Heights Alliance
"Yesterday was killer..." Hayate muttered as he walked down the stairs, eyes half-open and slightly exhausted from his weeks of training. His eyes widened after looking at the scene in the living room.
It was the class. The entire class. Everyone was in their gym kits and there was an air of excitement in the room as the students chatted in their usual cliques.
"Hayate, why are you still in pyjamas?" Sei inquired.
"Huh? What's going on?" Hayate asked, "you guys look like you're ready to go to the Sports Festival or something..."
The class sighed unanimously, "We are."
Hayate quickly pulled out his phone. A single notification with a big red 'SPORTS FESTIVAL!' For today's date. His eyes were almost ready to fall out of their sockets. "...oh..." he mumbled as he quickly hopped into a portal.
"How could he forget something like this..." Mira whined, facepalming.
"Precisely" Sei replied, "I could never forget such an incredible chance to show off mine and Dr Sakusei's work."
"Same here" Mira stated, "I'm already itching to start!"
"I do not believe I have experienced this emotion before. I am excited, but also nervous..." the robot looked up at Mira, "are you feeling it as well?"
"A bit..." Mira gave a quick chuckle, "but, I think I'll manage." He turned to face another student, "what about you Angel?"
Angel was feebly resting near the corner of the staircase. She looked at the two with worn out eyes, "I-I'm fine. Just a b-bit more nervous than excited."
"Are you sure?" Sei asked.
"Yeah, you look more than just nervous" Mira added.
"Don't worry!" Angel beamed (or at least she tried).
"Okay..." Mira replied, slightly confused. "If you say so."
"Trust me!" Said Angel, "I. Am. Fi-" but before she could finish, she slid off the wall, lying peacefully face up on the floor. The two yelled as they watched a small, white, winged wisp leave her mouth, floating upwards.
"Catch it! Catch it!" Mira ordered as they quickly returned the spirit back to its owner.
Angel bolted upright, looking shocked but eerily refreshed, "T-thanks. I think I nearly crossed the river."
Suddenly the front door blasted open, as Ms Yellow stormed in. "Alright, what's going on here?!" She exclaimed.
"DID I MAKE IT?!" Hayate screamed as he shot right out of a portal, skidding across the carpet.
Ms Blue came out, and gave her usual unamused sigh. "The shuttle is already outside. Get in so we can get to the stadium already."
Everyone made their way to the door, but Ms Red stopped them. "I can't believe I almost forgot to say it..." she beamed the warmest smile she could must at her class, "give it your all 1-A!"
Sports Festival Stadium
"It's Massive!" Kye exclaimed.
"It's Gigantic!" Satori wailed.
"It's freaking HUGE!" Hayate boomed as 1-A and the other first years approached the stadium.
The huge ringed stadium shone a bright, metallic cobalt blue against the late spring sun. Vendors lined the perimeter with countless stalls. Pro heroes from all over the country could be seen entering in themselves or keeping watch from the outside.
The class made there way to the participants entrance, joining together with thousands of U.A students as they got closer and closer.
"I can hear the crowd all the way out here!" Daigo gulped as he walked along the railed path with pretty shaky legs.
"Who knows how many will lay their eyes on me and my illusions?" Shin eagerly announced.
While others were amazed by the grand building, Kori looked on at it with an emotionless glare. She sighed, "let's get this over with."
Stadium Waiting Room
Within the large blue room, the commotion of the crowd could be heard easily. 1-A was caught up in last minute preparations, both physically and psychologically.
Suddenly a loud banging sounded on the door. "You can start making your way to the field now!"
Taro got up from his seat and cleared his throat. "Everyone, we've worked hard these past few weeks" he pushed his glasses up, and smiled, "Let's show them our genius, and do our best out there!"
The class cheered, gaining confidence from the quick pep talk.
Oma grinned, "woah there, speak for yourself Class Prez."
His comment confused the rest of them. "How come?" Mira asked, "there's no point in being here if you're not gonna show off everything you've got."
"Well that's not for you to decide" Kori piped up sharply, as she opened the dark blue door. "We've all got different goals here" she mumbled as she made her way to the field.
Oma approached the boy still smiling confidently, almost smugly. "I'm gonna do what I've always done. Give the bare minimum. Cause, I know it'll be enough." He walked away and turned back to Mira as the reached the doorframe, "it always has been."
