Hey guys I'm back. I'm sorry that this chapter is short and that it took forever to get out but there were several different reasons. First my sister came back from College for spring break and I wanted to spend more time with her before she went back to college. She is going to be back in a month again so I'm sorry if this happens again in another month. The second thing is testing weeks. But now I'm finally able to get this thing out.

Got a few new fight scenes in this chapter. Leave reviews on whether you prefer these fights in comparison to the original episode.

-Training Hall-

Pyrrha was currently in a one against four match against Team CRDL. She was running up on Cardin while changing her sword into it's spear mode. She traded a few blows with him before rushing past him while slashing at his chest. Cardin was forced to take a knee, but he didn't get much of a break because when he looked up he saw the red-haired warrior coming on top of him with a downward strike. He managed to dodge it and moved out of the way and then Dove ran in.

Pyrrha threw her spear at him to which he deflected it back into her hands. She swung the spear low and swept him off his feet and onto his side.

Sky tried attacking her with his Halberd, but she blocks it with her shield. From there they had a series of blows before swinging her spear around and hitting the blunt end into his stomach and sending him back.

She went to attack Cardin again and neither of them could land a hit on the other. Cardin tried bringing his mace down on her which she dodged to the side and the mace hit the ground causing small pieces of rubble to fly from the small crater his mace created. He swung again, and she blocked it and skidded back a little.

Behind her Sky was spinning around his weapon and brought it down on her. She jumped over it while twisting in midair. Cardin tried swinging at her in midair but it hit her shield and from there she put it on the ground and in a break dancer like move she spun Sky's feet from underneath him. She jumped back to her feet and sprung her self from Cardin's back into the air. She threw her shield at Cardin and it sent him back a little. From there it bounced off him and into Sky and then back into her hand. She fell down hard on his back, dropping his aura into the red and taking him out of the match.

Russel and Dove tried to charge her together. She leapt forward and shield-bashed Russel before spinning around and kicking Dove away. Cardin jumped in the air and tried again to bring his mace on her. As she jumped backwards out of the way she changed her weapon into it's gun form and laid down fire on Cardin.

Russel jumped in from above and deflected the shots from his leader. He ran forward and did a flying somersault through the air and double kicked Pyrrha's shield. Then both him and Dove tried doing a simultaneous attack on her, but no matter how hard they tried they couldn't land a single hit on her.

Cardin tried to get the jump on her again. She ducked underneath the attack and fired a few shots at Cardin. He blocked al the bullets by spinning his mace around. He charged forward only to be kneed in the face and then kicked back. They had another battle of quick placed blows and Cardin kept getting his back attacked.

Russel tried to attack her again, but she kept dodging them. She threw her shield in his face before swatting him away with her spear.

Dove used the gun function in the hilt of his sword and fired at Pyrrha. She blocked the shots with her shield and swung her spear at him. He jumped back to where Cardin was getting back up from his daze. He cocked his mace back, accidentally hitting his own teammate, and swung it on the ground and utilizing the flame dust in it to send a stream of fire toward her through the ground. She moved out of the way easily.

Deciding to finish this for good, Phyrrha ran forward and slashed Cardin from several different angles before sending him in the air. She followed him through the air and attacked him like she had on the ground. She grabbed the shaft of her spear around his neck and slammed Cardin really hard into the ground and kicked him upward the chin. She caught her shield as it fell into her hand. And with all four of the so-called men on the ground, the match officially ended with her as the winner.

"And that's the match." Glynda said whole walking onto the training floor.

"Lucky... shot." Cardin managed to groan out in pain before he fell on his side.

"Well done, Miss Nikos." Professor Kayama said as she walked onto the training floor. "You shouldn't have any trouble qualifying for the tournament."

"Thank you, professor." The red head said back.

"Alright, I know that's a tough act to follow, but we have time for a few more sparring matches today." Glynda looked up at the students in the rafters. "Any volunteers?" She looked around and saw Blake reading a book. "Miss Belladonna?" The girl closed the book and looked up but judging by her eyes she was really tired. "You've been rather docile these past few classes. Why don't you-"

"I'll go in teach! Pick me!" Kirishima yelled loudly from his spot.

Glynda nodded as a form of acknowledgement. "Alright. Let's find you a suitable opponent." Before she could finish she was cut off by Kirishima.

"Actually mam. If it's alright with you I would like to choose the person I fight." Kirishima requested.

"Alright. Who in the crowd do you so eagerly wish to fight young man." Kayama asked.

"Yang Xiao Long." Kirishima said pointing over to the female blonde brawler. She seemed surprised to her name out of the middle of nowhere, but that surprise quickly changed into an expression of excitement.

"Whatever you say. Just so you know, I'll be pulling you around by the literal horns." Yang quipped.

Kirishima grinned. "You won't be the one reigning anyone in this fight. That will be me."

"Oh god, now there is two of them." Ruby cried.

Kayama smiled. "We'll allow it."

The two hand to hand fighters came down to the arena with their weapons already equipped.

"Hey Yang." He said.

"Yeah." Yang replied.

"Why don't we make this interesting?" He smiled.

"Oh really. How so?" She tilted her head.

He nervously scratched the back of his head. "Well. Someone has to look out for my Bakubro. And let's face it, his personality means he won't ever be popular among girls. Especially when he is screaming die, die, die all the time."

"What was that!? I'll kick your ass dumb hair!" Bakugo yelled from his spot next to his team.

