock absorption! Your punches shouldn’t be able to affect him!” All Might never acknowledged his whining and continued.

Toshinori swung another punch at the beast's stomach this time putting his back into it as he lifted it off the ground before delivering another and punching it back down. He then grabbed the black bird by its leg and threw him across the plaza. 

He followed after it, jumping through the air and slamming down it under his fist before addressing the hand villain. “Was this meant to kill me? This abomination you used to cause harm to MY students?” He said almost snarling.

Shigaraki only laughed as he looked All Might dead in the eye and simply spoke. “Nomu.”

“Release.”

Toshinori confusingly looked at the villain before a white glow from the black bird caught his attention. 

Suddenly his entire body was engulfed in white hot flames.

He gave a painful scream as his entire body was washed over his body. The pain worsened as the Nomu quickly punched him in his injury with an ignited fist before grabbing him by the face and throwing him across the plaza.

Nomu was about to continue the assault only to be held back by cable wires.

Izuku quickly froze over his wires trying to put out the flames as he pulled back on his wires and threw Nomu to the other side of the plaza away from All Might.

He let his wires roll back to him as he tried to get his panting down. “This is bad, This is really bad. Shigaraki said his quirk was fire ABSORPTION, I should’ve known that fire had to be stored somewhere now all i did was make it more dangerous!”  

His internal beration quickly came to an end as Nomu appeared before him. He quickly realized a scary thought.

It got faster.

The Nomu quickly swatted him away as he felt himself roll harshly across the plaza floor.

He didn’t get a chance to recover as Nomu forcibly stopped his tumbling by slamming down onto him and throwing him through the plaza again.

As his body finally came to a stop he heard Shigaraki laugh.

“Well isn’t this just wonderful? The Symbol of Peace, reduced to nothing.” He said pointing to All Might who was spread out across the floor, clutching his injury as he failed to get his breathing in check.

Shigaraki then pointed at him. “And you, utterly beaten by your own quirk. What will you do now fox brat?! HOW DO YOU INTEND TO WIN NOW HUH?” He screamed full of glee.

Izuku shakingly stood up. He definitely had a few broken ribs and his right arm was now completely useless. 

Shigaraki watched angrily as the brat stood back up. Anger quickly turned into fear as the brat then exploded into pitch black flames.

That wasn’t good.

He watched as the brat slammed his left arm onto the ground as a giant glacier of black ice started traveling right towards them.

The moment he saw Nomu get engulfed with little ease he turned the opposite direction and started running. “Kurogiri!”

He let the purple mist surround him as Kurogiri moved him out of the way of the icy onslaught.

He looked back to see the glacier he made this time was a lot larger than the one he used against those NPCs.

That brat was still an issue.

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Toshinori laid on the ground clutching his injury.

The pain was agonizing as he felt nothing but a horrible burning feeling from it.

“Some symbol of peace you are, you couldn’t even be here to your student and now you’ve been reduced to a pathetic display cause of an old silly injury and a time limit.” He silently berated himself.

He only stopped when he spotted Young Midoriya standing over him. 

He gave a smile but just as he went to say something.

Midoriya kicked him in his old injury.

He gave a scream of pain that slowly died down as he realized his injury was no longer burning but actually felt numb. He looked down at his side to see it fully covered in black ice.

He gave a wide smile and looked at Young Midoriya. “Thank you my boy! But was it really necessary to kick my injury?” He said, tilting his head.

“Was it necessary for you to kill my sister?” Izuku snapped back aggressively, his ignited eye shifting to black for a split second.

All Might fully flinched at that tone, memories of those black flames still clear. “My boy you know i d-”

“I am not your boy.” Midoriya cut him off while practically sneering, His calm demeanor long gone as the flame that covered his eye permanently turned black. “We have bigger issues to attend to you than trying to avoid responsibility.” 

As Toshinori went to respond he was cut off as the plaza exploded into white flames, Nomu removing the entire glacier to free himself.

The two turned their attention as Shigaraki and Kurogiri appeared next to Nomu.

“Oh great he ran out of fire.” Shigaraki grumbled. “Let’s finish this.”

He rushed forward leaving Nomu behind. Those two were on borrowed time, all it would take is five fingers.

“WARP REFRACTION!”

He screamed in pain as a multi-colored light blinded him as he quickly felt his body be restricted in ice.

Once his vision finally cleared he saw a girl with multi-colored reflective hair stand up and adjust her jacket.

Oh great more brats.

“Oh man, I really have to thank Uncle X for helping me with my quirk.” The newest brat said, but he didn’t really care, he just needed to get out this block of ice.

“Kurogiri!” But Kurogiri never came though, he turned his head the best he could to see a purple hair brat fire a soundwave from their boots to keep Kurogiri away while a blonde brat kept closing the distance with explosions.

He didn’t even get to scream about more useless NPCs interfering when suddenly the air became static and the ice around him exploded.

Denki stepped into the plaza, hands cracking with electricity as he stood next to Todoroki. “You know electricity is pretty hot, perfect for heating up Ice so that the air expands.” He said, giving a smirk as Toru landed next to them in a perfect backflip.

“All Might, Midoriya.” Todoroki spoke, addressing the two in a monotone voice. “Yaoyorozu is currently attending to Aizawa’s injuries. We’ll handle these two, you’re free to deal with the bird one with no interference now.”

Toru practically vibrated where she was standing. “Oooh it will be just like that hero gala when we were nine!” 

“You and I remember that gala very differently, Hagakure.” 

“Oh booo, that’s because you stayed back that time. And how many times do I have to tell you to call me Toru!” 

“Did you say something?”

Denki quickly cut in before she could respond. “I know the irony of me being the one to tell us to focus, but the hand dude is standing back up.

“You damn brats!” Shigaraki whined. “Nomu, kill them all!” 

As Nomu charged them Midoriya quickly appeared in front of them, slamming his good arm down to encase it in ice.

All Might came in swiftly after, punching the ice and nomu to send it rolling. “Young Hagakure, Young Todoroki, Young Kaminari, I apologize for you having to deal with my problems."

“As for you Young Midoriya.” He said, turning to the boy. “Your sister was a fan of mine. Did she ever tell you about my team up with Blizzard?”

Izuku grinned under his mask, it was her favorite fight. He gave a nod and quickly disappeared with prowl, All Might running off after him.

“NO!” Tomura screamed as he started to run after them, only for a wave of electricity to block his path.

“Sorry about that handy.” Denki spoke as Toru and Todoroki prepared themselves.

“We’ll be your opponent now.”

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Nomu stood up and gave a loud screech, prepared to charge.

Only for Izuku to appear behind it and ram an icicle through it’s shoulder and quickly jump off as All Might delivered a punch to its torso.

Nomu shock absorption tanked the punch and quickly went to deliver a punch to All Mights injury.

Izuku appeared instantly between the two and gripped Nomu’s fist, repeating the same process from earlier and freezing every inch of it.

“Let’s try this again shall we!” He said, crossing both his arms. “CAROLINA SMASH! ” He slammed both arms on the Nomus frozen body and bisected it, letting its upper body shatter in half as it hit the floor.

Suddenly Shigaraki hit the floor in front of him as his body twitched as small sparks of electricity danced off him. 

Hagakure landed on top of him and pinned down his arms, allowing herself to be visible again. “Not so funny fighting a 1v3 when it’s against you isn’t it Mr.Dusty?” 

Tomura aggressively struggled to free his wrist from underneath the brat. “You damn hippo! KUROGIRI!”

Said mist villain quickly abandoned his fight with Bakugo and Jiro, a portal now appearing under Hagakure and Shigaraki.

The portal dropped them off in the air. As the two fell, Shigaraki started to stretch his hands towards her face. 

“Let’s see you dodge th-” BANG

Shigaraki screamed in pain as he recoiled his hand and hit the floor with a thud.

“The reinforcement is here!” The newly arrived Iida screamed as the teacher jumped into action, clearing out the straggler villains in the plaza and zones.

Tomura scoffed. “Kurogiri we're leav-”

BANG BANG BANG

He fell to the ground as bullets shot right through him. “KUROGIRI!”

Izuku activated prowl and moved Hagakure out of the way as Kurogiri surrounded Shigaraki, the two disappearing, the frozen nomu head shortly following.

Nedzu hopped off Vlad’s shoulder and looked in horror.

While the plaza had been completely destroyed now looking like a frozen ice land it was the least of his concerns. No, his issues were with the injuries that covered Midoriya. A broken arm, a grazed shoulder, what appeared to be a cut eye and who knows what else.

Every injury was a sign they truly failed today, they were too bold in assuming it would be the campus the villains were gonna attack.

“Nineteen, you're injured, we should get you to Recovery Girl.” Vlad King said as he walked up to his students.

Izuku smiled under his mask and nodded, that sounded nice. The flame igniting his eye finally flickered out as he faded into darkness.

MIDORIYA!/YOUNG MIDORIYA! 

🦋

“Hey Izu-ni?” 

Izuku looked up at his sister. “Hm?”

“What do you think your first big villain fight will be like?”

Izuku raised his eyebrow and started typing.

Green Fox: Don’t you mean OUR first big villain fight since we planned to be partners.

She flinched and started to stutter out an excuse. “O-Of course, b-but I was mostly referring to your first solo big hero fight.”

He narrowed his eyes and started typing.

Green Fox: Never really thought about since my plan was underground heroics, yk the fox of the shadows.

Green Fox: But if I had to pick perhaps someone who can reflect fire? I mean with how many people are born with fire related quirks that surely has to exist. 

She smiled at Izuku and shook her head. “You always wanted to fight another fire user huh.”

Before he could respond another text came in.

Green Parakeet: Aren’t you two meant to be in bed.

Both siblings paused as they realized they had been talking in the family group chat.

Green Butterfly: Um, sorry?

Green Parakeet: Hand me yours phones

Green Fox: Yeah that's fair

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Izuku's eyes opened as he sluggishly sat himself up.

He ran his hand over his right eye upon seeing it was covered. He rubbed the bandage as he looked around, he was in U.A’s Medbay alright.

“Ah you’ve finally awakened dear.” He turned to his left to see Recovery Girl walk in. “Try not to worry so much, I could only heal so much of your condition while you were passed out, though your eye should be fine.” 

Once she had confirmation he could remove it, he unwrapped the bandages and looked into a hand held mirror. His eye was completely fine aside from the three slash marks over it.

“My quirk can’t heal scars but it should fade over time.” She kissed his cheek and backed away. “There, that should take care of your arm.”

He looked down, finally noticing his right arm had been in a cast. He flared his quirk and let the cast burn off as he moved his arm. Other than being slightly sore it was perfectly fine.

He gave a sigh of relief and ran his hand through his hair.

And instantly started panicking.

He started thrashing in his bed and he leaned over to dig through the table next to him, knocking stuff over.

He stopped when Recovery Girl’s cane hit him upside the head. “Stop thrashing, you still have a few broken ribs! What are you even looking for?”

Izuku went to say something but his throat locked up, he settled with grabbing his phone off the desk and opening a picture of a green haired girl wearing a purple butterfly hair clip.

“You’re looking for your butterfly clip?” Midoriya nodded “You kids and your possessions. It should be on the chair with your cloa-” She was cut off by a warm cold breeze and she looked back to Midoriya.

The boy had removed his IV and was now digging through the items on the chair until he found the hair clip, giving a sigh of relief as he put it back in his hair. 

She shook her head and gave a sigh. “You’re mother waiting outside for you, there's no school tomorrow but I'd like you to come in so I can heal the rest of your ribs.”

Midoriya gave a quick nod before vanishing.

Huh, Aizawa was right, She did want to know how he does that.

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“Doctor.” All For One addressed the man.

“Yes master?” Dr. Garaki said as he dropped his current project.

“Tomura had a little issue with the Nomu earlier, care to explain why its shock absorption didn’t hold against All Might, let alone a random first year?”

Garaki froze, choosing his next words very carefully. “T-The Upper Tier Nomu’s are meant to hold a specific number of quirks all that fit perfectly well with each other. When y-you added fire absorption to it, it threw off the whole balance of it by adding another absorption quirk, thus the effectiveness deteriorated.”

All For One’s tone grew dangerously. “Oh? So you’re saying it was my fault?” 

He paled as he frantically started waving his hands. “N-no no it’s my fault for providing a Nomu that couldn’t handle your perfect changes!” 

That seemed to please All For One as the man's voice returned to a calm tone. ”Doctor, drop everything you’re doing.”

“Restart project Nimbus.”

Chapter Text

“Everyone out the door!” Thirteen called as she redirected the students.

“I'm afraid I can't allow that.” The students froze as the purple clouds formed in front of them. “With so many students escaping I simply can’t allow more  to leave.”

Bakugo, Kirishima and Tetsutetsu instantly moved to attack the villain ignoring Thirteen's protest.

“Farewell students.” The mist villain called as their purple clouds filled the surrounding area.

🦋

Shoto silently cursed himself for getting caught as he fell through the air.

He braced himself to hit the hard ground only to fall right through it and sink down.

Without any time to be confused he saw Honenuki swim up to him and pull them back up above.

Once above he watched as Honenuki solidified the ground they were just under and turned towards him. “You ok Todoroki?” 

He gave a slight nod. “I’m fine, thank you Honenuki.”

“That’s good.” Juzo Said as he opened his helmet's mouthpiece. “It appears were in the Rockslide Zone, we should probably see if anyone else landed he-”

He was cut off as he saw someone fly by and slam into rock.

The Two boys quickly jumped back away upon seeing it was one of the villains on the mountain.

The villain regained his senses and instantly started to stammer. “G-G-GHOST!” The man said he backed himself up against the wall.

Before either of them could question what he meant by that, the villain screamed in pain and hunched itself over as if it had been kicked in the stomach.

Toru allowed herself to be visible and let the villain slumped over before turning towards her classmates. “Hey guys!” She excitedly called as she waved at them.

“Toru?!” Honenuki asked before turning to Todoroki. “Did you know she could become visible?”

Todoroki blankly stared at Hagakure. “I didn’t even know she was in my class…” Looking at her now he realized this was the girl that stood right next to him during the quirk assessment and wasn’t using a quirk.

Toru giggled at their reactions. “I finally figured out how to make myself visible a few months ago. I was waiting to see which of my fellow gala kids would know it was me before someone said anything. I actually thought the battle trials were gonna ruin it.”

“I really should’ve paid more attention to the battle trials.” Todoroki mentally thought to himself. “Please don’t call us ‘gala kids’ Hagakure.” 

Suddenly Hagakure was right next to him and ruffling his hair. “Aww come on Todoroki no need to be ashamed! And how many times do I need to tell you to call me Toru, we’ve known each other since we were eight.”

Shoto gave a lazy sigh and removed her hand from his head. This woman was gonna be the death of him. 

He had hated attending those galas with his father and saw them as a pointless waste of time. Eventually despite his best efforts he had been roped up into Hagakure’s gala group of legacy kids and the mayhem that followed. He refused to touch the memory of the one when they were 12 even with a ten foot pole. 

He looked Hagakure dead in the eyes no matter how weird it was being able to do that now and calmly spoke without breaking it. “Did you say something?” 

Hagakure promptly swatted him.

Worth it.

Honenuki quickly separated the two of them. “Stop teasing the poor boy Toru, we have incoming.” He said while pointing right behind them. 

Shoto followed where Honenuki pointed and sure enough a group of villains were running right towards them.

He lazily walked towards them, creating a small ice trail at them.

The villains gave multiple cries of frustration as their bodies were slowly encased. 

He gave a slight scoff as he addressed them. “Aren’t you embarrassed to lose to a child? For god sakes you’re an adult, put up a real fight.” 

He watched at the ground below them liquified, as their bodies started to sink before they were trapped halfway into the ground.

“They trapped us right as we got here.” “These aren’t kids, these are monsters!”

He ignored the villains' cries and turned to see Honenuki walking up and stopping by him while Hagakure walked past and stood straight in front of the trapped villains. 

“Now.” Toru said as she crouched in front of one of the villains looking them dead in the eyes. “We have a few questions.”

“And you’re gonna answer them.”

🦋

“The number you have dialed is not in service or temporarily disconnected, please check the number and then try again. Thank you.”

Toshinori gave a sigh. “Can’t get in contact with Aizawa or Thirteen, then again they are teaching. Unlike me who’s skimping out on my duties just because I spent the entire commute being heroic. Maybe I should just show up at the end and say something inspirational, get a good 10 minutes out of my hero form.”

He stood up and quickly puffed up his body. “HA HA! Time to join me studen-” He stopped talking as his body coughed up blood and shrunk itself. 

He sat back down right as Nedzu opened the door and walked in. “Hold your horses Toshinori! You can't be there for your students if you can barely stand.”

“Principal Nedzu.” Toshinori greeted. 

“That’s me! Am I a mouse, a dog or bear? But more importantly I'm the principal!" Nedzu said with a smile.

“Your fur looks very well groomed and glossy today sir.” He said as he got his breathing under control. While it had been almost six years since he got his injury he still had difficulty breathing, more specifically when his injury was under stress. 

“The secret is keratin, I'm not sure if humans can get this level of luxurious shine. But we can talk about grooming later.” Nedzu said as he pulled out a tablet. 

“Look at the news.” Nedzu held up the screen to Toshinori. “Shall i read it to you? It says you resolved three whole incidents within an hour.”

Toshinori gave a full body flinch in which Nedzu just sighed.  

“The fault mainly belongs to the ruffians who still caused trouble to the city despite you being here in the city but you really should learn how not to react to every incident you hear. You really haven't changed in all these years.”

Nedzu put the tablet away and sat down to make a cup of tea. “You’ve always been proactive but things are different now, you really shouldn’t be putting so much stress on your body, especially when you have yet to pick a successor.”

He watched as Toshinori flinched once again and took a sip of his tea. “Speaking of successors, do you have anyone in mind?”

Toshinori gave a heavy sigh as he remembered that day. “None so far, the person i did have in mind is no longer alive due to my actions and other than Young Midoriya none of the other student’s have shown that certain spark i’m looking for.’’

Nedzu promptly spat out his tea at the mention of Midoriya being an option. “I’m sorry, would you mind repeating that?” 

Toshinori gave another heavy sigh as he shrank into himself. “Relax, even I know if I offered Young Midoriya One For All after what I did that day there's nothing in the world that would stop him from beating me to a pulp.”

He placed his hand over his wound, even without being involved in the fight his wound still acted up at the sheer heat of Midoriya’s fire, it was honestly terrifying how hot his flames burned. “He probably would punch me the moment I say I have a transferable quirk and never actually make it to the offer.”

Nedzu cleaned up his mess and just nodded. “Yes he does hold a lot of animosity towards you for a very good reason if i may, but i’m more concerned towards the animosity he holds towards Young Bakugo.” 

Toshinori snapped his finger and sat straight up. “That's where I recognized Young Bakugo from! I had been so caught up in the aftermath that I nearly forgot he was also there.”

He gave a sigh and then sagged back into his seat. “Although I don't know his involvement in the situation that would cause Young Midoriya to hate him more than he hates me.”

Nedzu took a sip of his tea and lowered his head. “Although it's nice to know Young Bakugo had some involvement in the incident, it's unfortunate we don’t know what specifically. I had attempted to get the security footage from Aldera, the school the three of them went to but had no such luck in finding anything. I suspect the footage was either doctored or just fully removed.” 

Toshinori frowned. “Which means no one knows the full situation other than Young Midoriya and Young Bakugo.” 

Nedzu nodded. “And neither of them would be willing to talk about it. For Young Bakugo he doesn’t appear to be one to come to others when he has an issue or he’s hiding what his involvement was on purpose.”

Toshinori rubbed his hand through his hair and leaned back. “And as for Young Midoriya it’s such a sensitive subject that he’s most likely just bottling it all in.”

Nedzu gave a heavy sigh. “This really is a predicament, but enough about your failures.” Nedzu said while taking a loud sip of his tea to draw Toshinoris attention. “What are you gonna do about your lack of a successor?”

Toshinori lowered his head and frowned again. “I had planned on watching the students complete the USJ to help my decision, after all rescue is the core foundation of heroics and it was how I decided on my…original choice.” He sank into his seat as he remembered his mistake. “But now i messed it up by wasting my time limit, some teacher I am.”

Nedzu put his tea down and clapped his hands. “Now now no need to be so harsh on yourself! You are new to this after all.” Nedzu pulled his tablet back out and started scrolling. “If you want to watch the USJ we can simply do it here through the security feed!” 

