Earlier
Taro, Kye and Oma hastily made their way through the forest. Taro switched on his earpiece, establishing communication with their fourth teammate, "Angel, have you caught sight of anything up there?"
"Yes..." Angel replied, hovering over the grounds, "it's Yokina's team, it looks like they're planning something, but they're just standing there."
"Alright, we're making our way over now" Taro responded.
Once the four regrouped, they began to watch their opponents stealthily from the bushes. Yokina's team were huddled together out in the open, discussing their next move in this Battle Royale.
"They're wide open, a surprise attack could work if we're fast enough" Kye suggested.
"No, not yet..." Taro whispered, "for all we know, they could just be Shin's illusions." He moved a bit closer, focusing his gaze on the team in front of him.
When Taro used his quirk, Mind Reader, the thoughts of others appeared to him almost like the thought bubbles you would see in a comic or manga. But instead of words, a video would play, allowing Taro to easily visualise his opponents plans and ideas. The closer he got to the bubble, the clearer the video he would see.
But no bubbles were appearing from the top of any of their heads! 'Dammit! They're all illusions" Taro concluded. His quirk only worked on humans, he couldn't see the thoughts of his pet cat lounging around, or what his pens and pencils thought of him after being used for 8 hours of diligent study and revision.
But before he could even turn around to tell his allies of the trap set before them...
A powerful force slammed right into each of them. "What?!" Taro mumbled, stunned that they had been caught, "who could've even done this?"
The four eventually landed on the ground, but couldn't get up! Something was gluing them to the ground! Four grand leaves folded around them, encasing them all in a vibrant green bulb.
"This is Yokina's web" Angel stated, futilely trying her best to unwrap herself.
"Well... looks like we got played at our own game" Oma added, not even attempting to struggle.
"Don't worry, I'll burn us outta here!" Kye stated, already heating up a section of the trap.
Unfortunately he and the others were unable to notice a faint, pink vapour arising from where Kye was melting. Suddenly, Kye felt something fall on his right shoulder. He looked to see it was Angel! Lying fast asleep on his right shoulder! "H-huh?!, Angel!" He cried out blushing slightly.
"I guess I should tell you..." a voice said from outside the trap. The remaining three matched the chipper, excited voice to Yokina. "I line my webs with a teeny bit of my own poison. It vaporises pretty easily, and makes you fall asleep for a couple hours. Enjoy the Zs!"
"Dammit... I'm sorry... guys" Kye muttered just before tapping out himself, cooling his hand down and resting his head on Angel's.
Taro could see Oma was already asleep, "a genius move... I just wish we... could've done... more."
And Taro's team was out.
Yokina returned to her team victorious, but it was cut short once seeing her teammate.
Daigo was sprawled on the floor, groaning out and in a lot of discomfort.
Kusaki stretched her stem-green hand out over the grass, and a beautiful bundle of purplish-pink, hooked flowers. She uprooted the fully grown plant and cleaned off it roots. "Here, it's Devils Claw, its dark roots will heal your soul and body."
Daigo chewed slowly on the root. "T-thanks..." he replied weakly.
Kusaki looked down at him. She knew that Daigo's quirk was really powerful and useful, but she hated that her classmate had to endure such agony after using it. And she knew that Yokina was feeling the exact same way.
Daigo began to move a bit more, picking himself up after a few minutes of recuperation. "A-Alright, I think we're good to go now."
"Are you sure?" Yokina asked, "we can spare a few more minutes, if you want."
Daigo shook his head, "nah, we've gotta get going! For all we know, there could just be one team left!"
Kusaki and Yokina smiled, happy their friend was back to their overly eager attitude.
"Finally, I'll be able to show off even more of my spectacular illusions!!" Shin added. "Just like this one, right?!" He asked looking to his comrades.
"Oh... y-yeah!" Yokina replied, not quite sure herself, "it was an excellent diversion."
But she was startled as Shin raced right up to her face. "Oh nonono! It mustn't be 'excellent'." He replied as he back off to dramatically turn again, "it must be - STUPEFY..."
But as he turned, he saw the other three walking off to prepare their next trap. "H-Hey!!" He cried out, chasing after them.
Elsewhere
"Ai... AI!!!"
"No, this is all wrong... it's all my fault."
