First before we get into the chapter just wanna address one of the reviews that being the guest that left a somewhat nasty comment. First this is my first time writing a fic and not entirely sure what you mean by formatting. I'm willing to admit that I'm pretty much winging it so it's gonna be sloppy but at some point I will get better with helpful advice and not vague ideas. Second, being a generic somehow "edgy" MC is a you problem. If you read more than 1 chapter then you would see that chapter 1 was told in a past tense manner for Snow but quickly dropped it because that wasn't the way I wanted to tell HIS story. Sorry for my rant(?) Just reading that person's comment put me in a bad mood doesn't help that it was a guest and not someone with an actual account that I can PM this specifically to. I also want to again thank those who have been favoriting and following the series so far. The support means a lot and is one of the reasons why I'm continuing with this story and wanting to improve my writing. I feel that with every chapter I improve little by little and I hope you guys feel the same,so please definitely leave some constructive criticism.

Now with that out the way here's chapter 13.

Forms of speech:

"Talking out loud"

"Inner thoughts"

"Text"

Chapter 13: Snow vs Flare

(Flashback,Kisara's house)

During the week Kisara was putting the final touches on Snow's costume. She figured that one of the days after school she'd call Snow and Hayato over to look at it. And Kisara does just that and is now patiently waiting in her at-home workshop for Snow and Hayato's arrival. As if on cue the doorbell rang and Kisara places her coffee cup down on the workbench and walks out of the room and to the front door.

"Hey you two. Come on in." Hayato and Snow wave to Kisara and make their way into her house and to the living room. "Make yourselves at home I'll be right back with your suit Snow." Kisara takes her leave and Snow can't keep his excitement in. Who wouldn't be this excited. The next step in life and the very start of his hero career in a manner of speaking. Hayato takes a seat on the couch and looks over to his left and can see the visible excitement from Snow. Hayato can't help but smile at his son's behavior.

A few moments pass and Kisara is back with a briefcase with the greek letter alpha and the number 0. She sits down on an adjacent sofa and places the briefcase on the coffee table and flips the side to open it in front of Snow. "Go on, you should do the honors." Kisara says with a smile. Snow looks at her and then down at the case. He places both of his hands on the clamps and is hesitant to open it at first. He quickly shakes off any doubts before they can surface and unlatches the clamps and opens the briefcase. There layed Snow's first hero costume. Hayato looks over Snow's shoulder and is impressed by Kisara's work.

"You've really outdone yourself this time, Kisara."

"Thanks Hayato and this was a lot of fun to do. It reminded me of when I first made your official hero costume." Kisara notices Snow's gaping mouth and his look of awe and can't help but laugh. "I take it you like it Snow." All Snow could do was nod. "You should go try it on. I can better explain it to you that way." Snow was snapped out of his trance and looked over to Kisara.

"O-OK! I'll be right back." Snow closes the briefcase and holds it by the handle and walks to the bathroom to change. Within a moment's notice Snow comes out the bathroom and into the living room. Now in full view of Kisara and Hayato look at Snow in his costume. Starting from the bottom he wore black combat boots,a very dark blue kevlar pants with a somewhat lighter shade of blue for the kevlar suit. The sleeves had a diamond like pattern for his upper arm. The lower half was a solid dark blue with a white stripe that wrapped around the wrists and he wore black fingerless gloves. For accessories he had a belt with 2 pouches on his left and right for various gadgets that Hayato uses. On his lower back there was a small knife. Its use is unknown for the moment but it doesn't look like any ordinary knife. "How do I look?" Kisara and Hayato both get up and walk over to Snow. Hayato walks around Snow in a circle and inspects the suit. Once done he's in front of Snow.

"It looks great on you Snow." Kisara nods in agreement and Snow has a slight blush. Kisara starts to poke and prod at Snow's body and starts to talk about the specifics of the suit.

"So since you said you wanted to be a stealth based hero the darker colors were necessary. First the suit is made of kevlar but also interwoven with high polyethylene fibers and the same small needles in your gloves are now all over your suit. You're now able to effectively use your quirk without any major drawbacks. Of course once you start to get the handle of blood usage they'll be removed." Kisara starts to lift Snow's arms and continues to talk again. "The lighter colors have less protection but you should be able to deflect a sharp object depending on the angle. Darker parts offer the most protection oh and I forgot to mention you don't have to worry about catching hyperthermia the suit is insulated with plastic fiber with a battery operated heating filaments. Don't worry batteries won't have to be changed." Kisara then walks behind Snow and takes out the peculiar looking knife. "Since you trained in Systema I figured you know your way around a knife. Obviously you want to be using the flat side of the knife for safer cuts. I assume your father taught you his blood freeze technique?"

"Yeah sorta. I understand how it works, never really tested it out and I'm not sure if I could even or be allowed to test that out on anyone in my class."

