Every MHA Minor character used in a fic any%, part too many to count.
(XX)
Midnight sighed, waiting patiently for the 'Whaaaaaaaat?!' to die down.
It took a whole minute.
"Alright, now that everyone has calmed down-"
"I didn't! Whaaaaaaat?!" Present Mic shouted from the speakers. She sighed again.
"As I was saying… The second game is DDR DDefndeR. Allow me to explain the rules." She gestured toward the twelve pillars. "Each of those pillars is of a different height, starting from thirty meters and each going down by two. The last one is only eight meters tall. At the top of each is a DDR machine."
The DDR machines seemed to light up again at that. Uh, had Nedzu tampered with the AI?
… Oh god Nedzu had tampered with the AI.
… Eh it would probably be fine. At least better than the sword fighting competition from last year.
Or the medieval joust from two years before.
Or the battle royale from three years ago… You know thinking about it this was pretty tame why were people freaking out?
She returned to look at the crowd, smiling and pretending the pause was for effect and not a consideration of the Principal's sanity. "The remaining students will be given a point value based on their results on the race, starting at five and going up from there… with one exception. Each of the students will then pair up with a partner and the twelve couples with the highest score will take the spot at the top of each pillar."
"What happens if two pairs have a point draw?" Someone asked from among the students.
"In that case, the points of the highest scoring member decide. For example, Shoto Todoroki is worth 220 points, and Monoma Neito 5 points, so they make 225 in total. Reiko Yanagi is worth 115 points, and Himiko Shimura 110, so they also make 225. If they both pair up, the pair that includes Todoroki will take precedence."
Everyone started making calculations, that meant the top five scoring students in the race were almost guaranteed a place at the top. "Those pairs are the DDefendeRs. Their objective is dual: first, they want to defend their position. Second, they want to score more points by playing DDR. Remember: only a certain amount of the high scorers will pass to the next round, so you will have to try and actually play the game."
Ashido cheered, and immediately moved to Kirishima to try and form a pair. Midnight felt a twinge of sadistic pleasure in saying the next line. "Also, only the student with the higher score in the pair can dance." She replied.
Ooooh, the look of fear in their eyes. So enticing…
"Meanwhile, the other students will be the InvaDDeRs. Those pairs will have to try to climb the pillars, capture them, and score at least a point on the DDR machine at the top. Of course, harming or breaking the machine is against the rules. If they do, they will get all the points the DDefendeRs had amassed, and take their place at the top. Of course, when I say all the points I mean also the once scored at the race." She smiled, "And with that in mind, allow me to point this out!"
She gestured to the screen, where the points had appeared, and could tell everyone's eyes had glued on the first place.
On the ten million points next to it.
"Anyone that takes the position held by the current first place will automatically pass, because the win is worth ten million points!"
She smiled as everyone's eyes focused on Izuku.
'Good luck kid, hope you know how to play DDR.'
-x-
Izuku looked around. People were starting to team up, and a lot of them were staying away.
Not all of them though.
"Izuku, let's pair up!" Himiko shouted.
"Izukun, pair up with me!" Masuchan said at almost the same time.
"Let's team up boss!" Kyoka said.
"We should team up, boss."
"We should pair up Izuku! Melissa said.
"I-I think it would be a g-good idea…" Hana managed to say, before trying to hide behind Melissa while going bright red.
"I-" Izuku started, when a girl with pink hair and large goggles walked up to the group, grabbed him and started to carry him away. Uh, she was pretty strong if she could just pick him up and- wait that shouldn't have been the focus! "What are you doing?!"
"Uh? I want to be as noticeable as possible! That way my babies will be seen all over Japan!" She smiled, "Uh, do you think I can make a baby for you too?"
Izuku went bright red "I-I-I-"
"Hatsume, put Izuku down!" Melissa shouted, grabbing the teen and snatching him out of her arms, "He has the right to pick his partner."
"That's right, he does." Himiko's voice said, before she in turn grabbed Izuku and pulled him away, "And he will pick me, right?"
"I…" Izuku was kinda panicking. Aside from Hana, who wasn't around, and Masuchan, who was… wait, where had he gone? Izuku looked left and right, to see Hagakure had grabbed the teen and was walking away to join Mineta, Kaminari and Tokoyami, who for some reason was paling visibly – despite having a face covered in feathers – as Dark Shadow waved to a 1-B student and tried to carry his host toward her.
"Izuku?" Himiko asked, and the teen gasped.
