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"This means someone is talking."
'This means someone is thinking to themselves.'
This means it's a flashback.
*This means it's a sound effect!*
{This means I'm speaking in a different language!}
Angel in a Gilded Cage
Angel walked away from the refreshment table at the edge of the ring, bottles of water in hand. It was a few minutes after she and Midoriya had crossed the finish line. While they waited for the rest of the placements to be made she had taken it upon herself to get the two of them some water, she knew she needed it to help counter the headache that had plagued her in the final stretch. It was gradually receding, leaving her hopeful that it would be all gone by the time the next event started.
"Midoriya-kun, here!" She called out, getting his attention.
"T-Thanks!" He gasped, taking the offered bottle and taking a long drink while Angel did the same from her own, relishing the feeling of the cold water pouring down her throat, sore from all the running she had done. She wiggled her foot, trying to work out the stiffness in her replacement shoe.
"Deku-kun…Angel-chan…that was incredible!" Uraraka approached, sweating and struggling to catch her breath as she approached the two of them on the grass. Behind her was Iida, seemingly in his own world as he stared at his hands, muttering about him being a failure, despite the fact that he was in the top ten.
"O-Oh thank you!" Angel replied, still not quite believing her performance herself while Midoriya blushed.
"I-It was nothing. Merely a stroke of luck." He assured her.
"Don't be like that Midoriya-kun!" Angel objected, patting him on the shoulder. "You got first place without using your quirk, that is a pretty big achievement!" She said, making him smile bashfully.
'Speaking of…' Angel thought, turning her gaze to the finish line, watching more students cross. A minute later, she saw what she was looking for as Shinso arrived, wearing a look of satisfaction.
'He made it too.' She noted, not feeling surprised in the slightest as she looked away.
A few minutes later, the horn sounded!
"And the race is over!" Midnight declared from the stage in the centre! "Here's everyone moving on to the next round!" She flourished at a holoscreen where a digital scoreboard unfurled.
1. Midoriya Izuku
2. Hodunk Angel
3. Todoroki Shoto
4. Bakugo Katsuki
5. Shiozaki Ibara
Angel couldn't help but stare in disbelief, still blown away that she had ranked so high. She felt pride, seeing her name up there for the world to see. Her eyes then flicked down, looking for her friends and her "not-friend".
7. Iida Tenya
16. Uraraka Ochako
17. Yaoyorozu Momo
20. Koda Koji
27. Shinso Hitoshi
38. Hagakure Toru
She let out a sigh of relief, seeing that everyone she knew had made it in, although it did make her feel trepidation that she might eventually have to eliminate them from the competition.
"There you have it folks! The top forty two have earned their spot in the next event! For those who didn't make it, you will still be able to participate in the halftime games!" Midnight said, then gestured again, the scoreboard replacing itself with the roulette once more! "Now for the second event! What could it be?! I know, but I'm not telling you!" She teased as the words spun, eventually slowing down!
It stopped and Angel blinked in confusion at a name she had never before.
"Human Cavalry Battle?" She read out loud while the rest of the crowd began whispering amongst themselves.
"For those who're unfamiliar with the rules, a cavalry battle is a game where teams of two to four carry their leader in a horse riding formation! Each "rider" will be wearing headbands which they will try to steal from other teams!" Midnight explained. "Everyone will receive points based on their placement in the last event and each team will receive a headband which will be the total of said points!"
"So that means those towards the top will be worth more than the bottom!" Kaminari commented.
"Stop interrupting and stealing my explanation!" Midnight stomped angrily, snapping her fan! "But yes! Starting with five points for forty-second place, each position's worth increases by five! With an exception! The person in first place's head has a bounty..." She pointed at Midoriya next to Angel.
"...of ten million!"
Every student's eyes went wide all their heads turned as one to look at the poor verdet, paralyzed with fear!
"T-Ten..! TEN MILLION?!" He squeaked, sweat pouring down his face!
"That's right!" Midnight continued! "This means that if you're lucky, any one of those below can snatch the number one spot for themselves, a veritable battle royale!"
Angel's heart went out for her friend. While it was true that watching him shake in his boots suddenly made her glad that she had gotten second place instead of first, she could just barely grasp the pressure he must be feeling at that moment. She had an idea, being the centre of attention of the entire world when she was giving her opening pledge, but now practically the entire class was eyeing him like a vulnerable king on a tempting throne.
