Back in the 1-A viewing stands
"Wow Todoroki lost, i'm kinda surprised about that, it kind of reminded me of fighting you Deku." Round face spoke.
"Honestly yeah bro, he used like 6 quirks at least. That's even more than your currently using. What's your plan to beat him?" Kirishima was generally intrigued.
Bakugo was infuriated that the extras weren't even considering that he could make it to face that stupid copy user instead of deku but ... part of him knew it was true. Even if he won he wasn't fighting deku at full strength either, is that even a victory?
"Ha ha guys I still gotta beat Kacchan first. Speaking of which you ready?" Izuku turned to face his opponent.
"Of course shitty Deku, i'm going to mop the floor with you." Bakugo spat out.
"Good, see you there!" With that Deku jumped from their viewing section and floated down to the arena.
"THE MATCH HASN'T EVEN STARTED YET AND IZUKU MIDORIYA IS ALREADY SHOWING OFF TO THE CROWD!"
Of course that damn nerd would do something like that, was that a challenge? If so he wasn't backing down he threw himself from area using his explosions to soften the landing.
"Bakugo Katsuki too? Eraser why is your class so extra?!"
"I promise you I didn't teach them that Mic."
"Bakugo I would like to think that I know you better than anyone and I also know what it's like to be weak." Izuku was really hoping he could make Bakugo fight seriously. "Right now when I look at you I see weakness, if I could handle your bullying for six years and still become strong YOU CAN GODDAMN COME AT ME WITH ALL YOU GOT! YOU HEAR ME? BRING YOUR A GAME CAUSE I'M NOT HOLDING BACK." Izuku roared at his opponent hoping to break him out of whatever reverie he was stuck in.
The nerd had a point, what kind of hero he wanted to be, his weakness, his strength, none of that mattered he was here to fight and win. His opponent being as strong as they were only made it more exciting, the nervous sweat from before would be a weapon used to go further beyond. "...GOD DAMMIT YOU FUCKING NERD I DON'T NEED A PEP TALK! I TOLD YOU AT THE START DIDN'T I? I'M GOING TO BEAT YOU HERE AND NOW!"
"It's a clash of titans folks, the winners of the 1st round and 2nd round respectively. ON ONE HAND WE HAVE BAKUGO KATSUKI OUR EXPLOSIVE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE WHO CLAIMED VICTORY FROM THE START VERSUS IZUKU MIDORIYA THE FAN FAVOURITE OF OUR VERY OWN ERASERHEAD. ARE YOU READY? COMMENCE!"
Bakugo flexed his fingers, small sparkles coming from his hand. He was eagerly watching his opponent waiting to see who would make the first move. Deku was keeping his hands neutral neither on guard nor preparing for an attack. If the nerd was gonna make him wait then he might as well get this started, after all waiting is not his style. Bakugo literally exploded into combat throwing himself at his opponent. He pretended to lead with his right knowing the nerd was going to expect it before quickly pulling back to fire with his left instead, somehow Deku knew it was a feint and avoided the explosion from his left. Probably another damn quirk, he was angry with himself for storming off in range when the nerd spilled all of his quirks.
In a second Bakugo went from the aggressor to the aggressed, Deku fired himself forward after ducking under the left handed explosion aimed at him. He kneed Bakugo in the gut with a max force charge, 120 miles per hour he had finally reached levels of power the previous user had. After successfully knocking the wind out of Bakugo he grabbed him and threw him as hard as he could from the arena, time resuming normal speeds as tempo ended. Bakugo was about to slam into the wall effectively ending the match but he managed to explode himself back into the arena despite gasping for air.
Midnight was squirming at the sight of such manliness.
"You... didn't ... think... THAT WOULD KNOCK ME OUT IZUKU!" Bakugo was nothing if not tenacious
Did he just use my name? "Well I am impressed Bakugo but you can't pretend your not still reeling from that attack." He saw his opponent visibly wheezing trying to breathe, and while Izuku was a nice person he wasn't about to show mercy, this time he would start the fight. Tempo had about another 30 seconds before he could use it safely while the limit was now 40 seconds per every use instead of 60 it still didn't help him if he didn't solve a fight instantly.
