1-A Prep Room
Today was the big day. The Sports Festival had arrived. All the years would be going head-to-head to become the champion, though the third-year festival had to be postponed to the day after, due to technical difficulties.
Class 1-A sat inside their prep room, waiting in anticipation for them to be called out, when all of a sudden the door opens, revealing the blue haired girl they had met in the USJ. "Hey there! Sorry to bother you all but I need to borrow Midoriya for a sec!" She says, before leaving.
Izuku shrugs to his classmates before following Nejire out. They walked past a corner, before Nejire turned around to Izuku, "Firstly, how are you doing little kouhai?" She asks, with a grin.
"Good? You seem way too pleased when you say kouhai" Izuku said, confused, tired and nervous.
"I've always wanted to have a little kouhai!" The third year exclaimed to the deadpanned face of Izuku, "And it's even better, because I have a little dragon slayer kouhai!" Izuku flinched back. How could he have forgot about that.
"Yeah, I've been meaning to speak to you about that!" Izuku proclaimed, "How the hell are you a dragon slayer! I thought I was the only one! Does that mean there's another dragon? Are you quirkless?"
"...Being on the receiving end sucks" Nejire muttered, "Anyway, the person I learnt is technically a dragon but... Meh, I'll tell you another time" She added cheekily to the annoyance of Izuku.
"And why exactly are you here, if not to annoy me?" Izuku asks, rolling his eyes. Why, oh why, did the other dragon slayer have to be annoying and crazy.
"What? A senpai isn't allowed to see her kouhai? I just wanted to wish you good luck before your competition, after all my mentor will be watching" She grinned, intriguing Izuku. Who could her master be? Nejire ran off, waving to Izuku, "Good luck on the speech Broccoli Boy!" And with that, she disappeared.
"Seriously? Broccoli Boy? My hair isn't that green, is it?" Izuku muttered until pausing suddenly, "Wait. Speech?"
The Arena!
"HEEEEELLLOOOOOO EVERYONE! Present Mic here to welcome you to the 123rd Annual Sports Festival! CAN I GET A HELL YEAH!?" Present Mic screamed through the announcer, receiving shouts of adoration and excitement, "ROCKIN'! NOW LET'S INTRODUCE OUR CLASSES BABY! FIRST OFF, THEY KIDS WHO BEAT A VILLAIN ATTACK, YOU KNOW 'EM, YOU LOVE THEM, IT'S CLAAAAASSS 1-A!"
The class of students walked out, stunned in awe of the crowd and sheer magnitude of the arena. Izuku felt his legs shaking. What was that speech thing Hado-Senpai was talking about?
"This is so fucking radical" Jirou said, getting a nod in agreement from some of the others. On her hips, she carried two holsters for training guns Snipe had given to her, because thankfully, Nedzu had allowed the guns as support items, as Snipe had trained her to a point in which the furry principal could trust the girl to be safe with firearms.
"Did he really need to talk us up so big though?" Melissa asks, nervously. She wasn't used to big gatherings, considering that back at I-Island, most of the people who lived there were scientists, and usually quite introverted.
"To be fair to us, it is deserved." Momo responded, "With little to no training, we escaped a highly dangerous situation! Our class deserves a little praise, at the least"
The class stopped chatting as Present Mic continued announcing.
"AND OUR NEXT BATCH! THEY MAY BE CLASSED AS 'B', BUT THEIR PERFORMANCE IS GONNA BE 'A'... THEEEEYYYY'RE... CLASS 1-B!"
"Hey! I can see Tetsutetsu!" Kirishima said with a grin. During the two-week training period, Tetsutetsu and Kirishima walked into each other, and finding out how similar their quirks are, a friendship blossomed between them, and they often trained with one another, their spars becoming legendary amongst the first years for how long they were and how they often ended as a draw.
"NOW, THEY MAY BE GENERAL COURSE, BUT THEY'RE FAR FROM BASIC, IT'S... CLASSES 1 C, D and E!"
Izuku saw the purple haired boy from before. Just like before he had the cool, calm exterior... but he had the smell. The same kind of smell he smelt on those of Class 1-A... It was weird.
"UP NEXT, THEY'RE THE GEARS OF THE HERO SYSTEM, THE PROGRAMMERS THAT LET US FUNCTION, THEY SUPPORT US ALL THE WAY... IT'S... CLASSES F, G, and H!"
Izuku studies the support students, some had mechanical mutation quirks, others wore goggles, and they all carried metal suitcases... odd.
"AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST... THE BUSINESS COURSE! GIVE A CHEER FOR CLASSES I, J and K!"