Toshinori made his way over to Nedzu and watched over his shoulder, only to see nothing but static. “Is everything ok, Principal Nedzu?”

Nedzu tilted his head confusingly. “I don’t know Toshinori, it appears the cameras in the USJ aren’t wor-” He was cut off when the room was busted open.

“NEDZU!” Present Mic screamed as he ran in. “Five student’s just came running onto campus, THE USJ IS UNDER ATTACK!” 

Nedzu didn’t even get a chance to register what Yamada said, as he felt himself flying across the room as a loud boom followed.

He stood up and looked around to see the room was a complete mess with all the furniture scattered around everywhere and the walls cracked. He turned towards one wall to see a newly formed hole in it, with Toshinori missing.

He quickly grabbed his tablet and sounded the silent break in alarm to the teachers, they didn’t need a repeat of yesterday.

Hopping onto Mic’s shoulder he started making the announcement to the teachers. “There’s been a break in at the USJ. All faculty and staff report to the buses immediately.”

Hopefully they weren’t too late. 

🦋

Ibara ducked out of the way of one of the villains' attacks.

She had been sent to the Conflagration Zone where her quirk was severely weakened, she could barely grow it out to extend past her body without exhausting herself.

If that wasn’t bad enough she also had to cover Ojiro and Komori who were both injured.

But despite how it appeared, Ibara wasn’t the type to focus on training her quirk only and nothing else.

She moved in close to the Pyro villain and delivered a swift punch across their jaw before kicking them away. 

She ducked out of the way as they went to retaliate, only for their partner to graze her eye with a fireball and kick her away.

“Enough playing around you dunces, I’m finishing this.” One of the villains said while raising their fist.

Ibara watched in horror as the area brightened while every flame in the zone traveled to the villain and wrapped tightly around their fist.

As they reared their fist back Ibara only had one thought.

If that attack was fired Komori and Ojro wouldn’t make it.

Suddenly her safety wasn’t a priority as she quickly pulled both of them and wrapped all three of them in what amount of vines she could make and braced for impact.

She held back a wince of pain as the fire washed over her hair. She constantly kept replacing the burnt vines as the fire raged on, she couldn’t afford to let them break.

She maneuvered the vine wrap so she could stand and poured the rest of her strength into her counter attack taking advantage of the villain absorbing all the fire. 

“VIA DOLOROSA!” 

The entire zone erupted into a viny jungle.

Ibara looked around to see if there were any sights of the fire villains. She gave a sigh of relief when she saw they were knocked out and tangled in one of her vines before everything faded to black. 

🦋

Denki groaned as he hit the ground. “Note to self, ask mom what to do when you suddenly find yourself falling.” He grumbled while standing up. 

“You won’t need to worry about that kid.”

He quickly turned around to see a group of villains were coming right at him. Looking around some more he noticed he was completely surrounded.

“You won’t be making it out here alive to see her again.” One of the villains spoke.

He turned to see if any classmates were nearby. When he saw the coast was clear he gave a cocky smirk. “Indiscriminate shock…” His entire body was instantly covered by his quirk.

“TWO MILLION VOLTS!” 

🦋

Momo nimbly dodged out of the way out of a throwing knife while swatting another villain away from her.

“Try dodging this!” One of the villains called, throwing a boulder at her.

Thankfully she didn’t have to do anything as a sound wave from Jiro instantly shattered it. 

“There’s too many of them!” Jiro called as she swung her sword at a villain with a bat.

Momo flipped a villain over her shoulder and trapped them in a net. “Just hold out, someone will come for us soo-” She was cut off when she heard a loud crack of lighting as the air became static. 

She looked up the mountain and instantly started to panic. She instantly undid her back zipper and grabbed Jiro. ”Stay down.”  She whispered to the girl as a large white blanket covered them.

“Is that a fucking blanket?” “What is that meant to be a shield?” The villains’ taunts instantly stopped as a yellow wave of electricity washed over them, their laughter instantly turning to screams of pain.

Momo peeked out from under the insulated sheet and looked around to see if any more villains were still standing. Upon seeing them all knocked out she stepped out from underneath the blanket and looked up the mountain. 

“Woah look at that, i even got the guys down here!” She watched as Kaminari walked down from the top of the Mountain Zone. 

Kaminari then looked at her and paled. “Oh god are you guys ok?! I didn’t know you guys were down the mountain, holy shit I could've accidentally hit you!”

Momo chuckled as Kaminari kept apologizing. He was always wary of his quirk ever since he found out electricity quirks were the most dangerous elemental types.

“Relax dude.” Jiro said, cutting off Kaminari’s rambling. “You got all the villains in the end, were fine.”

Kaminari rubbed the back of his neck. “Yeah, I guess you’re rig-” He stopped when the interference in his earpiece picked up.

The signal jammer was here.

He heard the ground start to crack and instantly moved out of the way as a hand reached out where his leg was just at.

“I recognized that hair pattern anywhere.” The villain popped out of the ground, revealing his skull mask. “You’re Electra’s son aren’t you.” 

Momo could’ve sworn she heard Kaminari growl. Looking at him she could see his whole demeanor had changed.

Kaminari glared at the skull villain while calmly speaking. “Rai Ikazuchi, former E rank villain Tesla, now A ranked. His quirk lets him absorb electricity and weaponize it. Meaning he’s immune to most electricity type quirks.” 

Tesla chuckled. “So you know me, ey? Not surprising given what I did to your mother last year.”

Suddenly it finally clicked for Momo, her eyes widening in fear. “Kaminari i-is this the villain-”

“Who put my mom in the hospital last year?” He said cutting her off. “Yeah it is, it’s how the bastard earned the A rank status.” 

Tesla gave a wide grin. “Ah yes, the one that got away. Tell me what do you plan to do? As you said my quirk makes me immune to electricity type quirks so what do you expect to accomplish?”

“That’s not what I said.” At this point Jiro and Yaoyorozu had both stepped away from him as he began to spark.

When Tesla tilted his head in confusion Denki continued. “I said most electricity type quirks.”

“I’m not most.” 

Right as he said that Denki quirk instantly sparked to life around his body as he rushed up to Tesla and punched him.

Tesla rolled to his feet and dodged out of the way of Kaminari’s axe kick. “Please, I'm an A ranked villain kid who beat your own mother, you don’t stand a chance.” He sparked his own hand and connected it to Kaminari's chest.

Denki didn’t even flinch. He simply grabbed Tesla’s wrist and twisted it. As Tesla head shot up to scream he swiftly headbutted him before kneeing him in the stomach and throwing him into a rock.

Tesla groaned as he slid off the rock and slumped to the floor.

“Don’t let that A rank status get to your head.” Electra’s brat said as he walked towards him. “The only reason you won that fight is because my mom can’t absorb electricity and you got a lucky hit in.” 

The brat placed their foot on his chest and applied pressure. “I don’t have that issue, being one of the few electricity quirks that work as both a generator and absorber.” He said, giving a cocky smirk. “You getting lucky in that fight is the only reason you have that rank, as far as I'm concerned you’re still E ranked.”

“So in other words.” He said, raising his hand. “You’re fried! ONE POINT FIVE MILLION VOLTS!” With that he slammed his palm into Tesla and tore through his absorption. 

Once Tesla was knocked out he stopped his quirk and stepped away. He then proceeded to take out his phone and take a selfie with the unconscious body.

“Are you seriously taking a selfie right now?” Jiro asked.

Denki shrugged, giving a smile. “I need the proof to win a bet, otherwise my mom would never believe this.” 

Yaoyorozu gave a heavy sigh and rubbed her forehead. “Kaminari please tell me you and Ms.Uneri did not bet on who would be the first to catch a dangerous criminal who has hurt many civilians.”

His smile grew. “Ok I won’t.”

“I see you haven’t changed at all, Kaminari.” The three of them turned to see Todoroki and Hagakure walking up to them.

“Toru, Todorok!i Were you sent here as well?” Kaminari asked.

Shoto shook his head. “No, we came here from the Rockslide Zone to see if anyone needed help while Honenuki went to help those at the front entrance.”

Yaoyorozu gave a nod. “I see, were all fine we should probably make our way to the entrance no-”

She was cut off when a giant black glacier erupted from the central plaza.

“Holy crap was that Midoriya?” Denki asked. 

“Why would he be at the central plaza with Aizawa-Sensei?” Jiro asked.

Momo walked past them and started heading down the mountain. “Whatever reason we should check it out, He may need our help.” 

“Agreed.” Todoroki said following her. 

With that the rest joined in as they ran down the mountain.

🦋

The group exited the Zone and looked in horror at what they saw.

Both Midoriya and All Might were standing in front of the villains looking worse for wear.

“That’s impossible…” Denki said as he stared at All Might. All Might was the Symbol of Peace, a hero that was always seen as unbeatable. What villain could possibly put him in the condition he needed to ice his side just to stand?

“Where’s Aizawa-Sensei? Wasn’t he fighting the villains?.” Toru asked.

Jiro quickly stabbed her jacks into the ground and started looking. When she finally found him she stood up and pointed towards the stairs. “He’s over there, he's alive but I think he’s injured.” 

Todoroki was about to speak before he was cut off by the sound of explosions. “MOVE IT YA DAMN EXTRAS!” Bakugo screamed as he rushed past them.

“Well then I guess, we're helping just to make sure he doesn’t make anything worse.” Jiro grumbled.

Todoroki nodded. “Agreed, Yaoyorozu make some first aid equipment for Aizawa-Sensei. Jiro make sure Bakugo doesn’t do something stupid. Hagakure, Kaminari were gonna help Midoriya and All Might.”

“Right!” The group called as they split up.

This attack had gone on for too long.

Chapter Text

Yaoyorozu M. has created: U.A Hero Course

Yaoyorozu M. Has added Iida T. Kendo I. and 17 others to U.A Hero Course

Kendo I. Has added Midoriya I. Tokage S. and 17 others to U.A Hero Course

Yaoyorozu M: In light of the recent USJ incident, Principal Nedzu has requested the class representative and their vices to set up a course group chat to allow easier contact in the event of another Villain attack. 

Kendo I: The chat is meant for school or emergency purposes only. 

36 People are online 

Asui T: That isn’t gonna last long

Kaminari D: YAOMOMO! You blocked Nickname perms 

Yaoyorozu M: I learned from the gala group chat

Yaoyorozu M: Never again

Hagakure T: Oh no she’s evolving 

Tokage S: Any admins want to remove the restrictions. 

Kendo I: Nice try, the only ones who have perms to do it are Yaoyorozu, Iida and I

Kendo I: Midoriya as well but he’s currently offline due to…yeah. I doubt he would remove them anyways

Tokage S: Speaking of Green bean did you see how he looked when they carried him out?

Kodai Y: I don’t think i’ll ever get the image out of my head 

Asui T: I feel bad, me and Kodai watched him get those injuries while we practically just sat there.

Yanagi R: Nope Nope, No self defamation. Like I told Yui when she told me, you two nearly DIED. No one blames you for not being able to move and help him.

Kaibara S: They nearly w h a t

Kodai Y: Were fine, We didn’t even get hit 

Asui T: It was terrifying but we’re mostly fine thanks to Midoriya 

Ojiro M: Speaking of injuries @Shiozaki I. How are you doing? You had a lot of burn marks on you before I passed out. 

Shiozaki I: Rest assured i’m alright, other than the burns all i had was quirk exhaustion 

Komori K: That’s good to hear, sorry you got hurt covering us

Shiozaki I: None of that, it was no issue and i would happily help again

Midoriya I. Is online 

Midoriya I: I Lived bitch 

Tokage S: Green Bean!

Iida T:  MIDORIYA! Such language is unbecoming of a Vice rep and future hero!

Yanagi R: It’s good to see that your ok Midoriya

Kaminari D: You are ok right? Those injuries were brutal 

Midoriya I: Tis but a scratch 

Asui T: Midoriya i watched you get cut in the eye

Tokage S: WHAT! 

Midoriya I: Snitch 

Asui T: Bite me, answer Kaminaris question.

Midoriya I: My eye is fine and so is my arm, i just need to come in tomorrow to get my ribs healed

Kaibara S: You broke your ribs? 

Midoriya I: You should see the other guy 

Midoriya I: Also @Asui T. @Kodai Y.  Stop feeling bad for not helping me.

Midoriya I: You two nearly died to that abomination, no ones gonna blame you for not wanting to fight it right after

Midoriya I: And if someone does let me know, i need glacier practice 

Iida T: MIDORIYA!

Kodai Y: Fine

Asui T: Please do not trap people in glaciers Midoriya 

Midoriya I: Fine

Kaminari D: Moving away from near death experiences

Kaminari D: Unlock nickname perms Midoribro 

Yaoyorozu M: No Kaminari 

Hagakure T: Oh come on Yaomomo!

Kendo I: Give it up, Midoriya is responsible enough to know how bad adding nicknames would be.

Iida T: Agreed! None of us Admins will be allowing nicknames! 

Midoriya I. Has granted 35 Members Nickname perms

Kendo I: MIDORIYA 

Yaoyorozu M: MIDORIYA

Iida T: MIDORIYA 

Tokage S: YEEEEEEES 

Kaminari D: HA HA 

Tokage S. Has changed their name to DinosaurLover

Yanagi R. Has changed their name to HauntedGhost

Uraraka O. Has changed their name to NewtonsBane

Asui T. Has changed their name to Kermit

Kaminari D. Has changed their name to PikaPika

Ashido M. Has changed their name to Alien Queen

Kodai Y. Has changed their name to QuietOne

Sero H. Has changed their name to Scotch 

Kamakiri T. Has changed their name to Razor Stabby

Monoma N. Has changed their name to Phantom Thief

Komori K. Has changed their name to Shrooms

Shiozaki I. Has changed their name to Holy Water

Tokoyami F. Has changed their name to Revelry in the dark

Hagakure T. Has changed their name to Peekaboo 

Kirishima E. Has changed their name to Manly Rock

Tetsutetsu T. Has changed their name to Manly Steel

Jiro K. Has changed their name to All Ears

Awase Y. Has changed their name to Bandanna King

Kaibara S. Has changed their name to Human Vibrator 

Tsuburaba K. Has changed their name to Air Lock

Fukidashi M. Has changed their name to Screamer 

Sato R. Has changed their name to BakerBoy

Aoyama Y. Has changed their name to The Star of the Show

Todoroki S. Has muted the chat

Todoroki S. is Offline 

Bakugo K: STOP BLOWING UP MY FUCKING PHONE YA DAMN EXTRAS

Bakugo K. Has muted the chat

Bakugo K. is Offline 

Midoriya I. Has changed Bakugo K. name to Garbage Excuse of a Human

Bandanna King: That feels personal 

Shoji M: Agreed

Kendo I: Midoriya why

Yaoyorozu M: Do you know what you have just done?

Iida T: SERO, KAIBARA THOSE ARE HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE NAMES FOR A HERO STUDENT

Screamer: Seems fine to me 

Scotch: Scotch like the tape 

Human Vibrator: Can’t stop me now engine boy 

Kendo I: Just why

Kendo I: why did you do this Midoriya 

Midoriya I: Should’ve let me resign 

DinosaurLover: LOL

Kendo I:  YOU DID THIS FOR REVENGE?

Midoriya I: Yes

QuietOne: Valid 

Kendo I: I’m gonna kill you

QuietOne: Also valid 

Iida T: KENDO! Such behavior is unjust of a class president! 

Kendo I: Cram it Iida 

Iida T: …

DinosaurLover: We have enough power, @Midoriya I @Razor Stabby @Peeakaboo @Kermit @Holy Water  Commence 

Yaoyorozu M: Tokage please tell me you didn’t 

Kermit Has changed their name to Green Spy #1: The Truth

Razor Stabby Has changed their name to Green Spy #2: The Enforcer 

Holy Water Has changed their name to Green Spy #3: The Holy

DinosaurLover Has changed their name to Green Spy #4: The Head

Peekaboo Has changed their name to Green Spy #5: The Unseen 

Midoriya I. Has changed their name to Green Spy #6: The One

Air Lock: I KNEW HE CHANGED HIS NAME

Ojiro M: What the fuck

PikaPika: Not again 

Human Vibrator: Nope not touching this one

BakerBoy: Oh I don't like this, I don't like this at all

Revelry in the Dark: What a mad banquet of darkness 

Iida T: THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOR IS VERY UNHERO LIKE

Yaoyorozu M:  SETSUNA TOKAGE

Green Spy #4: The Head: Ah shit

Yaoyorozu M: You said you disbanded the green haired cult

Phantom Thief: PARDON?

Shroom: CULT? 

Green Spy #4: The Head: I did disband it.

Green Spy #4: The Head: But I never promised I wouldn't reform it.

Alien Queen: REFORM?

Kendo I: I should’ve gone to Shiketsu 

All Ears: Agreed 

Yaoyorozu M: I’m not dealing with this 

Yaoyorozu M Has added Shota Aizawa to U.A. Hero Course 

Shota Aizawa: Jesus fuck these usually aren’t made until after the first year

Green Spy #3: The Holy: Please do not use the lord's name in vain

Green Spy #4: The Head: YOU ADDED A TEACHER?

Shota Aizawa: Just backread, yeah i’m not dealing with this

Shota Aizawa : Just don’t let it interfere with class, i can still expel two of you @Green Spy #1: The Truth   @Green Spy #5: The Unseen 

Yaoyorozu M: WHAT

Green Spy #5: The Unseen: Yes Aizawa-Sensei

Green Spy#1: The Truth: Understood

Shota Aizawa: Good, while i’m here might as well go over a few things 

Shota Aizawa: @Green Spy #6: The One I know you have his number, add Vlad King

Green Spy #6: The One Has added Vlad King to U.A. Hero Course

Vlad King: Damn it why is it always 1B making the first cult 

Shoda N: Excuse me?

Shoji M: This is normal??

Shota Aizawa: @Everyone stop typing and listen up 

Todoroki S. Is Online 

Shota Aizawa: In light of the the USJ there's a few things that need to be established 

Vlad King: The staff is currently reviewing the security footage of the USJ and for the most part you handled yourselves well.

PikaPika: Wait a sec, the cameras to the USJ were down tho? They wouldn’t have gone up till Tesla was knocked out. 

Vlad King: The cameras were made to work offline, all he did was cut off access to the live feed but we still have all the footage.

Shota Aizawa: Now be quiet and let us finish

Shota Aizawa:  First things first

Shota Aizawa: @Manly Rock @Manly Steel @Garbage Excuse of a Human Do not jump in the way of a teacher to attack a villain, listen to their instructions first

Garbage Excuse of a Human Is Online

Garbage Excuse of a Human: FUCK OFF

Shota Aizawa: Wanna try that again?

Garbage Excuse of a Human: …

Garbage Excuse of a Human: Understood 

Shota Aizawa: Kirishima? Tetsutetsu? 

Manly Rock: Understood Aizawa-Sensei! 

Manly Steel: Got it!

Vlad King: Good now in the events a teacher isn't present during the attack you listen to @Yaoyorozu M

Vlad King: If she's not present just go down the list: @Kendo I @Green Spy #6: The One @Iida T The chances of one these four not being present is slim

Vlad King: This next one isn't really Villain attacks but more so just in general 

Vlad King : Stop referring to @Green Spy #6: The One by his last or first name outside of class. Call him by a nickname that doesn’t hint to his name or call him Nineteen until we pick hero names in class

Vlad King: A few of you had a few slip ups during the USJ but thankfully the villain was too busy whining to themselves to pay attention to you saying Midoriya's name 

Phantom Thief: What’s this? A member of 1B getting special treatment?

Green Spy #2: The Enforcer: Where the fuck did you get that Idea?

Shota Aizawa: It’s for the twilight program problem child

Human Vibrator: The what program 

Vlad King: The Twilight program, if you want more info just enter the code SOP1 into the U.A. site

Vlad King: That code does not leave this chat, the twilight program isn’t meant to be well known outside of the hero course 

HauntedGhost: Then how did Midoriya get the code to enroll in it?

Green Spy #4: The Head: I knew it! You are a legacy student @Geen Spy #6: The One One of your parents is a twilight hero and gave you the code!

Green Spy #6: The One: Neither of my parents are Twilight heroes, i got the code from Kamui Woods

Green Spy #4: The Head: Damn It!

