With the second round out of the way, Izuku grinned. It was time for the tournament. Looking around at his class he knew that he was in for a fun couple of fights. He didn't expect to see too much that would stump him, but he was excited to see what they had in store for the competition.
He tried not to think too much about what Todoroki said and the mess of emotions he turned out to be. What Izuku thought was a prideful if slightly emo teen, turned out to be a broken boy who was lost and trying to come to grips with his broken home.
Looking over to the corner that Todoroki was standing in he frowned. The boy wasn't showing any emotion on his face but the blank stare into the arena was telling enough that his mind was not here but rather in some sort of memory.
"Izuku! Ready to kick some serious butt!" Shouted Uraraka while rushing over to him with a megawatt grin on her face. "I met some cool 1-B hero students and teamed up with them! They're pretty strong! Who do you think is gonna go first?"
Izuku smiled at his friend, she was just too bright to let him stay in his funk. "I'm not sure they're about to announce the line-up. Who do you want to face? I saw that your quirk has substantially improved."
Uraraka's head nodded up and down rapidly. "Yep! Aizawa-Sensei was the one to discover that my quirk may have other uses too it! It's actually really easy to make things heavier, just have to push instead of pull with my quirk, well not really push or maybe its add?" She tilted her head in thought, looking like she slightly confused herself. "Okay, explaining what I'm doing is tough, but I have gotten the hang of it!"
"Well great work, I knew your quirk had incredible potential with just the removing of gravity aspect now you can go the other way." Izuku said giving her a pat on the shoulder, "Not just you but everyone seems to have been putting in a lot of work in their training since the battle trials."
An arm wrapped around Izuku's shoulder, and a small tingle of electricity told him who it was. "Duh." Said Kaminari with a smirk. "You think you're the only one training and improving your quirk whenever you can? That's pretty presumptuous of you."
Izuku pushed the arm off of him, "Not what I meant, I just didn't expect so much improvement. I'm happy about it, this would be a walk in the park for me if none of you improved." He said with a smirk.
Izuku made to walk off before turning to Kaminari with a savage grin, "Also thank you Kaminari." The boy gave him a confused look before shrugging it off.
As Izuku walked away his phone began to buzz. He received a text message.
- Mr. Midoriya, the facility is up and running to your specifications. Designation Olympus is fully operational. When can I expect your arrival?
Izuku's already excited feeling grew tenfold at the news. He actually gotten the idea from his mother and with his father's connections made a few calls to set up something of a base of operations. Or rather a bunker, or more hideout?
No, it was his Hero HQ, completely off the grid and only 3 living beings knew its location. His father, the head contractor and himself.
- I will be by tomorrow; I have the Sports Festival today. Great work, I'll transfer a bonus for the quick completion.
"EVERYONE! LET'S GET THOSE EYES TO THE MONITORS!" Present Mic's voice screamed through the loud system getting the attention of everyone in a several mile radii. "HERE'S THE LINE UP FOR THE FINALS!"
MIDORIYA IZUKU VS TETSUTETSU TETSUTETSU
ASHIDO MINA VS YAOYOROZO MOMO
ITSUKA KENDO VS KAMINARI DENKI
TENYA IDA VS MEI HATSUME
TODOROKI SHOTO VS HANTA SERO
OCHAKO URARAKA VS TOKOYAMI FUMIKAGE
KIRISHIMA EIJIRO VS BAKUGO KATSUKI
SATO RIKIDO VS KYOKA JIRO
"There you have it! The line-up for the finals for UA's first years! Any thoughts Aizawa?"
"Seems pretty random."
"Indeed, it was, gave everyone a number and threw them into a number generator on google!"
"Seems lazy."
"Well, that's how we've always done it! First round is in ten minutes! Fighters go to your waiting rooms, the rest of you go to the stands!"
'Well at least I don't have to wait to go.' Thought Izuku with a determined smile.
Inko rubbed her hands worriedly, "I know Izuku is strong but knowing he's going to have to fight is making me really nervous."
