Midoriya and Todoroki's match, the first of the next round, was about to start.

"Has it started yet for those two?" Uraraka had come to join us - and her face was - all puffed up and completely defeated!

"Ura - your eyes! They've been pounded shut! Go to recovery girl this instant!"

"I did. This is from something else." She rubbed at her eyes as she sat down and joined me.

"Oh," I said. "You must feel frustrated.

Tokoyami said, "Right now, put aside feelings of regret and learn from what you see."

"Right. So what's Deku gonna do against the ice?" she asked, as we waited to see Midoriya vs Todoroki.

"AND NOW FOR THIS GO-ROUND OF THE SPORTS FESTIVAL! BOTH COMPETITORS ARE AT THE TOP OF THEIR CLASS, AND THE WORLD AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF THEM. TODOROKI VS MIDORIYA! START"

Todoroki began with a full blast of ice. Midoriya responded with a snap of his finger blowing apart the iceberg in an instant, smashing straight though the ice and blasting Todoroki back hard enough that if he hadn't set up an ice barrier behind himself, he would have indeed been blasted out of the ring.

"OH! HE BROKE RIGHT THROUGH!" came Present Mic's cry.

Once more - a smash, and the ice destroyed and blasted to bits, and another finger broken.

"AND THERE GOES ANOTHER!" cried Mic.

Midoriya was clearly in pain, upper hand or no, and Todoroki didn't seemed to be slowing down at all.

Another blast, another iceberg. And it repeated again. Now Midoriya was out of fingers on that hand. Todoroki responded by attacking with a true onslaught of overwhelming ice power, closing in.

"TODOROKI CLOSES IN WITHOUT SO MUCH AS FLINCHING FROM MIDORIYA'S POWER!" commented Mic.

He jumped from the Ice straight at Midoriya ready to move fast enough to stop him from using that power again. Punched the ground and threw more ice at him, as it started to cover his foot. He seemed cornered - and this time made a fist and used his whole arm.

Everything was blasted out of bounds with an explosion. Todoroki just barely avoided a ring out with the ice, but now Midoriya's entire left arm was broken. One more ice blast would be enough to send him out of bounds.

"AND TODOROKI PRESSES HIS RELENTLESS ASSUALT! ANOTHER FREEZE ATTACK FOR THE CLINCHING!"

SMASH

Todoroki was blasted back this time - another blast from Midoriya, destroying the ice and nearly pushing Todoroki completely out of bounds. Midoriya had used an already broken finger. He seemed to be yelling something at Todoroki now.

Todoroki started running at him, meaning to close the gap, seemingly enraged.

At this point - even if Midoriya will be badly injured, Todoroki could actually lose. Unless he uses his power. His full power.

Midoriya suddenly moved - warming up, winding up - and he punched Todoroki in the stomach. Just enough to blast Todoroki across the ring.

"OOH, AND A BITTER BLOW ON A BRITTLE BODY! BET YOU ALL FELT THAT ONE!"

Todoroki choking and coughing in pain, wrapped his hand around his stomach.

He threw another blast of ice at Midoriya, but it was a weaker blast than before. And Midoriya threw one straight back at him. And it still didn't appear to be enough. No way, no way he could do anything. Todoroki threw more ice at him once more - and Midoriya jammed his thumb inside his cheek and blasted off at him again.

Midoriya, how?

He ran forward, screaming words we couldn't hear at Todoroki, head butting him in the chest. Punching him, Throwing him back. Todoroki could barely begin to stagger to his feet now. It was slowly becoming a massacre on both sides. And no ground gained for either.

Then something Midoriya said seemed to hit Todoroki, and the fire came. HIs left side was engulfed, flames licking his face and arm.

"His fire!" I gasped. Todoroki had said to us, when I'm in battle, I never use my left side. Yet here it was. Against all odds.

"SHOUTO!" we could hear Endeavor screaming. "So you've finally accepted yourself, have you? Good, excellent! Now is your true beginning! You who holds my blood, surpass me! And realize my ambition in yourself!"

"AND MR ENDEAVOR WITH A VERY SUDDEN PEP TALK? MUST BE QUITE HTE DOTING DAD!" came Mic's comment.

It almost looked as though Todoorki was wiping away tears.

Two unstoppable forces of energy so strong we could feel it in the stands blasted at each other with everything they had.

The explosion destroyed all visibility - we couldn't e ben see them, the blast from both sides was so powerful.

"WHAT WAS THAT - WHAT THE HELL EVEN IS YOUR HOMEROOM CLASS, DUDE?"

"The heat other cooled down air which then expanded."

"SO THAT'S HOW HE MADE SUCH A FIERY WIND BLAST - DAMN THAT'S HOT! AND I CAN'T SEE A THING! JUST WHO WON THIS MATCH!"

The dust cleared a tiny gap - just enough to see Todoroki, his left uniform side completely burned away, still inside the ring- and Midoriya, slumping to the ground against the wall of the arena.

"MIDORIYA IS OUT OF BOUNDS. TODOROKI ADVANCES TO THE THIRD ROUND!"