Ochako's plan was simple.
She might not have been the best person when it came to reading others, she liked to think the best of people after all, but she sure could tell when someone had it out for her, especially when they made no attempt to hide it.
Bakugou was coming for her.
Perhaps it was simply because she was friends with Deku, or perhaps it was the same interest he showed in destroying all his foes, but for whatever reason he seemed to have a vehement interesting in seemingly splattering her brains all over the corridors.
Okay, maybe she was being a little dramatic, but the blonde definitely wanted to hurt her, she could tell that much.
She wasn't scared of him, she was terrified, Izuku had told her stories, few and far between, and none of them had been about their interactions in the past, but she had been able to glean one fact from them.
Bakugou was strong.
Horribly so.
He wasn't Izuku level, of course, from her small understanding of the full extent of how amazing her best friend was, if Bakugou was a wolf, Izuku was a tiger.
But in that sense she might as well have been a kitten.
She knew she stood no chance against the blonde in a straight up fight, he could turn her into a dropped peanut butter jelly sandwich with one hit, but then she didn't have to fight him, just stall for time.
The plan she had so expertly come up with basically involved her running around distracting Bakugou, whilst Tsuyu located the bomb.
Despite Izuku's constant drilling of the fact that she should never split the party, the girl knew that even if her and Tsuyu teamed up, they couldn't beat Bakugou, let alone Bakugou and Iida together, they just didn't have that kind of synergy yet, now if her and Izuku were working together, they could have used Asteroid Belt, and blown their opponents away.
Ochako didn't particularly think training made for good meetups, and the boy always picked training when it was his turn to choose what they did, honestly, she was scared to see what Izuku would be like when he took a girl on a date, although that thought did bring a blush to her face for some reason.
She was quite glad that he'd gone over strategy with her, however, and the combo move they had made was probably one of the coolest things she had ever seen.
The Brunette hoped that Tsuyu could win against her engine legged friend, especially since they were indoors and the walls and ceiling would give her froggy friend the surfaces she needed to exploit her superior mobility.
The entire plan did hinge on that fact after all.
"You ready Ochako-chan." Tsuyu asked her, causing the girl to break out of her thinking, she looked over to her new friend and smiled.
"Yeah."
"BATTLE START!"
At All Might's signal, Ochako gave one last nod to her partner before running into the building, Tsuyu would scale the outside wall much in the same manner as Izuku had, but her entrance would be a little less loud since Ochako had no doubt that Iida was fast enough to react to that kind of ambush.
The brunette was as careful and as stealthy as she could be, the longer Bakugou took to find her, the less time she would have to survive his onslaught.
"Found you."
Unfortunately, he hadn't taken long at all.
Ochako barely managed to jump out of the way, narrowly dodging an explosion to the face. She quickly regained her footing before booking it down the corridor.
She could hear Bakugou on her tail from the explosions he was creating in order to speed himself up.
She barely saw the blonde rocket past her left, before he spun in the air to face the brunette and hit her with a bang.
Ochako barely managed to shield herself with her arms before she was knocked back by the force of the explosion, the girl slid on her back for a few meters before she activated her quirk on herself to float up and keep her backwards momentum, she floated away from the blonde who was quickly catching up to her.
As Bakugou arrived at her to release another explosion, the brunette flipped herself in the air and kicked off the roof using the springs in her heels for an extra kick, barely dodging the attack.
"Why you running round face? I'm only going to kill you." The blonde said menacingly, explosions blasting upwards to send him towards the girl.
Ochako released her quirk, wanting gravity to help her reach the ground faster, she felt her nausea kick in from using zero gravity on herself, she fought through it however, as she reached the ground and had to activate her quirk on herself again, the springs in her heels really showing their worth, sending her away from another one of Bakugou's attacks.
She could feel the heat from the boy's attacks prickle her skin from the proximity, and her motion sickness was coming after her with a vengeance, but she'd managed to survive for about thirty seconds with the blonde, which was a win in her book.
Bakugou stopped his onslaught for a second and looked up at the girl.
"You know, you've done quite well for a pebble, I bet it's because of that shitty nerd Deku, he's been taking notes on me for years." Bakugou began, "whatever Deku told you, it's useless, so why don't you just give up and die quietly."
With that he blasted himself towards the brunette.
Ochako took a deep breath, Bakugou didn't know it, but that brief exchange gave the girl enough time to come up with a skeleton of a plan, she'd just have to improvise the rest.
The Brunette jump back towards the bend in the corridor, and poised herself against the wall, waiting for her opponent to get closer.
As soon as Bakugou began attacking the girl retorted his statement.
"The only thing Deku-kun told me about you." She began, launching herself into the blonde's guard, "Is that you always start with a big right hook!"
With those words she grabbed the boy's extended arm and spun, before slamming the boy into the wall behind her.
Katsuki's eyes widened in surprise as he felt the impact run through him, and then his stomach dropped as a feeling of weightlessness rose up inside him.
Ochako landed gracefully on the floor, before running into the corridor the fight had just been taking place in, as she did she touched every piece of debris she could.
Bakugou's quirk was definitely amazing, but the boy created a lot of collateral.