The rest of the class followed suit and began exiting the waiting room. Hayate caught up with Mira as they neared the blinding light ahead of them all. 'He still seems a little bothered about earlier...' he thought.
He placed a hand on Mira's shoulder, and grinned wide as usual. "Don't let what they said get to you! We'll just have to double our efforts to make up for his!"
Mira smiled a little and nodded, "yeah. Let's show him how it's done!"
Stadium Field
A rainbow of fireworks boomed above the cobalt ring as the crowd roared with untameable excitement, watching the first years enter the bright green, grassy field.
The four departments all converged in the centre of the grass, where a large, circular, white stage was placed.
The General Studies students were completely unbothered and apathetic. Many accepting their inferiority to the students that actually passed the hero course exam.
The Support Course was riled up. Each of them were ready to reveal their gadgets and gear to the potential investors seated in the crowd.
The Business Course - were there.
And the Hero Course students wanted nothing more than to start already! They wanted to make themselves known. Scream out, 'here I am!' To all of Japan! Though some were still a little shaken by the magnitude of people they'd have to show off to.
"T-this is a bit more people than I expected..." Sei stated nervously. He failed to find a single seat unoccupied in the sea of spectators around them.
"The more, the merrier! Right Satoru?" Satori asked her twin, receiving a quick nod and 'hmph' from the brother. "See, he's super pumped!"
'He is?' The rest of them thought.
VIP Booth
Near the top of the stands, the very important guests took to their seats up in the large black booth. The room was nice with a small bar, giant, crystalline windows and a big TV screen, currently showing the students approach the centre stage.
"This place sure changed since we were here last" Deku commented, sitting on a huge blue sofa next to Ochaco.
"We have invested in new technology to 'spice up' the competition, so some remodelling was in order ohoho!" Nezu replied.
"I can't wait to see who I'll pick!" Said Ochaco, gluing her eyes to the students. "Ooh, that winged girl look so cute! Maybe I'll choose her. Oh, is that a robot?! So cool!"
"Robot! Where?!" Deku asked, just as intrigued as his partner.
"Ohoho! I'm sure that the both of you'll find this festival to be particularly interesting" Nezu stated.
The door to the booth opened, both Izuku and Ochaco's eyes widened as they realised who it was.
She was a small woman, with short purple hair just reaching her chin, wearing a black leather jacket over a salmon-coloured shirt, with black pants and boots with stereo built into them. She twirled one of her unnaturally long ear lobes, with strange jacks their ends. "Principal, we'll need a bit more time before we're done setting up down there..."
Her slim dark purple eyes turned to the three, and also enlarged as she too noticed her old classmates.
"Kyoka!" Ochaco screamed as she ran up to hug her old friend.
"Izuku! Ochaco! God, how long has it been?" Kyoka asked excitedly.
"Ages..." Deku replied, joining in on the hug. "How've you been?!"
She sighed, "I've been better. Work's been pilling up at the agency, I barely get any time off."
"Same here" the couple whined simultaneously.
Kyoka's face lightened up, "but, Nezu called asking if I could help out with the festival, how I could I say no?"
Nezu approached the three. "Will you be joining us to watch the festival?"
"I'll watch from the stands" she said, "still got tons of things to do before we're ready." She turned towards the corridor. "Make sure you tell me if anyone rocking okay? I'm counting on you - Number One."
"Sure!" Izuku replied. And the three smiled warmly as they waved her goodbye.
Once gone, they raced back to their seats, eagerly eyeing the screen, awaiting the start.
Stadium Field
Funky, upbeat music blared on the speakers. In another room, another teacher prepared to take over the mic. Present Mic cleared his throat, "Everybody ready?!"
The deafening roar of the crowd grew even louder. After clearly hearing their reply, Mic continued, "Alright, alright. Then as your favourite noise with a voice, I have no choice but to get this show on the road!"
"That's my cue!" A strong feminine voice yelled out on the speakers. The crowd gasped as they watched somebody jump off the roof of the stadium! Soon after, they crashed straight into the centre of the stage, blowing a small cloud of dust into the faces of all the first years.
"Looks like our Chief Umpire has arrived!" Present Mic declared.
