Midnight grinned almost sadistically, "There's more suffering ahead for those at the top. As you must have heard countless times since at Yuuei, this is PLUS ULTRA! After taking first place in the qualifiers, Midoriya Izuku has got ten million points!"
Midoriya's heart went crazy as everyone's eyes landed on him, "The eyes on me are different than before…" He stood firm while he internally wavered, "It was just luck that I was able to grab first… But… There's a lot of pressure…!"
Midnight went on to explain on upcoming event before giving the students 15 minutes to assemble their teams.
Midoriya rubbed his chin, "Points don't matter so…" He looked around, noticing the evading nature of his fellow students, "They're avoiding me like the plague…!" He cursed internally, "Of course, no one would follow the Quirkless nobody… Dammit…!"
Hatsume rushed up, "Midoriya! You got first place!" She grinned, "Well done! Our babies will be sure to stand out!"
Midoriya blinked, "H-Hatsume!" He breathed a sigh of relief, "G-Good…" He looked off, "They haven't brought out the exo-skeleton yet, so…"
Hatsume's grin faltered before she pumped her fist, "Then we have to make it to the third event!" She pulled out even more gadgets and gizmos, "Don't worry. I brought some of my babies too!"
He picked up one of the many gadgets, "This looks like Air-jet's jetpack!"
She grinned, "To your liking, eh?"
Midoriya stood, tapping his chin whilst looking around, "We need more people…" He spotted someone, jogging over to them, "Iida!"
The blockish student turned, "Midoriya?"
The Quirkless student clapped his hands together, "Please join my team."
Iida blinked, "I…"
Midoriya bit his lip, "I-I get it… Everyone will be after us, b-but, um…" He took a deep breath before standing firmly, "Iida, there's a rumor that if someone does well enough in the Sports Festival then they'll be moved into the Hero Course." He gritted his teeth, "I want to be a Hero! This is my chance and I need a lead horse here." He pleaded, "Please."
Iida's eyes were hidden behind the glare of his glasses, "Midoriya…" He put a hand on the Quirkless student's shoulder, "Alright, I will lead your pack! You can count on me!"
Midoriya beamed, "Thank you, Iida!"
Iida watched as Midoriya rushed off to find their final member, "He saved Yaoyorozu and Jirou… He wants to be a Hero… even though, he's Quirkless… Sorry, brother… I may not win this, but… I believe it's the right thing to do—to help him…!"
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Present Mic shouted to the stadium, "Hey, wake up Eraser! They've had their time to form teams and strategize. And now all 12 teams are lined up and ready to move!"
Aizawa spoke, "Interesting… The teams they've come up with."
Present Mic cried out, "Let's get a battle cry! Here comes the starting signal! Blood begets blood in the Yuuei grand match!"
Midoriya's team stood firm, "Iida!"
The leader of the pack nodded, "Ready!"
He nodded towards the girl supporting his right leg, "Hatsume!"
She chuckled and grinned, "Heh-heh-heh!" and, of course, she sported her own gear.
Midoriya then acknowledged their secret weapon, "Shinso!"
The student supporting his left leg nodded, "Yeah." He sported some of Hatsume's gear as well.
Midoriya tightened his headband, "Let's do this!" He began to whisper to his teammates, "Everyone, I heard something that could come in handy."
Shinso looked up at the Support student, "What is it?"
Midoriya answered as Present Mic shouted, "Formed your teams? Made your plans? Too bad if you haven't! Here we go! The countdown to this brutal battle royal! 3… 2… 1…
START!"
As soon as the green was given several teams rushed Midoriya's. Midoriya sucked his teeth, "Right off the bat?"
Tetsutetsu shouted, "This is really a fight for the ten million and everyone knows it!"
Hagakure laughed from the top of her pack, "Ha-ha-ha! We're coming for you Midoriya!"
Midoriya put his hand on Iida's shoulder, "We need to move!"
Iida tried, "M-Midoriya!" He shouted as ground beneath them became goop, "Our legs are sinking!"
Shinso scowled, "Guess that's one of their Quirks."
Midoriya looked to his leg supports, "Shinso, Hatsume!" He lifted the wire connected detonator, slamming his thumb down on the red button, "We're blasting off!" The jetpack whirled before blasting all four of them up and above the attacking students.