"Sorry, I got distracted!" He said, "Uhm, either way, I think I should team up with Himiko." He said quickly, "Sorry everyone."
Himiko smiled proudly. Melissa sighed and turned to grab Mei, only to see she was already gone. "Guess she went look for a partner. Well, I need to do the same!" She gave them a thumbs up, walked off, and Hana basically jumped toward her, begging to partner up.
Izuku sighed. Yeah, they would be fine.
-x-
"It will be fine, man!" Kirishima said.
"I don't want to do it!" Bakugo shouted.
"Come on, it's not manly to not help someone in need!" Kirishima said back.
Bakugo gritted his teeth. "Are you saying I'm not manly?!"
"I'm saying you want to do something not manly. You should help him. And I mean, if you two team up it's basically an assured win, right?"
"Of course it is! I will fucking win this stupid dance off! I would win even if I had the guy at last place with me!"
"Better dead than with class A!" Said guy in last place shouted,
"See! Go for it!" He said, patting Bakugo on the back.
Bakugo snarled, but then walked off to his new partner. "What was that?" Sero asked. He was teamed up with Yaoyorozu.
Kirishima sighed. "Eh, you know, I'm helping Bakubro seeing that there are more fishes in the sea. He needs to see past Midoriya."
"He is shouting at the fish." Sero pointed out, "Are you sure this is fine?"
"Yup!" Kirishima nodded, just as something exploded behind them, accompanied by shouts.
Man, Bakugo's love life was super manly.
-x-
"And it's done!" Midnight shouted, pointing to the arena. "Let's see our pairs. First, standing at the very top, Izuku Midoriya and Himiko Shimura, with ten million and one hundred points!"
"Oh man…" Izuku said, stepping on the DDR machine, "You sure you can do it Himiko?"
"I'm on it!" She said, preparing herself.
"You should think about yourself first, man." The DDR Machine said.
Oh ok, they could talk, sure, thanks Nedzu.
"Next, on the second spot, Katsuki Bakugo and Shoto Todoroki, with 445 points!"
"I only agreed to this because if the cause of your defeat was the fact you suck at dancing, I wouldn't have the pleasure of blowing you to bits myself, Half-and-Half." Bakugo growled.
"Damn, that's some good rivals to lovers vibe right there." The Machine commented.
"Shut the fuck up!"
Shoto sighed, "I couldn't even tell Midoriya I plan to b-"
"On the third pillar, Ibara Shiozaki and Juzo Honenuki!" Midnight continued, ignoring the echo of a 'Oh come on, I wasn't even trying this time.'
"Do you know how to play DDR, Ibara?" Juzo asked.
"The Lord shall guide my steps."
"Damn, you are fucked if you need divine intervention for this." The DDR Machine unhelpfully supplied.
"Hey!"
Honenuki sighed, "… Yeah we are fucked."
"Honenuki!"
"Fourth pillar! Tenya Iida and Tsuyu Asui!"
"I shall do my absolute best!" Iida shouted. Tsuyu gave him a thumbs up.
"Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu and Rikido Sato!"
"Manly duo for the win!" Tetsutetsu shouted.
"Not fair, we are a manly trio." The Machine declared.
"Hanta Sero and Momo Yaoyorozu!"
"I'll be honest, I'm not super confident." Sero admitted.
"I'm sure you will do wonderfully!" Yaoyorozu replied.
"He better, I hate noobs." The DDR Machine said.
"Fumikage Tokoyami and Reiko Yanagi!"
"Dark Shadow why?!" Both teens shouted at the shadow being, who had unceremoniously forced them together by physically dragging both away from the other students.
"This is a great chance to mend your relationship! At least you could be friends!" Dark Shadow replied, "Though you two were sweet together, and I promise I will give you more privacy…"
Reiko huffed, looking away, and Tokoyami sighed.
Midnight sighed longingly, "Ah, to be so young again… Ahem, Sen Kaibara and Hiryu Rin!"
"Feels wrong to be the one being protected." Sen commented, placing himself on the pad.
"Just make sure to score enough points."
"Aye aye, sir."
"Shinso Hitoshi and Mashirao Ojiro, the wild pair of the General Course!"
"Show them your moves Shinso!" Ojiro shouted.
"Yeah Shinso, show us your moves!" The DDR Machine said.
"I hate you both…"
"Pony Tsunotori and Kyoka Jiro!"
"Shouldn't you be the one up here?" Pony asked, gesturing at the DDR machine.