Mitsuki rubbed her friend's shoulder, "Yeah, but with that quirk of his I don't really know what can take him down. I mean he has something for everything right?"
"I think so, he's spent years coming up with ways to use his quirk. I just can't help but worry." Inko said with a sigh.
"I understand." Mitsuki said with a frown, "I may not show it, but I spend most of my time worrying about my brat. I don't know if you've noticed but he's got a bit of my personality-"
Inko looked at the woman blandly, 'A bit?'
"- So, I always worry about him being taken too seriously with what he says. He doesn't want people to really die when he yells that or that he'll actually kill someone. It's just his overly expressive personality and I don't want people to see that and assume he's some monster or junior villain." She said softly as she looked down at Bakugo walking to his spot in the stands with a determined look on his face before shouting at a classmate who tried to talk to him.
Mitsuki laughed suddenly surprising Inko then looked at her with a grin. "That doesn't mean he can't be a loud little asshole!" She said while laughing
Inko rubbed the back of her head as some of the people around them looked at the laughing woman a bit nervously.
If Endeavor noticed the change in his wife as she sat down after coming back, he didn't mention it. She didn't look like she wanted his comfort right now, nor did he think he deserved the chance to comfort her.
But, looking at the haunted broken look in her eye made him feel like the lowest form of scum and he didn't even know what caused it.
All he could do was lean closer to her and make his flames a bit hotter to provide a bit of warmth. Not much, but he hoped it offered something for her.
Miruko looked over the names with a grin, "First match has the wonder bean Midoriya and stainless steel Tetsu. Should be a fun one. Wonder how the greenie will get through the defense of Tetsutetsu?"
Hawks crunched on popcorn before looking over at her, "I'm sure it will be in an unexpected way. Any bets?" He said looking at the room with a smile.
Endeavor looked over at the bird man, "My son will be in the finals at the least."
"I meant on this fight you overly doting helicopter parent." Hawks said with a flat look on his face. He was awarded with a snort from the man and a bark of laughter from Miruko.
Ryukyu hummed, "I believe Midoriya has this match, I don't quite understand his quirk but so far he seems to be unfazed by everything." She said while looking at the green haired boy intently.
"He is steadfast and capable." Added Edgeshot with a nod. "Tetsutetsu hasn't shown much in the rounds leading to this so I will not count him out completely."
Endeavor gazed down to the arena. The crowd was cheering as the two boys were slowing walking out of their respective tunnels. He knew about Midoriya, had heard rumors from contacts in the HPSC that the boy was a person of interest for them. Additionally, he was the son of a…friend of his Hisashi.
Midoriya Hisashi, genius of a man with connections all over the planet. Years ago, when he was starting to overheat every time he used his quirk, he sought the man out for help on the advice of a colleague.
Turns out after decades of training his quirk was actually evolving. Thanks to the man and his resources he was able to not only get better but improve and here he was, the Number 2 Hero.
So, he knows that the son of that man was more than meets the eye.
"Midoriya will win." Said Endeavor firmly.
Miruko perked up at that, "Oh ho! Something must stick out to you about the kid!" Her foot tapped the ground rapidly in anticipation.
All Might silently listened to his fellow heroes talk about the outcome of this fight with a soft smile. It was nice to just be a part of the group.
'This is your time Young Midoriya. Your speech was a perfect setup, now it's time to show the world. That YOU ARE HERE!' Thought All Might with his grin become larger.
Izuku walked forward slowly ascending the stairs to the concrete platform while across him Tetsutetsu did the same with a determined frown on his face. Looking to his left he saw Midnight squirming on her referee stand, no doubt thinking something perverted.
"I'm excited to face you!" Izuku called out, for some reason at his words the crowd quieted down to try and listen. "Your defense is some of the best in the year, though Kirishima is in the same boat I think."
Tetsutetsu groaned, "You don't know how annoying it is for one of your 1-A guys to have such a similar quirk! I was hoping to fight him to prove I'm the better one. But I'll settle for you the golden boy of the first years!" He shouted as he smashed his metal fists together getting a loud clang sound to reverberate throughout the arena.