"Why did I do this!!!"
"Kori... hello?.. KORI!" A voice boomed.
"What?!" Kori barked as she awoke from her daydream.
"We spotted Yokina's team" Sei replied, pointing behind himself.
"Aizawa-Sensei probably put them together since their quirks are so good at laying traps" Mira added, "we gotta be cautious, or they'll take us out before we even reach them."
"Hey! Check this out guys" said Hayate, pointing at the ground.
It was a trap, a large spider web was surrounded by numerous binding vines attached to a large tree, instantly capturing and tying up anyone who dared set foot on it.
"Nice!" Said Mira, "we can cause the trap to spring prematurely, and once they come over to check up on it, we'll catch them by surprise!"
Hayate turned to Kori excitedy, "yeah! And Kori can easily move something into the trap without even getting close to it!"
"Hmph... whatever" Kori answered, coldly as usual. She stretched out her arm towards a big rock resting by a tree trunk, and her eyes lit up bright purple. Suddenly the rock began to float in the air, and drift slowly over towards the centre of the trap.
POOF! The moment the rock landed, the entire trap exploded into blue smoke! Through the chaos of the team's coughing and wheezing, they didn't notice that the real trap was beig sprung right under their feet.
The four were scooped up by an even larger web, immediately wrapped into a large bag. "No way!!" Hayate whined, "I can't believe we got tricked like that!"
"Can't you portal us out of here?" Asked Sei.
"No, I can only make portals to places I can see, so there's no portal out of this one" Hayate answered sadly.
Mira could hear a group celebrating outside. "Woohoo! We did it!" Yokina exclaimed.
"Were we victorious?" Kusaki asked.
"Hell yeah we are!!" Daigo yelled.
"What a spectacular victory" Shin added.
"Heh, perfect... they're right where we want them." Mira muttered.
"What do you have in mind Mira?" Hayate added.
"Get behind me" Mira stated. Once they were, he put his Black Knight Armour back on, infusing it with energy, until it glowed dark purple. 'Lets see if this thing can handle the Buster Spec!' Mira thought as he swung his fist into the wall of the web.
Yokina's team's celebration was cut short with a deafening blast. As Mira and the rest hopped right out of the trap.
Back to his original armour, Mira got into a battle position along with his team, "it was a good shot, but it ain't over yet!!"
"Crap.." Yokina muttered, as she and her teammates also prepared for the final fight.
"Don't worry" Daigo replied, "we've still got the advantage."
Mira's team began the attack, charging at the opponents. However, Yokina and the others responded by fleeing to the trees, avoiding all attacks from Mira's team.
"What?!" Hayate yelled out.
"We can't let them run away!" Sei stated.
"Run away?" Yokina replied, still hidden from sight "hehehe - we're planning on ending this right now!"
A white rope suddenly attached itself to Sei's arm, immediately dragging him up into the air to receive a punch to the face from Yokina, sending him crashing back down.
Mira barely got a glimpse of Yokina before she disappeared back into the foliage. "Sei, you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah... damn, she hits pretty hard." Sei replied, rubbing his dented metal skull.
The barrage of sneaky attacks continued, Shin set up fake clones to bait, then Daigo would appear for the real attack. Yokina and Kusaki could easily snare the team from afar or pull them in for their own attack. Their chemistry was amazing, each of them used each others physical abilities and quirks to improve their own attacks.
Though Mira's team were able to catch them out occasionally, they were on the back foot.
"If only we could do something about these trees!" Said Hayate , "they're getting way too much cover with them!"
"Actually... I have an idea!" Sei replied, he brought his fists together, and a long metal cylinder was ejected from each of his elbows. He placed his fists on the ground, "alright, lets test out Dr Sakusei's new modification, Piston Shot!!"
The cylinders immediately descended back into Sei's arms, and a grand shockwave was set out around the area. The quake tore apart the artificial ground - trees toppled over one after another, reducing a massive area of forest back to flat land.
"When on earth did you get that Sei?!!" Hayate yelled out, stunned by the large-scale destruction.
"Father really loves testing out his new ideas on me" Sei replied, slightly embarrassed.
"We've lost our element of surprise!" Shin stated, "we can't beat them on even terms."
