Chapter 12

Izuku was slightly confused as to why he'd been called to the Teacher's Lounge, and his confusion only grew when he saw Aizawa waiting there. His teacher wasn't looking to great, seeing as he now looked like a mummy wearing Eraserhead's clothes, and all he could see were his tired eyes.

"Midoriya, I need you to do something for me," Aizawa started as soon as Izuku closed the door, "Your quirk can be used to heal, right?" Izuku felt he could see where this was going.

"Yeah. Let me guess, you want me to heal you?" Izuku guessed. Aizawa sighed and peeled off his bandages, revealing a face that Izuku would rather not describe, but let it be known that it was by far not the most pleasant face Izuku had seen in his life; the most pleasant face was probably Reiko, and the least pleasant face was from one of the villains from the USJ.

"Just do it," He said. And so, Izuku put his hand on his teacher's face.

"You are aware this is going to hurt, right?" Izuku mentioned.

"Kid, I've been a Pro Hero for nearly half my life, I can handle a little pain. Izuku shrugged and proceeded with overhauling his teacher's face. It only took a second, and by the time Izuku was finished, Aizawa was back to normal. Better, even. Izuku had taken the time to give him a shave and remove his eye bags, and when Aizawa opened his eyes, he almost looked like a grumpy teenager instead of a hobo. Instantly, Aizawa grabbed his phone and looked at it before his brows furrowed and he looked at Izuku.

"Why do I look like my teenage self but with longer hair?" He asked, sounding exasperated.

"Well, I thought you'd want to get rid of your eyebags and get a shave, you know?" Izuku explained. Aizawa sighed and put his phone away.

"Whatever. I don't feel tired for once, so that's something. Don't be late to class," And with that, the reclusive Aizawa had left Izuku in the teacher's lounge. Izuku stood there dumbly for a minute before remembering that he did have class that morning, and he quickly rushed to Class 1-A. However, while on his way, he accidentally bumped into a solid wall of muscle.

"Oomph!" Izuku grunted as he fell onto the ground.

"Haha, whoops! I should have been watching where I was going!" A cheerful voice said. Izuku looked up at the source of it to see Tintin's Muscular Cousin. He was smiling, and with his 2 blue dots for eyes it gave him a surprisingly approachable aura.

"No, that was my fault. Are you a senior?" Izuku asked. The boy laughed again (he really likes to do that that, huh?)

"Yep! I'm Mirio Togata, I'm a 3rd Year Hero Student!" Mirio greeted. Izuku got up from the ground, and when Mirio offered his hand for a handshake, Izuku immediately went for it, only for his hand to completely phase through Mirio's.

"Wha-?" Izuku yelped as he pulled his hand back towards himself.

"Haha, yeah, that's my quirk! Pretty cool, huh? Anyways, you better get to class, and so should I really!" And so, for the 2nd time in 2 minutes, Izuku was left standing awkwardly as a person walked away. He continued on his way to the classroom, and he opened it to find most of the class there. He made his way to the back, where all his friends were hanging around. Reiko was the first to notice him.

"Ah, good morning, Midoriya," Reiko greeted. Izuku smiled instinctively when he heard her, and he did a small wave.

"Morning, guys!" Izuku greeted back. He took his seat in front of Reiko and joined into whatever they were talking about.

"So, as I was saying, what are you more partial towards: boobs or ass?" Reiko asked. This was extremely unexpected and caused everyone except Reiko to splutter and blush slightly, even Tokoyami.

"W-Why would you ask such a crude question?" Momo asked. Reiko shrugged.

"I was feeling curious, so I asked," She explained simply. She looked at Kendo, "Perhaps you would like to start, Kendo?" Kendo grumbled and blushed, but she did grace them with an answer.

"B-boobs, I suppose," Kendo replied. Surprisingly, Reiko smirked, and Izuku felt like he was missing an integral piece of Izu-Crew Lore. Meh, he'd ask them about it later. Reiko then turned to Momo.

"And you, Vice-Rep?" Reiko asked. Similarly to Kendo, Momo also blushed before giving an answer.

"Thighs," She whispered, sounding absolutely mortified. Then it was poor Tokoyami's turn.

"Personality," He said before Reiko could even ask the question. And now, it was Izuku's turn. She stared at him, her pale blue eyes boring straight through his soul, a strange intensity filling them.

"And you, Midoriya?" She asked. Izuku blushed and picked at his collar, trying to find a way out. He kept thinking around, but he eventually short-circuited himself trying to find an appropriate answer and just spat out some random-ass answer instead.

"H-Hugs," he blurted out before he could even realize what he'd said. Everyone looked at him in confusion.

