"The 20 second countdown will begin shortly." Midnight information the audience, causing for a roar to escape the spectator's mouths.
Makeshift horses made out of strictly humans littered the place. 12 teams in total, all looking at one another, and specifically, at the golden 10 million wrapped around Izuku's forehead.
Izuku's team consisting of Ochaco, Fumikage, and upcoming engineer Mei Hatsume. Izuku as the rider with a headband worth a combined point number of 10,000,325. A real staggering number compared to the competition.
Kokei was the rider of his own team, looking like a king sitting upon his throne. Though in reality, he was just a guy sitting on his friends. Even so, he liked the feeling of being powerful and above others. Somewhat condescending but he didn't see it that way. He had his headband wrapped loosely around his neck, the number 600 printed on it.
Mezo's arms were the main things that held Kokei, and his team steady in the air. Ojiro, Tsuyu and Kokei all sitting on the base of his back.
Kokei felt his face becoming somewhat greasy, yet he kept a calm demeanor. Perhaps it was the heat of the sun that made him perspire, but he felt it had something to do with that ill feeling in his gut. He wanted to do well, put on a show, and AfO said it best: win. Sobokuna was in the crowd, afterall.
Before Kokei left, and Sobokuma gave him all those facial kisses, she informs the boy that she'd be on looking. She meant it in a way of making him feel more confident, instead, it only made him feel more pressured to do well. He was aiming for only top 20, passing this event would ensure that rank. Bringing back to now, he felt the need to win, only making him feel more unsure of his victory.
The team had made a plan but, even so, the rider still felt insecure about his confidence in winning this challenge. Tsuyu noticed this by the sweat forming on Kokei's face, so she acted accordingly.
Tsuyu nudged Kokei using her shoulder, causing him to look back at her. "I see you're nervous, ribbit, there's no need to be, ribbit. We, ribbit, have a plan."
Kokei sighed, "yeah.. yeah you're right. I just have the pregame jitters. A icky feeling in my stomach is all."
"Oh, you must have flies in your stomach. Ribbit." Tsuyu states confidently, to which Kokei tilts his head to the side some questioningly.
"I don't think that's how it goes.."
"Well duh, ribbit, there aren't actual flies in your stomach. Ribbit."
"No, i mean about that saying. That's not how that saying goes." Suddenly, Ojiro joins the conversation.
"When i feel nervous, i imagine everyone else around me as weaker than i am." Ojiro chimes in, "it makes me feel more confident."
"Everyone's weaker than me.. huh." Kokei put a finger under his chin and thought for a moment, 'everyone's weaker than me.. that might be true.'
"It is surely a possibility." All for One states, "but don't get too confident. You'll forget the fine line between assurance, and cockiness."
Kokei smiled, 'yeah, i don't wanna be like Katsuki. Besides, I've won against Shoto AND Ochaco. In basically a 1v2, Izuku really didn't shine in that fight..'
"Yes, he had a rather disappointing performance. He obviously has very little control over Toshinori's powers." AfO comments, shaking his head.
Kokei pants happily, 'And now I'm way stronger than i was before, and i don't even need to fight head on!' Kokei opens his mouth to say: "I've got this!"
Mezo peers back at Kokei, "I'm glad to hear it, because she just announced the 20 second countdown is starting now. Get yourselves ready."
Ojiro nods his head, and gets his game face on. Tsuyu narrows her eyes and gets on all fours. Neither of them look intimidating in the slightest, but atleast they looked ready.
"17.. 16.. 15!" Midnight called out each number as they came. Inching closer and closer to game time.
Time felt so rushed, as well as how soon this event was going to begin. Kokei felt it wasn't even 30 minutes since that last event, because it wasn't. Once the 42 people passed, the 15 minute team creation timer happened very soon after.
Kokei had a newfound confidence now, though. And he had the plan at mind, as well as running through a couple 'what-if?' Scenarios. He felt much more ready than he was less than a minute ago, and that affected the team.
Due to Kokei feeling strong and capable, the rest of his team reflected his feelings. Causing for his team to look dangerously ready, not scary, but prepared.