Shota Aizawa: Stop talking 

Shota Aizawa: The last announcement is the school starts up Monday, where a school wide assembly is being held.

Shota Aizawa: I recommend doing your best to attend that day as the content greatly affects you as 1st years.

Vlad King: Afterwards we’ll be going into more in depth detail of what each of you did wrong or right during the USJ, along with covering a topic that will make or break your hero career

Screamer: Well that isn’t vague at all

Green Spy #5: The Unseen:  Oooh is it hero names?! If so, I have the perfect one!

Shota Aizawa: No

Shota Aizawa Is Offline 

Vlad King: That’s it for announcements, i just have one thing left to say

Vlad King: Great job on taking down more villains than 1A Class B! 

Vlad King Is Offline

Phantom Thief: WHAT 

Garbage Excuse of a Human: WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKING EXTRAS CHANGED MY NAME

PikaPika: Dude waited for the teacher to leave to explode

Human Vibrator: Kinda impressed he can even restrain himself

Garbage Excuse of a Human: I’LL KILL BOTH OF YOU

Green Spy #6: The One: I changed your name

Garbage Excuse of a Human: …

Garbage Excuse of a Human: Damn Deku

Garbage Excuse of a Human Has changed their name to King Explosion Murder 

King Explosion Murder Is Offline

Green Spy #6: The One: The fact he has the fucking audacity to name himself that

Green Spy #4: The Head: You good green bean?

Yaoyorozu M: Did something happen between you and Bakugo?

Yaoyorozu M: I wasn’t aware you knew each other

Green Spy #6: The One: I’m fine 

Yaoyorozu M: That doesn’t answer my question

Green Spy #6: The One Is Offline 

Bandanna King: Well that isn’t weird at all

Air Lock: He really hates Bakugo, best not to touch it

Kendo I: Agreed 

PikaPika has changed the chat name to “Hero Course U.AAAAAAAAAAAAA”

Yaoyorozu M: Oh No

PikaPika: OH YES

🦋

Izuku took his place behind Bondo in the line and waited patiently for the assembly to start. 

When he arrived at school they didn’t even bother to deal with home room as the staff bots instantly stopped him at the entrance and ushered him to the assembly hall.

All around him he could hear the whispers of the crowd, mostly coming for Gen-Ed.

“And the Hero course does it again.” 

“Wonder what they messed up this time.” 

“The year just started and the first years are already causing an issue.”

“I heard one of them tried to play the hero and fought the main villain.”

“Probably made things worse.”

“Once again the Hero Course hogs the spotlight.” 

“Did you hear the one kid who fought the villain at the USJ is hiding their identity?”

“Probably just another high and mighty golden child who thinks he’s so special that his identity is sooo sacred.” 

“The other courses really dislike us.” Izuku turned around to see Yanagi behind him.

The staff bots had confiscated their phones, which was apparently normal for assemblies due to past students leaking things to the media, so he settled with just nodding his head and giving a small “Hm.” 

“I mean it makes sense.” Rin chimed in from behind Yanagi. “U.A. does tend to favor the Hero course due to being a hero school, but the other courses really don’t have much so there's bound to be some tension.”

The wait soon came to an end when Aizawa walked up to the stage and approached the microphone looking more tired than usual. 

Shota let out a heavy sigh and leaned into the mic. “The sports festival is canceled, go home.”

The entire hall paused in short silence.

Keyword: Short.

“IT’S WHAT!” echoed through the room before chaos erupted.

“What about transfers?!”

“How is the support course meant to get offers for their inventions now?!”

“What about second year internships?!” 

Shota watched as Mic walked onto stage and took a deep breath. “HEY!” 

All chatter quickly came to an end as the hall turned back to see Present Mic glaring at Aizawa.

Just then Principal Nedzu walked on stage and lowered the mic. “Forgive Mr.Aizawa, he explained the situation rather poorly.”

“As you know, the annual U.A. Sports Festival would’ve been hosted on April sixth, two weeks from now starting with the first year stage. However in light of the USJ attack, I successfully convinced the HPSC to delay it to May fourth, a month later than from its original date to ensure the safety of the participants in the event of another attack.”

There was a wave of relief through the hall. While the Sports Festival was extremely biased towards the Hero course, it was still important to the other course. For Gen-Ed it was a second shot at the Hero course or a chance to just let loose with their quirks. For Support it was free advertisement for their inventions and a way to get sponsored. For Management it was preparation for their second year where they would be doing more hands on marketing by partnering up with a Hero course member.

For Izuku, winning this meant living on his sister's goal through him, something he would not fail at.

“So rest assured the Sports Festival will continue. The second topic is revamped security, you can read about it in the packet that’s being passed out by the entrance. In the meantime I would like to ask everyone but the first year Hero course to exit the hall.”

That drew a lot of confusion but the other classes quickly cleared out as Vlad King walked onto the stage and stood by Aizawa.

Aizawa took the mic away from Nedzu and sat on the edge of the stage. “Listen up cause I don't feel like repeating this. Along with delaying the Sports Festival, we are also adding more protection for the first year stage over all.”

He held up one finger and continued. “Number one, your training uniforms will now include a hood to hide your hair, other than Shiozaki for obvious reasons you're required to keep your hood on during the entire festival, if it falls off put it back on as quick as you can.” 

When Tsunotori raised her hand Vlad chimed in with a grunt. “Your hood has holes so you can use your horns through it, Tsunotori.” 

Once her hand was down Shota continued “Along with this if you have  mask or some type a face covering like glasses that is part of your hero costume you’ll be granted permission to wear them, for the few i can think of off the top of my head that's Midoriya, Tokage, Bakugo, Aoyama, Ashido and anyone else it applies to, helmets do not count.” 

Holding up a second finger he went to the next topic. “The names of your quirks won’t be announced and descriptions of them will be kept vague and misleading to make sure you can’t be tracked down through the quirk registry.”

He turned to the side and pointed at Present Mic. “If you want to you can talk to Mic after you’re dismissed and come up with a false quirk name as long as it doesn’t resemble your actual quirk name.” 

He turned back to them and held up a third finger. “And finally you'll be making a decision that's so crucial to your hero career so much it can either make or break it.”

He drew out the results and watched as the kids leaned in before giving a smug grin. “Hero Names.” 

“IT WAS A LIE!” Hagakure shouted.

Shota promptly ignored 1A cries about logical ruses and continued. “We won’t be airing your names during the Sports Festival even if you’re a legacy student who's already been in the media. Choose your names carefully cause if you don’t-” 

“There will be hell to pay!” Midnight chimed in as she stepped onto the stage. 

She started passing out the whiteboards and markers while continuing  “Your hero names are a reflection of you and the hero you want to be, don’t treat these as temporary things cause once they air during the Sports Festival there's a good chance you’re stuck with them.”  

Izuku took his whiteboard and marker and instantly started writing, he has had his name picked out for years now to the point it was even the base for his hero outfit.

Vlad King spoke next, picking off where Midnight left off. “While we’re here to help you pick out your names, your overall choice is final in which we have no say in unless it’s absolutely not allowed.” 

Midnight returned to the stage and took the mic from Shota. “With that said, who’s presenting first!”

The students collectively paused.

“W-were presenting these?” Awase spoke.

Vlad gave a grunt. “Might as well, your classmates are gonna see them anyway during the Sports Festival.” 

Oh that was true.

“I’ll go first mon ami!” Aoyama said as he climbed onto the stage and presented his board. “I shall be ‘I Can Not Stop Twinkling!’”

“That’s a fucking sentence.” Kamakiri huffed.

“Kamakiri!” Kendo said while glaring 

“What? We were all thinking it.” 

Midnight coughed, drawing their attention back to her. “While a bit brashed, Kamakiri is right, it is a tad bit long. How about removing the ‘I’ and shorting it to ‘Can’t Stop Twinkling’”

“Magnificent!” Aoyama said as he rewrote his board.

“That’s still a fucking sentence!” Kamakiri stated.

“Moving on! Who’s next?” Midnight called as Aoyama got off the stage.

“Ooh me next!” Ashido called as she jumped onto the stage and flipped her board. “Alien Queen!” 

Midnight's face scrunched up in disgust. “You mean that horror movie creature with acidic blood? Ew no way!” 

Vlad King lowered his head and sighed “You need an actual valid reason to deny it Midnight.”

Midnight stuttered to find a reason before giving up. “Alien Queen it is, who’s next?”

Bakugo was next up on the stage. “KING EXPLOSION MURDER”

“Absolutely not.” Vlad and Midnight bluntly chimed.

“Why the hell not!” Katsuki growled 

Vlad King gave a grunt before answering “You can’t have murder in your name, either pick something else or U.A. will assign you a replacement name.”

“Fucking Death Arms has death in his name!” Bakugo said in protest as explosions singed his board. 

Aizawa rubbed his forehead, cursing not expelling him when he had the chance. “Just change it.” 

“FINE!” Bakugo erased his board and aggressively started writing a new name. “Great Explosion Murder God: Dynamight!”

Yanagi wisely backed up as Midoriya started to scorch the floor.

Midnight sighed and just whispered to Vlad. “We’ll just list him down as Dynamight.” Turning back to the students she continued. "Alright, who’s next!”

With the shit show that was the first three, the class finally had an idea on what was allowed, and quickly went from there.

“I had this name picked out since I was little. Rainy Season Hero: Froppy”

“How cute! Approved!” 

“Martial Arts Hero: Battle FIst!”

“Approved!”

“Scheming Hero: Vantablack.”

“Ooh mysterious! Approved!” 

“Welder!”

“Simple and straight to the point! Approved! 

“Rocketti!”

“Adorable! Approved!” 

“The Sturdy Hero: Red Riot!”

“Paying homage to Chivalrous Hero: Crimson Riot huh? Such passion turns me on! Approved!” 

“Hearing Hero: Earphone Jack!”

“Denied!” Midnight called as she cracked her whip.

Kyoka looked at her confusingly. “What’s wrong with it?”

Midnight put her hand on her hip and spoke calmly. “We’re trying to hide your quirk names, we can’t let you use it as your hero name.” 

Kyoka blushed and rubbed the back of her neck. “Oh yeah, sorry.” she hopped off the stage as Kaminari quickly took her place.

Denki turned his board over with a giant grin. “I had this name picked out after the USJ. I’m the Surge Hero: Chargebolt!”

“Using your mother's epithet huh?” Nemuri questioned. When Kaminari nodded she continued. “How sweet, Approved! Now who’s ne-AH” She jumped away as Midoriya appeared behind her. 

Izuku snickered as Midnight berated him for scaring her and flipped his board over.

Midnight tilted her head to the side as she read the board. "‘Spring Hero: White Fox?’ I guess the name matches your hero costume but that’s a weird epithet.” 

She watched as Midoriya erased his board and wrote something on it.

The board simply read ‘It’s a homage to my sister.’ That got Nemuri to back off quickly as the name had clear sentimental value. “I’m sure she’s proud of it, approved!” 

After that the rest of the list went without any more issues, they were soon dismissed and handed their packets detailing the new security upgrades.

School ended shortly after as Izuku walked out the gate staring at her purple butterfly clip. 

He was gonna win that festival.

Chapter Text

Shota sat in the teacher's lounge  finally overlooking his student files.

His attention turned to the side of him when he saw Hizashi pull up a chair and sit down. “Man Sho, you’re still overlooking student files?”

He gave a sigh and just continued reading. “I’ve been busy between getting my elbow treated and other various things.”

Vlad grunted as he took a sip of his drink. “You should’ve just read the files the first day, you know like you’re paid to do.” 

Shota shot the blood quirk user a glare. “I like to know my students first to prevent any bias."

He turned back to his screen and started scrolling again. "Though it would've been nice to know I have five legacy students in my class."

Vlad gave a slight chuckle. "This year is a handful, my four are pretty much running themselves ragged with extra training since they have more time till the Sports Festival. I caught Tsunotori sleeping standing up at one point during class." 

Nemuri gave out a bark of laughter as she sat down with her drink. "Believe me when I say I know. I had to tell poor Momo to ease up on the training. This year's group is really determined to put on a good show."

Vlad set down his drink. "Oh that's right both your niece and Hifumi's nephew passed the recommendation exam."

Nemuri raised an eyebrow at that. "I can understand how you forgot Momo is my niece but Honenuki is in your class." 

He chuckled and leaned back in his seat. "In my defense he acts nothing like Hifumi."

"I don't know whether that's an insult or a compliment." Ectoplasm said walking into the teachers lounge. "Would you care to clarify?"

"Hard pass, that's a trap." Vlad quickly responded, causing Zashi and Nem to snicker.

Shota closed his laptop and walked over to the coffee machine. "Didn't Higari adopt a kid? I thought they were meant to be attending classes this year." 

"She is." Higari walked in looking overly tired. "Amazing daughter, wouldn't trade her for the world. Horrible student, I want to retire." 

Nemuri stood up and patted him on the back. "Oh come on, surely little Mei isn't that bad."

"She somehow found a way to make water explode." He deadpanned. "I'm honestly impressed and terrified that there isn't a thing she can't explode."

"Hey I thought she wanted to be a hero." Vlad chimed in. "How come she didn't take the entrance exam?"

Gari took a sip of his drink and sat down. "Support was always her primary goal. She plans to dual enroll and the only way to do that is to transfer into the Hero course. Also said transferring through the festival would be a great marketing strategy for advertisement since the last support student to transfer into the hero course was me." 

Zashi whistled. "I don't know whether to be impressed or scared the little listener is planning that far ahead. How's she dealing with the sports festival delay?"

Higari chuckled. "Her first response was and I quote 'It just means I'll have more babies to advertise and show off with.' Before she locked herself in her lab. If I didn't drag her out she probably would've run herself ragged." 

"Ah so it's not just the Hero course legacy students going plus ultra, it's all ten." Nemuri said, taking a sip.

"Do we actually have ten legacy students this year?" Zashi questioned as he tilted his head to the side. "That's way more than what we usually get."

Vlad grunted and gave a nod. "Yep, four in my class, five in Aizawa's and then it's Gari's daughter in his class." 

"Majority of them actually know each other from galas." Hifumi spoke. "I know Juzo is part of Hagakure's little gala group."

"Momo and Tokage as well." Nem chimed. "I think Todoroki and Kaminari are also in it along with little Tenya." 

Shota sighed. "Oh great that makes my entire five." He grumbled before he turned to look at the corner to see All Might sitting down staring off in the distance.

"Yagi." He spoke trying to get the man's attention

He tried again. "Yagi."

When that failed he flashed his quirk. "Yagi!"

Yagi nearly fell out of his seat as he coughed up blood. "Sorry about that Young Aizawa, I was a bit lost in thought."

Shota turned off erasure and let his hair drop "I could tell, what has the great Symbol of Peace so hung up." 

"Don't call me that." Yagi said quickly.

He blinked and tilted his head in confusion, looking at Zashi and Nem to see if they knew what was going on. "Call you what?" 

"The Symbol of Peace." Yagi replied bluntly. "I haven't been the Symbol of Peace for a year now after what I did."

He stood up. "Now if you excuse me. I'm gonna go do something I should've done a year ago." With that he was out the door.

The lounge was silent for a bit till Hizashi spoke. "Does anyone know what that was about?"

"Don't look at me I'm still trying to comprehend All Might himself saying he isn't the Symbol of Peace." Higari said.

"Maybe it has something to do with the date?" Nem asked. 

Vlad grunted and crossed his arms. "Today's April fifth, right? The first year stage was meant to be hosted tomorrow before the delay. Maybe he's feeling bad about the USJ?" 

Shota shook his head. "No I don't think so, as much as an oaf Yagi is he wouldn't let something like that get to him unless it was truly personal." 

He paused before standing straight up and  snapping his head towards Vlad. "You said it's April fifth?" 

Vlad nodded. "Yeah? What's so special about it?" 

Shota leaned back against the counter and sighed. "Tomorrow marks a year since the incident with Midoriya."

🦋

Yui was worried about Midoriya.

Despite barely showing any herself she was extremely skilled at reading people's emotions, even if they rarely showed any like Midoriya. 

All day he had been detached, slightly angry and overall just looked grief stricken.

The biggest thing that tipped her off was his butterfly hair clip that the class had come to know him for. It wasn't its usual purple.

It was white. 

In the short three weeks Yui had properly known Midoriya she knew he was fiercely protective of that specific hairclip and practically refused to take it off for any reason, even when it came to heroics training. No one dared to touch it.

So to see him randomly change hair clips out of nowhere along with his demeanor just being overall desolate? She knew for a fact something was up. 

Her suspicions only grew when All Might asked to have lunch with Midoriya.

Midoriya hated All Might.

Everyone in the hero course knew what Midoriya's black flames meant at this point, and knew it was at an all time high every time Bakugo and All Might even opened their mouths.

Now it was clear he hated Bakugo way more than he hated All Might but they all knew he still held great disdain for the number one hero. 

So when Midoriya accepted All Might's offer to eat with him, Yui could do nothing but watch in hidden shock.

What was troubling Midoriya?

And why did she hate to see him like this?

🦋

Izuku didn’t know what he expected when All Might asked to have lunch. 

Ok that’s a lie, he half expected the blonde oaf to keep denying responsibility for the part he played in his sister's death.

He was not expecting him to revert to his skinny form and bow in a full dogeza position. 

“Young Midoriya.” All Might calmly spoke. “One year ago my actions caused the death of what would’ve been the greatest hero japan ever seen and no amount of apologizing will ever make that right.”

Ok that threw Izuku off any remaining expectations he had for this conversation.

“The truth is everything you hate about me couldn’t be more than correct. My actions that day don’t make me the Symbol of Peace i proclaimed myself but a hypocrite given my own quirk didn’t appear till i was fifthteen.”

“I don’t expect you to ever forgive me nor should you. On that day you were put through more pain than most people could understand. Losing a family member is a horrible feeling, but losing a twin? Someone who’s been by your side through all the years? It's like losing half of yourself.”

“On that day I watched the pain that you went through and once again idly stood by, cowering behind a corner all while you suffered.”

“I’ve watched as you were broken at the sight that you saw and yet did nothing to help you, even going as far to try to avoid you when U.A. started all because I didn't want to acknowledge my mistake.”

“I watched as you turned all your pain and let it fueled you into an excellent hero, what happened at the USJ alone shows it. I know I have no right to speak for her but she would be proud of you.” 

“I know I said no amount of apologizing will make things right but all I can say is that I’m sorry as I also know nothing I do in this world will ever make up for taking your sister away from you.”

“But that doesn’t mean I won't try. I couldn’t be there for your sister, but if you ever need my help.” He said while puffing back up to his hero form while keeping his dogeza position.

“I’ll be there.”

There was a long silence after he finished, until he felt a warm breeze burst through the room.

Looking up he saw that Young Midoriya had left, leaving the carpet burning with a small pile of flames.

White flames. 

Toshinori gave a soft smile. It was a start.

One he wasn’t sure, if he truly deserved.

Chapter Text

Izuku sat in her room, praying in front of the shrine.

He had laid out all ten of her butterfly hair clips in front of it. They always were her most treasured items.

“It’s been a whole year with you gone.” He spoke. “I know you said not to blame All Might or Bakugo but some days I just find it so damn hard not to blame them for your death, others I feel like I was to blame for not noticing the signs.”

He lowered his head and gave a hurt chuckle. “Heh you probably would slap me for even thinking like that.” She always was the aggressive one of the two of them, he knew something was up when she started retreating into herself and yet he still did nothing.

“I started U.A a few weeks ago, I even broke All Might’s entrance exam record though I'm sure you would have too. You always were so selfless, you’d probably beat it with rescue points alone.”

He started crying as he thought about how she rushed in to save them that day despite everything they did to her.

“The Sports Festival is next month, I know you always wanted to win one and I intend to do so just for you.” 

He wiped his eyes and picked up the purple butterfly clip, putting it back in his hair.

He always favored the purple one, it was the last one she wore. 

He reached behind him and pulled out a notebook, one full of signatures of the entire U.A staff minus All Might, the current Big 3 and his fellow first years besides Bakugo. He figured She would’ve loved to have the first autograph of upcoming heroes along with an elusive Eraserhead. 

“You always were the biggest hero nerd out of the two of us.” He softly said before placing the book in front of the shrine.

“I’ll be a hero for the both of us.” He ran his hand over the picture. “Just watch me, Little Sis.”

He wasn’t aware of the two butterflies, one purple and one white that had made their way into the house.

