A/N: I literally had no time to write this week, but I had the freaking motivation to write! This weird combination was the opposite during summer vacation, which really makes me worried that I might leave this fanfiction on hiatus, or worse. T-T
The only time I had was three hours in total on the weekdays, and Saturday and Sunday, so I wrote some parts really badly and had to rewrite them. My sister graded the parts a 'D' and blatantly called it horrible. You guys should have seen the look I gave her; I would have been truthfully wounded if she had been a stranger who was my beta-reader, but since she's my sister, I didn't feel anything. XD
I think I write well when I have time, and this week and last week, I did not have time. At all.
How I'm going to survive through this school year while writing, I really don't know! I might be forced to put this on hiatus, and I hate even thinking about that! T-T
Anyway, enough about my worries. I made it this week! YAY.
Disclaimer: My Hero Academia belongs to Kohei Horikoshi, not me! I only own my sister and I's OCs and the plot!
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"Let's get a battle cry!" Present Mic hollered very loudly into the microphone as the crowds got stirred up into an feverish uproar of cheers and excited yells, a ruckus made by many thunderous voices. "Blood begets blood in this UA grand match! Here comes the starting signal!"
"Alright, let's go." Seinare murmured with conviction as her besocked feet shifted on my hands, her weight light enough to hold. I grinned as I gripped Minho and Heiakira's hands strongly, vowing silently to never let go. One out of a million chances, no, infinite ones! This's a chance that will never come again!
"Here we go! The countdown to this brutal Battle Royal!"
TEAM SHUJENZI:
[Lee: 235 Points]
[Yukimisaka: 205 Points]
[Umihaku: 125 Points]
[Shujenzi: 75 Points]
"THREE!"
TOTAL: 640 P
"Ready, you guys?!" I exclaimed wildly with electricity-like adrenaline coursing through my bones, "Shujenzi-chan!"
"I'm ready." Seinare said from above, her usually logical-sounding voice lilting with a small note of excitement, as Minho muttered something probably in curse words, in return that I didn't get to hear. "Let's knock em' dead!" Heiakira declared positively, her hand tightening around mine in reassurance.
"TWO!"
My lips grew into a smile, tilting at the ends confidently as I scanned the formed teams around us. On a last-second thought, I decided to continue my long-formed tradition, of which I had continuously done before every sparring match that loomed before me.
"화이팅! LET'S GO!" ('Fighting!') In both Korean and English, I yelled into the air at the top of my lungs, the other teams flinching at my sudden outcry. Breathing triumphantly with all my nervosity released, I smiled at all of them innocently, predicting that the nerves of at least someone among them were rattled.
This was nothing compared to the more worse things I've seen other athletes do to their opponents to mercilessly psyche them out.
I have nothing to lose.
"ONE!"
And I have so much to win for.
"START!"
Within split-seconds, I whirled my hands out in front of me defensively, my quirk activated with spine-tingling bolts of vibrant lightning. My viruses furled their wings and wrothed and bilowed throughout the air in a jiffy, pivoting fluidly as I glitched forward powerfully after the teams that went after Deku.
The deafening wind shot through my ears, along with the ear-splitting whistles and cheers of the crowds, as I sharpened my focus and concentration to a razor-sharp dagger, with all the compartments in my brain whirring with a breaking whizz as all the other teams raced before us.
Wait so we can be one of the last ones! And then-
Feeling Seinare's ankles shifting on top of my hands, my eyes hazed over for a second as I shifted my views into my 360 surveillance that surrounded us from every angle, my aquamarine blue-haired friend preparing to move on to the second progressment of the plan that she, Minho, and Heiakira had made within seconds while I just stared at all of them in surprise.
Her tears streaming down her cheeks, Seinare smiled coyly as her arms nimbly weaved through the air, filled with her medicinal-drug tablets. With smoky blue-gray pills slotting snugly amidst her fingers, she thrust out her hands and flung them out dynamically toward her targets in seconds, as if she had done the motions thousands of times.