"Don't worry I've got one last idea" Daigo replied, whispering something to Yokina.
"Alright, just give me as much time as possible." She responded, and she fled the fight quickly hopping across the fallen trees.
"We've taken away their advantage" Mira said, "lets take them down!!"
However, Daigo and his team replied to their opponents assault by again running away! "We just gotta stall for time!" Daigo stated, " make sure you keep them at a safe distance!"
"C'mon! They just keep on running away!!" Hayate whined.
"We've gotta pursue them" Sei replied, "no point losing them now."
The seven darted all over the fallen forest, with Kusaki's vines and Shins illusion smoke keeping the four chasers from getting too close.
"Arrgh!! Thats enough!!" Hayate exclaimed, too annoyed with the endless chase to continue with it, and pointed directly at the other team.
"Woah! Woah! What the-" said Kusaki, but they were moving to fast to stop.
Hayate had sent out a huge portal in front of the runners. They ran in and fell to the ground right in front of him and the others.
"It's over..." Kori stated nonchalantly, as she and the others surrounded the three, "just give up."
Daigo snickered, "give up? If you really think it's over, you'll be sorry.."
"Wait a second... where's Yokina?" Sei asked, finally noticing that they had only been chasing three.
The sound of footsteps speeding over towards them made Mira and the others turn around. Yokina bolted over at an incredible speed, using all her energy to jump high into the air over her attackers.
She drew her arm back in midair to release a huge web above Mira's team, it was her super move - Hunter's Web. But before it could even get close, Kori held the web up in the air and flung it away.
The commotion above gave the rest of Yokina's team ample time to escape, scrambling away from the distracted team, and rejoining Yokina.
"Is it ready?" Daigo asked.
Yokina nodded, "are you sure that you're okay with doing this? There must be another way to win."
Daigo gave no response, but instead smiled and looked up to the sky - reminiscing.
2 years ago
Gotame Middle School
"Alright class, does anyone have any ideas for future careers?" The teacher asked.
Immediately, Daigo stood up from his seat, smiling confidently. "I wanna be a hero!!" He exclaimed.
The class erupted into laughter, as Daigo timidly fell back into his seat.
One of the classmates spoke up, "haha, you think you can be a hero Daigo? You can't even use your quirk without blowing chunks all over the place!"
"Who knows, maybe he can be the Vomit Hero: Pukepal!" Another one said.
The thundering laughter and painful insults only made Daigo feel smaller and smaller.
"That's enough class!!" The teacher boomed, ashamed of their behaviour. "Daigo, that's a wonderful idea, once you get enough practice with your quirk, you'll be an amazing hero."
Musutafu City
"I can do it..." Daigo mumbled as he walked along the red brick walkway. 'I'll master my quirk and be the best hero ever!!' He thought.
"one day..."
The sound of metal clanging rang through the air, Daigo looked up to see a couple large metal bars falling from the top of a building, and they were about to land on someone!
"No!! Stop!!" Daigo cried out, fearful for the event to come.
And then, the world froze.
"Huh? What's going on?" Daigo said, completely confused.
Everything had stop moving, the cars on the street, the metal bars descending on the civilian, even the hero about to save said civilian!
"I... I can help him!" Daigo yelled, as he ran over and pulled him away from the disaster.
Time suddenly began to flow again, and the metals crashed onto the walkway.
Daigo was exhausted - but, he wasn't vomiting! He was alright, he controlled his quirk!
The civilian looked to him, and Daigo looked up to see a large white mouse-person looking at him - it was Nezu, and he was almost speechless.
"My my, thank you dear child!" Said Nezu grabbing Daigo's hand and shaking it frantically, "that may have been my final moments there if it weren't for you!"
"D-don't sweat it, I just wanted to help" Daigo replied, still tired out. But he was surprised when a bright yellow business card was handed over to him.
Nezu smiled warmly, "You're exactly the kind of person we need in this day and age, if you ever feel up for it, don't hesitate to call" And he walked off.
Daigo turned the card around and saw the big blue initials, "U.A..."
He gasped, "NO WAY!!!" He exclaimed.
Present
'That was the only time I was able to control my quirk...' Daigo thought to himself, he looked back to Yokina, "Trust me... if this works, we will win."
