The students watch as Katsuki rips from the tape after the battle, Izuku leans on a wall to keep his balance, and Tenya comforts a nauseous Ochaco.
Hakai looks on as the teams leave the training building, though Izuku is being led to the nurse.
You continue to surprise me, Midoriya. I guess it would be irresponsible to underestimate you at this point. I'll have to keep that in mind.
He then focuses his attention on Katsuki. Hakai notices the look of complete exasperation and distraught on his face. This isn't good. I'm not sure Bakugo can handle the loss. But I suppose it's better now than later.
Afterward, the students are gathered to talk about the training exercise. "For this battle, Tenya was the MVP! Can anyone tell me why?" Instantly Momo went on a very long explanation about why. But Hakai wasn't completely listening, because he noticed that as she talked, Katsuki's expression only became worse.
All Might then reaches into the box and draws the next teams.
"For the Hero team, Team C. Torodoki and Tokoyami. For the Villain team, Team G. Roiyaru and Yaoyorozu. Teams, get ready for the exercise!" And the teams left to get ready.
As Team G started to move into position, Hakai gets Momo's attention.
"So, how's it been Yoyo?"
"You're still calling me that?" Momo sighs as she puts her hand on her head.
"Well of course. Why wouldn't I, Yoyo?" He laughs as Momo shakes her head.
"What about you messing with Tenya? You were purposefully antagonizing him."
"We both know how he could be."
Momo laughs a little. "Yeah, I suppose we do."
Hakai and Momo, being from the same social circle would often have to meet each other at gatherings and such. Especially since their families were close business partners. They even went to the same school for a while.
"But on the note of antagonizing, what's up with your costume?" Momo continued. "You look like a very fancy thief. Though I suppose that's not too far from the truth."
"Ha, whatever. I'm just surprised you're not showing more than you already are."
"I wanted to be less covered, but there are restrictions on exposed skin when designing a costume."
The two make their way to the bomb room. "So, Yoyo. I know how much you love to make the plans. So whatcha got?"
"You like to go on the offensive, but our main mission is to protect the bomb."
"I'll do both."
"And how do you plan to do that?" She questioned.
Hakai points at the paper bomb, and indigo box appears around the bomb. Right after, a sword of solid energy, about three feet long, appears in his left hand. "like this."
"Okay good. We're up against Tokoyami, and his dark shadow quirk. I know darkness increases his quirk's power, so light most likely has the opposite effect. So, flash grenades are a good bet. And Torodoki is-" She stopped when she noticed his mood change, bringing up Torodoki's name. "Remember Hakai, this is a training exercise. I need your head in the game."
"sigh. Yeah, I know. Shoto has only been using his cold half for years, so we don't have to worry about his fire. That being said, he is extremely proficient with his ice. His first move is going to be to freeze us completely to immobilize us."
"I propose we both stay here to defend the bomb and attempt to apprehend them. Use flashbangs when they enter to disorient them and weaken Tokoyami. Though we stay in this room, you will be solely on the offensive, and I'll focus on defending the box. Which means you may be taking the both on for a while."
"Looks like we have a plan!" Hakai smiled. As he pulled down his glasses. Momo made herself a pair of shades to protect her from the flash grenade. She gave Hakai a pair of earplugs.
"It's important that you still cover your eyes and ears, even with the protection. But then again, I suppose you know this already." She then made a pair of snap-on cleats.
"Really, you bring that up now. When are you going to let that go?"
"Never." She laughed. Out of the blue, the room began freezing. the floor began to quickly ice over.
"Watch out!" Hakai shouted. He had chains of energy wrap around her and pulled her towards him just before she was frozen in place. But Hakai's legs were frozen.
He set her down as his aura surrounded him. He broke the ice, freeing his legs just as the door to the room is knocked down by dark shadow.
"Alright, here we go!" Hakai yells. He charges towards them, sword in hand, a small grin creeping on to his face. Shoto throws a shard if ice towards him, but Hakai cuts it in midair. Hakai shoots a chain of energy around Tokoyami's leg a pulls him away from Momo, keeping him in front of Hakai.
"We're going to have to capture him first before we can get to Yaoyorozu," Tokoyami commented.
Shoto stares at Hakai. After a few seconds of silence, ice erupts from Shoto's foot on the ground towards Hakai. He dodges to the side but gives Fumikage the chance to attack. Dark shadow lunges at Hakai. Amelia warns him of this, and he makes a pane of energy, blocking dark shadow.
Hakai pushes the pane back into Fumikage, pushing him down. While doing so, he rushes at Shoto swinging his sword towards Shoto's left. Shoto responds by making a pillar of ice, blocking the strike. Hakai steps to the side then swings towards his right. Shoto tries to dodge but Hakai suddenly changed his motion into a forward jab, taking Shoto by surprise. Shoto turns his body just in time as the sword thrust. While doing so he makes a wall ice freeze-up, catching Hakai's sword in the ice. While Hakai begins to pull the sword out, he gets a warning from his right, Shoto grabs his arm and manages to freeze Hakai's arm up to the shoulder, but he kicks Shoto off.
