Ch.12 Black Out! (I swear I wasn't drunk!)
Edited by: me
"Shinso, the fuck is this?" I asked while gesturing to the two mind-controlled students in front of me.
Seems like Ojiro and that silver haired kid got screwed over again this time around.
"Our team?" The lavender haired teen answered indifferently.
"Shinso you-just-can't arrrggg!" I tried to explain before anger over took me. "So, from what can tell, I'm the only one you're actually gonna ask to join your team instead of just mind controlling them!?"
"Yes." he replied, like what he had done wasn't a big deal.
I let out an aggressive sigh. This was just so…. Urggg!
"I'm waking them up." I declared as I moved to flick them in the head.
"Wait!" Shinso yelled at me, sounding concerned.
"What?" I replied, only to feel a cold biting sensation in my feet.
"Ah!" I yelped in pain, before I quickly scanned my surroundings.
Bakugou was flying screaming profanities, Midoriya and his team were working their asses of to avoid being caught by the many teams chasing him, and I was currently carrying Shinso. along with the still mind controlled, Ojiro and class B kid. Todoroki's team on the other hand was currently running away from us, as they had frozen our feet to the floor and made off with our bandana.
I three-sixty'd my head and glared at Shinso.
"Shinso you asshat!" I roared in anger, as I slammed a hardened hammer shaped fist and shattered the frozen floor.
"Kayama I'm sorry but I-" "I don't wanna hear your bullshit!" I interrupted it him.
"And In third place team Shinso!" Midnight yelled excitedly with a high pitch making me shudder in pain a bit, causing me to break out of Shinso's mind control once more.
The cavalry battle was already done, and I had no fucking clue as to what happened. I started to shake trying my best to recall what in the hell happened but just ...nothing. What the fuck. WHAT THE FUCK! That was just… no... nonononono! My shaking became more rapid before a terror inducing scoff caught my attention.
"I don't know why you're even upset?" A familiar shrill voice questioned.
I slowly turned to see a person I was uncomfortably acquainted with standing in front of an upset Ojiro, wearing lab coat and a sadistic grin that just flat out refused to leave my mind. The person turned towards me and gave me a look that didn't belong of a face like that. A look of concern. I blinked and the figure was gone, with Shinso in their place.
"Kayama are you ok?" he asked in concern as he reached out for me.
I violently slapped his hand away from me with a wild look in my eye. "Stay the fuck away from me." I growled at him, doing my best to hide my fear.
I barely caught his look of distress before I ran past the fountain of tears that was Midoriya and into the building. I ran for a while before I found myself completely alone in a random hallway. I rested a hand against a wall and took deep breaths, doing my best to calm my erratic nerves.
'What's the matter pet.' the voice that has taunted me since I had escaped echoed in my mind.
'Are you scared.' īku asked me in a condescending tone.
I hardened my fist.
(3rd person)
The lunch break had passed surprisingly quickly, and everyone was now waiting to for the first-round fights to be announced. Ojiro and that Class-B kid dropping out of the tournament had shocked Midoriya a bit, it didn't entirely make sense to him. They both worked so hard to just give up at the final stretch, even if their explanation made sense…
Midoriya clenched one of his hands into a fist. 'I don't know if I'd have the strength to do something like that.' He thought to himself before scanning the now small coward of students, looking for Kayama.
Ojiro had cited that Shinso was their reason for dropping out, that he had done something to them with his quirk. Midoriya was hoping that Kayama was ok. After a moment or two he spotted his purple peer out of the corner of his eye. Midoriya chuckled a little, even with his… 'unique' appearance, Kayama never seemed to have any problem disappearing into a crowd. He was almost compelled to call out to him, before he saw the look on the sludge boys face. Midoriya began to sweat in nervous fear as he saw that his gaze was being directed towards Shinso. It was a look that Midoriya had seen many times in his life, though only on Bakugou. A look of unkempt fury.
But even as he sweat with fear, even as Ojiro and Shoda were replaced with other students, even with the stupid prank that Kaminari and Mineta had played on the girls earlier. Midoriya still couldn't get the conversation with Todoroki out of his head.
(Marc's POV.)
'What's wrong?' 'you angry?' 'all that self-control,' 'Afraid?'
'gone in an instant.' 'You're just a puppet.' 'or perhaps…'
'Dancing to my tune.' 'nostalgic?'