Blue-gray hazy smoke and steam exploded forcefully as the pills smashed on impact, the smoke zipping forward to face most of Deku's pursuers, blocking their view of their target.
"Hah, Hah, Hah! We're comin' for you, Midoriy- Wait, what the-?!" Hagakure cried out in surprise as her cavalry members, Jirou, Sato, and Koda, skidded to a halt in front of the smoke, uncertainty and surprise etched in their faces.
"Sorry, Hagakure!" I yelled out guiltily as Seinare lunged and snatched her headband successfully, as Heiakira knocked aside Jirou's ear appendages with a readily-made bubble wrap shield. 345 P. "I'll buy you strawberry cheesecake later!"
"Whaaa?! Misaka!" The invisible girl cried out again in panic, urging her teammates to chase after us. "Time for revenge, Jirou! Apologies can be made later!"
"The Battlefield is already chaotic! It's not just the 10,000,000 out there! Those other high rankers are worth a shot as well!" I heard Present Mic yell out excitedly, stirring the thunderous crowds into a wild frenzy.
"Misaka! Steel!" I heard Seinare yell out. Within milliseconds, my eyes darted into my surveillance, only to see Seinare focusing on the team that was a few meters away from us. Realizing immediately, I darted forward with a shooting swarm of my computer glitches, hauling my team along with all my strength and speed. Tetsutetsu! She means him!
How the heck does she know that he's steel?! She's freaking smart! She must have analyzed it immediately from the obstacle course!
Realizing that we needed to make a U-turn, I yelled out to my teammates hurriedly, "You guys! U-turn!"
As Minho stabbed the ground with three of his tendons' magnets expertly, we swung around in a half circle while holding on Minho as tightly as we could. Dust swirled around us, making my eyes itch uncomfortably as I focused on Tetsutetsu and his teammates. "Shujenzi-chan! Do you have a plan?!"
"Don't worry." I saw Seinare smirked confidently as red-speckled white capsules plinked into her palms. At her words, I sped even brisker, time whirring to a slow hum as I glitch furiously with no end. "This is just a dose of the real thing."
Without a second to waste, the aquamarine blue-haired girl hurled another barrage of medicinal pellets, which erupted on impact with strong sprays of red mist.
As Tetsutetsu whirled around to face us along with his teammates, the boy froze suddenly and immediately transformed his flesh into steel as his teammates almost all but collapsed, their eyes watering immensely with pain as they hacked and choked violently, stopping in their tracks as they wheezed overwhelmingly.
As I zipped by the team with the wind whistling past my ears, Minho extended his tendons instantaneously and yanked Tetsutetsu mercilessly to the side, his tendon fluidly seizing the headband that was on the gray-haired boy as Tetsutetsu tried to right himself back into place with a outraged yell. "We're taking this." 485 P.
Our team's row went shooting up the leaderboard as I glimpsed it with gleaming eyes and exploding satisfaction. 1470 P.
YES! WE'RE THIRD-
Suddenly B7 cried out in alarm, and I barely managed to turn my head around to see Tsuburaba, the guy with the quirk of solidifying air, blowing out a wall that was blocked by Heiakira's sudden bubble wrap mattress defense. "Umihaku-chan! Get-"
I was cut off by the horrific sight of Monoma, snatching our headband from Seinare's head while evading Minho's flying tendons expertly. "Fuck! He got our headband!" I heard Minho curse colorfully.
"An opportunity to overthrow Class A from their high thrones, taken." I heard Monoma smirk at us as he twirled around our headband with a finger as he and his team darted away.
Shocked, I skidded to a stop, my teammates following my motions as I watched Monoma with my mouth agape, smugly hanging our headband around his neck as his team advanced toward Bakugou's team as if we were nothing. That SON OF A B- BEANSTALK! HOW DID HE-?!
"Gah, that guy just stole our headband! What are we going to do?!" I heard Heakira yell out urgently as I fiercely narrowed my eyes, competitive rage firing through my neurons as our spot plummeted from third place to fifth. 830 P.