🦋 

Inko placed flowers in front of the grave.

It always pained her to stare at it knowing nothing was in it.

Knowing that she never got to hug her little girl goodbye.

Knowing she couldn’t give her a proper memorial and had to settle for an empty casket.

She dropped to her knees and began to speak.

“It hasn’t been the same ever since you left, Izuku has been more distant than ever.”

She quietly sobbed. “Hisashi has thrown himself into his work even more but both have slightly gotten better, I honestly can’t say the same for me though.”

She gripped the end of her dress. “I should’ve known, I should've recognized the signs and yet I was clueless thinking you were just trying to be independent, thinking you and Bakugo were still friends.”  She said his name with malice.

She had torn a hole through her dress at this point as her nails dug into her skin.

“How can I possibly call myself a mother when I couldn’t see my own daughter in pain.”

She let go of her grip and wiped her eyes with her sleeves.

“Though you’d probably say it wasn’t my fault, you always were selfless like that and always so forgiving, it took everything in me to not harm the Bakugo’s when I heard the news.”

“You always were trying to save everyone.” She ran her hand over the headstone. “My Little Hero.”

She never noticed the two butterflies, one red and one white that landed by.

🦋 

He stared at the picture of his daughter blankly.

He was in pure misery.

The last time he saw Izuku and her face to face that wasn’t a video call was when they were seven right when he was leaving.

And now today was a constant reminder he would never see his little girl ever again.

He had missed seeing her grow up and now he had missed any chance of seeing her at all.

He’d never get to jokingly threaten her first boyfriend or girlfriend only to show embarrassing pictures of her to them later.

He’d never get the chance to walk her down the aisle.

He never got the chance to tell her face to face how proud of her he was.

She was gone.

He held the picture tighter as he let out an anguished scream and started sobbing, white flames spewing out and scorching the floor.

How could he even call himself a father? His daughter had been suffering for years and he wasn’t there for her.

He couldn’t even call himself a terrible parent, he was barely there to count as one.

So there sat Hisashi Midoriya, as he violently cried.

“I miss you so much.” He clutched the picture harder. “My Little Butterfly.”

He never spotted the two butterflies, one gray and one white that landed at the window sill.

🦋 

On the shrine, headstone and picture, the name Izuki Midoriya struck the family hard and hurt more than any wound possibly could, but A White Butterfly would always be there to remind them that they would get through it.

After all, she had been the one to tell them a white butterfly was a simple message of comfort.

🦋 

Deep in the undergrounds of Kamino a dark figure ran their scarred hand over an All Might poster that simply said “I Am Here!”

It sickened them.

He was there alright and it inspired nothing, it did nothing . A death still happened, a death he caused, a death that he was responsible for. 

A death that was all his fault.

Their hands started to heat up as they produced boiling water, reducing the poster to nothing.

They stared at the floor, lightning twitching off their hands.

They couldn’t wait to see All Might boiling alive at their feet, or Bakugou slowly twitching as the lightning ran its course.

They would have their sweet revenge and then they could reunite with them.

The figure planned, all while a Black Butterfly landed on their shoulder.

Chapter Text

BOOM!

Mei felt herself fly backwards as she hit the garage door.

"Mei!" Her dad called as he ran into the room. 

"I'm ok!" She gave a bright smile as she stood up and brushed herself off. 

Higari sighed and put his hands on his daughter's shoulder. "Sweetie I know you believe failure is the mother of all inventions but you really need to dial back on the explosions, you could've seriously hurt yourself."

"But I didn't!" Mei beamed as she moved back towards her work benches. "With the Sports Festival around the corner I need to make sure my babies are in perfect condition! I have no time to worry about injuries!" 

He walked over to her bench and stood by her. "Oh? And how do you plan to participate in the festival if you injure yourself before it even begins? You can't show off your babies if you're too hurt to even use them."

That got Mei to pause. "I- I hadn't thought about that." She gave a small sigh and looked at her dad. "I guess I can cut back on the explosions just a little bit." 

He chuckled and ruffled her hair. "As long as you're safe. Don't push yourself too hard, you have plenty of time till the festival."

"I guess you're right…" Mei gave a small smile. "Thanks for looking out for me dad."

He chuckled again. "Anytime kiddo." 

🦋

Chizome slammed the door as he entered his run down apartment, giving a frustrated scream as he threw his gear against the wall.

He fucked up. 

He was hunting down fakes in Fukuoka and had made a critical mistake.

One of the fucking fakes saw and escaped his quirk. 

He should've investigated more and now all his goals were at risk thanks to not checking to see if the damn fake was type O. 

From what the news reported, the fake hero had apparently fallen into a coma shortly after and has yet to awaken, so his quirk was still unknown. All he had to do was break into the hospital and finish the job.

But with the city on high alert it would be difficult, he had to wait for security to cut back a bit before he could act.

He would have to delay his hunt in Hosu for a bit.

🦋

Tenya bit down on the rag as he pulled out his mufflers.

He had been too slow during the USJ, if he had just been faster Midoriya and Shiozaki wouldn't have been as badly injured. 

In heroics time was essential, he should've been faster, he needs to be faster.

With the Sports Festival delay he focused all his time on evolving his engines.

He finished pulling out the final muffler on his left leg with a hiss of pain before relaxing in his seat. 

“I see you finished one leg already,” He turned around to see Tensei offering him a cup of soda.

Tenya raised an eyebrow at him and spoke. “Brother you do remember carbonated drinks stall my engines, right?” 

“And that’s why I picked it out.” His brother said while setting down the drink next to him. “I figured you didn't want your engines accidentally setting off again while you tried to pull the mufflers out.” 

“Oh..I guess that does make sense.” When he had removed the first muffler the pain caused his quirk to activate sending him flying off the bench.

Tensei had spent 10 minutes laughing at it and then another laughing at the video their dad recorded.

"You know I'm really proud of you Tenya." His brother spoke. "My mufflers didn't get to the point they needed to be pulled out till I was seventeen." 

Tensei smiled and ruffled his younger brother's hair. "You're really excited about this year's Sports Festival huh?" 

Tenya shook his head. "It's not just about the Sports Festival. Back during the USJ my classmates were fighting for their lives, some were even severely injured. If I had just been faster i-"

Tensei cut him off. "If you had just been faster you could've prevented it, right?" Tenya looked shocked for a bit before nodding. "I understand how you feel. The feeling of no matter how fast you are, you know you still can't save everyone."

Tenya sighed, his brother had read him like an open book. “How do you handle it?”

Tensei turned towards him and just smiled. “By saving the ones you can, cause in the end that's all you can do.”

🦋

“SHOTO!” Endeavor's voice roared through the house. “Don’t walk away from me! How long do you plan to keep up this childish rebellion?! The Sports festival is right around the corner! You can’t deny my fire forever!”

“All i need is my mothers Ice! I don’t need anything of yours to win the Festival!” Shoto called back as he slammed the door to his room.

His father has grown more persistent in attempting to train his left side. Especially with the events of the USJ.

He didn’t know the full details but after the events the footage of the USJ was given to the top ten and any heroes currently related to a U.A student so they could review it in case they came across the league.

Unfortunately his father fell into both those categories and saw everything in the USJ.

Including Midoriya’s quirk.

Now while his father didn’t know it was Midoriya specifically due to the teachers editing out any time his name was said, his father was still enraged at the fact someone also had a Fire and Ice quirk and as much as Shoto hated to admit he agreed with Endeavor.

He assumed Midoriya lacked the raw power his own quirk had given what he saw during the battle trials, so he originally wasn’t worried about it.

But then the USJ happened and Midoriya showed his quirk did indeed have the same raw power he did, if not more. 

The aftermath of the plaza alone was proof enough but watching the footage of Midoriya’s fight really put it in perspective.

Midoriya not only matched him in raw power but he also had better control than him. Not to mention that weird disappearing thing he did or the fact his quirk wasn’t restrictive to a side like his was.

Beating Midoriya was gonna be harder than he expected but it would all be the same.

He’ll prove he doesn’t need his father's fire.

He was gonna beat Midoriya.

🦋

Minoru let the weights drop to the grassy ground with a heavy breath.

He had taken advantage of the Sports Festival delay to the full extent to prepare for the Hero course. He had taken training both physically and quirk wise more seriously this time around and it really showed.

Despite the short amount of time his hair had grown out, the three balls from his quirk now formed a ponytail while the rest of his hair was shockingly normal. He had also shot up like a weed, now standing at 5’1.

Part of it was mostly due to a vestigial mutation from his dad that he originally had no clue about.

Pop Off was a Mutant quirk so it was pretty obvious what it did from birth despite them having no idea how his parents quicks mixed like that. And given how simple it was he never needed quirk counseling. That was the first mistake he made. 

His father’s quirk was called Grape Like, it was pretty much as the name said, it made his skin purple and allowed him to live off sunlight and water alone if he wanted to. 

If he had gone to the quirk counselor he would’ve realized Pop Off wasn’t just reliant on how healthy his body was but also reliant on how much sun he got. 

Now Mineta wasn’t the type of person to just go outside to be outside, he preferred being inside and relaxing rather than doing physical activities. Mistake number two; In hindsight he really should’ve picked up exercising earlier given he knew his quirk relied on how healthy he was. 

When he was outside it’s not like he would have realized he was absorbing sunlight. He only found out after his parents took him to the hospital because someone with clear dwarfism shooting up a foot and a half in a single month wasn’t normal.  

That’s when they discovered the vestigial mutation and an aspect of his quirk that should’ve been obvious. Upon actually testing what his quirk can and can’t do rather than just assuming he found out he could slightly curve the balls he made to change directions. 

In hindsight it made sense. His mother’s quirk, Needle Hair, let her pull off strands of her hair and harden it to be sharp like a senbon. While she couldn’t control them like how Hawk’s controlled his feather she could still curve them with frightening accuracy.

He remembered one time when he was younger, an HPSC agent was practically begging his mom to go into heroics for some odd reason. They probably would’ve continued but some random hero had apparently shot the president a week later so they never came by again.

Pop Off could do something similar, it was to a smaller extent than his mother’s curving but through training it was slowly improving.

In a few weeks the Sports Festival would finally start. He’s been given an early shot to win a transfer and he wasn’t gonna let it go to waste. 

Nothing was gonna stop him this time around.

🦋

BOOM

Katsuki shattered another tree for the umpteenth time.

The Sports Festival was a few days aways and he would finally get to settle the score with Deku.

The fucking coward must’ve enjoyed hiding the true nature of his quirk from him all these years, laughing behind his back with that stupid defect of a sister.

That damn defect learned her place already so he would show that bastard he was just as useless as his annoying ass sister and that his place was the exact same as hers.

All he had to do was win the festival and he would prove he would be number one, not some damn coward who hid his quirk.

He was gonna kill that damn Deku.

And he was gonna enjoy every second of it.

🦋

Izuku came to a stop as he threw up into the sand of Takoba beach.

The Sport Festival was this week so Izuku had cut back on his more strenuous training so he wouldn’t wear himself out before the Festival.

Currently he was trying to decrease the strain Prowl put on his body while also trying to increase how long he could use it.

While it didn’t appear so, Prowl was still an unfinished technique. As of now it was great for covering short distances and he could use it in rapid succession to cover long distances so by all means it was useful and perfect in heroics. 

But Prowl was made with the intention of mimicking speed quirks and was meant to be consecutive in long distance. He couldn’t afford to use Prowl once, come to stop and start again even if it barely took up time. In heroics every second counted.

He was about to start again when a familiar voice caught his attention.

“Deku? Is that you?” Izuku turned to see it was the three kids that were always hanging around Bakugo back during junior high walking up to him.

Oh great.

“Hey look, Deku is wearing a U.A. Uniform.” The one with the finger quirk said,  Izuku mentally berated himself for not remembering these three names and only the stupid nicknames Bakugo gave them.

The kid with the long neck quirk spoke next. “It sure is. How the hell did you get into U.A with such a cowardly quirk?”

Cowardly quirk? What did he mean by that?

Oh

Izuku nearly forgot that out of everyone in Aldera only Izuki knew what his quirk actually was.

Now while Izuku didn’t care about quirk laws, the most he did with his quirk was use Prowl to save time walking but it wasn’t like he just went around creating glaciers and setting things on fire randomly.

It never occurred to him that to everyone else in Aldera it looked like he had some sort of vanishing quirk. 

“He probably told some sob story about his defective sister to get in.” That snapped Izuku out of his thoughts quickly.

“Oh yeah, Defect Izuki, i nearly forgot about her. I guess that’s just how much of a waste of space she was."

“Hey Deku, you should just join her and take a sw-” Whatever he was gonna say next was swiftly cut off as Izuku froze over the beach, trapping all three of them in a solid block of black ice.

BOOM  

Izuku never moved an inch. He just let the temperature rise and the air expand as all three of Bakugo's goons went rolling far away against the sand.

Izuku knew he probably shouldn’t have done that but those three were a constant reminder of the terrible things Aldera did after Izuki died, how some practically celebrated her death or how others handed out fake condolences as if they weren’t part of the problem. How he had missed all of the signs before then sickened him.

“You know that's technically illegal quirk usage.” Izuku turned towards the stairs to see a man in a trench coat, covering every inch of his face. If it wasn’t for the voice he wouldn’t have even recognized him.

Mr. Nishiya jumped off the stairs and walked up to him. “You know that move is actually impressive when it’s not being used against you. Got a name for it?”

“Hm.” Izuku said with a nod, he decided on the name True Spring for it, while Spring Fountain was a result of Izuki's idea of creating explosions. True Spring was the original way she suggested he do it, by freezing over the entire area before heating up the air.

In hindsight he really should’ve noticed most of her ultimate moves suggestions were extremely brutal. 

“That’s nice.” Shinji said while nodding. “You’ve done wonders with the beach, last time I came by it was still a mess. How long did it take you?”

“What do you want, Kamui?” Izuku spoke calmly. After the incident Kamui Woods had been the one to seek him out afterwards and was actually the first to apologize for Izuki’s death followed by Mount Lady, even though Izuku never blamed either of them.

“Oh so Hero names it is.” Kamui said smugly. “Well White Fox, I came by to see how you were doing.” He paused before cautionally continuing. “I know the anniversary of her death was earlier this month so I wanted to make sure you were ok.”

Izuku promptly ignored that question and gave one of his own. “How do you know my hero name?” 

The smugness in Kamui’s voice returned as he replied. “U.A Twilight group chat, it’s actually the other reason I wanted to talk to you, per chat tradition I need your number to add you since i was the one that gave you the code.”

They had a group chat for that? He guess it made sense given how few of them actually graduated from the course. Hell Kamui was the actual last one to graduate from it. Most always believe it was Present Mic along with Snipe, Vlad King and Thirteen that were last enrolled in the Twilight course.

In reality Kamui had gone plus ultra, he didn’t participate in any of the three Sports Festivals and delayed his debut a year after his graduation to make it look like he was a new hero who popped out of nowhere. Most people didn’t even know he was a U.A Alumni and that included some of the U.A Staff itself. 

Izuku took out his phone and handed it over to the hero.

Kamui quickly added his number to the chat and returned the phone. “Oh and don’t think I didn't realize you trying to change the subject.” 

Izuku started to walk away as Kamui’s phone buzzed.

White Fox: It’s getting late, I’m heading home. 

Shinji sighed and shook his head. “You’re gonna have to talk about it to someone eventually, kid. Good luck at the festival.”

And with that the kid vanished into thin air. 

He sighed again and started to walk away from the beach.

That kid still had those same broken eyes that he had after the incident. 

Chapter Text

“That being said tomorrow the Sports Festival is being hosted so today’s the last day to do any last minute preparations.” Vlad King spoke. “I recommend keeping any training you plan on doing light, so you don't burn yourself out. Dismissed.” 

As soon as Vlad King left the class instantly started talking.

“Alright then, now to the topic we’ve been waiting for!” Kaibara said as he got out of his seat. “Who’s getting in on the betting pool?” 

“Kaibara!” Kendo hissed. 

Kaibara pulled out notecards from his desk and started to pass them out. “Oh come on Class prez it’s just a little fun.” 

Kendo sighed and rubbed her eyes. “Be that as it may, gambling still isn’t allowed during school. Help me out here, Midoriya.” 

She turned to the green haired boy only to see him writing on one of the notecards as well, before burning it and standing straight up while whistling. 

She glared at her Vice rep and snatched the notecards from Kaibara. “There will be no gambling.”

“Heads up Midoriya.” The group turned to look at Awase who was looking out the window on the classroom door. “There's a large crowd forming outside the door." 

Izuku nodded and put his hood on. Between All Might working here and the USJ incident the press has been stalking around the entrance trying to interview students. While it wasn't a major issue like it was during the break in, it's still an annoyance.

Word also got out that one of the first years had fought the main villains and even teamed up with All Might so with the first year stage so close the main focus was on them. So while the press didn't know it was him who teamed up with All Might, that didn't stop them from trying to interview every single U.A. student that went out the gate hence where the hood came to play. 

After the events of the USJ, Principal Nedzu figured something like this would happen and gifted Izuku a modified student uniform. It wasn't too different from the regular one, it simply had the added addition of a hood he could use to hide his hair since it’s his most identifying feature.

Kaibara walked up the door and looked out the window as well before giving off a long whistle. "That's a lot of students." 

“It does beg the question of what brings so many lost souls to our class room.” Shiozaki asked.

Kamakiri huffed and walked over to the door. “Isn’t it obvious? They want to see the class who survived the villain attack, I’ll bet they’re also swarming 1A’s door right next to us as well.” 

“Sir Kamakiri is correct.” Shishida chimed in. “Ever since the USJ the press has put all of the attention onto us and our sister class so much that it’s even overshadowed regular hero news. The other courses see us as the primary competition.”

He then turned to Midoriya and pointed at him. “Doesn’t help that the rumors of ‘The Hero of the USJ’ have been narrowed down to our class.” 

Izuku mentally groaned at the nickname the press gave him as Komori chimed in.

“I hate how they’re practically milking the attack for entertainment.” She then cautiously looked at Shiozaki and Midoriya before continuing. “Some of us were severely injured. Those villains were trying to kill us and the media is acting like it’s something to be proud of.”

“Yeah!” Tetsutetsu chimed.

Kuroiro groaned “It’s been infuriating dealing with the other courses. Don't even get me started on Bakugo and Monoma, ever since Vlad-sensei said our class took out more villains those two have been insufferable.” 

“Yeah but Bakugo was always insufferable.” Tsuburaba said. “Monoma only started because of the USJ. Somehow he took Midoriya saving Aizawa, protecting Kodai and Asui and then practically having to fight for his life, as all of us being stuck ups who enjoy the spotlight.” 

“Then there's also him taking every opportunity to give a rousing speech about how superior 1A is compared to us.” Fukidashi mocked. “I don’t know what changed after the USJ. He was actually a pretty decent guy during the Battle Trials.” 

“Alright we shouldn’t talk bad about our fellow hero students.” Kendo interrupted. “No matter how…eccentric they may be.”

“But complaining about Bakugo is still fair game right?” Awase asked.

“No comment.” Kendo swiftly said, earning a few chuckles.  

“Either way, unless we jump out the window and take the long way to the entrance, we still have to deal with the crowd.” Honenuki spoke.

“No one’s jumping out the window this time.” Kendo said as she pointed out Kamakiri, who looked offended at the statement. “These are our fellow students, not a zombie apocalypse. We can just ask them to stop blocking the door.”

“One kid just threw a tomato at the door.” Awase butted in.

“Out the window everyone.” Kendo said as she walked away from the door, causing the class to snicker.

Midoriya removed his hood and followed the rest of his class to the window. 

Part of him wondered what the crowd was gonna say in the first place. 

🦋

Shoto waited patiently outside of Class 1B’s door.

It’s been a few hours and the rest of the crowd had long left, only leaving him and a purple haired boy from Gen-Ed.

Suddenly Present Mic came whistling down the hall only to stop and look at the two of them. “Todoroki? Shinso? School’s over, what are you two still doing here?”

“I’m waiting for Mi-White Fox to come out.” He said hoping the now identified Shinso didn’t notice the slip up.

“I’m mostly here to give 1B a message.” The purple haired boy lazily said.

“Hate to break it to ya listeners but 1B left a while ago, you’re the only student’s left on campus.” Mic-Sensei explained.

Both boys paused.

