Chapter number 12. Sorry if this took too long to upload, currently stressed with work, looking for a new job, and I was sick the last three days in a row, so hurray. Anyways, enjoy
U.A Academy.
It had been a few months since the incident at U.S.J. 2 months to be exact. How much time had passed didn't matter to Peter. He was more focused on getting Venom under control and trying to find out more about the League of Villains through Toga. Although she's been knowing less and less since there's been distrust floating around the League of Villains ever since the plan to ambush Spider-Man, failed. It was good for Peter, seeing as it was taking them more time to plan another ambush on him, but knew the risks Toga was taking. He promised himself he was going to find a way to get her out safely, but that was easier said than done.
Currently, Peter was walking to school with his usual friends. Kaminari, Jiro, And Momo. While the four of them haven't came together yet to help Peter tame Venom, he was able to somewhat handle it in the weeks leading up to the Sports Festival.
"I'm so excited for the sports festival!" Kaminari said. "All the pro heroes are there to scout for upcoming hero interns."
"Never thought I would ever hear the phrase Hero intern." Peter said. Kaminari chuckled a bit.
Jiro was twirling around one of her jacks while they were talking. "He's not wrong. Pro heroes scout the best in the sports festival, then take them under their wing for a 2-week internship."
"Best being?" Peter asked.
"Could be lots of things. Skill, Strength, Strategy." Momo said.
"Ahh, Strategy. The one thing I don't use every time."
"Really?" Momo, Jiro, and Kaminari asked at the same time.
"Yeah I usual just wing it in the moment. Kinda like how I handled the fight with Bakugo." Peter said as he rubbed his right hand, the same hand he broke during that fight. Jiro got quiet when Peter mentioned that fight, and he took note of that. He decided it was best not to bring it up in front of Momo or Kaminari, but he was going to talk to Jiro later on about it.
"Anyways, The festival is later today, right?" Peter asked.
Momo nodded her head. "It's today, but I'm pretty sure it's the whole day.
"Great. So all of Japan can watch me embarrass myself." Peter joked.
"You'll be fine." Kaminari said. "Well...as long as Bakugo doesn't do anything dangerous..."
"Thanks for the vote of confidence." Peter said as the three of them walked into school. Once they walked in, they saw All Might and a female hero directing students towards the locker rooms.
"Everyone please hurry and change into your gym uniforms. We have to be at the stadium by 12p.m sharp." All Might said. Peter spilt from his group of friends and started walking towards the locker room until he stopped and thought about it.
"Great job Pete. You completely forgot about the fact EVERYONE would see your face without your mask." Peter immediately turned around back to All Might. "Hey, All Might?"
All Might turned around. "Oh, Hello Young Parker. What seems to be the problem?"
"Do you think I would be able to wear my mask at the sports festival? I kinda don't want to get rid of the whole 'secret identity' thing."
"Don't see why not." All Might said. "And this is only specifically for the support course, but all student should know. If you have any inventions you created as part of your hero portfolio, make sure you have it with you, as you can use it at the festival."
Hearing that relived Peter, as he knew he didn't have to hide or give up his web shooters, just refill them. "Thanks All Might." Peter turned back around and started running towards the locker room.
"You're welcome Young Parker." All Might said.
An Hour Later.
Peter knew how much this festival meant to a lot of his class mates. For some, there future was on the line here. All of class 1A was inside the common room outside the festival before it started. He looked around at his classmates and saw different emotions in all of them. Fear, excitement, possibly both. It was a lot for everyone to take in, as this was there chance to shine. He decided to talk to Midoriya, seeing as he needed to figure out if the talk they had a few months ago actually worked.
"Hey Deku." Peter said. Midoriya turned around and greeted Peter with a smile.
"Hey Peter. You ready for the festival?"
"I don't know if I would consider something like this in that we get scouted out as part of our future hero careers as a festival. It's more like a talent show." Peter said. "But I'm about as ready as I'll ever be. Did you ever talk to Bakugo after the talk we had?"
"Yeah...um, about that..." Peter almost face palmed himself when he heard Deku starting an excuse.
"He threatened you again, didn't he?" Peter asked.
"No..." Midoriya said hesitantly. Peter could hear the hesitation in his voice and called him out on it.
"Deku. Did he threaten you?"
Midoriya looked at Bakugo, who was a few feet behind Peter. Bakugo gave him a deadpan stare, which made Midoriya immediately glance away. "Y-yes. But don't do anything rash."
"Rash is a nice way to put it." Peter said as he turned around to confront Bakugo. He may have not known the whole story behind both Midoriya and Bakugo, but he knew that there was an obvious disconnect from how they both felt about each other, and with that came the risk that one of them was going to end up in the obituaries, which wasn't something Peter could get off his mind.
"Hey, blondie!" Peter yelled. Everyone immediately turned their attention towards Peter and Bakugo. Peter didn't know what came over him to confront Bakugo. It could've been that he didn't want Bakugo to turn into Midoriya's Flash Thompson. He believed in that, otherwise he was doing this based on straight stupidity.
Bakugo immediately turned around and made a angry look towards Peter. "What do you want?"
"I want you to stop with your superiority complex. It makes you look like a dick." Peter said. There was a mixture of people both wondering if they should step in, and holding their breathes. Either way Bakugo had a smug smile on his face the whole time.
"Whatever. Your quirk isn't better than mines. As far as I'm concerned, you're less than me."
