A Sad Boy in a Tree house
Chapter 29
Fear the Mirror
"Aw crap, I knew I should have tried tagging along their group." Toru pouted while sitting in the stands. Somehow she ended up as the only one from her class to not place in the top forty, left alone to watch as her class went off to do cooler things than her. Something felt weird today, throwing off her A game and making her double check everything around her.
She listened as Midnight started explaining the rules for this new game.
"You will be placed in separate locations in a maze wearing special vests and goggles. Teams will be randomly chosen by groups of eight and given a package to protect. You may place the package wherever you choose but once the game begins no one may move it. Moving it is cause for instant disqualification! Two members of the team chosen by yourselves before hand may use their quirk while the others are given specialized air guns to compensate. You may restrain others but anything more than a basic bruise will be punished. If you are hit by an air gun or enough force from a quirk your vest will start flashing. Stay where you are and do not attempt to continue playing until a teammate comes to press a button located on the left shoulder, allowing you to continue again. After you are revived a third time you cannot be revived again, leading to team disqualification if you get hit."
Huh, sounds like some kind of american shooter game. But this would totally be her thing! Her quirk is always on so she could peek around corners and stuff! Listening more and more she got a little frustrated. Things would have been different if Izuku was able to participate. Working with him at the USJ, she knew that if she managed to team up with him their plans would have been unstoppable. Midnight then went to explain the goal.
"Now, at the start of the fifteen minutes your goal is to manage to find another team's package and insert a specific ten digit code that will be given to each team. This will help keep track of who we will give points to. When the code is entered the package will start a timer for two minutes, but it will also alert the team who owns the package. The owners of the package have two minutes to put in their own code before it becomes disabled, eliminating the owners and awarding the other team points. If you find a package that is already counting down you can insert your team's code and reset the timer for yourselves. Points will be counted by how many other teams packages you manage to get and how many of your team members revives you have left. Keep in mind, a package is worth much more than revives."
Wow, that sounds really chaotic, especially just choosing who's quirks they're gonna use. Todoroki will probably use his quirk. Probably Bakugo and Iida as well just because they have good speed, and stubbornness. But she wondered about that girl who came in first, is she using her quirk with that armor? Is that her quirk? Also, will her robo friend have to wear a vest? Midnight suddenly announced one more rule.
"Another fun addition to this game, belongs to the team of our first place winner Mei Hatsume! Her team's package, if they manage to keep it, will grant instant first place. The same can be said for those that manage to capture it. Now then, here are your teams! You have ten minutes to retrieve your items, place your package, pick which members will use their quirks if they choose to do so, and discuss strategy!" She cracked her whip, the screen above showing the teams.
Team 1
Mei Hatsume (and Android) Yuga Aoyama
Mezo Shoji Fumikage Tokoyami
Yosetsu Awase Yui Kodai
Pony Tsunotori Juzo Honenuki
Team 2
Katsuki Bakugo Hanta Sero
Tsuyu Asui Ejiro Kirishima
Sen Kaibara Kinoko Komori
Kosei Tsuburaba Kojiro Bondo
Team 3
Shoto Todoroki Momo Yaoyorozu
Rikido Sato Hitoshi Shinso
Shihai Kuroiro Jurota Shishida
Setsuna Tokage Reiko Yanagi
Team 4
Mina Ashido Denki Kaminari
Kyoka Jiro Mashirao Ojiro
Itsuka Kendo Nirengeki Shoda
Manga Fukidashi Hiryu Rin
Team 5
Ochaco Uraraka Koji Koda
Minoru Mineta Tenya Iida
Togaru Kamakiri Ibara Shiozaki
Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu Neito Monoma
"Ah crap." Ochaco mumbled seeing who was on her team. She didn't know some of them but she felt she was going to have a very hard time working with Iida and Mineta. Well, maybe the others will be more reasonable.
"So, it looks like class One A isn't as great if it can get shown up by someone's toys." Neito Monama approached with a condescending smirk.
She really wanted to punch this guy.
"My name is Tenya Iida, who might you be?"
"Are you really so self absorbed that you can't remember those who challenged you just earlier?" Neito huffed.
'Kind of yeah.' Ochaco thought before seeing her other teammates approach.
Koda, a quiet boy with a rock like head who can talk to animals was the only one from her class on her team she felt she could plan with. If he was open to talk or, sign of course.
As Iida and Monoma bickered Tetsutetsu, Mineta, and Shiozaki walked up to her and introduced themselves.
"Hey, I'm Tetsutetsu, my quirk lets me turn into steel!" He introduced flexing his quirk.
"I am Shiozaki, defender of righteousness and possess God's gift to have my hair obey my will." She said putting her hands together.
"Bet she could tie me up really good." Mineta commented drooling at the image in his imagination.