"I guess not but we can cross that bridge when we get there. Back to the knife you're probably wondering why the handle is somewhat big. Here hold it." Kisara gives Snow the knife and he holds it. "Now I want you to tighten your grip on the handle." Snow does what he is told and a small bolt of electricity can be seen around the blade. "It's a stun knife that delivers a non lethal shock but has to recharge after a use. The cooldown is about 10 seconds. Just placing the knife anywhere on a person's body or slashing at them with the flat side while the shock is active will be more than enough to administer it." Snow looks down at the blade in amazement and puts it back into the holster. "And that's about it, unfortunately I couldn't finish your mask due to the amount of paperwork I've had to do these past few days but I'll be sure to get it done ASAP."

"Don't worry about it Kisara, you've already done so much for me. Not like I'm out patrolling the streets yet."

"True,but the mask is more so for safety as opposed to hiding your identity."

"Safety?"

"Hayato do you have your mask with you by any chance." Hayato reaches into his back pocket and takes out his mask.

"Never leave home without. I guess this is where I come in with a gear explanation." Hayato looks over to Snow and starts to talk to him. "So Snow, outside of hiding our identities, this mask allows us to breathe when we've used our quirk too much. As you know already when it's colder it can be hard to breathe and even more so when you're actively moving around. The built in filter will alleviate that and do something pretty cool with our quirk." Hayato then places the mask near his face and puts it on. Once on Hayato inhales and then exhales loudly through his mouth and an icy mist comes out from the mask. Snow's eyes widened from that action and an idea for a new application of his quirk came into his head.

"That's cool dad! You even gave me an idea." Hayato takes off the mask and is curious about Snow's idea.

"What is it?"

"Can I borrow your mask?"

"Sure" Hayato hands Snow the mask and Snow puts it on. It clumsily lays on the lower part of his face so he keeps his hand over it so it doesn't fall. Snow then inhales and exhales just like his father but letting out a larger icy mist almost enveloping the entire living room. No one can see each other and Snow starts to walk around, his footsteps are almost silent. The fruits of his stealth training come into play here. Once behind Hayato, Snow throws a punch at his father. Hayato then tilts his head to the left and grabs Snow's arm and throws him over his shoulder. Kisara heard the loud thud and immediately knew what was happening.

"NOT IN MY HOUSE!" She then hurries to a nearby window and opens it up to let out the mist cloud. Once the mist clears Kisara saw Snow on the ground groaning in pain and Hayato standing over him reaching an arm out to help him up. Hayato hoists Snow up and Snow hands over the mask while his other hand was rubbing his lower back.

"You could've just blocked the punch dad."

"Oh stop complaining, you should be used to that by now. But I do have to give you credit Snow. I didn't think about using the mist as a way to conceal your presence. I've only let out the mist for intimidation." Still rubbing his lower back, Snow takes the compliment.

"Thanks dad." Snow then immediately faces towards Kisara's direction and bows in forgiveness. "I'm so sorry Kisara I should've let you know what I was about to do." Kisara walks over to Snow, and places a hand on his shoulder and their eyes meet each other. Kisara shoots Snow a friendly smile.

"I can't stay mad at you Snow. Just give me a heads up next time ok?"

"Sure thing Kisara." Snow stands up straight and smiles at Kisara. Snow and Hayato stay a while longer at Kisara's house.

(Present day,Gekkoukan High)

It's now Friday and everyone is arriving for their morning classes. During the week everybody in class 0 has made considerable progress in getting to know each other. It helped that it was a small class. Naturally all of the girls are friends and for the most part all of the boys are friends. Flare was the only odd one out mainly because he's made it pretty apparent he doesn't want any friendships for an unknown reason. Everyone in class has tried to include Flare in almost all of the conversations they've had and even coax him into sitting at the same lunch table. But all of their efforts get shot down. Machina is the only one that can have a conversation with Flare but few words are exchanged in their conversations though.

Minato opens the door and students hurry to their seats waiting for Minato to start their morning lessons.

"Good morning everyone and happy friday. I'm glad to see all you are friends with each other in such a short amount of time." Minato looks over his class with a sense of pride and hopes that they will rub off on Flare. Minato knows why Flare distances himself,he views friendships as a waste of time and gets in the way of being a hero. Obviously that couldn't be farther than the truth. Minato continues to talk. "So let's put that friendship to the test. Everyone look to your left." Everyone does so and briefcases start to emerge from the left of the room. "Those are your hero costumes, grab them and meet me at the indoor combat training facility." Minato gets up from his desk and carries a briefcase out with him. It's his hero costume and what better way to be acquainted with the hero side of their teacher than to put on his suit along with everyone else.

All of the students get up from their desks and grab their respective briefcases and make their way into the changing rooms.

(Changing rooms)

Once at the respective changing rooms everyone puts on their costumes and Ace takes notice of Snow's costume.

"Hey Arisato, nice costume." Snow looks over to Ace while tying his boots and gets the full view of Ace's costume. It's a black jacket with gold shoulder pads and a red cape accompanying the top half of his costume. Bottom half he wears white pants and black shoes. His face was left bare until he started to put on his mask that resembled a phoenix's face. The mask only covers the upper parts of his face and leaves his mouth exposed.