Midoriya heard Hagakure's voice shout, "Jirou!"
He instinctively snapped his head to below them, reaching into his pouch of gadgets. He whipped out three tiny, black metal balls and chucked them towards Hagakure's team. They beeped for a few moments, Jirou's jacks flying past them, before exploding into a thick grey cloud of smoke.
Midoriya's eyes widened at the upcoming ground, "Iida, Shinso, Hatsume! Landing!"
Shinso extended out his left leg, Hatsume extended her right leg, and Iida lifted his legs, pointing his exhausts towards the ground. Hatsume's hover boots and Iida's engine ports jettisoned enough thrust to just stop their fall. They stalled in the air for a moment before fully landing.
Hatsume asked excitedly, "How do you like my babies?! Cute, right?! That's how I made them!"
Midoriya turned to his classmate, "Your babies are great, Hatsume!"
She grinned, "Aren't they?!"
Shinso flinched, nearly stepping onto a purple ball, "What the hell?"
Iida turned to Shoji, who used his wing-span to cover his teammates, "Mineta!"
Midoriya blushed, "The pervert?"
Shinso nodded, "Pervert, huh?" He apologized to his teammate, "Sorry, Hatsume."
She blinked confused, "Huh?"
Shinso shouted towards the charging student, "If you give up, our teammate will let you touch her chest!"
Mineta stuck his head out of Shoji's wing-span, a lewd look on his face, "R-Really?!" His expression quickly died as his eyes glazed over.
Asui let out a ribbit, "Mineta?"
Shoji looked at his teammate, "Oi, Mineta!?"
Shinso commanded, "Now, quickly! Tie your headband around one of those hairballs of yours and chuck it over to us!"
Mineta blankly did so, much to the dismay of his teammates. Before they could stop him, all of their points were sent sailing to the number one team.
Midoriya caught it, "Nice one, Shinso!"
Present Mic commented, "WHAT?! Team Mineta has seemingly given up their place in the match?! How crazy is that?!"
Aizawa chimed in, "I knew it…"
"Eh?"
"The practical exam wasn't rational enough…"
Midoriya narrowly dodged Asui's tongue as it desperately tried to grasp a headband, "We need to get outta here before they recover!" He hit the detonator once again and the pack went sailing into the air as he attached Mineta's headband ball to the back of his neck.
Bakugo's voice grabbed his attention whilst the flew, "Getting pretty full of yourself, huh, you bastard?!"
Midoriya froze for a moment, "K-Kacchan…!"
He reached into his pouch pulling out a gun-like trigger of some kind with a strange disc at its nozzle. He pulled the trigger, sending the disc into the blonde's chest before four legs extended and clamped down onto his chest. It then let out a burst of flaming thrust, sending Bakugo sailing backwards.
He flipped through the air before Sero's tape wrapped around his bicep and yanked him down to his team.
Present Mic saw fit to comment, "Oh? Is that disc thing and leaving your unit really allowed?!"
Midnight nodded, giving an o-k sign, "Technically!"
Present Mic continued his commentary, "Both doggedly pursued first place team and its determined pursuers from class A are nothing to sneeze at! Let's take a look at the current point spread! How are our teams doing after seven minutes of play?" He blinked, "Oh? Now wait just a second?! Class A's not looking so hot… What happened to Bakugo?!"
Midoriya looked to see members of class B challenging Bakugo, "Class B… They threw the qualifiers and planned for the long game…! Clever…" He breathed a sigh of relief, "But from that, I guess that they're not necessarily dead set on targeting me…!" He smiled, "Everyone, I think it won't be too hard to evade-"
Then, as if on cue, Todoroki's team slid into view, consisting of: himself, Kaminari, Yaoyorozu, and Tokoyami.
"Looks like the match is half over already!"
Midoriya let out a breath, "Or maybe it won't be quite that easy."
Todoroki spoke firmly, "We're coming for you." Midoriya looked past them, noticing the sudden wave of teams rushing them. Todoroki was about to command his team, but Midoriya's voice distracted them all.