"You guys, what should we do?!" I asked my teammates with concealed, rumbling fury. "You guys?!"
"Going after the other teams would be-" responded Minho hurriedly as Seinare cut him off, her usual calm and cool demeanor giving way under her huge competitive will, as I side-stepped another flying sticky purple ball from Mineta and Tsuyu's long tongue hurriedly. "Nope, we're going to get it back. Who's with me...?!"
A determined smile tugged at my lips ambitiously as Kodai accidentally threw another stray enlargened nut toward Heiakira who dodged it readily; my determined mind and heart agreeing with my aquamarine blue-haired classmate as I planted my feet apart, ready to lunge forward at my only chance. "Hell yeah! I was thinking that too! What about you, Umihaku-chan?!"
"Same for me! Minho, c'mon!"
Minho sighed deeply as he hung his head forward in resignation. "I guess…"
I grinned as adrenaline again nipped at my heels, my butterflies' encouragement filling my ears loudly as they zipped around my teammates and I. "Shujenzi-chan, you have somethin' ready?!"
Seinare gave an evil grin as she reached into her pockets. "Of course I do." Cackling excessively as tears streamed down her face, she scooped out palms full of pills and forged all of the pills with a rose pink flash. "I present to you…"
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As I watched through my viruses in shock, Seinare dramatically thrusted a gigantic rose-pink pill as big as her head into the air as we gaped at it in shock. Surveying our surprised faces triumphantly, she cackled out like a lunatic as she withdrew her arm from the air and lovingly patted it in her arms like a baby, "The Jumbo Pill! Don't underestimate this little tootsie, it's going to make them weep!"
How's that called 'LITTLE'?! THAT'S THE SIZE OF HER FREAKING HEAD!
Smirking with satisfaction, Seinare shoved it inside her jacket and held it as it was covered by her jacket sneakily. "Get ready for the Jumbo Pills! I'm going ALL OUT today!"
"Okay then, Shujenzi-chan! We're going now!" As I exclaimed out my decision turbulently, I saw Monoma reach out his hand in order to snatch Bakugou's headband out of the corner of my eye, as I prepared myself to shoot like a bullet across the field.
Violently prising my computer glitches through my limbs, I teared through the combat field as I heaved my teammates along toward Monoma. "Too simple really, Class A." said Monoma triumphantly as he snatched Bakugou's headband successfully as we hurtled toward them, teams from Class B coming closer to help the copycat as soon as they noticed the snatch.
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How am I supposed to hear him?! I heard Shigaraki and Warpgate..! And now HIM TOO?!
"Give that back, you fucker! I'll fucking kill you!" I heard Bakuguo roar with surprised rage as Mina exclaimed with alarm, "He got us!"
"How are our teams doing after seven minutes of play?! Wait.. What?!" I heard Present Mic cry out in puzzlement as he and Aizawa-Sensei looked at the leaderboard, I imagined. "Now, wait just a second..! Besides Midoriya, Class A's not looking so hot! What happened to Shujenzi and Bakugou?!"
My feet slowing down to prepare for a defense from Kendo and Bondo, I saw Bakugou's face reddening with fury as Monoma said smugly to the blonde, "It wasn't much of a stretch to imagine that fifty or so of us would be allowed to advance to the next event... A perfect chance to hang back and observe, instead of aiming for some fleeting first place like a horse going for a dangling carrot."
We have to be there before they surround Monoma! Have to make it! I cannot-
With a last-second desperate myriad of glitches, I finally managed to zip past Bondo and Kendo's teams, dodging the sprays of strong glue that Bondo had sprayed toward me when he realized that we were going for Monoma. With a desperate swat of my hand, I sent my viruses to infect him and successfully managed to wrestle with the foreign presence of his quirk in my head. The glue from Bondo's head managed to pause under his control, and began to spurt in all different directions with no warning, differing in force and amount. YES! Please, Seinare! Come on, snatch the ones-!
