Morale for the Blue Team was critically low. Satoru and Sei blamed themselves for not noticing the third football; Yokina and Angel blamed themselves for their inability to stop Shin; Mira blamed himself for messing up and giving the White Team a counterattack in the first place.

Hayate, annoyed with his team's melancholy spoke up, "what's with all these long faces? We haven't even lost yet!"

"Hayate..." Satoru replied, "none of our attacks have even fazed Taro, if it keeps up like this, we WILL lose."

"Then let's change it up!" Hayate argued, to everyone's surprise, even though they were losing and most of them couldn't think of anything to help beat the White Team, Hayate face was still overflowing with hope and confidence.

"We just need a plan, anything that can help us get back to the same level as them. I've got something that I've been working on, just focus on passing it to me!" Hayate said getting ready to re-enter the field, he turned to his team, "we've just gotta give it our all, Miss said she wanted to see our 'Plus Ultra' didn't she?"

The gloom in the group faded as their confidence was revived. As the team made their way onto the pitch, Mira glanced at his friend, with a deeper respect. 'I gotta hand it to him' Mira thought, 'he always knows what to say at the right time.'

The second half began with the White Team's kickoff. The ball was sent to Satori who again bolted up the pitch with amplified speed, leaving the Mira and the attackers in the dust. She was just about to pass the defence when - she halted abruptly, and looked down to see a small, sturdy, white web tethering herself to the ground.

"I'll be taking that!" Yokina said, snatching the stuck ball from her web trap with ease. "It'll dissolve in a couple minutes!" With a cunning smirk on her face, she ran off and sent the ball to her teammates.

The Blues showed excellent teamwork with their passing play, making subtle but effective pushes forward, then passing it to another comrade close by. Even Mira, whose passes weren't that accurate (to his surprise), benefitted from this system, and eventually the ball got to Hayate, who portalled in between the Whites's defence.

'If I can't score against you normally, then maybe I'll have to add a bit of flair to my shot to throw him off!' Hayate schemed. The plan was ready in his mind, he struck the ball, and used his portal quirk on it! It whizzed through the air, portalling to the right, then left! Then flying straight at Taro!

And straight into his left hand.

"Wha- but... BUT HOW?!" Hayate sputtered, "no-one could have known that the ball was gonna be portalled in that direction!... 'cept for..." Hayate's eyes lit up, stumbling upon a logical realisation.

Fukuro initiated the attack again with a perfectly accurate long ball to Monster Okoma, dashed down the right side of the pitch with only 2 targets on his mind - the goal, and the one blocking his path, Mira.

"WITNESS MY POWER! MIRA KAGEMARU!" Okoma exclaimed, Mira ran up to the beast preparing to defend against the charge - only to receive a brawny, dark blue arm slamming right into his side, and flinging him up into the air, as Okoma pressed forward.

"Aaaaargh!" Mira screamed out in pain, as his body smacked the grass, the hit from Okoma felt like it nearly crushed everything on his upper left side. The entire class came over to check up on him.

"Alright! Alright!" Yellow said, blowing on her whistle hard, quieting down the commotion, "Okoma, that's a yellow card, if we weren't using quirks you'd easily be sent off."

He grunted stubbornly. "What do you say now?" Yellow asked him giving him a very unsettling stare.

Okoma flinched, "...sorry..." he muttered.

Ms Red came out and asked, "Mira are you alright?"

"Y-yeah" Mira replied getting up slowly, "he didn't break anything, the pain will stop eventually."

"Great!" Yellow said, "the ball will go to the Blue Team with a free kick."

As the White Team were returning to their side, Hayate grabbed the Blue Team together. "I've figured out Taro's quirk guys!" Hayate whispered excitedly, "he can read minds! The only way he could've known that I was gonna portal the ball in that area was if he already knew what I was thinking."

"That makes sense. Welp, guess we've got no choice, since we ain't got any other ideas" Daigo responded, "I've got a plan, but we've only got one shot at it." He looked at Angel, "and I'm gonna need you to help me Angel"

"M-me?!" Angel stuttered, "I mean, sure! I'll try my best to help us score!" Everyone huddled in, and Daigo began whispering.

Just before Mira was about to take the free kick, he felt a tap on his shoulder, "erm, Mira?" He turned to see Yokina, looking at him with concern, "what is that weird red 4 on your right shoulder? I only noticed it now when you were about to take the kick."

