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"ALL MIGHT"
Small might"
Chapter 19
Clash: The Tournament Begins
The stage was set for the final round of the sports festival, Izuku saw that he was first up against Shinso from the General Education Class.
"Ladies and gentlemen! It's time for the first match of the tournament to begin!" Mic yelled as the crowd cheered on.
"Introducing first, he is the unstoppable force that has dominated each event! I give to you the president of class 1A IZUKU MIDORIYA!" Mic screamed as Izuku walked onto the ring as the crowd cheered for him.
"And his opponent, representing the Gen Ed department, the boy who looks like the illegitimate love child of Eraser-Head!" Mic said.
"What is wrong with you" Aizawa said but was ignored by Mic.
"Give it up folks for HITOSHI SHINSO!" Mic screamed as Shinso walked up the ring.
"Alright are both contestants ready?" Midnight asked as both of them nodded. "Okay then let the battle begin" Midnight said as she started the fight.
Izuku looked at Shinso with his eyes narrowed as he stood in front of him. Izuku didn't know exactly what his quirk could do so he was going to have to make him reveal it, but what Izuku didn't know was that Shinso already had him right where he wanted.
"Well, well, well, the president of class 1A, the one who got the highest points in the UA entrance exam. It looks like all your achievements have made you cocky and now like I told you I'm going to knock you down a peg" Shinso said as he smirked.
"Look here eye bags, I already said I'm here to win, so less yapping and more fighting" Izuku said as he took a step forward.
"There it is that cocky attitude, seriously are all you guys class 1A like this or is just you and that Bakugou guy?" Shinso said.
"Alright look here you-"Izuku didn't finish what he was about to say as he was caught in Shinso trapped and Shinso knew it as he smiled. Izuku face became blank and his eyes became lifeless.
Meanwhile up in the stands Izuku classmates were watching as Izuku face changed which shocked them.
"Oh no" Ojiro said as everyone looked at him.
"What, do you know what happened to him Ojiro?" Mina asked as he nodded.
"Yes, Shinso used his quirk on him" Ojiro said as everyone looked at him with wide eyes.
"What do you mean he used his quirk on him" Ochako said.
"As I said the reason I dropped out of the tournament was because I didn't remember anything from the Calvary battle and that's because of him. Shinso has some kind of brainwashing quirk that can be activated when you answer him and that's what he's using on Midoriya" Ojiro explained as the others looked shocked at the revelation.
"Good, now walk out the ring" Shinso order as Izuku turned around and began walking out of bounds.
"What is going on? Why the hell is Midoriya walking away and he's heading out of bounds!" Mic yelled in shock at what he was seeing.
"It looks like Shinso has him in some sort of transe" Aizawa said.
"Oh no, Midoriya is walking out of bounds, he's going to lose" Kaminari said.
"Midoriya, bro snap out of it" Kirishima said as he looked at the fight.
Up in the VIP box his mother along with Trish and Lady were yelling at him to snap out of it as All Might held his breath as he saw what was happening.
Izuku kept on getting closer to the end of the ring as he was trying to make his boy stop. 'Come on stop moving, how do I get out of this' Izuku thought as he looked for a way out of this situation.
'I won't let it end like this' Izuku thought before he saw something that shocked him. Izuku saw what look like eight individuals with yellow eyes and one of them looked like All Might in his weakened form. 'What the hell is this?' Izuku asked himself before he felt OFA activating itself around his fingers.
"It looks like this is my wi-" Shinso said but was interrupted by a burst of wind that came from Izuku's fingers breaking it which sent Izuku's back a bit away from the edge of the ring.
Izuku snapped out of it and looked at his hand and saw that all his fingers were broken but it was already beginning to heal. 'Who the hell were those guys and why did one look like All Might? Never mind, I'll look into it later right now I need to focus and I finally figured out his quirk' Izuku thought before he turned to face Shinso who was shocked that he broke out of his brainwashing.
"Aizawa, what just happened?" Mic asked as he turned to him.