The studious looking students received a polite clap and cheer, as they waved back to the audience.
Then onto the stage walked their Modern Arts History teacher, the R-Rated Hero, Sex Symbol, secretly a virgin and the woman who dominates the contraceptive industry... Midnight!
"ALRIGHT! It's time for the Athlete's Oath!" She announced, whilst in a seductive pose, "Now, let's welcome the first-year student representative, Izuku Midoriya!"
"Oh shit" Izuku muttered, as his legs start moving to the podium. Behind him he could hear Kaida's snickering... God damn cat.
He stands behind a microphone, a sheet of paper in his hands by Midnight. He unfurls it. A typical oath one would see in recordings of the Olympics from centuries ago. Izuku looks to the crowd, then to the students and then to the paper. A grin grows on his face. "Kacchan!" He shouts, gaining attention of the blonde, "Do me a solid and turn this to ashes" He scrunches up the paper and chucks it at Bakugo, who immediately uses his quirk to scatter it into the wind, a mad grin on his face, as if he knows what his green haired friend is about to do. He's going to get a surprise though.
"Alright, here's my athlete's oath..." He says into the mic, as everyone in the vicinity anticipates what the verdette will say, "I'm going to beat all of you and stand at the top in first place!"
"WHAAAAT!" Immediately he gets shouts of anger and shock towards him.
"You cocky fuck!" He hears from the general studies course student.
"FUCKING DEKU!"
"Midoriya! How could you shame this sacred event!" Though Izuku didn't know where the voice came from, he knew it could only be Iida. He really felt sorry for the speedster, he would have to deal with Izuku for the next three years.
"Look" Izuku says into the mic, causing those in the arena to quieten on him once more. All cameras are on him, he better not fuck this up, "All Might is hitting his 50's this June, and most heroes retire before their 60's. One day, All Might will have to retire, and we as a society have to live without him." The arena grew a depressing atmosphere, as the people reluctantly absorbed this harsh truth, "And yet, we still do not have a replacement for him! Whilst the top ten heroes are great at their job, they're no way near to being the symbol of peace! Endevour is too brutal, angry and causes a large amount of collateral damage, he could never inspire hope like All Might does, no offence Todoroki" He looked down to the heterochromatic boy who simply shrugged and released the faintest of smiles. "Best Jeanist, whilst he's great, just isn't made from the same material as All Might! Hell, Hawks doesn't even wanna be there!"
Many nodded in agreement, especially about Hawks. The kid may be a prodigy but he's always so... bored.
"What on earth are we going to do, when there is no one to shout, 'I am here!' to us when we're in trouble? We'll just collapse. So, what was the reason for the first statement? It's a challenge to you all. I don't care if you're a hero, support, general studies, or business course student. I want you to come at me with your all. Because that's what you're going to need in the coming decade! Anyway, I've said my part and now..." He raises his finger to the centre of the students, which coincidentally was where Melissa stood, "It's your turn".
Silence rung through the stadium, so quiet you could hear a pin drop. And then, someone in the stands clapped their hands, Izuku turned his head to see Nejire smiling and clapping. And then All Might, in his shrivelled form, clapped. He looked...proud. Then Melissa, Bakugo, and the rest of 1-A. And in a matter of seconds, the whole arena stood, clapping, cheering on Izuku's speech.
The green haired teen walked down the stage, as he felt Midnight's hand pat him on the back. He stood back with his fellow hero students who compliment him.
"That was so freaking manly!" Kirishima shouted, tears pouring out of his eyes.
"You shouldda just ended it at the first sentence, Deku" Katsuki smirked. Secretly he was kinda proud of his friend. So much so, he would give him an extra dose of Nitroglycerin.
"But I didn't because that's what you would've done... Bakacchan" Izuku smirked, to the annoyance of the blonde.
"Now, let's get the first event started!" Midnight announced, whipping towards the screen behind her, "These are the qualifiers! The event in which so many have gone home crying! AND THAT EVENT THIS YEAR IS..."
The screen let out a dinging sound and text appeared on it.
'OBSTACLE COURSE RACE'
"Great, just what we hoped" Izuku whispered to Kaida, who gave him a thumbs up. Unlike other days, today she wore a standard UA gym uniform like the others were, though she missed her dinosaur onesie.
They all started walking to the starting line. Izuku could feel all eyes on him. They were planning to go for him and get him out. Just his luck.
"On your marks! Ready..." Midnight took a deep threat, as Izuku stared up to the door in front him.
"GO!"
The gates crashed open as the mass hordes started running forwards out of the narrow gate. Todoroki created an icy wall which blocked the entire course path, but it was quickly destroyed by Bakugo, who was screaming his signature catchphrase.
