Chapter 27: 2 vs [ZA WARUDO]

"What did we miss?" Himiko asked as she sat beside Inko, Eri jumped from her seat to hug her grandmother.

"They just announced the Cavalry Battle and the point system, hehe, how is it going sweetheart?" Hisashi chuckled as Eri wrapped her arms around Hisashi.

"Really good! I'm ready to see dad" Even she didn't show a smile, she radiated happiness something that not too long ago was hard to feel.

"You better get ready, things are about to get exciting!"

"I don't know if I want to watch this..." Inko was trembling, yes, her son barely fought in the previous event however, she knew that this was going to be different.

"He is going to be fine, Izu is the strongest person that I know" Himiko tried to calm her down, she knew this was going to be tuff for her.

"Mom, how strong is dad?" Eri asked her curiously, she hasn't seen him in action.

"The strongest in The World" Himiko smiled.


"Dammit! No one wants to be with me!" Izuku was sitting on the ground trying to recover as much energy as possible before the next event. "Those ten million scares everyone from being my partner, but they don't scare them from going after me." He could feel the eyes of most OF U.A'S students looking down at him. "They're going to force someone to partner with me, so I shouldn't be too worried, I can do most of the heavy work..." His upper body slowly moved up and down, his breathing was slow. "Or so I hope, as great as having a limit of 4 seconds is, it's not going to help me if I can't use it" He let his entire body hit the ground. What can he do? Rest is all he can do, he closed his eyes as the warmth of the sun felt like an amazing blanket until a shadow took away that blanket.

"HEY!, DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON ME!" A loud feminine voice interrupted his not a nap, moment.

"Wha-" Izuku opened his eyes, and a pair of googles stared back,

"The name is Mei Hatsume from the Support Class, my quirk is called zoom, I can see clearly up to 5 kilometers! Now that you know me! Let me be your partner!" Izuku stood up after hearing those words, his energy came back 10 fold.

Mei lifted her goggles and kept ongoing, "You have the ten million right! That means the attention is going to be on you! and if I'm your partner I can use that attention so that the big companies can see my babies!" Izuku tilted his face confused.

"Babies?" Mei noticed his confusion and explained

"That's what I call my inventions! Look!" All types of objects were inside of a bag she had. "I want to show them off, especially now that THE Speedwagon Foundation is here!"

"Are you going to show all this off, now!?" He didn't know what most of this stuff did but it looked cool.

"Nope, some of that is for the one-on-ones"

"If it's going to be only the two of us, then we are going to need all of the help we can" Izuku tried to convince Mei, it didn't seem to work.

"I have to be able to sell this idea to as many big companies as possible if I want to impress The SPW! I have a plan to use speakers to sell this to the big companies when I make it to the tournament." Izuku didn't want to waste too much energy in this section, he knew that there was a stand user here, that was his concern, the more energy he saved the better. He knew what he needed to do, hopefully, this doesn't backfire, besides Mr. Zeppeli did teach him to use all the cards, he had.

"How about this, I know the head of The Speed Wagon Foundation Japan personally, and I can get you an interview with him, for free so you can sell your ideas to him."

Mei was shocked, did she hear that right, no way! Her luck can't be that good! But if it was... everyone in Support wants to work for the SPW, it's known that they have the best partners and success rates from this century in the world. It was too good to be true.

"How do I know you're not lying, I'm willing to use people, so how do I know that you're not using me and lying."

"That is very fair! Your quirk is zoom, right? Well look over there" He pointed at the top of the stadium where the investors were, at a very specific window.

"Okay..." She used her quirk to look at where he was pointing, he was pointing at a man, that had a checkered top hat and a really fancy white suit using binoculars to look down at the stadium. "That hat! That suit! That Mustache! How did he know where he was, how was he able to see him!" She looked at Midoriya "What is your quirk!? How could you see him!"

"Sorry, that's a secret" She shook her head, that was not enough! She needed more

"That proves nothing" She was hard to convince so he thought of a better plan.

