Medical Room.
"Let me see your hand." Recovery Girl said. Peter was at first reluctant to show his hand, but knew that she would fix it in no time flat. He put his arm out for her to see. Recovery Girl examined his hand and saw where the broken bones started and ended.
"Hmmmm."
"It's that bad?" Peter asked.
She looked up at him, then back at his hand. "No, but between you and that Midoriya kid, I don't know how many times I have to heal the both of you for broken bones."
"In my defense, I got pushed down a flight of stairs this time. Last time I almost got killed…in school."
Recovery Girl chuckled a bit. "I still don't know how they let that Bakugo kid get away with that. Anyways, I can fix your hand, but I'm holding you from participating in the Calvary battle. Don't want to risk your hand getting broken again from that Bakugo kid."
"Is he getting disqualified?"
"From what I'm being told, and how it looks outside in the arena…" Recovery Girl and Peter both turned to the window and saw the rest of the sports festival going on as if nothing happened. "…they plan to deal with him after to avoid making a scene."
Peter didn't like that logic, but had no choice but to accept it for the time being. Recovery Girl began to speak up again. "I'm sorry for rambling on, I'm pretty sure you want your hand fixed?"
"Please?"
"No problem." She began to try and kiss Peter's hand, which he pulled away.
"I'm sorry, but I thought this was just gonna be putting my hand in a wrap or something. Not kissing the booboo." The nurse rolled her eyes at Peter's attempt at sarcasm and explained the process to him.
"My quirk is that I can heal any wound by kissing it. Only side effect is the person will get woozy after it."
"So…it's still gonna be awkward?"
"You want your hand fixed or not?!" Recovery Girl snapped. Peter got a bit scared of her and decided to stop messing with her.
"Alright, alright. I'll save the jokes for later." Peter stuck his hand out again and let the nurse kiss it. He felt the pain from his hand go away slowly, and also felt a wave of sleepiness wash over him, but decided to try and stay awake.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome. I recommend you stay here until the Calvary battle is over. I'll let them know you're good for anything after it." The nurse said. She left the room and the slam from the door caused one of the medical trays on a table to fall and hit the ground. This caused Venom to start shrieking inside Peter's ears, causing him to cover them until Venom was done.
"You know, you don't gotta yell like a heavy metalist in my ear when you're, you know, in my body."
"My species is sensitive to loud noises. We're damaged by it on our own, but if we're bonded to a host, it could separate us from them."
"Duly noted" Peter said.
"You wish to separate?"
"Only if you start trying to have me kill indiscriminately. Or if you start killing people at all."
"And what if one of the people we must kill turns out to be Toga?"
Peter fell silent, as he knew what Venom was trying to do. Play off his fears that Toga wasn't fully good yet, or she was just stringing Peter along until the time to kill him was right.
"If she's beyond a second chance…we'll cross that bridge whe-if we get to it." Peter said. He didn't hear a response back from Venom, meaning he dropped the situation for now. Peter laid down on the couch in the room and was planning to sleep until the Calvary battle was over until his phone started ringing. He took his phone out and checked the caller.
It was Tony.
"Probably wants to know why I'm not in the next part of this festival." Peter rationalized. He picked up the phone and expected a lecture from Tony.
"Hey Tony, I-"
"Peter!" Tony yelled. "Where are you?"
"In the arena, why?"
"WHERE in the arena?"
"In the Medical area, why do you sound angry?"
"Well you got your arm broken, and now they're continuing the festival...without you."
"I know. This nurse told me that she's holding me in here until the Calvary battles are over with. Mostly because-"
"Of the kid with explosive hands? Yeah we all saw that." Peter sighed and he guesses Tony could hear it from the other line as he got more friendlier on the phone.
"Look I'm told after this it's going to be the one on one battles. Just try your best with them, alright?" Peter nodded his head and gave his enthusiastic "yes" to Tony. The both of them finished up their conversation as he waited for the nurse to come back into the office.
20 minutes later.
"Ok, you can go back to your class. Everyone's getting ready for the one on ones." The nurse said, opening the door. Peter leapt off the bed and headed towards her, hoping to find out more about these one on ones.
"One on one?" Peter asked.
"Yeah. I don't know why they would allow it, as I'm gonna have to treat a lot of kids after, but hopefully that won't happen."
"Oh yeah. You and me both." Peter thought. "Yeah, well thanks for fixing me up."
"No problem. Now, make sure that Bakugo kid gets a taste of his own medicine."
"I'll try." Peter left the room and started to head down towards the seating area of the arena when he ran into the de-powered All-Might. They almost collided, had Peter not side-stepped last second. He caught All-Might as he was about to fall.
