Chapter 17:
Bakugou immediately grabbed Mineta and flung him into the air with an explosion. The team then spread out to cause chaos.
"IS THAT EVEN ALLOWED, ERASER?!"
"As long as the one wearing the band doesn't touch the ground, and as far as I know, Mineta is probably several meters above the ground. It also doesn't necessarily say that the horses can't get the headbands. Like I said, improve your irrational bloody rules."
To start with the chaos, Bakugou has been using his flashbang move to blind teams and take their headbands. Ibara is tying them down to the ground and grabbing their headbands with her quirk. Yosetsu was doing the same by fusing the opposing team's horses shoes to the ground. "Sorry about this, Tetsutetsu."
"WHY ARE YOU TEAMING UP WITH THAT ASSHOLE?!" The iron-clad hero student yelled at his classmate. Yosetsu shrugged in response, not knowing how to answer that. "Honestly? I don't even know but this is the most fun I've had."
"TOTAL DOMINATION OF THE FIELD FROM TEAM BAKUGOU!"
"Don't state the obvious, Mic."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Bakugou heard Mineta's scream getting closer. He caught Ibara's attention and nodded at her. Her hair extended into a soft cushion and caught Mineta before he could hit the ground. "Tell me you got some headbands." Mineta asked shakily.
"Fuck yeah we did. HEADBANDS! FUSE IT WITH THE SCUMBAG!" He threw the headbands he got to Yosetsu as Ibara did the same. He held the headbands between his hand and Mineta's forehead and let it fuse together."
"Ready?" Bakugou asked Mineta. The small boy only answered with a glare. "Does it even matter? Screw it, let's do it again." He closed his eyes as Bakugou launched him into the air again, this time feeling something grab him and a very loud curse from Bakugou.
"WHAT'S THIS?! URARAKA GRABBED MINETA FROM THE AIR?!"
Like Present Mic said, Ochaco did grab Mineta in the air. She was riding a presumably weightless Shoji who was able to move in the air thanks to a weightless Iida who used his engines to move them around. They were like a jet in the air.
"TEAM URARAKA IS FLYING AROUND LIKE A JET IN THE AIR!"
"Combined with Uraraka's quirk, Shoji's ability to glide, Iida's engine, along with Asui launching them into the air with her tongue, they have successfully created, not a horse, but a Pegasus."
"HOW COULD THEY EVER HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT?!"
"Damn. It actually worked." Izuku said as he watched the combination of Ochaco's quirk along with her team. "Wait, you told them?!" Tatsumaki asked him in shock.
"I only told Tsuyu about it then she brought it up to the rest of her team. She didn't bring up my name though and I'm fine with that. Knowing Ochaco, she has enough pride to not ask help from me when it comes to strategy. I admire that about her," Izuku laid back in his sit, relaxing. "I wish Tsuyu would have told her that it's from me, just so I could see her think up of something else."
"You took a liking to her." Tatsumaki said as if it was a fact. "I could relate to her sometimes. Oh, and before you could think of this as some sort of crush, nope, I like someone else. Ochaco is only a close friend for me and I'm bloody well sure that what she feels about me are the same." Izuku quickly said. He is not about to deal with his sister messing with his relationships. He does acknowledge the fact that he has more girls for friends than guys. Is that normal? Eh, he doesn't care too much about it. Even if Tatsumaki did mess with his relationships, he's definitely gonna do the same for her and her crush.
"Why even help them?" The question was lingering in Tatsumaki's mouth.
"Cavalry battles tend to get boring if you just see the same thing. I admit, I know Bakugou enough that he'd at least make this entertaining to watch. Ugh, I can't believe I'm siding with him but if there's someone who has the most chances of winning, it's him."
"And if you were to stay in UA, who would have the most chances?"
"I'd probably just keep trying to get myself expelled if that was the case. Would probably get to the point where I cripple Todoroki but who knows?"
"Right." His sister deadpanned at his brutal honesty. "Is he serious when he said he'd cripple Todoroki if he stayed? Jeez, who taught him that?" (Note: Tatsumaki has slammed a news reporter face-first into a concrete for calling her a little girl trying to be a hero wannabe.)
Mineta was not having a good time when Ochaco is trying to rip the headbands out of his forehead. "Why. Won't. It. Come. Off?" She was oblivious to the fact that it was practically fused with his face. He tried to take her own headband but she knocked his hand away. "There's no point Uraraka. Just drop him off. The headband is fused with his forehead anyway. Tsu has already collected some headbands for us. Perhaps it's time to land anyway. Also, make sure to aim for Bakugou. He's been flying after us." She agreed with Shoji and just threw him at Bakugou who was flying after them. They collided with each other and started falling. They were lucky enough that Ibara caught them before they could touch the ground.
