Hey guys, it's me again and today, we have a really action packed chapter ;D
So, teach, it's free for all, right?", asked Bakugo with a hint of anger in his voice.
"Not exactly for all, because you are divided into teams, but yeah, pretty much free far all!", answered Present Mic.
"So now head to your designated starting points!", shouted excitedly Midnight. "And remember, your goal is to render other teams unable to fight by either knocking them out or capturing them with the tape, that you can pick up in your respective entry points!", she explained the rules and then joined Cementoss and Present Mic in the control room similar to the one from the entrance exam.
Midoriya, Tokoyami, Kirishima and Yaoyorozu made their way to the entrance C and decided that the best use of time for now would be to come up with a strategy, because once the battle starts, there will be no time to do that. Although it has proved to be quite a tricky task for the genius black haired hero in training, since she only saw Midoriya in action at the entrance exam.
"So, we have Tokoyami's Dark Shadow, Kirishima's Hardening, Yaoyorozu's Creation and my handicap", Midoriya started to think seeing that his female teammate failed to come up with any kind of strategy. "Hardening is a very strong defensive Quirk, although it can be used offensively by hardening his fists. Dark Shadow is stronger if surrounded by darkness, so we should evade any light related Quirk users. And Creation. It is very versatile, but I don't really know how to use it now", he was so deep in his thought, that he failed to realise, that they have already arrived at their starting location.
"Oi, Midoriya", a hand moving up and down in front of his face brought him down to Earth.
"Oh, s-sorry, I got l-lost in my t-thoughts…", Izuku sheepishly admitted with a nervous smile.
"And?", asked Yaoyorozu. "Did you come up with something?"
"W-Well, m-maybe", he started shyly. "I think that Kirishima should be the one to lead the way, because his Quirk gives him an immense defencive capabilities and allows him to quickly go from defence to offence. He will be followed by Tokoyami and Dark Shadow will take care of any ranged attacks aimed at us. I leave you free will to do as you please Yaoyorozu-san, as I don't really know what to do with your versatile ability. I'll act as our rear guard"
"Sounds fine to me", Tokoyami stated simply as he took his position in their formation.
"Ow man, being able to protect you all is so manly!", the red-haired male exclaimed happily while throwing his fist in the air and stepping in front of the Dark Shadow user.
"Thanks Midoriya, for trusting in me", Momo thanked the green-haired student with a smile and a slight bow.
"W-Well, I-I just t-thought t-that you w-will better know w-what to d-do with your Q-Quirk", he responded with his iconic stutter getting the best of him.
The two joined their teammates in the formation and then set out onto the battlefield. Midoriya thought intensively about their potential opponents. The most dangerous would be Bakugo, Todoroki, Kaminari and maybe Aoyama. So that put his team in serious disadvantage against half of the enemies. Not good.
"But as long as we manage to keep out of the way of these two, we should be okay", he thought the last part, as a loud explosion could be heard.
"That's definitely Bakugo's Quirk", said Kirishima looking in the direction of said explosion.
"That means, that we have two less teams that we can bump into", stated Midoriya. "Bakugo's team is the biggest threat to Tokoyami's Dark Shadow, so having them out the way is very helpful"
"But we can't let our guard down. There are still two other teams", Yaoyorozu added.
"That's right, let's keep moving"
The explosions in the distance accompanied their silent trip through the battlezone. What they didn't know, was the fact that they were targeted by a very good tracking team, group D. The team in question waited for a suitable moment for ambush and they found it, when Momo engaged in conversation with Izuku.
"So… why the shades?", she asked turning to look at her teammate acting as a rear guard.
"Oh, I-I had an eye s-surgery and it m-made me very sensitive t-to l-light, so I-I w-wear these, as p-protection", Midoriya explained with a slight blush, caused by very attractive girl with more exposed than covered bosom.
"Eye surgery?", she questioned further, her voice merely a whisper.
"Y-Yes, I had t-them augmented, j-just as my l-legs and a-arms", he added and a small smile appeared on his lips.
"So, you have these… black things inside your eyes?", she asked a little spooked at the concept.
"Um, n-not exactly. I-I have contact l-lenses on my e-eyes", he explained reassuringly.
"Oh, that doesn't sound so bad", Momo said with a smile. "I-I never thanked you for saving me at the entrance exam", she spoke after a couple of seconds as the thought, that was haunting her for a few days, came up.
"Really? I thought that you have thanked me at least a couple of times", he said in a surprisingly calm tone and without even stuttering throughout the long sentence.
Yaoyorozu smiled at him and suddenly felt a tug on her arm, as it was grabbed by something and yanked forward, sending her to the ground. Tokoyami and Kirishima turned around as she hit the dirt, while Izuku was already on his way to strike the invisible assailant.
"This must be Hagakure-san, so Todoroki, Jirou and Sato must be near too!", he thought as his fist collided with the Invisibility Quirk user. Though he put a little too much momentum and lost balance, which rendered him vulnerable.
