"Okay, everyone. You all have ten minutes to choose your groups before the event starts. Ready? Go!" Midnight shouted.
I turned quickly, looking for anyone to join with. I didn't have to worry about how many points anyone had (obviously), but I did have to worry that no one would join my group. Why? Because every team would be going after my team for our ten million points.
I searched everywhere, looking for just one person that would want to join me, but every time I looked at someone, they just turned away with an apology.
"Five minutes left!" Midnight announced.
What! I have to hurry!
I scanned the area one last time and saw Bakugo surrounded by a ton of our classmates, all wanting to be on his team.
"Hey, Bakugo, want to team up with me?" I asked him.
"No way, shitrag. Then everyone will be gunning to take us out," he told me.
I thought of a way to manipulate Bakugo into letting me join his team.
"Well, you want to be the indisputable winner, right? You want to show everyone that your the best and that Midoriya is worse than you. Also, I have a plan to keep everyone away from us. You have to trust me, Bakugo." I told him.
"Tch, fine, you can be on my team pretty-boy. You too, Tape Arms and Shitty Hair." I think that translated to Sero and Kirishima.
"My name is Kirishima, and my hair isn't all that different from yours, Bakugo!"
"Times up! Everyone go stand with your teams so we can count up your points and distribute the headbands!" Midnight announced.
Our team had a total of... well it didn't really matter. We had the most points.
"Ok guys, so you all know what my quirk is right?" I asked them. They nodded. "Well, If I'm the rider, then..." I began before Bakugo cut me off.
"Huh, pretty-boy? Didn't you say you wanted to join MY team? I have to be the rider." Bakugo said. I thought about this carefully.
"Are you sure? I can't use my quirk with only one hand. You'll have to stand on my shoulder whenever I want to help you guys." I explained.
"That's fine, shitrag. If anyone can do it, it would be you." Bakugo snarled. Wait, was that a compliment?
"Ok then. Well, obviously Kirishima, you are the front of our horse. Sero, you can be on the right side. Try to get the headbands with your tape, or trap people to keep them away from us. I'll be on the left side and..." I tried to begin before Midnight suddenly told us to get into our positions.
We got situated, Bakugo sitting on top of us. All the other teams got ready too. I saw two big competitors, Todoroki and Midoriya's teams.
"Ok, ready? Go!" Midnight shouted. Just as she did this, I saw all of the teams rushing at us.
"Ok Bakugo, get on my shoulder. Everyone, shift so that I'm in the facing them!" I told them. They did so.
According to Midnight, I couldn't deliberately knock them out of the stage. All I had to do was keep them away from us.
I looked over to see Mineta throwing his balls at Midoria's team. Perfect.
This is where my secret move came in handy. The group swap. With one hand pointed at Mineta's balls, I made a circle with my other hand. At the same time, I clenched them, and then one team was gone, put into the crossfire between Midoriya and Mineta. I continued to do this for every team that came near us, and after a minute or so, the other teams were mostly all fighting with each other now.
"Great job, Robaato!" Kirishima said.
"Yeah, that was great!" Sero agreed.
"Tch, just don't mess up," Bakugo said.
"Okay, well I'm going to take a small break, okay guys? If anyone comes, you'll have to deal with them." I told them.
Just as I said this, Bakugo shouted something, and I turned to see a blond haired boy pull our team's headband off of Bakugo's head.
"Wow, how easy. Those other teams are all so dumb, just fighting each other." the boy said.
"Bakugo, what happened?" I asked. He didn't respond.
"Oh hey, you're sort of famous, right?" the boy started "You were in two villain attacks, right? How does it feel to be so... hopeless?" the boy said.
"Hey, don't say that!" I shouted. "Also, Bakugo was only in the villain attack with class 1-A."
Bakugo was teeming with anger now, about to burst.
"Oh, you didn't hear about the sludge villain attack? Poor Bakugo here was captured and crying like a little baby." the boy explained.
"Oi, you, shut the hell up. Kirishima, Robaato, change of plans. We're going to kill that team." Bakugo said in a deep, menacing voice.
"Okay, just calm down, Bakugo. We have to stay calm or we will never win this." I told him.
"Don't tell me what to do. You're just some weak-ass wannabe who can't even save his family. Yeah, I found out about that." he yelled. I froze. How did he know? That didn't happen in Japan...
"What did you say to me?" I said, my voice barely a mutter.
"What is he talking about, Ri?" Kirishima asked. He looked at me, confusion etched on his face.
"I... I can't talk about it. I..." I paused, remembering the entire moment.
"Hey, are you okay, Ri, you're crying," Kirishima said, snapping me out of the memory.
"Yes... I'm fine. Let's just go get the points back." I said. I was totally done with Bakugo right now. That was just way too far.
"If you think I'm so useless, Bakugo, let me prove to you I'm not," I told him, before playing his foot on my shoulder. I extended one of my arms onto my shirt and another onto one of the headbands on the blond's head. I swapped them.
Looking at the point value, I saw that it wasn't the correct headband. Damn it. I tried again, looking towards the boy again. He was struggling to get my shirt off of his head, and just as he did so, I smiled to myself, placing my other hand on my tank top that I was wearing under my P.E shirt. After swapping them, I turned my hand over to see the ten million point headband looking up at me.
I silently handed them over to Bakugo and removed his foot from my shoulder and back onto my hands. We didn't speak a word as we started to run away.
"Two minutes left!" I heard someone announce. I didn't really care. We just had to keep our points for as long as we could.
Kirishima blocked all the incoming attacks. Sero blocked people off and caught them with his tape. Bakugo blasted away any incoming teams. I was so tired I just tried to keep up with them.
I could hear myself panting loudly, and wished that this stupid game would just end already.
"One minute left!" Midnight announced. Just as she did this, It seemed that every team decided that they should try to go for us one last time.
"Sero, wrap your tape around us. Make sure we don't lose each other." I told him. "We're going to get out of here."
Right after he had secured us together, I cupped one hand in an area around us, and another pointed towards a cloud above us.
"Ten seconds left!"
The teams were almost right on top of us now. I swapped us.
I looked down at the battle below us. Everyone seemed to be confused as to where we went. I could hear Sero screaming to the side of me.
"Don't worry guys. We'll be fine." I told them. "Trust me."
As we were falling, I swapped Kirishima and Sero with my shoes that I had left on the ground.
"Bakugo, you have to stop yourself with your explosions, okay?" I told him.
"What about you, idiot. What are you going to swap yourself with?" he asked me. I wasn't really sure if I could swap again. After this event and the obstacle course, I was just so tired.
"I don't know. Just do it, okay?" I told him. I closed my eyes as I fell, just hoping that when I opened them I would see something that could save me.
I felt something grab onto my arm and felt myself being pulled onto Bakugo's back.
"Don't be an idiot, Robaato. I'm... I won't bring up that thing with your parents again. Just hold on." Bakugo growled, starting to make small explosions to slow our descent.
Eventually, we made it to the ground, me still on Bakugo's back. Just as his feet touched the ground, the crowd started cheering. I was just so tired then. I could even keep my eyes open anymore.
I tried to get off of Bakugo and felt myself losing consciousness. Just as my eyes were closing, I saw Bakugo reach back out for me, trying to catch me.
I thought to myself that maybe he wasn't as big of an asshole as he acted, before drifting off into a short sleep.