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"Camie-chan, which one is Kawaki-kun?" a girl with fox like ears asked.
"I now call upon Kaminari Kawaki to give the student pledge" The pro hero Midnight shouted into the microphone.
The entire crowd went silent as a caped boy with black and blonde hair walked towards the podium.
Whispering, the fox girl smirked "He's a hottie, you sure I can't get my paws on him?"
Camie giggled as she pushed down her tank top. "Our school forbids relationships, but no, I want him"
The fox girl pouted. "No fair"
The two girls watched as the boy approached the microphone. "I didn't have a speech prepared so I'll keep this short"
They watched as Kawaki looked at the gathering of students and smirked. "Try your best, because anything less than 100% won't be enough"
"Wow he has a cool voice as well, you scored well Camie-chan" the girl said with an elbow to Camie's ribs.
"Hime, I'm pretty sure there are other hot guys for you" Camie explained, pulling out her phone from her jeans.
"The first event will be an… Obstacle race" Midnight announced and the crowd roared more.
The orange haired fox girl pouted. Her red eyes looking full of mock sadness.
"Oh yeah… on a more serious matter, your Imouto is a bully" Camie stated. "I understand some friendly teasing and all that, but she almost assaulted a boy with her quirk"
Hime, let a shocked expression come over her.
"But don't worry about it, Kawaki-kun stopped her before, and gave her a fright" Camie explained, not soothing Hime's shocked expression.
"I don't think she would be doing anything like that anytime soon" The fawn haired girl explained as she took a photo of the sports festival.
"I-I don't know what to say" the fox girl admitted. "The doctors have told her that her quirk will never be as strong as mine… maybe that's how she developed into a bully"
"Don't worry about it Hime, just enjoy the festival, oh and pose for this selfie" Camie instructed as he changed the camera on her phone.
She took the photo and went straight to the MICgram app on her phone, preparing the photos for a post.
Looking over Camie's shoulder, Hime looked at Camie's profile.
"WHAT! Since when did you have 20,000+ followers?" Hime asked out of shock.
"Since I did that thing with Uwabami, the modelling gig got me a lot of attention" Camie explained as she typed in the caption:
[Here at the #UASportsFestival with
Cheering for Kawaki]
"Aand done!" she said while pressing the post button.
Looking up on the big screen, her post came up.
"The first post about the #UASportsFestival on my very own MICgram is up Listeners!" Present Mic announced as many people, including the participants turned their heads to the screen, it showed the selfie of Camie and Hime.
"Posted by Glamour_Camie, she's cheering for Kaminari Kawaki, who are you cheering for?"
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Kawaki sighed as he saw Camie's post on MICgram, social media was one way to get attention from pro heroes, and the 20,000+ views that that photo would get would give him some publicity.
"KAWAKI YOU BASTARD!" a voice screamed from behind said boy.
He turned around to see Sero, his brother and Mineta giving him the stink eye. "How dare you pick up before us!" the ball headed boy scolded.
"Maybe if you weren't such a perv you'd find someone" Kawaki retorted before he realised what he just said. 'Fuck! I just dug myself into a hole' he thought as his brother smirked.
"On your marks!" Midnight ordered with a lick of her lips.
Everyone was ready for the race.
"Get set!"
Everybody readied for the oncoming sprint.
"GO!"
Everybody but Kawaki, who was at the back sprinted into the doorway, which was the start of the course.
"AAAND THEY'RE OFF!" Present Mic shouted as he looked at the crowd, and then the one person who hadn't moved a muscle. "What's this, Kaminari Kawaki hasn't moved"
"A rational decision, if he didn't have a quirk to overcome the mess that is the corridor" Eraserhead injected, scratching his head.
"Thank you Eraserhead!" Present Mic shouted. "I wonder what he is planning!"
As soon as he heard those words from Present Mic he started to walk to the jam packed hallway, at a leisurely pace.
Kawaki felt the air temperature drop and smirked, still he continued to walk. He jumped and with his quirk boost, jumped high enough to step on people's shoulders. His yellow runners making contact with people's shoulders.
He scanned the area for a purple haired person and found them. He walked over next to the frozen person.
"Oi Shinso, if you want to get out of there, use your quirk" Kawaki shouted.
He heard a sigh in response before a tired "Anyone want to help me?"
"Sure, but-" the person next to him replied but stopped mid-sentence and ripped the boy out of the ice.
"Interesting quirk" Kawaki stated for cover before hovering a little bit more and going towards the exit.
He passed many people who were struggling with the newly formed ice. He hovered over to Midorya.
