Bombarda

by Sully7072

All Bombarda wanted to do as a pro was save people, she wanted to be left alone, she didn't want the spotlight, the praise, the parastic vultures swooping down upon her, tearing her limb from limb. She hated the limelight so what happens when this bombastic force skyrockets to the top? What happens when she catches the eye of a certain red-tailed hawk?

83. Joint Training Arc

*So heads up this is just the joint training arc from Stitches the only difference is the last bit. I only included it in this story due to meeting Katsumi's future sidekicks alongside some Deku and Bakugo moments with Katsumi.*

"Oh looks like you two are getting along well as always." Yagi and Midoriya jolt up at the familiar voice.

"Aizawa you've got it all wrong he was being really pushy so…" Toshinori attempts to explain to the teacher.

"Stop acting like you got caught having an affair it's weird." Aizawa scowls just as a familiar lilac haired boy pops up from behind.

"Shinso you were with Aizawa back then too weren't you?" Midoriya recognises.

"Yeah I guess so." Shinso scratches the back of his neck.

"I'm surprised Sayako hasn't made mention of it." Midoriya admits oblivious to Shinso's hues sharpening.

"I doubt she'd even notice." Shinso tuts tiredly.

"Huh…?" Midoriya perks up at Shino's scowl.

"Midoriya hurry and get suited up we have a busy day today." Aizawa intervenes as Midoriya goes off to do just that…

"I'm so excited!" Hagakure gushes giddily.

"Aren't you cold?" Sayako couldn't help but ask the invisible girl.

"I'm freezing." The girl with blue gloves and white boots admits.

"Some willpower." Sayako says surprised.

"My winter specs aren't they cool?" Cheerily, Mina poses to the girls.

"It's lovely." Momo smiles.

"You've changed your look." Jiro takes note of Sayako's costume.

"Oh you noticed?" Sayako smirks slightly.

"Seems more stylish." Ojiro takes note of.

"Yeah I had to make modifications with my prosthetic according to Bombarda the winter is the worst with my arm." Sayako admits as she holds her arm.

"So that's the reason for the rims of feathers." Momo hums.

"Yeah also cause it looks cool." Cheekily, Sayako winks.

"I didn't realise the temperature has dropped so much." Ojiro admits.

"Everyone's costumes have changed a lot since when we started school." Tenya takes note of.

"Iida you managed to endure that costume all summer…impressive." Sato smiles at him.

"Kaachan changed his costume too!" Midoriya points out.

"HAA IF YA GOT A PROBLEM, THEN SAY IT TO MY FACE YA DAM NERD!" Bakugo bellows.

"That suit reminds me of Bombarda's first debut did you incorporate her X signal as well?" Amazed, Midoriya couldn't help but ask but…

"DIE!" Is blasted in the face.

"Since it looks like Katsumi's I've got to ask. Does it have cold resistance build into it to protect your body heat too? For someone like you who uses your sweat glands as their weapon that makes a lot of sense I think it's an awesome change no doubt you had her help with it too you even have her colour scheme of orange and black!" Amazed, Midoriya couldn't help but gush noting the striking similarities between both Bombarda's debut to Katsuki's current attire.

"DON'T FLATTER ME AND AS IF I'D NEED HER HELP!" Katsuki's roars, Kirishima and Kaminari by his side smiling sheepishly.

"Midoriya your suit had the most dramatic change you've even added something ew again recently." Ojiro points out.

"Yep Hatsume even went as far as to match it to my strength level." Midoriya admits.

"Uraraka?" Sayako takes note of her twitching brow.

"GO AWAY!" She screams hitting her helmet.

"What are you doing!?" Ojiro frets from said strike.

"You have quite the relaxed vibe coming from you guys." A familiar voice calls out from the training grounds.

"There you are we've been looking forward to this." Kirishima turns to the approaching class B.

"Speak for yourself." Sayako sneers scowling.

"YES! NOW CLASS A TODAY IS THE DAY WE SETTLE THINGS BETWEEN US DON'T YOU THINK!?" Monoma cackles crazed standing with his class behind him.

"…You need help dude and this is coming from me!" Sayako sighs.

"You might wanna take a closer look at this survey I took it at the festival and it's enlightening! I asked what was better class A's pathetic attempt at being rockstars or class B's obviously surperior play oh what's this? We won by two votes!? You guys have been hogging the spotlight since we started school but you're standing around campus is trash!" Momona shows said piece of paper.

"Who wants to bet he mainly went to the ones from the reserve course?" Cooly, Sayako sighs leaning back against the railing.

"Seriously? We somehow blew it on the festival." Kirishima sighs sadly at the bar chart.

"Now finally it's class A versus class B! Our first joint combat training you're fin-" Monoma smirks smugly however…

"That's enough." A familiar scarf swiftly shuts him up.

"Today there will be a special participant." Vlad steps up.

"Please try not to embarrass yourselves if at all possible." Aizawa exhales exasperated.

"Who's going to be joining us?" Momo queries.

"I'll murder them!" Katsuki's smirks sadistically.

"Why is that your first instinct with people?" Sayako sighs at Katsuki.

"Is it a babe?" Kirishima asks.

"We'll do our best whoever it is." Kirishima and Tetsutetsu vows.

"This person is interesting in switching to the hero track…from general studies class C Hitoshi Shinso." Aizawa says as Sayako's hues widen when seeing said male stand before her, her robotic fingertips curling in on themselves…

"Shinso!? So that's what he mean when he said well yeah!" Midoriya cheers.

"What is that Mr Aizawa's binding cloth?" Sen wonders.

"So I guess the mask is an original huh!" Kinoko quires.

"It's good to have you with us dude!" Tetsutetsu greets him.

"If you talk to him you'll be brainwashed right?" Aoyama warns.

"If you've never seen it beofre you're done for." Mineta agrees.

"Would you quit it with that kinda talk?" Sayako scowls.

"Sayako?" The group turn to her.

"It's annoying. You think he'd be here if he were what you guys are making him out to be?" Bluntly, Sayako proposes arms crossed over her chest in the back, leant against the railing, Shoto standing by her side.

"W-Well…" Ojiro stutters slightly.

"But what about Midoriya he was able to cancel it out?" Mineta remembers.

"Honestly that was nothing but a fluke." Frankly, Midoriya admits.

"Go ahead ad greet everyone." Aizawa tells Shinso simply staring…

"Your quirk is brainwashing!? That's so cool!" Amazed, the students swarm around Hitoshi's seat, listening to the students standing above him wearing his junior uniform.

"Seriously I can't imagine someone with that power!" Another one of the students swarming him points out.

"I'm so jealous Shinsho!" A girl throws in.

"Imagine all the cool stuff you could do controlling people!" Another student smirks.

"Yeah, you could do any bad thing you want!" He throws in.

"And no one would ever know it was you just make sure you don't make us your slaves okay?" Teasingly, one of the students jokes.

"Heh everyone always says that…" Truthfully, Shinso smiles sadly, scratching the back of his neck.

"I'm Hitoshi Shinso I know I've already encountered many of you at the sports festival but you won't catch me thinking that we're all buddies now that we've exchanged blows. I'm not some good natured person trying to tout a superficial sense of sportsmanship the fact of the matter is I've gotten a late start and I've already been left in the dust by hundred of steps by you all. I'm sorry but I'm desperate." Shinso introduces himself, his hard hues of lilac narrowing sternly staring directly into a pair of jaded green.

"Shinso's quirk isn't villainous it's his own, it's heroic!" Sayako's words ring out throughout his head.

"I will become a great hero so that I can use my quirk to help others. All of you here today are obstacles I must overcome. I have no intention of making friends." Shinso scowls, his lilacs reflecting the scowling Sayako arms crossed as her own greens reflect an image of him back too.

"Uh…" The group awkwardly clap.

"That's quite the glare." Ochaco says in awe.

"You think?" Sayako arches a bored brow.

"Things are getting tense." Tokoyami clasp.

"It's like I'm looking at early Todoroki." Sero says.

"You think?" Todoroki exclaims.

"Yep." Sayako couldn't help but agree.

"I like this one." Monoma smiles.

"Oh god no." Sayako scowls at Monoma's smile.

"Alright let's get right down to it then." Aizawa tiredly sighs.

"Combat Exercises! This time around it's a battle between class vs class B and the stage will be this section of training field Y, each side will split up into groups of four and one team from each will battle it out at a time!" Vlad explains to them.

"Four to a team eh sounds fun!" Lizard girl smirks.

"Fun." Mushroom girl exclaims.

"Today Shinso will be participating in two battles one on class A's side and one with class B in other words out of five matches two of them will be 5 vs 4 with Shinso added." Vlad adds.

"But that means the team with only four have a clear disadvantage." One of the others argue.

"Trying to integrate Shinso who has next to experience into your team will likely be an even bigger disadvantage the setting for this battle is the heroes move to surround the villain group and capture them each team shall piece the others as villains once either team captures four members of the other its their victory." Vlad elaborates.

"Nice and simple I like it." Tetsutetsu smiles.

"They have been saying that the villains are becoming more organised after all." Mushroom girl exclaims.

"We're supposed to be heroes and yet to our opponent we're villains? So which is it? what are we!?" Tenya cries.

"Please don't go back to evil Tenya." Tiredly, Sayako sighs not needing that embarrassing mess of man on her team if he does.

"I think it's fine to consider yourself a hero!" Momo assures him.

"In each team's camp we've installed a wicked cute irremediable prison the moment you imprison your opponent in there they'll be considered captured." Vlad tells them.

"That means rendering your opponent unable to fight close to your own base would be most efficient but that sure won't be easy." Sayako throws in.

"Once either team captured four members of the other so that's the handicap eh?" Katsuki's summarises.

"Yeah not only do you have to team up with an inexperienced member but also even if you're a team of six you still lose if four of you are captured." Aizawa points out.

"So you're saying we have to fight while catting a dead weight is that it? Assholes…" Bakugo curses.

"Cut it out dude that's such a rude way of saying it!" Denki worries.

"You could have said that more subtly Katsuki." Sayako sighs.

"How would you have?" Katsuki challenges.

"We basically have to deal with a civilian or to be kinder, a sidekick or a work-study student." Simply, Sayako summarises.

"Sayako you're not helping!" Denki hisses harshly.

"It's fine it's the truth after all." Aloofly, Shinso speaks up.

"You're the one leaving him in the dust in terms of viciousness!" Denki frets.

"Alright time to draw lots." Vlad and Aizawa take out the boxes.

"I'm fighting twice?" Sayako says surprised.

"To even the teams." Vlad tells her.

"But isn't the reason Shinso is added as a way to disadvantage the other team?" Sayako argues.

"Just as your arm will you're still getting used to it you need all the combat training you can get if you want to catch up." Aizawa explains making Sayako's hue twitch tense.

"…Tch fine." Fuming, she sneers scowling at the two, her blood bubbling, burning boiling at the sheer nerve of them, she had her arm under control, she hadn't been training for nothing!

"Seems I'm with Sayako." Asui takes note of.

"Seems so Koda you going to be okay with all this?" Sayako turns to him.

"Y-Yes!" Shyly, he stutters.

"Alright Sayako Kirishima let's do this!" Denki calls out to the two.

"Heh I can't wait to see what that arm of yours is capable of!" Kirishima slams his fist into his inner palm.

"Hm…I can't exactly break bones of fellow students but the damage I did to Gang Orca….I'll need to be careful." Sayako's hues narrow.

"And there she goes, analysing away…" Dubiously, Denki chuckles.

"That's Sayako for ya." Kirishima smiles just as Shinso takes out two balls from the boxes.

"…Mother…fudger!" Fuming, Sayako glares at 1 and 5.

"Sayako be nice!" Kirishima calls out to her.

"Aizawa sir isn't my arm already a disadvantages?" Sayako argues.

"Tough luck. Besides you've been training." Aizawa asserts.

"MOTHER-!" Mad, Sayako kicks a nearby wall only then to let out a small squeak holding her foot, cradling it as she hops around cursing cross in a world of her own while the team sweat drops at their leader.

"Ignore her she tends to not hold back her thoughts! Let's try and get along all the same it's a pleasure working with ya!" Kirishima greets Shinso.

"Give me all the details about your quirk." Asui orders.

"You've got the face of a popular guy I bet you're popular with the ladies trust me I can tell." Denki smirks slightly.

"Thanks for having me." Shinso sighs.

"…You okay Kota?" Sayako grumbles still rubbing her sore throbbing foot.

"Y-Yeah…are you okay?" Koda worriedly watches her trying to count to ten.

"Just…peachy." Pointedly, Sayako seethes sensing the throbbing pain subside.

"I-I just hope I can be useful for you all." Koda admits anxiously.

"You'll be fine." Sayako assures as Shinso watches on.

"You're good yes very good! Let us join forces and give that deplorable class A a nice thrashing!" Monoma cackles.

"Don't mind him. He always take things too far." Shoda says to Shinso.

"Thanks for having me." Shinso bows his head.

"Class b and team 5 it'll be a rematch for you huh Deku." Ochaco urns to Midoriya.

"Yeah…" Midoriya watches Monoma go crazy.

"You okay?" Ochaco notes Midoriya's furrowed frown.

"Yeah I just…Sayako said Shinso and her are friends right?" Midoriya asks Ochaco unable to not notice both of them are as far from each other as possible, Shinso scowling staring straight at Sayako who doesn't even acknowledge him.

"Yeah, they worked together during the sports festival." Ochaco recalls.

"So why is there this tension in the air between them?" Midoriya couldn't help but take note of.

"…Hm now that you mention it Sayako hasn't really made any chance to talk to Shinso." Ochaco hums.

"Hopefully with this situation, the two can finally talk still, have you gotten stronger Shinso? I'm excited to see how you'll come after this." Midoriya smiles at the thought of the challenge ahead that was Shinso.

"You'll start in your own area the time limit is 20 minutes if you're unable to finish the match in that amount of time the team with more members remaining win." Vlad dictates.

"All Might ad Midnight are here could they be lovers?" Mina smiles at the sight of the two.

"Stop that older men aren't my thing" Midnight huffs.

"I'm surprised to hear that." A familiar voice calls out.

"About time you popped up." Midnight smirks smugly at the brunette coming up the stairs.

"Sorry for the delay traffic was a killer." Apologetic, the woman smiles softly ruffling the back of her brown roots.

"Whoa is that…!?" Itsuka perks up at the sight of the woman.

"BOMBARDA!?" The whole of class B gawk gape at the woman calmly conversing with Midnight and All Might.

"No way!" Kinoko gasps.

"Back home I heard she had offers to start a hero office there!" Pony admits to them.

"Her robot arm is so cool!" Awaste awestruck gushes giddily.

"I can't believe she's here" Tokage exclaims.

"I thought she would be resting after that killer nomu." Juzo exclaims.

"The way her eyes scream murder in fight is spooky…" Reiko whispers bowing her head.

"The way she took on that nomu while the civilians were escaping was so manly!" Mesmerised, Tetsutetsu gushes giddily.

"What is she doing here?" Shoda couldn't help but wonder.

"Maybe to scout us out…" Sen considers.

"What I'd give to work under a legend like her!" Kendo gushes as just then…

"…The hell are you doing here?" Katsuki turns to glare at her.

"Relax I'm not here to ruin whatever it is you're doing." Katsumi assures.

"Then leave!" Katsuki orders.

"Jeez Katsu is that really the tone to take with your big sister hm?" Katsumi flicks her brother's head.

"DIE!" Katsuki yells.

"…Big… SISTER!?" Class 1B say shocked.

"Hm?" Katsumi turns to the class.

"Y-You're kidding me!?" Kendo says shocked.

"Yo-You two are related!?" Tetsutetsu points to both Katsuki and Katsumi.

"Uh…" Katsumi draws out unsure.

"They do have similar quirks." Shoda hums.

"B-But there's no way I mean…Bombarda and him…HIM!?" Kendo eyes the two.

"YOU WANNA COME OVER AND SAY THAT TO MY FACE?" Bakugo growls.

"Katsuki calm down." Katsumi sighs.

"See what happens when you come over." Katsuki grumbles.

"Hey I thought they knew wait…a minute is that my original…?" Katsumi takes note of his costume.

"DIE!" Katsuki turns on his heel heading off storming off leaving Katsumi to it.

"Now that I look at them they do have similar temperaments." Jiro hums.

"Not to mention hairstyles." Denki adds.

"And eyes." Kiba throws in.

"You're telling me…all this time that guy has been related to a legend like Bombarda…" Monoma seethes shakes staring stunned at both of them.

"Hm? Oh yeah Midoriya auntie told me to give you this you left it behind last you visited." Katsumi calls out to him.

"Ah thanks." He smiles when she hands him the book.

"Auntie!? How is any of this fair?! That brat knows Bombarda too!" Tense, Monoma seethes shakes horrified.

"Hm? Oh hey you're the one who gave my brother a tough time during the festival!" Katsumi recognises the blonde.

"Y-You remember that?" Meekly, Monoma squeaks surprised.

"Course your reactions were also very fast during the Calvary battle, avoiding my brother's blast like that takes some rather fast reflexes." Katsumi admits.

"…Am I dead?" Monoma whispers to himself.

"H-Huh?" Katsumi stutters slightly.

"The great Bombarda…praising me!?" Momona says in awe awestruck almost on his knees before her.

"Uh…okay I'm just gonna go. I'll be curious to see how you fight today." Politely, Katsumi dismisses herself leaving them to it.

"Tokoyami hey!" Katsumi greets him.

"Bombarda." Tokoyami bows his head to her.

"Katsu!" Dark shadow shoots out of Tokoyami's robe happily greeting her.

"Aw missed you too dark shadow." Smiling, she pets said bird beast fussing over Shishida before going over to the adults.

"So who do you think will win?" Midnight asks the two.

"Who knows…? I have hope for Sayako of course. But I'm curious to see how it all plays out for either side." Katsumi admits.

"Who indeed class A has overcome numerous crises and they are strong without a doubt but looking at their grades and date class B has undergone more growth thanks to staying out of trouble they've been able to steadily hone their strength." Toshinori admits.

"Without further ado let the first match start!" Vlad dictates.

"You're really into this." Aizawa sweat drops while Katsumi leans against the railing, eager to see what Sayako had in store for her.

"We have a good idea of the other people's abilities but let's stick together their safety in numbers after all." Asui climbs on the wall.

"So that's her camouflage if you're aware of it you can definitely still see her…Shino stares up at Asui climbing on the wall camouflage on.

"Noted but they could use that to their advantage and go on a full rush at her." Sayako adjusts her robotic arm as all eyes are on her.

"So don't you think I could separate from you guys and let out a million bolts?" Denki suggests.

"And leave yourself dumb and open to be nabbed? That's going on the consensus that you hadn't be taken by surprised and attacked while you do have a good quirk your combat capabilities are not enough." Bluntly, Sayako deadpans.

"They'll be blacked out by then and you don't have to be so blunt about it you know!" Denki cries.

"Not necessarily with vine girl remember?" Sayako reminds him.

"Her quirks amazing she kicked my butt I'll stick with you guys." Denki changes his tune.

"I'd like to take out the most troublesome quirk first." Shino states.

"My dude Shinso gets it!" Denki smiles.

"It's the obvious plan." Shinso dismisses.

"Which they can easily predict if we're hoping to do something about Ibara first then they're hoping to do something about Kaminari first maybe even you too Shinso since you're the wild card of sorts, although you lack power, they've seen your power at the sports festival they know how powerful it can be if they fall to it. In summary you guys are glass canons…" Sayako explains to them. Shinso's hues narrowing at Sayako's words.

"I'm counting on you guys to keep me safe." Denki dictates.

"Maybe we can set things up for Kaminari and Shinso to do their things what do you think Sayako?" Kirishima asks Sayako.

"Koda what do you think?" Sayako calls out to him making Shinso arch a brow by bringing the quietness one of the group in.

"Thank you friends. Shizuka is to our left alone she's using her vines to feel our her surroundings as she heads this way." Koda reports bidding his bird farewell.

"I thought as much…" Sayako curses.

"I'd hate to go out on the girl all alone but…" Kirishima begins but…

"We have to stop her which is what she's relying on." Sayako scowls.

"She is?" Asui astonished asks.

"Think about it she's the only defence against Kaminari the only one who can do wide range attacks." Sayako scowls.

"What are you thinking then Sayako?" Kirishima eyes her.

"I'll deal with her." Sayako asserts.

"You?" Shinso scowls.

"My threads ca easily cut her vines off." Sayako shrugs.

"You're cut off her hair!?" Denki freaks out.

"To win yes." Sayako states the fact firmly.

"…Dude don't make that face!" Denki frets.

"Come on ma she's just passionate about it." Kirishima smiles sheepishly.

"She's sounding like Bakugo I mean she'll never get any guys on her personality alone they may think she's pretty but when they get to know the demon inside her." Denki shakes scared.

"I am here you know. Urgh look here's the plan, I'll go cut Shiozaki's hair while I do that Kirishima you and Asui keep moving with Kaminari and Shinso the two of you up with your respective partner to cover more ground, Koda keep on with the reports of their movements keep an eye on me with the birds and take on the other members." Sayako dismisses the group.

"What about you?" Shinso scowls stepping forward.

"Worry about yourself. I'll go after the rest." Sayako states.

"Sayako!" Denki frowns at her honestly.

"Yeah come on dude that's a bit…" Kirishima joins in but…

"On your own? Are you crazy?" Shinso scowls, taking both boys aback at Shinso's sharp scowl.

"I simply want to win." Sayako says straight faced.

"You gave everyone an order but me." Mad, Shinso scowls.

"Oh…yeah. You can just go hide." Sayako waves him off.

"…What?" Shinso shakes seething scowling.

"Well I just mean…" Sayako shrugs stunning Shinso.

"You mean I'm deadweight." Shinso accuses.

"I don't mean that…" Tiredly, Sayako sighs.

"It's obvious what you mean you think I'm a burden!" Shinso accuses agitated.

"What I'm thinking about is winning and you're putting words in my mouth!" Mad, Sayako barks back.

"And you think I'll hold you back? I'm not-" Shinso begins but…

"That isn't…Toshi? TOSH!" Sayako tries to explain when her hues widen when a bright brown blur rushes at them.

"Meet my roaring rage!" Shishida screams as he comes to attack Shinso however he is swiftly tugged out of harms way by a familiar thread and instead…

"Kirishima!" Denki calls out to the redhead being snatched by Shishida and thrown back.

"Sayako!" Shinso cries out when she too is thrown back, hitting their respective walls behind them dust forming from said collision.

"We knew you'd send Koda to search for us and we planned accordingly also that you'd be the most wary around Shiozaki's quirk using her as a decoy I crawled my way through the shadows to find you if we let your team prepare you might have released a devastating shock attack so we opted for a direct approach I sniffed you out with my acute sense of smell hahaha!" Shishida cackles crazed.

"You can't use much electricity with your friends around can you? You don't want to shock them I've trained my quirk and got a new move air prison! A solitary cell that won't allow any sound in!" Kosei smirks smugly clinging to the back of Shishida, swiftly trapping Koda within the air cube.

"Take them down Shishida!" Shinso silently adjusts his mask.

"Consider this our win already!" Shishida roars raising his fists.

"The monster's gonna murder me!" Denki screams scared however he stops surprising everyone when he freezes.

"Wait did you get brainwashed? It sounded like Shinso somehow talked with my voice!?" Kosei says shocked.

"Vocal modulator persona chords…" Shinso adjusts said mask, sweat sliding down his tense temple.

"Now's the time to strike!" Shinso steps forward taking out his scarf however…

"I got this! Air Prison!" Kosei quickly traps him into an air cube too.

"Urgh!" Shinso gasp at the cube he is soon trapped within, pounding on it trying to break free but…

"Wake up Shishida! Come on you beast!" Kosei strikes at Shishida knocking him back to normal just as Denki rushes forward.

"No good he's back!" Kosei leaps back as Shishida grabs Denki who simply smirks.

"You got a good grip there boy!" Bemused, he asks as he fires shocking Shishida but is thrown back.

"Dang. He almost fought through that jolt!" Denki says shocked after being thrown back holding his shoulder hissing.

"Shishida!" Kosei calls out only to gasp when a tongue suddenly sports out of nowhere.

"I got you now!" Asui wraps her tongue around him.

"Aw, yeah! Throw that dude in jail, Tsu!" Denki cheers just as Shishida growls.

"No way! Why aren't you passed out?" Denki freaks out when seeing said beast rush ahead.

"Kirishima focus on Koda I'll handle the big guy." Sayako orders.

"Got it!" Kirishima nods going to do just that.

