"Welcome one and all to the annual U.A. Sports Festival, I am your host, your master of ceremonies, Present Mic, here in the booth with me is my dearest friend Eraserhead." As the crowds of civilians, business types and heroes alike mingled in the stands as they waited for the events to begin.
In the 1-A waiting room, many of the students were having happy discussions about their expectations for the events and how they thought they would do. Gohan had been sitting in a chair quietly contemplating how he would go about participating in the events, without revealing who he really was and without ruining the festival for everyone else.
"Midoriya," Todoroki said to Gohan, getting his attention.
Gohan looked to his classmate with a bit of confusion because of how serious the boy's face was, which was really saying something because Gohan couldn't think of a single time in almost a month he had seen him even smile. "Yes Todoroki, how can I help you?"
"Objectively, I think I'm stronger than you," Todoroki bluntly stated. "I am going to beat you in this festival."
The rest of the class, not having expected a declaration of war were eagerly waiting to see what Midoriya's response would be. What they did not expect was for Midoriya to look like he was struggling to not fall to the ground laughing.
Gohan snorted as he tried very hard to not be rude and laugh in his classmate's face. "That's," he started to respond before a small giggle escaped. "I can't," Gohan waved off his 'rival' as he knew he needed to get out of the room. "Sorry, I'm gonna," he said to the rest of the room before he stepped out. The rest of the class could hear the sounds of laughter coming from the hallway as Gohan had to brace himself against the wall, having not gotten very far from the room.
"Well that was rude," Todoroki huffed in annoyance as he folded his arms across his chest.
Watching the various lines of attendees waiting to get past the security was a trio of heroes who were having a conversation about the increased fervor around the current first year students. "Wait one fucking second," Death Arms said as he watched a monitor display the first year classes.
"What is it?" Mt. Lady asked as she turned to look at the older hero.
"I know that kid," Death Arms pointed at the monitor as it showed the students standing on the field by their classes. Both Mt. Lady and Kamui Woods looked at the face of Gohan on the large screen.
"When did you meet one of the 1-A students?" Kamui inquired.
"THAT, is the little shit that got in the way of my fight with Number 6," Death Arms grumbled as he bit into his takoyaki.
"Then he will be one to watch if after that infiltration by the villains he also got involved with another so soon," Kamui hummed as he thought on that information.
"Hold on," Mt. Lady said slowly as she narrowed her eyes as she remembered the story that Death Arms had told them. "Didn't you say that Ragdoll was on a date with him that day?"
Speaking of Ragdoll, while the rest of the Wild Wild Pussycats, being U.A. staff were up in the teachers booth, she had been nervously standing outside the door of the Capsule Corp booth. Inside she could hear some voices having conversations but she was nervously clutching the ticket that Gohan had given her. This wasn't just a chance to meet the strongest people on the planet, this was her introduction to Gohan's group of close friends. And he wasn't even there to ease her into it.
Slowly she raised her knuckled and tapped on the door, immediately all conversations had ceased. This was highly distressing for her as she knew that meant they had all some knowledge of her, to what extent she didn't know.
The door slid open to a very tall muscular man with three eyes who stared down at her. "Oh," Tien said. "It's one of the teachers." Stepping out of the way. "Is there something wrong that you needed to come tell us about?" He asked as Tien couldn't think of another reason for one of the staff to come to the booth.
Before Tomoko could open her mouth to respond Chi-Chi had squealed. "Oh Ragdoll, come in come in, I have a seat saved for you right here," she said as she pulled the other woman in to the room. While most of the room looked confused, for Bulma who had been told by Chi-Chi that Gohan was on a date with one of his teachers, this was just putting an identity to the mystery woman.
Chi-Chi firmly planted her son's girlfriend in a seat next to her, which was situated fairly close to the center of the group. None of the other fighters really knew how to respond to the new addition to the room.
After a couple of moments where Krillin, Yamcha and Tien were sharing glances, trying to mentally get the other to ask the question they all wanted an answer too, Krillin finally sighed and bit the bullet. "So uh, Chi-Chi, who is this?" he asked gesturing to the nervous teacher.
"Oh Krillin, don't be rude to our guest. This is Ragdoll, Gohan's girlfriend," she answered as she hummed happily.
The room froze all movement as they processed that information. "When did this happen?" Yamcha exclaimed in shock.
Chi-Chi however kept her mouth closed, preferring to let Tomoko sink or swim on her own. "A couple of weeks ago," Tomoko said quietly.
"Huh, didn't think that Gohan would go for someone so, you know," Tien waved a hand at her.
"Tien," Chiaotzu shouted. "You can't say things like that. I'm sorry, we've spent most of our time in the mountains training, you are really pretty by the way." He said apologetically for his brash companion.
"Ehh, I think this is great," Master Roshi cackled. "Clearly he prefers a more mature flavor."
"Can you not Master Roshi," Krillin scoffed. "So she's older than him, that doesn't mean Gohan is some sort of, honey help me," Krillin pleaded as he turned towards Eighteen.
Sighing, the blonde model turned towards Ragdoll and leveled a flat stare. "So, have you fucked him yet?" she asked bluntly.
"No!" Tomoko squeaked out in alarm as she blushed furiously at the question.
"Okay, this has gotten out of hand quickly," Bulma sighed as she stood up. "So, Ragdoll, is that your hero name?" she asked hoping to get the questions away from sex and onto something more informative before the 'idiot brigade' got started
"Oh, yes, my uh name is actually Tomoko Shiretoko," she answered the blue haired inventor.
"Well, even if Gohan mentioned us or you knew who some of us were already, I am Bulma Briefs," Bulma extended a hand out to the other woman. "This is my husband Vegeta, and our son Trunks," she pointed to the gruff man next to her and the purple haired boy tussling with another child.
"So you are the half-breed's mate then," Vegeta smirked as he watched the mass of students below.
"Vegeta," Bulma groaned. "Sorry he's grumpy because he thinks this is going to be a waste of time." Gently rubbing her husband's shoulder.
"I mean, probably," Yamcha shrugged as he leaned back. "It's not like anyone but Gohan is going to win."
"I wouldn't discount all of the students," Ragdoll said quietly.
"Oh yeah," Piccolo said as he noticed Tsuyu in the crowd. "Gohan started training the teachers and one of his classmates."
For a moment the group was silent before the fighters burst into laughter. "Gohan is, ahahahah," Krillin tried to say before he slumped into Eighteen as he wheezed.
"That's hilarious, what does Gohan know about training someone else?" Tien held his stomach as he doubled over.
"Hey, I think Gohan is doing really well," Tomoko said as she tried to defend her boyfriend's efforts to help her and the others get stronger.
"Please that brat barely knows how to train himself," Vegeta scoffed.
"If they wanted someone to train them, they could have asked me," Yamcha pointed his thumb at himself.
"Oh you wish, if anyone would get them fighting ready, it would be me, the strongest human in the world," Krillin smirked.
"Ehh, what was that you young whippersnapper," Master Roshi tapped his cane on the floor. "I couldn't hear you over the sound of all the training I gave you."
"If it matters, I have hundreds of years of experience to draw from that would make the best training possible," Piccolo added in.
As the Z-Fighters argued over who would be the best trainer Vegeta began to laugh loudly. "While you weaklings are debating who would make the best weakling, you ignore that, I, Vegeta, the undisputed most powerful being in the universe, would clearly make the most powerful pupil. A Saiyan's training is the most superior training in all of existence."
"Put money on it," Yamcha demanded suddenly.
"What?!" Vegeta shouted at the strange demand.
"Put money on it. I bet I can train any one of those kids down there to be stronger than any student you take," Yamcha said.
"What are the stakes?" Tien asked eagerly.
"Dinner," Yamcha answered. "Losers have to treat the other to a meal of their choosing."
"Interesting proposition," Piccolo hummed. "Seems a bit lopsided, since I don't eat and Vegeta is a Saiyan."
"Do you really think Vegeta, of all people would win," Krillin snickered.
"Hey, you wanna go baldy," the Saiyan prince fumed from his seat. "I could easily train an earthling into the mightiest warrior, so I accept your challenge."
"Pfft, you kids today," Master Roshi cackled. "It's been a while since I had a student so young, it might be nice to have someone who isn't a headache."
"So we're all in this then," Tien asked the other fighters who made some noise of affirmation.
"But, none of you are licensed heroes, how will you send the school an internship offer?" Tomoko inquired, she realized a moment after that she should have kept her mouth shut when they all looked at her. "Right." She said dejectedly as she had unintentionally just offered herself to do that for them.
However in their argument they had missed the opening speech and that the first event had begun.
Gohan thought to himself as he listened to the admittedly short speech Katsuki had given. He had been more focused on trying to figure out what he should do for the festival. Even if it was him versus the entire first year class, that still wouldn't be any real challenge for him. So when Midnight announced the first event was a race, he was at least grateful that he wouldn't have to fight any of the other students. However when the bullhorn blasted Gohan figured it would be better if he just got it over with. The half-saiyan had disappeared in a blur of speed, making sure to not go so fast the cameras couldn't see him as he finished the lap in a few seconds.
