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Chapter 26: Calvary's Here!
I turn around to see a fuming Monoma and I can't help the feeling of pride that takes over me.
"We had a deal damn it!" He growls and I shrug.
"And you broke it first by getting more of your goons to hurt my classmates, sorry, but I never agreed to that," I say simply, but he doesn't like that.
"Oh you think you are so clever, don't you?"
I shift my hip to the side as I place a finger to my bottom lip. Tapping on it as I hum, pretending to contemplate his question before snarkily replying, "Yeah, little bit,"
He raises a finger to point it directly at me, "The festival just started, Chiharu, don't get cocky too early,"
I cross my arms over my chest as I say, "I'm not being cocky, I'm confident in my classes abilities. The only pompous one here is you, Monoma. That race was just a warning, your REAL wake up call will be during this match,"
He snickers at my words, "Oh yeah? And who are you teaming up with, Chiharu?"
God I love that he dropped the whole 'Chi-Chan's bullshit. I know that I let everyone else call me it, but the way Monoma always did made it sound awful.
"Hey, Shitty Face,"
My head snaps to the left, seeing Bakugou stomp over to me in a huff and I giggle at him.
Such a child.
"The match is about to start, you're on my team," Bakugou states, but then he sees Monoma beside me and his eyes narrow at him.
"What the Hell do you want?" He practically barks at him.
Monoma smiles as he cheerfully says, "I was just asking, Chi-chan here if she wants to be a part of my team for the next round,"
A shiver goes down my spine when he uses my nickname again.
Gross.
Bakugou just rolls his eyes as he yanks on back of my uniform and pulls me behind him.
"Yeah, well it's too late, she's on my team," he says, not even giving Monoma a chance to say anything, especially after I told everyone the bastards plan.
I grin as I let him drag me away, "Thanks for that, I'd love to be on your team, by the way," I say jokingly and he shakes his head, "Shut up,"
"So how many points do we have as a team? Also, WHO is on our team?" I ask and instead of silence like I anticipated, he answers my question without batting an eye.
"It's you, me, weird hair-"
"Kirishima," I correct him, but he ignores me as he continues.
"And racoon eyes,"
I sigh, "Her name is Mina,"
"The four of us make up a total of six hundred and sixty five points. I would've preferred more, but we can always steal Deku's headband,"
I nod, gathering myself to face him as he stops and waits for the clock to finish the count down.
"And how much does he have?"
His fingers curl into a fist as he growls through his teeth, "Ten Million,"
My eyes widen at this as I look over at the poor kid to see him standing tall with his team mates.
This includes Uraraka, Tokoyami, and some chick that I've never seen before.
I look between him and Bakugou to laugh as I say, "Midoriya is gonna die today because of you, isn't he?"
"Hell yes he is!!"
The buzzer goes off on the teleprompter and I sigh.
"Let's just get into position," I say as every one gathers around Bakugou to make our Calvary.
I take the left side while Mina takes his right, Kirishima stands in the front to act as the base of our form.
I place my arm on Kirishimas shoulder as Mina does the same. Bakugou climbs onto his back, tying our headband to his head in the process.
I look around to see twelve different teams and feel my blood start pumping. This is NOT going to be easy, that's for sure.
At least I'm not in Midoriya's position, though.
Gulping down the last bit of fear inside of me, the buzzer goes off again as Midnight tells us to begin.
Knowing Bakugous tendencies, we start heading towards Midoriya to retrieve his headband.
Not that that task is particularly easy when there are literally five other teams doing the EXACT SAME THING!
My eyes glance over at Todoroki's team to see Denki charging up and I speak up.
"Bakugou, pull back,"
His eyes narrow as he says, "You see it too, huh? Guys, stop," he orders and we do, but Mina and Kirishima look at us puzzled.
"Why are we stopping?" Mina asks.
"Yeah, what gives, Bakugou?" Kirishima says and I state, "Todoroki plans to weed out the others, and I don't plan on being a part of that mess,"
"Huh?? How so?" Kirishima exclaims and Bakugou smacks the back of his head.