'Probably not too far off from what the constantly shifting competition for the top rankings in the pro hero world is like, everyone climbing over each other for the top spot, or at least as close as they can with All-Might there. Too bad for Midoriya that he isn't All-Might.' She reflected just as Midnight continued her explanation.
"The time limit is fifteen minutes. As stated before, the team's cumulative points will be on a headband, which in turn, will be worn by the team's leader/rider. Until time is up, you will be trying to steal as many of your opponent's points as possible! It is required for your headbands to be worn around on your neck or above! And don't be afraid of being knocked out of the competition! Even if you lose your headbands or your formation falls apart, so long as your rider's feet do not touch the ground, you are not out until the buzzer blows!
Use of your quirks is obviously allowed, we need some excitement, but any attacks aimed to injure other teams is prohibited! Any foul play will result in an immediate disqualification!
That's it! You've got fifteen minutes to form your teams, get to it!" She snapped her fan, sending the students scrambling and Angel's mind into overdrive!
'What am I going to do?! Join someone's team or make one of my own?! With who?! There are forty one students aside from Midoriya, that means I'm worth two hundred and five alone!'
Looking around, she saw small groups beginning to form. Every second that went by limited her possibilities!
'Calm down! The competition will probably boil down to trying to steal Midoriya's ten million, but there will probably be some stragglers who focus on stealing points from other teams. Which one should I choose..?' She pondered, nibbling on her thumbnail.
'Wait!' She jolted. 'I'm trying to get as much attention on myself as possible! Everyone is going to be focusing on the team of ten million, which means the spotlight will be there! It will be difficult to survive and make it to the last event, but... surely Midoriya can come up with a plan!' She thought, taking a glance at her friend, who was frantically trying to ask some of their classmates to join him, only for them to turn away.
She nodded to herself, making her decision and started walking over.
No sooner had she taken two steps however;
"Hey! Angel-chan! Looking for someone for your team?!" Toru jumped in front of her!
"You got a spot left?!" Jiro joined her!
"Hodunk-san! Team up with me!" Kaminari pleaded!
"W-Woah, woah!" Angel stammered, jumping back a little at her classmate's advances! "I appreciate that you'd want to team up with me of all people… but I've already got a plan. Besides, I'm not that much of a leader." She apologized, making all three of them slump.
"Aw man…"
"Wonder if Bakugo has a spot…"
"Maybe I can try the other class?" They muttered, their saddened expressions filling Angel with guilt, but she meant what she said. She was always the type of person who worked better acting as a member rather than a leader. She couldn't handle telling people what to do, that was always Roland's role.
'Or his.' She thought briefly before shaking her head, resuming on her course towards Midoriya, who seemed to now be deep in serious conversation with Uraraka. Angel smiled. If she was lucky, her team might be made up of her group of friends, meaning they wouldn't have to worry about cooperation or lack of synergy.
"Hey guys!" She called, getting their attention and giving them a wave. "Got an open spot?"
"A-Angel-chan!" Midoriya beamed in relief. "I was actually about to start looking for you!"
"Really?"
"Yeah! We are going to need plenty of evasion when all the other teams come after us!"
"Not to mention we all know how good you are in a pinch!" Uraraka added, smiling and bouncing brightly.
"Well, glad to be on board then!" Angel laughed. "Who do we need last? Iida-kun?"
They both flinched, making her pause.
"Uhhh, what's wrong? Was it something I said?" She asked tentatively.
"Nothing wrong per se…" Midoriya scratched his neck. "It's just… we already tried Iida, but he said no."
She tilted her head. "What? Why?"
Midoriya then went on, explaining how Iida respectfully declined the invitation to join them due to certain feelings of inadequacy, how he wanted to prove himself against everyone, including his friends and how he left to join Todoroki's team.
"Wow, that's heavy."
"Yeah, but… I understand where he's coming from." Midoriya shrugged begrudgingly before perking up. "But now we have you and you'll fit his role just as well." He assured her.
"That leaves us one person short." Uraraka muttered. "Got any ideas?"
Midoriya's face became serious and calculating once more. "The last spot our team needs is someone with some offensive power. Your lasers are good Angel-chan, but we're going to need your wings more, so I don't want you to overexert yourself." He said, scanning the crowd.
"Offensive power?" She asked.