Izuku grinned and slammed his fists together having hardened his arms similarly to Kirishima getting a loud crack to sound through the arena.
It took about a second for the crowd to roar their approval of the two and Midnight to shout her appreciation all the while her hips did a wiggle Izuku really tried not to focus on, Tetsutetsu was blushing but managed to tear his eyes away.
"Start!" Shouted Midnight and Izuku shot forward with a grin.
Tetsutetsu's quirk allowed him to cover his body in metal, the type was unknown, and any further abilities were unknown as well. Izuku could hit him with a knockout gas, blast him off the arena or do any other sort of quick win…but he wanted to show off.
He shot a right jab forward at the metal man who was far too slow to dodge and just took the attack. Izuku winced at the pain of effectively punching a steel wall but continued on.
Tetsutetsu threw a two-punch combination that Izuku weaved around then slid an uppercut into his chin. Momentary dazed from the hit Tetsutetsu was unable to avoid the double palm strike to his chest that caused another gong like sound to overtake the cheers of the arena. Tetsutetsu was launched a dozen feet back from the force of the hit and rubbed his chest in pain, it didn't hurt too bad, but he was feeling a dull ache from the hit.
Not staying on the defense any longer Tetsutetsu waited until Izuku was almost upon him before punching the ground as hard as he could creating a meter wide crack in the concrete arena that forced Izuku to stop his rush or risk falling over.
With a battle cry Tetsutetsu ran and tackled Izuku off of his feet.
Izuku chuckled as he crashed into the ground under the wrecking ball like force of Tetsutetsu.
With moves and experience from hundreds of ass kicking's from the Fight Dojo. Izuku reversed the tackle and kicked his opponent off of him before getting back to his feet.
"That was good!" Izuku said with a smile, looking no worse for wear despite taking a hit that would smash a car.
Jumping into the air Izuku reared back and decided to really show off. His strength was greater than the average enhancer, time to prove it.
Tetsutetsu only managed to open his eyes in time to see Izuku descending on top of him before punching his stomach.
While Tetsutetsu was able to create a meter wide crack in the arena Izuku's hit completely shattered the entire concrete ground with cracks spreading to the stadium seating and shaking the ground from the force.
Izuku jumped off his opponent and landed on the uneven footing of the completely ruined stadium arena as he watched the dust and smoke billow out from the point of impact. "That was me putting my back into it! You still awake Tetsu!?" He called out with a laugh. This was too much fun!
That was pure muscle…next time he'll add his quirk.
Miruko wiggled in her seat as her foot continued to hammer into the ground. "Holy. Shit." She said with a grin that could only be described as feral. "I want him. I want him right now!" She declared.
"He's a minor." Hawks said with a deadpan expression.
Miruko threw a carrot at the bird man with a glare, "Not like that, you dumbass! I want to fight him; he's really got spunk. Maybe in a few years the other way if he continues to be as awesome as he is though." She added with a wave.
Endeavor stood and gazed out onto the completely shattered arena with a frown. "This boy…what is his quirk. There are heroes with strength quirks that couldn't do that." He said while gazing over at All Might, said man was smiling fondly a Midoriya.
"He didn't use a quirk to do that." All Might said with a grin, "That was pure muscle! His quirk allowed him to achieve that level of power though!"
"Enough beating around the bush, All Might." Ryukyu chimed in with a glare at the number 1. "Just what is his quirk, answer the question." Her right eye that was looking at the number one took on a sharper look as her iris started to slowly morph.
Hawks flew over to the number one and with wide eyes whispered at full volume, "Better answer the queen over there. She's not one to make cranky." He said with a chuckle.
All Might sighed, "Very well, Young Midoriya can manipulate matter. You saw the result of him altering and enhancing his own body."
Endeavor turned away from the number 1 and continued to look down at the arena. That was quite the quirk, but it must have quite the draw back.
'Just what is your son capable of, Hisashi?'
As the dust cloud cleared Tetsutetsu slowly got to his feet much to the approval of the crowd.
"And the iron man himself has persevered! Just what are they feeding that boy?" Announced Present Mic.
