Now I know it's questioning…but who likes it when Mineta gets hurt? Not just me? Glorious!
Welcome back to My Omnium Academia. Second part of the Sports Festival Arc. Let's talk about what you've guys suggested and asked me about first, shall we? I love it when I do this.
I've decided to put multiple events into this Arc, rather than the race, Calvary Battle, and 1v1's like in canon. I feel like it would be a lot more interesting to see in my opinion, since it's pretty obvious Ben has an overwhelming advantage in pretty much any scenario for this.
I want to improve the relations between Class 1-A and 1-B, but like canon, its shown that many of the students from that class purposely have gotten lower placements in the race due to Monoma's suggestions. Pony and Itsuka are already pretty friendly with Ben, and we all know Tetsutetsu gets along with Kirishima, so how do you think this should all go out?
He could just win the Race by using XLR8 or Fasttrack, but where's the fun in that?
Some of you might be wondering why this Ben seems to be smarter than or acts a little more mature. Remember guys, like Gwen said, Ben's a pretty smart guy, but he's just lazy. Give him the right motivation and a good scenario, and all of that begins to show off.
In terms of size and height, Way Big actually towers over Mt. Lady (That's what she said!). According to what I've read, he seems to be well over 67 meters, while Mt. Lady is roughly 20.62 meters. Go figure, huh?
So, that's it for now, let's get into it. Once again, thanks for all of your continued support. As usual, I own nothing related to the subject of Ben 10 nor Boku no Hero / My Hero Academia. Please support the official releases, and happy reading to you all! I would like to thank you all for waiting for this chapter and my return as a whole! Many thanks for over 250 Reviews, over 420 Favorites and Follows, and over 35,000 views!
Chapter 7: Ready? Go!
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"D-Dude!" Kirishima gave Ben a slightly scared look. "Are you serious?"
"This is getting my blood pumping, Kirishima!" The Omnitrix wielder grinned at him, surprising many of his fellow students. "Even though we're all classmates and allies, you can't forget that we're also technically rivals as well."
"W-Well… I guess, when you put it that way…" The redhead scratched his head.
"He's right." Midoriya added. "This event is used for the students to express their abilities out to everyone in the world. It's one of our greatest opportunities to help us become Pros."
"Indeed." Iida smiled as he stood up. "Now then, it's time to go, Class 1-A!"
With the uprooting words of his, the frontal speech that Ben gave out, and the little moment that he had with Todoroki and Midoriya, most of the class remained relatively silent… But they all knew that what they said was true. As everyone gave each other a glance and stood up, they began to trout to the exit, following Iida as he led the class out.
All of the students started to make their way out of the waiting room and towards the stadium of which they would be able to compete. Most of the students chatted amongst themselves while Ben was seen walking while interacting with the device on his wrist, and Mineta had been preparing with a couple more quick writings of "person" as he walked. Momo glanced at Ben, and when he looked back, she gave him a look that only he seemed to understand. He rolled his eyes a little as he gave a half smirk in response.
'Oh fine, I'll follow your orders, milady…' He decided.
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The night before the big day…
"Restrain from using my powers?" Ben questioned as he sat in Momo's room. The Creation user nodded as she sat down on her desk in her pajamas, pushing her glasses up.
"Yes. This is a sports festival, after all. Meaning, physical races, or other events that'll most likely be able to be won easily in your case." She first said. "With the Omnitrix and how many transformations you have, I have no doubt that you'll be able to take first place if you so desired to. At least don't use forms that can entirely depend on speed and the like."
"Well, you're not wrong about that." He admitted as he gave her a chuckle. "But it depends most likely on what kind of events are going to be held."
"Precisely. However, I must tell you that the last event will always be that of a tournament, meaning individual fights between students." She explained.
"True. I read that up on the website for U.A." Ben replied. "I wonder how many events are going to be held."
"That's for us to find out." Momo said. "But getting back on topic…"
"About my powers? Do you not want me to use them then?" Ben assumed. Momo shook her head as she crossed her arms.
"No, not at all." She quickly spoke. "After all, your Quirk Registration labels your power as Transformation in their official archives. It would be strange for you not to use them."
"Then what?"
"What I'm proposing is that…you'll try to use your powers sparingly, not for the entire duration of course. You said it yourself, didn't you? That you didn't want to attract that much attention to yourself."
"Yes… But no doubt that I'm going to have attention attracted to myself regardless since this event is going to be broadcast throughout the entire country." Ben cupped his chin. "Meaning that…"
"You have the correct assumption. Keep at it with the forms that you've already introduced. If you must use a new form, using it for only the moments that you require it is recommended." She smiled.
"…Alright. Well, if the situation calls for it I might have to bring out more forms than necessary. From what information I've hacked—I mean "gathered" from my sources, many of the Quirks that the students in the schools possess will eventually pose some problems." He explained.
"Hehe… I love your enthusiasm for… Wait, hack? Ben, what did—Hey! Get back here, young man!" Momo was quick to praise him for his diligence in the matter, but hearing that slight mishap quickly drove her to an interrogative instance as she began to chase after him as he quickly ran out of the room.
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As Ben looked forward after his little scene of remembrance, all of the students gulped. The whole class stepped forward, into the blinding light before they were greeted with a huge crowd that had been cheering loudly at the classes that came into the stadium. Ben's expression turned slightly positive a little when he heard a familiar voice over the speakers just before they stepped outside.
"Pay attention audience!" They heard Yamada Hizashi, otherwise known as Present Mic say as Aizawa sat next to him, yawning a little as he went on. "Swarm, mass media! This year's high school rodeo of adolescence you all love, is about to begin! Everybody!? Are you ready!?"
The crowd cheered loudly at this just as Class 1-A stepped into the arena. First coming out was Midoriya, with Ben and Iida following through. The rest of the students then started to come out, with most of them noticing 1st year students from the other classes, with 1-B standing in the shadows from their entrance tunnel.
"It's time for to introduce the students from the first year stage!" Present Mic yelled with enthusiasm from his seat in the commentator's room.
"These are the students who overcame the enemy attacks with hearts of steel! The Hero Course! Class 1-A!"
Just as they came into view with from the camera's and everyone's eyes, the crowd couldn't help but cheer loudly. Most of Class 1-A seemed to praise the cheers, though only one of them seemed nervous, and that was Midoriya as his body shook slightly.
"All these eyes… Just staring at us…" Midoriya squeaked, with his voice shaking too.
"Come now, Midoriya-kun!" Iida smiled as he placed a hand on his shoulder. "Look alive to the crowd. The people don't like it when their competitors are feeling nervous to a pulp!"
"Y-Yeah…" Midoriya chuckled as he slowly waved his hand out.
"Let's see the competition that we've got!" Ben smiled as he and the rest of the class turned to the tunnel next to them.
"They haven't been getting much as much airtime, but this class is full of talent! Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the Hero Course, Class 1-B!"
They turned and saw the crowd of students from Class 1-B come to where they were standing. There Ben caught a glimpse of a familiar girl with orange hair. Another student from that Class looked to Ben in a way of familiarity. She played her long blonde hair and her horns as she simply gave him a bow. Ben gave her a weird look, before widening his eyes in realization.