Team D seeing the two members of C team on the ground and the other two not fully aware that they were just ambushed. A sonic boom came from behind them and send them flying onto the street. Toru, captured in the blast, flew with them or so everyone thought, as she was probably in the same place as Midoriya, when Jirou unleashed her attack.
Yaoyorozu was first to recover from the shock as she searched for her teammates. Kirishima was able to harden himself and avoid any real damage, while Dark Shadow dug its claws into the ground to slow Tokoyami's impact. But Izuku didn't have such luck. She could see his broken shades. "He lost his eye protection", Momo thought as she, unbeknownst to herself, made him new ones. She was quite surprised, that she didn't have to think about doing it. "Now I just have to get to him", that was the plan. One that soon proved to be much harder to pull of than anyone could possibly think.
You see, team D had strategy of their own and its main point was...
"Divide and Conquer", said Todoroki coming down from a rooftop on his made of ice path. They went over the strategy a couple of times, considering what strengths and weaknesses could their opponents have.
Todoroki was paired up with Kirishima, as Shoto was able to keep his distance from the close range fighter.
Hagakure went against Tokoyami, because his Dark Shadow couldn't protect him if it didn't see his target.
Sato set out to deal with Yaoyorozu, with a simple target of overpowering the Creation Quirk user.
And Midoriya was assigned to Jirou, because… reasons, I guess.
"Oh, I think he is unconscious already", she thought as she failed to keep her distance and came closer to him to check on his state.
But, once the sound of her steps was close enough, Izuku extended his arm and caught Kyouka's ankle, which resulted in a surprised gasp, and brought her to the ground. She looked at him, as he was now on top of her and tried to immobilise her. Midoriya had a cut on his left cheek and both eyes closed. He was easily overpowering her, so she used her jacks to stab him in the ribs. He gasped in pain and let go of her right hand, trying to grab her jacks. She used it to her advantage and punched him in the face, but he took it like a champ, even though, she hit him right on the cut.
Midoriya grabbed her by the arm and activating his enhanced arms, threw her aside. He immediately rushed in her presumed direction, not wanting to lose track of her, but was stopped dead in his tracks as he collided with an ice wall. Seconds later an ice shard collided with him, sending him down the street.
"Thanks Todoroki", Jirou said as she got up and dusted herself.
"Kirishima is frozen, go and help Hagakure, I'll finish Midoriya", Shoto spoke and she obeyed, while he walked in the direction of the green haired hero in training.
"I need to open my eyes if I am to stand a chance against Todoroki dual Quirk", Izuku thought as he slowly stood up. "Please no psychedelic this time", he begged… himself?... as he slowly cracked his eyes open.
He was ready for the pain and blinding light, but neither of them came. But, how? Doctor Richards told him, that it should take at least four days for his eyes to get accustomed with the enhancement.
"Well, I won't question this, as long as it lasts", he decided and instead focused on his new opponent. Fighting Jirou with closed eyes proved to be quite a challenge, but fighting Todoroki, even with open eyes, will be much harder. He could easily overpower Izuku, so he had to outnumber him. And first thing to do in order to achieve that, was to free Yaoyorozu.
Midoriya feign something that resembled a battle stance, making Todoroki believe, that they will settle this here and now. Just as he came in range of his ice attack and sent wave of mentioned element in the green-haired student direction, Izuku broke into full sprint, easily outmaneuvering the attack and kicking the Half n' a Half Bastard, as Bakugo graciously labeled him, and speeding in the direction of his team.
"Wow… everything is like in slow motion… Not a blur anymore. Kirishima is frozen in place and Tokoyami pitted against two opponents… Heat vision could be useful", he thought as his sight became blue-ish with various shades of it and very sharp red signatures, where milliseconds earlier were people. "Cool…"
He spotted Toru, her signature completely red, with no stains of blue on it, which confirmed her being completely naked, as she was preparing a sneak attack. Midoriya collided with her and tackled her to the ground, while using his enhanced strength to put big chunks of rubble on her, to immobilise her for the time being. With one opponent less to worry about, Dark Shadow and Tokoyami could go on full out assault against the Earphone Jack Quirk user.
Not wasting time, Izuku located Momo, with his vision back to normal and saw her blocking Sato's attacks with a shield that she must've created; a metal stick in her other hand. Seeing as she was probably good for the time being, Midoriya turned his attention to Kirishima.
"Oh man, I wasn't even close to getting a hit on that guy!", he could be heard, as he vigorously tried to break free from his ice prison.
"Kirishima, use your Quirk and I'm gonna bust you out of here!", Midoriya shouted, as he charged with his enhanced arm pulled back; an immense force gathering in his fist.
Eijiro did as he was asked to do and his skin hardened just in time, as Midoriya punched the ice shell with all his might. Though the ice cracked and was severely damaged, but it wasn't enough to break Kirishima free, so Izuku cocked his other fist back, having something in his right crack as he hit the ice. Fortunately, four left handed punches were enough to shatter the ice.
