"Once this sport's festival is over, we're going out." Jirou suddenly said, a few of Samael's classmates stared in jealousy.

Samael stared at her in disbelief, he did not need this right now, his face was burning, bringing him back to the conversation he had with a certain someone yesterday. The festival was about to start, and after the other classes of U.A essentially declaring war on them a fire was lit in his heart that he didn't know he had, and all he could think about was winning.

It was almost surreal to be frank, this sudden desire to win. To be the best out there.

"Don't respond, no need to, just know it's happening." She said, and walked away casually, which allowed the immortal teenager to focus on what was to come.

Right outside… was a whole lot of people eagerly waiting for the festival to begin, right outside, was a lot of people who knew who Samael's father was. Right outside was a lot of people who would love to see him crash and burn.

A spark of rage burned inside him, and his right hand had slowly began to glow black which he instantly noticed and stopped. He would not fail.

Not if he wanted to own Bakugo and expose him for what he was: a bully with a powerful Quirk, no more. No less.

They began to file out of the blackened Olympic hallways, the crowd screamed and cheered. Present Mic did what he did best and began to speak.

"WELCOMEEEE EVERYONNNNEEE! IT'S THE U.A SPORT'S FESTIVALLL. THE ONE TIME EACH YEAR WHERE OUR FLEDGLING HEROES COMPETE IN AN ALL OR NOTHING BATTLE TO PROVE WHO'S THE BEST!"

"FIRST ON OUR GLORIOUS LIST IS THE RISING STARS OF THE ACADEMY, CLASS AAAAAA! THE SAME CLASS WHO FOUGHT OFF A VILLAIN ATTACK WITH THEIR FEROCIOUS WILLPOWER!" Present Mic whipped his hand in the direction of class A. "SAY HELLO TO THE FIRST YEARS OF THE HERO COURSE!"

"Hey, it's that villains son! What the hell is he doing here!?" Someone in the crowd screamed out.

"You shouldn't be here you little bastard! How dare you trespass on such a sacred event!" Another spectator yelled out, the crowd began jeering and booing at the Immortal hero in training.

"Tough crowd." Samael said, he was smirking, but the hollowness in his voice was heard by the entirety of his peers.

"We're expected to put on our best performance in front of all the spectators?" Lida asked, his nerves making his hands shake.

"The ability to keep calm in a crowd is a necessary skill to have." Yaoyorozu said. "Steel yourself Lida."

"Eh heh heh..." Kirishima laughed nervously. "They're really giving us too much credit, don't you think Bakugo?"

"Heh, I'm pumped up for this shit." Bakugo grinned wildly, however his hands were sweaty, showing that he was also nervous.

"Geeze, you think these assholes would have hated for long enough." Kaminari said, referring to the crowd that was still verbally attacking Samael's very presence.

"It sucks." Samael admitted, surprising the others. "But I will not let them define me, I will carve my own fate!"

"'Carve my own fate'"? Kirishima echoed. "That's a manly ass catchphrase man! I should have thought of that."

"Take a look at the other classes." Ashido pointed out, they're totally glaring at us.

"Must be hard to be motivated when we're superior to them in almost every way." Izuku said. Samael almost grinned at Izuku's show of confidence.

Samael took notice of Midnight taking center stage, the R rated hero fit to burst with enthusiasm. The crowd went from angry to… perverted when she took said stage.

"IT'S MIDNIGHT!" A fanboy screamed.

"Should she really be in a highschool?" A hero critic said with a raised eyebrow, Midnight barked at him to shut up (which he did) and turned back to the rest of the crowd.

"Now, time for the athlete's oath!" Midnight called out. "Your student representative is…. Katsuki Bakugo from class 1-A!"

"Kacchan?!" Izuku sputtered. "How in the?"

"Probably because he placed first in the entrance exam..." Sero said.

"The hero course entrance exam you mean..." A girl from the business section said bitterly.

The crowd exploded into cheers like Bakugo using his Quirk when his name was called, as he took the stage the crowd went silent in anticipation, Bakugo's stance was lax, his hands In his pockets and an almost shockingly calm look on his face.

"The athlete's oath..." Bakugo began. "Make no mistake about it..." Suddenly, Bakugo raised his hand and pointed his finger.

Straight at Samael Mizaki. "I will take you down! All for One's son! Then I will Take down your shitty father!"

