Well, a lot of fights are about to happen so I will be going over all of them. Stay tuned for some PLUS ULTRA fights.
Chapter cover- Izuku and Cortney eyes shining out from smoke.
Ch.17- Past and Present
"Here I come Cortney." Dekuy goes to punch me but I dodge out the way and attempt to cut his legs from under him.
"!" He somehow saw that and caught my foot.
"That the same move you used on Kacchan when we were kids," Dekuy comments as I try to free my foot. Right, that brings back memories to when we were kids.
Flashback
"Why are you doing this Cortney?" Dekuy asks after I forced both Deky and Kachy to eat my failed attempt at cooking for the first time.
"What? I wanted to know if it tasted good, do you really except for me to eat it myself when I have you, two test dummies." I look at them and see that their eyes are watering.
"Too much spice?" I ask as Dekuy is just a fountain of tears.
"Keep your tears off my dress."
Present
I've escaped Dekuy but he's being really aggressive so I grab in an attempt to walk him out the ring but he knows how I grapple and uses it against me. He retaliates flips me over his back, luckily we're in the middle area so I'm not ringed out.
"How did you-?" It's rare that people escape my grapples but to counter it as well.
"I've watched you and Kacchan fight, and I know how your grapples work." So Dekuy DOES know how I fight, I get up and spin my arms. Without saying I rush at Dekuy and grab him by his shoulders before curl into a ball with Dekuy acting as cover, I then roll around with moving towards the edge.
As the throw him out, he uses his quirk to deny me of my win. I look to see that Dekuy broke a few fingers to stay in, looks he had some help.
Stands
"That was quite a move Corteny pulled." Axel comments after Cortney's attempt to eliminate Deku.
"Isn't that from Street Fighter?" Setsuna notices the similarities.
"Yeah, she practicing that move on me when we were training." Tetsu comments.
"Cortney finds inspiration from anywhere." Peace chimes in.
Fight
"That was a nice trick you pulled Dekuy, but now I'm getting serious." I throw a punch but Dekuy steps to the side using my other hand, I grab Dekuy by his face. As I pick him, he struggles to escape, he reels back an arm and-
"Detroit Smash!" He punches me clean in the stomach with his right arm, I'm blown to the other side of the area and almost ringed out but I catch myself in time. I almost throw up but I stop myself, Dekuy broke his whole right arm in that attack. I'm panting because that attack almost knocked everything out me. I take aim and pluck my index finger at Dekuy.
"s-straight flush." I nearly ring myself out but Dekuy counters with a Delaware Smash. When our attacks meet a small gale force is created.
Stands
"That was a big hit is Cortney alright?" Setsuna asks.
"Is she at her limit from one hit?" Peace replies, everybody turns to her.
"Limit? What limit?" Tetsu is demanding answers.
"Every quirk has its limits, Cortney's limit is that after holding too much power Cortney will start burning through her stamina very quick." Peace explains, "You can tell by her skin, if she's light Pink and steaming she's at her limit." She adds, "She's just at the edge."
Fight
I need to end this fight now, I'm almost at my limit and I don't think I can take another smash.
"Smash!" Dekuy aims a smash attack at me and breaks a finger on his left hand.
"Shatter Shield." I manage to cancel out his attack. I need to stop Dekuy before he starts to scar himself. I hold out my left arm and make a gate in front of me and put every bit of power into my right arm.
"Here's a new move I've been working on, Drill Claw Crusher Shooter Style!" I add spinning momentum to this punch making it look a drill is in my hand and launch it like an Aced. As my arm goes through the gate, a cyclone of air follows in its wake, Dekuy attempts to stop it with his right arm and does manage to stop it but I'm not done yet, the gate is still open, I launch a Full House through the gate as well adding to the power of my Drill attack, that seems to be it as Dekuy starts spilling and my attack breaks through and sends him flying out the area and into a wall.
I take a breath of satisfaction as Dekuy slides off the wall, at this distance it's hard to see how damaged Dekuy's hands are, I hope they aren't too bad. I think that Dekuy may have fractured or even broke a rib because I'm still feeling that punch.
