As everyone was looking at him with an obvious glint in their eyes, Izuku was having flashbacks. From Muto ("Die you freak!" he had shouted as he plunged a steak knife into his lung, before forcing it all the way through and running off laughing.) to the guidance counselor ("Go throw yourself into traffic!" he snarled, bodily throwing Izuku out of his office) to the teacher. ("Alright Midoriya, how about you write 'I will stop holding Bakugou back with my existence' 100 times?") and more. Bakugou noticed the shaking and paled, before backing off.

Izuku was currently trying to prevent a panic attack, which could lead to him lashing out. "Now then, I shall explain the rules for the cavalry battle!" Midnight announced. "The time limit is fifteen minutes! Each team is worth the total of its member's points, and the riders will wear a headband with that number of points on their forehead. The goal is to grab your opponent's headband before time runs out, and try to keep as many points as you can! Stolen headband must be worn from the neck up, so the more you steal the harder it will be to manage them! Also, even if your headband is stolen, or if your team falls, you're not out!"

"That means that there will be around…" Momo began. "Ten to twelve teams on the field at all times." Sato finished. "That's tough." Yuga said from in front of them. Before anyone else could speak, Midnight cracked her whip again. "This will be a cruel fight in which you will all be allowed to use your Quirks, but it's still a cavalry battle! You'll be disqualified if your attacks are just attempts to make other teams fall! And now, you have fifteen minutes to build your team! Start!" she shouted, as the hologram changed to a timer. 'Ok, points don't matter for me, so I'll need… that person and that person!' Izuku thought to himself.

Everyone was trying to team up with Bakugou. It annoyed him. However, he knew who he needed. "I don't even know what Quirks you all have!" he lied. "I understand not knowing class B's Quirks…" Mina muttured. "But you don't know ours?! How self centered can you get?!" Sato demanded. And then Kirishima came over. 'Perfect.' he thought. "Hey! Todoroki has already chosen his team! Team up with me Bakugou!" "And why should I?" Bakugou asked. "You're gonna be the rider right? So you're gonna need someone who can take your blasts!" He then activated his Quirk. "You read my fuckin' mind." Katsuki responded.

Izuku noticed Shoji reluctantly teaming up with Mineta, and after his stunt with Momo he couldn't blame him. Mineta had gone way too far, and for the first time, he was truly considering whether devouring someone would be best for society. And he was thinking this without the hunger in mind! He quickly shook the thought out of his head. He'd NEVER eat for sport. Also, he had to deal with the fact that everyone was intentionally ignoring him! "Uhh, Ojiro…" he began. "Sorry." the tailed boy said, slinking off. 'No one wants to keep the points for the full game…' Izuku thought to himself, on the verge of tears. 'And I can't use my Quirk at full capacity as it'll just lead to a bloodbath!'

"Deku!" Izuku slowly turned his head towards Uraraka. "Let's be a team!" Cue the waterworks. In fact, she had to turn away. "Uraraka!" he bawled. "A-are you sure?! I-is it ok?!" he stammered. "If we run away the whole time we'll win, right?" she asked, rubbing the back of her (now dripping wet) head. The waterworks abruptly stopped. "I-I think you're overestimating me, Uraraka…" he stammered. "Like I would!" she said, fist raised. "I remember USJ!" "O-oh… yeah…" he murmured.

"Besides, it's best to team up with those you get along with!" His heart clenched. 'Sh-she likes me!' "Are you alright?" Uraraka asked, concerned. "Oh, it's just that you're so bright I can't look at you clearly…" he muttered. "Actually, I wanted to team up with you as well! After all, it's best when you can easily communicate with your teammates!" Izuku nodded. He turned to Iida, but noticed that he'd already joined with Todoroki.

"This is perfect!" a female voice cried out. Said person then used anti gravity boots to quickly hover over. "Team up with me, person in first place!" she demanded, right in his face. "AAAHHHH! TOO CLOSE!" Izuku screamed. "W-Who are you!?" The girl chuckled at that. "I'm Mei Hatsume from the support course! I don't know who you are, but let me use your position!" 'She's… honest.' Izuku thought to himself. "If I team up with you then I'll be on the team that has the most attention, which will allow my super cute babies to be seen by the big companies!" "W-what are you talking about?!" Uraraka yelled, before noticing that Mei was just focused on Izuku. She then opened a chest from… somewhere. "The support class develops the tools you heroes use! I have a ton of babies so I'm sure you'll find one you like!" Izuku zoomed in on one in particular.