As soon as Izuku made it out of the gate, he called out, "KAIDA, NOW!" The Exceed jumped up into the air, unleashing her angelic wings, and grabbed Izuku by the back. She lifted him into the air, higher and higher, to the shock of everyone, as they started soaring in the sky.
"WOOOOHOOOOO!" Present Mic cheered through the speakers, "What an awesome start we have! In first place is Shouto Todoroki, sliding through the course with his icy slide, and cold shoulder! Next, we have our resident demolition man, Katuski Bakugo, using his quirk to BLAST through the competition. And tied soaring in third place are Izuku Midoriya and Kaida! For those unaware, Kaida is Midoriya's Animal Companion, so she's allowed to take part in the festival!"
"Technically, Kaida is treated as though she were an official student. Although we can't assign detentions to her" Aizawa said, his voice being heard for the first time, "However, any misdeeds she does, will be treated as if Midoriya had done them..." Izuku could practically hear the shit-eating grin on the man.
Izuku and Kaida continued flying in the sky, until a giant boulder flew right past them. "WHAT WAS THAT?!" Kaida screamed as she moved to away with Izuku. The green teen stared down as he watched a one of the 1-B students he saw at the start, enlarging a small rock, and then a floating it towards a support student who used his quirk to give the rock propulsion, all whilst running.
"KAIDA! MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!" He shouted to the exceed, but he was too slow. The boulder jetted towards them and Kaida couldn't move in time, so Izuku did the only thing he could do when a boulder was right in front of him, "SPIRIT DRAGON'S ROAR!" He shouted out, a beam of magic shooting from his mouth and at the boulder, shattering it.
"IT LOOKS LIKE SOME OF THE STUDENTS ARE TEAMING UP ON MIDORIYA! LET'S HOPE HE HAS A PLAN INSTEAD OF JUST... WINGING IT!" Present Mic joked, to the annoyance of Aizawa.
"Mic, I will literally hang you with my scarf if you keep making these bad jokes" Eraserhead threatened. And then something along the lines of "Where the fuck is my coffee" could be heard through the speakers
"IT'S TIME FOR THE FIRST BARRIER! SAY HELLO TO ROBO INFERNO!" Mic announced, ignoring his fellow commentator. Below Izuku was a horde of zero pointers, huddling around, ready to destroy.
"Alright Kaida!" Izuku addressed, "Let's glide down and run the rest of the race! Land past the the barrier!"
"'KAY!" She affirmed as she dipped down. Of course, past the robots. There was no way in hell she was dealing with that.
Meanwhile...
"Frozen Forge: SWORD!" Todoroki shouted, as a sword of glistening ice formed in his hands. In the past two weeks, he had been learning the basics of kendo, in hopes it would help him when fighting. He swung the icy sword at the leg of one the zero pointers. He made sure to target the joints, the weakest and smallest parts.
The mechanical mayhem fell, but Todoroki paid it no mind, he will beat Midoriya. He will show that man he doesn't need his fire to become number one.
Another Zero pointer stood in front of the dual quirk user, so Todoroki forwent without sword the sword and created an arrow. It spun whilst stationary before Todoroki let it loose, piercing the head of zero pointer.
The first zero-pointer had taken out, landed on top of Kirishima who had luckily hardened himself right before it landed. He dug himself right out of scrap of metal. "DAMN IT TODOROKI! WHY DO YOU HAVE BE BOTH MANLY AND UNMANLY AT THE SAME TIME!"
"AND IT LOOKS LIKE SOME COSTESTANTS HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN OUT OF THE FIRST BARRIER FOLKS!" Present Mic announced, watching the scene below.
"It was expected. Some students simply stand out from the rest." Aizawa said, "And it probably doesn't help the fact the Midoriya made a challenge to the entire first year student body".
"You have to admit though, Eraser, it was rockin' as hell!" Mic commented.
"It was illogical"
Izuku landed, standing past the graveyard of machines behind him, "You ready Kaida?" He asked his furry friend, still floating in the air. She nods, a grin on her feline face.
The green teen generated magic around his legs, he took a deep breath, and he ran! With Kaida following him in the air, he dashed through the course, following Todoroki, every step leaving a hole in the ground.
"WOWIE! Midoriya is racing off, and gaining ground on Todoroki, with Kaida behind him in third and Bakugo in 4th! Uh Oh, it looks like Bakugo didn't like hearing that!" Mic shouted through the microphone, as Katsuki started racing even faster. Trails of explosions left behind him as he blasted through, trying to catch up to Izuku and his cat.