Actually after that initial punch something is up, I look to my mom in the crowd everything blacks out around her and several figures appear around her, their red skin is the only I can really make out, they all have an X scar somewhere on them, one on their arm, another on their back, however next to them are figures with white hair, I end up getting a migraine from see this and I fall to a knee from the pain.
"Miss miss, are you alright?" Cementoss checks on me and the pain suddenly goes away along with the figures.
"Yeah, I'm ok." Cementoss escorts me out the area.
Stands
"I wonder what happened to Cortney?" Axel asks after Cortney's sudden outburst, "It looked like she was in a ton of pain." But Axel is more curious about Cortney win, how will things play out with Shoto? Izuku was supposed to waken Shoto's full power.
"I hope Cortney is ok, it looks like she took a big hit." Pony is concerned since Cortney just started acting out.
"She's gonna be fine, that new attack she did through looked awesome. I wonder what's it's called." Tetsu reassures Cortney is ok.
"The winner of this match is Class 1-B Cortney Tan." Present Mike confirms to the crowd on who won.
Nurse
After the match I'm healed by Recovery Girl, "I'm good to go Ms.G?" I only took one hit that I was scared about from Dekuy.
"You had a minor fracture but it was nothing, him on the other hand." She turns my attention to Dekuy on a bed with his hands in casts.
"His right arm acquired major injuries, we needed to do surgery before I could heal him." She informs me of his condition at this time, All Might enters the room.
"All Might! Um sorry, I really didn't want to hurt him that bad, but he fought really well. I'll be fighting for him. I really want to talk some more but I need to see who I'm facing next see you." I run out of the office and go back to my classmates.
I miss the introduction but I'm able to just before the first move it's Shoto Vs Sero.
"You're ok Cortney. Come on we saved a seat for you." Pony calls me over to her.
"What happened out there, Cortney? You started freaking out for no reason." Peace mention "that" incident.
"I don't know, I have to talk to Mom about it later but I'm fine now." As I finish, Sero makes the first move he wraps his tape around Shoto, Sero tries to throw him out but Shoto launches a massive glacier of ice out, so massive that the ice almost reaches us and it's going outside the stadium.
"God damn!" Peace exclaims and I'm a little scared because I'm his next opponent and I have to somehow counter that. The crowd is trying to cheer up Sero by yelling nice try.
"Good luck." Pony sees I'm going to have trouble as well.
A few minutes later
It takes a little bit to clear out all of Shoto's ice but with it out of the way the next match can start.
The next match is Ibara Vs Denki. Before the match starts Ibara corrects Present earlier statement calling her an assassin. After a month I've gotten to know my classmates a little better. To be honest, Ibara is like the second coming of Christ, her costume, how she acts, hell, her favorite food is bread. You don't see the resemblance you're an idiot.
The speech Ibara gives last longer than the actual fight, Denki tries to electrocute Ibara but she digs her vines into the ground to block the electricity and then uses her vines to grab Denki, winning her the match.
I see Neito is gone and Itsuka is gone as well, "Dumbass." I whisper under my breath.
The next match is Tenya Vs Mei. To spare Tenya, the match is basically an advert for Mei's inventions. After ten minutes Mei forfeits after showing all her inventions.
"Mei will do anything to get herself out to the world." Hiryu comments.
"Yes, she will." Is all I say, seeing the next fight, I look to my right.
"Hey Peace you're next." I see Peace loading her gauntlets and hyping herself.
"Yeah, I'm going against the Pink girl next, got any advice?" I shake my head.
"No, never seen her fight, good luck." Peace walks to the area.
"What can you tell us?" Pony asks me, I open my bag and grab my book.
"Mina Ashido, quirk Acid. She makes acid. I don't know how strong the acid is, so Peace will have to look out." I close the book after revealing the information I have on Mina.
"A fight between two people who can burn things, this will be interesting." Axel comments and this will allow me to learn some things about how Mina fights.
"We're going to charge right along to next match, this girl burns a trail wherever she goes, it's Peace Miglow from the Hero Course 1-B. Vs, whatever those things sticking out her head are, from the Hero Course 1-A, Mina Ashido!"
"Better hope you're a hero because you're facing a dragon." Peace remarks before breathing flames into her hands covering them in flames.
"Looks looks Peace came up with a new technique," I remark.
