Sorry I've been gone so long! T.T here's an extra long chapter to make up for it!


The set up for the cavalry battle was about what you'd expect. Each team starts together several paces away from another team. If your cavalry is knocked down, you have a chance to get up without consequence. However, I'd your cavalry is pushed out of bounds, you lose. To make it easier on Suzuka's team for movement with Iida, Yaoyorozu made for herself and Suzuka pairs of roller skates, which would definitely help them move around faster, especially with Iida's quirk. It was a good thing Suzuka knew how to skate.

Suzuka wasn't surprised to see that most groups were made within their home rooms, it was too much of a gamble to make a group with those outside of your class, you didn't know them nor their quirks. Which is why Suzuka was surprised to see Aoyama and Ojiro teaming up with the purple haired kid that called their class out.

He must have a powerful quirk to convince Ojiro to team up with him. It left Suzuka wondering what his quirk was and why he was in General Studies to begin with.

"After fifteen minutes to pick teammates and talk strategy, twelve cavalry teams are ready to go head to head!" Present Mic boomed through the stadium. "Come on everyone! Get your hands in the air! It's time for an arena thumping Battle Royale!"

"I see some unexpected student combinations." Aizawa muttered, bored in comparison to Mic's contagious energy. "This should make for an interesting battle to say the least."

"Let me hear you SCREEEEEAM!" Mic shouted. The entire stadium let out a roar of excitement, as well as a few of the cavalry teams. Suzuka's team, sans Todoroki, joined in on the shout.

"Everyone, our main Target is Izuku Midorya." Todoroki told them. The team nodded in agreement. "We can do this."

"Right." Suzuka nodded, steeling herself for what was coming. They would be fine, she told herself over and over again. But something was telling her not to underestimate her fellow classmates and since they didn't know how many teams were going to advance, she knew anything but first place wasn't an option.

"On your marks!" Midnight shouted from the stage, which had been moved a ways back from the cavalry field. "Get ready!" Suzuka did as she was told, hiking Todoroki higher onto her shoulder. To her surprise, he wasn't as heavy as she thought he'd be, thanks to all the adrenaline pumping through her. "GO!" And so they went.

As soon as Midnight said go, every team clamored out onto the field. To nobody's surprise, every team rushed Izuku's and Suzuka frowned. They were furthest away from his squad at the start, so every team would get there before them, even with their roller skates. Before Suzuka's team could even get halfway there, she noticed her brother's squad began to sink into the ground.

"Todoroki!"

"I see it!" He called to her, patting Iida's shoulder. Their squad began to slow, watching intently what was happening. "Watch the headband, make sure we know where it is at all times!" Just as it looked like all hope was lost, Izuku and his team came flying out of the ground using what appeared to be a jetpack on his back.

"He's flying?!" Iida gasped as Izuku soared overtop of them. Suzuka craned her neck to see exactly where he was going, realizing with a heavy heart that he had teamed with Mei and she must have brought with her some more support items.

"It's Hatsume, the pink haired girl! She's a support student so she's given them several support items!" Suzuka told Todoroki. Todoroki growled, nodding at her.

"Can you reach them?"

"I can try!" Suzuka growled. With all of her concentration, she sent a wave of telekinetic energy towards her brother's team, causing them to fly off kilter before recovering with yet another support item, this time they were boots on Uraraka's feet. "You're going to have to take out something with your ice, the jet pack or the stabilizers have to go!"

"Got it!" But Todoroki didn't get a chance. With Izuku's team out of play for now, Suzuka and her friends quickly became enemy number one with the second most points on their heads. After several seconds, they found themselves surrounded.

"Midorya!" But he didn't need to tell her twice. With a growl, Suzuka sent a shockwave of telekinetic energy towards the cavalry teams on her side of the squad, knocking several of them over or out of the way. "There's our exit, Iida!" Todoroki directed. Iida nodded, sending the team through the gap that was made and out of harm's way, just in time for Izuku's team to land and take some of the heat off of them.

"They're just right over there!" Yaoyorozu shouted. They were now the closest team to Izuku's, and Todoroki had a taste for blood.

Again. Izuku had taken off into the air with his team, this time being chased by Shoji and whoever he was covering on his back. Judging by the tongue and the purple balls, it's was Tsu and Mineta. The good news came in the form of a broken boot on Uraraka's foot.

"They're down a stabilizer!" Yaoyorozu shouted from the other side of Todoroki. Apparently she was watching the ordeal behind them as well. Suddenly Katsuki flew into the air after Izuku, leaping from his team and using his hands as thrusters to get to Izuku's height. Suzuka watched with wide eyes as Katsuki flew higher and higher, further from the ground and from the safety of his team.