"How perverted!" Shiozaki chastised.
"Yeah, don't worry, he's just trying to compensate for his size." Ochaco said stepping forward.
"Wait, are you talking about my height?"
"..."
"ANSWER ME!" Mineta shouted before getting slapped by a vine.
"Is he always like this?" Kamakiri asked.
"Unfortunately..But we only have a little bit of time before the game starts so we need to decide who should use their quirks." Ochaco got everyone's attention again, ending the dispute in the background.
"Well, even if you feel superior I think my quirk will show you all how much you shouldn't underestimate One B." Monoma stepped up.
"I also suggest that I be allowed to use my quirk! With the speed of my engines I can assure us victory." Iida stood straight, chopping his arm to make his point.
"Iida, shut up please. Monoma, what's your quirk?" Ochaco asked.
"Hm, I can't give away all the details to-"
"He can copy three quirks at a time by touching you. Each lasts about five minutes before he has to touch someone again." Kamakiri interrupted.
"Do not give the enemy our secrets!" Monoma fumed at his classmate.
"We're on the same team!" Tetsutetsu yelled back.
"He is right, we must cast aside our perceptions of each other and be good samaritans." Shiozaki put her two cents in.
"Alright, now that that's settled I do think it would be a good idea for Monoma to use his quirk. It gives our team even more quirks to use." Kamakiri said.
"I agree." said Shiozaki.
"Same." Tetsutetsu agreed.
"Koda, what do you think?" Ochaco asked, earning a thumbs up from the silent boy. "Then it's settled, Monoma will use his quirk. Who else should?"
"I-" Iida began.
"Pick me! I'm maximum defense." Tetsutetsu said.
"I think Shiozaki should be the other one. She can be offense and defense with restraint while we pick them off." Kamakiri said his idea outloud, earning thoughtful nods from others.
"But, we still will need agility to properly-"
"Shut up Iida." She said again. "I agree about Shiozaki's idea though. It's a good plan and if Momoma copies her quirk then we can have two quirks that can play offense and defense for us. So, what's our plan?"
"Alrighty! I don't have to use my quirk and I already know your quirks thanks to support department privileges!" Mei said happily, grabbing guns and vests for her teammates as they listened.
"Yui Kodai!"
"Hm?"
"If you use your quirk and shrink yourself or others down, no one will see us coming! We can take out whoever we want and they'll be running around as we steal all the points we want!" Mei started throwing airguns in peoples arms as her maid was watching the other teams.
"Woah, that's a really good plan." Juzo said, amazed at the strategy.
"I know! Now, Shoji can be hooked up with these communicators here and all of us can hear him give us reports of anyone coming to our base. That way we can rush back and defend if they need help!"
The rest only watched, as this crazy girl utilized a seemingly normal quirk and turned it into a stealthy weapon. And now, for assurance she is having everyone be able to communicate with the guy who can sense out the entire place if he wanted. She then brought out her tools, and opened up one of the airguns.
"So, who wants an upgrade?"
"Times up! Please announce which members will be using their quirks." Midnight announced.
Mei stood in front of her team. "Yui Kodai and Mezo Shoji will be using their quirks."
Katsuki stomped up. "Me and elbows here will use our quirks."
Komori gently approached Bakugo and whispered to him. "W-wait, I thought we agreed for Bondo-"
"SHUT UP!" He yelled back. She squirmed in fright and retreated back to her spot.
Shoto ignored their distraction and stood in front of his team. " Yaoyorozu and I will use our quirks."
Mina skipped right up, most of her teammates looking much more cheerful compared to a lot of the others. "Jiro and Fukidashi will be using quirks."
Ochaco braised herself for a moment, taking a breath to calm her nerves from the arguing that happened in her group. Luckily they came to a decision for this moment. "Mo-"
"Shiozaki and I will be using our quirks!" Iida interrupted. While the team was in shock from him going against the agreed plan the list was already put up on the board.
"Wait!" Ochaco tried talking to Midnight, but she was already walking away.
"How typical of One A, we agreed for Shiozaki and I to use our quirks but you have to have someone of your class take the glory." Monoma huffed, very unhappy with what happened.
"Iida, why the hell did you do that?!" Ochaco angrily stood up to him.
"Language!" Shiozaki tried to chastise, but the focus was on Ochaco and Iida.
"I believe our misunderstanding earlier has made you biased against me and clouded your judgement. Therefore I made sure that our team would-" Iida tried to reason, but Tetsutetsu jumped in front of him.
"It wasn't just her jackass we all agreed to it! No wonder she didn't listen to you." He argued.
"Language!"
"But as she was assigned as team leader for her placement she represents all of you, and if she is biased against one of us our choices would-" Iida tried to reason again.