"See?" He said as he pointed his thumb back at his teammate.

"He has a point." Kaminari said from his spot with Team YKKT. "It's pretty impressive how all of us have only known you for a few weeks at best, yet we all know your personality is like steamed crap dipped in sewage." He seemed proud of his observation while everyone else just looked at him funny.

"The hell kind of vocabulary is that Pikachu." The ashen blonde bomber roared as he gripped the railing in front of him.

"That's enough everyone." Goodwitch shouted. The crowd calmed down but there were still a lot of people still giggling, more specifically Ochako and surprisingly Izuku as well.

"My point exactly. Anyway, you are pretty much one of the only girls in this school who can stand him." Kirishima quipped.

Now Yang was getting an idea what he was going to say but she needed confirmation. "Yeah so?"

"So, if I win, you have to go to the dance with Bakugo." He exclaimed pointing at her.

Yang looked undeterred from this. "Pfft. Oh really? And what if I win?"

"What do you want?" He asked.

She smiled. "If I win, Mr. Explodey up there has to be my personal slave for a whole day."

"Okay." Kirishima shrugged.

"What do you mean okay!?" Bakugo screamed. "This is by no means okay! I never agreed to any of this! Teacher help me out here." He looked to Kayama for assurance only to see…

"Oh youth." She squealed while squirming her body around. After which she looked back and raised her hand to the fight. "I'll allow it."

"Screw everyone at this school." Bakugo yelled.

"Language!" Tenya shouted from his seat.

Professor Goodwitch just looked on in utter confusion of what just happened in the last minute. "A-Alright then. We will follow tournament style rules first one whose aura gauge hits red loses. Remember this is a mock battle but treat it like a serious fight."

Yang activates Ember Celica and Kirishima raises his gauntlet in front of him.

"Ohhh, nice weapon Horns what's it called?" Yang teases

Kirishima grinned smugly. "Its name is Red Riot! You will do well to remember it after this fight!"

A buzzer goes off signaling the start of the match. Kirishima cocks his fist back and he throws a punch and a large shot comes out heading towards Yang. She counters it by firing Ember Celica and the two shots collide and make a smokescreen. Kirishima doesn't waste a second and comes flying out of the mist.

He delivers a ferocious punch her way that she barely manages to dodge to the left of, but it still gets a cut on her cheek. She counters it with a fist full of buckshot to his side. He is sent backward slightly but does not budge. Yang looks at her fist and sees a small dent in Ember Celica's armor plating. And a look at him tells her why. His skin was hard as metal with his semblance in gear. His aura gauge barely even dropped. "Ha ha. That won't work on me Goldie."

He jumps in the air and his gauntlet shifted backward halfway. He fully activates his semblance all over his body as he comes back down to attack Yang. She ignites and counters with her right fist. The collision creates an explosion on stage. The both fly backward out of the smoke cloud and land on their feet. Yang was barely in the yellow while Kirishima was also just barely in the green.

Both yelled and ran toward eachother. They both unleashed a flurry of blows that were each perfectly counter by the other. Gauntlet against gauntlets. Leg against leg. Fist against hardened fist.

While this is going on both of their teams start to cheer for them.

"Put her in the dirt Eiji." Mina yells hoping to boost her friend's morale.

Ruby cheers her sister on "Don't give up Yang! Go get him!"

Kirishima gets tired off the stalemate and puts more strength into his attacks. Yang gets hit a few times and her orientation gets messed up slightly. That was all he needed to see a good chance to do some real damage. He cocked back his fist and his gauntlet pulled back three fourths of the way and threw it forward and into Yang's stomach. She coughed up saliva as she was launched away. He was halfway in the yellow while she was now a sliver above the red.

"You know." Tsuyu said garnering the attention of the others. "I almost feel bad for him considering what's about to happen."

Kirishima saw that Yang wasn't moving very well after that last hit. "Aw, crap. Did I overdo it?"

"No…" He saw Yang stand. "In fact, your helping me out here." She then slammed her gauntlets together as her eyes changed from violet to red and her hair became a few shades light and looked to be on fire.

Kirishima whistled at what he was seeing. "Damn. That's so man-"

He didn't finish his sentence before Yang suddenly punched the Faunus in the face. He was able to recover from the attack and saw the blonde jumping at him. He activated the riot shield part of Red Riot to block the incoming attack. He managed to block the attack; the power behind it was much more than what she expected.

'Holy shit. She punches hard.' He thought to himself. He looked up and saw she was realing up for another strike. 'Shit, no good. I need to do that.' He thought. He hardened his skin more as Yang threw a superman style punch straight into his crossed arms. The attack proved too much and broke through his guard as it struck him into the wall, embedded him in it.

Yang looked up from her spot with her semblance still active. "Sorry about that. Looks as though Explodey is mine for a day." She heard a noise coming from across and saw Kirishima standing, but with his head down.

"And now I feel bad for Yang." Mina quipped from her spot in the bleachers.

"Why?" Ruby asked frightened.

She grinned. "Just watch."

Kirishima chuckled genuinely and then leaned his head back in a laugh, that showed everyone his new look. His hardened skin was even more spikey and sharp, his hairs were spears by themselves, and even his eyes had the glassed over shine of metal. He looked back down and straight at Yang. "That didn't even hurt." He chuckled.

Yang took a few steps back at that. "H-How?"

