[2 Weeks Later, Day of the Sports Festival]

Izuku and Mei arrive at UA, getting off the Hoverbike 2.0, standing proudly as they went over their plan for the third time. The previous two attempts flew over Mei's head as she was busy tinkering with their equipment for any last minute needed fixes.

"So we have the grappling hooks, hover boots, stun & smoke grenades. As well as our protective vests. We've planned for the first event to be an obstacle course, which I'm mostly sure it will be and don't ask why. For the other rounds, we can stick together if possible" said Izuku, as Mei nodded in agreement. As they walked down the hall, Mei stopped walking, causing Izuku to look at her confused.

"Hey before I get to my class, remember that the main goal is to showcase our babies to the world!" shouted Mei enthusiastically, making a few kids turn their heads at the bizarre statement, while Izuku cringed.

"Uhh yeah, I'll do my best I guess…" said Izuku as he headed to class.


[Class 1-A Waiting Room]

Izuku finished putting on his UA gym outfit as he threw his trench coat over it. When he finished, he noticed everyone staring at him.

"Hey Midoriya, you always wear your trench coat. Why is that?" asked Kaminari, as a few students nodded in curiosity. Izuku took a deep breath.

"Yeah. It's stylized to look like my mentor who saved my life during a villain attack. Without him, I wouldn't be here today" said Izuku, smiling while everyone was shocked as this was the first time they learned about him having a mentor.

Suddenly, Todoroki walked up to Izuku, glaring hard at him. Izuku felt like he was gonna get threatened so he immediately cut off Todoroki as he was about to speak.

"Objectively, I'm stronger than you, more capable. You're quirkless and while I respect you as our class president, I will defeat you. That's what you were going to say, yes?" said Izuku, smirking as Todoroki nodded with a raised eyebrow. The room bursted with questions over how he did that, while the boy just headed out of the room. This left them with no answer as they followed him after hearing their class being called out on the intercom.


[Sports Festival Stadium]

"The first years are taking the stage! Look at those students!" screamed Present Mic into the mic. The class walked to their seats as the stadium erupted with applause. As all the classes got to their seats, Midnight started to speak.

"Now it's time for the athletes' oath!" shouted the R-rated heroine as she cracked her whip. A few students commented about how she was even allowed to teach at a school, as she cracked her whip towards the students causing them to shut up.

"Pipe down! Your student representative is…Izuku Midoriya!" yelled the heroine pointing to the boy. Izuku started sweating nervously as he assumed that Bakugo would be the person to speak, not himself. Countless students from the other classes groaned, while others glared at him as he got up to the podium. He slowly tapped the mic, looking around the stadium, seeing Mei giving him a big thumbs up. This greatly eased the boy's nerves as he took a deep breath and spoke.

"...Fate has blessed me with the opportunity to be chosen as the representative this year. I'm aiming for the podium so all I can say is, don't underestimate me! We all have a reason for being here and some of us even have people watching, so let's do our best and go beyond. PLUS ULTRA!" yelled Izuku into the microphone as it echoed throughout the stadium.

The stadium was filled with eerie silence, causing his blood to run cold. He thought for a second that maybe his speech went terribly when he heard one clap come from the students area, it was Mei, shortly followed by Komori and the rest of 1-A. The stadium erupted in applause again after a while.

"Such a beautiful and encouraging speech. Now that with the pleasantries out of the way, let's get the first event started! The first event will be…an obstacle course!" shouted Midnight excitedly.

'Perfect, just as I told Mei. I need to find her as quickly as possible' thought Izuku. He spotted Mei near the back of the starting line, and as he walked up to her but was stopped by Komori.

"Hey Midoriya, I just wanted to wish you good luck!" said Komori smiling.

"O-Oh thanks! Good luck to you too" said Izuku as he ran towards Mei.

"Finally! Alright, I'm 100% ready to execute Operation: Obstacle Course" said Mei excitedly. She was carrying some gear on her back, while Izuku reached into his utility belt that had his gear in his trench coat.

