Izuku sat back in the stadium bench as he waited for the next match. Momo and Mina should be arriving soon. The crowd was going nuts for the two girls, even if it wasn't for the best reasons. Izuku had to wince, he wasn't much better than the crowd on this one. Both of them are very pretty and they didn't exactly leave much to the imagination with their fight.

Bakugo took a seat next to him where Kaminari was previously.

"What do you think for this fight, nerd?" He asked as he glared at the arena. The visible signs of Izuku's fight were still present in the area around the concrete arena and near the wall leading to the stands.

Izuku tilted his head, "Kaminari is a great fighter, he has a lot of experience from our dojo. Not to mention he's really come into his own with his quirk. I honestly don't think Kendo has a chance here."

Bakugo grunted, but before he could speak a voice from the wall next to them spoke up.

"Oh ho! So, you 1-A chumps are so arrogant that you think we don't even stand a chance against you? You idiots are going to regret it!" A head of blond was seen near the wall separating classes 1-A and 1-B.

Izuku looked over at the boy, he had a manic look in his eyes, but Bakugo spoke up.

"You class B losers aren't a challenge to us." He said with a red eye glaring at the boy, "I seem to remember none of you managing to keep a headband without our class helping."

Bakugo pointed over to Uraraka who squeaked at the attention and Jiro who just sighed, "Round face and earlobes must have carried your classmates."

The manic look in the blonde's eyes went away and a cold look came upon them, it would seem that he was playing it up, but Bakugo's words struck a nerve. Izuku had to shake his head, he honestly didn't know who that was, though he was sure that Bakugo just made a troublesome enemy.

"That's not true!" Shouted Uraraka while waving her arms at Bakugo, "They're really good! Don't be so mean!" She said with a glare at the explosion boy.

Jiro reached over to pat the girl's shoulder, "Don't worry about it, this is gonna be some macho stuff now. Doubt we'll come up anymore."

True to her assessment Bakugo and the blond continued to glare at each other. Izuku turned away with an eyeroll and notice Mina and Momo walking up with a new set of gym clothes and sheepish smiles.

"Momo! Mina!" Izuku called with a wide smile getting everyone's attention on the two of them. "Great fight!"

The two girls were swarmed but it quickly died down when Kaminari and Kendo stepped out onto the arena.

Momo and Mina sat directly behind Izuku, Bakugo and Uraraka.

Izuku leaned back to look at the creation girl, "Why didn't you use some of the stuff we saw in the first two events?"

"I have to be careful not to use all my resources in the first fight." She answered while rubbing her arm, likely from the phantom pains of the acid rain. Mina looked over with a small wince. "I didn't get a chance to tell you, good fight earlier."

Izuku gave her a wide smile in return before looking down at the arena.

Kaminari inhaled deeply, "I don't like it, I don't like attacking girls, but I know better than to hold back here." He muttered to himself.

The announcements began, "On one side we have the resident spark plug from 1-A. On the other we have the fist of fury of 1-B! What do you expect to come, unbiased teacher of class 1-A?"

"I would never be biased…this fight will end quickly." Aizawa answered in a monotone that seemed to exasperate everyone in earshot.

"There you have it! Take it away Midnight!"

"Are both combatants ready? Great, Fight!" She shouted with a crack of her whip.

Kaminari didn't want to be that guy. This wasn't a fight to establish the strongest hero student. Hell, he was sure there were some serious powerhouses that didn't even get to shine because of the types of events there were leading up to now.

That being said, to show his stuff, he'll have to really show off. That means that the girl in front of him likely won't have a chance to do the same. It was unfortunate for her, but such is life.

Kaminari's body had a golden glow to it as small arcs of electricity sparked off of him, he took a sprinters stance and shot forward.

'Super Move: Thunder Flash' He thought.

To the ones in the crowd without the awareness to keep up, it was like a golden streak that blitzed forward right at Kendo. It was like a stream of lightning, and it sound like a taser going off right in their ears.

Kendo knew she had to act fast before the fight began, so as soon as Midnight yelled start, she made her fist as big as possible and punched forward with all her strength. Her only hopes were that he couldn't course correct easily.

That's when Kaminari's true skill was made known, the gold streak zig zagged around Kendo and impacted her in the right flank taking her off her feet and launching her off of the arena out of bounds.

In the time it would take to open a bag of chips, the fight began and ended. The crowd could barely comprehend it before a roar of applause sounded throughout the stadium.

Hawks was rarely impressed with students, well their abilities at least. But even he had to admit that the kid was impressive. "He's a quick one." He said with a nod of his head.