BANG!
Izuku looked back to see several rockets being fired at the robots. "Don't tell me..." There, Yaoyorozu stood on top of a fallen robot as she fires on the others with a motherfucking RPG.
"OH MY GOSH! YAOYOROZU MADE AN RPG!" Present Mic shouted in shock and awe, "ARE WE SURE THAT'S NOT AGAINST THE RULES?!"
"She can make anything as long as it doesn't kill or maim a human or go against the Geneva convention" Aizawa informed, as if this was a normal thing he says in his life.
"Oh yeah, I remember about your class from two years ago!" Mic reminisced, "That boy with that quirk that made small nuclear explosions when he punched. How's he doing these days?"
"Still paying for the radiation damage he caused to his body. Though, last I heard, the kid went missing" The mood of the arena was depressing, luckily Mic was a master of good moods.
"WELL LOOK RIGHT HERE FOLKS!" The blonde shouted, "IT LOOKS LIKE BAKUGO, TODOROKI, AND MIDORIYA ARE ALL AT OUR NEXT CHALLENGE, THE FALL!"
Izuku stared at the pit in front of him. He looked to Kaida, but all that was there was empty space. Instead, she was flying over the pit, where she turned to Izuku and stuck her tongue out, before flying off again.
"God dammit!" He cursed, as the horde was right behind him, "Screw this tight-rope shit." He looked jumped into the air and landed on to one of the rock pillars. With a grin, he started leaping between rocks one by one.
Meanwhile, with Melissa.
"God dammit!" She cries out, "Screw that rat-bear thing" Unfortunately her request to bring her support item was denied, so now she had to save her fingers for later where they would be breaking later. And now she was at THE FALL. She could already see the amount people who had fallen down and landed onto the nets, "If only One For All could go to my entire body... Oh wait" She remembered the conversation she had with Izuku on the bus to the USJ. Centring OFA throughout her body. Whilst this was the worst place to experiment, she had to try!
Closing her eyes, she looked deep inside of her. Emptying her mind, she searched in her mind. Breathing deeply, she went to her heart. And there it was a pool of energy, buzzing with power. In the deepest corner of the darkness, she saw a woman with jet black hair, smile gently. Melissa dipped her finger into the lake and then, everything went to white.
Her eyes shot open; she was in the Sports Festival. Wait. Did... Did she go inside her body? And then she looked around her. Red lighting sparkled around her, it buzzed like the lake of energy she saw. So, was it real?
"This... This is not its full power" She mumbled, looking to her hands, "Probably 3-5%" Thens she realised she was still in a race. Snapping herself out of the stupor. She starts running, immediately she notices she's faster, more agile. "Holy cow, this feels amazing!" She looks to the pit in front of her. Should she risk it? She might fall! She could fail like in the entrance exams, where she nearly fell to her death! But she remembers something her father told her...
All good stories start with a leap of faith.
She jumped into the air; red lighting trailing off her. She wants to close her eyes, but she can't. She has to face her challenges head on. Time pauses, as she floats at the peak of her jump. She has to make it. She has to go...
"I need you to tell the world... I AM HERE!"
PLUS ULTRA!
She lands on her feet. She didn't fall. She managed to make it on the stone pillar. A stepping stone.
She starts jumping from pillar to pillar just she saw how Izuku had done. She wasn't out of this race. Not by a longshot.
Back to Izuku!
With Izuku, Todoroki, and Katsuki all racing against each other, clashing and colliding, and with Kaida running in the distance since her Aera magic (the magic which allowed to make wings) ran out, the audience looked in excitement to see who would come out top.
"IT LOOKS LIKE THIS TRIO OF MAYHEM HAVE REACHED OUR FINAL BARRIER!" Present Mic screamed into the microphone, "WELCOME FOLKS TO THE MINEFIELD! A DEADLY AFGHAN CARPET! THE MINES CAN BE EASILY SEEN SO KEEP YOUR EYES OUT KIDS!"
"For legal reasons, these mines are 50 times weaker than ones which you would find in a warzone" Aizawa informed.
"ERASER! You're no fun"
"Someone has to be the voice of reason" Aizawa retorted, causing chuckles amongst the audience.
"FUCK OFF DEKU!" Katsuki screamed, as a trail of minefield explosions boomed behind him.
"FUCK OF KACCHAN!" Izuku retorted back, as another ranged quirk targeted him, "AND FUCK OFF RANDOM PERSON!"
"You're too... LOUD!" Todoroki shouted, as he swiftly turned around and swiped him icy hammer at the two, "I'll be the winner here, don't even doubt it."