"Sayako can't be serious can she!?" Mina gawks gapes at the blonde before Shishida seeing Shinso's fists only grow more frantic from the sight of her before the beast.

"Sayako may not have strength but she has her speed." Shoji crosses his arms over his chest.

"But does she even have that anymore? That robot arm of hers is practically a whole heap of a weight." Sero argues.

"It's why she's been training so hard." Todoroki speaks up making the group of men turn to him before tuning back to the screen.

"You think you can beat me barbie?" Bemused, Shishida sneers, craning his head from side to side smirking down at her hearing the crisp crack of bone as she simply stands staring up at him.

"…You calling me a doll based on a sex doll?" Sayako quirks her head to the side.

"Wha-ARGH!" Shishida blinks befuddled before crying out from the first fist sent his way throwing him back.

"WHOA!? When could Sayako do that!?" Sero says shocked.

"Although Sayako's new arm doesn't make her as fast as she once was it does provide the grip and power she lacked back then." Mezo explains to them.

"Sayako spent her whole life honing her fighting style but now with the arm she's had to completely start anew…" Todoroki throws in.

"Yeah back with Gang Orca that hit she made she never would have made that much of an impact before with her hits." Midoriya recollects writing down this new pro for her arm.

"To make a new fighting style though sounds tough." Sero couldn't help but furrow his brow by the thought.

"Let's just see how much this training has helped her." Shoto says the group still watching on.

"Faster, Tsu, c'mon!" Ochaco cheers watching her friend take Kosei away to the cage.

"Don't you worry. Trust our classmates. They've got this." Midoriya smiles.

"Y-You hit me!?

"No shit!" Snarling, Sayako lunges forward as the bellowing beast roars rushing at her as she avoids each and every hit, her hits hitting his from time to time.

"Sayako!" Screaming, Shinso slams his furious fists into the air wall before him helplessly watching on, his legs loosing energy as he falls to his knees, not again not again anguished he watches hating every single second of helplessness of watching her fight on as he was to the sidelines doing nothing as she threw her life out there…for him…for everyone else for…no, no, no…not again not again!

"Koda!" Kirishima rushes towards the air cage.

The air wall should be weak enough to break easily. Kirishima tries to break it but…

"Nope. Pretty tough. In that case... Let's do this!" He hardened himself breaking the cage.

"Thanks, Kirishima!" Koda thanks him.

"That's it!" Shishida roars suddenly grabbing Sayako taking her aback as he grabs her robotic limb and throws her to the side.

"Sayako!" Shinso roars seeing said limb fly off as she is thrown back bashing into the wall of debris. His hues dilating when seeing her limb having been thrown over slide over before his eyes. Shinso screams Sayako slamming his fists into the air wall desperate to get out, desperate to help, desperate to be of some use.

"That's gotta hurt…" Sero grimaces at the thrown figure that is Sayako.

"That's so not fair Sayako was putting her all in that fight!" Sato frowns.

"Yes but remember Sayako's still training with her limb…She isn't a brute force fighter either. She put up as best as she could against that beast…" Mezo reminds them.

"I won't let him escape!" Asui assures as she continues hopping to the cage, Shishida trying to follow after her.

"Nice! And we'll make sure to stop this guy." Kirishima hardens himself.

"Fly to me, little ones. Please lend me your strength." Koda calls to his animal friends.

"Come get some! Red Gauntlet!" Kirishima roars both ready to strike when the burly beast before them jumps and…

"Back to my human mode." Slides between both of them reverting to his thinner lankier form.

Jurota Shishida. Quirk: Beast. His physique bulks up whenever he activates his power. But he goes back to normal when he turns it off.

"And the animal returns!" He grunts growling at both boys grabbing them.

"Only one of you can stand up to my strength. You're a tough one, Kirishima. So you'll go first!" Shishida decides throwing the screaming Kirishima up in the air.

"That's where she is!" Shinso still hitting the box realises.

"I've spotted a lost sheep, plummeting from the sky." Ibara whispers watching the redhead fall into her trap.

"Oh, no! I can't believe they caught him!" Ochaco gasps.

"Agreed. But Asui managed to ensnare Tsubaraba." Tenya points out.

"The odds are still even." Todoroki says.

"No. They're definitely not." Katsuki frowns.

"I can't talk. He's too strong!" Koda gasps his mouth muffled by the beasts mouth as he sniffs the air.

"I know what you're trying!" Shishida dodges both Denki's projectiles and Asui's tongue taking off.

"I evaded, but Koda is not making this easy. I can't fight while carrying him. Best to withdraw. And tilt the scales of this battle in our favour!" Shishida leaves with Koda.

"And with that, we're up two to one." Rin eyes the two now in their cage as Koda sadly sighs.

"Sorry I failed, Koda." Kirishima apologises.

"With her tongue! I can't believe she captured me." Kosei blushes brightly as he is put in his cage.

"You okay Sayako?" Asui asks handing her, her arm back.

"Been better…" Bluntly, Sayako huffs disregarding Shinso as she scowls down at her robotic limb, glaring glowering down at it.

"I'm fighting twice?" Sayako says surprised.

"To even the teams." Vlad tells her.

"But isn't the reason Shinso is added as a way to disadvantage the other team?" Sayako argues.

"Just as your arm will you're still getting used to it you need all the combat training you can get if toy want to catch up." Aizawa explains making Sayako's hue twitch tense.

She wasn't dead weight, she wasn't a disadvantage, she wasn't…replaceable. Sayako seethes shaking scowling, glaring glowering down at her robotic limb, was this…if Shinso did make it through would he be replacing her spot in the class? Is this what this test was about? Anxiety freely flows through Sayako she didn't wanted to be pitted against Shinso she didn't…Sayako stops herself, grabbing her arm, trying to breath in and out recalling her therapists words, counting calmly as she tries to think of a plan ignoring Denki's grunts.

"This is stronger than it was at the sports festival. He got better." Denki grunts bashing at the air cube.

"Class B's been training hard!" Asu agrees as she has a iron bar trying to break the glass free as Shinso simply stares into a pair of jaded glare, simply staring scowling down at him, her furious fist shaking quivering quaking. Why…why did he have to be here!? This was the debt of her arm she did not need…no, no, no this wasn't about her, the world did not resolve around her of course he would come, he wanted to be a hero after all…the boy who would be bullied constantly, who would just…Sayako shakes her head, she needed to think, she needed to think of a plan and also break that beast's kneecaps…!

"Yeah, they've definitely upped their game since we last fought 'em, huh? Hey Sayako your fist could easily help us out here you know?" Denki calls out to her.

"Yeah come on!" Asui agrees as Sayako simply scowls at the pair before sighing, growing fed up, knowing if she had decided to go on ahead, those two would make a fuss over leaving Shinso so she approaches as with one swift strike, the cage breaks but she doesn't bat an eye to the boy inside…

"Oh? What's this? Class B is already pulling ahead? Each team has three competitors left, but it's obvious Class B is setting themselves up for a win. I can't say I'm surprised, given their brains and brawn. My superior students are attacking furiously. Looks like they'll finally crush Class A!" Vlad boasts into the microphone.

"Yeah! Keep bringin' the truth, Mr. Vlad!" Momona cheers.

"Stop with the biased commentary!" Mina scowls.

"That beast is strong. He'll be hard to take down." Sero frowns.

"And his sense of smell is no joke either." Sato adds.

"Sayako…don't let your pride get in the way." Todoroki couldn't help but furrow his brow while watching on.

"Shinso. I'm afraid your inexperience is showing…I gave you this chance to prove yourself to her don't waste it now. Aizawa couldn't help but tut at his student showing such emotion towards Sayako being hit to his hesitation when it came time to fight.

"He was ready to attack with the binding cloths. But he reacted after seeing the enemy. He can't keep up with the intense speed of the battle. They need another way to take advantage of Shinso's abilities." Izuku makes notes in his book.

"I still can't believe those two are friends." Ochaco blurts out.

"You saw it to then…" Izuku frowns.

"It was plain as day Sayako clearly doesn't want him on the team, she didn't give him any orders barely even acknowledged him. I know Sayako can be a bit cold but I thought she grew a bit since we started." Ochako complains.

"Maybe there's a reason for that." Tentatively, Tenya considers.

"Eh?" The two turn to him.

"Sayako doesn't do such things without reason." Tenya reminds the two as they watch on.

"You were slow." Scowling, Sayako turns to glare at Shinso.

"Huh?" Shinso blurts out.

"Too damn slow you hesitated you should have attacked as soon as you saw Shishida. Still a rookie, seems Aizawa's faith may have been misguided." Sayako scowls down at Shinso.

"Hey Sayako hold on come on give the guy some slack!" Denki intervenes.

"Some slack? This could cost us!" Sayako argues.

"Which is why we're having this challenge in the first place." Asui adds.

"Tch…dammit Aizawa. If we had just followed my plan…if we had followed my plan of spreading out with me dealing with her she couldn't capture the rest…" Sayako clicks her tongue tiredly.

"You think you could handle her?" Shinso scowls.

"I can handle a lot more than you can Shinso." Sternly, Sayako reminds him making him glare.

"At least I'm trying while you were napping we were fighting!" Shinso spits back.

"Fighting? You call that…? No, no, going to stop myself, fighting amongst ourselves won't help the situation. Despite the fact that I want to cut ever single vine from that fake miss perfect brat." Brow furrowed, Sayako scowls.

"What do you have against her?" Denki couldn't help but wonder.

"Preachy people piss me off okay? But we're going off topic. Fortunately for us glass guy's out." Sayako hums.

"But so are Kirishima and Koda. Class B sure are strong." Asui admits.

"What are we going to do Sai? At this rate we'll lose…" Denki worries.

"You're right I should have been faster in capturing him…my bad." Shinso apologises.

"It's fine." Flippantly, Sayako sighs brushing him off firmly focusing on the plan in her head.

"But you need to include me more." Shinso states.

"Excuse you?" Sharply, Sayako turns on her heel heated hues narrowing.

"You held me back." Bluntly, Shinso accuses.

"Held you back? You held yourself back. Shinso you shouldn't have been on the front lines to begin with." Sayako holds her head huffing.

"Why because I'm weak?" Shinso accuses agitated.

"Because you're inexperienced." Sayako snaps back brow furrowed.

"I'm not a hero?" His heated hues of lilac narrow.

"Not like that I just…don't put words in my mouth I just mean…you're…you're like Koda in the back." Bluntly, she tells him.

"While you go around kicking down doors?" Shinso crosses his arms over his chest.

"Oh for… urgh forget this it's getting to personal I need to come up with a plan for us." Sayako stops herself.

"Sayako!" Shinso steps forward furious however…

"Leave her dude." Denki pulls Shinso back.

"I have to agree we need a plan." Asui agrees.

"And you're going to trust her after that blowup?" Shinso scowls at the two.

"Well…Sayako does have the most battle experience out of us." Asui argues.

"Yeah I mean you should have seen her at USJ hell at Kamino she was badass when those villains attacked!" Kirishima gushes giddily.

"Plus strategy is sort of her thing." Asui adds.

"Hmph…." Shinso scowls turning to glare to the side.

""So guessing there's some history." Denki remarks by Shinso's side as Asui and Sayako are ahead.

"None of your business." Briskly, Shinso scowls.

"It's cool, it's cool look dude don't take what Sayako says to heart, she means well she's just been stressed a lot lately with the arm and supplementary lessons." Denki smiles shyly at Shinso.

"And Kamino." Shinso scowls.

"Oh yeah definitely Kamino. Yeah you're not wrong there. But she's been working really hard even during the festival she went out to train to catch up with us." Kaminari agrees.

"…Catch up?" Shinso says softly.

"Yeah guess she's been scared of being left behind you know…" Kaminari smiles.

"Yeah…I know." Shino stares at the back of Sayako discussing something with Asui.

"For real though I know this is serious combat training and all. So getting injured is par the course but it impressive that you were able to move in that situation. You really saved my ass back there I know you said you weren't interested in making friends and all that but I like you dude. You're a proper hero hopeful just like the rest of us." Denki compliments Shinso.

"Whatever…we need a new plan." Shinso turns to look to the side shyly bashful from his words.

"Asui…your mucus do you have much left?" Sayako asks Asui.

"Sure here why?" Asui shows said mucus.

"Good Denki, where are your pointers?" Sayako turns to Denki.

"Uh in my pockets." Denki responds.

"Right one of them stuck on Shahida's pants." Sayako fills them in.

"How did that happen?" Denki says shocked.

"May have used a thread or so…" Sayako smirks slightly.

"You planted it there." Shinso realises.

"Yeah I wasn't napping." Sayako asserts annoyed.

"You were really watching careful huh amazing Sayako I guess those observation skills and pretty face make up for your shitty personality…" Denki remarks.

"Just going to ignore that…anyway Asui you mentioned your mucus a while back right…" Sayako turns back to Asui.

"Yeah how do you know about it though?" Asui asks.

"During my time with Bombarda, her sidekick Han kept telling me about frogs, some stuff stuck such as the mucus can make your smell disappear which would be good against someone with Bombarda scent also Frogs have excellent night vision and are very sensitive to movement. The bulging eyes of most frogs allow them to see in front, to the sides, and partially behind them. A group of frogs is called an army…" Sayako explains going off on a tangent taking the two aback all but one that is.

"Sayako." Shinso calls out.

"Oh right sorry was going into a rant there any who this could help us against them cloak us as we go in undetected as they did to us prior. Shishida has an acute sese of smell even though this will help us, he may be able to always know our locations so…" Sayako redirects back to the topic at hand, the others crouching down when she gestures for them to get closer.

"We'll use that against him…" Asui whispers after Sayako explains the plan to the huddled group.

"He'll smell Tsuyu so he'll have no idea which is which." Shinso catches on.

"Exactly." Sayako nods.

"As expected of the daughter of best Jeanist! He's super observant just like you hey it looks like he hasn't noticed the pointer yet either he's just hanging out." Denki looks over at his wrist device.

"Ideally we would know where his other two classmates are." Asui adds.

"Nearby most likely…be on your guard." Sayako advises.

"Instead of figuring that out we should get the beast man out of the way his power is way too much trouble. Speaking of Sayako are you sure you're okay Sayako?" Denki ask Sayako.

"Yeah you went flying earlier!" Asui points out.

"Eh I've had worse." Sayako shrugs.

"Out of all of us Sayako you seem to be the only one who can handle that guy head on." Asui points out.

"Yeah if worse comes to worse I'll distract him while you guys separate and deal with the others." Sayako asserts as they continue on.

"You used me as a decoy for an ambush? Ah, what a sinful act of deception. I fear I must whip you now." Ibara threatens.

"Wait. What? But we succeeded in our mission! If we catch two more members of their team, we can beat them! Now we know about Shinso's voice changer, so if we grab him and Asui, while ignoring Kaminari, there's no way we can lose." Shishida reasons.

"That sounds about right. Although Sayako could be a threat." Rin throws in.

"Not if we take that arm of hers off." Shishida says.

"Still it's disappointing that we lost Tsubaraba, though." Rin sighs.

"Trickery!" Ibara raises her vines when Shishida starts sniffing the air.

"What is it, Shishida?" Rin questions him.

"This will sound strange. I'm not sure what it means. But there are four Asui's heading our way!" Shishida scowls.

"Three frogs?" Taken aback, the other two say shocked by the news.

"I don't get what Shishida's saying. She can't multiply herself like Mr. Ectoplasm does, right? There should only be one of her." Kaibara furrows his brow whispering to his classmates.

"Is this the plan I think it is?" Mineta asks Midoriya whispering it.

"Yeah. It's that power." Midoriya confirms, the two watching on as the monitor shows said plan about to unveil.

"Vines!? We're gonna have to deal with Shiozaki too!" Denki frets.

"It's over if we turn back." Shinso points out.

"It's fine." Sayako steps forward.

"How is this fine?" Denki freaks out.

"Denki come on." Sayako grabs him by the collar.

"H-Huh h-h-hey hold on wait a minute!" Denki frets from the two approaching the vines.

"At least explain your plan!" Shinso snaps scowling.

"Yeah come on dude you're doing a Bakugo right now!" Denki agrees.

"Urgh fine, if this guys really think Kaminari is the big bad then he's the last person they'll want to draw close and since Shiozaki had won using her vines to nullify his electricity they'll mainly focus on getting rid of him. Which we can use to our advantage, if need be Asui can use her camouflage to hide in case of backup and Shinso can…

"If you say hide." Shinso warns.

"Just listen." Tiredly, Sayako sighs softly hitting one of the pipes with the back of her hand.

"Hear that?" She asks.

"An echo?" Asui exclaims.

"If you can hear above maybe you can mind control one of them Shiozaki preferably for Denki to use his attack, I'll cover you guys if that beast finds your location and if he does, tug at your collar I'll pull you out of there." She promises them. This way at least, he can avoid fighting…

"How will you find us?" Shinso scowls sceptical.

"Threads." Simply, she shrugs, Shino's eyes widening when feeling the brief tug of his collar from a stray thread following it to see it coiled around her metallic finger, Asui and Denki's too.

"Whoa that's amazing Sayako!" Denki smiles.

"Guess those supplementary lessons really helped you after all." Asui hums.

"Supplementary lessons are just lessons dumbasses! Tch…" Sayako curses cross.

"What about you? Why do you need to be captured?" Shinso presses.

"So Kaminari can pull out his attack." Simply, she shrugs.

"But what if I hurt you." Denki frets.

"It'll be fine I'm used to a little pain." Simply, she shrugs once again.

"Yeah you're not wrong there you do seem like a masochist." Dubiously, Denki remarks.

"This coming from the very embodiment of that." Sayako scoffs.

"Hey no fair! And had you're not denying it or would you be a sa-ARGHHH! SAYAKO YOU'RE SO NOT COOL!" Dramatically, Denki screams scared when he is thrown into the vines.

"And there he goes. " Sayako places her hands to her hips.

"You two better fan out as well." Sayako tells the two before leaping forward, letting the vines carry her away.

"By the power of my true name vine I will judge the wretched schemes ve el del rosa location sniff them out for me apocalypse beast!" Ibara declares.

"Nine o clock, Ten o clock, twelve o clock, two o clock they've fanned out and are heading this way and one more thing don't call me apocalypse beast, my hero name is Gevaudan." Shishida reminds her.

"If all three of them are approaching they must know where we are is there anyone on their team who had recon powers? Hey Acopbeast somethings stuck to you it looks like something a part of Kaminari's gear." Rin points out.

"I have captured two, I will drag them into the light!" She announces.

"Be ready we don't know who it is Kaminari could be coming in hot!" Gevaudan warns.

"Right about that! Or Weaver!" Rin warns as just then…" Shiozaki pulls out…

"Oh I've been waiting for this! Iron fibres!" Smirking, Weaver greets the group, the vines swiftly slicing off her and…

ARGH!" Shiozaki screams, her hair falling flat to the floor.

Shiozaki!" The two cry calling out concerned as just then…

"You beast!" Shishida glares at her however…

"This coming from the beast man! Now Chargebolt!" She raises her hand, swiftly slicking him free.

"On it! Sucks to be you hope you had a good time cause you three are about to deal a triple shock!" Smirking, Denki is freed from the vines as he releases a bright blast of electricity directed towards the pointer but…

"Crap!" Rin fires the button off of him with his scales.

"That was close!" Shishida says relieved however…

"Not close enough!" Sayako pulls her wrist forward bringing the button back redirecting the bright blast of lightning at Shishida but to say their shock…

Kiryu Rin quirk scales he can generate scales all over his body he can shoot them or use them as a shield

"How the hell is he still breathing!?" Baffled, Sayako gawks at the heaving huffing beast releasing a huge roar.

"Got you now!" Shishida charges at Sayako.

"Hell no!" Sayako dodges tugging the now dumbified Kaminari back into the dark depths of the pipeline.

"Damn she's fast! Shiozaki are you okay?" Rin curses turning to her.

"I…I just need time to reattach my vin-" Shaken, she says scorched whimpering weakly before gasping suddenly frozen.

"No! That wasn't me talking just now! It was Shinso's voice modifier! Dammit!" Rin curses as next they knew a thread of a vine suddenly drags her into the dark depths of the industrial pipes.

"Shiozaki!" Both boys call out to her.

"Asui!" Sayako hands the camouflaged frog the dumbified Kaminari and Shiozaki.

"Right…!" Asui rushes off back to the cage on their side with the vine girl and Denki to safety.

"Maybe I underestimated my team mates even she can be clever…I guess I let my emotions get the best of me as well…seems those lessons really have paid off…that's the difference experience makes while I was trying to get an argument out of her she was trying to focus on the mission…this is the hero course…Shinso leant against a wall listening in realises.

"No get back here! Argh dammit it's like she has a spider web all over this place!" Rin curses cross.

"That's cause I do." Dubiously, she returns alone this time, taking both boys aback as next they knew, they were both pinned to the ground.

"W-What the!?" Rin gawks gapes at the sudden weight around them.

"What did you do!?" Shishida grunts glaring at the woman.

"Simply use your threads, we have two of your group, you have two of ours, a draw's fine by me if I have to wait things out." Sayako admits.

"Damn you!" Shishida curses as just them Sayako scowls, her hue floating up, quirking her head to the side avoiding said scale shot her way.

"Nice try!" Rin stands cowling shooting his scales breaking said thread around him.

"I tried to be nice…" She smirks at him.

"Huh?" Rin blinks befuddled before crying out as with a flick of her wrist the too is thrown into the dark depths of the machinery hitting a nearby beam of iron square in the face knocking him out as Asui swiftly snatches him, coming back to wrap her tongue around hi, bringing him back to be caged as well.

"You should give up, it's just you left." She advises as she scowls at Shishida being held down however…

"Not going to happen. You think I don't know your limits, your hardened threads tighten around your dominant hand, too hard and it could cause stitches." Smirking, he eyes her fleshy hand.

"You've done your homework." She smirks as he breaks free from said threads roaring.

"That's right just as I know there's another one of you I can take." He smirks at her.

"Don't you even think about it!" Incensed, she glares at him.

"I must admit I'm impressed, protecting him for as long as you have with your own predicament it just shows your skill in battle but this ends here I rather draw than lose to you lot!" Roaring, he rushes at Sayako as she tries to pull him back but gasps when he grabs her threats, throwing her into a nearby metal pole.

"Sayako!" Those of Class A grimace at said hard hit seeing the indent of her body as she falls to the ground, scarlet seeping out from the back of her head.

"You're not going anywhere!" Shishida roars raising his voice.

"Shit Shinso!" Scared, Sayako shakily stands staggering forward, she had to find him, she had to, she places her hand down on the ground hoping her threads to reach him hower she soon gasps when noting the torn threads below making her curse at the barbaric beast rushing ahead at her defenceless best friend, no, no, no she couldn't, she wouldn't!

"Shinso just hold on! Internally, Sayako begs as she rushes after Shishida swinging through trying to desperately catch up.

"Based on the movement of the scent I can tell where the true Asui is which means the person hiding here is definitely Shinso! Impressive…you say you're behind us but you're a terrifying opponent I consider you a proper threat already! Gordon rushes through the pipes rushing at him breaking everything in sight.

"You're pretty good." Rin's voice speaks through Shinso's speaker however…

"That won't work on me!" Shishida raises his hand to finish Shinso but…

"But erasure head taught me well! Binding cloth!" Shinso slams his cloth wrapped around a nearby pipe down landing square on the beast's head hitting him head on however…

"Not bad not bad at all but villains aren't taken out so easily they'll never be defeated by something like that!" Shishida raises his hand about to finish Shinso off when…

"DON'T TOUCH HIM!" Roaring, Sayako snarls shooting out of the opening, raising her gauntlet swiftly slamming it into Shishida below bashing him into the ground below thoroughly knocked out.

"Hey, Shinso's awesome. I'd say he's good to transfer." Mineta beams brightly at their first win.

"No. It was Sayako's plan and teamwork with Asui and Kaminari that let him shine. That's why he did so well. That's teamwork. By erasing their smells with Asui's mucus, making them hard to pinpoint, and using the vocal modifier, they made it so the other team couldn't communicate. With enough time to prepare, he was able to control the fight and use their paranoia against them!" Midoriya explains closing his book pleased to see Sayako's plan.

"That sounds like a Sayako plan alright." Ojiro smiles.

"Brainwashing. It's an even more annoying Quirk than I thought it was before." Todoroki exclaims.

"That idiot…" Bakugo sighs his scarlet staring at the tired figure of Sayako standing over the body of the beast, the star struck Shinso sat crouched behind her still reeling from her words.

"Sayako…" Shinso calls out to her.

