CHAPTER 18


Izuku's POV:


"IZUUUKUUUUUU" Oh yeah, your mom is here. Oh yeah. Oh wait. Wait… Oh no. You turned a 180 and was immediately crushed in a motherly hug. "Don't you ever scare me like that again! Gerald…" You saw Carlos straighten up. He's shivering. Why is he scared of your mother? "I told you to take care of my son."

"Umm… Uh… I can explain."

"Don't keep me waiting." Oh now you know why. She's got that look in her eyes. You also feel killing intent in the room. You're pretty sure everyone felt it.

"Is your mother really this scary?" Artemis whispered into your ear. "U-um, I think she's just w-worried a-about me. Motherly love, am I right?"

"L-look mom, it was all an accident. I kinda did it to save a… girl." Your mom's personality turned 180 the moment you said girl. "MY SON'S GOT A GIRLFRIEND?!" Shit. Great now you're a blushing mess in front of your classmates. You would look at Carlos for support but it looks like he took that as an opportunity to escape from his apparent doom. You looked at Artemis who is uncharacteristically blushing. "Ma'am, your son is merely acting as a gentleman would. I'm pretty sure anyone would save me." She still managed to say that without stuttering.

"I woudn't. I mean, I'm gonna be the devil's advocate here but that was all caused by the sudden stop."

"Not now, Aron."

"Okay, Natalya."

"Mom, how did you even get here in Europe that fast?"

"Gerald's brother received an invitation as well as me. He can't go since he's training for his shot at first place tomorrow at UA's third year Sports Festival. He offered to open a portal to Europe to see you. I simply can't refuse an offer. He'll open it back when the Sports Festival is done."

"That's very kind of Rien." Your mother then faced your classmates.

"Thank you, all of you, for being friends with my son. He never really had any friends due to his quirkless state back then. Izuku, no matter what happens in that tournament, I will always be proud of you. I also think that you're really cool.

"Mom, we still have a tournament to do. I'll see you later when I win. And… thanks." You said as you hugged her. "Remember, I'll be cheering for you."

"Getting cocky, aren't cha?" You heard Apollo say with a laugh. "Nice. You'll have to get through me first, though."

"Don't forget Apollo, you'll either fight him or me." Natalya said. She's technically the strongest in your class. Her dragon scales are tough to break and you learned that the hard way when you and the class practiced non-quirked combat. In fact, it looks like Sir Chad focuses more on not using quirks than using quirks. Maybe it's because there's times where you wouldn't be able to use your quirks, but still. Then again, he said: "You could practice your quirks at the grounds 'slong as you got my permission. You ALWAYS have my permission.". That being said, you quickly started thinking as

"Don't count me out. Guns vs Flashbang, who would win?"

"Well, technically a flashbang could just make you lose sight an-"

"Becky, that was a rhetorical question."

"Sorry. Can't help when you're really smart. And even then, you're not even trying to make a point so that's a normal question at best."

"We get it."

"Shouldn't we be watching Frey and Jolena right now? The match already started. I'm pretty sure Edward and Carlos is already by the stands."

"Eh, what could possibly go wrong am I right?"

"Aron, the last time you said something like that, we were attacked by the undead and a cat girl with a terrible villain name." Everyone chuckled at the thought of Pussymeister.


Carlos' POV:


This is bad. Really fuckin' bad. Jolena got hurt really fucking bad. Frey's rushing towards her. Well, 2 of her. The motherfucker seriously forgot that any damage to her quirk is a damage to her. "Clown." You looked at Edward who is somehow calm about this. "You mentioned something about being the Lord of Time, am I correct?"

"Yeah?"

"Can you potentially stop Jolena's Time Flow?"

"Chronostasis? Sure but the 5 minute mark's gonna knock me the fuck out. Can you make me a stabby thing?"

"Stabby thing? What are you-? No. You are NOT going to do that." Edward soon realizes what you're about to do.