Kyoka sighed, "I'm not good at dancing, I can only sing and play drums, guitar, piano, violin, ukulele, trombone, trumpet, clarinet…"
Pony rolled her eyes, and somehow the DDR Machine did too, "Oh yeah you are so untalented, how silly of me to assume."
"- Viola, lute, organ pipe, lyre, harp-"
"Yeah I got it!"
Jiro coughed. "Ahem. Don't worry anyway, I'm sure it will be fine. Let the music guide your feet."
"She literally has hooves."
"Oh. Right." Jiro sighed, "Well shit."
"Mina Ashido and Ochaco Uraraka!"
"Mwahahahahahahahah!" Mina laughed wildly, standing atop the DDR Machine, "I shall DDestRoy the competition!"
"I'll do my best to protect us!" Uraraka said.
"You can do it bestie!"
-x-
"Go DDestroyeR!" Dabi shouted.
"Why are you so into this?" Compress asked.
"I want my rival to prove herself, is that so weird?"
"Dabi, what the heck are you talking about?" Compress asked. Dabi ignored him, returning his full attention to the TV screen.
-x-
"And finally, the beast and beastmaster duo of class 1-B, Jurota Shishida and Koji Koda!" She concluded, pointing to the lowest pillar.
"We shall prove ourselves despite the adversities, sir Koda." Shishida, a large teen covered in fur, said.
Koda just waved awkwardly at the crowd.
"Are you ready to dance and defend?!" Midnight asked. "Then get ready…"
The crowd cheered, now curious to see how this would go.
"Set…"
The students prepared to select the song, while those at the bottom waited for the moment to move in pairs and try to conquer the pillars.
That was when Izuku realized something. Wasn't the number of students wrong? Forty-six meant two people were missing to make it even…
"Go!" Midnight shouted, and the game started.
-x-
"Yes, I'm fine doctor." All for One said, waving.
"All for One, I'm fairly sure you just had a heart attack."
"Oh, I did." He nodded, "I'm fairly sure I had several. Luckily, I stole a Multi-Hearts Quirk years ago. They should be regenerating soon." He paused, "Oh, here we go. Good boys, keep pumping that blood."
"Sir, this is no laughing matter."
"No it isn't doctor, it seems someone outsmarted me." All for One declared.
"I was more referring at the fact you just said you had several heart attacks…"
"Nonsense, doctor, what are mere multiple cases of cardiac arrest in the face of a wounded pride?" All for One asked.
"I- Nevermind. So, outsmarted sir?"
"Indeed, doctor. After all, what is the alternative? That All Might decided to just pass his Quirk on to a random teenager that so happened to be the heir of the Green Valley Clan? An heir that, by the way, I just so happened to have promised to my daughter shortly before we can assume he was chosen?"
"… Yes?"
"Preposterous. What next doctor, you are going to tell me that everything that has led to this situation is the result of some puerile comedy author's attempt at entertaining the masses through a gigantic and foolish comedy of errors?" He looked to his left, "Because if so, I'd like to have a few words with him."
The Doctor shook his head, "Of course not, that would be ridiculous."
"Yeah, ridiculous."
Ahah, yeah, ridiculous.
"Indeed. I-" All for One paused a moment. He felt like something noticeable had just happened, then shook his head, "I think we have to consider the idea that this was orchestrated."
"But by who?"
"That is the important question, doctor. I would have said Hisashi, but he seems utterly ignorant of the true nature of his son's Quirk. And All Might's brain is entirely filled with muscles, he could hardly be the right candidate. Allow me some time to think." He said, sitting down and turning to the television, "Maybe observing Midoriya will give me some ideas."
-x-
The good news, Himiko Shimura/Shigaraki/Toga considered, was that not everyone had aimed at the top spot. From what she could see, a flock of birds was fighting off three or so groups of teenagers around the lowest pillar. Turns out, talking with animals is a very useful Quirk. Similarly, other pairs were trying their luck at other spots.
The bad news was that the ones that did aim for the top were the strong ones.
And the weird ones.
"To victory, Kirishima!" Hatsume Mei shouted, tied to Ojiro's back with one of her gadgets as the rock-skinned teen used his fingers to dig into the stone and slowly climb to the top.
"Can we use one of your babies?" Kirishima asked.
Mei's eyes grew wide, and then she sniffed.
"Uh, did I say something wrong?"
"No one ever offered themselves as a testing subject for my babies so willingly, I'm deeply moved."