"You're not looking bad yourself Kaji." Snow looks around and the rest of the boys from class 0 aside from Flare make their way to them. Flare leaves at the moment's notice of everybody talking. Snow looked at the other hero costumes and was amazed by the variety between them. Trey wore a dark green jumpsuit with a hood and a mask that covered his eyes. His only equipment was a bow and a quiver that held many arrows in it. Machina wore knee-high boots,a red and white armor with gold shoulder pauldrons that have white capes attached to them. Covering his head was white helmet that resembled a tiger's head. Jack had the get up of a samurai that was color-schemed red all he was missing was a katana.

"Wow, all of you have great costumes. I kinda feel like the odd one here with my bland costume." Snow says while scratching the back of his head. Trey puts his hand on Snow's shoulder and the two look at each other. Trey shoots a friendly smile at Snow before talking.

"Don't worry about it, Arisato. Your costume doesn't look bland at all. We all have reasons for our outfits and why they're designed the way they are."

"Yeah don't sweat it dude you look awesome." Chimed in Jack for more positive reinforcement. Snow looks at the two and smiles at the thought of them not judging Snow's outfit.

"Thank you guys. It means a lot to hear that. We should get going, we don't want to hold up the class." Everyone else nods in agreement and makes their way out of the changing rooms and out to the indoor combat facility.

Meanwhile at the girls changing rooms a similar conversation was held about the appearances of their hero costumes. Saya was finishing suiting up all she needed to do was put on her dark blue coat that splits at the ends. For the rest of her costume she wore a white long sleeved shirt and black pants with white boots. She also wore a belt with a wire attached to act as a conduit. On the sides of her coat she had multiple knives either for grappling or another form of a conduit. Saya starts to put away her glasses and starts to put on contacts. Rem sees that Saya is done suiting up and decides to show her costume to Saya.

"Hey Sasaki, nice costume. I wonder why you chose dark blue for the coat?" Rem asks half knowing why she wore that particular color. It was no secret that Snow and Saya were close friends and everyone could tell the influence Snow had on Saya and vice versa. Those two were the perfect partners in just about everything.

Saya starts to blush before saying "No particular reason Tokimiya." Saya looks at Rem's outfit and she has on a jumpsuit that's white in the middle and blue on the sides with a halo on design right above her chest. She also had angel wings to accompany her costume. "Hey nice costume Tokimiya you like an angel."

"That's what I was hoping for and thanks Sasaki." The other girls from class 0 start to walk towards Rem and Saya to get a look at each other's outfits. First was Sice,she had on a cloth that shrouded her face with only 1 eyed exposed. She wore a large dark cloak with long chains going across her shoulders forming a cross. Cater's outfit has a cowboy theme going on, likely inspired by pro hero Snipe. She has on a black cowboy hat,a jacket with a white undershirt and red tie. She also wore a belt with black pants. Deuce wore a fantasy bard costume that was colored a light pink. She also had a holster on her left leg for her flute. The flufe is a support item for her to help amplify the range of her quirk. Lastly Cinque wore a two-toned skin tight suit that was yellow in the middle and red on the sides with white gloves. Shoulder and knee pads were mixed with spikes. Saya looks at her peers' varying costumes and is amazed by the creativity they have.

"Wow you all look so great!"

"You're not bad looking yourself Sasaki,love the dake blue coat by the way." Said Sice.

"Thanks Sawashiro." Once everyone has complimented each other they all make their way to the indoor combat facility. The combat facility is akin to what layed out in the entrance exams. A city like setting.

(Debriefing room/Observation room)

The students enter a debriefing room of sorts and are met with Minato and all of them see him in his hero costume. Minato wears a black and white armor that resembles a crow along with a crow mask that had red tinted lenses. He also had a set of wings as well that were black like a crows. Minato starts to speak.

"Look at all of you in your hero costumes, all of you look great. I know we've only known each other for a week but I feel a sense of pride already coming from you all." Everyone starts to look around next to each other and are amazed by their peers' costumes. Snow still has some doubt in him but knows he shouldn't let it get to him."Alright now to explain why we're all here. We'll be doing a mock battle of heroes vs villains. You will be separated into teams of 2 that will be decided randomly." Minato holds up a box with slips of papers labeled with letters A-F. "This will decide who you will partner up with if you have the same letter go towards your partner. Next, the actual objective." The room goes dark and a projector turns on and behind Minato is a layout of the building in which the students will be fighting in. "The villains will start at the top while the heroes will be at the bottom. As the hero you are tasked with one of two thing tying around this white rope around the villains leg or retrieve the "bomb". The villains are tasked with stopping the heroes and have to tie the white rope around the hero. Both members of each team need to be captured for a win. Memorize this layout to the best of your ability because who knows if you'll be a hero or villain." The projector stays on for 5 more minutes until it turns off and the lights in the room come back on. Minato grabs the small box and starts to pass around the slips of paper with letters on them. Everyone grabs one slip of paper and starts to look at their assigned letter. Jack was the first to blurt out his letter.

"Who else has the letter F!?" Sice loudly facepalms her hand from the realization that she's paired up with Jack.

"Of course I'm paired up with Suzumaru."

"Don't be so cruel, Sawashiro, we'll win no problem." Jack says with a big grin and a ton of confidence backing his statement.

Sice's internal thoughts couldn't be more pessimistic "I'm gonna lose." Everyone else finds their partner with the corresponding letter and as fate would have it Snow and Saya are partners yet again. They both shared the letter C. Once everyone finds their partner they stand next to each other and Minato begins to speak.