"If you'd shut your damn mouth for a second, maybe we could explain it to you!!" He scolds Kirishima and I roll my eyes as I use my free hand to point at their team.
"Look, see Denki charging up? He plans to send out an electrical surge to paralyze the teams. Todoroki will most likely freeze them after, that way they can't get up when they regain conciousness,"
Our fellow teammates share an understanding 'Oh' before I look back at Bakugou.
"We should go for smaller points until Todoroki takes care of the crowd,"
He nods, "Let's do it!"
We take off towards a couple of other groups, stealing easy headbands and Bakugou keeps chucking them down to me.
"What the fuck, Bakugou?!" I exclaim as the first one fell over my eyes, blinding me for a moment.
"Hold onto those until we get the ten million!" he shouts to me and I sigh, but just move them around my neck.
For putting up with this asshole as our leader? I better be getting first place for this shit.
All my thoughts are interrupted, however, when I see a familiar face snatch our headband from Bakugou's spiky hair.
My eyes grow wide as I see Monoma grinning down at me, triumphantly placing the headband around his neck in the process.
Oh my god! Can I not catch a damn break with this guy?!
"I'll be taking that now, thank you very much~" Monoma cheerfully sings and Bakugou snarls at him.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY??"
Monoma grins, "You know, I couldn't figure out why you seemed so familiar to me at first, but now I get it. You're famous, aren't you? For getting attacked by that sludge monster a few years ago,"
I look up to see Bakugou seething, shit even his eyes are rolling into the back of his head.
"Bakugou, don't," I warn him, but it falls on deaf ears as Monoma continues.
"Tell me, how does it feel to fall victim to a villain almost consistently? Well, then again, you are hanging out with the right people," he pauses to sneer down at me before continuing.
"Isn't he, Chi-chan?"
I don't respond as I try to reach up and slap Bakugou on the back.
"Listen to me! He's not worth it, he's just an asshole! We can go get other points for now, come on!" I beg him, but am ignored as his limbs start shaking with rage.
As a final nail in the coffin, Bakugous head tilts back and he says through grinding teeth, "Kirishima, change of plans,"
Without another word, Kirishima and Mina bolt forward, pulling me along with them and I groan.
"BAKUGOU, DON'T! HIS QUIRK IS-"
"I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT HIS QUIRK!!" Bakugou yells in return before jutting out his arm, ready to send off an explosion, but just as I feared, Monoma blocks it.
I sigh internally knowing now that since he's touched him, it's over for Bakugou until Monoma moves onto another quirk.
Bakugou shifts to face Monoma only to have an explosion similar to his own go off in his face.
We're sent backwards a bit, but not enough to be out of reach of his group and Bakugou goes for another blast.
I watch Monoma swipe at Kirishima's hair and my eyes grow wide as I try to tell, "DON'T! HE CHANGED-"
The blast Bakugou sends off is much more powerful then his first one and a large cloud of dust falls on us, making me cough in the process.
Once the smoke clears, Monoma grins as he shows that he blocked Bakugous hit entirely.
"Your quirk is strong, I'll give you that, but mine is still better," he says with a grin on his face, but then again, what else is new?
"What the?? My quirk too??!" Kirishima exclaims and I shake my head.
"His quirk is Copy Cat. I've been trying to tell you guys this since he snuck up on us, but you wouldn't listen. He can absorb anyone's quirk that he touches,"
Monoma smiles at me even bothering to explain his quirk.
"That's right, Chi-chan, now if you'll excuse us, we're gonna go get some more head bands to collect," he states as his team turns him around to run off in the opposite direction.
His looks over his shoulder to give Bakugou a final smile as he says, "Oh, but no hard feelings, alright? After all, you were the one who pretty much declared war on every one. What did you say during the ceremony?"
He taps his finger on his bottom lip in a sarcastic manner before snapping his fingers, as if coming to an epiphany.
"Oh right, that you'd claim first place, or something stupid like that,"
Monoma huffs pitifully, "Honestly, if you keep talking like that, you might as well stoop to Chi-Chan's level of uselessness,"
He lets out an arrogant laugh as they leave our sight, but I'm not laughing.