"Careful. Don't want your body getting anymore broken than it already is." Peter said, realizing his choice of words.
"That's how you treat a secret?" All-Might asked.
"Shit, I didn't mean it like that. I just…sorry."
All-Might sighed and put his hand on Peter's shoulder. "It's alright. I know your intention wasn't to make fun of me."
"Well, part of my intention as a hero is to make fun of the criminals, but that's few and far between. Also the nurse told me that the next event is one on ones?"
"1) I'm gonna ignore what you said about making fun of criminals. And 2) yes the students are preparing for the one on one fights." All-Might said.
"Guessing I'm not gonna be in it since I didn't participate in the Calvary battle, right?" Peter asked. He was hoping to be told no, then realized that the last few days have been too good for his luck not to kick in.
"Please say no, please say no, please say no-"
"Actually, surprisingly Aizawa vouched for you to participate in a match against one person who's team placed 5th in the Calvary battle. If you win, you continue. You lose and you're sidelined."
"Damn it Aizawa. Note to self, remember to web him to his sleeping bag." Peter thought to himself. "Just out of curiosity, the person wouldn't happen to be Midoriya, would it?"
"No, his team got 4th place. You won't fight Bakugo yet either because his team was 2nd. You'll just have to see when you get there."
Peter rolled his eyes. "Yeah, thanks for your vote of confidence." Peter walked past All-Might, and towards the exit to the middle of the arena.
Arena.
Peter stood near the exit to the arena. He needed to talk to Venom about how this fight was going to go.
"Hey, freeloader! We need to talk!" Peter yelled to get Venom's attention. A tendril formed out of Peter's shoulder and formed the face of the symbiote.
"What is it?"
"Look, I know there's a very likely chance that these one on ones are going to get intense, but unless I say otherwise, you're not taking over and going crazy."
"Are they going to try and kill us?"
"No, but-"
"Then I will just remain silent, until it becomes obvious you're in serious danger."
"No, you need to-wait, you just said you'll stand back?" Peter asked surprised.
"If they're not going to kill or separate us, then there's no need."
"I…guess you're right." Venom deformed his tendril and went back into Peter's body. Peter himself fixed his hoodie, goggles and face mask before he stepped out into the arena. He heard cheers from the crowd, although he had to wonder why they were cheering on a bunch of kids fighting each other.
"Man Japan is weird." Peter thought to himself. He kept walking towards the middle of the arena when he heard Present Mic over the speakers again.
"Coming first is the exchange student, all the way from New York City! He's got strength, smarts, and a weird obsession with spiders! Ladies and gentlemen, I present, SPIDER-BOY!" The whole crowd cheered in response, which ticked off Peter.
"Spider-MAN, not Spider-Boy."
"And his opponent, with purple hair and a mean attitude. Can use her jacks todo a multitude of things…"
"Jacks. Oh you gotta be kidding me…"
"And her name is, KYOKA JIRO!" The crowd erupted into another cheer as both Peter and Jiro stood at the opposite stairs of the fighting area. They both stared awkwardly at each for a few seconds, trying to figure out who was the person that hated both of them.
"This isn't gonna be awkward at all." Peter and Jiro said simultaneously to themselves. Peter assessed his situation almost immediately.
"No walls close enough to supporting web swinging. Jiro could send shockwaves into the ground and throw me off balance, but I can use that as a opening as well. Web shooters could definitely immobilize her and her jacks. If she pricks me with them, me and Venom aren't gonna have the greatest time."
"What's he doing over there?" Jiro asked herself. Eventually, both of them started walking more into the fighting area when Present Mic spoke up.
"Rules are that the first to step out of the circle is disqualified. Winner is determined by, again, if the opponent steps or is thrown out of the circle and can't get back before they land or whoever is immobilized or gives up. Understood? Good, THEN LET THE FIGHT BEGIN!"
"Now I wish King explosion murder would've been my enemy." Peter quipped. He ran towards Jiro. His plan was to get her to accidentally step out of bounds so he didn't hurt her trying to force her. As he got closer, he saw Jiro plug her jacks into the floor, and create a mini earthquake headed for Peter. He jumped over it and webbed together some debris and threw it down next to Jiro, make her step back in order to dodge it.
"Damn it Peter." Jiro said.
"You didn't think I was just gonna roll over and lose, did you Jiro?" Peter asked with a cockiness tone in his voice. He saw Jiro get pissed off. He knew he was going to regret that later. He landed on the ground, only to be met with Jiro's jacks whipping him.
"Oww, oww, oww."
