Chapter 7: Are you ready to rumble?

"42 of you students have qualified to move onto the next round! The next test will be a Cavalry Battle!" Midnight pointed her whip at the screen as it stopped spinning. "Those at the top will be at a disadvantage here but that's a feeling that U. A. students should get used to, show us what plus ultra means. Izuku Midoriya is worth ten million points."

Everyone looked over at Deku with vicious glares as Midnight continued. "First years here are the rules! You'll have 15 minutes during this time you and your team will combine their scores into a single headband worn by the rider and the objective of the game is captured as many headbands as you can the teams with the most headbands will advance, now you'll have 15 minutes to choose a team, good luck!"

This is easy, I know exactly what I need to do win this whole thing. With my power I can keep my team out of arm's reach of the opponent so while everyone else is going to focus their strategy on stealing as many headbands as they can, I'll focus on playing keep away, but in order to make sure my plan works out, I think it's important that I need to be on a team with the most points. I scanned the crowd until I found Deku, he was already talking to Uraraka-san so I figured I better approach him before he gets his team filled out.

Not wasting any time I warped right in front of him. "WAAAHHH!" Deku jumped, he already looked pretty nervous so I must've really startled him.

"Deku, I wanna join your team." I said with a smile. "If your plan is to hold onto those ten million throughout the game then my quirk and I can help you play keep away."

"Oh yeah." His eyes lit up. "Your quirk can help with instant omni directional movements, we would never be stuck in a corner , but are you sure you want to team up with me?"

"I wouldn't be here if I wasn't sure, besides I saw you use those landmines in the obstacle course I trust your instincts." Plus you have so many points we won't have to worry about stealing any headbands but I won't mention that.

"Alright so that makes three of us, and I know just who we should get to be our fourth member." Deku said as he scratched his chin thinking, before he walked up and grabbed another student. "I need you.."

(15 minutes later)

"Ok it's time to get the party started!" Midnight announced as the 12 other assembled teams lined up in a circle around the arena. My team consisted of Deku as the head, Myself as the back right leg, Uraraka-chan as the back left leg and our front horse and surprise member was Fumikage Tokoyami my bird like classmate from 1-A.

"Look alive!" Mr Yamada called out from his announcers booth. "Are you ready for a good old fashioned U.A. Battle Royale!"

"Are you ready?" Deku called out as he assumed command, getting Uraraka-chan to nod. "Yuuto-kun?" I nodded in confirmation. "Tokoyami?" The front horse nodded as well. "Alright let's win this!"

"Alright! One final countdown before the game begins!" Yamada announced and we could feel the eyes of all the other teams fall upon us. "THREE! TWO! ONE! Begin!" As soon as the game started all the teams practically made a B-line for us, which wasn't really that surprising.

Deku scanned the battlefield looking for possible openings and weaknesses in each of the individual teams, all the while letting the rival teams draw in close. "NOW!" As Deku signaled I teleported the group up into the air above and Uraraka-chan used her quirk to make our whole team float in the air.

"They can fly!" A boy with shaggy silver hair and sharp eyes cried out in anguish.

"Now Jiro!" The invisible Hagakure calls out as her teammate whips her literal headphone jacks out towards are team.

But before they could reach us Tokoyami-kun leapt into action. "DARK SHADOW!" He called out as a bird like phantomy shadow exploded from his chest to intercept the headphone jacks. "Good job dark shadow, keep watching our flank."

"That's amazing Tokoyami! Your dark shadow can protect us from every direction." Deku marveled at how useful Tokoyami's quirk was for our group who replied with a strong nod.

"We're landing!" Uraraka interrupted as the team slowly floated down to the ground, using our collective feet to slide ourselves to a stop, before we took off running.

"Yuuto-kun, how are you feeling can you warp us again." Deku called down to me as we ran.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine. I'll be ready whenever you need me." I said with a smile.

(Flashback)

Our team was gathered up as Midoriya talked about our keep away strategy. "Okay, so now that we have Tokoyami to cover our mid ranged defenses all we have to do is use Yuuto's warping abilities to keep us one step ahead of our opponents."

"Hold up." I spoke up, getting to Deku to falter a bit. "Let me just say something. My quirk doesn't work like the warp villain we fought at the USJ I don't create wormhole to teleport my power does it instantaneously and my body is designed for that, but when I use my quirk with other people it takes a heavier toll on my body and it stacks. Depending on weight and the distance I teleport it can be two to three times for one other person, two more people it increases to about five times and the three of us could be a ten times increase on my normal workload."