"Huh…? Sorry adrenaline…one minute printing." Sayako heaves taking a seat on the pipe that had hit the beast.

"Did you…know what you just said?" Shinso couldn't help but ask.

"Eh…sorry the adrenaline got the better of me all I heard really was ringing." Sayako rubs the back of her head.

"…your hand." Disappointed, Shinso changes topic.

"Huh…aw man…" Disappointed, Sayako sighs at her busted gauntlet.

"Why am I in the prison? What happened here? AHH! I was forced to commit these vile actions I failed my father please forgive me!" Ibara cries holding her head horrified to see said short vines wrapped around her comrades after Kohei shook her back to normal soon fainting.

"Shiozaki stay with me we just got you back!" Kohei calls out panicked shaking her after she faints while Denki, Sayako, Asui and Shinso watch them.

"You're not behind at all. I don't think we could have won this fight without you Shinso." Asui admits to Shinso.

"I'm not nearly where I need to be. I can't let others carry me. I need to grow strong enough to become a pro hero of my own. Shinso shyly hides himself into his scarf admitting it as he eyes the snickering Sayako prodding poking the dumbified Denki, taking photos clearly taking advantage of the dumbified Denki.

"Despite their failures class A and Shinso are the winners!" Vlad annoyed announces.

"Bombarda?" Sayako perks up at the sight of her.

"Yo." She salutes him.

"Explain what you learned and what you'd do differently." Aizawa orders the group coming back from the field.

"Well if I'm not brawling with my enemies then my quirk kind of ends up as useless if that had been real Shiozaki would have just murdered me before I hit the ground." Kirishima confesses taking his helmet off.

"I need to give more detailed instructions to the bugs I call." Koda admits.

"And I pretty much killed it thinking I probably made some new fans, it's cool these new warm feelings aren't something you can control right Sayako?" Smiling, Denki cheers.

"…The fuck are you on?" Sayako stares stunned at the cheery bombastic blonde before her dancing around.

"Now let's hear some praise! I'm not shy!" Smiling, Denki calls out.

"We lost Koda and Kirishima and it was a blow to our team's moral I wish we could have won without losing anybody but we were sloppy out there." Froppy throws in.

"It didn't help that I tried to instigate a fight with Weaver when she was trying to come up with a plan for us, her quick thinking is the reason we won today." Shinso sighs.

"…Can I have that on record?" Sayako asks.

"No." Aizawa scowls.

"The binding cloth I couldn't even use a tenth of what I've leant from you it's so frustrating!" Shinso scolds himself.

"There's a reason why they call it training the scarf is hard to use took me six years to master move on but don't forget this feeling." Aizawa reminds him.

"Right…" Shinso nods.

"Sayako…explain what you learned and what you'd do differently." Aizawa turns to her.

"…Don't rant about fro-Argh!" Sayako begins before gagging from the cloth coiled around her throat.

"Explain what you learned and you'd do differently." Annoyed, Aizawa demands.

"Not break my arm?" Sayako shows said broken robotic arm.

"Not underestimate Shinso." Sternly, Aizawa tugs her forward to hiss that.

"Tch…" Sayako turns away as he releases her.

"The two who worked through their work studies dug deep into their reflections." Aoyama takes note of.

"It's not surprising they faced those Shie Hessekai villains I heard it was a pretty intense raid, if you experience something like that it change the way you think and approach things. If they hadn't had Bombarda there who knows if they would have made it out." Sero points out unaware of Bakugo's brow furrowing alongside Midoriya's.

"Compared to the others that braindead shock jock looks like a total moron." Jiro snickers.

"Listen up Kirishima you should focus on forcing your opponent on a head on fight." Aizawa advises.

"Yes sir." Kirishima nods.

"Koda it's exactly as you should increase the accuracy of which you control animals don't rush think about your enemies weaknesses." Aizawa tells him.

"Kaminari you weren't serious at the start and relied way too heavily on Sayako saving the day are you only strong if your team's in trouble?" Aizawa questions.

"No…" Denki whines.

"Asui learn to focus on recovering from a mistake instead of the mistake itself." Aizawa advises as he soon turns to Sayako.

"Sayako…you need to learn to trust Shinso. Your skills in co-operation have improved I'll give you that but you need to broaden your horizons when it comes to working with others. I spotted your hesitation when it came to freeing Shinso from the box. Although you tried to be practical and avoid Shinso's digs at trying to get you to argue back you still showed no sense of trusting him when it came down to fighting. Not to mention when you had freed Shinso instead of cheering Shinso up to improve moral you berated him." Aizawa reports to Sayako attempting to bite her lip however…

"He didn't listen to my plan, he engaged in an argument I quickly shut down." Sayako argues.

"Which is good however he has low self-esteem, berating him had come at the cost of further dampening the moral of your team. While you gave him a complaint you needed to give him a compliment so he wouldn't have lost hope like that." Tiredly, Aizawa asserts.

"Sounds more like a him problem." Sayako crosses her arms over her chest.

"Sayako, just because someone is a bit behind does not make them a liability nor does it mean you can berate them in front of other people. I thought you of all people would know that." Aizawa scolds Sayako.

"Tch…!" Sayako scowls glaring to the side.

"Even though he won he's still aware of his own inexperience. Yet instead of getting dismayed he's replaying the match in his head finding ways he could improve his performance so that he dominates the next match it's so invigorating!" Midnight gushes giddily watching Shinso fiddle with his scarf.

"Why are you here?" Sayako scowls at Midnight.

"Sayako it's been so long isn't it exciting?" Midnight smirks at her.

"You're being weird again." Sayako huffs.

"I have to agree contain yourself…" Yagi orders.

"Do you know why you lost? Or shall I explain it to you? Shishida was your focal point. Or, wait. Was Shiozaki your ace? If you'd only come together as a team, you could've taken them all." Vlad King berates the team.

"Mr. Vlad's eyes get so scary when he's mad." Tsubaraba squirms scared of said glare.

"It's not in Shiozaki's nature to deceive. Forgot to consider that fact, Beast man, didn't you?" Monoma smirks slightly as Katsumi's hues of soft scarlet stare at Monoma analysing him almost.

"You're correct. And as a result, we allowed our opponents time to come up with a plan. You have my sincerest apologies." Beast man apologises.

"Hellfire spares no one." Ibara tells her classmates.

"What a shame but I learnt something as well he's good I'm looking forward to having him on my side Shinso buddy let's come up with a plan to make Class A cry like toddlers! Someone that will really ruin their lives!" Merrily, Monoma rushes over to Shinso's side.

"He's just talking to himself." Mineta watches the one sided conversation with the silent Shinso and Monoma.

"We should come up with a plan!" He cackles moving about the place as Katsumi silently watches on.

"Sayako." Todoroki approaches Sayako's side.

"What is it Todo?" She turns to him.

"Your hand how is it?" Todoroki queries.

"Eh just hanging but it should be fine if I go to the support class." Sayako sighs.

"…Right do you need help?" Todoroki queries.

"I'll be fine Todo geez there's no need to be such a worrywart. Besides you got your match soon remember?" She reminds him.

"Sayako you should go to the support course to fix your arm." Aizawa calls out.

"Already on it." Sayako heads to the stairs.

"I'll go with you." Katsumi goes to do just that.

"Say Mina…" Once gone, Hagakure approaches Mina.

"Hm?" Mina turns to her.

"Is Sayako going out with Todoroki?" Hagakure couldn't help but ask oblivious to Shinso silently fiddling with his scarf stopping.

"Todoroki?" Mina furrows her brow.

"Urgh I envy her so much she's best friends with most of practically every pretty boy in your class! I just mean those two are practically glued together." Hagakure complains.

"I mean sure but…they give off a sibling vibe to you know." Mina argues.

"Yeah besides Sayako is sort of friends with most of the boys." Ochaco throws in.

"What do you mean?" Hagakure couldn't help but ask.

"Well she doesn't exactly hang out with the girls often its typically the boys she does." Mina admits.

"Oh… then what about Bakugo?" Hagakure trails off.

"Bakugo?" Ochaco exclaims unaware of Shinso silently watching on as Midoriya and Mineta talk.

"I just mean the two are always seen together." Hagakure points out.

"Yeah either shouting or training, of course not!" Mina scoffs.

"Yeah no way it's clearly a sibling dynamic." Ochaco adds.

"You think so?" Softly, Hagakure hums.

"I know so. Those two are way to hot-headed for each other Sayako needs someone calm composed to keep her level-headed you know?" Mina scoffs.

"So someone like Todoroki?" Hagakure goes back on.

"Hm…I guess but I just don't see it if you know what I mean…" Mina admits as the girls continue gossiping oblivious to the silent Shinso listening in further fiddling with his scarf.

"Know what I mean?" Tooru queries confused.

"I just well…" Mina begins but…

"Sayako needs someone to dom." Mineta pops up out of nowhere.

"Mineta!" Mina glares at him.

"What? She's clearly a top." Mineta shrugs unapologetically.

"You think so? I always thought she needed someone to well top her you know." Tooru admits.

"Tooru!" Mina gawks at her.

"What? I'm just being honest!" Tooru whines.

"…So…something's clearly going on." Katsumi leans against the workbench eyeing Sayako softly pensively pacing back and forth frowning.

"What do you mean?" Sayako scowls at Katsumi.

"You and lilac boy." Katsumi shrugs.

"…" Sayako falters from her words.

"I saw you two at the festival you seem close." Calmly, Katsumi points out.

"…I'm anxious." Anxiously, Sayako admits.

"…about what?" Katsumi queries.

"If I'll get transferred out…" Sayako crosses her arms over her chest conflicted.

"…Huh? You just got your licence why would you think that?" Taken aback, Katsumi frowns.

"Because I'm the weakest of the class." Sayako admits anguished.

"Weakest? You saw that guy with the grapes?" Katsumi scoffs.

"…At least he has an arm that can be taken off." Sayako sneers.

"…Ahem." Katsumi coughs.

"…Sorry." Sayako bows her head ashamed.

"You're still getting used to it." Katsumi reminds her.

"But that? It was my debut I was meant to show that I was fine, that I was strong that…" Sayako frets.

"You were still as strong as before. If anything you've only gotten stronger." She promises Sayako.

"…But I'm not!" Sayako scowls.

"I wouldn't say that…" Katsumi argues.

"My arm got torn off it was embarrassing not to mention a close call." Sayako curls in on herself.

"Sayako do you think when I came back to this place after the incident it was easy?" Katsumi questions.

"…" Sayako goes quiet.

"I didn't even make it to the second round of the second year sprots festival and I won it last year? Do you know how embarrassing that was? How ashamed I felt for that?" Katsumi reminds Sayako.

"…" Sayako sighs.

"Look…I get that you're scared but they wouldn't have helped you get through the whole process of getting a licence if they didn't think you would be good as a hero." Honestly, Katsumi sighs softly at Sayako.

"But Shinso's transfer…someone's going to have to go." Sayako curls in on herself.

"No they won't it's an odd number in your class right?" Katsumi points out.

"…Right." Uncertain, Sayako nods.

"So he may join your class or he may join class B to meet the number of class A heck he may even join the year below." Katsumi points out.

"…" Sayako bows her head.

"Sayako you don't need to prove yourself, you surviving, you enduring, you recovering from what you went through is enough to prove your place here you needn't even need to prove it…is that why you were so hard on Shinso?" Katsumi explains to her.

…I know I shouldn't have acted out as I did I just…I always heard him wanting to be a hero but I just…I never thought he would…" Sayako stares down at her fiddling fingertips.

"…Why not?" Katsumi frowns.

"Cause he was bullied all his life I was the one to come in and save him time and time again and I just…the idea of him fighting getting hurt…I've seen what happened I don't want that for him." Honestly, Sayako sighs pained recalling the bruised beaten boy she would defend time and time again, dealing with the bullies herself time and time again.

"That's not your decision to make." Katsumi reminds Sayako.

"So I should let him die?" Defensively, Sayako scowls.

"You should trust him." Katsumi tells her.

"You saw what I did, did you not?" Sayako scowls, she saw how Shinso reacted she watched to see if he was ready and he wasn't it was clear as day he would be killed, Sayako's' heart clenched constrained at the tense thought.

"...He still needs to learn." Katsumi sighs giving Sayako that, she had seen the boy's hesitation, his emotional reaction to Sayako getting hurt…

"And if he gets hurt?" Worriedly, Sayako frets.

"You'll help him." Sayako shrugs .

"How am I to help him like he helped me? What if I make it worse what if…what if he doesn't come back?" Brow furrowed, Sayako frets fearfully.

"You've seen your parents do the same." She points out to Sayako but…

"…I know…but….Shinsho…Shinso's different." Sayako attempts to explain pained, Shinso was always there for her, having him be hurt, it…it scared her.

"…I see so you're scared." Softly, Katsumi hums eyes the still silent Sayako, not quite sure what to say.

"…Huh?" Sayako blurts out.

"You yourself have seen firsthand what villains can do, what pain they inflict, what damage they can do you're scared for him, you're terrified that he'll get hurt, he'll get kidnapped, he'll get attacked." Aloofly, Katsumi shrugs.

"…He's been through enough. I mean sure I did tell him he could be a hero but I just meant he could be behind the front lines, you know? In the back, not having to take out the big bad…" Shyly, Sayako squirms while waiting for her arm.

"…Have you told him this?" Katsumi asks her.

"…I…I mean I think he knows." Sayako scratches the back of her neck.

"You can't assume he does I mean have you told him this? Have you spoken to him about this insecurity of yours?" Katsumi queries.

"…Not really…no." Sayako shyly bows her head.

"Then talk to him, tell him bottling this up isn't going to help." Honestly, Katsumi tells Sayako.

"But he's done enough for me I shouldn't have him deal with this as well!" Sayako grimaces.

"Sayako you're scared for him, you care for him if you want to confront this problem then talk to him, bottling it up won't do anything…" Katsumi tells Sayako.

"…I…" Sayako begins but…

"Sayako your arm's ready!" One of the engineers call out.

"R-Right thanks." Shyly, Sayako takes the arm and the two head back.

"So All Might what did you think of Shinso?" Vlad asks him.

"He's great and he has guts, it's telling the first emotion he felt after the match was frustration." Yagi admits.

"This is a test for him a good showing and he could end up transferred. I'd wager he's eager to show off in his next match well Vlad a lot left to go…" Aizawa explains before turning to Vlad, getting out his mic once more…

"I know…SECOUND ROUND TEAMS TO THE FIELD!"

"Whoa…" Stunned, Sayako does a double take when she and Bombarda return to see said ruined remains of the battlegrounds.

"Seems we missed a match." Bombarda remarks.

"Seems so…" Sayako says strapped her prosthesis on.

The grounds were completely wrecked. It was so different from the first match." Shinso stares at the screen.

"This is what training in the hero course is like. That said, they did go a little overboard." Aizawa admits.

"Fukidashi! Kendo! Remember your surroundings. Damage should be kept to a minimum." Vlad King calls out to his students.

"Yes, sir!" Fukidashi exclaims on screen.

"-Sorry 'bout that!" Kendo salutes on screen.

"Right, so, when will Komori's mushrooms disappear?" Aizawa asks Vlad.

"They'll be gone in two hours, give or take." Vlad responds.

"Then it would be logical to change locations." Aizawa reasons.

"Maybe take a break as well." Vlad considers.

"That match was an overwhelming victory for the superior Class! Just like at the school festival, Class B is certain to come out on top. It couldn't be more obvious! Aw, you poor losers, no need to look so frustrated. It's not your fault. We're just better. Accept inferiority!" Monoma cackles crazed towards the group oblivious to Bombarda watching on.

"NEVER! Besides if you look at the results realistically our team won because no pro would cause that much damage not to mention nearly kill someone with mushrooms sprouting out of their throat! How is that hero behaviour huh? Huh!" Tauntingly, Sayako takes the bait pointing right in Monoma's face, lighting bolts between both glaring blondes.

"Aw is someone salty?" Smirking, Monoma merrily taunts at the glaring glowering blonde.

"Salty? Oh you'd knew all about that you salty mother-" Mad, Sayako smirks sadistically at him, the two beginning to feud as per normal, beginning to tug at each other's faces like children almost as they rants and yell at each other, both classes simply sighing, too tired to deal with them.

"Those two never quit it do they?" Ochaco sighs.

"….I can't tell if they hate each other or if this is bonding for them." Mina admits.

"…I genuinely think they hate each other." Mineta admits.

"URGH!" Together, both Sayako and Monoma call out as Sayako is swiftly karate chopped in the head by a stern Shoto with Monoma being hit in the back of the head by Kendo.

"Apologies." Kendo sighs catching Monoma by the collar.

"Apologies as well." Shoto repeats as both blondes are on the floor foaming from the mouth by both strikes to the back of the neck.

"This…isn't over…just wait…till the fourth round…when class B beats you guys…!" Monoma heaves out while being dragged away.

"It never is…with you…and like hell I'll let you win, you asshole!" Sayako says foam shooting out of her mouth while being dragged away. The two oblivious to Bombarda's careful eye on them both.

"He's a broken record that needs to be set on fire." Mineta frowns at Monoma.

"I don't know why he talks like that when he knows she's gonna smack him." Mina huffs.

"The same could be said to Sayako to be fair." Mineta points out.

"Dang, your class has some heavy hitters. You're blowin' my mind here." Denki turns to smirk at Kaibara.

"I'd say the same thing goes for you guys." Kaibara smiles.

"Fukidashi, I didn't know you could make something so big!" Tooru turns to the manga faced guy.

"My throat gets scratchy when I do! But I'm trying to learn to power through it!" Fukidashi concedes.

"It's not just their Quirks. You have to factor in attitudes and mental strength, which both contribute to overall growth and lead to better performances on the battlefield!" Midoriya takes notes.

"You're sure writing a lot. You know, you've grown a ton, too, Deku." Ochaco points out.

"I hope so." Izuku smiles.

"Nowhere near as much as me, though." Mineta smirks smugly.

"Yeah, I don't see it." Mina deadpans.

"I'm not talking about my height!" Mineta snaps scowling at Mina.

"I am here. Without startling you." All Might whispers in his suit shyly approaching Izuku.

"Oh, All Might!" Izuku perks up at the sight of him.

"Young Midoriya, a moment, please?" All Might requests.

"Sure!" Izuku smiles following him to a separate section.

"That's cool. Bye!" Ashido watches the two leave.

"Feels like Midoriya's with All Might every other second these days, doesn't it?" Mineta hums.

"It seems that way. I heard he's been helping Deku with practice outside of class." Ochaco exclaims.

"Ooh, shocker, shocker. Of course you've got the deets on Midoriya." Mina smirks suavely.

"Uh! No! I just heard it, that's all, from somebody else, probably." Ochaco blushes brightly.

"Ah!" Mina gasps when she is suddenly floated up in the air.

"I'm so sorry!" Ochaco apologises.

"Don't use your Quirk before our match starts! You're wasting your power!" Mineta frets while Mina in the air laughs.

"Nice! Clock this breakdown!" She smiles spinning around in the air.

"Bombi!" Dark Shadow suddenly cries tears freely falling from the shadow beast bursting out of Tokoyami.

"Dark Shadow wait!" Tokoyami tries to stop said shadow suddenly lunching at the brunette conversing to Midnight who squeals when seeing said beast but to everyone's surprise she pats it.

"Hey Dark Shadow sorry I missed out on your match I heard you worked hard." Smiling, she pats dark shadow baffling many of Class B recalling the monstrous beast from the training camp practically destroying the whole forest and defeating the serial cannibal now nuzzling wrapping around Bombarda.

"Bombarda I apologise I am filled with nothing but shame." Ashamed, Tokoyami bows his head glaring at dark shadow unapologetically nuzzling into Bombarda's side.

"It's alright Tokoyami how are you feeling? Have you gone to Recovery Girl?" Bombarda questions him while petting Dark Shadow.

"She has checked." He nods.

"Hmm…that's good but how are you feeling?" Frowning, she couldn't help but fret.

"I feel fine I took the prescribed medication and will endure." Tokoyami tells her.

"Endure huh? You're so serious, seriously you needn't feel like you have to talk to me so formally you know." Katsumi couldn't help the small smile of endearment hitting her lips at the formal boy before her.

"This is how I always speak." He stats.

"It is isn't it?" Bombarda hums.

"I performed shamefully out there I apologise." He continues to apologise.

"Why are you apologising to me? Be grateful for this experience and learn to grow with dark shadow, without these failures within our lives we aren't able to learn and grow do you understand?" Bombarda smiles gesturing to Dark Shadow.

"I do…I will take your words to heart." He assures her.

"Good just don't push yourself to speak alright?" She smiles at him.

"…I understand." He nods wandering off just as Jiro approaches Bombards, the two catching up oblivious to All Might and Midoriya's conversation.

"Young Midoriya, have you sensed anything strange in your Quirk since that night?" All Might couldn't help but ask.

"No. Nothing I've noticed, at least." Izuku confesses.

"Interesting. As I mentioned, this is all new territory. I've never heard of a spontaneous activation before. But I'm planning to ask Gran Torino if he knows anything." All Might admits to Izuku.

"Great! That would be super helpful." Izuku smiles.

"Be careful in that fifth battle. Things could get weird. After all, the vestiges of One For All did first appear to you during a match against Young Shinso." All Might warns whispering it to him.

"Right. I'll be on high alert." Midoriya promises oblivious to the spikey haired boy behind him until…

"-Again?" Annoyed, Bakugo bellows speaking up.

"Yikes! Kacchan, where did you come from?" Izuku squeaks startled to see said blonde.

"You two asked me to keep your relationship a secret. But you're always sneaking around like this. Are you stupid?" Bakugo deadpans as All Might gulps.

"Don't you gulp at me! Did something happen? And don't lie." Katsuki demands from them.

"Well... Actually..." Izuku begins but…

"In your sleep? Huh. You're so hopeless, I can't tell if you're improving or failing." Katsuki is soon filled in.

"Honestly? I don't know, either." Izuku sighs.

"When are you gonna master One For All? Soon? I've gotten stronger since the last time we fought, so you'd better be keeping up." Katsuki scowls.

"I'm trying. I swear." Izuku promises.

"Young Bakugo is being considerate in his own special way. All Might smiles endearingly.

"The hell're you smiling at? I'm dead serious, ya idiot, and that dumb look on your face pisses me off!" Bakugo insults.

"Or not. All Might sweatdrops.

"She's watching our matches you know!" Bakugo brings up seemingly snapping Izuku out f his fret, firmly focusing surprising All Might.

"…She?" All Might couldn't help but query until his hues widen when thinking back to Bombarda.

"She's always been a worrywart seeing you freak out with your powers isn't going to help her feel you can be a hero you know?" Katsuki continues regardless grumbling under his breath brow furrowed.

"…I know." Izuku smiles softly.

"…We both have to prove to her we can stood on our own feet without her so I don't need you ruining my chances of showing that dumbass up got it?!" Incensed, Bakugo barks at Izuku.

"I won't!" Izuku squeaks scared.

"Damn right you won't." Katsuki grumbles glaring to the side.

"Young Midoriya seeing vestiges of One For All. And he'll be fighting the person who first triggered their appearance. I feel like everything is connected somehow. Master. What are you and the other previous users of our Quirk trying to tell us? All Might couldn't help but wonder while looking up at the sky above.

"How's my patient doing? With these minor injuries, you'll be back to normal in half an hour. You should be thankful that your young body heals so quickly. And that skin! So supple." Smiling, Recovery Girl gushes over the blushing Momo, a lip mark upon her cheek.

"Well…that wasn't weirdly phrased." Sayako remarks peering in.

"Sayako what are you…?" Astonished, Momo perks up at the sight of her.

"Shoto hit me." Meekly, Sayako smiles rubbing the back of her head.

"You got baited by Monoma again." Momo sighs softly making Sayako flinch.

"…Am I that easy to read?" Sayako squirms sweatdropping.

"Momo couldn't help but chuckle coyly at Sayako's face.

"You…you okay?" Sayako couldn't help but ask.

"Hm?" Momo looks up at her.

"I remember you didn't do too great at the sports festival and just thought ot check up on you." Sayako crosses her arms awkwardly over her chest

"I'm fine…thanks for asking how's the arm?" Momo queries.

"Fixed but is that a I'm fine or a I'm fine with fire around you?" Sayako couldn't help but eye Momo.

"Heheh…I'll be fine I promise. Thanks for checking on me." Momo smiles.

"…No problem." Sayako smiles back before leaving Momo to it.

"The third match will take place in an area two blocks east of where the previous rounds were held. The cages have been moved to your new bases. This little breather is over! Prepare for the third training battle!" Vlad orders through the microphone.