"I made this based on a certain hero's backpack, but I added my own personal touches." Mei declared. "A-are you talking about the Buster hero, Air Jet!?" Izuku asked. Mei chuckled. "I like him two!" Izuku babbled. "Really?!"

"Yeah! His agency's close, so I've toured it!" 'I see that they're already getting along' Uraraka thought to herself. Izuku was also thinking. 'Not being able to team up with Iida was a major blow, and most people have already teamed up already. However, that doesn't matter. I know who I need… and is he… YES!' Izuku began to confidently walk towards Fumikage. "Hey…"

A loud blaring sound soon rang out. "OK, it's time to start!" Midnight called. "Eraserhead, wake up!" Mic shouted, poking his friend. "And after fifteen minutes to team up and strategize, there are twelve cavalry teams on the field!" "They are quite interesting." Aizawa murmured as Mic riled up the crowd.

Izuku definitely tied the headband on his head. "Uraraka?"

"Yes!"

"Mei?"

"Hehehe"

"Fumikage?"

"Yeah."

"AAALLLLLL RIGHT! The countdown to the battle royale! Three! Two! ONE!" Mic shouted. "START!" Midnight declared. And then, all hell broke loose. Almost immediately a team rushed Izuku. It was that kid who had a near-identical Quirk to Kirishima! "It's a battle for the Ten Million!" he screamed. A team made up of his fellow classmates was also running towards him. "We'll be taking that, Midoriya!" Toru declared. "So, an attack without delay, huh? Very well." Fumikage stated. "Make your choice Midoriya!" he shouted. "We run!"

"I won't let you!" the kid with no cheeks from 1-B declared. And soon, they were sinking. 'That must be his Quirk!' Izuku thought to himself. "I-I can't get out!" Uraraka shouted. Izuku pulled up the control stick for the jetpack. "Uraraka! Mei! Turn your faces away!" They both did. Izuku then pressed the button and they took off. Jiro tried to use her Quirk to grab the headband but Dark Shadow blocked it. "Keep watch over our blind spots Dark Shadow!" Fumikage ordered. "Got it!" the sentient mass of shadow responded. "You're amazing, Tokoyami! With Dark Shadow you're making up for our lack of defense!" Izuku declared.

"Everyone! We're landing!" And with that, Mei's anti gravity boots (worn by Uraraka) activated. 'Making everyone but Uraraka weightless should give her the ability to keep this up until the fifteen minutes are up!' he thought. "Aren't my babies just adorable?!" Mei screamed. "They are phenomenal, Hatsume! Thank you!" Izuku declared.

"It's only been two minutes and already it's become a free-for-all! Fights are breaking out everywhere!" Mic shouted. "Remember, those in first to fourth advance, so you don't need the ten million!" Down on the area floor, Bakugou nodded. 'The plan is to maintain second place while Deku and Icy Hot fight it out. They'll be tired during the final exam, which gives my team the advantage!'

Izuku turned towards the sound of muffled laughter. "You wanted a fight Midoriya, but this will be a one-sided pillaging!" "I-Is Shoji alone?!" Izuku shouted. He didn't see Mineta anywhere! "Let's move!" Fumikage shouted. Uraraka nodded before she realised that her foot was caught by a certain someone's Quirk. "That explains it! He's hiding under Shoji's limbs!" Izuku declared. And then Tsuyu's tongue lashed out. Izuku ducked, the tongue barely missing the headband. "Midoriya!" Fumikage shouted. By now, purple balls and one tongue were flying everywhere. Izuku pressed the button again, and they took off. However, the boots broke due to being stuck to the ground. "My baby!" Mei shrieked.

"We had to get away!" Izuku shouted. They flew through the air, but the landing was awkward. "We can't fly away again!" Izuku shouted to his teammates. "I'm sorry Uraraka, but we'll have to survive off of your zero gravity!"

"What about you, Midoriya? What can you do?" Mei asked. "I… ummm…" he REALLY didn't want to resort to using his Quirk. "It doesn't matter! More time for my babies to shine!" Mei shouted.

"And here, at the halfway point, are the point counts!" Mic shouted. Everyone gasped. "L-look at that! Other then Midoriya, the rest of class 1-A isn't doing so well!" And then the screen updated. "And Bakugou's team lost it's headband?!" Mic shouted in confusion. Bakugou turned towards the team who had stolen his headband.

