Chapter 27: Second Match

"Young Hitoshi! That was an excellent use of your brainwashing. Keep working like that and you will be a strong hero in no time!" All Might praised.

"Whoa! So your quirk is brainwashing. I told you!" Izuku exclaimed to his cousin who simply smiled, "You'll be able to so much with that! You can resolve hostage situations with no casualties. Your quirk would also allow very low collateral damage and you could use it to turn villains against one another or maybe even for information gathering. But can you only control the actions or their thoughts as well? If you can control the thoughts then you can easily extract information. That would be so cool! But it seemed Shoto's ice broke your brainwashing so if the target gets a shock or something, they can regain control. Hmm, that's a problem," Izuku ranted.

"If you're done, I'd like to tell them what they did wrong, Izuku," All Might said. The rest of the class were staring at him bewildered at having found so many uses for a quirk in such a short time. And that too during the first time, he saw the quirk in action.

Hitoshi's mouth hung open. He had never been acknowledged like that in his life. It was mostly everyone telling him that he's a villain for his quirk. But now that someone was actually treating him like a good person, he didn't know how to react. "Told ya," Denki grinned in his ear.

"Sorry, I got carried away with analyzing. I can show you the rest later, Hitoshi," Izuku excused.

"There's more?" The rest of the class shared a collective thought.

"Now then, the only criticism I have for you young Hitoshi, is that your stamina is not too good. Those flights of stairs should not have been anything for a hero. Work on building your body physically," All Might advised. Hitoshi nodded.

"Young Shoto. Your performance was not very good,"

Shoto frowned at that. He had been useless. He hadn't been able to take them down, it was all Hitoshi. On top of that, he used his ice after the fight. He was sure they wouldn't want to be friends with him anymore. He had lost both ways.

"You seemed to be in deep thought for much of the match and showed hesitation in using your quirk. Hesitation like that can be fatal as a hero. Not to mention, once you snapped, you used your quirk to freeze the building. That was a bad idea,"

Momo raised her hand, "Yes?" All Might asked. "I don't see how that was a bad idea. It allowed him to hold the enemies in place and made sure that the bomb wasn't harmed,"

"Valid points," All Might replied, "However since Hitoshi was inside, he risked harming another hero. We saw that Hitoshi also got trapped. He also didn't know any of the opponent's quirks. After icing, he would have walked straight into a booby trap since Kaminari could still electrocute him or Uraraka could float the ice. Also, the amount of ice threatened the structural integrity of the building. Without knowing if the villain has damaged the building, using his quirk might cause the building to collapse and the bomb would go off. Even if that didn't happen, the casings for bombs are almost always metal. The ice would have expanded the metal and caused the bomb to explode. Both cases would be catastrophic," All Might explained, "You have a good quirk and control," All Might pat Shoto, "But you need to have more situational awareness,"

Shoto nodded whilst clenching his fists, All Might had shown so many holes in his plan. Even if he hadn't hesitated, his plan would have been very lousy. All those years of Endeavour training him. Yet he was still so behind.

"Denki and Uraraka, I cannot really fault you. Your plan to hold the room was the best thing to do in this scenario where you do not know your opponent's quirks. In the future, however, keep in mind that quirks can be voice-activated too, and choose your actions wisely. That is all I have to point out. Oh, and of course, the man of the match is... Hitoshi!"

Hitoshi stared in surprise, "Me?"

"Of course, who else would it be? None of us did anything!" Denki grinned wildly. All Might nodded, "Now, you can rest!"

Uraraka and Denki nodded and dragged Hitoshi and Shoto with them to Izuku.

"Now for the second match, two members come front!" All Might announced. Jiro came forward. Iida turned to Hagakure, "Would you like to go?"

The class stared at him blankly. "I'm invisible..."

"Yes, but you have gloves to show your hands. I thought it would be rude to assume-"

"It's fine, go on!"

Iida nodded. The two threw their hands. Iida won, "Hero team!" he called out.

All Might nodded, "Very well, Jiro and Sero, get ready for defense,"

Izuku turned to Hitoshi after the roles were determined, "So, can I learn more about your quirk,"

"Izuku, seriously, give it a break. You only know his name. At least get to know him first," Watanabe said.

Izuku pouted. "I'm Midoriya Izuku. My quirk gives me super strength! Now that we are introduced, can you tell me-,"

"Izuku," Watanabe said warningly.

"Fine, fine. Erm, what's your favorite food?" he asked awkwardly.

"Never mind," Watanabe said as Hitoshi stared blankly. "I'm Hattori Watanabe. My quirk's eye color changing. Izuku's my cousin. I am also your go-to guy if you want bones broken," he smiled.

Hitoshi paled, somehow, this guy was weirder.

Kaminari's electricity crackled as he grew angrier, "I swear to god, both of you!"

"But I'm sure he wants a lot of his bullies' bones broken!" Watanabe said. Izuku nodded vigorously, "And I can help shut down the school,"

Kaminari facepalmed. "They're joking, right? Uraraka asked.

"No, Watanabe broke the bones of a lot of bullies at our school and beat the shit out of Izuku's bully too. Remember Aldera?"