"I'm deeply scared now."
"Too late!" Mei shouted, and the duo was propelled upward by a jetpack.
The good news for them was that they did indeed reach the top of the pillar.
The good news for Himiko was that they shot past that and flew further up, reaching and passing her and flying higher.
"My baby is so powerfullllll!" Mei shouted, as they rocketed up, up and away.
"Uh… Are they gonna be fine?" Izuku asked.
"… I think?"
-x-
Ochaco waved out of the way of the attack of the large teen with blades emerging from his arms. Thankfully, he was being kind enough and only using the back of his blades, but she could still be knocked out by a wrong hit.
"Give up girl!" Setsuna Tokage's floating head said with a wide, smug grin, "My body will finish climbing soon, and when that happens, all your points are belong to us!"
Mina laughed at that, but didn't stop scoring a perfect after another. Ochaco considered her chances. What could she do, what could she do… She didn't have yet any real martial arts training, and while she was strong thanks to work at her dad's business, she was only 'normal person strong'.
So instead…
She sighed. That part of her life, uh?
"You know, you are right." She said, "You are really amazing. You are the best, and I'm so lucky for having run into you." She smiled, pushing her hands together, and then stepped forward, "I really hope we can support each other. Why don't we shake hands?"
Setsuna and Kamakiri both blinked in confusion, but Kamakir spoke first, extending his own hand. "Uh, wow, sure… I guess…"
"Kamakiri no!"
She grinned, and then all five fingers closed around his hand. "Gotcha."
Setsuna sighed as her body finally reached the top.
"Special move: Uravity's Zero Gravity Enemy Baseball bat!" Uraraka shouted, slamming a weightless Kamakiri into Setsuna's headless body.
See, the fact Kamakiri lacked weight didn't mean he lacked mass. So when she slammed his body into Setsuna's, it absolutely sent it flying. And then she just let go Kamakiri, who's body, no longer bound by gravity, didn't lose momentum, instead flying off into the distance.
Setsuna stared at both her body and Kamakiri fly off, grunted as said body impacted the ground, grinned a bit when Uraraka released her Quirk and Kamakiri slammed on the ground too, and then looked at her. "Uravity?"
"Hero name."
"Really?! I'm going for Lizardy!" Setsuna winked, "We should hang out together after this."
"Oh, I'd love that!"
"Great! Now sorry, I need to go recover my body. And maybe my teammate."
"Maybe?" Uraraka asked.
"Maybe. I'm tempted of leaving him there. Where did you learn to sweet talk people?"
"Ahah, well I definitely wasn't a Vtuber that had to do it as a job." She replied.
The silence stretched awkwardly before Mina finally asked. "Were you?"
"I wasn't, and if you say otherwise you are lying!"
-x-
"We made it!" Kaminari and Mineta shouted, posing as they reached the top, grinning. Honenuki's Quirk was good, but he was very limited in its use, since making the entire tower soft, or even just a large chunk of it, would have made it collapse.
And now he was stuck to it, trying futilely to free his foot from one of Mineta's sticky balls. Or well, he could free it by softening the ground, but sooner or later he would have to solidify it again and either end up stuck to it again or forced to walk on the orb.
"I'm not giving up yet!" Honenuki answered, slamming a hand on the ground. Mineta gasped as the ground under his feet suddenly gave way. Pushed on the edge by their fight before, he started to fall. Luckily, Kaminari extended his hand and managed to grab him by the leg.
Honenuki sighed. "Uhm, Ibara, any idea- What are you doing?"
"I'm – pant – praying – puff – for an act of god!" She said, dancing at her best while holding her hands together.
"That's…"
"Alright, now you have done it!" Kaminari shouted, charging forward after having finally managed to drag Mineta back on solid ground.
"Ibara!"
"Our Lord will protect us!"
"I'm not sure-" Honenuki started, before seeing something fall from the sky. "Oh, never mind, here He comes."
"Waaaaah!" the falling object shouted, and then promptly slammed into the pillar, a comet of rocky skin that turned out to be the Class 1-A rock boy that sounded like a Tetsutetsu clone. He was clutching a girl with pink hair and had landed right in front of Kaminari and Mineta, sending both of them back a few steps. "Mei, are you ok?!" Kirishima asked.
The girl sprung up to her feet with a wide grin, "Ah-ah! Worked exactly as planned we are on the top of the pillar!"
"Not the right pillar!"
