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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter twenty-three: Carney Chaos, part two

The setup for the U.A. school festival was going pretty well. Nezu was at first a bit surprised to see that one section of the school grounds was inexplicably covered in snow, and also that there was a horse-drawn carriage and two Clydesdales at said snow-covered area, but he relaxed when Aizawa explained to him that 1-A's planned attraction that they as a class would do was romantic horse-drawn carriage rides in the snow, with Todoroki using the ice half of his quirk to make the snow, and Yaoyorozu providing the carriage and the two Clydesdales.

Surprised to see two large draft horses rather than smaller breeds more commonly associated with the idea of horse-drawn carriages, Aizawa pointed to the Clydesdales as he asked while looking at Yaoyorozu, "How in the name of Gilgamesh did your family get ahold of frigg'in Clydesdales? Those aren't exactly a common horse to see in Japan, you know."

Yaoyorozu, giving her homeroom teacher a blank, dry look, replied, "My family is very wealthy. Remember, Aizawa-sensei? Also, Gilgamesh?"

"What's it to you that I worship an ancient Sumerian demigod?" the underground hero retorted dryly before turning around to walk to the front gate to help some other U.A. staff with letting people in after checking them. A fairly large crowd of guests and visitors were pouring into the front area of U.A. grounds, many of which were clearly teenagers that were studnets over at Azu-Daioh High.

Over at the big thing that 1-A was doing as a class for the festival, Izuku, Uraraka, Tenya and Shinso were putting out coats typically associated with the people who drive horse-drawn carriages around in winter time, something that Todoroki said was a requirement in order to better sell the image that they had to project. As the friends were all gearing up, they all heard a voice call out to them, "Oi, guys!"

Izuku and the others all turned to see a group of eight male Azu-Daioh High studnets walk up to them. All of them were casually dressed, too. The one boy in the front of the group, with a mane of jet black hair held back by a red bandana and he also wore a simple necklace with a wolf's head charm on it, was waiving at Izuku and the others, showing that it was him who was calling out to them. The hero course studnets also saw a camera on a strap around the boy's neck.

Reaching the U.A. studnets with his friends, the camera boy said, "Sup, U.A. student guys." Gesturing to himself, the camera boy said, "The name's Ginei Morioka." Gesturing to each of the other guys in his group, Ginei continued, "These bad boys here are my pals Tsukune, Haiji, Fangfang, Draco, Ryota, Satoshi and Gaku."

"We're members of our school's newspaper club," the boy identified as Tsukune explained, "And we were hoping to do an interview with some of the studnets running attractions here in order to have something related to the festival your school is doing right now to put in the next issue of the paper when we get it out."

"We're…going to have to ask Aizawa-sensei for permission to do that interview," Tenya informed the studnets from Azu-Daioh High, "And he'll probably insist on being on-hand to make sure we don't say anything that U.A. wouldn't want to go into the school newspaper of another high school. Security and all that good jazz."

The boy identified as Draco nodded as he said, "Fair enough." Looking at Tenya and the others, Draco asked, "I don't suppose that there's some place here at your school's festival that sells food or drink, is there?" Crossing his arms over his chest, Draco continued, "I'd prefer stuff like sweet baked goods, sodas and similarly sweet drinks."

Jerking a thumb at Draco, the boy identified as Fangfang explained to the U.A. studnets, "Draco here has something of a sweet tooth, although he didn't hear of a whole lot of sweets until very recently, since his people had come out of hiding not all that long ago."

"Oh yeah, you guys are from Azu-Daioh High, so you got the monster studnets that had to transfer from Yokai Academy," Uraraka remarked, "Yeah, I heard about that." To the boys from Azu-Daioh High, the gravity girl continued, "If you don't mind me asking this, what kinds of monsters are you guys? None of you are like those warmonger monsters from the attack a short while ago, are you?"

"Oh no, none of us are warmonger-types," Ginei replied with an understanding and even mildly amused laugh. Gesturing to Satoshi, Ryota and Gaku, Ginei continued, "In fact, Satoshi, Ryota and Gaku here are actually humans, same as the lot of you." Ginei then said as he pointed to himself, Tsukune, Haiji, Fangfang and Draco in that order, "I can go ahead and tell you guys that I'm a werewolf, but I'll leave it to the rest of the boys here to tell you what they are if they feel like they want to share that."