"Huh that kid with the ice quirk is pretty strong," Eighteen commented as they had seen Gohan leave and come back already, so for them it was just watching the students. "He froze those giant robots like they were nothing."
"He's got some competition if he wants second place though," Piccolo pointed to a few of the faster students catching up to Todoroki.
"So Namekian, are you going to take the frog girl as your student?" Vegeta asked as he looked for the perfect candidate to train.
"I might, I've already been introduced to Tsuyu, so it would be the easiest option," Piccolo shrugged as he figured that she would take less time to get acclimated to the training.
"I'm think I'll choose one of those delightful looking ladies down there," Master Roshi drooled as he got a look at some of the 1-A female students.
The resounding no from the booth put a damper on Master Roshi's mood, but Tomoko was a little confused as to why they all denied his offer. "Um," she started to say.
"He's a huge pervert, your school wouldn't survive the lawsuits," Bulma quickly informed the newcomer.
"Get back here Half-and-Half!" Bakugo roared as he exploded past the robots to try and catch up to what he assumed was the first place.
"Huh, I think that's the boy who kept using his quirk on Gohan," Chi-Chi mused as she had asked Gohan to explain why he came home one day with his uniform torn up and smelling like smoke.
"Gohan had a bully," Tomoko gasped in horror. This sudden revelation caused the group to laugh again at the thought that someone as powerful as Gohan had a school-yard bully.
Down below on the track Tsuyu was rapidly gaining on Todoroki as the training she had done to start learning to control her ki had increased her physical capabilities by quite a large amount so she found herself able to keep a high pace for far longer than before on the track.
Now one would think that with Gohan having already finished the event that it would have been announced so that all could hear it, however when Aizawa leaned forward to announce that the first place position had been taken, Present Mic quickly smothered his friend. "No wait, this will be hilarious." the blonde hero snickered as he whispered his plan to Aizawa who started to sport a sadistic grin as he listened to the details.
"That's a useful quirk," Tien pointed out as Momo created a cannon to take out the Zero-Pointer that was in her way.
"Oh yeah, that's Ms. Yaoyorozu, very strong quirk with a lot of potential," Bulma nodded. "Surprised she's in the hero course and not in the support course with her capabilities. Shame, I'd love to get her over at Capsule Corp."
"Right, from those boring meetings you dragged me to," Vegeta nodded as he remembered some business meetings with other companies, normally he spent his time scowling at other people during them.
After a while the majority of the students arrived at the second obstacle, the Fall. Most of the Z-Fighters had gotten a tad bored already with the running as outside a few quirks most of the students were just jogging along, as they didn't have powers that would benefit them in the event. Bulma, as the representative of Capsule Corp, seeing that none of her other scientists would volunteer after learning that Mr. Briefs would also be in the same booth. So she was keeping an eye on the support course students for any decent inventors that Bulma might want to snatch up for her company. So far the only hopeful was a pink haired girl who had quite a number of interesting gizmos on her.
Finally after watching a couple of students tank some landmines, the crowd started cheering as more and more of the students arrived back at the stadium ending the event.
Midnight who had been radioed the scheme by Present Mic, she happily stood on the podium as the students awaited to get details. After letting them stew for a moment she motioned her hand to the monitor, where she began listing the placers, starting from number forty-two.
"In fourth place, Tsuyu Asui," Midnight proudly said, happy that one of the students that she'd had trained alongside with had placed so high in the event. Tsuyu herself incredibly pleased that the training she had done had made such an impact.
Once Tsuyu's name was announced however, Bakugo and Todoroki who were certain that she had been hot on their heels were confused as who could have placed third. "What?!" Bakugo shouted when Midnight announced it had been him. Turning around he glared at Hagakure for a moment, thinking that somehow she had slipped passed him at some point before he remembered she had already been called as number thirty-eight.
"And in second place, Todoroki Shoto," she declared as his face was put up on the monitor.
The scarred teen had looked up in confusion at Midnight. "Wait, no one was ahead of me, how did I only place second?" he asked, unsure if this was some sort of trick or he had missed a detail of the event.
"Quite simple, because someone finished before you." Midnight answered to the confusion of most of the crowd who had not noticed Gohan. "In first place with a record breaking time of three seconds, Izuku Midoriya," she said as she plastered Gohan's face onto the monitor.
The crowd of student and spectators reacted the same way, mass confusion. Midnight had to hold her gut as she tried to not laugh too hard, however for the people who were in on the joke, they weren't doing anything to stop themselves so the sounds of Present Mic and Eraserhead's laughter was ringing through out the stadium and on the television.
"HOLD ON!" Bakugo roared. "How the fuck did that loser beat all of us, without being seen?"
In the Capsule Corp booth, the occupants where busy staring at Vegeta. "What?" Vegeta demanded to know.
"He's like human you," Yamcha commented.
"Bullshit!" Vegeta shouted. "That blonde earthling has nothing on my greatness."
"Oh, they are so alike," Eighteen snickered as the group teased Vegeta for his arrogant attitude.
"Simple," Midnight smiled as she waved to the monitor to replay the footage, first was three seconds where it showed Gohan disappear and then reappear back. "Now we slow it way down," Midnight smiled as the footage ran again, showing the rest of the runners barely moving as Gohan leaped over them, ran down the track underneath the robots who couldn't react to him fast enough, hopping from pillar to pillar and then finally fly over the minefield before coming to a stop back in the arena.
The crowd exploded into a gasps and cheers as they realized just how fast this student would have to be going for no one to see him. The stadium was filled with cheers for Izuku Midoriya.
"Now to announce the next event." Midnight said drawing the conversations from Gohan's performance and back onto the task at hand. "Cavalry Battle."
"So why did we decide to do a team based event," Snipe scratched his head. "Wouldn't Gohan make it completely one-sided?"
"One would think that," Nezu nodded. "However in a way his team mates are his limiters, he couldn't go too fast and even more, if he is the rider then we have severely limited a lot of his ki based abilities."
For a moment all eyes seemed to be on Gohan as the optimal team member, that was until Midnight stacked a whopping ten million point bounty on his head and suddenly he looked a lot less appetizing as anyone teaming up with him was putting a target on their head.
In another building outside the stadium, with a sign marked as the staff breakroom, heroes who were called in to act as security were watching a few monitors. A particular group of three heroes were sitting at a table while one fumed. "Look I get it, you're mad that this kid got in the way of your fight, but what's up your butt this time," Mt. Lady asked.
"They called him Izuku Midoriya," Death Arms questioned. "That's not the name he told me." Folding his arms in anger as he tried to think about that night and piece together this strange puzzle.
Kamui Woods popped the cap off his water bottle. "Maybe you just misheard him that night."
"No way, Ragdoll and this kid said his name was Son Gohan," Death Arms tapped his finger into the table. "I call the HSN for information on what to do, and the freaking OSI tells me to back off because King Furry classified that information. I did not get the name wrong."
"That makes him interesting, maybe I can ask Midnight about him, or she thought as she pulled out her cellphone, I go straight to the source," Mt. Lady hummed as she figured the next chance she had to meet up with the other woman before remembering she had one of the Wild Wild Pussycats contact information.
Gohan looked around as people quickly formed teams as they looked to see who they thought had strong quirks. He was hoping that Tsuyu would team up with him, but it looked like Mineta had come up with a decent enough plan that she went along with it. "He does seem the type to get crafty," Gohan mused as he looked around to see who was free when he felt a tugging on his sleeve.
"Um, Midoriya, do you want to team up," Uraraka asked as she realized that no one was willing to gamble on Izuku with that huge amount of points he had.
"Sure, I can do that," Gohan smiled.
"Can I join as well, Mr. Ten Million," Hatsume asked as she got in Gohan's face. "I'm Hatsume Mei, of the Support Department. I know we've never met before, but I want to use your position to help me."
"That's direct," Uraraka said flatly.
"If I'm on your team then everyone will be looking at me and my inventions, it's the perfect chance to show them off to the big companies," Hatsume continued ignoring Uraraka as she pulled out some of her inventions. "With these there is bound to be one that suits you. How about this one, it's a jet pack that will let you fly."
Gohan tried very hard to not laugh at the idea of using a jetpack to fly, he knew it would be the height of rudeness and this girl was admittedly being quite friendly. "Yeah sure, I think we can work together, I know someone else who acts kind of the same." Gohan smiled as he thought about how Bulma acted with her inventions.
"Excellent," Hatsuma smiled as she started gathering her equipment. "Now we should just get one more person," she said as she noticed the stronger teams were getting four people.
Nodding in agreement, Uraraka looked around. "If you're on our shoulders you can't use your speed to get away. Oh look Tokoyami's not in a group." she pointed at the last available student. "Tokoyami," she shouted and waved her hand. "Come join our team, please."
"Ack," Tokoyami hissed as he was blinded by Uraraka's positive attitude. But still he joined up with the team because no one else would have him.
Up in the booth with the other teachers they were exchanging bets on how each of the students would do, with one except, no betting on Gohan. "Clearly my students are going to outperform Aizawa's, they have received more structured lesson than the 1-A class has."
"Only because you don't let me have free reign of the class," All Might pouted as unlike with 1-A's class, Kan wasn't willing to let him run the show.