"Why aren't you using Full Cowling?" Kawaki asked as he picked up Midoriya and started to fly faster. "I need you to start applying the stuff we used in training" he said before dropping Midoriya on some dry land.
'And here come the robots' Kawaki thought as he moved forward.
One of the two pointer robots stopped in front of him, the red eye looking into the yellow eyes of Kawaki.
"Targe-" the robot started, but didn't finish, Kawaki punched straight throught the eye and absorbed all the electricity within the machine.
Kawaki looked up and saw a mass of the Zero pointers, he smirked. "Thank you for the meal" he said aloud before rocketing forward at max speed to the closest Zero pointer and punched the head of it with all his might.
His arm penetrated the plates of metal and enabled his hand to grab wires and absorb the electricity from the massive robot.
"WOW! Eraserhead! DID YOU SEE THAT! Kaminari Kawaki just went from 13th place to 2nd in an INSTANT! And he took down a Zero Pointer within seconds! Talk about speed and power!" Present Mic announced. "Oh Right! Welcome to the first obstacle! ROBO INFERNO!"
From bellow, Kawaki saw Shoto running between the legs of the Zero pointer he just defeated.
Kawaki sighed before turning to the rest of the group. He shouted "I'm taking down these Zero pointers! So wait!"
'There are seven Zero pointers, I just defeated one so six left, it takes me seven seconds to do a rushed absorption, and five seconds to get in between each machine, so it will take me 72 seconds to do this… let's go!' Kawaki thought as he flew over to the next Zero pointer.
"One Zero pointer after another Kawaki demolishes these like they are made of paper Mache!" Present Mic shouts. "No wonder he placed first in the Hero Course Entrance Exam!"
"Though it is rather strange Eraser! He is fast enough to go past the Zero Pointers, yet he said he's going to destroy them all? WHY?" Mic shouted, much to the dislike of his commentary partner.
"Part of Kawaki's quirk allows him to absorb electricity, by doing this he can increase his power reserve for later on in the festival, a rational move" the underground hero explains and praises. "Even if you take your attention away from the boy you will realise that most of the members of Class 1A are either fighting robots or running through them, partially due to the experience in the USJ. They're drawing out that experience to drown out their hesitance"
"WHAT AN AWESOME ANALYSIS! But he is correct folks, the listeners of Class 1A are not hesitating… and here they come TO THE SECOND OBSTACLE! THE FALL!"
Kawaki smirked as he flew over the obstacle. With the next two not proving any sort of challenge to him he stopped in the middle of the course and watched as many people started to climb across the ropes and islands.
He noticed a green and blue streak overtaking most people. 'Good, he's finally using it!' Kawaki thought as he followed after Midoriya.
"WOAH CHECK THIS OUT ERASER! Midoriya is blazing ahead, and is that green lightning coming off him? How fast is this man?" Mic shouted as Eraserhead didn't show any surprise.
"Midoriya may have been the one in class 1A that has improved the most, he started breaking his bones from using too much of his power, now he is using the right amount to aid him" Eraser stated as Midoriya finished the 2nd obstacle in 3rd place.
"Then what the heck is Kawaki doing? He's just there, watching!" Mic shouted in confusion.
Eraser sighed. "He's probably observing all the quirks on display, collecting information, rational"
"Sounds weird! But Smart!" Mic shouted in praise.
'Eraser got that on the dot' Kawaki thought as he turned around and started to fly towards the end of the course.
"The Final Obstacle! The minefield!" Mic announced. Kawaki smirked and took 4th place before landing.
'Time to show the results of my training too' he thought as blue lightning began to cackle around Kawaki.
'Lightning Body allows me to move fast and see things slower' Kawaki thought as he began to speed though the course.
Closing in on Midoriya, who was gaining on Todoroki and Bakugo, Kawaki smiled before firing off a bolt of lightning behind him, using the explosion of the mine to add extra speed to himself.
Repeating this, Kawaki caught up to Midoriya.
"Sorry Midoriya, but I'm going to win this" Kawaki stated as he blew up another mine, sending both boys flying.
'He's disorientated, time to strike' Kawaki thought as he went for a kick to side-track Midoriya.
What nobody expected was for Midoriya to dodge the attack, and use Kawaki as a springboard and overtake both the close Bakugo and Todoroki.
"WOAH! MIDORIYA TAKES THE LEAD!" Present Mic screamed. "I BET YOU DIDN'T EXPECT THIS!"
'CRAP' Kawaki though as he activated flight, stopping his momentum completely but also preventing him from falling back. 'You got me Midoriya' he thought as he began to speed up. 'But I'm not done yet!'