Kirishima went into his battle stance. "Because I am Unbreakable!"

He moved with more speed than before and was right in front of her. The blonde jumped out of the way but even though she dodged she could feel the force behind Kirishima's new hardened fist. She went to punch him like earlier, but Kirishima caught it with his left hand without so much as flinching. The battering ram of his gauntlet pulled back all the way this time as he cocked back his right arm and delivered a powerful blow to Yang's chest.

"Red Gauntlet!" He shouted as the ram flew forward and blow to Yang's chest and the resulting shockwave was felt from the top row of students as she flew back into the other wall with her aura depleted all the way.

Professor Kayama raises her hand towards Yang. "Ms. Xiao Long is out in both aura depletion and knock out." She then raises her hand over to Kirishima. "The winner of the match is Ejirou Kirishima."

"Aw crap." Kirishima was his normal self again. "I didn't mean to hit her that hard." He rushed over to the girl's side and kneeled down beside her. "Yang? You still conscious?"

He was relieved when he heard Yang groan in pain this time and opened her eyes which had returned to their natural lilac color.

He held out his hand for her to get up. "Sorry about that Yang."

Yang shook her head and took the hand. "Don't worry about it." She let herself be pulled up. "I wanted a good fight. I will certainly feel how great it was tomorrow."

Kirishima nodded in agreement. "Same. Now about that bet we made?"

Yang looked over at Bakugo who looked ready to fume at the mention of the dare. She sighed and looked back at the red-haired faunas. "Fine, I'll go with him to the dance."

"Alright." He fist pumped in the air.

"Aw youth." Kayama breathed out.

Yang and Kirishima walk of stage and back to their respective teams. As soon as soon as he sat down with his teammates Kirishima smacked Bakugo on the shoulder. "And with that win I got you a date to the dance."

"I have to go with Goldie." Bakugo grumbled. "I don't call that a win."

"Look at the silver lining. You didn't get painfully dejected by asking her yourself." Mina said with a chesire cat grin.

"You're saying I couldn't have gotten her to the dance myself!?" Bakugo shouted.

"Were you going to?" She asked.

A reddish hue lightly dusted his face as he looked away. "Shut up. I'll kill you."

With all of that done, Glynda turned to the class. "Well now you've seen what Miss Xiao Long and Mister Kirishima can do. Our next match will be the last for…"

"Professor. I would like to go next if you wouldn't mind." Glynda looked up to see Shouto with his hand in the air.

Glynda smiled. "Great participation from Team SMKE today. Shall I find you a partner or do you want to choose someone like your teammate."

"I wish to fight Izuku Midoriya of Team TOTM." He said.

The amount of shock on Izuku's face was a priceless picture. "Huh?"

"Very well. You both have a few minutes of preparation time." Glynda said.

-A few minutes later-

Izuku and Shouto stood across from each other on the battle stage with their weapons drawn and ready. Izuku still didn't know why Shouto had wanted this fight. When he tried asking him about it in the lockers when they were getting ready, the red and white-haired man had given him nothing but silence.

"Same rules as last time, but please try to not be as crazy as those last two." Glynda said looking at them both with a critical eye. "Now then, let the match begin."

The buzzer sounds and Shouto pulls out Jaegar and goes to stab it into the ground but it is hit with a shot that came from Izuku rushing toward him.

He needs to have his sword come in contact with the ground to make his ice. I won't let him. Izuku thought as he closed the distance.

He swings his axe in his right hand at Shouto. He dodges it and he uses his left axe to block Shouto's counterattack. They kept a rapid paced rush of attacks on the other. All of their attacks were either blocked, parried, or dodged. This went on for a few moments before they locked blades in the center. Izuku raised the other half of his axe behind his head and aimed at Shouto's head. The red and white-haired man eyes widened and he dodged to the left as a bullet wiz past his face. This gives Izuku a chance to raise his leg and side kick the other male in the chest.

Shouto tumbles and swings his sword as ice shards fly at the faunas male. Izuku cuts each one as they reached him. But it wasn't until the last one that he noticed the temperature had dropped a few degrees. Shouto had stabbed his sword in the ground and the floor was freezing over Izuku jumped in the air to dodge his feet getting stuck in the floor. Shouto had his backup plan in play as he created ice pillars come out of the ground and towards the midair Izuku. The faunas had parried himself off of the first and second one and then broke the third. Shouto jumped in the air above Izuku and flipped over, axe kicking him into the ground. Izuku recovered quick enough to roll out the way before Shouto's sword stabbed itself where he was a second ago.

In a breakdance like move Izuku spun and kicked Shouto's feet out from underneath him. He put the end of his right-hand axe into the ground and fired. It spun him through the air spinning his axe down at Shouto. The other boy rolled out of the way onto his feet and before Izuku could reorientate himself, slashed him across the chest and sent him back. Izuku backflipped through the air and landed on his feet clutching the place he was slashed where a thin layer of ice had taken place.