"Be careful next time, you two." She said worriedly after she just witness the two of them start rocketing towards the ground. "It's not gonna be a pleasant clean-up if you two were mere splatters of blood on the ground." Yosetsu added which earned a glare from the three of them. He recoiled at the glares while having his hands up. "What? I can't joke around but you three can? Jeez."
"THREE MINUTES LEFT!" Present Mic announced loudly, much to the suffering of everyone's ears, most of all Eraserhead's.
"Hey are you four having an orgy or something?" A voice called out to them which they all responded. "Huh?!" Their arms quickly dropped to their sides as they suddenly lost control of their own body. Shinso has finally attacked.
"So easy." He tried to take the headbands away from Mineta but was shocked when he realized that he can't. The shock of his head getting pulled snapped Mineta out of his brainwashing. "What the-?!" He quickly realized what's going on and quickly snapped the three out of their mindcontrolled state.
"THE FUCK?!" Bakugou yelled loudly, confused at what just happened.
"Good heavens, what happened?" It was the first time Bakugou saw Ibara having a panicked face. He did not like that expression of hers. He looked around for Shinso but the purple-haired kid from Gen Ed already got away. "I do not like getting mind-controlled, thank you very much." Yosetsu said when as he himself got snapped out of it with a flick from Mineta's fingers.
"TWO MINUTES LEFT!"
"Can you please not scream? We're going to get sued if someone goes deaf because of you."
"Sorry!"
The other teams finally realized that they won't be able to get the points from Team Bakugou as the headbands are literally fused with Mineta, courtesy of Yosetsu. They opted to try and get the headbands from each other instead. Bakugou wanted to get more but Ibara stopped him, much to his dissatisfaction.
"Control yourself, Katsuki."
"Who told you to call me by my given name, Rose Lady?"
"You're not asking me to stop calling you that." She chuckled when that earned a growl from Katsuki. Yosetsu and Mineta once again looked at each other and silently communicated with each other. "You sure they aren't dating?"
"I've been with them for weeks. They're not dating."
"Who do you think would make the first move?"
"It's more on the other waiting for the other to make the first move type of thing. Pride is involved with this one, I think." The two gave an understanding nod to each other as they watched the bickering of the two.
"AND THE SECOND EVENT IS OVER!"
"Finally, a one hour break."
"HERE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE QUALIFIED FOR THE TOURNAMENT ROUND!"
The board showed the qualifiers for the final event of the first year's Sports Festival.
First Place: Team Bakugou- Bakugou Katsuki, Mineta Minoru, Shiozaki Ibara, Awase Yosetsu
Second Place: Team Yaoyorozu- Yaoyorozu Momo, Jirou Kyoka, Kaminari Denki, Hatsume Mei
Third Place: Team Uraraka- Uraraka Ochaco, Shoji Mezo, Iida Tenya, Asui Tsuyu
Fourth Place: Team Shinso- Shinso Hitoshi, Ojiro Mashirao, Onna Jikanomuda, Shinshin Jikanomuda
"AN UPSET VICTORY FROM TEAM SHINSO? HOW COULD THIS BE?!"
"Wh-What the-?" Ojiro looked around as the control of his body was given back to him. He was confused until he saw Shinso. He glared at him. "You…"
Shinso only smirked at him. "Look on the bright side, you make it to the final event." He left whilst ignoring the glare that the tailed-boy was giving him, not caring too much. "Whatever it takes." He told himself.
"SHINSO!" He looked at the pair of twins who have willingly helped him. As far as he knew, they had no interest in becoming a hero. "Oh, you two."
"We'll be helping you in the tournament, you know that?" Shinshin said. He was the guy twin. He had orange hair and a somewhat athletic build but he's more of a nerd type of guy. He wanted to be a lawyer. "Okay, thanks but… why?"
"Well, you wanted to be a hero, so we might as well help you get ahead as much as we can!" Onna explained. She was the girl twin. She had this petite build on her but she's actually the sporty one of the two. She said something about wanting to become a zookeeper. "You got no reason to help me."
"We made it this far! We already showed off enough. We might as well help the guy who really needs to win!" They said simultaneously. Shinso is lying if he said he wasn't creeped out but he knew them well enough that they meant well. "…Right."