"Yes. And I think I just found it." He answered, approaching a student nearby.
Angel's eyes widened in realization.
"Oh… this could work!"
Across the arena amidst the crowd, Katsuki was uncharacteristically silent. Surrounding him were various extras(classmates) vying for his attention and a spot on his team. Not that he was paying any of them any attention, he could barely remember what their quirks were, let alone their names. He didn't really care at the moment either, they were all loud and annoying and would probably wuss out when the event gets rough.
On the other hand, maybe he should pay a little more attention, he still needed one more member for his team after all. He already had his front horse Shitty Hair, the guy who had stuck with him during USJ. He was somewhat dependable and his hardening quirk would be useful so that he didn't get blasted away from Katsuki's explosions. The second was Knobby Elbows for one of the back horses. He didn't really know him that much, but the tape he shot from his arms was integral to Katsuki's attack plan.
That left one last spot he needed to fill. He didn't really need additional parts to his plan, so he really only needed someone who could help carry him.
He was about to just pick a person at random when he felt someone prod him on the shoulder.
"Poke! Poke, poke! Muscley muscles! MMM!" A high pitched voice accompanied each jab at his skin, raising his anger exponentially!
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU AND WHADAYA WANT?!" He roared, spinning around to be met with the sight of a light skinned girl with blonde hair tied in red ribbons on either side of her head! She was eagerly hopping in place, her face absolutely beaming as she seemed completely unaffected by his yelling!
"Yo yo yo!" She gave him a small salute. "Name's Tiny Tina! But you, can call me whatever you want." She said in a husky tone, giving him a wink. "I saw ya from behind in the death race and was like "Daaaaamn!" You got moves son!"
Katsuki just stared, his eye twitching. This crazy chick wasn't making any sense.
"The fuck are you saying?!"
"The fuck I'm saying is that I wanna be on your team, huggabutt! Together…we will accomplish beautiful things…the biggest…sexiest booms! Oooooh yeah!"
Was she talking about his quirk?! The more she talked, the more she got on his nerves.
"Why the hell should I take you screwball?!"
"Teehee, screw." She giggled. "To answer your question, you dashing gentleman you, I was in sixth place! That's higher than all these mothabluckas!" She crowed and pointed around the other students trying to get his attention, garnering some sour looks.
'This psycho bitch was sixth? How the fuck?!' He thought while she became impatient, bouncing more and more.
"So please? If I'm not on your team I will freaking DIE!" She begged, dramatically falling to her knees and reached out to him! "Pleaaaaase?! ~Please, pleaseplease, pleaaaase, pleasepleaseplease?! Baby pleaaaase!~" She warbled, her horrendously offkey singing voice giving him a headache, making him grit his teeth!
"FINE! YOU'RE ON THE TEAM, NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP!" He growled as he stomped away!
"EEEEEEE!" She squealed, the high pitched noise piercing his ears like a dental drill! "HE SAID YES! BEST DAY EVAR!" She threw her hands in the air!
"JUST DO WHAT I TELL YA OR I'LL BLAST YA TO HELL!"
"Ohohohoh! Don't tempt me like that babe!" She cackled as she followed after him. "I've got a feeling this is going to be the start of a beautiful relationship. NOW LET'S DO THIS SHIZ!"
He could tell that she was going to be a pain in the ass. Even if she was somehow skilled enough to get sixth place, there was something about her that put him on edge.
'I'm gonna fucking regret this…'
"The fifteen minutes are nearly up and the crowd is shaking with anticipation!" Present Mic declared from the announcers booth! "The warhorses are set and they bray for blood! Are! You! Ready?!" He yelled, the crowd roaring their assent!
"Sheesh, now I know how the gladiators in Rome felt!" Angel joked nervously from behind Midoriya on his right, her hands held onto the shoulder and hand of their front horse, his hand gripping hers. Midoriya climbed up and set himself down on the makeshift carriage, tying the coveted million point headband around his forehead.
"Yeah, crazy huh? Don't worry, we've got this!" Uraraka smiled on Angel's left.
She gave her a friend a (dare she say it?)confident nod. The majority if not the entirety of the arena will be after them, filling her with fear, yes, but also exhilaration!
'Is this what competitive spirit is like?'
Looking around at the other teams lining the edge of the rectangular arena, most of their faces were alight with anxious anticipation. She imagined that's what she had on her own at the moment.
