A.N.: Hi again! I hope you're doing nicely. I'm not sure I'll be able to publish this chapter in time, so sorry if it's shorter or a bit late.

"If you can get into a pro hero's agency, you'll be able to get more experience and popularity. You only have one chance a year, three chances total. If you understand this, then don't slack off in your preparations!" Aizawa said to conclude his little motivational speech.

"Yes sir!" Everyone in the class answered, and home room was over.

I got out of the classroom to go to the infirmary, as Recovery Girl had requested to see me. When I arrived, I greeted her and closed the door behind me.

"Have you taken your paracetamol as I've told you?" She asked.

"Of course I have. I wouldn't be standing here if I hadn't."

"Good, we can now talk about your previous suggestion for a cure. I know that the sports festival is drawing near, and that you want to be ready for it, but isn't it too soon to put your solution in place? I'm not convinced that you have completely recovered."

"I understand where you are coming from, but as I've already told you, the seal would only accelerate my recovery. And if you really want to be careful, then Kate could do it so there's no risk I make my own sickness worse."

"If that's the case, I guess we could do this after the morning lessons." She said, but I could feel she still had her doubts about it. "You can tell her to come once you're finished eating. Actually, take this note, will you?" She wrote a note on a green paper. "You'll be able to eat first with this paper, so she isn't late to the afternoon lessons."

"Okay, I'll tell her. Thanks again, Recovery Girl!" I said as I headed back towards the classroom.

After a pretty painful English lesson, Ochaco opened the door to get out. When she didn't move, I went over to her and saw a humongous crowd of students, that I believed to be general course students.

"What business do you have with class 1-A? I believe that there are more elegant ways to collect information about us." I said, taking on my class representative role. "And by the way, it would be nice if you could clear the hallway, as we cannot get out right now."

"Well said, Aojikan. Get out of my way, you extras!" Bakugou yelled as I sighed. Would that guy ever change?

"I came to see what the famous class A was all about, but I must say I'm pretty disappointed by the arrogance." A purple-headed student said.

"Please do not think that Bakugou represents the will of the class. I will not be associated with what he says any day of the week."

"What was that, nerd?" Bakugou asked, his anger out of control.

"Even then, seeing something like this makes me pretty disillusioned." He said, scratching his head. "There are quite a few people who have enrolled in general or other courses because they didn't make it in the hero course. Did you know that? The school has left us a chance. Depending on the results of the sports festival, they may consider moving us in the hero course. This means that some of you may move out. To be honest, I have no interest in scouting you. I just came here to tell you that even if you are in hero course, if you get carried away, I will sweep your feet out under you. I came with a declaration of war."

"That is very blunt indeed. I will take this in consideration, as I already have. I don't know about the others, but personally, from the very beginning, I have considered everyone competing in this tournament a potential adversary. As they say, you can't judge a book from its cover, especially in a sports festival. You do bring a very interesting point to light: some of you might have quirks that are stronger than ours in one on one matches. To summarize, your declaration of war has only given me more information on how to defeat you. I hope you are satisfied."

As I said this, I started to head out with Kate. I heard another commotion start when a 1-B student told us that surviving the villains didn't mean that they were weaker than us, but Bakugou just ignored him and got out. But then Kirishima interrupted him:

"Bakugou, you're the reason everyone is hating on us! What are you gonna do about it?"

"It doesn't matter." He answered, with his own declaration of war. "It doesn't matter, as long as you rise to the top."

I was stunned. Had Bakugou just ruined all of my efforts to not make everyone hate us? I was not letting him speak again on the behalf of class 1-A, 'cause I'm the class representative, darn it!

Calming down a bit, we went to the canteen, and lunch was delicious as always. Made me forget the whole Bakugou incident. Once we had eaten, we immediately headed to the infirmary, waving to Iida, Ochaco and Deku on the way.

We knocked on the infirmary's door, and we heard Recovery Girl telling us to come in. She told us that she still had her doubts about how effective my method would be, but since it was done by Kate, it was probably fine. I laid down on the bed as Kate got ready to use the seal.

"Are you ready?" She asked.

"I've been ready since I got in this room." I answered, smirking.

"I'm getting started then." She said, breathing loudly as she tried to calm down. "Sealing technique: The mark of the timely Metroid!" As she yelled this, Edward appeared to help her draw the circles on me.

Clock patterns and Chozo emblems filled my body as the Metroid worked in timely fashion. Kate continued to outline the patterns until my torso was completely filled with them. She then gave a burst of energy, instantly stabilizing the seal, and making the patterns illuminate and disappear.

I felt a power rush through me, and my head felt a lot better than it had for the past few days. Distemporality was now under the control of this spell, so I wouldn't need to take as much paracetamol as before.

"I want to conduct a few tests before you leave, to make sure you aren't worst off than before." Recovery Girl said, sighing. "And if your results are better off than before, I guess you can start training for the sports festival in two days."

I was very happy when she said this, and even more so when the tests turned out overwhelmingly positive. She told me she still didn't want me to attend the afternoon lessons for today and tomorrow, but that it should be fine afterwards. Kate and I thanked her, and we left the infirmary.

"So, are you happy now?" Kate asked, smirking.

"Of course I am, I can finally go back to physical training."

"You were virtual training all this time?" She asked, sounding very surprised.

"Yes, I was meditating to keep Distemporality under my control." I admitted. "And I believe I might be able to take advantage of it. But no spoilers for the moment!"

"Right… I'll wait to see this. With the seal in its current state, you should be able to use your quirks for less than a second without dis-activating it. If you unlock the seal, you should still be able to use your quirk more freely than before, except if you are unlocking it longer than 2 minutes."