No sir, no ma'am, I'm doing anything BUT laughing.
Unconsciously, my teeth pull on my bottom lip in to bite down on it as a way to keep my cool.
I have lived my life being put down by that man, but to have him practically rubbing salt into my wound is enough to drive anyone mad.
My blood is boiling as I keep replaying his words in my head, thinking about that smug grin that is almost permenantly smeared on his face, and the devious look that's always behind his cold eyes.
No more.
"Bakugou," I call to him, getting a grunt in return as acknowledgement.
No more.
"Before we get the ten million, let's teach that bastard a lesson and get our points back," I say, turnung my head to give him an assertive glare that oozes determination.
He looks back at me, seeing my confidence and he turns his head back to where Monoma ran off.
A grin starts to spread across his face, "You heard her, Kirishima! Let's go!" he orders and Kirishima shakes his head, taking off into a sprint along with Mina and I, as he says, "I'm seriously counting on you, man,"
My heart is pounding in my chest, but not out of anxiety.
I'm excited.
I'm ready to humiliate Monoma further and it thrills me to no end to think that I'll have a hand in the process.
No more fucking around.
I'm finishing this stupid battle between Monoma and I.
Ignoring him was the first step, denying his demands was the second step, the final step is to win against him.
"Hey! Losers!" Bakugou shouts, snapping me out of my daze and I see Monoma slump his shoulders.
He readies himself to give another speech about how we should just accept defeat nobly.
What he doesn't expect is for Bakugou to blast off of our team, closing the gap between him and Monoma quickly.
"Don't do things without telling us!!!" Kirishima scolds, but I grin at his boldness.
The look on Monoma's face was worth Bakugou's sacrifice, in my opinion.
Monoma calls for one of his minions to block Bakugou's advances by solidifying the air between them, but Bakugou doesn't give up that easily.
He pulls his arm back before quickly sending his arm down on the glass like barrier, shattering it to pieces.
He leans forward, following through with his arm as he grabs two out of the three headbands around Monomas neck.
"CHIHARU!" he calls out as he falls to the ground and I send out my wraps immediately.
They latch on and I yank him back to Kirishima as I get my wraps back around my wrists.
"TEAM BAKUGOU GOT NOT ONLY THEIR HEADBANDS BACK, BUT AN ADDITIONAL ONE AS WELL AND IS NOW IN THIRD PLACE!" Hizashi yells into the microphone and the crowd goes crazy.
"Nice catch!" Mina compliments me and I give her a grin.
"Hey, it's what I do," I tease her and Kirishima sighs, "Good, now if we stay like this, we automatically advance-"
"WE AREN'T DONE YET!!" Bakugou complains as he starts beating on Kirishima's head aggressively.
"I SAID THAT I WAS GETTING AN INDISPUTABLE FIRST PLACE, NO MATTER WHAT! I WANT THAT LAST HEADBAND!"
Mina glares up at him, "How?!" she shouts and he ignores her as he lifts up his leg in front of me, "Shitty face, wrap them!"
"Got it," I say as I send out my alloy wraps, but not to hit Monoma's team that's in front of us.
Instead, I caught the edge of the arena and Bakugou starts barking at Mina, "Raccoon eyes, lay down some acid in the same direction!"
As he lifts his other leg for her, Mina growls to him, "My NAME is Mina Ashido!"
Once we step into the slime, I pull us as Bakugou sends off a blast to launch us forward even quicker.
With a loud cry, Bakugou snatches the last headband Monoma had around his neck and I grin at our victory.
Monoma's eyes widen, trying to lean forward to get it back, but the force from Bakugou's blast sends us forward, gaining momentum.
"GIVE ME THE HEADBANDS!" I shout to him and he chucks them at me as we start making a run for the ice chamber Todoroki made.
We may be in second, but I know Bakugou wants more.
He wants to win.
He wants to win so bad that he can practically feel the fabric of the ten million point headband wrapped around his forehead.
