We, time for the tournament to begin. I had to say up in order to finish this. Hopefully, that didn't impact it all that much.
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With Neito's team disqualification his points were transferred over to Izuka's team as a thank you for stopping him from going through with his insanity. Of course, in the stands, it was clear Neito actions had an effect on the audience. This wasn't the first time someone had snapped in the Sports Festival. The last incident was eight years ago and that was due to the students Quirk making them feral minded while transformed.
Thinking about it Izuka was extremely worried. Neito had copied her Quirk and probably her mental problems. Thinking of this a small part of her knew it wasn't a split personality. That thought, of course, utterly terrified her.
Izuka shook her head. Now wasn't the time to worry about what ifs. Out the corner of her eyes, she saw the students of Class 1-B talking about what had happened. Izuka knew that in some way it was her fault for him going crazy. She actually could hear them talking about it. "Seriously, why did he just go all murderous on us?" The one that asked that looked at Izuka. "You don't think it's her fault?"
Izuka winced at this. Another of their class shook there head at this. "You remember that Neito said he only copies Quirks whatever problems a mental Quirk has never manifests."
That caused Izuka to hate herself even more. It just confirmed that her Quirk was dangerous. Izuka unknowingly brought up her vector and positioned it over her neck. "Hey Izuka," She dissipated her Vector as she turned over to Ochako. "That was so amazing you managed to stop Neito from killing his classmates."
Izuka looked away from her. Her Quirk was perfect for killing. In fact, that's what her past life had perfected. Invisible arms that could turn into blades and cut people apart or phase through an object and possibly kill them discreetly. 'I'm meant to be a killer.'
Ochako looked at her confused. She then remembered when Izuka showed them about her Quirks ability to change frequencies. At the low end it could phase through objects at medium they were solid and at the higher end, they were like invisible blades. Invisible blades that could kill people without them knowing. "Hey, listen your Quirk may seem dangerous but I'm sure you can find ways to use it in none deadly ways y'know."
Ochako had a point. Already she had developed a way to use her Vectors that was unique. Her higher frequencies could put though things pinning people down. As she thought about this she realized that one thing that came out of her knowledge from her past life was a detailed understanding of the human anatomy. 'Maybe.' Izuka summoned up her Vectors. 'Could I use them to…'
Her train of thought was broken when Midnight stood on stage. She had gotten back with Cemetoss. "Sorry, for the delay," The pro heroine looked at the students. Behind her, the teams and their scores appeared. "As, Neito team has been disqualified the four teams that will move on are Team Bakugo, Team Todoroki, Team Midoriya, and Team Shinso!"
Up in the stands Gran Torino walked up to Toshinori. The retired pro looked at his former student. "Mind if we have a talk." He looked back at the arena. "It's about her." Toshinori turned back at Izuka before getting out of his seat. As the two of them walked behind the stands Gran Torino looked at him with a sigh. "That boy when he copied Izuka's Quirk he snapped and wanted to kill his own teammates."
Toshinori had just seen that. He didn't make the connection when he saw it but looking back now. Izuka's Quirk possibly was the cause though Toshinori knew that Izuka wasn't murderous. 'Maybe she's just used to it.'
On one hand, a Quirk that causes you to be inclined to kill others sounded ridiculous, yet so would one that could be passed on. On the other hand, if that was the case it only seemed to strengthen his belief in Izuka. Sure it was unsettling to know that she had a desire to kill some were within her mind the fact she seemed to fight it. 'To overcome one's own shortcomings and be better than it.'
"I'm going to talk to her about this." Gran Torino turned to one of the screens showing that Izuka was first in the tournament against Hitoshi Shinso. Gran Torino headed in the direction of the locker rooms while Toshinori was left with his own thoughts.
Izuka stood in the locker room as she thought about what she was going to do. Her match with Hitoshi was up first and Mashirao, who had given up his place in the tournament, had told her about his Quirk. Hitoshi's Quirk allowed him to take control of someone's mind and seemed to only work if they answer back. All she had to do was not answer him back and push him out with her Vectors. 'Still, with a Quirk like that, he could make robbers just back what they stole.'