She was a dark skinned woman, with long white hair and red eyes. She had a pair of long white furry ears that resembled a rabbit's, along with a big, round white tail. She was wearing a white and purple leotard, with a yellow crescent moon crest on her chest, along with purple thigh-high boots with metal plating around the soles resembling rabbit feet.
"Who's she?" Mira asked, unfazed by the stunt.
"Do you know any heroes?!" Hayate teased, "that's the Rabbit Hero: Mirko!"
Mirko sighed, "I would just start it already. But before we commence the first stage, I need the first year representative, Omamori Komaeda, to come up to give the Festival Pledge."
Most of Class 1-A were baffled as the watched the shaggy-haired boy climb the steps.
"Hmph, you should of seen him in the entrance exam." Taro commented, "he was exceptional in the practical and bested Nezu in mere seconds. A complete genius. There's no doubt in my mind he took first place."
Oma tapped the mic, and began, "I pledge..."
"To have as much fun as possible."
The statement provoked the crowd, getting even more riled up and excited. As well as agitating some of the students from the other departments.
"Where the hell do you think you are?!" A general studies student exclaimed.
"You think this is just some sort of game?!" A support student yelled.
Damian scowled, "Screwin' around already huh? 1-A trash."
Mirko laughed to herself, watching Oma walk back to his class. "The kid's got guts, I like it!"
Mira couldn't help but think back to Kori's comment earlier in the waiting room as he looked at Oma. 'Just what are your goals Oma?'
"Now that all the boring stuff's outta the way, we can get to the first stage!" Mirko exclaimed, pointing a remote at a humongous screen high up on the wall of the stadium behind her.
Immediately after, words began rolling on and off the screen swiftly. Eventually the spinning slowed and halted, showcasing the name of the first event:
'The Titan's Tower'.
Suddenly the ground started to quake and the sound of machinery shifting could be heard. A massive square chunk of the field from behind them all began to rise up! It continued ascending and ascending, until it reached just past the top of the blue ring.
All of the first years mouths had reached the floor as they gasped at its sheer size. The dark violet tower was stood tall, covering the sun from all of their eyes.
The spectators cheering went wild, awaiting just what challenge laid ahead of the first years.
Present Mic continued, "behold! The Titan's Tower! This is an obstacle race, were the first 36 to clear all four levels and reach the top will proceed onto the next stage! One more thing..."
But before he could finish it, another voice began laughing excitedly up on the roof.
Everyone looked up to see somebody leap off from the ring! "Mirko stole my thing but I'm gonna do it anyways!" The girly voice declared. Just before she hit the floor, her white boots began to glow a faint green, as she suddenly began to hover in place.
She was average height but quite slender, wearing white and lime frilled dress. She had curly neon green hair tied back in a ponytail and matching eyes, that stare at the crowd with delight.
Present Mic continued, in a surprisingly passionless tone. "Ah, yes. This is my Assistant Commentator, Support Course Third Year, Koemi Uku."
"No no no! 'Assistant Commentator' sounds super duper lame!" Koemi whined, but swiftly reverted to her extra cheerful manner, "I'm also the audience's eyes for all the events! But more importantly - I'm the school's... Idol!" making a heart with her hands and placing it on her own, melting hearts with her smile.
"I think I'm in love" Hayate stated.
"Of course you are" Mira, Sei and Angel replied, unsurprised.
Koemi clapped her hands twice and an army of hovering white orbs flew off from the roof and surrounded her, making a flying couch for her.
She descended towards the first years. Once on the ground, the orbs lined up around the entrance of the tower, creating an area to contain the students. "Present Mic forgot to say that anything goes! As long as you don't scale the up the wall or fly up from the outside!"
"Maybe I would've, if you didn't cut me off" Mic complained to himself.
The group of contestants pushed and shoved their way to the entrance, trying there best to get as close to door as possible.
Mic's passionate flair returned as the first event was about to commence! "Let's start the countdown!"
The audience synced up with Present Mic, "3... 2... 1..."
A horn blared and the violet doors slid open! But before anyone could even enter...
A huge blast of energy shot out of the centre of the student mob, sending many of them flying everywhere as a single student zoomed right into the tower, striding inside with psychic power - Kori Esupa.
"What an explosive start!" Screamed Mic.
Students continued to the flow into the tower quickly, refusing to let the abrupt attack slow them down any further.
The white orbs soon followed in after all the students by Koemi's order. Soon the big screens all over the stadium turned on, finally giving the crowd eyes inside.