Bakugo still struggling to breathe after that knee to the stomach but he saw the nerd charge but he needed to buy more time so put his hands down and created a smokescreen in order to buy him a few seconds even though that air quirk will probably blow it away. He ran quickly to side pumping out continuous smokescreens as he ran. He could hear the wind pushing away the smoke behind him but if he kept this up he could probably sneak up on the nerd. He aimed the next smokescreen up before leaping into the sky after it. Once he broke through the smoke he started to scan for Deku but he couldn't find the nerd with all this smoke. I thought he had been blowing it away?
Bakugo didn't realize I have thermal vision did he? I wonder when he's gonna find out i'm right behind him, ah well might as well have fun with it. "Boop." Izuku whispered in Bakugo's ear.
Katsuki jumped forward before Deku could attack him, how the fuck did the nerd get behind me. But as he started to jump he felt a fist grab his shirt collar yanking him back before he was thrown into the ground, his back slammed against the floor. God damn it I am not losing like this. "DIE DEKU!" It was then that Bakugo went well beyond his maximum unleashing the mother of all explosions at the nerd.
"HOLY CRAP FOLKS THAT EXPLOSION WAS MASSIVE, IS MIDORIYA ALRIGHT?"
Momo was looking down in worry at the scene, she hoped Izuku would be fine, she trusted him after all.
Izuku eyes were in pain, all he could see was black, his ears were ringing, he smelled smoke and his chest felt like an explosion had ripped through it. Oh wait, it had. He was back first on the ground but he stumbled to his feet taking the opportunity to take stock of his present situation. Well he was near shirtless now, multiple bruises on his skin, no burns thanks to his quirk. Still felt like a jackhammer drove itself into his chest though. He saw Bakugo starting to get up, fuck I'll fix it with regeneration later he still had a fight to win plus it'd look weird if my body suddenly started fixing itself. "Holy ... shit... Kacchan, that... one... fucking ...hurt."
"It was supposed to you damn nerd, you gonna finally start taking this seriously now?" Bakugo was outraged that this damn nerd thought he could play with him of all people. Honestly that was supposed to knock Deku out but of course he was still standing somehow, probably another bullshit quirk if he had to guess.
"Eh fine I guess I will since you asked." Izuku pretended to start stretching before he ripped off what remained of his destroyed shirt.
"Our contestant Midoriya removes what's left of his shirt, looks like we're getting more than one kind of show today folks!"
"Mic children are watching." Getting quite tired of his coworkers antics.
"We literally have the R rated hero down there Eraser, I don't think I can do anything worse than what she can."
Aizawa just grunted in defeat.
Meanwhile back in 1-A stands.
"Holy crap Yaomomo, since when was Midori that ripped!? I kinda wish i'd locked that down myself."
Momo was furiously blushing trying not to make it obvious she was staring. "Uh yeah ha ...ha.." She squeaked that bit out.
Elsewhere in the city a young blonde haired girl scuttle out of the trash where she was dumpster diving, she couldn't live like this anymore she needed blood or she was going to crazy and stab someone again. Her attention was garnered by the TV outside of the alley where she saw it, perfection. Omigosh he looks so cute all bloody and bruised like that, the girl started licking her lips and fangs. I wonder if he would let me drink his blood? Maybe if I asked the people at U.A. if they would let me meet him, probably not but she couldn't keep living like this and heroes were supposed to help people right? Ever since Stain abandoned her she's had nowhere to go and if things kept going like this she's going to turn into a blood crazed beast. The urges were just getting stronger and she was running out of blood banks to rob, they kept buffing up their security after I robbed from them. She finally saw his name displayed on the screen, Izuku Midoriya huh? I can't wait to get a taste of you.
"Don't blame me for what happens next Bakugo." I have a few options here, he could safely use about half his strength without it becoming lethal force and with snapshot I can end this nearly instantly but if I mess up like how I did with Todoroki that'll be it. Ah well Plus Ultra Izuku rocketed himself toward Bakugo, thankfully he learned to wait until he got closer before activating it this time SNAPSHOT .1X SPEED. Izuku took everything in, the subtle shifts in Bakugo's expression, the way the air blowed, the rapid change in stances taken by his opponent. He saw the movement in Bakugo's eyes, he was looking at my legs so he's probably gonna go low. No forgetting how long we're in here this time, 5 seconds down 45 to go.