The door to the locker room opened up as Gran Torino walked in. The retired Pro looked at her as he closed the door. Silence fell the two before he spoke. "So, I have a few questions about your Quirk." Gran Torino decided to ask about the elephant in the room. "First off, your Quirks a lot more than just creating invisible limbs to punch and lift objects isn't it?"
Izuka didn't respond before she let out a sigh. In truth, she had a lot of guilt from keeping this a secret from All Might. Even though he never asked about it Izuka just felt like she was keeping a secret. "No that's just what it does on a medium frequency." Izuka looked around and found a pencil lying on the table. She picked it up with a Vector. "When I use it as lower frequencies."
The pencil fell out of her Vectors grasp to give an example. "They can phase through objects?" Izuka nodded before pulling back the pencil back up in a Vector. "What about at a higher frequency?"
Izuka held her head down as Gran Torino watched as the pencil was soon cut apart right before his eyes. The pinkette didn't look at him as she let the implications of such a thing to sink in. "My Vectors become invisible blades which can cut through most things." Izuka looked up slowly. "Trees, walls, and even people if I'm not careful."
So, that why Neito lost the horn that his Quirk created. The Vector he had formed had cut into his own horn. Throughout his life, Gran Torino had encountered dangerous Quirks. Several heroes, for instance, had Quirks that were extremely dangerous and yet that didn't matter when it came to them being heroes. "Many heroes have such Quirks like that though there is one last thing I want to ask." Gran Torino's gaze became serious as he asked the last question on his mind. "Do you think your Quirk caused Neito to act the way he did?"
"I think so," Izuka rubbed her arm as she looked away. Sure was so conflicted about this. A part of her wanted to deny it. "I mean I never felt the desire to just attack someone let alone kill them, but he did copy my Quirk."
Gran Torino raised his hand to stop her. It was clear she was either in great control of it or perhaps the other personality she talked about was the cause for it. "It's alright, as long as you don't let it control you there no problem," Gran Torino let out a sigh. He knew being a hero was about close calls. Sometimes heroes had to make decisions about when to kill. Gran Torino himself knew a few who tried never to do so but from his experience sometimes you had to do things like it. "Though, if you do need to I just hope you would only direct it on the villains who deserve it."
Izuka gave him a nod as she knew he meant it as a last resort. Izuka passed before remembering something. She had a train of thought about the possibility of using her Vectors for something else besides killing. 'But can they actually do something like that?' Izuka thought about it. 'Maybe I could ask Recovery Girl for help?'
Gran Torino looked at the clock hanging overhead. It was almost time for her match to begin. "You better get going don't want to be late now."
Izuka looked at the clock before walking past him. She could ask the school nurse afterward the match. As she walked out Gran Torino thought about the revelations of her Quirk. 'A Quirk that gives you a desire to kill.' He wondered what kind of hero she would become.
A figure looked out across the city in front of him. His tattered headband was flowing in the breeze. Hosu was his current location. Here he had a list of heroes. Most in this city seemed to either just be people content with just helping out when needed or just helping out in minor ways. 'There not much crime in this area,' He looked down watching as one of the local heroes was picking up trash. 'Still, most seem to be honest with their desires to be heroes.'
They were more volunteers in hero costumes. At least they actually gave back to the community. Though there was still a few fakers running around this city. That and it seemed that a few heroes were tracking him down. He jumped down from his spot and looked out to the streets. 'If they think that I will just let them take me out then I will show them.'
As he walked through the alleyway he looked at an old poster of All Might. The Symbol of Peace was the man who he was inspired by. It was because of so many heroes not being like him that made him try to get others to changes. Words it seems had fallen on deaf ears.
"The Hero Killer!" Turning around he saw several sidekicks pointing at him. The Hero Killer had a smirk at this. He knew which agency they were from. He had seen the hero racing around the city looking for him. "We have to contact Ingenium!"