First Floor
Mira put everything he could into his legs, as he bolted to the first challenge alongside his fellow students. But, there wasn't anything there that appeared 'challenging'. Just stairs! 8 sets of stairs that went up a pretty big slope to the exit.
"Hehe! Is this the first challenge?" A general studies student joked as he dashed up. He ran and ran, climbing step over step... but something felt off. He could see the large purple door at the top of the steps, but it didn't seem to be getting any closer. He looked down and paled. He was still at the bottom!
"These are... escalators!" A support student replied, failing to ascend the descending stairs.
"Ding Ding! That's right!" Said Koemi, as she attempted to put on a creepy voice, "these are the Steps of Endless Pain!"
Yokina leapt over the large group of contestants, and stuck to the wall! "If that's the case, then I'll just skip them!" She exclaimed as she speedily wall-ran towards the exit.
Mira smirked, as he armoured up and climbed up the stairs with surprising speed, with most of his classmates dashing up just as easily around him. "This is just a big inclined treadmill, it's not that much different from training" he muttered to himself. "I'll get past this without even using it."
"The Hero course students are clearly showing off the difference between them and the other departments! They're leaving them all in dust!" Mic announced.
"Damn hero course!" The general studies roared as they watched 1-A and 1-B dash, fly and rocket towards the next floor.
The sound of metal wrenching and breaking echoed across the room. The non-hero students turned to watch Oma walking up a broken escalator. "Too think it'd break, what are the chances?" He chuckled, then turned to the other students below, "if the game's too hard, it'd be better to just quit! Otherwise it wouldn't be fun now would it?"
Once past the large purple doors, Mira and the others climbed up a tall ladder. He watched Angel and Damian climb from under them, 'this space must too small to fly through. If I keep this pace up, I'll stay near the front!' He thought.
Second Floor
He dashed through the door to the next floor, and stared out in amazement. They were in a dense jungle! Though it was completely silent. Silent enough to be scary.
The other contestants didn't hesitate to swarm in. Mira knew he couldn't let up either and dashed into the dark green foliage. 'The only way is forward!'
As he traversed the greenery, he heard the cries and whimpers of contestants screaming out all around him! 'Just what is this challenge?' Mira thought.
Suddenly a familiar voice screamed out right near him. The sound came from just ahead, so whatever caused the screaming was near. Mira broke off a tree branch, using it as his base to form his shadow-sword, as he slowly shuffled towards the large leaves.
He pushed them aside. Right in front of him were four pale creatures, disgusting, grey masses of slimy, squirming tentacles. They had surrounded a single student, who laid bundled up in a fetal position.
Mira went in for a closer look, and noticed the startled student was Daigo! But his caused the four monster's attention to turn to Mira, as they paced over to the boy, grumbling ferociously.
Mira gripped his weapon, pointing its sharp tip at group of tentacles. "Bring it!" He beckoned, as the creatures charged him! His blade flowed through the pale bodies of the monsters as he darted past them, splitting the four all in two! The monsters slowly disintegrated into black smoke, fading away into the jungle.
Soon after, something else clasped onto Mira! He twisted around, almost decapitating the snivelling Daigo that tugged at his black armour.
"Oh my god, oh my god! Thank you Mira! Thank you!" Daigo wailed.
"It's... alright!" Mira groaned as he detached him, "what the hell were those thing anyway?"
"Cthulumen" Daigo answered, shuddering just at their mention, "they're from Elder Saga 4. But I haven't touched that game in years because of them! There just so gross, and slimy-looking... they just freak me out!"
"That's exactly the point!" Present Mic declared. One of Koemi's camera spheres orbited the two boys. Mic continued, "welcome to the Jungle of Fear! Our Pro Hero (and film studies teacher) Phobos is currently using his quirk, Room 101, on this entire floor! So be prepared to face your worst nightmare!"
"Is that so?" Mira mumbled, watching the hoverbot float away.
"Uh oh, we're falling behind!" Daigo stated, waving a quick goodbye and running off.
Mira followed suit and pushed on towards the next exit. "I wonder what mine will be?" He mumbled.
Meanwhile, further along in the room, the rest of 1-A were fighting their own fears. "Go away!Go awaaaay!" Satori screamed as she punched a giant, demonic-looking clown through multiple trees. She nearly had a heart attack as she turned to face another one.