"9.. 8.." Midnight continued, Kokei was anxious now. He was excited for the event to begin, he wanted to prove to himself, and others, that he truly was a force to be reckoned with. And make it to top 20, of course.
"4..3.." Midnight counts, it was nearing the beginning time ever so slowly. Kokei mouthed the words, "I'm ready" while he stared directly at Izuku and his team. He knew they'd have a barrage of people coming for them, but he had a plan. "2..1.. GO!" Midnight shouts, commencing the Calvary Battle.
'Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle' the rustling and slamming of feet on the ground echoed throughout the arena. Cardio labor sounds mixed with the cheers and shouts of the onlooking crowd made for a mighty intense start.
Every single team, other than Izuku's, headed for Izuku's team. Everyone's eyes looking at his headband like it was an oasis in the desert. A coordinated gang of hungry animals, all aiming for the same exact meal.
Izuku seemed to freeze from fear, rather, his carriers froze. The hungry poachers zoned in around Izuku, but there was still some extra time before they got to his team. His carriers seemed ready to try and run away, but suddenly, they begin to get sucked up into a sinkhole that appeared below them.
But this was futile when posed against Mei's Jetpack, which made quick work of their disadvantage. Launching them up into the air, and staying hovered due to the effects of Zero Gravity. Needless to say, Kokei lost his sights on Izuku and began to focus on other potential prey.
A new target team was fairly easy to spot. Kokei recognized their names from on the Hologram, the rider was a black haired girl named Yui Kodai. And one of the people she rode on was a large, muscular built boy with yellow skin. He had seven ominous eye holes, and his name was Kojiro Bondo. Finally, there was another boy who held Yui up. His name Manga Fukidashi, he looked fairly normal other than the white speech bubble he had for a head.
The group was around 10 yards away from Kokei's group, so Kokei began commanding. "Mezo, take us to that group. With Yui and all them."
Mezo didn't take a moment to think about a plan, instead, mindlessly following Kokei's words. "Weren't we gonna go for Izuku's headband?" Ojiro questions, to which Kokei shakes his head.
"That was a lost cause from the start, imagine if we were to succeed. The odd were low as hell, and if we got his headband then we'd get thrown around for 14 minutes." Kokei responds while he kept a keen eye on Yui's forehead. Her hair overlapped her headband, so he couldn't tell what number points she had. It was a gamble.
It didn't take long for Mezo to carry the crew to Yui's team, they seemed oblivious to the team's arrival. The only person noticing being Manga, who tried to warn the rest of the team using his head. But they were too busy viewing the war field.
Kokei stood up so he was on two feet, "get as close as you can." Kokei tells Mezo, to which he gets in even closer. Kojiro and Manga were moving, but in a slow trot in no predetermined destination. It wasn't hard for Mezo to get directly behind them.
With barely any distance between the two teams, Kokei hopped up into the air toward Yui's team. But suddenly, moments after Kokei jumped, Yui's team quickly zipped to the left. Leaving Kokei destined to fall to the ground.
Luckily, Kokei quickly acted accordingly. As soon he noticed they had dodged him and left him to fall, he made himself float. Kokei threaded the needle with this, though. He was only a couple feet above the ground, fully sprawled, and floating.
Tsuyu opened her mouth and launched her tongue out, wrapping it around the floating Kokei and pulling him back into Mezo's nest. "Looks like they saw you, ribbit, coming." Tsuyu tells Kokei, while he steadies himself on Mezo's back.
"Damnit, whatever. After them!" Kokei commands, and Mezo obeyed. Mezo quickly ran toward Yui's team. Her team had ran a good bit away from Kokei's while he was saving himself, but Mezo's speed neared to close the gap between them once more.
Yui peered back behind her, only to see Kokei with his headband still around his neck. "How unfortunate, guess we'll need to battle." Yui looks down at the too of Kojiro's head. "Stop running, we're gonna fight."