"Thirty seconds till game time!" Mic announced as the number on the scoreboard counted down in time with her beating heart!
"Sitrep!" Midoriya called out! "Uraraka!"
"Present!"
"Hodunk!"
"Ready when you are!" She answered, her legs tensing up and her tattoos coming to life!
"And finally! Tokoyami!" He addressed their final member at the front, whose sentient, bird shaped shadow with bright yellow eyes surged around them protectively!
"Ready." The bird headed boy answered in his usual serious way!
"Let's do this!" The greenette proclaimed!
"Here we go! Ten! Nine! Eight!" The crowd counted down with their host!
Angel swallowed.
"Seven! Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! One!" Simultaneously, the whole arena tensed!
"START!" And most of the teams turned towards them and charged, the two teams on either side of them being the closest!
"Get over here you class A chumps!" A large grey haired boy demanded!
"No hard feelings Angel-chan but those points are ours!" She could see a floating headband overtop of some of her classmates, including Koda!
'Is Toru topless right now?'
"We're getting rushed right from the start by two teams Midoriya! What's our course of action?" Tokoyami asked.
"What we discussed! Our exit strategy! Angel-chan!"
"One sec!" She answered, but right as she was about to engage her wings, she felt her feet become heavy! Looking down, her eyes widened at the sight of her feet submerged in the concrete, as if the solid stone had turned to quicksand!
"We're sinking!"
"It must be one of the other team's quirks! Tokoyami-kun! Help Angel-chan with our liftoff! Uraraka-san, do it!" Midoriya ordered!
"Right!" Angel said, her wings bursting to life, immediately followed up by the peculiar sensation of all of her teammates becoming as light as a feather!
"Dark Shadow!" Their front horse yelled, pushing his living silhouette to slam it's hands on the solid portion of the ground, timing it just as Angel's wings beat!
"Hold on!" She yelped as they shot out of the liquid concrete with a sucking pop and into the sky, soaring over their pursuers! The plan worked! With Uraraka negating everyone else's gravity, she easily lifted on her own and out of harm's reach!
Almost.
"Jirou-chan!" She heard Toru yell! She looked back in time to see Jiro's extendable earphone jack earlobes shoot towards them, intending to pull them back down!
The attack was immediately repelled by Dark Shadow, the mass of darkness swooping under her and smacking the lines away with it's claws!
"Nicely done Dark Shadow, keep watching our back flank!" It's owner ordered.
"You got it boss!" It responded in a surprisingly chipper voice while Angel watched with awe! She had heard of sentient quirks before, but this was the first time she had ever met one. The first time she had learned of such a thing she had been horrified at the idea of something growing inside or alongside you as you grew up. But as she watched them seamlessly work in tandem, she could now see that Dark Shadow functioned more as an extension of his owner, as fluidly as her arms and legs, just with the addition that it could talk.
"Thanks for saving me there Dark Shadow!" She said, the shade taking a moment to look at her. "You're really awesome!"
"Aw shucks, you're not so bad yourself!" It seemed to smile and looked away, leaving Angel to consider a question she never thought she'd ask.
Could a shadow blush? Because it looked like he did.
"Urp!" Uraraka burped. "I'm going to get sick if I keep this up! We need to land and let me recharge!"
"Got it!" Angel acknowledged, ceasing her wing beats and settled into a glide, aiming for an area relatively clear of other teams. They hit the ground running, all of them grunting as Uraraka released her quirk and their mass returned.
All around they could see most of the other teams fighting amongst themselves, focusing on getting smaller point values than waste time chasing the evasive target that they were.
'We're not out of the woods yet though.' Angel noted, glancing back to see their pursuers veering around to chase after them again!
"What a spectacle folks! We only just started and there are small melees all over the arena with Team Midoriya at the centre of it all!" She heard Mic spout in his typical enthusiastic fashion, confirming the situation she assumed they were in.
"MWAHAHAHA! Forge ahead Shoji-san!" Angel shuddered at a familiar voice, one that grated on her nerves!
'Oh God, not him again!'
Her head swiveled along with her teammates to spot a massive form barreling down on them from behind, a huge male student, more than six feet tall! His pale grey hair hung over his face, only revealing one of his eyes while the rest of his face was covered in a blue mask! Most startling, his huge biceps were branching out into two more pairs of limbs connected to each other like webbing, fanned out over his back like a shield!