But after a loud bang, the clown slowly evaporated into smoke. Fukuro was standing behind it holding a black pistol, which was still trained at where the clown head originally was.
"You brought a gun?!" Satori asked, still recovering from the ordeal.
"Why the hell wouldn't I?" Fukuro replied, and pointed at one of her red reticle pupils, "I can't do jack shit with my quirk without some sort of ranged weapon. Besides, it's only rubber rounds. Ain't gonna kill nobody.."
A loud guttural growling grew louder, between the two, as a huge pale brown spiked monster jumped out from the ground, rushing towards Fukuro. She fired a bullet at the creature, and it missed! Her face whitened as the monster got even closer!
"Anything beats fighting clowns!" Satori yelled as she leapt up onto the monster's left side, placing a palm on its shoulder. "Amplify... Impact!"
The monster was blasted away with explosive force, tearing down trees until it reached on of the walls of the floor! "Sweet! Let's keep going then!" She said, turning to Fukuro.
Fukuro dropped to her knees. Satori was concerned as she looked somewhat deflated. "Impossible! I... I... missed!"
"Seriously? That's what you're afraid of?!" Satori exclaimed.
Mira swiftly hopped and vaulted over the massive tree roots around him. 'If all the rooms are the same size, then the door shouldn't be too far from here' he theorised. But something ahead of him abruptly stopped his run.
It was a tall slim shadowy figure that approached him. As it got closer and closer, the darkness that covered it got thinner and thinner, until it's true appearance was clear to Mira. He was a hero! Wearing a white and bright blue jumpsuit, with a long cape and white cowl obscuring the top half of his face. He stared at Mira with a twisted grimace through his blue lenses, but was surprised when Mira just laughed in response.
"So, you're my nightmare huh? That must mean that this floor doesn't just apply to fears..." He muttered, shifting his sword into a scythe, and stared back with an even scarier glare, pointing it right at him. "Cause I ain't feeling scared right now, just angry!"
Mira rushed the hero and slashed up with his scythe, connecting dead centre with Black Crescent. The hero crashed into tree after tree, slowly dissipating into the air after each hit.
Mira could see a large violet door just a bit ahead of the line of carnage he created. His armour disappeared as he ran towards it. he thought back to the instant fury he felt just looking at the shadow hero's masked face. "Mercurius. You damn fake!"
Third Floor
"Halfway there! I think I saw Angel and Kye just ahead!" Mira panted as he ran through the entrance.
Mira dashed through only to skid to a halt, nearly slipping off the edge of the giant platform! After gazing round the room, he saw that the entire floor was filled with purple platforms! But that wasn't all, he could see some turret robots standing by, attached to the ceiling of the floor.
He observations were interrupted by more commentary from Mic. "Looks like things are heating up on the penultimate floor! Some of the speedsters at the front are soaring past the challenge... literally!"
Just ahead of him Angel and Kye sped through the air towards the next exit. The ceiling turrets aimed at both of them, firing and missing shots after shot! One managed to hit a student mid-jump across a platform, giving them a quick shock as they fell to a surprisingly soft below. But before they could relax, like some huge conveyor belt, the floor started moving! In seconds the student reached the edge of the belt, and screamed as wall opened up like a door! Dropping them right back to the bottom of the tower!
"Better be careful where I leap" Mira mumbled, hopping swiftly across the platforms with the other grounded runners.
Damian turned back to the two flyers behind him. "Let's see how you handle this!" He said, grinning deviously as he twisted fully around and swung both black wings forward. "Air Cutter!" Soon after, two powerful gusts of air zipped towards Angel and Kye.
"Watch it!" Kye exclaimed, quickly ducking under the attack. The strike slashed straight through the robot behind him! It surprised him, but as a result got him even more fired up, as his flames burned a little brighter and he gave chase to Damian.
"You're not the only one who knows that move" Angel muttered, as she copied Damian's movements. She sent out two of her own, easily blocking the earlier attack.
There were a few more platforms ahead of Mira's path. "Those three entered the tower pretty early, I shouldn't be in a bad position." He got ready to leap of the next platform, smiling wide as he ran to its edge, "who knows, maybe I'm in top fi-"
But suddenly a sharp stinging pain exploded in Mira's lower torso, just as he jumped. He cried out in pain, "the injury had to act up now?!" The sudden aching messed it up! He wasn't going to make it across!