Shouto stabbed his sword into the ground again and a glacier of ice screening towards Izuku. Izuku turned his axe into it's double bladed axe form and activated 20% Full Cowl with the familiar insanely sporadic electricity rolling off of him. He swung his axe horizontally at the ice and the wind pressure stopped it from going any further. Izuku then went down to 8% and jumped high over the glacier transforming his weapon back into its twin axe form and came down on Shouto. Shouto raised his sword and blocked Izuku's left axe. Izuku let go of the axe and landed on the ground beneath Shouto. He gripped his other axe with both hands and slammed the barrel end into Shouto's side as he fired and sent Shouto back again. His other axe fell perfectly into his left hand as he charged after Shouto. Shouto raised another Ice wall to try and buy time for recovery. Izuku once again quickly changed to 20% and slashed down on the wall in a cross x slash and destroyed it. Izuku decided to end this quickly and went straight toward Shouto with 20% still active. Shouto saw Izuku coming straight for him and fast, he panicked and brought his sword into a double handed grip and part of the blade faded from blue to red and began emitting small flames in preparation for Izuku.

The buzzer went off and ended the match. Just as soon as the flames appeared they disappeared as well. Izuku stopped his semblance and he was no longer surrounded in crazy electricity. Shouto's face had gone stoic after he sheathed Jaegar.

Kayama and Goodwitch comes into the arena walking normally on the now icy floor in their heels surprisingly.

"And that is all the time we have for the day." Goodwitch said.

"Oh, come on. We were just getting to the good part." Mina whined.

The two combat instructors ignored her and looked back at the two on the arena floor. "Very well-done Mr. Todoroki." Goodwitch said before continuing. "You had excellent movements and speed in that fight and changing your environment to your advantage is a great idea, well done. But as you can see, if your opponent were physically strong such as Mr. Midoriya they can smash the ice and ruin your defense. You have speed and skill as well as strength but do try working more on defense. Please do well to remember this." Shouto face had remained stoic since the end of the fight but he nodded to be polite.

Kayama looked at Izuku. "Midoriya, like Todoroki you also have great speed and skill but also round it with tactics and your great strength, but while it did help you get the upper hand in the fight, it is still a rather large risk to let go of any of your weapons during a fight."

"Thank you, professor." He bowed his head slightly in respect.

"That's all for today." Glynda told the other students as they started to leave. "And as Mr. Kirishima said, the dance is this weekend, but you all have your first mission on Monday. I will not accept any excuses for either event." The rest of the students left.

Emerald was leaning against a pillar waiting for Mercury. He walked up to her as everyone passed by thme.

"Isn't learning just so much fun?" Mercury asked with fake happiness.

The four teams of RWBY and TOTM walked away from the training hall with Blake trailing in the back.

Sun was hanging out with his team as he saw Blake come out. He waved goodbye to his friends and went after her. "Hey Blake!" Sun called out as he ran up behind her. "You uh, doing okay?"

"I'm fine." She said, closing her book and turning around.

Sun cleared his throat. "So, I hear that there's this dance going on this weekend. Sounds pretty lame to me, but you and me, I think wouldn't be lame?"

"What are you talking about?" She asked.

"The dance this weekend!" Sun explained. "You want to go or what?"

"I don't have time for a stupid dance." She said before she turned around. "I thought you of all people would get that." The others looked at her with worried eyes.

"Midoriya." Said person turned toward Shouto. He was not sparing his attention for anyone else except Izuku.

"Yes?" Izuku said.

"Can I talk to you alone for a minute?" He said seriously.

Izuku was once again puzzled with Shouto's insistence with him today. "I'm sorry I told Ochako I'd practice with her after classes."

"Don't worry, I'll only take a few minutes." He answered simply.

Izuku was still a little suspicious but he went with it. "A-Alright." He turned toward his partner. "Shouto wants to talk for a minute. I'll see you in a little bit."

Ochako seemed a little disappointed but she lighted up a second later. "Okay. See you in a little bit." She chirped.

-Somewhere else-

Shouto walked over to a area where no one was around and Izuku followed him.

"Okay. What's up? Is there something wrong?" Izuku asked, trying to find out beforehand why Shouto wanted to talk.

Shouto bangs had shadowed his eyes and it made his expression as unreadable as his usual poker face. He remained silent for a few moments before he looked up with seriousness in his eyes. "In our fight, you blind-sided me. So much so that I broke my own pledge."

Izuku raised an eyebrow. "Todoroki, what are you talking about?"

Todoroki raised his left hand in front of his face, looking down into his palm, almost looking disgusted with it. "The reason I wanted to fight you is because I saw something about how you fight, and your strength looked familiar to something I just didn't know what. And when I fought you, I confirmed it."

Izuku was getting nervous now. Had he figured it out? There was no way right? He tried approaching this as gently as he could as to not be any more suspicious. "Again, what are you talking about?"

"I'm saying what I felt from you was the same. Something too similar. Similar to All Might." Izuku was about ready to die right there because of how fast his heart was beating. Shouto looked up then and fixed Izuku with a hard look, his eyes calculating. "Midoriya tell me." He narrowed his eyes. "Are you All Might's secret love child?"

Izuku stood there blank eyed for a second and before he knew it, he could barely hold back the laughter that was making his stomach ache with how hard he was laughing. He tried to calm himself down, believe him he tried, but the way Todoroki subverted his expectations with such a serious face got to him. "Oh, oh no! Ha! Todoroki. You've got that all wrong." He rubbed at his eyes, tears coming to them easily. "All Might is not my father."

The look he gave him said he wasn't entirely convinced and he finally got control of himself to make a sensible reply. "Why did you think that of me?"