'Oh… So she's the one.' He smiled.
The next set of students from each course came into the stadium, gathering around the stage just as Present Mic had announced them.
"Next up, from General Studies, Classes C, D, and E! Support Course, Classes F, G and H are here too! And the Business Course as well, Classes I, J, and K!"
The crowd cheered as the students gathered around, most of the students started to chatter, when they noticed Ben and some of the more memorable students from his class in the crowd. He could swear he started to hear them talk about out him, of course most of them had been comments of confusion or wonder. Despite the crowd being loud with their cheers, he could hear the words being said about him. However, that only proved to motivate him even further.
'If you're gonna make a debut, either you make it big, or go home.' He explained mentally.
"He's the one who confronted Shinso!"
"I heard that guy has a super unique Quirk!"
"That two guys, from the Villain incident from a year ago!"
"It's time for the player pledge!" Another voice suddenly called out.
The students were drawn to voice as they looked onto the stage in front of them. Ben noticed that most of the boys started to get nosebleeds when they saw a familiar woman, with long black hair and wearing a skin tight suit with a black breastless leotard with a translucent black thigh-high stockings and a pair of black knee high boots. It was none other than Midnight, the 18+ Only Hero!
"Oh no, the umpire this year is Nemuri-san…" Toshinori said as he face palmed at the outfit she had on. Sitting from the seats of staff members, Cementoss chuckled a little from his reaction.
"What in the world is she wearing?" Kirishima asked as his face was a little red.
"Well, that's the R-Rated Hero for you." Kaminari said as his face was red too. Jiro frowned at the two, and was ready to use her earphone jacks to stab them in the ears at any notice.
"Is it really okay for her to be a high school teacher even though she's R-Rated?" Tokoyami asked curiously, being one of the few that didn't seem to blush at her appearance.
"FUCK YES!" Mineta yelled as he had his thumbs up. Ben and Asui quickly slapped the back of his head in a casual manner in response.
"Bad Mineta-chan." The frog girl spat out.
"Absolutely revolting." Ben agreed.
"Quiet now, everyone!" Midnight yelled out as she cracked a whip against the stage. Ben noticed with a slightly alarmed look that some people in the crowd jittered in joy as she did so. "Representing the students is not one, but two students from Class 1-A! Please come up to the stage… Bakugo Katsuki, and Ben Tennyson!"
The Class looked to the two of them with surprised looks; Katsuki had a neutral expression on his face while Ben grew a small, but amused smile on his own in return.
"Well, the two of them did take some of the highest places in the Entrance Exam." They heard one of the students say from General Studies.
"In the Hero Course, why am I not surprised?" A student said with a bit of harshness in her tone of voice.
"Of course they would choose the Ouroboros." Another student said a sneer. "A foreigner and a bastard..."
"It's obvious those guys hate us." Sero said with a low whisper. "And we have Bakugo to thank for that. Don't know why they would go on against Ben though."
"Yeah… He just had to go and aggravate them." Mineta said.
"It's quite rude to talk about people behind their backs though." Momo dared to say with a voice loud enough for the General Studies students to hear her. She ignored the new insults that they seethed towards her as she smiled at Ben walking up.
"Ben Tennyson?" Midnight called out with a suggestive smile as she motioned him to step forward. "Won't you start us off? Give us a grand time!"
"…I need an adult?" He gulped. He was actually nervous from the look seductive she gave him.
"…I am one." She whispered into his ear. He blushed for a moment, before gawking at her while holding his ear. He quickly shook the blood flowing up into his as Bakugo urged him forward
Ben stepped up onto the steps with the Explosion user, noticing a single microphone standing before them. Ben let out a small sigh and looked around to the crowd. People seemed to be giving a mix of positive looks and negative ones. Behind his stage smile, he could tell that some people were a little annoyed that a foreigner seemed to be the highlight of the show, while others were concerned with the body of his…apparently some weren't convinced that a guy like him didn't seem to be capable enough to stand up on the grand stage.
Bakugo noticed the façade of his, narrowing his eyes slightly as he stepped back to the microphone. He pressed a button on the Omnitrix as he stood tall and held his head high, beginning to speak into the device a second later.
"To those here now, and to those watching from home…" He started to say with a determined tone, making the crowd go silent.
"Today is a new beginning for not only myself, but for my classmates as well. Today's the day that we may hope to take one step closer to our goal, to become the Pros that are here in our presence today. And for that case, I have something to prove as well."
Ben looked to the crowd sitting in their seats before he set his eyes on the box just above, where he knew the other Pros sat. He dropped his fake smile as he grabbed the microphone from its stand.
"...Some of you may be familiar with me, while a majority of the crowd knows absolutely nothing about myself. And most of you in a sense… Look at me differently. I hope that today I'll be able to make you see me as someone else, something that will be different from the initial idea that you had of myself. As who I am, and as who I've always been. I'm not looking to take home the glory of being a student in the Hero Course, but… We will show you all what we're made of. We will reach new limits from here on out and for the next three years that will come… And I promise you this; we won't go beyond just Plus Ultra… We'll go further than that."
"To go even further beyond that, is what we'll continue to show you."
As he finished his speech, he slowly raised his fist high in the air as if the battle had been won. The crowd remained silent for a moment, and clapped and cheered loudly at his words, with Momo and the other Hero Course students cheering in response. The other students from the other Courses had a bit of mixed feelings as some cheered while most stayed silent with disheartened looks. Ben smirked as he turned to walk off the stage, but not before glancing at Midnight.
"Think I said too much?" He asked with a tone of confidence.
"Benny-chan my darling, you were perfect." Midnight said with another suggestive smile. "I bet you've riled up a quite a few amount of people. Some probably in…more ways than one."
"…I need an adult?" He asked once again.
"And I am one." She then smiled with a seemingly innocent face. She then gave him a wink and a smile before she ushered Ben to go back to the crowd. Just before he went back he turned to Bakugo; he noticed that his expression for the first time was in awe, before turning back to his usual expression.
"That was the best speech I've ever heard!" Mina grinned as he slapped his back.
You really are good at improvising!" Sero said. "You left those guys speechless!"
"I was a bit worried about you, but you were able to manage after all huh, Ben-chan?" Asui smiled as she ribbited.
Ben simply smiled at them, and nodded to Momo. As he returned to the crowd, Midnight cleared her voice as she cracked her whip once more. "Next to speak, is Katsuki Bakugou!"
"What do you think he's gonna say?" Kaminari asked.
"Probably something like "I'll rise to the top and crush you extras!", or "You're all stepping stones for my greatness!" like he usually does." Sero joked.
"I-I really hope not..." Midoriya chuckled nervously.
The whole class turned back to the stage as Bakugo stepped up to the microphone. Everyone had gone silent as they looked to him with a bit of curiousness in their eyes. As they watched Bakugo take a deep breath as they couldn't help but step forward a little. It was going to take a mighty speech to overcome what Ben just did.
"...I'm going to win."
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"…Did he just?" Mineta stood still as he turned to everyone, pointing a finger at Bakugo as he froze. The whole class screamed at this, as they yelled in unison:
"I KNEW HE'D SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT!"
