With this, the School Festival arc will be finished. You have two more chapters to help decide Cortney hero Alias. I hope you're ready because this will be one hell of a fight.

Chapter cover- Bakugo front and center with an explosion going off behind him

Ch.19- BOOM

Waiting room

As I wait to be called up for the finals. I try to think of a game plan, Kachy is a really dangerous fighter, he's not going to give me the chance to try anything and I can't use any of my special attacks if Kachy spots that, then he's going to get ultra-aggressive and that's going to be the end of it. I have to wait for my opening, he has to get close at some point but I'm not even sure about that.

This whole match is an unknown, the one thing I know, that did happen during the match could be an instant knockout, I don't want to face it head-on. Soon my train of thought is interrupted by Kachy kicking the door open.

"What the hell you doing in here this my space- Crap this is waiting room number two!?" Kachy is smarter than that so why would he make such a mistake but instead of leaving he walks over to me and sets off a small explosion to freak me out but I don't flinch at all.

"Peace." I remark Kachy is left a bit confused, "Bakugo… do you love Peace? I know you two are going out." What Endeavor say about Peace made me worried about her, I'm being serious since I'm calling by his name, not his nickname.

"Bastard… who told?" Bakugo did everything he could to make sure nobody knew about them.

"I knew since the very beginning, I was the one who suggested it. Answer the question, what is Peace to you!?" I need to know what Peace is to him.

"She's has nothing to do with this." Bakugo is trying to avoid the question.

"Just tell me, I scared for her well-being...PLEASE!" I'm scared for one of my best friends, "I want to know if somebody is protecting her." I'm on the verge of breaking down into tears I just want to know if he loves her or not, I just to know if someone is looking out for her.

"I love her." Bakugo gives in and answers my question, "I care about her deeply, I wouldn't let anything happen to her… that's how much I love her." With that out of the way I can focus on our fight.

"Thanks, make sure to go all out, Peace will be cheering for you." That angry smile comes back in full force on Bakugo's face.

"Don't tell anyone about us or I'll blow you to pieces." Bakugo leaves the room.

"I promise on my life, your secret is safe with me." I put my hand on my heart.

Later

All that stands between me and first place is Kachy taking him down won't be easy but otherwise, this wouldn't be a fun match.

"Now begin!" The second the fight starts Kachy by blasting himself straight for me, I try to grab him mid-air, but he uses another explosion to redirect himself out of the way and grabs my head to throw me out the ring, I use an airwalk to stop myself and jump back in the area.

As I move to get in close, Kachy tries to tag me with an explosion but I catch his hand and redirect the explosion and punch him in the face.

"What's wrong, you can hit harder than that. Where that strength of yours?" Crap, he noticed it, I jump back so I can think of a new plan.

"What's wrong, Cortney you wimping out. You aren't fighting like yourself, so everyone how you got here, DESTROY ME!" Kachy wants me to show my strength to everyone while running at me but I can't, my body won't go any further, I can't win.

"COME ON CORTNEY, DON'T GIVE UP, KEEP GOING, I KNOW YOU CAN WIN! -KEEP GOING UNTIL THE VERY END, CORTNEY FIGHT LIKE YOU MEAN IT!" Both Pony and Peace are telling me to go further so I will for them.

Suddenly the locks on Kim's book fall off, "Don't worry Cortney, I'll give you the strength you need."

Kachy takes to the air and starts spinning while firing off explosions making a dust tornado and he's the eye. Instead of trying to face him head-on, I brace myself for what's about to come.

"Howitzer Impact!" When Kachy touches me an explosion, the attack has the power of missile, decimating the area.

As Present Mic commentates on what just happened everybody is wondering what happened to me.

"Is that all?" I ask as I swipe my hand and fan all the dust away.

I'm still standing where I was before and besides my now burned clothes, it looks like nothing even me happened. Kim gave me the strength to withstand the attack and I was still able to absorb the damage with my quirk, seems like me and Kim are fighting in sync now, it's finicky, I don't know what I'm fully doing but it's something.

I rush over to Kachy, who's on the ground and try to stomp him, he dodges out the way by launching himself into the air but what else to suspect from him. I know he can't use that attack again without hurting himself. I jump and meet Kachy in the air and ax kick over his head sending back to the ground.

Weirdly, I'm feeling more proficient with my feet, which is something I don't understand, I fight using my arms, is this Kim's doing? I'll figure it later, I need to win this fight.

As Kachy gets back up, I taunt him, "Was that your all Kachy? I was expecting more from you of all people come at me, show me your PLUS ULTRA!" That gets Kachy, he springs back to his feet explosions in hand.

