The four teens had now begun going over to the observation room for their debriefing.
Apologies for rough treatment and just general good sportsmanship was been traded between them.
"Sorry if I was a little too efficient with holding you down there Hagakure, are your arms okay?" Izuku asked the invisible girl in concern, he sometimes forgot that WildMutt had a variation of super strength, it wasn't quite as pronounced as Four Arms, but dog like creature could still easily dent steel.
"Oh, not to worry I'm fine." The girl replied, doing what Izuku assumed was holding her guns.
"Oh that's a relief, although quick question, are you not really cold in your hero costumes? I know it's summer and all but you're quite literally naked." The boy inquired.
"Ah well, not really, I'm used to running around like this." The girl admitted, causing Izuku to blush a little at the image, not that the girl could see it through his helmet. "Why the worry? Did you enjoy pinning down a naked girl, Izuku-kun?" The girl asked suddenly, pressing up against him.
Izuku jump away in surprise at feeling something soft touch his arm.
"N-n-n-no, I was just concerned for your well being." Izuku yelled in embarrassed protest.
Damning girls and their wily charms in his head.
"Pfffft." Toru couldn't hold back her laughter at the boy's reaction, "you know you act really cute for someone so strong." The girl said, which did not help Izuku's blush one bit.
Luckily for him they arrived at the observation room before the girl could continue assaulting him with her words.
"Welcome back students, now that you've arrived we can start your debriefing." All Might began, "Now can anyone tell me who the MVP for this trial was?"
Mom's hand shot up instantly.
"I believe it should go to Midoriya, whilst Tokoyami did manage to capture one of the villains, Midoriya ultimately came up with the plan, tracked the villains, carried his team mate up to the attack position, captured a villain by himself and allowed Tokoyami the chance to ambush his opponent which greatly facilitated the capture of their remaining enemy." The girl said, "although, I don't understand why he didn't simply disarm the weapon, since he obviously had the ability to do so."
"Very good young Yaoyorozu, I was about to inquire the same." All Might said, he wasn't actually, he thought the performance was quite good, until the girl had mentioned that fact, but he didn't want to embarrass himself on his first day.
All eyes turned to Izuku, waiting for the boy's response.
Izuku was acutely aware of the fact that his classmates seemed to hold him to a higher standard, and would pick at any mistakes he made with scrutiny. Probably because he'd been consistently in first place so far.
He supposed this was the pressure faced by being number one.
"Well, I just thought that if this were a real situation disarming the bomb without capturing the villains would be a bit pointless, since if the villains managed to one up the heroes afterwards they could just re-arm the weapon, also realistically speaking, disarming a bomb in the middle of a combat situation just seemed unrealistic. I also kind of just wanted to give Tokoyami a chance to stand out" Izuku said, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Well whatever your reasons were, you handled the situation quite well. The villain team also had a somewhat solid plan despite not being able to execute it at all. Well done to all of you." All might praised, before reaching into the box containing the balls for the teams "NOW THEN, the next two teams are Young Todoroki and Young Shoji as the heroes, and Young Yaoyorozu and Young Mineta as the villains, please proceed to the building."
The teens in question went off to prepare for their upcoming trial, whilst those that remained settled back into their individual cliques.
Izuku removed his helmet, allowing himself a breath of relief, the things were useful, but that didn't make them any less stuffy.
"Way to go Deku-kun." Ochako said brightly as she came up to him, giving the green haired boy a high five, "This is Tsu, I'm sure you've seen her around in class before."
"I have, pleased to meet you Asui." Izuku smiled. "Let's get along."
"Call me Tsu, kero." The girl said simply.
Izuku noted that she was rather expressionless, despite her voice carrying a difficult to discern tinge of happiness, he supposed it had something to do with her quirk changing her facial structure, he was rather curious as to where she stored her tongue, but even he wasn't socially inept enough to ask a girl that.
"Oi, Midori, nice going as always."
