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Don't fall on your first day

"What's up fam! I think I'm supposed to explain memes to you! What? Not memes? That's wack. Oh really? That's lowkey better. They're saying I'm here to talk about competitive quirk games! That's pretty lit too! So check it out, one day this newborn baby was so woke, it was literally lit fam! that's when everyone started to get these cool powers and that's why they are called quirks, you know, cause they quirky.

So everyone was like check out my quirk dude it's dope, but they was like nah, mine. So like, I guess people kept trying to show off who's was better with games, like you know, a quick race or something, catch, soccer, you know chill regular games, but it was wild with everyone using their quirks. Naturally, people started to do it competitively, like the Olympics or something even creating unique games. It's such a ride or die culture right now, people are going to schools to actually LEARN now, crazy right.

Talking about school, once you enrolled into a licensed school, you are officially drafted into the minor leagues! So games can be held on certain dates, like the sport's festival or just step up to a mofo you beefing with and start shit there. It got mad personal sometimes too, dudes would be cheating. It got so bad that they were called villains if caught. Back in the day, it was used as a huge insult, but now it's more of a style of playing the game, just like the ones they call heroes, all noble and shit. It's also used as a good way to split up teams, you know like blue vs red, by the way, it's not red vs blue, shit sounds dumb that way. Caboose ftw!

There's not just the hero faction and villain faction either. Corporations also sponsor teams and so does the government. Some other individuals and groups find their way in too.

Remember how I brought up the Olympics? So yeah that's still a huge event! It's the grandest stage of them all! That's where everyone wants to go! Go accelerate!"

Izuku had deadpan eyes with the phone to his ear. "Camie... Why are you explaining this to me? I know how this world works."

Camie laughed on the other line. "For the readers, duh, and to cheer you on fam!"

"What? How did you break the fourth wall so brave yet nonchalant?"

"It's kool, I just gave them a full introduction!"

"By calling me? You talked my ear off, I had no idea what you were going on about either, I was legit worried for you."

"My bad, you're the main character you know. Dude... you're like the medium between readers and the story, that's mad lit. Stay woke."

"Just stop, please, I'm begging you!"

"Nah, can't. I'm not just a love interest and childhood friend, I'm kind of like the narrator too."

Izuku groaned. 'Why her of all people.' "So we still going to the mall after school?"

"You know it fam!"

"I'll pay you to stop talking like that. Meme culture is great and all, but the language is-"

"Yeet."

"Bye Camie!" Click. He was usually a soft cinnamon bun but she always was able to annoy him and they both knew it. 'Why is she my best friend?' His cheeks tinted lightly. 'Wait, did she say love interest!' A thudump heartbeat. "Whatever, she's always saying things." He mumbled ignoring the comment she made. He straightened his back and took proud steps. "I'm actually going to U.A."

Kyouka Jirou was walking down the street. She noticed Midoriya up ahead. "Yo, Izuku!"

"Hm?" He looked back, growing a smile. "Hey, Jirou." He waited for her to catch up and they started walking to school together. "You excited for our first day?"

"Yeah, kinda nervous though." Jirou shrugged her shoulders.

"Yeah me too." He yawned.

Jirou glanced at him. "Didn't get enough sleep?"

"Something like that." Shrugging it off, despite the bags under his eyes, he was smiling about it.

She crossed her arms. "So what's your quirk anyway?" Raising an eyebrow. It was obviously a speed type. "I mean you did analyze mine at the entrance exam."

"I thought we were going to forget about that." Hushed off to the side. He felt like it was no big deal though. "I inherited a quirk from both my parents, although they are variants. My mom can attract small objects, while I do kinda the opposite. I can push anything close to me away, but if the object is too big, I get pushed back instead. My dad can breathe fire, so he can release it from his internals, I lite mine's externally, usually from my palms or the soles of my feet, and while my dad's flame is kinda like a flamethrower or dragon, mine is kinda condensed and limited so it can't be used for long range, oh and it's green, so that's neat."

"Wait, that doesn't explain how you were able to move so fast?" Those aren't even close to speed quirks.

"Oh that, I kind of combine the two. I repel the force beneath me, like if I'm floating but basically there's no friction, and it kind of gives me a slide effect, see." Trying to take a step but instead started fumbling around like if he was on ice. He pointed up and down with each index finger, showing the opposing forces and how they push off each other creating the frictionless surface for Izuku. "And after, I use my flames as thrusters, letting me essentially skate." Starting to move like a figure skater around Jirou. He slowed to a stop and started walking normally again, alongside her. "I was actually pretty clumsy as a kid because of my quirk, I would break plates, pushing them away by accident, and I would slip on occasion because I would disrupt the friction beneath me. One time I went to the public pool but I was terrified when I was the only one not able to fully submerge in the water, I was like hovering over it. Even as a kid self-preservation is active." And he kept going on.

"You sure do ramble on, huh?" Remembering that he also did that at the exam talking about her quirk. "That's pretty cool that you use your quirk in such an unorthodox way."

Izuku nodded with a smirk as they reached the school. "The feeling of the wind hitting me as I accelerate faster and faster is like nothing else. I'm definitely going to be a pro-athlete!"

Jirou agreed. "Yeah, let's go to class, Izuku." Ready for their next step in the league.

"What the hell is this!" Jirou cried. Everyone else had the same confused and panicked look on their face. The teacher, Eraserhead had already started his torturing, I mean, tutoring his students. Her and everyone else was standing on their desk. "Why are we playing the floor is lava?!"