Chifu was not having a great time. She REALLY doesn't like showing off her quirk. It's blood. People don't like the sight of blood. Her quirk doesn't help the fact that she looked like a monster that came from the closet. With her gray-colored skin, yellow sclera, pure-black iris and pupils, her sharp teeth, and her candy corn colored horns that are shaped like a goat's, and her Chondara facepaint combined with her being as tall as Endeavor. She's borderline monstrous. She's only comfortable with herself when she's around her friends. She even cried one night over the fact that kids find her scary during one of their sleepovers. Here she is, training with her quirk along with her long time mentor, Purple Shaggy. That wasn't his real name. It's more like what they call him. Nobody knew his real name or even his quirk.
"Dokeshi, I could see the motherfuckin' discomfort on your face when you're training with your quirk. Every clip that Shiketsu sent, I see you hesitating for a split second."
"Ah, i-it's just that I gotta be careful, with how much blood I use, aight? This got nothing to do with me." Chifu tried to explain but the Grand Priest was not believing a single word out of it.
"The blood that you control becomes larger the moment you take it out of yourself. There's no way that you would bleed out that easily. Dokeshi, don't fuck with me." He may not look it, but the Grand Priest of the Okinawan Clown Cult is strict when he needs to be. "I-I'm not, I swear-"
"Dokeshi," One word was enough to shut her mouth. "Are they bullying you?" No swear, no expression. She knew the Grand Priest is dead serious when she asked that but she did gain her resolve when he asked that. Her friends at Shiketsu were nothing but friendly to her. They didn't look at her as if she was some kind of horror movie monster. The girls hang out with her fine. She even opened up to them as they did open up to her.
"Hell no! They're nice to me. They were nothing BUT nice to me. They-They treated me like I'm a person. Like you guys. Even if I only just met them, they already felt like family to me." She looked back at her mentor who was silent while she defended her friends. The Grand Priest is not a good enemy to have. After a while, his smile returned to his face. "Good to know that they're some cool motherfuckers. Wait a goddamn motherfuckin' minute, you're trying to switch the topic into talking about your friends, aren't you?"
"Wha-? No! I swear, I'm just saying that they're not motherfuckin' bullies. Nobody looked at me like I was some kind of alien from some bullshit planet, yeah?" She held her hands up in denial of her mentor's accusation. "I mean, I DO look like some kind of bug-like alien from some planet but still, yeah, they're cool. They're cool." She added that last part as a semi-serious joke.
"Yeah, well, I got a motherfuckin' feeling that this is gonna be a long week." The Grand Priest's palm met his face as he shook his head when Chifu is still not comfortable with herself. A long two weeks indeed.
"What type of aim is that?" Mirko was at a disbelief. Judging from the arrows that hit the target, Trish had a 90% accuracy. Most of it are bullseyes. "Ma always dreamed for me to be an Olympic Archer but fuck her. Archery is the last thing I want to fuckin' do. I really need to learn how to fight properly. Like, FUCK! " She screamed the last word in English.
Mirko was impressed by this girl's skill. "Don't you dare only see me because of this. I'm an anger-inducing, Scottish Redhead. They get more-" What Trish said in English, Mirko could no longer understand. Learning English was important in Heroics as it is used today but the accent she gave was enough to kill everything she learned about the language. "-than they got the likes of me."
"Okay, can we avoid the English for now? Mine's a bit rusty. Clearly you got a skill or two for archery seeing as how your mama presumably trained you so hard that it's difficult for you to miss the shot. You need to learn how to fight at close range." She instructed Trish or something. She wondered how she's so bad at this.
"Yeah, yeah, ya already mentioned that I got my moves right and my only problem is some goddamn application. Right, now, teach me how to apply them, oh so great sensei." Trish mockingly bowed in front of her with her arms held out. Trish didn't realize that she dug her own grave until she was judo-flipped to the floor by Mirko. "Right, and you need discipline, kid. Lots of it. Acting tough and mean won't get you anywhere."
"Look who's talking…"
"FUCK DID YOU SAY, RUNT?!" And then Mirko was, again, face down on the floor as Trish snickered through the pain of getting judo-flipped on cold, hard concrete.
"Ochaco!"
"Izuku!"
"Tsuyu!"
"Izu."
"Shoji!"
"Midoriya."
"Iida." He deadpanned at the serious teen with a joking disinterest in his voice but as he predicted, Iida failed to catch on.
"MIDORIYA! ANYONE WHO ISN'T A STUDENT ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA!" Iida promptly pushed Izuku out of the cafeteria in a gentle manner. He bowed in apology to the interning Shiketsu student before joining the others in eating lunch. That did not stop Izuku from entering again. "Midoriya."