Daigo spotted the scene just a couple platforms behind. There was no way he'd just watch him fall. He activated his quirk, slowing time all around him to a stop. "I'm coming Mira!" He said as he bolted across the platforms.
'If I fall here, I'll never catch up in time to make it to the top 36!' Mira thought as his jump lost speed, 'And I don't have enough time to use it...'
But in an instant, Daigo appeared right in front of him! He lent out a hand on the next platform, "grab on!" He shouted.
Mira stretched out as far as possible, catching it just before dropping below the platform! Daigo pulled him up and the two collapsed to the platform floor. "That was... way too close" Daigo wheezed.
"You can say that again" Mira replied, "thanks for the save. It would've been all over for me if I fell." His eyes widened in shock as turned back to Daigo, "wait, are you okay?! You used your quirk right?"
"Hehehe...AHAHAHAHA!"
Daigo couldn't help but laugh. He settled down and smiled proudly at his classmate, "It all finally paid off. I finally got some control over this quirk!" He shooed Mira, as he look to the ceiling of the floor, "don't worry about me, just go! This time, I ain't falling behind!"
Mira rapidly darted across the rest of the sea of platforms. As he landed on the exit platform, he turned back to Daigo, grinning just as wide as he was, "I'll see you at the top then!" He yelled back.
Fourth Floor
"This is it! The final floor!" Mira mumbled as he climbed up the tall ladder. At the top, he passed through the door to enter a small, slim corridor. He could see the final challenge was just ahead.
Battlebots. Tons of them! Mira could see that their numbers covered at least a half of the entire room! He readied for battle, dashing into room with his weapon and armour. But immediately as he entered the room - all of it disappeared, leaving him with his gym kit, and the branch he took from the Second Floor.
Mira frantically scoured the area, eventually noticing a small window placed near the top of the wall on the right, through its clear glass. He felt a chill run swiftly down his spine as he stared at the shaggy, exhausted glare of Aizawa! Up in the viewing room, he watched the boy keenly with his glowing red eyes.
The shouts of the crowd erupted once more as Mic started up again. "This is it folks! The final challenge! Let's see what these powered-up participants can do without their powers! In - The Null Zone!"
Mira could see that many of the race leaders were getting held up in the swarm of robots.
"What a pain" Kori complained, slowly wading through the constant pushing and shoving of the surrounding machinery. Though she was still ahead of the rest, others were catching.
Damian furiously rampaged through the army, staring daggers at Kori, "get back here!" He roared.
Mira was prepared to brute force it through, but an idea popped up. He turned back to the corridor they all entered from. Something seemed off. Why was there a corridor here and not on the other floors? Why was it only a few steps long? Did they just want to see what they could do without their quirks, or was there more to it? He kept thinking about it and came to a conclusion!
"Eh? What's this?" Koemi announced, "it seems one of our contestants on the last floor is walking back to the entrance?! Was the final hurdle too much for him to handle?!"
"This is probably the best time to use it" Mira mumbled as walked back to the corridor, "it's not that the final challenge doesn't want us to use our quirks..." once hidden from Aizawa's glare, he knelt down, positioning himself like a runner in starting position. Shadow Matter began balling up into two large black sphere behind the soles of his raised feet. He looked up, gazing right at the open exit to the finish!
"It's that we've only got one shot to use it!" He yelled. The matter behind him exploded! And Shot Mira out from the corridor like a black bullet. He pierced straight through the army of robots easily, flinging many of them up into the air (unfortunately where Sei was), and landed safely with a roll on the other side!
"No way!" Sei exclaimed, surprised by the sudden entrance.
"Impossible!" Kori muttered, as her first-place position was snatched away in seconds.
"Heh, guess he's got some smarts" Aizawa chuckled as he watched hundred of robots (and some students) fly right up into the air.
"Wha-wha-wha-what was that?!" Present Mic cried out, "something, or someone just blasted right past the last trial! It looks like we've got a winner here!"
Aizawa sighed "He's always quick to make irrational statements." The rain of robots completely covered his viewing window, "The race still isn't over..."
Mira landed with a roll, immediately putting everything he had left into his legs, bolting straight to the finish!