Aizawa started class in his sleeping bag, telling them to stand on their desks. He immediately told them that this was a test.

"Be careful, as time passes the floor of this classroom will begin to disappear, meaning you can fall through to the next floor." On cue, the floor beneath Kacchan's desk slid right out from under him. The desk began to plummet.

"Like hell, I'll lose first!" He lept with a flip and landed on Deku's desk.

"Kacchan, we get to share a desk!" Always having that friendly smile that pissed him off.

"Like hell, I'm sharing!" Trying to shove Deku off before using brute force.

"Oi, oi, Kacchan didn't you mom teach you how to share-" A small explosion. Izuku flipped over Kacchan, twisting in Mid-air. He landed the tiptoes of his boots at the edge of the desk, shaking it, causing the both to almost lose their balance. "I know there's barely any room, but we can make the most of it."

"Shut up!" Thrusting his arm at Deku.

Izuku let himself fall back, and kicked his feet up in the air, landing a handstand on his chair. He widened his legs apart and spun like a windmill, tripping Kacchan, he landed hard on his back on the desk, causing it to rumble threateningly. "Eh?!" His chair was also leaning back from his whiplash momentum.

"Izuku! Bakugo!" Jirou shot out her earphone jacks, wrapping one around a leg of the chair to stabilize it and save Izuku, she did the same for the almost tipped over desk. She retracted her earphones after they were safe.

Izuku sighed in relief, dropping his handstand, landing his feet on the desk behind him. He squatted down to Mineta. "Think we can share this desk, for now, Kacchan stole mine." Mineta only nodded with slight fear and awe in his eyes.

"Look, guys, the floor is lava is just a survival game, we don't need to go after each other. Sensei said we only need to last for ten minutes, we can do it." Jirou tried to rally.

"Hey aux cord, our space is being limited! It's also like musical chairs, people are going to get bumped off regardless if your nice or not." Kacchan explained.

"So what are you guys going to do?" Aizawa was in his sleeping bag, sipping on his juice box and... also on his teacher's desk? "By the way, I'm also playing. If you can eliminate me, you all pass. Oh and I forgot to mention, any who fail will be given extra classes after school until you restore my faith in you."

"All we have to do is defeat the boss!" Kacchan was ready to go after his own teacher. "Oi, Sensei, you're basically giving us permission to attack you right? Right!" With hungry shark eyes.

"Wait Kacchan, Eraserhead can erase quirks and is notorious for causing automatic win conditions when a match starts. He obviously wants you to go at him head-on."

"Then what the fuck do we do, Deku?"

"I'm thinking, give me a minute."

The whole class sweatdropped. 'But they were just fighting a minute ago, now they are all buddy buddy.'

"Either we wait it out and take our chances by hopefully not getting cut off or by joining together against Sensei." Tsuyu debated the options. Then her desk fell through. "Ribbit." Hopping on Tokoyami's desk, perched at the edge, next to him.

Izuku was holding his chin. "Wait! I got an idea! We don't have to fight Sensei or each other!"

Ten minutes had passed. "I'm impressed." Aizawa never had a class come up with a peaceful resolution before. "You guys pushed all the desk together to optimize space by creating one large platform, reorganizing accordingly with the lack of room. Although I do commend your non- violent approach, please note that during real games, this could only work as a defensive strategy. Your opponent won't be time, it will be real people trying to eliminate you. Your ability to cooperate was also good, albeit rough, in the beginning, eyeing Bakugo and Izuku. "Once you were rallied, you guys got through it." Nodding to Jirou. "I'm looking forward to seeing how you all will do at the sport's festival in a few weeks, but for some of you, that might not be your first official match, now that you are U.A. students people in the minor league can and, most likely, will challenge you to events, particularly villains. This can happen outside of school so please prepare yourself. You all should have received a notification via email that you are registered in the minor league, if you follow the link attached to the email as I'm sure some of you did, you will be directed to the league website, before as spectators you were able to follow up on events or watch them, but now with your new credentials, you will be able to have more access to the site, for example challenging villains, registering for upcoming events or interact with fellow hero faction members, there's more but I'll explain it when you all have gained more experience as athletes. Now please follow me to our real class."

'Did he kind of just say we played the game wrong, but complemented us at the same time at the beginning? And what is this classroom, a gag room they use for playing this game!' Izuku cringed. 'And I have been visiting the website every day since I received the notification, I have thoroughly explored it!'

They were walking down the hall as a class. Jirou tugged at his uniform sleeve. "That was a pretty good idea Izuku, saved all of our asses."

Izuku ruffled his hair. "Actually I got it from you."

"Me?"

"Yeah, when you fixed the chair and stopped the desk from falling over. I realized we could move the desks with quirks like yours. You, Tsuyu, Sero, Tokoyami, Ojiro, and Yaoyorozu did most of the work."

Jirou didn't know why she suddenly asked, maybe it was the way he was being humble yet complementing her and the others, or how he used his brain instead of just his quirk to solve the problem, either way, she just said it. "Hey, are you busy after school? Wanna hang out or something?"

"I'm going to the mall to meet a friend, wanna come? I think you'll get along."

"Sure, sounds fun!" She grinned with closed eyes. 'I don't know why I just click with him.'

Izuku internally sighed. 'If Jirou comes, I can avoid any teasing from Camie about that love interest joke.' Smiling back at Jirou, they both shared a resounding chuckle at their plans for later.

Too bad the homie doesn't know that rocker chick is also a love interest. Hanging out with those two at the mall is gone be wild. Yo, check me out, your gurl Camie, next chapter! Peace out fam!