"Ok, I'm going to tell him to hold 2 fingers, then 4, then 1" Midoriya summoned his stand and made him wave at Mr. Zeppeli, Zeppeli noticed and waved back.

"Ok, made contact know how to do this?" [ZA WARUDO] pointed at his right arm, and slowly lifted it, then he pointed at himself and pointed back at Zeppeli. Zeppeli seemed to understand what was happening and lifted his right arm. [ZA WARUDO] held two of his fingers, and Zeppeli did the same, he then held 4, again Zeppeli mimicked, and last he held 1, and so did Zeppeli. Izuku smiled

"Is that enough proof Hatsume?" Her mouth was wide opened, she used her hand to close it before a bug got in, she smiled with excitement,

"Please call me Mei!"

"Of course Mei"

"Now tell me your name please"

"Izuku Midoriya!"

"Well can I call you Izuku?"

"Huh? Yea?"

"Because I feel like this is the beginning of a beautiful and long-lasting partnership!" She wrapped one of her arms around his neck and brought him closer to her maybe a bit too close, his head was almost touching her chest. Mei felt a weird presence looking at her she felt as if someone was passing a knife through her stomach, She shrugged and thought nothing of it.


"Oh, she is going to diiiiieeeeee~ Better watch what she was doing!" Her insane smile was well hidden by a face of indifference, but her aura was enough to give her away.

Eri who was currently sitting on Himiko's lap looked up, confused about why her mom was angry, "Mom, what happened?" Himiko smiled sweetly at her curious child.

"Nothing is wrong, It's just that this is taking too long, and mom wants to see dad in action!" For Eri this was a good enough and answer, her face shifted to one of anger, but rather than looking evil it looked adorable. "I want to see dad too!"

Hisashi was grinning like a wild man, he tried to surpass his laughter but this was too much for the fire-breather, and a chuckle escaped his mouth. Himiko turned her head in an instant her lower body stood still while her neck moved. ゴゴゴゴ "What's so funny Mr. Midoriya?"ゴゴゴゴ Like magic, he turned serious,

"I saw someone trip and fall on the other side of the stadium," He avoided Himiko's gaze.

剽 剽 剽"You must have pretty good eyes, Mr. Midoriya, "剽 剽 剽

"Thanks, I-I got from my mom's side"

"That's nice" Her head snapped back at a normal angle.

"Oh, Thank God! I think I should have a talk with Izu after this"


"Teams are ready! Now everybody, join the countdown! 3,2,1! GO!"


"What's the plan!?" Hatsumei was riding on Midoriya's back, both of them had different equipment attached to them.

"We evade, we dodge, and we survive." Izuku knew that this wasn't going to be a fight to get more points, but a survival challenge. In no time at all, he was already being attacked by a quirk, from Tetsutetsu's team

"What the!?" The ground beneath his feet started to softened, He couldn't move and [ZA WARUDO] couldn't do anything to escape, he needs to create an impact to be able to Stand leap. "Get ready Mei! We're blasting off!"

"Let's go!" She yelled as Midoriya activated the jet-pack allowing them to escape through the air.

"Amazing! The power behind this is incredible!" Izuku praised Hatsumei's invention.

"I know! My babies are the best! Watch our left!" The sensor for the hydraulic attachments made a noise to indicate that someone was attacking from below, Midoriya summoned his stand to defend them from a pair of jacks, he slapped away with ease. "Trying to hit me from a blind spot? Very Smart, Jiro"


"And Everyone is going after the ten million!" The loud voice of an excited blonde came through the speakers.

"Predictable, someone is going to take advantage of those too distracted by the ten million"

"Rookie mistake! Man, you're good at commentary! Wanna be in my podcast?"