"Damn you Cortney!" Kachy lunges at me, I go to punch him but he dodges behind me, seeing that coming I somersault backward. I barely clip Kachy and follow up with a kick hitting Kachy in the stomach. I grab Kachy and suplex him over my head pinning him down, he tries to escape doing everything he can but I won't budge.

I wait for Midnight to call the match.

"Katsuki is unable to continue the winner is Cortney Tan!" Midnight calls the match, it takes me a second to process that I won. When I do I sit down speechless, both because I won and I'm extremely tired.

As the crowd cheers, I try to help Kachy up but he doesn't want it. He's angry that I won and I barely understand how I did it too.

"The first-year students have completed all the events for the U.A. Sports Festival. Now it's time to relax and enjoy the award ceremony." Midnight's announcement, we appear on podiums with me in first place, Kachy is second on and Peace in third. Tenya was supposed to be here too but something came up, it's something but I can't remember what it was right now. Too sad though he fought hard.

The person to give out the awards is none other than the number 1 hero All Might, "I am here… give out the medals." Is what he was trying to say but Midnight ruins his introduction.

As All Might hands out the awards, he gives each of us a piece of advice, "Young Courtney. You fought hard to get where you are now, keep going and you'll grow to be a great hero." I take All Might's advice to heart especially since his time is running short and Dekuy is far from being able to fill his shoes.

I hold the medal in my hands and see it shine, I rise it up to the sky so that everyone can see it and say, "HAVE NO NEED TO FEAR BECAUSE I AM HERE!" I'm putting a big target on my head saying that but it's to be great.

"I have more thing to say, everyone say it with me…Thanks for your hard work. -Plus ultra!" All Might fucks up our school motto to thanks us for our hard work, he always tells us to go beyond, the whole crowd boos All Might.

Later at home

I decided to Mom to see what happened during the School Festival.

"Hey, Mom have you seen our ancestors from our quirk?" I ask as I chop up some onions for dinner. She stops what she's doing and starts thinking.

"Yes, I have. There are a few abilities to our quirk, we can talk to past members of our family dead or alive. You must have awakened your quirk." I never heard of quirk awakening before, is this special to our family or can others do this?

"Awaken? What does that mean, am I getting stronger and will I be able to transform into an actual demon?" I'm running through the possibilities for what awakening means for me.

"No, nothing like that expect for your great uncle but that was a completely different quirk. Now you can unlock your full potential I'll help you." Aww man, I thought it would be awesome like the ability to fly but that's not the case it seems.

"So will that X scar appear on my face, like when you use your quirk?" I disappointedly ask.

"That scar you see is our mark of power and it's different for everyone, I have no idea where yours will appear. So how did it feel when you awakened your quirk?" I think about what happened during the fight with Kachy and try to describe what it was like.

"It felt I was using both my quirks together, and that me and Kim were united. It felt weird trying to control both at once but both felt much weaker than when I use normally them." I tell Mom as she takes mental notes.

"That is very unique, but I see what's happening. Your body limiter kicked in to stop you from hurting yourself, you will need training to fully utilize that new power, take it slow and you'll get there, I know it." As Mom finishes encouraging me, Pony walks out of her room with a bunch of DVDs in her arms.

"Hey Cortney, come on, we have to leave now if we want to be at Peace's place on time." I forgot Peace invited all the girls in our class for a sleepover. I got lost in my conservation with Mom.

"Alright give me a second, see ya Mom." I grab my stuff and Chibi than make our way to Peace house.

When we arrive the other girls have already made it and in shock from the looks of it, "Oh right, this is your first time here." I was the same way when I first came over and I was also kinda kidnapped but whatever.

"I never guessed that Peace was loaded." Setsuna comments, if only they knew half of it…actually they might with how busy it normally is.

I knock on the door and it opens to reveal Peace nomming on something in her mouth, she takes it out of her mouth to welcome us wearing an orange shirt with a sun on it and gray sweatpants.

"Hey everybody, thanks for coming, follow me so you can get changed." Without missing a beat Peace walks off and we follow her, all the grunts must be off because the place empty. We past by Amallie and Hina drinking something and Amallie has a scarf around her neck.

After Peace leads us to the changing rooms, I'm the last one to get changed and everyone eyes are on me.

"Please stop looking at me. It's really embarrassing." I get why since I'm bigger than everyone else, especially in the chest department. I brought this upon myself since I'm wearing the Mega Milk shirt but I'm not letting that joke slip.

"That really funny." Setsuna understands, "Where were you keeping That?"

"I wear a binding underneath. I don't understand why I'm like this, both my mom and sister are average." I explain.

"You have a sister Cortney?" Itsuka asks, I never mention her really because there's no point.

"Yeah, she's six years older than me and quirkless." The girls toss some pity her way when I mention she's quirkless.