Izuku and his friends all nodded in understanding to what Ginei had told them. Shinso looked like he was going to ask the Azu-Daioh High boys something, but he was cut off when Todoroki, wearing a coat similar to what his friends were wearing, came walking up to the group. He also had on a scarf, a winter cap and a pair of gloves.

Giving the boys talking to his friends a curious look, Todoroki asked, "Is there anything that we can help you with?"

"Oh, Todoroki," Izuku said, "These are boys from the newspaper club over at Azu-Daioh High. They just wanted to interview us about what we're doing for the festival so they have something to put in the next issue of their paper."

Pointing to the carriage to which the Clydesdales were already hooked up to, the boy identified as Haiji said, "Yeah, I want to know what all this is doing here."

To the Azu-Daioh High boys, Todoroki explained, "Our class is doing romantic horse-drawn carriage rides in the snow."

"Hoo boy, I bet that the other girls will be jealous of Mizore since she's with Tsukune and will probably want to try the carriage ride thing of yours!" Ginei laughed.

"Excuse me?" Todoroki asked, looking mildly confused.

Gesturing to Tsukune, Ginei explained, "My bud Tsukune here is dating a girl in the newspaper club named Mizore. You see, every girl in the newspaper club was fighting for Tsukune's love, and in the end he ended up picking Mizore." Crossing his arms over his chest, the werewolf said with an amused smirk on his face, "That being said, since Tsukune and Mizore are an item, there is a good chance that they'll try the carriage ride attraction of yours at some point while we're all here for the festival."

Chuckling a bit in embarrassment, Tsukune said while scratching the back of his head, "Heh, yeah. I bet that Mizore will want to drag me over here if she hears about it."

"Well, we're still getting everything ready, but we should be good to go in the next thirty minutes," Uraraka said, "Can you guys try checking back with us then? Until then, please feel free to check out some of the stuff that class 1-B is doing, both as a class and some smaller things that individual groups from 1-B are doing."

"1-A is also doing a few smaller things as individual groups," Tenya supplied, "For instance, our classmate Rikido Sato is selling a number of baked goods that he has-"

"I wish to check that out," Draco said, cutting off the class 1-A rep.

The Azu-Daioh boys got directions from Tenya to go find where Sato was selling his baked goods before taking off, leaving the 1-A students at the carriage attraction be. Turning to face his classmates, Todoroki said, "Well, it's good to see that our class is going to have some success here at the festival with entertaining guests."


A short while later, Izuku and his friends had just about gotten the main attraction that 1-A was doing as a class finished with setup and ready to go. As Todoroki was setting something up at the ticket booth for the carriage rides, he and the rest of the group heard Tsuyu call out to them. As such, they all turned around to see their froggy classmate walk over to them, accompanied by a young girl and a grown man.

The young girl had dark green hair worn in low pigtails, and she wore a seafoam green long-sleeved dress that reached halfway down her shins plus a pair of brown shoes with pink frills along the holes that she slips her feet into. As for the man, he looked very much like a humanoid toad, but had a mop of shaggy black hair on top of his head, and he wore a standard-looking business suit composed of a white long-sleeved work shirt that was buttoned up, a pair of black pants held up with a brown leather belt, black shoes and around his neck he wore a blue tie that had light blue dots all over it.

"Guys," Tsuyu said to her classmates while gesturing to the young girl and grown man, "These are my younger sister Satsuki and my father Ganma. They wanted to see some of what we were doing for the festival, and when I told them about the carriage ride activity that was the main thing we were doing, Satsuki insisted on coming over to check it out."

"I hope we aren't being too much of a bother, kids," Ganma said as he gave a single nod to his oldest child's classmates.

"I want to see the horses!" Satsuki cheered excitedly, drawing some mild chuckling from both her older sister and her father.

Gesturing over to the carriage, Todoroki said, "We've just about got the carriage ride attraction set up and ready to go. Initially, we were only setting it up for couples to ride together to enjoy a romantic time with one another, but it's just as good for the three of you to do the carriage ride as a family." Arching an eyebrow, the dual natured-quirk user said, "Umm, will you guys be okay with the fact that I used my quirk to make a bunch of snow for the attraction?"