Yokina nodded again and smiled, "We already do Daigo... so let's win it!"
"YEAH!!" The rest of the team replied.
Kusaki planted her hands on the bark of the tree they were on. Large vines erupted from underneath Mira's team, and they all hopped over to a trunk on their left.
Now completely on the defensive, Mira and the others continued to evade the monstrous plant, getting pushed further and further away from the opponents.
As they fled, a vine wrapped itself around Mira's leg. But before it could drag him in, Sei's Piston Shot tore a massive hole in the vine, freeing his teammate.
"Phew, thanks for the save" Mira said.
"Don't worry about it, instead let's worry about how to stop this thing" Sei replied pointing at the creature.
"I've got something..." Mira muttered, breaking off a branch to form a longsword. It glowed with his signature dark purple hue, 'I haven't got to use this in a while' he thought.
He swung the sword sideways, and the vines were slashed apart instantly. "Half-Moon!" Mira yelled out, as giants pieces of plant crashed onto the ground.
"My mystical ruse was successful" Kusaki stated over the earpiece.
"Awesome! I'm in position..." Daigo responded, "let's finish this..." Daigo took a deep breath, closing his eyes and focusing his mind. Once they reopened, everything had stopped.
Daigo hopped quickly over to the four opponents, "if Yokina got it right..." he mumbled, then swiftly delivered a chop to the back of Mira, Hayate and Kori's necks, and punched all of them. Yokina had given him some webbing charges to mess up Sei's rockets, which he quickly applied.
"They'll land right into our mega trap!" Daigo exclaimed, and time continued.
Mira, Hayate, Sei and Kori went flying! And were about to land in a massive pit, filled with a huge web.
"Dammit! Dammit!!!" Sei raged, as his rockets failed to ignite, he looked to his teammates, they were all unconscious! Slowly diving into the trap, "nonono!! We're gonna lose!!"
"Ai... AI!! Wake up!... please..." a sobbing child whimpered, she was holding someone tightly, they were bruised all over and covered in blood. "Big Sis... you're all I have..."
The sound of slow footsteps echoed through the blurry red room, "well done Kori!!" A ecstatic motherly voice rang out, "Mama is so proud of you!"
"We knew that you were the one Kori" another voice stated, this time more manly and fatherly, "you are our child after all.."
"Well done Kori" they repeated in unison, "you're our family's little marvelous..."
"Murderer."
Kori floated aimlessly through the endless black space of her psyche.
"No."
"I am not your tool anymore..." Kori muttered, " I have my own choices, my own goals, my own..."
"Friends" As she remembered Mira's words.
"I swore on that day, I would bring you all to justice. So until I reach that goal..."
"I CAN'T LOSE!! NOT TO ANYONE!!"
Kori woke up, her eyes glowed even brighter than usual, she sent her arm out and a released a powerful air blast from her palm, breaking apart the giant web that nearly trapped them all.
The resulting pressure forced all of them right up high into the sky, and woke up Mira and Hayate.
"Guys you're back!!!" Sei exclaimed happily.
"we really cut it close didn't we?" Hayate added, grinning cheekily and portalled everyone back to the ground.
"Impossible..." Kusaki mumbled, "they even overcame Daigo's quirk?"
"Damn..." Daigo mumbled watching their opponents make their way back to them, he snickered, "they really are... something... special." And started to fall, but was quickly caught by Kusaki's vine.
"Daigo... your attempt truly was, stupefying..." Shin muttered.
"You tried your best to win for us..." Yokina stated, "but now it's our turn!!"
Mira team finally got close enough, "you ready, Yokina?" Mira asked smiling eagerly, as his team readied their battle stance.
"Bring it!" She replied, and the two teams charged into each other to commence the final battle.
They both gave it their absolute best, pushing everything they had to their limits. But Mira's team had the advantage in numbers and raw battle talent, easily pushing past the web attacks, illusions and vines.
"Take this!!" Shin announced, as he used his super move - Myriad Illusion to produce thousands of clones.
The charge was frightening, but Mira was ready, "I just gotta take them out all at once right?" He asked as he drew his sword back. It twisted into a scythe, "Black Crescent!!" He yelled as he flung the Shadow Matter of his scythe, cutting through the army of Shin illusions, and taking out Shin with the explosion.
