Battle trials, led by the now recovered All Might, still on the hunt for his successor. "Well then Toshinori, now is a great day to start looking at our potential candidates," Izuku said brushing his cane and doing some general cleaning.
"Yes, yes it is young Midoriya, although I will have to ask-" All Might said getting interrupted.
"Ask me to tone down my powers, understandable, though you could take me out of the roster, or cue me against two teams instead of one," Izuku suggested.
"Hmm, I'll think about it," All Might said, rubbing his chin.
"Well better think fast as the rest of the kids are arriving," Izuku said using his cane to point towards a nearby tunnel.
On cue the first students started to arrive, not surprisingly, the ones with simple or rather less clothing arrived first, with more and more complex outfits showing up as time passed.
"All right students! Today we'll be doing battle trials," All might said, boasting his usual smile.
"Any questions?" He told the students.
Immediately he got bombarded with a flurry of questions, "Slow down! I have super strength not hearing!" He panicked.
Answering as many questions as he could, All might pulled out a box with slips of paper, "as I said back in the classrooms, you'll all be doing battle trials today, and who you'll be paired up with will be randomized," he said to the students.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to leave such an important process for random chance?" Iida said, raising his hand.
"Mr. Tenya, unlike me you don't have near-infinite power, or the ability to decide who you work with, it is the most natural way, more often than not improvisational skills help far more than any plans, it is the way of the world, nothing will go as planned," Izuku said still polishing his staff.
"Of course," Iida said, bowing at again a nearly 90-degree angle.
All might starts to pair together the students, with the groups being:
Group A: Iida Tenya and Katsuki Bakugou
Group B: Izuku Midoriya
Group C: Momo Yaourozu, Ochako Uraraka
Group D: Denki Kaminari & Kyoka Jiro
Group E: Shoto Todoroki & Mezo Shoji
Group F: Mashirao Ojiro & Toru Hagakure
Group G: Fumikage Tokoyami & Tsuyu Asui
Group H: Eijiro Kirishima & Hanta Sero
Group I: Mashirao Ojiro & Toru Hagakure
Group J: Yuga Aoyama & Mina Ashido
Group K: Rikido Sato & Koji Koda
Group L: Hitoshi Shinso and Neopolitan Glace
Hearing the groups his eyebrow shoots up in pleasant surprise. Announcing the pairing, he gets tossed against his childhood friend and the unknown variable, it was him against Group A, 'looks like Yagi took my suggestion after all, I do hope they put up a good fight,' Izuku thought to himself while getting up and putting on his coat. "Well then I await your challenge gentleman," He said, walking away for the two 'villians' to strategize and plan.
- Battle trials city building -
Iida spoke looking at the paper mache bomb, "Okay, do you have a plan for dealing with the fact that he could just teleport straight to the bomb and end the match immediat-"
Baukgo cut him off, "Yeah no, he's not gonna do that, in line with his nickname, he likes to toy with his 'prey', and considering that this is a battle trial, us five are pitted against him not only because that's probably the bare minimum about of people to even attempt to fight him, but because he's not the one being tested, we are, he's the tester. Not to mention how he will end up trying to make a show of it, ever watch the local news? He does his best to make an example of villains, almost like a mini symbol of peace," he pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance
"He's not gonna do that to us...is he?" Iida asked
"No, he has more respect for us than that, but he is gonna make fools of us if we're not careful, if I'm right he'll give us three chances to beat him," Katsuki sighed.
"Well there are some positives to this situation at least," Iida said trying to put on a brave face.
A radio static starts out of nowhere, "Ready or not here, I come Villains!" Izuku said into his radio cane with a devilish smirk. Casually walking into the building he observed the very dull interior of the building, it was clearly an office building, though he wondered what it could have been. The silence of the building was eerie, it was as if life itself was sucked out of the building, something that was broken by the crack of an explosion, multiple explosions. 'About time, I wonder if you'll prove to be more a fight than the last time I fought you,' he thought to himself standing waiting for the source of the explosions.
"Alright Deku, Give me all you got you quirkless freak," Bakugou said with a mad smile.
"Gladly," He replied with a similar smile. A single snap echos through the building,
A series of tentacles emerge and surround Bakugou, seeing this he proceeds to launch away from the writhing masses. "Is that the best you got, cheap tricks if it is," He said with a laugh.
"No, but I don't think anyone would be able to handle me at my best, I also have to give you a chance to beat me. No fun if I just restrained you from the start," Izuku smirked.
"Heh, fine. Guess you'll just have to die," Katsuki charged up a shot and fired it at Izuku.
"Something you forget is that explosives are less useful at distance," the demon laughed, summoning a portal he appeared behind bakugou and knocked him to the ground with his cane. "You have improved since I last saw you though, very impressive, though you still have much to learn," he struck him in the gut, batting him across the hall.
"Not good enough yet though, I'm not even using 1 percent of my power. You're improving but it's not enough," Izuku's grin grows.
"Only I percent?!" everyone inside the viewing room thought simultaneously.
"Perhaps, I should bind you here and move on to the others already," more tentacles form from the walls surrounding Bakugou. Seeing this he flys forward toward his opponent, knocking them to the ground. A portal opens up behind them dropping them right in the room with the bomb, seeing this, Iida springs into action and moves the bomb away from Izuku and starts monologuing.
Ignoring this he sends bakugou flying out of the building with a sharp kick to the stomach, "well then that's dealt with, let me deal with you now," the radio static grows to a fever pitch and Izuku restrains Iida, leaving him the winner. "I'm dearly sorry Mr. Iida but it seems you all have much to learn before I can be an achievable opponent," a flash of his sadistic side shows, and he tightens the restraints a little, before letting them fall away to where they came from, the portals of the abyss.
- Viewing Room -
"Now then who is the MVP?" All might asked the class.
"Tenya Iida sir, for he is the only man to follow the prompt given, I was far too busy dealing with this exercise as a method of teaching my childhood friend some humility, and my explosive friend here was far too caught up with his own happenings to care properly. Mr. Iida was the only one who truly followed the spirit of the trial," he took a seat on a chair that he made.
"Scary Kid," All might thought before proceeding with the exercises.
- end -
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