Izuku watched as Bakugo tried to launch a feint with his right arm but Izuku saw the twitching of Bakugo's left arm and the sweat droplets as they slowly started to combust, Bakugo was going to blast himself up. Izuku matched his opponent and launched himself up. If thing's continued they were going to headbutt each other but Izuku's rapidly shifted eyes saw the shock in his opponents eyes, 30 seconds left. Izuku slammed his fist into Bakugo's chest hoping to agitate the wound from earlier. He watched Bakugo's head reel back before spitting something out but Izuku wasn't paying attention to that, Bakugo had essentially taken double damage from that punch like when a head on collision occurs so he should have plenty of time.
Time for the finishing move 20 seconds left, this ones from your book bakugo. He grabbed Bakugo's shirt with the hand he used to punch him before using his other arm and used jetstream to rotate himself around his opponent, time for an improvised super move METEOR SLAM. He used rotational force and jetstream to slam his opponent into the floor from above, the floor cracked from the impact. Izuku thought he might have gone too far but after that explosion he didn't care. He cancelled tempo early and that's when the migraine started.
"Holy crap folks that attack was brutal, Bakugo Katsuki is unable to continue, Izuku Midoriya wins!"
"Alright folks we're going to have a short break, both to repair the stadium and to prepare for the Semi finals. Left Standing we have Shinsou Hitoshi versus Yaoyorozu Momo and Monoma Neito versus Midoriya Izuku! All powerhouses in their own rights! So don't touch that remote."
Izuku helped his opponent into the stretcher before hobbling off the stage, his everything ached. Once he got out of view he activated minor regeneration thankful for the food he filled up on earlier as the bruises started to fade and since this was a relatively minor injury it should take 10-20 minutes at the most. Right he needed a shirt, I should go the viewing area and ask Momo to make me one.
Once he reached the booth with the rest of his class he pointedly chose to ignore the whistling he heard coming from the pink skinned girl and the invisible girl. "Momo can I get a shirt please?" It wasn't lost on Izuku how his girlfriend was looking away but her eyes were still pointed straight at him.
"Eep, oh um s-sssure Zuku." She held out her hand and a replica of the UA sportswear popped out.
He gave her a knowing smile and put the new shirt on.
"Aww Midori, we wouldn't mind if you stayed like that." A pout visible on her face.
"Yeah Midoriya just keep that stupid shirt off!" He assumed a pout was on her face as well but ya know, invisible.
"Dude I know Bakugo's a dick but that was kinda harsh what you did to him." Kaminari decided to join the conversation.
"Yes Midoriya you went beyond what could be considered reasonable force with your attacks against Bakug-" When Iida suddenly started vibrating before taking out a phone. "My apologies I must take this call."
"But you guys saw that explosion Bakugo used, if I didn't know Midoriya was fire resistant that could have killed him kero."
"Yeah sorry guys I was kinda mad about the explosion even I knew I went a bit too far there. Like Tsu said even if i'm fire resistant it still felt like I got ran over by a truck." He started scratching the back of his head while he said. "I made sure to hold back though, just I probably should have held back a bit more."
She eyed her boyfriend. "Just don't do that to me when we fight Izu."
"Don't you still gotta beat me first?" Shinsou asked with a smirk.
"No offense Shinsou but I can't see you beating Yaomomo. I have a feeling that it's going to go like it did with me." Ashido looked down after saying that.
"I apologize if I came out as being rude Shinsou but even you have to admit that I have th-" Her eyes glazed over.
"Shinsou. Let her out of it." Izuku chided him.
"Fine fine. It was just a joke anyway." He relented letting the girl free from his control.
Yaoyorozu began bowing before speaking. "That was kind of rude Shinsou but as I was being rude as well I apologize."
"No no it's fine I understand where you were coming from, you are probably going to win. I know you not like Bakugo and saying it because you want to soothe your bruised ego even I can see how bad this situation is for me. But i'm still gonna try my hardest!" He held up his fist as he said that.
"Of course Shinsou as will I." Momo politely responded.
"Speaking of fights to win, does anyone have a list of the quirks in 1-B because having to fight roughly 15 unknown quirks at the same time does not sound pleasant." Izuku saw what happened to Todoroki after all and he was not looking forward to choking on mushrooms.