"Don't add insult to injury, Monoma! No sense in making enemies." expressed Kendo candidly to the blond copycat, who replied to his class representative with calmness, "You're right. That's not very hero-like."
Monoma turned to smirk again at livid Bakugou, who was seething in pure rage while slamming his fist on his palm, another smoking explosion denoted with an ear-shattering boom. His arm slicing through the air powerfully, the blonde tried to land an dynamic uppercut on Monoma, but the copycat retaliated with another big explosion and smirked smugly. "Ooh, that's neat! Nice quirk you've got!"
"He's got your quirk?!" As Kirishima exclaimed out his surprises, Bakugou tried to land another explosive attempt with a ferocious crackle, but as I expected, Monoma blocked it successfully with Kirishima's hardening. "And I'm better at it!"
"Wha-?! My quirk?! Am I looking in a mirror?!" Kirishima sputtered in shock as Bakugou spat out while Monoma unhardened his arm leisurely, "Nah. This fucker's just a copy ca-"
It was at this very moment that Seinare decided to throw her beautifully made Jumbo Pill.
It gracefully sailed through the air in slow-motion, everyone's eyes drawn to magnets as they gaped in awe at its enormous size… until the pill met its end as it face-planted into the dirt magnificently with multi-colored flashes of iridescent glows and exploding firework-like effects. KABOOM!
The gigantic AOE suddenly appeared in a earth-shaking flash, having shattered explosively like a bomb in front of Monoma, Kendo, Bakugou, and their teams. Seinare cackled loudly like a maniac as she thrusted out her hands to manipulate the drugs that she desired to inflict upon our enemies. "HA, NO MERCY! Revenge is OURS!"
A golden, shimmery glow of energy and adrenaline enveloped my teammates and I; Weird-colored flashes registering in my eyes as Monoma began to cough violently from the misted peppery red smoke, his team doing the same, as Kendo managed to activate her quirk and was trying to swat away the smoke with her gigantic hands as she wheezed very loudly with gasping pain.
As she had vowed quietly before a few minutes ago, Seinare snatched two of the four headbands that were around Monoma's neck successfully as two pill-shaped ovals appeared on his face as he tried to copy her quirk to cancel out hers. "Nice try, copycat, you can't cry as fast as I can! Y'all forgot the fact that you're humans!"
"Ohhhh! Shujenzi's merciless to her opponents! Shooting through the leaderboard… And her team makes it to THIRD PLACE! A late shake-up in the rankings, that's the spirit of youth for ya!" Present Mic yelled in excitement as the crowd went crazy, whistling and cheering wildly.
"And with just one minute left, Todoroki got three headbands! He snatched breakout star Midoriya's headband, and with it, first place!"
"Just wait a fucking second!" With a series of furious explosions, even with his eyes watering from the pain, Bakugou lunged through the air to successfully rip away two of the remaining headbands from Monoma, before he wheezed out in both pain and rage, "I fucking ain't want any half-assed first place!
Fighting through the effects of Seinare's Jumbo Pill, Sero managed to yank Bakugou back to safety with his tape as Mina managed to slip off Kendo's headband with the help of her acid, whose team was still in a dizzying, stumbling state from the Jumbo Pill. "Bakugou! Give us some warning -cough- before you JUMP!"
"LAST SECOND RUMBLING FROM CLASS A! Team Bakugou's stolen three, putting them in SECOND place! Completely ruthless even with Shujenzi's crippling attack! And now they go, aiming for Todoroki and Midoriya!" I heard Present Mic howl in excitement, with the ecstatic crowd going bonkers as I zipped away to safety with my team, with Seinare's gleeful triumphant cackles trailing from above as she hung two of Monoma's stolen headbands around her neck like a hard-won medal.
"10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4.. 3.. 2.. AND 1! TIME'S UP!"
"YES!" I pumped my fist in the air in triumph as we screeched to a halt. "I told you guys we will make it!" I grinned beamingly at my friends as I pumped a fist in the air in triumph, as Seinare gripped my shoulders to come down from her spot on top of us. "You guys were AMAZING!"