I lick the sweat that threatens to fall past my cupids bow and have to squint my eyes when we approach the iceberg.
My eyes adjust as I see a blindingly bright yellow light break through the glass like peaks.
Once we're close enough, Bakugou jumps off of us, sending an explosion off to fall just short of the ice.
He sends off another powerful explosion to break through the ice, not only creating an opening for him to enter through, but also giving him more air time in the process.
"DEKU!!" he shouts at the top of his lungs, but when Midoriya's large eyes meet his, Bakugou and I know that he lost the ten million.
"Where is it??" I murmur as I look over at all the members of Midoriya's team to see if they have another member holding it, like I am with ours.
My gaze turns to Todoroki's team and I see the headbands turned inside out, making it hard to tell which one has the ten million points.
"HALF AND HALF BASTARD!!" Bakugou yells as Midoriya and Uraraka work to hurriedly float over to Todoroki's team.
The clock is ticking.
My heart is pounding against my eardrums at this point.
I'm covered in sweat and my eyes scan over the headbands again.
Even though I'm the daughter of a very smart man, I can't decifer which headband could possibly be holding the ten million.
Once it seems like we're all too close to the point of possibly colliding, Hizashi yells from the observatory, "TIME'S UP!!!"
My eyes widen as everyone stops.
Midoriya curls his outstretched fingers into a curled fist and my heart sinks a bit at this.
I don't need to be in his shoes to know how he feels. Everyone can relate to that 'having it all one minute' and then 'losing it all in the next' feeling.
Todoroki lets out a sigh of relief and my group falls to their knees out of exhaustion from keeping up with Bakugou.
Speak of the devil, the Sour Puss falls head first into the ground when Hizashi calls time and I snort at his face plant.
He turns to give me a glare, but I don't even notice it as I try to gulp down air from the, frankly, hilarious stunt.
Bakugou ignores me, for the most part, as we all gather around to hear Hizashi give the final results.
"IN FIRST PLACE IS TEAM TODOROKI! SECOND, TEAM BAKUGOU! AND IN THIRD PLACE IS TETSUTE-wait, hold on. Team Shinso? WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?"
I giggle at Hizashi's astonished outburst before listening carefully to who is in the last place, "AND FINALLY, IN FOURTH PLACE IS TEAM MIDORIYA!!"
My eyes grow to the size of dinner plates as I look over to see Tokoyami holding a headband that has six hundred and fifteen points on it.
I cover my mouth in shock and excitement, wanting to run over and bear hug Midoriya and his team.
I reel in these thoughts when I see Midoriya fall to his knees and gush out water from his eyes like a fountain.
Not wanting to ruin my PE clothes, I leave it to Uraraka to help comfort him while I grin over at Bakugou.
He's absolutely livid, but I roll my eyes as I go over to him, squatting so I'm closer to eye level with him.
"You know, it may not be first, but second feels pretty good, doesn't it?" I say, getting a grumble in repsonse and I laugh at his reaction.
"You know, I just realized something," I say as a sudden thought occurs to me.
"Huh?" he mutters and I look back at him, a wide smile plays at the corners of my lips as I comment, "That was the first time you called me by my name,"
He blinks at me confused at my words, but then I see a small burst of pink start to spread over his cheeks.
Bakugou scrambles to his feet as he runs his fingers through his hair, trying to calm his nerves as he angrily states, "Yeah? So what? It's your name, isn't it??"
I decide to tease him by letting my fingers trail down his back as he tries to walk away from me, "You lliiikkkkeeee me!! You want to call me ccchhhiiii-chan like eeevvveerryyyooonnneee else, but you're too sshhhyy!!"
"I am NOT shy! Stop touching me! Screw you, Shitty Face, I'm never saying your name again!!" he complains, but I ignore him as I laugh at his complaints.
I can't help it, the kid is easy to tease.
A/N
Not to toot my own horn, but I love how I ended this chapter; it's just adorable!!
Thank you for reading, leave a review if you'd like and I'll see you guys next week with a new chapter!!!~