"Sorry Midori I don't think the teachers will give us that." She gave him a cheery smile.
Well I guess i'm just Plus Ultraing this and ending the fight as soon as possible then.
Yaoyorozu stood apart from her foe feeling for him but after what happened with Kirishima she wouldn't be showing any mercy.
Shinsou just gave a knowing smile. "You know I wish I was blessed with a quirk like yours heroic, strong, flashy, that being said even I wouldn't even ask for a quirk like your boyfriends. Imagine having a quirk more villainous than mine, it's disgusting really."
Momo knew what Shinsou was trying to do but also wanted to try something out Izuku mentioned. She intently focused on the floor before responding. "You know the ground, Izuku mentioned that the ground would try something like this but since I'm talking to the ground it should really shut up and take it's own advice. Just walk out of the arena." She was still in control good, makes sense she wasn't responding to her opponent after all.
"Huh. Of course he'd figure out some kind of weakness to my quirk, that's so like him." He paused realizing he'd lost. "Midnight I don't need to fight this match, I concede."
Present Mic let out an exclamation of shock. "Whaaaaaa Shinsou Hitoshi concedes before I can even announce the match?! Yaoyorozu Momo wins!"
"It seems my lessons on the logicality of actions have at least reached Shinsou, he knew had no chance once Yaoyorozu found a way to defeat his brainwashing. Well since he's out of the tournament to those wondering his quirk allows himself to take control of anyone who directly responds to a statement he makes. Which is how he won the previous two matches." Thank god he managed to reach one of his students maybe the others were still salvageable.
Shinsou continued. "Besides reaching the top 4 is a good showing for myself. You need to let Midoriya know to let me practice my quirk with him sometime" He gave the girl a legitimate smile. "After all he's the one who changed the opinion of my quirk."
"He does have that effec-" Her eyes glazed over after being put under her previous opponents quirk.
"Geez your gonna let someone trip you up someday." Shinsou smirked at his opponent before releasing her and walking off.
When Momo finally recovered she was watching the back of her opponent get smaller and smaller. What a strange guy.
Kaminari was nodding. "Yeah man I wouldn't want to fight her either, between getting punched by a super strong fist or getting shot with a tranquilizer dart, i'm with Shinsou on this."
Jammingwhey had a point. "Yeah I may of gotten a bad matchup but even I don't want to fight Black."
"Black?" Izuku interjected.
"Yeah green, your green so she's black. It only makes sense after all." She gave him a knowing smirk.
Izuku just sighed. "Yeah that makes ...sense. Alright I gotta get down there i'll see you all in a bit." Izuku threw himself from the viewing section before floating down again.
"It's potentially the final battle between 1-B and 1-A folks. It's the quirk copy user of 1-B more quirky than a circus clown, Monoma Neito versus the man who can create cyclones at will, Izuku Midoriya! Ready? FIGHT!"
"You know I've been bullied for my quirk before Midoriya. You never told me your quirk and I have to say i'm jealous. People laughed at my dream after all who can be a hero when he has to rely on others to fight but now you stand before the might of class 1-B and how can I possibly let them down!" Monoma screamed.
Midoriya to his credit just started laughing at the sheer irony of that statement. "You know I don't think you understand just how much I get that. Even still I have a promise to keep, you may have the strength of all of 1-B but I have the strength of the people who believe in me, you will fall Monoma." Izuku balled his fist and pointed it at Monoma.
Izuku immediately began blasting Jetstream in order to push his opponent out of the arena as quickly as possible only to see something familiar. His opponent split themselves into many pieces covering the entire arena. Huh of course it wasn't going to be easy, with pyrokinesis and fire breath it wouldn't be as bad but fighting someone with more quirks than him when he's at his strongest? Even if Izuku were at 100% this would still be a rough match. The only advantage Izuku had here was the fact that Monoma only seemed to be able to use one quirk at a time, but even then the changing period wasn't exactly long.
