Been a long while, huh? How mad are you at me? DON'T BE TOO MAD! I'm back!


The day of the sports festival was a day to remember. In the morning, I walked to the school with Shoto. There were fireworks all around the stadium where the festival was being held. Vendors were set up all outside of the stadium and in the schoolyard, so people could buy food or merchandise. Seeing this on TV was one thing, but being able to feel the excitement in the air and the anticipation that everyone felt…now that was a completely different experience.

Shoto and I made our way to our classrooms waiting room. We walked in and had a locker assigned to each of us. Inside were our gym uniforms that we were instructed to wear. We knew that we wouldn't be able to wear our costumes because some of our costumes helped us with our Quirk and that would be cheating.

"Everyone, are you ready?" Iida opened up the door and yelled into our room. "We will be entering soon!"

"This is so exciting, isn't it, Sho?" I looked at Shoto, but I saw that he was looking elsewhere. He walked away from me and towards the curly haired boy that we had all grown to know.

"Midoriya." He called.

"Todoroki? What is it?" The height difference between the two was noticeable.

"Looking at things objectively, I think I'm stronger than you." Shoto stated.

"Huh? Ya…" Midoriya agreed.

"But All Might has his eye on you, doesn't he? I'm not trying to pry about that. But I'm going to beat you." Midoriya looked terrified after Shoto declared war on our fellow classmate. I was surprised as well because I didn't know Shoto was going to do this.

"Oh? Is the best in the class making a declaration of war?" Kaminari commented.

"Hey hey hey! Why are you picking a fight all of a sudden?" Kirishima asked as he walked up to Shoto and placed his hand on his shoulder. "Not now, we're about to start." Shoto shrugged Kirishima's hand off of his shoulder.

"We're not here to play at being friends. So what does it matter?" Shoto turned away from our class and began to walk towards the door. I looked at Yaoyorozu and she looked at me with a face that said she wanted me to clarify what was going on. I shrugged my shoulders since I was completely out of loop as well. However, I felt like I knew the answer and it had to do with All Might and Endeavour. Which involved Shoto, even if I didn't want him to be involved.

"Todoroki, I don't know what you're thinking when you say you'll beat me, but of course you're better than me. I think you're more capable than most people. Looking at it objectively…" We all stared at Midoriya as he spoke. Shoto stopped in his tracks and looked at Midoriya.

"Midoriya, you probably should've talk so negatively." Kirishima tried to stop him.

"But, everyone, the students from the other courses are aiming for the top with everything they've got. I can't afford to fall behind. I'll be going for it with everything I have too." Midoriya accepted Shoto's declaration.


Obstacle Course was our first task. We all lined up in front of the door and waited patiently to run. The three lights above the door counted down and once we were able to run – it became complete chaos. There were too many students in the passageway, so we all started pushing and we got stuck in the passageway. I was lucky enough to be one of the first people in line, so I was closest to breaking free, but I continued to be pushed. I needed to get through this crowd. I looked up and saw Shoto was about to get ready to go and I knew exactly what he was going to do. My eyes darted around and saw that I was surrounded by people I didn't know, so I didn't feel bad about paralyzing them for a second.

"Sorry." I apologized. The people around me looked at me with a confused face before I let off an electric shock that stopped them for a couple of minutes. I used this as my opportunity to now push the people over and make it through the passageway. Once I got out, Shoto used his ice to freeze everyone and pass them. Most of Class 1-A all had some kind of idea to get out of that passageway.

We all ran forward and was met with giant dark green robots that had multiple red eyes. I realized that they had used these robots during the entrance exam that I didn't need to partake in. We all watched as Shoto created ice all around him while the robot was reaching downwards to grab him. With a wave of his arm – the ice went flying up towards the robot and covered it completely. If I weren't competing against my best friend, I would've cheered for him at that moment. Shoto then ran between its legs and left us all behind.

"He froze them!"

"We can go between its legs!" People yelled.

"I wouldn't if I were you! I froze them while they were unbalanced. They'll fall over." He called back as the machines did start falling. Bakugo managed to get over by using his explosive hands to fly over the machine. While the others tried to find a way around, I quickly ran up to the one on the end and placed my hands on its leg. I quickly felt my energy pass through its circuits until I reached the main source panel. With a snap of my fingers, I turned off the machine.