The entire stadium practically went into a cacophony of cheers, the only one's not cheering being the student's of U.A and it's teachers. Various spectators began roaring their approval to Bakugo:

"YEA KID MAKE THAT SHIT TAKE THAT L."

"YOU GOT THIS, TAKE THAT BASTARD DOWN!"

"SHOW US YOUR RESOLVE YOUNG HERO!"

"You… son of a bitch." Samael growled, though there was a manic grin on his face, up in the booth, Aizawa, the homeroom teacher of class A stared down at Bakugo.

Ohh you've done it now Bakugo. He isn't just going to let that slide. Aizawa thought, remembering the house call he made with Samael Mizaki yesterday:

Flashback

"This… is where he lives?" Aizawa almost couldn't believe the reports that he had gotten from the heroes who watched over him the night he was attacked.

He believed them now. He could only hope the place looked better on the inside, because on the outside It looked abandoned. Hell, in Aizawa's mind it should have been.

He walked up to the front door and knocked on it, wincing as the roof actually creaked a little at doing it. After about a minute's wait he knocked again only to be met with silence.

"Aizawa-sensei?" Aizawa couldn't help but jump a little and was immediately embarrassed doing so. Turning around he saw Samael staring at him with his hood on his head and a confused look on his face. "What are you doing here sir?"

"I came to speak with you." Aizawa said quickly, stepping out of the way and allowing Samael to unlock the front door. "I wanted to talk with you about what… your… father said to you before we got there."

"I…I see." Samael mumbled, then sighed in acceptance. "Alright, uh… sorry about the state of the inside. Welcome to a house without a family."

For some reason Aizawa felt the sting of those words, the bitterness that came from Samael was almost touchable, and he understood when he walked into the place.

The only two positives were the fact that it smelled rather pleasant, in fact it smelled like hotpot in the making, and the fact that despite it looking rather terrible on the inside. It was clean and still looked better on the inside than the outside.

"Uh… sorry I wasn't here when you got here." Samael began to explain, unbagging assortment of ingredients that seemed to be for the hotpot. "I was out buying stuff for tonight."

"I'm surprised that no-one has recognized you and attacked you." Aizawa said then wince, Samael took it well however and just gave a sad smile and shrug.

"A simple hoodie can do wonders it seems." He said. Then briefly looked around awkwardly. "Uh… I was making enough hotpot to last me for a week… do you want some?"

The kind gesture surprised Aizawa but he walked up and finally sat down at one of the counter seats. "How'd you get the money to buy the ingredients anyway?"

Samael froze briefly and his shoulders tensed, then they sagged. Without really looking at him he spoke in a quiet voice. "I… didn't buy them."

Aizawa froze as well. "You… stole the ingredients? You are aware that's illegal." He asked, he wasn't even angry. He really couldn't be considering the state of things.

"I didn't steal them!" Samael snapped. "I raided the convenience store's special trashcan, the one where they take any food they don't sell and recycle it and give it to the needy."

"I see…." Aizawa mumbled. "Then yes… i'll have some as long as it's not poisoned."

Samael snorted. "I've lived alone for literally as long as I can remember. Not to be cocky but I know how to cook Sensei."

"I have 911 on standby." Aizawa said. "But in the meantime, tell me what All for one told you please."

Samael stirred the hotpot while he talked, recounting what had happened in the brief appearance with his father. Aizawa pulled out a notepad and began to take notes on what Samael told him, stopping to ask various questions on the way.

"He called me his weapon… and that when my switch flips… I do whatever it takes to survive..." Samael's voice was light, but bitter and hollow at the same time. "Even kill… I suppose that's to be expected of the son of the strongest villain ever right?"

Aizawa felt a burst of emotion of the pure pain in his students eyes, and he allowed his rare softer side to come out. "That means nothing. It just means that you will have to work harder to be the hero you want to be, who your related to doesn't define you as a person.

"Well Sensei that's the thing…" Samael scratched his cheek. "I didn't really care about being a hero… for a long time after I got accepted into U.A. I just wanted to do it to tell everybody that said I couldn't 'fuck you'."

Aizawa actually laughed at that, it was definitely a thing Samael would do. "Then why? Why did you say what you said to Bakugo?"

Samael clenched his hands. "If you knew half the things he did and still does to Izuku you would expel him sir… I would tell you but it isn't my place to say." Samael took a deep calming breath. "And… somehow because of my friends… I started caring."