"The way you said that. 'You've got that all wrong.' In other words, you have some connection to All Might, whatever that might be." He leaned forward, his bangs covering his eyes as he seemed to think over his next words. "If you recognize my last name then you must know about my father. He's been one of the best hunstmen in the world since forever now. Only coming second to All Might. If you're connected to the strongest huntsman in the world then it gives me another reason to beat you."

"Why?" Izuku asked, scared but curious for his answer.

His face was hard as he mulled over his next words as he let Izuku ponder for a second before continuing. "Midoriya, what I'm about to tell you I've never told anyone. Not Weiss, Tenya, not even Momo."

And now Izuku was just scared.

"My father" He winced in disgust as he said those two words. "was never able to overcome the large shadow that All Might placed over him and other huntsmen. An unreachable goal. He was never enough to climb up into a legend like the world's strongest hunstman, and because he knew he could never overcome him by his own power, he devised a plan."

Izuku's eyes widened as he nervously gulped, his hands gripping themselves tightly. "What exactly are you telling me Todoroki?"

He hesitated before he continued. "You know about semblance marriages, right?" Izuku's surprised expression was enough of an answer for him to continue, a sigh leaving his lips. "Every person has a semblance that stays unique to who they are. But their abilities seemed to tie in to their parents abilities as well. There is only a small percent chance that they would have a semblance that brings the parents together. Many people did this to try and make stronger future generations. He was a man with a goal. With his influence and money, he was easily accepted into my mother's family."

"Todoroki you don't mean that-" His look caused Izuku to pause, his hand covering his mouth in disbelief.

"He took possession of her. Forced her to bear his children until the perfect combination of their powers was formed. All he wanted was to stake his claim in the world, and raise a fighter who could rise above even All Might, like he was never able to do." Todoroki's fists clenched, his nails digging into the palms of his hands as he glared at nothing. "Screw him. I'll never be that bastard's tool!" He calmed himself down with some deep breaths and then continued. "In my memories, my mom is always crying. She told me that my left side is ugly. My father drove her to the point of breaking. I found her crying one night, but then she saw me and there was anger in her eyes. Not towards me. Towards my left side. Toward him." His eyes looked down in sadness. "And then she dumped boiling water on me."

Izuku gasped, everyone always wondered how Todoroki's face had gotten its scar but knowing the cause behind it seemed worse than not knowing.

"The reason I am aiming to beat you is personal. I won't use that bastard's power… or rather…" His eyes lifted, glaring at the other male, his dual eyes hard and unforgiving as he looked him straight in the eyes. "I'll become number one without nothing but my mother's power. This is my total disavowal of him."

Izuku looked down as he heard him move away. He glanced the dual-powered man way before saying a little louder. "It's your power, not his!"

He watched Todoroki stop, his head turning toward him with only his eyes showing his shock at Izuku's words. "What did you say?"

"You don't use your fire because you think it's your fathers fire. You only use your ice because you think it's your mothers. It may have come from them, but it is not what makes you you." Izuku said. "Some powers might be hereditary but that doesn't make us our parents. It's your power not your mother's. It's your power not his."

He brought his hand up to his chest and clenched it. "I came here because I want to be able to save people, someone who saves the day with a smile on their face. And so many people helped me along the way to let me make it here. It may be a trifling motive compared to your own, all the same though, I can't lose. Not now, not ever, especially not only for myself, but to pay back to those people who've helped me along the way! I don't care if you want to fight me, and I know that I don't understand your reasons or your pain. But if you're going to come at me than I want you to come at me with everything you have. So I'll take that declaration of war of yours, and echo it!" He raised his clenched out toward Shouto. "I'm going to beat you too!"

Shouto had overcame his initial shock and went back into his neutral poker face and walked off.

Izuku stood there a minute after Shouto had left and his hand moved to run his fingers through his hair. "We have the same goal yet it feels like we're from two different worlds." He looked at the time and visibly panicked. He started in a straight up sprint in one direction. Hopefully Ochako wouldn't be too disappointed with him being late.

Neither of the two had noticed Bakugo was around the corner and was listening on the whole conversation. He shook his head and sighed. "Idiots."

-Team RWBY's Room - Nighttime-

"You what!?" Blake asked her teammates.

"We want you to go to the dance." Ruby repeated.

"That's ridiculous." Blake said back.

"Blake we're worried about you." Yang said from the spot next to Blake. "This investigation is starting to mess with your head."

"You can't sleep, you barely eat, and to be honest your grades are starting to suffer." Weiss stated.

"You really think I care about grades!?" Blake asked annoyed raising her hand for emphasis. "People's lives are at stake here!"

"We know, and we're all still trying to figure out what Torchwick is up to." Yang said, grabbing her partners hand and giving it an affirmative squeeze.

"Thanks to you, Sun, Tsuyu, and Izuku, we know they're working somewhere outside of southeast Vale." Ruby said from next to Weiss.

"And the Schnee Company records singled out Vale as the primary target of Dust robberies over the last few months." Weiss pointed out with her finger.

"Don't forget about their missing military tech too." Yang added.

"Not exactly missing if there using it to try and run you through a wall sis." Ruby rebutted.

"But that leaves so many unanswered questions!" Blake shouted.

"Blake, you won't be able to find those answers if you won't be able to keep your eyes open." Ruby said.

"All we want you to do is take things easier for one day, it's the day right before we go out to do actual work on this and you'll need all the relaxation you can get." Yang told her partner.

"It will be fun!" Weiss added. "Yang and I will make sure of it!"

