Toshinori was staring down at the arena, he saw his two successors staring each other down and he'd never been more proud of either of them. Although he had never imagined in a thousand years that he would be cheering on a fight between All for One and One for All, truth is stranger than fiction he guessed. Regardless he wouldn't pick a favourite between the two even though Young Yaoyorozu was his true successor he had built up young Midoriya just as much after all maybe even more. I'm so damn proud of you both, you two are gonna make this old man cry. He hoped his master even felt a slight bit of the pride in him that he was currently feeling for his two successors.
He briefly wondered how his other teacher and previous sidekick were doing, they were both surely watching this. He hadn't spoken to Torino in years, why had they become so distant lately? He should reach out to him after this. As for his sidekick Nighteye they weren't exactly on speaking terms anymore. Nighteye couldn't understand why he would offer up One for All to anyone other than the person he had groomed for the spot, Togata Mirio if he remembered correctly. Hopefully this fight would prove why his successor was the correct choice and blow any doubts the man had away.
Bakugo opened his eyes to see a white infirmary room so he lost huh. Tch, fuck he felt like he'd been through a woodchipper. He looked around to find the school nurse Recovery girl removing what looked like mushrooms from Icy-hot. The fuck? He knew Icy-Hot lost but where the fuck did mushrooms come from.
"You should stay still and rest dearie you were hurt pretty badly. Multiple ribs fractured your arm was broken and parts of your spine were damaged. You were too injured for me to heal you in one go. I swear what they make you all do to each other is simply unforgivable." The nurse scoffed when she said that.
Deku fucked me up that bad? Shit that sounds like something he would do, not the fucking nerd. He turned to the screen to see the final fight starting ugh of course those are the only two left. Makes me fucking sick to look at it he promptly rolled over, no need to watch this shit after all. Plus his abdomen feels like a firecracker went off inside of him, time to sleep this shit off.
"So we're finally here huh?" Izuku turned fully scanning the arena and the crowd currently packing it. "Kinda feels like a dream come true."
Momo followed his gaze. "Yeah but it's one we earned Izuku, aren't you the one always telling me to have more faith in myself?"
"...It's just so for so long I was the quirkless loser. I guess part of me is afraid i'll wake up one day and this will all have been some kind of crazy dream. I'd never met All Might or you, i'd still be back at my old place getting kicked into the dirt day after day after day. I couldn't to go back to that life..." Izuku had a thousand mile stare going as he said that last part.
That last part horrified Momo, he never really did go into detail about how much he was hurting back then but to think it was that bad. "Don't worry Izu this is all real and he'll never hurt you again, i'll make sure of that myself."
Present Mic finally chimed in. "ARE YOU READY FOLKS! IT'S THE FINALS OF THE FIRST YEAR SPORTS FESTIVAL AND WHAT A SPORTS FESTIVAL IT'S BEEN. IT'S 1-A VERSUS 1-A THE POWER DUO THAT WORKED TOGETHER IN EVERY OTHER EVENT EXCEPT NOW HERE AT THE TOP THEY'VE BEEN FORCED TO FACE OFF. IN ONE CORNER WE HAVE THE MAN WHOSE HANDS PRODUCE HURRICANES IZUKU MIDORIYA! AND IN THE OTHER CORNER WE HAVE THE GIRL WITH A KNACK FOR GUNS YAOYOROZU MOMO! READY? START!"
Izuku wouldn't admit it to his girlfriend and currently very intimidating opponent but he did not like his odds for this, the only advantage he had was mobility and even that wasn't much. Without access to his other quirks he really couldn't think of a good strategy to fight this girl with. He knew what she was going to lead with since it was almost no risk to her and had a chance of ending the fight outright.