"Let the match begin!" Present starts the match and Peace launches herself at Mina, who dodges out the way by from what it looks like, skating across the ground.
"Her reflexes are impressive." Axel comments, while Mina dodges Peace's shots.
"Oh, she's using her concussion rounds. I haven't seen those for a while." Peace continues her onslaught until she's empty, Mina sees this and closes in to finish off Peace. As she gets close Peace ignites herself evaporating Mina's acid causing her to trip and finishes Mina off with a punch to the face, knocking her out.
"Mina has fainted, the winner of this match is Miglow." Midnight declares the winner, Peace checks to make sure Mina is ok.
"Smart of Peace to lull Mina in close, she's much stronger than people think." Axel comments, I know that first hand since she fracture my entire rib cage in one hit when we were little and it seems she's at her strongest when she uses her quirk.
After I finish taking notes, I wait for the next match to start. Once it does, I get up and walk away.
"Where are you going Cortney?" Peace ask.
"I have something to do, I'll be back before the next fight starts." I say as I walk away, once I'm out for sight, I run in hope that I can get to Momo in time.
I manage to find Momo before she's back with her classmates, "Oh, Cortney." Momo says in defeated tone before I slap her.
"Why?!" She's surprised at me slapping her.
"Stop thinking you're weak, don't think of yourself as just a tool. You lost so what!? Take that lost in stride and use it to improve yourself. Because if you can't, drop out. Even a hero loses once in a while, but if you let one loss break you then you don't deserve to be a hero. So tell me Momo, are you a hero or a zero." I give Momo a passionate speech to give her some confidence in herself about what heroes go through, that losing is the greatest lesson anyone can receive especially now and Momo is smart enough to know that. I then wait for Momo answer. I can see the struggle inside Momo to see what she wants to be.
"I want to a hero." She whimpers out.
"What was that?" I move a little close to hear her.
"I want to. No, I am a hero!" Momo confidences return in full tow. I'm glad I could remember this moment because seeing a broken Momo isn't good for her or anyone she wants to help.
"Awesome! I'm glad I got you back to normal. So, aren't you going to get revenge for me slapping you?" I thought she was going to sock me in the jaw to give me her answer but no, nothing.
"Slap you, why would I slap you? You slapped me to give me my confidence back, so I have no reason to hit you." She explains, I'm just glad I was able to rekindle Momo's spirit before it burned out.
"I'm glad you know what you are now, before I go tell me when Mineta is being a pervert and I'll deal with him." Momo agrees, "And one last thing before I go, I don't why but for some reason, I imagine you and Shoto would make a great couple." I see Momo blush at my last statement before I make my way back to my classmates.
I make it back just in time for Tetsu's match, "What were you doing?" Itsuka asks me, I have a wide smile on my face.
"Helping someone in need, nothing else." I reply, "Come on Tetsu beat that ripoff! Show him how strong Class B is!" I shout to cheer Tetsu on. When the fight starts, it's just a quirk knuckled brawl. Just punches being thrown out left and right, the fight actually last quite a while which proves just how strong they are. In one final clash Tetsu and Kirishima simultaneous knock each other out resulting in a draw.
"Well this is what happens when two shields fight each other." I joke after seeing the result of the match.
They're lifted out to recover and will hold a contest to see who goes on but the next match will be hard to watch, it's Bakugo vs Ochaco. This is going to be brutal.
"Does Ochaco stand a chance of winning?" Peace already knows who the winner will be.
"This won't be a fight of brawn but guts, if Ochaco's determination is greater than Kachy's passion to be number one. Ochaco will have to give it her all if she wants to win." I state that she does have a slim chance of winning.
When the fight starts Ochaco runs at Kachy to try and tag him but he blasts her away. She comes at him again but when he counters this time all he gets are Ochaco's gym shirt and who pops out behind him through the smoke in an effort to tag him but he stops her again. This goes on again and again but I notice something Kachy isn't going on the offensive but just countering her.
"Can you call this a fight? This is just brutal." I hear Setsuna say but I'm too focused on the current match to say anything.
"He's not trying to hurt her, if Bakugo wanted to hurt Ochaco, he would have gone on the offensive and ended the match already. He's trying to tire her out." Peace retorts after figuring out what Kachy's game plan is.