"Who the heck is that?!" Uraraka said!
"Isn't this a team event?! Why is he playing alone?!" Midoriya questioned!
"Who cares?! We've gotta go!" Angel reminded him!
"You're right! Let's make some distance and get in the air again!"
But just as Angel tried to turn and run she felt something she was getting all too used to, an anchor on her foot! She looked down and her eye twitched! Stuck to the bottom of her right shoe was another one of Mineta's sticky balls, rooting her to the ground!
"Again?! Guys! Help, I'm stuck!"
"That's one of Mineta's hair spheres! Where did that come from?!" Midoriya gasped!
"Over here Midoriya~!" That annoying voice called again, making Angel jolt when she saw Mineta poke his head out from within the dome of limbs on the back of the big student chasing them! He beckoned ominously to them! "Pretty neat huh? I met this cool guy from class B!"
*Thwip!* A second later a long pink thing shot out of the hole, forcing Midoriya to duck!
"What the heck?!"
"Pretty cool strategy Midoriya-kun."
"Asui-chan?!" He exclaimed! Sure enough, Angel could just spot her face and green hair inside the moving fortress next to Mineta.
"I knew you'd come up with something good. But I've told you to call me Tsu." The frog girl insisted before lashing her tongue out at them again along with a fresh barrage of Mineta spheres!
"What's this?! Team Mineta has utilized their size disparity to their advantage! They're like a mobile battlestation! How cunning!"
"Angel-chan! Can you get yourself loose?!" Midoriya yelled as they struggled to dodge the incoming projectiles!
"One second!" She answered, trying to kick off her shoe yet again. "How many shoes are you going to cost me today you-you jerk!" She hissed as she finally got her foot free and followed up by spreading her wings! The sensation of her team's becoming weightless signaled Uraraka, activating her quirk and with a single leap and a flap, they were airborne once more!
"That was too close!" Uraraka sighed.
Angel turned her head to face her. "Yeah, we better make some-" She trailed off as she saw the class's resident powderkeg rocketing towards them!
"INCOMING!" She screamed!
"THE ONLY ONE THAT'S GONNA KNOCK YOU OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE IS ME DEKU, YOU SHIT BAG!" Bakugo roared with his signature look of murderous intent as he propelled himself to them with explosions from his hands!
"TOKOYAMI-KUN!" Midoriya cried out just in time for their forward horse's shadow to swoop in between them and their attacker, taking the brunt of the blast Bakugo unleashed from his fingers before falling back down to Earth!
Angel's moment of temporary relief was squandered when she saw a line of tape snag onto his jacket and reel him back in to land on his team, the lifeline retracting into Sero's tape dispenser elbows!
'Darn! Would it be too much to ask for him to be disqualified?' She clicked her teeth before returning her attention to piloting her team's descent.
"DAMN IT!" Katsuki spat, his eyes on the prize flying away from him! He was so close to grabbing Deku's points! If it wasn't for that stupid bird headed bastard and his overpowered shadow!
"After them you chumps!" He ordered, pounding his impatient fist against Shitty Hair's hardened back!
"Calm down bro! We've got plenty of time!" His mount tried to placate him as he kept running forward! As annoying as Shitty Hair was, he did hold true to his word about being a reliable horse, his hardening protecting him from Katsuki's blasts and attacks from other teams. He just kept on running!
"Tell us when you're gonna fly off next time will ya?" Knobby Elbows complained from the back. "I almost didn't get ya back in time!" Despite how much he whined, Elbows was a crack shot with his tape. It made up for how annoying he got, telling him what to do!
Not nearly as annoying as Psycho Bitch though.
"Ohmygodthatwasamazing!" The girl chattered behind him incessantly! "You were like a majestic, fire breathing unicorn!"
"CALL ME A UNICORN ONE MORE TIME, SEE WHERE THAT GETS YOU!" He snarled! He guessed that she was from the other hero class as he would have definitely noticed her if she was in his, even with how little he cared about getting to know those extras. She was completely unlike anyone he had ever met, not only did his yelling fail to intimidate her, she seemed to thrive on his anger, her face always brightening when he barked at her.
It was very unsettling.
The only reason that she was even on his team was that she had annoyed him to the point that he picked her just so she would shut up! At the very least her bizarre devotion to him resulting in her obeying his every order to the letter and without question. If it wasn't for that and the fact that she was keeping up with carrying him around, he would have been tempted to just try and win with just the other two.