"Are you even listening to yourself?! You hypocritical asshole!" Ocahco was livid right now. If they weren't on the same team she would be on a warpath.
"Language!"
"One A just assumes they would be leading, how-" Monoma began, until Kamakiri put a hand on his shoulder.
"You're hardly any better Monoma. But I think we both agree that this guy sucks."
Mina and Denki watched Ochaco's team argue further and further, cringing at the scene they were making.
"You can't blame her though, if I was on the same team as him I probably would have done something to get my team disqualified by now." Mina pointed out.
"Yeah, looks like she got the worst of the bunch." Denki said.
"Well at least she didn't get Bakugo."
"Oh yeah, someone would have died by now."
"Get to your places! We begin in two minutes!" Midnight announced.
The game had started, Endeavor watching from one of the open hallways to see how his son was performing on television. Shoto was using his ice effectively to restrain and make his way right to where the first place case was. He would have some issues of course, because it looks like that explosive kid is also charging straight to them.
This hardly seemed like an appropriate place to truly showcase his son's strength. There was no one defending the case so there wouldn't be a true show. He encountered Bakugo, the two of them started to battle with their quirks. Ice exploding into shards and littering the area. While the explosive one had a knack for combat, his quirk was no match for Shoto's in Endeavor's opinion. If only Shoto would use his fire and scare the brat off.
Both of their vests flash, the text across the screen showing they had been hit and must wait. How did they get hit? There was no one else-
The camera zoomed in on small humanoids running around on the ground. So that's why they chose that girl, her quirk must have been able to shrink them to go unnoticed. But they could hardly move that fast. To the hero's surprise one of them started flying around with a jetpack, the one that got first place.
Thinking about it made his flames burn a little hotter. Someone who was competing quirkless was doing better than his perfect creation. They wouldn't be doing so well if Shoto would stop his little rebellion and use the fire he gifted him. He would have to find a way to pound it into the boy on the work study.
More and more students kept going to the first place, some of them getting shot, others shooting and few utilizing their quirks. But all of them kept getting out, every single one of them.
It was a slaughter.
But that wasn't enough. The shrunken team went and sought out every single case in the maze.
And won. By absolute destruction of everybody else.
It infuriated him to no end. He could have offered the team leader a work study to have Shoto face his defeat directly and learn but they weren't a hero student. It was some brat from the support department!
He stormed off, wanting to talk to the judges about the disgrace that was shown to the world. He could argue that the equipment used was clearly military grade and had no place in the festival but she still won the second round by strategy. Who was her teacher? He was going to have a word with them.
He stomped off to find her instructor. He could offer them a chance to make support items for his agency and find a way to draw out Shoto's strength. But, no matter what offer he put out there or threat he made, they would be under his control.
The hallway felt different, a lone vending machine being his only company. His instincts of being a hero said something was different. There was only the machine with him so he walked up to it to investigate. The glass reflected his image, the dancing flames that covered his costume and face, the muscles he spent years working on, and the eyes that reminded him of his wife's.
No, something was different. He knew his eyes, he saw them everyday in the mirror. These eyes were different, was it because of the glass? He stepped closer to inspect his reflection, he looked it up and down, turned his head from side to side to get an idea of what else it could be doing.
Why was he so interested in his own reflection? He frowned more deeply at the thought. This was a waste of time. He gave it one last look, but that's when he finally noticed it.
The reflection was smiling at him.
Darkness overtook the hallway, not even the flames of the hero could be seen in the pitch black space.
"AAAHHHH!" A voice cried out, but was snuffed out just as fast.
Whispers, chuckles, and then silence once again echoed.
The vending machine light flickered back on, then the hallway lights. But no one was present.
I might end up taking a break from this for a month or so. I just put out one other story recently and it has been getting a ton of traction really fast. But I have not given up on this one. It is my personal favorite and my first fanfiction so no matter what I'll make sure it doesn't die.
If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, feel free to send them!
I haven't done this for this story but I'll start responding here more for reviews. People seem to like that.
EnTysingR:
Thank you! I don't know if you remember but in my earlier chapters I mentioned being motivated to write this after reading "Time after Time" by Update Bug. I was always a huge doctor who fan so making this is really fun. Whenever I listened to any doctor who soundtrack I kept imagining different adventures for a time lord Izuku and BAM! This came of it. While I do have some of the students or teachers in mind to discover Izuku's past I don't want too many. But you actually guessed pretty close to what I have planned further down the line.
I don't have an instagram and it looks like I can't PM you on fanfiction. If there's other ways you want to chat about the story let me know! I love discussing ideas.
magical fan18:
Thanks! I wanted to try and match the level of plots and subplots that are written in doctor who so I hope I'm doing a good job so far.
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