"Yes, Iida?" He asked innocently while Ochaco was trying not to laugh beside him. Shoji was far more intrigued at the display that is happening before him. Tsu is just watching the two of them in silent judgement. Iida looked down in surrender seeing as how there's no possible way for Izuku to not break rules that he considers as nothing special. "Moving. On. How come you people from Shiketsu gets to have internship first?"
"Probably because our Sports Festival would happen in the Winter Season," Iida did not like Izuku's explanation which earned a sigh from the telekinetic hero-in-training. "That and the Shiketsu Principal has been seeing our progress with Gran Torino has been going so fast that he decided to push for a two-week internship rather than just a week." Izuku decided to add.
"Gran Torino?" Shoji asked, never hearing about this hero before. "Satan's favorite demon. Also our Homeroom and Heroics teacher." He shuddered at the memory of Gran Torino kicking his ass over and over again. "All Might had to deal with him, jeez. I feel sorry for me."
"Ah, so he's as hard as Aizawa-sensei?" Tsuyu asked him. Izuku shook his head. "Nope. Eraserhead is mild compared to that old man but hey, at least we're apparently making faster progress." He shrugged it off while taking a bite out of his Katsudon.
"Shouldn't your sister be teaching you about hero work then?" Iida narrowed his eyes at Izuku. The person in question rolled his eyes while taking a sip of lemonade. "She's one of the guys assigned to keep the Sports Festival from getting invaded. I'm pretty sure nobody would stand a chance if a few of the top ten guys are here."
"Ah, I see. She considered this a day off for you while she keep a watch out in order to protect us! Bravo, I say to her! Bravo!" Iida clapped loudly while praising his sister which earned a few awkward stares from the other students nearby. "How's the Vice Rep work, Shoji?"
"Nothing interesting. Mostly meetings every now and then reports on what's happening at the class and maybe some announcements they want us to make."
"I figured. I somehow got voted as vice rep as well without my knowledge at Shiketsu. The meetings are bloody boring and the guys from the Crime Investigation Course are a bunch of smartasses." The first year Reps from the CIC are pretty much acting like they came out of a Yoyo's Extravagant Travels with the way they over-complicate some situation. What the hell is even 'using a concentrated amount of carbon in order to find out who murdered who' anyway? Even Izuku doesn't know. Good thing work with them is optional.
Izuku knew he was gonna need some detective skills but he'd rather go to a university to study forensic science instead of doing work with them. It's a good thing that the CIC guys from the second and third year are a lot more mature than them. "Anyway, good luck on the tournament, guys. I'm off."
"Off to where?"
"Off to wherever the best seat in the stadium is."
"Um, Midoriya." Someone called out to him. He turned around to see that it was Ojiro, his former classmate here in UA. "Yeah, Ojiro?"
"I need your advice on something. In private, of course." He signaled him to follow him. They were at the rooftop of the school and Ojiro was looking dramatically at the city while holding on to a guard rail. Izuku finds this awkward and he coughed to get the tailed-hero-in-training's attention. "Uh, what advice?"
"Should I continue on to the tournament?" Ojiro asked him before continuing. "I did make it to the final event, but I had no control of my body. I don't really think it's fair for the others that I made it at the final part without really doing anything."
Izuku blinked at him. "Yeah, just continue with it. Why are you even asking me? Even if you felt like you didn't do anything, you're body did something. It was enough to get you to the final round." Izuku shrugged, not really knowing what to say. "That and you're pretty much a fighter. The previous two events are irrelevant to you. You wanna show what you're made of? Get in the tournament and kick ass, jeez. Us teenagers and our obsession with dramatic flair, am I right?"
He started walking away without bothering to hear what Ojiro has to say. The guy can make the decision on his own. Either way, he's just here to watch how it ends even when the winner is already obvious.
One prank involving cheerleader outfits that involves Mineta's one last perverted prank before moving on later...
The best seat turned out to be the ones the students were sitting at. There were forty seats by default per class which is why he just sat at 1A's spot while his sister is doing her job by looking around the entire stadium every now and then to see anything suspicious going on. Right on time for him to cover his ears as Present Mic starts talking on his usual volume again.
"AND HERE ARE THE CONTENDERS WHO WILL BE FIGHTING!"
