Izoru was bouncing with excitement, doing her best to try to contain herself and not give away her team's position as they made their way slowly through the maze, Izuku's plan working flawlessly.
Anytime Kyoka heard another team approaching she'd give a hand signal, alerting the others and pointing towards a safer direction or having them turn back and retreat to safety.
Mina and Ochaco had yet to have to pull their weight so far thanks to the purple haired teen keeping them from encountering any opponents but they stood ready at all times nonetheless to defend Izoru before the fusion would have to get involved.
Izoru meanwhile in some ways had the hardest time, not because of what they had to do but because Izuku hadn't foreseen how his and Tooru's personality would merge.
Izuku and Tooru alone could both easily follow the plan laid out ahead of time with no real issue. After all, it was quite simple but Izoru… Izoru couldn't help but feel she was being overlooked. Under-utilized. Underestimated.
She hated it. It was only more frustrating that it was her own components who seemed to be assuming she was weaker than she actually was. She looked down at her hand and clenched it as determination began to surge through her and her body went fully invisible, including her clothes and headband.
She knew her role was to hide, to protect her points… yet a part of her was desperately hoping for a fight to start so she could prove herself!
"Take a left." Kyoka whispered back to her team, having overheard another team. They followed her directions, barely able to hear the shuffling of one of the other teams down the right path.
Mina quietly skipped over to the fusion's side (or at least tried to) looking up at where she thought the invisible girl might be and began to whisper. "So, Izoru, what can you do anyways? Other than make your clothes go invisible I mean?"
"Anything," Izoru hummed happily with a smirk. "With enough time and patience, I am capable of anything!"
Ochaco chuckled nervously. "The confident type then?"
Izoru briefly flashed back into visibility with a smirk, gesturing to her body. "Wouldn't you be? I mean look at me!"
"You're kinda… different from what I expected to be honest," Mina admitted with a hum. "Still cool though! Seriously though, we might need to know so you got any powers or skills other than full invisibility-"
"Uh guys?" Kyoka spoke up with a hiss, grabbing their attention and noticing her worried look. They'd reached another fork but Kyoka wasn't going either direction. "Bakugou's team at nine o'clock, a team I don't recognize at three o'clock."
"And the last team from before coming in from six o'clock," Izoru added on to the rocker girl's statement, getting ready just in case. Mina looked between them all confused.
"How did they get on clocks? Who has a quirk to put people on clocks and how do you know they did it now?!"
"….Bakugou at the left, random team at the right and one behind us, Mina." Ochaco sighed.
"Oh, well why didn't you say so?"
Kyoka rolled her eyes. "Not the time! We need to make a decision now on who we have to go up against. Izoru, you've got our team leader in you- frick, that sounds weird… Anyways, what's our play?"
"Well the plan was…" Izoru sighed slightly, wanting to prove herself but also wanting to win. "The plan is to stay away from Bakugou at all costs. If we go back, we run a much higher chance of running into him, and if we go left it's inevitable. Right, we have to go right. Kyoka, tell us whatever you can about them as we approach."
The team nodded at her quiet command and immediately began making their way right. Izoru stayed fully invisible as they moved fast but quiet, all their breaths getting more shallow yet worried as they realized just how long of a straightaway they had come upon. If the team appeared before they could get to the next fork, there would be no avoiding fighting them in and in an incredibly narrow space to boot-
And as if on cue, their opponents arrived, immediately going into fighting stances upon seeing the team with one of the highest point values. There was the girl with green vine like hair who had come In fourth place in the obstacle course Izoru remembered was called Ibara Shiozaki, a girl who looked almost identical to Uraraka but with bored blue eyes and black hair known as Yui Kodai who showed no real emotion on her face, a boy with spiky white hair and large white eyelashes whose body turned to steel instantly in a way not dissimilar from how Kirishima turned to stone (Who Izoru was fairly confident was called Tetsutetsu, a boy with a fluffy green mohawk who had pincers coming out either side of his face and no nose with a piercing glare named Togaru Kamikiri and finally…
"I told you I could smell them, my friends. That 'fusion' has quite the unique scent. They're in the middle of them!" A beast-like boy called Jurota Shishida with a strong build and glasses growled out. "I've got the million points, you focus on the rest of the team!"