Shrugging, Ganma said, "Yeah, Tsuyu warned us about how it would be a bit cold, and we might get a bit sleepy at some point since we could start going into hibernation due to the nature of our respective quirks, but I don't see how it will cause us any actual harm."

Clapping her hands together, Uraraka said, "Well alright then. Now, I assume that it will be the three of you?"

Tsuyu nodded a few times in the affirmative before saying, "I guess it will be, although I do have to ask since you mentioned that it will just be me, my sister and my dad." Turning to face her family, Tsuyu asked, "Dad, where's Mom and Samidare?"

"Oh, your mother had to take your brother to another appointment," Ganma explained to his oldest child, "They won't be able to come to the festival." Crossing his arms over his chest, Ganma continued, "Although that might be for the best. I mean, given how big that your school's festival is looking to be, as well as what all is going to go on, it might be rather overwhelming for your brother."

"A fair point kero," Tsuyu replied, giving a single nod in agreement.

"Well either way," Shinso said, "We're glad to have you and Tsuyu's little sister here. You will have a great time here at the festival." Ganma and Satsuki both nodded in thanks before they and Tsuyu were led to the carriage by Todoroki, who then got into the driver's seat for the carriage so that he could take the Asuis around for a ride.

"…This is shaping up to be an excellent festival," Izuku remarked, "I can feel it."


Later, over at some of the smaller attractions that class 1-B was doing for the festival, Bakugo, along with Sero, Kaminari, Kirishima and Mina, were helping Itsuka, Reiko, Pony and Kinoko with getting something set up. It should be noted that the only reason why the explosive teen and his 'squad' were helping the 1-B girls was because when Itsuka and Pony came up to Bakugo, it was Pony who said that they as well as Reiko and Kinoko needed help.

Since it was his dream girl that had asked him for help, Bakugo not only readily agreed to help, but he also turned around, shouted "BAKU-SQUAD! ASSEMBLE!" and got his squad to appear in less than ten seconds before all of them had gathered. The 1-B girls were impressed that they had gotten as many extra pairs of hands to help them set up a few stands, and one of the first things that Itsuka did was direct Kirishima to go assist over at the snack and soda stand that Kinoko was in charge of.

As the explosive teen stood by with Itsuka and watched Sero, Kaminari and Mina help Reiko and Pony set something up, he and Itsuka heard the voice of Akuma speak up as he approached from behind. "Hey, Itsuka," the Satanist of U.A. said to his class's rep, "The blonde guy with a hate-boner for class 1-A just got his lights punch out by Sakaki because she saw the part of his quote unquote 'slide show' that derided her for her weight."

Sighing in a resigned tone, Itsuka muttered to herself, "Damn it, Monoma." Speaking to Akuma directly, Itsuka said, "Thanks for letting me know, Akuma."

"Hey, Devil prick," Bakugo snarled, giving Akuma a very serious glare, "I was told that you were more or less made by your old school's principal to be as much of an asshole as you were back during the tournament between U.A. and Vulcan, and that you wouldn't have acted as such otherwise if things were up to you."

"…I will not hide how much I resent Principal Hojo, or how she runs Vulcan," Akuma remarked, "If it were up to me during the tournament against U.A., I would have just placed that magic horse girl I fought outside of the ring, just like I did with that green hair girl I fought during the tournament between Vulcan and Ketsubutsu."

Bakugo simply glared at the satanic hero-in-training for a few seconds. "…Yeah, Itsuka here managed to get videos of all of the fights from that tournament and show them to me." Crossing his arms over his chest, the explosive teen continued, "I can at least give you cred for not brutalizing that green-haired girl that was put into 1-A with me and the others. But it still pisses me off that you did brutalize Pony."

"Humph, sorry that I roughed up your girlfriend," Akuma scoffed indifferently, turning his head to the side to look away from Bakugo.

Instantly, Bakugo lit up red like a shiny Christmas ornament. "P-Pony's not my girlfriend!" Bakugo exclaimed, "I'm still trying to-"

Right away, Bakugo was cut off when he, as well as Akuma, Itsuka and every other student in that area heard a bunch of screaming, coming from multiple people. Looking in the direction that all of the shouting and panicked yells were coming from, Itsuka asked, "What in the name of Gilgamesh could that all be about?"