"Either me or her, bruh. Just. I'll do it quick."

"Ugh. Fine. I won't be responsible for this." He created a diamond ice pick. Good enough. You went inside an isolated area where no one can see you and did something you would have never thought would happen. You killed yourself. You see yourself getting ejected from your body before getting pulled back in by an unknown gravity. Everything around you when you were dead always seems to fade away into nothingness. You knew what nothing looks like. It's the type of shit you're trying to avoid. You fucking hate it. You quickly discarded the thought as you opened your eyes and pull the ice pick out. You quickly teleported at the arena and put her on Chronostasis.

"She ain't losing anymore blood for 20 minutes, bro. Do your shit, Frey."

"Yeah." The motherfucker's eyes were red. Was he crying? Agh, nevermind. "We are so not gonna tell this to anybody else in the class, capiche?"

"Yeah." He managed to reattach Jolena thought she's still unconscious from blood loss. "I fucked up, Carlos."

"Eh, you better try again then. Just tell her sorry when she wakes up." You looked towards the audience who are now looking less panicky and more relieved. It's not everyday that you see a teenager getting cut in half.

"Looks like everyone's calm now, Lancey. Good job to Carlos for preventing any more blood loss. Look's like Frey wins though. I don't want to say this but I doubt that he'd be able to get any internship after what happens."

"Right indeed. It might be best that we ban lethal weapons in the final round from now on. This could have ended in tragedy if it weren't for the prince's quick thinking. He did seem to tell Carlos something which might have been Carlos' ability."

"You teleported back to the arena as Mr. Universe's sidekicks start getting Jolena out via stretcher with Frey following behind. Just in time as the rest of your class came into their seats. "Oh, the match is already over it seems." Art said. "Dude, we missed the entire thing, was it great."

"No. The match had half-heartedly happened." Nice choice of words you did there, Edward. "Nothing bad happened. Jolena got destroyed though and Frey's not himself right now."

"So something bad DID happen?" Natalya asks ever the mom she was. "Well, you could say getting hit by the blunt side of the sword is a bit painful. Especially in the face."

"Ah, I see."

"It looks like you and Izubro is up next though. Good luck with your match."

"Thank you, Carlos."

"Thanks, Carlos." You see the two off and walk away towards the center. This is gonna be an interesting match.


Jolena's POV:


You woke up. You had a weird dream about getting cut in half. That is, until you realize it wasn't a dream. You're at the school clinic with Frey watching you with worried eyes. Well, the closest thing to being worried. You really want to see this face when you finally get to lay him. "Well. Look's like we finished the match in HALF a minute, didn't we, Frey?"

"Jolena. This isn't funny anymore. I fucking BISECTED you."

"You healed me, didn't you?"

"That shit doesn't matter when I almost killed you. I'm gonna intentionally lose to Rabbit after this."

"Who's fighting anyway?"

"Emma and Mira Fokal."

"Aren't there anymore before them?"

"Artemis won, Apollo won, and Garfield from Class 1B won."

"I can see how Art and Apollo won but Garfield? Who's that."

"Class 1B guy who got an animal morphing quirk. Turned into a bee to avoid Aron's singing and then into a Bullet Ant and stung him in the balls. It was kinda funny."

"IT'S NOT FUNNY WHEN YOU'RE THE ONE WHO GOT STUNG IN THE BALLS, ASSHOLE!" You heard Aron yell from the other side. Both of you chuckled at that. Frey stopped before you though and gave you a look that was so pitiful that you could almost cry. Almost. "I'm sorry." He had tears though he doesn't have a crying face. "I really fucking am, okay?"

"I said it's fine, didn't I?"

"No, you bitch. Me cutting you in half isn't fine."

"You guys were the closest thing I have to friends. I didn't want to hurt you. Too much. But still, I went overboard. If you want to… I don't fucking know, not be friends anymore? I understand." Ugh. This fucker. Now you know why you like him. You just decided to kiss him right then and there. Maybe fuck him later but that can wait.

