AN: Hello, and welcome to the twelfth chapter of the story! I am so sorry that I delayed the next update for so long. The reason why is because my laptop isn't working, so I have to do all of my next chapters in my phone.

But I'll still continue to do my best for the upcoming chapters.

Anyways, this chapter and the future chapters will be about the Sports Festival arc!

*Classes 1-A and 1-B shout in excitement.*

I'm gonna skip the entire training montage, and get to the race of the Festival.

Also, know that Deku is also an Ajin, meaning that he'll have more than one way to win this race.

HERE WE GO!

UA's Sports Festival -

The UA Sports Festival, it's like your typical sports festival, except people go there to watch students fight one another with their Quirks. It was also the biggest thing people looked forward to since the Olympics, whose popularity decreased since Quirks were discovered. Not only that, but Pro-Heroes scout potential sidekicks, which might be as far as most UA students can go in their careers.

So it can be understandable as to why the students had to try their best in the festival.

The stadium that was constructed for this very event was like a baseball-stadium, except the thing didn't have any dugouts, diamond, or anything else that made it similar to baseball. The people, which were mostly civilians and Pro-Heroes, watched excitedly as they waited for the students to come out onto the field. In a booth that allowed them a bird's eye-view of the stadium, both Present-Mic and Eraser-Head were the commentators for the whole thing.

Eraser-Head just sat there, watching with disinterest, while Present-Mic was being himself.

"HELLO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO THIS YEAR'S SPORTS FESTIVAL! I'M YOUR HOST, PRESENT-MIC, AND WITH ME IS MY CO-HOST - "

"Don't drag me into this..."

"...Alright then. Anyways: HERE COMES THIS YEAR'S PARTICIPANTS!"

As if they were cued, nearly every student, from the Heroes-Course, General-Education Department, and Support Department had made their way towards the field. They were all dressed in their PE uniforms, just so no one would stand out among the rest. They all stood in front of the umpire, who was standing on top of a platform, overlooking all of them.

The umpire was a middle-aged woman, who was honestly drop-dead gorgeous, with long, black hair and blue eyes. She straight-up looked like a dominatrix, which aroused a lot of men in the stadium, with a white bodysuit that was underneath a black, breastless leotard and translucent, black, thigh-high stockings and black knee-boots. She also wore a small mask outlining her eyes, a handcuff on each wrist, and a utility belt around her hips. In her hands was an actual flogger-like whip.

The 18 Only Hero: Midnight.

While nearly every male student wondered why she was the umpire of the Festival, Midnight had Bakugou go onto the platform with her, making him give the opening speech to everyone.

"I...am gonna end up on top."

Everyone that wasn't apart of 1-A immediately booed at the blonde, who ignored the entire scene and walked back towards his class, who simply sighed in exasperation, predicting that something like this would happen.

Anyways, the students were now hearing about their first event: a race around the whole stadium. It wasn't going to be simple though, for there is going to be a bunch of obstacles getting in their way. They all headed towards the entrance of the stadium, which acted as both their starting line and finish line.

Everyone tensed up as the countdown began, preparing themselves for what was soon to come.

Three...

Two...

One...

As soon as the buzzer went off, Izuku used his paralyzing-scream, causing nearly every student to freeze from the affect of his Quirk. However, those from his class had expected him to use his scream, so they covered their ears as they ran out of the stadium. Izuku started to run as well, only to hear Bakugou shout,

"GET OUT OF MY WAY, DEKU!"

Izuku turned around and ducked his head as Bakugou used his own Quirk to allow him to fly above his fellow classmates, making him take the lead so early. He wasn't the only one though, for Todoroki, Yaoyorozu, and Iida to head past him, all using their Quirks to the fullest.

Todoroki used his right-side to nearly freeze those behind him, Yaoyorozu used her's to have a pole form in her palm and vaulted over Izuku, and Iida simply rushed past him, making those three take the top four spots in the race. Realizing that he had to whatever it took, Izuku had Ghost form beside him, and said to him,

"Ghost! Distract the others!"

"Okay..."

Ghost turned around and immediately attacked those behind him, allowing Izuku to take fifth place, and think about how to get pass those above him.

Fifteen minutes later -

At some point of the race, the remaining student body was no longer under the effects of Izuku's scream, and immediately caught up with Class 1-A. Izuku had summoned Ghost back to his side, only to see something in front of him that made him freak out.

In front of him were the robots that were from the Entrance Exam for UA. The rest of the students saw this and panicked, wondering as to how they were gonna get past those. But Bakugou and Todoroki had blown through and froze the robots that were in their way respectively, allowing them to now be neck and neck for the lead.

Soon enough, everyone was fighting the robots, slowly getting past them.