"Mm." Ochaco's black haired doppelganger hummed in understanding before the green haired insect like teen beside her began sprouting blade like appendages on his body, Kodai broke one off making Kamikiri wince before Shiozaki then provided her friend with vines as well.
Finally, Kodai wrapped the vine around the blade and touched her fingers together similarly to Ochaco, making the makeshift blade she'd created grow in size enough that she could wield it like a sword.
The beast-like boy who had supposedly 'sniffed' them out started shifting into an even more beast-like form, before he tore off ahead, right towards the fusion.
"Let's show them 1-B's just as good as them!" Kamikiri cried out aggressively as he rushed forth, his metal head mate beside him nodding in agreement.
"Yeah!"
Izoru gritted her teeth and took a deep breath. 'Time to show them what I'm made of!'
With that, she ran forward, trusting her instincts. The beast came in close but she leapt at the last moment, kicking off his head and flipping over him with grace and skill. "KYOKA, TAKE OUT THE BEASTS SENSES! MINA, OCHACO! DEAL WITH BUG BOY AND METAL HEAD!"
Ochaco wasted no time following through with her orders, jumping on Shishida and using her quirk quickly to float him and ruin his mobility before she jumped off and ran beside Mina who had already skated ahead to the next two opponents.
Kyoka's jacks flew out, blinding Shishida who let out a pained howl as their fight began. Izoru was almost stopped by Tetsutetsu who tried to clothesline her by listening to her footsteps but she ducked under it and used his solid form to her advantage, grabbing onto his arm tight and jumping into the air, swinging her feet around to the metal wall behind him and using the momentum to briefly run along it before finally coming down and using all the gained momentum to send him crashing into the blade boy, breaking the blades in half and giving her teammates a starting advantage against the two.
Izoru herself continued on and used her first new trick in her arsenal to her advantage as Tooru's side of the fusion got an idea. She threw out her hands and very suddenly, they lit up blindingly bright, making both the girls ahead have to cover their eyes and Shiozaki's vines retract as she couldn't use them.
She used this to bypass the team before sliding on her feet near the split at the end of the path, turning back around and watching the two students readjust before turning to her. Izoru smirked as she briefly regained visibility. "Well girls, shall we?"
The taller girl's vine like hair came to life, all sorts of vines flying out to attack and bind them. Kodai rushed forth at the same time with her makeshift blade, coming in fast.
Izoru bolted forward, body once more turning invisible to make it harder for the vines to get to her, ducking beneath the closest ones and jumping over a few more.
Unfortunately, her landing was loud and briefly gave away her position, one of the vines grabbing her arm and causing her to become visible again in her surprise.
She gritted her teeth and turned her attention to the sword wielding Kodai, before ducking under a strike and swinging around fast, breaking the vine on the blade and grabbing the black haired girl from behind, putting her into a chokehold as she bent the girl's wrist just enough that her grip on the sword faltered.
Kodai punched at the fusions arms with her free hand in an attempt to tap out but Izoru didn't give until she saw vines coming in to try and save the girl, grabbing her headband and jumping out the way just in time to watch Shiozaki accidentally knock out Kodai with her own vines.
Izoru didn't let the taller girl have a chance to apologise or react to her own mistake however before the invisible fusion was upon her, blinding her with her hands again and dropping to her feet, swiping the vine haired girl's legs out from under her.
As she held Shiozaki down, she quickly looked up to see how her team was coping and could only smirk at what she saw. The beast boy who had sniffed them out was crashing into walls left and right due to Kyoka having seemingly not only blinded him but also deafened him. She also kept tripping him up and was using the dirt on the ground to mess with his sense of smell by throwing it right at his nose and luring him around with her jacks when they weren't tripping Shishida up.