Idiot! She thought viciously, blocking another ensemble of attackers with a shield wall. This time, Todoroki managed to pull from a few of them, their headbands, though how much they were worth Suzuka wasn't sure, she was too busy worrying about Katsuki's rash plan. He never thinks about what he does before he does it! She thought, eyeing the distance between Katsuki and his team mates. He was at least 100 feet in the air now, equal distance from his team. If he fell they would never get to him in time.

While Katsuki managed to get up to Izuku's height, his plan was foiled when Tokoyami's dark shadow blocked his attack, which sent Katsuki careening down towards the ground unable to redirect himself. A fall from that height was dangerous, he could kill himself, all because he wasn't thinking! Suzuka felt her heart drop, a heavy feeling in her chest as she watched the boy fall. His team scrambled to get to him in time, but Suzuka knew they wouldn't be able to catch him before he hit the ground.

"Shit." Suzuka muttered, concentrating all of her efforts on stopping him from falling. Using a controlled blast is the air beside Katsuki, Suzuka managed to shoot him back towards his team, where Denki and Kirishima were waiting to catch him, sending their whole team falling to the ground in a giant heap.

"Midorya!" Todoroki shouted, giving her an intense look. Her name being called caught her attention and she turned back to group just in time to see a team from 1B flanking to her right, this team had several headbands around their rider's neck. She knew that rider, his name was Neito Monoma, from class 1B, one of the loud mouths who came to gawk at their class the past week.

"Oh-!" Suzuka shouted, but before she managed to wall them off, the rider reached out, but he did not grab Todoroki's headband, instead he caressed Suzuka's cheek. After her initial shock wore off from being touched so gently, Suzuka put up a full shield between their team and the opposing team. Again Monoma reached for them, this time trying to steal Todoroki's headband, but his fist hit Suzuka's hard shield.

"How cute!" He told her, holding up his arm and sweeping it across his chest. A familiar invisible force crushed into Suzuka's shield like a wave, beginning to splinter the forcefield where it struck it. Angry, Suzuka lashed out, throwing her shield at them, surprised when it bounced off of an invisible shield of his own. Suzuka's eyes went wide as she stared at the white splinters that filled the air between their teams.

"That's-that's my quirk!" She shouted.

"Impossible! No quirk is exactly alike!" Iida shouted as Todoroki dodged Monoma's hand. Suzuka put up another shield, this one stronger than the last she'd made.

"Your class is too small minded, think bigger!" Monoma taunted them, throwing another kinetic shockwave at her shield.

His shockwaves aren't as strong as mine, but I know that that quirk he's using isn't his! Suzuka thought angrily.

"You've forgotten about class 1B and that's where you made your mistake. I had all of the first leg to watch you use your quirks, so now you get to watch me use them better!" He shouted, again slinging her quirk back at her.

"We don't have time for this!" Todoroki shouted, raising a wall of ice, blocking Monoma's kinetic blast. "He's a quirk thief, if he touches you he can take your quirk." He told the team as they skated off. "I watched him grab your cheek, that's how he got it."

"Right…" Suzuka sighed, still shaken as they took off through the crowd again. "I think his plan is to steal as many bandanas as possible, so keep an eye on yours." Suzuka told Todoroki, glancing back behind them.

"Now who wants to take a look at each team's points so far?" Present Mic asked over the loudspeakers. "Let's get those rankings thrown up on the screen!"

But Suzuka didn't bother looking. She knew that they were doing okay, or at least she thought they were. The students had learned to not approach from her side anymore, and she couldn't see what was going on on Yaoyorozu's side of the Cavalry. "Hold on here, this is an unexpected turn. Other than Midorya, class 1A is not doing so hot!" Present Mic shouted. Suzuka froze, glancing up at the jumbotron. Her team had somehow fallen into fifth place with all class 1B ahead of them. "Even Bakugou is losing!"

"No way!" Suzuka shouted gesturing to the jumbotron. Todoroki glared up at it cooly, dodging another hand coming for his headband, this time from Yaoyorozu's side. Suzuka frowned as she watched Monoma steal Katsuki's headband from his head on the replay. During the replay Suzuka could see that Monoma was taunting Kachaan, a mistake he would soon learn to regret. "Katsuki's team won't be going for Izuku any longer." Suzuka told Todoroki.

"What makes you say that?" Iida asked, steering them towards Izuku's team, which seems to have been grounded for the time being.

"Monoma just stole Katsuki's headband." Suzuka said matter of factly. Above her, Todoroki grinned, shaking his head.

"Like a horse with a carrot dangling in front of his face. That means that's two teams we don't have to worry about. Let's go." He directed them, leading his team to cut off Izuku's team.

Izuku's froze, his eyes wide as he looked first at Todoroki, down to his sister who both wore matching expressions: a look of sheer determination.

"I thought we had it made, guess I was wrong." Izuku sighed.