"Third Round, you guys! I can't believe we're going to be part of it!" Heiakira whooped in pure joy as she slung an arm around Seinare with hard efforts, considering her petite height. with the movement. "Well done, y'all." Seinare said calmly, unlike her earlier episode of lunatic cackles and kookiness. A bit taken aback at her behavior, I still beamed at my teammates and held out my fist to fist-bump them all, which they all inclined happily as Present Mic declared with satisfaction, "Now, let's see who the top five teams are right now!"
"Wait, WHAT?!" I said to my teammates in complete shock after Minho had fist-bumped me last with hesitance after Seinare and Heiakira. "When was it TOP FIVE?! It's supposed to be TOP FOUR!"
"Were you not paying attention? What do you mean by four?" Minho responded to me with a weird look, as I stared at the leaderboard in shock.
WHAT?! FIVE teams are going to Round 3?!
That means I would have to fight more people!
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A/N: For the first time, I wrote so little. Only 4,000 words! But this was as much as I could do, considering the fact that last week was the MOST HECTIC WEEK of MY LIFE! Don't ask me about the enormous weight that my backpack was, and the extreme loss of time that I felt heavily. And about the homework, it's about to get WORSE. (Cue the panicked screaming, lol)
That's why I kind of hope that we go back to online learning, mostly because of the time and the on-going nervousness that I might get infected. Stress was crippling my neck and head all week, which is a VERY BIG understatement.
Anyway, Seinare's pills were the main reason why Aera and her friends got into the third place. Aera's abilities can only go so far, and realistically, she's not needed in every case. Plus, I wanted Seinare to shine for once.
For the blue-gray pills, those pills had drugs that converted the water vapors and carbon particles in the air to smoke and steam. The red-speckled white pills had a drug similar to pepper spray, with a lot less dosage and a little tweaking on Seinare's part. After the match was finished, she handed out pills that erased the effects so her fellow students were fine, lol. I know, she harms and heals at the same time, and she's freaking brilliant to remember all those types of drugs like Momo! I love her so much, XD
In the first and second round, Aera didn't get to show off that much, but I hope that I could write the other chapters well! Though I am 99.87777777% sure that I will have NO TIME at all next week to write. I barely wrote this by the skin of my teeth!
I had a lot of stress this week but I hope that I will be able to fight through this week as well!
Thanks to Mary D. Black 2000, Shxzun, The SENDER and the TRAVELER, kat basted, PapoteMaloteV, katchile94, LuverofPups, and ansainese7en for FOLLOWING AND FAVORITING! Thank you SO MUCH!
I have 31 favorites and 48 followers now! It's almost 50! OMG, I was screaming silently in class all week.
(LOL, I'm pretty sure that my teachers saw my eyes crinkling when I grinning through my mask at my phone when they were lecturing. Phones were permitted during those times, so I didn't get caught. Being the kind souls you guys are, I'm pretty sure that you guys were going to ask if I got caught, XD.)
And for the first time EVER, I have received 5 freaking reviews! OMG, I love you guys! Thank you! I'll be responding in the order you guys reviewed my story, so just scroll through to find your username, XD
To Wolfy365:
I love your reviews! Thank you for inputting your opinions about my reasonings, plannings, and story! It really helped me a lot! Anyway, my EXTREME excitement of my story helped me power through the first chapters, which are always the hardest to complete. I hope wholeheartedly that you can power through your story to the good parts that you were imagining in your head all day, lol! (I know that you did do that, because that's what I did all day during a good part of this year, XD)
I somewhat wish that the manga ends 3-4 years later, because if the manga finishes, I don't think I would have the motivation to finish this work, T-T. (Horikoshi, please don't stop churning out the good stuff! Please! I know it's extremely hard and stressful, but please you have LOTS of loyal fans, please don't die while drawing.)
Anyway, 6 months is not enough compared to some other authors. Lol, I know a favorite author of mine (her story has like 2,000 or 1,000 favorites and follows) and she planned for 2 FREAKING YEARS for her BNHA fanfiction. Omg, when I read that, I literally gawked at the author's note that she typed. I can never do that, NEVER. I'll lose interest in writing out my story after I finish even planning.