The whole crowd of students started to boo at him, shouting insults at him like "Sludge Boy" or "Bastard" or even a bit of both. Several veins popped on Ben's face as he chuckled ominously.
"…This piece of shit… And after all I went through to make myself sound badass…!" He muttered. Momo was about to reprehend him for cursing, but Iida quickly interrupted her as he violently started to do his usual arm gesture.
"WHY ARE YOU DOING SOMETHING SO DISGRACEFUL!?" He yelled. "AND AFTER TENNYSON-KUN'S MOTIVATING SPEECH NO LESS!"
"It's not my fault that you're all just stepping stones to my eventual victory." Bakugo said, pointing downward with his thumb. Several other students popped blood vessels in their eyes in response.
"HOW OVERCONFIDANT CAN YOU GET!?" A student from Class B named Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu yelled. He was a young man with long gray hair that never appeared to change shape, no eyebrows and thick pale eyelashes that encompass his eyes. Like Kirishima, he also had razor-sharp teeth. "I'LL CRUSH YOU!"
"Tetsutetsu-kun…" The orange haired girl of 1-B, Kendo Itsuka sighed. "Calm down please…"
Bakugo took his leave on the stage to rejoin his classmates shortly afterwards as the commotion finally started to die down, and Midnight cleared her throat as to get everyone's attention on her.
"Well other than that, let's get the game started right away!" She then said to both the students and the audience. "The first game is what you would call the qualifier! Every year, many drink their tears here! Now here is the fateful first game!"
A screen appeared just behind her showing what looked to be a slot machine that some would see at a casino. It rolled off at blurring speeds until it was shown stopping at a certain word phrase. As the objected word started to slow down, it revealed itself to be none other than… "Obstacle Race".
"This year's first event will be… An Obstacle Race!" She announced.
"An obstacle race?" Izuku said with an intrigued look. Several other students narrowed their eyes as she began to explain.
"All eleven classes will participate in this race. The course will be the outer circumference of this stadium, which is about four kilometers! And you know us—our school's selling point is freedom!"
She licked her lips, causing some of the students to flinch at this while most of the boys had a nosebleed. "As long as you stay on the course, it doesn't matter what you do!"
"Oh?" Ben suddenly had a devilish smile growing on his face. Momo shuddered slightly, as some students around himself as he whispered something into the Omnitrix. "This will certainly be an interesting event then!"
"…Kare wa chōdo nani o itta nodesu ka? Sore wa eigodesu ka?" Mina said in Japanese with shock in her voice. The blonde girl with horns from Class 1-B blinked in surprise as she turned to him.
"You speak English! Cool! I thought you were an American!" She called out to him. Many of the students gave the duo some weird looks as Ben gave her a smile. "How are you so fluent in Japanese?"
"Trademark secret though. Name's Ben Tennyson." He chuckled.
"Pony Tsunotori!" She walked up to him and shook his hands. "Oh, it's so good to see another American here!"
"Uhm… You are speaking English, yes?" Momo joined in on the conversation. Her slight accent was heard, but Ben and Pony smiled in response. "I did not know you were fluent in both English and Japanese."
"Karera wa subete eigo o hanashite iru!" Kirishima retorted as he sweat dropped. "Dono yō ni yoki shinai…"
"Wakarimasu ka? Watashi wa sore ni tsuite kangaete iru yuiitsu no hitode wa nakatta yo ne?! NE?!" Mina turned to them again. Ben chuckled as he pretended to cough into his arm, muttering something to the Omnitrix. "I didn't know he was fluent in both languages!"
"Well, it's a trademark secret." Ben smirked.
"Nani the frick!" The pink girl ruffled her hair as he seemingly responded back in "fluent" Japanese. "Make up your mind if you're gonna speak Japanese or English, sheesh!"
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"I should be excited…but why am I scared for some reason?" Midoriya said as he squeaked. He suddenly got an eerie feeling coming from Ben as he turned around. Behind all the students, a giant gate appeared from the ground, with several light beacons beginning to shine off with a red glow.
"What's the matter, Midoriya-chan?" Asui asked as she gave him a wink. "Getting nervous?"
"N-No! Not at all, Tsu-chan!" He quickly blurted out with a slight blush.
"It's time to depart!" Iida quickly hushed them as Midnight cracked her whip once more. "Let us listen to her last words!"
"Thank you, Iida Tenya! Now everyone!" The Hero said pointing to the starting line with her tool. "Take your places! The moment those lights turn green, the race will officially start and the gate will open!"
The students soon crowded over at the red gate. Midoriya and some of the other 1-A students stood at very back with their fellow Hero Course classmates, mentally preparing themselves for what was about to come their way. He started to do leg warm ups and stretched his arms a little with a look of determination, but as he looked forward, he saw Ben with the most fearsome grin he had as he forced himself to the front.
"U-Uh, guys? What's Ben planning to do?" He stuttered as he pointed to the front.
"…Oh no." Momo sighed. "I told him to restrain, but it looks like he's going to—"
Before the rest of the students near her could fully comprehend the words she was about to say to finish her sentence, just as she was within reach with the end of her speech, she heard the buzzer sound off causing her to jump. On signal, the red lights shifted to a bright green as the giant metal gate opened itself up.
"START!"
She heard Midnight yell before she was bushed by the ground of students through the red gate. In front of the crowd was Ben, who courageously began to scram through the now bulging crowd of students starting to go through the tight squeeze of the exit.
(Insert Jet Set Run!)
It took her and the rest of her classmates all but a minute to regain herself as she quickly went to run along with the crowd out of the stadium and into the open area provided. Though she had a tough time getting their as the space in the tunnel was small, causing everyone to get squish at each other.
"MOVE YOUR ELBOW!"
"MOVE IT, DAMN IT!"
"WHO THE HELL JUST GROPED MY REAR?!"
"DAMN IT, MINETA! DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS SITUATION!"
"TO THE HUNTERS GO THE SPOILS! I'M IN PARADISE!"Everyone could hear the perverted student yell out shamelessly as several female students gasped and made similar noises. It didn't take long for him to get slugged in the face by some passerby though.
Midoriya let out a groan as he tried his best to get himself to move forward, though he had difficulty doing so as a couple of times he almost found himself tripping again and again.
'Damn it! I gotta get ahead of this crowd somehow! But how do I—Wait, what's?!'
His thoughts were suddenly cut off when he, along with several students, felt a heat wave go through the tunnel and just outside. He felt his body was suddenly trapped in a suffocating vortex of heat, as was the other students around him as the color yellow and orange blasted back towards the entire crowd.
"This is—!" Several Class 1-A students realized the ferocious flames starting to spew out. Momo saw a familiar figure run past the crowd and went ahead. It was Ben, transformed into Heatblast. As he ran, he blasted forth spews of flames that propelled him forward.
"Sorry about that!" The fire alien grinned as he landed a fair distance away from the crowd. As he flashed back to Ben, he ran for a little while until he noticed another figure following him shortly. "Oh?"
"…That was quite the shock." Todoroki muttered with slight annoyance as bits of ice melted off from him. "Almost got me."