As Reiko, Pony and Bakugo's present squad members came up to join the three of them, they saw Ojiro and Hagakure come jogging up to all of them. "Guys, bad news!" Ojiro said in a clearly panicked tone, "A bunch of guys just up and stormed into U.A. ground and are making a mess of everything!"

"You have got to be kidding me!" Bakugo said, "Aizawa-sensei and a bunch of other teachers are manning the front entry gate into U.A. grounds! There's no way they could have let those guys slip past them!"

"There's just that many of them, Bakugo," Hagakure explained, "Aizawa-sensei and the other teachers are currently trying to subdue the men over by the front entry gate, but there's so many men that a lot of them have flooded into the festival area." Letting out a troubled sigh before she continued, the invisible girl said, "And that's not even the worst part. Do you remember the trip to the United States that we took, just before we returned to Japan and had to deal with that big monster attack in the city?"

Scoffing, Bakugo said, "How can I forget that disaster? Because of Grape Head, me and a lot of the guys in our class were all almost killed by that samurai bastard with the gold fire quirk." Gently shaking his head, Bakugo said, "I still can't believe Grape Head wasn't expelled for all of that. And I was looking forward to it, too." When the explosive teen mentioned how he was almost killed by someone, Akuma could not help but arch a wry eyebrow, his interest having been piqued.

"I was looking forward to Mineta being expelled as well before the dream was crushed, but that's not the point," Hagakure said. Gesturing over in the direction a lot of the noises were coming from, Hagakure explained, "All of the men that stormed onto U.A. grounds are all in the same outfits as the two men that tried to murder Uraraka during the field trip."

Now the attention of everyone was piqued, Mina's especially. "You've got to be kidding me!" the pink-skinned girl snapped, clearly pissed, "You mean to tell me that those guys that want to kill Uraraka are back again?!"

"Uraraka should be over by the carriage ride attraction with Izuku, Tenya, Shinso and Todoroki," Ojiro said to the others, "No doubt that they'll get Uraraka someplace safe before those men can get to her, assuming that she's a target again."

"The teachers are getting a bit overwhelmed with all of the men that stormed U.A.," Hagakure said, "And even though some of the people visiting U.A., including the monster studnets from Azu-Daioh High, are helping to fight back, we can still use some help."

At that notion, Bakugo pounded a fist into his hand, a look of amusement on his face. Likewise, Akuma did the same gesture as the explosive teen. "Now that is what I call a festival activity," Bakugo said, "And to think that my idea for a cage match arena was shot down."

"How many of you guys can go check out the gymnasium where the carriage ride attraction is set up outside of?" Ojiro asked, "Hagakure and I saw a number of the men head in that direction when one of them-"

"Gymnasium, got it," Bakugo said as he took a running start in the direction of the gymnasium, cutting Ojiro off before he could finish. Likewise, Akuma, Sero, Kaminari and Mina all took off after the ashy blonde-haired boy, leaving Ojiro and Hagakure with Itsuka, Pony and Reiko.

Gesturing to the 1-B girls, Ojiro asked, "…Can you three help Hagakure and I with some of the men over where the booths are set up?" Itsuka and her classmates all agreed as they took off with Ojiro and Hagakure in the direction of all of the booths for the festival.


Bakugo, his squad minus Kirishima (he was still at the one booth with Kinoko) and Akuma were all running right for the U.A. gymnasium, where a bunch of the men with the two would be killers that tried to kill Uraraka was said to be at. "About damn time something interesting was happing at the festival!" Bakugo snarled in amusement, "I could use some entertainment."

"You mentioned something about this fellow you call Grape Head," Akuma began, "Who I am going to guess is that Mineta fellow in your class, almost got you and a few other guys killed during a field trip over in the United States." With a curious look on his face, the Satanist of U.A. asked, "Care to explain?"