"The two of us are planning the whole thing!" The blonde cheered.

"Excuse me?" Blake asked surprised.

"Team CFVY was supposed to do it but their away mission has lasted longer than expected." Weiss explained.

"So, Weiss and I were asked to pick up where they left off. We even invited Mina help us in setting the scene." Yang continued before turning to Blake. "And now we can make sure you have the perfect night!"

"Blake, once it's all over, we can return to our search well rested." Weiss pointed out.

"So, what do you think?" Ruby asked Blake.

She had her eyes closed in compilation, when she opened them they were set and decided. "I think this is a colossal waste of time." She answered before she stood up and walked to the door. "I'll be in the library." She opened the door and walked out of the room.

Yang sighed, looking down dejected. "Great."

"She can't keep going like this." Weiss said, making the other two girls nod.

A knock was heard at the door. They all looked at each other and nodded. Weiss got up and walked over to the door. She reached the door and turned the nob. She turned and saw Jaune standing there with a guitar.

"Weiss!" He sang her name like it was the chorus of a song and was strumming a guitar with skill no one knew he had. He kept playing while winking at her. Weiss closed the door abruptly in his face.

Three knocks were heard "Oh, Come on." He begged as Weiss facepalmed. Another three knocks "Open the door." They could hear a sigh on the other side of the door. "I promise not to sing." Begrudgingly, the heiress opened the door.

"I lied!" Jaune sang. Weiss decided to facepalm again.

Jaune masterfully strutted his guitar as he sang his song. "Weiss Schnee, will you accompany me. To the dance on…" He hesitated looking for the right word. "Sunday

"Are you done?" Weiss asked as the other people in the room stared at the blonde.

"Yes." Jaune said.

"No." Weiss answered before closing the door on him again when she noticed the looks the others gave her. "What?"

"And that is why people call you Ice Queen." Yang said as she shook her head and Ruby fell over from leaning to much to see Jaune.

"My whole life, boys have only cared about the perks of my last name." Weiss defended herself. "Besides, I already have a date in mind."

"Date or not, none of this will matter if we can't get Blake to go." Ruby said.

-With Pyrrha and Jaune-

Pyrrha once again knocked Jaune on his ass after another bout of sword play.

"Well done." She chuckled as she put her sword on her back and helped him up. "Your swordplay has proved immensely."

"Couldn't have done it without you." Jaune said as he dusted himself off.

"So, ready to move on to Aura?" She asked.

"I was actually thinking we could just skip Aura tonight." Jaune said as he turned around embarrassed and rubbing the back of his head. "Maybe go on jog or something."

"Come on. You got your semblance a while ago, but it won't go anywhere if you don't work on it." Pyrrha said.

"That's not it..." Jaune said. "It's just... It's dumb."

"What is it?" Pyrhha asked walking closer to her leader and putting her hand on his shoulder. "Jaune you know you can tell me." She said with a smile.

"It's Weiss." Jaune confessed.

"Oh?" She sounded like she was really disappointed. "What about her?"

Jaune sighed. "It's just, I asked her to the dance and she shot me down. No surprise, there right?"

"Well, I believe the saying goes 'there are plenty of fish in the sea'." Pyrrha chuckled out.

"Easy for you two to say." Jaune said back. "I bet you have guys clamoring over each other to ask you out."

"Haha. You be surprised..." Pyrrha said back.

"Oh, please." Jaune said as he turned around. "If you don't get a date to the dance, I'll wear a dress." He walked away from the red-head, unaware of the look on her face.

-With Ochako and Izuku-

Izuku and Ochako were running toward each other without weapons or aura. Ochako tried swinging at Izuku's face but he dodged both of her fists. He swung his foot up to try and catch Ochako off guard, but she blocked it and tried a high kick to his face but again it hadn't worked. He grabbed her arm and performed an arm drag over his shoulder. Instead of landing on her back Ochako had her feet down. She grabbed onto the arm Izuku was using against her and backwards jumped over his head before wrapping her legs around his neck and chest and threw him into the ground in a cross-arm breaker.

"Tap out. Tap out now." She demanded as she slowly applied more and more pressure to his arm.

He reluctantly tapped out as to not have his arm dislocated by the time she was done. After she got off, he got up and grabbed the water bottles from the nearby bench. "How my score looking now?" He asked as he handed her bottle to her.

She grinned as she grabbed her bottle from his hand. "You've won four of our nine matches. That's real improvement since a month ago."

A month ago, is when they started this. Ochako had found out about Izuku's workout regime and he found out that she used later hours to train with her hand to hand combat skills. She asked him if she could join him in his morning routine. He said yes if she let him join her for her hand to hand combat practice. So far it had been going well for the both of them. Izuku was still lacking the skill Ochako had, but she also couldn't run a ten-kilometer marathon every morning like he could. But both were really improving. Izuku was incorporating more martial arts into his style while Ochako was making herself stronger in all different areas. And while they had a hard time admitting it to themselves or the other, but they really enjoyed having all this time with them together.

"That's good to hear but it doesn't ease the pain in my shoulders you give me every night." Izuku said sitting down on the bench for their break.

Ochako sat next to him. "I was taught by a huntsman who really went down on me with his own version of close quarters combat. He said that you won't always have your weapon, so it would be wise to be ready for when that day comes." Ochako said quoting a certain large man with a cute voice. She looked down at her bottle and smiled at her memories with him. "He taught me a lot in the time I had with him. Out of all the huntsmen and huntresses I trained under he is my favorite, right up there with Ms. Tatsuma."