So he began running to the right while blasting Jetstream at his opponent in order to change the trajectory of the darts he knew were on the way. He only had 3 usable quirks here some of Super Strength, Jetstream, and Tempo, sadly EMP only works on things that are made with electronics so the guns Momo were using were completely unaffected but he kept it going just in case she made something weird. He saw the darts uselessly clatter against the floor in front of him. "Gonna have to do better than that Momo." He winked at her.
Momo sighed, she hadn't expected that to work and there no way she could force Izuku into quirk exhaustion even if he's been using his quirk all day. He's had plenty of time to rest after all ... with the exception of his last fight but that fight was only like 5 minutes at best meaning she had another 25 minutes to drain if she wanted that to be a valid strategy which it wasn't. Thankfully her boyfriend didn't have access to a good number of his quirks which meant she had far more options. While her boyfriend was rushing about she decided to weigh herself down a bit by creating literal diamond armor. She's not stupid enough to use regular diamonds which were incredibly brittle. No she was using bort diamonds, the stuff used to make drill industrial strength drill bits. Normally she'd go with carbon rings but that's too light for this fight, she did however make a staff out of carbon. The total weight of the things she added was around 100 lbs but with 8% of One for All coursing through her legs she wasn't feeling fatigued in the slightest so she ran at Izuku.
Whelp his opponent was now wearing a full suit of armor and charging him he fired a few air bullets to test the water but of course that did nothing so he took to the air. Well we're at a stalemate here she can't reach me or shoot me and I can't even move her with my quirk and if I pick her up Izuku doubted people would believe that he was just that strong. "So Momo how do we want to do this? Cause as it stands we're kinda stuck like this."
Her response was simply dropping the staff and pulling out what looked like an Ak-47 assault rifle. "Rubber bullets only dear hope you can dodge well." She smiled at him while saying that but the expression was not one that would associate with a joyful person. She started unloading with the thing.
"You've seen it here first folks contestant Yaoyorozu has brought a gun to a quirk fight."
"Don't scare them it's just rubber bullets." Aizawa countered.
Well shit. So there went his he's safe when he's in the air plan guess he's charging in. The armor is going to suck to hit, hopefully his foot won't get hurt too much by this. He pointed his leg down towards his opponent and shoved both arms behind before firing at full speed toward Momo, this is probably the worst plan he's ever had and will probably break his leg but PLUS ULTRA Cyclone drop kick.
He was right that did suck, the second his foot connected with his opponents armor he felt the snap from the force of the impact but on the bright side he did manage to knock Momo back several feet and more importantly over. He grabbed the carbon stick she made before hobbling his way over to her he activated minor regen meanwhile hoping to at least ease some of the tension in his now broken foot. He pointed it at her face, "Do you concede?".
"What the hell are you teaching your kids eraser, did he just break his leg in order to win the match?" Mic was staring at Eraser.
"I promise you he came like that." Aizawa was going to get a stern talking too later for this he just knew it.
Momo was reeling from that impact but she's pretty sure she got the better end of that deal though. Her armor crunched under the blow knocking the wind out of her at the same time but she's certain she heard something else crunch and it wasn't any part of her. She saw her boyfriend start hobbling over to her after he picked up the rod she had created before pointing it at her face. "Did you really just break your leg to get at me Izuku?"
"Hey those rubber bullets sucked." Izuku was wincing in pain but some of it was starting to go away. A compound fracture like the one he suspected he had wouldn't take too long to heal it was just the process of reconnecting the two parts of the bone back together should take around 5-10 minutes tops, which was something he definitely didn't have the time for. "No more stalling Momo, can you even get up with that armor on? You've got 5 seconds."
He was right she could only activate One for all in one place at a time and she would need to activate it all over in order to get up.
4
3
Oh duh, she'd literally just said the answer in her head, she'd never tried this before please nothing break.
2
One for All Total Body 8%
Izuku saw her whole body begin to glow black and swiftly made an attempt to put his girlfriend out of commission only for her right hand to grab the stick and pull hard bringing him with it. He smacked into the floor before he realized he was pinned. "Well shit can't say I saw that coming. My legs busted and it won't heal fast enough, you got me good Momo, good fight."