Mina and Ochaco were in a more straight-forward fight with the two 1-B boys but they were holding their own rather well, Mina melting off Kamikiri's blades easily and weaving around them gracefully while Ochaco was in a straight punch up with Tetsutetsu. With anyone else it may have been horrifying to watch but due to Uraraka's quirk the metal teen couldn't get enough momentum into any of his swings to do serious damage and the brunette was being smarter about her moves, using his body against him instead of just trying fruitlessly to punch through metal, using an Irish Whip to throw him into the wall.
Mina, noticing as much, smirked and baited Kamikiri into charging at her, weaving out the way one final time. "Ochaco, look out!"
Ochaco looked back and dodged out the way as Kamikiri ran straight into Tetsutetsu, breaking yet more of his blades on the metal teen and Ochaco quickly used her quirk on him as well, before a massive glob of adhesive hit them in the back and stuck them to the wall. Mina and Ochaco high fived, being mindful not to make the same mistake Izuku and Mina made last time she used the move.
"Come on guys, we don't want to get caught in the crossfire between that team- Ah!"
All eyes minus Kyoka, who was stuck fending off Shishida, turned to see a new team arrive from where Izoru's team had entered. A red headed girl Izoru knew to be Itsuka Kendou, a boy with spiky black hair and a blue and white headband called Yosetsu Awase, a blonde teen with big blue eyes and horse like features named Pony Tsunotori, a boy who had a Manga style speech bubble for a head called Manga Fukidashi and finally a male student with a comically large torso, mustard yellow skin and a glue dispenser like head called Bondo appeared around the corner.
"GET BACK HERE WITH MY FUCKING POINTS YOU FUCKING FUCKER-FUCKERS."
'Ah Bakugou, truly you are the master of creativity.' Izoru thought unamused. Suddenly the opening behind the newly arrived team started glistening oddly and Kendou cursed.
"Crap! Tsubara just blocked off the exit." She hissed out loud to herself. Izoru also cursed mentally as that meant they now had a team they couldn't make an easy escape from if they were fast.
However, Izuku's side of Izoru began to bubble up as one of the fusion's previous moves came to mind and they got an idea. 'Hope this works.'
The invisible fusion picked up the sword Kodai had dropped and threw it right at the new team, before focusing light as much as possible around it and after a moment… a thousand swords suddenly looked as though they were raining down upon Kendou's team at Izoru's command, making her team cry out in shock and worry.
Having no time to figure out which one was real, Bondo's quirk went off as he suddenly threw out large amounts of a glue-like liquid all over the opening, stopping the swords but also completely blocking the team off from Izoru who grinned. 'Great, now to finish up the plan! Come on light refraction! Don't fail me now, we've got Izuku on our side!' "GIRLS! TO ME!"
Her team reassembled to the fusion, as she herself hurried away from Shizoaki who groaned and struggled to get up, Kodai beside her only just regaining consciousness.
Kyoka gave Shishida one last poke in the eye and tripped him up for good measure before rushing, joining Mina and Ochaco as they got Izoru. Then, the fusion used her final big trick, lighting her entire body up into a blinding white light that no one could see for. She let it stay for a moment before letting it drop as she grabbed onto each of her teammates in a tight hug and they all suddenly went invisible.
Their opponents took a moment to adjust, Kodai groaning as she got up, before showing the most emotion she had so far by gasping at an illusion Izoru barely managed to create of her team running around the corner. The black haired girl quickly ran to Kamikiri, telling him to make another blade and cutting her teammates down, before they checked on Shiozaki as Shishida bounded up to them.
"I can't smell them- Grrr…." He growled and whined as he went back to normal, clutching his face. "That girl from our sister class truly had it out for me, she has damaged all my senses. I cannot smell them anymore, my vision is worsened and my ears, they ring."
"A serious drawback. Come on, we should give chase while we can!" Shiozaki commanded and the others nodded, following her lead as they ran off ahead after the team with a million points. At least that's what they thought they were doing but as soon as they disappeared around the corner, the team once again returned to being visible as it was revealed they hadn't moved from their initial spot at all.