"Thanks man", Kirishima said quickly as he recovered from the imprisonment. "Now let's go help Yaoyorozu out!", he shouted, his manliness taking the best of him.
"I think, that won't be needed", Izuku smiled, as he pointed behind the red-haired teen.
Yaoyorozu had somehow beaten the sugar powered fighter and was currently running towards them. When she joined them, they ran to help Tokoyami, who currently had to fight Jirou and Todoroki simultaneously. He wasn't doing so good, will be quite accurate description.
"Yaoyorozu, help Tokoyami, while we will take on Todoroki", Izuku said to her, to which she nodded and he readied his muscles. "I will tackle him to the ground and you will try to put this tape on him", it was Eijiro's turn to nod.
Midoriya enhanced his legs beyond the soft limit and darted towards his designated enemy, grabbing him with enhanced strength and tossing him far down the street, and than following close after, with Kirishima and their only roll of capture tape close behind the two.
Meanwhile, Yaoyorozu's sudden appearance earned Tokoyami a well deserved breather.
"So, you and Midoriya are already a thing Momo?", Jirou teased her friend as she attacked her with the jacks.
"W-what?! N-no, we are not a thing!", the other female exclaimed as she blocked both stabs with her shield.
"I saw you look at him", the purple-haired heroine in training tried desperately to push her friend out of balance and create an opening to slap the tape onto her. It was a double edged sword however, because she was too focused on Momo and failed to keep track of Tokoyami, who managed to steal her tape right from her belt and signaled Yaoyorozu to keep Kyouka talking.
"Aww, so you must've been looking at him too!", Momo grinned at her friend, as a blush crept onto her face.
"He is my opponent, it would be unwise to lose track of him!", she tried her best to defend herself, but the words she said, came back to bite her in the rear faster than anyone could expect, when she felt something touch her right wrist. She instinctively jumped away and tried to get the tape of off her, but unfortunately tried to do it with her 'free' hand and Tokoyami used his Dark Shadow to bind her hands together. "Ugh!", came a frustrated sigh from Kyouka.
"What did you say about losing track of your opponent?", Yaoyorozu grinned at her bestie with a teasing tone.
Momo and Fumikage had no problem with bringing Kyouka down, but Todoroki was giving their teammates a hard time. Whenever Kirishima would get close to him, he would unleashed a massive amount of ice, which made it impossible to make it to him. Direct approached was a no-go, so they had to come up with a strategy.
"I can distract him all I want, but if he even catches a glimpse of Kirishima advancing, he turns his attention to him and stops our assault momentarily", Izuku stated mentally. "Kirishima, I have a plan!", the green-haired student shouted as he backed of a bit.
Seconds later Kirishima joined him, panting heavily. "What d-did you... come up... with?", he asked trying his best to catch a breath.
"I'll need some of the capture tape", he started and Kirishima hardened his left hand and used it as a knife, to cut the tape, then handed it to Izuku. "Okay, now listen. We will attack him from both direction, I from right, you from left, he won't be able to stop us both, I don't think", he explained as Kirishima finally stopped panting.
"Sounds good, let's go!", Eijiro shouted and started running.
Midoriya further enhanced his legs, getting near the hard limit, and broke into sprint, charging Todoroki's left flank. The two-colour-haired student looked at both of them and sighed, while activating both of his Quirks. "Wall of ice will stop Kirishima dead in his tracks and wall of fire will stop Midoriya's charge. No one is stupid enough to run into fire", was Shoto's reasoning as the two mentioned walls emerged right in front of his two assailants.
While the ice proved to be a very good barricade and indeed prevented Kirishima from getting close to Todoroki, the wall of fire was not nearly as effective. A gust of wind mixed with embers struck him, as he felt something stick to his left wrist. He unleashed his fire side, to burn the tape and he succeeded in his task, but failed to notice the kick, that landed right on the side of his face, as an equally strong uppercut was delivered to his chin, sending him airborne and slightly backwards, in the end knocking unconscious.
Yaoyorozu, Tokoyami and Kirishima ran up to Izuku, to check on him. What they saw was not pretty. His face was burned, as were his fists. It was time for Momo to take the lead. "Kirishima, mark Sato, Todoroki and Hagakure with capture tape", she commanded.
"That's sounds like a manly job!", he shouted excitedly and sped off to take care of his assignment.
"Tokoyami, can you use your Dark Shadow to carry Midoriya? We need to get out of the street and somehow wake him up", she explained her reasoning.
"I can do it. And truly we can't stay here. Explosions went quiet a couple of minutes ago and Todoroki's walls are quite hard to miss, so the other teams are probably on their way here.
Momo nodded at her teammates observation and once Kirishima returned, they made a run for a nearby building, that would serve as their hideout.
So, that will be the first part of their first hero class over. There are still at least three teams in play, so... how will this all play out? Check in the next one ;D
Also, I would like to remind you of the fan service part of the story (yes, I'm talking about villains and fillers, even though there hasn't been either one of them yet)
See you in probably two days ;D