"Every experiment has a few issues! It didn't even explode this time." She turned to the crowd, "I have even more babies to show! Watch me, greatest companies, and remember my name!"
"Kirishima?!" Mineta shouted.
"Mineta?"
"Kirishima?!"
"Kaminari?"
"Hatsume Mei! Hatsume Mei! Hatsume Mei!" Mei shouted, using a machine to amplify her voice.
"Honenuki." Honenuki concluded with an elegant bow as he turned the half of the pillar all the students were on into mud. The four shouted as the ground suddenly vanished under their feet and they were all sent careening downward. "You know Ibara, this religion thing is pretty nifty actually. Keep going for the Lord's help."
For the first time since he had met her, Juzo would have described Ibara's smile as 'smug'.
-x-
Bakugo jumped from step to step, keeping up his success rate. It wasn't Pink's level – yet, he was going to beat her eventually.
He gritted his teeth.
"Why is no one challenging us!" He shouted, "Where the fuck is everyone?!"
"No one wants to be number Two." Shoto replied.
Bakugo gritted his teeth, "Who the fuck did you just call Number Two?!"
"My dad, hopefully."
"What?"
"Nothing." He frowned, "Don't you think this is a bit… unbalanced?"
"What the fuck does that mean?!"
"I mean, there are twenty-four people on the pillars and twenty-two at the bottom, right? And is not like everyone will go for the same pillar, but it's also not like everyone will split up and take one pillar per pair." He pointed to Uraraka's pillar, where the guy named Monoma was trying to climb to reach the pair at the top. Then Uraraka floated a rock toward the edge and dropped it down.
He created a glass wall out of his breath.
Said glass wall cracked apart at the weight of the rock and then that hit him in the face.
Monoma fell to the bottom of the pillar, caught by a large guy with an oddly shaped head.
"Yeah I can see the point." Bakugo replied, "Guess they didn't plan this well."
"You think Nedzu wouldn't plan this well?" Todoroki asked. It seemed unlikely, his dad always said the Principal was smart to the point it was scary.
"Well then where the fuck is a true obstacle?!"
A loud siren blared, and the doors of the Arena exploded. Bakugo didn't, surprisingly, miss the following step, Todoroki noticed as they both looked at the door.
"Oh, hey, yeah that's an obstacle."
"Would you look at that, it seems two students arrived late to the party!" Present Mic shouted, and Katsuki could hear the shit-eating grin, "It's the twenty-fourth pair, the dangerous duo of 1-Z!"
"There is no class 1-Z!" Bakugo shouted.
"Yes there is, and there are only two students! The Vice Class-Representative, Edgelord He… I mean, Edgelord Hero-in-Training: Odd Eye!"
The crowd cheered, a bit. Yeah, Odd Eye wasn't exactly the most popular Hero. Hard to be when you went around calling yourself an emissary of the underworld and your Quirk was just embarassing.
"And the Class Representative! The Rabbit Hero-in-Training: Miruko!"
"Hey! That's wrong!" Miruko herself shouted, pointing at the mask she was wearing, "Read that right, or I will show you why you don't want to make the Rabbit angry!"
"Ah! Sorry! I mean, the Striped Rabbit Hero-in-Training: Tiger-Bunny!" Miruko smiled wildly, from behind the tiger mask she was wearing. "This terrifying duo is chained together by the arm, on top of being weighted down by half of their body weight."
"That's one of my babies!" Hatsume shouted.
"Ah! How did you get up here?!" Yayorozu asked, looking at the duo that had climbed up to two meters from the edge of her pillar's top.
"We were trying to sneak." Kirishima admitted, "But I like it this way, it's far more manly! Let's have an epic fight, Yaoyorozu!"
Yaoyorozu created a three meters long staff and pushed both students down, ignoring Kirishima's disappointed and betrayed look.
"Watch out! Those crazy students aren't here to get to the next round! They are only here to push down those at the top and shake the game! Let's start part two of the DDR DDefendeR match!"
Miruko grinned. "Say, how good are you with dislocated shoulders?"
"I'm Odd Eye, pain does not scare the likes of I… Wait come again?"
"Great." She said, lunging forward, dragging the Edgelord Hero behind. Remarkably fast for someone carrying half her body weight and another man.
"Eyes on her Half-and-Half Bastard! If you can't dance, you might at least show you can do something useful!" Bakugo shouted.
Todoroki nodded.