"BASTARD!" he shouted. "You Class 1-A people are so arrogant." the rider mocked. "We at class B just sat back within the top 40 to watch you, and we sure got a lot. It was so nice of you to show us your abilities." he added. "Your whole class planned that?" Bakugou asked. "Well it wasn't a consensus… but what would you know? You're already famous. After all, you were the victim of the Sludge Villain. You should really tell us about that. That way you can get used to being the one who's worthless."

By now Bakugou was snarling in rage. "After all, it might be interesting to hear what it's like to expect a villian attack once a year." the arrogant rider finished. "Kirishima… we have a new plan…" Said boy looked up and his face became one of fear. "Class 1-B are our new targets" he growled.

'So Class B had a classwide strategy?!' Izuku mentally screamed. He wasn't sure that was allowed, as he'd never heard of that before! "Everyone! We need to keep running-" he was cut off by the sound of roller skates. He looked back up, and found himself staring into Todoroki face. 'Oh boy.' was all he could think. "I'll be taking that now." Todoroki said in his usual emotionless tone.

"I was not expecting a confrontation with you until the final minutes of the round." Fumikage stated. "He seems to think highly of you, Midoriya."

"Only half the time is left!" Izuku said. "Don't stop moving!" Meanwhile, Todoroki was also giving orders. "Iida! Forward right! Yaoyorozu, prepare to guard us and conduct electricity! Kaminari-"

"I know what to do! The electric teen answered. Izuku was also looking around. "Watch our surroundings! There are multiple teams gunning for us!" And then Kaminari said something that Izuku picked up. "Make sure you insulate us carefully!" Izuku then brought up his shield.

"INDISCRIMINATE SHOCK: 1.3 MILLION VOLTS!" the electric man shouted, causing electricity to fly everywhere. Todoroki then grabbed the staff Momo had created to ground them. "Sorry everyone, you'll have to bear this for the remainder!" he shouted, making his ice travel down and trap all of the teams that were caught in the blast. "WHOA! Look at that! Todoroki took out several teams at once!" "Kaminari shocked them, and then Todoroki froze them before they could recover." Aizawa monotoned. "I might as well take these." Todoroki stated as he grabbed the frozen team's headbands. Meanwhile, Izuku deactivated his Quirk and tried to use the jetpack again.

Of course, the jetpack had to act up now. "Mei! It's breaking!" He shouted. "My baby! You'll have to be improved!" she screamed. Izuku then removed it. Meanwhile, Uraraka was using the one anti gravity boot to push them away from Todoroki. "They're too fast!" she shouted. "I'll restrain them!" Fumikage shouted, Dark Shadow extending. "Yaoyorozu!" Todoroki shouted, while holding the headband to his face.

"Right!" the teen shouted, creating a stone blockade. Dark Shadow smacked into it. "Momo's Creation Quirk is too difficult to deal with!" Izuku said aloud. "Correct, but Kaminari is worse. With that level of armor, the only thing that prevented Dark Shadow from dissipating was that it wasn't sunlight!"

"I see." Izuku muttured. "As long as Kaminari is using his Quirk, it'll be difficult to attack." Fumikage summarized. "And Dark Shadow will become timid."

"V-violence solves nothing…" said Quirk whimpered. And then they stopped. They were at the edge of the boundary line! "And Team Midoriya has nowhere left to run!" Mic shouted. Izuku looked up and saw Team Todoroki advancing. "Do they know that?" He asked. "I don't think so." Fumikage responded. "I've only told Koda about this, and that was at USJ. Seeing that he's a man of few words, it's unlikely he's told anyone."

"So we can use it to hold them back." Izuku murmured. "And if that fails?" Uraraka worryingly asked. "Then we bluff." Izuku said. "How do we bluff?" Mei asked. "They're all Class A students. I have a way." Izuku said, steeling himself for that eventuality. "Oh please no…" Uraraka murmured.

Meanwhile, Bakugou was rushing the arrogant class B student. "DIE!" he screamed, explosions going off. He was rather shocked when the teen used explosions of his own. "Bakugou! He has the same Quirk!?" Kirishima yelled. "You have a very nice Quirk." The teen said, slamming the redhead. Bakugou snarled and let loose an even larger explosion.