"Same" replied Izuku as Mei climbed on his back. As the race began, Todoroki froze most of the other racers. Izuku grappled onto the ceiling, and swung out of the tight corridor landing outside. He saw Bakugo propelling himself through the air, trying to catch up to Todoroki who was riding on ice in first place.

"Ready for phase two, Mei? You can do the honors!" shouted Izuku. Mei nodded, pressing the on button on her jetpack, lifting the duo into the air. While in midair, Izuku assumes a belly flop position, as Mei pressed a button on the jetpack, sending the two soaring through the air like a ballistic missile.


[Commentators Booth]

"Aizawa, is that even allowed?!" shouted Present Mic in shock. Aizawa was as shocked as him upon seeing his student with a support course student, whom he had never met before.

"Well he did come to me a few days ago submitting a request for support items. I didn't know he had planned a partnership with another student" said Aizawa with a seemingly bored tone, but with a small smile on his face.

"Well you heard it folks. Those two certainly are gaining those two in first place. Just watch them soar through the sky, WOW!" exclaimed the blonde hero.


[Obstacle Course]

Izuku and Mei soar past the robots in the obstacle course completely. This infuriates Todoroki and Bakugo, who remember hearing from their classmates that the girl on his back was his best friend, meaning the two had planned to do this. The two powerhouses race after the duo as fast as they can.

"DEKUUU, BOLTS FOR BRAINS! Don't think I'll let you beat me!" yelled Bakugo, hitting the inventor duo, causing them to stumble.

"We can't lose to you or anyone else, Kaachan! We're going to show the world what these babies can do!" shouted Izuku grinning, while he stabilized their course.

Activating his hover boots, Izuku safely lands at the entrance of the minefield section of the race. Upon landing, the duo grab slabs from a piece of a robot, collecting a pile of mines and putting them in a hole.

Todoroki and Bakugo were busy fighting to maintain first place as other contestants passed the two completely ignoring them except Komori who greeted the two.

"What are you two doing shroom? I gotta say, you flying above us all was so cool!" exclaimed Kunoko grinning.

"Oh we're gonna get sent flying into the lead!" said Mei happily, while Izuku nodded.

"Well good luck you two, shroom!" yelled Komori, summoning giant mushrooms as she jumped on them like Mario jumps on goombas.

'She's gotten pretty cool and creative with her quirk! We won't be out done yet though!' thought Izuku as Mei jumped on his back again. He slammed down on the mines, sending them flying like a cannonball through the air.

{Once again the Green Bubblegum duo has gone airborne!} shouted Present Mic on the mic. The duo ignore the fanfare of the stadium focusing on getting first place.

Upon getting past the ashen blonde & heterochromatic ice user, Izuku activated his grappling hook while Mei held on tight to his shoulders as they propelled forward at top speeds. The other two top contestants raced after them trying to slow them down but only collided with each other.

"Mei, we're almost there!" yelled Izuku as he landed on the ground, speeding through the corridor leading into the finish line.

"WOOOOOO!" screamed the girl as the duo ran past the finish line, waving at the crowd.

{WE HAVE OUR FIRST WINNERS! Izuku Midoriya and Mei Hatsume! Seeing as it was a joint effort, we will make the exception of letting them share first place for the round!} screamed Present Mic excitedly. Mei got off his back and hugged him tightly, causing him to turn beet red.

"We did it! Now to make sure we win the next few rounds then we can go celebrate at Tonios!" said Mei, who was now jumping up and down in excitement.

"That sounds like a great plan actually. I guess repairing my gear will be moved to tomorrow, alright I'm off to talk with my classmates" said Izuku waving her goodbye.

"Same!" replied Mei, heading toward her class.

When Izuku greeted his class, he wasn't ready to be bombarded by Kaminari and Minetas' perverse questions.

"So Midoriya, not only is your best friend a total hottie but she rode on your back the WHOLE time! What did it feel like with those things rubbing your back, I need to know!" exclaimed Mineta, causing Izuku to turn around hiding his slight blush.