"I know better than that," Kan laughed. "Having the Wild Wild Pussycat's though has been a great help."
Mdnight waited until the teams had spread out against the walls of the arena, excited to see the chaos unfold. "Ready," she called out, as she raised her whip. "And begin." The sound of the crowd cheering as the event started.
Gohan had been surveying the groups as he saw all but one team head towards his own. 'Tsuyu must have recommended to Shoji to stay away from us, at least for now.' Gohan thought to himself. "Dodge right," he commanded as he saw that one of the students' quirks was rippling through the ground at a pace the human eye would struggle to see. "He did something to the ground." Pointing as the ground they had just been on turned into a less hard substance.
"It's going to sound crazy but run straight forward." Gohan said to his team.
"What, that's crazy," Uraraka gasped.
"I know, that's what I just said, trust me," Gohan smirked. "They won't touch the headband."
"Alright my strange companion," Tokoyami nodded as he and the group started moving forward into the mass of teams.
"Whoo, real mad lad energy there, this is bound to get the attention of the companies," Hatsume cheered as many teams all reached out to try and snag Gohan's headband, however each time their hands, tape or other limbs were smacked away.
"Ahah, nice try Tsuyu," Izuku commented as the tongue had tried to slip in underneath his blind spot. "Your speed is really coming along though."
"Kero, thank you Midoriya," Tsuyu smiled as her tongue retracted back into the crack between Shoji's arms. "It was worth a shot. Shoji, let's go for other people now," she said as the bulky student stomped away.
"Prepare to die Deku," Katsuki roared as he blasted towards Gohan, fearing for the collision, Dark Shadow formed a wall to block the assault forcing Bakugo to retreat.
"Man these kids are really going after Gohan aren't they," Yamcha said as he watched the mass of students fighting for points down below. Many of them trying to take the ten million point headband from Gohan.
"It's a waste of time," Vegeta huffed. "At least the frog girl understands it was useless to do more than a single attack to test her luck and skill."
"Oh, it looks like Todoroki is challenging Gohan's team," Tomoko said as she saw the two parties below.
"While those two teams are dealing with each other," Tsuyu ribbited.
"We will strike," Mineta proudly declared. "Shoji, Full Attack Mode."
Hearing that they were moving to phase two of the plan, the first part was stalling out for the majority of the event to make sure other teams dismissed them as target, Shoji unfurled his arms to reveal his riders.
"Hep," Tsuyu grunted as she kicked Mineta straight up into the air.
"Grape Rain," Mineta called out as he started throwing all his hair balls down onto the battlefield, sticking them to people who couldn't dodge or to the floor itself. As he started to fall back down, Tsuyu was able to catch him with her tongue.
"Now Shoji," Tsuyu pointed at the nearest team that had been stuck.
Nowhere to run Midoriya," Todoroki said as he had made a large wall of ice to block Gohan's team from escaping from him.
"Why is he so fixated on me," Gohan sighed. "Seriously."
"You are one of the strongest in the class," Tokoyami stated.
"I know but does he have to..." Gohan paused for a moment as he ducked forward dodging Iida's high speed charge. "Go after me all the time, it's really kind of annoying." straightening his back and looking at Todoroki's team.
"How did you dodge that?!" Iida shouted as he was shocked that anyone could react fast enough to avoid his super move.
Shrugging Gohan turned towards the ice wall that was in his way. "Well, this is going to start wrapping up soon, we should get out of here," he said as he sent a blast of ki at the wall, breaking it into little shards. "Plus this should be easier to clear out now," he mused as he team headed into the wider arena.
"He's still ignoring me," Todoroki snarled as he watched the person he challenged leave him behind like he wasn't worth the effort.
"It was easy to take those headbands from the purple haired kid, especially with all his team mates yelling at him," Mineta said as he put the cloth strips on his head, sticking them to the balls.
"I wonder what that was all about, kero." Tsuyu pondered. "They were working just fine until one of them stumbled on your quirk, then they all started yelling at their rider."
"Most peculiar," Shoji nodded in agreement, for a team with a decent amount of points to devolve into a mutiny that close to the end of the event didn't make sense.
As Midnight counted down the remaining ten seconds, with so many teams so far apart, it didn't look like there would be any last minute shake ups. However at the one second mark, Gohan's hand shot out behind him, firmly gripping a floating appendage. "Nice try," he smirked as he looked up at the floating head, the horn blaring around them.
"Darn it," Setsuna grumbled as she floated her limbs back to her body, her strategy of keeping her head far above the fighters and trying to sneakily take the ten million points when she assumed his guard was down failed, at least her headband had not been taken.
"Now to announce the winners," Midnight happily said. "In first place, Team Midoriya," she announced and clapped as much of the audience cheered for the team that kept their headband safe the entire time.
"Next in second place is Team Bakugo, followed by Team Tsuyu and in fourth place Team Todoroki," Midnight announced. "Please everyone thank our competitors for putting on a wonderful show."
The crowd began to clap and cheer for all the students. "However, because the next event requires sixteen students, we are down by one, so the fifth place team, will need to choose one member to move on to the final event."
"Kendo," Setsuna said as the girls looked to their orange haired classmate. "You are the class rep, you're the perfect one to be the only 1-B student to make it into the finals."
"Plus you told us you had something you needed to find out about 1-A," Kinoko nodded in agreement.
"You guys," Itsuka said softly as she hadn't expected her team to support her and push her onto the next event.
Reiko spoke up as the last voice. "Yeah, you've been nothing but supportive of the entire class, now go show the rest of them that 1-B isn't just the reject class."
"So Kan," Aizawa said over the headset. "How's that one student of yours doing," he chuckled evilly as all but two positions had been taken by his students this year.
Finally after Itsuka Kendo was announced as the last participant, the students were given an hour for lunch while they set up the arena.
"Man, that's neat," Krillin watched in amazement as Cementoss built a large and functional arena using his quirk in moments. "We so need him at the next W. Mat."
"I'm going to get some food," Vegeta grumbled now that the fighting was over he'd have to wait an entire hour before anything interesting happened again.
"Oh get me a hotdog, please," Bulma called out. "And something for Goten and Trunks, no sweets, they're riled up as it is," she said as the two young kids had been yelling and shouting during each event.
"I'll go with, show him where the food stands are," Tomoko quickly said as she could use this excuse to get out of the booth for a bit as she was still nervous around all those fighters. "This way um, Mr. Briefs."
"Never call me Mister Briefs," Vegeta said harshly as the two walked down the hall. "If you are to be the half-breed's mate, then you must be strong and confident."
"Oh, okay," Tomoko quietly answered, not sure how to respond to being called someone's mate.
"Apparently Kakkabrat sees something worthwhile in you and you'll need too," he continued before he bumped into somebody.
"Move," Endeavor forcefully said as stared down at the saiyan prince.
"Who the fuck," Vegeta swore.
"Ahahaha," Tomoko chuckled nervously as she quickly grabbed Vegeta's arm. "S-sorry about that Endeavor, we'll be on our way, right," she said hopefully as she tugged and tried to pull Vegeta along with her.
"Hell no," Vegeta said shaking her off, stomping right up to the Number Three Hero. "I want to know, who the fuck you think you are, for bumping into me?!"
Quickly pulling out her phone, she hit a speed dial for Shino. "Pick up, pick up, pick up." she muttered quietly as Endeavor and Vegeta glared at each other. "Help, Endeavor's picking a fight."
"Ugh seriously," Shino rolled her eyes. "All Might, Enji's picking a fight with civilians again." she said with an annoyed tone.
"I'll go help him, prevent him from starting another scandal," All Might said as he walked to the door.
"It's with Vegeta," Shino added on as she listened to Tomoko some more.
Turn right around and planting himself firmly in his seat again, All Might folded his arms and sat silently.
"Wait, you're not going to help him?" Ryuko questioned why All Might stopped himself.
"I don't like him that much," All Might answered as he wasn't going to get between Vegeta anytime soon.
"Whatever," Vegeta spat as he stepped around Enji. "I'm too hungry to worry about peons like you."
"Oh thank whatever god was listening," Tomoko sighed as she was happy that she wouldn't have to try explaining why Endeavor was mutilated to the authorities. "Please, don't start fights with licensed heroes Vegeta."
"That's a hero?" Vegeta scoffed. "At least the other heroes I have met can show respect, he's just a dick."
"Ye-yeah, just him," Tomoko rolled her eyes.
"Did you just sass me?!" Vegeta exclaimed as he leveled a harsh glare at her.
"Uh no, nope, not me" Tomoko quickly denied.
"No, keep at it," Vegeta smirked. "You'll need it to survive in our group and as the mate of the second strongest in the universe, you are at least granted some leeway."
"I don't get any of you," Tomoko complained as she ended up in line with the saiyan prince to get some snacks.
"We are an acquired taste," Vegeta said as he started pointing to all different kinds of food, before pulling out a card to pay for it all.
"The only one I want to taste is Gohan," Tomoko muttered. "I mean, shit, please don't tell them I said that." She panicked as she realized the slip up.
Vegeta stood holding a large pile of food blinked for a moment before cackling madly. "Oh I am going to enjoy this," he said as he walked away.