He looked at the spot Yokina was pointing to, she was right! There was a weird, rigid, dark-red shape on the back of his sports top, drawn in the shape of a 4. Mira was pretty sure that it wasn't there when he put it on at the dorms, so where did it come from? A memory gave Mira a good idea - maybe that was the exact spot that Oma had tapped him - if so, it was the cause of all of Mira's misfortunes: the bad passes, the clumsy dribbling, the terrible shooting!

"That's it!" Mira yelled shocking Yokina, "sorry... you solved it Yokina!" He smiled, "if this shirt is what's causing all of my problems, then..." and Mira flung his shirt away, displaying his chiselled torso he acquired from all the training he did with Lt Kebou, making Yokina's snow white skin, turn a bright pink, staring in awe and disbelief.

Yokina returned from her shock, "well, that's what friend are for" both laughed and she ran back to her position.

The now topless Mira took the free kick well and the ball was sent up to be caught by Angel, who glided over the Whites again, however this time Hayate was with here on the ground, portalling Kusaki's vine snares away.

She was one-on-one with Taro, the ball was released from her grasp, as she prepped her shot, 'think of cute things! Anything apart from where I'm shooting!' She thought to herself as she blasted the shot at Taro.

"I don't need to read your mind to tell where this shot is going" Taro responded, moving to the area where the ball was heading, "your body language is enough." The ball was heading right into his arms - he was ready to catch it...

And Daigo appeared out of nowhere! Looking very flustered, as the ball headed in another direction and straight into the goal, while Daigo fell onto the floor.

20 seconds earlier

Angel was soaring towards Taro, little did the White Team know, that she was carrying a friend along with her, it was Daigo! Like a magic knight flying across the sky on his mystical pegasus, Daigo and Angel zoomed towards goal.

"It's a good thing that I take my little siblings for ride ever now and then" Angel said, "I'd never be strong enough to do this if I hadn't."

"Definitely" Daigo replied, "just remember not to think about the plan when your shooting" Angel nodded in response, and took the shot.

Just as the shot was seconds from reaching Taro's hands, Daigo activated his quirk. Immediately the world froze. Everyone was paused, Hayate using his portal, Yellow cheering - time had ceased, but Daigo could move freely. He dropped down from Angel's back and bolted towards the football. "I've only got 5 seconds to do this!" He reminded himself, once at the football he headered it in the opposite direction the ball was travelling. It didn't move, but Daigo knew it had absorbed the force he applied to it. Suddenly, he reeled and convulsed, groaning in pain, as the world thawed out and time continued, the ball flying into the goal to Taro's surprise, and Daigo collapsing in front of it.

Present

The Blue team had scored, but at what cost. Daigo was practically having a seizure next to Taro, as Ms Red again came over. "Oh my, he's going to have to go to the infirmary. I need someone from the White Team to take Daigo."

Oma raised his hand and came over to Daigo, giving the unconscious boy a piggyback, and walking off to the infirmary.

"Dammit! When he told me about his quirk, he didn't say anything about such a severe knockback" Sei stated, "there must've been another way to score!"

"Your right there probably was" Hayate replied, "but we were desperate, and Daigo wanted to do everything he could to help us win, now we gotta give it everything, we can't let his efforts be in vain!"

The game continued, 1-1. The 2 teams fought hard to try to push through or hold back. Taro kept on saving shots easily; nothing could get past Satoru; Kusaki's vine traps and Yokina's web trap, ended many 'successful' attacks; Sei and Satori were great at pushing the ball up from defence, with his robotic muscles and infinite stamina, and her amplified physique; Fukuro's passes always hit her mark, and Mira got his mojo back, with stunning dribbling and passes; Okoma's strength was uncontested charging through everyone at the blink of an eye, while Angel's ability of flight gave a her an advantage of never needing to contest with anyone; Hayate's portalling made him significantly faster that anyone else and Shin's illusions were great at confusing his opponents.

The two teams were at a stalemate - in every single way.

There was less than 10 minutes until the end of the game. Shin gestured to Fukuro, "please give me one of your beautiful passes madame!"

"Ya better score Shin!" Fukuro yelled, blasting the football over to Shin, "and I ain't no 'madame'" she mumbled.