"Hakai, are you okay?" Momo asks.
He finishes pulling out the sword and flexes his arms out, break the ice off. "I'm fine. Just a little surprised." Hakai responds, looking down. "You've always found it hard to read my movements, Shoto. I think you know by now why that is." Hakai says as he begins chuckling to himself. He looks back up to Shoto, smiling with a crazy look in his eye.
Hakai rushes at Shoto again swinging his sword wildly. He responds with an ice barrier, but all Shoto could do to was continually add on to the wall of ice that Hakai was breaking down. Hakai steps to the side, thinking he would try to round the barrier, Shoto sends a pillar of ice in his direction, but Hakai suddenly jumps over the barrier and delivers a downward strike to his opposite side. Shoto barely rolls out of the way, only for it to be followed up with a back kick from Hakai.
Dark shadow begins to bash against the pane, trying to break free. The pane begins to crack against the force.
Hakai glances over at Fumikage to see what's going on, but Shoto seizes this opportunity to strike. More ice erupts from his foot and comes racing towards Hakai. He notices in time to jump out the way but, the ice continues. It strikes the box around the bomb-making it cracks. Just as he does, Fumikage breaks the energy pane, and it disperses from in front of him.
"Your physical constructs only have a specific amount of energy put into them." Shoto starts. "If not continually reinforced, its durability degrades until it loses it form. And to stop it from being reinforced..."
He suddenly rushes forward shooting ice from his foot. Hakai meets Shoto head-on but doing so allowed Fumikage to slip past him. "His focus has to be taken away." Fumikage finished.
So, they planned this from the beginning! "Damn it!" was all he can say as blocked a pillar of ice from Shoto.
Fumikage tries to attack the box, but Momo knocks him off course with her staff. "I'm not just here to stand around," Momo says as she again thrust with her staff, making a shield in her other hand. Fumikage sends Dark shadow around it, but Momo deflects it with her shield. Fumikage attacks again and again, until Momo strikes him in the stomach sending him stumbling back.
Hakai swings his sword of energy, but Shoto blocks with his arm covered in thick ice. He reaches his arm forward. Hakai, avoiding being iced over ducks out of the way. But Shoto wanted that to happen, as it allowed him to send ice towards the box. Momo was busy with Fumikage, so the ice crashed against the box, almost breaking. Fumikage seeing what was happening also stepped out of conflict with Momo and lunged Dark shadow to the box, shattering it. He was about to touch it, but Hakai shot energy chains around Shoto and Fumikage.
"Yoyo, now!" Hakai shouted. Momo dropped her shield and throws out a flash grenade. Hakai covers his ears as it goes off high in the air. Blinded by the light, Shoto creates a barrier around Fumikage and himself, trying to protect themselves while they are disoriented.
Hakai takes a step back, taking a breath.
"Nice idea with the flashbang," Hakai tells Momo.
"Thank you. I knew it would give us a second to collect ourselves."
"Well, now that I know what their plan is, I'm ready for round two!" Hakai says as he walks up to the ice dome.
"What are you doing?"
"It's probably dark inside which means that Fumikage's dark shadow is becoming stronger again. The longer we let them stay there, the more time they have to collect their thoughts. And I..." His sword begins to glow brighter and hotter, using collecting thermal energy into the blade, it sparked with a flame. "Don't want to give them the chance. Time is almost up, and they must be desperate."
Hakai thrust his blade into the dome, breaking some ice on the way in. He then begins to move it to the side quickly melting it down. But after a few seconds, Dark Shadow burst from the ice. It launches towards Hakai, but he was quick enough to roll to the side. As soon as he landed on his feet, Amelia warned him of danger coming from the side. He put up a shield pane just in time to dodge the ice crystal from Shoto, but he did not expect Fumikage to attack up close. Fumikage kicked him in the stomach, unbalancing Hakai. While he was unbalanced, Shoto froze his legs to the floor in very thick ice.
"Damn it!" Hakai shouts as he struggles to break from the ice.
With Hakai out of the way, Shoto and Fumikage turned their attention to Momo, and she got into her battle stance. Shoto began with a rush of ice towards her right, but she stepped to the side. Dark shadow attacked her left, and she blocked with her shield. Fumikage attacked, again and again, Momo barely has the time to react. After she found her opening, she countered with her staff, pushing him back. But being distracted by Fumikage, Shoto got the upper hand and froze her legs to the floor.
"No! I…I was careless." She said disappointed in herself. As she was caught, Hakai managed to break out of the ice, but Shoto was already as the bomb.
He put his hand on the bomb and a second later All might announce, "The battle is over! Time is up. And…The villain team wins!"