"Good now that you've all found your partners on the screen behind me will show the randomly picked teams and roles." The screen starts to cycle through the letters and the words "Hero" and "VIllain" at a fast pace and eventually starts to slow down. Once at a slow crawl it now stops on the letters "C" and the word "Hero". On the right side of the Screen it was the letter "E" with the word "Villain". "Would both teams please step forward?" Snow and Saya move to the front along with Ace and Flare. Snow looks over to his opponents and now has a view of Flare's hero costume since he didn't get the chance at the locker rooms. Flare is wearing a long red trench coat,a leather like black jumpsuit with black combat boots and black gloves. "I'll be sending the "Villains" in first so they can get to the top floor of the building. The "heroes" will be waiting in the room to my right. We'll all be watching on the monitor here and I will be speaking over the intercom notifying when to start and when the mock battle is over. I will intervene if need be if things get out of hand." Minato says the last part while looking at both Snow and Flare.

Those two have been avoiding each other relatively well this past week but given the chance to face off against each other. Something is bound to happen. Minato begins to talk again. "With that out of the way Kaji and Izayoi head down the hall on my left and make your way to the top of the building." Ace and Flare nod and make their way to the designated hallway. Minato turns his head over to Snow and Saya. "Arisato and Sasaki head to the hallway on my right and wait until further instructions." Snow and Saya nod as well and head to their designated hallway.

(Top floor of mock training building)

Ace and Flare stand in the room where the dummy bomb is in silence. Ace was in the middle of the room and Flare was layed back against a wall with his arms crossed. Ace was the first one to speak. "So Izayoi what kind of plan do you have in mind?" A long silence once again ensues as Flare is mulling over the course of action.

"Tell me Kaji, how much do you know of Arisato or Sasaki's quirk?" Flare says while not making eye contact towards Ace.

"Well Arisato's quirk is ice based and Sasaki's is electricity based but that's all I really know."

"Well with the little information we have we play this all by ear. A reactionary plan will be better than trying to plan for the unknown."

"I guess that makes sense but Izayoi wouldn't it be better for you to go against Arisato. You know, with opposing quirks and all."

"That's true and I know for a fact that my flames will melt away his ice. Then you will go after Sasaki. It doesn't seem like her quirk has any projectile properties so keep her at bay. Eventually she'll tire out and that's when you secure the capture."

"Sounds like a plan Izayoi."

(Waiting room)

The waiting room consists of some chairs and a door leading out the training area with a turned off light at the top of the door. Snow is stretching and Saya is somewhat nervous about potentially going up against Flare again. Snow notices and tries to make small talk to calm her down.

"Nice costume Kisara make it?" Saya was snapped out of thought and thankfully heard what Snow said to her.

"Thanks and yeah Kisara made it. She did an amazing job with it came out exactly how I wanted it." Saya looks over at herself and is happy that Kisara made this for her. She looks back at Snow and returns the question to him. "Did Kisara make yours Snow?"

"Yeah, she really out did herself with it."

"I'll say,you look good Snow." Snow blushes from the compliments and Saya realizes she said that last part out loud."Your costume that is! Not to say you don't look good Snow you're quite handsome and-" Saya quickly places her hand over mouth not wanting to speak anymore."WHY DID I SAY THAT OUT LOUD!" Meanwhile Snow's blush has spread all over his face and has dumb smile on his face.

"She called me handsome!" "T-thank you Saya."Was all Snow could manage to get out. Saya nods and tries to find the words to change the subject. Saya looked at Snow's costume and was curious about the design choice. She clears her throat before speaking.

"So uh what made you want to go for that design?"

"Ummm,Well I wanted to be a stealth based hero much like my dad. So I went with a darker color scheme. All I'm missing is my mask."

"Is it something related to Kamen Rider?" Saya said in a teasing tone.

"N-no! I'll have you know that it'll be the same mask much like dad's." Saya can't help but laugh at her friend's defensiveness.

"Whatever you say Snow." Snow rolls his eyes and returns the question to Saya.

"What about you Saya? Why did you choose that design?"

"Well much like your dad my mom is also a stealth hero. I even use the same equipment she uses." With Hayato and Yukina being stealth based heroes they eventually met while Hayato was traveling the world to shut down any syndicates. Which in turn led to Snow and Saya finding each other and being friends.

Saya lifts the side of her coat showing the knives and demonstrates taking out the cable from her belt. "The wire on the knives and on my belt are used as conduits for my quirk and for mobility."

"Wow Saya, that's pretty cool! Wonder if I should look into some support items."

"Well use today to figure it out. Speaking of which, do you have a plan?"

Snow scratches the back of his head before speaking."Kinda,you're not gonna like it." As Snow was gonna continue talking he was interrupted by Minato's voice over the intercom.

"You may start heroes." An alarm went off and the light above the door turned green signaling to them to start.

"I'll explain when we get closer. Let's do our best Saya." Snow says with a confident smile.

Saya nods before saying"Right! Let's do our best!" Snow opens the door and Saya follows behind him. The two notice that they're a ways away from the building so they decide to sprint to the building.