Once the ball was in his possession, Shin smirked, and began his intro, "I hope you are ready! Be blown away by my most spectacular illusion!" He kicked the ball up in the air - instantly, a large dark blue smoke cloud consumed the football...

And thousands of replica footballs erupted from the cloud as it began to dissipate, "MYRIAD! ILLUSION!" Shin announced as his super move sent all them towards Satoru.

"Woah woah woah!" Sei screamed, "that's a lot of balls!"

The sea of balls swarmed the attackers, many of them poofing into blue smoke, but the sheer quantity was too large for them to make a difference. They had all reached the defence!

And Yokina stood there, an excited smile spread across her face, she squealed, "yess! I finally get to try out my own move!" She drew her arm back and took a stance as if she was about to throw a frisbee. The balls were approaching, if she couldn't stop them all now, they were all going to overwhelm Satoru.

"Haaaa! Hunter's..." Yokina swung her drawn back arm around, releasing from her hand a huge spider web, "WEB!", both ends stuck quickly to the lightpoles near the edges of the field, the web was towering, about 10 feet high!

"Noo!" Shin sobbed, "my gorgeous illusion, halted by mere threads! How inelegant!"

All of the footballs got caught in the net, poofing immediately after making contact with it, it took a while for them all to disappear, but eventually Yokina felt the real football make contact with the web, which she gracefully snagged from it. "You guys got this!" Yokina screamed pointing at the 3 attackers, a wide grin on her face "I gotta remove this web."

This was most likely the Blue Team's last chance to score and win. The trio began their final assault. Mira gained the ball from Yokina, and quickly began pacing up the field. Okoma was blocking his run, "you won't get past me Mira!" Okoma grunted. Mira didn't answer, he already knew what to do - he kicked the ball upwards, high above Okoma's head. A black shadow engulfed it, twisting and hardening, into a boulder! The rock dropped instantly, Okoma put his hands up ready to catch it and show off his power!

But the boulder never landed, instead what landed was a regular football right on his face, bouncing off and landing behind him, to the feet of a chuckling Mira, "dude, it's just a football, it ain't that heavy" he ran off leaving a raging Okoma.

"MIRA KAGEMARU!" Okoma roared.

The ball was sent to Angel, who this time was actually running on the ground, however her wings were providing great defence to her charge, blowing defenders away with mighty wingbeats.

"Those 3..." Yellow mumbled to her sisters, "they've got something alright" her iconic smile growing on her face seeing the potential.

"Hayate!" Angel called out as she lobbed the ball towards him. Once received, Hayate portalled through Satori and Kusaki, and was through for the final showdown against Taro.

"Okay mind-reader" Hayate said, a cunning smile growing on his face, 'read THIS!' He thought.

Hayate pictured Lt Hopu in his mind, her curvaceous figure wearing a highly immodest bikini giving seductive eyes. His nose bled a little mid-thought.

"Aaaah!" Taro screamed disgusted, "how vulgar! He's too close! The image is too clear!" Taro deactivated his quirk, and relaxed knowing he wouldn't have to stare at 'it' any longer. But now he had lost his main defence and couldn't tell exactly where Hayate was going to shoot. But he could read body language, as he did with Angel. Hayate took the final shot... but Taro read it! He dove in the right direction! The ball was on its way to reach his gloves...

And another thin black wall appeared near the goal. The ball bounced right off it and landed right into the goal!

Yellow blew the final whistle, its was over! "Victory to the Blue Team! 2-1!" She exclaimed.

The Blue team celebrated! Happy cheering erupted from all of them! Hayate clamped himself onto Mira again "We did it buddy! We did it!" He cried. Sei gave the entire team a bear hug, which was pretty uncomfortable since it felt like they were getting trash compacted.

The White team made their way over to the Blues to congratulate them. "It was a great match" Taro said, "I never would have thought up something... so obscene! A genius move!" He pushed up his spectacles acknowledging Hayate.

Okoma brooded in the back, staring at Mira with intense fury, "I'll crush you next time Mira" he mumbled.

"What did you do to get Taro to react like that anyway?" Mira asked curiously.

"Oooooohh... it's probably best if you don't know" Hayate answered and the two friends joined back in with the cheering.