'….You know for a voice in my head that's only ever talked shit, you're pretty cocky.'
'...'
'That's what I thought.' I mentally growled before focusing on screen ahead of me to see the now announced first round battles
Kayama Marc Vs Kaminari Denki | Uraraka Ochaco vs Kirishima Eijiro
Ashido Mina Vs Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu | Bakugou Katsuki Vs Yaoyorozu Momo
Shiozaki Ibara Vs Todoroki Shoto | Hatsume Mei Vs Tokoyami Fumikage
Midoriya Izuku Vs Iida Tenya | Shinso Hitoshi Vs Sero Hanta
Kaminari Denki.
Kaminari Denki…
Kami-fricking-nari, a user of electricity, is the first person I must fight. And we were the FIRST-HOT-DAMN-MATCH AS WELL!
"Hey Kayama!" Yelled the very person I had to fight.
Kaminari now stood in front of me with a smile and his hands in his pockets, "Seems like we're the first match!"
"Yep." I sighed in utter defeat, why was my luck so shit?
"Stage fright?" the blonde asked in an understanding tone.
"A bit."
"Ah, don't worry," Kaminari waved off my concern as his smile grew more competitive, "I'll beat you so quick that you won't even have time to worry about the crowd." he smugly declared.
"Sure, sure" I said somewhat condescending, yet good natured tone, "keep telling yourself that Pichu and it might just come true."
"P-pichu!?" Kaminari exclaimed in shock.
I shrugged with a devilish grin, "well, you do hurt yourself when ever you try to attack." I explained smugly before walking off to the stands, ignoring the now angrily yelling Kaminari.
We still had an hour left before the tournament truly started, and in that hour, there were games we could participate in, but I really needed the time to calm my nerves.
I re-entered the building once more and made my way to the waiting room. Just as I took a seat, I felt a rumbling in my right leg. I blinked for a moment before removing my phone from the appendage, and taking a quick look at the caller ID.
"Why the heck is Kota calling me?" I muttered to myself before answering.
"Y'ello."
"WHO'S THE FURRY NOW!" Pixie-Bob yelled with a bit too much enthusiasm before she hung up.
I flinched in pain at the loud noise for a few moments, before pausing to process her words. When her words finally reached my non-existent grey matter, I broke down laughing!
She. Had. A. Point.
(3rd person)
As Present Mic began to hype up the crowd everyone in One-A who wasn't fighting took a seat. Everyone was staring at the arena doors, waiting for the classmates to enter the freshly made arena. Everyone that is, but Mineta.
"Did you guys hear about what happened near the girl's washroom?!" the Purple balled pervert said in excitement.
Iida raised a hand to his chin in concerned thought, "Yes, to hear someone would try and destroy one of U.A's facilities again is quite disturbing."
"D-destroy?!" Midoriya stuttered in fright.
"He's over exaggerating, someone punched a crater in a wall near the girls bath room." Ashido waved off his concerns with a literal wave of her hand.
"She's correct," Yaoyorozu backed up the pink girl, "I asked Cementoss when he was repairing it. The crater was nowhere near any support pillars. Still it makes me wonder who could have done such a thing."
"If only they punched down the girl's bathrooms wall." Mineta imagined hopefully before Jiro plugged of her jacks into his neck, hitting the small perv with a wave of sound that sent him to the ground.
Midoriya mirrored Iida thinking pose as began to ponder who could have broken the wall before remembering Kayamas look of terror after the Calverley battle, and his look of fury when everyone came back for the Tournament announcement. He decided to push those thoughts off to the side for the moment as he turned his attention to the arena, Kaminari and Kayama were now making their way to centre stage.
"IT'S TIME FOR THE FIRST MATCH TO BEGIN!" Present Mic began to announce with vigor!
"Hey Midoriya?" Uraraka asked while lightly poking the green haired boy, "Who do you think is going to win?"
"ON ONE SIDE WE GOT, THE SPARKING, KILLING BOY! KAMINARI DENKI. AND ON THE OTHER, THE ADAPTABLE SLIME! KAYAMA MARC!" Present Mic continued.
Her question brought in the attention of some others around them.