"No..." Kori trembled, sounding slightly unstable. She stretch out her hands towards Mira. "I won't lose! Not to you!" A huge blast of psychic energy shot out from her hand, flying straight at Mira! "My quirk..." she muttered.
Damian's fury exploded out as he screamed, destroying any robots that laid in his path. "I can do a lot more than fly with these wings!" He announced. "AIR SCYTHE!" He exclaimed, twisting his upper body forward as he swung his right wing upwards. it cupped the air around it and shot out a stream of wind jetting towards the new first place.
"Mira!" Angel screamed, trying her best to warn her friend.
But it was too late. Mira turned his head and his eyes widened as he realised. They both hit him right on his back! Mira was flung across the floor, as he skidded to a halt.
"Yeah! How'd you like that?!" Damian sneered. But his jeering stopped once he heard another explosion boom nearer to him. Kori blasted straight forward, gliding just above the floor with telekinetic power. In seconds she passed Mira, and in seconds she passed the final exit.
"She can use her quirk?!" Damian gasped, as he chased her, also dashing out of the floor. He attempted to fly but he was barely able to glide. He turned back to Aizawa and silently cursed as he exited the last floor.
"That hit me like a truck" Mira groaned as he slowly got back up. He was mad that the pole position had slipped from his fingers so soon, but that wasn't important. With other students getting close to overtaking him as well, his top priority was to get running!
Tower Roof
Mira had made it. He conquered the Titan's Tower. He couldn't help but smile as he approached the end. The warm sun, the cool breeze, the roaring crowd. It all felt amazing.
At the top of the tower, Mirko stood next to a bright red button. "Tough luck, Third Place" She said. "Next time, watch your 6 before getting all excited."
Mira slapped the button, and sat down to finally have his well-earned rest. "I'll keep that in mind" he panted.
Kori dug her face into her knees as she balled up. "I... nearly lost to him..." she growled through gritted teeth.
Mira watched eagerly, wondering just who would come out next. It didn't take long for more students to make out. In minutes, the top ten had already made it out!
Kye sighed, "did I fall during my run? I'm sure I was right behind Mira, but then I was on the floor" he shrugged, too tired to bother thinking, "fifth place isn't bad, but who came fourth?"
"AAAARGH! How did I lose to that 1-A garbage?!" Damian sulked. A hand placed itself on his shoulder. He turned to face a dark red-haired boy. His long hair partially covered his green eyes that looked back warmly at Damian. "Eiichiro..." he mumbled and cooled from his tantrum.
Eiichiro smirked, "now isn't the time to lose your cool. It ain't over yet."
Damian took his advice. Though Eiichiro wasn't as hellbent on proving 1-B's superiority as he was, Eiichiro was a good friend to him, as well as 1-B's Mastermind, able to keep a level head in the most extreme of situations.
Damian looked at the roof entrance, awaiting the arrival of the rest of his classmates. "Right. We'll show them what's what next round!"
"How did do that Mira?" Angel begged, "you just blasted right through them all!"
"I've never seen you move like that before" Sei stated. "And I was just about to overtake Kori, but then all those Battlebots just flew at me, and slowed me down."
"Tell us! Tell us! Tell us!" They chanted at him.
"It's a secret!" Mira answered, finally tired of their nagging. Soon after, a portal appeared right next to the three.
Hayate flew right out of it, screaming his lungs out. His face smacked the big metal stand the button rested on, somehow pressing the button at the same time. He got up quickly and gave a thumbs up to his friends, attempting to look cool by smiling wide with his bloody nose, "Stuck the landing!"
Mira, Sei and Angel sweat-dropped, "are you sure about that?"
Hayate collapsed to the floor after seeing his final position on the big screen, "11th?! No way... what places did you guys come?"
"8th" Sei replied, sounding disappointed with the result.
"6th!" Angel stated, content with her placing.
"3rd..." Mira sighed, "but I could've been 1st."
"Oh, I see" said Hayate, completely dejected.
"What took you so long?" Angel asked bluntly, "you're much faster than all three of us with your quirk."
Hayate flinched, but gave an answer. "I got... held back on the Second Floor."
"Just what did you have to face back there?" Sei asked.
Hayate scratched the back of his head awkwardly, "sorry... I'd rather not say."
"Forget it! What matters most is that we all made it to the next stage!" Mira exclaimed. He turned to the roof entrance, "Let's hope everyone else does too."