"Right, I'm taking note of this. Thanks again Kate, and see you tomorrow!"

"You're welcome… Goodbye!" She said as she waved.

The next weeks were essentially dedicated to our training. Using Distemporality, I learned a bunch of new techniques, and pushed my quirk to its absolute limits once more.

The day before the sports festival, Iida and Ochaco had finally managed to use their flames without rings, albeit very weak ones. Meanwhile, All Might was now as powerful as he was before – even though his power was still diminishing.

And Deku… Oh my goodness Deku, what kind of monster have I created with you? He was going to be a major threat in the festival, that was certain.

The day of the festival, a few minutes before the entering ceremony, I entered in the waiting room for class 1-A. I could hear Mina complaining about the fact she couldn't wear her costume, and Deku looked very stressed from where I was.

"Everyone, are you ready?" I asked, not getting any answer. "'Cause we'll be entering soon, and I'm sure nobody wants to miss that." Deku was even more stressed.

"Aojikan." Todoroki said, in his blasé voice.

"Oh, Todoroki. Is there a problem?" I asked, and some of our classmates started to pay attention to us.

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

"Now, now, you stop right here. There is no denying your quirk is more useful in certain situations, and you have more control of it. However, I believe that in a one on one fight, the odds are ever so slightly stacked in my favour."

"Even with your sickness?" He asked.

"Absolutely."

"Even then, All Might seems to have his eye on you, doesn't he?" He said after a moment of silence.

"I'm sure you've noticed his eye is more on Deku than it is on me, but I guess you're not entirely wrong. If I may ask, could you get to your point? I don't like this game of back and forth."

"I'm going to beat you."

The words resonated in my head. Beat me, huh? And you talked about All Might… Wait a minute… He wants to beat the student who represents the pride of All Might, because he's Endeavour's son! I thought.

"Oh? Is the class first making a declaration of war to the second?" Kaminari asked, not noticing the tranquil fury bubbling in Bakugou.

"Hey, hey, no need to be so aggressive right? We're going to enter in a few minutes now!" Kirishima said, trying to calm down the battle between Todoroki and me.

"We're not here to make friends. So what does it matter?" He asked rhetorically.

"Todoroki, I'm not certain of what you actually mean by "I'm going to beat you", but it's true that you are probably more capable than me. In fact, you probably are more capable than most of the people here.

"However, when you consider that everyone is aiming for the top – the students of the other courses included-, then there is one fundamental problem with your assertion: You're underestimating the power of everyone's determination. And even if you are the most powerful person in the world, underestimating your opponents is one dangerous thing, Todoroki. Which is why I say: I'll be aiming for the top with all I've got too, and if you are on my way, I will beat you."

"Yeah." He said, blasé as always.

Everyone in the class was left speechless, and I could see Bakugou was starting to get very angry.

"Hey!" Present Mic's voice invaded our room. "Pay attention, audience! Swarm, mass media! This year's high school rodeo of adolescence that you all love, the UA sports festival is about to start! Everybody, are you ready?! It's the time for the students to enter the first-year stage!"

"Everyone, follow me!" I said quickly as Present Mic kept talking.

As everyone was presented, we got to the centre of the stage. Interestingly enough, Present Mic was showering us with praise, which wasn't doing any good to Deku's stress. I started to get stressed myself, but I tried to calm down to the best of my ability.

"Time for the player pledge!" Midnight, the "R-rated hero" said. "Quiet everyone! Representing the students is Wadokei Aojikan for class 1-A!"

"Oh come- Right, I'm coming." I said, sighing as I stepped next to the microphone, and as my stress levels reached the moon. "In the name of everyone present here, I pledge that we will take part in this tournament, abiding by the rules, and as UA students, that we will aim for the top. Or, I guess you could say: Plus Ultra."

I went back into the crowd, and it seemed that while people had not forgotten the Bakugou incident, my little speech made them more than happy to forgive it for the time being.

"Now, let's get started right away! The first game is what you'd call a qualifier! Every year, many drink their tears here! Now, here is the faithful first game!" Midnight said as a holographic screen appeared, and started rolling. "This year it's… this!" The words 'obstacle race' had appeared on the screen, seemingly randomly, but I was certain it had been planned beforehand.

However it had been decided didn't matter, even the announced length of 4 km didn't matter: if this was a race, I was going to finish first, no questions asked.

When Midnight said that everything was allowed as long as we stayed on the course, I couldn't help but smirk: this was going to be even easier.

As everyone took their places, a countdown appeared. I prepared the spell to unlock the seal, just in case, but I knew I wasn't going to need it.

As the counter hit zero, I instantly used my quirk in a short burst to go through everyone, and continued to use it to gain a big advance.

"Oh? What is this? Class 1-A's Wadokei Aojikan instantly gains an incredible advance, zooming across the competition!" Present Mic yelled as the audience got very excited. "It almost seems like he's cheating!"

"That's just his normal use of his quirk, there isn't much you can do against it." Aizawa said.

As everyone tried to get back to speed, I smirked as I realised that unless UA had a specific plan against my quirk, nobody was going to be able to keep up with me. As I had previously thought, this festival was going to be very interesting.

A.N.: I finished on time! Yay… Why does this happen all the time with me? I'm not gonna tell you what exactly happened, but just three words: League of Legends. It is too easy to get sidetracked on homework making when you're playing that game. Thank goodness I didn't have too much homework. Let's hope next week's chapter gets written more easily. See you next week!

"JACKPOTTING!"