"It's finally Iida's turn to fight." Ochaco smiles.

"This group has Todoroki's two wide-range ice and fire attacks, Iida's unmatched speed, Shoji's superior scouting capabilities, and Ojiro, who excels at close combat. Talk about a balanced team. Lucky draws." Izuku takes note of.

"We've got Todoroki, so it should be an easy win." Mineta assumes.

"You shouldn't count your grapes before they're grown, boys." Mina smirks smugly.

"My grapes are huge!" Mineta snaps scowling.

"Sayako…" Todoroki calls out to Sayako.

"What's up?" Sayako cranes her head back leaning against the railing.

"Keep an eye on me phone for me would you?" Todoroki hands her his phone.

"Since when could we take phoned into training?" Sayako frowns.

"I accidently found it on me." Todoroki admits.

"Ah…if anyone calls ignore it or send cat pictures." Sayako assumes.

"…Ignore it." Todoroki tells her.

"You sure?" Sayako draws out.

"I'm sure." Todoroki frowns.

"You sure you sure?" Sayako smirks slightly.

"Sayako." Sternly, Shoto scowls.

"Fiiine." Sayako sighs giving in.

"Todoroki. Sayako." Tokoyami approaches the two.

"Oh Toko what's up?" Sayako turns to Tokoyami.

"It's Tokoyami." Tokoyami tiredly tuts.

"Yami what's up?" Sayako smirks slightly.

"…Do you enjoying toying with me?" Tokoyami's hues narrow lightly at Sayako.

"I mean I'd be lying if it wasn't fun messing with you…still your throat feeling any better?" Sayako quirks her head to the side scratching her neck.

"Yes, I took the prescribed medication. I will endure." Tokoyami bows his head.

"Endure…?" Sayako sweatdrops.

"Glad to hear." Todoroki tells Tokoyami.

"I performed shamefully out there. Please avenge us." Tokoyami requests.

"Avaenge? Todo being a bit serious there don't you think?" Tense, Sayako smiles strained.

"On the contrary I looked a fool in front of a hero I highly respect." Tokoyami states.

"Look I want to shove our win in Monoma's face as much as the next guy…" Sayako frets frowning.

"Not as much from what I hear." Tokoyami remarks.

"Regardless we can't kill them you saw what happened with me and Momo remember?" Sayako worries.

"I just mean make sure to win you two." Tokoyami sighs eyeing the two.

"Wait, why is it up to me?" Todoroki blinks befuddled.

"And me?" Sayako points to herself lost sharing a look with Todoroki.

"Our mentors, Bombarda, Hawks and Endeavor. We studied under the heroes who fought the last great battle still in people's minds. That makes it our duty to uphold the honor of the top three heroes." Tokoyami reminds the two.

"…Sounds like a lot of pressure there." Tense, Sayako smiles sweat sliding down her tense temple.

"That's the price to pay when working under such great heroes." Tokoyami shrugs.

"Uh…right." Sayako draws out, not quite sur what to say.

"I see. "The last great battle." Sure." Todoroki furrows his brow.

"Todo?" Sayako worriedly watches her friend.

"…" Silently, Todoroki goes quiet descending down from the stairs towards the battleground.

"Is he…alright?" Tokoyami couldn't help but wonder.

"…I don't know." Sayako admits concern clear on her furrowed features for her friend heading down to the battle ground, preparing for the fight ahead.

"Shoto. You must learn this move if you're to advance. Do not run from me. Do not run from your nature! Stand up! Quit pretending to be weak! Toya had the potential. He had even more firepower than me. But he had your mother's weak constitution. He was close. Until...It's on you now, Shoto! It has to be. You're the only one who can do this move! You can fulfil my ambition!" Endeavor's voice rings throughout Todoroki's head as his young self heaves, steam spewing out one from one side, tears trickling down while Endeavor stands over him, bamboo cane in hand.

"Todoroki. Todoroki? Is something wrong? You have quite a puzzled look on your face." Iida calls out to Todoroki snapping out of his day old thoughts.

"Oh, really?" Todoroki hums.

"It's true. Are you worried about something?" Ojiro pries.

"No, I'll be okay. Thank you for asking." Todoroki exclaims as he heads for battle.

"He's not exactly the most expressive person, so I didn't notice. That's impressive, Tenya." Ojiro

"It's my responsibility. I am class representative. I must aid any of our troubled peers." Tenya puts his helmet on.

"You seem really cheerful. More than usual." Shoji points out.

"Yes, I am! My brother's recovery has been going well lately." Tenya admits.

"Oh. That's great to hear!" Ojiro smiles.

"You know, I think the hero Ingenium is finished. At least for me." The battered bloodied beaten brother of Tenya sits in the hospital bed, the beep of the monitor echoing in the hospital wing.

"No! You still have so many people to help and inspire, brother. This can't be true." Tenya cries by his brother's side.

"That's why…I want you to take the name. Will you do that? For me, Tenya." Tenya's brother whispers.

"I also have the duty to uphold my brother's honor and live up to his name. I'm watching everyone closely, but that means everyone's watching me, too. I was third place at the sports festival! I'll show everybody that I'm a worthy successor!" Tenya proclaims proudly ready to do just that.

"People always treat me like I'm some kinda hardheaded moron without a clue, but I got accepted into UA just like you guys. It's not like I rush into things without thinkin' of the endgame." Tetsutetsu rants with his team tapping against the iron metal industrial pipes.

"What are you talking about?" Sen furrows his brow at Tetsutetsu.

"This unbalanced team we're stuck with! We don't have any scouts. That's gonna spell big trouble for us." Tetsutetsu points out.

"You have a point." Kaibara gives him that.

"Then, what'll we do? Huh, guys?" Tetsutetsu probes at them.

"We just talked about our pl—" Sen begins but…

"I'll tell ya what. We'll have to level this place!" Tetsutetsu decides beginning to bash away at the industrial pipes, metal coating him.

Terrible idea!" Sen cries however it falls to deaf ears.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!" Tetsutetsu continues bashing causing chaos.

Are you nuts? Mr. Vlad said to keep damage to a minimum." Kaibara scowls at Tetsutetsu.

"Smashy, smashy, smash, smash, smash!" Tetsutetsu continues cackling causing chaos.

Okay. Maybe I should start shouting directly in the kid's face." Vlad considers eyeing said screen.

What's that?" Ojiro perks up at the sharp sound of chaos.

"I hear the screeching sounds of metal against metal. My guess? Tesutestu's loose." Shoji describes.

Level this whole place!" Tetsutetsu continues causing chaos.

Class B, Tetsutetsu Hero name: Real Steel. Quirk: Steel.

He can turn his entire body into metal. That means he's both a deadly sword and the perfect shield.

"Take this! And this! No cheap tricks needed! It's a fight to the death! A brawl for the ages!" Tetsutetsu continues causing chaos.

"Hold on! The other team's got Todoroki on it!" Sen warns.

"Don't care!" Tetsutetsu hollers.

"I thought you said you were thinking! You're just being obstinate." Sen states scowling.

"Well, we can work with this, too, I suppose." Honenuki sighs.

"And your thinking's too flexible, Juzo!" Sen snaps at Honenuki.

"Ah, jeez! You're gonna dog-gone blow it for us, metalhead!" Mad, Pony yells at Tetsutetsu.

"You hear, what you're making Pony sound like? Is this what you want?" Sen scowls at Tesutestu's back.

"Tetsutetsu doesn't mean any harm. In fact, his approach even plays to our strengths." Honenuki considers.

"Great, now you're the one who sounds crazy." Sen sweatdrops.

"Bring it on, ya villains!" Tetsutetsu cackles.

"…Am I…that bad?" Baffled, Sayako couldn't help but ask eyeing the destruction.

"No not that bad." Sero smoothly assures the furrowed frown of Sayako eyeing the damage below.

"The sound is getting louder. Based on the reverberations, I believe he's destroying their surroundings." Shoji admits.

"He's a good brawler. They must intend to fight us head-on." Todoroki predicts.

"If that's the case, I welcome the approach. It'll make it easier for us to deal with them." Ojiro asserts.

"Agreed." Todoroki exclaims.

"All right. Time to make our class proud. Let's go, Team!" Tenya hollers as they rush ahead.

"The villain is continuing to flee down route five. Looks like we've been successful at driving him toward the harbor." Kido warns as the villain laughs using his roller quirk to escape on road while he drives.

"Not catchin' me. E-Endeavor?" He gasps when Endeavor leaps down the bridge to face him however he tries to get off the motorway to escape.

"You won't escape!" Endeavor chases after him.

"I'll take a hostage! The villain eyes the kids playing until Endeavor drops down grabbing him stopping the roller villain.

"Get outta here! Run!" Endeavor roars as the boys cry and flee.

"Damn you. Let go of me!" He curses glaring at Endeavor.

"I'm afraid I can't do that." Endeavor's hands heat up.

"No, stop, please! I'll go quietly!" He stops reving going limp in Endeavor's hands.

"Good work, Endeavor! Clean arrest." Onima praises his boss once the villain was taken away.

"Collateral damage?" Endeavor demands.

"Little to speak of." Kido answers.

"Yeah, not many people at the harbour. It was a smart plan." Onima compliments.

"Of course." Endeavor grunts.

"Um. 'Scuse me." The young boy with his friends approach Endeavor.

"What is it?" Endeavor turns to the group of kids.

"We just wanted to say thank you! For saving us!" The kids smile up at him.

"Any of you hurt at all?" He asks them.

"No, sir!" The trio smile.

"Best be off then." Endeavor advises.

"Bye!" The boys leave.

"Endeavor, sir? We've had another hero ask about teaming up with you. You want me to make the usual report?" Kido asks on the tablet.

"Yes. Just compile a list of active requests." Endeavor takes out his phone.

With Fuyumi's help. I finally, finally got Shoto's contact info. Steam spews out Endeavor's nostrils as he eyes his phone.

Shoto, there's something I want to tell you once more. So stop ignoring my messages! I'm not the same person who disregarded what you wanted in life! Endeavour eyes the messages he sent below.

Do not run from me.

Do not run from your nature!

Stand up!

Quit pretending to be weak!

Now that you're working toward becoming your own hero, I want to teach you that move, like a good father.

"To do that...you have to stop ignoring my messages. Shoto!" Endeavor's scowls, fierce flames spew out of Endeavor as he shouts it.

"His kid's probably in class, right?" Onima assumes.

"It feels like all this "Shoto" shouting is getting worse by the day…think he's going to rant to Bombarda again?" Kido assumes.

"Probably hm?" Onima and Kido both perk up at their boss's gasp of hope.

"Shoto's…responding!" Endeavor beams brightly hopeful however…

"Why is it a cat video…? Tell me what does this mean…SHOOOOTOOO!" Endeavor roars fierce flames sewing out oblivious to the small snickering Sayako slotting the phone back into her pocket while Todoroki sneezes running with his team.

"Are you okay? I didn't think you ever got sick!" Tenya takes note of.

"Yes. I'm sure I'm fine." Todoroki assures them.

"We're almost there. You know the plan, let's all spread out." Ojiro stops.

"On it!" Tenya takes off.

"Make it count, Todoroki." Shoji calls out the group splitting allowing Todoroki the space to strike.

"Tetsutetsu! The other team's not gonna show up just because you're making a racket! They'll think it's a trap!" Pony cries as Tetsu continues causing chaos.

"No. I'd head this way if I were them. Get Shoji to figure out what's going on, then have Todoroki unleash a powerful attack. If I thought the other team was standing around out in the open..." Honenuki admits as said spike of ice forms, trapping Tetsutetsu.

"That's our super strong ice master! So cool!" Mineta praises.

"And he made the ice so it's not blocking their line of sight. He's gotten better!" Ochaco optimistically offers.

"Now we know where Todoroki is. The others?" Tetsutetsu grunts.

"Can't see them!" Sen scowls engrossed in ice.

"Even if Honenuki has used his Quirk to soften the ground on us, it won't matter if we stick them in place. Tenya prepares his reciprocal….

"With their movements inhibited, we'll take them in one swoop. Ojiro crouches down to strike when needed.

"Reciproburst!" Tenya rushes in however…

"Come get some!" Tetsutetsu taunts taking them all aback when…

"What?" Tenya gasps when the ice sinks around him, stopping him.

"Blasting ice is a cheap move. Though if you'd been cold hearted and used fire, we wouldn't have been able to trap you." Honenuki throws in.

Class B, Juzo Honenuki. Hero name: Mudman. Quirk: Softening. He makes the things he touches turn soft. They go back to normal when he touches them again. Doesn't work on living things though.

"Thanks, Juzo! Gotta love how flexible that power is." Sen smiles kicking the softened stuff off him.

This relaxed rockstar took one of Class B's recommendation spots!

"He must have activated his Quirk the moment the ice appeared. A fast reaction. I'll retreat for now and wait for—" Ojiro decides to but fails from sinking into a melting pipe.

"Found you! I softened a bunch of random stuff around here, so it'd be smart to watch your step." Honenuki points to the trapped Ojiro.

"Class B does an excellent job of brushing off Todoroki's area attack! Now, to show their stuff!" Vlad praises his students.

"Honenuki guessed that the ice was coming?" Sero says surprised.

"That, or he improvised crazy fast." Sato says.

"Is he really that good at reading the situation? Or is he making it up as he goes along…?"" Sayako couldn't help but ponder leant against the railing.

"I hope our classmates haven't been thrown off." Sato worries.

"Nice job, Juzo! I'll handle Ojiro!" Sen lunges to, Sero trying to use his tail to block said spiral punch.

"I can't guard against this for long!" Ojiro grunts.

Class B, Sen Kaibara. Hero name: Spiral. Quirk: Gyrate. He can make any part of his body spin like a supercharged drill!

"Ojiro! Caught again?" Astonished, Tenya gasps at he sinks again after his attempt to save his friend.

"Your legs are only as strong as what you're standing on. The ground beneath the ice is also softened. You're difficult to deal with. So I'll leave you trapped in the muck for now." Honenuki decides.

"Are you trying to keep us from working as a team? Villain! Your wickedness knows no bounds!" Tenya hollers.

"He really gets into character." Shinso remarks

"Yeah he really does." Sayako sweatdrops.

"It's going to be hard for them to get around now. Class B's team doesn't have anyone good at reconnaissance. But as long as their opponents are trapped in one place, that's not a disadvantage." Midoriya points out.

"With his ice off the table, Todoroki is operating at half his power." Shinso takes note of.

"Correctomundo. All that's left is to overwhelm them." Monoma smirks smugly.

"In this situation, I can't use my Quirk to the best of my abilities. Should I go to the front? Then there'd be no one to guard Shoji as he scouts. Todoroki couldn't help but wonder until he gasps at the antlers firing past his way hitting Shoji.

"What?" Todoroki does a double take at the antlers taking Shoji away.

"I was betting they'd keep Shoji in what they thought was a safe place far from where we are! Like...hidden behind their so-called "ace" Todoroki!" Pony smirks smugly.

Class B, Pony Tsunotori. Quirk: Horn Cannon. She can send her horns flyin'! Currently, she can control up to four of them once they've shot off her head! She's pretty particular about keeping them polished.

"These are stronger than I expected." Shoji grunts being thrown back.

"Tetsutetsu!" Pony calls out.

"Here we go. Horn Dash Hammer! Are my teeth chattering? You're so freaking cold, my brain feels like it's gettin' frosty. If I weren't on top of things, you'd freeze my steel solid! Think you can beat me in a hand-to-hand fight? You don't stand a chance!" Tetsutetsu uses Pony's antlers' momentum to break through the ice bursting through to tackle Todoroki throwing him to the ground.

"Man's been paying attention. He's doing what Mr. Aizawa said I shoulda done in my match." Kirishima frowns.

"Nah, I bet he's not thinkin' all that much. Honenuki seems like the one who's calling most of the shots." Denki admits.

"Still you got to give it to them, Todo does have a great quirk sure but in terms of hand to hand he's terrible." Truthfully, Sayako admits brow furrowed.

"What's the matter? You keep on dodging!" Sen taunts fighting Ojiro, dodging each of his hits not even striking once.

"Be good and stay there, okay?" Pony winks at the pinned Shoji.

"You are evil incarnate!" Tenya sunken into the ice hollers.

"Sorry 'bout it. Recipro has a time limit, right? Not so smart to use it right at the beginning. Anyway, I'm gonna go help Tetsutetsu." Honenuki leaves.

"A time limit? That was a while ago, Mudman. Ingenium will rush anywhere at anytime. That's what these legs are for! They won't be constrained! You see? I've been at full throttle this entire time! New Style. Recipro Turbo!" Tenya calls out cracks soon cracking around him taking everyone aback as he bursts free.

"He's like jaws…" Sayako couldn't help but compare seeing the ice shoot out of the sludgy ice firing at Honenuki.

"Seriously?" Honenuki does a double take.

"Congrats on getting your provisional license, little bro." Tensei smiles at his brother in his wheelchair his mother behind him.

"Thanks, Tensei." Tenya smiles at his elder brother.

"You're abusing your Engine a bit much though, aren't you? Hey, Mom. He's getting close to that age, you know? Don't you think it's time?" Tensei looks up at his father.

"Well, he's matured, but I still feel like it might be too soon for that." Tenya's mother admits.

"Tuning my Engine?" Tenya perks up at the information.

"Yeah. Training is good, but you can also pull your mufflers out. Do it right, and parts that can take more of a beating will grow back in their place. It's a technique passed down from our grandfather so that the Iida family can help more people and do it faster than anyone else. This will be painful, though. And it takes a lot of dedication. But if you want to improve your quirk, this is the way to do it." Tensei explains as Tenya grits his teeth together using the fabric lodged between his teeth, a first aid kit by his side as he forces the mufflers out of him, scarlet spewing out.

"I've raised Recipro's horsepower and lowered fuel consumption to the minimum! Ten minutes! For ten minutes, nobody can stop me!" Tenya roars rushing at Honenuki breaking free.

"Is he going to beat me with some new move I've never seen?" Honenuki worries when Tenya rushes around the place.

"I can't control it completely." Tenya rushes around the place.

"So fast!" Honenuki exclaims.

"But at this speed, the trade-off is power." Tenya goes to strike when…

"Well. Fair enough. I'm no match for this attack." Honenuki dives down into the slushy snow of ice below.

"You're under arrest, villain!" Tenya roars but blinks befuddled to find him gone.

"Sorry, I'm not one of those stubborn heroes in training. I won't keep fighting when I'm at a disadvantage. It's not the best idea to leave Iida in the wind, but I don't think I can stop him. Smarter to hurry and find Tetsutetsu and the others so I can help them. Honenuki decides swimming off into the dark depths of the unknown.

"The ice has gone back to normal. Is he planning a surprise counterattack? No, he should understand now that that wouldn't work. He probably left to support his teammates." Tenya places his hand on his ice now solid.

"Wow! That's our speedster!" Ochaco gushes giddily.

"Recipro Turbo, huh? Using that, he's faster than even Gran Torino." Midoriya beams brightly.

"Yeah, it's 'cause you starting going "Shoot Style" and using your kicks, so Iida worked hard to make sure he stood out." Mineta points out.

"I should ask if he has any new pointers for me." Midoriya smiles however…

"Um, you guys! Eyes on Ojiro!" Mina points to the screen showing said struggling Ojiro against Sen's spiral fists.

"He's trying for an ordinary fist fight." Jiro points out.

"It looks like he's losing ground, but Ojiro's gotten better like the rest of us! You got this!" Sero cheers him on.

"Oh, man, I can't keep this up! Ojiro struggles against said strikes.

"Don't you know you can't win if you're just parrying?" Sen readies his spiral fingertips.

"I don't even have time to attack. But I can't just keep blocking. Those support items of his would rip me to shreds. Kaibara's gotten brutal. Ojiro takes note of trying to flee wrapping his tail around a pipe that Kaibara presses his fingertips to startling Ojiro when he drops down from the sudden vibrations making him fall.

"Gotcha now!" Kaibara goes to strike when a bright blue blur rushes through.

"Iida!" Ojiro recognises the man grabbing said spiral mess.

"I'll throw Spiral in jail! Forgive my brief absence as I do. Help the others, Ojiro! Mudman is probably heading toward them! I'll be back!" Tenya heads to the jail.

"Yeah, you got it! His talking gets faster, too. Wow." Ojiro takes note of once he's gone.

"Let go of me! I haven't gotten to show off yet!" Kaibara complains.

"Silence, fiend! I won't let one of your ilk boast!" Tenya refuses.

"You let Honenuki go, didn't you? Even though you saw how much a pain he can be. Why wouldn't you go after him first? Do you really think it's smart to butt in on a one-on-one fight instead, Ingenium?!" Kaibara taunts tense.

"This is what my brother would've done, so I'll act accordingly. If I compromised my ideals in training, I'd likely do so in a real fight, as well." He throws Kaibara into the cell.

"You're a real stick in the mud." Kaibara huffs.

"Yeah. I hear that often." Tenya shuts the door leaving Kaibara to it.

"Have a taste of "My Fist!"" Tetsutetsu strikes at Todoroki breaking the ice Todo tires to use to shield himself from his fist as he is thrown back.

"Thanks to how resilient he is, Tetsutetsu can move even though he must be freezing. I mean, it's not like his skin is gonna rip off or anything." Sato points out.

"And Todoroki isn't good in close combat which steel boy over there excels in. He's using that to his advantage." Sayako sighs sat by the boys watching the screen.

"So manly. I'll learn from your example!" Kirishima slams his furious fist into his palm.

"Blasting ice even though it's useless is something only an idiot would keep doing." Katsuki remarks.

"Uh…" Sayako begins but soon stops herself from Bakugo's' murderous energy.

"I'll smash your defense's. Nothin's gonna stop my steel fist of justice!" Tetsutetsu continues breaking ice shield.

"Fine, then. I'll use a wall of fire instead!" Todoroki spews said flames.

"Ouchies!" Pony flees frightened.

"Shoji! Tsunotori's yours!" Shoto calls out to him.

"Right! Push him back! Gain some distance!" Shoji chases after her.

"You still don't get why I'm your opponent, do you? I thought it would be obvious! Your Quirk has zero effect on me." Tetsu reveals his red tinted steel form flabbergasting Sayako.

"Shouldn't he be melted? Or warped a little bit?" Brow furrowed Sayako couldn't help but ponder perplexed while watching on.

"He's glowing from the heat? Todoroki's eyes expand at the sight.

"Those flames a' yours got my body burnin' red hot! Let's go!" Tetsutetsu rushes towards Todoroki.

"Do your best, Hot-Tetsu!" Pony calls out as she retreats.

"I've been trainin' for somethin' just like this! You ever spent time inside an oven? 'Cause guess what!" Tetsutetsu slams his fist into Todoroki's cheek.

"Tetsutetsu has Todoroki on the ropes and won't let him escape! Given their close proximity, Todoroki is unable to use any of his area attacks!" Vlad commentates.

"Half-Cold Half-Hot. You won't even put a scratch on me! You get it yet? I've forged my steel into something even you can't dent. By demolishing my limits!" Tetsutetsu continues hitting him.

"Draw up all the heat you can from inside your body! And then take it beyond that limit! I know you can do this. You're just not trying!

"Only thing to do now is keep punchin' till you're KO'd!" Tetsutetsu decides as Todoroki growls raising his hand.

"Todo…" Sayako furrows her brow worriedly watching.

"Know this. There is a power inside of you that goes beyond what anyone else can wield." Endeavor's words ring in Todoroki's head.

"What he said to me. Why am I remembering it now? No matter what...fire or ice...Todoroki furrows his brow, fire sprouting out startling Tetsutetsu stumbling back by such fierce flames.

"You'll follow my path. And one day, your power might even surpass mine!" Endeavor 's words ring in Todoroki's head.

"It's yours! Your Quirk, not his!" Midoriya's words ring in Todoroki's head.

"Get back." Todoroki warns.

"Whoa, that's hot!" Tetsutetsu takes note of.

"More. More!" Fierce flames grow upon Todoroki.

"Well, there goes the camera." Vlad scowls seeing said camera cut to static.

"I can raise the temperature higher. Go further. Burn myself if I have to! In order to become who I want to be!" Todoroki seethes shakes sweat sliding down his tense temple.

"Young Todoroki..." All Might softens at the boy above.

"With Endeavor's flames…" Bombarda's hues soften sadly at the young boy.

"It's too much. Can't get close. That firepower is crazy. I get ya, Todoroki! I'm holding all this heat inside a' me, same as you are! I know. It's gotta be hard on you, too, right. I don't think you'll be able to keep it up for long. In which case, I won't back down! Endurance contests are my specialty! I'm gonna go beyond!" Tetsutetsu snarls snatching his arm of flames astonishing Todoroki when the flame engulfed Tetsutetsu knees him in the chest.