-x-
In hindsight, Odd Eye really shouldn't have agreed to this. It kind of killed his whole vibe to get dragged around by Miruko. Maybe he should have questioned why no one else had agreed to this.
"And here they go up the first pillar!" Present Mic shouted.
"We what?" He asked, before slamming face first into the pillar as Miruko ran upwards using the strength of her legs to plant them into the cement and proceed further ahead. "Oh my!"
And then a flock of birds attacked them. Odd Eye covered his eyes and coughed as a rain of feathers entered his mouth. Thank goodness he didn't end up with a pigeon stuck in his throat or something. "Alright, here comes Tiger Bunny!" Miruko shouted, landing at the top of the platform elegantly while he followed slamming face-first into the floor.
"And… And Odd Eye…" He managed to say, standing back up and straightening his black cape, "Surrender now, or prepare to face the suffering of the depths of hell." He pompously awesomely declared.
"Please don't surrender." Miruko added.
The teen on the dance platform had abandoned his post, deciding instead to face them head on, accompanied by his rocky classmate. "I'm afraid we will have to decline." The taller kid with animalistic traits – Jurota Shishida, his name was, Odd Eye remembered it from the list of students that had made it – started to turn more and more animalistic and larger.
"Alright! I love it when kids can back up their words." Miruko said.
And then she launched herself forward, dragging Odd Eye with her. He was thrown against Koji Koda, the other kid, who was thrown in turn off the edge, and then Jurota followed him, landing without much damage on the ground below.
"Alright, one down, eleven to go!" Miruko declared, and then she jumped.
Odd Eye yelped. This was going to be a long five minutes.
The next pair was a guy with the head of a bird and a girl with telekinetic ability. She threw what seemed to be a bird-shaped, solid shadow at them, and it did actually hit them.
Then Miruko grinned, pulled the shadow out of the way with one hand, and threw Odd Eye at the teen like a baseball bat.
Said teen smacked him out of the way with a piece of rock telechinetically moved.
Of course, being the Edgelord Hero, Odd Eye could more than withstand some roughhousing, and he managed to twist on his feet - well foot, the other was still being held by the calf by Mirko, and grab her arm. "You dare defile the Lord of the Underdark? Be at rest, oh magician, as this powerful ruler of the night shows you what hides within your heart!"
Mind Reaper – a name he had legally changed from Truth Seeker – forced people to blurt out their most well-guarded and embarrassing secrets. For example…
"I want to get back with Tokoyami, but I don't know how to approach him!" The girl blurted out, before slamming her mouth shut.
The shadow monster roared in... triumph?
'Oh right, this is a school… Wait, why did Nedzu invite me?! Anyone with a crush will end up confessing it!'
-x-
"AHAHAHAHAHAH!" Nedzu laughed maniacally, as he watched the Third Years struggle against Ryukyu in their own second test.
"Sir, are you sure you didn't go a bit overboard?"
"Of course not, Snipe. This is just preparing them for the future."
"What future?"
"The remaining time that awaits them at UA, mostly." Nedzu replied. "This school is terrifying, they need to learn it fast."
Snipe didn't have it in him to disagree with that.
-x-
"You know, I just had a wild thought." Greedy Gaping Jaw, a tall villain with a grey body, no eyes and the mouth of a lamprey, said.
"Please don't try to use too many braincells, Greedy. It might hurt you." Thousand Eyes, a paper-like Villain covered in eyes and a fellow Handjob grunt, replied.
"Aww, thank you Thousand, it's good to know you worry about me."
"I wasn't- nevermind. So, what's the thought?"
"Well, you know how every Top Hero today is watching this, right?"
"Right." Thousand Eyes nodded. Well, duh, they needed to watch this to choose interns.
"Like, All Might is there, Endeavor is there, Miruko is there, Ryukyu is there, Crust is there, and..."
Thousand Eyes rolled his eyes, "Yes, Greedy, I understand the concept of Heroes being there."
"Well, why aren't we committing crimes right now? Since every Pro Hero is watching this, won't that mean only a handful are patrolling? It sounds to me like this would be the perfect time to commit some big heist, but nothing ever happens the day of the Sports Fest."
"Well see Greedy, that's because... Uh... Uhm..." He considered his answer. Uh. Why weren't they out there? Sure, some Heroes were still patrolling, but almost everyone was busy. This was the perfect day for some high-risk crime they couldn't do any other time. Almost half the Hero population was watching this. Where they all dumb? Was Greedy the smartest one of them all?! Oh god, he was dumber than Greedy?!