Wait what? She won?!
"IZUKU MIDORIYA CONCEDES YAOYOROZU MOMO WINS! WE HAVE OUR WINNER AMONG THE FIRST YEARS EVERYONE!"
She was just staring down at the boyfriend whom she had pinned, she actually did it. She won the sport's festival. She couldn't even hear the roars of the crowd all around her she was too focused on the fact that she did it.
"Not to make any excuses but I kinda knew I was boned from the start, haha. I just wanted to see if maybe I could pull out a win Momo." Izuku smiled sheepishly at her as he flipped over onto his back once Momo released him
Wait he never thought he had a chance? "Huh why?"
Izuku laughed more. "With only Jetstream there really wasn't anything in particular I could do to you it's just not destructive enough but the reverse holds true your only at 8%. We're gonna have a real match one day, one where we're both at full power."
A real match huh? It's true at the moment Izuku holds the advantage when their both using full power but later on when she increases her hold on One for All it'll even up that gap. "Heh you just don't want to admit you lost.
"Well you're not wrong, anyway can you help carry me. I'll be fine like 6ish minutes from now but I could use some help till then."
Momo accepted grabbing him by the shoulder on the side of his bad leg and wrapping it around her neck before they walked off.
"I still can't believe I won the whole thing." Momo was still in shock.
"I can easily, we kinda dominated this whole thing we never took less than second in any event. Just wait till you get better with One for All and I can start using all my quirks and potentially new ones. I would've loved to have life giver for this thing." Izuku sighed before continuing. "I didn't tell you but Bakugo came to see me before our match. Did you know? He blames me for his precious dream being shattered he started crying and everything like I was the bad guy. What kind of fucked up mind abuses everyone around them for years then his victims are the ones responsible. Momo am I allowed to hate him? Because I really think I hate him. Even my father didn't make me feel like this, I want to actually kill the guy."
Momo was shocked by the words coming from Izuku's mouth. "You know murder might be a bit far but i'm fine with severe maiming."
Izuku laughed at that of course she sided with him. "I'm sorry I know i'm in a messed up mental but so much has happened today. I just how can he be the unhappy one, there were so many days I wanted to listen to his advice and swan dive off of a roof. Yet he has the audacity to say I was the problem? I just I can't even fathom that."
"And i'm glad you can't. Your so much better than he ever will be Izuku. I love you." She pulled him into a deep hug sob's echoing from the boy. "He can't hurt you anymore." Inside her mind she swore vengeance upon Bakugo Katsuki, Izuku might not be willing to act but she was.
They lasted like this for several minutes before Izuku finally began to pull away. "I'm sorry i've been really weird today, I don't know what's up with me."
"Zuzu you're allowed to have off days. It'll be okay alright? This isn't a dream. You earned all of this." She grasped him even harder.
"Thanks I think i'm okay now. Let's go back to everyone else."
Once they both got back to the viewing section they were immediately ambushed by their class. Thankfully Izuku's leg had healed on the walk back and he could stand on his own again otherwise they might have knocked him over.
"Holy crap Midoriya breaking your leg to win a fight is so manly." The red haired teen basically jumped Izuku.
Froggy chimed in. "Or Horrifying depending on how you look at it kero."
"Yeah dude you're gonna scare off pros with that attitude." The Electric user added.
"Eh i'll be fine most pros can't teach me anything about my quirk anyway." Izuku just shrugged it off.
"Oh huh. I guess your right." Kaminari also shrugged.
Hagakure came over and grabbed Momo's hands. "I'm so proud of you, you pulled it out for us girls."
Momo was just blushing but she knew she had done good.
"The award ceremony will be in 10 minutes would 1st -4th place please report to the arena."
"I guess this is us I'd say 1-A did good we took three of the four spots." Momo looked over at Izuku and Shinsou
"Eh we did okay." The purple haired Aizawa cut in.