"I…I don't believe that's a physical or mental quality of a person," Reiko stated, "But I understand, so I will allow it," Thankfully, before the conversation could continue, the bell rang, and he suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, by the way, you might want to prepare yourself for when Aizawa-Sensei arrives," Izuku mentioned. They all raised their eyebrows.

"Er, isn't he still in the hospital or something?" Tokoyami asked. However, the door opened, and they had to scatter back to their seats. In walked Aizawa, which greatly surprised the class because 1: he was here instead of a hospital, and 2: he didn't look homeless anymore.

"A-Aizawa-Sensei, what happened to you?" Mina asked.

"Not important. Speaking of important things, I have something to tell you all," Aizawa stated as he stood at the front of the room. He took his time to finish what he was saying, looking individually at every single person. Somehow, it was slightly more intimidating when he looked clean. Finally, after what felt like decades, he started talking again.

"In 2 weeks, the UA Sports Festival will be taking place," Immediately, the sense of unease in the room was replaced with excitement as the entire room roared with delight at the news. Aizawa flashed his quirk at everyone, which quickly got them to settle down.

"Holy shit he fixed my dry eye as well. Anyways, we have decided to go ahead with the Sports Festival as a way of showing that those villains have not affected us. Personally, I think we should wait, but the event produces a large amount of funds for the school, so the earlier we have it the better," Aizawa explained, "You have 2 weeks to prepare for this, and most of your regular classes will be replaced with training sessions. You'll only have 3 times while you're at UA to make an impression, so make it count," And with that, Aizawa concluded his speech and started climbing into his sleeping bag before he stopped.

"Wait a minute, I'm not tired anymore…what the hell am I meant to do if I don't need to sleep?" He wondered out loud. But then he just shrugged and climbed into his sleeping bag anyways. Izuku guessed that his answer to that was to still sleep, or at least pretend to sleep. Suddenly, Jirou started giggling uncontrollably.

"Uh, is everything good, Jirou?" Kaminari asked. It took a while before she stopped giggling enough to reply.

"Y-Yeah, it's just that A-Aizawa-Sensei is watching cat videos!" She explained. Oh, so apparently Aizawa decided to pretend to sleep while he was actually watching cat videos. Smart choice, really. Izuku would probably do it too if he was Aizawa. Seeing as they seemingly had some free time, he returned to talking with his friends.

"So, big boobs or small boobs?" Reiko asked.

He immediately regretted rejoining the conversation.

It was the end of their 4th period (Modern Literature; the only interesting parts were when Cementoss used his quirk to enter and exit the room through the wall) and after a minute of loitering Izuku and his friends went to leave, only to find a massive crowd surrounding the door.

"Um, can you please move?" Izuku asked. The crowd showed no intention of moving, so Bakugou pushed past Izuku and worked his magic.

"Move out of the way, extras," he snarled.

"BAKUGOU! THAT IS NO WAY TO TALK TO YOUR PEERS! OR ANYONE, REALLY!" Iida scolded. Izuku groaned and turned around to face his friends.

"Alright, guess we gotta find another way out of here," Izuku said. Kendo and Momo raised an eyebrow.

"And how would we do that?" "The only ways out are the doors," Momo and Kendo said respectively at the same time. Izuku smirked and walked up to the wall.

"It's a new way of leaving a room. I call it 'Fuck you, I control matter'," Izuku replied. And with a touch to the wall and an application of Overhaul, he made a ladder that took them into the vents.

"Couldn't you just make an entrance into the next room over?" Tokoyami inquired.

"We don't know what's next door. And anyways, it's guaranteed that there'll be nobody up there," Izuku explained. Tokoyami was the first to give in and enter the vent, then Kendo, then Momo, and then Reiko, leaving Izuku to climb up and remove the ladder on the way in. Once the vent cover was replaced, Izuki turned back and-

Oh.

He had not considered he would be staring at Reiko's ass in this formation.

Immediately, he looked straight down at the cold metal of the vent, a massive blush crossing his face.

"Are we all ready to go?" Kendo asked.

"Y-Yep!" Izuku replied, his voice cracking as he said it. And so, they began moving through the surprisingly spacious vents, which were large enough that they could crawl on their knees instead of shuffling through on their stomachs. However, a problem soon arose when they realized they all had different speeds, and it just so happened that Izuku was slightly faster than Reiko. The next thing he knew, his face smacked right into her ass, which made Reiko yelp in shock.

"AH! Sorry, sorry, sorry!" Izuku apologized as soon as it happened.