He didn't even have to think to hard to answer that. "Kayama. Even with his weakness to electricity, his fighting style is a bit to," Midoriya paused for a second to think of a good word, "...efficient to give Kaminari enough time to land a strong enough blow to take him down."
"THE RULES ARE SIMPLE! YOU WIN BY KNOCKING YOUR OPPONENT OUT OF THE RING, IMMOBILIZING THEM, OR GETTING THEM TO SAY, 'I GIVE UP'! BRING THE PAIN, WE'VE GOT GOOD OL' RECOVERY GIRL ON STANDBY! ALSO, DON'T BE AFRAID TO FIGHT DIRTY, 'ETHICS' HAVE NO MEANING HERE!" Present Mic explained gleefully
"Kayama's weak to electricity?" Uraraka questioned with head tilt.
"Aren't we all?" Jiro snarked.
"THAT BEING SAID, GOING FOR THE KILL IS A BIG NO-NO, IF YOU DO, YOU'LL BE DISQUALIFIED! A TRUE HEROS FISTS ONLY FLY WHEN IN PURSUIT OF VILLAINS!" the banana haired man chastised.
Midoriya shook his head, "Kayama's weakness to electricity goes a bit deeper then that, even a simple static shock can temporarily disconnect Kayama's control of his slime in the admittedly small affected area. His hardening ability can lower electricity's effective range on his body. But like I said..."
"First round, begin!" Midnight declared with a foxy grin.
"One point three." Kaminari began with a smirk as lightning began to coil around him.
Kayama raised one of his legs as the other compressed, his right fist hardening as he tilted forward.
"Million!" Kaminari continued as he raised his arms.
Kayama became a blur as he sped across the arena.
"Vol-agg!" Kaminari yelped in pain as spittle flew from his mouth; the sludge boy's hardened fist had been slammed into his gut, sending the yellow haired boy flying out of bounds.
"Kayama doesn't like to waste time." Midoriya finished, as almost everyone looked on in awe at how fast Kayama had ended the fight
Kayama slammed his feet on the ground and skidded to a halt, sludge dripping from his hardened fist in large droplets.
"Kaminari is out of bounds, Kayama is the winner!" Midnight announced with just a pinch of joy.
"AND JUST LIKE THAT THE FIRST ROUND IS OVER!" Present Mic yelled at the crowd erupted in cheers!
Kayama strolled over to Kaminari, who was currently trying/and failing to pick himself up.
"You ok?" the sludge teen asked with a raised brow.
"I-I'm fine," the Lightning user grunted as began to shakily push himself back up before he fell flat on his face. Again.
"You sure…?" Kayama trailed off.
There was a moment of silence.
"You hit like a truck." Kaminari said, his voice muffled but his disgruntled tone was loud and clear.
"Yeah, I'll take Pichu to Recovery Girls' room." Kayama informed Midnight before gently hoisting Kaminari over his shoulder and jogging out of the arena
(Marc's POV.)
As I jogged my way down to Recovery Girl's office, I heard Present mic yell something about me being very sportsmanlike before yelling for the next computers to make their way to the arena. And if my memory was correct it was Ashido and Tetsu^4 fighting next. A part of was hoping that tetsu^4 would win, its an easy win for me in the future if he does. But considering Ashido's quirk compared to his, her athleticism, and her fighting style… probably not gonna happen.
I continued walking for a minute before Kaminari groaned again.
"Alright... I-I think I'm good enough to walk back myself."
I raised a 'brow' before setting him on his feet. "You sure?"
The lightning user teetered for a moment before righting himself, cradling his gut with an arm. "I'll be able to get to Recovery Girl myself from here."
"Ok, just don't blame me if you collapse." I said as I gave him a quick two finger salute farewell before running to the One-A stands
When I finally got to the stands everyone was too focused on the fight to notice me. Sweet. I quietly slipped into a nearby seat before directing my attention to the fight below. As I predicted Ashido was dancing around the metal boy on skates of acid, while said metal boy tried and failed to land a hit on her again and again. For while book smarts she lacked, her fighting capabilities were hard pressed to beat. For the next half a minute the process continued, Ashido dodging like a boss while pelting Tetsutetsu with some weak acid to literally melt down his defences. And all the while Tetsu^4 tried some new tactics. From throwing rocks he ripped out of the ground, to crushing said rock before throwing the dust to blind her. But you know how it be, a glob of acid here, a glob of acid there… It didn't take long before Tetsutetsu's defence failed him, and he was thrown out of the arena.