"You mean because of your two crushes Yaoyorozu and Jirou?" Aizawa asked, a teasing note in his voice.

"I will pour this hotpot on you and damn us both to starvation." Samael deadpanned, then shook his head. "Crushes? Should I really talk about this with a teacher?"

"Then don't consider me your teacher. I'm a friend over right now." Aizawa offered up, Samael's face scrunched up and he turned back to his hotpot, chopping up medium steak and tossing it into the pot, it smelled so good at this point that Aizawa's stomach growled in anticipation.

"I don't really know what romantic feelings are." Samael suddenly began. "I know what flirting is and I know what… ahem, other things are. But even If they have those feelings towards me and I them… I don't deserve either of them."

"Why not?" Aizawa asked him.

"Because they are both too amazing and beautiful for someone with as many scars as me, they're futures are too bright. And I don't want they're reputations to be tainted by being with me even if they themselves are okay with it. And besides, if they both like me then that means I'll have to choose one if I like one of them and not the other, that will… that will hurt them. And I don't want to do that." Samael explained himself.

Samael chopped up some carrots and tossed them into the pot. "And besides… dont quote me on this but I think Kaminari has a crush or… whatever it's called on Jirou.. but it's Kaminari so I can't be sure… and I've caught Todoroki eyeing Yaoyorozu. And I don't want to take that away from them if I'm right. I'd rather be alone then."

"See?" Aizawa suddenly said. "It may have nothing to do with heroism, but the semblance is there. What you're talking about is an element of self sacrifice, which is a quality of a true hero."

"Was this whole talk to gauge my heroic tendencies or something?" Samael deadpanned.

"Hmm. Maybe." Aizawa said with a shit eating grin. "Call it a logical ruse. How's that hotpot coming along?"

"It's finished now actually." Samael said. Casually sliding him a bowl full of the steaming food, it was Samael's turn to smile cheekily as Aizawa carefully took a bite.

His eye's widened. It was fantastic! The mixture of spices and the assortment of foods providing an exquisite taste that could rival some U.A's Lunch rush hero. Aizawa didn't need to say anything for Samael to know it was good. Instead he discarded propriety and chowed down, finishing in mere minutes. When Aizawa had set his bowl down he, let out a breath of content and looked up to see Samael still smiling smugly at him.

"You know, if you ever decide to switch sides you'd make an awesome wife." Aizawa gave a thumbs up, grinning like an asshole.

The smile fell from Samael's face into outrage. "Get out!" He said, then smiled again. "Thanks… Sensei."

Aizawa stood up and straightened his clothing, moving to the door and opening it he stopped. "Rely on your friends, Mizaki-kun. They will get you through even the toughest times."

End Flashback

If your trying to intimidate him… it wont work, if anything now he'll do whatever it takes to defeat you Bakugo. Because he's a little more similar to you than you both want to admit. Aizawa thought.

I'm not going to lose this! Samael thought fiercely, his gaze was so intense he didn't realize his fingertips were starting to glow it's faint black aura, he was staring down Bakugo with so much anger that it surprised even him.

"Calm down Sam." Kaminari said, using the nickname he came up for Samael.

"Woah there Mizaki-kun, love the enthusiasm but save it for the games!" Midnight called out.

The aura around Samael's fingertips faded out and he flexed his hands, still glaring at Bakugo who was walking down he spoke when he got close. "Challenge accepted." He simply said.

Midnight began to explain the first game, a dangerous obstacle course race between every member of all the classes, four kilometers. Samael mentally began to calculate how much energy he would need to conserve before the next thing Midnight said made him grin.

"Our school preaches freedom in all things, Heh heh heh… So as long as you dont go off the course anything is fair game!"

Then that means I can use my Quirk as much as I need too. Samael said. I'm probably going to just get scrutinized for using my powers on the other students… but I won't lose.

"RACERS! TO YOUR POSITIONS!" Midnight yelled Samael pushed his way as far as he could to the front, his heartbeat began to spike, and his body suddenly felt strange.

Is this… excitement? Samael wondered. He looked for Izuku and spotted him at the front of the line, 7% of one for all's power surging through his body. For right now Izuku, your my enemy too.

I trained so much… if i'm careful I wont kill myself using the attack part of my Quirk… I know it! I can do this! Samael thought. The first obstacle is actually the training gate, whoever is in the back is totally screwed… but I cant see the rest of the course.

Midnight took a deep breath. And Samael's body tensed up. "STAAAAARRRRTTTTT!"