The fire and ice user had protected himself through the initial blast by creating an ice wall around himself, as well as encasing his body in ice. The first fire strike easily melted the wall away and most of his ice armor, but it was enough to leave him in a state well enough to get pass most of the crowd that dropped to the ground due to sweating so much. As he ran forth, he also froze the path behind him, causing the rest of the students to now suffer a suffering wave of coldness.
"That's a bit harsh! Was I too cold to you?" He joked. Todoroki merely gave him a semi-glare as they ran off.
All the students started to try to pry themselves from the ice, though most couldn't due to the pain. "Okay, we're doing this now!" Bakugo exclaimed as he quickly broke out with some explosions. Drawing his arms, he gave them a swing, breaking the ice instantly. He kept his momentum as he stepped on the heads of the crowd.
"Yo, Eraserhead my man! Are you ready for our epic live coverage and commentary?! Things are starting to heat up, don't you think?!" Present Mic gallantly yelled out from his microphone as he made a pun.
"Not voluntarily… But this is our job to do so, unfortunately." Aizawa responded.
He was able to get herself ahead of the crowd; though not only had it been him, he saw, Momo, Aoyama, and Kirishima had flown with him, each of them using their own Quirks to maneuver out after he started with the initial buildup of ice destruction. If one could see behind them, Tokoyami, Mina, Ojiro, and even Uraraka, Mineta and Midoriya were able to avoid the first wave. What surprised most people though was that Shinso of all people was able to avoid it as well, though the method he proposed was a bit more…unique in the matter.
"Jesus Christ!" Mina sighed in relief as she used her Acid to melt away the ice on her feet. "Talk about rough!"
"Whew… Not going to fall for that trick again." Ojiro sweat dropped as he used his tail to bounce himself into the air. He remembered being able to dodge this attack only due to Ben's quick timing and his hover board during the Student vs. Student Training.
"What the hell, Todoroki?!" Mineta barked as he and Midoriya jumped above the wave.
'Nice and quick thinking, me!' Uraraka growled to herself as she quickly used Zero Gravity to levitate for a short time, floating up to above the heads of her fellow students.
"Fire and Ice… Those two are expert users of their Quirks, as expected." Shinso noted as he sat on the raised arms of people he controlled with his Quirk. Quickly jumping off from his subordinates, he leaped forward. 'I'll use this opportunity to get some data.'
As some of the others students began to crawl out, Mineta quickly grinned as he slapped off some of the sticky spheres from his head, throwing them onto the floor to use as platforms. "HA! Guess even you guys can't block out all of us!"
'Well, as expected from my class… But a lot more made it out than I anticipated… Not to mention that Tennyson made a bold move at first.' Todoroki noted as he glanced back. Watching Mineta bounce from ball to ball, he gave him and Ben a sneering grin.
"HOW DO YA LIKE THAT, BEN?! TODOROKI?! GET READY FOR MY SPECIAL MOVE NOW! GRAPE R—"
As he prepared to utilize some sort of super move involving his Quirk, Ben quickly gave him a wink as a blurring figure came and smacked him right across the side. The sheer force from the strike caused the midget teen to slam down onto the ground and roll a few dozen meters. Midoriya and Todoroki widened their eyes in shock as Ben merely smiled.
"M-Mineta-kun?!" The mop haired teen cried out in shock, before looking in the direction towards the figure that caused the damage in the first place. He gasped as he and the some of the students coming out from the ice trail instantly recognized what they were looking at.
"—Multiple targets acquired!"
"What the hell?! The Mock Villains from the Entrance Exam?!" Midoriya's eyes popped out as one of the robots revealed itself to the students. Behind it, dozens upon dozens of other Mock Villain robots of various sizes began to spawn in through garage ways.
"Thaaaaaaaaaaaaat's right, folks!" Present Mic grinned. "Every Obstacle Course needs obstacles after all! Presenting our very first wave of efficient blockage, we have none other than the First Barrier—"
"ROBO INFERNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Those are the freaking Zero-Pointers from the Exam!" A student cried out towards some of the larger robots in the back. "This is just bull crap!"
"W-Wait! The Hero Course brats had to fight these?!" A student that wasn't in the General Studies or Hero Course yelled out in shock. "There's no way we can handle them then!"
"So…these are the Mock Villains they used for the test that everyone else took?" Todoroki observed the robots as they drew closer.
"How did they even get the money to pay for these!?" Momo said. She gave a similar look to them, but she quickly glanced back down to see Ben running forward with nothing but a smile and not a care in the world.
"Ben?! Are you crazy?!" She barked out. Though, her words were ignored, and her thoughts were suddenly brought to new heights as Ben jumped up towards them, his body flashing as he did so.
In a flash of emerald light, he was replaced by tall, black and green, blob-like humanoid that appeared to be made of circuitry, which was further emphasized by the green and black, circuitry-like patterns all over his body. On his head was a green circle, and he wore white, gray, and green clothing on his front torso, and amongst them was the Omnitrix dial.
Ben wasted no time in marching over to one of the smaller robots, a wave of weirdness flowing to everyone about his visually emotionless expression. Momo stared at the black and green, blob-like alien peculiarly. She had been introduced to yet another transformation she had never seen. Before she could comment, the sounds of the Galvanic Mechamorph enveloping one of the zero pointers with a tight hug drew her back; much to her surprise. All of a sudden, Upgrade's body became more blob-like and began to ooze all over its body. It began to move erratically until something incredible began to happen in front of everyone's eyes. He began to amalgamate with and reshape the robot's body…transforming it into something else entirely.
Instead of resembling mechanized monsters with barely any form dewing to lifeforms on Earth, the swallowed up low pointer began to build up to a mechanical humanoid shape. It was now a large robotic mech that was several meters high, primarily charcoal gray in color with white, green, and black details. Its legs were noticeably wide at the hips, and it seemed to possess technology progressively more advanced than anything seen on Earth as Ben's circular eye appeared on its cranium. A moment later, the Omnitrix dial appeared on his chest.
"D-Did he just merge with one of those things?!" Momo cried out.
"…Upgrade…complete!" Upgrade announced as he landed on the ground, his voice sounding like a robotic version of Ben's.
Everyone watched as he looked at a zero pointer in front of him. As he lifted his arm up, he drew an energy blade from his wrist as one of the robots reached for him. "I've beaten these things before…" He started to say. "And this form's a hundred more powerful than them! So, I'll do it again! This time however, I won't be as merciful!"
"RAAAGGHH!" The monster robot roared violently while it began to slam its large armament onto his smaller body.
"Geez, this guy is really annoying." Upgrade remarked.
The Upgraded robot crouched low and launched himself up, avoiding the attack. Upgrade proceeded to spread out a pair of engine thrusters on his back and activated the jetpack functionality, which shot out green after-burn and blasted himself forward. Many of the students were surprised for a second when they realized he could fly, but it immediately passed and was replaced with shock.
The titan roared once more as it summoned a dozen rockets from its ammo reserves, with all of them flurrying around in the air. With amazing speed and aerobatics, Upgrade easily outmaneuvered the heated projectiles. As he concentrated on maneuvering with the enhanced robot's abilities, green lightning began to sizzle around his ebony blade.