Kojiro heeds her words, slowing his run to a stop and turning to face Kokei's team. Mezo did the same, stopping his speeds to a halt while each team eyed the other down. Kokei sighed, "looks like time for Plan A."
Yui's team seemed to also have a plan, with Manga's head beginning to show a word. The word said 'boom', and it came off the boy's head to charge toward Kokei.
Kokei aims his left hand at the word coming toward him, "push." Kokei speaks, launching the word back toward Yui. And in a few mere moments, there's an explosion on her and her team. "It's prime time!" Kokei shouts, jumping up into the air and running on air to cover the distance between the two teams himself.
Within seconds, before the smoke could fully clear, Kokei was standing on Kojiro's head. The smoke had no effect on Kokei's eye sight, since he used Infared Ray. Kokei reaches out and grabs hold onto her headband immediately, yanking it roughly. With one hard tug, the headband comes off.
With her headband in hand, Kokei turns away from Yui and begins to run away from her team. But he could even get one foot off Kojiro's head, his feet were stuck. Kokei looked down at his feet, his right shoe was encased in a type of glue, or cement. The substance had seeped through the holes on Kojiro's head to totally envelope Kokei's right shoe, and the glue was inching toward his left shoe as well.
By now, the smoke had fully cleared and the situation was visible for both teams. Yui sees Kokei directly in front of her, and instead of getting freaked out, she capitalizes. Yui reaches out and grabs the headband around Kokei's neck, but Kokei places his left hand around her arm. "Hope you're skilled at close combat." Kokei taunts with a smile.
Yui smirks, "I'm guessing you're good at 3v1's while you're immobilized?"
Kokei laughs awkwardly, "you have a good point."
Yui reaches her other arm out to grab at Kokei's headband again. Kokei reluctantly uses his right hand, that held Yui's headband, to hold back her other arm. Yui simply stares at Kokei, then huffs. "Manga." She calls out, and as if it was coordinated, Manga shoots a word at Kokei. Again, another 'boom', this time, Kokei had no real way to protecting himself.
But suddenly, a pale tail interjected between Kokei and the word launching toward him. Instead of totally deflecting the attack, the tail simply took the blunt of the explosion. The tail's owner, Ojiro, quickly shouts out to Kokei. "You have the headbands!?"
Kokei shouts back, "yes!"
Mezo, standing next to Ojiro whom launched the defensive measure, heard Kokei's answer as well. Mezo reaches both his arms around Kokei's body and yanks on him, pulling him almost fully toward him. But Kokei's shoes still stayed connected to Kojiro, causing for Kokei to be yanked on from up under his arms and at his feet. He felt he was gonna be torn in half, at least Yui's grip gave out when Mezo pulled on him.
Kokei reaches his right hand out to hand Yui's headband into one of Mezo's hands. Kokei shouts out to Mezo, "hold onto this band, and let me go! I have to pull off my shoes!" Mezo obeys his commands, letting go of Kokei's body. To keep himself from hitting the ground, Kokei hovers his upper body just barely above the ground.
Manga begins to speak again, and once again, Ojiro interjects the attack and tanks it with his tail. "Get that shoe off!"
"I tied my shoes too tight! They're hard to yank off!" Kokei shouts, frantically attmepting to get his shoes off. Yui notices Kokei's struggle, and moves her body so her waist rested on Kojiro's head. While she used her hands to reach out and grab onto Kokei's neck headband, but Tsuyu gets in between. Tsuyu uses her tongue to latch onto Yui's hand, that she used to grab at Kokei's band, and pull it toward her.
This sudden unexpected jolt almost causes Yui to fall forward to the ground, but Kojiro had encased her waist in his glue.
"Untie them!" Ojiro instructs Kokei, to which he begins attempting to untie his shoes. And to his surprise, he's able to get his right foot freed with only his white socks on it. When his foot got freed, he made his right leg float along with the rest of his body. While Kokei used his core strength to crunch up and grab at his left foot, Kojiro swings his right fist up into the air and swiftly down toward Kokei's face. Tsuyu sees this, and wraps her tongue around the monster's arm. To her dismay, his fist is so powerful that she could barely even hold it back. Kokei hurriedly unties his left shoe, Kojiro's fist etching closer and closer to his face.