Growling Tomoko stomped up to the vendor. "One churro, it's my cheat day," she said as she pulled out cash to pay for it.
"So Todoroki, why did you want to talk to me?" Gohan asked with a sigh as he had been pulled away to speak with his classmate to have a conversation before Gohan could grab some lunch.
"You aren't like the rest of the people," Todoroki said bluntly. "There's something about you that's different and it has been irritating me to no end."
"I have been known to do that," Gohan chuckled as he thought on all the evil people he had pissed off over his lifetime. "But what is this really about, you didn't bring me all the way away from everyone else to tell me I'm annoying you." Folding his arms behind the back of his head the way all Son men do.
"You aren't taking me seriously," Todoroki accused. "I challenge you in front of the class and you walk away laughing. I try to place first above all others and you had finished the event before we even started. I try to surprise and corner you and you just ignore it." The teen working himself up. "It's pissing me off, I feel like I can't be the number one with just my mother's quirk if someone like you is standing in my way."
"Woah," Gohan raised his hands up. "What the HFIL does your mother have to do with this?!" genuinely confused by the sudden turn in the conversation.
"Have you heard of quirk marriages?" Todoroki sighed.
"No, but I'm gonna assume the name is pretty self-explanatory." Gohan said as he, rightly, assumed it was a marriage based around quirks.
"It is," Todoroki answered. "My dad, basically bought my mom, she was from a not so well off family, but she had a strong quirk, and before she was even done with high school, he had gotten her parents to sign her away for large sum of money."
"That sucks," Gohan nodded as he realized just how lucky he was to have parents who loved each other.
"Yeah and she was just his, breeder," Todoroki seething as he used such a disgusting word to describe his mother. "To make a child with a quirk stronger than All Might's, just to have a legacy that he could be remembered for."
"He did everything short of physical abuse. And when each one of my siblings failed to meet his standards, they were tossed aside and ignored." Todoroki looked down. "They were the lucky ones. Mom couldn't protect me, not when I got my quirk, not when he saw what I could do."
"She couldn't take it," Todoroki said as he touched his burn. "She was cracking and needed a way out, and I found her at the wrong time."
"That's, wow, really fucked up," Gohan exhaled. "You want me to beat the crap out of him for you, if not me, I can get some of my friends to do it." The half-saiyan offered as someone like Endeavor wouldn't pose a challenge to him.
"He's the third strongest hero in the country Midoriya, you can't just beat him up," Todoroki shouted in anger, doubting that Gohan was being serious or taking him seriously.
"So, if you aren't putting out a hit on your dad, why come to me?" Gohan inquired as to the goal of the conversation.
"Fight me, with everything you have," Todoroki pointed a finger at Gohan. "Once I defeat you using only my mother's power, then I'll win this entire festival without his power." Having said his piece he left Gohan standing in silent contemplation over what he was told.
Gohan could feel another presence just down the hall, a familiar one of Bakugo. "Bakugo you can come out now," he said sadly. "It's not polite to eavesdrop." As he watched the blonde come around the corner, Gohan ruffled his hair. "How much did you hear?"
"All of it," Bakugo said honestly. "That's kind of a fucked up situation." Despite his rough exterior it wasn't hard to understand that Half-and-Half had a pretty shitty home life.
"Yeah, and I thought my family was complicated," Gohan chuckled. "So did you come here to challenge me to a fight too, because my dance card is starting to fill up at this rate and I still have not gotten any lunch."
"Yes, but not right now. I did what you said, looking into those old world martial arts tournaments," Bakugo said catching Gohan's attention.
"Yeah and..." Gohan asked, wondering what Bakugo was able to learn.
"I couldn't get all the information, so I had to talk to a lot of people, older people, things aren't adding up, but all these stories, of demons, armies, giant apes, things that seem like quirks." Bakugo answered with a firm and guarded stance. "Is that what you wanted me to learn, that some people had strong quirks way back when?"
"No, I'll give you a hint though," Gohan shook his head. "Those aren't quirks. You can figure out what that means for you on your own." Giving his last piece of advice as he knew he wouldn't be able to instruct Bakugo anymore than he has, so putting him on the right path of thinking is the best he could do for now.
'Not quirks, but all these people were doing the same stuff,' Bakugo thought as he headed to the 1-A waiting area. 'If that's true, then that means anyone can do it too, but how did they figure this out and why isn't it public information,' his thoughts turning to what these people all had in common with each other. 'Wait a minute, Deku can do that shit, that's what all those moves are, he's still quirkless but tricking everyone with those moves. Well if Deku can learn them, so can I,' Katsuki mentally declared as a feral grin crossed his face.
"Please tell me I can still get something to eat," Gohan asked as he reentered the cafeteria, noticing it was nearly empty.
Tsuyu shook her head as she came over to him. "Sorry, they shut down because the next event is going to start soon."
"Noooooooo," Gohan cried out as he slumped to the floor defeated.
Smiling Tsuyu pulled out a covered box and held it out to him. "I figured you would be busy, so I got some extra for you."
Gohan looked upon the froggy angel before him and wiped a tear from his eye. "If I wasn't dating Tomoko, I would kiss you right now." He said as he hungrily stared at the lunchbox.
Blushing furiously, Tsuyu handed him the box before quickly running away before she did something stupid. "And if you weren't dating her, I would do the same." Tsuyu whispered as she headed to the 1-A seating area.
"So have they announced the first fighters?" Uraraka asked as she came into the booth.
"Yeah and it's a doozy," Videl commented, miffed that she wasn't in the final event, but she had been put under the control of another students quirk, which ruined her chances of progressing further.
"OH COME ON!" Kan shouted as he saw the bracket. "How is that fair?" he complained as his one student would be up against Gohan. "Aizawa rigged it, I call hacks."
"It was totally random," Aizawa snickered at the thought that all of 1-B would be taken out in an instant, because knowing Gohan's saiyan pride, he wouldn't be able to take a dive in any fight.
"I could accept that Gohan was going to win the entire festival, I made peace with that," Sekijiro grumbled. "But to have my one student taken out in the first match, that's cruel."
"I guess there's no point in putting it off," Kendo nodded fiercely as her entire class rallied behind her. "I will get the answers that I want, even if I have to beat it out of him."
"So this is the event that will allow us to really pick our students then," Tien said as he watched the crowds return.
"Now then, how do we want to go about choosing who we train?" Krillin rubbed his chin.
"Dibs?" Yamcha suggested.
"Sounds fair," Vegeta shrugged, as he understood the ancient and sacred art of the "Dibs", known throughout the galaxy as the most fair and not biased way to pick things.
"Welcome back everyone, to the final event of the first-year U.A. sports festival, after dealing with a Negative Nancy, we are prepared to begin the first of hopefully many exciting matches. Starting off, the one and only 1-B student to make it into the final event. Class President, Orange Haired Kung Fu Beauty, it's Itsuka Kendo." Present Mic's voice filled the stadium as Kendo stepped out onto the arena.
"And from class 1-A, I'd make a joke but his mother scares me and she's here in the stadium," Present Mic said as he could see Chi-Chi glaring at him. "Izuku Midoriya." The stadium cheering for the presumed dominator of the festival.
"It's so weird to hear that when you see Gohan," Yamcha mused as he and the rest of the group watched their friend's son enter the ring.
Shaking her head in exasperation. "The amount of times that I forget to respond when people call me Inko, I swear the neighbors must think I'm deaf." Chi-Chi bemoaned how hard it was to adjust to the false names.
"Go Gohan," Tomoko loudly cheered as she watched her boyfriend enter the ring.
"Aren't you a teacher?" Tien questioned the implied bias of one teacher cheering for a specific student.
"Only a couple days out of the week," Tomoko answered. "And it's not like I have any say in grades, Heroics is a pass/fail class."
Gohan shrugged as he stared at his opponent who was fiercely sizing him up while Midnight was going over the rules of the fights. For Gohan he understood them already, as they were basically the same as the World Martial Arts Tournaments'. What he was busy doing was trying to regulate his power level to low enough that he didn't grievously harm his opponent.
"So you think trying to gather your ki will help you," Itsuka asked as she got in her battle stance.
"Interesting," Gohan mused. "Not many people here know about ki, especially one so young. How did you learn of it?" he inquired, genuinely interested in her history.
"I'll tell you after I beat you and get the answers I want," Itsuka shouted as she lunged towards Gohan.
"And an explosive start," Present Mic happily announced as the martial artist rushed Gohan, with a surprising amount of speed, for a human.
Easily sidestepping the attack, Gohan ducked under the sweep of her large hands. "Good style, effective control," Gohan muttered as he critiqued his opponents moves. "Could do with some more experience to close those unprotected gaps, he said as he quickly shot out a finger underneath her guard, the force enough to send her back across the stage.
"I like her," Chi-Chi clapped. "I call dibs." the mother's announcement shocking the rest of the booth. "What, I did used to be one of the strongest humans, it might do some good to put myself back out there, and you never said I couldn't join in on your little wager." Her smirk as the fighters agreed that they hadn't forbidden anyone else from getting in on the action.
All the while the fight below raged on as Itsuka kept up her assault, even if not a single blow would land on Gohan who always seemed to be faster than her, no matter how much ki she pumped into her body.