Ingenium a hero who had one of the largest agencies in terms of sidekicks. He was also on his list of heroes who almost made the cut of those he considered as true heroes. His sin was too much resilience on sidekicks. 'Well, I was planning on waiting until I took out a faker from Hosu before taking him out.'
The Hero Killer draw his swords and looked at them. The first thing he had to do was get the hero's attention. He wasn't going to kill the sidekicks or grievously injure them like he usually did with the fake heroes. After all, he gave sidekicks more leniency. "Who is first?"
The two sidekicks hesitated for a moment before they both raced forward at him. The Hero Killer has a smirk on his face. He raced forward to meet the foolish sidekicks. A few minutes later the Hero Killer left the alleyway knowing that the hero Ingenium was soon going to find him.
The crowd yelled out in joy as the first round in the tournament was to begin. Cemetoss finished with creating the tournament arena. He formed up a chair for himself so he could help make sure things didn't get out of hand. Plus, past Sports Festival made it clear he had to be on site in order to fix any damage done to the arena.
Out both sides, the two competitors themselves started to make their way to the arena. Cemetoss had his eyes on Izuka Midoriya. As one of Toshinori's friends, he knew that Izuka was his successor. The next Symbol of Peace in training. 'I do wonder why he had picked her over someone else?'
Present Mic's voice was soon heard over the loudspeakers. "Alright, everyone it's time for the first round of our main event!" Hitoshi was the first to make it to the arena that Cemetoss had made. "First up the surprising underdog, Class 1-C's Hitoshi Shinso."
Cemetoss looked at the General Studies student. Not many from the General Studies got into the final round during the first year. Those that did were always one they kept their eyes on. Even extend an offer to take night classes if there was no position open for them in the Hero Course. 'After all, not all heroes started off in the Hero Course."
"Next taking her step up is the girl with the invisible mind arms, Class 1-A's Izuka Midoriya!" Izuka stood on her side of the arena looking at Hitoshi. The two mental Quirk users looked at each other.
Hitoshi was sure that Izuka knew about his Quirk. As for Izuka, she knew not to answer back to him. Midnight gave the signal to begin as Izuka summoned up Full Cowl. "You know it must be nice having a Quirk like yours," Hitoshi crossed his arms, "A mental Quirk that's great for combat is a rare blessing I guess everyone told you that you have a great future as a hero?" Hitoshi expression turned into one of hostility. "So, what you think you're better than me and all the other students in the other classes who failed to get into the Hero Course?"
"No, I…" Izuka's eyes widened as she realized too late. She lost control over her body as her eyes seemed to glaze over. 'Crap I forgot that he could control me if I answered back.'
In the stands, Class 1-A watched as Izuka just stood there. Nothing was happening to Hitoshi despite him being well within the range of her Vectors. "She answered him back now Izuka under his Quirks control."
Hitoshi crossed his arms. He stared at the pinkette in front of him. "You know I am jealous of you combat based mental Quirks are a rarity," He rubbed the back of his neck. "Though I Don't hold anything against you for it for what it's worth."
There was a bit of respect in his words. He had seen her in the race getting second and her stopping that crazed student from Class 1-B. The latter of which made him feel bad given that he had done nothing but watched. 'You would probably be a great hero one day.'
Izuka tried to break Hitoshi's Quirk control over her body but no matter what she did her body refused to move. 'I have to form a Vector now and break free!' Try as she could whatever Hitoshi's Quirk did it managed to meddle her mind as well. She couldn't seem to properly form a Vector. 'Come on I can't have it end here.'
"Turn around and walk off the arena alright." Hitoshi decided it was time to finish this. Izuka in her dazed state felt her body turn around and move without her command. She continued to try to form a Vector to break her out of her trance.
From his seat, Katsuki looked as his childhood friend had fallen victim to surprise Quirk that Hitoshi had. The ability to control someone who answered back was terrible for the entrance exam. 'Come on Deku are you really going to let him defeat you like this?' Katsuki stood up and yelled out at her. "Deku snap out of it and put that sleepy eyes Bastard in his place!"
Eijiro looked at the ash blond unsure about what to say. Everyone in their class knew that both him and Izuka was close. Still, the look of concern on Katsuki face was the first time they had seen it.