Mezo wraps the palm of his left hand around Kojiro's fist, holding back the time he had until he would pummel Kokei. Yui presses both her hands together, and suddenly, Kokei's left shoe felt much tighter around his foot. "Agh!" Kokei shouts in pain, and Yui lunges for his Headband once more. Kokei aims the palm of his left hand at Yui, "push!" The amount of force the gust of air had on Yui was large, causing for the small girl to fall off Kojiro and land on Manga in the back. About a second after this, Kokei gets his left foot freed.
Kokei makes his whole body float above the ground, which was short lived. Ojiro quickly grabbed onto Kokei and placed him atop Mezo's back. "Let's go!" Ojiro shouts, hopping back onto Mezo's back with Tsuyu and now Kokei. Tsuyu unwraps her tongue from around Kojiro's arm, and Mezo lets go his fist. The moment after, Kojiro lands his punch with Mezo's chest, to which he grunts loudly. But this doesn't halt him much, still allowing for him to turn away and trot away from Yui's team.
Kokei sighs, "Mezo.. please tell me you still have the headband."
Mezo chuckles, "nope." He pauses for a moment, allowing for Kokei to mentally freak out. "I gave it to Tsuyu."
Kokei gasps, turning to Tsuyu, and just as he believed, Tsuyu held Yui's headband in her hands. Tsuyu smiles, "he, ribbit, trusted me more than himself, ribbit."
"Thank god." Kokei exclaims, grabbing the headband and wrapping it around his neck to sit atop the other. "All this work.. for just 165 more points."
Ojiro shrugs his shoulders, "765 points seems pretty good to me, plus we still have.." Ojiro turns to face the huge timer at one end of the Arena. "11 minutes, that's loads of time."
"Yeah, you're right." Kokei responds, taking off his socks and rubbing the bottoms of his feet. "We're gonna need to find another team soo-" But before Kokei could even finish speaking, a rival team revealed themselves to him.
They were just a few yards away from Team Kokei and eyeing them down person-by-person. The main one who inspected them like a poacher to their prey was the rider: Neito Monoma.
Neito had slick black hair, getting shorter the lower down his head it went. He had glistening purple eyes, and the way he stared at his enemy team, looked very taunting. His headband wrapped around the collar of his uniform, the number 240 printed on it.
His carriers were Kosei Tsuburaba, a naive looking brown haired boy. And Sen Kaibara, he had dark, shaggy hair and dark eyes which were lazy.
Team Neito shuffled their way closer toward Kokei's team, a smirk on Neito's face all the while. Kokei swiftly stood and got into a fighting stance, not having time to put back on the socks that laid beside him. "Incoming team." Mezo warned, stopping his moving and standing still while facing the oncoming team.
Kokei assumed they'd stop once they were in front of him and caught his undivided attention. But instead, they kept rushing. The stampede known as Team Neito kept sprinting at Kokei's team until they were less than a yard away. "I'll be taking that headband now." Neito states, standing up and slapping the back of Sen. And then, Neito jumped off his carriers and launched toward Kokei.
Kokei aimed his left hand at Neito, "push." Kokei speaks, a gust of air being shot at Neito. But before it could hit Neito, he began to spin over and over repeatedly and quicker each time. He looked like a drill in the air, and the sheer amount of speed and force he had accumulated was able to separate the air from Kokei's 'push'.
Kokei gasps and leans away, Neito's speed didn't slow and now he was just above Mezo's head. Once he was a mere couple feet away from Kokei, Neito stopped spinning and reached his right hand out. Swiftly, Neito grabbed hold onto Kokei's 600 point headband and yanked it off. "Thanks."
By now, Neito's team had began running again and ran to the side of Mezo. With the headband in hand, Neito took no time to rejoice. Instead, he quickly hopped off Mezo's back and aimed to land back onto his carriers. Kokei reached a hand out to grab onto Neito's leg, but his whole body was already out of reach.