"No"


"Dammit! If it wasn't for that sensor, I could've bypass [ZA WARUDO]" Jiro then noticed something, she saw a hand reach for Hagakure's headband, she used her jacks to hold the arm in place. "Nice try... I recognize you! You're that melodramatic guy who stopped us from leaving class the other day!" Jiro pointed out

"The name is Monoma, and I still apologize for that." Jiro and Monoma's teams were at a standoff.

"After seeing you getting slapped, apology accepted" Monoma smirked at Jiro's words

"And also for this" Jiro's eyes turned blank

"Trip" Monoma commanded and Jiro did as told unwillingly, she took a step forward and fell, making everyone lose balance, as Hagakure's team went down Monoma grabbed their band and walked away.


"As expected. Team Monoma was the smart team that took a chance from those looking to take the 10M"

"And team Hagukare almost were able to counter! Too bad Monoma's team was ready to defend! It's almost like a game of chess! Got to be a step ahead!


Midoriya and Mei made a nice landing thanks to Mei's boots.

"Wow! All of these babies are basically quirks!" Izuku praised Hatsume's creations

"Yes! I know! Even a quirkless person could hold their ground against someone with a quirk"

"Yea" He answer with a sad smile, remembering his past, now he needed to get that interview for Mr. Zeppeli for sure. The sensor activated again, and the hydraulic attachments extended and moved away from danger. Izuku snapped from his thoughts, and thanks to the auto-balancer he landed with ease. He looked for what activated the sensors and noticed a small purple ball on the ground.

"Mineta! but from where?" The only people he saw were Shoji and the silver hair guy's team. Mei used her quirk to look at Shoji and learned their strategy.

"There are two people on top of him, inside the tent he made, it's a short kid and the frog girl." A massive wave of purple balls came his way, and a large tongue tried to reach for the headband, [ZA WARUDO] grabbed it and held it. "Mei fly us!" She activated the jet-pack and started going upwards. Izuku let go of the tongue as soon as Tsuyu came out of the manmade tent.

"OVER HERE!" Bakugo yelled as he flew across the arena faster than ever.

"[ZA WARUDO]" He called his stand to defend himself from the upcoming attack. Bakugo put his hands forwards and used quirk to create a large explosion, it was weak but it worked to create a large smokescreen

"NOW! All Three" Bakugo called the rest of his team to attack. Hatsume's sensors picked someone attacking them from behind and below

"Let yourselves be smothered by my shadow!" Tokoyami sent Dark Shadow forward, trying to get the headband, Midoriya tried to counter-attack the living shadow but was stopped thanks to another explosion from Bakugo who was thrown back by his own attack, Uraraka was coming from below trying to reach his leg.

"We're getting hit from every direction!" Mei didn't know what to do, the jet-pack is the only thing that worked in the air. Izuku saw no other option but to use.

"[ZA WARUDO]"


"That was a well-coordinated plan. Bakugo used Uraraka's quirk to gain more speed then created an explosion to make a smokescreen, allowing Tokoyami's Dark Shadow to go for the headband, and if it that failed Uraraka would go for it, instead"

"But even with that amazing plan, they failed at capturing the only duo! What's up with that kid's quirk! It does everything!"

"His quirk [ZA WARUDO] is mostly a mystery, in part thanks to Midoriya. He knows that having your quirk be unknown will always give you an upper hand"

"WHY DID I NEVER THINK OF THAT!"

"Because you're too loud and you never think"

"Hey, that's mean Shota," He said quietly


Mei heard the scream of Midoriya and all of a sudden they were back in the ground far away from all other teams, she blinked taking a second to re-adjust at the change of scenery, "What the hell? How?" She looked down at the person carrying her. "This is impossible! No one can have this many abilities with a single quirk! Flight? Force fields? Teleportation? No level of psychokinesis can possibly give you all of these powers!"

Midoriya laughed, "And to believe I'm still quirkless!" Mei knew she was crazy, but this guy was beyond insane.