Several things happened at once, Todoroki, Bakugo, Izuku and Lida took off ahead of the crowd, scraping by gate just before the rush got too it, Todoroki froze the ground behind them trapping several of the student's feet in ice, save for some who jumped just in time to dodge it.

Samael grunted with the effort and used another students body to propel himself forward, dodging the ice and clearing the training gate in a single large roll.

"SEVERAL STUDENTS OF CLASS A HAVE MADE IT THROUGH THE GATE, THE LAST BEING SAMAEL MIZAKI WITH A CLEVER MANEUVER TO DODGE THE ICE AND GET THROUGH." Present Mic screamed into his receiver, the crowd booing in response.

"You ain't getting away that easy half n' half!" Bakugo screamed, using his explosions to propel himself forward, the backlash from the explosion hit Samael in the face knocking him back.

He laughed. The crowd cheered. Samael snapped, his entire right hand glowed with a black wavy aura that almost looked like flames.

"IS THAT ALL YOU FUCKING GOT!?" Samael screamed, not bothering to heed the safety of his other friends he slammed his hand onto the ground in front of him. The result was the ground shattering in a similar way to what he did during the league of villains attack, knocking everyone off balance.

He coughed blood into his hand, pain racking his body. But somehow he didn't die from his attack. He dashed forward ahead of the pack, only trailing behind the four who were in the lead from the start.

"What the hell was that!" One of the spectators asked. "I thought his Quirk was just immortality!"

"That… did that attack hurt him?" One of the spectators wondered aloud. "I see blood in his left hand."

"Good thinking, staying two steps behind Todoroki!" Mineta was manic in his movements as he took off a piece of his hair and aimed it at Samael. "Have a taste of my killer gra-"

Samael jumped and Mineta was pulverized by the oncoming attack by one of the gimmick machines. Sent flying he was very nearly knocked out of bounds by the attack.

"Multiple… targets…. Acquired…." One of the gimmicks spoke, slowly walking forward.

Suddenly, the racers in the front were surrounded, and the ones behind them were cut off.

"Shit! We're blocked." Kaminari said.

"Yeah I can tell!" Jirou snapped. "Hey, how about we use that combined attack again!?"

"I don't have Samael's sword so we cant!" Kaminari responded, jumping in the air and landing on the Gimmicks arm, a surprisingly fierce look on his face.

"I've been training hard just so I can fight Samael in this festival..." Kaminari growled. "So I WONT LOSE HERE!" He slapped his hands onto the Gimmick and activated his Quirk, the electricity traveling up the arm of the gimmick straight into its electrical brain, frying it's circuits and destroying it instantly.

Kaminari jumped back to the ground looking no worse for wear. "Let's continue on!"

"So these are the faux villains that they used in the entrance exam?" Todoroki muttered.

"Where did they find the money for all of these?" Yaoyorozu asked.

Pathetic… just giant hunks of metal! Todoroki thought as he froze the ground in front of him. "Especially because dear old dad is watching… ugh." The ice rocketed up two of the Gimmicks and froze them instantly, effectively destroying them.

Samael watched in awe. I fought this guy? No wonder I lost… Yaoyorozu ran up beside him as the gimmicks fell down.

"Mizaki-kun, your Quirk didn't kill you this time!" She said. "You can control it now?"

Samael shook his head, listening but not really listening, he was in killer instinct mode… but this time he was aware of it and hated every second of it. It was like using his fathers power…

But he had to do it to win. "Fluke." he said.

"Hey! That guy cleared a path for us!" two of the business students ran forward.

"Bad idea! I froze them in unstable positions!" Todoroki called back. Right at that moment the gimmicks collapsed, trapping two students under them. "So they'd fall!"

"1-A's Todoroki is blasting through the competition and sabotaging the others in a single move, this guy is cold!" Present mic yelled.

"OH GOD! THERE WERE TWO STUDENTS UNDER THERE!" A class G student cried out. "No one told us we could die during this!"

"I got them!" Izuku suddenly called out, rushing forward to help the students under the gimmick bodies.

There was no need, suddenly Kirishima burst out of the Gimmick body looking pissed off, along with another student who's body was made of pure steel. "TODOROKI YOU BASTARD! I'd be dead if I wasn't me..." Kirishima growled.

"Damnit, because I saved this little bastard I've lost ground!" The steel guy growled, holding up an unconscious Mineta.