"I-It's fine. Perhaps we should have done it so that there was a significant gap between the boys and the girls?" Reiko suggested. However, it was too late to change it, so they continued onwards until they finally found an exit point and dropped down into the cafeteria. Once they were all safely down, Izuku and Reiko both silently agreed that they shouldn't mention what had happened up there.

In the Support Labs

Man, I feel like I've just missed a massive blackmail goldmine," Kurono suddenly said as he looked up from his sketchpad.

Izuku nervously put on his gym uniform in the changing rooms. He could hear the crowd from there, and he wasn't even close to an exit. Izuku found it even crazier that this would probably be the quietest the crowd would be from now until the day ended. It seemed most of his male classmates shared the same sentiment, as he could see Kaminari, Sero and Kirishima talking about it, and Koda was practically shaking at the very idea of having that many people watching him.

"Midoriya," The cool voice of Shoto Todoroki shook Izuku out of his worries, and Izuku looked up to see that the boy had approached him, Objectively speaking, I'm stronger than you," Izuku raised an eyebrow.

"…Okay?" Izuku replied, not sure what to say.

"Consider this a declaration of war. I will beat you today, and I'll do it with only my ice," He continued, causing Izuku further confusion.

"Er, why specifically me?" Izuku asked. Todoroki simply stared at him before he walked away. Izuku shook his head, dismissed it, and continued to get ready. In all honesty, his blunt way of speaking kind of reminded Izuku of Reiko, although Reiko's statements were generally nicer than the polite way of saying 'Fuck you in particular'. Nevertheless, Izuku made his way out of the changing room to join other people who'd finished getting ready. Izuku took note of a blonde boy in particular, probably because he was approaching him.

"Well, if it isn't one of the few members of Class 1-A not present when we went to their classroom! I'm Neito Monoma, of Class 1-B! Just so you know, the B stands for Better," He exclaimed.

"Oh god damnit not another weirdo. What do you want?" Izuku asked, muttering the first part to himself.

"I just wanted to let you know that just because your class was attacked by Villains doesn't mean you're better than us!" He replied. Izuku internally groaned.

"Cool, whatever, I've already got Endeavour's son saying he wants to whoop my ass, Bakugou also probably wants to whoop my ass, and according to Kirishima some guy from Gen Ed declared fucking war on our class. All things considered, I don't have the time to deal with you declaring war, so can we just be normal or something? Tokage and Kodai were fine when we met them that one time so surely we can all get along, right?" Izuku rambled. When he finished, Monoma looked slightly taken aback.

"Are…Are you alright?" Monoma asked.

"I think I need a hug or something," Izuku groaned.

"Well…maybe I'll, er, give you some breathing room until you've dealt with that other stuff," Monoma said.

"That would be appreciated," Izuku replied. After that, Monoma left, and soon after his friends joined him and they began talking about some random stuff (thankfully, Reiko seemed to have run out of lewd questions for the moment). Finally, they were given the announcement to prepare to enter the stadium.

"AND NOW, YOU'RE ALL EXCITED TO SEE THEM, THE CLASS THAT WERE ATTACKED BY VILLAINS AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE, I GIVE YOU: CLASS 1-A!" Present Mic announced, the signal that they were meant to take to enter the stadium. As they entered, the shouts got even louder, and he could see Jirou wince slightly from the overstimulation to her advanced hearing. He then noticed that Reiko was shaking slightly.

"Are you alright, Yanagi?" Izuku asked in what he hoped was a calming tone. She nodded after a moment.

"Y-Yes, I believe so. It's just that I have never found myself to be the center of attention like this. In fact, throughout my early life I was mostly left alone by my classmates when I was lucky," She replied. Izuku didn't like the ideas that came to mind when he wondered what happened when she was unlucky, but maybe he'd ask her later. For now, they had a Sports Festival to get through. Izuku just gave her a smile, and they lined up in the center of the stadium, in front of a stage. Soon after, the other classes joined them, and Izuku felt like they were all being watched by every class, all for different reasons. 1-B were jealous of their fame, Gen Ed just didn't like them like a poor person hates a rich person, Support was annoyed that most of their gear would be completely ignored in favor of the Hero Students, and the Business students didn't see a class, they saw 20 fat bags of money waiting to be taken.

"AND GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO YOUR REFEREE THIS YEAR! SHE'S BEAUTIFUL, SHE'S SEDUCTIVE, AND SHE ISN'T GETTING ANY YOUNGER, I GIVE YOU THE 18+ HERO: MIDNIGHT!" Izuku almost laughed at the face of annoyance Midnight was wearing from basically being called old by Present Mic, and he felt sorry for Mic because Midnight wouldn't be letting him get off this easy.

"Wait, but if she's 18+, why is she teaching a High School?" Tokoyami pondered.