Izuku turned towards Mina who was walking up to them with Kirishima in tow, he would have thought they would bring their own teammates over also, since the longer they spent figuring out how to work together, the better their chances in the upcoming trial, kind of like what Iida was trying to do, but then he'd been placed with Katsuki, and their personalities weren't the best match for a civilised conversation.
Izuku supposed, however, that being teens, people would also want to socialise with their friends, especially when watching something as cool as quirk combat.
"So, who do you think will win the next match?" The pink girl asked.
Izuku momentarily lingered on the skin that her costume exposed, before he snapped out of it and answered her question.
"O-oh, um well, it's hard to say, Todoroki has a lot of power behind his ice, if the way he used it yesterday is anything to go by, but Yaoyorozu has pure versatility on her side, especially since she's playing defence, five minutes is more than enough time for her to make quite the little stronghold." Izuku began, "but we have to remember that they aren't in this alone, as he's proven before, Shoji has massive amounts of strength, I'm not sure what else he can do, but his build alone is already a huge advantage when it comes to combat, on the other hand, Yaoyorozu has Mineta for a team mate, whilst his quirk probably allows him to move around quite quickly, I'm not sure what strength they have offensively, and to be honest, based on his results yesterday, he's probably the worst when it comes to physical conditioning, so he'll provide little help in a combat sense. It all hinges on how strong of a defence Yaoyorozu can build in five minutes."
Izuku stopped his explanation, noticing that his friends were looking at him with barely contained giggles.
"I started waffling again didn't I?" The greenette said sheepishly.
"Yup." Ochako giggled, patting her friend on the shoulder, "no worries though, it was all very educational."
"All right, Team B and Team C, battle start."
With All Might's words the class' attention moved to the big screen, which displayed both teams, taking up equal amounts of the image.
Izuku was correct about Momo created a huge amount of defences, all bar one of the entrances had been barricaded, an obvious attempt to create a choke point, behind said door was an automatic pitcher filled with cricket balls.
Todoroki, on the other hand, was simply strutting up to the building in a rather confident manner.
The boy placed his hand against the building, and, in the blink of an eye, flash froze the entire thing.
Izuku's jaw dropped.
He had never even considered that Todoroki was capable of such output, something like that was actually strong enough to threaten him as all but perhaps one of his aliens.
He now realised that maybe Katsuki was not his biggest problem in the sports festival.
Based on what he'd just seen, Todoroki's entire plan basically hinged on capturing his opponents with that flash freeze, since he simply strutted into the building without any caution whatsoever, it would seem that he knew exactly where his opponents were, which suggested that maybe he could sense through his ice, or perhaps his teammate had some form of tracking ability.
It seemed the boy was stupidly overconfident, because Momo had barely been affected by that attack, the scantily clad girl, despite looking like she was having a swell time freezing her well endowed body off, freed herself from the ice with a quickly manifested ice pick, before creating a winter jacket to protect herself from the cold as well as she could, her legs still being bare and all.
Meanwhile Todoroki had made a good amount of progress towards his goal, further cementing the fact that he knew where his opponents were, he was already on the right floor, and was skating his way towards them with a high speed.
As soon as the boy reached the corridor in front of the one door Momo had left open, he was caught by surprise by a cricket ball hitting him dead center at ninety miles per hour.
Causing the boy to slide back on the frictionless ice and land on his back from his loss of balance.
Losing his momentum meant that the boy was hard pressed to stand back up on his ice, especially before Momo rearmed her pitching machine and hit the boy again.
Todoroki growled in frustration, as he instead simply decided to send a huge wave of ice forward, causing Momo to have to jump aside to dodge it, unfortunately, her pitching machine got totalled in the process.
The girl looked in awe as the wave she had just been attacked with had travelled the entire corridor and the length of the room she was bunkered down in.
Todoroki took this opportunity to finally stand up properly, this time approached the room cautiously, as to not get ambushed by sports equipment.
The boy pressed a hand against the ice in front of the door and melted it to allow himself entry.
he carefully checked the room for any other presence, before he walked up to the downed girl, hand raised threateningly.