Izoru was sweating a bit as she panted, grabbing her shirt and yanking at it a bit to let some air in. "Wow... That r-really… doing all that at once is Kinda tiring. I'm still in this though, you guys okay?"
"Kinda scratched up because of the beast guy but I'm fine." Kyoka shrugged, inspecting a scratch on her arm. Mina and Ochaco gave thumbs up as they let go off Izoru, both looking more or less fine.
"We probably shouldn't stick around too long, we've only got one way to go and if we don't go now we'll probably risk someone running into us along the way again." Ochaco voiced her thoughts, the others nodding and beginning to make their way along. Mina made her way to Izoru's side with a grin, looking up at her.
"So, you can make illusions, lights and turn us invisible? You've got some real neat tricks up your sleeve I had no idea about." Mina chuckled, though she almost sounded accusing in a way making Izoru grin.
"What can I say? Tooru's full of surprises just as much as you or Izuku are."
"And we're not?" Ochaco asked with a pout while Kyoka also looked back with a light glare.
"Hey that's not what I mean! You two are plenty awesome as well-" She was cut off by the two girls giggling. The fusion rolled her eyes. "Oh, you're teasing me. Very funny."
"Well, it is fun seeing Green's easily flustered side is still somewhere in you." Kyoka defended. "What I'm more interested in, where the hell did you learn to fight like that?"
"What, you think Tooru wasn't smart enough to realize invisibility would be nowhere near enough to help her in a fight against half the villains we see nowadays?" Izoru asked with a raised brow. "She's so into fighting and learning about it it's actually insane. And I think it's super impressive- Ah! M-Midoriya! Stop, it's embarrassing-"
"You two stop! Get yourselves under control!" Ochaco quickly commanded, putting a hand on them to steady them. "We still need you fused."
"R-Right! We… I'm fine. Let's go!" Izoru said determinedly. With that, they continued on, using the same plan they had last time as aside from the one hiccup with 1-B, it had been pretty effective.
That was how they spent the majority of the rest of the event, managing to avoid teams from all sides and doing their best to run when they had to. There was one incident right near the end however…
Izuro had dropped out of her invisibility for the moment while they were going down a straight to conserve her energy, when they'd all heard a girl giggling from above of all places.
"What the… Ah!" Kyoka looked up with the rest and let out a freaked out shout at seeing a detached mouth and eyeball. Mina also yelped as she recognized the girl.
"Ah! Setsuna?!"
"Hello, ten million points~ Hope you don't mind but I'll be taking the hotties headband now!"
'H-Hottie?!' Izoru though, before suddenly having to dodge out the way of a hand as Setsuna's mouth shot off.
"Guys, she's here!~"
"…Oh crap! Girls, Iida incoming!" Kyoka warned and they all shared worried looks, knowing they'd struggle to get away from someone as fast as Iida. Then, Izoru got a very dirty idea.
"Come on! I'll hold him off!"
An illusion of Ingenium suddenly appeared in the path as the team turned to run. The rest of the girls could only facepalm as Izoru threw her voice and the fake Ingenium glared at where Iida presumably was. "Tenya! I am very disappointed in you!"
"Brother?! I'm so sorry! Please forgive me for whatever my misdeeds are! I- SHOJI WHY DID YOU JUST PUNCH MY BROTHER- Huh?"
"It's an illusion, Iida! Ribbit."
"Truly, the maiden of light is doing her utmost to conquer us, I shall be sure to show her the dark she dares to run from is inescapable." Tokoyami's voice spoke up.
"Calm down edgelord, we need to move if we're gonna catch them so come on!" Setsuna demanded. Izoru hissed quietly and her team picked up their pace as they fled, hearing engines roaring to life soon after.
"Just need to hold out a few minutes longer guys!" Kyoka reminded them. "The event is almost over."
"Right!"
Izuro's body lit up green for a moment as she grabbed her friends and bolted off ahead at even faster speeds. Her body hurt but she was just barely able to contain the overwhelming energy inside her, beating it down like the light she was constantly fending off. It gave them the edge they needed to stay ahead of Iida just about.