"Tetsutetsu your okay!" A class B girl called out in relief.

"YOU AREN'T GETTING AWAYYY!" Bakugo screamed, using his explosions to fly over the Gimmicks.

"Down low didn't work for 1-A's Bakugo Katsuki so he took the high route! How clever!" Present Mic complimented.

Sero and Tokoyami were both right behind them, leaving them in the dust, the Gimmicks had all moved to block the rest of the students from getting through.

"Damnit! Shit!" Samael cursed. Yaoyorozu looked at him strangely.

"Hey, let's all propose a truce and work together to get through!" A class B student recommended that Samael couldn't remember the name of.

"The current leaders are almost overwhelmingly class A!" Present Mic said.

We can't hesitate… Samael growled. We cant… hesitate! Samael's entire arm glowed it's black flame aura. We've gone through too much as a class to back down now.

"Screw… THAT!" Samael barked. Dashing forward into the middle of the Gimmicks and slamming his fist into the ground. The resounding impact cratered the ground, creating a tornado, launching the Gimmicks into the air and out of bounds, destroying them at the same time.

This time, Samael did die. He violently spewed blood and fell to his knees. Easily enough to fill a blood truck.

"Sam!" Kaminari yelled and sprinted to him. "You reckless idiooottt!"

"Oh… oh god..." Jirou gasped. Yaoyorozu stared in horrified silence. Izuku winced, as he had seen this before.

"Is…. Is he dead?" A spectator asked.

"He just… killed himself to help the other racers didn't he?"

"That's… that isn't what a villain does."

Kaminari was suddenly cut off by a gimmick, Samael missing one in his massive impact. It lunged forward in an attempt to hit him but suddenly a massive cannonball hit it straight through the chest.

It was Yaoyorozu, who created a cannon. She had tears in her eyes and she looked angry. "No matter how many times I see it… it still makes me so angry to watch you die Samael..."

Izuku sprinted forward and past all of them, He was the only one who saw it. When that Gimmick cut Kaminari off, Samael had come back to life and continued on undeterred. Up in the booth with Present Mic Aizawa was grinning.

Samael's switch has flipped so he's not even really thinking, he's just reacting, showing more power than ever before. It's definitely raising his stock a lot no matter if he wins or not. He thought.

A bunch of smaller robots got in his way but Izuku punched through all of them in a single swing of his fist.

And Izuku's controlling his Quirk finally, it's power output is massively weaker than normal but he's still able to take out six robots in a single punch, his stock is rising too. Aizawa admired.

Izuku let his guard down, worry at his current placement spurring him on to keep up the pace and keep going.

Izuku had to catch up. He had to catch up. He had to catch up. One for all flowed through his body, rocketing him forward, jumping and stomping out any robots in his path.

He would have fallen into the abyss if Samael and Kirishima hadn't grabbed him. "Woah now!" Kirishima said. "Your getting into this Midoriya."

"Gah!" Izuku gasped, swinging his legs on instinct in panic, luckily both of his classmates kept their holds on him and brought him back to solid ground.

"Calm down, Todoroki and Bakugo have slowed down. they're overusing their Quirks." Samael said, nodding to both racers in the front who were noticeably slower than before.

"You say that, but you ended up killing yourself again using your Quirk." Izuku said, rolling his shoulders to release the tension One for all was causing.

Samael clearly ignored Izuku and continued to speak. "You should slow down with your Quirk." Samael had jumped on the rope and began to run along it, calling back to Izuku. "You'll burn out if you aren't careful!"

"That's hilarious coming from you… captain suicide." Izuku snarked to himself. Kirishima looking at him in surprise at normally overly nervous student.

"Ahh Samael, bringing out the attitude in everybody today isn't he?" Kaminari joked.

"I'm going to kick his ass for scaring us like that..." Jirou growled. Yaoyorozu was silent, but her thought's mirrored Jirou's for the most part.

Izuku began to slowly move along the first tight rope, planning out his movements in his head. If I go the more dangerous route I can get through faster, however I can also take the safest route, but that will force me to use my Quirk or it will take too long, my body is feeling drained already, I can use 7% of One for all but it drains me quickly, if I drop it to 5%, or even back down to 2% I can make it faster, but not fast enough.

Izuku stared at the shorter path with fierce determination. I have to do this… I have to tell the world that I am here! Surging the power of One for all throughout his body, all 7% he flung himself towards the shorter path with reckless abandon, trying to mirror Samael's movements he began to sprint along the tightrope.