So, regarding the comedy, I'm SO GLAD that you actually laughed at the jokes being said! Humor me, but can you please respond with the most memorable jokes (that I have written) that you laughed at? That's how much I LOVE your opinion, please! I want to frame your GOLD-like words on my author's achievement wall. It's really a big achievement for me, that at least two people laughed at the jokes that I had written. (I'm admitting that my sister's the main genius for the comedy and I helped, lol). XD
I'm trying to plan for more fourth wall breaks because it's also really funny for me to write! Thank you SO MUCH for reviewing! It really motivated me to write as much as I could this week!
To LuverofPups:
Hi, thanks for your AWESOME review! It really motivated me to write despite the time last, last week…! When you said that this story was well-written and well-paced, I almost had a heart attack from my exploding excitement in class, lol!
I too thought that the scene where Aera took Shigaraki's hand was hilarious! Technically I'm the real Lady Imagination but I also hate to see Aera suffer… But it's needed because no one wants to read a story with only sunshine and rainbows every week XD. Thank you for encouraging me to write…! I hope that I can make it next week!
To magnificent eyes of wonder:
Omg, thank you for reviewing even though you must be so tired at 2:32 AM ! I can never stand off the sleepiness that much, (probably because I'm still a high schooler, lol) and I cannot think of the schedule that I'm going to have when I'm finally in college like you, haha!
Anyway, I too love the Sports Festival! It displays the quirk versatility that everyone has, unlike us who have poor brains unlike them. (I always marvel at their smartness; I cannot strategize like that within seconds, hell nah I'm a real high schooler XD) How you managed to remember that there were only 42 people originally, I do not know! (I have such a short memory span, jeez)
I really love the fact that you realize that the plot is changing, and I hope that I can retain that throughout this work! I tried hard to include everyone, because I noticed that most people only write about the Deku squad and Bakugou squad, as if they're all not freaking classmates! It's not like they're separated like that or like they're rival gangs or something, lol!
Another thing: I really love to learn chess, but I never did! (Yes, chess is a sport, you get all hyped to win in competitions, wheee! XD) I did have the strong competitiveness that Aera felt (in studies, not sports, I know, sad) and I've been on the other side (Losing all my confidence and Imposter syndrome stuff, being like any average kid and getting bad grades, I know, the usual) So yeah! I believe wholeheartedly that Aera does deserve the gold medal, but it's up to her to get there!
On a side note, I too like the drama that comes along when toxic family dynamics just explodes out in a great scene, and it makes me feel as if all the bad feelings that had gathered as I watched the characters suffer, get released..! I've been planning for Aera those types of scenes for a very long time! (I hope that I can write them well, IF I make it..! XD)
Ainiru and Aera are completely two different people, but they're people that can empathize with others. But like what you said, this is completely Aera's lifelong dream, and I wanted to show something completely hers for once. I really love that you see Aera recognizing the strengths of her classmates, and I was hoping that I wasn't making her like a Mary Sue, lol. (Is she one? Can you criticise Aera and how she acts and everything? it's just a thought, but you don't have to if you don't want to, XD)
I laughed SO HARD when you compared Minho as the new angsty Korean Eren Yeager, but when I imagined him using his quirk like the ODM gear, it looked sooo cool in my head. ODM gear just makes you look awesome if you do it properly, lol. Because of the fact that his tendons can also hold up stuff, Minho has the extra support that was instead supplied by gas in the world of AOT.
And I was sooo HAPPY that you said my descriptions were realistic! I tried really, really hard to make it seem like it was actually happening before the eyes of the readers, and I'm so GLAD that I succeeded with at least one person! YEE! XD
Anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH for reviewing! Screee! I love you, thank you so much! Your reviews mean so much to me! On a side note, I have Filipinas as my friends at school, and they are the absolute sweethearts and many of the best friends that I ever had at school, lol!
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