"Don't take that like she's weak, she's stronger than me and kicks ass like nothing else, heck, she taught me how to fight so don't underestimate her." I clarify their misconceptions.

"Wow, so where is she? How come we haven't seen her?" Setsuna wants to know more about my sister now.

"In America, training to become a UFC fighter, actually she had a match last week so we could probably watch it later, but Peace what was that thing in your mouth earlier?" I ask knowing I might regret the answer.

"Incendiary grenade. I need to eat fire to make sure I'm at 100%." And I did regret asking because WHERE did she get incendiary grenades from? As we all think the same thing my phone starts playing Titanium, Tetsu's ringtone. Everyone realizes that it's me, I can't ignore it so I pick up and the other girls get quiet and lean over.

"Hey, Tetsu something up?" I get some gasp from the other girls when I say Tetsu's name.

"Yeah, I just wanted to say how awesome you were in the tournament I was cheering you on the entire time. I wanted to tell that in person but you left after the event was over." I'm flattered that Tetsu was cheering me on but not in the current situation I'm in.

"That's sweet of you and I was doing the same thing during your match. Uh, Tetsu can we continue this later I have to do something. Love you." I sheepishly say before hanging up, I'm completely embarrassed so much that steam is coming off my head.

"I never thought that Cortney and Tetsu were dating." Ibara remarks, "How long has this been going on?" I'm gone, I want to run run away but I'm stuck with so much embarrassment that it looks like I just died, my skin is ghost white and my spirit leaving from my mouth. Chibi revives me by striking me with a small lightning bolt.

"Gah! That hurts Chibi." But now that I'm back, so I have to answer Ibara's question, I don't know why I have trouble talking about my love life, anything else I'm ok with, but love and I want to leave the country.

"Um, me and Tetsu have been dating for about two months. We met during the entrance exams, and he saved me. We ate at a noodle place sometime later and walked around, at the end after he walked me home and we had our first kiss and started going out." I summarize the events that lead up to us going out not mentioning any of the stupid things that happened.

"So… did you fuck yet." I knew that was coming, I thought Setsuna was going to ask but Peace her to the punch.

"That's a bit personal Peace, I'm this stopping right now." Itsuka tries to gain control of the situation but it's too late.

I rub my left arm, "Yes." Peace is shocked the most, even though she was the one who asked.

"Two days before the festival me and Tetsu were training after school after we were done, we were walking home and it started to rain. Tetsu's house was closer and the rain forced me to stay over, I was the one who suggested we do it, but not out of lust, I needed help to conquer something." I place my left arm down on the floor showing my scar.

"So that why you didn't come home that day." Pony comments, "Help you conquer what?"

"My own self." I reply, "But I'm not the only dating someone, isn't that right Peace?" I expose Peace and drag the spotlight onto her.

"Tell everyone who you're dating," I say dragging her down with me and everybody switching their attention to her now. Peace tries to slink away but she better tell everyone now.

"Bakuflow." Peace muffles herself with her gauntlets but I'm not her escape.

"Who?" I ask leaning closer to hear her better.

"Bakugo." Peace knows it's over and comes out clean, the other girls are speechless because Bakugo going out with anyone has to be crazy.

"Ok tells us how that happened." Setsuna has to hear what chains of events leads up this. Peace opens a can of soda and takes a sip because there is a lot to explain.

"So one day during Junior High at lunch Bakugo caused me to fall and didn't care. I had enough and forced him to fight me, and let me say something, Bakugo held back during his fight with Ochaco, because I fought him and he didn't care. He beat me to a pulp and said I was weak, I was so angry from that, that I got up to show him I wasn't weak and that was the first I used by blue flames. I won, but after that, I started to feel weird around him I didn't know why until Cortney said I fell in love with him." Everybody looks back to me, drinking a soda.

"One, it was a big surprise to me back then as it is now. And two, I keep secrets and I didn't want to deal with it." I say even though I'm lying about the second part, I know everything that went on.

"I shocked that I would fall in love with him, and I denied it but it was true. I left a letter telling him to meet me on the roof, so I could confess my feelings little did I know he felt the same way for me." Peace starts to blush really hard, "He kissed me and we started going out, that was almost two years ago."

"Two years?!" Itsuka questions just how they could last so long.

"Normally in public, he acts like normal but when we're alone he shows a much kinder side, he changes to someone completely different and he cares for me. He even took care of me when I got sick and stayed until I was better, he does care but can't properly show it." Peace explains, Kachy does care about Peace I'm glad she found someone who truly cares about her.

Writer: Well both Thana and Delaila are out now, so this will be short. First, next chapter we'll be going back to the fantasy universe and second, I'll be closing the poll now thanks to all who voted. Until next time.