Suddenly the tightrope dipped down in the middle, and Izuku lost all footing and began to fall. "Crap!" He said and somersaulted, grabbing the tight rope before he fell into the abyss.

Suddenly he heard a snap, and he realized with horror that the part of the tightrope behind him snapped and fell into the darkness, with a screaming swing he began to swing upon the broken rope like Sero did with his Quirk, on the way he let One for all surge through his body, and ran along the side of a rock face giving him more speed, letting go of the rope his body flung forward in a front flip, and he hit the ground running, out of the abyss and on the other side.

Present Mic went absolutely nuts. "WOAAAAHHHHHH! DID EVERYBODY SEE THAT? THE SUDDEN INGENUITY FROM IZUKU MIDORIYA KEEPS HIM IN THE RACE AND OUT OF THE FALL OBSTACLE EVEN WITH THAT HUGE CHUNK OF METAL ON HIS BACK! HE'S RIGHT ON THE TAIL OF THE OTHER CONTESTANTS!"

The crowd went absolutely nuts. Samael behind him, as well as the other contestants there currently were staring in amazement.

Are you freaking kidding me!? Samael stared slack-jawed. How in the hell did he do that!?

Samael suddenly surged forward dashing as reckless and as fast as he could across the ropes, at one point completely jumping from one rock face to the next, almost 10 meters in fact.

Present Mic began to speak again. "It seems like the contestants in the front are almost to the mine field! Meanwhile the one leading the pack in the back Is Samael Mizaki, who just finished The Fall! In order to take the lead, he has to pass Izuku Midoriya, Uraraka Ochako, Tenya Lida, Mezo Shoji, Bakugo Katsuki and Todoroki Shoto."

I dont care about taking the lead, I just have to beat Bakugo! Samael thought, picking up the pace as much as he could manage, he was tired, he wouldn't admit it but his breathing was jagged and rough, and his body felt like jello, particularly his legs, which almost felt like pure paste.

Samael groaned when he got to the minefield, an almost 200 meter span of nothing but mines. Ahead of him were the contestants mentioned earlier, the furthest of them being Bakugo and Todoroki, who were fighting it out about 50 meters ahead of them.

"Present Mic, just how strong are these mines?" Aizawa asked suddenly.

"That's a good question Aizawa, and the first time you've spoken so far!" Present Mic yelled out. "See these mines wont pack much of a wallop, but they're really flashy and will definitely knock you off course if you touch them, going slow is probably your best bet here!"

Ahead of him, Samael noticed Izuku digging up mines with the metal piece he had taken from a Gimmick's corpse a while back, Samael was about to take a step when suddenly he was almost trampled by 15 other contestants.

"Agh, son of a-" Samael growled, Suddenly a mine beside him blew up courtesy of a general studies student, sending Samael flying forward.

He hit the ground and rolled right beside Izuku, who had thankfully dug up the mines where he was laying, groaning in minor pain and relief by the fact that he was in some way laying down. He got to his knees.

"Ugh… fucking general studies student." Samael said. Noticing with some despair how Jirou was suddenly past them, raising an eyebrow at Midoriya for his antics she stuck her earlobes into the ground carefully stepping around the mines.

"What are you even doing Izuku?" He asked, finally getting to his feet. Izuku spoke between bated breaths.

"Taking… a… page… out of…. Kacchan's book..." He said, digging up about twenty mines and stacking them carefully. He looked at Samael. "Wanna ride? If this works we'll be past them."

"And if it doesn't it will kill us… but i'm immortal so i'm in." Samael immediately said, grabbing onto the rope attached to the metal plate they stepped back a couple of paces, enough for a running start. "Ohhh boy. This is a bad idea."

Both teens began to run forward. "To laTE FOR REGRETS!" Izuku screamed. Both students jumped at the same time right onto the mines.

An explosion strong enough to rival a Detroit smash made Present Mic jump in his seat. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" He screamed into the mic.

"HOLY SHIIEEEEEETTTTTT!" Samael screamed, the sudden speed and sensation of flying giving him whiplash.

"IT'S IZUKU AND SAMAEL, THEY'RE WORKING TOGETHER TO GET PAST THE OPPOSITION, EVEN IN A FREE FOR ALL THEY'RE WORKING AS A TEAM, NOW THAT'S HERO LIKE!" Present mic was standing on the table dancing. "THEY'RE ABOUT TO PASS TODOROKI AND BAKUGO!"