"His reaction speed is impressive as well, to be able to course correct the instant her fist was in his way." Added Edgeshot. "The boy has potential so rarely seen; his upper limits aren't clear as well. Shame the girl didn't have the opportunity to show her abilities."

Miruko agreed, "It's a shame, but we know what her quirk is so I'm sure that everyone else does to. She did the best she could. Overwhelming speed is hard to overcome."

"I will extend the boy an offer if he continues to impress." Commented Edgeshot.

Ryukyu shook her head, "I wish I could have seen more from the girl. Shame" She said with a sigh.

Endeavor stayed silent, there wasn't much he could offer to someone like Kaminari Denki. The boy's quirk seemed to be an internal manipulation emitter type, which was the opposite of his hell flame quirk. The girl, Kendo Itsuka seemed to have been given the short straw, but he was sure some of the brawling heroes would throw her an offer based on round 2.

Izuku could only shake his head after the showing from Mei and Ida.

"After twenty minutes of showing her inventions and tech it would seem that young Hatsume stepped right off the arena knocking herself out of the tournament! Thoughts, Eraserhead?"

"She accomplished her goal in this festival: Showing her inventions and proving their ability. I will say that I would feel embarrassed in his shoes however."

Izuku reached over to pat the shaking Ida, "Sorry buddy, but at least you're completely fresh for round 2." He said trying to lighten the mood.

"I was used as an advertisement. The shame!"

Izuku laughed a bit, "I think that says more about her than you. She was going to do that regardless, now you have more fights to show your stuff." He looked thoughtful for a moment, "In fact, she could have won it and you would have been in a really bad spot."

Ida deflated at that, "You're right, as usual." He said begrudgingly, "Thank you, Midoriya. I won't let the next fight go to waste!"

"That's the spirit! You're against sparky too! Should be a good one!" Izuku said with a smile. He was about to continue when he heard Midnight shout.

"Fight!"

Izuku turned to the arena quickly, he must have not been paying attention as both Sero and Todoroki were about to start.

Well…

Izuku sighed and watched as his breath steamed over. The entire stadium must have dropped several dozen degrees. Looking up at the absolute metric ton of ice he had to admit, he wouldn't be able to vaporize that much, or rather vaporize it fast enough to overcome the sheer magnitude of ice.

…It would seem that Todoroki was able to produce exponentially faster than before.

"Uhhh. Well, it seems that Todoroki has won this one."

"He needs to relax…" Aizawa said with a groan.

"Well then I guess it's my turn now." Uraraka said with a smile, "Wish me luck everyone!" She said before running off.

Izuku was about to offer some advice, but she was already gone.

"This should be an interesting fight." He commented lowly.

Bakugo next to him huffed, "If round face can make contact she wins, however bird face is a bad matchup since he's a mid-long-range fighter."

"So, then it comes down to dark shadow and whether or not it'll be affected by the gravity alterations of Uraraka's quirk." Finished Izuku.

Uraraka made it out of the tunnel with a face of supreme determination, Izuku noticed. Tokoyami on the other hand…well for a bird he looked ready.

"Fight!"

Tokoyami and Dark Shadow took the initiative.

Uraraka crouched low and cracked the ground beneath herself, Izuku supposed it was the inverse ability she and Aizawa developed.

The moment Dark Shadow made it within several feet of her she blasted off, cratering the ground and shooting forth with tremendous speed, then she seemed to blur before slamming into Dark Shadow smashing into it and slamming into Tokoyami behind it.

Izuku narrowed his eyes. "She made herself heavier, jumped, lightened herself, then right before impact increased again. That's a lot of mental focus for someone." He commented, he knew how taxing a quirk with multiple switches were, he had countless, and most had just one.

Bakugo next to him grunted, "She's not going to be able to keep this up, round face is too used to the other way, in fact-"

"And a queezy Uraraka was gently dropped out of the ring by a bruised and groaning Tokoyami and Dark Shadow!" Announced Present Mic.

"- yeah that's about right." Finished Bakugo with a smug look directed at Izuku before looking at the field. "Don't go to a tournament fight with a brand-new ability, ya moron." He growled quietly.

"Aw, you do care."

"Shut the fuck up Deku."

"It's ok I'm telling you; you did fantastic for such a new ability and in a high stress situation!" Izuku said to a gloomy Uraraka who was sinking in her stadium chair.

"mmmhmmhhhmhm" She mumbled into her paper bag.

Izuku shook his head, "No one will say that."

"mmmhmmmhhhmmh?"

Izuku nodded, "I know it, if they do. I'll kick their ass."

"Thank you." She mumbled.

"No problem!" Smiled Izuku before looking down towards the arena, his childhood friend now rival was facing off against the class's tank.