"Come back here you fucking round face." Bakugou growled, trying to use his quirk to move himself under the lack of gravity, it was easier said than done, but when Ochako looked back to check how much time she had left, she realised the blonde was getting the hang of it frighteningly quick.
She'd barely reached the end of the corridor, when she heard an angry 'die' that was slowly increasing in volume, signalling that Bakugou was with no doubt getting closer to her.
"This move is all my own." The brunette said, facing her opponent and putting her finger tips together. "Ultimate move: Meteor shower, release!" She yelled, blushing with embarrassment at the fact she had actually yelled the name of the move out, Izuku was brushing off on her.
Bakugou looked up and clicked his tongue in annoyance as he began dodging the debris coming his way, Ochako was surprised at the fact he was doing so well against her attack, but she didn't manage to gather all that much debris, nor had it had the chance to fly too high.
The girl decided that her time was better spent running than watching her opponent thwart her attack, so she turned the corner and tried putting some distance between herself and the boy.
She didn't know how long she'd been fighting, but Tsuyu hadn't even told her that she had found the bomb yet, nor had All Might called the end of the match, so she just had to hold on until either of those things happened.
Ochako would have like to win, but surviving was more important right now, especially since she'd barely managed to dodge most of Bakugou's attacks.
The girl kept running until she came to a sudden halt, the blonde had found his way ahead of her, she didn't know how, maybe he'd memorised the floor plan of the building or simply predicted which corridors lead where, both of which were ridiculous to her, but he'd found her again.
"Stop running and let me kill you round face." The boy angrily intoned, heading straight for her.
Ochako released him from her quirk, causing his advance to falter, and making the blonde plummet to the ground as gravity took hold once more, the boy quickly righted himself with his explosions before coming to a skidding halt on his feet.
The boy was panting like an animal as he looked at the girl with feral eyes.
"You've given me a lot of trouble round face, but now I'm going to fucking kill you." Bakugou growled, aiming one of his grenade shaped gauntlets at her, and pinched the pin between the fingers of his other hand. "Any last words shitty round face?"
"Yeah, screw you porcupine hair." The girl said giving him dual middle fingers.
That was the wrong thing to say, in fact, she had never been so bold in her life, then again, she had never been friends with someone who liked spending a good portion of his time trash talking people who pissed him off before either.
Izuku on the internet was both hilarious and a terrible influence.
Katsuki growled at her and removed the pin from his gauntlet.
Ochako's only saving grace was the fact that there was a nearby window she could throw herself out of, and even then half of her had been burnt by the explosion whilst the other half had experienced the oh so fun occasion of crashing through glass.
The girl was just glad her costume had held up rather well, which was a testament to the quality of the work that came from U.A's support department.
The girl managed to activate her quirk on herself once more to slow her descent, her stomach rolling in protest, she turned to face the building, just to make sure Bakugou wasn't coming after her, only to see the explosion the boy had just attacked her with coming out of the other side of the building.
She was surprised All Might hadn't stopped the match right there and then, checking her ear piece to see what was up with it, only to realise she must have lost it in the fight.
The girl landed on the street beside the skyscraper they were using for the exercise, and released her quirk.
Then every part of her body started protesting at once.
Her motion sickness, finally gained enough ground, causing the girl to double over and puke, she could feel pain pin-pricking one of her arms where multiple shards of glass had stabbed into it, whilst the other rang with dull pain from where the explosion had burnt her.
To top it all off she could see Bakugou rocketing his ways over to her to finish the job, the boy was really persistent she had to give him that, it was horribly disadvantageous to her in this situation since she was well out of commission.
All she could do now is sit here and wait for her demise.
"Finally, prepare to die round face." Bakugou yelled, swinging a palm at her, ready to finish the girl off, when a black and blue blur crossed her vision and fly kicked Katsuki in the chest.
The blur transformed into Izuku in a red flash, the green haired boy staring daggers at her opponent.
"All Might called the match porcupine hair, I don't know if you've deafened yourself with that quirk of yours, but that means stop fighting." The green haired boy said, before running up to his friend and fussing over her wounds.
"You know, I called him porcupine hair too." Ochako chuckled deliriously, the adrenaline in her system slowly running out.
"Did you? Well looks like we've found a nickname for Katsuki, now let's get you to recovery girl." The boy said, effortlessly picking the girl up in a princess carry.
"Hey Deku-kun, did I win?" The girl asked weakly, drawing the similarities of her current situation to the day the two met.
"Well not so much win, as porcupine hair over there got himself disqualified, All Might did warn us about sudden high payload explosives, but at least you looked really cool during the match."
"Oh, that's good." The girl said lightly, her head feeling a bit empty.
She couldn't help but wonder if this was what shock felt like.
"Still though, you could have done some things differently, since we live so much closer now we can hang out more often, don't worry, I'll toughen you right up for the sports festival." Izuku smiled innocently.
The brunette loved hanging out with her friend, she really did, but when Izuku trained, he pushed himself and others hard, honestly, she would rather fight Bakugou a hundred times over than train with her friend, it would probably hurt less.
Ochako looked at that cute, harmless smile.
It scared her more than Bakugou ever could.