It all happened so fast, but Kokei's team still were able to observe what occurred. Tsuyu sent her tongue out to wrap around Neito, but he began spinning again. So when Tsuyu wrapped her tongue around Neito, it immediately got shaken off.
"Damn it, he get a headband?" Ojiro asks, he had tried to attack Neito with his tail but, like Kokei, Neito was already out of reach.
Kokei looked down at his neck, and anger began to fume up in his veins, "he did.."
Mezo sighs, "which one did he get?"
Kokei balled his hands into fists and shouts, "THAT INSECT GOT OUR 600!" Kokei grinds his jaw aggressively, Neito's team was quickly sprinting away now and was even farther from Kokei than Yui's team was. Neito had looked back at Kokei and smiled, waving at him while he got his great escape. Now, he had two headbands wrapped around his neck. His team was now worth 840 points in total. "Screw this, time for Plan Recon."
Mezo peers back at Kokei, "are you sure?"
Kokei nods his head, "let's hurry, they're gonna get out of range soon."
Mezo doesn't take time to comprehend, he just begins to sprint toward Neito's team. Team Kokei run through the middle of the battlefield, no team having eyes to go for Kokei's 165 point headband. His team looked like more problems than other teams wanted to deal with, and for no real reward.
Mezo's pace begins to outdo Neito's carrier's speed. It didn't take long for Kokei to be at the same distance that Neito put himself in when he initially hopped over.
Kokei quickly jumped off the back of Mezo, running on the air like doing it was old news. Neito saw Kokei's destined arrival, so he slapped the back of Kosei and breathes out a see through type glass. Neito had placed this invisible piece right between Kokei and himself. Kokei didn't know what he did, but this time he wasn't taking any chances.
"Destroy!" Kokei shouts with his left hand being aimed directly at Neito. But instead of attacking him, it shattered the invisible piece of glass.
"Your quirk looks pretty good, let me give it a whirl." Neito states, leaning forward toward Kokei and bringing his right hand to Kokei's shoulder from through the hole in the glass.
'The hell does be mean give my quirk a try? No way.. does this guy also have All for One? No.. if that's the case, he's gonna absorb my quirk and make me brain dead!' But Kokei was too late, Neito had already tapped Kokei's shoulder gently.
In one moment, Neito was grinning after tapping Kokei. But in the next, his eyes had a look of terror in them. Neito gasps and shouts, "what the hell!? Who are you??" Neito asks, looking at the blank air surrounding him.
Sei and Kosei slow their running, looking up at Neito with concerned looks. And what they saw was a horrible sight. Kokei had slipped through the hole he made in the invisible glass and now had hold of Neito's 240 point headband.
"The hell!? I thought you had it covered, Neito!" Kosei exclaims, stopping his running entirely.
"I had a feeling he wouldn't be able to do well." Sei states in a monotone volume and shaking his head.
Kokei didn't have time to question what the hell was happening, he just wanted to get hold of their headbands. Kokei had pulled off one headband, and went for the other while Neito freaked out and shouted at nothing.
Suddenly, a floating headband and feminine gym uniform got into Kokei's view. He knew immediately who it was, it was Toru. He didn't even notice her presence, but now he saw her right next to Neito.
She sat atop her carriers: Kyoka Jiro, Koji Koda, and Rikido Sato. Toru having her headband wrapped around her forehead with the number 390 printed on it.
"Toru?" Kokei questioned, while she grabbed hold onto Neito's only other headband and pulling it off.
"Hiii Kokei!" Toru waves as she swiftly rode away from the group of 4. "Byeee Kokei!"
Kokei turned around to face his team, and giving them a thumbs up. Upon seeing this sign, Tsuyu latched her tongue around Kokei and pulled him onto Mezo's back once more. "You get the, ribbit, headband back? Ribbit."
But before Kokei could respond, Midnight's voice sounded on the speaker: "5 minutes left, I repeat, 5 minutes remaining."