(Mock training building)

Once there they enter the front door and walk around the lobby area. Saya notices a set of stairs they can take. She pats Snow on the shoulder and points towards the staircase and makes their way up the building. Each floor all looked the same, some rooms on the side and 2 hallways. Snow was on point the entire time. He was treading lightly and trying to get lay of the area and possibly spot any abnormalities in the area. Once they reach the 5th floor Snow extends his arm out in front of Saya to signal Saya to stop walking. She's confused to the least as to why they stopped walking. Snow takes out his knife and stabs it into a nearby wall and places his ear on the end of the knife. More bewilderment stretches across Saya's face and she decides to get some answers.

"What are you doing?"

"Shhhh"

Saya shakes her head in disbelief "Don't shush me!" Snow puts his free hand over Saya's mouth and tries to feel out any vibrations through the knife. It's a technique Hayato taught Snow. It allows the user to feel any vibrations in the area to get an idea on what's around him. After a couple of seconds Snow doesn't feel any vibrations so he takes out the knife and puts it back in it's holster and takes his hand off Saya's face. Snow turns around to her and Apologizes to Saya.

"Sorry Saya, I really need to concentrate before you yell at me. Let's duck into that room and talk there."

Saya lets out a loud sigh and goes along with it."Fine." The two walk to the nearby room on their left. Saya enters first and Snow follows and closes the door. The room is very spacious with no furniture at all in the room. Snow leans on the wall waiting for Saya to talk.

"So what was that back there?"

"A trick my dad taught me to feel vibrations."

"Huh neat. But don't shush me again!" Snow can't help but laugh at Saya.

"Sure thing Saya. Since no one is on this floor I can give you the rundown of the plan."

"Yeah, that would be pretty helpful."

"Alright, first I need you to show me your grappling hook like knives work."

"Why?"

"Trust me I'll explain it." Saya shrugs before complying with Snow's request. She takes out one of the knives and stands at the opposite side of the room. She takes out one of the knives and pushes a button the hilt and a wire extends from the bottom with a small black box with a button at the end of the wire. Saya takes the knife in one hand the small device in the other and throws the knife at the ceiling at an angle. She then presses the button and her body is pulled towards the knife. Saya is now hanging from the ceiling with the knife embedded where it was thrown.

"This good enough for you?" Saya says while looking down at Snow.

"Yep perfect,You can come down now." Saya drops down with the help of the knife's wire and she retracts the knife back into her hand. Before she puts it back into her coat Snow stops her. "Actually I'll need to borrow it,if you don't mind Saya."

"Uhh sure" Saya hands Snow the knife."Just give it back to me when you're done and please don't break it."

"I promise I won't." Snow puts the knife away and continues with his plan"Alright so don't get mad at me but I'll be taking on Izayoi by myself. I know it sounds stupid-

"Yeah it is stupid."

"Just hear me out." Saya reluctantly listens despite being against Snow's plan from the getgo at the mention of Flare's name. "So I'll be taking on Izayoi myself because he'll only be focused on me. I'm pretty sure he's figured out that our quirks are literal polar opposites of each other so it makes sense for him to only focus on me. I'm also fairly certain that he wants Kaji to fight you to stall you out as much as possible so you would get tired for an easy capture. So we'll give them what they want."

"How do you suppose we counter their plan?"

"Easy first we'll focus on you Saya. Since you've been working on your acrobats you'll be able to dodge Kaji's cards easily especially in this enclosed space. Using the walls to your advantage will be key. I noticed on the first day that Kaji's cards all fly at a set speed with some predictability to them. Focus on how he moves his hand and you should be able to pick up the patterns. Just be wary of his teleport." Saya couldn't really argue with Snow's logic."As for me I'll just fight Izayoi head on and try to capture him."

"You can't be serious, you gave me that detailed plan on how to approach Kaji and you just want to fight Izayoi head on."

"To be fair we don't know much about his quirk. He's an unknown factor so it's better I go up against him. If anything if you subdue Kaji quick enough go for the bomb capture."

Saya pinches the bridge of her nose as she's trying to find an argument for Snow but is coming up empty as to how to rebuttal."Fine we'll do this but how do we separate them? They're likely together right now."

"Easy. Follow me." Snow and Saya walk out of the room and start to walk into the next hallway and this hallway had tall windows at the side. Snow stands in front of one of them with the knife that Saya gave him. "So once I jump out this window I need you-

"WAIT! YOU WANT TO WHAT!" Saya couldn't believe the words that she was hearing. She's known Snow her entire life and not once Snow did something as risky and reckless as this.

"Don't worry I'll be fine." Snow says nonchalantly

"How can you be so relaxed saying that you're going to JUMP out of a WINDOW!" Snow shrugs his shoulders because he doesn't have an answer.

"To be honest,I have no clue. Anyway once I jump out this window I'll be scaling the building. They'll likely hear the glass shatter and Izayoi will send Kaji to the lower floors which is where you come in."

"I can't believe the person I love WANTS to jump out of a window." Snow steps back from the window and takes a running position. Saya lets out a loud sigh before walking past Snow."Just promise me you'll be ok?"