Time to unleash Air Bullet, if I can keep him from regrouping he can't use any other quirks... in theory at least. His opponent was currently in 15 pieces all swirling around the arena so just started blasting the pieces with condensed air, he'd learned this trick from Mina actually. By changing how he held his hands he could change how the air was blasted out, and now he was using it to take pot shots at Monoma's floating pieces. Hopefully these have enough impact to injure his parts. That being said he saw a leg flying at him from behind, he held up his hand behind him and let out a wide range shot to keep it at bay.
"It seems this won't be working the pieces are too light and you can just keep blasting the air to keep them away from you scum of 1-A." Monoma started reeling his pieces together but then he noticed a problem his opponent wasn't letting him reconnect he was walling off the pieces of his body from each other, that was not good Lizard Tail splitter uses a lot of stamina. His only option was to go up and try to reform out of range of the air blasts his opponent was capable of generating. His landing strategy would have to be Black or Vines but the second takes some time to grow so Black it is. It was once he was a reasonable amount of height into the air did he notice his opponent was blasting straight towards him. Oh no, he won't be able to use Black now as the only source of black large enough to contain him was his opponents shadow.
"Your not the only who can fly Monoma!" This was the result of all the years of hard wok, he had finally achieved flight just like the previous user. He was blasting towards his opponent at his highest speed the only problem is he had to momentarily stop flying to attack but he needed to keep Monoma on this quirk. It seems his hunch was right since his opponent hadn't used any other quirk since the start of this battle.
"Holy crap folks this is quickly turning into an aerial battle! As long as they don't touch the ground outside of the arena they can pretty much do whatever they want." Mic explained for the crowd.
That announcement gave Izuku an Idea. If he could grab one of his opponents pieces he could just touch it to the ground to win. He saw his opponents foot and rushed it, if there was a moment for tempo this was it. He felt the world slow to half speed, he was not risking Snapshot this high up. His hand was inches from his target before it was whisked away in another direction. Feeling frustrated he turned before unleashing a massive gale upon the majority of Monoma's body but failed to account for the fact that when not on the ground his wind also pushes him a lot easier and he accidentally launched himself towards the crowd thankfully he recovered fast enough to right his body before hitting the crowd.
"Watch out folks in the crowd it seems your in the splash zone for this one!"
Izuku immediately shot himself back towards Monoma he couldn't let him recover and switch to a more troublesome quirk. He was already starting to reform into larger pieces he was down from 15 to about 5 now. A leg was the closest piece so he threw himself at it only for it to try and kick him when he thankfully dodged and grabbed the offending thing. Yes! he did it. Only for his victory to be cut short when it split into two pieces and escaped his grasp. He grabbed after the now shin and foot but with their smaller size they escaped his grasp again and Izuku needed to start using his quirk to fly again.
Monoma meanwhile was sweating up a storm, he was not supposed to be using this quirk for this long and having to re split his leg was tiring him out even faster. He was starting to slow down and he knew it, it was only a matter of time before his opponent captured part of him and once that happened he would not be able to reform. He shuddered at the thought of dropping his hold on this quirk while a piece of him was missing. No dismemberment today yes please. If his opponent wasn't going to give him time then he would have to make it, no making an omelet without breaking a few eggs and all that.
He started floating himself towards his shin leaving his other pieces closer to him so he could rejoin them quickly but if that much of his body was reformed he would begin falling. "So you figured it out Midoriya, i'm not surprised. I can see why your trying so hard to prevent me from reforming." Hoping his stall tactics would buy him some time.
"I mean it was a guess at first but it became pretty obvious the longer this went on. The only reason you wouldn't be using quirks is if you couldn't use them." Izuku smirked as he said that before spying that Monoma was very very slowly moving his foot and shin back towards him. Ah so he's stalling me.
"I must admit you are pretty strong Midoriya your driving me into a wall here. I'll be honest I wasn't supposed to be using this quirk for this long and if I drop my hold over it while a piece is missing you could imagine what would happen."
Izuku shuddered but remembered his goal. "Yeah that would be pretty rough, your taking a huge risk using that quirk then. What if I knocked you unconscious while you were using that quirk? Wouldn't you die?" A few more seconds and tempo will be ready, your not the only one stalling Monoma.
It was Monoma's turn to shudder. "I... hadn't thought about that but you're probably right. Your right I am taking a pretty big risk with this one." Just a few more seconds and he'd suddenly jerk his limbs back thankfully it doesn't seem Midoriya has noticed what he's doing yet.