"That was a wonderful game everyone" Ms Red said, "you all showed us that you have a good understanding of your quirks, it looks like some of you have found ways to improve it, with super moves, but the things that impressed us all the most was your teamwork and how you all covered each other's weaknesses."

"Looks like its gonna be a fun 3 years with this class!" Ms Yellow stated.

"Your introduction day is over everyone, you can all just make your way back to the dorms now." Ms Blue informed.

Heights Alliance

"That was great!" Sei exclaimed, relaxing on the couch "U.A is so amazing!"

"I know right!" Satori said, "to be honest, I thought we'd just do boring introduction lessons."

Amongst all the chat, Mira approached Oma who was just watching the TV, appearing to be in his own world. "Sup Oma, how's Daigo doing?" Mira asked, acquiring Oma's attention,

"He's doing good, he'll be back tomorrow, but for now he's sleeping at infirmary."

Mira sighed, relieved to know his classmate was ok, we continued, "I just wanted to know, was it you who put that red 4 on my shirt? I wanted to show it to ya, but it vanished after the game."

"Oh yeah dude" Oma replied coolly, "that's just how my quirk, Gambit, works. I touched you with my left hand when you ran past me and my quirk was activated - you see, my quirk has the ability to change somebody's luck, for better or worse."

"In my case - worse, definitely worse" Mira added and the two laughed.

"You gotta admit, you falling flat on your butt was kinda funny though" Oma said.

A couple hours later

Most of the other students returned to their rooms to unpack their stuff and decorate their new rooms, Mira didn't have much so he just stayed downstairs, laying on the couch.

'It's all so crazy' he thought to himself, staring blankly at the ceiling, 'I thought for sure that I was just going to go to some deadbeat high school after finishing my sentence at the MJCF - and, now I'm here! Learning to be a hero with my best friend at one of the best hero academies in the world.'

Soon a head introduced itself into Mira view, he looked, seeing it was Angel's, "I just finished unpacking, you wanna see?" She asked.

Accepting the offer, Mira followed Angel into her room. It looked like the general room everyone got:

Immediately after entering there was a wardrobe to the left, filled with expensive clothes, and a glass sliding door at the end of the room that leads out to the veranda, with a yellow desk with a lamp that was filled with stationary just before the glass door so she could do homework and get a nice view of the school. And the en-suite bathroom was immediately to the right once you enter. To the right of the desk and behind the bathroom was a king sized bed with a bedside table and lamp. And finally next to the bed was a shelf attached to the wall with tons of photos and storybooks.

Once in the room, Mira looked at her desk, seeing a super high-end laptop, with the word 'Sora' engraved on the front in italic silver. Something clicked in Mira, he was wondering where he had heard the name 'Sora' before and he remembered, "Angel?" Mira asked, "Is your dad..."

She sighed, sad at her friend's revelation, "yes..." she walked over to her shelf and took a framed photo off it. It was a family photo with Angel as a little kid standing proudly next to a large man with neat white hair and dark blue eyes in the centre. He was Mamoru Sora, the owner and CEO of Sora Industries, one of the largest technology manufacturers in the country - they designed TVs, computers, even aeroplanes!

"Woah.." Mira uttered. But suddenly Mira was shocked to see that tears were welling up in Angel's eyes, "wait, what's wrong Angel?"

"I'm sorry," she replied, wiping her eyes "I just... I... really don't like people knowing about that." She slumped onto her bed, "In my old school, many knew about my family, so I had many 'friends', I thought I was being a good friend by helping all of them out with 'favours' like getting candy or some tech... I was just being used. And once I realised this and started to say no - then they all left."

Mira came and comforted his friend, hugging her, he whispered, "Angel, I promise, you ain't a piggybank, you're my friend - and I'll always treat you as such."

"Thanks Mira" she responded softly.

"Hey Angel! come down stairs we're all going to get dinner at the- eeeeek!" Mira and Angel turned to see Yokina staring at the two, red in the face. Immediately she walked out the room embarrassed, "oh my god! it's the first day and you two are already couple!"

Angel separated from Mira and chased after her yelling, "it's not what it looks like! We're just friends!" Mira clenched his chest, feeling the pain of being friend-zoned.

He chuckle to himself, and got up "this is it... my hero academia! Lets make the best of these years!" a content smile spread across his face as he joined 1-A downstairs.