Their luck didn't last forever however, as they soon ran out into an open hall, with two other exits. With no way to go back, they'd have to pick one except there was one major issue with doing so.
Ice was barrelling down one hallway, explosions were echoing through another and Iida's footsteps were rapidly approaching from behind. Todoroki, Iida and Bakugou were all upon the team, and there was no way they could avoid a fight anymore.
"Uh…girls? What now?!"
Izoru took a deep breath and thought, looking around. She needed a plan and fast, but she had no idea what she could do… then it hit her.
"Girls, do you trust me?"
Mina looked back. "Definitely."
Ochaco nodded herself. "No doubt about it!"
Kyoka hummed. "Rather trust you with my life than most people so guess so."
Izoru nodded, and she set her only plan into motion.
The three teams had arrived more or less at the same time. Rats had come running out of the hallway Todoroki's team was in followed by Koda, presumably controlling them to sniff out Izoru. Behind him, Kirishima and Satou jumped out next, ready for a fight alongside a Chinese student Izoru assumed to be Hiryu Rin whose body had turned scaly. Finally Todoroki himself walked out, the path behind him being completely closed off with his ice.
On the other side, Bakugou blasted out first ahead of his team, immediately growling as he saw Izuro and stopping at the last moment as he realized she was just sitting there in the middle of the room. Behind him his reluctant teammates followed, Sero and Kaminari appearing first, followed by Mineta and finally a 1-B student who looked like he wanted to be literally anywhere else.
Behind Izuro, Iida raced onto the scene finally, barely stopping in time and seeing Izuro sat there on the ground, calm. His team followed behind and all three teams looked amongst one another confused at the fusion's calmness. She was sat cross legged, breathing gently as though meditating.
Then she cracked an eye open and smirked.
"DEKU?! THE FUCK?!"
"Firstly, the name's Izoru, don't wear it out." The fusion winked with a grin before looking around. "Second, well done boys and girls. You got me trapped. The question is… Do you know how to handle a beast once you've left it no choice to fight back?"
As she said this, she held out her hand and all eyes went wide as a fireball roared to life.
"What the hell?! Since when was Hagakure or Midoriya able to make fire!?" Mineta asked in shock. Bakugou growled.
"IT'S JUST A FUCKING TRICK! IT ISN'T SHIT!"
"Oh really, Bakugou?" Izoru asked with a raised brow. "In that case, Todoroki, why don't you help me make my point? CATCH!"
She threw a stream of solid fire right at the heterochromatic teen who went wide eyed and dodged just in time for the fireball to hit the ice wall behind him, and all eyes went wide as it actually melted. Izoru smirked.
"Like I said to the girls. I can do anything. Now who wants to help me test that theory?" She asked with a confident smirk, gesturing with her hand to bring it on. In less than a second, bedlam reigned supreme as all three teams launched at her, and once more Izuro did the impossible, back flipping from a standing position over Shoji who had tried to go for her headband without even needing to look. As she went over him, she even shot her hand out to poke both his eyes and they all heard his pained shout as it connected.
She then went invisible and dodged blows from Setsuna and Tsuyu, the frog girls tongue accidentally smacking the lizard girl out the air to everyone's surprise as the invisible teen then appeared over Tsuyu, grabbing her by the foot and tripping her up before she shot out a glue like substance from her hand to hold the frog girl in place, also gluing her mouth shut a moment later. She then turned and threw out a hand, causing a sudden explosion of light all around Tokoyami and causing Dark Shadow to scream out as he faded into almost nothing.
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
"Since when could they do any of this?!" Mineta asked in confusion, only for his eyes to go wide when the fusion disappeared, avoiding a kick from Iida before suddenly appearing right in front of his face as though she teleported, gluing his mouth shut and flipping behind him, pulling out his feet from under him and gluing him down before she jumped into the air and blew their minds again and as she started flying, coming down to the 1-B student on Bakugou's team and poking his eyes out before burning both his arms by grabbing hold of them then finally gluing his mouth shut.
