Sam sighed as she settled next to Aizawa at the table over looking the arena. She frowned at the microphones, this would be fun. "He dragged you into this too, huh?" He asked.
"Well, he saved me from Armada. So fair is fair." Sam hummed back. "Plus, I have to admit that this does have the best seat in the house."
"Here you go!" Hizashi presented Sam with a frappe.
"Thank you." Sam grinned up to him as she took a sip of pure bliss of caffeine, "Coffee makes the world go round."
"Doesn't it?" Shouta agreed through his bandages, taking the black coffee from Hizashi. "Should you even be commentating? Wouldn't you be biased for your nieces?"
As bad as Sam felt for his wounds, she had to bite back a snort at how ridiculous he looked. She was already on the highway to Hell, might as well enjoy the journey. A small smirk graced her lips. Damn, her jaw was still sore from USJ. "Maybe that's true that I am biased, but I could also make the argument that I would be more harsh on them because they're my family. Hm?"
"Yeah."
Sam turned her attention down to Midnight as she explained to the students what they would be doing. A race around the arena with obstacles, a certain number of students that come in first would move on. "Kinda plain, ain't it?" She mused. Sam blinked in surprise as she heard the disgruntled murmurings of the audience. They were on air now, then. Damn it. "Just a relay?"
"What did you go through in your hero training, Sammy?" Hizashi asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I was stranded in the wilderness for three weeks to survive on my own." Sam murmured.
"Well, that's not so bad with your weapon quirk." Hizashi rebutted, eagerly in to his mic. "Now-!"
"I was also evading two special operations teams of the crown with several pro heroes working alongside them." Sam added, watching the students and Midnight. "Good survival training and evasion tactics. Russia is colder than Satan's left nipple." Hizashi and Shouta peered over to the burgundy haired woman. What kind of childhood did she have? They both wondered about their colleague as she stared out of the commentator's booth.
Sam kept her gaze to the students as they lined up to to the start, "The first obstacle, huh?" She mused watching the mass of students pressing themselves around the smaller entrance.
"The doorway." Shouta agreed.
Midnight sounded the horn and the students were off. Sam lost sight on Ron's blonde head in the mob or blue and white. Sam's gaze flickered to the video screen. The view was on the outside of the arena and Rin clearly teleported outside and used her staff to push herself into the air as Todoroki froze the side of the arena and the ground surrounding the the exit.Sam's gaze widened to see the shear scale of the quirk and that was only half. "Woah." Sam has to bite back a laugh as Rin landed on her butt due to slippery ice. Rin recovered quickly and gave chase after four others from her home room, leaving all of the other students to deal with being frozen to the ground.
"Only class 1-A is taking the lead so far." Sam remarked.
"Biased?"
"No comment." Sam answered Hizashi as soon as the next obstacle came into the camera and the students. One smashed into the side of the littlest student of 1-A, sending the boy flying. "I retract my previous comment, this relay does look promising. These are from the entrance exams, yeah?"
"They sure are! Robot Inferno!" As Hizashi continued to explain the next obstacle, Sam leaned forward To get a better look and winced, wasn't healed enough to bend that way. She leaned back into the plush rolling chair and focused on the screen.
Sam watched Rin paused to stare at the metal monstrosities and cast a spell. Transparent, blue wings formed around her shoulder blades. Not like an angel but like an old comic book hero, the falcon. Rin took to the air after a brief fumble. Sam wondered how long could Rin maintain her flight, it was a quick spell, she probably didn't have a lot of time to spend on the details of the spell.
Todoroki froze several of the severely oversized machines and skated away as Rin weaved past swinging ligaments on her glowing wings that matched her startling bright blue eyes. She soared over the machines and her classmates, taking the lead with Todoroki. Her fellow classmates were quick to find ways to follow with their quirks. USJ gave them a wake up call.
"That's Shimizu Rin from class 1-A! One of the students admitted on recommendation and the daughter of one of U.A.'s staff, Shimizu Tsubaki! Her quirk is magic creation with a simple spell she can overcome most of her obstacles with ease!" Hizashi explained to the crowd and proceed to go over each student that overcame the so called robot inferno. 1-A was the first in reacting with 1-B and general studies following close behind. They did need the wake up call that the attack gave them but they shouldn't need that this early. Sam frowned, they didn't deserve that to be thrust upon them. They needed the kick in the head but she didn't agree with the timing.