"That all sounds awesome. You're amazing Ochako." Izuku said.

Ochako's face had lit up slightly from the compliment he gave her, but then again why wouldn't she. In her mind he was the amazing one. His strength, his will, his determination to save and help anyone he can. He always ran face first into danger if it meant helping someone else. And she had seen him in his swimsuit when they were at the pool party. The way his skin glistened in the water, the water from his hair running down his body all the way down to his chiseled abs, and when they played the game where she sat on his shoulders and she could feel his taught muscles rubbing against her own and…

Ochako rapidly shook her head to clear these thoughts to clear her head with a massive blush on her face.

Izuku of course saw this and became worried about his partner. "Ochako are you alright? You're burning red."

"It's nothing, nothing at all. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing at all." She said waving her all over the place in a very defensive manner.

"Ochako." Izuku said as he grabbed her wrists to get her to stop. "Breathe."

She followed his instuctions and tooka deep breath and from there she was back to normal and they sat there having a normal conversation. Around the end of it Izuku brought up a really big topic from today. "So have you ever been to a dance before?" He asked.

She grabbed her chin in thought. "Not a school dance, but my family used to always do dances at our house and they were really fun." She smiled at the memory of her family. She looked over at him. "What about you?"

He rubbed the back of his head with a sad smile on his face. His went down in shame as well. "No one wanted to hang out with a useless Deku so I never really went to them."

She looked at him with sympathy, remembering the treatment the faunas get. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be." He said with a new smile on his face, one full of vigor and happiness. "I'm going now and I have a lot of friends who want to go there with me. And I can't wait."

Ochako smiled at his enthusiasm for everything. "If I'm being honest I'm a little nervous. Not only is it my first but also everyone's under pressure to find someone to go with them. It is a formal dance after all."

"Same. I don't think I could walk up to a girl and ask her to the dance. If it was someone I really know well and would like to go with I would still have trouble." Izuku said nervously poking his cheek. It's hard to say that when the person you want to ask is the one you're talking to.

Ochako was in the same boat. She really wanted to go with someone, specifically someone, but she didn't know how to go about it. She could do it right now. There was no one around to mock them. They were all alone with each other. They could go together.

'We could go together.' She thought.

"What was that?" Izuku broke her off from her thoughts.

Ochako's eyes widened as her face went scarlet. She had said it out loud. She had just said it in front of her Deku. Wait. Her Deku? Where did that come from?

The said male was still watching her with a light blush compared to hers. He was waiting for an answer. Without even thinking she spurted out. "It's better to go with people you like." And just like that her words had made both their faces the same color as Kirishima's hair as they faced away from each other.

'What the hell was that?' She screamed in her thoughts. 'Now he'll think you're weird and won't want to hang out anymore.' Her eyes were brimming with water ready to be spilled. 'Why am I such an idiot?'

"W-Would you l-like to go t-to t-the d-d-dance with me?"

She inhaled a breath at an alarming rate and spun her head around fast enough to cause anyone else whiplash. Izuku was looking back at her with his blush ever present on his face but his eyes showed he was serious about the question.

"W-What?" She managed to squeak out in response.

He rubbed the back of his head. "I've b-been told it's p-proper for the g-guy to ask the g-girl to the d-dance, so that's what I'm doing. Ochako, W-Would you l-like to go t-to t-the d-d-dance with me?"

Ochako's surprise quickly morphed into pure and utter joy. She was ready to run around no matter how many times it took to do a 20 mile marathon. Deku had asked her. He had asked her to the dance. She had wrapped her arms around him and squeezed him into a hug. "Yes. Yes. Yes, of course I would love to go with you. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much Deku." She rubbed her reddening cheeks against his own.

Unfortunately, Izuku had lost his spot on the bench and since Ochako was on top of him hugging him, they both went toppling to the ground. They were chest to chest with her on top of him. Their faces were only a few inches away from each other and they could feel every inhale and exhale on each other's faces. But that didn't get their attention. It was the other persons eyes. It was like staring into each other's soul.

Ochako looked deep into Izuku's jade green eyes and saw everything that was him. Happiness, loneliness, intellect, determination, kindness, and his dedication. She saw a mountain, that mountain that he was to her, the mountain he himself was climbing. Both graceful. Both unmoving. Both unyielding.

Izuku on the other hand looked up into her chocolate brown eyes. Joy, friendship, compassion, truth, hope, her own dedication, and the one word he would truly use, beautiful. What he saw in her eyes was a comet. A once in a lifetime… no, a thousand lifetimes experience. A celestial being that burned bright with hope. And since it was nighttime, her starlit brown orbs blended in perfectly with the night sky.

They both stayed there, mouths open and breathing heavily. Drawn into nothing but each other. The world could have ended, and they wouldn't have noticed.

Evidently a few ringing and vibrating scrolls could because the both heard their scrolls go off. It broke them out of their trance and back into the presence. She got off him and they both uttered a quick and embarrassed I'm sorry and answered their scrolls. After a few different 'mmhmm's' and 'okay's' they hung up and looked back at each other.

"That was Iida/That was Tsu." They both said at the same time and stopped to give the other a chance to talk.