"Thousand?"
"Greedy, don't think about it. You are just too dumb to understand." The man replied with a perfect poker face. Quite literally, considering his face was about the same shape of a card.
"Ah. Yeah, I guess you are right." Greedy nodded, content with the answer.
Good. Thousand refused to admit he was dumber than Greedy, the man that once ate a plate because someone had told him it was made of candy.
Even when he was probably right.
-x-
Odd Eye had lost count of which platform they were on, but after jumping through a few he was starting to feel confident something would go wrong. Such was the curse of exposing a son of the night like himself to the light of day. While Miruko happily pushed a screeching pink girl off the stage, followed by a floating brown-haired girl, someone grabbed Odd Eye's ankle. Turning around, he spotted a kid with blonde hair, laughing maniacally as he pushed himself up on the platform.
"Finally! I have you, and your Quirk!" The kid declared.
"Well, let me solve that!" Miruko shouted, lunging forward to push him back off the cliff.
The kid grabbed her. A pretty impressive feat, even if Miruko was weighed down by her own weight and Odd Eye's body.
Unfortunately, by grabbing her, he activated Odd Eye's Quirk he had copied a moment before.
Even the Edgelord Hero himself had refrained from ever using it on Miruko, knowing it would uncover something terrifying. He prepared to hear the worst. Would she admit at killing someone by crushing their heads with her thighs, as internet rumors suggested (he didn't know why everyone else seemed curious rather than scared, to be honest)? Would she reveal something about her rumored experiences in high school, where she was said to be a Vigilante? Would she say the name of the rumored lover some people claimed she had?
What was Miruko's darkest secret?
"I like to wear bunny girl suits during sex!" She shouted.
Miruko froze.
Odd Eye froze.
The blonde kid – Monoma, was the name of the pure corpse-in-the-making – also froze. In two ways. To be fair, that was a perfectly normal reaction for a healthy teenager.
The entire arena went silent at once.
Then someone spoke.
"Eh, knew it." Someone in the silent crowd said with a raspy voice.
"My dear friend, fellow explorer of the hidden secrets of one's mind." Odd Eye said, pointing at him.
"Y-Yeah?" Monoma asked, realizing who he was talking to.
"Run as fast as the winds of Cocytus."
Monoma threw himself off the cliff. Miruko roared in furious anger. Odd Eye had to admit, he felt really sorry for the other students. Miruko was supposed to only push them down and force the second part of the game to turn into 'block the other students from climbing and stealing your platform, or try to reconquer it for your team'.
Now he was fairly sure she was out for blood.
"May the light of heaven shine on those poor souls." He declared.
Then Miruko jumped and he was once again carried away.
-x-
Aizawa looked at the field. Overall, the event was mostly working as intended. The students had realized quickly that, now that they had lost the high ground, the game had become a battle to stop people from stealing their points by reaching the top. It was a matter of making the right decision between climbing back up and defending the pad from above, but at the risk that others would be faster, or just guard the perimeter and try to block everyone from there. Ashido and Uraraka were fighting fiercely against Monoma and a few other 1-B kids, and Shinso, Ojiro, and for some reason Melissa Shield and Hana Shindo, were defending their own tower. Weird that the latter two had given up their chance to conquer it. Or maybe it was someone's Quirk? That would have been Shinso's then, since Ojiro's Tail was very obvious. Something to look into.
Yaoyorozu and Sero and Bakugo and Todoroki had both already climbed back on, though Yaoyorozu was red like a tomato and Sero was patting her on the shoulder. Whatever Odd Eye had made her say, it was an admission that had embarrassed her. Part of the exercise, to be fair. A Hero had to be ready to face the oddest powers, and couldn't let embarrassment, or crying, or... well, laughter, if anyone was like Miss Joke, get in the way.
At least, that was the reasoning Aizawa was desperately holding on to give an explanation to why Nedzu had invited Odd Eye of all people.
The Odd Eye touched Mineta's face. Luckily, they had prepared in advance something to cover the more... spicy secrets, though Miruko had caught them by surprise earlier. Mic slammed a fist on the button in front of him, and a powerful horn - a different one from the 'end of the match' signal - covered Mineta's declaration from the ears of those at home. The fact Asui immediately punched him though proved that for those in the Arena it had been perfectly audible.
Meanwhile, others had failed at defending their position, the best example being Manga Fukidashi and Itsuka Kendo having reached the top of the tower that had previously belonged to Jurota and Koda, the General Studies student starting to dance as best as he could while the girl used giant hands to swat away gently the birds and keep pushing Jurota off.