As Izuka tried to form up a Vector to hopefully do something to wake her up she saw a figure in the dark entranceway. Others follow behind this one. Soon their images became known as Izuka recognized each from her past life. Nana, Mayu, Yuka, Kouta, and the front of them Kaede.
The image of Kaede soon appeared right in front of her. She stared at Izuka her eyes locking with hers. "We've been through torture that would drive any sane human to the point they would give up mentally, how is it that you can't overcome this?" The images of all Kaede had endured soon started to flood her mind. Kaede turned and walked away. "Wake up."
Izuka clutched her head in pain as her Vectors shot out. Hitoshi and everyone watched as not four, not six, but eight arms started to flash in out and out of visibility. Finally, she stopped and hunched over. Izuka let out a few deep breaths before turning her head over to Hitoshi. Her left eye covered by her hair while her other eye stared straight at Hitoshi. Hiroshi was actually impressed by this. "Amazing you were able to free yourself from my Quirk?"
"Yes." Izuka's answer was short. She felt the pull of Hitoshi Quirk activating yet again.
Hiroshi himself figured that he could at least try this again. Given that Izuka had just answered back he activated his Quirk yet again. "Well, why don't you go back to walking off the stage." Instead of doing what he had told her, instead took a step towards him. "What?" Hitoshi eyes widened. "What's going on?"
Yes, Hitoshi Quirk could control his targets minds but as it turned out with enough mental fortitude one could actually overcome it. Despite having multiple personalities Kaede had endured unethical experiments, mental trauma, and even the unimaginable pain in the last moments of her life. All of which Izuka had just felt once again. The fact Kaede could still try to move forward after all of that was a testament to her willpower.
Izuka was practically using the immense trauma of her own past life to basically power through it. "You told me that I was blessed with this Quirk." Izuka looked at him with no emotions visible in her eyes. "You have no idea how wrong you are." She looked down and pointed to her head. "If you know what's within my mind you would be wishing you didn't have a Quirk."
Hitoshi looked as Izuka was now in front of him. With his plan stopped and knowing how outmatched he actually was Hitoshi knew he should give up. Yet, if he did without even trying what about his dreams and desires to be a hero? Without much of a thought, Hitoshi threw a punch right at Izuka only to have his fist caught by Izuka's Vectors. Izuka closed her eyes as her Vector force field covered her whole body. "For what it's worth I think you should have gotten into the Hero Course."
Hitoshi's eyes widened as Izuka delivered a punch straight to his gut knocking the air out of him. Despite the Vector infused strike be was still standing and looked at her in the eyes. "Thanks…" Hitoshi turned to Midnight. It was pointless to continue to fight against Izuka her punch had shown him that. "I give up."
Midnight gave him a nod. Raising her hand up she called the match. "Hitoshi has given up Izuka is the winner."
"Well, folks here's our first winner of the day Izuka Midoriya of Class 1-A!" Present Mic spoke through the speakers. In the commentator box, Present Mic turned over to Shota who was looking both at Hitoshi and at Izuka each for different reasons. The former because he reminded him a bit about himself while the later was for a different reason. Her Vectors had become visible. He had caught it and couldn't believe it. "Yo, Eraserhead you have anything you want to say?"
Shota looked at him. This was actually a perfect moment to talk about a gripe he had been having for a few years now. One which he had constantly brought up. "Yeah," Present Mic put the Mic in front of him. "The entrance exam needs to be reformed."
In the stands, Katsuki sat back down in his seat with a smirk on his face. He knew that Izuka could defeat Hitoshi. "Ok, I'll bite what exactly is your and Izuka relationship?" Katsuki looked at Eijiro who had a questioning look. "Are you both A couple or what?"
Katsuki looked at the pinkette as she walked out of the arena. After a moment he turned over to the spiky haired boy. "We've been friends since we were kids," The memory of Izuka and him using their Quirks together after they developed replayed in his mind. That was soon followed by all their time growing up practically as a duo with the best Quirks in their schools and the promise they both made. "If I had to say what Deku was to me," The memory of her asking him to kill her if Lucy ever got control of her played in his mind. "She's my little sister and if anyone tries to mess with her."