"What?!" Fumikage exclaims as everyone also expressed a look of surprise. Well, almost everyone. "But how? Shoto retrieved the bomb."
"Look closer at the bomb." All Might instructs. Shoto does so and understands. He sees the very faint shimmer of the veil of indigo covering the bomb almost airtight.
"Hakai put a second layer of protection along with the box." All might explains. "You didn't truly retrieve the bomb, because you aren't touching the bomb.
Shoto turns back to Hakai, who with a wave of his hand lets the veil down. Shoto sighs as he begins to heat up the room, freeing Momo's legs. Hakai shakes his head with frustration, as the heat dies down. "Now you use your other half…" Hakai says to Shoto, barely audible. "Am I still not worth it?" Before He could respond, Hakai walks away, wiping the blood off his mouth.
With the battle over, the class began to talk amongst themselves.
"That battle was insane! I guess it should have been expected, knowing everyone in it was recommended." Tsuyu commented.
"The twist at the end was unbelievable!" Rikido exclaims.
"Roiyaru had us all tricked from the beginning!" Mina added.
"He did, but the look in his eyes could get kind of scary." Tsuyu said.
"The way he moved was so... sporadic and unpredictable," Mashirao commented. "I've learned to pick up other movements, actions, and state-of-mind to know what a person would do next, but I couldn't seem to get a handle on Hakai's pattern."
"Yeah, moves were kind of weird. They were out of place, but also smooth together, it's strange." Eijiro
"I've learned why," Bakugo spoke up. Everyone turned to him when he did.
"What do you mean?"
"We used to practice before the U.A., and combat was always a staple. Whenever we fought, I tried to read his movements and predict what he would do next. But when he gets into it, his mind seems to go all over the place, doing whatever it wants to do at the moment. He doesn't have a pattern."
"What are you saying, Bakugo?" Mezo questioned.
"I don't know what he's going do, because I don't think he even knows what he's going to do. He simultaneously strategizes against his opponent, while also letting his body move whatever way it wants to."
"Such an unconventional approach." Turo comments.
How peculiar. All Might think to himself. And it seems there is some bad blood between Young Roiyaru and Young Torodoki. I wonder what happened...
After the teams came back in, it was time for the class discussion. "For this battle, Young Torodoki was the MVP! Would anyone like to take a try as to why?" All Might asked.
Hakai, surprisingly, was the one to speak up. "He worked efficiently with his teammate, was able to protect both himself and his teammate while they were disoriented, used his quirk in such a way to be able to go on the offensive, but also subtlety, but skillfully, avoid damaging the bomb, and was able to weaken or stall the enemy on multiple accounts. He had us beat in end. If it wasn't for that last trick, he would have effectively retrieved the bomb, and won." He said the last part quietly, almost to himself. Hakai's analysis was borderline praise towards Shoto's performance, though his tone was more one of frustration.
"That is a nice analysis, but don't be so down. You put up a good challenge and won end the end!" All Might exclaims. But Hakai's mood only seemed to turn into one of dejection.
The battles continued, each of the teams showing off their different quirks. After they were all finished, the class met back at the entrance.
"Good job, everyone!" All might exclaim. "Everyone's performance was fantastic! And we didn't have too many injuries, besides Young Midoriya. Which reminds me: Young Roiyaru, do you need to go to the nurse?"
"No. I'm Fine." He responded quietly.
"Good! I'm off to review the results with Young Midoriya. Now change and return to your classroom!" As he finished, he sprinted off with incredible speed. While he runs, he begins to think to himself.
Young Bakugo is a mass of pride, whose fragile heart is ready to burst. Young Roiyaru wears his heart on his sleeve, his emotion being his drive. As their teacher, I must counsel them well. But right now, I barely have enough time to teach the class! All Might runs into a staff room.
After Izuku leaves the nurse's office, he heads to the classroom. When he opens the door, he is greeted with the students of 1-A talking to one another.
"Oh, Midoriya's is here!" Eijiro Announces. After he does, students from the class rush up to welcome Izuku. "You did great in the battle today! It looked like you really fired up!"
"Yeah! You fought evenly with Bakugo, who was second in the entrance exam!" Hanta adds. The students continue to talk to Midoriya, cheering him on. Soon everyone introduced themselves, telling Izuku their names.
Hakai sat in his desk, staring out of the window. After waiting a while for Izuku to wake up, the sky began to turn orange with the afternoon sun. Hakai gets up, grabbing his stuff, and walks towards the door.
"Your battle was awesome, Midoriya! I knew you had it in you. Keep doing things like that, and I'll have to start watching my back!" Hakai cheers, as he walks past Izuku.
"Thanks, Roiyaru!" Midoriya replied. But noticed that Katsuki wasn't in his seat. "Where's Kacchan?"
"He left not to long ago," Hakai said as he continued to walk. "Maybe you can catch him if you hurry."
"Thanks, Roiyaru!" Izuku said, before sprinting out.