Midoriya reached into his pouch, "Iida, Shinso! It's time for our offensive move!" In his left hand, he held five tiny, silver, metal balls and in his right, he held three more smoke bombs.
Iida nodded, "Ready!"
Shinso nodded as well, "Yeah."
Midoriya tossed all six towards the area ahead of them.
Todoroki looked at he devices, "We need to-" The silver ones went off first, dispersing a white, blue-ish liquid across the ground. The crinkle and crack of ice literally stopped everyone in their tracks as the liquid solidified, including Todoroki's team.
Kaminari looked up to their leader, "W-We need to get out of this!"
Todoroki reached towards the ground, his hand glowed with a red flame, "Hang on!"
Midoriya braced, "Iida!"
Iida's exhaust ports revved, "Aye!" He launched forward, slipping right past Todoroki's team and into the field of smoke.
Yaoyorozu blinked as their enemy ran instead of attacking their vulnerable position, "W-What?"
Todoroki quickly commanded, "Yaoyorozu, the insulator! We don't know if anyone's already freed themselves!"
She nodded, "Right."
Todoroki continued, "Tokoyami, pull in Dark Shadow."
The bird-teen nodded, "Aye."
"Kaminari-"
Kaminari interrupted him, nodding, "Yeah, I got it!" Todoroki pulled the insulated blanket over them before Kaminari shouted, "Indiscriminate Shock: 1.3 Million Volts!"
Gold lightening arced across the ground, electrocuting the immobilized students in the smoke. Sometime passed before the smoke finally cleared. The immobilize teams seemed to slightly recover.
Kendo Itsuka grabbed the remaining headband around her neck. There was a shocked expression on her face, "I… I just gave it to them…"
Yanagi Reiko reassured her, "D-Don't worry we still have the big one!"
Kendo gritted her teeth, touching her forehead, "We have to protect this with our lives!"
Rin Hiryu shook his head, "I-I'm sorry! Shishida! I-I don't know what came over me!"
Yaoyorozu looked amongst the shocked students, "W-Where's Midoriya's team?"
Present Mic commented, "WHOA! Team Midoriya rushed through his smoke and snatched up all attacking teams' headbands!"
Todoroki looked upward, "Up there!" spotting Midoriya's team sailing through the air.
Midoriya looked back, smiling, with one headband on his head, one attached to the back of his neck, and the last two wrapped around his neck. "Hypnosis Rush was a complete success!"
Aizawa chimed in, "Clever… With Iida's speed, the Support students' gear, and Shinso's Quirk, they engineered a winning scenario for themselves. But, it's only by chance that Midoriya had the perfect gear necessary to pull the attack."
Present Mic gave his co-worker a thumbs-up, "Nice commentary!"
Team Midoriya landed on the ground, rushing towards the least occupied part of the field. Midoriya rummaged through his bag, "I only have one more disc… One more ice bomb… And the sonic gun-"
Present Mic interrupted his train of thought, "With just one-minute left, Midoriya's got four headbands! Have we found our teams for this event?!"
Midoriya took this time to look at the scoreboard, "We're still number one—somehow… with 10,000,990… Team Monoma has 1,350 in second… Team Tetsutetsu has 705… Team Todoroki is still at 610… and Team Kendo still has 575 points left… Everyone else is at zero…" He blinked, shocked, "K-Kacchan's at zero…!"
"Team Bakugo's stolen two, putting them in third place! A late shake-up in the rankings! That's the spirit of youth for ya!"
Midoriya blinked as the scoreboard changed, "Oh… That makes more sense…" Midoriya nodded to his team, "We can't slack up, we need to evade everyone else!"
Uraraka's voice caught the team's attention, "Sorry, Midoriya—Iida!" She supported Aoyama alongside Shoda Nirengeki with Ojiro Mashirao taking up the lead horse, "We're taking your points!"
Hatsume shouted, "Midoriya, the sonic gun!"
Midoriya whipped out the greyed-out gun-like device, being narrowly grazed by Aoyama's laser, "Sorry, Uraraka, Aoyama, strangers!"
He pulled the trigger, sending a shockwave of high-pitch sound. All three slid to a stop, crying out in pain, before the noise came to a stop. They watched as a silver ball rolled into view before exploding and covering their feet with ice.
