Extremely high blood pressure that lowers down in an instant. One of Al's weird changes to his body thanks to his Quirk, whenever he gets cut or cuts himself blood erupts out of his body as if it was being sprayed out of a can. Once the high pressure is lowered however the blood flow becomes regular and what looked like a very deep cut reveals itself as nothing more than a superficial cut, it did lacerated the skin and reached the muscle but thanks to Recovery girl's powers Alphonse was up and running back on his feet in time to comment the fight between Midoriya and Todoroki. Munching on red peppers, meat and fish he invades the commenter's room and grabs onto a mike.
"So, now that my fight ended I guess we'll have to settle down for... oh my god the stage is frozen. What did I missed?"
"Midoriya keeps taunting Todoroki into using his full power." Aizawa answers.
"Full power? Isn't freezing half the stage enough? I bet there are pro heroes unable to do that!"
"You've just missed the backstory. He is the son of Endeavor the nr.2 hero. He was born out of a political marriage out of which his father used his mother to produce a son capable to defeat and surpass All Might. His father tormented him from a young age with harsh training, violence and a lack of love while his mother snapped out and poured boiling water on his face." Alphonse starts tearing up as such a horrible story moved him deeply.
"And I... and I thought being abandoned in a jungle was rough! At least I wasn't tormented by my parents for all my life. Todoroki! Use your Quirk and burn Midoriya! It's your Quirk not his, you didn't inherited it from him, it's yours, he can't use it, he can't control it, only you can use your Quirk. Don't let him control you. Mock him! Mock him to hell and back by using your Quirk without giving him any credit!" Al then puts down the microphone and quietly asks. "It's OK if I stalk and poison him, right? It's alright for me to take revenge on bad people right?"
"No, that's the way a villain would think."
"I'll marry this woman and force her in a loveless abusive relationship, torture and hurt my children only to defeat the number one hero..."
"Point acknowledged..." Al takes back up the microphone and starts speaking:
"Do you even have good role model heroes? There's All Might who's the 'always happy don't worry guy' but who's next on the list? Endeavor, the tyrant..."
"I think he can hear you over the speakers."
"... Who's number two? Who's number three? All I see in TV is this giant woman that shakes her butt and there's the 'I'm brooding' type of heroes everywhere. 'Fighting crime is so hard, the sun shines for everyone but me.' How do you even have new recruits wanting to become heroes when all you see on TV is either the sole shinning example of hope All Might or the most damaged people in the country! Look at Midoriya right now, he's breaking himself in half to act heroic. He's going to be suicidal once he gets his hero license, imagine seeing someone like him in TV, covered in blood with broken bones and hearing your child 'mama, I wanna break my arms and legs too because the hero in TV does it'. Look at our... Aizawa"
"Alright, now you're doing it on purpose. You were about to say 'our teacher' but you still used my real name. What is your problem?"
"Give me my wins..."
"No. Besides, a hero's life is hard, the higher you climb up the ladder the more hardship you'll encounter. It's inevitable that most heroes become serious brooding types."
"Wait, let me get my phone up and I'll see the list of heroes in South America. I want to see if they too are the brooding type." Alphonse gets out his phone and after a few moments of typing he realises why the screen was black and unlocks the phone.
"Alright. Here we are. Number one hero... unknown?" He starts muttering to himself. "The number one most active hero in the country is unknown. His Quirk and apparitions lead to only one person however no one was capable of discovering who that masked hero is... yada yada yada. Ah, here we go nr. 2 Apex Predator... war veteran and scary looking crocodile man... nr. 5, there we are, nr. 5 El Santo. A shiny beacon of hope and peace. Number 12, Coffin... a hero that dresses like a death row inmate and buries people neck deep into the ground... Wow, a hero's life really is terrible eh?"
"Oh, and what a spectacular victory for Todoroki which I had to present alone since my two colleagues prefer to talk about other things."
"Oh, what a turn of events! Midoriya fought to his very last but unfortunately he was eliminated. A loss to our entertainment value. Alas, as long as Bakugo doesn't get first place we can all agree the world will be a better place."
"You want to get down here and start something?" Bakugo shouts at the top of his lungs.
"I wish I could, but I just defeated a pro hero, something which you cannot so I'll just leave you boil in your own blood"
"Bastard, how did you just header what I said from up there?"
"I can read your lips you wide mouth buffoon." Al then puts down the mike again. "I met this pretty nice girl down the hall when I was making my way here. Hatume Mei something something. She gave me these really handy pair of googles to enhance my field of view. If only all people could be more like her and less like Bakugo."
"You're going to have a hard time making friends you know?" Aizawa says.
"Oh, oh... Now that's a lot of shade you just threw at me Mr. Social Life."
"Not using the proper title is one thing but creating nicknames to insult me will deduct points from your student score"
"As if it's not all arbitrary anyhow."
They continue casting matches while derailing onto various topics until the final match when Al started biting his fingers.
"I swear if he is about to win I'll swoop down and kick him in the face!"
"Don't do that, you'll just drag yourself to his level" Aizawa tries to use psychology to stop Al from intervening. The battle starts, they lash out at one another, attacking, blowing things up, freezing things up but Todoroki would still not use his fire powers to attack Bakugo.