"His defenses are top notch. No surprise he's still standing but I'd be shocked if he wasn't feeling it by now." Replied Aizawa.
Izuku nodded in agreement with his teacher.
"You're a tough cookie I'll give you that! I'll start using my quirk now!" Izuku said with a cheer much to the visible shock of Tetsutetsu and surprise of the crowd.
"Bring it on ya bastard!" Shouted Tetsutetsu.
Slowly the broken ground, large rocks that used to be a solid ground were mended and put back together. Izuku hummed as his slowly spread his power outward. Focusing on a small spot and rapidly fixing it then moving on. His mind was able to focus on hundreds of things at once, hence being able to create from nothing. So he rapidly fixed 5kg of the arena over and over making it looking like one action when it was in fact hundreds. Just a minute later and the arena was repaired, much couldn't be said for the ground around the arena floor leading to the stadium seating.
"Not bad huh?!" Izuku said with his arms wide gesturing the fixed arena. "Now we can continue!"
Izuku, like a canon, shot forward at his opponent. Tetsutetsu hardened his arms and came out swinging.
Knowing that he would need to really hit Tetsutetsu Izuku increased his speed with air streams and started creating a substance on his right arm. As they neared Izuku stopped hard on has left foot and with all his strength and momentum slammed his right fist into Tetsutetsu's chest creating a shockwave of air from the impact.
Tetsutetsu was blasted backwards at incredible speed but from Izuku's arm and fist a dark substance stuck to his chest at the point of impact and kept Tetsutetsu tethered to Izuku.
Continuing his momentum Izuku started to spin Tetsutetsu around in a circle over and over again fast and faster almost turning him into a blur. The 1-B student was heard yelling at Izuku as he was spun rapidly.
'This substance was inspired by a show I watched as a kid. It has all the properties of rubber and gum.' Izuku thought happily, 'Time for the finally. Thanks for letting me show off, you neigh-unbreakable punching bag!'
Izuku started spinning Tetsutetsu into the air until he was level with the roof of the arena. Izuku grit his teeth and strained every muscle in his body. Five air streams appeared on Tetsutetsu's back and barely noticeable to anyone Izuku's right arm had a small spark for an instant just before he brought Tetsutetsu down.
With a roar and a flex of all his strength Izuku pulled Tetsutetsu down, the five airstreams drastically increasing the speed of the descent. The crowd held their breath as the metal man impacted the ground with enough force to shake the entire arena and cause a shockwave to knock everyone into their seats. Midnight in her stand barely held on from the force of the winds.
The entire arena floor was destroyed once again but this time to an even greater extent than the last time.
When the smoke and dust cleared Izuku was seen hunching over a large and deep crater taking slow breaths. The bottom of the crater couldn't be seen, it was deep enough to completely obscure Tetsutetsu.
Cementoss retrieved the unconscious Tetsutetsu from the bottom with a pillar of concrete.
Midnight raised her arm, "Winner: Midoriya Izuku!"
Ryukyu, who had stood to her feet during the final attack by Midoriya sighed happily. "What power. Not to mention utilizing his quirk in such a way. I simply must have him." Her regal look and demeanor took on a darker look as she gazed into the arena.
Hawks looked at the woman with a sigh, he knew better than to tease the dragon woman like he did Miruko. The woman was prouder than any he'd ever met, maybe it was the draconic instincts or something, but she was a fearsome woman that he didn't have the energy to openly mock.
"Oh! Into younger men now Ryukyu!" Shouted Miruko with a laugh.
Seems Miruko was perfectly fine with it…
"Though he certainly knows how to put on a show!" Exclaimed the rabbit themed hero.
Ryukyu didn't bother turning her head to look at Miruko, "I am interested in strength and potential. My darling Nejire was right, Midoriya was someone to look out for."
Endeavor ignored them as he leaned back down into his chair. He didn't feel as impressed as the others. It was a great finisher and would certainly qualify as a super move, but he has seen better. He was far more impressed by the boy's ability to multitask while fighting to use so many aspects of his quirk simultaneously.