"Class 1-A's learned not to hesitate. They've seen what the real world has to offer. They've felt the fear of facing villains." Shouta remarked, responding to Hizashi's comments on the relay. Sam eyed the pro hero, he had the same view as her's of sorts. "Yet they fight on, trying to overcome the fear. They've grown. All of them. And they know that they need to act quickly to stay alive."
Sam hummed her agreement, watching Rin land with a slight stumble and continued on the path behind Todoroki. She got a view at the next obstacle. "Oh. An opportunity for the more agile students came make up ground and catch up to the others." Sam frowned when Rin summoned her wings once more to fly over the canyon, she took a running leap and the wings gave a flap and she was in the air. "You can do more than that, Rin." Sam mumbled, not quite disappointed in her niece but not impressed. She already knew that Rin would be interning under Jo but she should still make an effort for other pros that were watching to improve her future career. Kim streaked past the robots in a white/blue blur and skidded to the edge of the gorge. The blue haired girl cursed at the tightly stretched cables and eyed her sister gliding in the sky with purses lips. Kim watched as a pink haired support student use grappling hooks and jet boots to make her way with ease.
"In the world of heroes, it must be hard to get popular without a flashy quirk. Right, Eraser Head?" Hizashi asked Shouta.
"I don't know what you're talking about, idiot." Shouta retorted, Sam bit back a smirk at their banter. Sam could feel the annoyance radiating off of him and she knew that Hizashi only did it to lighten the mood.
"It's not about the quirk but what you do with it, that counts." Sam murmured with a stretching grin at Hizashi's booming laugh and the tried, withering glare of Shouta.
"How did I let you talk me into this?" Shouta asked, tiredly.
"He doesn't take no for an answer." Sam quipped, taking on more on her media persona. "Best seat in the house."
Rin's wings flickered and she dropped out of the sky into the mine field. Sam cursed as Rin made the mistake of tucking and rolling onto disturbed dirt. A mine. She flew when the mine exploded and landed hard in the dirt just out of the starting area for the mine. Sam's breath caught in her throat and Hizashi chatted on about the strength of the mines and how it forces the students to slow down. Rin shook her head to clear herself and she glared at the exit of the field. Make a choice, Sam thought. And stick with it. Do it quickly.
Rin picked herself up and started a spell, this one she took time with. To put the details that she failed to the last time and once more, glowing blue wings materialized on her shoulder blades. She started another spell around her feet and Sam bit her lip. The gap between her class and the other students were growing larger and larger. Wind caught around her feet and Rin took to the air for the third time for this relay. Wind pushed her and she flew over the course. Not quite flew, her wings at this point were only gliders. The wind did the work as she rocketed forward towards Todoroki and Bakugo.
An explosion startled Sam and she turned her gaze back to where Rin had been at the start. A large, pink explosion and Sam gasped. None of the mine should have been that powerful. Midoriya flew from the highest of the explosion on what looked to be a piece of the robot from the second obstacle. What the Hell?! Midoriya flew past a disgruntled Rin and he gradually drifted down from the apex for the explosion, right next to Todoroki and Bakugo. He planted both of his feet on each of the boys' shoulders and used them as leverage to slam his board into the ground over several mines. He used that second explosion to rocked himself out of the mine field. He stumbled but recovered quickly to run to the entrance of the arena.
Rin piled on more speed as Todoroki and Bakugo did the same. Kim and Iida wasn't far behind the four, both throwing caution to the wind to catch up to the leading four. Rin's wings flickered and she dropped to the ground, panting but running. She was side by side with Midoriya with Todoroki gaining on her. Damn, she might get first. Generic spells or not, she was winning. Rin was in the top four right now. Sam edged herself to the edge of her seat. Midoriya reaches the entrance first, Todoroki second and Rin third. Bakugo in fourth, 1-B student that Sam could not recall, Iida and Kim in sixth. Other students began to file in, panting.
Rin was fourth. That was something. Sam's phone dinged with a text. She glanced down, James. She tucked the phone away, she could answer him after the Sports Festival. He should know better after he pusheing Sam to prioritizing teaching over consulting the Ripper case. What was next for the first years?