"I'll be taking that now." Todoroki glowered.

Suzuka took a deep breath, ready to unleash her shield or kinetic blast if need be. Despite being her brother, she wasn't entirely sure how his quirk worked as she hadn't had a chance to see it in action up close. She knew that this lack of Intel could come back to hurt them in the end, and she wondered if Todoroki thought the same. He was smart, just as smart as her brother, so she was almost certain he understood the ramifications of underestimating Izuku's quirk. But he was so determined, was he even thinking straight right now?

"He seems to have it out for you, Midorya." Tokoyami growled.

"Iida, now. Forward!" Todoroki shouted and Iida obeyed. "Yaoyorozu, be ready!"

"On it!" She shouted, clearly making something from her body for them to use.

"Midorya!" Todoroki glanced down at Suzuka and Suzuka smirked back at him. Their eyes met and the pair shared a nod before continuing with their assault plan they'd spoken about before the game started. She was the area of effect, her damage was to knock out as many teams as she could so Todoroki could go into for the proverbial kill.

"I hope you made something strong, Yaoyorozu!" Suzuka shouted, releasing from herself a fury like none she had released before. With a growl, Suzuka blew away the rest of the teams on all sides, using a kinetic shockwave so big it sent all of them flying to the edges of the playing field. Yaoyorozu would have flown away as well had it not been for the pillar she made to anchor herself to the ground where she stood. With every other team knocked kilter, Todoroki reached over, grabbing Yaoyorozu's anchor and freezing the playing field behind them, freezing most of the remaining teams to the ground where they stood. Now froze, Yaoyorozu easily broke the anchor from her arm, leaving their team free to move around while the others were not.

"Would you look at that! He froze all of those teams in their tracks!" Present Mic shouted, excitable.

"But only after Suzuka Midorya used her quirk to knock them all off balance or over completely." Aizawa reminded Present Mic. "In the Obstacle Course, he was surprised by how many people avoided his attack. He's adapting his strategy by enlisting Midorya's quirk."

Behind them, Todoroki walled off the rest of the playing field with a giant sheet of ice, trapping Izuku's team in with them as they made a mad grab for Izuku's bandanas. It was all or nothing now.

"Take care of them!" Tokoyami shouted to his dark shadow. Dark shadow came flying towards Todoroki, but he didn't get fair. Using her quirk, Yaoyorozu made and small shield, blocking Tomoyami's fiend completely, causing him to retreat for another attack. This time Tokoyami aimed for Suzuka, but she was faster than he, and she raised a shield up to block the front of their Cavalry from any assault.

"How long can you hold your defenses? Todoroki asked the girls.

"I'm fine!" Yaoyorozu shouted back. Suzuka grabbed her stomach, fighting back a wave of nausea and dizziness.

"I've got a little more gas." She said honestly. "Maybe one more big shock wave and a few shields."

"We'll have to play smart then." Todoroki nodded, sending his ice walls to cut off an escape route on both sides of Izuku's team, effectively backing them into a corner.

"Stay back!" Izuku shouted, rearing dark shadow at his beckon call. Again, Dark Shadow came for Suzuka and Suzuka blocked him, this time throwing her shield back at the team, trying her best to throw them off kilter.

He's focusing me because he knows I'll run out of gas soon, especially after that giant kinetic blast. Suzuka cringed, swallowing a gag. She stood taller despite herself, looking at her brother pointedly. She wasn't going to let him know how sick she felt. Suzuka wanted him to think she was fine, she'd make him call her bluff until the very end.

"Everyone, we have less than sixty seconds." Iida spoke up out of nowhere. "I'm gonna do something that will make me useless to you."

"What? Iida, no-"

"It's the only way. Just make sure you get that head band." Iida told them, crouching down for what Suzuka could only imagine was going to be a blast off. "Brace yourselves and hold on tight!" He shouted at them, his legs beginning to whir. The flames on his legs grew from yellow and orange to a bright blue and white, the sound much like that of an engine getting ready to overload itself.

"Iida!" But Suzuka didn't have time to finish that statement. Iida flew them towards Izuku at blazing speed, and it took all of Suzuka's remaining strength just to hold on to him. Suzuka wasn't sure if they had acquired the headband until they were already back at a safe distance, but when she looked up to find a confused Todoroki holding the ten million points band, Suzuka knew: they had won!

"Iida, what was that!" Todoroki asked as he placed the headband on his head.