"You're wrong. Give up before I have to show you what I can do." Todoroki tries to warn him however…

"If you're not willing to risk everything during training, then you'll never do it in a real fight either. Our powers and limits are there to be surpassed!" Tetsutetsu knees Todoroki in the chest.

"It's time for you to shut up." Todoroki grins broadly the two fighting to the bitter end.

"Todo…" Sayako furrows her brow at her old friend not quite sure what to say worry clear on her furrowed features for him.

"I'm pretty far away but I can still feel that! I gotta hurry up and get back to our steely boy. Sorry, Tentacole! I never look at the octopuses at the aquarium. They are not cute." Pony flies above on her horns eying Shoji.

"I'm used to people being scared of me." Shoji asserts.

"Wait he is?" Sayako furrows her brow by his words alarmed as Bombarda's hues soften sadly at him.

"Then don't take it personal, kay? I'm tryna help us win!" Pony aims her horns at him.

"Bring it on!" Shoji forms his fists.

"Thunder Horn!" Pony charges at Shoji with her horns.

"Octoblow!" He breaks each and every horn thrown his way making his way closer to her until…

"You're-done!" She goes to strike one form behind but his hand catches the horn.

"You saved me. Ojiro!" Shoji spots Tailman diving down grabbing her horns.

"Twirling Tail Dance! You may be good with those horns, but they're no help to you if you can't Shoot them!" He holds her horns down.

"This is how you catch me? It's so darn ordinary!" Pony complains.

"I'll take her to the jail. You go support Todor—" Shoji begins but gasps when the floor begins softening.

"Him again!" Ojiro glares at the helmet face of Honenuki.

"I'll be taking my teammate back now. If you didn't know, our class is pretty tight. Keep struggling. Your hold on her will only get looser." Honenuki swims down to save Pony but…

"You bastard! Fist of the Tail, Swamp Smack Spin!" Ojiro twirls his tail blasting Honenuki back.

"Thanks for that." Shoji grabbing onto a unsoftened railing, pulls Ojiro holding Pony out.

"Likewise." Ojiro grunts.

"How'd he use so much force?" Honenuki scowls.

"You gotta tell me before you do something like that, Honenuki!" Pony growls impaling her horns into his side.

"I won't let you go!" Ojiro refuses but…

"It's cool, I'm not worried about that." Another horn set stab into him.

"Ojiro!" Shoji calls out as Ojiro goes flying with the flying horns.

"With the power of these four horns, I'll send you straight to the slammer!" She shouts sending Ojiro to the slammer.

"Doesn't matter how she got him inside. If he's behind bars, then he's out. Right now, it's one-to-one." Vlad smirks smugly.

"What's wrong? Todoroki? Huh? You're getting slow!" Tetsutetsu envelopes in flames slams his fist into her face.

"I could say the same about you." He grunts bracing for said strike.

"I'm getting dizzy. My movements are imprecise. Sloppy. If I wanna cool myself down, I'll have to get him to back off first. Todoroki raises his fist to taking all the flames around him in one flame fist if not for the floor suddenly softening.

"Can't let you melt my classmate." Honenuki huffs as he watches Todoroki sink into the ground.

"Oh, hey. What's up?" Tetsutetsu falls flat to the ground, the flames long gone as Todoroki is hit in the back of the head with a pole.

"Todo…!" Sayako curses grimacing at the pain her friend had dealt with worriedly.

"Crap, I'm gonna pass out. Todoroki curses.

"Now harden." Mudman goes to when a bright blue blur strikes at his head breaking his helmet.

"I didn't miss this time, Mudman! So hot!" Tenya rushes towards Todoroki taking him out of the muck.

"Bastard. I won't let you get away." Tetsutetsu curses.

"Shouldn't you be worried about saving that guy?" Stain's words ring in Tenya's head.

"The coolest person you can be is someone who helps others. If you see a lost kid, help them find their way home." Tense's words ring also.

"I'll return for you, villain! My priority is rescue." Tenya rushes off with Todoroki.

"I'm losing consciousness after one hit. Even though he said he didn't have control at that speed. It was a mistake leaving Iida for later." Honenuki grimaces his vision blurry.

"Man, does this mean we lost? If I black out, the things I softened will go back to normal. I couldn't even leave behind something to help like Yaoyorozu did. I don't feel frustrated or anything. We'll lose fair and square. But I don't want my friends to fail just because I messed up! One more chance…." Tetsu crawls over to him.

"Tetsutetsu! Quickly! Push this!" He calls out to him as Tetsu growls, headbutting the softened pillar that comes crashing down on them both.

"This is a fight. The four of them are down! But they aren't out until they're in jail! What'll happen in the final moments?" Vlad King's grip tightens around the mic as all boys lie on the ground knocked out.

My left arm and leg are trapped. It's too much. I don't have enough strength to break out! Todoroki. Apologies. If only I'd been a little better. Just one step faster getting us out of here. Iida bows his head ashamed.

"Iida can't escape a little building that fell on top of him? It looks to me like the struggle with Kaibara had a big impact on him! Ha! He fought back the entire time, and boy, did it pay off! Good job, Kaibara! You're definitely the MVP of this round!" Vlad King compliments.

"You…bassstarrrd!" Sayako snarls about to strike when to her surprise.

"….I think you've done enough." Bombarda chops the back of Vlad Kings head knocking the teacher out cold taking everyone aback.

"Sir!" Class B call out concerned.

"So noisy…" She grumbles glaring down at the knocked down mess of a man.

"Both Class A and Class B have one person in their jails. And almost everyone is down for the count. Only two more left." Sayako points out brow furrowed just as Shoji gasps when Pony uses her horns collecting her teammates and Todoroki as she floats away.

"Todoroki!" Shoji tries to chase after him.

"I can't let Shoji nab my pals! We'd be done for sure! So, what should I do? I couldn't beat Shoji even with all four a' my horns free. I definitely wouldn't be able to fight him and protect my teammates. If I put Todoroki in prison, then we'll take the lead. But carrying all three of 'em is weighing me down. At this rate, I'll be caught before I make it to the jail. If I blow this, we lose…Pony thinks to herself.

"Give him back!" Shoji orders but…

"That's it!" Pony flies p in the sky with her hovering horns holding up her teammates as she holds up Todoroki.

"No!" Shoji tries to reach but…

"I'll go higher than he can reach and wait this sucker out. That way, even if we don't win, we technically won't lose!" Pony decides.

"Sorry, Tentacole! I won't be the reason we have to go crawlin' back home as failures." Pony apologises looking down at him.

"Wait. She took everyone into the sky?" Sato says surprised.

"How is she even doing that?" Sayako couldn't help but ponder what was making her fly.

"Aw, man. Shoji can't fly with his Quirk." Kirishima frowns.

"Huh! She's just running away. " Katsuki sneers.

"So, Deku. What do you think her plan is now?" Ochaco pries.

"It may seem strange, but she's taking the safe route. If she left her teammates behind to escape, then Shoji could put them in jail." Midoriya admits.

"But why take Todoroki?" Ochaco queries.

"If he comes to, he could attack with flames or ice even in the sky. This way, she can keep him knocked out. Or at least send him flying if he does wake up. It's like an insurance policy." Izuku describes.

"But that doesn't make any sense! The whole point is to throw the other team in training jail!" Mina argus.

"They won't win, but they won't lose." Sayako speaks up taking the team aback at her words.

"Oh, no! The timer!" Ochaco catches on.

"Twenty minutes have passed! The third match is over! Each team put one person away, so we've got ourselves a draw!" Aizawa announces.

"Aw, man, that's ridiculously unsatisfying!" Kirishima complains.

"In an actual encounter, running away and awaiting rescue can often be a reasonable option." Shishida speaks up.

"Poor Iida. He must be so upset." Ochaco sighs.

"Yeah, but...He was so awesome." Izuku argues.

"Since there are a number of round three students unconscious, we can review their performances later! Get ready for the fourth match!" Vlad calls out.

"He's awake!?" The teens gawk gape at Vlad.

"I didn't hit him that hard geez…" Bombarda deadpans.

"Smooch." Recovery Girl plants her lips upon Todoroki 's cheek stirring him awake.

"Todo!" Sayako shoots out of the chair by Shoto's side smiling.

"Sayako…?" Todoroki blinks befuddled.

"Here's your phone." Sayako hands him said phone.

"…Did you send my father a cat?" Todoroki frowns.

"He kept texting and texting it was getting annoying especially with Aizawa's dirty look so I had to respond with something but I didn't want to put words in your mouth so…" Sayako tries to defend herself.

"You used a cat?" Confused, Todoroki furrows his brow befuddled.

"Yep. Kept you aloof don't you think?" Sayako reasons.

"…I think I'm not trusting you with my phone again." Todoroki decides.

"Meeean." Sayako draws out.

"Great, you're awake. That's a good patient. Here, you should eat this protein bar." Recovery girl hands him a bar.

"Ojiro ate his and went back out." Tenya sitting by Sayako's side says.

"I didn't get one." Sayako huffs.

"You don't need one." Recovery girl points out making the girl grumble.

"Damn, Todoroki! The match was a draw, but I feel like I lost the head-to-head fight! That heat was insanity! Let's do it again!" Tetsutetsu with a bar in his mouth heads off.

"Ah! So loud." Recovery girl exclaims.

"A draw." Todoroki grunts.

"If only I'd been faster, we'd have claimed victory." Tenya tuts.

"Iida." Sayako furrows her brow at Todoroki.

"It's obvious that I'm still too slow. Honenuki's style was so flexible. And I just failed to react." Iida scolds himself.

"Hey you're not the only slow one remember?" Sayako offers her hand out to him.

"Sayako…" Iida sighs.

"Come on. You saved Todo, though, didn't you?" Sayako smirks slightly nudging Iida's shoulder.

"I seem to remember that. And anyway, when it comes to mistakes, I made the biggest one. It's become a habit to use ice as my opening move. Like it's just ingrained in my body. You are fast enough. I'm the one who's slow. And because of that weakness, I caused you and the team to worry. I wanna be a hero who brings people peace of mind." Todoroki explains eyeing his hand.

"No! I would never consider you unrelia- Ah!" Tenya cries out.

"Whoa Tenya calm!" Sayako tries to stop him however…

"I will run anywhere, to anyone who needs my assistance. That's my conviction as Ingenium's successor." Tenya swears it while the curtain slides to the side.

"Since we're talkin' about how we need to upgrade, I'll point out I also still have work to do. So I hope you'll fight me again." Honenuki bows his head to them.

"Of course." Both boys agree.

"If you boys are better, then why are you still here?! This is no place for chitchat!" Recovery Girl scolds.

"Right! Please excuse us!" Tenya excuses himself.

"Yeah we'll go." Sayako sighs as they leave.

"Poor babies, your backs are up against the wall! Class A and B both have one win! Lose this round, and there's no way you can say you're better than us." Monoma cackles.

"Comes and goes in waves, huh?" Kaminari remarks.

"Oh, you've no idea how much I've been looking forward to this fantastic match up. Why, you ask? Because our beloved Tokage's in it. If I were Bakugo, I'd be pretty worried about now." Monoma cackles crazed.

"All right, let's go." Tokage calls out to her team.

"Yes! Setsuna Tokage! The other student in Class B who got in through recommendations! She can be a real nasty piece of work." Monoma boasts.

"Kacchan! Midoriya couldn't help but think when watching Katsuki approach Bombarda, feeling all eyes on them both, a still silence falls between both brother and sister, scarlet meeting scarlet.

"…Just watch me." Katsuki orders.

"…Why do you think I came here? Don't disappoint me little brother." Bemused, Katsumi watches Bakugo turn on his heel heading off with his group as she simply smirks, curious to see what her little brother had in store for her.

"Wait. Bad idea. Let's talk about this, okay?" Jiro frets from the plan.

"Yeah. You're not serious, right?" Sato anxiously asks.

"Shut up." Bakugo barks before grinning giddily, his hues shining scarlet.

"Just watch me…Katsumi, Deku." Bakugo tells himself, determined for the fight ahead.

"We'll start when everyone is in position! Fourth match! Prepare for battle!" Vlad king bellows as the fourth match begins.

"The stage works for them. With Sero setting traps and Jiro on recon, this could be way bad. Like a total pain." Bondo frets, glue shyly sliding out of his holed face.

"Plus, there's Sato's strength and Bakugo's absurd explosions. It's a super-balanced team. We should assume we're dead if we mess up at all." Awase adds as he runs with his team.

"None of that crap matters. Let's just slash 'em all to pieces." Togaru dismisses.

"We'll take 'em by surprise; the early bird gets the worm." Tokage smirks as they rush ahead.

"Currently, Class A and Class B are neck and neck when you look at the stats. But while they may seem evenly matched, the truth is, Class A's win was mostly thanks to Shinso, so it barely counts! I think we all know what that says about them." Vlad King blames.

"…I'm too tired for this." Bombarda grumbles under her breath.

"I hear ya." Sayako huffs.

"You've gotta stop rooting for your class, Mr. Vlad!" The boys whine.

"Vlad sure is hot blooded for someone with blood control." Midnight remarks.

"He obviously loves his students. A lot." All Might smiles.

"A bit too much…" Bombarda sweatdrops.

"Stop complaining." Aizawa asserts.

"What?! Sir, this is a legitimate protest!" Denki argues.

"Is this how you'll react if you mess up in a real fight? Meanwhile, Class B is coming up with plans and countermeasures to win. Vlad speaks the truth. Which means he's technically beating me." Aizawa admits.

"Not that hard to do to be fair." Sayako remarks as Aizawa turns to glare but she silently glares back.

"Not surprised these troublemakers can't hack it. Wanna know why? The reason you get caught up in so many disasters is because you're immature." Momona cackles crazily.

"Immature…!?" Sayako seethes.

"Not helping Sayako." Bombarda speaks up.

"But…URGH..!" Sayako cranes her head back, releasing a gritted grunt of sorts, head in hands, trying to handle the cackling of the merry Monoma who is swiftly silenced by Kendo's swift strike to the back of the head.

"Class B has been training hard every day to become stronger. Class A still has plenty to offer." All Might offers optimistically.

"You certainly are sweet on Class A." Midnight points out.

"I'm fond of every student!" All Might argues.

"I'm looking forward to seeing what you do and what you've learned, young Bakugo. All Might turns to smile softly at the camera showing said blonde blasting his way around as Bombarda's silent scarlet stare at the screen ahead, a look of aloofness and indifference clear upon her furrowed features when watching the match commence.

"Why can't you keep up?" Bakugo yells at his team.

"I'm trying to listen for sounds while I run." Jiro justifies.

"You better not fall behind." Katsuki growls.

"He's expecting people to follow as usual." Sato sighs.

"Hasn't changed much since the sports festival." Sero smirks.

"From a certain point of view, he is cooperating. Sort of." Jiro offers optimistically.

"Listen up, you underlings! Just follow me when this starts." Katsuki barks at his team.

"That isn't what I'd call teamwork." Sero sweatdrops.

"Did you call us underlings?" Sato frowns.

"I'll take the lead and head toward the fight. Look alive. You three better be ready to support me. 'Specially you! Make sure you keep track of the enemy, Ears!" Bakugo points to Jiro.

"Hey! My name is Jiro." Jiro corrects cross.

"Are you gonna charge them? 'Cause... the other team looks really good at counterattacks. Jiro's a recon pro. We should just hold back. Play it safe and wait for an opening." Sero reasons.

"Idiot. That's exactly what they're expecting us to do. We're not waiting for the right moment. We're making our own opening. If we get eyes on them, we've won. Got it?" Katsuki tosses them some grenades.

"What the heck, man?" Jiro freaks out clumsily catching the bomb with the others freaking out.

"Take those just in case. They don't pack much of a punch, but they can be useful. One more thing…" Katsuki tells them their hues widening when hearing his words.

"Not much of a plan. Is this gonna work?" Jiro couldn't help but wonder while running with the rest of her team until…

"Got you!" Bakugo fires a blast.

"Ears!" Bakugou bellows.

"Jiro!" Jiro slams her earphones into the floor.

"They should be around here somewhere. Find them!" Bakugo orders however Jiro's brow furrows when hearing the numerous sounds.

"What's taking so long?" Bakugo demands from her.

"Hang on! This is a trap!" Jiro gasps from the numerous sounds blocking her out.

"Hi. And bye!" Tokage's mouth appears beofre cackling floating away.

"I used Jiro's search ability against her. Smart, huh?" Tokage cackles as her limbs begin to strike at Bakugo blasting each and every part.

Class B, Setsuna Tokage. Hero name: Lizardy. Quirk: Lizard Tail Splitter. She can divide her entire body into piece that move at her will! Since improving her Quirk, she can break into fragments at a time!

"Cheap move." Katsuki sneers blasting around.

"Bakugo, down here!" Sero calls out taping a trap around the team.

"Nice, that's checkmate." Tokage smirks smugly as pieces of her slowly being to reform.

"Glue Squall!" Bonda releases said glue down upon them, trapping them.

"Ew, gross!" Jiro exclaims.

"Aw, shoot. This backfired. We basically built a spiderweb that they've gone and trapped us in." Sero compares.

"Got 'em! I knew Setsuna's plan would defeat them." Bonda exclaims.

Class B, Kojiro Bondo.

Hero name: Plamo. Quirk: Cemedine. He Shoot out glue and controls exactly how fast it dries!

"Too slow, villains!" Togaru dives down blade arms aimed at them.

Class B, Togaru Kamakiri. Hero name: Jack Mantis. Quirk: Razor Sharp. He can produce blades on any part of his body!

I threw off Jiro's abilities by forming a cacophony of noise around her. Then Bondo covered the pipes and tape with glue. One touch and they're stuck for good. Tokage smirks smugly slowly reforming watching as Tokage cuts away at the glued pipes that come crashing down upon the team.

"I'll at least protect my teammates!" Sato swears reaching to catch the fallen debris when a bright blast destroys it all in one fell swoop.

"Bakugo!" Sero says surprised.

"Just what I hoped for! I'll start with Jiro!" Togaru rushes at Jiro taking her aback only then for her hues to widen when Bakugo rushes in, kicking her away as he readies to blast Togaru in the face.

Midoriya and All Might's eyes expand at the sight, stoically, Bombarda watches on aloofly.

Are you watching? I've gotten even stronger! Bakugo blasts the blade guy back.

"One more thing. Whenever you guys are in danger, I'll protect you." Bakugo's words ring in Jiro's head as she watches him save her.

"Managed to block the blast. Guess bugs have fast reflexes." Bakugo smirks blasting bug boy back.

"Seriously?" Tokage says shocked.

"Thank you." Jiro calls out to him.

"Shut it! They got away! Look for them! It doesn't matter if this is just training. I've made a decision. No one will question our victory. Because our match is gonna be flawless. Four to zero and no injuries! Understand? That's how somebody with actual strength competes!" Bakugo bellows boisterously unaware of the slight smirk from Bombarda, briefly seeing a young girl blasting people back with a hyped up speaker boy behind her with a floating cloud girl as well while watching the match continue.

"Sorry, what? There must be something in my eyes. Looked like he protected Jiro just now." Monoma does a double take.

"Heck yeah he did. By kicking her." Denki sweatdrops.

"It's his way of showing he cares." Sayako smirks slightly.

"You're getting to see what our Bakugo is really like. Cool, huh?" Kirishima smiles.

"Don't worry. Your eyes are fine." Sayako smirks smugly slamming her hand down upon Monoma's smirking sadistically at his horrified expression.

"Are you telling me he his personality changed?" Monoma shrieks shocked.

"Uh, well. I guess what he just did is kinda new. Never seen him put so much on the line." Kirishima admits.

"Not smart to face Bakugo head on. Better stay back." Bug boy retreats.

"If we fight him like we expected to, we'll definitely lose this match. So, if we can't capture them, we'll retreat and ambush them repeatedly. It's the only way to have an advantage over them! Tokage decides fleeing with some of her body parts.

"So loud! But...there aren't as many." Jiro grunts grimacing.

"Are you sure?" Bakugo scowls.

"And they're moving further away from us." Jiro describes.

"Then they must be tryin' to regroup. Those morons are underestimating us." Bakugo reasons.

"Bakugo is the powerhouse of their team. The others are simply following his lead and trying to keep up. If we focus on Bakugo and force him to make a mistake, the rest of them won't stand a chance. Tokage decides grinning giddily.

"There are so many sounds in the way. But... if I concentrate, I can tell them apart." Jiro winces while listening into the numerous body parts causing noise, distracting Jiro.

"Let's go!" Bonda yells as Awase appears before Bakugo.

"He was hiding without making a sound!" Mina gasps.

"They turned the tables again!" Mineta adds.

"And Construction-Done-Kwik. My Weldcraft is...complete!" Awase welds Bakugo trapping him.

Class B, Yosetsu Awase.

Hero name: Welder. Quirk: Weld. He can fuse things together at the molecular level! However, in order for his Quirk to work, he has to touch the things he wants to weld.

"They know us too well." Sero curses going to trap Awase however…

"Yeah, like you can catch me with Tape when there are so many pipes in the way." Awase taunts stopping Sero.

"Was this part of Tokage's plan? She has everything figured out." Sero scowls as just then…

"Here comes Sugar Rush! You're good." Sato smashes Bakugo free.

"You won't stop me, damn it!" Bakugou bellows blasting after Awase angrily.

"You don't have to get so mad!" Awase throws some mental but the smoke soon greets him Awase blinks befuddled as Bombarda smirks smugly at the strategy seeing Bakugo blast upwards using the smokescreen for Jiro and Sero to swing in.

"Handle this guy." Katsuki yells as he blasts away to deal with the other teammate.

"On it." Sero holds Jiro up from the air with his tape.

"You're mine. Hope you like my Heartbeat Surround!" Jiro sets out her speakers the vibrations easily destroying Awase holding his guard of metal.

"Whenever you guys are in danger, I'll protect you. And when I'm in danger...you guys had better save me!" Bakugo's words echo in Sero's ears as Awase is swiftly dealt with.

"Awase! No! He's headed after Bondo! Tokage tries to stop Bakugo.

"Not good!" Bonda spews glue but…

"Took me a little while to get used to fighting in this cold. But I'm finally warmed up!" Bakugo blasts Bondo crying out as Sato swiftly snatches him.

"I got this guy!" Sato growls getting him to the cage.

"What unexpected teamwork from Class A! They managed to take two of my dear students in an instant!" Vlad King commentates.

"I thought he was a tyrant who couldn't work with others! Don't tell me he's starting to mellow out now!" Monoma cries out.

"Bakugo!" Jiro points to a direction he follows.

"He acts on his own accord. While the rest of them support him. I thought if we found a small opening we could widen it slowly until they break down. But look at them! Tokage watches shell shocked as bug boy goes to cut Sero's tape however Katsuki rushes in grabbing him by his horns of sorns starting to spin him around.

"…Doesn't that look like your move?" Midnight points out seeing Katsuki spin around forming a cyclone or tornado of smoke from his blasts.

"That's cause it is...a lesser variant of it at least." Bombarda smirks slightly, recognising the move, she had taught him at the least, one of the variants she made of the move.

"X-Catapult!" Katsuki yells using the momentum of his blasts forming a tornado to throw bug boy into a wall breaking upon impact as Sero snatches up the knocked out bug.

"How is this team so in sync? Tokage scowls flying above as her teammates are captured.

"Bakugo trusts his teammates so he doesn't have to do it all alone!" Ochaco smiles.

"Being in the band loosened him up." Kirishima smiles doing an air guitar.

"But he's still driving the beat." Kirishima adds as he does the dorms, the pair oblivious to Bombarda's soft smirk.

"Tokage's Quirk lets her split her body into pieces, which she controls from afar. The parts that leave her stop moving after a set amount of time. And then she regenerates them onto her main body. I'm guessing about a couple of things here. But I'm betting that she can't regrow those pieces forever. I think she's like Yaoyorozu. When she's tired, she probably loses focus. If she split herself as much as she could to make noise, then I figure it'll be harder for her to fight at full power. In that case, wouldn't she bring some back to her body to reset the timer? And save her stamina so she can keep using her Quirk! Jiro said it sounded like there were fewer noises around. Which just proves my theroy! Sero soon realises when one of his tapes catch one of Tokage's pieces flailing about still, using the caught piece of one of his tapes to attach one of Katsuki's grenades as it flies up to go back to Tokage who turns to gasp at the attack.