As he accelerated towards the giant, the Zero Pointer shot more projectiles from its hands, but the newly improved robot amazingly dodged in-between every projectile that came his way. When he got close enough, Upgrade charged his blade with green electricity and slashed several times toward its main body. Several green energy waves struck the target, ripping into its green metallic hide and causing it a lot of pain. The humongous robot roared violently and fired a stream of lasers from the many red eyes it had located on its head. Upgrade circled around the robotic titan with each of its gigantic arms on his tail. Narrowing his eye, he increased his speed even more to the point where he became a black blur with a green light wake.
"Fast!" Midoriya pointed out.
"And deadly!" Uraraka added.
The Zero Pointer looked in every direction with its sensors, frantically trying to get a hit; however, its opponent was too fast. Upgrade quickly reappeared in front of the robot's face, opening several slots located on his shoulders and legs, firing a volley of energy blasts from his cannons at its eyes and head, as well as an optic laser from his eye.
"Just how many forms does this guy have?!" A student from General Studies barked out. "Is he invincible?!"
"Invincible? No, of course not!" Upgrade quickly quirked back as he dodged another slap from the zero pointer. "Now then, time to finish you off…"
As the giant robot roared and shot out another volley of rockets, Upgrade activated his jetpack and flew high to avoid the blast, and hovered in the air for a moment. Shooting forward like a rocket, his short, green sword was cocked back to its zenith as it grew in size and length, morphing to the equivalent of a giant energy broadsword. Emerald lightning began to crackle on the blade as it gathered large amounts of energy. Going in for the kill, he gave the robot a slash across its metal torso; thus, unleashing the energy his sword had gathered. A moment as he flew through the hole he made, he tapped the Omnitrix dial, separating him from the robot he merged. It collapsed into pieces as the zero pointer exploded behind him. As he landed and rolled, he wasted no time as he ran forward once more.
"…Whoa! Did you all see that?!" Present Mic was speechless for a moment, but immediately began to commentate. Aizawa was indeed shocked as well, but being used to his bizarre transformations gave him some sort of surprise breakdown. "Ben Tennyson had just showed us an amazing show! Better step up your game, everyone!"
"…Show off." Todoroki said as he ran forward as well. 'These things aren't nearly as threatening as they say.'
Clenching his right hand, a massive amount of moisture began to circulate around him as another Zero Pointer attempted to slam down its giant palm. Swiping his hand up, from his foot and arm, he skimmed the floor and went straight up.
"And since dear old dad is watching…" He grumbled. His eyes widened momentarily as he gave out a short war cry.
"Giant Ice Wall!"
Creating a massive ice ridge in the direction he threw his arm in, in an instant, the giant zero pointer and the surrounding area was frozen solid. He gave out a short exhale as he stood back up, bits of ice melt away from his body temperature as he began to run through the opening between mock Villain's legs.
"He stopped the rest of them!" A student called out as the mist began to steam back to the crowd.
"We can get through there now! Let's go, everyone!" Another ordered.
"I wouldn't attempt to do so if I were you." Todoroki quickly intercepted as he glanced back however. "I froze them when they were in unbalanced positions."
"Oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuu—"Kirishima cursed out as the ice covered mechs began to crumble down towards them. Due to the awkward positioning they had before being frozen, being unable to balance themselves out as they fell meant that they had no control of their movements. Their circuitry and systems were completely shut down as they began to fall towards the crowd. It seemed that some of the students unfortunately managed to get crushed underneath them.
"And that means they're going to fall…" The Half Hot-and-Half Cold user finished as he left to follow Ben.
As the massive dust clouds began to burst out to the surrounding area, Present Mic grabs his microphone as he grinned once again. "And look what we have here, folks! Todoroki Shoto from Class 1-A! He proceeded to go in a smooth fashion; attack once, and make that attack end up as a defense mechanism! Check it out! How elegant! He might not be in first place, but he's done some major damage to the corkage of the other students!"
"It might be deemed as unfair to many of you watchers out there, but the actions he performed were logical and strategic. A simple motion that got the results that he needed. And although he could have gone for a flashier approach like Tennyson, it's not exactly necessary to do so." Aizwawa further explained.
"Well, the kid did get into U.A. through recommendations! It's only expected." Present Mic added as he stood up. "He'd never seen them up until today, but he's blowing through his race like a burning ice man!"
"…Please, no puns." Aizawa sighed.
The robots soon had started to pile around the students as they passed through the wreckage of the Zero Pointer that Todoroki had destroyed previously. From beyond the rest of the frozen mechs that didn't crumble to pieces, some of the shocked students noticed that they started to crack at certain parts. Shortly afterwards, two voices were heard roaring out as they popped out like gophers.
"Those two guys were crushed! What the hell, wouldn't that kill them?!" A student pointed out.
"People might actually die during this damn festival?!" Another student grabbed his noggin.
"Wait… Take a look at that!" A female student from 1-B called out, Shiozaki Ibara being her name. She had black eyes, but her green hair seemed to be made out of vines. "Those two are…!"
"LIKE I'D FUCKING DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!" Kirishima and Tetsutetsu both smashed their ways out from the cold metal that they were trapped in. Kirishima's arms, face, and hair were hardened, while Tetsutetsu's body was colored to a metallic gray.
"Holy crap! Both Kirishima Eijirou and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu from the Hero Course were trapped underneath! That's CRAZY!" Present Mic actually was quite shocked to what he saw.
"Damn it, Todoroki!" Kirishima growled. "He timed it right when they would fall on purpose! Geez man, if it weren't someone like me, they would've gotten seriously injured!"
"You're freaking telling me!" Tetsutetsu barked. "You guys from Class A must be crazy or something! If someone wasn't made out of steel like me, they'd be toast right now!"
"Oh what the hell?! Our Quirks are pretty much the same damn thing!" The redhead cried out with tears as he and his fellow Hero Course classmate began to run up the fallen wreckage.
"Hey, hey, wait just a freaking second!" The steel teen barked as he followed him up.
"Those guys are lucky as crap…!" Kaminari noted. "They don't have to worry about getting hurt in events like these!"
"Yeah! That means we gotta work together to make sure none of us manage to get hurt!" Another student from Class 1-B, Rin Hiryu, yelled out to the students that weren't able to pass by at first as his hand began to form green scales. He had black hair which was tied to a braided ponytail.
"—Oh bullshit!" Bakugo cursed in response as he aimed his arms down. "Who has time for that?!"
"What the—Bakugo?!" The electric Quirk user blinked in surprise.
Bakugo took everyone by surprise when he quickly flew over the robot landing at the top of them; he had been able to evade the punch that the robot threw at him.
"I'M NOT LETTING YOU GET AHEAD OF ME!" He yelled as he landed on top of the robot. He used the force of his explosions to go left and right, zig-zagging his way up.
"And here we have Class 1-A's Bakugo Katsuki!" Present Mic announced. "Since none of them can go through the bottom, he chose to go overhead! How cleeeeeever! Oh, but what's this?!"