Kaminari, with a troubled look on his face, explained, "There was this samurai-looking guy who Mineta pissed off really, really bad. Mineta ran away from the guy, leading him into fighting me, Bakugo, Izuku, Tenya, Todoroki, Tokoyami and Kirishima. The guy had this…this insanely powerful gold fire quirk, and when he wasn't able to get past the seven of us to continue going after Mineta, he ended up attacking us instead." Letting out a resigned sigh, Kaminari said, "The seven of us were almost killed by that guy."

The satanic hero-in-training looked like his interest was piqued even more. "…Those seven you listed seem to me to be among the more powerful members in your class," Akuma remarked, "And yet all seven of you all at once fought one lone guy and not only lost to him, but you were almost killed by him. And what's this about a gold fire quirk?"

"He can do the same thing as you, Devil prick," Bakugo said, "Only whereas your fire is black, his is golden." Right after Bakugo finished his indifferent explanation, he and the rest of the group arrived outside of the U.A. gymnasium, where they saw a number of U.A. students fighting some of the men already.

Seeing that there was still plenty of the men that stormed the school grounds available for him to throttle, the explosive teen sneered in delight. "And I'm glad that there's still plenty of party to be had!" Bakugo said. Turning to face the rest of his group, Bakugo said, "Pinky, you go find Round Face and help protect her from these bastards that want to kill her for some reason we still don't know yet. Sero, Kaminari, you two go help Deku and the others over there." Bakugo points to where Izuku and his friends were fighting some of the men that stormed U.A. grounds.

"Devil prick, you're with me," Bakugo said to the satanic hero-in-training, "If you're still as strong as you were during the tournaments, then we'll be needing you to kick some ass around here. Got it?"

Looking over where the other U.A. students were fighting all of the men, Akuma gave an amused sneering growl, similar to what Bakugo can do. "Against guys like these men that dared to attack a high school…" Akuma said as he cracked his knuckles, small wisps of black flames flickering up from his hands, "…I wouldn't mind dishing out all of my brutal savagery."

Smirking since Akuma clearly had the right idea, Bakugo said, "Good enough for me. Alright everyone, go!" The group of five students broke up into the teams Bakugo stated and rushed off to tackle their respective assignments. While Mina ran around to the side to look for Uraraka, the boys proceeded to attack the raiding men up front.

"Bakugo!" Teyna called out over where he, Izuku, Shinso and Todoroki were fighting some of the men, "Glad to see that you and some of the others showed up here to help out!"

"What's the exact situation, Glasses?" Bakugo yelled after blasting one of the raiding men in the face with an explosion, throwing him back.

After kicking out the feet of one of the raiding men from beneath him, Tenya explained, "All of the men that are attacking here are all dressed similarly to the two men that had tried to murder Uraraka back when we were in the United States on our field trip! Also, when one of the men spotted Uraraka, all of them tried going after her, clearly with the intent to kill her!"

Bakugo blasted another one of the raiding men away with another explosion, around the same time that Akuma engulfed one of them on a pillar of black flames. "So we can assume that those two bastards and all of these bastards are all on the same team to try and kill Round Face, right?" the explosive teen asked before grabbing one of the raiding men from behind and getting said man into a headlock.

After sending one of the raiding men flying away with a Delaware Smash Air Force, Izuku turned around and said, "That's what we've all concluded, Kacchan!" Another one of the raiding men tried running up to Izuku to punch him, but the green-haired cinnamon roll simply sent him reeling back with a devastating punch to the face, making him practically cartwheel back by about a dozen feet or so. "We've got to get all of this fighting under control before we go look for Uraraka and get her out of here!" Izuku said, "She's clearly in danger so long as all of these men are still here trying to find her!"

"We also ought to try and capture some of these idiots," Kaminari said as he zapped one of the raiding men, "Some of them might know something, including who might potentially be putting all of them up-" Kaminari was cut off when he and all of the other U.A. studnets heard a loud blast of electrical power come from within the gymnasium itself. Looking around in confusion, the electric quirk boy said, "…That wasn't me."

"It came from inside of the gymnasium," Akuma said as he pointed over to said building. To Bakugo, the Satanist of U.A. said, "We ought to go check it out, Bakugo!"

Bakugo, although he didn't like how Akuma was trying to tell him what to do, nonetheless went along with him, figuring that who or whatever had made that electrical attack inside of the gymnasium was worth checking out. The explosive teen hoped that it wouldn't be a waste of time, because there was still plenty of the raiding men outside, and he wanted to take out as many of them as possible, otherwise he wouldn't feel satisfied.