As Midnight announced the winner and the crowd erupted in cheers, I just leaned back in my chair letting out a huff of irritation.
"Yep, that figures," I nonchalantly said, causing everyone around me to jump in shock.
"GAH!" a few of my peers yelped in fear, "When did you get here?" Uraraka asked as she began to take deeps breaths to calm herself.
"A minute ago," I shruged.
"How the hell did you all not notice the purple bastard!" Bakugou yelled angrily at everyone.
I let out an amused huff, "Well, for a living eyesore I'm surprisingly sneaky. Don't take it to hard."
"Kayama you're not an eyesore." Yaoyorozu said reassuringly.
"Really?!" I exclaimed in surprise, "I'm not trying hard enough then."
"Huh?" was the echoed response of several people
"Oh yeah word of warning, remember that semi-serious friend system I have?" I asked, getting a few nods of affirmation.
"Well unfortunately for you, the majority of this class has now reach level three or above, so from now on I will no longer act with the social restrictions we all place upon ourselves when interacting with strangers, formal acquaintances and a few other things I can't remember when everyone is present." I explained joyfully.
"Why is that a bad thing?" Kirishima asked in concern.
"Because the majority will now have to relearn half of my mannerisms." I told them with a smile, before spinning my head to face many of my classmates. "Sucks to be you."
My words got a few sighs of disappointment, glares of indifference, and groans of pain/ the only ones not doing of those three things were my lunch table friends who had got to level three along time ago and were already use to my eccentricities. Still the next round is of the tourney was almost upon us, Todoroki was marching his way up the steps a look of cold fury on his face. To contrast him, the vine headed girl of class One-B, was peacefully walking up the steps with her hands clasped in prayer and a serene smile on her face.
Twenty-three minutes later the arena was now iceberg free, Vine-Girl was lucky not to get frostbite and I was ever to freaking thankful that I didn't have to fight Todoroki first. Because HOLY CRAP! That split-second tidal wave of ice was so freakin scary! One second a nice spring day with light breeze, the next A GIANT WAVE OF COLD ICE. quickly followed by some shouts of 'don't worry about it' form the crowd and an Irate Monoma yelling at us.
What also happened during that time was Iida and Midoriya declaring to beat each other in a 'manly' way as Kirishima put it. As the two made their way the waiting room Bakugou scoffed at them while the rest of my peers went to chatting about various things along with who they thought was going to win. As Todoroki finally got back to our seating area, I was reading away on my phone trying not to but in and say that Midoriya was going to kick Iida's ass even as Uraraka sat there worrying about who to cheer for. Oh, and Kaminari returned form Recovery Girl's office just as the iceberg hit so he had a mini heart attack
I also had to force down a mad grin. The thought of their shocked faces was something I couldn't wait for.
(3rd person)
Midoriya climbed the steps leading up to the arena with a determined glare, this was it. It was time to let loose and show the world that he was here. To show them what he can do. When he finally reached the top, a wave of anxiousness hit him. Between the massive crowd of hero's scouting the students for potential, All Might words speech from two weeks ago and the thought of how just about every person in japan had their eyes on him caused the green machine to tense up for a moment. Midoriya took a deep breath trying his best to calm his nerves, remembering Kayama's words from all the way back then.
"Even if you don't get far this year, you'll have two more chances to show the world what you can do." Kayama said with a lax grin, causing Midoriya to calm down a bit
"I'm not saying 'don't go all out', but, try and pace yourself. K?"
'Pace yourself,' Midoriya repeated the slime boys' words, 'pace yourself and you'll be fine.' he told himself before looking at his opponent with a determined glare.
"IT'S TIME FOR THE FOURTH MATCH TO BEGIN, THIS TIME IT'S THE SPEEDSTER OF CLASS ONE-A, IIDA TENYA."
Iida, who was standing in his usually ridged fashion with a determined glare of his one. He gave Midoriya a short, curt nod to which the One for All user returned.
"VERSUS THE GREEN MACHINE THAT HAS POWERED HIS WAY THROUGH THE FESTIVAL, MIDORIYA IZUKU!"
Iida took a running position, the sound of his engines revving barely audible over the roaring crowd. Midoriya himself took a boxing stance, quickly activating Full Cowell on one percent.