"Burn his face off!" Al shouts over the microphone but because of his rage towards Bakugo he doesn't realise that his mike was cut off a while ago. He jumps up and down and hits the glass watching the fight with great interest.
"Get on your feet! On your feet damn it!" No!" Alphonse has a mental breakdown when the last man standing is Bakugo.
"Ha, you can choke on it bastard! I won, I am number 1, how do you like that?"
"Can I fight him? Can I fight him properly with violence and extreme use of force?"
"No. Let's get down, we're done here and they are about to hand over the medals."
"The nr. 1 medal should have been mine..."
In the end they just couldn't put down their differences. Bakugo and Alphonse attacked one another when they made contact inside the halls and they were locked up while the prizes were being handed over by All Might. Luckily for everyone, a high enough dose of Midnight's sleep perfume is enough to put down even the most energetic of rivals.
A few days later everything went back to normal and school started again.
"Hey, have you seen the news? They say they've discovered proof of life on Mars"
"You should work in the aeronautic industry Uraraka, just imagine how easy you could make a rocket take flight if you master your Quirk. You'd fly to space every day and make millions!"
"Why don't you invest in agriculture? You have a literal infinite field of corn at your disposal."
"Who says I'm not? I already signed several contracts with the Japanese government to create and sell corn for internal and external use. They are planning on using my powers to lower the price of corn and introduce it into the diet to lower the consumption of rice and use the rice fields for something else. I don't know why they don't just use some earth controlling hero to create more islands in the Pacific ocean, it's not like it's too cramped or something but what do I know."
"Alright, everyone take your seat. It's time for the lesson to start. Today is a very important day, which I cannot begin without picking on Sabas. Have you finished your hero costume yet?"
"Yes" Al says with a slightly angry tone
"'Yes teacher' you mean. Anyhow, today now that the sports festival is over we'll partake in a very important exercise for a hero. We're going to chose your code names."
"You don't wear masks..."
"Do you wear one in you hero costume bastard?" Bakugo asks angrily at Al's continuous mockery.
"Yes I do although it's useless since I don't cover my arms in my hero costume" Alphonse's hero costume was one inspired by his Quirk, a costume with deep Meso-American inspirations. Over his head he wore a helmet shaped like the beak of a hummingbird with long green feathers on the back. His torso is covered by a poncho with corn motifs on it and no under-cloth. He wears a cloth around his waist with a loincloth hanging on the front. He really is risking it all since, if not for the poncho Al would have infringed the limit of how much skin he can show. He is after all trying to imitate the costume of the people he sees while travelling through fields of corn and considering they are more likely some pre Colombian civilization their that lived in a tropical area their outfit is really out there.
"In order to better help you chose your name I called onto someone with better taste than me to help you. So for today Midnight will be taking care of you."
"Yes!" Mineta shouts as she enters the room.
"Oh, you're just doing me dirty here. I am the one who co-casted the Sports Festival and you ask Midnight to make comments on their names?"
"Address professor Midnight as such!" Alphonse does not listen to his teacher and instead moves his desk to the side sitting like a news anchor ready to make comments on his friends.
"I'll be firs and my name shall be: I can't stop twinkling." Everyone looks at Al.
"Nothing, you aren't going to make any smart remarks about him?"
"If twinkling persists for more than 24 hours visit a doctor."
"It never stops!" Aoyama says before going back to his seat.
Next up is Mina Ashido:
"My hero name shall be... Alien Queen!"
"That sounds more like the name of a villain."
"What should I be then?"
"Slug Girl!"
"No way, it sounds terrible!"
"You are similar to a slug though." Alphonse keeps digging his own grave. He looks towards the class and he realises all the girls are angry with him for talking like that.
"How about you use your other characteristic instead? Pink girl."
"Pinky it is then!" Midnight says thrilled.
Next up is Tsuyu and Al doesn't make any comment on her. He is afraid of frogs since all the frogs he ever found in the forest were tree frogs which were deadly poisonous.
Ida, Ochaco, Kirishima, Kaminari, Koda, Shoji, Sato, Sero, Jiro, Tokoyami, Todoroki, Hagakure, Mineta and Momo all get an ear full from Al, however her left the best for the last. He stopped himself at Ojiro and that made it worst since there was nearly visible pity on Al's face. Tail man, a hero who has a tail with fluffy fur at the end. Granted, there was Mineta who was himself but tail man, the tail hero? There are heroes that can become animals with tails and Ojiro just has a strong tail. He's certainly going places but Al is not going to tell him about them.
Midoriya and Bakugo are the last two to chose a name.
"My name will be Deku!"
"You know, there were wise people choosing not to take a hero name and there's you."
"My name means "can do!"
"I'll agree with you just to pile up on Mr. Explosion Death King here."
"You've been mocking us for half an hour but you've never chose a nickname for yourself. Are you afraid we'll laugh at you as you kept doing with us?"
"It's easy, my name is Maize."
"Ha, you mean to call yourself corn?" Bakugo tries mocking him back but the master is immune to his own craft and Al had his counter attack ready.
"If by corn you mean the man eating variant that scared a pro Hero to death then yes, Mr. Explosion death king that doesn't scare anyone but Deku."
"I'll kick your ass."