"GGR! FUCKING DEKU! GET BACK HERE!"
"Kirishima, Satou, grab her!" Todoroki commanded and his teammates listened, running in to try and grab her. At the same moment, Sero tried to tape her from behind where she shouldn't have been able to see and yet despite that she gracefully got into position so that she could disappear for the last moment, teleporting higher into the air so that Sero's tape hit Kirishima in the chest before she dropped down and baited Satou, in his not so smart sugar rush state into trying to attack her. She went translucent at the last moment and he ran straight through her, running through the tape and causing it to wrap around him, Sero and Kirishima getting thrown into each other and knocking each other out as Satou ran into a wall.
She then held her hand out to Rin, who suddenly began floating and was lifted high into the air, before dropping slightly and finally being flung across the room right into Tokoyami.
Then finally Kaminari seemed to decide enough was enough as his sudden shout rang out the second she touched the ground. "INDISCRIMINATE SHOCK! FIFTY-THOUSAND VOLTS!"
Todoroki barely made an ice shield to protect him and Kota while Bakugou blasted himself into the air for safety. Todoroki rose a brow when he could of sworn he heard a pained wince near him.
Izoru didn't even flinch as she just walked towards Kaminari with a smirk, and as the lightning began to fade it almost seemed to be absorbed into her.
"Nice try, eye see what you were trying to do but you don't have it that easy Kaminari." The fusion chuckled as she lifted her hand and shot two bolts of electricity straight from her finger tips into Kaminari's eyes.
"WHEYYYYYY!" He screamed out before falling backwards, pushing thumbs up into the air weakly as he groaned. Only Todoroki noticed the stifled giggling from above.
Bakugou growled and launched himself at the fusion, only to go straight through her again as she didn't even give him the time of day, instead going straight for Todoroki and throwing a fireball at him as he came out from behind the ice shield.
He tried to dodge but a part of it hit the side of his arm and he let out a pained yelp as it sizzled. He looked down with a grunt and his eyes widened as he noticed his burn mark was coated in a specific substance, acid.
"So that's how you're doing it." Todorki threw an ice shard right at the fusion and it went straight through, dropping out the air behind her. "You're just an illusion then…"
He looked up to where he heard the giggling and suddenly the girls all became visible. Mina and Kyoka were using their quirks to suspend themselves on the roof while Izoru had jammed herself into one of the corners. A quick look around revealed Ochaco had been on the ground floating Rin when she'd gotten hit by Kaminari's quirk.
"Oh crap!"
They all dropped down onto the battlefield and all eyes turned to the real Izoru.
"RUN! WE'll HOLD THEM OFF!" Kyoka shouted as she rushed forward, throwing her Earjacks right at Todoroki who weaved around them and shot after Izoru who was heading for an exit. Bakugou blasted ahead and Iida's team woke up just in time to see their leader going after the fusion as well.
Kyoka rushed to defend Ochaco while Mina had to react fast, gluing shut the hallway Izoru had gone down. She wasn't fast enough to start before Bakugou had blasted ahead however and Todoroki moved fast enough to create a few ice platforms and jump over the top of the still forming glue. Iida used them to his advantage to do the same, using his engines to make it through the narrowing gap just in time before the hallway was closed off from the rest for good.
As Todoroki got further ahead, he got into an altercation with Bakugou who refused to let him get ahead, giving Iida a chance to blast past both of them with his speed and make it to the hall where the real Izoru had disappeared to.
She gritted her teeth as she turned a corner and came upon a dead end, whirling around and coming face to face with Iida. She only had one last desperate idea, looking down to Kodai and Hagakure's point bands around her neck. "So… Why are you of all people after us, Iida?"
"Because I wish to prove myself. Nothing personal, but I feel it best if I defeat you this round, to prove I am just as capable alone as I am with you." Iida explained. "So I am afraid I will be taking your points now."
Midnight's voice could be heard outside the maze. "LESS THAN A MINUTE REMAINS!"
'Ready for this, Tooru? …Let's do it, Izu! Let's show them our last trick!'