"I promise." Snow says with a reassuring smile. "I'll see you at the top of the building." With that said Snow runs towards the window and jumps through it with his back towards the window. Once outside he then quickly throws the knife that Saya gave him as hard as he could. It latches on the side of the building and Snow presses the button to hoist himself up. Snow catches himself on an outside window sill. He takes out the knife and bites on the hilt of the knife and scales the building to the top floor. "Just don't look down and I'll be fine." Saya watches in awe and shakes her head and starts to run down the hallway in hopes of meeting Ace in the upper floors.

(Mock training building top floor)

Flare and Ace hear the sudden glass shatter and are alerted to Snow's distraction. Flare turns to Ace and starts to give him orders."Kaji go to the lower floors and find out what that noise was."

"On it"Ace says with a nod and he darts out of the room and heads to the lower floors.

(Debriefing room/Observation room)

Everyone was just as dumbfounded as Saya was when they suddenly saw Snow jump out the building. Minato was awestruck but also amazed at the same time.

"YOOOO Arisato is so cool! He's gotta teach me how to do that." Jack blurts out.

"Arisato might've given me an idea for a new type of arrow I should use." All of the other students talk about their amazement of Snow until Deuce brings everyone's attention to the second monitor on the left.

"Hey look Sasaki is about to fight Kaji!" Everyone averts their attention from Snow and attentively watches Saya and Ace fight.

(Mock training building)

Ace starts by throwing some cards at Saya while she's running. Saya rolls under the cards flying at her and mid roll she takes out a knife and throws it at the side of Ace. Ace dodges it but doesn't realize Saya's intention of the "misthrown" knife. "Time for me to test out this technique,hopefully Kaji doesn't catch on." Ace continues with his ranged assault and Saya continues to dodge by either frontflipping or kicking herself off the wall whilst throwing knives around Ace's area.

"Is she this bad at throwing these knives and why do they have wires attached to them?" Saya closes the distance and Ace commands his cards to circle around him and and starts to spin forward towards Saya. Saya dodges his attack by flipping over him and she throws another at Ace's feet.

"Alright I'm all out now I need to make a believable capture attempt to get him to teleport in the middle of my trap." Saya runs with white rope in hand and goes for a capture attempt. Ace retaliates by throwing a card to the side of her and it lands behind her back. Ace teleports and Saya quickly turns around and sees that Ace is in the middle of the wires. She smirks and places her hands on a nearby knife and activates her quirk. Electricity now flows from the knife she touched to the rest of the wires that were intertwined with each other making an electrical prison. Ace sees that he has nowhere to move and tries to slash his cards at the wires but is having a hard time cutting through them. Saya starts to walk to Ace. "You'll be at that for a while. The wires are made of a reinforced metal alloy. I call this move electric corridor. Not to brag or anything but this enclosed area was your downfall Kaji."

"Impressive Sasaki I expected no less from you. Here I thought I would be able to tire you out."

"You might've if we were in an open area. But now if you'll excuse me I have to catch up with my partner." Saya finishes her sentence and runs to the nearest staircase to catch up with Snow. First let's rewind to the start of Snow and Flare's fight.

Snow was still scaling the building and is nearing the top floor. Seeing a nearby window he reaches his hand out to the glass and freezes the glass causing it to shatter. Snow pulls himself and rolls once he enters in the hallway and looks to his left and sees no one there. But once he looked to his right there was Flare staring down the hall with an amused look.

"Not a bad idea to separate us,too bad I'm still gonna win." Snow stands up from his crouched position and makes eye contact with Flare.

"Hmph I wouldn't be too confident Izayoi." Both start slowly walking to each other. "This gives us a chance to pick up where we left off." Snow says with a smirk. Flare lets out an amused laugh.

"I'm sure we both know how this will go." Flare picks up his pace practically running and so does Snow. They both reel back a punch each fist covered with ice and fire respectively. As they approach closer to each other they jump in the air and try punching each other's faces. But they both instinctively move their heads to the left and right to dodge the strikes and their arms lock into each other and they fall to the ground while spinning. They let go of each other's arms and Flare takes advantage of the moment and swings his fist at Snow while he's done. Snow lifts his head up and instinctively rolls to the side and gets up to assume a fighting position. Flare gets up and does the same.

"He has his right hand near his face open palmed and his left hand near his waist also open plamed. He's also taken a wide stance, Was he trained in systema?"

"Izayoi's stance doesn't leave any openings nor tell me what type of fighting style he was trained in. Probably something that's also based on the cqc system."

The two slowly strafe around each other until Snow decides to make a move. He goes for a mid punch and Flare blocks it by crossing his arms halfway so his forearms block the attack. But Snow isn't done yet he goes for a quick punch to the head and Flare stumbles back. He then kicks Flare's side and causes him to lose balance. Snow presses his advantage and goes for another strike but Flare blocks it this time and pushes Snow's fist away and delivers a gut punch to him. Snow reels back and then does a flurry of attacks on Snow and he tries his best to block them. Snow spots an opening and grapples Flare, putting him in an armlock. Flare struggles and breaks free by elbowing Snow in the face causing him to lose his grip. The two back away and there is great distance between each other.