"He wants us…"

"She wants us…"

They both looked at each other again. Having talked over each other again. Silence took over, then they both cracked smiles and couldn't help but let out a laugh. The humor of the moment, the nervous energy from earlier, their disbelief of their dance date. All of it was looked back on and they laughed upon it.

"It is getting late." Izuku managed to giggle out.

Ochako nodded. "Lead the way Deku."

They both packed up their things and made their way back to their dorms.

-Cinder's group-

"And finally, we have a few more." Emerald said as she listed off the last few students on the possible major threat list. The mint haired girl sat in the middle of the floor with her scroll on hand while Mercury laid next to her on his back, reading a comic book held in a loose grip over his head. Cinder sat on her bed like you would see a member of royalty sit.

"Ah, the invincible girl." Cinder said in recognition.

"She's smart, but I wouldn't say invincible." Mercury responded.

"Do tell." Cinder looked at him with her interest piqued.

"Her semblance is polarity. But you'd never know just by watching." Emerald said.

Mercury sat up and put his comic book to the side. "After she touched their armor and weapons she was able to move them around slightly enough not to hit her but at the same time make it look like she is just dodging them."

"Hmm... so, people think that she's fated for victory when really she's just taking fate into her own hands. Interesting. Add her to the list." Cinder said holding up a needle.

Emerald the tapped her scroll, adding her to the list. "There."

Mercury sighed in a bored fashion. "I would have been able to fight her had it not been for the walking, talking piece of metal."

"Speaking of which," Emerald started. "After today we should add him to the list. He and most of his teammates are in the top ten of their year. Pair that with his hardening to the point a punch like that doesn't faze you is someone we should look out for."

Mecury sighed at Emeralds words. "Again with thinking he's actually unbreakable. Even if that punch didn't faze him, if you looked closely his body was shaking even before goldie tried to hit him. He has to put himself under a lot of strain to get to that point. And things like that usually only last a few minutes, but for him I'd say even less than one or more."

"Add him as well as his teammates." Cinder said pulling out her scroll. "There is just one other student I'd like to address." She swiped across the screen until she found a green haired wolf faunas. "Izuku Midoriya."

"The nerd looking faunas that can actually put up a great fight?" Mercury asked with an eyebrow raised.

"His father was a well-established huntsman before he was stated to be killed in action and was awarded the Valean medal of honor." Cinder said.

"Kids got a better dad than mine, I'll say that much." Mercury curtly nodded, having remembered all the things his father put him through.

"But back to Izuku. His skill and strength are things of notice. Pair this up with his speed and strategy for combat. Well, it's just like that professor said, he is a well-rounded fighter." Cinder smirked.

"So what? I'm pretty sure we can beat him with no sweat. And if the Ice boy had so much trouble against him I think we can say the same for him." Mercury said with his signature cocky smirk.

Cinder swiped her finger across her screen. "The Ice boy as you call him is the son of Enji Todoroki, one of the strongest huntsman in the world coming in only second to All Might. And if what his record says is true, then it says his semblance also allows him to control fire with his left side like his father. Even without it, him and most of his teammates are at the top of the class in every subject." Cinder said.

"If the guy can use fire like his old man than why doesn't he use it." Mercury asked.

"Either he's holding back or there is something more to it. Questions for later." She swiped back to Izuku's file. "The faunas on the other hand." She narrowed her eyes at his picture. "His semblance itself is strange as it is. The electricity rolling off his body makes you sometimes forget just how big of a strength booster. He can use it in excess or in short. And during his fights you can see that his strength and speed fluctuate. He goes from strong to stronger than the majority of students to stronger and faster than most professional huntsman. Tomura confirmed this because when he fought him and his team. And when I look back at his initiation file I found another strange fact."

"Has to be if you would bring it up." Emerald commented.

"During the test, an Earth Dragon appeared, a grimm that most professionals have trouble with and has taken many lives, and this boy beat it by himself." Cinder said. The shock on their faces was nothing compared to what they were about to be with the next bit of news. "And it was with a single attack." That almost made their jaws hit the ground. "But afterwards his arm was destroyed, and the only reason he was allowed to stay here was his excellent score and that the nurse here has a semblance for healing. It looks like he has control over his power but it fluctuates because if he uses too much it damages his body. So in other words, he is always holding back so he doesn't kill someone."

"So, the top of the list?" Emerald asked still trying to get over her initial shock.

Cinder shook her head. "Definitely high up there but not that high. All Might is at this school after all."

"You should be able to take them no problem." Mercury said with his smirk recovered.

"It's not about overpowering our enemies. It's to strip them of whatever power they have. And we will, in time." Cinder responded.

Mecury sighed. "I hate waiting!" The silver haired boy complained as he slumped back down onto the floor with his hands behind his head.

"Don't you worry, Mercury. We have an entertaining weekend ahead of us." She said ominously.

And that is chapter 14. I hope you enjoyed.

And in typical Team TOTM fashion, there is a character profile for you guys.

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Name: Denki Kaminari

B-day: June 29th

Age: 17

Species: Lion Faunas

Handedness: Right

Hair: Blonde with black thunderbolt on his left side.

Eye color: Gold

Blood Type: O

Height: 5' 8"

Gender: M

Semblance: Thunderstruck: Allows him to produce large amounts of electricity from his body but it can damage him through his aura if he goes over his limit.

Weapon: Chargebolt: Gauntlets that work with his semblance and fires off lightning infused dust.

Symbol: Black thunderbolt with a gold afterglow.