Chapter 11: 1 vs 1 Battles- Start, First Round, part 1!
"The matches will be as follows," Midnight announced, displaying the names on a big screen.
Fumikage Tokoyami, vs Izuku Midoriya
Ochaco Uraraka vs Shoto Todoroki
Hanta Sero vs Emiya Shirou
Hitoshi Shinso vs Momo Yaoyorozu
Denki Kaminari vs Eijiro Kirishima
Manga Fukidashi vs Mezo Shoji
Mei Hatsume vs Katsuki Bakugo
Tenya Ilda gets a pass
"The first match… hmmm… it starts now~~!"
With those words, both Fumikage and Izuku jumped down to the stadium, ready for a fight.
"I need to win!" Izuku shouted, running towards Fumikage, who had barely managed to block with Dark Shadow. I need… to make All Might proud!
But Izuku wasn't going to give up with just one setback- he flicked at Dark Shadow with his finger and caused a massive burst of wind to push Fumikage back!
"Fumikage Tokoyami is out of bounds! Izuku Midoriya moves onto the next round~! Can Ochaco Uraraka and Shoto Todoroki please report to the stadium for the next match,".
"I'm excited," Ochaco smiled before jumping down for the match.
Shoto merely responded with a muttered hmph
"Go~!"
Before Ochaco could blink, however, there was a wall of ice surrounding her, as she was trapped in a glacier. Not one to give up, though, she touched her side and jumped. The ice was brittle from the lack of detail and it quickly gave way, before she cancelled her gravity nullification.
She landed with an oof, tossing the fragments of ice into the air, and raining them down.
But Shoto would not be taken down so easily. Once again he formed a glacier, this time with enough detail that it wouldn't be broken so easily. Ochaco attempted to remove gravity once more, but she found herself frozen in place with the ice holding her hands in a way that she could not activate her quirk.
"I give up" she conceded.
"Ochaco Uraraka gives up! Shoto Todoroki advances to the next round! While we clean up the arena, prepare for the next match: Hanta Sero vs Shirou Emiya!" Present Mic shouted.
With a sigh, Shirou moved down to the arena. It had been cleaned up in record time, and the match would be sure to start in any moment. He noticed that Sero was waving at him, so he waved back.
Walking towards him, Hanta said "It's too bad we're fighting now- after how well we did together- but at least I have a chance to win against you now".
Raising his eyebrows, Shirou thought yes, you can totally win against me, when I have noble phantasms and you have … tape. Not that I'll use them of course. Outloud, he replied "You can try".
"Match start~!"
In an instant, numerous nameless blades found their way to be pointed at Hanta. They were all dulled- not that Hanta knew that- but they were poised to fire. And they did so in an instant. Within the second they were upon him- helped slightly by their close proximity- some of them were knocked out of the way by Hanta's tape, but a large majority of them did not have such a thing occur.
Hanta was pushed back, slowly but surely. Hit by the pain, he gave up.
Is that all his dreams are worth to him? Does only a modicum of hurt keep him from following the path of a hero? Shirou thought, though with a command from him the blades were knocked out of the air by other, newly formed ones.
"Shirou Emiya wins! But how are they going to get rid of all the blades… ?"
Realizing the conundrum he was in, with a thought, Shirou Emiya dismissed them all.
"Never mind, it looks like said competitor can do so himself- the next match is Hitoshi Shinso vs Momo Yaoyorozu". With his first match finished, Shirou left the field to rejoin his classmates in the stadium. Grunting with pain, Hanta did the same.
The next match was over in an instant, with Hitoshi asking Momo a question, before she immediately walked out of the bounds of the arena.
"Momo Yaoyorozu is out of bounds, Hitoshi Shinso advances to the next round! Denki Kaminari and Eijiro Kirishima, please report to the arena for the next match".
With a start, Shirou realized that this must have been the quirk Hitoshi was referring to, likely to be some form of a Hypnosis mystery. But hypnosis can be used for good… such as calming people down, or preventing them from taking detrimental actions to themselves.
As the match began, Eijiro instinctively hardened his skin to rock. And just in time too- Denki let off a large discharge of electricity "Take this!" he shouted, before falling over, having fried his brain. Since his body was like rock, a bad conductor of electricity, Eijiro was fine, and he pushed Denki out of bounds.
"Denki Kaminari out of bounds! Winner: Eijiro Kirishima. Manga Fukidashi vs Mezo Shoji next match!"
A/n:
The next chapter will have the final three matches of the first round and the introduction of a certain Vigilante- for a given definition. If anyone would like to help me with the story, feel free to reach out to me either in pm's or my discord, Akansomi#2057. Have a nice day!