Flying to the group of three, Kawaki felt himself not being able to speed up any more. 'I used flight for too long, not that it matters, I don't have to win the battle to win the war' He thought as they all entered the tunnel.
"ITS ANYBODY'S GAME LISTENERS! WHO WILL EMERGE FROM THE TUNNEL FIRST?" Mic shouted as the entire audience went silent.
A streak of green zoomed out of the tunnel, followed by a red one.
"MIDORIYA TAKES FIRST PLACE! KAWAKI CLOSE BEHIND IN SECOND PLACE!" The voice hero screamed, his voice full of nothing but excitement.
The crowd erupted into cheers as confetti started to rain down on the two speeding teens.
A boy surfing on a stream of ice exited the tunnel, and behind said boy was a blonde teen, propelling himself with explosions.
"THIRD PLACE GOES TO TODOROKI WITH BAKUGO IN FOURTH! IF THAT WASN'T INTENSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS!"
Kawaki stopped flying and looked at the other three boys who were racing with him. He smirked before sitting down, letting the others arrive he looked at the score board.
'Looks like everyone in 1A and 1B made it, as well as Shinso and Mei' He thought as Midnight started to walk to the podium.
'The next activity is going to be a cavalry battle, who do I want for my team? Probably Shinso, as his quirk is powerful and under the radar at the moment, I could use his brainwashing as a last resort to get points. Setsuna as her quirk would be useful in this situation, detaching limbs so she'll be our rider' Kawaki planned as Midnight started to explain what was going to happen.
Kawaki walked over to the podium and took off his cape. 'It would get in the way' he thought as he folded his treasure up.
"Next up is!" Midnight shouted, pointing to the random generator, that wasn't so random. "A Cavalry Battle!"
Kawaki looked up at the rated R heroine as she explained the rules. "Participants will now form teams on their own, two to four people in a horse-rider formation! The rules are the same as a normal game, you have your own headband and try to steal your opponent's while keeping your own. Each of you have been assigned points based on your ranking in the previous event…"
"So the point value of each teams depends on their members" Mina injected, cutting off Midnight's speech.
"SHUT IT AND STOP DOING MY JOB!" she shouted before regaining her composure. "But as Ashido pointed out the point value of each teams depends on their members. Points will be tied to your placement, starting from the bottom up, the last person to finish will be worth five, the second last ten and so on… However, First place will be worth… Ten Million Points"
Kawaki smirked.
"You have 15 minutes to form your teams from… NOW!" Midnight announced as Kawaki scouted the crowd for his two desired teammates.
He found his green haired friend and tapped her shoulder.
"Who? Ah Kawaki-kun" Setsuna spoke as she turned around. "How may I help you?"
"Join my team" Kawaki said in such a way that negated any way of refusal.
"Ummm sure" she said before Kawaki turned around. "I need to get one more person, I'll be back in a second"
He looked around as fast as he could to find the purple haired student.
"Looking for someone?" a voice asked.
Hesitant to answer, Kawaki turned around to see the purple haired boy he was looking for. He smirked before tapping his mouth twice before forming a small x with both of his index fingers.
"So you figured out my quirk huh?" the boy asked.
The response he got was Kawaki using his hands to talk to him. He tapped his chest twice before putting his fists over his eyes to form a binocular gesture before tapping Shinso on the chest.
"Looking for me huh? That's a first" He said as Kawaki used his hands to talk once more. He used his hand to form a follow gesture before turning around.
"You can talk you know, I won't use my quirk on you" Shinso stated as Kawaki turned around and held out his hand in a manner that suggested a handshake.
Shinso sighed before shaking the hand. "Trust me now?"
"Yes" Kawaki responded before walking towards Setsuna, Shinso in tow.
"So Kawaki-kun, who's this?" Setsuna asked, pointing to the tired purple looking teen.
"This is Shinso, he's going to be our back horse, you our rider and me, the front horse" Kawaki explained. "Shino, please explain your quirk to Setsuna"
"It's called brainwashing, Brainwashing allows me to put a target in a state where they are are forced to obey all of my commands. In order to activate this power, I need the target to verbally respond to something that I say." Shinso explains, shocking Setsuna while scratching the back of his head.
"That's a powerful quirk!" She replied a little bit too loud.
"Shinso will be our ace, and a last resort, if we are to lose our points Shinso should be able to convince people to let us have their points" Kawaki explained as both of his comrades nodded in agreement.
"Oh and one more thing, we're not going after the Ten million"
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