With all the confidence (or lack there of) Peter could muster, he replied "Than we'll see who comes out on top at the end of this festival, won't we?"
"Bakugo stepped up closer to Peter, as if they were ready to fight. "I guess we will, Bug." The tension between the both of them was real. If Iida hadn't come into the room, they might've fought for Round 2 right there and then.
"Attention everyone, we have 5 minutes before we're up! Get ready!" Iida said. Bakugo stepped away as Peter stood in his spot.
"Real smooth." Venom said.
"Not a good time Venom." Peter said quietly. He turned around to see Midoriya a few feet behind him. At this point, everyone went back to talking to each other and getting ready to go towards the festival.
Midoriya held his arm in his hand. "You didn't have to do that. Now he's just gonna equally hate us now."
"Midoriya, I've been tossed, shot at, sliced, electrocuted, and thrown into walls that've broken from impact. A school bully doesn't exactly come up as my top threats." Midoriya stood in silence, part of what Peter was telling him, and part that Peter wasn't understanding what Midoriya meant by his statement.
"I know, but..."
"Look, how about we talk after the festival, or once we get a break from it?" Peter said. Midoriya, defeated for the time being, nodded in agreement as he walked off.
Start of the Festival.
Once the announcement of the first part of the festival, the obstacle race, was starting, every class in U.A crowded the halls to get a good spot at the starting line. Peter knew he would get demolished by all the other students with their body quirks, so he stuck with the safe option and decided to stick on the roof. As he crawled, he saw Midoriya and Mineta getting pushed around like plastic bags in the wind, and saw Jiro pushing through multiple people. Peter chuckled a bit at what he saw, then continued his way to the start.
"You like her, don't you?" Venom said. The statement caught Peter off-guard, as this wasn't something Venom would usually drone on about.
"Like who?" Peter whispered.
"The girl with the weird earlobes that look like twizzlers."
"Does everything you notice have to relate back to your bottomless stomach or do you say things like that to get me upset?" Peter asked.
Venom chuckled a bit. "You must like her, otherwise you wouldn't have told her about your experience with Iron Man." This made Peter stop crawling entirely. True, he did tell Jiro about the time Iron Man saved him when he was a kid, but VENOM wasn't bonded to him at that time.
"How the hell do you know that?!" Peter tried to whisper, but a few people started looking up at him to see who he was talking to.
Completely ignoring his question, Venom continued. "You're always hanging out with her, or the other one Momo. And let's not forget what happened with Toga last month."
"And why is it who I MIGHT like and MIGHT not like any concern of yours?" Peter asked.
"Because, it is us Peter. No Peter, Venom, and Jiro. No Peter, Venom, and Momo. No Peter, Venom, and Toga. Only Peter and Venom." Words couldn't even begin to describe how creeped out Peter was by this. Maybe this was one of the first signs that Venom had to go, or come to some sort of consensus with Peter about living in his body. But it would have to wait until after the festival.
"Venom, we'll continue this later. And for the record, whoever tells me they like me is their choice, as it is mine if I want to go out with them, not yours." Venom didn't respond back.
"Not the time to get distracted Pete." Peter thought to himself. He kept crawling towards along the ceiling and eventually, was above the starting point. A voice came over the speakers of the arena and around it.
"HELLO EVERYBODY!"
"Hearing aids are now on the itinerary." Peter quipped in his head.
"WELCOME TO THE ANNUAL U.A SPORTS FESTIVAL! I'M YOUR HOST, PRESENT MIC!" Present Mic said. Aizawa, who was fully bandaged from the assault on U.S.J, hit present Mic with his elbow.
"You're already on the Mic, you don't need to blow out all the speakers." Aizawa said. Present Mic rubbed his wound and continued with his announcement.
"Anyways, welcome to U.A's annual Sports festival. The festival this year will consist of three different sections to show off all the training our students have been putting into their quirks so far. The three sections are The Obstacle Race, which is the first course. Then the Calvary Battle. And Finally, the One on One battles. As for right now, Students, get ready as the race is about to start." Present Mic explained. Peter detached himself from the roof and landed on the floor, almost nearly landing on top of Mineta.
"Don't worry about the place you get in Pete. As long as you keep your mask on and don't get killed by Venom, Bakugo, or faith itself, we'll live through today." Peter knew Bakugo was gunning for him. Whether it was to embarrass him in front of the whole audience and school, or to kill him, he didn't know. That being said, it was worse when Peter lined up at the start right next to Bakugo.
Bakugo looked at Peter with a smug look. "Not only are you gonna lose, but everyone gets to see how much of a failure you are as a hero." Bakugo said arrogantly.
Peter smirked at shot back at Bakugo, saying "I'm starting to think you get a hard-on from talking down to everyone. Or is it just me?" Bakugo stopped looking smug to looking pissed off.
"Everyone, on your Marks." Present Mic said.
"3"
"You're going down, bug"
"2"
"If you say so."
"1"
"Know-it-all bastard."
"GO!"
So I know it was real anti-climatic to do that, but I figured it would be a good place to end so I can really try and make the writing around the sports festival interesting. That, and I can figure out how to do the Calvary Battle with Peter since it's a odd number of U.A students now. If anyone has suggestions before I put up the next chapter on the Calvary Battle, pm me an idea. (Don't say Jiro, Kaminari and Momo because that's already an idea, but then it messes up with the other teams that were already made.) Anyways, hope you all enjoyed and until next time.