(Debriefing room/Observation room)

Minato and the rest of class 0 watch in awe from Snow and Flare's fight. Everyone is mesmerized by Snow blocking and weaving through Flare's attacks and the quick retaliations that Flare displays whenever Snow has the advantage.Minato grows curious as to Snow and Flare's fighting prowess."I'll have to look at their files again because these two in terms of hand to hand combat are by far the best I've ever seen in my years of teaching. Just who are your parents and if they didn't teach who were their mentors before they enrolled here."

(Mock training building)

"So you do know how to fight without your quirk there must be some type of drawback."

"You'll just have to find out what that drawback is another time because I'm going to,,,,,Wait where did the rope go? I could've sworn I had it." Snow checks his pockets looking for the capture rope. Flare whistles and catches Snow's attention.

"Looking for this." Flare holds his and Snow's rope in the palm of his hands and burns them with his hands. He then proceeds to burn them."We won't be needing these."

"Well can't exactly say I planned for that. Hopefully I can keep him distracted long enough for Saya to secure the bomb." Flare gets in a crouched position and lifts his arm from the ground and sends out his dead spike attack. Snow quickly places his hands on the ground and creates an ice wall to block the attack. Like before the wall is melted almost instantly and through the flames Flare jumps through them.

"GAUNTLET-

"Absolute zero:Absolute shield!" Snow blocks the punch from Flare but Flare continues his attack by going for an axe kick.

"HADES!" The last part of the attack breaks the shield and Snow blocks the attack with his hands cupped together to catch the kick. He then quickly turns around and tosses Flare onto the ground face first which elicits a scream of agony from him.

"AARRGGHH" Flare kicks Snow's hands off his leg and rolls away to quickly stand up.

"Alright, let's try my own ranged attack." Snow cups his hands together and sends out icicles. "Absolute zero:Freezing rain!" Flare creates a flame wall with his purplish black flames to block the oncoming attacks. Once the firewall dissipates the two of them are staring at each other. Snow starts to hear faint footsteps indicating that Saya is nearby. He quickly thinks of a way to distract Flare although a bit reckless.

"Hey you just gonna stand there Izayoi! Don't tell me you're done!``''Please fall for this." Flare got angrier at Snow's words and starts to charge forward and swipes his hand in front of him while running, sending out multiple decently sized projectiles. Snow dodged some of them but 2 of them caught him as he was backflipping. He lets out a hiss when once he starts to feel the flames burning his skin. He endures through it and prepares himself for Flare's oncoming attack.

"HELL'S FANG" Snow puts up his guard through the attack but the impact sends him to the end of the hallway crashing into the wall with flames around his upper body. Flare then continues to run and does a jumping dive kick into Snow.

Meanwhile Saya has reached the top floor and neared the hallway where the commotion was coming from. And all she could see was her friend crashing into a wall and Flare kicking him further into the wall. Snow turns to Saya before the attack connects.

"Saya keep running!/Belial edge!" Once the attack connects, Snow lets out a big breath of air and encases the hallway with an icy mist to cover Saya's presence. Saya shakes her head, realizes the opening in front of her and takes it. She quickly rounds the corner and runs as fast as she can down the hall with the bomb in sight. The icy mist quickly dissipates due to Flare letting out a flame filled yell. Flare notices Saya and tries to run to her but Snow Stops him in his tracks by freezing his legs. Flare turns around and sees Snow in his tattered outfit while holding his stomach. The top part was half burned and revealed a form fitting tank top while his pants were charred. Snow gave a Flare a loom of determination while breathing heavily due to the beating he took and the price of his quirk taking its toll."We're not done yet Flare!" "Kisara is gonna kill me when she's sees what happened to my suit." Flare quickly emits his flame around him like an Aura to free himself. He then runs down the hall but Snow chases behind him. "Oh now you don't!" Snow tackles Flare to the ground,he then encases Flare's upper body in ice and Flare retaliates by using his flames to melt the ice. They go back and forth between freezing and thawing.

This bought Saya more than enough time to reach the bomb and secure it. Once she places her hand a voice on the intercom could be heard.

"The mock battle is over. Heroes win." Saya hunches over and puts her hands on her knees and lets out a sigh of relief now that the fight is over. She deactivated her quirk so the electricity flowing through the prison she had Ace in goes dissipates.

Snow gets off Flare and offers a hand up but Flare being Flare pushes Snow's hands away and gets up himself. Flare walks down the hallway towards Saya and uses the exit behind her to leave. Saya takes a quick glance at Flare's tattered outfit before returning her gaze to Snow to see that he's arguably in a worse state than Flare was. She hurries over Snow.

"Snow!" She yelled out before standing in front of him. She gives him a quick once over and sees the burn marks. "Are you ok? We should get you to the nurse's office." Saya's voice filled with distress.

"I'll…..Be…..Fine. I just need to….catch my breath." Snow says in between breaths of air. "Last time I felt like this was when I fought that 0 pointer and that was arguably a tougher fight." Snow places a hand on Saya's shoulder and gives her a thumbs up. "Nice job partner,I knew you'd secure the win." Once Saya saw that Snow's breathing slowed down she started to relax.