Deku thought it over for a moment scratching his chin as he did. "Thank you for telling me, I'll keep that in mind…"

(End of flashback)

It really wasn't that bad I was only a little winded, but it didn't look like I was gonna get much time to catch my breath.

"HAHAHA!" A familiar high pitched laugh came seemingly out of nowhere as fellow 1-A classmate Mezo Shoji began charging our group. "This is more like a massacre than an actual fight! HAHA!"

"Let's move!" Deku took command but our team stood still. "What's going on!"

"I'm stuck!" Uraraka-chan said with a groan.

"Me too, I can't move my feet." I followed up as I tried to lift my foot but it was stuck to the ground by a small purple ball.

"Those are Mineta's balls! Where did they come from?!" Deku scoured the battlefield for our sticky child-like classmate.

"I'm right here!" Mineta called out from Shoji's tentacle shield. "Hi Midoriya!" Mineta waved before he began flinging a barrage of sticky balls before a whip like tongue erupted from Shoji's shield that Deku just barely managed to avoid.

"Tsuyu's in their too!" Deku cried out.

"I told you to call me Tsu!" The frog like girl said as she struck once more with her tongue as Mineta followed up with more sticky balls.

Meanwhile another rival team advanced on our flank. "We can't get sandwiched here!" Tokoyami cried out.

"Right!" Deku nodded. " Uraraka, get ready! Yuuto, are you ready to take us up again."

"Yeah." I nodded before teleported us up once again into the air above the stadium and Uraraka used her quirk to let us hover above the crowd. That warp got me sweating.

But just as we thought we were safe I could hear from below, a loud KABOOM! Katsuki Bakugo used a massive explosion to propel himself into the air after our team. "KACCHAN!" Deku cried out.

"YOU AREN'T SAFE! NOT EVEN UP HERE!" Bakugo screamed as he hurtled towards us.

"I got this!" I left the team and warped myself above bakugo. "Hey Katsuki, thanks for dropping by!" I slammed my feet into the blonde boys back, forcing him to fall faster than he had anticipated before I warped back over to my rejoin my team.

"YOU DAMN SCIENCE PROJECT!" Bakugo roared as he fell, before Sero could save him with a strand of tape.

"Whooo! That was a close one." I wiped the sweat off my brow. The race before this was strenuous enough, it was all starting to get to me.

"Yeah, we're sitting ducks up here we don't have time to float down." Deku said as he began improvising a new plan. "Yuuto can you take us back down?"

"Got it." I quickly warped us to the ground where I started breathing hard, my whole body was hot…. And then it was cold? "Oh no!"

We got down to the ground and where quickly met by Todoroki and his team. Shoto stared down midoriya with deathly serious eyes. "I'll be taking that now…"

Todoroki's team charged us, but it wasn't just his team at least three other teams where making a B-line for us and our ten million points. "Yuuto! We need to move!" Midoriya was starting to get wrapped up in the game, not that I blame him but I wish we could cut back on the warping.

Nevertheless I teleported our team behind those who were charging at us, catching them off guard. "GAH!" I groaned audibly.

"They're gone!" Todoroki growled.

"They're behind us!" Yaoyorozu called out as they looked over their shoulders.

"Let me loose!" Kaminari said with an eager smile. "I can zap them no matter where they are on the battlefield."

"Right." Todoroki nodded. "Yaoyorozu! Give us some protection." Shoto ordered as an insulated tarp covered their team, which I knew was bad news for us.

"Alright! Here I go! Indiscriminate Shock, 1,300,000 Volts!" Kaminari charged the ground with yellow lightning, it was moving fast but I could see it.

"Crap!" Before the lightning could reach our team I warped us away, a few inches above the ground on the other side of the arena keeping us airborne just long enough so that the electricity beneath us to pass. "HAH! HAH! HAH! HAH!" I started panting hard, I was running low on juice.

"Woah, thanks Yuuto!" Deku complimented me before I felt the air grow cold once more. "Oh crap! We need to move!"

Seriously! I thought before teleporting us a bit to the left, keeping us out of the way of a massive wall of ice.

"Yuuto, I need you to keep us on Todoroki's left side!" Midoriya called down to me.

"Right." I nodded as I watched Todoroki, everytime he turned as to better line us up with his right side, I teleported a few extra feet to the left keeping us out of range. This game of cat and mouse took up a majority of the time remaining and since I was only teleporting us a very short distance I was able to keep it up for such a long time.