"What the fuck do you mean quirkless!? YOU'RE THE OPPOSITE OF THAT"

"There are other things in the world that can give powers. once you start working for the SPW, you'll understand"

"What did I sign up for? Whatever it is! My babies will always be on top"

Midoriya looked ahead and saw people getting closer.

"Wait a minute... is that Denki in Todoroki's team, that's not good!"

"Why?"

"His quirk is one of the few that can put me down in one go! We gotta fly!" He tried to activate the jet-pack, but it didn't work.

"It took some damage from that guy's explosion!" Denki discharged a large amount of electricity to stun the rest of the team near them, Shoto then froze them in place while creating ice around the Hatsume team, now there was only a direct path between Todoroki and Midoriya. Izuku summoned his stand to leap away, but before he hit the ground [ZA WARUDO] caught something in his hand, Izuku looked at what it was and yelled, "MEI CLOSE YOUR EY-!" A bright flash came from Midoriya's hand, the light blinded the both of them, their ears started to ring. Izuku couldn't focus enough to stop time, he had to wait just a moment, he blinked a couple of times until he was able to see, he only had enough time to realize that he was inside an ice sphere, before feeling electricity going throughout his entire body. In just mere seconds, Mei and Midoriya lost their 1st place.


"OH MY GOD!" DID YOU SEE THAT! IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE TEAM HATSUME LOST THEIR LEAD WHAT HAPPENED?"

"Someone was hiding their ability to come up with a plan."


"What just happened?" Mei asked she was the first one to recover from Kaminari's attack, thanks to stuff usually blowing up in her face.

"Denki, Denki just happened." Midoriya smiled even if his friend was the one who hurt him. "He came up with that plan of attack, he knew what my weaknesses were and took advantage of them, hehe, and everyone thinks he's stupid."

"Are you done praising your friend? That asshole just broke all of my babies! We need to do something to get those points back" She pointed her finger at the fleeting Todoroki team.

"No their too far away." He looked around him, everyone who was ready to attack him turned their back at them. "That teleporting thing I can do will only get us so close to them, and I bet they're ready to counter-attack with something." He pointed at another team that was close to them. "We are getting those!" He leaped breaking part of the ice wall to reach Kendo's team who were in the middle of a fight with Bakugo's team, and it seemed as if half of class 1-B was attacking them

"Their points should be enough to get us to the top ten at least!" Midoriya looked at the other team's points.

"Yes, they are! All of them are distracted! But we only have half a minute! How are we going to fight all of them?"

"Simple, We are not."


"20 seconds!"


Bakugo saw Midoriya coming and knew he had to leave, he had enough points to pass no matter what, fighting Midoirya was too much high risk for such a low reward of getting a higher place on the leaderboard. "Hamster cheeks! Use your quirk on me! We have enough points pass, all I need to do is stay away! Edgy Turkey! Throw me as hard you can!"

"My name is Uraraka Ochacko! Stop calling me names!" She planted the palm of her hand in his back, activating her quirk.

"My name is Tokoyami Fumikige Lord of Shadows! Remember my name!" He grabbed Bakugo with his Dark Shadow and threw him across the sky.

Midoriya landed between the teams


"10 Seconds"


Then he disappeared Leaving everyone confused


"5 Seconds"


Then the 4 teams realized that their headbands were and so were their hopes of winning


"It's over! The battle has ended everyone please gather around due to weird numbering we are going to decide who goes to the next round now!" Midnight announced

Midoriya felt anger beyond belief, not at anyone in particular, but himself, he lost his chance of winning because he wanted to avoid using the time to stop, so he could rest and use later at the end of the battle but he was also felt mad because he let down Mei.

"Hatsume, I'm sorry for not getting us any higher. They're going to let one of us keep going and that should be you, it's my fault that I got us this low." Hatsume looked at Izuku and smiled.

"Nope! I'm leaving!"

"What?"

"Yea, I got what I wanted, and besides I got to go back to fixing my babies!" Midoriya bowed

"Thank you so much! I promise that your interview is going to be as soon as possible!"