“Oh…” Shoto said. He was originally here to declare war on Midoriya since he wouldn’t be able to do it tomorrow as both classes had different prep rooms. Bakugo also left long ago so who was he meant to declare war on now?

“Damn it.”

🦋

“Alright Class B, we're heading out in five minutes!” Kendo’s voice called through their waiting room.

“Alright!” Tetsutetsu said as he slammed his steel fist together. “Let’s kick some ass!”

“You mean get our ass kicked by Midoriya.” Tsuburaba chimed.

“He isn’t gonna kick my ass.” Kamakiri huffed. “I plan on winning this whole thing, fox boy so you better get ready to get pummeled.” 

Kamakiri’s phone buzzed shortly after. Reading the text he quickly lunged at Midoriya who disappeared. “You son of a bitch!” He screamed though it was clear there was no malice in it.

“Woah woah what did he say?” Awase said as he moved to block Kamakiri’s path.

Kamakiri spoke aggressively though it was clear he was trying not to laugh. “That fucker asked me if i save fifthteen precent or more on car insurance!” 

There was a slight pause before Fukidashi snorted.

And then all hell broke loose.

No matter how many texts Izuku sent saying that’s not what he typed, his classmates swiftly ignored it and if asked would say otherwise. 

The laughter continued until the intercom buzzed. “Next up it’s their sister class but they’re second to none! They’re the ones who took down the most villains in the USJ.”

Kendo got her laughter under control and slipped on her mask and hood. “Alright everyone, hoods on!” 

The rest of the class quickly put their hoods on, while Tokage, Yanagi, Kamakiri, Rin and Midoriya adjusted their masks and moved to the door.

“Give a rousing welcome to Class 1B!”

“Let’s show them what we got Class B. Let's win this!”

“RIGHT!/HM!”

🦋

The festival hadn’t even started and Izuku already wanted to kill Bakugo.

Ok he technically wanted to kill him all the time but that was besides the point. 

The issue stemmed from the Athletes Oath. Due to Izuku placing first he would have been the one to give the speech had he not declined. So when asked who he wanted to give the speech to he just said give it to the person in second and called it the day.

Izuku didn’t know who placed second.

His entire acceptance letter was just his results and score. There was no mention of any sort of leaderboard besides All Might saying he placed first.

He wasn’t expecting it to be the one fucking person he would have never given it to.

Now that alone upset Izuku, it’s the actual speech that made Izuku nearly forget he was training to be a hero. 

Bakugo had said ‘I’m gonna win, you damn defects .’ While emphasizing the word defects and staring right at Izuku. 

That fucker had used the one term he knew would get a rise out Izuku and he did so publicly just so he wouldn’t get hit for it instantly.

If Kodai hadn’t asked if he was ok because he looked like he was gonna combust, Izuku probably would have done it, live TV be damned.  

Midnight cracked her whip and drew their attention. “With that rousing declaration, it’s time for us to get started!”

The screen behind flashed orange, simply displaying the words ‘First Event’ as she continued. “This is where you’ll start feeling the pain! For the first fateful game of the festival we have!”

The words on the screen spun like a roulette before finally coming to a stop.

Obstacle Course

“The rules are simple!” Midnight called, bringing the attention back to her. “All four courses will run a four kilometer dash outside the stadium. I don’t want to restrain anyone at least in this game, so the only rule is to stay on the course, but other than that…”

“You’re free to do anything your heart desires! Now then take your places!” 

🦋

“IZUKI! THE FESTIVALS STARTING!” Inko called.

“Coming Mom!” A nine year old Izuki called back.

She made her way back in the house to see everything was ready. Her Dad was already there on the video call and her brother had brought one of her notebooks out for her.

Watching the Sports Festival was always a family tradition for them.

She always dreamed of being on the stage, fighting for number one just like the U.A Alumni.

She couldn’t wait for the day she could stand on that stage and just say.

“I did it.”

🦋 💚 🦋

Izuku lined up at the start and waited for the signal.

He already knew despite how it appeared U.A never picked these stages at random.

He had watched enough Festivals with Izuki to know the obstacle course was always a fan favorite among the crowd.

While they didn’t always use it, when they did they always switched up the obstacles except the very first one.

The Hall.

The first green light went off.

All he needed to do was make it out the hall as soon as possible.

The second green light went off.

His quirk roared under his skin as he prepared.

The third light went off and the Hall soon flooded with Midnight’s voice.

“BEGIN” 

The doorway instantly exploded into glacier ice as Todoroki made his way out.

“Apologies, but I don't have the time to waste on such a petty start.” Shoto said as he continued running forward.

“From Class 1A SnowTorch freezes the entire competition, swiftly putting him in second place!” Present Mic’s voice called.

Shoto nearly paused. “Second? I could’ve sworn there was no one in front of me.” Looking forward he could see someone running in front of him alright, he just couldn’t tell who “It doesn’t matter, they won’t be able to dodge an attack from behind.”

He quickly slammed his foot onto the ground and let the ice trail towards his target.

Only to falter when he saw that the person disappeared out of the trap without even looking.

Oh no. That was Midoriya.

“And in first place we have Class 1B’s White Fox taking a major lead, but can he keep it ladies and gentlemen?!”

He instantly started to make an ice slide and picked up his pace. In terms of speed Midoriya was only second to Iida, but where Iida lacked in mobility and adaptability that came with certain terrains, Midoriya closed that gap with his agility and reflexes.

It was that damn insufferable disappearing trick that made him the biggest obstacle to Shoto in this race. He wouldn’t even be able to slow him down, he didn’t know how but Midoriya was always aware of every attack and person around him, once in training he caught Hagakure with minimal effort. It was infuriating.

“MOVE IT HALF AND HALF!”  Shoto turned to see Bakugo had caught up to him, upon a further look behind him he saw a bunch of Hero course students had easily avoided his trap.

This was an issue.

“It’s not an obstacle course without any obstacles, Let’s see how our first year’s deal with the robot inferno!” 

Izuku watched as the giant 0-Pointed reached out to him and prepared himself.

“Prowl” 

Everything slowed for him as Izuku started heating his body up. Taking a deep breath he let his presence vanish and got to work.

Flipping onto the robot's arm he quickly ran up it where it’s head was and slammed both hands onto it.

He watched as the head crumbled underneath his quirk and quickly jumped to the next one, brushing his ignited hand against it as the head melted to nothing but a puddle.

The onslaught continued as he finally made it out of the Inferno, rolling to the ground and continuing on as he let Prowl die down.

He smiled under his mask as he finally heard the first one he destroyed fall over and as the rest followed soon.

“And in the shocking display of speed and power White Fox clears the inferno in the matter of seconds! How will his classmates fare against them?”

“GET BACK HERE YOU DAMN DEKU!” Bakugo screamed as he bursted off.

Shoto scowled as he froze over the remaining robots Midoriya ignored. It was bad enough he couldn’t shake off Bakugo but now Midoriya had a major lead compared to the rest of them. 

“What’s this it seem Dynamight has flown over the inferno while SnowTorch froze the remains of White Fox's massacre!”

“Heh, that idiot practically cleared the path for us!” He heard one of the Gen-Ed kids call from behind.

“Careful.” Shoto calmly spoke as he picked up his ice slide. ”I froze them while they were uneven. On Purpose.”

Shoto watched as the group of Gen-Ed kids were pulled out of the way as vines wrapped around the falling robots to stop their descent.

“Looks like SnowTorch’s cold hearted trap was thawed out by 1B’s Maria, who’s closing in on him!” 

He clicked his teeth, while he was glad none of the robots fell on anyone directly, those fallen robots were meant to block the path so he could focus on catching up with Midoriya without having to worry about everyone behind him.

This would be more difficult than he expected.

🦋

Hizashi clicked off his microphone and gave a long whistle. “I knew Midoriya was fast from the USJ but I didn't think he was that fast!”

Aizawa gave a long and heavy sigh. “Why did I let you talk me into this?” 

Zashi slung his arm around him. ”Oh come on Sho! Where’s your enthusiasm! Your presentation! That hosting spark!”

“Six feet under.” he grumbled.

Mic chuckled as he clicked on his microphone. “And the students have cleared The Fall! Next up is a fan favorite, The Maze! Take it away, Eraserhead!”

He clicked the mic back off and gave a smug grin to his fellow Co host.

“I should’ve stomped on your vocal cords during our festival.” Shouta said with a harsh glare.

“You wound me!”

🦋

Izuku navigated himself halfway through the maze pretty quickly.

It was smooth sailing until he saw Todoroki go sailing over the entire thing followed by Bakugo.

“And there goes SnowTorch and Dynamight jumping over the Maze to take first and second! Is that even legal?”

“Midnight did say anything goes as long as you stay on the course.” A voice he recognized as Aizawa called.

Izuku mentally swore to himself as he jumped on top of the maze and slammed his hands down.

“Woah there! Looks like White Fox made a giant glacier over the Maze! What could he be doing?!”

“He’s blocking the top to make sure those behind him are forced to navigate the Maze, not a bad idea.”

Izuku lit his hand on fire and blew up the corner of his glacier.

BOOM

Shoto and Bakugo shortly paused their shoving match as they looked up to see Midoriya fly right over them.

“And White Fox with an explosive play passes SnowTorch and Dynamight again! He’s heading right for the next obstacle, The Spinning Platforms!” 

Izuku positioned himself as he dived forward towards the edge of the rotating platform. Grabbing the edge he ignited his free hand and legs to propel the platform to spin faster.

“Holy Shit he’s spinning the platform even faster! What is the Hero Course teaching these kids?” 

“Language there's kids watching. And we didn’t teach him that, he came like this."

“There you have it folks, Eraserhead is a horrible teacher!”

“ WHAT!” 

Izuku kept up the process until he felt Bakugo and Todoroki get close enough.

And then he let go.

Letting his ice flair he quickly froze all the platforms and let the enhanced rotation send him flying through the air again.

“And with another display of power White Fox launched himself through the air again! What could he be planning?”

“If you paid attention he also froze over the other platforms, between the rotation and ice he basically sabotaged the other competitors. Making it impossible to get by”

“LIKE THAT WILL STOP ME!” Katsuki screamed, he didn’t bother with the platforms and continued propelling himself over them.

Shoto gave a growl as he made an ice bridge over the platforms. When Present Mic had announced rotating platforms he had planned to do the same thing as Midoriya. Now he was forced to make a bridge to even get by, one the other competitors could use.

“RECIPRO BURST!” 

Shoto eyes widened as he saw Iida pass by him on the bridge. He had been so focused on Midoriya he had completely forgotten that from this point on everything was flat ground.

Iida’s domain.

He remade his Ice slide and picked up his pace. 

Suddenly he saw the ground in front of him liquify as Honenuki popped out. “Sorry about this SnowTorch, but you aren’t the only legacy kid looking to make a splash.” 

His ice slide broke as he went tumbling over non solid ground. His fury only grew when he saw vines shoot by him as Shiozaki sling shotted past him.

“In a surprise twist Recipro, Maria and Mudman all passed SnowTorch stealing Third, Fourth and Fifth!”

Shoto scowled and slammed his foot onto the ground.

“WOAH THERE! IN A GLACIER BIGGER THAN WHITE FOX’S, SNOWTORCH LAUNCHES HIMSELF OVER THE COMPETITION! All six competitors are approaching the final obstacle, The Minefield!”

Izuku landed in front of the minefield and instantly copied Todoroki’s ice slide, using his free hand to make a stream of fire behind him to propel him faster.

Now while he was leaving an ice trail that would let others walk through the field with no issues he didn’t have time to worry about that. Between Honenuki, Shiozaki and unfortunately Bakugo, Izuku didn’t have time to focus on sensing mines and playing hopscotch through them, no matter how fast prowl was, when those three could just avoid them all together without a second thought. 

After hearing a few mines go off he looked behind to see Iida sprinting across the field, each mine he stepped on not being fast enough to actually catch him.

Oh that was bad.

The ground beside him liquified as he saw Honenuki power swim through it, a few seconds later Bakugo had caught up along with Shiozaki.

This was really bad.

Suddenly Todoroki crashed on the side of them and started ice sliding as well, Iida also now joining the group. 

Fuck.

“WELL WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT FOLKS!  ALL SIX ARE NECK AND NECK WITH THE FINISH LINE RIGHT AHEAD.” 

The crowd leaned out of their seats as the six approached the finish line. 

And then it happened.

Mudman placed his hand on the ground trying to sink the others.

Dynamight launched a massive explosion.

Maria shot her vines forward.

SnowTorch launched himself forwards with another glacier.

Recipro’s engines roared through the entire Stadium.

And White Fox was nowhere to be seen. 

“WE HAVE A WINNER!”

Chapter Text

“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.

Chapter Text

The lunch break had ended as the team's from the cavalry battle stood in front of Midnight.

“Welcome back to the festival! As you know for our next event we have the well anticipated Tournament round, take it away Mic!” She said with a crack of her whip.

“That’s right everyone, it's the moment you’ve all been waiting for! We're taking the top sixteen students from our four winning teams and putting them in a tournament style fighting competition! You don't want to miss these matchups!” 

Midnight took over soon after. “There's been a few changes to the bracket however! During the break Tailman and Mines decided to drop out which means we need two replacements!”

She turned her attention to Team Real Steel and pointed her whip at them. “Team Real Steel! Your team placed fifth, choose two members you wish to move onto the next round!”

The members of the team in question all looked at each other before silently discussing among themselves. After some time Shiozaki and Tetsutetsu took a step forward while Awase and Honenuki took a step back.

Midnight gave a nod and continued. “Good, with that decided, feast your eyes on the bracket!”

White Fox vs Recipro

Lizardy vs Maria

SnowTorch vs Cellophane

Rule vs Red Riot

Creati vs Dynamight

Chargebolt vs Mei-Dei

Alien Queen vs NightHide

Vintage vs Real Steel

Izuku looked over the bracket thoroughly and noticed two things instantly. The most obvious one was that he was first up and going against Iida, a simple battle of speed. The one that wasn’t so obvious was the fight against Bakugo. If he wanted to face Bakugo both of them would have to win all their matches and get to the finals.

Good.

With their fight being locked to the finals Izuku wouldn’t have to worry about getting the rest of the tournament canceled for the others if he did anything too excessive.

“Told ya you wouldn’t want to miss these matchups! Let’s not waste any more time and hop right on into it!”

Izuku quickly turned to look at Iida. While he was wary of the other opponents Izuku found Iida the biggest threat. In a fight the amount of power means nothing against speed.

He walked away and headed to his waiting room.

It just meant he needed to be smarter.

🦋

“Alright ladies and gentlemen we have our first fight! He’s the Vice President of Class 1A, The Horse that carried Team SnowTorch to second place! It’s the fastest member of 1A, The Ingenium Hero: Recipro!” 

Tenya walked onto the stage and prepared himself, this may be a fight to settle the score of who’s faster but he knew there were other elements that came in play, literally this time. 

Midoriya’s ice would be troublesome but if all went according to plan he had a counter for that. No it was the fire that was the main issue, he wasn’t sure if what he had prepared would be enough to deal with it.

“On the other side we have his opponent! He’s the Vice President of Class 1B, The winner of both the first and second event, and he himself is the fastest member of 1B! It’s The Spring Hero: White Fox!”

Izuku calmly walked onto the stage as he stared at Iida’s mufflers, the fact they were bigger confused him as they sure as hell weren’t that size originally. Not to mention that Recipro Turbo from earlier.

Iida had definitely been hiding that one for a while so why did he reveal it during the first stage? If it was meant to be a trump card, why use it for the preliminaries but not when Kodai had them cornered? Something was wrong here, there was more to this than what Iida was letting on.

Midnight took her place on the platform and cracked her whip. “Ok boys the rules are simple! Your goal is to either knock your opponent out of bounds or immobilize them, if i see anything too excessive i will stop the match, do i make myself clear?”

Both boys nodded.

“Good, then let that match…”

White flames danced off Izuku’s fingers as the roar of Tenya’s engines filled the arena.

“BEGIN!”

“RECIPRO BURST!” Was all Izuku heard before he ducked below Iida’s kick. Flipping away, he froze the floor over and trapped him in a solid block of ice.

“AND IN A MATTER OF SECONDS RECIPRO HAS ALREADY BEEN RESTRAINED!”

Izuku backed away from the block of Ice, something was wrong.

That was too easy.

Midnight watched as Iida struggled before raising her hand. “Recipro is stuck! White Fox is the wi-” 

“Stuck?”

She turned to face Iida who simply continued.

“The Ingenium line doesn’t get stuck. We will rush anywhere at any time, that's what these legs are for.”

The sound of his engines started growing louder as the ice began shaking.

“They cannot be restrained!” The roar of his engines completely overwhelmed the other sounds of the arena. 

“That is why I named myself!” A loud boom filled the area as the icy prison shattered to nothing.

“RECIPRO TURBO!”

🦋

“I have eyes on the hero killer!”

“Understood, I’m on my way.” With that Tensei quickly scaled up the building, and jetted off.

🦋

Izuku watched in horror as Iida zoomed all around the arena. At this point he was basically relying on his atomic sensing to even know where he was.

“Ten minutes…”  Iida spoke as he zoomed around the edge. “For ten minutes, I WILL SURPASS YOU!”

That was all the warning Izuku got before he raised his arm to catch Iida’s kick. He didn’t even get a chance to use his quirk before the speedster’s engines roared as he went flying across the arena.

Rolling to his feet he activated Prowl and got out of the way of Iida’s follow up attack. He didn’t get much room as the moment he came to a stop Iida was quickly in front of him, kicking him away once more.

“You can hide but you can not run!” Tenya called, as Midoriya disappeared again.

The onslaught continued as Izuku had completely gone on the defensive. The moment he dropped Prowl Iida was on him.

He finally landed a hit on the green haired boy again only for him to disappear before he could follow up.

Midoriya finally revealed himself across the arena, freezing the floor over. “THAT WON’T STOP ME!” Tenya screamed as he rushed forward, the icy floor shattering under his speed.

“Amazing! Recipro went from being stuck to having White Fox on the ropes! What will he do!”

Izuku rolled out of the way of Iida’s kick and activated Prowl again. Coming to a stop he placed his hands down on the floor and iced it over. “Hidden Fox: Heat.” 

Half of the arena exploded with thick steam, leaving the side Iida was on clear.

Tenya quickly ran into the steam only to give a loud scream of pain and quickly run back out.

He rolled up his uniform sleeve and inspected his arm, thankfully he wasn’t in there long enough to burn.

Turning back to the steam he gave a scowl. “He made the steam hot to the touch so I wouldn't be able to get through. This is bad, this gives him time to think and plan, the one thing I wanted to avoid.” 

“It seems Recipro can’t get past the steam! Who knows what White Fox is planning!”

Minutes passed and the steam didn’t lighten up. The crowd was getting confused as White Fox hadn’t done anything.

“Come on out White Fox!” Tenya called. “You won’t be able to keep making steam for long!”

To his frustration Midoriya didn’t even seem to acknowledge that taunt. 

“Uh…What exactly is going on down there?”

“Pay close attention. Sometimes a Pro's greatest asset is knowing how to pick their battles and wait.”

The crowd seemed confused at that statement until a sound filled the arena.

Recipro’s engines sputtering to be exact.

Tenya's eyes widened as he turned around to look at his engines.

Then it finally dawned on him. 

“NO!” Was all he was able to get out before an Icy knee collided with his face.

Dropping to the ground Izuku let his ice roam as he touched the floor. “True Spring!”  

BOOM I

Tenya didn’t even get a chance to process what happened before he found himself in a block of Ice and an explosion hitting him.

Rolling across the ground harshly he finally came to a stop as Midnight spoke up. “Recipro is out of bounds! White Fox is the winner!”

“Hey hey hey, what the heck happened?! Recipro had him on the ropes the entire time! What happened to that groundbreaking speed?!”

“If you paid attention you would have noticed White Fox was stalling for time. He realized any ice he made would shatter under Recipro’s speed nor did he have any time to produce any flames before Recipro was on his again. It was a battle of speed, one he would not win so he abused the fact Recipro announced his time limit and drew out the battle. Not bad.”

“There you have it folks, some rare praise from Eraserhead! And with that the first match of the first round is over!”

🦋

Izuku made his way to his class stands where he was instantly greeted.

“And the great Hero of the USJ does it again.” Kaibara said with a mocking tone.

Izuku mentally groaned at the reminder. He wondered if he could legally trap Midnight in a glacier for announcing it to the public.