He honestly didn't pay attention to it at all but he did enjoy the feeling of being close to Mei for so long but of course not in the perverse way Mineta was suggesting.

"Yeah, I thought you said you two weren't dating! She was just hugging you pretty tightly for just frien-" Kaminari was cut off by an ear jack stabbing his ear, causing the lightning user to fall to his knees in pain.

"Ah Midoriya, I was shocked by your performance indeed. Very good strategy my friend!" said Iida smiling as he walked up to Izuku with Ochako beside him.

"Yeah Deku! You were all like zooom and kabloom" said Ochako, moving her arms to mimic a jet flying.

"Hehe, yeah. I'm not gonna lie, I probably wouldn't have been able to do it without Mei" said Izuku, smiling. Ochako looked at him confused.

"Oh right, the girl who was riding on your back. Is it true that you two are just friends?" asked Ochako slightly blushing. Izuku nodded confirming her question was true, she sighed in relief?

"Oh ok. A-Anyways, I wonder what the next race will be!" said Ochako quickly changing the topic as Iida and Izuku shrugged.

Just then Midnight got on the stage announcing the next event, he noticed Todoroki glaring at him from the corner of his eye but he ignored it.

"The next event will be…The Cavalry Battle! I can't wait to see how you all ride one another..to victory!" said the woman striking a sexy pose and licking her lips.

All the boys in the students section covered their crotches while looking at the ground except Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo who stood proudly staring at the woman unphased. She smirked as she continued her explanation of the event.

"The contestants will pair up in teams of 2-4, with someone being the rider who carries the team's headband and the others defending them. Your placement in the obstacle course will equate to your headbands total amount, with first place being worth 10,000,000 points! Since we had two people in first place last time, we've decided to split the ten million to 5 million each" shouted Midnight, striking her whip.

Izuku shivered as everyone glaring at him with hungry eyes, while Mei had a shit-eating grin on her face. The purple haired insomniac that Izuku punched a while back, smirked at him as he walked to the back of the students area.

After the explanation, Izuku walked up to Mei as they planned to be a duo, their plan for if they got this event was an interesting one to say the least as it was probably their least structured one and more of a 'go with the flow' type plan. They didn't expect for Kinoko to ask to join the duo's team though.

{Wait, what?} asked the duo in unison, to which she smiled shyly.

"I'm sorry but no. We've planned this thoroughly and it's in account for only the two of us" said Mei sternly, shocking the two teens.

"I guess I understand, shroom" said Kinoko dejectedly. Izuku felt bad and decided to quickly remedy the situation.

"It's okay Komori, Mei isn't trying to be hurtful on purpose. She just spent a lot of time planning for this" exclaimed Izuku in a slight panic. Komori started to smile and nodded, walking away to find a new team.

"Well Izuku, are you ready to do this? Cause I know I am!" said Mei grinning. Izuku nodded as they got into position, the match would soon begin.

Izuku being the horse and Mei the rider, she climbed onto his shoulders and tightened their headband tightly to her head. They looked around seeing most eyes on them except a few teams, the duo nodded as they heard Midnight shout.

{START!} shouted the R-rated hero while cracking her whip. Immediately a majority of the teams rushed towards the inventor duo, to which both teens smiled as everything was starting like they guessed if they had made first.

Izuku activated his hover boots, lifting them into the air as Mei activated their main gadget for the round: The Shield Bubble! Now relaxing a bit at the bottom of the bubble, Izuku scanned the area to see their opponents reactions and just the overall look of the field below them. Most were shocked and decided to go after other teams, while Todoroki and Bakugo were still trying to get them.

"Mei, I'll use my Electro Whips to surround the bubble in electricity. This should act as a layer of defense for now. The best thing to do is hold out for as long as possible" said Izuku as he applied the extra defense onto the bubble. Mei nodded in agreement as she quickly warned him that Bakugo was closing in on them fast.

"DEKUUU! How long are you gonna keep cramping up there you coward!" shouted Bakugo.

He propelled himself towards the two and struck the bubble with a giant explosion but immediately got zapped by intense electricity, causing him to fall back to the ground getting saved by his team.