Everyone did as so, they gathered around the big screen where Midnight was standing.

"In first place is team Todoroki with 10M points! All 4 of them are going to the next round!" The crowd cheered on, Todoroki was smirking looking directly at his father.

"In second place is team Monoma with 1,005 points! All 4 of them also pass to the next round!" He gave Shinso a thumbs up who returned the gesture.

"In third place is team Bakugo with 880 all 3 of them pass and this is where things get weird" Bakugo looked at his team, Tokoyami looked fine with the result but not Uraraka, she looked like a mixture of disappointed and angry, The explosive boy decided to approach her.

"In fourth place is team Shinso with 715 points! All of them pass." Shinso finally de-activated his quirk finally letting go of two of 1-A's students.

"This leaves us with 15 students and as you all know the next event is a one-on-one tournament so someone from, team Hatsume, has to be chosen! You guys have 10 min-"

"It's going to be Izuku Midoriya! I have to leave!" Mei interrupted Midnight.

Midnight was shocked for a second but quickly recovered "Ok then, that solves that. Then the fights will be announced after a sho-"

"Sorry for interrupting!" The kid with the tail interrupted Midnight and her speech "But I have something to say, I'd like to leave the tournament!"

Midnight was curious, who would want to pass this opportunity "Please elaborate."

"I don't remember anything from the cavalry battle, someone else was controlling me, I don't feel like I deserve to keep going! The rest fought hard to get here meanwhile all I did was follow orders!"

"Oh, this youth is incredible! How could I say no!" She said in a higher pitch than usual like a high school girl getting a letter from her crush, she coughed then started to talk normally "If that's you feel, I must say yes! Any others!"

"Oui Madmasuelle!" The french wannabe raised his hand. "If I can't shine by my own! Is it truly a beautiful shine!?"

"This is what I like to see! The self-respect of a true man!" "If only I were a bit younger," She thought with a blush. "Well, that leaves us with two empty slots! and those should go to the next team-up! Which would be team Hagukare! Please choose who is going to fill those slots"

Team Hagukare made a circle and after a few moments of talking among themselves, they broke the circle and Sato spoke up.

"We have chosen Jiro Kyoka and Toro Hagakure as the representatives of our team! Their combined efforts are what allowed us to make it this far"

"All of you! All of you, are true men *sniff* All right everyone, after a short break we'll continue the festival with other activities, the winners can either rest or join the festivities it's up to you!


"Soooo, why are we here?" Todoroki asked Midoriya to follow him to a more quiet place outside of everyone's view.

"To tell you I'm the strongest."

"Is that all, to rub your win?"

"No that's not all, I want to explain myself why I told that I was going to win. I think what I said was not good enough"

"So what's up?"

"The way you talk in the middle of a fight, the way you act, making fun of the enemy, reminded me of my father Endeavor" Midoriya was puzzled and somewhat pissed that he was being compared to the number two, everyone knows how much an asshole he is.

"The way I act in a fight, I do it to get into my opponent's head, to make them commit a rash decision so I can get a better hit in. Please don't compare me to that asshole" Todoroki smiled, he liked it when other people talk shit about his dad.

"That's why I want to apologize, I realized that you're not like my old man, your's is an act, while he is just an ass" They both chuckle a bit."I want to ask you something"

"Go ahead"

"Have you heard about quirk marriages?" Midoriya tightens his fist.

"Yes, I know about"

"Are you...?"

"No, I thankfully I'm not"

"Hm, I thought you might have been, sorry, your quirk is quite powerful, to say the least, but I'm part of that."

"Oh, God!"

"Midoriya I made a promise, I promised that I won't use my father's quirk, I want to show that man, that I can be the number one without his power, that I can make it to the top with only my mother's quirk. My father knows that he can't be All-Might so he wants me to do it for him with his power." He tapped his head "This scar right here, was made by my mom, she went crazy because of my father, ever since that, I promised that I would never lose, and I would only use the power she gave me."