Meanwhile Gohan could see his opponent begin to struggle, clearly she was reaching her limit and any further would be dangerous for the human fighter. "Well, this has gone on long enough, you put up a great fight." Gohan consoled her as he prepared to knock her out so she could recover.
"Not yet!" Itsuka declared as she put her hands together and yellow energy crackled in the palms. "Energy Release," she shouted as a burst of ki hurtled towards Gohan.
"Impressive, it would seem Itsuka Kendo has fired some type of energy based attack at her opponent, who knew she could even do something like that," Present Mic said, genuinely shocked another student knew how to use their ki.
Deciding it wouldn't do him any harm, Gohan allowed the attack to hit him because she had put in the effort to use the last of her energy. "Good job, I'm surprised at your skill, you'll go very far if you keep that up." his voice coming out of the smoke that engulfed him when the attack struck. Stepping out, his body no longer obscured, with no visible harm having come to him.
Itsuka was shocked that her secret move was ineffectual, the next moment she only saw black as Gohan had moved behind her and knocked her out. Catching her so she didn't fall, Gohan carefully picked up his opponent. "I think this one's over Ms. Midnight," Gohan called out as he headed towards the edge of the arena.
"In a stunning upset, Izuku Midoriya has struck the last blow and is the winner. In addition, he is showing incredible sportsmanship by helping his opponent off the field," Midnight announced to a cheering crowd.
"She can already use ki?!" All Might exclaimed before turning to Sekijiro. "Did you know this?"
Shaking his head the 1-B teacher denied having knowledge of his student's capabilities. "I think using the scouter on our students might also be advised, even the upper years, see who has been hiding their potential from us." Nezu suggested to his staff.
"Darn," Krillin sighed. "She's already at the stage of using ki for attacks." While Chi-Chi smirked knowingly at having the candidate with the furthest lead in terms of abilities.
Gohan had followed the medic droids to the nurses office. "Hello Recovery Girl, hello Dende," Gohan greeted. Surprisingly the Guardian of Earth had taken time off from his vigil to come attend the festival, even if it was to assist in case of injuries. The two healers having an in depth discussion as Dende explained Namekian healing techniques to the school nurse who was amazed at the capabilities of using ki to heal, while Dende was impressed with her quirk and was discussing the possibilities of using the two in concert.
"So Gohan, any damage?" Recovery Girl inquired as he put the girl on one of the beds.
"No, I don't think so, I was pretty careful to not hit her too hard when I knocked her out," Gohan rubbed the back of his head.
"I was asking about yourself, you did take that attack head on." Recovery Girl commented on the student's action.
"Oh that, no, it was too low power to do anything," Gohan answered as he dismissed the concern.
"And why was that, huh?!" Itsuka shouted as she opened her eyes. "I've blown up cars with that attack and it didn't even scratch you." Her voice dripping with venom as she glared at her opponent.
"Because I'm really strong," Gohan answered bluntly. "But you're doing good with your training though to be able to use ki offensively, even the teachers aren't at that stage of their training yet."
"What?!" Itsuka exclaimed as she climbed out of the bed she was in.
"Look, it's hard to explain, I'm just really good at ki stuff," Gohan said. "So I agreed to show the teachers some tips and tricks. I probably wasn't going to get to ki based attacks for the next couple of weeks."
Itsuka shook her head in confusion, unsure of how to take that information that a classmate was also acting as a teacher to the teachers themselves.
"I think my friends are going get a few students to train, probably made some dumb bet." Gohan shrugged. "Which means I can ask if any of them will take you on, you already have some good potential."
Yamcha sneezed up in the booth as he reacted to the words Gohan was saying. "Huh, I feel, like I'm being mocked."
Vegeta snorted. "So, what happens everyday then."
"Oh that is rich coming from Captain Widow's Peak." Eighteen laughed as Vegeta aimed a furious glare at her.
Tomoko deciding to follow Vegeta's advice, a gamble at the best of times. "Really, I could project a movie on that five-head of yours." she quickly said.
The booth silenced itself in shock before everyone started laughing at the jab. "Krillin," Eighteen said in shock as her husband snickered. "Do I need to tell them about the waxing?" she threatened with the idea of revealing Krillin's morning regimen.
"Tch," Krillin snorted as his head reflected the light from above. "They already know, hey Tien I still have that Halloween photo," he said holding up his phone with the photo of the two friends impersonating one another.
"Nooo," the triclops groaned that there was photographic evidence of the two of them "swapping" as a costume idea.
The next bout of battles were about to begin with Todoroki Shoto and Hanta Sero, who were just introduced. While many had seen some displays of Todoroki's abilities, even the occupants of the Capsule Corp booth were shocked at the power that the bi-colored boy held in his quirk. Letting out a long whistle of appreciation at how one person seemingly froze an entire half of the stadium in a massive glacier, the only sound that broke them out of their stupor was Vegeta's sudden and loud declaration of "Dibs on the ice boy!".
"Shit," Yamcha spat as he realized that a prime candidate was just snatched up.
"In a chilling display, we have a new record for fastest match," Present Mic shouted as Midnight ended the fight after Sero indicated he could not continue the match.
In the first-year student booths, the teenagers were commenting on the fights. "Man, that power is unfair," Kaminari commented. "And after I defeat all of you, I have to go against it." he said confidently.
"Kero," Tsuyu ribbited as she placed her finger on her chin. "What makes you so sure you're going to win?" she inquired slightly offended at being dismissed by her opponent before the fight even began.
"Uh, electric type," he said pointing at himself and then turning his finger at her. "Water type. Did you never play pokemon?" he asked as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"That's not how that works." Iida scoffed at the silly notion of using a video game type advantage system to determine effective match ups.
"I mean, it kind of is," Momo shrugged as she thought on how some quirks were direct counters to other types of quirks.
"I dunno," Gohan shrugged as he sat in his seat. "I think it was more that Todoroki was better trained with his quirk than Sero was. The strategy was good and would have worked if he was faster or stronger." His addition to the conversation was because he had come back from the nurse's station, having given some answers to Itsuka about his training to get stronger. Tsuyu smiled at his presence. "At least that's what I think."
"You really think that training would get someone who's weak to beat someone who is strong?" Mineta inquired as he knew something was up with his classmate's strength and that it wasn't the same as quirks.
"Training is how I managed to get where I am now," Gohan shrugged as for him and the people he knew, training and skill tended to beat out raw power in many cases.
Present Mic called for the next two fighters, Kaminari and Tsuyu. As the two rose from their seats, Gohan looked up at the frog girl. "Hey, show them how hard you worked." He said to her with a smile.
Tsuyu walked out of the booth with a blush on her cheeks. "Man, you are a flirt," Jirou snickered, shocking Gohan to look at her with visible confusion.
"What?!" He exclaimed. "It's not, I'm not flirting." Gohan denied.
"Dude, you are kind of a flirt," Kirishima said in agreement with his female classmate.
"I am offering encouragement," Gohan huffed as he saw no one believe him.
As the teens snickered at Gohan's denial. The Capsule Corp booth was busy in another conversation. "Okay, but really, what did Gohan do to get such a cute girlfriend like you?" Yamcha bluntly asked.
Tomoko rubbed her hands together. "He's just, different, I guess." She answered as she tried to explain what attracts her to her boyfriend.
"You mean he's an alien?" Piccolo inquired.
"No, I mean, he might have an alien for a father, but, he's just like everyone else I've met, but not," Tomoko denied, not wanting to seem offensive. "It's really hard to explain, just, I like him."
"I think that's really sweet," Eighteen said with a smiled as she kissed the top of Krillin's head. "It's tough being different, but not, at the same time. But this little family is pretty good at accepting people like that."
A small ding on Tomoko's phone brought her attention back to what was going on around her. "Help?" Tomoko questioned as she looked over to Gohan's booth.
Piccolo was chuckling as he had been listening in on the students. "He's just being teased is all. I think it's good for him. He's not really had a chance at a normal childhood."
"He got a good education," Chi-Chi said with a frown as she was proud of how smart her son had become.
"That tutor you hired was whipping him!" Piccolo shouted as he had kept an eye on Gohan after they got back from Namek and was shocked at what he saw and heard. "Honestly that human was lucky Gohan's not vindictive."
"Woah," Krillen exclaimed as this was the first he'd heard of this. "What the hell Chi-Chi?!"
"I threw him out." the mother said with an exasperated tone as if she would let the tutor stay after she discovered this.
"Did you call the police?" Tomoko inquired. "So he couldn't just go to someone else and start that again on someone less durable."
"No, I just chased him away." Chi-Chi answered the question with a bit of embarrassment as that did seem like the proper thing to do, now that she looked back on the situation.
After a brief waiting period Midnight announced the third battle, between Kaminari and Tsuyu.
"So you already got dibs on the girl then?" Tien asked.
"Yeah, Gohan already brought her to the Lookout so that'll be a decent place to train for a bit." Piccolo nodded as he watched Tsuyu expertly dodge that huge burst of electricity that left her opponent in a daze.
"Strong power, no tolerance," Yamcha sighed as he dismissed this as a good candidate for training as it would take longer to get the boy able to use his power without harming himself than the week they would get with the student.