"Did everyone see that? Class 1-A's very own, Kimura Mirai, turned off one of the Robo Infernos and ran right away! She turned it back on to make sure the other students wouldn't catch up to her! That's smart thinking! Another student who got in through recommendation!" I could here Present Mics voice commenting on my move. I knew everyone was now looking at me and was going to use my way to get through this obstacle. I quickly ran behind the machine and pressed my hands on its leg again. With another snap of my fingers, I turned the machine back on and continued running. The yells from the other students brought a smile to my face.

"There's no friendships today." I reminded myself as I continued to run to the next obstacle.

The second obstacle was a stretch of land that was broken into a canyon. There were tightropes let lead to all the different landings, but there was no way I was going to be able to walk across them. Even if I did, most of the students would catch up to me and I would be in danger of being left behind. The sound of footsteps came from behind me, so I looked over my shoulder. I saw most of the students running towards me, but in front were the rest of class 1-A.

"Shit. I haven't practiced this at all." I knew I was taking a risk, but I needed to do it. I started running towards the edge of the canyon. The power of electricity started to gather in my feet as clouds began to form above in the sky. I felt the electricity move through my body and instead of the lightning coming down onto me, I went up to it. Once I jumped forward, the lightning came out of the sky, hit me and I managed to push myself up using the electrical pull. My body was propelled high into the sky and now I needed to push myself towards the other end of the canyon, so I could clear the field. As I fell towards the ground, I remembered why I never did this move – it was because I couldn't control it!

My body fell straight for the ground on the other side of the canyon. I managed to roll and landed straight onto my back. The hard dirt so not a pleasant spot to land, but at least I cleared the canyon.

"Wow, Kimura! I never knew you could do that!" I turned around and saw the rest of my classmates looking at me with shocking expressions.

"What was it that Mr. Aizawa said, 'You can't be a hero with only one trick'!" I yelled over to them. I waved goodbye before running forward and towards the next obstacle.

"Another cool move from Kimura! I think she needs to practice on how to stick the landing though. 10/10 for creativity, but 0/10 for landing!" Present Mic commentated. I rolled my eyes as I continued to run.

I arrived at the landmine in fairly quick fashion. Many people had managed to get past the canyon a lot quicker than I had originally anticipated. People began to step on the landmines and were blown away by the shock of the pink smoke. I gathered electricity on my feet and began to run through the minefield. As soon as my feet would touch a bomb, it would short circuit just long enough for me to pass and would reactivate afterwards. I mentally thanked my grandmother for teaching me this trick because at the time, I told her that I would never need to use it on a minefield.

I looked up and saw that Bakugo and Shoto were ahead of me and that I would really need to sprint to catch up, but I was shocked when I heard a large bang come from behind me. I looked over my shoulder as I ran and saw Midoriya being propelled by an explosion. He flew right past me and straight up towards Shoto and Bakugo. I watched as he managed to place his feet on both of them – pushing them into the ground. He slammed a large green piece of metal onto the ground – making another explosion as he continued to fly forward and leave the other two in the behind.

Bakugo and Shoto both got up with a vengeance and ran after Midoriya. I watched as we all ran through the tunnel, but Midoriya came in first, Shoto came in second, Bakugo came in third and I came in fourth. I stared at Midoriya with a surprised look on my face as I realized he had won the Obstacle Course and never once used his Quirk.

"Who even is this boy?" I asked myself as I watched him look around with amazement and surprise. Even he couldn't believe that he won. I looked over at Shoto and saw that he was breathing heavily with his head down. I walked over to him, but he knew I was coming, so he raised his head and looked at me. "Don't worry. You'll get him next time."

"Your face is dirty." I stared at him with a blank face. Did he really just say that after what we went through? Was this what he was thinking about? "You should clean it."

"I would if I could!" I yelled at him. I huffed and began to wipe away at my face. "I landed on dirt, so obviously my face would be dirty right now." I complained.


The next chapter will be the second challenge! And things will begin to get a little intense as per usual! See you in a bit!