Actually, now that he thought about it, he and Bakugo have identical opponents. They were practically copies. In fact, if Bakugo noticed that he'll likely…

"Fight!"

Izuku rubbed his forehead, if his fight was damaging to the arena, then Bakugo's was cataclysmic.

Massive bombs destroying the ground faster than Cementoss could fix it, the arena was shaking wildly, heroes in the stands were helping the civilians brace from the blasts. It would have been cool if Bakugo wasn't shouting the whole time.

"Let's see Deku beat this!" As he blasts Kirishima ten meters deep into the ground with a double palm slam bomb.

Continuous attacks that ruined the field followed by what could only be called a Tornado of TNT. Izuku made a cone of dense air in front of him to protect from the shockwave and dust that followed.

"He really needs to chill." Izuku said he used his quirk to remove the dust off of his classmates.

Tenya chopped at the air in front of himself, "This is no way for a hero to operate in a public setting against a fellow student! I mean even for a fight this is a little far!"

Jiro stared at Tenya for a moment before saying, "Are you actually surprised, that guy either needs medication or a girlfriend."

The girls in the section were caught between scandalized looks and giggles at her comment.

Izuku just sighed, they didn't know that Bakugo probably needed both.

"Well Sato, Jiro, ready to rock and roll?" Izuku asked with a grin, it was their fight then his with Momo and he couldn't wait.

Sato slapped his chest with a grin while Jiro scratched her cheek.

"There you have it folk the final fight of the first round!" Shouted Present Mic

"Feels like it's taken months."

"Good things take time Eraserhead! You can't rush brilliance!"

"Or mediocrity."

"That either! Now we have the Rockstar from Hell! Versus The man with the craziest sugar rush in the world! Kyoka Jiro vs Sato Rikido!" Shouted Present Mic getting cheers from the crowd.

Izuku watched as Jiro slowly hyped herself up while Sato ate sugar cubes from his pocket.

"Jiro's quirk is very underrated but super-strength is a hell of a power. I think creativity will win it." Muttered Izuku while glaring at the field.

Bakugo pushed Tenya down the stand to sit next to Midoriya getting an angry tirade from the glasses wearing class president that was handily ignored.

"I give headphones the win, sugar rush has the raw power to knock anyone out but he's as sharp as a circle. She'll dodge then blast, watch." Bakugo said with supreme confidence.

Uraraka looked at him with bewildered eyes, "Those are some names, Bakugo." She said lightly before tilting her head, "Don't tell me you don't know their actual names!" She shouted.

When Bakugo continued to ignore her Izuku took pity and patted her on the back and said, "He likely doesn't even know yours, don't take it personally, he's was born obtuse."

Much like Bakugo's prediction Jiro expertly dodged around Sato before crouching and blasting the arena with her sound waves destabilizing the ground getting Sato to trip out of bounds.

Overall it wasn't the most impressive of fights but it showed both of their quirks off to the pros, and at the end of the day that was the entire point of the festival.

All Might clapped from his chair as the first rounds came to a close. "Truly these young heroes are going to shine bright in the future, makes old men like us excited! Right Endeavor?"

The flame hero glared at his rival, "Don't lump me in with you I'm 45 not 60 like you." He growled.

"I'm not 60 I'm-"

"As interesting as you both are, anyone have any thoughts on the first-round worth sharing?" Interjected Hawks with a smile. "I'll go first, I like Tokoyami. He has the theme I like, and his quirk seems to have a lot of potential."

Ryukyu hummed as she gazed towards the winged hero, "I believe that Midoriya and Uraraka have a tremendous amount of potential, but I don't believe I can really help him with his quirk. Yaoyorozu has a very large amount of potential, almost the most out of all of them but her confidence needs work. I will be extending the two girls an offer."

Boisterous laughed exploded from Mirko, "You think you have what it takes to train gravity girl? I feel bad that a big name will take her attention from a capable fighter than may offer her training."

"You think I can't train her?" The Dragoness asked with a low tone.

"Oh, you mean train someone that needs to put thought into their quirk other than "Grow big, Smash Villain" like you? Yeah." Mirko taunted with a grin.

The two women continued to argue, so the rest of the room decided to ignore them.

"You'd think Ryukyu would realize that Mirko is just trying to goad her into fighting, I doubt that women really cares about any of this." Muttered Hawks with a sigh.

Endeavor just snorted, "That rabbit has never been anything more than crass in the years I've known her, and Ryukyu has a pride problem."

Several, including his wife, just stared at him silently for a moment.

"I believe that Shoto has the most potential out of all of them, Midoriya included." He finished with a puffed-up chest he was trying not let show.