"That was close!" Swiftly, she avoids it however when she turns away from the bomb set piece she is met by Bakugo powering up a blast.

"No. You're kidding! How have you changed this much?" Tokage cries as she is swiftly blasted in the face.

"I haven't changed. My goal's always been the same. To surpass All Might and become the number-one hero." Katsuki swears it.

"The horror. The shame….The match didn't even last five minutes! Thanks to unexpected teamwork, Class A wins with the day's first perfect score of four to zero!" Vlad King reluctantly acknowledges as the teams come back unaware of Bombarda's soft smile.

"You didn't do unnecessary damage and you neutralized your opponents efficiently. Bakugo may have taken the lead, but you three supported him. Solid win. Great job today." Aizawa gives the team a thumbs up.

"Given what you knew about the other team, you came up with a strategy that should have given you an edge. But you were stuck on it and needed to be more flexible, like Honenuki!" Vlad King growls.

"I'm sorry that I made our team look lame. I failed." Tokage bows her head to them.

"No, let's carve this loss into our hearts and learn from it!" Bug Boy drapes his arms around his teammates.

"If a monster like Bakugo turns into a team player, there's no weakness for us to exploit." Awase adds.

"Afraid that's true." Kamakiri throws in.

"I agree." Bondo nods.

"Kacchan, you can play with others when you want to! And Jiro, you were a total heroine out there!" Denki compliments the two as the team follow Bakugo going over to Bombarda, his scarlet simply staring into a similar shade to his own.

"Nope. I'm a hero." Jiro corrects Denki.

"Our resident delinquent, taking in the strays." Sero smirks.

"Nope. Not a stray, dude." Jiro frowns just as Bakugo stops silently staring back at the bemused Bombarda.

"So you mastered my cyclone." Bombarda smirks slightly.

"…I was trying to do tornado." Bakugo grunts.

"…I know. Though I wouldn't exactly recommend using it if you want to keep damage to a minimal. Still you gave me chills. " Bombarda admits to him, her hand on his head, ruffling up his blonde locks making Bakugou grumble glaring to the side scowling.

"What, you catch a cold or somethin'? Put an extra layer on dumbass!" Katsuki slaps her hand away from his head huffing grumpily before storming off.

"Tornado?" Mineta couldn't help but ask.

"Oh Bombarda has numerous vareints of the move, she tends to separate them through cyclone and tornado see Cyclone is Bombarda using the momentum of her blast to throw someone into a wall while tornado and typhone are vairtna of that tehcnice for example typhoons uses not only the moneutm of the blasts but uses the chemicals within the smoke created from the blast to make her blasts all the more stronger she even uses the heat vapours within the tornado she stays in to make the blasts stronger or to build up for a huge blast!" Giddily, Midoriya rants, nerding off.

"And there he goes…" Bombarda sweatdrops at Midoriya geeking out when…

"STOP NERDING OUT LIKE A WEIRDO DEKU!" Bakugo bellows barks at Midoriya who simply smiles.

"Kacchan!" Midoriya perks up at the sight of the blonde.

"Outta my way!" Bakugou barks at him.

"Uh... I'm not in front of you, so what does that even mean?" Midoriya sweatdrops.

"I'm pushing ahead." Katsuki sighs.

"Yeah. You were amazing!" Midoriya compliments him.

"Huh. I'm moving so fast, you won't be able to catch up." Katsuki smirks slightly.

"Yes I will." Midoriya smiles back oblivious to Bombarda's small smile towards the two.

"Shut it, nerd! Dumb words don't mean anything! I won't let you beat me. You're trash! A fricken' extra." Bakugo walks off.

"Just watch me." Midoriya whispers.

"You have a good childhood friend in him." All Might joins Midoriya's side.

"Aw I'm so proud of you look at you with actual friends!" Bemused, Bombarda teases her baby brother, ruffling his spikey hair as he seethes shakes growls glares at her.

"Damn it Hag! QUIT EMBARASSING ME!" Mad, Bakugo barks back glaring glowering at his sister seething

"The hell did you call me?!" Mad, Bombarda snaps scowling.

"You heard me hag!" Hollering, he roars back.

"You wanna go?" She growls glaring at him.

"I'll kill you!" Katsuki barks back baffling everyone to see said siblings squabble amongst themselves.

"If only he were a tad more polite. All Might sweatdrops.

"What? I can't believe that hysterical rage monster was a team player. Since when does he strategize?" Stunned, Monoma couldn't help but eye the bickering siblings, Katsumi pinching the cheeks of the growling glaring Bakugo both glaring growling at each other.

"Monoma. Apologies. With one win, two losses, and one draw, Class B can only hope to tie now." Tokage apologises to Monoma oblivious to Bombarda stopping said feud with her brother, silently watching on as she holds her brother's head easily pushing the roaring blonde back, brow furrowing at the blonde's reaction.

"What are you apologizing for, my dear Tokage? Our immature compatriot reflected on his actions and evolved. It's a marvellous thing. While it's true that Class B can't win anymore, we still haven't lost yet! The people will see! Win or lose, we'll prove our point. We're hardworking students who never cause an ounce of trouble. Meanwhile, Class A gets undeserved attention because they're disasters! Who is on the better path? Everyone is a side character in other people's stories. But we are each the protagonist of our own lives!" Monoma explains to Tokage, unaware of Bombarda's hues narrowing at the blonde boy.

"So what's the plan?" Yanagi pries.

"You're killing my vibe!" Monoma whines.

"I think we should do something similar to Tokage's team, even though it didn't work out for them. Our team's a lot like theirs was in terms of balance compared to our opponents. We've got a group that excels at technical Quirks, so it would be better for us to hide ourselves and attack when we can surprise them. There's no reason for us to choose close combat. Especially with them having powerhouses like Sayako and Midoriya." Shoda points out perking Shinso's interest.

"There's a difficult fight ahead of us. Don't you think Sayako and Midoriya's spooky?" Yanagi wonders.

"…Spooky"?" Shinso frowns.

"Oh. She loves spooky stuff. It's kind of her thing." Shoda clarifies for Shinso.

"Sayako's robotic hand is super spooky." Yanagi exclaims.

"Yeah when she fought Shishida in close combat surprised me she seemed more of the evasive type but I guess with her new arm she can't really afford to be as agile as she once was…" Shoda considers.

"Not to mention her personality's spooky." Yanagi adds.

"Okay." Shinso frowns turning to look over at the group at Sayako and Midoriya conversing.

"…He bite into her throat?" Shinso does a double take.

"Yeah spooky how she survived with just one arm right? Still considering the two and their mobility and combat skills, they are the same if not better than Bakugo. And apparently, Midoriya and Sayako's learned a long-distance attack, so he doesn't even need to get close neither does she. That isn't even going into Sayako's quirk with her web like attack she can take each and every one of us out without us even knowing it we could stumble into her web. We stumble even a little and it'll end up like the last match. They'll destroy us." Yanagi throws in.

"True. So we'll make Midoriya and Sayako our top priority. No matter what the others do, we'll take them down first. At the Sports Festival, he was able to break free of my Quirk. But... if we use Brainwashing in conjunction with Monoma's power, I think we can take him." Shinso explains.

"Lotta pressure when you single me out like that. It's possible it'll be a blank on my end." Monoma points out, rubbing the back of his neck.

"A "blank"?" Shino frowns.

"Meaning he won't be able to copy Midoriya's Quirk." Shoda exclaims.

"Oh." Shinso exclaims.

"What about Sayako? Think you can use your quirk on her?" Monoma queries.

"…What makes you think I can't?" Shinso scowls, grip tightening around his scarf.

"You two clearly have history." Haughtily, Monoma remarks.

"History that has nothing to do with today. All I want is to get into the hero course if in order to do that I have to beat her then so be it." Intensely, Shinso swears stoically.

"So cold. Well, we won't be able to do anything unless we stop them somehow. We're counting on you, Shinso." Monoma smiles at Shinso.

"Match Five. It's down to this." All Might smiles standing around the adults.

"The new guy. How's he doing?" Bombarda couldn't help but ponder.

"This battle will determine if he'll be able to transfer into the hero course. He already showed that he could hold his own in the first match." Aizawa points out.

"He was still too slow however such hesitation may be what turns the tide of battle to the villains favour." Formally, Bombarda throws in.

"…You're not mention besides I doubt he can use the same trick. They know it now." Aizawa huffs.

"Not to mention Sayako being there, she learnt from you didn't she Aizawa?" Midnight recalls.

"She did." Aizawa confirms.

"So she may know Shinso's moves." Midnight points out.

"…maybe…" Aizawa considers.

"The Class A team is fairly stacked. I hope the boy fairs well." Bombarda exclaims.

"Yeah, so, we should just start by going after Shinso, right? I'm kinda freaking out about that weirdo. I don't want him snooping around in my head!" Mineta frets.

"That isn't what he does Mineta." Sayako sighs swinging around.

"Don't get too hung up on one member of their team. They've got a bunch of people who can attack from anywhere and catch us by surprise without giving away their location. And we make things... float!" Ochaco adds as she takes off her helmet.

"Melt!" Mina poses pouring acid out of her hand.

"Stick!" Mineta takes the balls off his head.

"Not great." Ochaco grimaces, depressed with the rest.

"….What are you doing?" Sayako eyes the trio tiredly from above.

"Now I'm bummed. Sayako cheer us up!" Mina whines.

"No." Sayako deadpans.

"Come on aren't you a bit worried you'll be facing Shinso." Mina points out.

"So…?" Sayako frowns.

"So…" Mina gestures.

"…I don't know what those gestures mean...look I'm gonna go set up my trap." Tiredly, Sayako sighs swinging ahead of the trio.

"You really are hopeless honestly I feel bad for Shinso." Mina sighs placing her hand to her head watching the girl take off.

"We can't lie in wait and can't attack like Sayako can." Ochaco compares.

"Wish we were as special as Sayako and Midoriya are…" Mina whines watching Sayako set off.

"All right! Then we should go with my special Pop Off Vineyard Operation and kick their butts!" Mineta declares.

"No one's going to fall for that. We should find them first and make them fall into a trap!" Ashido reasons.

"No sweat. I can act as the bait." Midoriya offers.

"Deku!" Ochaco perks up at the sight of him.

"Hold on a sec. Didn't you say your Quirk was acting weird or something?" Mina argues.

"Yeah. But I think it's fine now. After watching that fourth match, I think the other team will be on guard around me and Sayako. They don't want a repeat Bakugo. I need to move even more than usual!" Midoriya decides.

"You sure you'll be okay? We're all counting on you!" Mineta pries.

"Don't you worry. We can definitely win!" Midoriya promises.

"Yeah!" Ochaco smiles.

"Woo-hoo!" Mina cheers.

"Weren't you girls just saying we're not suited for this?" Mineta sighs.

"Everything feels normal. Izuku eyes his hand.

"I'm pushing ahead. I'm moving so fast, you won't be able to catch up." Bakugo's words ring in Izuku's head.

After hearing Kacchan talk…and seeing Katsumi here…I can't embarrass myself! Izuku flexes his fingertips, determined to not let them down.

"It's now time for the fifth and final training match!" Vlad King declares as the fifth and final match begins…

"I wish they'd hurry up and sentence him. We can't keep this up much longer. He's exhausting our resources." The warden complains cross as the two stand behind the glass of one for all.

"You know that Chaplin quote. "One murder makes you a villain. Millions, a hero." The warden by his side says.

"Wasn't he the bad guy in that movie?" Warden A recalls.

"We've seen how people can flock to evil. Take Gigantomachia. He's our prisoner's direct subordinate, right? It's not just Shigaraki and the League of Villains who serve All For One. We don't know how many sympathizers he may have hiding in the world. So, right now, we need to make sure we don't accidentally provoke any of them." Warden B reminds them.

"I do apologize for any undue trouble. It's just that the memories are causing my body to throb with pain. I can hear my little brother's voice." Both Wardens gasp at All For One's voice.

"A phone call is here! A phone call is here!" Baffled, Bombarda blinks befuddled by the phone going off, the other teachers not looking at all surprised while Bombarda couldn't help the look she gives All Might.

"Oh, excuse me." Politely, he takes out his phone.

"That's his ringtone?" Bombarda arches a baffled brow.

"Yep." Aizawa confirms.

"When're you getting rid of that ringtone? Jeez." Midnight complains.

"Sorry. I'll be right back." All Might leaves the adults to it.

"I appreciate you returning my call so quickly, sir. However, I'm in the middle of a class right now." All Might whispers going to a corner to talk to Gran Torino.

"So, about that dream Izuku Midoriya had—" Torino brings up.

"Oh. I guess we're just gonna talk about that." All Might huffs.

"You asked me about the visages of One For All earlier. If Shimura had ever mentioned anything about them. I did remember something that might end up being useful. Don't hold your breath, though. This old man's memory isn't what it used to be. I'm pretty sure this happened shortly after your master first inherited the power." Torino admits after warning him.

"Hey, listen to this. I had the weirdest dream last night." Nana tells the younger Torino.

"Really?" Torino turns to Nana.

"Yeah. A shadowy figure stood in front of me. He stared me straight in the eyes before saying this: "The time has not yet come." Nana's words ring in Torino's head.

"Far as I can think, that's the only time she ever mentioned it." Torino confesses.

"Thank you for telling me, sir. I should get back to my students now. Goodbye." All Might hangs up.

"The time has not yet come." Which implies it will come eventually. Something that affects One For All and its wielder…All Might turns to worriedly watch the scene worried for what was to come…

"Class B has Shinso on their side. Once he's in play, our team won't be able to talk much." Izuku exclaims as he stands by Sayako's crouched side, softly setting her hands down on the floor firmly focusing on the strings below.

"I'll take him." Sayako assures as she focuses on her strings.

"You sure?" Midoriya turns to Sayako.

"Yeah he has something on his mind it's clear, we can use that to our advantage." Sayako smirks slightly.

"…Isn't that playing dirty?" Midoriya furrows his brow befuddled.

"They have Monoma on their side besides what do you expect from me?" Sayako scoffs.

"Fair I guess…what is it though?" Midoriya ponders perplexed.

"How should I know?" Sayako scowls.

"He clearly wants to talk to you, the first match made me think it was something personal." Midoriya argues.

"The more personal the better besides he won't use his quirk on me." Sayako stands smirking slightly.

"How do you know that?" Midoriya furrows his brow.

"The power of guilt is a funny thing Midoriya." Sayako smirks slightly.

"Huh?" Midoriya blurts out.

"Look leave Shinso to me I'll easily deal with him with my strings finding him while you do that you handle Monoma those two are our issues, who knows what Monoma could do with a quirk like yours." Sayako points out.

"Your right I never thought of that." Midoriya concedes.

"He may even have copied Shinso's so no matter what don't talk to him don't answer back no matter what bullshit he sprouts." Sayako points out.

"…Right." Midoriya nods his head.

"Still, I'm feeling kind of uneasy about One For All acting up. Whatever happens, I need to make sure I don't end up Brainwashed! Midoriya frowns as the two set off, ready for the fight ahead.

"Ever since I was a kid, I've heard the same thing on repeat. "There's no way you can be a superhero with a Quirk like that." Monoma smiles walking around the industrial plane with Shinso.

"What are you talking about?" Shinso eyes Monoma.

"The two of us are both very aware of our weaknesses. Sometimes, we have to embrace our darker sides to survive. I really like you, Shinso. Honestly. We're so similar." Smiling, Monoma exclaims.

"Disagree." Shinso turns to look away as Monoma laughs.

"You can say that, but it's true. When you brainwashed Midoriya at the sports festival, how did you get him to talk to you?" Monoma pries.

"I didn't know what would provoke him, so I insulted his classmate." Shinso shrugs.

"In order for us to become heroes one day, we must sometimes act in less-than-heroic ways. If we don't, we can't stand alongside those with more power. It's not enough to try to copy our idols. Don't you feel that way?" Monoma smiles as he and Shinso talk, unaware of a pair of scarlet silently staring at the screen.

"…" Shinso scowls staring ahead.

"You're childhood friends with Sayako aren't you?" Monoma continues on ahead.

"How do you…?" Surprised, Shinso stops in his tracks taken aback.

"It's clear from how close you two are imagine my surprise to see someone from class A work with someone from the general department, the child of a pro, not just any pro, one of the top ten working with someone from the general department, tongues were waggling let me just say." Smirking, Momona points out as Shinso grits grinds his teeth together tense under his scarf scowling.

"…What does that have to do with you?" Shinso scowls at Monoma's back.

"I know how it feels you know? To feel jealous of your friends, for Sayako she was groomed to be a hero, especially with her quirks blessed with both her parents amazing quirks people adored her I bet but you…I bet they saw as a villain, to think someone with a heroic quirk like Sayako would be friends with someone with quite the villainous quirk is rathe poetic is it not?" Monoma points out.

"…" Shinso silently stares ahead.

"To have Sayako pass with flying colour but not you, must have hurt no…? No wonder you want to get back at her." Monoma assumes.

"I don't want to get back at her." Shinso brushes past Monoma however…

"Oh…? Oh I see it's acknowledgement…she can never see you as nothing more than someone from general studies can see?" Monoma places his hand on Shinso's shoulder pushing him forward to spin around to tun to face Shinso, sternly staring into Shinso's until getting the idea.

"…" Shinso's hues narrow, shrugging Monoma's hand off him.

"I know how it feels. Like you had all of these grand hopes and dreams when you were a kid. But now those goals are just burdens as are we." Momona turns his back to Shinso.

"I'm not a burden." Shinso's grip tightens tenses around his scarf.

"Maybe to you, you're not but to others…? Perhaps a certain thread spinner?" Smirking, he spots Shinso's faint flinch.

"…" Shinso looks to the side, a still silence between both boys.

"It's almost as if the two of us are cursed." Monoma smirks suavely continuing to go on ahead as Shinso simply stare ahead, dead set on what had to be done.

"When you consider Midoriya's team, the distribution of power is comparable to that of the last round." Tenya takes note of.

"Yeah, our team did have a similar spread. But they don't have a Jiro." Sero argues.

"Yup! They're missing a solid scouter." Jiro smirks.

"They have Sayako's threads though." Kirishima points out.

"Sayako's threads are good sure but her scouting isn't as precise as Jiro nor Shoji's." Todoroki points out.

"Which means they'll have to move way more carefully than we did, or they could get trapped from the get go." Sero adds.

"You're right. If they wanna pinpoint enemy locations and then lure them out like we did, then Midoriya and Sayako are gonna have to work harder than Bakugo had to." Jiro throws in, their hues widening when seeing a oil drum be thrown Midoriya's way which he avoids as he is greeted by Monoma, with clocks dangling down his fingertips, three to be exact.

"Did ya find me? What a shocker. After seeing the insufferable win Bakugo pulled off, we obviously have our sights set on you this round. Anyone with an ounce of cleverness would want to be careful of people who are not only strong, but incredibly agile. But isn't that too obvious? Someone even wiser might choose a different route. After all, Bakugo was only successful because he was backed up by his other three teammates. So why not crush your other three first?" Monoma greets him taunting him oblivious to the silent Sayako silently feeling the tug of a string making her hues narrow, swiftly slamming her hand backwards as the tug of the thread is followed showing Shinso's crouched form gasping when he is thrown back, his head hitting the back of the pipe.

"Ooh that's gotta hurt." Jiro grimaces at the camera feed showing said strike.

"It does." Todoroki confirms calmly watching the grimacing groaning Shinso holding his head, shy scarlet sliding down the side of his tired temple, his bleary vision narrowing at the woman towering above him, jaded green glaring into a pair of glaring lilac…

"Thanks for bein' so flashy and tellin' us where you were. Sounds like my teammates have found the rest of Class A's hopeless combatants already." Monoma continues cackling dodging Midoriya's burst of wind.

He's egging me on, trying to get me to talk. It's possible he copied Shinso's Brainwashing. Izuku recalls Sayako's' warning while firing as Monoma dodges each and every hit.

"It's three against four. Will your friends hold their own? Shinso's lurking around, so they won't be able to communicate freely. I'd hurry and go to them if I were you. They likely need help. Wait, hold on. What if the scream just now was Shinso's voice modulator at work? If that's the case, you'd be leading us straight to the rest of your classmates who aren't actually in trouble. Ha! What a predicament!" Monoma taunts as he leaps over one platform to the next dodging Midoriya's hits.

"Talk about being heartless; you didn't even glance in the direction of your friends in need." Momona takes note of.

"It's not a bad trick, but I'm not gonna fall for it! Izuku swears scowling.

"My. What's this?" Momona releases some screws and stones form his hands elevating them in his hands throwing them at Izuku surrounding him.

Class B, Neito Monoma. Hero name: Phantom Thief. Quirk: Copy. Whenever he touches someone, he can use their Quirk for five minutes. He can't use two at the same time, however.

That's Yanagi's power! Midoriya recognises as he deals with Monoma's copy quirk.

"Release." Ochaco meanwhile places her fingertips together releasing Mineta floating down holding a rope with his balls stuck to.

"That scream earlier…" Mineta floats down.

"It wasn't either of us." Ochaco crouches down.

"Musta been Shinso then. And it sounded close by." Mineta describes.

"Funny to think of grumpy boy screaming in a girl's voice. Still Sayako will deal with him no prob." Mina smiles.

"Remember, make sure you look at us when you talk." Ochaco reminds Mina as Ashido laughs.

"Hey, I caught something!" Mineta exclaims just as metal comes flying at the three.

"Acid Veil!" Mina releases her acid swiftly melting the metal.

"Lost some. Was it a hit or are they luring us into a trap?" Shoda says from afar looking down at his tracker, pondering what their next move will be.

"…You really want to do this?" Sayako scowls staring down at the glaring boy, raising his fists into a battle stance. Silently, she raises a brow robotic hand on her hip.

"…" His hues narrow at her.

"Why isn't Shinso talking?" Taken aback, Denki pries perplexed.

"He could easily use his quirk on her now." Kirishima adds.

"Yeah Sayako's one of the powerfullest ones on that team why isn't he using it?" Jiro throws in.

"What I don't get is Sayako why is she's talking to him? Isn't she scared of him using her quirk…?" Sato points out.

"No because she knows he won't." Aizawa asserts.

"Huh?" His class turn to him.

"She's using their past to her advantage." Aizawa's hues narrow.

"Their past?" Perplexed, Sayako's classmates share a lost look.

"…She's using his guilt to her advantage to be exact… Aizawa's hues narrow recalling that day…

"You…used your quirk on her…?" Aizawa leant against the tree eyeing the mess that is Shinso, scarf coiled around his trapped form flailing about attempting to get free.

"I didn't…I didn't want her getting killed, I…I was weak back then and she…she defended me but then…she wouldn't give up and I thought…I thought she was going to kill them." Shinso explains to Aizawa.

"So you stopped her, seems to me you saved her." Aizawa reasons.

"Seems to me she never forgave me after that she transferred." Shinso sighs.

Quietly, Sayako rushes froward towards Shinso, his hues widening when she he raises his scarf trying to tug it down upon the pipe below about to fall and hit Sayako however his hues widen when she tugs him forward swapping their places as he cries out from the pipe hitting him.

"You really think that move will work again?" Sayako eyes the bloodied boy below, brow raising when a scarf coils around her tugging her down in an attempt to hit the pipe however she instead pulls him up with ease, kneeing him in the face in the process making him gasp, his mask breaking before him.

"Shinso's person chords!" Asui takes note of as Sayako slams her boot down on them, breaking them further as Shinso glares glowers up at Sayako sternly staring down. Shakily, Shino stands scowling scarlet stemming down his tense temple.

Sayako smirks slightly when Shinso wraps his scarf around her rushing forward pulling himself towards her to knee her in the face however his hues widen when said scarf coiled around him suddenly traps him holding his leg.

"Wha…" Shinso's hues dilate when seeing his leg lifted up.

"You really think that move will work on me!?" Sayako grabs his arm with her prothesis throwing him into a pipe, scarlet spewing out of his mouth.

"Dammit!" He curses holding his side shakily standing his hues widening when before he could even think of recovering does he feel himself be pulled froward, a firm fist of iron slamming into his face, scarlet splatters against the broken battered beaten nose of Shinso as Sayako delivers strike after strike towards Shinso trying to dodge and parry until…

"You're pathetic!" Fed up, Sayako snarls slamming her foot into Shinso throwing him to the side his back hitting another pipe as he slides down.

"Whoa now that's just brutal!" Tooru exclaims.

"Sayako's not letting up one inch." Ojiro exclaims.

"I thought they were friends…" Toru frowns.

"Yeah. Isn't Sayako being a bit rough?" Jiro furrows her brow.