"It looks like Shinso had Midoriya in some sort of brainwashed transe and Midoriya broke out of it by breaking all his fingers" Aizawa said which shocked everyone that he broke his finger to get out of Shinso's brainwashing.
"That burst of wind was just for him to break his fingers, now that's hardcore" Kaminari said.
"Yes and now that he used his quirk on Izuku, he won't fall for it again" Momo said.
"How did you do that?" Shinso asked as he was getting angry. "Answer me" Shinso said but Izuku remained silent.
'He's figured it out, that's why he isn't talking anymore' Shinso thought as he gritted his teeth in anger.
Izuku knew that it was time to end this, so he used his Sonìdo and appeared in front of Shinso before grabbing his face as he spinned and threw Shinso out of the ring earning him the victory.
"Shinso is out of bounds, The winner of the match is Izuku Midoriya!" Midnight said as the crowd cheered for Izuku.
"It must feel good to be blessed with such a powerful quirk" Shinso said as Izuku turned to him.
"What did you just say?" Izuku asked.
"I said it must feel good to be blessed with such a powerful quirk" Shinso said before Izuku burst into laughter causing him to frown. "And what so funny?" Shinso asked.
"Wow, you know, I've seen idiots before but you take the cake. You honestly think that I'm blessed, dude shut the fuck up" Izuku said as the entire arena looked at him as he was talking to Shinso. "Let me tell you something, I didn't get my power until I was five years old and before that I used to get picked on a lot because they thought that I was quirkless" Izuku said as everyone looked at him in surprise including Shinso.
"But I never gave up and that's why I'm strong. Look here Shinso, you say that I'm blessed but from what I just saw so are you" Izuku said as Shinso looked at him. "I mean come on, you had me dead to rights just by talking to me, dude that is a very good quirk you have there. Seriously villains like to monologue a lot and with your quirk you could end any conflict before it even begins, that's like one of the most overpowered quirk I've ever seen" Izuku continued as Shinso looked at him in shock.
"I meant what I said about potential standing amongst everyone who came here and out of all of them you have that drive and look where you landed in the final event. So if any tells you that your quirk is suited for a villain, you tell them to piss off or you can just kick theirs asses which ever one you want to do, but If you really want to be a hero I'll tell you now all you have to do is continue to improve yourself and I can guarantee you that you will stand amongst the greats in the future, I know that because I truly believe that you can be a hero" Izuku finished as Shinso looked at him as his eyes widened.
'He believes that I can do it.' Shinso repeated in his head as he cried.
The crowd was in shock at what happened until Nezu stood up and clapped. That clap led to many others and cheers by the crowd, students, and pros. Shinso was still crying, his tears falling on the ground.
"Midoriya, thank you very much" Shinso said as he wiped the tears from his eyes as Izuku smiled and walked into the locker room.
"Wow, that was incredible! But that's not all folks, get ready for the next match!" Mic yelled.
Izuku made his way to the waiting area to watch the next match which was Shoto vs Sero with his classmates.
"Midoriya that was awesome, how are you fingers by the way?" Kirishima asked.
"They're getting better" Izuku said.
"Nero I thought you were going to lose but you really pulled a fast one to get out of that" Ochako said.
"Yeah, he almost had me, thank god I was able to think fast" Izuku said before he turned his attention to the fight that was about to begin.
"Let the match begin" Midnight said as the fight started.
As soon as it started Sero quickly tied up Shoto and was threw him towards the ring out but he was unsuccessful as Shoto then froze him with so much ice that covered half of the stadium.
"The winner of the second match is Shoto Todoroki!" Midnight screamed as everyone was in shock to see that much ice created and Sero looked scared half to death as he was frozen solid.
"Sorry about that, I was just angry" Shoto said before he walked up to Sero and began to defrost him from the ice.
"Wow, that was over pretty fast" Mic said.
"Moving on, would the next contestant please come up to the ring" Aizawa said.
The next fight was between Momo and Tokoyami but as soon as the match began Tokoyami used his quirk Dark Shadow to overwhelm Momo as she was knocked out of bounds as Tokoyami advanced to the next round.