Tsuyu having avoided any damage was quickly cleared by Recovery Girl to return to the booth, while Kaminari would need to underp himself after overuse of his quirk. When she sat down next to Gohan, the other teens 'oohed' when Gohan's cheeks turned pink. "What did I miss." Tsuyu inquired as she would like to be let in on whatever joke was going around the class.
"They uh," Gohan stammered as he tried to explain the situation without getting slapped. "Think I'm flirting with you."
"Oh," Tsuyu responded. "I don't mind. You're cute, so it's okay."
"Wait, what?" Gohan exclaimed in shock.
"Yeah, I like you, so if you wanted to flirt with me, that's fine," Tsuyu answered. Doing two things with her answer, making the teasing not fun because they couldn't get a reaction and secondly, letting Gohan know she liked him.
"Is that how that works?!" Mineta cried out in despair. "You just have to be cute and you can flirt with people?"
"Kind of," was the collective response the 1-A girls gave.
"Haha, yes, dibs," Bulma whooped as she pointed at the pink haired inventor as she 'fought' Iida in her fight. "She's going to do great things for Capsule Corp one day, I just know it."
Present Mic had been prepared to announce the victory of Iida in his 'fight' with Hatsume Mei. But Suddenly Aizawa snatched the microphone away from his colleague. "And just like that, the entire third and final first-year sports festival event has been completely dominated by class 1-A," his voice smug as he wore a shit eating grin having only his students remaining in the running for the attention. "We will begin the second half of the preliminary rounds after a short break." Turning off the microphone as he went to go find Sekijiro to gloat.
Sero slowly walked into the 1-A booth, depressed and still a bit cold from being stuck in Todoroki's quirk but Recovery Girl had told him to get some sunlight to help warm himself up. "I was completely overpowered," he sighed. "I had no way to win."
"That's not what Midoriya thinks," Sato commented.
Sero looked at his classmate. "Oh really, what could I have done better?"
Gohan tapped his chin for a moment. "Well, it seems a lot of Todoroki's ice moves are based on his forming them on the ground, while I think he could still create the ice in the air, it'd be far less accurate and much harder to control. In addition, once he's fired his quirk it can't change direction so at the distance you were at, as long as you don't remain still he'd have a harder time hitting you." He thought out loud as the class listened to the insight someone had on one of the strongest quirks they have ever seen. "In addition, quirks have limits. We've seen after each attack like that, ice begins to form on his body, which may actually be some type of limiter for him where he could get too cold to keep making ice, which sounds silly, but if he was using the other half of his quirk he could-" Gohan's musings were cut short as he turned to the clatter of a chair as Todoroki stormed out of the booth.
"Oh, right." Gohan said dejectedly as he looked at his lap. "I, should probably apologize." Rising out of his seat to go and find Todoroki.
"What's all that about?" Kirishima asked as he and the class turned to look at the leaving student.
"Don't get involved." Bakugo said firmly, startling everyone because he had been quiet since he got into the booth. "It's Half-and-Half's problem. Focus on yourselves before I crush you all." He warned drawing their focus back onto the tournament.
"Dang it," Gohan said as he hurried to catch up to Todoroki, suddenly a large form stepped around the corner to block him.
"You!" Endeavor hissed. "The boy who will battle my son. You will..." He paused as he got a good look at Gohan, having been dismissing the other competitors as beneath his attention, but now that he was face to face, but this close and he was able to recognize the child for who he was. "You are not Izuku Midoriya." His voice firm as he like a few people in the highest rankings of hero society were aware of the true identity of the person who killed Cell.
"No, I'm not Endeavor." Gohan sighed.
"What is someone like you doing at this school?" the fiery hero demanded to know.
"Getting a license and doing what my father believed I was capable of." Gohan starting to float off the floor so that he was eye level with the much taller man. "Now I was going to go try and talk to Todoroki, but I think it'd be much better if you did it for me."
"Do what?" Endeavor folded his arms as he glared at the boy.
"Be a father." Gohan shouted.
"Uh oh," Piccolo said as he stood up quickly. "Seems Gohan's yelling at someone. I think it's that guy Vegeta was going to start a fight with."
Instead of acting shocked the rest of the booth, barring Tomoko were gleeful. "Gohan might start a fight, let's go watch," Yamcha said happily as he ran out of the booth.
"No wait," Tomoko called out as she hurried after the group.
Nezu having a listening device in the booth, carefully hidden, just to monitor for problems, started to heavily sweat. "Sir." All Might said as he saw the small principal dab his forehead. "Is everything okay?"
"We are going to find out if luck based quirks exist today, because Endeavor has gotten into an argument with Gohan." Nezu chuckled nervously.
Letting out a long whistle Hound Dog settled into his seat. "Picking fights with the two strongest beings in the known universe in one day. That is, what's the word I'm looking for?"
"Retarded?" Snipe answered for him.
"Yeah, that." The school councilor nodded.
"I have raised him to be strong," Endeavor shouted.
Gohan rolled his eyes. "Don't you give me that, I heard it all from Vegeta, it was bunk then, and it's bunk now."
"Like you know anything about raising a child to be strong." Endeavor snarled. Unnoticed to him the Capsule Corp booth had arrived and was looking down the hall to watch the entertainment. Unfortunately, the mass exodus of people from one booth resulted in a camera man following them, seeing the potential for a juicy story.
"Woah, check it out," Jirou pointed to the large screen in the arena that had been broadcasting small snippets with the audience and their thoughts so far. "Endeavor and Midoriya are yelling at each other."
"Huh." Tsuyu sounded out as she saw the argument going on between the two. "I guess Endeavor's going to die today." Commenting as she and the rest of the arena were watching the situation unfold.
"Running, running, running, running," All Might repeated to himself as he frantically sprinted through the arena hoping to get to the scene before things escalated.
"Gohan," Tomoko called out as she pushed through the group. "How about I take you back to the student booths, okay?" she said calmly as she knew that he would be more receptive than Vegeta was about being led away from confrontation. And getting Gohan away from the source of his frustration would be better for everyone.
Endeavor, furious that someone was interfering in his argument, raised his fist. "Stay out of this woman," he shouted as he brought his arm down at Tomoko who had gotten within reach of him. Inches from Tomoko's face, Gohan had firmly gripped Endeavor's wrist, stopping the swing.
With a vicious snarl, Gohan twisted his wrist, snapping the bones in the pro-heroes arm, making him kneel on the floor in pain. "NEVER," Gohan glared down as he bared his teeth at the man on the ground. "Do that again." Before striking him in gut, making the man pass out.
The collective audience was losing their minds, not only was the Number Three hero getting into an argument with a U.A. student, something that would have been a major scandal and that talk of the news for the day. But then that situation further escalated into leaving a hero presumably out of commission due to the attack of said student.
The camera man had let out a gasp at what he saw before all eyes turned to him. The camera catching Gohan's anger for them viewers to see. In the dimmer hallways, Gohan's eyes were alight with energy, as his focus zeroed in on the camera man. Luckily for him, Gohan and the camera man, All Might quickly arrived on the scene as Bulma hurried over to help cover up what just happened.
"Vegeta, get Gohan somewhere he can calm down," Bulma ordered, taking charge of the situation to try and mitigate the damage done. "Krillin you're a police officer, take a report on what you saw. Piccolo get him," pointing a finger at Endeavor. "To Recovery Girl and Dende. And you!" Bulma turned her frustration on the camera man. "Who gave you the right to film a minor without their expressed consent, I know for a fact the broadcasting rights only cover the events themselves, you had no business recording this. I want to know your name and who you used to work for, because I will have your skin as a rug when I'm done with you." The last thing the monitors showed before the feed was cut was Bulma's furious face stomping towards the camera.
"Come on," Eighteen said as she pulled Tomoko back with her to follow Vegeta as he got Gohan out of the arena and far away from civilization. "You want to be a part of this, this is your chance to deal with some of the ugliness."
"He took down the Number Three in two hits. That's insane," Kirishima was cheering, as for him, stopping Endeavor from hitting one of his teachers was pretty manly. While the others were more shocked at what they saw.
"Did Ragdoll just call Midoriya, Gohan?" Videl asked her classmates, unsure if she had heard that correctly or not.
"Yeah, she did," Iida nodded. "A possible pet name? It would mean cooked rice." He shrugged as he was guessing.
"Is that some cute way of her calling him a snack?" Mina added on with a giggle.
"See there," Death Arms shouted as he pointed at the screen that every single hero was diligently watching, it wasn't every day that Endeavor got into a heated argument, on camera, with a civilian, who was a child. Many of the other heroes were now starting to realize that maybe the Number Three had a bit of a temper. "She called him Gohan, I did not mishear it that time."
"Okay, but what does that mean?" Mt. Lady shrugged as she had to admit that the older hero was right in this case.
"I don't know, but that group of people clearly does, and I'm willing to bet the school does too." Death Arms said frustrated that this didn't particularly amount to any great revelation.
Landing in a deserted valley, far from any living people. Vegeta threw Gohan back a bit and sized him up. "So." Vegeta said, letting his word hang for a while.