"She hasn't been this rough since she first fought Momo." Denki points out.

"I thought she had gotten better…" Meekly, Momo whispers.

"She has." Bombarda speaks up taking everyone aback as they turn away from the screen of the one sided fight between Sayako and Shinso to her.

"Huh?" The teens turn to her.

"She's testing Shinso." Sighing, Bombarda tells them.

"Testing?" The teens blink befuddled.

"To see if he can really handle being a hero…" Aizawa asserts astonishing them all.

"Are you even taking this seriously? How are you to be on the frontlines if you bruise so easily?" Sayako demands from Shinso.

"…Tch." Shinso grunts grimacing holding his side.

"Tell me Shinso! How can you expect me to trust you with the lives of many when you can't even defend yours when it's on the line!?" Sternly, Sayako demands from Shinso gritting grinding his teeth together tense when she grabs him by the collar lifting him up for one final hit when to her surprise he knees her in the face making her drop him.

"Mother…!" Mad, she curses cross holding her face.

"I'm not the same as I was back then today I'll prove that to you!" Shino declares determined as Sayako seethes shakes scowls, scarlet stemming down her nose.

"…" Silently, Sayako glares at Shinso, using the back of her hand to smear it to the side scarlet staining her hand, he could hate her as much as he wanted, he could detest her, he could want nothing to do with her after this and she'd get it but if it stopped Shinso from getting hurt she'll have him hate her anyway so long as he was safe that was all that mattered to Sayako.

"You hit me…that's new." Sayako grunts grimaces, glaring at Shinso silently lunging ahead as Shinso avoids each and every hit Sayako sends, sending some hits of his own.

"Why won't you just trust me!?" Mad, Shinso roars raising his foot to hit her however she tugs her threads making him trip forward for her to knee him in the face throwing him back.

"It isn't about trust it's about strength which you don't have." Sayako scowls watching him stagger back.

"And you do?" Shinso scowls.

"Now I do. Shinso you don't know what it's like in the real world, in the real world you'd be killed." Sayako states the fact firmly, she had seen him with bruises how he'd just take it…he did nothing! How could she expect him to take on villains!?

"You doubt my abilities that much?" Shinso scowls.

"Shinso I've grown up with you, you're no fighter all you ever did was take what those bullies said to you, let them beat you you did nothing how can you expect me to just trust you when I always came to your aid." Sayako defends herself brow furrowed fuming.

"I never asked you too!" Tense, Shinso reels his furious fist back bashing it into her face.

"Shinso I've seen what happened on the battlefield, I know the consequences you don't! You won't be bale to handle it." Sayako holds her cheek cross.

"How do you know that?" Shinso rushes forward as Sayako still holding her cheek continues to dodge each and every strike Shinso sends her way.

Because I know you." Sayako catches his fist.

Do you?" Shinso knees Sayako startling her.

Shit!" Sayako staggers back brow furrowed fuming.

You've always been like this…mking your own desicons, making your own choices acting out on your own without even asking anyone first or thinking about the consuences you always do that stuff on your own!" Shinso roars glaring glowering at Sayako.

Yeah look at the consuences…." Sayako gestures to her hand.

I'll be careful." Shinso shrugs.

And that should make me feel better?" Sayako scowls.

It doesn't matter how you feel it matters how I feel and I feel like I want to be a hero I feel like I want to save people I feel like I want to protect the people I care for! Why won't you just let me do that?!" Shinso roars rushing ahead as he raises his fist to her.

BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT READY!" Sayako screams snatching his fist.

That's not your descsion to make!" Shinso snaps scowling kneeing her once more making her grimace at her staggering back.

I'm only doing this because you're my friend. I want you to be safe and happy, you've gone through enough with your quirk I just don't want you to get hurt." Sayako admits to Shinso scowling.

And what about what I want?" Shinso roars raising his leg, slamming into Sayako's side.

"Huh?" Her hues widen when she narrowly avoids said strike.

"You've always…always protected me so why won't you let me protect you?! When I think I've gotten closer to you, to help you, why do you always push me away!?" Anguished, Shinso snaps startling Sayako, her hues widening when hearing his words as he lands a blow baffing her as she stumbles shell shocked, holding her cheek before she composes herself as the two continue fighting.

"This must be Yanagi at work!" Ochaco realises squealing from the nuts and bolts flying all over the place around them.

"These things are everywhere!" Mineta cries as elsewhere Emily appears behind Shoda.

Class B, Reiko Yanagi. Hero name: Emily. Quirk: Poltergeist. She can manipulate objects around her, but the total weight can't be more than roughly that of an average person! Spooky!

The girl behind the two silently shrinks down the metal oil drum and other stuff for Emily to possess.

Class B, Yui Kodai. Hero name: Rule. Quirk: Size. She can change the size of the stuff she touches. It doesn't work on living things, though!

"Now release." Rule whispers as she shrink nuts and bolts turning them super sized making Mina yelp as the trio try to avoid the nuts and bolts bouncing around them.

"Twin Impact. fire!" Shoda whispers when the bouncing of metal only gets more powerful making the trio scream.

"I have a rough idea of their current location. Let's hide ourselves and prepare for another assault. We've got this." Shoda eyes the tracker below.

Class B, Nirengeki Shoda. Hero name: Mindz. Quirk: Twin Impact. After he hits a target, he can cause a second impact remotely! This follow-up strike is many times more powerful than the first one!

"That was scary." Mina whimpers weakly eyeing the chaos caused from said strikes.

"Guys! I thought the enemy was supposed to be chasing after Midoriya and Sayako, not us!" Mineta whines.

"They might've figured out our location with that attack. So where's Deku?" Ochaco reasons before wondering where Midoriya was as the battle continues.

"I had a lengthy conversation with Shinso earlier. About how those blessed with power destroy society. You're frenemies with Bakugo, right? Your friends with Sayako too right? Then maybe you can explain. How can they smile like they doesn't have a thing to worry about when they let themselves get abducted? And because they weren't able to take care of themselves, the Symbol of Peace is gone." Monoma continues taunting dodging each and every blast of wind sent his way when Izuku growls as just then…something seemingly snaps.

He stared me straight in the eyes before saying this: "The time has not yet come." Nana's words ring in All Might's head his hues widening when watching the screen.

"Is this the moment he foretold?" All Might's eyes widen when seeing black greenish energy spe out of Midoriya taking everyone aback.

"What?" Bombarda alarmed jolts up at the sight of this new power.

"Seriously, a brand-new power? So not fair." Monoma curses fleeing from it.

I don't understand. What's going on? I was fine until just now! Tears collect in the frightened Midoriya suddenly screaming when it lunges at Monoma narrowly avoiding it.

"Shinso, you're up!" Monoma flees on some levitating nuts and bolts as Midoriya is thrown into a nearby wall which opens to…

"Midoriya!" Sayako calls out concerned as Shinso falls flat on his behind baffled by the struggling state of Midoriya holding his arm.

"Sayako Run! Get out of here. It's too much!" Midoriya grimaces holding his arm.

"Just calm down it'll be okay." Sayako tries to calm him down but…

"NO! Get away! I can't hold back this power! It's like it's exploding outta me!" Midoriya soon screams as Shinso gasps when feeling the tug of fibres thrown out of their.

"Sayako!" Shinso calls out concerned as he is taken to safety forcibly dragged away from the two.

"I don't recognize that!" Yanagi gasps at the chaos caused by the whips of darkness.

"Deku, no!" Ochaco gasps from afar as tears freely fall from the frightened boy.

"This isn't my power. Izuku scowls at the whips going out of control.

"Midoirya!" Sayako swings over swinging from left to right seemingly preparing something below when her voice goes answers as Izuku slams his hues shut.

"Stop it! Stop it!" Izuku screams scared.

"How is this happening? It hurts! Why?" Izuku couldn't help but wonder while the tears freely fell gritting grinding his teeth together.

"When did Midoriya score another new move?" Sero queries eyeing the chaos caused.

"Aizawa the hell is going on?" Sternly, Katsumi demands from Aizawa angry alarmed at the sight.

"Vlad! Aizawa! You have to stop this match. Something's wrong." All Might rushes over.

"Izuku…!" Katsumi worries while following after the teachers.

"What is this? After All Might transferred One For All to me, I kept getting hurt because I didn't know how to use it. Izuku recalls as he flails about.

"Stop it! No more!" Izuku begins tears freely falling from his frightened form.

"But with training, I was finally getting it under control! I was just getting started! One For All! Get it together! I don't wanna make anyone else worry about me ever again! The tears freely fall form Midoriya flailing around causing nothing but destruction as Sayako sighs.

"…Sorry Midoriya." Sayako sighs fierce fibres suddenly slamming down upon the screaming wailing boy being dragged down into iron fibres digging deep into his skin as he continues flailing about as the whips of darkness burst out.

"That looks just like…" Sero begins but…

"Thread of hope." Bakugo recognises the move.

"Sayako…" Shoto whispers worriedly when the group watch the grimacing girl hold her arm, looking purplish, large slits of ruby red forming from the fibres entangled around her being used to hold Midoriya down.

"…That isn't going to last long not unless Sayako wants to lose her other arm." Vlad furrows his brow by the sight.

"Young Sayako…" All Might couldn't help but worry for the girl as the adults head over.

"Sayako!" Ochaco recognises the grimacing blonde, scarlet seeping sliding down her arm as she grits grinds her teeth together, blinking back the tears of pain firmly focusing on waiting it out waiting for Midoriya's black whip to be done despite the close call she received. She simply stood there, one wrong step and Midoriya would be released, she couldn't let that happen not with the rest of her classmates around…

"Ochaco stay back!" Sayako grunts grimacing.

"Your arm!" Ochaco gasps seeing the purplish arm.

"It's fine Deku's not you got to calm him down!" Sayako calls out to her, pieces of her costume dropping down.

"Deku! Please, calm down!" Ochaco rushes over to the boy behind held down, hugging him.

"When I was growing up, my mom and dad always looked tired. It hurt me to see them so wiped out. That's why, the first time I saw a hero on the street...I was more excited about the way bystanders and my parents reacted than anything else. I just loved to see how happy everybody looked! That's why I wanted to start helping people who were in trouble. But a simple dream can be hard to achieve. I've watched Deku fight desperately to help those in need. And it's made me wonder...Ochaco couldn't help but think back to her childhood of her parents smiling faces.

"You've gotta calm down!" Ochaco holds him.

"Who protects the heroes whenever they're the ones who are hurting the most?" Ochaco couldn't help but wonder.

"Run. Can't stop it." Midoriya tries to warn but a piece of debris goes to hit Sayako.

"Sayako!" Ochaco and Midoriya cry out concerned as she simply braces for the hit, if she moved Midoriya would be released if she moved…her hues widen when feeling no heavy block of debris hits her instead…

"Shinso?" Surprised, she looks up at the boy having kicked the piece of debris to the side a still silence between both of them, lilac meeting green. He crouches concern clear on his furrowed features towards her pinkish purplish arm however when she looks over at Midoriya and the fretting Shinso…something seemingly clicks.

"His Quirk's out of control!" Ochaco cries as something seemingly clicks within Sayako shyly glancing towards Shinso.

"Shinso, quick! Your power! Use it to help Midoriya!" Sayako tells him.

"What!?" Shinso does a double take.

"Do it. It's okay. Please." Sayako begs him, her hues of green gazing into his own, a silent apogly clear on her furrowed features for him.

"…Brainwash Midoriya? What should I say?" Shinso says shocked.

"Say what you want to say." Sayako smiles squirming briefly by another dig of fibre, the fibre burns only getting worse much to Shinso's concern.

"I lost to you at the sports festival. But I got another chance. I was excited to show you, the both of you how much I've improved. Fighting you again was something I looked forward to. I want to become an upstanding hero and use my Quirk to help others. Shinso slowly stands furrowing his brow by the murky memory of a younger Sayako screaming shouting, Shinso by her side, using his quirk back then but seeing Midoriya and him fighting, her cheering him on in the stands. Shinso turns to look at Sayako sadly smiling at him.

"…What you did back then…thank you Shinso." Softy Sayako whispers, his hues widening when hearing her words as Shinso stands.

"Midoriya! Stop playing around and fight me!" Shinso shouts calling out to him as after a teary minute…

"Okay!" Midoriya screams stilling in the process, the whips of blackness pulling back within in him as the threads go limp as does Sayako, Shinso catching her fatigued form.

"You okay?" Shinso couldn't help but ask concern clear in his tone towards the woman in his lap.

"…Is my arm okay?" Sayako shakily asks.

"…I…I don't know can you feel anything?" Shinso frowns.

"…A bit." Sayako grunts flexing her fingertips.

"Well that's a good sign…I think." Shinso admits.

"Ya think?" Sayako gives him a look.

"I'm not your dad you know." Shinso deadpans.

"True heh…sorry…" Sayako sheepishly smiles.

"Hm?" Shinso hums.

"Pushing you away again even I promised I wouldn't…I just…wanted to get back to normal." Sayako admits anguished as she holds her hand pained, she was a fool truly, she was so desperate to get back to her sense of normalcy she didn't realise who was she pushing away again devoting so much time to her training she didn't even realise how the people around her felt.

"And that meant pushing me away?" Shinso's hues soften sadly at her.

"…It meant getting stronger, it meant getting used to this new me, it meant playing catch up." Ashamed, Sayako sighs sadly.

"…Catch up?" Shinso furrows his brow befuddled.

"I...was so scared of being dropped I…I thought I had to catch up I had to be one of the top three so…I trained, I trained so hard with this new hand of mine to reclaim what the old me had that I didn't realise I had been pushing you away again…I just wanted tog et stronger to protect you guys, to keep you from going through the same thing I did." Sayako comes clean to Shinso.

"…Sayako…" Shino's hues soften sadly at her.

"I've been so busy trying to reclaim the status I once had in class, the strength I once had, the person I once had been that I pushed you away. I need to realise the old me is never coming back this…this is me now. I'm sorry Shinso I've been a real ass for not seeing how much you've grown. Guess you're not the little grump I knew back then." Anguished, Sayako apologises as she looks at her hand.

"Guess not but…you know I'm going to forgive you no matter how much of an ass you are." Shinso smirks slightly.

"Still doesn't mean I shouldn't apologise…heh maybe you'll be a even better hero than me." Sayako shrugs.

"…It's alright Saya it's alright." Shinso smiles softly setting his temple against hers, no words needing to be shed for the low groan she soon gives, blood still seeping out of her battered beaten bruised arm alarming Shinso holding her in his arms.

"Deku! Hello? Wake up! Oh, no, I'm sorry. Did the slap hurt?" Ochaco worries after slapping Deku awake as she floats the two down.

"Uraraka. Get away! It's too dangerous!" Izuku gasps alarmed.

"Don't worry! Shinso's Brainwashing took care of you." Ochaco assures Izuku as they land.

"He... did? Are you okay? Oh, my gosh! You're hurt. Don't tell me... It's my fault, huh?" Midoriya blames when noting the grazed face of Ochaco. Shinso and Sayako stand above the two, Sayako holding her arm as just then Monoma goes to strike however Midoriya gets out of th way.

"Oh you got to be…Monoma you dick!" Sayako curses cross.

"Gun Martial Arts!" Ochaco flips Monoma.

"This battle isn't over, Class A!" Momona declares as just then flying metal appears around them.

"Release." Rule releases the small shrunken sized of metal growing enlarged at them.

"Now fire!" Shoda releases said metal with his attack while Monoma laughs.

"The dark stuff that came out of him went crazy and ruined our strategy!" Shoda says as Monoma cackles.

"Nice timing, you guys!" Monoma smiles floating on some huge nut.

"Are the two of you okay? What was that just now? Whoa Weaver your arm spooky!" Emily floats over to Shinso and Sayako.

"There they are! Try and dodge this!" Mineta throws his balls.

"Sayako! Midoriya! Uraraka! You okay?" Mina calls out.

"Just peachy." Sayako grits grinds her teeth together.

"The whole team's here now. It's a brawl!" Ochaco roars as Sayako's hues widen when Shinso throws his scarf towards Ochaco however Midoriya grabs it, saving Uraraka. Midoriya turns to face Shinso. Sayako on the other hand rushes down when

"What do you think, Eraser?" Vlad queries as he, Aizawa, All Might and Bombarda sit crouched down watching the fight.

"All Might. Let's wait. We'll see what happens." Aizawa decides.

"What? But, Aizawa..." All Might argues however…

"This is far from over. The match continues." Aizawa asserts.

"You sure about that? Midoriya's acting weird. We don't know what that was earlier." Vlad argues.

"If it happens again, I'll stop the match at once. I can take him to a safe place. Bombarda can calm him down." Erasure turns to Katsumi.

"Yeah…I may be able to calm him down but Erasure I may need your quirk just in case." Calmly, Bombarda warns.

"Shinso was able to subdue him with brainwashing before. And with Sayako's threads managing to do damage control we'll be fine. And if this power stems from his Quirk, then I can always erase it." Aizawa reasons.

"But why do this?" All Might frowns.

"Because they're still determined." Katsumi speaks up.

"Bombarda?" All Might turns to her.

"Midoriya and Shinso. No. It's not just those two. Everyone is trying their hardest to win this round." Aizawa explains to All Might.

"Heh. Deep down, you're a big softy, huh?" Katsumi smirks at Aizawa amused.

"Yeah, yeah. Just don't tell Hakamada that I don't want her having that over my head." Huffing, Aizawa grumbles as the pros watch on.

"He was stronger than you? That makes no sense!" Ochaco says shocked seeing Shinso pull Midoriya up however Midoriya releases the scarf falling to the ground.

"I won't risk using my Quirk if I can't control it. It's not ideal, but I can't put everyone in danger again." Midoriya grunts.

"Then let's fall back. We can make a new plan!" Ochaco reasons.

"We'll lose if we retreat now." Sayako argues as she holds her arm.

"Shinso's standing right in front of me. Waiting. This is our chance to win!" Izuku asserts.

"But... Deku, does that mean you're going to fight Quirkless? Against someone with his power?" Ochaco frets.

"Sayako. Uraraka. I have a favour to ask." Midoriya turns to them.

"Acid shit!" Mina shoots said acid melting the metal throwing their way.

"Big! I can't be taken off the field or we're done for! Twin Impact... fire!" Soda fires his metal at Mina but…

"Grape Buckler!" Mineta uses his grapes to block said wheel with a shield of metal held by grapes.

"Thanks, Mineta!" Mina smiles only thn to falter when he crashes into her chest.

"I'm the only one my Pop Off b*lls don't stick to. I bounce right off 'em! It looks like I threw them randomly to be traps for the enemy, but they're also personal trampolines for me! This was part of the plan from the start. Not only did it give me a way to block Twin Impact... It lemme smash into these!" Mineta smiles.

"I don't think so! Take this, creep!" Mina throws Mineta at them.

"Acid Layback! Grape-Pinky Combo comin' atcha. Mineta Bounce!" Mineta teary eyed exclaims as he bounces all over the place.

"You're the worst!" Yanagi complains from the close call to the chest.

"Stop dodging me!" Mineta whines while bouncing all over the place trapping them.

"I wish we could withdraw, but they're so fast that we don't have time to strategize. They've practically got us trapped here now." Shoda scowls.

"Yeah." Koda nods.

"Our classmates are putting up a good fight! If Ashido can get into range, it's game over! She's doing so awesome!" Kirishima smiles.

"Our girls aren't great at close combat, so Shoda is having to protect them himself." Kosei curses.

"Didn't our teachers run out there to put a stop to this fight? And where are Sayako, Midoriya and Uraraka?" Jiro worries as just then the trio turn, Sayako's hue blaring blue before kicking the plate of metal back to reveal Momona, a familiar green light sparking out of him as he reaches out to them.

"It's impossible to get stronger on my own. I'm not meant to be a protagonist. I copy other people's Quirks. Still. I don't feel bad or resent the power I was born with. Because in every masterpiece ever created, there are supporting characters who outshine the leads! Monoma smirks as he lunges towards the two.

"Your power's mine." Monoma smirks smugly.

"Don't tell me." Deku gasps.

"I've got you now!" Monoma smirks smugly.

"He copied One For All? Deku realises alarmed at the news.

"An unprepared body can't fully inherit it. Your arms and legs would Shoot off if you tried to." All Might's words ring out.

"Wait, Monoma. Don't do it!" Deku warns but…

"Too late!" Monoma grins giddily until as he is about to strike Monoma's hues widen when he sees a blonde blur rush in, a familiar robotic fist hitting in square in the gut making him spew saliva before being blasted back by said strike.

"Sayako!" Midoriya gasps.

"God that felt good." Sayako flexes her prothesis.

"He doesn't have your Quirk, Deku! It's a bluff! Keep going!" Ochaco calls out to him.

"Felt like a long time coming at that." Sayako slams her furious fist into her palm before wincing when doing just that.

"Bad idea bad idea!" She winces waving her purple hand around animatedly.

"It won't activate. Aw man, no fair. I drew a blank?" Monoma sighs sadly.

"Leave Monoma to us, Shinso's yours." Sayako huffs.

"Monoma!" Shinso tries to save him reaching however…

"Release!" Ochaco exclaims as she uses her power to let Deku flaot up tackling Shinso while Sayako uses her threads to hold down Momona.

"I've wanted to fight you again. Ever since the festival. Come at me!" Shinso seethes leaping back drawing as much distance as he can from Midoriya.

"If I lose sight of him, the entire flow of this battle will change in an instant. Shinso. You're too much of a threat! Midoriya lunges at him.

"Eraser. Midoriya's attacking." Vlad points out.

"I know. I'm watching." Aizawa huffs as they watch on.

Shinso yelps as he falls on his butt wrapped up in his scarf, Aizawa stands against a tree to the side watching Shinso fail.

"It took you six years to learn how to use these binding cloths. Does someone like me really stand a chance at mastering them like you did?" Shinso frowns.

"I practiced a long time, but I was learning from scratch. No one was there to shepherd my progress. People like you and me have to be resourceful. When the time comes, if we can't look out for ourselves, then we're as good as dead. Keep on practicing. And remember, I'm not the type to waste my time on hopeless cases." Aizawa asserts as he leaves Shinso to it.

"I'm different from who I was back then. Shinso swears as he fights Midoriya or dodges his hits.

"This is my fault. I should've been able to move faster to capture them. I'm sorry. I need to grow strong enough to become a pro hero on my own. Shinso bows his head as he apologises to Sayako, Asui and the rest at the start.

"Midoriya!" Shinso roars raising his fist tugging the pipes down through his scarf slamming down upon Midoriya however black whip shoots out, catching the pipes.

"Don't go." All Might exclaims.

"What do you mean?" Bombarda's brow furrows.

"He's behaving differently than before. I'm betting he asked Young Uraraka to use her Quirk. That allowed him to focus on this new power." All Might exclaims.

"What happened in these last few minutes?" Bombarda couldn't help but ponder.

"Something changed." All Might whispers.

"The hell? I thought that was too dangerous. Was going on a rampage earlier just for show? Stop playing around and trying to trick me!" Mad, Shinso snaps scowling picking up his vocal chords cross.

"It's gone." Aizawa points out as the pipes clatter and the shaking Midoriya watches Shinso take off escaping.

"A new power." Bakugo's brow furrows.

"It disappeared? And now I've got a pain inside that's making me feel numb. My body can't keep up with the improved version of his Quirk. It's not a power that can be used with a max output of percent yet. I can tell from how it feels. This ability is one I won't be able to use for a while. It's something I won't truly unlock until I've fully mastered One For All. I can use Air Force, but I'm still trying to perfect it. I can't go too hard with it, either. So I'll maintain One For All at eight percent. Midoriya grimaces before attempting to take chase after Shinso.

"I won't be able to brainwash Midoriya at this rate. Gotta retreat. Sorry, Monoma!" Shinso apologise internally as he retreats for now.

"Don't you think Sayako and Midoriya's spooky?" Yanagi wonders.

"…Spooky"?" Shinso frowns.

"Oh. She loves spooky stuff. It's kind of her thing." Shoda clarifies for Shinso.

"Sayako's robotic hand is super spooky." Yanagi exclaims.

"Yeah when she fought Shishida in close combat surprised me she seemed more of the evasive type but I guess with her new arm she can't really afford to be as agile as she once was…" Shoda considers.

"Not to mention her personality's spooky." Yanagi adds.

"Okay." Shinso frowns turning to look over at the group at Sayako and Midoriya conversing.

"…He bite into her throat?" Shinso does a double take.