"Ready?!" Midnight asked them.
"YES!" both teens roared in affirmation.
"Then begin!" the eighteen-plus hero yelled.
Iida engines roared as he blurred forwards, one of his legs rising to slam into Midoriya's chest. In the next half a second, Iida's eyes widened in shock as small bursts of lightning erupted from Midoriya before the green haired teen ducked around his kick as was now facing his right side. Midoriya was now sporting a half-grin, after all he knew how to end this in one shot.
Midoriya landed on the concrete floor was a great huff of pain. It was the second day of his training with Kayama, and while his control of his Full Cowell was improving (he no longer lost it when he got hit) he was still getting his butt handed to him by the slime boy.
Said slime boy huffed in disappointment at Midoriya, he was hoping the non-amorphous teen would have seen some of his flaws by now, but it seemed he still needed some tutoring.
"Alright, time," Kayama declared configuring his hands into a 'T' shape, "Why are you 'boxing'?" he asked, referring to Midoriya's lack luster fighting style.
"W-well it's how All Might fights and since my quirk is always being compared to his..." The Green bean trailed off.
Kayama just let out a groan of frustration before hoisting Midoriya to his feet.
"Fine, you wanna fight like a boxer, then let me teach you some boxing." Kayama stated.
Midoriya's eyebrows raised in surprise "You know how to box?"
Kayama shrugged in indifference, "I've watched a few videos and know about a few techniques."
The slime boy lifted Midoriya's right arm and make a slow punching motion towards his side, resting his fist there.
"Do you know what I'll hit if I punch there?" Kayama asked while staring Midoriya down
"My kidney?" Midoriya answer, unsure of where Kayama was going with this.
The sludge boy chuckled and stood back, "Yes, that's defiantly a possibility, but that's not what I'm talking about."
Kayama's tone turned serious, "The punch I'm about to learn ya is called the Liver Shot"
"Oh no." Recovery girl groaned from her bench, knowing that she couldn't do anything to stop the ensuing disaster.
Midoriya's arm reeled back as he clenches his fist and aims slightly above where Iida's kidney is.
"A liver shot requires extreme precision, so only do it when you have a clear shot". Kayama's advised echoed in Midoriya's head.
Iida's arms were raised slightly to balance himself out, giving Midoriya a clear shot at his side.
"It's also a stupidly devastating punch, to much power could even kill someone, so it's best to do this punch at like one or two percent unless their stupid durable."
The glow on Midoriya's arm faded till it was just barely visible.
"That being said if you land this punch it's practically a one-hit-K.O." Kayama informed Midoriya.
"How?"
"You're Literally hitting a liver, a vital organ. And while you'll only ever move the thing like half a millimeter, it's said to feel like all of one's internal organs are moving an inch to the side."
Midoriya slammed his fist into Iida's side. Iida eyes immediately whited out as spittle flew from his mouth. The engine legged teen was still moving though, as all his momentum along with the force of Midoriya's punch still had to go somewhere. Iida collapsed on the ground and violently rolled out of bounds. as Iida laid on his side, he began to silently twitch in pain
The entire coliseum of people was silent, scratch that, half of japan was silent! Only a literal handful of people had fully processed what had just happened. For in one instant a kid who had, to their knowledge never used his quirk during the entirety of the festival had just lit himself up like a Christmas tree blurred behind his opponent and then one hit K.O'd him
Not a single human knew what to say or do.
"WHOOOOHOOOOO! WHADDAYA THINK OF THAT!" A certain sludge person yelled at his stunned classmates with far too much excitement.
But then again Kayama doesn't really consider himself human.
Midoriya looked at Iida's twitching a couldn't help but to flinch in sympathy. He knew all too well what that felt like.
"Anyways, it's time for a practical demonstration." Kayama said as began to shuffle his feet
Midoriya look at the slime bot in confusion, "But you don't have a liver."
"Ya, but you do." Kayama stated the obvious.
"W-what?"
Rinokill: this took way too long to write, and I am so sorry. Lucky the next few chapters are mainly fighting, and I always have fun writing those, so I should be able to get those done at a more pace.
Also, today's my B-Day and I have finally reached the age of twenty and am still waiting for the crisis of mortality that should soon ensue. ...or maybe that's an ongoing thing…