“Leave him alone Spiral.” Yanagi said while walking up to them. “Congrats on your win Fox.”

“That steam is fucking stupid.” Kamakiri called from the row above.

“You’re just mad you didn’t make it to the finals shroom.” Komori chimed

“Damn right I am! Cheating cheaters that cheat!” He growled.

“[Oi!] You thieving thief that thieves!” Tsunotori said while playfully swatting him.

“Hey stop it! You don’t own shit!” he said, trying to push her off while the rest of the class laughed.

Tokage was the next to approach him. “Ready to get your butt kicked by me next round, Green bean?”

Shiozaki vines wrapped around Tokage and pulled her back. “Pride is a sin, you haven’t won just yet.”

Setsuna gave a toothy grin. “Yet? Accepting your loss already?”

Ibara sighed and let her go. “Such delusions.”

🦋

“Who’s ready for the next match?!! On this side we have the recommendation student who helped defend the ten million headband! It’s The Splitting Hero: Lizardy!

Setsuna walked onto the stage with a confident grin. It was a well known fact Shiozaki didn’t like violence and preferred to handle things with her vines. All she had to do was get up close and it was easy pickings.

“And for her opponent, she placed top four in the obstacle race. It's the assassin of 1B, The Divine Hero: Maria! Let see a flashy battle this ti-”

“Excuse me.” Ibara said while raising her hand. “Please pardon the interruption but I'm not sure why you called me an assassin. I’ve come to the festival in search of victory, not to take my opponent's life.”

“Eh? Sorry about that I guess.”

Shiozaki looked like she was gonna continue before Midnight cracked her whip and drew their attention. “Alright girls, the rules are the same as the last match, are you ready?”

When both of them nodded she continued. “Then let the second match of the first round…”

“BEGIN!”

Ibara was the first move, clasping her hands together a forest of vines quickly washing over the arena.

For a few seconds everything was quiet until something moved behind.

“Boo.” She turned around to see Tokage's disconnected jaw. Moving to the side she quickly avoided the severed fist that was flying towards her head and lashed her vines at Tokage.

Setsuna grinned as she maneuvered her detached parts through the onslaught of vines, once she was finally in front of Shiozaki she brought all her pieces back to her and threw a punch. “Just as planned, easy picki-huh?”

To her shock Shiozaki sidestepped the punch and unclasped her hands to grab her by the wrist before throwing her across the arena.

Rolling across the arena she split herself apart again and floated to a stop. She turned around to Shiozaki with a confused expression. “Hey what gives?! I thought you hated violence!”

Ibara addressed her calmly. “While true I do dislike violence I have no qualms resorting to it in events I can’t use my quirk as I did during the USJ. After all, even the apostles carried swords.” She stretched her hand out towards Tokage as her vines rapidly began moving. “And like those swords, these vines have thorns!” 

Setsuna's eyes widened as the thorns on Shiozaki's vines spiked out and lashed at her. She quickly maneuvered away from the thorny barrage while mentally berating herself for getting too overconfident.

She had completely forgotten about Shiozaki’s USJ footage. She wasn’t just reliant on her quirk, she was also downright terrifying in hand to hand combat!

“Uh oh! Looks like whatever Lizardy had planned didn’t pan out too well! What will she do next?!”

Setsuna gritted her teeth as she narrowly dodged another vine. It didn’t help that the speed of them apparently increased once Shiozaki unclasped her hand. 

Bringing her body back together she rolled in front of the vine haired girl and threw another punch.

This time Ibara caught her fist entirely and swiftly kicked her away. 

She stretched out her hand as her vines began wrapping around Tokage. “Crucifixion.”

Setsuna's eyes widened as the vine ball enclosed her. She attempted to squeeze part of her through it only to be stopped when the vines' thorns sharpened.

Her effort finally came to an end when she heard Midnight speak. “Lizardy is unable to continue, Maria wins!”

She slumped down in her viny prison and gave a huff of disappointment. “Damn it.”

One of the vines hit her for that.

🦋

Setsuna finally left the Medbay and arrived back at the stands just in time for the next match. Once she got there she was met with smug grins from her classmates. 

Giving a huff of annoyance she glared at the traitors. “Not a word.”

The class snicker as Kendo patted her on the shoulder. “Cheer up, it was just a bad match up. You still made it to the final event.” 

Before Setsuna could say anything Midoriya quickly stood, shoving her and Kendo away right before making a wall of fire over the stands.

“Hey what gives green bea…n?” She trailed off as her eyes widened at the sight in front of them.

A giant glacier overlapping the other stands except their.

[“Holy shit…”] Tsunotori spoke.

“That seems a bit excessive shroom.” Komori chimed.

Yanagi turned to Kodai and spoke calmly. “If you win your match you’re gonna be fighting that.”

“I have a plan.” she calmly replied.

“Do not let pride overcome you as it did Tokage.” Shiozaki said ignoring Tokage’s cry of ‘hey.’ “You still have to overcome your first foe.”

Yui gave a slight nod and walked away.

She knew exactly how to win this.

Omake

After the break:

Shoto was annoyed.

He had asked Midoriya to meet him in the hall so they could talk during the lunch break.

However despite waiting patiently Midoriya hadn’t even shown up yet, it was frustrating and the break was nearly over.

Suddenly he heard footsteps. “Finally, you’re he-” Turning down the hall he didn’t see Midoriya but rather Present Mic. “You’re not Midoriya.”

Present Mic apparently ignored that statement and just spoke. “Todoroki? What are you doing here?”

“I told Midoriya to meet me here earlier and he hasn’t shown up yet.” He said, trying to keep the annoyance out of his voice.

Present Mic looked at him confusingly and tilted his head to the side. “Midoriya? Hate to break it to ya but he’s already on the field, they’re actually waiting for you so they can announce the bracket.”

Shoto paused. Midoriya had completely ignored him? This had been his last chance to make his declaration of war and give his speech about how it didn’t matter that they were both from quirk marriages, his ice alone would be enough.

But he just didn’t bother? He had wasted his entire lunch break waiting for Midoriya and he just ignored him?

Shoto stared blankly at the floor before finally speaking up.

“Damn it.” 

Chapter Text

“Ladies and Gentlemen, we're back and the fourth match is up and ready! On this side he’s the ultimate shield and sword combo of 1A, it's The Sturdy Hero: Red Riot!”

Ejiro walked onto the stage with a wide grin, he was looking forward to a good fight!

“And for his opponent, she dominated the cavalry battle and practically ruled the field, it's The Scale Hero: Rule!”

Yui calmly walked onto the stage, her ever blank stare fully present. If her idea worked out this fight would be over quickly.

“Same rules as last time, are both of you ready?” Midnight asked.

“Mm”

“Let’s do this!” 

Midnight simply nodded and raised her whip. “Then let the fourth match…”

“BEGIN!”

Ejiro quickly hardened his entire body and sprinted forward. As he sprinted across the arena he couldn’t help but wonder why Kodai was placing her hands onto the ground.

Then it happened.

In a matter of seconds the ground he was running on was no longer there as he felt himself falling.

Looking forward he saw the entire arena had shrunk. Before he had the chance to even comment on it the arena enlarged again, smacking him directly into the wall.

He silently thanked his quirk for protecting him and quickly stood back up, only to falter when he heard Midnight’s voice.

“Red Riot is out of bounds! Rule wins!” 

What?

Looking around more closely this time it finally registered that he was out of bounds the moment the arena shrunk. He had lost instantly.

“Looks like Rule dominates another battle! Man these matches are quick.”

🦋

Izuku took back everything he said about Iida being the biggest threat, he had completely forgotten that the only downside to Kodai’s quirk was simply the fact it didn’t work on living things, everything else was fair game.

For heaven sakes she just shrunk the entire arena! 

He sighed as he watched as Bakugo’s and Yaoyorozu’s match also ended in seconds. Since Kodai and Kirishima’s match left no aftermath the next fight had continued on almost instantly.

Unfortunately the moment the match started Bakugo instantly let out any frustration he had in the matter of seconds. Poor Yaoyorozu never got the chance to actually create anything before Bakugo blew up the entire arena.

That simply left the next match.

🦋

“After two very short matches let’s get into a real fight! It’s a legacy showdown! On this side he put on a shocking display during the cavalry battle, bringing heat with that electricity, it’s The Surge Hero: Chargebolt!”

Denki jumped onto the stage as lightning sparked off his body. 

“And his opponent is a challenger from Support, she’s gunning for her shot at the hero course, all the way from Class 1H it’s Mei-Dei!”

Mei launched herself into the air and landed on the stage with a wide grin.

Midnight raised her whip and addressed the two “Alright you two you know the rules already, so on my mark, let the sixth match…”

“BEGIN!”

Unlike the other matches neither of them moved instantly but instead started circling the arena as Denki spoke up. “What do you say to me and you go out after this? I’d be happy to treat you to a bite”

Mei gained a mischievous grin as she reached behind her back. “Sure, where to?”

Kaminari paused. “I don’t know…I honestly didn’t expect to get this far. I usually flirt with people to throw them off thei-WOAH!” He was cut off as he was forced to dodge to the side as a net sailed past him.

“Look alive, stun gun!” Mei said as she fired off her capture gun again.

He sidestepped the net and amped his quirk. Quickly rushing forward he got close to Mei and slammed his fist down.

Mei’s boots roared as she jumped high into the air, avoiding the wave of electricity that now covered where she was just standing.

Shooting one of her wire arrows into the floor, she pulled herself back to the ground just in time to avoid Kaminari jumping into the air and aiming a kick at her.

Taking advantage of Kaminai’s lack of mobility in the air, she quickly aimed her capture gun and fired off her last three nets.

Denki panicked slightly before amping up his quirk to the highest point again. While he had only done this once and during the cavalry battle at that, he couldn’t afford to get caught here.

Ignoring the pain once more, he crossed his arms as his sleeves teared themselves apart. “HEAT LIGHTNING: ARC!” He slashed his arms forwards as his quirk ripped through all three nets and lit up the sky.

“Talk about a light show! Looks like Chargebolt is going full throttle!”

The sensors on Mei’s hydraulic bracers activated as they flung her away from the lightning storm. “HEY! Be careful, I haven't made these babies shock resistant yet!” 

She mentally berated herself for not including more offensive gear in her line up and reloaded her capture gun, firing all five nets at Kaminari. 

Denki cut through the five nets with a kick and rolled to the ground. Six of his lightning rods were gone now and his quirk was starting to get to him, it’s now or never. 

He dropped to the ground and slammed both his hands onto the floor. “Indiscriminate shock: ONE POINT FIVE MILLION VOLTS!”

Jumping into the air to avoid the wave of lightning, Mei quickly abandoned her hydraulic bracers as the sensory system started to overload. 

In a quick motion she threw the smoking backpack towards a recovering Kaminari and let the explosion launch him away.

Kaminari felt himself roll across the arena and gave out a simple ‘whey’ mixed with a groan of pain.

“Chargebolt is out of bounds! Mei-Dei wins!”

Mei gave out a sigh of relief, though not how she expected she still managed to pull out a win.

Wait, how was she meant to beat that exploding pomeranian with only capture and evasion gear?

Shit.

🦋

“And his opponent is the brains behind our cavalry battle winner’s victory also gunning for the hero course he’s coming all the way from 1D,  It’s Vintage!”

Minoru took a deep breath and prepared himself as he stepped onto the stage.

His fight had come quicker than he expected. NightHide or as he really knew him; Shinso had ended their fight just as expected, completely reliant in his quirk.

While he and Shinso didn’t see each other often due to them thankfully being in different classes, Shinso never failed to take the opportunity to point out how Minoru and his great powerful heroic quirk were kicked out of the hero course and how he freed up a seat for him. 

It was frustrating.

So as much as he was looking forward to fighting Shinso, he needed to focus on his current match.

From what he saw from Real Steel their quirk would be troublesome, though still easy to immobilize.

He wasn’t going for immobilization though.

He needed to prove he was ready to join the hero course again, he couldn’t just stick Real Steel to the ground and call it a day, no he needed to prove he wasn’t just reliant on his quirk.

“The rules are the same as all the other matches, are both ready?” Midnight asked.

“Let’s get this over with, I’ll send ya back flying to Gen-Ed!” Tetsutetsu said while Mineta had settled for a simple ‘ready.”

“Then let the final match of the first first rounds…”

“BEGIN!”

Both boys were off the second the match started.

Minoru quickly met Real Steel in the center of the arena and ducked under his punch. Quickly grabbing the boy by his steel arm he gritted his teeth and threw him across the arena.

“OH, Looks like we’re in for a full on slug fest this time!”

Minoru braced himself as Real Steel recovered and attempted to tackle him to the floor. Digging his heels into the ground he shoved the metal boy off him and braced himself for pain as he slugged the silver boy across his steel jaw.

Tetsutetsu staggered backwards a bit. He wasn’t expecting Vintage to be able to punch that hard. Right as he went to follow up with a punch off his own the purple haired boy kicked him in the chest, sending him rolling.

Minoru winced in pain as he held his knuckles. It was a stupid idea to punch someone made of solid metal in the jaw but he wasn’t gonna win this match by playing safe.

As Tetsutetsu was getting up he rushed forward and rammed his shoulder into the boy to force him back down. Grabbing the boy by the leg he pushed past the pain in his arm and threw the boy closer to the edge before quickly running after him.

Just a little bit more and the win was his, he just needed to push past a bit more. 

“It’s not very manly to hit someone when they’re down!” Tetsutetsu said as he rolled to his feet, instantly shooting back up to slug the boy across the jaw and knock him to the floor.

 “But if that’s how you wanna play it, let me just stoop down to your level!” He yelled while delivering a swift kick to Mineta’s stomach.

Minoru rolled across the ground with a painful groan. He quickly got back on his feet to avoid Tetsutetsu’s punch and delivered one of his own before shouldering the boy again.

The moment he saw the boy's steel skin falter he didn’t hesitate for the second. He grabbed Tetsutetsu by the shoulders and headbutted him as hard as he could.

Not wasting any time for his own senses to clear up he grabbed his opponent by the leg again and threw him across the line with the rest of the strength he could muster.

“Real Steel is out of bounds! Vintage wins!”

He gave a sigh of relief as he stood there trying not to pass out. One down three more to go.

This was only the start of the tournament.

Chapter Text

Ibara flipped out of the way as a stream of fire passed by her. Stretching her hand out she let her vine wash over the entire arena floor only for Midoroya to jump over them and freeze them solid.

Izuku quickly ignited his hand and slammed down onto the icy forest of vines. Shiozaki quickly severed her vines from her hair and jumped back away from the explosions as the two stared each other down from their opposite sides.

After a short break the Quarter Finals had quickly started and much to the crowd's enjoyment that finally got an eventful match up.

Currently the fight between Midoriya and Shiozaki has been going back and forth for the past fifthteen minutes with then only now showing signs of them slowing down.

It became evident to Izuku that after the USJ Shiozaki had put in the effort to make sure her vines didn’t burn as easily as they used to, along with training to handle long drawn out matches involving fire.

Everytime he used fire she would wrap herself up in her vines or simply just move. Anytime he used ice to shatter those vines she would quickly severe them herself and move away before he could freeze her in place. There was also the fact that if he got up close it left him less reaction time to her vines.

Similarly Ibara also found it difficult to get the advantage over Midoriya. Any attempts to wrap her vines around him and ensnare him were met with no results due to how quick he was. Not to mention any direct contact she did make with her vines made it easier to burn through them thus making them null and void.

No one had expected this to be a drawn out match.

So that led them to their current position as the two circle each other around the arena.

Izuku ignited his fist and stepped forward, punching straight towards Shiozaki as a small stream of fire washed over the arena. Shiozaki clasped her hands together and turned around, her hair extending out to make a barrier as the flames washed over her.

He let the stream of fire die down and activated Prowl to appear right in front of her. Ibara quickly unclasped her hands and kicked him away.

She quickly jumped back and stretched out her vines letting them wrap around him. This was the moment she was waiting for. “Crucifixion!”

Once the vines fully encased him she let her guard down and breathed out a sigh of relief. It didn't last long as she felt a warm breeze behind her before everything faded to black.

🦋

Ibara's eyes snapped open as she found herself in Recovery Girls room.

“Ah you’re awake.” She turned to see Recovery Girl getting off her chair and walking to her computer. “You have no injuries so you’re fine to lea-”

“I AM HERE, TO MAKE AN INTERESTING OFFER!”

Ibara covered her eyes as All Might forced the door open. Interesting offer? What would the number one be offering in a Medbay?

Before she could ask what he was doing here, All Might exploded into a cloud of smoke and revealed a frail old man. 

Toshinori gave out a slight cough and turned to face Young Shiozaki who was frozen in shock. “Now I know you have a lot of questions but first.”

“I would like to have a word with you, Young Shiozaki.”

🦋

“It’s the second match of the Quarter Finals and we’re kicking it right off! On this side he won his first match by a landslide, a fan favorite to win it all! It’s SnowTorch!”

Shoto walked onto the stage with clear aggression in his steps as his ice itched underneath his skin. 

Kodai had nearly overwhelmed him during the cavalry battle and nearly forced him to use that bastard’s flame. It was infuriating that someone so below could even force him to the point, so with that in mind and her connection to Midoriya crushing her would send a useful message to both of them

All he had to do was finish this in a second.

“And his opponent is someone he was completely helpless to last round, she’s had the battlefield underneath her thumb twice now, it’s another fan favorite! Give it up for Rule!”

Yui walked onto the stage, keeping her calm composure as she heard Todoroki silently growl. With how powerful his quirk was and the level of hostility he was currently showing she would need to be careful here.

Shrinking the stage wasn’t an option, she knew that before Todoroki’s first match. She had watched him closely during the cavalry battle and counted the seconds it took for him to make the glaciers that were targeted at Tokage.

Between that and the match Sero it was evident she wouldn’t have enough time to shrink the arena before he trapped her in one. Thankfully she had a back up plan.

Midnight raised her whips and went over the rules once more. “Alright both of you know the drill so let's not waste anymore time. Let the second quarter finals match…”

“Begin!”

Shoto wasted no time and instantly slammed his foot onto the ground. He watched with glee as the glacier quickly flooded the arena only for it to turn to horror when a giant rock appeared out of nowhere and shattered it.

“Woah there, look at that! With a rocking performance Rule shatters SnowTorch’s opening attack! Hey, are those rocks allowed?” 

“They weren’t given to her by another contestant since she picked them up from outside and they don’t really count as support gear so I guess it counts.”

Shoto gave a growl as another glacier was broken. He made a third one and gave a slight smile when it didn’t shatter this time.

The win didn't last long as a growing shadow appeared above him. Looking up he saw Kodai jumping off of the enlarged rocks and landing right in front of him, delivering a swift punch to his jaw. 

Todoroki stumbled back slightly, giving Yui another opening as she punched his jaw again before grabbing him by his uniform and throwing him towards the edge.

Shoto quickly stopped his rolling by making an ice wall behind him and slamming into it. Glaring at Kodai he stomped his foot again, this time not worrying about the consequences.

Yui gracefully dodged to the side as an ice spike formed in front of her. Reaching into her pocket she quickly pulled out a handful of pebbles and threw them at Todoroki as she quickly put her hands together. “Release.”

Todoroki quickly slammed his foot on the ground again and made a wall in front of him to block the small pebbles, but that wouldn’t stop her.

Quickly scaling the ice wall as fast as she could she jumped over it and landed in front of Todoroki again before delivering a simple kick to the head.

Todoroki recovered quicker this time and raised his foot preparing another large attack. Yui wasted no time and rushed up to the boy, grabbing his shoe right before it hit the ground. Not waiting anymore she quickly wrapped all five fingers around it and enlarged the mixed haired boy’s shoe.

Shoto felt himself backwards as he tripped over the added weight on his right leg. He silently cursed himself and panicked as he saw Kodai standing above him, preparing another punch.

He was so frustrated that he was losing what should’ve been a simple fight that he didn’t even bother regulating his quirk this time and just activated it at full force. However when he reached for his quirk he didn’t reach for his right side.

He accidentally reached for his left.

BOOM

Shoto’s entire left side ignited at full force as he hit the ground. This ice around him expanding and quickly blowing Kodai away from him.

He then heard midnight crack her whip and speak into the mic. “Rule is out of bounds! SnowTorch wins!”

What?