"Dude you need to be more energetic like me." Pinky shot a fist into the air.
10 Minutes later
Monoma and Shinsou shared the platform for fourth place, above them in 2nd place was Izuku and finally in first at the top was Momo.
"Alright, time for our awards ceremony! Today's Sports Festival for our first years was an amazing experience, but everything has to come to an end and this is it for today's events! So, without any further ado…" Midnight takes a dramatic pause.
Something slams besides Midnight. Immediately, the crowds cheer again, even as Izuku, Shinsou, Monoma and Momo struggle to keep their balance.
"I AM HERE!" All Might screams.
"…it's time for our All Might to hand out today's awards for our winners!" Midnight Announces.
Izuku watches as All Might steps up to the 4th place podium shared by Monoma and Shinsou. "You both did wonderful and while I have not had the pleasure of teaching your class young Monoma I was most impressed by your showing. Combining the powers of your class to try and reach victory is not only a strategic thing to do, it's also heroic. You fought with the hands of your entire class on your back."
"Young Shinsou you learned an important lesson today, you have to use whatever tricks you can to achieve victory as your opponents will almost certainly do the same. Showing mercy or fairness to a villain has made more than one hero falter in their duties." All Might thought back to the first time he fought All for One and earned his injury.
"You both did wonderfully and I cannot wait to see more of the both of you two." All Might flashed his trademark smile before placing the medals upon both of them. He stepped away before walking to the second place podium.
He hugged the boy in front of him, which was not lost on the crowd. "Young Midoriya you performed excellently today with the hand you've been dealt. I can only hope to see what the future has in store for your progress. Know that your efforts today were first class and that everything you've done was all with your own power. I knew I made the right choice by recommending you for the hero course since I met you all those years ago. Keep it up my boy."
Izuku felt tears in his eyes as his hero told him once more than he was worth it. He couldn't break down on national television so he did his best to keep it in but he knew it was going to be a futile effort.
Momo watched her boyfriend break down and begin crying. She needed to comfort him later especially after what he said about Bakugo, he wouldn't let him feel like this was undeserved. He saw All Might cover her vision, before hugging her as well. "Young Yaoyorozu, you've certainly made a splash today. You remind me of my master so much, that bright unfaltering smile and unfaltering unwavering level of dedication to being the best you can be and it has certainly shown. Know that you have made this old man proud." All might turned and walked off to the center of the arena was with the mic.
"With that folks the award ceremony is over! But remember anyone could be standing upon these pedestals hard work and being strong are synonymous after all now let's send this sports festival off with a smile. Ready now everyone? THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK!" All Might screeched that only to hear the crowds say something entirely different.
"PLUS ULTRAAAAAAAAA!"
A few moments of silence and some booing later.
"I just thought everyone worked hard." All Might was visibly flustered.
"I can't believe that brat lost Sensei, maybe he isn't as strong as you think he is." Shigaraki was shaking with glee at the thought.
"No, no Tomura, he was clearly not using all of his power. You told me he had fire breath among other quirks with him. He must be trying to hide the fact that he has multiple quirks so he only stuck to his officially registered quirk and maybe some mental quirks. His reaction time did seem better than an average person's after all. However I must say I am genuinely intrigued by that person he lost too, Yaoyorozu Momo was it? Her quirk is certainly interesting and quite familiar yet at the same very different than what I remember. All Might is there it is possible that it could be what I think it is but there is not enough to tell at the moment." All for One was lost in thought.
Shigaraki gave the TV screen his master talked from a confused glance. "It is nothing Tomura do not concern yourself with it until I am sure."
"Yes Sensei."
"How goes your recruitment Tomura?" Sensei asked the boy
"Oh i've found an excellent candidate you will be meeting him soon enough Sensei." Shigaraki answered with his manic smile.
"Good Tomura, very good." The line cut.