Izuku was looking forward to the next match which was between Nico and Tenya. Izuku knew that Nico had come prepared for the fight with any of his classmates as she studied them when they first met during their demon hunting exercise.
"And now fourth match is about to begin and I got to tell you I'm looking forward to this Eraser" Mic said as both of them stepped into the ring.
Let the fourth match begin!" Midnight said as the fight started.
Tenya tried to rush Nico out of the ring but with her quick reflexes she sidesteps it and rolled to avoid him, but as she stood up she felt a hand on her shoulder but before she could react Tenya grabbed her collar and rushed to throw her out again but it was stopped as she maneuvered her body and used her legs to hook his neck as she wanted to use his momentum against him but it failed as Tenya was able to stop himself from being thrown out of bounds.
"Whoo whee, now I have to say you sure move fast four eyes" Nico said.
"Hm, I could say the same about you, your reaction time and flexibility are incredible but I'm not surprised seeing as you work with Izuku, I know now that I have to take it up a notch if I'm going to beat you" Tenya said as she smiled.
"That's nice, it looks like I can finally use one of my artwork" Nico said as a pair of black grieves materialized on her feet(God of War 3 Hermes boots). As soon as it appeared on her she ran at Tenya with incredible speed which shocked everyone as well as Tenya as he barely dodged the punch she sent at him causing him to move back.
"What was that" Tenya said to himself as he looked at her in surprise.
"I know what you're thinking, how did she get so fast. Well the answer is simple, it's thanks to these lovely beauties on my feet" Nico said as they looked at it and saw the boots.
"So this is one of the things she's been working on" Izuku said as Ochako looked at him.
"Nero, did you know about this?" Ochako asked.
"No, I didn't. She always told me about her special 'me' project but this is the first time I'm seeing it and from the looks of it I guess it increases her speed, that means it's a fair fight now" Izuku said as they turned their attention back to the fight.
Nico looked at Tenya before she ran at him again and hit him with a spin kick followed by a backhand but Tenya didn't let that slow him down, he quickly used his own speed to match hers and went in for a leg sweep but she jumped over it and failed to notice Tenya followed up with a handstand kick the hit her in the stomach which caused her to fall on her back but she quickly got up.
"That's some move you got there four eyes" Nico said as got back up.
"The same could be said about you, I wasn't expecting anyone here to be able to match my speed besides Izuku but I see now that my expectations were not met" Tenya said.
"Oh yeah, you know I studied how fast you can go and when I finally saw what you could do I decided to make this bad boy, but it's still a work in progress since this is just a prototype" Nico said.
"Enough talking I think it's time we end this" Tenya said.
"That we can agree on four eyes" Nico replied.
They both ran at each other and began to trade blows but Nico had the upper hand since she had been training in hand to hand combat since she joined DMC. Nico punched him in the face and ducked under his own punch before going for a leg sweep that knocks him down but he quickly picked himself up and decided to use his trump card.
"Recipro Burst" Tenya said as blue flames came out of the engines on his calf as he ran at Nico but as he got closer he began to spin and landed two vicious kicks to her leg and rib that made her spit out a little blood.
Tenya saw that Nico was stunned and grabbed her he ran towards ring out but he was going faster than the first time he did this which caused Nico to smile as he did the same maneuver and used his own momentum to throw his out and this time he couldn't stop himself and he landed out of bounds.
"The winner of the fourth match is Nicoletta Goldstein!" Midnight said as the crowd cheered loudly at how good the match was.
"What an amazing match from both contestants!" Mic said.
"It was, Nicoletta used the same move she used when the match first began only this time Tenya couldn't slow himself down as he was going a lot faster than he did at the beginning, he wasn't expecting her to do the same thing and that cost him" Aizawa said.
"Man, that was incredible, talk about a manly fight" Kirishima said.
"I'll say, Nico may not have speed or stronger but she's smart and she's also an excellent fighter, not to mention those grieves increased her speed to match Tenya and I'm betting she has a whole lot more to show" Izuku said.