With a yell, Gohan exploded his power out, flaring his ki. "That stupid, he was going to hit my Tomoko," his voice angry as he stomped around. "I was this close to killing him," Gohan hissed as he put his fingers together, nearly touching.
"I could tell," Vegeta smirked as he watched the younger saiyan go through his emotions. "I would have done the same thing if anyone tried that with my Bulma."
"Really, you dragged him all the way out here to congratulate him!" Eighteen shouted as she landed with Tomoko, who hurried over to Gohan to comfort him.
"I'm sorry," Vegeta said sarcastically. "Wouldn't you have done the same if someone tried to hit the bald one?"
"Of course," Eighteen said as she flipped her hair. "I just wouldn't expect Chi-Chi or Bulma to drag me away to say how proud they were of me."
"Hey, you okay?" Tomoko asked as Gohan brought his power back under control.
Nodding slowly, he took a deep breath to calm himself down, using one of Piccolo's teachings to meditate. "Yeah, I, probably really screwed up this time." He said dejectedly, worrying about the outcome of his losing control in public.
"Not really, I mean, it looks bad, but mostly for Endeavor. I was off the clock and out of uniform, he was basically going to attack a civilian, on camera, that would have been really bad for him. Probably still is." Tomoko smirked a little as she thought about what must be going on back at the arena.
"Come on, you can heal him just fine," Pixie-Bob screeched as she was held back from clawing out Endeavor's eyes. Meanwhile Dende had sighed as he stood over the unconscious man.
"I can't in good conscious let you do more harm to someone, who cannot defend themselves." Dende reluctantly said. "Stupid god oath and stuff." he muttered as he raised his hands to fix the broken arm. "There, it's not broken, I'm not giving him energy to wake up though, he can do that on his own." Dende compromised.
"But it was really sweet that you would protect me," she smiled as she tilted up Gohan's head and gave him a passionate kiss.
"Get a room," Vegeta called out as Eighteen whistled to tease the couple, who blushed and tried to not look at the two people watching them.
"You can leave us here, Gohan is capable of flying me back," Tomoko called out, hoping the other two would fly off.
"Can't, Chi-Chi would be angry if we left her poor, defenseless son at the mercy of his girlfriend," Eighteen teased, knowing it would make them blush even more.
"I want to make sure he's doing it right," Vegeta shrugged. "Bulma and myself have destroy a number of beds, I would assume that here they could at least break a couple of boulders."
"We are NOT going to have sex," Gohan shouted. "Out here," he added on. "With people watching." Gohan further amended his declaration.
"So if we leave you'll do the deed?" Eighteen's voice sultry as she knew Gohan didn't have what it took to go further than where he was at now.
"Okay, I get it," Gohan exclaimed. "I'm calm now. Can you stop." His tone annoyed, but with a hint of happiness that his friends would try this hard to keep him from losing control.
"I'm sorry cousin," Nezu said on the phone with King Furry. "This got out of hand and we weren't able to intervene before it became what it was." He heard the door slam open and he turned around to see a furious Bulma. "Mrs. Briefs, I am terribly sorry that this-"
"Save it Nezu," Bulma huffed. "You didn't know that guy was going to follow us. Dammit, we should have been smarter about this," she sighed as she realized that it was becoming harder and harder to hide themselves now that one of them had moved to a higher profile living. "I just came to let you know that Endeavor's arm isn't broken any more, and he's recovering in the nurse's office."
"Thank you," Nezu nodded grateful that the hero would not be out of commission for a long period of recovery. Even if he didn't like the man, Endeavor was good at his job when it came to capturing villains and it would be harder on the other heroes to pick up his slack if he had to be out of work for a few weeks to recover. "What became of Gohan, if I may ask?"
"Vegeta took him somewhere, they're probably in Africa right now, either punching each other, or I dunno, getting drunk," Bulma shrugged. "What about this festival?"
"Unfortunately, if Gohan does not return it will be considered a forfeit," Nezu said. "There is nothing we can do about that. And your compatriots?"
"They've gotten back in the booth, Chi-Chi's firm on not letting them out until this is all over. Which is fine, since Tien, Yamcha, Krillin and Roshi still need to pick someone to train. Oh, yeah, they're also doing that too," she added on.
"Doing what, exactly?" Sekijiro asked.
"They're going to send training offers for a couple of the students." Bulma answered. "Those knuckleheads got it into the idea that Gohan training anyone was hilarious and now they are trying to see who the best trainer is. So, be prepared for that." Leaving the booth to go and return to her friends.
Sighing Nezu just grabbed a snack from the table near him. "Whatever," he grumbled as he just wanted today to be over.
"Attention listeners," Present Mic's voice blanketing the stadium. "After a bit of a hiccup, we are prepared to get back to the action. Starting off the second half of the preliminaries is Mezo Shoji, the multi-limbed warrior, who was shown to be very versatile with his body." The crowd clapping for the tall boy as he strode out. "And his opponent, Mina Ashido, a wonder of science, she's ready to slide into first." As Mina slid out on a line of acid onto the stage before doing a small dance to attract the crowds attention.
The fight was much more entertaining than the previous one, as this time both competitors were engaging in direct confrontation, unfortunately, Mina was more reluctant to splash Shoji with her stronger acids which was all the advantage he needed to eventually capture her and toss her out of the ring.
"I think I'll take him" Tien nodded as Shoji lifted his many arms. "He'd probably be a natural at the multi-form and the Four Witches Style technique."
"I'm gonna have to choose soon otherwise all the good students will get grabbed, and I'll lose," Yamcha thought to himself as the next fighters came out.
"Aheheh," Master Roshi adjusted his glasses. "I'll take her," he declared as even covered with a thick jacket, Momo's assets were easy to notice.
"NO," Chi-Chi shouted as she slapped the perverted old man on the back of his head. "Master Roshi, you cannot perv on women who are almost three hundred years younger than you."
"Why not, how many ladies are going to be my age anyway," Roshi huffed in annoyance.
As the next two fighters came out, Mineta nervous as he stared across the field at Kirishima who was smirking confidently. "It's not too late to back out now, no shame in walking away from a losing fight." Kirishima offered.
"N-no," Mineta stammered nervously as Kirishima slammed his fists together, resonating a loud smack, the same sound of two boulder's striking each other. "Mi-Midoriya says weak can beat strong, so I can beat you." His opening move landed a sticky ball on Kirishima's knuckles, which didn't help him as Kirishima's punch to Mineta ensured that he was just stuck on his opponent's fist as he slammed him into the ground repeatedly, screeching in pain before Midnight called the fight.
"Good heart," Yamcha nodded before laughing as Kirishima thrashed his opponent. "But small dudes just don't have what it takes."
A noticeable vein bulged on Krillin's head. "You think you can just write off the small guy, what, because he's got a weak quirk. Well, then I'll take him." Krillin declared.
"Did I at least look cool?" Mineta whimpered in the infirmary as he look pretty well beaten up from Kirishima.
"No," Recovery Girl bluntly stated. "The crowd was laughing."
"Oh," Mineta sniffled as he really felt that he could try and win. The pain of looking like a fool much greater than the beating he had received, mostly because after Recovery Girl used her quirk and some glowing light he was actually feeling pretty good. He did wonder who that green man was with her, but assumed it was just an assistant or an intern for a hospital on loan to help the school nurse.
"Then I'll take the red head," Yamcha smirked as he felt glad he was able to trick Krillin into choosing a sub optimal candidate.
"Hey Gohan, since it's just us here," Tomoko said, ignoring that Eighteen and Vegeta were playing chaperon to them. "Could you continue helping me with my ki?"
"Sh-sure," Gohan nodded as he sat on the ground and collected himself. As he ran though the instruction he had given the U.A teachers.
"You know, they do look good together." Eighteen commented as she watched the couple. Vegeta's response was a gruff snort.
"Okay, now just hold my hand," Gohan extended out his hand to Tomoko. "You've felt me flying before, now you just do the same."
Slowly as Tomoko lifted off the ground, her expression of fierce determination was replaced with glee as she was now flying, without any fancy gear. "Gohan." She exclaimed as she wobbled in the air. "This is incredible."
"You're doing amazing Tomoko," Gohan quietly said as he watched the green haired woman giggle happily, spinning around, her hair whipping in the wind around her face. Her eyes shining with delight.
"When he looks at her, she is all he sees," Vegeta stated. "That is a bond that cannot be broken, she is the one he wants." The Saiyan Prince watched as Gohan floated closer to Tomoko and held out his hand. Nervously she took it and the pair danced around off the ground, slowly spinning, rising and falling, as they held each other. "You're recording this aren't you?" He asked as he saw Eighteen with her phone out.
"Yeah, Chi-Chi's going to want to see this." Eighteen nodded with a smile as she continued to capture the sweet moment.
Back at the stadium Present Mic was commentating on Uraraka and Katsuki's fight. "And in a truly upsetting ending, Bakugo makes it to the next round."
"If you are going to do it, do it right," Aizawa groaned at the clear bias being shown, even if he preferred Uraraka's quiet nature to Bakugo's explosive one.
"I'm taking her," Roshi said seriously as he tapped his cane on the ground. "She's got the spirit, she will make an excellent pupil."
"No pervy stuff?" Bulma asked.