Inside the gymnasium, Mina and Uraraka were looking over at someone that they were facing off against. Mina had small arcs of electricity sparking up over various areas of her body, and Uraraka was covering her left bicep with her right hand. A rather noticeable amount of blood was oozing out from under the gravity girl's hands, a clear sign that she had been either stabbed or cut there. Both 1-A girls looked nervous, and Uraraka looked afraid for her life, as they were facing off against the man standing a dozen or so feet away.

The man was early to mid-thirties; he had fair skin, long shaggy dishwater blonde hair, and he wore a stark black t-shirt with a yellow lightning bolt shape on the upper chest area under an open in the front long-sleeved top similar to what all of the raiding men wore, a pair of durable looking jeans, and sturdy looking dark gray shoes. The man was also notably well-toned of body, and he also had small arcs of electricity coming up all over his person. However, unlike how it was for Mina, the man did not seemed bother by it all.

Pointing his right index finger at Mina, the man said, "You, pink girl. Get out of here and leave your friend here. My associates and I are aiming to kill her, and I'd rather not have to get yelled at by the boss for failing."

"Why the hell do you guys want to kill Uraraka?!" the pink-skinned girl screamed at the electric man, "What did she ever do to piss off that boss of yours?!"

Shrugging indifferently, the electric man said, "Look, the lads and I are only trying to do a job here. We don't know why the boss wants us to kill the Uraraka brat, but we just do as-"

"HOWITZER IMPACT!"

"HAIL SATAN!"

The two simultaneous shouts were followed up by two powerful attacks flying right at the electric man, forcing him to jump back to avoid the brunt of the attack. Mina and Uraraka both looked over and saw that Bakugo and Akuma had run into the gymnasium, having thrown a mix of explosions and black flames respectively at the man that was clearly with the raiding men that were attacking U.A. grounds.

As the electric man was recovering, Bakugo and Akuma both turned to where Mina and Uraraka were both standing. "Pinky!" Bakugo shouted at Mina, "You get Round Face out of here right now! The Devil prick and I will take care of that asshole over there!"

Mina, still a bit surprised similar to Uraraka by the sudden appearance of Bakugo and Akuma seemingly working together, slowly nodded once she realized what the explosive teen was trying to do. Nodding once in agreement, Mina turned to face Uraraka, grabbed her by her left hand (the gravity girl flinched slightly when her left arm was pulled up ever so slightly as it made her bleeding wound slightly aggravated) and then proceeded to run out of the gymnasium with her, leaving the boys to fight the electric man.

Looking in the direction that the two 1-A girls fled in, the electric man scoffed in an annoyed tone. "…The lads and I have to kill the Uraraka brat, boys," the electric man snarled, "Why the hell did you let her get away?"

"Tell you what," Akuma said as he and Bakugo turned to properly face the electric man, "You tell us what we want to know, and maybe we'll oblige you."

"Heh, fine," the electric man replied, more amused than anything, "I should give you my name first, though. The name's Raijin Striker, and before you ask, no, I have no clue why the boss wants me and the lads to kill the Uraraka brat."

"Then maybe you can tell us who this boss of yours is!" Bakugo snarled at Raijin.

The electric man gave an amused smirk. Gesturing for Bakugo and Akuma to come up and fight him, Raijin said, "…Maybe I'll dish if you can beat it out of me." That was a good enough answer for both the explosive teen and the satanic hero-in-training, as they both rushed at Raijin together, aiming to beat him senseless.

TO BE CONTINUED…

END, CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Author's notes;

Well Bakugo and Akuma found the boss enemy, and that fight will take place in the next chapter. A few side fights involving other parties will also occur, and the monster students from Azu-Daioh High will show off why you don't have to be a quirked human to have powers and be able to kick some ass. But that is another tale for another time, a time that will be gone over in detail when the next chapter drops. As a side note, I'm currently working on the chapter for my Rosario Vampire story that sees the events of this mini arc from the Rosa-Vamp point of view; it'll be out sometime shortly after I finish this current mini-arc for this story, in case any of you are interested.