The next matches were also good with Kaminari winning against Ibara Shiozaki. He won when she used her vines to tie him up which made him use them to channel his electricity to stun her before blasting her out of the ring. Next was Mina against Aoyama, in which Mina won as she used his weakness against him.
Kirishima and Tetsutetsu from Class 1B was good as both their quirks similar so they decided to end it with and arm wrestling match in which Kirishima won to advance to the next match.
The final match of the first round was Ochako and Katsuki and she was nervous, Izuku talked to her and asked if he could help her with some strategies but she turned it down saying she was going to do it on her own, Izuku wished her good luck as she made her way to the ring.
"Ladies and Gentlemen! It's time for the final match of the first round and it's going to be two students from class 1A duking it out" Mic screamed as the crowd cheered as both contestants stepped into the ring.
"Let the match begin" Midnight said as the fight started.
"Listen here pink cheeks, I'll only say this once, give up because if you think I'm going to hold back just because you're a girl then you're dead wrong" Katsuki said as sparks began to come from his palm.
"If that's your way of intimidating someone then you need to work on that, I'm here to show what I can do so I'm not backing down to some porcupine with anger issues" Ochako said as Katsuki's eye twitched.
"What did you call me round face!" Katsuki yelled in anger.
"You heard me, porcupine" Ochako said again.
As she said that Katsuki immediately rushes her and tries to hit her with his right hand but she counters and hit him in the face with a roundhouse kick that makes him stumble. She rushed at him but before she got close she was blown back by an explosion from him before he uses his explosion to flip over her and blasted her again.
"Come on round face is that all you got" Katsuki said as she got up.
"Man, he really isn't holding anything back" Kaminari said.
"Of course he won't, he knows what she capable off that why he's not hold back because if he does she can capitalize on that to take him down but I'm not worried she has something up her sleeve" Izuku said as he watched as she was blasted again.
Ochako used the smoke from his explosion to get behind him and hit him with a leg sweep which causes him to fall down, she quickly tries to attack him but he pushes himself up with his explosion and dodges her attack and tries to blast her again but she dodged it and punches him in the stomach. Katsuki uses a more powerful blast that cause dust to pick up, Ochako seeing the dust took off her jacket and used it as a decoy which got Katsuki's attention as she got behind him and used he legs to hold his neck as she takes him down and put him in an arm bar submission causing him to grunt in pain but he quickly grabbed the arm she had in the hold and lifted her up and slammed her to the ground as he tries to get her to let go but she didn't and began applying more pressure which made it more painful for him.
Katsuki then opened his palm and blasts her with a small explosion that caused her to release the hold as she fell down, he grabbed his arm to shake off the pain but he then noticed that she got back up, which causes him to frown. Katsuki then begins his onslaught as he blasted her with multiple explosions a few she managed to dodge but she began to slow down which caused the rest to hit her as she fell on her back.
"Hey, you dead yet round face" Katsuki asked as he took a deep breath.
Ochako coughs and looks at him before she smiled. "You know thanks for keeping your eyes on me during the fight" Ochako said as Katsuki looked confused before she looked up which caused him to look up as well as his eyes widened in surprise as he saw a lot of debris floating above him.
"Oh, you clever girl" Izuku said as he smiled.
"Izuku do you know what she has planned?" Tenya asked.
"Yes I do, you see during the entire fight, Ochako kept low to the ground so that Katsuki's explosions would destroy the floor of the stage. She also kept attacking repeatedly to keep his attention on her while she floated several dozen pieces of debris into the air high above the stage and now she has him right where she wants him" Izuku explained as the others looked at Ochako with awe.
"Thanks for the assist, now Release" Ochako said as she releases the debris from her quirk, effectively attacking Katsuki with a meteor shower from above.
"DON'T THINK YOU'VE WON YET!" Katsuki yelled as he blasted all the debris with one massive explosion that destroyed all of it which shocked everyone including Izuku.
Katsuki's hands began to shake from the magnitude of the explosion he just used, seeing this Ochako decided to use her trump card.