"You're all too loud" A female voice said behind them. Jumping over them, with red lightning trailing off her was Melissa, now racing ahead of the trio of boys.
"WHAT'S THIS?" Present Mic shouted, "IN A TURN OF EVENTS, MELISSA SHIELD IS NOW IN FIRST PLACE! FIVE MINUTES AGO, SHE WAS IN DEAD LAST! I DON'T THINK THE BOYS ARE GONNA TAKE THIS LIKELY!"
"It seems Shield hasn't spent the last two weeks frolicking around. Good to see its paid off"
"WHY I DON'T BELIEVE IT FOLKS! THIS HAS TO BE THE MOST SHOCKING THING WE'VE SEEN TODAY! ERASERHEAD COMPLIMENTED SOMEBODY! A TRULY MOMENTOUS DAY!"
"Quiet Mic"
"Great to see you worked you quirk out Shield! But..." Izuku said, grinning, "I'm not just gonna let you beat me!" The green haired boy turns around, jumps into the air and opens his mouth, "WITH THE ANGER IN MY LEFT HAND!" A murderous red glow emanates from Izuku's left hand, "WITH THE JOY IN MY RIGHT!" A playful yellow engulfed his right hand, "PUT THEM TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE..." His two hands clasped together, the two glows turning into one green aura, "SPIRIT DRAGON'S GREAT BEAM!" A beam of green magic shot from Izuku's hands as the recoil forces him far into the air.
He rode through the momentum, as he soared above Todoroki, Bakugo and Shield.
"DAMMIT DEKU!" Katsuki screamed.
Izuku landed, roughly onto the ground. He had only gained ten or so metres ahead of those three, and there was no way in hell he was going to waste it. "I'M ALMOST THERE!" He shouted. So close. So tantalisingly close.
The finish line was right there. And then, several explosions occurred behind him, but he didn't look back, he didn't want to. He crossed over the finish line... along with three other people.
"I DON'T IT FOLKS! WE HAVE A PHOTO FINISH ENDING! MIDNIGHT! REVIEW THE FOOTAGE!" And thus, the R-Rated Hero played the footage onto a screen which everyone could see.
Frame by Frame, they watched the video with great anticipation. And then, they saw golden blonde hair followed by green, red, and then pale blonde. The winner had been decided.
"REVIEWING THE FOOTAGE, IT'S CLEAR THAT THE PERSON WHO MADE IT TO THE ARENA FIRST IS... MELISSA SHIELD! FOLLOWED BY MIDORIYA, TODOROKI, AND BAKUGO! LETS GIVE IT UP FOR OUR CONTESTANTS!"
"YEEEESS!" Melissa screamed as the crowed cheer along with her. Izuku was happy with his placement, because he was proud of his friend. And now even more determined to make it to the top.
"Damn. I should've won." Todoroki thinks to himself, sighing in his head, "I'll show them next round"
"FOR FUCKS SAKE!" Bakugo screamed hitting his fist against the wall, as his nitroglycerin sweat drips down. How was he supposed to become number one if he placed in fourth!? He's gonna win. No matter what these extras think.
Soon more and more people started coming through the gates, finishing the race. Izuku saw Kaida, who was panting from all the running and flying she had done.
"Miss Shield!" Izuku looked to see a woman, with a cameraman walk to her, "Could we get an interview?" Oh, right the media would be interviewing some of them.
"Mr Midoriya" Behind Izuku, stood a man with a simple shirt and tie, with a badge signifying he was part of the media, "I'm Tengan Kenshin with Japan Today. Could we ask a couple of questions?"
"Oh... uh sure!" Izuku confirmed, still exhausted from the race.
"Great!" Tengan raised his hand to his cameraman, who in return gave a thumbs up, "So first question, how do you feel about your performance during the race?"
"Oh, I think I did good" Izuku started, "There's a lot of things I know I could've done better though, maybe fly with Kaida longer"
"That leads me to my next question!" Tengan said, "How did you and Kaida meet? From reports we gathered; you had her registered as an Animal Companion only a day after you two met!"
"Well, the twerp was being ganged up on by some dogs in an alley, and contradictory to what she might tell you, I helped her out and got her some sushi. And the rest is history!" Izuku explained.
"Oh, and one more question" The reporter informed, he just knew this kid would become a top hero in the future, "What kind of hero do you want be?"
Izuku pondered on this for a second before smiling, "That's easy" He answered, "The kind who saves people smiling!"
And that he will become.
Authors Notes: YAY! Another chapter done and it's my longest yet! Next up we have the cavalry round!
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