They chastised their leader, who was glaring angrily at the bubble that was seemingly unaffected by his blast. Izuku wiped a bead of sweat from his forehead as it seemed that they were in the clear temporarily.

"Mei, what's our durability looking like?" shouted Izuku in a slightly panicked voice.

"Oh stop worrying, my trusty assistant! We are 75% right now, which is good enough to last for almost the remainder of the time. We will need to come up with a new strategy to survive the last few minutes, as I didn't account for Mr Bombastic, packing such firepower in his explosions" explained Mei, rubbing her neck in embarrassment.


[Elsewhere in the Arena]

"We are going after damn Dek-" Bakugo is cut off by a quick flash grabbing his headband. He turns around to see a blonde boy with left-parted, slick blonde hair. The boy was grinning as he began to monologue.

"Too simple, honestly. You keep aiming towards a fleeting first place, like a dog going after a thrown bone! I mean you don't have to try so hard to get attention, after all you've already been attacked by villains. Stop trying to hog all the attention damn it!" yelled the boy as his team ran away.

This pissed off Bakugo beyond belief, that he decided to give up on Midoriya's team now having a new target in mind,

"Change of plans, I'm gonna MURDER THAT BASTARD!" shouted Bakugo, as his team sped toward the team that just stole their headband.

In another corner of the ring, multiple teams snapped back from a trance noticing that their headbands were gone! The purple haired boy grinned as he commanded his team to go after another unsuspecting victim, one of his teammates, Komori was mentally screaming for help but no help ever came.


[With Izuku & Mei]

{Lets see how the teams are doing after ten minutes have passed…WAIT WHAT! Besides Class 1-A's Izuku Midoriya & the Support Course's Mei Hatsume, everyone else isn't doing so well!} shouted Present Mic into the microphone.

The crowd erupted in confusion as they looked at the scoreboard, some heroes even yelled about how the quirkless kid was cheating. This angered Aizawa, who responded to their complaints.

"Look, while it is impractical what he is doing, he is doing everything he can to even the playing field with his opponents. As you all heard, he is quirkless, so we have allowed for him to use support items but only if he made them. The inventions you see him use were either made by him or his teammate, who as a support student has full authority to use her inventions in the festival. Honestly, it's impressive how he's doing better than people who have heard their quirks for a majority of their lives" said Aizawa sternly, causing the stadium to be filled with silence.

Izuku smiled as he heard his homeroom teacher's words of support. It reassured his confidence to win the event, Mei noticed that the bubble was about to burst as she yelled for him to get ready. Izuku quickly activated his hoverboots, safely landing on the ground. He looked in front of them to see Todoroki glaring at him, Iida's engines were getting progressively louder. This caused Izuku to cautiously back up.

"Mei, hold onto me tightly, okay?" asked Izuku, summoning [The Day] to block their backs, as he tried to get back into the air.

Todoroki quickly sent a wave of ice onto his boots, which trapped the inventor duo temporarily, Mei then pulled out a pair of red gauntlets and burned the ice carefully so as to not ruin her prized invention.

"Told ya the flame gauntlets were a good idea!" boasted the pink haired girl, cockily. Izuku shook his head and looked at Iida worriedly.

The boy sped faster than the duo could react as Todoroki had his hand outreached, trying to grab their headband but then the team ran into something, nearly causing them to fall which would have disqualified them. They seemed to have hit an invisible wall, which left them dazed long enough for the duo to get away from them. Todoroki hissed in anger that their target got away, but also was suspicious of what had occurred.

As the inventors thought they were safe, they were approached by Komori carrying the purple haired jerk who bad-mouthed Izuku. Before they could ask her why she'd pair up with someone who she absolutely hated, Izuku's stand smacked the purple haired boy's hand from Mei's headband.

"Damn it, what the hell was that!" shouted the sleep deprived boy in anger. Mentally Komori screamed for Izuku to help her but to no avail. Izuku's eyes narrowed as he noticed Komori's blank face and white pupils, figuring out the guy must have used his quirk on her. He used The Day to shock her, as he assumes that physical contact may cause her neural processors to "wake up" from whatever trance she was in.