Looking over to where Kodai was he could see she was slumped over outside of the line, completely unconscious.

No no no NO! This couldn’t be how he won, he wanted to win with just his ice! He needed to win with just his ice! He would show them both he’ll beat both of them with just his ice, tournament be damned.

Standing back up he ignored Midnight’s shouts as he rushed forward, preparing to slam his right hand onto the floor.

Right as he touched the ground he felt a tight burning grip around his wrist as he held back a wince. Turning to see who dared grab him he looked up to see it was Midoriya holding him tightly.

Of course it was him. Just the perfect heir, perfectly protecting everyone. 

With a growl he prepared to freeze him right there only for Midoriya to beat him to the punch by slamming him to the ground and freezing his entire body in place.

“That’s enough!” Midnight called as Midoriya backed away. 

Midnight was prepared to reprimand the both of them only to be cut off as Midoriya vanished and appeared by Kodai, swiftly disappearing with her soon after.

“Well that was… a disaster… We’ll be taking an unexpected short break before we move onto the next round.”

Todoroki finally broke his right arm out of Midoriya ice prison and freed the rest of himself, giving a silent cheer to himself for not needing that man’s fire to ‘beat’ Midoriya’s ice.

The silent cheer didn’t last long as suddenly he was wrapped up in Midnight’s whip who was giving him harsh glare. “You’ve got a lot of explaining to do, SnowTorch .” She practically said with a snarl. 

What was her issue?

🦋

“What were you thinking?” Shoto sat quietly as Aizawa berated him. “I asked you a question Todoroki.”

“There’s nothing to question, I wanted to win with my ice and that's what I plan to do.” Todoroki quickly responded harshly, none of these fools would understand anyways so why would he bother trying to explain.

As quickly as he said that he was wrapped around in Aizawa’s scarf as his teacher flared his quirk. “Listen here and listen well Todoroki. I don’t know what issues you have with your fire but this ends now, I originally didn’t address the matter cause I figured it was a sensitive subject that was tied to your scar.”

Shoto grunted as Aizawa tightened the scarf tighter and pulled him in closer. “But if you ever put another student like that in harm's way again or even think about doing a stunt like that cause you wanted to prove some illogical point I will not hesitate to expel you. I had no qualms expelling Mineta the first day and don’t think you being Endeavor's son will provide you immunity. Do I make myself clear?”

He said nothing and simply glared at Aizawa how dare he try to- that thought got cut off as the scarf’s grip tightened even more. He kept his glare and reluctantly spoke. “Understood.”

Shota let Todoroki go and his scarf hung loosely around his neck again. “Good, you should thank Midoriya for stopping you when he did. Had you gone through with that attack on live TV you would’ve been disqualified, frankly I think you still should be but that’s not my decision.”

Shoto seethed as Aizawa left. First Midoriya beat him in the obstacle race. Then Midoriya’s team nearly made a fool of him during the cavalry battle. Now one of Midoriy’s annoying friends had forced him to use that batard’s flame while Midoriya humiliated him on the stage.

It wasn’t personal before but now it was. He wasn’t just gonna beat Midoriya anymore.

He was gonna destroy him. 

🦋

“It’s a purple showdown! On this side we have the underdog of 1D, he’s crazy enough to punch steel but is he crazy enough to win? It’s your Gen-Ed hero, Vintage!”

The fight between Dynamight and Mei-Dei never happened as Hatsume had decided to forfeit entirely much to Bakugo’s annoyance .

So as Minoru walked onto the stage he couldn’t help but feel uneasy knowing that was his next opponent. Not to sound cocky but Shinso wasn’t winning this. He was built like a twig and Mineta knew exactly what his quirk was. He had been preparing for this fight ever since Shinso annoyed him the first time.

Was it petty? Yes. Was it unhero like as Iida would put it? Absolutely. But Minoru had unfortunately spent most of his life as a walking harassment case and a textbook definition of unhero like. He may have gotten better at not being a massive pervert but no way in hell was he giving up being petty. 

Shinso had managed to push all the right buttons when they first met so the moment the boy proclaimed he was gunning for Minoru’s seat all bets were off. 

To anyone who knew him it was a well known fact he hated studying, he was naturally smart when it comes to book stuff so he never felt the need. He was nowhere near the level of Yaoyorozu or Iida or hell even some of his classmates in Gen-Ed but it was enough to get by. 

But anyone who knew him also knows he loved to win more. The moment he found out what Shinso quirk was all those months ago he instantly threw himself into books on the weakness of mental quirks. Needless to say he put way more effort into preparing for this fight then he should have. 

“And his opponent is the darkhorse of 1C, he ended his fight in a matter of seconds! It’s the mystery of Gen-Ed, NightHide!”

Hitoshi walked onto the stage with a rightfully smug grin. Mineta was pathetic, such a flashy and heroic quirk and the idiot still managed to get kicked out the hero course despite having everything handed to him since birth.

This win was in the bag along with that hero seat.

“Alright boys, you know the rules.” Midnight spoke. “If any of you pull what SnowTorch did you’ll be punished thoroughly! Now let the fourth match of the quarter finals…”

“BEGIN!”

Hitoshi didn’t even bother to move, he just simply closed his eyes as his smug smile grew. “I’m shocked, didn’t think someone as pathetic as you would make it this far. What, looking to get kicked out the hero course a second ti-GAH!”

His eyes widened as his body recoiled from Mineta punching him in the throat. “Since when the hell was he this fast?” Was all he managed to think as the air left his body. 

Mineta then grabbed him by the face and without any effort lifted him up and slammed him onto his head.

His head throbbed in pain as he could barely make out a groan. Mineta had crouched down and pinned his head to the floor, finally saying something. “Now that your quirk is out of the way, why don't we have a nice chat.”

“Hitoshi Shinso”

🦋

Hizashi turned his mic off and gave a long whistle. “Jesus Shota, what did your kid do to deserve that?!” 

Shota didn’t even bother looking at Mic, and continued digging through the stack of files. “He’s not my kid.”

He could practically feel Hizashi's grin grow. “Come on Sho., it’s no secret you’re taking the kid on as an apprentice after the festival, you’ve been interested in him since the oh so biased entrance exam.” He said, mocking Shota’s voice.

Shota grumbled about Nemuri’s stupid bet and finished pulling out the two files he was looking for. “Be that as it may Shinso’s luck is coming to an end, hopefully this gives him the kick he needs to actually start taking heroics seriously.”

Zashi hummed as he leaned in his seat. “So what about the Mineta kid? He’s jumped leaps and bounds and is about to make it to the Semi finals. Are you gonna re-enroll him?”

Shota simply grabbed his coffee and took a long sip of it. “Let’s see how well he does against Bakugo before I make my decision.” 

🦋 

Hitoshi struggled under Mineta’s weight as he tried to wiggle free. “How the hell did an idiot like you know my quirk doesn’t work with a head injury?” 

That purple idiot smugly grinned and leaned on him even more. “You know it was shockingly simple, quirks are like body parts after all, so if you couldn’t use your arm while it hurts it makes sense one wouldn’t be able to use a mental quirk while their head hurts. Sides with how much you rely on your quirk, I made sure to find another weakness to it.”

“You’re one to talk.” He growled. “All you hero course brats are the same! You just rely on your flashy heroic quirks to get by in life while the rest of us have to work hard for what we want!”

He smiled as Mineta didn’t say anything only for it to be crushed in an instant. “Wow, somehow every word that just came out of your mouth was wrong. I was in the hero course for a day and I can name at least two students in 1A whose quirks aren't flashy. Not to mention you didn’t work hard at all, you’re somehow skinnier than I was before school started! Did you put in any effort before coming to the festival or did you just sit around all month?”

Hitoshi tried to wiggle himself free even more. “Well, yeah at least I didn't get kicked out of the hero course!”

Minoru simply sighed, it was clear Shinso was looking for any excuse at this point. “I atleast made it into the hero course. I can see this conversation isn’t going to go anywhere from here so say hi to 1C for me.” Minoru stood and picked Shinso up by the collar.

Hitoshi flailed around as he tried to get Mineta to drop him. With no such luck Mineta simply spun around and threw across the arena, all the way to out of bounds.

“NightHide is out of bounds! Vintage wins!”

Hitoshi gave a groan as he rolled onto his back. Maybe that idiot had a point about working out.

Chapter Text

Izuku Midoriya despite his interactions with All Might and Bakugo was a calm person.

It took alot for him to actually be annoyed by someone and even more to actually full on hate them. There were specific lines that person would have to cross to even reach that point.

Off the top of his head he could only think of a few people that really fit into the annoyed category; Those three idiots that followed Bakugo, Shigaraki was slowly pushing the hated category, and more recently someone who had been moved down to it, Toshinori Yagi; All Might.

His and Yagi’s interactions recently were…weird. He wasn’t as hostile towards the Number One Hero as he used to be but they still weren't on good terms outside of professional situations. All Might had at least taken responsibility for his actions so it was…something. 

There used to be only one person in the hated category and that was Bakugo. Whoever said forgive and forget was a lie and Izuku would rather him burn and die. 

Unfortunately murder was not only illegal but it would be stooping down to his level so Izuku would have to settle for absolutely wrecking his shit.

Then there was the newest addition; Shoto Todoroki.

Todoroki always rubbed Izuku the wrong way, his general holier than thou attitude and the fact he was constantly glaring at him whenever joint heroics came around just never sat right with Izuku but he had always simply brushed him off. 

He had brushed the annoyed category after what he just pulled.

Bluntly speaking Izuki was Izuku’s only real friend when he was younger. While outgoing and blunt he may be, he wasn't really a sociable kid. He also never was close to Bakugo even before the incident just due to how loud the boy was, but nonetheless he used to be a family friend so Izuku had at least tolerated him back then, mostly for Izuki’s sake since they were “friends.” Heaven knows he wishes he hadn’t.

So to simply put it Yanagi and Kodai had been his first friends in a long time. While he was on good terms with everyone in 1B he was definitely closer to those two, Kaibara, Kendo and the other members of 1B green team more so than the rest of his class. 

But if you had asked him to pick who he was closer to out of those seven he would say Kodai in a heartbeat. He always felt at ease when he was around Kodai, as if he didn’t have to actively watch his back every waking second. He just genuinely enjoyed being around her and their discussions were always fun. 

He didn’t know why seeing her hurt that badly made him so annoyed at Todoroki. It was a school sanctioned match and she’s had worse injuries during heroic class so he just didn’t get why it bothered him. Thinking back on the USJ he had the same feeling every time he remembered Shigaraki sicking Nomu on her and Tsu, but the feeling was never really present when he thought of Tsu in that scenario.

Now originally he was gonna ignore it and continue on with the match, he didn’t need his quirk going out of control on live TV. 

That was until he heard Aizawa’s and Todoroki’s conversation.

He hadn't meant to, he was simply just walking past the hallway trying to clear his head. He wished he hadn't because it did nothing to help him.

Todoroki was gonna attack Kodai just so he could prove a petty fucking point!  

He didn’t know why Todoroki wouldn’t use half of his quirk and honestly he didn’t care. When he first realized Todoroki never used his fire during any combat training they did he originally came to the same conclusion Mr. Aizawa did and assumed it was tied to his scar and simply left it at that.

But now seeing it was just to prove he could win a school tournament with just ice? Going as far as to attack someone when the match is over? Izuku couldn’t help but be angry. Here Todoroki was wasting half his quirk while others were working their asses off to be here. 

For fuck sakes he had been born with a great quirk! Izuki hadn’t even been born with one and she suffered hell because of it! But here he was just taking advantage of it!

He tried keeping a clear mind while walking out his waiting room, he really did.

But then the fucking Number Two Hero appeared out of no where and started talking to him.

He hadn’t paid attention to the conversation at all and had pretty much drowned him out as he continued walking. It wasn’t till Endeavor said something specific he finally heard him.

“My Shoto will do well in defeating a defective product like you even with an embarrassment of a fight with that pathetic girl last match. Make sure to still give him a decent fight.” The Number Two Hero continued speaking but Izuku didn’t process a thing Endeavor said as he focused on one word.

Defective.

That word, it was always that fucking word. 

Enji snarled as he realized the boy wasn’t paying attention to him. Placing a hand on the boy's shoulder he attempted to pull him back. “Don’t ignore me you-” He was cut off when the boy's shoulder ignited with black flames as the kid swatted his hand away.

“Don’t touch me.” The boy spoke aggressively before walking away, footprints of black flames following suit.

Once the kid left Endeavor gave a wide grin, that’s exactly what he was hoping for.

Now the boy would give Shoto a challenge. 

🦋

“Ladies and gentlemen were in for a good one, it’s a mirror battle! He’s came in second all festival and is no longer a fan favorite to win it all! It’s SnowTorch!”

Shoto aggressively walked onto the stage, anger clear as day on his face. It was the most emotion he showed all festival,

The crowd didn’t cheer for him this time but had delved into whispers, he didn’t care though he didn’t need their approval. His win would all be the same.

“And his opponent is someone with a similar quirk but does it better, he’s taken first all festival and is a fan favorite after his heroic save last round! It’s White Fox!”

Shoto’s scowl worsened as Present Mic’s commentary went on. What really annoyed him was the fact Midoriya didn’t even acknowledge him and was just staring at the ground.

If Midoriya didn’t want to take this seriously then it was fine by him, just goes to show he wasn’t so perfect after all.

Midnight cracked her whip more aggressively this time and started speaking in a stern tone. “Since some naughty student’s had some trouble following rules I'll reiterate them. Your goal is to either knock your opponent out of bounds or immobilize them, if i see anything too excessive i will stop the match,”

She then turned towards Todoroki. “Once your opponent is out of bound, unconscious or immobilized the match is over . Do I make myself clear boys?” 

Todoroki was the only one to nod while Midoriya just stood there. She didn't dwell on it knowing Midoriya was the least likely of students to take anything too far and simply continued. “Then let the first match of the semi finals…”

“BEGIN!” 

Shoto wasted no time and slammed his foot onto the ground as he made a large glacier over Midoriya. Then he did it again and again and again.

He continued to stomp his foot repeatedly as ice grew on his right side. Glacier after glacier after glacier sprouting with each stomp.

When the boy finally stopped the crowd could only stare in silent horror, SnowTorch had just made eight glaciers over the arena and more importantly over White Fox.

Shoto gave a sadistic smile of glee as stood up straight. “You should call the match, if he’s lucky we can get him out before hypothermia sets in.”

Midnight's shocked expression turned to rage as she was about to disqualify Todoroki and call a medic. However right before she spoke up the temperature spiked as the surrounding area became scorching hot.

A grin grew on her face as she turned to Todoroki. “The match isn’t over yet."

Shoto’s grin instantly turned to one of confusion as he looked back at Midoriya. What he saw infuriated him even more.

Every single glacier he made quickly melted to nothing but puddles. He had made so many glaciers because he knew one mistake in heating them up would cause an explosion with Midoriya right in the center of it.

But Midoriya had somehow managed to avoid that entirely. Was the boy's control really that good? To be able to rapidly melt ice without causing the air around it to expand?

He stepped forward, ignoring the shivering from his right side and prepared another glacier. He never even got the chance as he was caught off guard by Midoriya’s side of the arena exploding into a inferno of flames as the rest of the ice quickly vanished.

Suddenly every ounce of common sense came flooding back to Shoto as he looked at Midoriya’s fire.

The flames were black.

Suddenly he didn’t feel like this was a fight to win but a fight to survive. 

"Uh oh, it looks like SnowTorch's big opening did  nothing! Let's see how White Fox retaliates!"

Shoto watched as Midoriya slowly walked forwards, black flames trailing behind him with each step. 

He shook off any hesitance he had and slammed his foot onto the ground again letting another glacier travel towards Midoriya only for said boy to disappear.

Shoto didn't even get the chance to be shocked when he felt all the ice on his left side vanish as five fingers wrapped around his face and he felt himself get slammed into the ground.

Right as Todoroki hit the ground Izuku quickly kicked him across the field. Activating Prowl he quickly appeared behind the rolling boy and kicked him again.

Shoto harshly rolled to his feet as he made an ice wall in front of him. His efforts accomplished nothing as Midoriya appeared behind him and punched him in the back with an ignited fist.

Midoriya then grabbed him by the shoulder and turned him around so they were facing each other. Thus the onslaught began.

Izuku quickly delivered two punches to both Todoroki's sides before grabbing him by the head and kneeing him. Turning to the side he rammed his elbow into the boy's stomach before grabbing him by the shirt and slamming him into the ground, once again kicking him across the arena.

He appeared above the rolling boy and slammed down on top of him. He quickly grabbed Todoroki by the leg and threw him across the arena.

Shoto's body screamed in agony as he soared through the air. He winced in pain as his short flight came to a harsh halt as Midoriya caught him by the face and slammed into the floor once again.

Ramping his left side up to the max he slammed his hand onto the ground and watched as Midoriya disappeared to avoid the forest of ice spikes. 

Standing back up he quickly made an ice dome around him and attempted to think out a plan. 

He didn't get much time as Midoriya's ignited fist came bursting through the dome as if he was All Might himself and delivered a swift punch to his head. 

As Todoroki stumbled back Izuku grabbed the boy by the shoulder and delivered a harsh headbutt before kneeing him in the stomach. 

Shoto gave a groan of pain as he instinctively raised his right arm to punch Midoriya, his own fist igniting off reflex.

His eyes widened with shock as he saw his right side covered in that man's flames. Shock quickly turned to horror as Midoriya lazily swatted his arm upwards as a sea of orange flames released into the sky. 

He could only watch as the black flames coating Midoriya's fist shift back to a bright white before connecting to his stomach with a harsh punch as he went flying. 

He rolled back to his feet and stumbled to gain his balance. Looking across the arena he watched as the rest of the flames Midoriya left behind turned white before fading out.

Perhaps he could win this after all.

🦋

Izuku silently cursed himself as he regained the reins on his quirk. He really hated his quirk’s 'rabid mode.'

In short terms it was essentially his control over his quirk slipping up and going full throttle with just barely any restraints.

Now to some that might be a good thing after all who wouldn't want to amp up the power of their quirk to its full extent? But in reality it was a pain in his ass. 

When his quirk went full throttle it wasn't just his fire and ice increasing like how it would if he was in control, it was every aspect of his quirk including his atomic sensing.

When the atomic sensing aspect of his quirk was at full throttle it messed up his other senses, he would barely hear anything and his vision would be extremely blurry. Hell he didn't actually hear Midnight start the match, it was Todoroki's glacier that told him the match started. 

Now of course this wasn't always the case nor was it always that severe but at times it felt like his quirk was overwhelming so much that his mind would just blank and his body would move completely off instinct. And given the fact rage was the primary catalyst for it…well it was never a good thing for when he was completely overwhelmed like how he was that day.

Thankfully what he did just now was in a pale comparison of that day. Hell that day was actually how he found out his quirk could overwhelm and run off instinct. He had done things he didn't even know he could do that day.

His silent berating came to an end as he jumped into the air and landed on top of the newly created glacier Todoroki just made. 

Looking at Todoroki he could see part of the heterochromic boy's body was covered in patches of ice no doubt icing any bruises he had. 

The boy also looked like he was gonna spontaneous combust from sheer rage.

Izuku jumped off the glacier and landed in front of the boy. Todoroki threw a lopsided punch no doubt due to an injury that Izuku caught with relative ease. 

He twisted Todoroki's arm and got in close, punching the boy in the stomach with an icy fist. 

Shoto rolled across the arena until he brushed his hand across the floor, making an ice wall behind him to stop him. 

He gave an audible growl as he stomped his foot onto the ground again.

Why wasn't this working? This tournament was meant to be easy, it was meant to show he didn't need to use that bastard's fire.

But at every twist in turn those two, those insufferable two kept outdoing him, kept overwhelming him, kept beating him . It was infuriating.

He had only expected Midoriya to stand any issue but then Kodai came along. They had both forced him to use that man's fire and with relative ease.

Just how? He had trained his ice for years and these two had outclassed him so easily. It just didn't make sense, he was created to be the best, he was meant to be the best with just his ice and yet.

He wasn't.

He watched as Midoriya stomped his own foot, his ice piercing through his own with relative ease.

Shoto growled again as he slammed his hand onto the ground. "Why won't you just lose!" 

Midoriya didn't even seem to acknowledge his cries as the boy swiped his hand, a thin line of fire cutting through the glacier as the entire thing crumbled. 