He looked in time to see Miruko swat Odd Eye like a hammer, spin to turn into some sort of monstrous, bunny girl-shaped tornado, and use the momentum to slam the edgelord vampire wannabe into the ice dome Todoroki had built around the tower, destroying it.
Eh, Odd Eye would be fine. He was wearing his weight in armor, after all.
There were shouts, an explosion, ice, and a shout ti 'use your fucking fire, you fucking Zuko wannabe!' before both teens were unceremoniously tossed out of the remainder of their shield. To their credit, they both slowed their landing with the respective powers, Todoroki making an ice platform and Bakugo using explosions, used the moment to freeze solid Mineta and Kaminari as they tried to climb to the top, and immediately rushed to reach the top again.
And then Miruko reached the highest pillar.
-x-
"Give it up already!" Monoma shouted, "You are facing almost half of class 1-B, and two of us will make it up there!"
Ashido looked around. Uraraka was pushed back against the Pillar, doing her best to try to stop two Class 1-B members. She was up against six more. "You are making a miscalculation."
"Uh?"
"You are not taking my points. Because I am not letting you." She said with a grin.
"And you think you can stop us?"
Ashido grinned, Acid starting to pool out of her arms. "I can. I am the DDR DDestroyeR! I am the future Hero Alien Queen! And if you think you can so much as lay claim on a single on of the points I made through an art I've perfected for a decade, you have another thing coming."
"W-Wait..."
"Bow to the Queen, you peasants! Become offerings to the DDR goddess!" And with that she rushed forward cackling maniacally. "For the glory of DDR!"
"Wow, she is terrifying. That's really hot." Tsuburaba commented. Uraraka clocked him in the jaw.
-x-
Izuku yelped as Miruko and a battered Odd Eye – uh, he must have had some rough classmates – reached the top. He watched Miruko grin. "Well then, kids, give up now, or else…"
Izuku jumped forward, attacking with One for All. The rules said he could use his Quirk, and Miruko was strong enough to take a hit or two with his current Full Cowling.
She blocked the punch with a piece of her weighted armor and smiled. "I like it. Odd Eye, do your thing." She said.
Odd Eye moved his hand and grabbed Izuku's wrist.
A thousand secrets rushed to Izuku's mouth. I like Himiko. I'm All Might's heir. I have every single piece of merchandise All Might ever produced that is available on the market, except for a few limited events. My friends work for a Villain. I'm in love with Himiko. I'm the heir of the Green Valley Clan. I write All Might fanfiction.
Unfortunately, what Mind Reaper selected wasn't big secrets, it was embarrassing secrets.
And in his defense, he had the subject of said secret right in front of him. And he had been preparing to shout 'Smash!'
"I've dreamed of *hoooooooonk* Miruko's abs and legs!" Izuku shouted, the horn coming in clutch to cover him up for the people watching at home. Only at home though, because Izuku had shouted.
At full lungs.
From the highest spot of the Arena.
Everyone knew what he had just said.
Everyone heard the word 'licking'.
The fact Mineta immediately started clapping and crying in admiration, before the rest of the audience – mostly males, but a good number of women too – joined in, making it just marginally worse.
Mostly because it couldn't really get much worse.
On the bright side, though, Miruko was so utterly stunned by this admission that when Himiko, transformed into Shoji – uh, she must have gotten the blood at some point – barreled into her and pushed her off the pillar, with Odd Eye getting dragged after her.
And then the horn that signaled the end of the second event sounded.
Himiko as Shoji turned toward him and awkwardly looked at him, returning to normal.
"… I won't judge?" She said hesitantly.
Izuku slumped to the ground.
(XX)
I'm scared, I think All for One is onto something.
Alright, and that was the match. Good job Izuku, you managed to not reveal any of your actual important secrets. Sure, maybe you had to declare on national TV something extremely embarrassing, but look at the bright side.
No one will remember this in a week or so.
Probably.
So, Odd Eye. Character from the spin-Off My Hero Academia: Team-Up Mission (pretty funny one, I must say), the Edgelord Hero (Chuuni Hero in the original, but I get the change), his power is touching you and making you blurt out embarrassing secrets.
OP pls nerf.
And Thousand Eyes is a real USJ minor Villain, but I figure you guys already figured that out.
Next week, the results of the second event, and then we move on to... Not what you expect, probably.