"RECIPRO: BURST!"
"O.F.A! 25 PERCENT!" Izoru cried out as her body glowed green and she suddenly ripped forward at speed, fortunately able to track the blue haired teen's movement with her increased perception. She threw a hand up at the last moment, lighting it up as bright as possible, much brighter than her full body could ever light up and blinding their fellow million-point holder who tripped suddenly as she slid past him, not stopping to look back as she heard him crash.
She just kept on running, turning off the light as she saw Bakugou growling and preparing to blow her up next in line, Todoroki only just appearing behind him. She gritted her teeth and let two illusions of herself appear beside her, both going to fight Bakugou as she created a final one just in front of her as he was distracted.
He ignored the two coming from his sides, assuming the one in front of him to be real and going to blow her up. He was in for a shock when the real Izoru leapt above him suddenly from behind the illusion in front of him he ended up blowing up for no reason while Izoru continued onto Todoroki.
The heterochromatic teen gritted his teeth and sent forward a wall of ice just in time but the blonde didn't let it phase her, using her super strength to smash it out the way before jumping to one wall and then another, before finally coming back down to the ground and rushing at Todoroki again, upon him in an instance.
In a panic, the fire and ice teen lifted up his left arm to block, which suddenly caught on fire to his and Izoru's surprise. The fusion didn't let it stop her plan though, grabbing his arm like it was nothing and throwing him into the wall, knocking him down before finally rushing towards Bakugou again.
The blonde growled and blasted straight ahead and Izoru… let her speed and strength falter as he came in, waiting.
"FUCKING GOT IT NOW, DEKU!" He screeched as he tore the one-million-point headband right from her neck, blasting them back and onto the floor. "HAHA! FUCKING TOLD YOU! I FUCKING WIN! I'M THE INDISPUTABLE FUCKING CHAMPION!"
"TIMES UP!" Midnight's voice called out and all the walls dropped as Bakugou grinned like a maniac.
"How does it feel to fucking lose again Deku!?" Bakugou cackled manically, only for him to watch Izoru look up with a cocky grin.
"Don't know Bakugou. You. Tell. Me."
As she said that, she let her quirk drop and Bakugou's eyes went wide as he started shaking with rage, the numbers on the headband changed to reveal he'd not gotten a million-point headband.
He'd gotten a five-point headband.
His hands slowly began lighting up as he growled.
"…..DEEEEEKKKKKKUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!"
Before Bakugou could begin whatever rampage he wanted to, a pink mist snuck past him and put him to sleep, Midnight nearby tutting at his behaviour.
The fusion sighed in relief, standing up and smiling. Then finally, Izoru defused.
The second they were split apart and had their bearings again, Tooru launched at Izuku and pulled him into a tight hug, jumping out and down excitedly. "Izu! That was so amazing! WE were amazing, like did you see how badass our fusion was!?"
"Heh, yeah, we really kicked butt." He chuckled nervously with a blush, gingerly hugging her back and smiling as he saw his teammates approaching, seemingly fine and smirking at their victory.
"Yeah! And oh my god all the stuff we could do! It was so easy! I mean I know how to refract light but like, it's so dang difficult! I can't use it properly at all usually, it takes so much focus to do it through my whole body! I mean sure, it wasn't as bright as doing it through our hands but aside from using your quirk at the end it was more effective there and you made it so easy and AHH! I'm so excited!" Tooru gushed adorably, absolutely enthralled with their fusion. Izuku blinked in surprise a moment later as he registered her words and something began to occur to him.
'Less effective… I wonder… I mean… It couldn't hurt to try, right?' He thought to himself, getting an idea. "Hey Hagakure, I think I might have an idea on how to use my quirk without fusion safely."
"Really?!"
"Yeah, but uh… t-think you can come with me? I might need some help…" He asked nervously and she nodded happily.
"Definitely Izuku! No problem." She grinned wide. Mina opened her mouth to say something next but before she could, everyone was distracted by Todoroki suddenly walking up to them.
"Hagakure, Midoriya… We need to talk."