"DEKUUUUU!" Bakugo screamed, and began to fly up towards them at high speed. Todoroki was creating a path of ice as he ran to catch up, a look of fire on his ice cold face.

"Crap! He'll catch us at this rate!" Izuku said. "We're losing too much speed!" Samael suddenly got a wicked grin, and without letting go he turned his body on the metal plate.

"Yo Izuku!" Samael said. "I'll buy you some time!" Without warning Samael let go of the metal plate, much to the horror of Izuku.

Samael's wicked grin got even wider when he saw the look of shock on Bakugo's face, and that look of shock changed to rage when he realized what Samael was planning. As Samael fell he reached out and snagged a hold of Bakugo, dragging him down away from Izuku.

"Mine if I hitch a ride!?" Samael asked, Bakugo began to thrash and curse at him in an effort to shake off the intruder.

"LET GO OF ME YOU LITTLE SHIT! I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!" He screamed. But luckily to keep airborne he couldn't deactivate his Quirk to attack.

Samael smirked and reared one of his legs back. "Take this you son of a bitch!" Samael launched a kick as hard as he could, the wind pressure against his leg from still moving forward on Bakugo giving him strength as he launched a kick into the volatile teens stomach.

The wind went out of Bakugo's body in a big whoosh and his Quirk deactivated, not missing a beat Samael jumped off the falling Bakugo's body, pushing down faster in the process.

Right into several mines. Said mines exploded suddenly, Flinging Bakugo backwards in a loud string of profanities, and Samael forwards. Just in time to pass Todoroki, who was regaining his senses after being knocked senseless by another bunch of explosions from Izuku. Who was up ahead with a massive lead.

The crowd went wild, not even their own hatred being able to stop them from admiring what Samael just did, Present Mic surely wasn't holding back:

"DID YOU ALL SEE THAT!?" He screamed so loud his voice actually cracked. "IN A COUPLE SWIFT MOVES HE NOT ONLY HELPED IZUKU, HE SENT BAKUGO BACKWARDS AND FLUNG HIMSELF FORWARDS INTO SECOND PLACE!"

Samael hit the ground. Hard. But the sudden adrenaline burst was all he could fell, allowing him to take the momentum from the fall and turn it into a somersault, which allowed him to propel forwards into a hard sprint.

He heard Bakugo scream something at the both of them, but Samael was too busy running into the tunnel, Izuku looked back and thumbs up his friend, a wide grin on his face as he surged forward, One for all consuming his body.

"THE FIRST ONE THROUGH THE GATES IS…." Present Mic waited until suddenly Izuku burst through.

In first place. "Izuku Midoriya!" He screamed making the crowd go into hysterics. A hero in the distance recognizing him as the boy from the sludge incident and staring in surprise.

"Bringing up the rear is… Samael Mizaki!" Present Mic announced. "Say hello to your second place winner!"

The crowd cheered, too lost in the moment to feel hatred, right now all they recognized was a talented kid who fought hard for his victory, Samael for his part instantly collapsed to the ground beside Izuku, who was on one knee trying to catch his breath.

"I… wanted… to beat Bakugo… so badly." Samael began, steadying his breathing. "That I actually feel bad for beating Todoroki too…."

"Bask in the victory..." Izuku muttered back. "Tell the world… I am here."

"I think… we both told the world that today." Samael grinned at Izuku, who grinned right back.

Obstacle Race results, top ten:

Izuku Midoriya: 1st place.

Samael Mizaki: 2nd place.

Shoto Todoroki: 3rd place.

Tenya Lida: 4th place.

Kyoka Jirou: 5th place.

Momo Yaoyorozu: 6th place.

Denki Kaminari: 7th place.

Ibara Shiozaki: 8th place

Ejiro Kirishima: 9th place.

Bakugo Katsuki: 10th place.

A/N: If you are reading this right now then that means you got through this chapter… which means god. You must really like this story, cause this chapter was TOUGH to write because I wanted it to be realistic while at the same time being… ambitious? Is the word?

I eventually just said fuck it and wrote what I wanted too how I wanted too and rolled with it to what you just read.

Well if you enjoyed this chapter, you did. And if you didn't… sorry? Its 5:37 In the morning at the time im writing this. i'm sleepy.

Also, fun fact. This is the longest chapter since chapter 2. yay