The teens in the observation room couldn't hear what was going on, but they assumed it was something to do with how the girl should surrender.
Whatever the girl replied caused Todoroki to shrug before he made his way towards the bomb, he went to place his hand on it which would have signalled the end of the trial, but when his palm reached the point of barely hovering over it, the bomb exploded, purple balls scattered all over the room, sticking all over Todoroki's body and sticking the boy against the wall at various points.
Izuku took note that what could only be the purple balls Mineta produced with his quirk had a sticky property to them.
Todoroki was visibly annoyed and confused.
Not as confused as the people watching, however, as All Might hadn't ended the match, despite it being pretty obvious the goal had just been pulverised.
"Was it a decoy?" Izuku asked curiously, noticing that they hadn't seen Mineta since the start of the match.
"That is correct Young Midoriya, an ingenious move, but I would be thankful if the rest of you refrained from using high payload explosions against unsuspecting opponents, Recovery girl would have my head if any of you got third degree burns."
The look of annoyance on Todoroki's face only got deeper, before he sent a wave of ice a Momo, firmly freezing the girl to the wall, pretty much capturing her for good, before he ripped off his shirt to release himself from the wall, revealing his well built body.
"Damn, I'd love me some of that!" Mina exclaimed.
Izuku looked at her oddly, before shifting his gaze to Kirishima right next to her, who had been shirtless this whole time.
He really did not understand girls…
Todoroki at this point had set off to look for the real bomb.
Izuku looked over to the second monitor in the room, seeing that it showed Shoji, who had obviously gotten tired of waiting outside at one point and had gone to look for the bomb himself, he used eyes and ears that grew from his arms to rapidly check each room.
The tall boy did make it eventually, but as soon as he arrived, a small figure fell from the roof and bombarded him with purple balls.
Shoji defended himself from Mineta's bombardment by covering himself with what Izuku could only call wings made from his arms.
He did eventually realise that the attack was harmless, but by that point it was too late.
"Time is up, Villain team wins." All Might declared.
The look of surprise on Todoroki's face was actually understandable, if Izuku had been in his shoes that would be the exact same face he would have made, Todoroki was definitely the strongest student in the current trial, and arguably the strongest in the class.
If the heterochromic flash froze the green haired boy before he could activate the watch, he would be done for, but if Izuku managed to transform, then it could go either way, especially if Izuku's theory that Todoroki could produce more than ice was true.
Eventually the four teens came back for their debriefing.
"Good effort everyone, who do we believe was this time's MVP?" All Might asked the remaining teens.
"Well it was obviously Yaoyorozu." Izuku said, "Her plan was solid, and she managed to stall Todoroki for enough time to win the match, all though, I'm not sure how it would have gone if Shoji had been with Todoroki, also, why a pitching machine? I've seen you pop out a cannon before."
"Ah, well, I didn't want to hurt one of my classmates too badly during a training exercise." The girl said sheepishly, looking away in embarrassment.
"But you used controlled explosives for a decoy?" Izuku asked incredulously.
"Oh, well, good point…" the girl said, a blush spreading across her face as her mistake was pointed out to her.
"Very good Young Midoriya, it wasn't a bad fight, but might I suggest better teamwork for the hero team next time." All Might added, before he reached into the the lot box once more, "All right the next match will be Team A as heroes, and Team D as villains."
For Izuku the world froze at that moment as he looked over to the two teams involved.
Katsuki was giving him his best feral grin.
Ochako was giving him a worried look.
There was no way Katsuki would go after other people because of their little feud right?
Izuku hoped he wasn't about to stoop so low just to get to him.
But then again, this was the boy who had systematically gone after and destroyed everything Izuku held dear, namely his notebooks, just to torture the greenette.
Katsuki would definitely go after Ochako just because Izuku had a special place in his heart for the girl, and there was nothing he could do to help his friend right now.
If Katsuki brought the pain down onto Ochako.
Izuku would make doubly sure to wipe the floor of the Sport's festival stage with the blonde's face until it was spotless.
And the green haired boy was not a gentle scrubber.