He could only watch helplessly as Midorya appeared in front of him once more and grabbed him by the shirt again. He couldn't do anything as the green haired boy picked him up with ease and threw him over his own ice wall.

He hit the ground with an exhausted and painful groan as Midnight spoke up.

"SnowTorch is out of bounds! White Fox wins!" 

Shoto could only lay there, defeat clear on his face.

Why wasn't his mother's ice enough?

🦋

Endeavor watched the fight with a passive stare but internally he was screaming about the ruthless beat down his son was receiving.

Had he caused this?

All he wanted was his son to have a challenge, to see that only using his ice would get him killed sooner or later.

But this? This isn't what he wanted.

His son had used his fire alright but part of him was screaming this wasn't worth it.

As he thought about the actions that lead to this more and more his mind couldn't help but flashback to Touya.

Every action he took for his children was meant for the good of them.

So why, why did every action he take only lead to them to more harm.

If this was always the outcome.

Were any of the actions he took good actions?

🦋

"After that roaring match let's get in! He hasn't done much this tournament and his performance in the other stages has been rather lackluster, give it up for Dynamight!"

Katsuki stomped onto the stage, explosions popping in his hands.

What the fuck was that introduction! Lackluster?! Him?! If anyone was lackluster it was these damn extras that could barely put up a fight! 

Ponytail had gone down in one explosion and that tech freak had decided to be a coward and forfeited before the match even began!

Now he was stuck fighting some Gen-Ed loser who probably was shitty enough to fail the entrance exam.

The only good thing about this is he would be fighting Deku next.

"For his opponent it's the first Gen-Ed student to make it to the Semi Finals in years, he's proving he can handle anything the hero course throws at him, give it up for Vintage!"

Minoru walked onto the stage with some confidence in his step. If you told first day him he would be fighting Bakugo he would've been petrified with fear and would've run away. 

He had no intentions of doing that today.

He didn't get to see much of Bakugo or how he used his quirk but it was clearly evident his palms were the key to everything.

All he needed was at least stick one ball onto them and the match would turn into his favor, a complete win if Bakugo tries using the other hand to pull it off.

“Alright boy’s you know the rules, so without a further due let the match…”

“BEGIN!”

“DIE!” Once he heard that Minoru instantly moved to the side as Bakugo quickly moved across the arena and made an explosion right where he was standing. Spinning on his heel he quickly faced Bakugo and punched the boy in the face.

Katsuki stumbled back confusingly as he moved away. He wasn’t expecting a lowly Gen-ed to actually land a hit on him.

He raised his arm and set off an explosion, swatting a purple ball that the extra threw at him.

Why did they look familiar? 

He fired off another explosion as the purple haired boy got closer. He attempted to follow the extra when he felt a tug on foot. Looking down he saw one of the purple balls sticking him to the ground.

Holy shit this was grape fuck, the damn idiot who got expelled the first day. How the fuck did he make it this far?

He turned around to yell out at the purple haired boy only to be greeted with another punch.

Minoru tackled Bakugo and slammed him into the ground.  He quickly sat himself up and grabbed his ponytail, pulling one of his spheres from it.

Bakugo gave a growl as he raised both his arms while his palms sparked. “GET OFF!”

Dual explosions connected to his stomach, sending him rolling off the blonde. Quickly rolling to his feet Minoru plucked out another sphere and threw it at the mad bomber.

Katsuki slipped out of his shoe and lazily dodged the ball only to be shocked when it curved mid air and attached itself to his shoulder. He quickly ran forward as sparks popped in his hand, his aggression visibly growing as he saw grape fuck smirk.

As he ran forwards, setting off multiple explosions as the bastard threw more of those annoying balls he began to wonder how someone could be that stupid only for the purple haired boy to pop out of the smoke in front of him and punch him again.

That fucker had used his own quirk against him!

As Katsuki stumbled back he watched as the extra threw one of those annoying balls again and curved it so it attached to his back.

Minoru gritted his teeth as Bakugo set off an explosion to his side, Quickly grabbing the blonde he tackled him once again and leaned his weight onto him.

When Katsuki’s back hit the floor he immediately realized what grape fuck was trying to do. Moving his arm he let off a large explosion and sent the purple boy flying.

Attempting to stand up he growled when he saw that the purple ball wouldn’ budge. Fuck this, no way he was losing to hero course failure because of some stupid jacket,

Ignoring Midnight’s bitching about keeping his jacket on he stood up and launched himself into the sky.

He gave a feral grin as his explosions became more rapid as he started spinning. Lets see grape fuck get out of this. “HOWITZER!” 

Minoru's eyes widened as he saw the impending inferno. Ripping off multiple spheres he covered his gym uniform and braced himself..

“IMPACT!”

BOOM

“And once again Dynamight blows up the entire arena! But the question is what happened to Vintage?!”

The smoke cleared to reveal Mineta standing back up despite his body being covered in burns and his uniform torn to shreds.

Minoru turned to Bakugo and gave a mischievous grin. “Don’t count me out just yet…i refuse to lose here…”

Katsuki gave a smile, perhaps this extra would give him a good fight after all. “Then by all means come at me then!”

But Minoru never moved, he just stood there with his head low.

After sometime Midnight looked closer at the boy before raising her hand. “Vintage is unconscious! Dynamight wins!”

🦋

Hizashi watched as Shota stood up and walked towards the door. Tilting his head to the side he addressed the tired man. “Where ya going Sho?”

Shota simply paused in front of the door and gave him a grin. “Isn’t it obvious? I have transfer papers to fill out.”

Hizashi gave a smile as he  watched as his friend walked out, the smile didn’t last long as he heard a loud explosion from the stage..

🦋

Katsuki growled loudly as he watched grape fuck be carried out by the medbots.

What the fuck was that?! The Grape fuck was putting up a good fight and he just fucking passes out after only landing a few punches? It was bullshit!

He let off a loud explosion and screamed. “DEKU! Get your ass down here right now. I'm not waiting a second longer to kick the shit out of you!”

It was a few seconds until he saw a familiar figure jump out of the stands and land on the opposite side of the arena.

Izuku landed in a simple knee crouch and stood back up, slowly turning around to face Bakugu.

His hand ignited with white flames as the explosions popping off in Bakugo’s hands became more rapid.

This was a fight that was a long time coming.

Chapter Text

Hizashi sighed as he turned back to the arena. He had just gotten permission to ignore the break and start the next match immediately. 

Though a part of him couldn’t help but think something was horribly wrong. 

He ignored his gut feeling and continued on. He had a job to do.

“Well aren’t they in a hurry? Well let’s not waste any time either! Standing on the right side, he just finished his match and is ready for more. It's the hero course student with a bold declaration, Dynamight!”

Katsuki gave a growl as he stared at Deku. “Take that fucking mask off you damn coward! I want everyone to see it when I show you’re as useless as your damn sister!”

“And his opponent is none other than your sports festival fan favorite, the hero course student who’s taken everything thrown at him and beat it with ease, White Fox!”

Izuku kept a blank face under his mask as he reigned in his emotions, his white flames keeping their bright hue. As much as he wanted to let all of his anger, pain and frustration out it was neither the time nor place to do it. 

He needed precise control for what he was gonna do and couldn’t afford to mess it up. This attack wouldn’t be for him but for her so he would settle this while in control of himself.

Midnight stepped back onto her podium, a clear expression of worry on her face. The staff was well aware of the animosity between the two but not the cause. They were hoping the festival never came down to this but it seems it was inevitable. “Alright boys you know the rules, so let the finals…”

“BEGIN!”

“FUCKING DIE!” Katsuki screamed as he launched himself across the arena and slammed his ignited fist where Deku stood.

Much to his annoyance, the coward let the flames in his hands fade out before lazily moving out of the attack.

Katsuki swung at him again only for Deku to move each time, over and over again. He gave a loud growl as he launched himself at the green haired boy again. “STOP MOVING AND FIGHT ME!” 

Deku was fucking mocking him! He hadn’t even used that dumb disappearing trick! He was practically just ignoring him!

Deku flipped over him and landed far away only to just fucking stand there. It was then Katsuki noticed the temperature was significantly colder, no doubt that coward’s attempt to weaken his quirk.

“Try all the shitty tricks you want Deku, I’ll still kick your ass regardless!” He said launching forward once more.

Izuku took a deep breath and moved his right foot back along with his right arm.

“Celestial Force:” Izuku calmly spoke as thick ice coated his arm, tearing straight through the sleeve of his jacket.

“GREEN VALLEY SPRING!”

And with that, he simply swiped his right arm forwards.

🦋

Up in the stands the rest of the hero course watched Present Mic introduce Midoriya and Bakugo.

“So we can all agree this is gonna end up in nothing but disaster right?” Kosei asked.

As his classmates agreed, Kaibara spoke up. “So who wants to bet on Bakugo dying?”

“Kaibara!” Kendo said with a glare. 

Suddenly Ashido's head popped over their wall. “700 yen on him living but barely!”

Kendo gave an exhausted sigh. “I’m not responsible for you, where's Iida?”

Mina gave a smug grin. “Vice prez had a family emergency and Class pres walked away the moment we started betting, soooo”

“We’re your problem now!” Kaminari spoke while appearing near Ashido.

Kendo could only groan as Tetetsutetsu patted her back.

“The fight isn’t even that interesting, he’s just dodging!” Kamakiri complained.

“Yeah but it’s practically freezing now!” Fukidashi chimed. “I wonder what he’s planning.”

They had the answer soon as Midoriya swiped his hand forward, a large glacier appearing in the arena.

Tokage gave a long whistle. “It looks like green bean saw Todoroki’s move and decided to do it better.”

Ignoring the large audible growl from Todoroki in the stand next to him, Awase tilted his head and looked at the glacier. “Hey guys? Is the glacier glowing?”

On closer inspection Yanagi nodded. “Yeah, the area’s heating up as well. It’s almost scorching.”

Honenuki’s eyes widened as he realized what Midoriya was about to do. “FUCK GET DOWN!”

Before the class could question him the glacier glowed a blinding white before it cracked.

BOOM

The explosion sent the entire stadium into uproar as the results happened instantly, walls cracking under the pressure of the wind as the glass roof of stands shattered into pieces. 

Multiple members of the audicane who hadn’t been lucky were flown back farther into the stands while others clung to their seats.

Present Mic dropped to the floor as the harsh winds shattered the glass in the announcement booth. Cementoss went rolling harshly across the ground as the explosion broke though his cement wall along with Midnight getting sent flying into the stands.

Chunks of the shattered arena flying everywhere around the arena, shards of ice following suit.

What felt like hours of destruction roared through the place as the winds finally came to an end.

An eerie silence filled the place as everyone looked upon the damage. In a silent horror they looked around only for one thing to be heard.

drip  

The dripping picked up as it clearly became evident what the noise was.

It was raining.

“Holy shit…” Rin spoke, breaking the silence in his class.

“Guys…” Awase spoke, drawing their attention. “W-where's Bakugo?”

Sure enough looking down in the arena Bakugo was nowhere to be seen.

Suddenly a member of the crowd screamed and pointed to the top stadium near the gen-ed seats, causing the entire stadium to turn and look.

Oh.

Oh shit.

They were instantly greeted with the horrific sight of Katsuki Bakugo, laying limping in the stand riddled with injuries everywhere.

Suddenly Present Mic’s voice filled the arena, panic clear in his voice. “Nedzu we have an issue, shut the cameras off, shut the cameras off now!”

It was clear he had forgotten to turn off his mic but the crowd didn’t care, they simply turned to the source of the disaster.

🦋

Izuku hadn’t moved his arm after his attack, he had simply stared at the new ice burn marks that riddled his right arm and bit back a wince as the pouring rain splashed across them.

He let out a heavy breath and calmed himself, lowering his arm as he brought his body temperature back to normal.

Green Valley Spring, named directly after his sister was a rough attack due to how much backlash it had, between dropping the temperature of his ice to the lowest he could and then compressing the heat inside the ice until it exploded, even when Izuku was testing it on a smaller scale he still ended up with some type of burn.

It had been the first time he performed the attack on a large scale rather than practicing it on small blocks of ice on Takoba beach. Looking around he could see the amount of damage it caused to the surrounding area.

He felt a small twinge of guilt that only worsened as the crowd spoke up.

“What the hell is wrong with you?!”

“Look what he did to the stadium!”

“Was he trying to kill us?!”

“Did you see what he did to the other kid?”

“How could someone do that to a fellow classmate?”

Oh.

They not only hated him but they also felt bad for Bakugo.

Izuku pulled back on his quirk and reigned it in, not here not now.

Spinning on his heel he quickly walked off the stand as the crowd booed.

🦋

“They don’t know, they don’t know, they don’t know.” Izuku repeated to himself internally trying to calm down as he walked into his waiting room.

Quickly removing his jacket and mask, he grabbed a rag and soaked it in warm water before applying it to his ice burns. 

Letting out a small wince he let the rag sit and pulled out his phone and scrolled through his messages.

Dismissing a few messages from his classmates who were either asking where he was or why he blew up the arena, he noticed there were new messages in the family group chat. 

Midori-yeah! (Two People Online)

Green Parakeet: IZUKU! You did so well!

Green Parakeet: Are you injured? When you walked away you looked hurt.

Green Fox: I’m fine, just a few ice burns.

Green Parakeet: Thank goodness but what happened? They suddenly cut off the broadcast after they panned towards the Gen-Ed stand.

Green Fox: I may or may not have injured Bakugo so badly that it wasn’t appropriate to show on TV

White Dragon Is Online 

White Dragon: That’s my boy!

Green Parakeet: Hisashi!

Green Fox: Hi dad.

White Dragon: Hello Izu, congrats on the win.

White Dragon: And don’t judge me dear you know you’re happy at the fact Katsuki got what was coming to him.

Green Parakeet: …

Green Parakeet: Can he still use his quirk?

Green Fox: Don’t know, they had only just moved him out of the arena when i left.

White Dragon: Fingers crossed

Green Parakeet: Hisashi!

Green Fox: Fingers crossed 

Green Parakeet: …

Green Fox: One of us

White Dragon: One of us.

Green Parakeet: …

Green Parakeet: Fingers crossed.

White Dragon: Woo hoo!

Izuku chuckled at his family antics. It was always fun seeing how childish his dad was or how his mom put up with their antics and eventually roped up in them.

He only wishes she was here to enjoy it again.

🦋

Chiyo gave a heavy sigh as she read off her clipboard. “All twenty four ribs broken, two broken arms and a leg. Multiple ice burns and first degree burns all over his body, two shattered wrists. Multiple stab wounds from being impaled by ice shards, lots of blood lost and to top it off he’s comatose.”

She gave another sigh as she placed her clipboard down, “Needless to say the boy is lucky to be alive, my quirk can help with the process but he won’t be in any condition to stand on the podium. With these injuries he may not be able to do Internships as well.” 

Shota could only sigh as Recovery Girl read off the report. He knew this would be a disaster but this? This was a nightmare. He just didn’t get it, what could Bakugo have done to Midoriya to warrant that level of aggression. 

Worse part is both boys clearly didn’t want to talk about it and they didn’t know exactly what it was to even bring it up to them.

He gave another heavy sigh, this was all nothing but a major headache. “I understand, I'll be going now.” 

Walking out of Recovery Girl’s room he sent a quick text to Midnight and Cementoss, they would need to add a few things to the podium.

🦋

While Izuku kept hiding in his waiting room, he took the time to scroll through the current news feed, most of it being on the current Sport Festival.

U.A’s delayed Sport Festival ends in disaster 

U.A Sports Festival Participant identified as Bakugo Katsuki from the sludge incident.

U.A’s White Fox attacks the stands

Missing Shiketsu student found alive in alley after being missing for a month.

Endeavor’s secret son revealed at the Sports Festival?

Why the U.A Sports Festival is nothing but a money grab

Several U.A Sports Festival participant identities revealed.

Why White Fox Doesn’t deserve to win the U.A Sports Festival

Son of the Number Two Hero: Endeavor makes an appearance at the U.A Sports Festival.

Familiar rage? Son of the Number Two Hero attacks a fellow student after the match.

Why White Fox will make an excellent hero

Why White Fox shouldn’t be punished for his final match.

Should they be there? A look at the three U.A Sports Festival participants who don’t belong.

Ten U.A Sports Festival participants that are most likely to reach the top 50

Ingenium found dead in Hosu city.

White Fox is revealed to be the Hero of the USJ. 

Wait what?

Ingenium found dead in Hosu city

It brings great displeasure to announce that the Turbo Hero: Ingenium was recently found dead in a Hosu city alley after a rumored encounter with the Hero Killer. Currently it is unknown why the Hero Killer attacked Ingenium despite not fitting the rumored MO of the resident serial killer. Nonetheless our greatest condolences to the Idaten family and hope justice will be served. 

Izuku gave a heavy sigh, he would need to talk to Iida soon, losing a family member is never easy especially when the killer roams free.

Hopefully his fellow Vice rep is responsible enough to not take a path he's not prepared to finish.

He was snapped out of his thoughts when his phone buzzed as he looked down to see it was a text from Kodai.

Red and White: Where are you? They're waiting for all of us so they can give out medals.

Green and White: Wait

Green and White: Us?

🦋

Izuku walked off campus, his gold medal held tightly in his hand.

Due to Bakugo’s absence U.A changed the award ceremony at the last minute to include a fifth place podium for those who lost the first round and a fourth place podium for those who lost the quarter finals.

Needless to say it took longer than usual when All Might felt the need to give a long speech to all fourteen of them both individually and together. 

Scrolling through his calendar he realized Internships would be starting up next week. Given how the crowd reacted he probably wouldn’t receive that many offers but that was the least of his concerns.

Quickly putting the medal around his neck he removed her purple hair clip from his hair and stared at it.

He was just one step closer to being the hero she wanted him to be.

Omake???

He sighed as he watched three butterflies land on his mask, one green, one gray and one black.

He watched as they fought, the green one not faring too well. They reminded him of the past and more specifically.

That Day.

🦋

A five year old Izuku and Izuki laughed as they danced with each other.

Inko smiled as the two posed for the camera.

I feel it’s been a long time since i saw your smiling face Light up a heart in slow motion, as much as possible

If this short night is our last, then i’m sure I’d go see you That’s how even i feel, in a carefree way

–

Tears rolled down his eyes as he sat there crying for what felt like hours

Crying as we hold each other

We can’t even talk about the pain I love you so much even with your weakness

–

Death arms took the paper and dismissed the note completely, it wasn’t worth it.

Ah, you should do a sketch And give it to me Along with my feelings, before you laugh

–

Green Fox: We’ll be the best hero duo ever!

Green Butterfly: Yeah.

“Please don’t go” “I don’t want to go either” We made carefree promises as we punched each other on the shoulder

Although one of us always failed to keep their end And it wasn’t me this time either

–

Izuku read the paper as the temperature in the area spiked.

Your shaking hands were a signal Yet I missed it so many times

–

It was Izuku, holding his hand out to her, giving a warm smile.

Hey, a promise is just something to ‘keep’  All i really want is to hold hands

–

The Temperature suddenly vanished.

It was neither warm or cold.

Next Arc: A White Butterfly: A Butterfly Clip Trilogy 

Chapter Text

Izuku stood on top of the building of ground beta.

The Sport festival had just ended and classes were now starting back up to prepare for the upcoming internship

He took his fox mask off and stared at it, he automatically knew who he was gonna intern with if they were on his list but he was curious on who Izuki would’ve picked. She was always secretive with her choice.

I guess that now made sense in hindsight.

He sighed as he watched three butterflies land on his mask, one green, one black and one gray.

He watched as they fought, the green one not faring too well. They reminded him of the past and more specifically.

That Day.

🦋 

Inko readied the camera as Hisashi started the music.

Two green haired kids stepped out of their respectives rooms and stood in the hallway. 

Inko smiled as she could tell they were trying their best not to giggle. The boy bowed first and rose, the girl repeated the process before they both bowed at the same time and took each other's hands.

They both raised their hands and circled each other.

As the song picked up they began skipping down the hallways laughing, once they safely made it out they began spinning each other 

A five year old Izuku and Izuki laughed as they danced with each other.

Inko smiled as the two posed for the camera before falling over.

The two laughed as Izuku used Izuki to try to stand up, instead she tackled him back to the ground and tried to pin only to pout as he disappeared.

“That’s not fair! You can’t just use daddys vanishing act!” she exclaimed