Moments later, the twenties were arriving. "Mira!" Daigo called out as he dashed towards the finish. He pressed the big button, and punched a fist up to the sky smiling wide at him, "I told you! I ain't falling behind anymore!"
"Yay!" Mai exclaimed as she high-fived Lorie. "Let's go all the way to the finals!"
"Of course!" Lorie beamed.
Once in the thirties, Mirko was intrigued by the large dust cloud that was slowly making its way towards her. She could spot two boys, both putting their heart and soul into their final dash.
The boy on the right had a stocky frame, with big, hearty, dark brown eyes with explosively spiky hair that match his eyes, held back with a bright orange bandana.
The boy of the left was less bulky, with slim dark blue eyes and bright blue hair hidden under a black cap. It that was all he wouldn't of been as interesting as the other boy, but he had one strange feature. His right arm shone a metallic dark blue!
"Eat my dust Tanso!" The capped boy exclaimed. "I've gotta beat you to even up the score after you won a couple weeks ago!"
"AAAAAARRRGHH! I ain't eating nothing Kenta!" The brown-haired boy screamed, "I'm gonna beat you and reach 350!"
The two quickly tore through the crowd of winners. Just as they reached the stage Mirko and the button was on, Kenta stretched out his blue arm. Instantly, his arm began to disappear, beginning from his fingertips and stopping halfway down his forearm! Mirko could see little blue particles zip through the air towards the button. Once above it, they rejoined forming a new blue hand! It dropped right on the button just before Tanso smacked it!
Tanso fell to his knees while Kenta rejoiced. "Haha! Tied up once again! 349 miscellaneous victories each!" Kenta cheered.
"Dammit" Tanso cursed, but he recovered quick, getting up and looking Kenta dead in the eyes and smiling wide, "I'm still gonna get 350 first!" He proclaimed.
One spot left. The 35 students at the top awaited the final runner to reach the summit.
"Looks like all of 1-B's here" Damian stated, looking smugly at his sister and her group, "what about 1-A?"
Stampeding footsteps thundered across the roof, as 30 students made their last dash to the button! Mira and the others were shocked, as they saw Oma in their midst! And he wasn't in the lead.
The leading general studies student turned back to Oma tailing close behind him. "Guess the Hero Course kids aren't all that special!"
He reached the stage and slammed his hand down.
And Missed the button by a centimetre!
"HOOOOOW!" He wailed as he face-planted.
"You're right, I ain't special at all" Oma replied slamming the button and securing his last place. He smiled as he watched a large red 6 fade from the unfortunate student's back. "But I sure am lucky."
Another horn blared out. "There we have it! 36 students have cleared the tower! Those who didn't make it, better luck next year!" Koemi declared.
Back in the booth, Ochaco finally gave her eyes some rest from the intense viewing. "That was amazing!" She shouted, "everyone was so awesome! I can't decide who I wanna pick! What about you, Dek-"
Deku looked fanatical as he scribbled away in his notebook. "What a strange quirk that kid at the end had, perhaps dark energy? No he can solidify it, it's probably something else. I had no idea that the winged guy had so much power in those wings, I was naive to think he only uses them for flight, I mean, look at Hawks! I've seen many heroes and villains with psychokinetic quirks, but the girl who got first place definitely has a good grip on hers, she must've trained all her life to get it to that level. Daigo's improved a lot, Nurse Kenkou said his body can't handle his quirk, but I'm pretty sure he used it once without serious consequences on the Third Floor, though he had to rest for a while. This generation is impressive already..." he mumbled.
Ochaco was shocked and a little creeped out by his thought trance. "Deku?!"
The sound of machinery started up again, and the Titan's Tower began to slowly return to the ground. The cheers from the crowd grew louder and loud as they descended.
Mira gulped as some nervousness set in. 'I'm almost there, if I succeed in this challenge, I'll make it to the Final Tournament! I've gotta give this stage 150%!"
The ground snapped back into position, and Mirko took up the mic once again. "You all did well to overcome that tower. But don't get complacent, only the exceptional make it to the Final Tournament." She grinned wide, and pointed the remote up to the giant screen behind her again. The crowd roared in anticipation yet again, as the words rolled rapidly on the giant screen...
"Let's begin... the next stage!"