"Yeah spooky how she survived with just one arm right? Still Considering the two and their mobility and combat skills, they are the same if not better than Bakugo. And apparently, Midoriya and Sayako's learned a long-distance attack, so he doesn't even need to get close neither does she. That isn't even going into Sayako's quirk with her web like attack she can take each and every one of us out without us even knowing it we could stumble into her web. We stumble even a little and it'll end up like the last match. They'll destroy us." Yanagi throws in.

"True. So we'll make Midoriya and Sayako our top priority. No matter what the others do, we'll take them down first. At the Sports Festival, he was able to break free of my Quirk. But... if we use Brainwashing in conjunction with Monoma's power, I think we can take him." Shinso explains.

"So cold. Well, we won't be able to do anything unless we stop them somehow. We're counting on you, Shinso." Monoma smiles at Shinso.

"You went through the effort to create an opening for me! I can't let things end like this! Shinso retreats swinging away taking off.

"Guess Poltergeist won't get me outta this mess." Monoma huffs as Sayako tugs the floating Monoma over to the cage Ochaco by her side providing cover just in case as she bats back a pipe thrown their way.

It's almost been five minutes since we started fighting. Monoma's Copy only lasts that long.

"Your arm looks pretty bad I wonder if you'll need another hand heh how much robot will you be to human I wonder…" Monoma taunts as Sayako simply stares ahead.

"I know you probably think you're in the clear, but I've extended my Quirk to ten minutes. If I attack suddenly, what will you do?" Monoma wonders as Sayako simply raises her robotic fist.

"Man, aren't you a shrewd one." Monoma remarks.

"They're not talking in case I have Shinso's Brainwashing, too. Monoma realises.

"Oh, by the way. Do you know how many powers I can copy?" Monoma asks as Ochaco raises three fingers.

"He definitely has Yanagi's Poltergeist. As well as Kodai's size. Strategically, it'd make sense for him to have Shinso's." Ochaco opens the door.

"Guessing three? Ha, ha! OW!" He grunts when Sayako kicks him in, Ochaco gives the whistling Sayako a look.

"You think that must be the case because I've got three clocks. So what happens if I was just pretending to have that many and can actually hold four now? There are a lot of different kinds of Quirks I could copy. I can't activate more than one at a time, true, but their residual effects are sometimes long lasting. Things I use on objects and not people are especially handy in that way. Kodai's Size, for example. That effect sticks around. If I make something big, it stays oversized even if I switch over to a different Quirk. Do you see yet? Do you understand that when I say "fire" it's all over? This supporting character has an ace up his slee-MPH!." Monoma continues cackling crazed until being muffled by threads, Ochaco giving Sayako a look as she simply shrugs while Ochaco locks Momona up.

"Did Monoma do something to Deku? When? But..." Ochaco couldn't help but worry racing off despite Sayako reaching out trying to stop her as she soon stops.

"Uraraka. I have a favour to ask. I need for you to make me weightless then I can sneak up and surprise Shinso. I trust you and Sayako can handle Monoma. After that, go help Ashido and Mineta. Don't worry about me!" Izuku reminds her as Ochaco 's hues widen when feeling a hand on her, her browns meeting Sayako's stern green shaking her head stopping her.

"So long as we get the other two we're in the clear." Calmly, Sayako reminds Ochaco , nodding her head as they take off.

"If I face him head-on, I can't win. So, I'll have to make it my kind of fight! He's too fast! I'm done for." Shinso worries while leaping form one building to the next Midoriya chasing after him until…

"Time to fire." Monoma whispers while far from them a nut slams Midoriya in the face.

"Twin Impact. After I hit a target, it lets me cause a second, stronger impact remotely. Sorry, Shinso. I didn't plan on getting caught. I hope I gave you an advantage." Momona sighs sadly caged oblivious to the pair of crimson staring at the caged boy.

"Monoma? He must've used Shoda's Quirk to replay his earlier attack! Shinso realises watching Midoriya fall as Shinso strikes.

"And this is why they call me a mobile "god-bod"!" Shoda hits Mineta in the stomach winding him.

"Nice work. If we catch one, the rest will be goners!" Emily continues through metal at Mina making her cry out.

"Ashido! Melt them!" Kirishima tries to cheer her on.

"Ha, ha, there ya go! Shoda! Yanagi! Let's carve 'em up!" Togaru calls out as just then Sayako appears behind Emily karate chopping her back knocking her out before being tugged back by threads.

"I can't forget! I have to remember. Falling, Midoriya grabs hold of Shinso's scarf dragging him down.

"How far I've come!" Shinso's hues dilate when Midoriya tugs Shinso's scarf down dragging him down.

"Reiko!" Ruler cries out when seeing Emily be knocked out before gasping when Ochaco arrives and knocks her out two, the both of them wrapped around thread.

"Yanagi! Kodai!" Kodai calls out before gasping when Mina in a geyser of acid uppercuts Koda knocking him out.

"Don't worry about me! I'll be fine. I will win!" Midoriya wraps the scarf around his middle, bringing him close to Shinso only to slam his foot down slamming Shinso down to the ground below pinning him.

No. I waited so long for this. To show the both of you how much I've grown since last time. But you're classes are moving forward without stopping, racing further and further ahead while I crawl along. "Go beyond," right? Anguished, Shinso grimaces, thinking back to Sayako silently making it out of the door with doctor so and so on, perking up to see Shinso standing there, snacks in hand bringing a sad smile to her lips only then to reveal her now wearing her new arm anxiously of course as Shinso and her walk around, some pointing, some staring, some gossing.

"Plus Ultra." Damn it. The hero course is amazing. Shinso couldn't help but admit as Sayako shakes as Shinso brings her into a side hug, talking to her about something to take it off her mind as she would then scream throwing the arm away as Shinso would bring it back to her time and time again until she stood in her uniform Shinso smiling softly at her beofre both going to their separate dorms, Shinso stopping staring at the fleeting figure of Sayako heading to the U.A dorm, seeing everyone there as she walks forward and he stays back, watching on from the sidelines…

Things looked awfully dangerous for a second there, but the fifth match has now concluded. This marks the end of today's training. You've learned about your enemies and yourselves. You fought bravely, and showed your pro potential. Now, without further ado, the results!" Bombarda speaks into the microphone as a smiling Jiro and Tooru hold the sign saying Bombarda is committed to fair commentary Vlad King and his biased commentary should be replaced immediately. Pro Hero Bombarda Quirk explosion.

"Match one: A. Match two: B. Match three: draw. Match four: A. Match five: A. The winners of the hero-course battle are Class -A!" Bombarda declares as class A cheer.

"I wasn't feeling super competitive, but this loss definitely stings." Kosei sighs sadly.

"I know. Talk about a frustrating end." The mushroom girl, Kinoko whimpers.

"I witnessed such sinful deceptions!" The tearful short haired Ibara adds.

"Mr. Aizawa. I couldn't stand against them on my own. I'm still not strong enough. This test also decided if I was ready to transfer, right?" Shinso makes his way over to Vlad and Aizawa.

"How'd you know? Did you tell him?" Vlad turns to Aizawa.

"No. I figured it out on my own, thinking about the timing and format. It seemed like a prime opportunity to evaluate my progress." Shinso sighs fiddling with his scarf. His hues widening when feeling a hand on his shoulder shyly looking over at Sayako smiling shyly at him.

"This isn't finished until we've gone over your critiques. Rejoin your team." Aizawa orders.

"It's time for the rundown." Vlad dictates.

"Uh, let's just start with Midoriya. What was going on with you?" Aizawa asks him.

"Uh- Well..." Midoriya begins but…

"A sinister darkness manifested in you." Tokoyami tells him.

"You were raging out there. Was that your Quirk?" Shihai queries.

"It may be a new move, but it was different from your normal super strength. Regardless are you alright?" Bombarda couldn't help but ask eyeing him.

"I…I think so and yeah… you're right. I'm trying to figure out what it was myself. I was overflowing with power and couldn't hold it back. It was like something I'd trusted up until now suddenly bared its fangs at me. I was terrified." Midoriya stares sadly down at his hands.

"…Midoriya…" Katsumi sighs softly at the boy.

"...I didn't know what was going on. But thanks to Sayako, Uraraka and Shinso stopping me, I was able to get a handle on things and keep damage to a minimum. And I realized that whatever this is, it isn't something I should fear. If Shinso hadn't made me calm down with his Brainwashing, I don't know how things would've gone. Shinso asked if my lack of control was a trick, but I really had no idea what was happening. So thanks to the three of you!" Midoriya smiles at the trio.

"Thank me when I can feel my arm again." Amused, Sayako remarks showing said arm.

"Huh? Whoa what happened to your arm?!" Midoriya reels back baffled to see its state.

"Fibres Midoriya fibres." Sayako says intensely.

"I'm sorry!" Midoriya squeaks scared.

"What this moron means is that we're glad you're okay." Bombarda sighs knocking Sayako on the head making her whine before smiling softly down at Midoriya who shyly smiles back.

"I was just trying to get him to talk so I could use Brainwashing. Was he that scared? He obviously wasn't acting out there. Shinso sheepishly scratches his cheek.

"What a thrill! When Midoriya went out of control, Shinso did great, but Uraraka swift response has me overflowing with pride! Not to mention Sayako to using her father's special move to do damage control! Putting your bodies on the line to help a friend is true devotion! Yes! So much passion! I can't stand it!" Midnight squeaks smiling.

"…Why is it everything you say sounds so wrong…?" Sayako couldn't help but ponder.

"An aged old question." Bemused, Bombarda remarks.

"What was that about my age!?" Midnight glares.

"Nothing." Together, the two zip their lip too tired to argue.

"Uraraka, you jumped to him right away and saved the day! You never even hesitated. Bet ya hugged him real hard, didn't ya?" Mina smirks confusing Sayako.

"Why's your face red?" Sayako eyes Ochaco however…

"Please stop talking!" Ochaco cries lightly touching Sayako squeaking when she suddenly starts floating.

"Um Ochaco !" Sayako calls out worriedly.

"Eeep I'm sorry!" Ochaco squeaks as Shinso offers his scarf, helping Sayako down as Ochaco releases her apologetically.

"True, I didn't think twice about butting in. Maybe that means I need to be calmer when fighting? Although, it's probably much better than not doing anything and regretting it later, right?" Ochaco reasons blushing brightly.

"I want to...to save people." Tearful, Ochaco after saving Eri admits to Aizawa.

"You've grown up quite a bit, Uraraka." Aizawa takes note of.

"Hm?" Ochaco perks up at his words.

"I didn't act out there solely for Midoriya's sake. I just did what Sayako told me to do. And anyway... I saw Monoma and the others being attacked by the dark energy. I knew our team was going to lose unless somebody responded quickly. You see, I stopped him selfishly. I wanted to fight Midoriya and Sayako and win. Everything else was just coincidence. If I'm being honest, it was all I could do to take care of myself and—" Shinso spins the tale until…

"Chokehold!" Sayako squirms as both Ochaco and Midoriya gasp when Aizawa tugs at his scarf suffocating the young child.

"No one asked any more than that from you, Shinso. Everyone here has been training for months to become heroes who can save the people of this world. No one can master being a hero right away. Except maybe All Might, but he doesn't count. Before becoming a pro hero, you have to make sure you're taking care of yourself. Otherwise, you'll fail. If you don't have the power to stand your ground on your own, then you can't protect anyone else. With that in mind, what you showed us was enough to earn a passing grade." Aizawa cuts Shinso off.

"That's great. But I've still got a ways to go. After fighting everyone today, I understand. I experienced first-hand how amazing the hero course is. I'm not going to be satisfied by merely passing. I need to work harder and aim higher. And live up to my potential." Shinso realises.

"That's fine. Go at it with a "Plus Ultra" mentality." Aizawa assures Shinso.

"Yes, sir!" Shinso nods determined to do just that.

"Shinso! At the very end there, you were trying to get me to brawl head on so you could whip out your special combat moves, right? It was crazy how fast you acted to try to stop me with those falling pipes. And you used the binding cloth just like Mr. Aizawa does. Honestly, in the first match, I thought your team did a great job of putting your Quirk front and centre." Midoriya admits to the stunned Shinso.

"…We did?" Sayako equally as lost asks.

"But you're definitely more than that power. Your judgment and moves were on par with ours. Watching you hold your own with our classes was so inspiring. I'm blown away! But my Quirk didn't help anyone in the match. In fact, I put people in danger!" Midoriya looks sadly down at his hands.

"That's a good point." Aizawa admits.

"We still have much to analyse from these fights. But I'd say, in all probability, Shinso will join the hero course in your second year. Just make sure you don't let him outshine you!" Vlad tells them.

"Got it!" The students chorus.

"Which class will he join?" Denki smiles.

"A?" Kirishima smiles.

"B?" Tetsutetsu joins in.

"C, D E F G?" Sayako smirks slightly before being chocked by a done Aizawa.

"The particulars will come later. The training critiques are far from over." Vlad places his hands on his hips.

"Speaking of which, question! Can you unleash on Mineta for being the absolute worst?" Aizawa raises her hand.

"Ugh! That whole "smashing into your chest" thing was a lucky accident. Don't forget I put my body on the line to keep Shoda and those girls from strategizing." Mineta reminds Mina.

"It's true that, in a tragic twist of fate, Class B was defeated today. But!" Monoma begins crazed.

"Here we go…" Sayako sweatdrops too tired for this.

"We didn't necessarily lose if you look at what we planned! If I had known that Midoriya's Quirk was a blank, then we could've come up with tactics in response. In other words, if we were to fight again right now, there's no telling who would win!" Momona cackles crazed.

"You wanna go!?" Sayako snarls raising her robotic fist to Monoma.

"Bring it blondie!" Monoma cackles crazed only for them both to be bonked once again by their respective redhead.

"That's enough outta you! Today's class is already over!" Vlad intervenes.

"That's right. He activated Shoda's Quirk remotely. Which means, he had to have touched me. It's hard to believe, but Monoma copied One For All in the middle of our battle. My Quirk, One For All, is a whole lot to handle. The combined physical abilities of everyone who's ever used it creates a hurricane of pure force. An unprepared body can't fully inherit it. Your arms and legs would Shoot off if you tried to." All Might's words ring in his head.

"I panicked thinking that he'd end up hurt. Izuku frowns.

"If I had known that Midoriya's Quirk was a blank, then who knows." Monoma's words ring in Midoriya's head.

"A blank"? What does that mean?" Midoriya couldn't help but wonder.

"While we're on the subject of your Quirk, Monoma, mind if I ask a favour." Bombarda steps up.

"The great Bombarda asking something from little old me anything! I'll do anything." Dramatically, Monoma gets on his knees.

"Uh you could get off your knees for one." Katsumi sweatdrops.

"Oh but of course." Momona stands.

"Now then I have a task for you. Come visit Eri tomorrow." Bombarda tells Monoma.

"Eri? Why?" Izuku queries.

"Just a theory is all." Katsumi smiles softly at Izuku ruffling his hair as lesson ends…

"Oh, wowzer, you learned how to write super fast!" Mirio peers over Eri's shoulder seeing her write something down in the dorm.

"I've been writing letters!" Shyly, Eri admits.

"Huh! Awesome. So, who're they for?" Merrily, Mirio smiles.

"For Bombi and for you, Lemillion. Saying things out loud is hard. So I'm trying this instead. I already gave one to Bombi but she was so happy about it I thought to write her letters often when I don't know what to say. I also wanna thank you both so much." Eri admits as she continues writing…

"You're a moron! Baby! Stop whining like you're a weakling!" Tetsutetsu yells as Midoriya comes back to the dorms to see Kirishima having been punched to the floor.

"I can't. You completely showed me up with your manliness in that match." Kirishima teary eyed argues ashamed.

"Since I'm made of metal, I can withstand intense heat. But on the other hand, there's a limit to how durable I can be. You think I'm not aware of how dented up I'll get if I take a beating? But you're opposite! The more you're hit, the stronger you get!" Tetsutetsu offers his hand out to Kirishima.

"Ah- You're right! We're both manly, Tetsutetsu!" Kirishima realises accepting his hand helping him up as the manly bromance begins…

"Hi! Beef stew is on the dinner menu tonight!" Tenya warmly welcomes Midoriya back to the dorm.

"Oh, okay! And it looks like Class B's joining us, too?" Midoriya smiles.

"Yes! They've come to mingle and talk about the training!" Tenya admits.

"Yo Midoriya!" Sayako calls out.

"Sayako, Todoroki oh how's your arm Sayako?" Midoriya frets.

"Fine thanks to recovery girl." Sayako smiles.

"You really need to stop getting your arm injured in fights." Todoroki by her side says.

"Ther'es a lot of stuff I should stop doing…" Sayako argues.

"Midoriya. I've been looking for you." Todoroki admits.

"Hey, what's up?" Midoriya smiles.

"I didn't know you had two Quirks this whole time as well." Todoroki exclaims.

"Oh that…" Midoriya says.

"Welcome to the two quirk club Midoriya!" Sayako smiles.

"Given what you said that day...you were adamant that I not hold back against you in our fight. But I guess you were hiding something yourself." Todoroki exclaims.

"No, it's not that! I think this dark energy is derived from my Quirk. Which would mean it's just another part of my original power. Today was the first time something like that happened, so I was surprised myself." Midoriya explains to the two.

"How interesting. That must've been difficult for you." Sayako crosses her arms over her chest.

"I bet it was pretty shocking. I apologize for doubting you." Todoroki apologises.

"How can you two be sharp and dull at the same time? Katsumi frowns munching on his strew scowling at the two.

"You were amazing, Todoroki! I didn't know you'd gotten so good at using your flames. And you too Sayako your fighting style with your new limb is coming along great!" Midoriya praises the two.

"Not good enough though." Sayako sighs holding her arm.

"Indeed. Not nearly good enough. Seems the three of us are almost in the same predicament. And that's why...I have to start aiming even higher." Shoto dictates determined as elsewhere, Endeavor holds his phone, the cat emoji above the message sent to him as the other holds a villain flailing in his hand.

"I can't believe it. To think that you'd be the one approaching me about training…is this what that cat meant…!?" Touched, Endeavor couldn't help but smile as he dealt with the villain in his hands.

"So it's a previous wielder's Quirk, and One For All itself is evolving?" All Might hums when hearing the report Izuku gives him as he pours some tea for both boys.

"You guys always have secret meetings in here?" Katsuki scowls sipping his tea.

"I was surprised to see you joining us today!" Midoriya turns to smile at Katsuki.

"I asked Young Bakugo to come because he knows the truth behind your power." All Might informs Midoriya.

"So, did you know about this, All Might? About the dark energy and the person Deku spoke to?" Katsuki queries.

"I'd never heard of either before." All Might admits.

"A predecessor with a shaved head? The person who had the Quirk before my master was a young man with black hair. I don't think she knew about the other Quirks living in One For All either. I'd say this is uncharted territory for everyone.

"Great, this idiot scum is the first one to go out of control." Katsuki grumbles.

"Hey, that's enough." All Might frowns at Katsuki.

"Think harder. You must've noticed something that triggered the new power." Katsuki orders Izuku.

"I don't think so. But the man I talked to said "Now's the time," so... Maybe there's something going on in the world that's making this happen?" Izuku considers.

"If that's true, could it have something to do with All For One? This passed-on ability originally came from him, right? And think about it. He has control over multiple Quirks. I see it now. You're basically the same as him." Honestly, Katsuki deadpans as All Might stands.

"That's something I've thought but didn't wanna say. At any rate, this cannot keep happening. We have to learn more about this power." All Might dictates as both boys begin their training or hopes of understanding One For All.

"Then... we're all in agreement?" Aizawa stands before the recording images of Shinso's fight, all of the teachers sat down having listened to Aizawa's argument.

"Allow me to take care of the paperwork and clearances. The rest of you can continue focusing on teaching." Nezu volunteers.

"I appreciate it." Aizawa leaves the principal to it.

"Shinso sure reminds me of the emo kid you used to be. You found yourself a miniature Aizawa, huh? Or is this really about Shirakumo?" President Mic catches up to Aizawa in the hallway.

"If you have something to say, make it brief. I have somewhere to be." Aizawa orders.

"It's nothin'. Just reminiscing about the old days." Mic dismisses.

"It's the bad guy. Oh, no!" Eri perturbed points at Monoma.

"What's this foolish child saying?" Monoma laughs.

"Oh, I told her that UA has it's bad parts and that you represented one of its downsides." Mirio tells Monoma.

"I'm sorry, I'm a man who follows the path of peace and justice. How dare you malign, sir." Monoma huffs as just then they hear the roar of an engine as Bombarda gets out of her car in her casual clothes, robot arm in tact.

"Do you know why he's here?" Midoriya couldn't help but ask Mirio but…

"Bombi!" Eri rushes over removing herself from Togata to run over to the blonde.

"Eri ah careful!" Worriedly, Bombarda quickly catches the girl about to trip up only to fall in her arms.

"Bombi!" Beaming brightly Eri smiles up at Bombarda happily holding her up.

"How have you been Eri? The letter you sent yesterday was lovely." Bombarda smiles at Eri.

"Really? I'm so happy!" Eri grins giddily at the news.

"Ah, Midoriya, Togata. Sorry to borrow your time. There was something I wanted to ask Monoma to do, but after thinking about their personalities, I wasn't sure they'd mesh well." Katsumi admits as she turns to both boys holding Eri up.

"Well, I love to hear you've been thinking about me, Bombarda!" Monoma smiles.

"Quit the bootlicking Momona." Bluntly, Bombarda orders making Monoma squeak slightly while they head inside.

"How 'bout it? Any luck?" Aizawa asks as he enters the dorm to see Eri clinging to Bombarda's leg as she allows Monoma to touch her hand, a horn sprouting out from his head.

"Hm... This one is a blank. Unfortunately, I'm not gonna be able to help you out, it seems. Sorry, sir, Mam." Monoma apologises.

"Disappointing, but it's not your fault." Bombarda sighs softly setting her hand on Eris head.

"You wanted him to copy Eri's Quirk? Why would that be a good thing?" Mirio queries.

"Also, what does "blank" mean?" Midoriya wonders.

"It must mean her power works like yours. Both of your Quirks function as stockpilers. I copy the core nature of the Quirk itself. But if it's an ability that accumulates something and changes it into a form of energy, I don't copy the stored-up fuel that would make it function." Monoma explains.

"That makes sense. For example... Fatgum's Quirk works only if he's stockpiled a bunch of fat. Monoma could copy the base power, but he'd still be skinny." Midoriya simplifies.

"I draw these "blanks" every once in a while. The same logic goes for when I copied your Quirk but couldn't release any of its energy." Monoma exclaims to him.

"If it hadn't been for that, Monoma's limbs probably woulda shot off into space! Midoriya sweatdrops at the thought.

"So... Why try this on Eri?" Mirio questions.

"She's not able to activate her Quirk right now." Aizawa tells the boys.

"But one day, it may return in full." Katsumi adds.

"If she doesn't know how to use it, she might endanger herself or others." Aizawa adds.

"That's why I thought it'd be easier if Monoma borrowed her power, trained with it, and taught her how to use it safely. But I suppose that was a longshot." Bombarda sighs.

"I'm really sorry. You're having a lotta trouble because of me. It's always like that. I cause everyone problems. I just wish that I didn't have this power." Tearful, Eri whimpers shyly hiding in Bombarda's trouser leg.

"Eri it's alright…" Katsumi crouches down.

"Don't get sad." Mirio agrees.

"Yeah besides it doesn't always cause trouble, though. You can't forget. You saved my life with your rewind Quirk. You brought my arm back remember? And it was thanks to that, that I saved the day. Powers aren't good or bad. Think of them like they're knives in the kitchen. They may be dangerous, but if they're sharp and you use them right, they make yummy food, huh? That's why when you use your power for good, it's wonderful." Bombarda explains to Eri oblivious to Midoriya's hues lighting up when hearing her words.

"R-Really?" Eri sniffles.

"Sure hey remember you said how my explosions look pretty…?" Bombarda points out.

"Y-Yeah…" Eri nods.

"They can cause quite a lot of damage to but if I use it right it won't get it?" Katsumi asks.

"I…think so…" Shyly, Eri nods making Katsumi smile softly at her.

"Come here." Katsumi picks up the little girl hugging her as she nuzzles into Katsumi's arms.

"If that's true, could it have something to do with All For One? This passed-on ability originally came from him, right?" Katsuki's words ring in Izuku's ears as she watches Katsumi fuss over the giggling Eri with Mirio merrily joining in.

"Even if that's where my power originated. It's my ally now, and I have to trust it. Izuku reminds herself touched by Katsumi's words.

"Okay, then. I'll get better at my Quirk!" Eri swears it.

"Good." Katsumi smiles happy to hear Eri's determined words.