Shaking his head. "No, that young woman out there." Nodding towards the arena as Uraraka was wheeled away on the robot stretcher. "Put her all into that fight, I will teach her. I haven't seen that level of determination since Goku, I would be proud to see her succeed."
"And I guess that's all of us then," Yamcha folded his arms behind his head as the teachers wrapped up the first rounds.
Todoroki had stormed off in frustration, he didn't want to be around Midoriya if he was going to tell him to use his father's quirk. He had been sitting in the waiting room, for the next round to begin, for him this was a chance to vent his frustrations on Midoriya, since they would end up as competitors. The door opening was something that drew his attention because he was not sure who would bother coming to check on him. "Hey bro," Fuyumi said as she stepped into the room.
Todoroki was surprised that his sister had shown up to the arena. "Fuyumi, what's going on."
"It's dad," she said with a sigh as she sat down next to him on the couch.
Frowning, Todoroki sat back firmly in his spot. "What about him?"
"Just, watch," she said as she held out her phone.
"In a stunning display, Japan's Number Three Professional Hero was defeated in two strikes by a U.A. student. Here's the footage, which we got from one of our cameramen." The reporter said as the footage rolled.
"I will raise my child how I see fit." Endeavor shouted at the half-saiyan.
"No, you don't get to do that you thick headed jackass, you have to raise your child in a healthy way, show how much you love and care for them, they are not, some fucking, I can't even think of the word," Gohan spat as he shoved his finger in the heroes face. "I don't know what the fuck you think you are doing, but it is wrong. This isn't some game you are playing, this is your son, you have no right to put you feelings of inadequacy on him."
"Just because you're so tough, doesn't mean you get to order humans like me around," Endeavor snarled.
Todoroki watched as his classmate continued to argue with his father, even while he was curious about some of the words being chosen when they shouted at each other. It all came to a head when he saw his dad take a swing at one of his teachers. The camera couldn't even see Gohan move to stop his dead. But he heard the sickening snap, the screams of pain and Gohan's pure rage in that situation.
"He actually meant it." Todoroki muttered as he saw his classmate knock his father out before the camera feed was forced to shut off when a shouting Mrs. Briefs got in the cameraman's face. "I thought he was mocking me."
"What was that Shoto?" Fuyumi asked as she didn't fully hear her younger brother.
Standing up from his seat he quickly went to the door. "I need to see him." Todoroki declared as he went out to the arena for his fight.
"With Izuku Midoriya's sudden disappearance, Todoroki Shoto wins by forfeit." Midnight announces to a confused and angry arena.
Todoroki didn't know what to do, he hadn't expected his foe to not show up. "Where is he?!" He turned and shouted at Midnight.
"Not here," Midnight responded with a shrug. Reaching up to her headset to contact Nezu. "Where is he?" she inquired.
"Mrs. Briefs mentioned that he would likely be in Africa right now," Nezu answered the question to the best of his ability. Pulling out his phone he called Mrs. Briefs. "Excuse me, but do you know where Gohan is currently?" Bulma's voice asking Piccolo to contact Gohan to let him know to come back if he's calmed down.
"Sorry, Gohan said that if he's out of the tournament, then there's no real point for him to be at the stadium still," Bulma said over the phone. "He'll see you all next week. He has his girlfriend to keep him busy." Snorting as she said the last detail.
The teachers collectively groaned as Nezu had the phone on speaker so they all heard the comments by Bulma. They heard Chi-Chi's shocked squawk before the phone hung up. Seemingly every loose end was tied up so the staff went back to enjoying the festival.
"That woman is with my son, alone," Chi-Chi shouted.
"Calm down Chi-Chi." Bulma chuckled. "Vegeta and Eighteen are with them. At least one of them should be able to make sure their clothes stay on." Bulma said as she tried to placate the now furious mother.
"Which one are you talking about?" Krillin asked nervously.
"Well obviously Eighteen, Vegeta would probably just tell him to get started on expanding the Saiyan race," Bulma waved off.
Krillin tugged at his collar and gulped down his fears. "Uhh, Eighteen might think it's a good thing for Gohan do to that. Something about helping him feel more normal."
"SOMEONE GO GET MY SON, AND HE BETTER BE A VIRGIN WHEN HE GETS BACK HERE!" Chi-Chi's voice thundered through the stadium, seeming to shake the very foundation. In a scramble most of the booth shot into the sky and rocketed towards the last place they sensed Gohan's energy. It didn't matter that Piccolo would arrive first, none of them wanted to still be sitting in their seats.
The rest of the sports festival seemed to go by fairly quickly. Tsuyu's increased power level allowed her to edge out in her fight with Iida, allowing her to dodge his moves, if barely, however, she hadn't seen his Recipro Burst move so she had been surprised when suddenly her classmate rocketed towards her. "Ker-Ribbit," Tsuyu coughed as she spat out a ball of ki at Iida who was moving too fast to dodge and was blown off course and found himself pinned before he was able to recover.
"Wahoo," Midnight cheered. "And moving onto the semi-finals is Tsuyu Asui with a surprising use of technique." The crowd awkwardly clapping as they had not expected the frog girl to have a ranged offensive move, especially one that looked very similar to one used by another student earlier.
"Okay, something fishy is going on here," Videl commented as she and the rest of 1-A were surprised by Tsuyu's attack. "Her quirk is frog, since when can she fire lights, which are, just like Midoriya's." She realized.
"I think someone has some explaining to do," Jirou tapped her foot in annoyance as the strangeness kept cropping up in their class.
When Tsuyu returned to the booth, after the next bout between Shoji and Tokoyami raged below, she could feel a tense atmosphere in the air. "Okay, what's up with you?" Mina accused as she and Hagakure seated themselves on both her sides, blocking her in.
"I don't know what you mean," Tsuyu said, which in a way was truthful, so long as they never directly asked, she was free to answer the questions how she saw fit.
"Ms. Asui," Iida pushed up his glasses. "I can tell that attempted to beat around the bush will simply waste time and not get any results. What is it about Gohan," using that name intentionally. "That is causing these changes."
"He's," Tsuyu said before she gulped. "Midoriya," she corrected herself, which only further convinced the class that she knew more than she was letting on. "Has an interesting lifestyle. And before you ask, while I am aware of what is going on, it is not my place to explain someone else's personal life history. As I am sure if I knew any of yours, you would not like to have another person tell it."
"Fair enough," Momo sighed as she could understand how their questions might come across as insensitive.
"So you do know what he's up to then Frog Face." Bakugo huffed.
Tsuyu slowly nodded to answer the inquiry.
"Fine," Folding his arms and leaning back. "Just tell him I'm going to figure out how it works and crush him."
"I will, but you should be getting ready for your fight now," She said as she refocused on the fight finishing up below. Shoji, while powerful was unable to handle Dark Shadow's range and eventually tired out.
"But we aren't," Gohan protested as he slowly, for him, flew back towards Japan after his friends arrived to collect him. Having to make sure not to go too fast for Tomoko's benefit.
Krillin shook his head as he flew alongside, the group in a loose formation. "I know, it's just, Chi-Chi is..." Trailing off as Gohan rolled his eyes.
"I know how my mother is Krillin," Gohan said exasperatedly.
"Then you know she's only concerned about you." Eighteen commented as she lowered herself next to Krillin. "She's watching her baby boy grow up in front of her and she's unsure of what to do. She wants to let you go out and make your own choices but she wants you to be safe, so a lot of what she's going to do may seem to be contradictory but, she does it out of love."
Sighing Gohan closed his eyes and contemplated the truth of Eighteen's wisdom. "Yeah, I get it." Opening them to look at Tomoko in his arms. "I just, don't know what to do."
"Neither do I Gohan." Tomoko answered as she caressed his cheek. "Even though I've had boyfriends before, those experiences don't help me with someone else. Everyone is different and I'm figuring this out with you." Tomoko said to reassure her boyfriend. "And what works best is if we figure these out together."
"I can do that." Gohan smiled as he leaned his head forward and kissed Tomoko lightly. Landing outside the stadium, on a side with less civilians. The group walked past the heroes stationed by the doors. The adults holding up their passes, while with Gohan, the heroes were unsure if they should stop the person who they saw knock out a fellow hero.
When they arrived back at the Capsule Corp booth it was to a frustrated Chi-Chi who was barely paying attention to the fights, as the final battle was beginning between Todoroki and Bakugo. As soon as the door opened the mother pulled Gohan into a seat next to her. "Your clothes stayed on right?" She demanded to know.
"MOM?!" Gohan exclaimed. "Come on, please." He pleaded as he could see the adults snicker as they took their seats again.
"Hey Chi-Chi," Eighteen called out as she slid into a seat next to the mother. "Take a look at this video I caught." Sending a wink to Gohan for him to slip into a different seat while Chi-Chi was cooing at the video of her son dancing with Tomoko in the air.
Closing his eyes Gohan felt a light weight settle onto his shoulder as he and Tomoko rested for the remaining parts of the festival. Even as the awards were given out to the three top scorers, the atmosphere was very somber as the top two felt that they didn't get a real chance to test themselves after Gohan left the arena. After thanking the students for their efforts that day, many people, from hero to civilian alike went home that day with more questions than answers.