"Guhh! I can't get a shot!" Todoroki growled as he began to get frustrated. "There gonna wait us out."

"I have an idea." Iida spoke up. "I'm gonna use an ability that will make me useless or the rest of the game but trust me it will be worth it."

"I trust you." Todoroki nodded.

"Alright, get ready to grab that headband!." Iida said as his calves began smoking even more than usual before a bright blue flame erupted from his engines. "RECIPRO BURST!" Tenya explode with a massive amount of speed.

I was at an angle that I really couldn't see what was going on as I was hunched over painting a bit, but I felt a rush of cold air move past us and I knew quickly after, just what had happened. Iida had rushed past us with unbelievable speed and Todoroki managed to rip Deku's headband off in that split second putting their team in first place and stripping us of all our points.

"The hell…" I muttered in shock as I realized what had just happened.

"I forced my torque and RPM into overdrive which granted me explosive speed, but I burnt out my engine in the process. Nobody knew about this technique in the class. I promised I'd beat you Midoriya." Iida said with an almost malicious grin as he stared down our rider.

"Don't let them get away!" Deku called out immediately, not even fazed by the sudden loss of points.

"Kaminari's Lightning could still be an issue!" Tokoyami warned him. "We should try stealing from other teams!"

"We can't! We don't know which teams have points! We have to move now!" Deku commanded.

"Then let's do it!" Uraraka cried out as are team charged, you can tell by the look in her eyes and the tone of her voice that she was as determined as all of us.

As our team charged forward at Todoroki's, Midoriya's hand began to glow which indicated he was using his super strength quirk and it also meant he was serious but at the same time I could feel the air heating up which meant Todoroki was going all out too in the final moments of this cavalry battle.

Todoroki hesitated for a moment and Deku jumped at this opportunity using his super powered arm to generate a whirlwind strong enough to knock away Todoroki's flames and leaving him wide open before Deku ripped the top headband off of his neck. "I got it!" He called out believing he had retrieved the ten million points.

I looked up at the headband for a second and my heart sank. "Oh, crap…." The headband deku grabbed read seventy points a far cry from the ten million we were after.

"No way…" Deku uttered as he realized he had grabbed the wrong headband.

"We switched the headbands!" Yaoyorozu-san called out from the opponent team. "You underestimate us!" She followed up as their team skated away.

"Tokoyami!" Deku cried out as Dark Shadow flew off towards Todoroki's team, but Shoto had already taken this into account.

"Kaminari!" Todoroki ordered the blonde boy who generated another massive electric shock that blasted Dark Shadow out of the sky forcing him to retreat back into Tokoyami.

"That's it for dark shadow!" Tokoyami announced as time winded down.

"Alright! Let's count it down!" Present Mic announced over the intercom. "10! 9! 8! 7!"

And to make things worse…Kaboom! "DEKU!" Bakugo roared as he sailed over Todoroki's wall of ice.

Time was running low, we didn't have enough points to continue and we were running out of ideas. "Screw it!" I declared before warping away from my team.

"Where'd he go?" Deku cried out, before I reappeared on top of the brain fried Kaminari's shoulders.

"What the?" Todoroki said in a shocked voice before I reached over and ripped off the the headband located on his forehead before warping back to my team and teleporting all of us out of Bakugo's range causing him to fall face first on the floor.

"TIME'S UP!" Present Mic announced getting every team to stop in their tracks as the crowd erupted in cheers. "Now let's announce our winners… In first place! Team Todoroki!" The crowd cheered but Yaoyorozu and Kaminari were the only ones who seemed happy as Iida berated himself and Todoroki just stood silent. "In second place! Team Bakugo!" Present Mic called out as Bakugo cursed loudly into the sky. "And in third place a shocker! Team Shinso!" All the members except Shinso himself scratched their heads in confusion as they seemed unsure of how they got there.

"What happened?…" Deku asked speaking for the rest of my confused team.

"Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah!" I laid myself down on a piece of Todoroki's ice to cool my burning body as I panted intensely, before lifting up todoroki's six hundred fifteen point headband. "Hah! I didn't know which of the headbands was the ten million, but I knew that the headband Todorki was wearing would be enough, and thanks to your planning that took out Kaminari and kept us in range of Todoroki's team I was able to get over there and make sure we got to the next round..."

Deku began tearing up as Present Mic announced. "And in fourth place! Team Midoriya!" Before he began sobbing all out. "And now we'll take an hour for lunch."