"Team, head after those tw-" the sleep deprived teen was cut off by a slap to the face, as he looked down to see an angry Komori looking up at him. He grimaced as his plan had fallen apart, somehow the girl broke free of his quirk but he couldn't figure out how.

"DO NOT EVER, try that again. Let's just get this event over with shroom. So what's the plan, leader" said Kinoko in an annoyed tone. The boy frowned but shortly smirked after as he pointed to a different unsuspecting team, glad she was at least being cooperative.

Izuku and Mei panted after escaping their encounter with Komori and her team. Suddenly, Todoroki's team and Bakugo's rush at them from their blind spots, the duo hadn't planned for something like this but luckily fate was on the inventors side.

{Time is up!}

The scoreboards showed the results, shocking everyone but the duo who were busy analyzing their gear for any damages. Surprisingly, their equipment was fine except for the bubble of course.

"So…the bubble's gonna need to be remade. Also, my jetpack is out of fuel but everything else is fine. You?" asked Mei, still inspecting her gear.

"Well, I never got to use my other gadgets besides the hover boots. I guess it's better that you got the spotlight that you wanted anyways" said Izuku, smiling as he also inspected his gadgets. The duo is approached by Todoroki, who placed his hand on Izuku's shoulder, startling the poor boy.

"Midoriya, we need to talk. No-" Todoroki couldn't finish his sentence because Mei slapped his hand off Izuku's shoulder. She looks at Todoroki with a blank expression as she tells him to buzz off. Izuku quickly got in between the two as he was anxious that there would be a fight.

"Hey hey, calm down you two. Todoroki, what do you want?" asked Izuku impatiently, as he wanted to get the confrontation over with.

"We need to discuss this in private. I don't feel like sharing this information with her" said Todroki coldly. Mei just had an annoyed expression on her face but said nothing. Izuku stared at him for ten seconds before responding.

"No. I'd rather not discuss anything with you in private" said Izuku sternly, confusing the ice user.

"Excuse me? Look, this is importan-" he was cut off by Izuku's raised palm.

"So far today, all you've done is glare at me and have been looking down on me. God, you're so much like your father in terms of personality, why would I ever go talk with you in private? Please just leave us alone…we've gotta get ready for the next event" said Izuku sighing as he turned back to his friend. Mei sighed in relief as Todoroki walked away with a pissed off expression.

"Jeez, what a jerk! At least it's finally lunch time, I could use some coffee and chocolate right about now. Let's go get some grub!" said Mei yawning, as she headed towards the cafeteria. Izuku followed after her smiling, despite looking tired, the girl still managed to be energetic the second food was around.


{Intermission}

Quirk: Half-Cold, Half-Hot

Student: Shoto Todoroki


{Somewhere in Italy}

Four people sit in a lounge, eating some pizza while watching the UA sports festival. All over the world, people would tune in to watch the festival as it was a good annual pastime for all to enjoy. However, a man spat out his soda at what he just witnessed.

"G-Guys, GUYS! That green haired boy or pink haired girl has a stand!" screamed the man, who was wearing orange tiger print pants and a blue shirt.

"Oh my god, shut up already before I make you fetch us more soda for the one you just wasted" said an annoyed pink haired woman, who was wearing an expensive getup composed of Italy's best brands. The man looked down dejected.

"Well, Mista might not be wrong. Let me find the video online, look here is what I believe Mista was talking about" said a blonde man, who was wearing a black suit with green ladybugs near the heart shaped opening of the suit.

The group stares at the man's phone with their jaws almost hitting the floor. There was a stand user at UA! Honestly they thought that most stands had faded into obscurity due to quirks.

"Well, I'll be damned! Mista wasn't kidding about this but what do we do with this knowledge anyways?" asked another blonde man, who wore a swiss cheese patterned shirt. The man in the black suited shrugged.