Jiro used one of her jacks to grab Peter's arm and try to drag him out of the arena, but he used the force of the pull to his advantage by going through with it halfway, stopping and letting the sudden stop of force bring Jiro down.
"Yup, definitely getting told off." Peter thought to himself. He saw that Jiro's head was past the bounds of the arena, and Present Mic saw that too.
"And with this turn of events, SPIDER-BOY WINS!"
"Not my name." Peter said to himself. He turned his attention back to Jiro who was getting up. He saw that her hands were covering her face.
"Hey Jiro. No hard feelings, right?" Peter asked. He walked towards her and she turned around, revealing that she was bleeding from her nose and tears falling down her face. When she fell, her nose hit the floor first, possibly breaking it. Peter's whole demeanor changed from happy to instantly remorseful.
"Crap…Jiro I'm-" Jiro pushed Peter out of her way as she went back to her entrance to go towards the Medical room. Peter just stood in his spot for a few seconds.
"Great…just great." Peter thought to himself. "What else can go wrong?" Peter shook his head as he headed to the backstage area, as another fight was going to take place immediately after. Once he was out of the crowds sight, Venom popped out to pay a visit.
"Hey, it wasn't your intention to hurt her. She knew what she was getting into when this sports festival started."
Peter rolled his eyes in response to the symbiote's consoling. "You think I don't know that?!" Peter snapped. "I just... I feel terrible. This whole festival is pointless."
"Maybe. But do you think it'd be wise to just give up because your friend got hurt?"
"What, you're my therapist now?" Peter asked. He sighed as he continued making his way towards the nurse to check on Jiro. He figured he would have some time before his next fight.
Medical Room.
Peter prepared for the worst when he opened the door, and at the same time hoped for the best. Either Jiro would've pricked him with her jacks and seriously piss off Venom, or she would just give him the cold shoulder. Either way, he had to apologize for hurting her.
Recovery girl turned around from Jiro and saw Peter at the doorway. She had just finished treating Jiro's nose.
"You're here to check up on her?" Recovery girl asked. Peter nodded his head. He looked over at Jiro, who was fully healed but looking away from him. The nurse stood up and walked towards the door.
"I'll give you two some time to talk." Recovery girl said as she left the room. Peter and Jiro stared at each other awkwardly for a few minutes before Peter eventually broke the silence.
"So...how's the nose?"
"The nurse said I'll be fine after a few hours." Jiro said. Peter sat down next to Jiro.
"Look Jiro, I'm-"
"It's fine Peter." Jiro said, cutting him off. "We knew one of us would get hurt doing the one-on-one fights."
Peter rubbed his head. "Y-yeah you got a point."
"You're terrible at this." Venom said bluntly. Peter sighed as he stood up.
"I'll just leave you be for now." Peter said. He started walking to the door when Jiro started to talk again.
"You want to know something funny? My parents originally didn't want me to be a hero." Peter turned from the door to Jiro, who went from looking away from him to at him.
"Why is that?"
"They wanted me to become a musician. Seeing as my dad was a composer and my mom was musician who I inherited my quirk from, they figured it'd make sense their daughter would want to be one as well."
"But you didn't."
Jiro nodded. "I want to help people with my quirk, not just make some cash making music. Although I would like to still make music."
"At least you got hobbies." Peter quipped. Jiro slightly smiled while he sat back down next to Jiro. "Originally, I wanted to be a scientist."
"Seriously? Well, then again the fact that you saved me and Kaminari from failing 2 science labs I guess its not that much of a surprise..."
"Yeah, I'm pretty great." Peter said smugly, which made Jiro roll her eyes and laugh. She then grabbed both her jacks and started tapping them against each other.
"I'm usually bad at this, but I want to say I'm glad you came to UA." Jiro said. Peter looked over at her as she continued. "I'm not just saying that because you saved my life multiple times, you really are a good friend." Peter smiled as he was at a lost for words.
"Thanks Jiro. I really appreciate it."
"I like her." Venom added. Before the conversation could go any further, Recovery girl came back to check on the pair.
"I see you two are getting along just fine." Recovery girl said. "Hope I didn't ruin anything too intimate."
Both Peter and Jiro started to blush and looked away. The both of them were embarrassed, while Venom was having the time of his life.
"Anyways, Peter was it?" Recovery girl asked. "All-Might told me to come get you for your next opponent."
Peter, actually ready to fight this time, got off the medical bed and fixed himself. "So, who's my opponent this time?"
Recovery Girl sighed. "You remember that talk we had earlier?"
"Yeah? What about?"
"Well Mr. Parker." Peter started to get a pit in his stomach.
"You're next opponent is Katsuki Bakugo