Hitoshi's eyes widened, "Wait, you guys took down that school! I thought you were just the victims,"

"Izuku stirred up quite the public support on the forums," Watanabe half-lied to ensure none of them figured out they wrote the article, "And I kicked Katsuki's ass!"

"Wait, Katsuki as in Bakugou? Our Bakugou?" Kirishima butted in. Izuku paled.

"It's not good to eavesdrop, you know," Mina said from beside.

"You were too!"

Hitoshi and Uraraka sweatdropped and Watanabe puffed up his chest, "Yup! I broke his arms and knocked him out!"

"So, that's why you hate each other, huh? He was really a bully?"

"Mmhmm,"

"Enough!" All Might shouted as he saw Bakugou fuming in the corner. He really didn't want things to get out of hand, "The match is starting now, you wouldn't want to miss it,"

Everyone pouted but nodded.

"Ne, Shoto, why are you so quiet?" Denki asked in a low voice.

Shoto looked at him puzzled, "I thought you wouldn't want to talk since I froze you,"

"That was just training. Did you think I'd be angry at you for that?"

Shoto became a bit embarrassed at that question. Denki smiled, "I already told you, we're friends now, you, me Uraraka, Izuku, Watanabe, and Hitoshi!"

"I didn't agree!" Shinso said gruffly.

"You know you want your friends to get back at your bullies. Just give us the names!" Watanabe pulled Shinso.

"I'll... think about it," Hitoshi said.

"Sure! But you see how I got you to admit that we're friends," Watanabe cheered.

Hitoshi snorted, "Acquaintances,"

"Offer goes for you too, Shoto," Izuku said exclaimed happily. Shoto nodded dumbly but actually thought over it.

"START!" All Might's voice rang out.

"So, what do you think our plan should be?" Hagakure asked Iida.

"Well, I thought you would be our ace in the hole by sneaking upon them. But, Jiro-san seems to have some sort of hearing quirk. Her ears are shaped like earphones, so it might be some sort of enhanced hearing. I'm not sure of Sero-san,"

"Hmm, so we can't just rush in since Jiro can hear us coming?" Hagakure clarified. Iida nodded. Toru thought a bit more before raising her finger, "Oh, I got it! Your quirk is engine right?"

Iida nodded.

"So, that means your quirk must be very loud!" Toru offered. Iida nodded again. "Great! So we can just head into the site and then you can use your quirk to cover my sounds. Jiro will have to stop using her quirk to protect her ears and that will let me sneak in and get the bomb. But, it's all for naught if one of them comes searching outside of the site,"

"No, no, it's a good plan. Since Jiro-san has a hearing quirk, both of them are likely to stay on site since they can hear us coming! Nice planning, Hagakure!"

All Might smiled, it seemed this batch of students were not all brawn.

"Any sign of them?" Sero asked after he had booby-trapped the bomb with his tape.

"Not yet, they aren't close enough yet," Jiro said with her earphone jacks in the ground.

"Man, I hop-" Sero stopped short as Jiro put her hand up, "Wait! I hear them coming. They are coming full speed, right outside the door!" Jiro exclaimed and moved out of the way just as Iida came crashing in through the door.

"Sero, take care of him! I'll search for Hagakure!" Sero nodded and arced his tape towards Iida. "I won't let you!" Iida shouted and used his quirk to evade the tape. The two started playing a game of tag. Sero trying to use his tape for a long-range capture and Iida evading it and trying to get close to him.

"Can you get him already? I can't hear Hagakure over his quirk!"

"I'm trying!"

Hagakure grinned invisibly and ran quietly towards the bomb. She frowned when she saw Sero had covered up the bomb, "Ah well, it looks like bandages anyway. I'll just slip through," She decided but soon regretted her decision. The glue on the tape stuck to her and she couldn't get out.

"Jiro, Hagakure's caught in the tape!"

"Where!?" Jiro shouted back, "I can't see her!"

Sero grumbled, "Switch! I'll get Hagakure," Sero said and dashed off to her location. Iida tried to follow but was cut off by Jiro landing in front of him. Iida didn't let that deter him and ran off by her side. Jiro scowled and plugged her earphone jacks into her legs and let out a sound wave. Iida crumpled to the ground. Jiro smiled but instantly realized her mistake when the sound wave traveled across to the protective tape and crumpled it.

"Shit! Sero, the tape!" Jiro exclaimed

Sero looked beside to see the tape coming down. He pulled the tape, Hagakure was sticking to and captured her with the capture tape. Iida saw his chance and got up groggily, ignoring the pain in his head. With one last dash, he aimed for the bomb. Jiro was about to unleash another wave but bit her lip when she saw that the bomb was in the line of impact, "Sero! Do something!" Jiro shouted. Fortunately, Sero had just seen Iida run, a moment before and had already mobilized the tape lying on the ground. He pulled it up as a tripwire and caught Iida into it who yelped in surprise. Sero smirked, thinking they had won but Iida's momentum pulled the tape and Sero along with him. Sero tried to hold back Iida and was almost successful but Iida managed to get the tip of his finger on the bomb.

"HERO TEAM WINS!" All Might's announcement came much to Sero's dismay.

A/N: Yes I suck at writing fight scenes. This and Izuku's fights are the only ones I'm confident in. Can't wait for this part to get over.