"You guys know that I heard that right?" Good job, Aron. Way to ruin a moment.

"No me jodas, Aron? I was this close to getting laid with Frey but you had to ruin it."

"Really now, Jojo?" You looked at him with his eyebrows raised. "Not even gonna ask me to go out with you? Just go straight to Home Run, why the fuck not? You know what? Let's start over. Name's Frey Suvi, a complete utter asshole who just bisected you. Nice to meet you." You smiled. "My name's Jolena Consejo. Your future bitch who decided to forgive you. Nice to meet you."

Both of you laughed. "You're not my bitch, bitch. You're not anyone's bitch. So, wanna go out after I lose to Rabbit?"

You heard Aron sigh really loudly. "True love. Doesn't matter who gets cut in half. Always saying sorry to each other and forgiving each other. Show's that you care more about your relationship more than your ego, don't you think?"

"Aron, shut up before I bring Bill in here."

"Okay."

"You better prepare for your next match you know?"

"Nah, maybe I'll just stay here. Someone who's okay to date someone who just cut them in half totally means that you're not mentally fucked up."

"You're both fucked up." For fuck's sake, Aron.

"Yeah and Carlos listens to ICP but denies liking them. He's the most fucked up because of his quirk and it's effects to his ever nurturing insanity. That combined with the fact that his personality clashes due to these Classpects he's talking about. The need to have a specific personality to be that class? He's sick and he's trying to hold it back with that medicine of his. He's gonna flip his shit sooner or later." All of you shudder at the thought of Carlos murdering everything in his path.

"Ooookay." You stood up from your bed. You aren't really feeling any pain. You felt cold when you kissed Frey. He used his quirk to save you but you didn't expect it to affect him that much. "How about we continue our conversation elsewhere?" You gave him that look. He looks back. "You disgust me. Follow me." Now he's talking.


Carlos' POV:


You suddenly felt chills in your spine. "Are you okay, Carlos?"

"Someone's fucking."

"You're not okay then."


Izuku's POV:


"Mira Fokal's quirk consists of taking hits from her opponents and then dealing out the damage. I wonder how much she can take and give back before getting knocked out. Could she potentially a stop a gigantic asteroid from obliterating the Earth if she somehow survived it head on and deal back double the damage? One way that could stop her is damaging her more than she could take though we don't really know how much she can take. If she's so good at redirecting blunt attacks can she take stabs and slash or would it just damage the opponents in less sharp wa-"

"Bro, you're muttering again. You just spooked half the class." He pointed towards your classmates who was giving you a weird look.

"O-oh, sorry Carlos."

"Eh, it's fine. Just… I don't fuckin' know, try muttering in your mind? I could use my Bard of Breath powers and temporarily take away your voice or some shit, if you want to?"

"N-No, I'm good." The match itself seems evenly matched with Emma hitting Mira very hard while saying sorry as she dodges Mira's counter attacks. This went on for a while though it looks like Emma's tiring out. It seems like Mira had a lot of stamina in store of her seeing as she's barely breaking a sweat. Combine that to her muscular build compared to Emma's leaner build and she is definitely fully invested in defense and counter attacks. Looking at it that way, it looks like Mira had a balance of being an out-boxer and a slugger since she only ever seem to use punches in the fight. You thought to yourself that one good hit at a weak point might be the one that's going to take down Mira though you don't really see Emma as a precision type fighter. Precision is the Iro Twin's specialty after all. She's more of an elegance type of fighter. Easily seen through her Gymnastics style of fighting. There's a lot of types for fighting but what scares you the most are somewhat similar to Carlos'. FUCKING unpredictable. One second they'll be knocked and the other second, you got your face eating dirt. Not the best to fight them completely alone.

That being said, it looks like Emma got knocked out due to her lack of stamina. Oh wait, okay now that's just brutal. You could see Mira walking up to Emma with her fist raised ready to finish off your classmates. "I didn't even land a punch in. At least this would compensate for it."