"You aren't the only one who can do something like that!" Sero yelled from afar as Bakugo landed. He glanced back to see him firing his tape to the top, using the momentum used to drag himself to climb up. "Though I have to admit that you seem like the guy to just blast through whatever's in your way!"
"The hell did you just say?!" Bakugo barked. His eyes widened slightly as he witness Tokoyami utilizing Dark Shadow to climb his way to the top. He kissed his teeth as he turned to jump off the mock Villain, with the other two quickly joining him to the bottom.
"He's right, you know!" Iida suddenly yelled as he blasted forward himself. Going around the wreckage to face a frontal assault squad of lower tiered mock Villains, he drop kicked one out of the way. "We have to use any means we can to get through this!"
"Damn right!" Jiro grinned as she slid between two herself. Using her jacks, she stabbed them and broke them from the inside out using her amplified heartbeats. "We can't sit here squabbling around!"
…
"Hm… As expected. Most of the students that are proceeding so far belong to the Hero Courses, namely from Class A." Snipe observed from his seat. Everyone sitting in the stadium could see the action from wherever they sat, thanks to the many monitors being displayed throughout the location.
"That is true…but." Thirteen, who sat next to him.
"Indeed. Class B and the other Courses aren't doing too bad themselves." Toshinori added. "The thing about those kids though is just…"
"Compared to every other class, Class A doesn't spend their time just standing around… Those who experienced firsthand, the world above them that they unfortunately learned during their time at the USJ, the incident that drove them through it..." Aizawa started.
"The very beings that were supposed to instill fear into their hearts… They were able to deal and overcome those trials. All of that immediate experience, is what they're now using to drive themselves forward without hesitation."
Many of the students from 1-A proceeded to go forth using their own methods. It was quite the surprised to the other courses how much they weren't afraid. Ojiro had literally jumped smacked through three mock Villains without hesitation, and even Uraraka had her moment when she picked up and threw several out from the race's course.
As more and more of the Mock Villains began to drop down like flies, many of the students had begun a cautious journey to the second part. At this point, they knew that the next obstacles had to be something even more severe than the ones that they just escaped from.
From the front, Ben quickly overcame the distance he had from Todoroki, but as he drew closer to another, he did a slide, eventually coming to a halt when he saw what was in front of them; with some of his other classmates joined up with him and gazing at the sight with awe as well. Before his very eyes…there was a canyon with large gaps in between each rock formation, and the only thing that was a bridge was a single white string between each gap and rock. The ground wasn't seen as what had followed was darkness at the bottom of it as Ben peered over the ledge.
"Woah there." He croaked. "That's steep."
"What the hell!" Uraraka and Mina growled.
"If you thought the first barrier was easy, than take a look at the second!" Present Mic said to the students and audience, "If you fall you're out! If you don't wanna fall, then crawl! It's—"
"THE FALL!"
"Well it certainly lives up to its name." Asui said aloud.
"When did they even have time to build this!?" Uraraka exclaimed.
"Well, you'd be surprised with the staff U.A. has in store." Ben replied.
"That was rhetorical!" The Zero Gravity user cried out in response. "So how do we get across?!"
"Easy." Asui ribbited. She soon stepped forward, and some were a bit taken back when she jumped a good feet away from the crowd as she landed on the rope. She then started to make her way across as she was on all fours. "This is like a glorified tightrope."
"…As expected of Tsu-chan. She's as calm as ever." Ben chuckled.
"I never knew she could be so fast!" Mina commented. As she gulped, she and Uraraka heard someone giggle behind them, as if it had been out of excitement. They turned to see a girl with pink locks and a pair of yellow eyes and having a pair of goggles; though what really took them back was the fact that she had on some sort of leg devices on her and another around her waist which looked to be rockets.
"Here it is!" She said. "Here's my chance to show off! It's time for my support items to be in limelight! LOOK, ALL YOU SUPPORT COMPANIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY!"
"All those devices and talk for companies… You must be from the Support Course." Ben quickly concluded, before narrowing his eyes on the equipment she had on. "Wait… Are those metallic boots that have turbines implanted inside them? Hover boots? And…a mixture between a grappling hook and an arrow with a firing mechanism?"
"Oh?! You recognize the efficiency of such tools?!" She sudden drew her attention to him as she suddenly grabbed his hands. Ben flinched a little as she grinned. "It's exactly as you said! Wait, you're the one who took control of that giant mechanical structure! How'd you do that?! I MUST KNOW!"
"What's with all that equipment!?" Uraraka said.
"Well, you know all about the permissions we can get regarding the use of equipment? Like how Aoyama got permission to use his belt so he could use his Quirk." Ben explained while being tossed back and forth by the pink haired girl.
"O-Oh… Wait, so who are you then?" Uraraka turned to the girl.
"Oh, me? Hatsume Mei, at your service!" She gallantly yelled, before looking out to the course. "Oh! That's my cue! Say hello to the Hover Soles and Wire Arrows!"
Suddenly the device from her waist fired a grappling hook and attached itself to one of the rock formations. She soon started to hover as she landed on the side of one of the steep rock formations, taking the three of them by surprise before she made her way across. She pulled herself up before they saw her on the side of the rock formation getting herself up.
"Time to show off my babies!" She giggled.
"B-Babies?" Uraraka questioned.
"Wow…" Mina said speechless.
"Let's make some Babies together afterwards, techno guy!" She yelled off in the distance to Ben. "They'll be wonderful!"
"…Uh, was that…nevermind." The Omnitrix wielder shook his head as he got the otherwise suggestive thought out of his head. "She's just asking for machine productions."
"…Cool." Shinso grinned a little himself as he approached the second course. "Now then, what shall I…"
"Well, I guess it's time for me to go as well!" Ben smiled, making Shinso snap his eyes forward. He noticed that Todoroki and some of the other students had started to travel off towards the other end, so he quickly ran and leaped forward. Just as he did so, Momo happened to arrive and barely had the time to retort against his seemingly suicidal actions.
"Time to stink it up!" He called out as the Omnitrix flashed. The students who witness the bright green light soon frowned as the stench of Stinkfly soon filled their noses. Some of them also fell off the rope because they tried to cover themselves.
"A bug now?!" Momo frowned. "This kid keeps on surprising me…?! Oh he did not just…"
As the Lepidopterran flew across the deep chasm, he chuckled with an obviously evil intent as he spat out slime from his eyes. Each stream managed to dose the tightropes he flew all around, making everyone groan in annoyance as he flew to the other side.
"What the hell Ben, you damn bug!" Kirishima barked.
"Class A is full of assholes!" Tetsutetsu yelled.
As he flew over, it was then that Bakugo growled as he lifted himself off from the ground with the biggest explosion he could muster. Asui soon saw something fly overhead; she had been quick to realize it had been h im, who had flown above and started catching up to Todoroki.
"That damn shape-shifter! Don't you dare get in front of me!" He ordered. Todoroki seemed to had agreed as he sped up his movements.
After struggling to keep balance, many of the others finally managed to get to the end. As Asui got to the end couldn't help but look back with a bit of worry as she still thought about Midoriya and how he was doing. She wanted to go back to at least see where he was but she knew she couldn't. She knew he wouldn't want her to do that, and ruin her chance. She didn't think he or rather herself wouldn't forgive themselves if that were the case.