He clutched his fists as he created an explosion within them. Smoke could be seen rising up as a wave of murderous intent seemed to roll off of him. "I'll make them regret it."
A sigh of relief escaped Izuka's mouth. She came so close to losing the match. If it wasn't for her vision and remembering all the pain that Kaede had gone through Izuka could honestly say that she would have lost. However, Izuka had thought that Lucy would have made a moved given how weak she mentally felt while under the control of Hitoshi Quirk.
Speaking of her other. Izuka wondered about something she had felt for a moment. When she had gripped her head she had felt her Vectors frequency shift. She didn't know for how long or how many times but she was sure that they had somehow gone faster. She summoned up all six Vectors noticing another change. For one she was summoning all six with minimum effort and the second was that she could fully extend her Quirk to its fullest.
The last thing was that she could feel like she could summon more. With her eyes closed, she felt two more appeared from behind her creating a total of eight Vectors. 'I have eight Vectors now?' Confusion was apparent in her thoughts. After all, how could she get any more Vectors when Lucy was holding her back. She knew this wasn't One For All's doing either. 'What's going on?'
Whatever was going on Izuka had something of a bad feeling about it. Who knew maybe it was nothing. She did just discover this after Hitoshi had used his Quirk on her after all. Shaking her head about this Izuka decided to just ignore this. After all, what's the worse that could happen?
As Hitoshi walked backstage to join the rest of his class in watching the rest of the Festival his mind was on Izuka's words. For much of his life, people commented on how his Quirk was best suited for being a villain. Hearing from one person that he should be a hero actually brighten him up for a moment. 'Though I wonder why did she call her Quirk a curse?'
Like him, she likely had suffered from a mental change brought on by her Quirk. His only lasted a few weeks and it was rather minor. An inability to sleep which lasted a year. To this day it threw off his sleep cycles. He knew that more extreme issues were a possibility. Sometimes these issues didn't go away. "Hitoshi Shinso you have a minute?"
Hitoshi stopped as the homeroom teacher of Class 1-B Sekijiro Kan, better known as The Blood Hero: Vlad King walked up to him. The General Studies student looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Yeah, what can I help you with?"
"As you know with the incident from before my class is now down one student." Vlad King crossed his arms over his chest. "I guess by that showing that you wanted to get in the Hero Course correct?"
Hitoshi's widened in surprise. Was this what he thought it was? "Yeah, I was."
Glad King had a smile on his face. That settled that then. "Well then, if you want I would like to offer you to be apart of the Hero Course in Class 1-B."
Hitoshi stared at him. A smile formed on his face. "I'll take you up on your offer."
Vlad King had a smile at this. Sure the transfer would take a week to finalize and he would be a month behind the others but at least Vlad King could use that week to get him caught up. He held his hand out to the purple haired teen. "Welcome to the Hero Course Hitoshi Shinso."
Neito looked at his hands as he was kept in this makeshift cell. When he came to he had learned what he had done. He had threatened to kill his teammates and he had wanted to kill Class 1-A. The more troubling matter was that he actually enjoyed the thought. Yes, he was no longer copying Izuka's Quirk but somehow being exposed to that killing intent having felt it actually caused him not to regret his actions.
'Didn't take them long to abandon me either.' This enraged him more than class 1-A ever could. His classmates and the rest of the school was treating him like a villain. He had copied Izuka Midoriya's Quirk so why weren't they doing so to her? Neito looked at the tv screen through his makeshift cell. It seemed that Izuka Midoriya had passed the first round. 'So That's how it's going to be then.'
Yep, I am making Hitoshi apart of the hero course much sooner. I figured why not its my story and plus no one has done this. Also, I know this maybe tempting fate but I thought about getting something adorable for Izuka later on in the after. What it is I'm not telling. You just hsve to wait and see.
Cya all next time and remrmber to go beyond, Plus Ultra! (Ok, this is becoming a running gag at this point)