"You know Boss, doesn't UA allow for international student internships? Well we could put in a request for whichever one of the two is the stand user, personally I'm leaning towards it being the boy" said a green haired woman in a fur coat as her glass of wine twirled in the air, defying gravity.

"You just said that because you both share the same hair color! Tch, favoritismo at its finest" mumbled Mista, annoyedly.

"Well, I don't mind inviting the stand user. I believe Izuku Midoriya was the boy's name. Let's see what else you can do because so far I'm not too impressed" said the blond man in the suit as he sipped his cup of water.

"Fugo, call in Luna from her investigation of the gang. Actually get everyone, I think we found our final intern. I'll of course need everyone's approval before I send in the request later" said the man smiling as the group went back to watching the festival.


[Villain Base]

Sitting in a bar seat, Shigaraki slammed his fists onto his desk. Kurogiri wiped a glass and continued to watch the festival with a look of distaste.

"Damn brat! How is a quirkless kid beating the best of the best of the Hero Course! This is bullshit, his stats don't add up!" shouted the decay villain angrily.

"I agree. Although it was explained why he is doing so well. You see the pink haired girl has been teaming up with him in each round? The commentators stated that she's from the support course and that the green haired boy created his own gear to make up for being quirkless" stated Kurogiri matter of factly. Tomura started to scratch his neck intensely.

"So what, you're telling me that the brat's intelligence stats are mad high? Even if the two brats planned for this, he shouldn't be having a perfect run in this playthrough. Total hacks! I hate this so much" said Shigaraki angrily. A voice coming from a monitor in the corner of the room begins to speak.

"Oh Tomura, don't you see? The boy's ingenuity is remarkable, he trained himself and made his own gadgets to compensate for his natural disadvantage against his competition. He would be a great ally, Tomura" said the creepy man through the monitor. Shigaraki just stared at the image of Midoriya with a dart in it, posted on the bar's wall beside All Might.

"Whatever, I'll try my best to recruit him after all his talents are wasted on those who will never accept him. However, if he refuses Master, don't get mad if I kill him" said Shigaraki while scratching his neck less intensely than before. The man sighed in agreement before hanging up.


[Back at the Sports Festival]

Izuku and Mei are enjoying their well deserved lunches, Mei's consisting of: three chocolate bars, a canned coffee, and some rice with curry. While Izuku's meal consisted of: katsudon, green tea, and an apple. The two teens were going over the tournament's possible matchups, when Kinoko walks up to them, looking slightly worried.

"Hey M-Midoriya-kun, we've really gotta talk. You can come to Hatsume, if you want. This is pretty urgent as this pertains to the next round" said Kinoko, pointing to an empty hallway.

"Nah, I'm good. You can go though Zuku! Shiitake wouldn't be panicking if it wasn't important" said Mei, munching on her chocolate bar. Izuku sighed at her nickname for his classmate and followed Kinoko to the hallway. The sports festival was entering its final event, which would turn out to be pretty bizarre.

To Be Continued…


Author's Corner!

Honestly, I didn't expect this part to be so long but I honestly just wanted to get the first 2 events over with. During the second half of this chapter, I had a slight writer's block. I had the moments planned but the dialogue was a struggle so I apologize if the dialogue is a little unbearable to read.

I also had another fic idea but I'll hold off on it as I wanna see this through. I hope you all liked my little tease for the internship arc, because it will be different. Glad yall are bearing with me though! See ya next time and please leave reviews so I can get some opinions on the story.

Edit 11/19/2022- Wrote this like a month ago, was revising and stuff today but went to a party! Apologies if anyone was waiting lol, please enjoy. Also the AFO stand poll ends on 11/26, so if you want to vote then head to the poll on my profile! Now, onto some review responses.

Santiagoabelcampos - You definitely bring up a good point! Although I will say now that if he gets a stand then I have decided to give him a preexisting jojo stand unless there are some good suggestions. I feel like this stand would really work…

No plans for vampires although other villains having stands would be interesting.

James Birdsong - Hooray indeed! Writer's block is pain though :O

Chronolocked - One could say it's a match made in heaven? Although I'd say fate will make things difficult to say the least…