"You all have very nice Quirks, but mine's better." The blond B student mocked, revealing he used Kirishima's Quirk. "W-what? He has my Quirk too?!"

"No. He's copying them." Bakugou said.

All For One was also interested in that. "It's a rather interesting Quirk, although mine makes it useless to me."

"Even an idiot can figure out my Quirk, so I'm surprised anyone from Class A put the pieces together." the copying teen mocked. Bakugou raged harder than usual, and rushed towards the arrogant jackass. And then another B team appeared. One of them unleased a goop that they had to dodge. "Monoma! We have more than enough points to make it to the top four!" one of the horses the now-named Monoma was riding shouted. And then the team left. "After them!" Bakugou shouted.

"SHIT! The goop is solidifying!" Kirishima declared. "I'll get it!" Mina shouted, dissolving it. "Hurry! We have zero points right now!" Sero declared. Monoma looked back. "Oh, don't get mad at me. You're the ones who provoked us, right?" he mocked.

"Only one minute left! And Todoroki made it so that he'll get the ten million! At least, that's what I thought five minutes ago! Amazingly, Team Midoriya has managed to stay back!" 'He's staying on my left.' Todoroki thought to himself. 'He knows that I can only use my ice on my right side. I'll have to use Iida. Also, I can't freeze indiscriminately. And Fumikage can defend against Kaminari's electricity, and that's not taking into account Midoriya's shield.' And then Iida spoke up. "Everyone, there's less than a minute left. I'll be worthless after this."

"What was that Iida?" Todoroki asked. "Hold on tight!" Iida shouted. His engines were whirring audibly. Izuku realised what was going on and covertly released one tendril. "W-what!?" Mei stammered as the tendril grabbed onto the back of the headband. And then Iida took off. It was so fast that they were unable to dodge. Todoroki grabbed the headband, but then he noticed what was attached to it. He knew that Izuku wouldn't harm them, but base instinct made him release it. The headband whipped right back to where it had been throughout the entire battle. "OH MY GOD! TEAM TODOROKI ALMOST HAD IT BUT IZUKU HAD ANOTHER TRICK UP HIS SLEEVE- OR SHOULD I SAY BACK!" Mic shouted. "Drat! Even with my secret move Midoriya managed to hold on!" Iida shouted.

Meanwhile, Monoma was telling his team to stay in second, when… "HEY!"

"Geez you're persistent…" Monoma deadpanned, only to whir around in shock when Bakugou used his explosion to launch himself. "Kosei!" Monoma shouted. "Right!" The teen inhaled and exhaled, creating an invisible wall that Bakugou slammed into. "HAHA! You can't see that barri-" and then the explosive teen smashed it, and grabbed two headbands. Then Sero whipped him back. "Geeze man! Tell us next time before you try something like that!"

"And the teams keep switching positions! This final minute is intense!" Mic shouted. "Alright! We're still in fourth! We need to defend our remaining headbands to the death!" Monoma shouted, clenching the band he stole from Team Bakugou. And then Bakugou ignited several explosions, propelling his team forward. Kosei tried to block them, but an explosion-aided fist broke through. Katsuki then grabbed the other headbands Monoma was wearing. "TEAM BAKUGOU IS ABSOLUTELY MERCILESS!" Mic screeched. "He's now in SECOND PLACE!"

Izuku just glared at Team Todoroki. "Are you gonna try again!?" he growled. Todoroki hesitated. 'He was willing to use the tendrils!? He must really want to get first!' So they just stared. And then… "TIME IS UP!" MIc shouted. "That's the end of the battle! And now, let's look at the top four teams! In first place is Team Midoriya! They managed to hold onto the ten million, totaling 10,000,325!" Izuku, who had gotten down, tilted his head up and burst into tears of relief. The force was so great that he was pushed into the ground.

"In second place, Team Bakugou! In Third, Team Todoroki! And in Fourth place, Team Tetsu-wait! No! Team Shinso took it! They took fourth place at the last moment! These four teams will advance to the final round!" Mic shouted.

"YES! GOOD JOB IZUKU!" All For One shouted, cheering for his son.

"And now, we're going to have an hour break! Come on Eraserhead, let's get some food!"

"I'm going to sleep." Aizawa mumbled.

While most of the class was getting food, Todoroki had asked to speak to Izuku. "So, what do you want?" Izuku asked him.