"…I hope you at least pass this round, Midoriya-chan." She ribbited as she went on.
…
"…Really?" Todoroki grumbled.
"And now, we've finally come to the third and final barrier!" Present Mic soon said over the PA. "The reality here is… It's a minefield!"
"A minefield. You guys really know how to go big." Ben, now reverted back to human, joked.
"It's set up so that you can't tell where the mines are if you don't look carefully!" The Voice Hero explained. "So you have to exploit your arms and legs! By the way these landmines are for the games, so they're not that powerful, but they're loud and flashy enough to see stars!"
"Oh. Then there's hope after all then." Ben's expression did a 180 as he smiled.
"That depends on the person." They heard Aizawa add. "Some might do better than others of course."
"What does that mean?" Asui said questioningly.
They soon saw a student from the general studies had caught up with them. "HA! TAKE THAT CLASS 1-A!" The student yelled. Though he didn't notice that he stepped on the landmine. The entire field in front of them was littered with the things.
A loud explosion was heard, but Ben could've sworn he heard some sort of familiar scream calling out. Some sort of…Wil…something scream he remembered. As he found himself flying, some of the arriving students were taken back by this as they saw him fly off the course; even Bakugo saw this as and stopped momentarily.
"Oh, that's what they meant." She said with an astonished face, though no one could tell otherwise.
"It doesn't matter! All I have to do is fly across!" Bakugo grinned as he blasted himself forward. Gaining a large distance from him, Ben, and Todoroki, he began to run through. "You picked the wrong guys to declare war on, you piece of crap half-and-half!
"You know, this is why I like competition." Ben smiled as his body flashed. Once again, he took on a form that none of the other students recognized. This time, it was that of a canine-like alien. He appeared to be a large orange dog with no eyes, ears, nose, or tail. His posture and movements were somewhat apelike. His teeth were defined and stick out of his mouth. He had no eyes, instead using his sense of smell and hearing, which were aided by three gill-like nostrils located on each side of his neck as he sniffed around. To finish it off, on his left shoulder, he wore a black and green brace that bore the Omnitrix dial.
"…A dog?" Todoroki eyed him as he attempted his own run across. He watched as Ben seemingly traversed through the field as though he were a burglar of some sort, swiftly dodging landmines that were placed left and right.
"OH! We have competition right near the end of the race, everyone! Get excited, mass media! We have an explosive entrance from Class 1-A's Bakugo, and another transformation from Ben Tennyson of the same class! It seems like many of the other students are coming to trial up as well! What's going to be the end result?!" Present Mic announced.
'…A canine like form with no eyes or ears, and another that seems to be some sort of…techno-organic lifeform that's capable of merging with machinery…' Aizawa analyzed. "This is actually get more interesting than I thought."
…
As the three caught up to one another, more of the other students began to arrive. Since Midoriya was one of the few that didn't use his Quirk to gain an advantage, he was one of the few who arrived lastly into the entrance of the minefield. Looking forward as he watched the three nudge each other around to trigger a mine, he quickly grew desperate to close the distance.
'Shoot, they're so far away…!' He thought. A few students noticed that he seemed to be carrying a piece of debris that was left off from a mock Villain that Todoroki destroyed previously. 'Wait…these mines… Maybe I can…!'
Looking down, he grabbed his piece and actually began to dig through the ground, unraveling one of the mines. It was white in color, resembling a button of sorts. Gritting his teeth, he quickly shoveled it to a nearby location as he began to dig up more and more of the explosives.
As Jiro managed to come around as well, she gave the One For All user a look of confusion as she ran pass by. "What the heck are you doing, Midoriya?"
'…They're the type of mines that detonate from the slightest of force when stepped on. They appear to only be strong enough to toss around us at the most, but if you manage to cause a chain reaction you could potentially lose a lot of time… I better slow down and concentrate at this spot since this is the entrance, and that means that there'll be a lot more of anti-personnel mines coming into play—'
Midoriya muttered this to himself both out loud and mentally. As he began to pile up a gargantuan amount of mines, he glanced forward as Present Mic began to commentate once more.
"—It looks like this race is about to come to an end! Tennyson, Todoroki, and Bakugo are at each other's throats as they all come to the end! They're all about to cross the finish line; who's going to win?!"
"Taking a page from your book, Kacchan!" He finally yelled out as he piled all the mines he gathered together. Taking a few steps back, he dived forward and straight onto the pile.
Hitting the mines, it caused an explosion so huge, it actually ignited the mines on the surrounding area as well, causing a chain reaction, making several other explosions. The blast caused him to fly high into the sky drawing the attention of everyone, especially the Troublesome Trio who had ceased their fighting that they had been doing earlier. Everyone protected themselves from the shockwave created from the explosion.
"Holy Mackerels!Was it an accident or did he do that on purpose!?" Present Mic yelled over the PA. "Class 1-A's Midoriya, is now in hot pursuit with that huge blast!"
This had taken everyone back as they flew over them, eventually they even took, the big three by surprise when he just above their heads and a few feet ahead of them. "AND HE EVEN HAS TAKEN THE LEAD!"
"Meeedoooreeeyaaa?!" Ben muttered with his canine like accent.
'SHOOT! THERE'S TOO MUCH FORCE!' Midoriya yelled through the wind to himself. 'HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO LAND SAFELY!'
"DEKUUUUUUUU!"
He soon noticed that Bakugo pushed away both Ben and Todoroki as he rocketed himself forward towards him with his Quirk. "DON'T YOU DARE GET AHEAD OF ME!" He yelled.
"Piece of…" Todoroki growled lowly as he ran forward without hesitation. Creating a constant trail of ice as he went on, he momentarily glanced back to see the transformed Ben flash once again, transforming into Heatblast. 'This path will end up being used by everyone else, but right now…!'
Heatblast quickly narrowed his eyes as a ring of fire circled around him. Channeling fire into the ground, he chunked out a piece of rock to ride on, using it to fly forward and beyond the remains of the minefield. "Oh it's on now, Midoriya!"
"The three students formerly in the lead have stopped trying to slow down each other and are now chasing Midoriya!" Present Mic said with excitement in his tone of voice. "Now that they have a common enemy they've stopped fighting!"
After a few more seconds of flying forward, Midoriya soon noticed that he was beginning to slow down as he began to float slightly. 'Uh-oh! I'm beginning to stall in the air! The force I had at first is now starting to drain away, if I lose time on landing, I'll be sure to lose! Come on… Wait, I see it!'
Midoriya held onto a loose wire onto the piece as he pulled it over his head. Using Bakugo and Todoroki as stepping stones, he placed both of his feet on their shoulders before he threw the piece onto a mine, purposely setting it off. Thanks to the strong explosion, once more he took the three of them by surprise as they found themselves surrounded with smoke as they sent themselves flying even further down on the track. Luckily Heatblast absorbed the explosion's chemical heating as Midoriya bounced off his board and landed on his feet. Heatblast then jumped off his own board and blasted himself forward, morphing back into Ben as he caught up with the green haired teen.
"Oh no you don't!" He yelled.