"MIRA, YOU FOOL! SHE'S ALREADY DONE FOR! STOP!" You could hear Dolph scream as Mira's getting near. Carlos looks ready to teleport Emma out of the way just in case she did decide to do so. Wait. Why isn't he doing it now, though? "Shut up, Dolph! She's still barely breathing. Best if I knock her out, now." That moment of distraction gave Emma enough to stand back up in a burst of speed courtesy of changing her body's pull of gravity and landing a really hard punch to Mira's lower right rib. A liver shot. "HA! She actually used what I thought her." You heard Artemis sounding like a proud older sister.

"The old playing dead trick, am I right, Lancey?"

"Right indeed. Not the most honorable but it's either you play fair at the cost of a disadvantage or play unfair to even the playing fields. I would recommend the second choice for that."

"I could agree with that but I would appreciate a fairplay once in a while especially in something that isn't really a life and death situation."

"Agreed."

"THE WINNER IS… EMMA VOLANTE!"

AAAAAnnndd Emma went back to a really shy girl after realizing that everyone is watching her. That ALMOST happened to you after beating Natalya. How you ask? Turns out you were somewhat immune to flames in a way. Such as, not burning yourself even after holding the flames with your quirk for too long. You easily had the speed to dodge Natalya's full offense type of fighting. You easily outpaced her until she could no longer maintain her full dragon form and easily pushed her out of bounds with your quirk. Well, you don't want that type of win so you kinda ripped a chunk of concrete out and chucked it at her. She managed to block it and but the momentum was enough to push her just barely out of bounds. Had this been a real fight, you woudn't have been sure on who would actually win.

"Now that that fight's over, we're moving on to the next contenders…"

Oh right. Carlos was up next against… Lucy? You wonder if her quirk is correlated with her name. Eh, that's too ridiculous. You turned to face Carlos only to see that he's already gone. He seems to have left a note.

"A translation of Lucy Pera's name means Lucky Bitch. She got parents who's shitty at naming people."

"Is that even necessary, Carlos?" You muttered to yourself.

"NOW FOR THE NEXT FIGHT! THE CLOWN FROM DOWN UNDER-"

"Eat, your son's not an Australian."

"At least let me spice things up a bit. We're like golf commentators for the entire festival."

"Fine."

"NOW, THE CLOWN OF THE DARK CARNIVAL! THE MASTER TRICKSTER! CARLOOOOOOOSSS CUUUUUUURRRRDOOOOOOOO!"

"Pops, I'm not a fan of ICP."

"STOP LYING! I'VE SEEN YOUR DORM ROOM ENOUGH TIMES TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE A JUGGALO!" Angus, the one with the unfortunate job to clean the boy's rooms this week, might have indeed seen the exact mess that was Carlos' room. Everybody in our class just laughed.

"Motherfuck." Well said, Carlos. Well said.

"AND NOW FOR THE OPPOSING SIDE! THE LADY OF FORTUNE! SHE HAS LUCK ON HER SIDE! LUUUUUCCCYYYYYYYYY PEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRAAAAAA!"

Carlos' opponent seems to be smiling with confidence, or rather, cockiness. This is gonna be an interesting match.

{- To Be Continued


Okay. So. Yeah. Not my best chapter. But not my worst. There's not gonna be any smut in this story so I guess if that's what you're waiting for, well, sorry to disappoint. It WILL be implied though. I just ain't interested in making smut. (That was a lie. I suck at writing smut. Like. What am I gonna write? "He inserted his cock into the pussy." How do I make that sound less awkward? Maybe it's just how I wrote it but hopefully you got the point.) Thing is, after this, the internship, and the finals arc, I'll be waiting for the movie to come out or the movie comes out while I'm writing this but if I have to wait, then I'll be working on Izuku with a Guitar while waiting.