"I forced my torque and RPM into overdrive, which gave me explosive power." Iida told him, panting, the first Suzuka had ever seen him out of breath. "unfortunately the recoil stalls my engines for a while. It's a secret move I've been saving." He said, standing up, recovered from his initial breathlessness. Around them the crowd began to go wild and Suzuka could feel another wave of adrenaline pounding through her veins. But their celebration was short lived and Izuku's team began their final onslaught, springing forth in a flurry. Dark Shadow flew at them, while Izuku's arm began to light up like is usually did when he was about to use his quirk. Suzuka froze, bracing herself for impact but Todoroki was the first to act. For the first time since she'd known him, Todoroki lit up his left arm. The sudden heat left Suzuka speechless and as Todoroki went to block Izuku's attack, Izuku swiped at his arm, pulling it out of the way, forcing Todoroki into a vulnerable position. Using the confusion, Izuku swiped at Todoroki's neck, grabbing from the multiple headbands there a single band before skidding to a stop behind them. Panicked, Suzuka turned to look at Todoroki who checked the bands before shaking his head. Izuku didn't get it, they still held the ten million point band! Realizing his mistake, Izuku ran again for Suzuka and her team.

"Tokoyami!" Izuku shouted, causing Dark Shadow to rise towards them angrily.

"Midorya!" Todoroki snapped. Suzuka growled putting up yet another shield, possibly her last shield, blocking Dark Shadow off from their group entirely. With a growl, Suzuka sent that shield flying toward Dark Shadow. As Suzuka exploded her shield, Katsuki broke through their wall of ice, flying towards Izuku first, before realizing that it wasn't Izuku who had the ten million points.

"Dammit icy hot!" He shouted, redirecting his flight towards them.

"Yaoyorozu!" Todoroki shouted, grabbing a bo staff from Yaoyorozu's right thigh. He created with it an icy sword, and Suzuka, panting, drummed up the energy for one last hurrah. She groaned, holding up a final shield wall, protecting them from Katsuki, but not Izuku.

"TIMES UP!" Present Mic shouted, bringing all momentum in that square to an end. Katsuki growled hatefully, falling from the sky in a heap as Izuku froze where he stood, his face dropping from determination to shock. Suzuka felt her chest begin to ache as she watched her brother and his team begin to mourn their loss.

"Dammit." Todoroki sighed, dropping down next to Suzuka.

"What?" Suzuka groaned, dropping to the ground where she threw up everything she'd had for breakfast that day. Her head hurt like a truck had run it over and her stomach was doing flips. Yaoyorozu rushed over to Suzuka, placing a hand on her shoulder as Iida too dropped to his knees beside her, checking on his friend.

"Let's a take a look at who our top four teams are!" Present Mic was giddy and the crowd in the stadium howled with excitement. "In first place… Team Todoroki!" He shouted. Suzuka's heart fluttered and she began to cry as she watched the scoreboard flashing a picture of their team name. They'd managed to take the lead with the ten million point headband, keeping it until the end. "In second place… Team Bakugou!" Despite his second place finish, Katsuki was pissed, and he leered over at Suzuka and her teammates. With a frown he stood, watching Suzuka from afar. He wanted to check on her to make sure she was okay, but he wouldn't, he couldn't. He was too proud for that. "In third place is Tetsutets- wait, WHAT?! ITS TEAM SHINSO! WHEN DID THEY COME BACK FROM THE DEAD?" Suzuka frowned as she watched the jumbotron display Team Shinso for the fans to see. It was Ojiro and Aoyama's team, though Ojiro looked completely confused as he stood behind a smirking Shinso. "And in fourth place… team Midorya!"

No way?! Suzuka was so confused and she grinned from ear to ear as Izuku's eyes began to shine.

"You'll have to forgive me, I couldn't get the ten million point headband, but despite your sister's best efforts, I was able to take the headband from Todoroki's head, where his guard was the weakest." Tokoyami explained, handing over the headband he'd managed to take. It was for six hundred and fifteen points, which brought them into fourth place at the last minute.

"I didn't even realize you'd taken it!" Suzuka called, getting to her feet. She stood shakily, but happy all the same.

"Yes, your last kinetic blast wasn't as strong as it had been before, I was able to take it from his head before being blown back completely." Tokoyami smirked at her. Suzuka smiled, turning to her brother. She was proud of him, they'd managed to stay alive that whole round because of his strategy, even if half of his strategy was wearing her down. She went to congratulate her brother but a hand on her shoulder stopped her. She turned, surprised to find Todoroki staring down at her.

"Oh, Todoroki, congrat-"

"I saw what you did, Midorya." He told her, his eyes narrowed at her. "When you saved Bakugou's life." His words took the breath right out of her sails and she struggled to take another. He narrowed his eyes, looking down his nose at her. "You're letting them keep you weak. The longer you're in their shadows the quicker you'll stifle." He told her as he began to walk away. Suzuka frowned at his back.

"I wasn't going to let him fall to his death, and if that makes me weak then maybe you need to rethink what a hero really is." She told him just as cooly as he'd told her. Todoroki stopped, regarding her over his shoulder for only a moment before walking away again.