A man in the crowd declares Kachy a villain and other people join in too but Dad stops them.
"Listen, none of you noticed that young man hasn't aimed a single attack at the girl, he's being careful NOT to hurt her! I don't know what you would do in his situation but he has great potential for not hurting the girl. So sit down and shut the fuck up!" Dad enlightens the crowd to what going on.
"Is the one who said he's toying with her a pro? How many years of active duty? If that's what you're taking from this, then you can leave. No point in watching. Go home and start looking at job-hunting sites. She's come this far, and he knows her strength. His caution shows that he recognizes her as a worthy opponent. It's exactly because he wants to win so badly... that there's no room for carelessness or holding back." Mr. Aizawa adds in.
"She had a plan all along," I say as Ochaco gets back again and look up to see a ton of debris floating in the air. Ochaco then presses her hands together and the debris starts to fall.
While the rocks are falling, Ochaco rushes at Kachy to tag him. Kachy raises one hand up and braces it before firing one of the biggest explosions I've ever seen from him, the force is strong enough to hit the crowd and sends Ochaco flying away.
He blasted all the debris to pieces.
The whole stadium is silent at the sheer display that Kachy just demonstrated, Ochaco is heartbroken that her plan was foiled but still gets up, Kachy takes the initiative and runs at Ochaco but the match is already over. Ochaco turns around to face Kachy but that uses up the last of her stamina and she falls over. She tries to get back up but her body has reached its limits, she can't fight anymore.
"Uraraka is KO'd, Bakugo advances to the second round." Midnight calls the match after Ochaco faints.
"She fought valiantly, she kept fighting till the end." Ibara chimes in. Ochaco is carried out on a stretcher and sent to Recover Girl. I'm up next, so I have to go to the waiting until I'm called up.
I'm in the waiting room trying to think of a plan against Shoto. I can't just rush him down since his ice is too fast, I don't know if I'm strong enough to break through Shoto's ice. I walk into my mind to see if Kim has anything.
This place has changed a lot, from just being a black void of nothingness to a full field. It looks like where I first met Thana and she told me I died but gave a second chance. I spot Kim sitting on top of a rock.
She hasn't changed that much seen I was little, she has grown like me and I notice her spikes are white. Seeing me without my binding makes me realize just how big my breast are for my age.
"Hey, Kim, help me out, our next match is against Shoto, I need something to fight against him." Kim opens her eyes and steps down from the rock she was sitting on.
"To be truly honest, we can't beat him in a straight-up fight normally. So we follow canon." Kim says and I know where she's going.
"So you want me to break myself to win?" The problem is, not only does that sound stupid, but how that is probably my best option." I sigh and hear something going on in the outside world.
"Looks like Kirishima and Tetsu are having their rematch... And Tetsu lost. Well, we need to go on now, see you in a little bit." Kim waves me goodbye as I leave.
"What the hell did we experience earlier?" Kim ponders out what Cortney saw after the first match and look at the book again.
"You'd better tell me everything. I-No we need to know."
As I'm walking to the area, I bump into Endeavor, the number two hero. I absolutely hate him for what he did to his family especially his wife, who made her have a mental breakdown and attack Shoto. I try to walk past him but stops me.
"Young girl, you have quite a powerful quirk and that fire girl looks quite strong." Hearing him just talk about Peace is enough.
"Listen if you hurt Peace or try to abuse her power, I'll bring down everything you worked for. Don't test me." I walk away ignoring anything else he has to say.
"Don't worry Shoto I'll break you out of that ice prison in your heart." I whisper beneath my breath as I walk to the area.
As I step the corridor and into the area, I'm face to face with Shoto both of us knowing this will be a tough fight.
Writer: The beginning of the chapter went in a completely different way then I thought, I plan to just write the past and present of Cortney and Izuku quirk but some backstory just popped in. Also, I plan to expand some things around Cortney's quirk but I'll save that for later.
Thanatos: But onto more important things, Cortney eliminated Izuku so she'll have to face Shoto, will she be able to ignite Shoto's flames or will she be frozen away by Shoto's ice age. Find out next time, also we will be skipping this power of week because Delaila is out on an assignment and I need her for the show. But remember GO BEYOND PLUS ULTRA!