Hatsume shouted as they rushed past them, "Bye!"
Iida and Midoriya both shouted, "Sorry!"
Shinso smirked, "Nice try!"
Present Mic stole their attention, "Bakugo! Absolutely merciless! What a perfectionist! Anything worth doing is worth doing right! We're nearing the end of the game!"
They all heard the blond scream, "DEKU!"
They also spotted Todoroki's team chasing after them, "You didn't think we were done, did you?"
Present Mic began to shout, "We're nearly at the final ten seconds!"
Iida braced his legs, "If we wait for them to get close… I can get us past them…"
Shinso added, "If that's the case we need to slip past on Todoroki's left."
Midoriya leaned forward, "Can you do it?"
Iida nodded, "Yeah." He gritted his teeth, "Don't worry, Midoriya! I'll help you realize your dream! All of your dreams!" He readied himself, "Because that's what Heroes do!"
Shinso smirked, "Thanks, Hero."
Hatsume saluted, "We're leaving it to you, engine-guy!"
Midoriya nodded, bracing, "We'll follow your lead on this one."
Bakugo sped towards them, bouncing through the air with his explosions, as his team chased after him on their left. Team Todoroki rushed at them on their right.
"10!"
Midoriya's team stood still and firmly as their two opponents rushed at them.
"9!"
Iida bent his legs, "Brace yourselves!" as their enemies closed in.
"8!"
Iida's engine exhausts burst with blue and red flames, "Over-Torque: RECIPRO BURST!" With a sudden, extreme burst of speed, Midoriya's team flew past their attacking opponents.
Midoriya could barely keep his eyes opened against the whipping winds, "W-What an amazing speed…!"
"7!"
Bakugo growled with a shout as he spun back, rushing after his childhood victim, "DEKU! GET BACK HERE YOU QUIRKLESS SACK OF SHIT!"
Midoriya shrunk slightly, "Oh, man…! We really pissed him off…!"
"6!"
Team Todoroki spun in their place, "After them!" Todoroki sucked his teeth, "We're so close…"
"5!"
Team Midoriya's speed began to die.
"4!"
Team Midoriya's speed completely died and they came to a screeching halt.
"3!"
Midoriya pulled out the sonic gun and unleashed a deafeningly painful sound at the rushing teams.
"2!"
Bakugo forced himself through the rushing soundwaves as Tokoyami sent Dark Shadow screaming ahead.
"1!"
Bakugo blew another explosion behind him—incidentally hitting Dark Shadow and sending the creature back. The blonde reached out, clawing for the headband on Midoriya's forehead. Midoriya yanked his head backwards, just barely preventing Bakugo from snatching first-place.
"TIME'S UP!"
Bakugo went sailing past Midoriya's team, skidding across the ground, as his team stopped in front of Midoriya's. Team Todoroki came to a stop as well, all were silent.
"Let's see who the top four teams are right now! In first place, aren't you surprised folks?! It's TEAM MIDORIYA!"
Midoriya couldn't stop the goofy grin dawning his face, "W-We…"
Shinso was the one to finish the sentence, "We did it!"
"In second, Team Bakugo!"
Bakugo stood silently, glaring over his shoulder at Midoriya's celebrating team.
"In third, Team Tetsutetsu!"
There was a victory cry somewhere on the field.
"In fourth, Team Todoroki!"
Todoroki shook his head, "Damn…"
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AN: Hello. I'll admit there could be problems here and there in this chapter. Placing Iida on the team will probably require some author explanation. I believe Iida would be more willing to join Midoriya's team due to the lack of events of them crossing paths. Iida would not see himself as following Midoriya constantly unlike the actual show and didn't need to break away from Midoriya in this event. I debated on whether I wanted Bakugo to take the win, but, in the end, I gave it to Midoriya. Some people might question Tokoyami's placement in Todoroki's team and questioning the automatic handicap by have Kaminari and Tokoyami on the same team. A simple reminder, no one knew Tokoyami's weakness other than Koda at this point. I do hope this battle is to the majority's liking. I did my best. The Tournament will be pretty different from the show here and there. I'll leave it at that.
And so, criticize away, leave all your thoughts and opinions in a review, and thank you for reading!