"Shush, you! I'm perfectly within my rights to be a teacher!" Midnight yelled, apparently having heard Tokoyami, "Anyways, I'd like to invite the Player Rep Izuku Midoriya of Class 1-A to give a small speech!"

Eh?

It took Izuku a moment to realize what was happening, and even then, he had to be shoved by Kendo to get moving. Nobody told Izuku he'd be making a speech! Although, even if he had been told in advance Izuku doubted he'd have been able to think of anything substantial. Shakily, he made his way up to the front of the stage, where Midnight gave him a microphone.

"Just give a good inspirational speech, alright? Maybe talk about sportsmanship, if that helps," Midnight suggested, and Izuku was thankful for it, as he now had an idea for what he should say. He took a deep breath in and began to speak.

"I, uh, wanted to use this moment to say that a good…a good hero can come from anywhere, no matter what. A person raised among criminals can be just as good of a hero as a person from a family of heroes, as long as they have the will to succeed and the resilience to keep trying. What I guess I'm trying to say is that, maybe we shouldn't judge a person because of their quirk or the way they were raised, but the qualities that make them who they are?" Izuku finished. He had his eyes closed, and he had no idea how the crowd would react to such a random speech, but to his surprise, the crowd began to cheer at his words, causing his eyes to open in surprise. He looked throughout the crowd, and he could tell that almost everybody had like what he had said. Hell, the Gen Ed students even seemed to hold him in higher regard after what he just said. Quickly, Izuku moved away from the mic, bowed clumsily, and moved back down to his friends.

"That was quite the speech, Midoriya," Tokoyami stated.

"Yeah, you're pretty good at that!" Kirishima added.

"Are you quite sure you did not practice this speech beforehand? It was well crafted for something you thought of on the spot," Reiko asked. Izuku blushed and sheepishly scratched the back of his head.

"Aw, it's nothing! I just, y'know, kinda blurted out my own opinions on the world," Izuku defended. However, the conversation was cut short, as Midnight had begun speaking again.

"Thank you for that brilliant speech! Anyways, moving on, the preliminary round this year will be…," The entire crowd held their breath in anticipation as the machine flicked through a bunch of different options. Finally, it came to rest on-

"An Obstacle Race!" Midnight announced excitedly. 'An obstacle race? Perfect, Overhaul is made for getting through obstacles,' Izuku thought to himself.

"The rules are incredibly simple! You will have to complete a 4km ring around the stadium whilst racing against every other class! There will also be multiple different obstacles prepared, some of them our viewers may remember from last year! Oh, and as for rules, anything is allowed, except for leaving the course. Oh, and murder and causing serious injury, but that was obvious," Midnight explained. Izuku raised an eyebrow at the statement 'some of them our viewers will remember from last year'. What did that mean? Neither the 1st, 2nd nor 3rd years had any kind of obstacle-themed event, so what was Midnight referring to?

Oh well, guess he'd have to find out later. Right now, they had to make their way to the starting area for the event.

Izuku was thankfully able to get a position closer to the front, and he quickly began assessing the situation. Assuming there were 20 students in every class, and there were 11 classes, that would be around 220 students all cramped in this narrow entrance. That would mean mostly everyone that was towards the back half would have a very low chance of winning, and even those at the front would struggle to get a lead at the start.

Luckily, Izuku had a plan.

"This is the dumbest idea you have ever had," Kurono stated from his position on top of Izuku. Izuku scoffed.

"Oh, come on! My worst idea was when I tried to see how many pizzas I could eat in one sitting!" Izuku replied. He couldn't see his face, but he could tell Kurono was raising an eyebrow.

"No, no, that was an unhealthy idea. This is a stupid idea," Kurono retorted. However, before they could continue the philosophical debate of what constitutes as a stupid idea and what constitutes as an unhealthy idea, the round had begun.

"STAAAAAAAART!" Present Mic yelled.

"Go, now!" Izuku urged. Kurono immediately got to work, his clock hands extending in all directions.

"You know what, I take it back, this has been a surprisingly clever idea," Kurono commented as they got an early lead on everyone else, "Also, I'm fairly certain that most of the people who got hit by the hour hand were mostly Gen Ed and Support. I did get Todoroki and Bakugou with a minute hand though," He added. Izuku smiled. That was enough; a minute was more than enough time to get a good lead on his biggest rivals. As long as the obstacles were something like robots, they would be-

"Oomph!" Izuku grunted as he was suddenly hit by something invisible.