Izuku had used One-For-All on one of the big robots, destroying it with a single blow, and then allowed Ghost to 'reset' him, healing the injury he has whenever One-For-All was used. As he ran to catch up with the others, he saw Ghost pick up one of the armor plating from the machines, asking him,

"Why did you bring that?"

"Just in case..."

Not wanting to argue, Izuku had continued to run and behind him was Ghost holding onto the giant slab of metal.

Second Obstacle of Race -

When everyone got to the second point of the race, they all stopped as they saw just what was in front of them. There was a full-on canyon in front of them, gigantic pillars of stone were connected to each other with cables that were probably meant as a way to get to one pillar to another.

Tsuyu Asui jumped towards one of the cables and easily walked acrossed it with all four of her limbs.

Another student, Mei Hastume of the Support Department had used her gadgets to get across the canyon, which wasn't technically cheating, considering the training those from the Hero-Course were receiving. This girl had something called "Hover Soles" and a "Wire Arrow", making the transition to the third obstacle easily.

Izuku saw the canyon and immediately ran towards the edge of the cliff, and jumped off.

He ignored the panicked screams from the other students as he felt Ghost's feet latch onto his shoulders and saw that Ghost's arms had turned into wings, making the both of them soar through the air, and passed the second obstacle. At first, Izuku wanted to have Ghost fly him throughout the entire race, but dismissed it, wanting to see if he could win the race without using either of his Quirks that often.

"AND JUST LIKE THAT, MIDORIYA HAS EASILY WENT PASSED THE CANYON! NOW HE AND THE OTHER STUDENTS WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE THIRD AND FINAL OBSTACLE..."

Third Obstacle -

"IT'S A STRAIGHT UP MINE-FIELD!"

That bit of information would've been helpful, if it wasn't for the fact that one of students were unlucky enough to step on one of those mines. Luckily, the power of these things weren't strong enough to actually kill someone. But now every student had to slowly walk around the mines they spotted.

Izuku was about to have Ghost fly him towards the finish-line, now wanting to win this race no matter what. But that was when he heard Iida shout,

"Sorry, Midoriya! But you aren't the only one who wants to win this race!"

He turned around, and saw Iida destroy Ghost's head with a devastating kick with his right leg. The green-haired boy had immediately went onto one knee, clutching his head as he felt pain go through it.

After a few moments, Izuku swore to himself as he had to wait for Ghost to come back, so he had to improvise. Thankfully, Ghost still held onto that metal-slab from the first obstacle, giving Izuku an idea about what to do.

He used the slab to collect as many land-mines as possible, forming small mound of the explosives in front of him. A single mine wasn't powerful, but if multiple were gathered...

"Here goes! Thanks for the idea, Kacchan!"

He made sure that he gripped the slab as hard as he could, and then jumped on top of the mines, creating a massive explosion that was so powerful that the force from it made Izuku fly above the students that were above him. Izuku also noticed that both Bakugou and Todoroki were looking at him, shocked to see that he was catching up with them.

Then it happened.

Izuku stole the lead from them, causing the both of them to step up their game. Bakugou had launched himself into the sky as well, but Todoroki created a path of ice, allowing him to get past the mines as well. Within a matter of seconds, the two were closing in on Izuku, who still held onto the slab as of his life depended on it, and shouted with all his might,

"GHOST! LAUNCH ME!"

As he heard his name spoken, Ghost appeared below Izuku and grabbed the metal-slab, throwing the thing as hard as he could, giving his partner an extra boost of speed. Izuku then managed to stand up on the slab, and began to actually surf through the air on it like a makeshift surfboard.

By the time he lost speed, Izuku jumped off of the slab and began to run as fast as he could, hearing Bakugou shouting behind him, and Todoroki's footsteps getting closer and closer. That was when he ran towards the entrance, and actually became the first one back into the stadium, which signified one thing -

"AND THE WINNER OF THE RACE IS 1-A'S VERY OWN...IZUKU MIDORIYA!"

Later -

After every student had crossed the finish line, with Bakugou and Todoroki taking second and third place respectively, and were now waiting for Midnight to tell them what was the second event of the festival.

Turns out it was a Calvary Battle.

"The rules are just like your every other Calvary Battle, except the rider of each team will be wearing a headband that has the total number of points each teammate has earned from the Race!"

Midnight then showed every student the amount of points they had received from the race, and Izuku was shocked to see that he had -

"Ten-million!?"

"That's right! Also, each team can also steal another team's headband, adding more points for themselves!"

The students around Izuku had all realized the same thing about stealing each other's headband: if someone stole Izuku's headband, then they would have an easy ticket to head for the finals.

Izuku paled as he felt everyone looking at him with an evil look in their eyes.

AN: And that was the twelfth chapter of the story! Once again I am sorry for the major delay, and please tell me what you guys thought of the chapter.

Now next up is the final chapter of BNHA: The Music Meister, so be ready for that.

Also happy summer!

See ya later!