"Well this is certainly a turn of events! This student from Class 1-A has made it across the minefield in an instant despite being almost badly burnt and one touch away from failure! Eraserhead, your class is amazing! What are you teaching them!?"
"I didn't do anything." Aizawa replied as they all ran. Midoriya and Ben grinned at each other as they tried to obscure each other from the path, whether it be pushing or anything else. "They got each other fired up on their own."
With the two still on each other's back they ran at full speed while keeping a handful distance away from the others behind them, the two being followed by Bakugo and Todoroki who had been doing their best to keep up the pace. They all entered the tunnel, each of them neck and neck with each other.
"Who could've predicted their developments at the beginning of this conclusion?!U.A. Sports Festival, First Year stage! The one who has made it back to the stadium first is none other than…"
"You're ignoring me!?" Aizawa turned to him with a semi-pissed off look as he exclaimed. Present Mic ignored this as he continued though.
"No, the "men" with one of the two being one of the top students of the Entrance Exam! With me folks, let's give it up for…!"
Ben and Midoriya were the first to step back into the stadium, and the first thing they were greeted with was confetti. The crowd cheered loudly as the green haired teen caught his breath, just as the pain of the two fighting inside the tunnel finally coming into play as he rubbed his jaw in soreness. Ben panted a little as he rubbed his cheek, but nonetheless, the two both had the biggest grins on their faces as they stood up together. Midoriya quickly glanced over to the staff's seating. From there, Toshinori and Midoriya gave each other a huge grin and a thumbs up.
"MIDORIYA IZUKU AND BEN TENNYSON!"
'The spirit of a Hero that lies in your core…' Words of All Might started to resurface in Midoriya's mind as tears nearly came out from his eyes.
'This Sports Festival is a competition that tests the aspects of what makes the opposite of a Hero; the willingness to take down an enemy. Heroes today depend on the positive opinion of the populace, so many seek to selfishly beat their fellow competitors. I thought that might your weakness…but that's not what you did. You chose another path…and that's why I chose you to inherit my power.' Toshinori smiled.
'Way to prove me wrong, kid! But…you've got to stop crying, young Midoirya!' He then chuckled as he watched the teen nearly cry his head out. He watched with a smirk as Ben tried to calm him down.
Other students soon emerged through the tunnel, being followed by Todoroki and Bakugo, and they caught their breath. No one seemed to notice that the explosive blond had grasped an arm as it shook, clenching it as he let out a hiss. "Again… Damn… Damn it…!"
"Racers are crossing the line one after another! We'll make a list of the results later, so take a well-deserved breather for now!" Present Mic announced.
"Midoriya-chan/kun!" Midoriya heard Asui and some of Class A yell. Wiping his tears, he and Ben turned to see the rest of the remaining runners coming up. As he went to talk with the frog girl however, Ben noticed a certain mistress coming in with…something on her back.
"…Oh HELL no." He cursed as gave off a menacing face.
"Yaoyorozu-san!" Yelling out to her, Momo walked apathetically as she struggled to maintain her pride as a student. Because of her Quirk usage, she had opened up the front of her uniform, revealing her frontal traits…but what was on her though…
"…This… This is not how it was supposed to go…" She cried out. Slouching slightly, the crowd began to see that Mineta had somehow miraculously managed to snag himself onto her back using his sticky spheres.
"HAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAA! I KILLED TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE!" He yelled shamelessly. His face was all battered up, and not just from the strike he first got from that mock Villain. "I'M A FRUCKING GENIUS!"
"YOU'RE DEAD MEAT YOU MEAN!" Ben roared as he ran towards them. Flashing, Momo and Mineta covered their eyes, only for the former to suddenly feel a load lifted off from her back, and Mineta screaming for mercy as Rath drop kicked him off from Momo.
"Lemme tell you something, Minoru Mineta..." Rath growled in his face.
"…Oh no." The purple haired teen croaked. Grabbing his arms and twisting them behind his body, the small Hero-in-training let out an agonizing scream, before Rath went on lifting him up over his head.
"Never go around acting like a pervert in Rath's sight!" The tiger alien yelled as he threw him into the air. Rath then followed up with a large jump of his own. He grabs him again and turns the student upside down, wrapping his body with all four of his limbs.
"POLARIS…!" Rath started.
"OH FUUUUUUUUUUUU—" Mineta screamed.
"What's this?!" Present Mic commentated. "Do I hear wrestling down there?"
"B-Ben?! Mineta-kun?!" Midoriya and the others noticed as Rath started to come crashing down.
"Oh my." Momo covered her mouth as he neared the floor.
"PIIILLLEEE DRIIIIVVEERRR!" He finished as he slammed into the floor, taking his grasp off Mineta. Revealing the teen's body to be half buried into the ground through the top up, Rath growled as he stood up.
"Damage control! Nursery robots sending off!" Present Mic yelled out, half joking and half in worry. "Ahahaaha… Well folks, a little thing just happened! We'll use the opportunity for the students resting to shift into a period before we continue. Adieu until a few more minutes!"
'…A wrestling tiger creature with anger issues.' Aizawa blinked as Rath flashed back into Ben. The Omnitrix wielder huffed out some air as he turned back to Momo. Aizawa and a bunch of the other students watched in shock as robots came with a stretcher, pulling Mineta like a carrot growing in the ground and carrying him off to the Nurse's office. 'Well, don't want to make him angry, that's for sure.'
After a few minutes passed, the students conversed with one another until their attention was drawn to Midnight as she had tapped on the microphone.
"We apologize for the wait!" She said to the crowd and students, "I think we can all agree that the first event of the Sports Festival has certainly been an eventful one, especially to those tying at the top! But don't worry to those that didn't do well don't worry; we've prepared other chances for you all to shine!"
A screen behind her appeared, tallying the first 60 or some people that managed to get into the stadium in chronological order, with Ben and Midoriya's portrait profiles being the largest, as they got 1st place. After a second or so later, it then blinked, transferring over to the slot machine once more.
"Now then, here's the second game!" Nemuri said, "I already know what it is, but what it could be? What could it be? I just said it, now here it is!"
Everyone watched as the slots started to roll out. As the wording started to slow down, everyone wondered what other kinds of horrors the school had for them, especially with so many people still in the game for an event like this. Everyone gulped as the next event appeared…but they all knew their skills would further be taken to the test as this continued.
The U.A. Sports Festival had just begun, after all.
I love kicking Mineta.
Well, there you have it, folks! The first event, the Race, is now completed! You might have noticed the increased amount of students that were allowed to place themselves into the rankings. Previously it was 42, but I bumped it up since I'm going to add more events.
Speaking of which, what kinds of events do you feel like I should add to this? More obstacle courses? A relay race? Let me know!
For the Calvary Battles… I don't think Ben would do well if he were placed on any team. I think some people mentioned that he could go Ditto or Echo Echo and make a team entirely of Bens, but I want to know you guys' word. I've read some pair ups for the Calvary Battle, so let me know what you guys think I should do.
Anyways, I've said what I wanted to say. I'll be signing off. Please R&R, and have a good rest of your day! PM me or leave a review for your thoughts and/or suggestions!