I lifted myself off of the ice, I had cooled down significantly but i was still covered in sweat. I lifted up my arm and took a whiff. "Ugh!" I flinched at the stench. "I wonder if they'll let me shower before the next round?"

I exited the stadium with the rest of the students when I heard Uraraka talking with Iida. "Man you've really been holding out on us." She said with her standard enthusiasm, as she noticed me walking behind Iida. "Oh, Yuuto, thanks for the save there at the end. You should eat with us."

"Yes I agree, I'd love to pick your brain before the next round." Iida said as serious as always.

"Thanks but I have to pass, that last round took a lot out of me so I'm gonna go see recovery girl… Also I smell…." I said with a nervous smile, before my classmates got a whiff of my BO causing them to make sour faces.

(Later)

I was one of the last ones to return to the stadium, there was a bit of a line to see recovery girl and in the end their was nothing she could do because I wasn't actually injured. So I took a pretty long and indulgent with my shower but I did manage to return in time to draw lots for our tournament spots.

I stood in the crowd with the rest of my classmates, I had heard that Ojiro and one of the students from class B had withdrawn which is strange but not quite the strangest thing happening at the moment, for some reason all the girls from my class were wearing cheerleading outfits. "Hey." I tapped Todoroki on the shoulder. "Did I miss something?"

Todoroki looked around a moment before answering. "What do you mean?" He replied in his standard disinterested tone.

"Well you're not helpful…" I said jokingly but I don't think he got it.

"Alright students! Listen up! Here are your opponents for the first round!" Midnight announced with a crack of her whip.

The monitored began showing all the different matchups, I skimmed over my classmates and their opponents to get the basic gist of who I could possibly fight in the later round but what I was really looking at was my first round opponent. "Iida…." So my first match would be against one of my classmates. Iida is a really nice guy, so this is gonna suck.

"Ahem!" Iida respectfully announced his presence as he held out a friendly hand. "Let's do our best in our battle." He said with a serious face.

"I'm sorry." I said disregarding his handshake. "I'm not going to hold back in their, I hope you can forgive me for what's going to happen to you." I said before walking away, I almost felt ashamed to look him in the eye because of something I hadn't even done yet. I knew it was shameful of me not to shake his hand but I couldn't help it.

"Uh…. G-Good luck." Iida said nervously as his face began to sweat.

(Later, Round 4 of the finals tournament, Iida's point of view)

"Let's be honest guys! The last couple of rounds have gone by pretty fast, let's hope this next round is a different kind of fast. Welcome U.A.'s resident speedster Tenya Iida!" As soon as Mr Yamada introduced me I made my way to the concrete arena. "And his opponent, U.A.'s living proof that anyone can be a hero Villainous Super Soldier turned Hero in the making Yuuto Genji!" Why was his introduction so much longer than mine?

"BOOO!" Some of the audience members began booing as Yuuto took the stage, but he didn't seem fazed in the slightest by the crowds uproar he just stood with a deathly serious look on his face.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous, from what I heard during the U.S.J event Yuuto fought multiple villains and showed little hesitation and high levels of combat skill and prowess and what I've seen from him so far in the festival his quirk is pretty formidable he can traverse an area such as this arena in less than an instant so for the first time in my life I'll be at a disadvantage in terms of movement speed but in the cavalry battle I caught him off guard with my Recipro Burst so I figure the best way for me to win is to end the fight as soon as possible.

"Okay! Let's get this started!" Mr Yamada announced as I got into a sprinters stance, Yuuto took a stance of his own. "BEGIN!"

"Recipr-Huh?!" He's gone! Where could he have? "WOAH!" I felt my legs give out from under me and I suddenly found myself in the air. I looked down to see Yuuto underneath me he must've kicked my legs out from under "OOOFFFF!"

In a split second, I couldn't even see him move he punched me directly in the stomach while I was still in the air it knocked the wind out of me like I had been clubbed by a baseball bat but it was a single punch. I dropped to my hands and knees as the pain flooded through my body. "ACK! ACK! ACK!" I began coughing uncontrollably as I tried to catch my breath, but then I felt my body lifting off the ground once more.

Yuuto had picked me up by my shirt and before I could so much as make a noise much less move he tossed me out of the ring and I felt my body hit the grass outside of the ring. No way, it can't be…

"IT'S OVER!" Mr Yamada announced and I could feel my heart sinking in my chest.

It can't be, I didn't even get to use my quirk. He was so fast, I never stood a chance but all I could manage to say was "no way….."

(End)

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