"Well I couldn't have done it without you Snow. Speaking of Partners help me free Kaji." Snow has a perplexed look on his face.

"What did you do to him?"

"You'll see. Come on." The two teens make their way to where Ace was. They saw him sitting down with his legs crossed tossing a deck of cards that was likely his quirk back and forth to pass the time. Ace hears footsteps and looks to where they were coming from and sees Saya and Snow. He dissipates his cards and waves at his friends.

"I heard over the intercom you guys won,congratulations."

"Thanks/Thanks." Saya starts to press on the small devices on the knives to retract the wires. They were no longer flowing with electricity since Saya deactivated her quirk once the mock battle was over. Once she untangled the mess Ace got up and was stretching due to being confined in such a small area. While stretching Ace sees the state of Snow's costume and body and was concerned for him but also amazed that he's standing.

"Arisato, how are you still standing?"

"Would you believe me if I said I've been through worse."

"Maybe?"

"Good enough for me." Snow takes one step and starts to feel lightheaded. He's been pushing himself way too hard. He places a hand on his forehead and another on a nearby wall to regain his barings. Ace notices this and puts one of Snow's arms over his shoulder.

"Let me help with that."

"Thanks Kaji." Saya notices the interaction and can't help but smile. The trio continue to walk where the heroes entered and are now back in the observation room.

(Debriefing room/Observation room)

The trio are all greeted with their classmates congratulating them on their performance. Well minus Flare what did you expect. Minato looks over to Snow and now has a better look of Snow's injuries. "Hey Sasaki and Kaji feel free to take Arisato to the nurse's office to get treated. It's up to you if you want to stay with him or come back here to watch the rest of your classmates mock battles."

"Thank you /Thank you " Ace and Saya said with a nod and continued to walk out the room to head towards the nurses office. Once they leave the room Minato starts another random selection of letters and titles and the mock battles continue.

Author's note:

Sorry this chapter took longer to get out, procrastination got in the way. What I did these past weeks was finish kamen rider ryuki,start kamen rider wizard,watch "The Batman" movie(Which was amazing btw. As a huge batman fan this honestly felt like a love letter to the character 10/10 Matt Reeves,Robert Pattinson and the rest of the cast did an amazing job and can't wait til the sequel.) and play a shit ton of elden ring.

I was debating as to where I should end the chapter and thought this was a good way to end it. We have a bunch of references to go through but first please let me know how I did on the fight scenes. I'm kinda unsure as to how long I want them to be but I feel that these were a decent size. I also didn't want them to be too long because this was Snow and Flare's first of many fights against each other. I do want to leave material for other fights. Now onto the costumes first. Starting with my 3 OCs: Snow's costume is inspired by Wanshi's alternate in PGR,Saya's is a combination of Hei's outfit from darker than black and the Nocturne garb from lightning returns,Flare's is similar to Ragna's outfit from blazblue but without the black hakama.

Now for the rest of class 0: Ace's costume is what the class 0 cadets wear from type-0 plus the mask that the soldiers wear. Trey's outfit is the cw green arrow costume eventually I want him to wear the comic green arrow outfit minus the goatee and beard. Jack wearing samurai armor is a reference to how he acts in type-0. Machina is the Byakko armor from Type-0. Rem is wearing Angel's outfit and for those that don't know who Angel is,he's a marvel character. Eventually Rem will have a costume change but that won't be happening for a while. Sice is a reference to the reaper from the persona series minus the twin revolvers. Cater although I don't play this game is a reference to Ashe from overwatch. Not sure why but I wanted a cowboy aesthetic for her. Deuce is also wearing an outfit from a game I don't play(but someday will) and it's the Erozea bard outfit from FF14. Cinque is a reference to Makoto's outfit from persona 5 with a different color scheme. And for the last character Minato wore an outfit similar to ravemon(I love digimon) design but with a crow motif.

Next and last reference is the fight between Snow and Flare. The start of the fight was referencing the yakuza lost judgment's fight with Yagami and Kuwana. The interaction after it was similar to how Snake and Liquid/Ocelot fought in mgs4 more specifically the starting cutscene. Everything else was original. Flare's moves if you couldn't tell are the moves that Ragna has in the blazblue games minus the sword. Oh and just to mention this, the fight between Ace and Saya was also original, nothing referenced there. And that's about it for the references. The next chapter will pick up after all of the mock battles are done. I'm sorry to those who wanted to see how those fights would play out but class 0 isn't the main focus. The main focus is gonna be Snow,Saya and Flare but don't worry they'll still be around and be included in some of the action and heartfelt moments I have planned in the future.(I have a ton of ideas as to what's going to happen next along with future events.) But as a way to give you an idea of how the fights would go here are the listings as follows.

Rem and Machina vs Jack and Sice=Rem and Machina win due to perfect team work.

Trey and Cater vs Deuce and Cinque= Deuce and Cinque win because Deuce will amplify Cinque's quirk to overwhelm Cater and Trey.

I don't know when the next chapter will be but I already have it planned out just gotta write it. It might be a short one but I might be able to stretch it out we'll see. I think that's enough rambling hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you guys next time. Remember to leave any constructive criticism and stay safe out there guys. Take care.