Kokei looked forward to Toru and her team, they all were running in the direction opposite to Kokei. Kokei began to wrap the 240 headband around his neck as he spoke, "I didn't get the 600, Toru got it. We've gotta get it back from them."
Mezo nods his head, taking a run after Toru's team now. Meanwhile, Ojiro began to speak, "so uh, Kokei. What happened with that guy? He started shouting out of nowhere, what's up with that?"
Kokei shrugged his shoulders, "no idea." Kokei narrows his eyes, 'AfO, do you have any ideas as to what happened back there?'
All for One grins, "yes, i know exactly what occurred. That boy's quirk was to copy other people's quirks for some time. I knew this was the case when he slapped the backs of his allies before using an ability. And when he copied your quirk, he gained All for One. That meant that i was in his mind, just as I've done with you. I suppose i must've scared him quite a bit."
Kokei smirks, 'that makes more sense. Thanks for clearing all that up, AfO.'
"This.. isn't gonna work.." Mezo says between pants, "I can't carry all of you while going at a speed beyond that of 3 people combined."
Kokei huffs, "well then, looks like it's time for Plan Catapult."
"That plan is really risky, though." Ojiro warns, "we won't be able to back you up.. it's gonna be a 4v1."
Kokei shrugs, "I don't need to beat them all. Just get the headband back.. and maybe get theirs too."
"Don't get too greedy, ribbit." Tsuyu states, and Kokei gives her a thumbs up.
Mezo reaches his right arm behind himself to grab Kokei's body. Mezo keeps His right arm fully extended behind him while he stares directly at Toru's team. "Good luck, Kokei. I'll try to catch up." Mezo tells Kokei, and with those final words, Mezo throws him.
'Whoosh', the constant sound of wind quickly breezing by was the only noise Kokei could hear clearly. He felt like a bird, so free and soaring through the air like a carefree animal. Except in the middle of a war zone, kinda like what wild animals have to go through. So he really was having the true animal experience.
The amount of force Mezo used to throw Kokei was amazing. "Push!" Kokei shouts, attempting to use his 'pushes' to launch him further, he didn't know if they helped whatsoever but it was better than not trying.
It only took about 15 seconds until Kokei was hovering just above Toru. Kokei no longer had the speed due to Mezo's throw, and had to Air Walk the rest of the way. But now, he was right where he wanted to be.
Kokei hadn't been noticed by any of their group yet, and he intended on utilizing this. Kokei abruptly reached both his arms out to grab at the back of Toru's headbands. But instead of grabbing those, he got and pulled on an invisible lock of her hair. "Owww!" Toru shouts.
All three of the carriers stop running and aim their attention at their distressed rider. And to their dismay, they saw Kokei. Kokei knew he was caught, so he quickly let go of Toru's hair and readjusted to grab hold of one of her headbands.
Kokei didn't know what point numbered headband he was grabbing onto, but he didn't have time to pull off and inspect. He could only pull the headband off and hop up into the air, hovering just above them all.
Jiro shot both her earphone plugs at Kokei, to which Kokei aims his left hand at them. "Push!" Kokei shouts, causing for her earphones to be blasted back and flop against the ground. With Kokei's right hand he unfolds the headband he held as to allow for him to see the number. As he did this, though, Rikido did a hop and attempted to swing at Kokei. But since he had to keep hold of Toru, he wasn't even close to connecting the attack. The number on the headband Kokei held read: 600. He did it, he grabbed the right one.
Jiro glances at Toru's forehead and gasps, "damn, Toru, he got the good headband!"
Jiro frantically moved her earphones up toward Kokei once more, and Kokei did the same thing he did before. "Push." Kokei speaks, but this time, Jiro had moved her earphones out of the way just before Kokei spoke. Causing for Kokei to miss his shot completely and allowing for Jiro's ear plugs to wrap around Kokei's left foot.
Jiro pulls down on her ears, causing for Kokei to lower some from being in the air, becoming within arm's reach of Toru. Kokei couldn't see Toru's hands, but he felt hands tugging on his right hand and trying to pry it open. Kokei swiftly slammed his left fist down on the invisible hands grabbing his rights'. But this didn't stop the hands from grabbing and pulling on his hand.