"Alright here goes, Universal Pull!" Ochako said as she used her powers to pull Katsuki towards her so fast that he didn't have time to react. As he was flying towards her She ran towards him and gave him an uppercut before kicking him towards ring out.
The crowd all thought that it was over but it was cut short when he used his explosion to steady himself before he got knocked out of the ring.
"It's time to end this Uraraka" Katsuki said as he was breathing heavily before he charged at her and blasted her point blank with a big explosion that sends her out of the ring knocking her out.
Midnight went over to check on her and saw that she was hurt badly before she called the match. "The winner is Katsuki Bakugou" Midnight said as the crowd cheered for both of them.
"Eraser-Head what are you teaching these kids! I'll tell you now class 1A certainly lives up to its hype" Mic said.
Izuku was heading to the waiting room to see Ochako, but as he was heading there he ran into Katsuki.
"I wasn't expecting to see you here Katsuki" Izuku said.
"Deku... I'll say this once when we fight you better bring your A-game, this won't be like the first time" Katsuki said as he walked away but he paused. "Oh and tell round face I said she did good" Katsuki said before walking away which caused Izuku to smile a bit.
Izuku walked into the room and saw that Kyrie was healing Ochako.
"Hey Kyrie, how is she?" Izuku asked.
"She's fine, exhausted but fine" Kyrie said.
"Good, she really pushed herself, I guess all that training is paying off" Izuku said as Ochako began to stir.
"Hey, look who's up, how are you feeling?" Izuku asked Ochako as she sat up a bit.
"I lost... I should have tried harder to bea-" Ochako said but was cut short.
"Whoa, don't beat yourself up about it, you did your best that's all that matters" Izuku said as he put his hand on hers.
"He's right, you did great, don't let this loss get you down" Kyrie said as she smiled at Ochako.
"I guess you're right, that means I'll have to try harder next time" Ochako said.
"Yes but right now you need to rest, you deserve it" Kyrie said.
"Hey, how about we do something to cheer you up after the festival" Izuku said as Ochako looked at him.
"Like what?" Ochako asked.
"How about you and me go and get some dinner at this amazing place I know" Izuku said as she began to blush.
"Are you asking me out on a date" Ochako said as she tried to hid her blush.
"Yeah, I guess I am" Izuku said as he wa blushing a bit.
"I would love to" Ochako said.
"Great, I'm looking forward to it. Well I got to go, I need to see who I'm facing for the next round, take care" Izuku said as he ran out of the room causing both girls to giggle.
"Well, it looks like you're the first one to score a date with him" Kyrie said.
"I know I'm excited and a little nervous too" Ochako said.
"Don't be just go and have fun" Kyrie said.
"I know, it's just that Lady and Trish told me about how I'm probably going to share him" Ochako said as Kyrie looked at her.
"Oh, they told you about the harem thing" Kyrie said as Ochako looked at her with wide eyes.
"You know about it?" Ochako asked as she nodded.
"Yes, Nico also knows about and in all honesty I wouldn't mind sharing him if you're okay with it" Kyrie said with a small blush.
"You know let's talk about this later when we're all settled down okay" Ochako said as Kyrie nodded.
Izuku want ran out to the arena to see who was he wa facing and he looked in anticipation as he matches for the next round were set.
Izuku Midoriya vs Nicoletta Goldstein
Katsuki Bakugou vs Ejiro Kirishima
Mina Ashido vs Tokoyami Fumikage
Shoto Todoroki vs Denki Kaminari
Izuku and Nico looked at each other and smiled as they got ready for the next fight.
TO BE CONTINUED
AUTHORS NOTES: sup folks I am pleased to tell you that this is the update sorry if it's not as long as the others but the next chapter will cover the rest of the tournament. Now if you noticed at the beginning of the I hinted that Nico had do me gadget here with her and she used one when facing Tenya so expect the other ones to be used against Izuku as well. Next chapter will be good I also have some surprises as well that I know you will enjoy. So as usual don't forget to comment and pm me if you want anything also like and share my story and tell me that you think. Enjoy and I'll post the next update as soon as i can. Peace out suckers.