Again, he didn't notice the looks directed in his direction from the others.

"I agree." Rei sighed quietly, mind still on the haunting realization from earlier. "I do believe that Midoriya has potential that we don't really fathom considering the nigh limitless potential of his quirk. I'll be interested in his future."

Edgeshot glided forward, "Kaminari is a great candidate for either myself or the Ingenium family training, he needs to sharpen his reflexes and agility to completely harness his potential."

"Ladies and Gentlemen! We have the next fight ready for your viewing pleasure! Izuku the Master of the Universe against the goddess of creation herself Momo Yaoyorozu!"

"Relax, they're students not demi-god Mic."

"You truly are the worst hype man Erasure, I'm in physical distress having to share the mic with you."

"Pretty sure that's why Nezu had me here." Finished Aizawa getting a moment of silence from the crowd and Present Mic in response.

"Damn rat." Growled Endeavor, he was very familiar with the beast's mind games and glared at the speakers.

"Mind sharing with the class your issue with the Principal?" Asked Hawks.

Endeavor glared at the winged hero before turning to the two students walking out onto the arena.

"No."

Izuku cracked his neck and took a deep breath.

This was his happy place, or rather it usually was, he loved testing himself and his abilities against a strong opponent. But right now, he found himself across from a friend.

Momo stretched to ready herself causing certain assets to become more pronounced getting him to sweat a bit.

A friend he may have a bit more than interest in than testing his combat abilities against.

'Ignore that part of yourself and think, what does she have?' Pondered Izuku, 'She can virtually create anything so there is no use planning against a specific item as the only thing she has shown to favor is a metal staff which is just for close quarters combat. All I know is that she is crafty and has more offensive power under her belt than she's shown, and I need to be careful.'

"Good luck Yaomomo." He said while lowering himself.

Her head shot up to look at him in surprise before responding, "Thanks you too!"

Midnight signaled for the fight to begin and Izuku took initiative and shot forward at high speeds.

Momo threw out metal pellets that exploded in an arc in front of her that stopped Izuku in his tracks. He cleared the smoke and saw that she had boots and gauntlets on her arms and legs.

"Ok." Izuku muttered before shooting a blast of compressed air at her.

Momo clearly couldn't see the ball of air but know it was approaching and pushed forward her right arm gauntlet that sparked with golden energy for a moment which then blasted a beam of highly compressed heat and fire forward igniting the air canon and closing distance with Izuku.

Izuku in turn raised his right arm and utilized Great Flame Commandment to catch the flames mid-air similarly to what he did against the villain Pyro. It took a lot of concentration which is why he was blasted off his feet by the next attack from Momo.

Izuku's shirt, what was remaining of it, was on fire and he quickly put it out with his good arm while mentally healing himself. He had several burns and a chunk of skin missing from the attack.

To the astonishment of the crowd and Momo who halted her attack after seeing the damage inflicted, Izuku stood up with no visible injury and a slowly growing grin.

"Why did you stop Momo? That was a good opening." He said as he lowered himself, "If those gauntlets are your secret weapons, then…"

Momo gasped as the circuitry was severed causing her gear to spark and fall apart.

"…I'm afraid you won't get much further than this."

"No, they aren't." Said Momo with a determined glare, "You should stop taking me so lightly, I only detonated half of them."

Izuku tilted his head before looking down and seeing the rest of the metal pellets from before for an instant before they detonated right under and around him. He barely had the time to harden and protect himself as he was blown up.

As the smoke cleared, Izuku as Momo expected, stood up without injury but was looking at her with far more focus. It wasn't much but the surprise attack gave her time to set up her actual plan.

Two small toy looking tanks were rolling around on her half of the arena not going in any discernable pattern while two toy helicopters did the same in the air. Momo was now covered in more armor; a chest and shoulder covering to accompany the gauntlet and boots this time. While on her face she had a clear blue visor.

Izuku looked at one of the tanks and before he could sever it one of the copters in the air shot a smaller beam at him, it seemed to be a smaller version of her gauntlet attack that moved far quicker but packed less of a punch.

He was forced to jump to the side to dodge the attack and as he was about to respond the other tank shot a bigger beam from the ground making him need to roll away.

The pattern continued while Momo watched him from her side of the arena clearly prepping her next move. One he really should have guessed from the earlier race.

"You've got to be kidding." Izuku growled as he dodge a beam while watching the incoming mini missiles from her shoulder mounted launcher.

"She's figured out his weakness." All Might said astonished.

Hawks hummed, "Seems the incredible mental focus his quirk takes makes it hard for him to have several variables to focus on and use his quirk simultaneously." He said while wondering how the boy will overcome this.