Kokei shakes his head, aiming his left hand at Toru's body. Rikido quickly shouts, "Toru, watch out! He's gonna blast you!"
But it was too late, Kokei had already said the fabled 'push'. This gust caused for Toru to go rolling on her back and tumbling away, on the cusp of falling off her carrier's backs. Luckily, Koji had his arms ready to catch her.
After Kokei had pushed Toru, the yanking on his foot only intensified. Kokei felt his body jolt lower, now, his feet were only a foot away from Jiro's head. Rikido seized this opportunity, swinging a fist and connecting with Kokei's gut. Kokei coughs from the sudden loss of breath, he had the wind knocked out of him.
Jiro hopped up and grabbed onto the headband in Kokei's right hand, but he still held it tight. "Just let go!" Jiro says while Rikido winds up another punch that swiftly lands with Kokei's stomach again.
And then, a distinct familiar voice was heard by Kokei. "You, the 1-A punk! Using your illusions on me to snatch my headbands was cowardly!" This voice was obvious as to who it belonged to, Neito. And when Kokei glanced to his right, he saw the boy approaching at a rapid pace due to his carrier's leg work.
Toru, newly recovered, reaches both her arms around Kokei's left arm. She held down Kokei's left forearm using all her weight, "Rikido, get the headband!"
Just after Toru finished speaking, Midnight's voice was heard once more: "2 minutes remaining!"
Kokei attempted to raise his left arm, or shake his left foot free yet both were futile. Kokei began to struggle, using his right leg to kick Rikido's head. But he just tanked the attack and moved his right arm up to grab the headband in Kokei's hand. And it wasn't hard for Rikido to pry open Kokei's hand, taking the headband for himself. Once he had the headband in hand, Rikido handed it to Toru.
Toru happily took the headband, sitting on Kokei's arm while he used her hands to wrap the headband around her forehead. Yet suddenly, Kokei began to chuckle lightly. "What're you laughing for?" Rikido asks, his deep voice showing the big difference between his and Kokei's.
"Heh, it's just that.. now you have a bigger problem." Kokei says, pointing at Neito and his team. By now, Neito's team was a mere yard away from the group of 5. Neito had already jumped off from his carrier's backs, and was aiming his right hand's palm at the group. "Push!" Surprisingly, he wasn't aiming for Kokei like everyone expect.
Instead, he shot directly at Toru. Toru gets blasted onto her back from the force of the air attack. As soon as she got off Kokei's arm, Kokei aims his left hand's palm at Jiro. "Push." Kokei speaks, causing for Jiro to stumble back and loosen her Earphones around his foot.
Rikido sees this happen and gets ready to punch Kokei once more, but Kokei already had his left hand aimed at him next. "Destroy- lightly!" Kokei says, he had to use destroy instead of Push to cause the same effect as a normal push would. Considering how heavy Rikido looked by all the muscle on his body. Nevertheless, Rikido stumbles back as well. Falling off his feet and landing on the ground.
Kokei turns to face Toru and Neito, now. And what he saw was the aftermath of their duel, in which Neito won. This was evident due to Neito holding the 390 point headband in his hand.
Kokei leans up, using the air as support to steady himself upon. 'Looks like he found out how to use Air Cannon.' Kokei thought while he aimed his left hand at Neito. "Push!" Kokei shouts, causing for Neito to go tumbling over the back of Koji but being caught by his carriers. Kokei swiftly ran on air to get to the dazed Toru, quickly grabbing onto her 600 point headband and wrapping it around his neck. He now had 3 headbands for a total of 1,005 points.
Midnight's voice sounded on the loudspeaker yet again: "1 minute remaining!"
Neito turned around to see Kokei, a devious smile on his face. "Perfect, you have 3 headbands. Now I'll get to beat you AND advance, how lucky!"
Kokei narrowed his eyes, the situation he was in now didn't look ideal, but there wasn't much time left and he didn't know if he had enough points to proceed. But before Kokei could decide to fight or flight, he felt a tongue wrap around himself and a moment after getting pulled away.