"What do you think Rei?" He asked lowly.
Rei looked at her husband for a moment before turning back to the arena. "He has talent. I believe he would give Shoto trouble."
"You're right." Agreed Endeavor, "We've seen him neutralize his ice quite simply in the last two rounds. If Shoto doesn't use his fire, then he will lose quite handedly."
Rei shuddered in her seat. "I need to tell you something. Shoto-"
She was cut off as Miruko flew past them into the wall curtesy of Ryukyu whose right arm had a draconic transformation.
"Enough of your crass inuendo!" The Dragon Hero said with grit teeth.
Miruko jumped to her feet and stretched her arm out, "Oh is the lady lizard getting heated?" She was ready to pounce when All Might made himself known.
The massive wall of muscle blurred between the two of them with no one being able to really follow his movements. "Let's calm down everyone we have many more matches to watch!"
Izuku sat next to Ida and Uraraka as Momo and Mina walked into the arena.
"Who do you think will win guys?" Izuku asked his friends.
Uraraka placed her finger to her chin in thought. "Well Yaomomo can make pretty much anything to help her with her quirk but Mina should be able to melt anything she makes with her acid so I'm not sure."
Ida moved to disagree, "Yaoyorozu has shown to be able to create long range weapons with her quirk so I think she will emerge victorious. Mina has to close distance while Yaoyorozu does not."
Izuku had to agree, "I think you're right." He turned to the right of him with Kaminari was trying and failing to make Jiro pay attention to him. "What do you think sparky?"
"Giving it to Momo!" He called without turning to look at him.
Bakugo walked up next to Izuku while keeping his eyes on the arena. "If Pinky can close distance quirk enough it's her win, if she's too slow ponytail wins." He said with his arms crossed.
"I think you're right." Izuku said with a nod.
As soon as the fight began Momo did the unexpected and rushed forward to meet Mina in the middle of the arena. Mina looked surprised but as this worked for her, she didn't mind too much.
Momo's thoughts were to preserve as much of her bigger and more intricate devices for later, she didn't want to waste lipids until the later fights.
"Take this Yaomomo!" She pushed her arms together, "Super Move! Acid Rain!" From both palms a wide stream of acid flew into the air in a wide arc.
Momo frowned then winced in pain as the first drop hit her skin followed by countless more.
The pain was incredible, Momo had to bite her lip to keep from crying out. Not to mention the fact that much of her outer layer of clothes were being destroyed, in front of an international broadcast.
Focusing on her quirk she created a flashbang and tossed it directly at Mina.
"Sorry about that." Muttered Momo.
Lashing out with a kick Mina was knocked to the ground but quickly sprung back up. The two closed distance and began trading viscous attacks back and forth. A punch or a kick. Momo grabbed Mina's jacket and threw her over her shoulder tearing it off of her before tossing it aside.
Mina did more Acid Rain destroying parts of Momo's tank top and pants before giving her a high kick to the face dazing the heiress. Grunting in pain Momo created another flashbang and tossed it up while creating eye and ear protection.
Mina quickly looked away but was still stunned momentarily and was tackled off her feet by Momo.
Now on the ground Momo created a taser and stunned the acid girl even more.
Mina shouted in pain but created highly corrosive acid at the point of impact destroying the taser then using her core, spun and flipped the two of them over trying to pin Momo to the ground. Momo brought her leg up to kick Mina off of her, but it was caught by Mina and she was slammed into the ground.
Both in quite a bit of pain and panting, just noticed that the crowd was silent.
Izuku and Kaminari, hell all the boys, were watching with extremely wide eyes as the two girls fought. They didn't know what to expect from this battle but clothes being torn off and wrestling on the ground wasn't going to be their first guess.
"This is hot." Said a drooling Mineta before being wacked by Tsu's tongue.
'Yes is it.' Thought most of the boys in agreement.
Jiro glanced at Kaminari, "You're just as much of a pervert as Mineta aren't you?" She accused softly with a slight frown.
That snapped him out of it, "No! I just didn't expect it is all! I mean…" He said quickly before trailing off.