Endeavor leaned forward in interest, "He is young and lacks real experience, time will train this weakness out of him. She has his number in this fight, he may lose."

Izuku jumped as high as he could away from the missiles and created his sword. With all the power he could muster and some added air manipulation from his quirk he swung on a wide arc. This caused the missiles to wobble and their flights to destabilize causing them to impact into each other and detonate. With one threat mitigated Izuku looked to the four very annoying little toys.

With lightning like speed Izuku created a 5kg amount of water, froze it, cleaved it into small pellets and shot them at all the toys.

All four bots shot their beams causing most of the ice to be melted and evaporate mid-air, but they weren't unscathed as some ice managed to hit their mark. While not destroyed this provided Izuku with enough time to land and shoot forward with his sword towards Momo.

Momo wasn't idle as she shot forward with her rocket boots meeting Izuku in the middle.

Expecting him to destroy her boots she had a tank shoot him to pull his attention away from her.

Izuku expected this and adapted accordingly. Instead of dodging the attack or catching it like most would expect he did what he did best when backed into a corner and improvised. With the sword in his hand, he swiped at the beam. Now normally that would just cause his blade to melt or become super-heated and burn his hand, but Izuku coated the edge in water that he lowered to just above freezing.

Momo's eyes widened as she realized the plan and pushed both gauntlets forward, but she wasn't faster than the energy beam that impacted the water blade.

From the impact a cloud of steam exploded out covering the immediate area hiding Izuku from sight. In the next instant the four bots and Momo blasted the steam with energy blasts but almost immediately after the bots all blew up from having their internals shredded by Izuku.

Izuku shot forward out of the steam and slashed his sword at Momo with all his strength. She put up her guard but the combination of Izuku's strength, the sword, and Izuku enhancing the offensive power with air manipulation rendered her defense useless. Momo's armor was destroyed, and she was launched off the arena out of bounds with a dazed expression. The crowd roared at the amazing battle and the audience began chattering about their thoughts on the fight.

The entire fight lasted barely ninety seconds.

Izuku frowned as he stared at the sword in his hand 'Momo's strategy only not only highlighted my weakness but her strategic strength and her offensive potential. Even after losing I believe she may have ended up looking better out of the two of us. Well done, Momo. Guess I may have been looking down on you without realizing.'

Present Mic announced his victory and Izuku walked off the stage with thoughts swirling in his head. He had at some point written off the competition in this festival and it could have costed him.

…He won't let it happen again

End Chapter.

Hey, been a minute my bad friends. Life and work and all that b.s. took up my attention, happens to the best of us.

Izuku has been feeling himself for a while so I wanted to humble him a bit. As always his weakness has been mental, and in this he didn't think Momo had anything he couldn't take care of and was taken off gaurd by her planning and strategy. That being said Izuku cleaned up pretty quick when he put himself in gear.

Review Responses:

ANUBIS the god king: Will izuku get to the point with his quirk like if it evolved. That if he is being attacked by a element or object that he knows the chemical makeup of the power that he could just focus hard then snap his fingers and destroy the attacks?

My Response: I mean he kinda can do that, maybe not snap and it's gone but he did something similar already.

Tribernator: Im thinking midoriya is heading for a loss. I mean, they say pride cometh before a fall and he seems to be feeling above everyone else in this competition. Maybe he truly IS above them, but I expect him to try to pull something complicated like fixing the ring then getting cold cocked by an unexpected ability while his attention is divided.

My Response: Honestly... Izuku's has an interesting ego. He's not Bakugo but he is confident in himself due to all his hard work in bettering his skills. The thing is with each win he confidence grows and with every fight he watches he breaks down his opponents strengths and weaknesses. So you're kinda right and I showed that a bit this chapter.

Mariomine2004: I have an idea for Midoryia. Can he change his body into diffrent materials permanantly? If so, RUBBER BOY! [Or mabys duplicating quirks? Izuku can manipulate matter, it's not a streach to say he could "scan" someone and replicate thier quirk factor]

My Response: No to all of that. I don't want to do copying quirks it's lazy to me, and it quickly writes itself into a corner. Izuku will just win everything instantly if he just has more and more quirks and I hate stories that have Izuku have AFO or a copying quirk they get boring quick.

Tri-Edge: It would improve your story if you add more detail to the environments that the characters find themselves in. Actually, more description, period, would go a long way. As is, things are certainly very lackluster in that regard.

My Response: Damn, that's not very nice I'm not ragging on your stuff my man. I'm just kidding I don't care. I try and if it's not up to your's or anyone standards then that's unfortunate. But hey this is free so, whatevs.