"Oh, and it looks like Midoriya and Kurono have both met the first obstacles: The 2nd Years!" Izuku groaned as he looked around and noted that yes, there were indeed multiple 2nd Years. Izuku could see a guy who looked like Aizawa, but both his hair and costume had gold highlights, a guy wearing a burgundy and green bodysuit who looked scarily muscular, and a guy wearing a dark gray armor-like outfit that looked like clouds, with the only other colour being the blue eyes, which completely covered the actual person's eyes.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, give a warm welcome to the 2nd Years giving their time to be a nuisance! We have the Density Manipulating Eraserhead Sequel, Mitsudo Shiryoku, otherwise known as Echoes! Moving on, we have the Fist-Flinging High-Speed Brawler, Tataki Homare, otherwise known as Clash! Next to him we have the Cold, Quiet Persona of Seigyo Funotenki, otherwise known as Heavy Weather! And finally, you can't see him, but he can see you, Chumoku Sagasu, otherwise known as Centerfold!" Present Mic concluded. Ah, so this was what Midnight meant when she said the crowd would remember some of the obstacles from last year.

"Let's just go over them. Use your spikes or something," Kurono suggested.

"My goodness, what an idea! Why hadn't I thought of that!" Izuku replied, slightly annoyed because he had literally just been about to do it. He slammed his hand to the ground and immediately, he began riding a spike upwards. But almost immediately, he felt a sudden amount of pressure weighing down on him, causing him to slip up and fall back down on the ground.

"You have to go through us if you want to win," The voice that Izuku assumed was Mitsudo said. Izuku looked at him to see that his eyes were glowing. Oh, so that explained why he was called an Eraserhead Sequel by Present Mic: they both wore the same outfit, had a scarf thingy, and had eye-based abilities. However, it seemed Mitsudo's had one fatal flaw he could exploit. After all, it wasn't a good idea to shove a touch-based quirk-user into the ground when his quirk affected the ground. However, before he could activate his quirk, he found himself incredibly light, and floating upwards.

'Shit, can he manipulate density to make things both heavier and lighter?' Izuku wondered as he kept ascending. Then he realized something.

"Wait a minute, use your fucking quirk, Kurono!" Izuku yelled at his companion.

"Can't use it unLESS I'M PERFECTLY STILL, DIPSHIT!" Kurono yelled.

"YOU'RE A SUPPORT STUDENT, DON'T YOU HAVE ANY GEAR?"

"I DO DESIGN, BITCH, NOT ENGINEERING!"

"DIDN'T THE PINK DEVIL GIVE YOU ANYTHING?!"

"Oh, wait, actually, she did!" And suddenly, Kurono pulled out a bag.

"What's, uh, what's in there?" Izuku asked as Kurono started rummaging around in it.

"Nothing much. Ah, here we are. THINK FAST, CHUCKLENUTS!" Kurono yelled as he threw a fucking bomb at Mitsudo. Thankfully, it was only a flashbang/glitter bomb, so nobody was killed. Instantly, they dropped to the ground.

"ALRIGHT, LET'S DO THIS! BETTER STAY OUT OF MY WAY, MAN IN THE MIRROR, I WANT A CLEAN FIGHT!" Tataki yelled as he approached the duo. Izuku wasn't sure what Tataki's quirk was, but according to Present Mic he was close combat orientated and fast, so Izuku would rather not get close to him. He quickly erected a wall between them, and they took a chance to recover.

"Don't forget that other people exist," A cool voice stated. Suddenly, they were hit by a torrential downpour, and Izuku felt massive chunks of hail hitting parts of him. This must be Seigyo, who must have fucking Weather Manipulation or some shit, which was totally fair, Yep, 100%. Thankfully, a familiar blur of cyan and ginger smashed through the wall, spreading debris everywhere.

"I am here!" Kendo stated.

"Fucking All Might stans!" Izuku could just barely hear Mitsudo say that before he turned his attention ahead of him. Kendo was preoccupied with Tataki, who apparently had the ability of moving incredibly fast. He punched fast, dodged fast, and moved fast, but Kendo was more than a match for it. Izuku grabbed Kurono, and they made a break for the exit, only to be kicked in the gut.

"I'm still here!" Centerfold exclaimed. Izuku tried to hit where he'd come from, and to his surprise he was able to hit him. Was it some kind of invisibility quirk? Perhaps it-

"FUCKING SPIKE! DON'T YOU TRY AND GET AHEAD OF ME!" Ah, that was Bakugou. Perhaps they ought to speed this up. Taking advantage of the still disabled Mitsudo and the distracted Seigyo and Tataki, Izuku grabbed Kurono and made a spike to launch them forwards. Kurono screamed as they were launched forward at least 20m by the spike, but they were completely fine. Izuku sighed.

1 Obstacle down. Just a couple more to go.