"S-spectacular.." he muttered before passing out.
Kusaki and Yokina kept the rest of the team away, fighting with vine beasts and web traps.
Yokina shot a web at Hayate's eyes, and grabbed him, and pulling him straight towards herself, and delivered a strong kick to his side, sending him crashing right into a large oak tree.
"You're right Sei, she does hit hard..." Hayate muttered, slowly recovering from the attack.
Sei used his piston shot to blow another hole right into the centre of Kusaki's vine beast, which allowed Kori to follow up with a psychic blast through it, causing Kusaki, Yokina and the creature to get knocked off balance, all toppling over into a huge heap.
"Uuuggghh..." they groaned together, defeated under the mass of vines.
The battle was finally over: Mira, Hayate, Sei and Kori were the victors.
The sirens blared, as Aizawa spoke monotonously on the speaker, "alright, the battle is over, the winning team get back to the entrance, the medic team will recover everyone else."
On their way back, Hayate and Mira high-fived, victoriously. "Dude, we did it!! That was so awesome!!" Hayate blared out happily.
"Yeah, but we almost lost it right then and there, with that attack from Daigo" Mira added, he looked back to Kori, who was quietly walking behind the three boys.
"Actually, I had been meaning to ask about that, since I was the only other person to see it" Sei stated, "what was that power you emitted Kori?"
She just sighed, "I'll be honest, I have absolutely no idea." She looked down at her hand, and clenched it into a fist, "I just, suddenly overflowed with power."
"Sounds like some anime" Hayate joked, "but seriously if it weren't for that we'd probably still be getting scraped up by the medic team right now."
Outside Ground Delta
The class was over, and 1-A were returning back to the changing rooms. "Man... I can't believe we lost our first fight!" Kye exclaimed, frantically scratching his head.
"And I can't believe you made me punch my brother like that Hayate!!" Satori wailed.
"I said sorry like a hundred times to both you and Satoru, gimme a break already" Hayate replied, but Satori was still fuming.
Mira laughed, 'this class is awesome...' he thought, as he saw Kori still walking alone at the back of the group.
He made his way over to her, "so, are you a slow walker or do you just like walking alone?" Mira joked.
But Kori stayed stone-faced as usual.
"Alright, jokes are really Hayate's thing anyway, but are you at least okay with us trying to get a bit more friendly with you now?" He asked.
Kori just responded with a sigh, and walked faster to get to the front of the group.
"Did you fail again?" Hayate jeered.
"Well, she didn't say 'don't bother' this time." Mira replied smirking.
2 weeks later
Gym Beta
"Final lesson boys..." said Bushido, "let's see what you've gained from your month in hell!"
He charged them, and they scattered, surrounding the Pro Hero. He grinned, "You've tried this before, just because you have greater numbers..."
And in a flash appeared right in front of Mira! "Doesn't always mean you have an advantage!" And he swung he fist down onto the boy.
"Sei! Now!!" Mira exclaimed.
Bushido turned to his right to see the results of the threes scheme. Sei's fists were planted on the ground, with the pistons released he sent out a smaller shockwave that last time, but it still through Bushido off balance, just barely missing the swing on Mira's face.
The moment this happened, they all charged in, Sei slammed his piston fist into Bushido's to right side. Hayate portalled Bushido's own fist, making him punch his own face, as well as delivering his own blow to the left. And Mira took the center with his Buster Spec sending out a mighty punch right to his gut.
Bushido gasped for air, being winded and completely stunned. And then paused.
"Hehe...hahaha...AHAHAHAHAHA!!!" He laughed, and then shook them all off instantly, hitting each of them multiple times at once with powerful fists, causing each of them to slam hard into a wall.
"Wonderful... absolutely amazing!! In this short time, you all were finally able to land a good hit on me!!" Bushido exclaimed with a bright grin plastered on his face. "You've all learned so much, and now... you're all excellent fighters."
He made his way to the large yellow door, "good luck to all of you on your path."
Mira, Hayate and Sei looked over at him in disbelief, but they understood the grandeur of their accomplishment. The three bowed in upmost respect towards their teacher.
"Thank you, Bushido-Sensei!!" They exclaimed.
Their punishment was over, and they came out even stronger than before.