Izuku nodded, "I mean who expects two girls to start destroying each other's clothes before wrestling on the ground in front of everyone." He muttered trying to calm his blush down.
Uraraka jumped over to them, "They're fighting really hard right now, though. Did you see that kick from Mina!" She shouted hyped.
Hagakure waved her invisible arms rapidly, "Yeah, yeah! And Momo's flashbang and taser!" She added excitedly.
'Nope didn't notice.' The boys thought still dazed.
Ida jumped in front of the class, "Everyone it is shameful to subject our classmates to such shameful thoughts. We must treat them with respect!" He declared impassioned.
Sero raised an eyebrow at him, "Your face is the reddest here, buddy." Ida quick sat back down while adjusting his glasses.
Mina grinned down at Momo, their faces nose to nose. "You know I think I realized the position we're in." She said while eyeing Momo's leg over her shoulder as she pinned the heiress to the ground. "I wouldn't mind rolling around with you in the future, but I think we're getting the wrong kind of attention right now." She laughed.
Momo, face atomic red, reacted on instinct. Her quirk flared and created an air canon from her chest that blasted Mina off of her. Getting to her feet quickly she created some sturdier clothes that would stand up better to the acid.
Mina slid forward on her acid and created more in her hands as she closed distance. Momo seeing the plan activated her own quirk and created a shield made of plastic and ran forward.
The acid was blocked by the shield and Mina was once again taken off her feet by a shield bash to the face. Momo quickly shot a net at her from a launcher she created. Mina tried to escape the net but Momo managed to throw her out of bounds in time.
Momo let out a breath, "That was more than I wanted expend, but it was a good showing for both of us." She said while moving over to help Mina out of the net.
Mina signed, "Yeah, but losing isn't ever fun." She said as she stood up and stretched before looking at Momo over her shoulder with a sly grin, "Let me know if you want to roll around again, Momo!"
Momo's face went atomic red again as she became aware of all the eyes on her, "Goodness."
End Chapter
There we go the first two fights, Izuku's fights are going to be the ones that end up being longer and more fleshed out. I'll add details for all of them but for the most part they'll be shorter.
Izuku here was just flexing and showing off, hopefully I've made it clear just what level he's been at this whole time. I'm really enjoying writing this it's just available time to write is making it hard. If you have any suggestions for abilities or techniques for any of the fighters let me know, I'm running wild on this!
Review Responses:
Vonta01: I thought you were dead
My Response: Only in my dreams :/
VinventFS: "Something in your eyes threw me off."… Jesus Christ. What a way to forcefully throw the win to someone else's team in the Sports Festival. It's so incredibly lazy that I'm struggling to find a polite way to tell you just how stupid it is.
My Response: First I don't know why but this made me laugh really hard dude. Also, Izuku is a hero, hell in canon he wants to save Shigaraki cause he saw a scared little kid in him. Now it may seem stupid, but I really liked the idea of Izuku seeing past the cold focus and seeing the hell Todoroki is in and being completely caught off guard. Don't be so surface level, the festival rounds really don't matter beyond the finals a win or a loss is irrelevant.
NinjaFang1331: Excellent event and loved the conversation between the two boys. Also is it possible for Izuku to heal Tordoroki's burned eyed. That would be something to read about.
My Response: Thanks! He could but I don't know if he would, that would entirely be up to Todoroki to ask.
Catsiee: Yeeeeeah, that was incredibly mind numbing and hamfisted. Not only are you 'buffing' all the other characters negating the effort that the mc made but you're throwing the mc's victories to other characters in ways that do not make sense just for drama. That talk with Shoto would have meant more and been more impactful if Shoto lost. With him winning the monologue makes no sense because he's too prideful to care why he won. The fact that he won justifies everything for him.
My Response: Not really, Todoroki knew he didn't beat Izuku fully there and that's why he spoke to him. Chill with the buffing everyone assumption, they are all stronger and the quirks are more well-rounded, but honestly you people must think Izuku is still at the same level as he was and they have closed tremendous distance to him.