Midoriya stayed quiet, he needed to think before speaking "Todoroki, your plan, even though it has a good sentiment, it's not going to work, you're giving your father what he wanted."

"And why is that?"

"He doesn't care what you do to get there, one day someone is going to ask 'why do you only use ice?" and you're going to mention Endeavor, and that is what he wants." Izuku let out a long sigh "Go all out, both sides of your quirk are yours don't let your father get to you so when you make it to the top and someone asks you "why did you become a hero?" you can easily answer with..." He pointed a Todoroki whose were wide open, he never thought of this before.

"Because of my mom" He let out in a quiet tone. Izuku snapped his fingers.

"Yes! What you got to do, to really get to your dad is to ignore him entirely put him to the side." Todoroki looked down at Midoriya not with a sense of superiority but with a friendly thankful look. "Thanks, you gave me a lot to think about."

"Not a problem" He opened his hand and went for a handshake "I wish you luck"

Shoto shook his hand and nodded "Same to you"

"Now let's go eat!"


Midoriya was finally about to reunite with his friends, he grabbed his food tray and sat where his friends were, but something seemed odd, Denki was quiet, so he sat down beside him

"Hey what's up?" Midoriya asked with concern, Jiro shrugged, she didn't know either Kaminira looked at him for a second before looking back down, he started to tremble a little, he seemed afraid.

"I'm sorry, ok!" Midoriya was taken back "Sorry for what?"

"I almost got you disqualified! and like, I joined the guy who declared war with you!" Izuku relaxed after hearing that.

"Is that it? You know that I don't care about that right?"

"Huh?" Now Denki was taken back.

"I'm actually really proud! That plan you made! It was perfect!"

"You're not mad at me?"

"No! You made the perfect plan of attack against me! You used a flashbang to take away my hearing and sight, you then shocked me to take away my concentration, making it impossible for me to use time stop! That was perfect" Izuku was happy, not mad but happy

"Bro, thanks for the support" Denki grabbed his right shoulder and let out a single tear

"No problem bro." He smiled.

"Oh, please both of you get a room!" Jiro eye-rolled at the scene happening in front of her, but her eyes stopped mid-roll when she noticed a certain white-red-haired just standing there.

"Is-is it ok if I sit here with you?" Jiro looked at Denki who looked at Midoriya who looked at Shoto who looked back at Midoriya.

"Yea of course!"

"Oh, thanks" He took a seat to the side of Jiro. "So what's happening?"

"They're having a 'couple' moment" She joked.

"I didn't know you guys were in a relationship," Todoroki said as a matter of fact.

"What!?" They both yelled at the exact time, making Jiro lose her shit as she laughed her heart out,

"Yo, I-I, was joking! hehe! Holy shit! That was hilarious!"

"Oh, my bad, but from the way they were acting before, I could have sworn th-" Jiro slammed her fist on the table, getting looks from other students, and kept on laughing.

"NEVER SAY THAT ALLOW!" Denki yelled allowed "If Midoriya's girlfriend were to hear this I'll get my dick cut off!" Jiro was laughing even harder and Izuku joined her after hearing that said.

"I'm sorry?" Shoto was lost, he then suddenly felt a hand pat his back.

"Oh don't be! I haven't laughed this hard in a while"

"THIS ISN'T FUNNY I'M SERIOUS" Jiro laughed even harder.

"Yea, yea whatever! You sure you wanna sit here dude?" Shoto was weirded out by all of this, but even if was confused. he liked it "So this is what being in a friend group feels like? It's nice"

"If you don't mind"

"If you keep me laughing like this, you'll be fine!"

"I'll try my best... TO BE CONTINUED


THIS WAS HARDER THAN I THOUGHT! But hopefully, everyone who still reading this liked it!

I'm so hyped for the next chapter I have like two fights planned 2 and I think you already know one of them, it's gravity after all!

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