Shinso Hitoshi vs. Hatsume Mei
Kaminari Denki vs. Shiozaki Ibara
Yaoyorozu Momo vs. Iida Tenya
Mineta Minoru vs. Awase Yosetsu
Shoji Mezo vs. Onna Jikanomuda
Jiro Kyoka vs. Shinshin Jikanomuda
Uraraka Ochaco vs. Asui Tsuyu
Bakugou Katsuki vs. Ojiro Mashirao
"Hey, eye bag guy! Want a free win?" A girl with pink hair called out to Shinso. He raised an eyebrow at her but still listened to what she has to say.
"Um... sure?"
"Oh man, I'm facing a girl? I might as well go easy on her." Kaminari cockily proclaimed to his friends while earning a disapproving glare from Bakugou and Mineta.
"Dear me, someone who does not know any better." Ibara merely giggled at what Kaminari was saying.
"I BID YOU GOOD LUCK, YAOYOROZU!" Iida was doing karate chops in the air.
"Iida, please, calm yourself." Sweat came out of Yaoyorozu who had a hard time getting used to Iida's 'personality' even after a month with him as a classmate.
"I APOLOGIZE!" He bowed in a perfect ninety-degree angle which caused more awkward stares from the other participants.
"So, this is how it ends, huh?" There was something about the dark look in Mineta's face when he's trying too hard to act cool.
"Mineta, stop trying too hard to be cool." Awase deadpanned at Mineta.
"Dammit, just let me have this one, man!" His facade quickly crumbled as he begged Awase to take him seriously.
"HELLO! I'M ONNA! LET'S HAVE A GOOD MATCH!" She was practically waving at Shoji, who only nodded his head and moved on.
"Hmm…"
"Name's Shinshin. I'll be whooping your butt back to the stands today. Pleased to meet you." He bowed at Jiro in a prince-like manner but was quickly stabbed by the girl.
"Don't get cocky on me, now, Gen Ed boy."
"May the best girl win, Tsu!" Ochaco raised her arm enthusiastically as she gave a thumbs up to her friend while smiling confidently.
"Kero kero." She croaked excitedly.
"Hrn…" Bakugou didn't really know what to expect with his fight against the martial artist. He's definitely not liking his own odds.
"Yeah, maybe I should have- no, I made it this far. Might as well go out in a literal bang." Ojiro shrugged and accepted his faith.
{- To Be Continued...
Camie Utsushimi
Power: 2/5
Speed: 2/5
Technique: 6/5
Intelligence: 4/5
Cooperativeness: 3/5
Meme Knowledge: 420/69
Beatrice "Trish" Ikari
Power: 1/5
Speed: 2/5
Technique: 4/5
Intelligence: 3/5
Cooperativeness: 1/5
Bitchiness: ∞/5
Mokemuri Chisa
Power: 3/5
Speed: 3/5
Technique: 5/5
Intelligence: 3/5
Cooperativeness: 5/5
Not losing his gun every fight: 0/5
Kenshi Hoshiokami
Power: 4/5
Speed: 5/5
Technique: 2/5
Intelligence: 5/5
Cooperativeness: 5/5
Best Friendship: 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999/5
Inasa Yoarashi
Power: 5/5
Speed: 5/5
Technique: 3/5
Intelligence: 3/5
Cooperativeness: 3/5
Quietness: -1/5
Seiji Shishikura
Power: 2/5
Speed: 2/5
Technique: 4/5
Intelligence: 4/5
Cooperativeness: 3/5
Glare: 4/5
Nagamasa Mora
Power: 3/5
Speed: 1/5
Technique: 4/5
Intelligence: 5/5
Cooperativeness: 5/5
Hair: 5/5
Dokeshi Chifu
Power: 5/5
Speed: 2/5
Technique: 2/5
Intelligence: 3/5
Cooperativeness: 5/5
Public Anxiety: 5/5
Hinata Riku
Power: 3/5
Speed: 4/5
Technique: 4/5
Intelligence: 3/5
Cooperativeness: 2/5
Confidence: *Error*
And that's the stats for most of the guys in Shiketsu. Might update Izuku and Bakugou's later with how their stats were portrayed in the new thing. Anyway, this chapter doesn't really have that much progress. The Sports Festival will finish up in 2-3 chapters and an arc before the Stain arc starts then.
Bakugou: Something that happened before the Stain Arc? Dafuq happens then? Wait, don't tell me...
Shush.
Bakugou: You son of a bitch! That early? Oh my fucking god.
Yeah, deal with it. Send in the clown~
Bakugou: Fucking shit. At least add a Spider-Man reference while you're at it.
As you wish. Anyway, leave a like, comment, and subscribe. PEACE!