The familiar feeling of his brain recovering from Tempo hit and Izuku instantly charged the offending limb. If he was right Monoma had a limit on the number of times he could split.
Monoma was just about to pull his foot and shin back when Midoriya charged them. Shit. I'm not fast enough but I gotta try. He slowly started floating towards his limbs while they floated back towards him.
But Midoriya was faster he grabbed the foot and shoved the sneaker back under his shirt so it couldn't escape again before activating Jetstreaming in front of him blowing blow Monoma and himself away from each other. He pointed his other hand behind him to slow his velocity before letting gravity do the rest of the work, only activating his quirk once he got near the ground. "Good fight Monoma.
"He landed softly next to the edge of the arena before he grabbed the sneaker shoved it down over the line.
"Wait does that count Eraser?"
"Well a piece of him did touch the outside of the arena but ask Midnight."
Mic held up the earpiece before contacting Midnight and apparently that did in fact count.
"You heard it here folks, that counts. Izuku Midoriya wins by Ringout!"
Izuku grabbed the limb before walking over to his opponent who had just landed on the other side of the arena. "That was a good fight Monoma here you go." Handing over the other boys foot.
"Truly it is a shame I was unable to secure victory for 1-B but it was a good fight Midoriya. If someone in 1-A were to beat me honestly i'd like it to be you or Yaoyorozu."
Remembering what this guy did to Momo made him angry for a bit but he didn't want to be unsportsmanlike. "Honestly if you could use more than one quirk at a time I would've been screwed. I do have to say the braid idea was really smart, you should add something like to your hero costume."
"I indeed shall be doing so, anyway best of luck in the finals." He waved his hand and turned walking away. Izuku turned around before he flew up to the viewing station.
Aizawa was cringing, keeping control of that child was already difficult now that he can outright fly it's even worse. This day was just getting worse and worse, as a consolation at least he won that bet.
Izuku just casually greeted his class like flying up the side of the wall was a totally normal thing to do. "Hey guys. What's up?"
Jirou responded first. "You apparently Green. Since when can you freaking fly."
"Oh well I didn't spend the last two weeks doing nothing. I was already pretty close at the start of the year I just finally got there a few days ago so i'm still getting used to it. Like how I accidentally almost ringed out myself back there."
Momo was pouting, how had Izuku not told her that. "I thought you said you weren't going to keep things like this from me anymore."
Alright so her pouting face was even more adorable all of a sudden. "We're literally like 10 minutes from fighting for the top spot in the U.A. sports festival, why would I show you my hand like that."
"Still... fine your right, it doesn't make me happy though." She eep'd when Izuku sat down and laid his head on her shoulder.
He whispered "Don't worry i'll make it up to you later how does a massage in my room sound?"
Her face went instantly red. "Um-mm ... sure." That last part was really quiet.
"Midori stop flirting right in front of us, it's not fair!" The pink skinned girl was frantically waving her arms.
He lifted his head before casually responding. " Eh fine, by the way where's Iida?" Maybe the blood loss from his fight with Bakugo had lowered his inhibitions because he definitely wasn't normally this bold.
"Oh... he had to leave for a family emergency." Uraraka responded dejectedly.
"Huh I hope it turns out alright kero."
Izuku just nodded along with the frog girl.
"Can our finalists make their way to the stage, the final round is starting in 5 minutes.
"Whelp Momo we're here. You ready to get your butt kicked?" Izuku stuck her tongue out at her.
"Your so going down Izu." She went to to stick her tongue back out at him but the boy had apparently decided to up his antics even further because he fell backwards over the viewing the ledge.
Momo rushed over to the ledge before looking down at the sight of him just casually floating there tongue still out. "You coming?"
"You know sometimes I hate you Midoriya." Ah there's that adorable pout, yeah something is definitely up with me today.
Also she used his last name it's official, she's pissed. "Eh, no you don't."
"I hope you know your just making this worse for you." She sighed creating a wingsuit before jumping off and after her currently smug as shit boyfriend.
"Eraser are you worried about your students increasing lack of belief in stairs." Mic gave the man a questioning glare.
He wasn't getting paid enough for this. "I don't think there is a word to describe how done I am with today Mic." Aizawa just sighed again.