But even he knew that sometimes you needed to deal with some nuisances in order to succeed.
He kept his gaze on his target, Deku and his squad flying away on the wings of that angel girl upstart. He could care less about the bird headed bastard and cheek girl, no, he was focused on the two who had beaten him again and again. The angel girl in particular had riled him up with her pledge. He could care less about most of it with all the touchy-feely bullshit but he had taken the promise she had made about being number one seriously. A small part of him respected her for having the balls to make that challenge and if he had been the one to give the pledge he probably would have made it too.
He was looking forward to seeing the look on everybody's faces when he got that gold medal and finally re-establish himself at the top of the class at Yūei! Not her, not Half and Half and definitely not Deku!
Which was why he was determined to get the ten million points. If he could just steal that headband from Deku's dumb head, then he will beat both him and angel girl at the same time, knocking them out of the competition! Two birds, one stone!
But just as he was winding himself up for another flight, his head was briefly yanked back as he felt the cloth of the headband on his hair get torn away and heard the rip of the velcro!
"I'll be taking that." He whirled around to see a blonde boy riding away with his headband wrapped around his finger. "Sorry about this Baha-san, but you made your bed with these class A elitists, so you must lie in it." He simpered with a smug smile on his face as he added the headband to the numerous others wrapped around his neck!
"MONOMORON YOU SHITTY BITTY!" The girl shrieked!
"YOU FUCKING MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHITTING FUCKMEAT! GET BACK HERE!" Katsuki bellowed just as loud! Who the hell was this upstart?!
"Woah, what the heck?! Aside from Team Midoriya, the current top four are all class B! And Team Bakugo is tied for last! What an upset!" Present Mic announced!
"It was too predictable for you class A fools to miss the point of this event." The blonde kid snorted. "With forty two competitors and so few spots available in the finals, it was obvious that they were planning on thinning the herd here. You class A fools were so concentrated on showing off that you missed the fact that the first event served as a means to find the greatest threats, whoever takes the top spots. We know your quirks and weaknesses, which means it'll be simple to take the biggest opposition out of the equation before the end. I suppose I should thank your class's resident speech giver for riling you guys up." He declared snootingly as two more teams of class B students circled around them!
"We're surrounded!" Kirishima swallowed nervously.
"We're all going to have to fight each other for the points at the end of the round, but it's preferable to losing to rampaging monkeys who can't see the big picture." The blonde smirked.
Katsuki twitched. Did he just call him a monkey?
"Ahhhh, I knew I recognized you somewhere!" The boy snapped his fingers. "You're the hostage from the Sludge incident! You just can't stop hogging the spotlight can you? How does it feel to keep playing the victim?"
"TCH! GEH! GRR!" Katsuki grit his teeth and started to see red! First this wannabe steals his points and calls him a stupid monkey, but then he brings up the day he was taken as a slime villain's hostage, when Deku of all people tried to save him, one of the most humiliating days of his life?!
He was going to kill this prick!
"Kirishima…" He growled. "New plan...before we go and deck Deku…let's slaughter these shitty punks!" He breathed, his voice overflowing with malice!
Unbeknownst to him, his third teammate was ogling him, her eyes filled with awe!
"Ohohhhh, you are so fucking hot right now!" She sighed longingly!
"OOF!" Angel grunted as she touched down, feeling gravity take hold once again. They had narrowly escaped Mineta's human tank and Bakugo had flown off somewhere. Good thing too, her head was starting to ache from continuously using her wings.
"Everybody alright?" Midoriya asked.
"I'm okay, just a little achy and annoyed that I have to run with one shoe again!" She answered.
"Me too, I'll be good in a minute!" Uraraka gulped, looking a little green around the gills.
"Still going strong." Tokoyami reported, earning a nod from the team leader.
"Great. Looks like everyone else is focusing on each other right now, we should be able to-!"
"Midoriya." Midoriya and the team halted at the familiar, serious tone.
Standing across from them was the last team, casting a long shadow in their path. Riding atop Iida's shoulders and supported by Kaminari and Yaoyorozu was Todoroki, eyes narrowed in challenge.
'Should've guessed it wouldn't be that easy.' Angel swallowed.
"Your points Midoriya. I'm taking them now."
To be continued...