In the matter of a few seconds, he was back with his team. Ojiro began to speak first, "so did you get the-"
"Yes, now run! We have a thousand points, should be enough." Kokei instructs, and just like he had been doing for the last 14 minutes, Mezo began to run away from Neito's team.
"Oh no you don't!" Neito shouts, "after them!" Neito commands, and his carrier's quickly obey. The two groups played the most heated game of cat and mouse for some time, Neito using his new ability of Air Cannon to its fullest potential. "Push! Push! Push!" Neito kept shouting, attempting to snipe Kokei off Mezo. "Goddamn this quirk sucks!"
Kokei kept low down while on Mezo, one eye on the clock. '31.. 30.. 29..' Not much time left, he had to be careful. Now that Kokei's team was scaling the arena, to keep away from Neito and other teams, Kokei noticed all the insanity that occurred around the arena. Ice spikes and structures littered the terrain, as well as toxins and smoke. It truly was a barbarians game.
As Team Kokei scaled the outskirts, they had inadvertently backed themselves into a corner. The only area left for them to go to being where 3 teams battled for the fabled 10,000,000 headband. Ice sculptures surrounding the teams, consisting of team Izuku, Katsuki and Shoto.
"This is the last area we can go, unless we fight." Mezo informed his team, to which Kokei didn't even flinch.
"Just go, I'll make sure to stay safe. There's not much time left, we should be fine." Kokei commands, to which Mezo follows. Mezo charges into the battlefield, attempting to dodge the commotion and mass fighting.
Kokei used this time to observe what team had what headbands on. Team Izuku had 2 headbands, one worth 350 and the other worth 520.
Team Katsuki seemed to be on the ropes with only 1 headband worth a measly 190, so he was on the full offensive against the holder of the Spectacular 10 million. Katsuki's team had Eijiro, Hanata and the peculiar boy with the flock of crows surrounding him. Kokei saw his name on the Hologram and connected it with that person, his name was simply Krow. No last name, odd.
The first place team being Shoto's, consisting of Tenya, Denki and Momo. Shoto had 2 other headbands, one worth 250 and the other 645. Katsuki was constantly rushing at Shoto using his Explosions as a way to transmit himself toward the boy. Shoto was on the defensive, blocking Katsuki and keeping his distance. Both the riders and carriers were close to each other and battling one another, a true war.
Meanwhile, Izuku scraped for whatever points he could even attempt at getting. He was scared to get near the battling beasts but also not confident in his points. And Kokei's team, they just made sure to keep their distance while the enraged Neito chased them down.
Mezo quickly sprints past a worried Izuku, Kokei looks Izuku dead center in his eyes as they pass. Kokei simply points behind himself at Neito, as a way of warning Izuku for what's to come. But instead, the boy found it as an opportunity.
Izuku commanded his team to quickly rush at Neito's team, the sudden random fight caught Neuto off guard and the fight was on. But Kokei had no interest in that, all he cared for was the remaining time. '23..22..21..'
Time felt it was going by slower than usual, but Kokei supposed that was just his anticipation getting the best of him. He kept his eyes shifting side to side, unsurprisingly, there were a few teams that took Neito's place in chasing him. Yui's team, for instance, was now hot on Mezo's trail. Good thing for Kokei's team, there was barely any time left on the clock, they're so close to the finish line.
The clock kept shifting, and Kokei's palms only became more sweaty. '13.. 12.. 7.. 6..' the numbers on the board went by quick all of a sudden, and Kokei could've sworn that there was a glitch in the timer. The time had cut from 12 to 7, but whatever, Kokei assumed he was just seeing things as well.
The last few seconds of the battle were spent as leg work for Mezo, but it wasn't in vain. By the time the Cavalry Battle was officially over, Kokei still had all his headbands. Their points were secured.
Authors note: wow, this part is the longest part in this series by far. 6k words, jeez. That's all i had to say, just wow. Alright I'll talk to you all later.