Battles! Vol. 2
"Hey man, it's not that bad! I think you might win!" Eijiro tried to comfort his friend as the two visited the many amenities of the Sports Festival, Asahi having split off a while ago. Between the battle rounds, the school allowed participants to see the different attractions for a few hours to recharge before their battles, which only supplied Izuku with even more time to stress.
"He froze half the arena, Eijiro! I have no chance of winning!" Izuku retorted as he stuffed his gullet with as many sweets as possible.
"You sure you need this much energy? You're draining your allowance." The red-haired boy remarked as he watched Izuku buy another three packets of Konpeito, "You should stress eat, it's a bad habit." He lectured his friend.
"You're lucky, you don't have 2 Healing Quirks constantly healing micro-tears in your muscles." Izuku angrily murmured as he walked along, already emptying two Konpeito packets.
"Hang on, two? I know smoke heals you, but what's the second?" Eijiro asked, looking at the boy strangely.
"Oh, Skin Shot is also constantly healing my skin, did I not tell you?" Izuku asked as he bought yet another pack of sweets.
"How do you eat so fa-Oof!" Eijiro was cut off as a small child barreled into his side, causing him to keel over, winded. The child in question had dark blue hair styled into short pigtails and pink eyes, she also seemed to be around four or five years old.
"What's wrong kid? Are you lost?" Izuku compassionately asked, not concerned with the wheezing Eijiro just feet away from him.
"I-I lost m-my M-Mommy, and I d-don't know where s-she is!" The girl sniffled, clearly upset from losing her family.
"Well if you want, I can help you find them." He said, offering his hand to her, which she gladly took. "Eij, I'm gonna help this girl find her Mom, when you're done being a drama queen meet up in the stands." And with that, Izuku left his injured friend writhing in pain.
"E-Erm mister," The girl said, tugging on Izuku's arm, "W-Why are you wearing gloves?".
"Oh, it's so my quirk doesn't activate on anyone." He explained, "It requires finger contact to work." Hopefully, this would curb the girl's curiosity.
"But you didn't use that in your fight." She countered his explanation, time for the misdirect.
"W-Well my quirk can do a lot of things!" He quickly lied.
"Like what?" This kid was relentless! "Mine lets me turn my skin really hard." She said, changing her hand into a pink/blue material.
"Mine too!" He diverted the subject, hardening his arms to show his obsidian-like skin. The girl was awed at how his ability was so similar to her own, "Anyway, what's your name?" Izuku asked, hoping to quickly find her parents.
"Aoi Saki! What's your name?" She asked as the two wandered the stalls, getting very strange looks from the people around them.
"MIDORIYA!?" The familiar voice of Asahi called from the left of the duo, Izuku turned to see an entire family unit of people with Asahi right in the middle of them.
"Sissy!" The Aoi called as she let go of the boy's hand and ran towards the group, who happily embraced her as Izuku just watched on in horror. He was going to get an ear full from Asahi for this, seeing as she already saw him as a dirty pervert.
"What were you going to do with Ao-" Asahi didn't get a chance to accuse him of anything before the woman only a few inches taller than her with light blue hair and eyes to match utterly glomped him in a spine-crushing hug. "Wha- Mom what are you doing!?" Asahi sputtered as she watched in horror as her mother clung to the boy she crushed on.
"Oh thank you for finding my baby! What could I ever do to thank you?" Even if Izuku wanted anything from the woman, he wouldn't have been able to say it as his body had a severe lack of oxygen at the moment.
"LET HIM GO!" Asahi shouted at the woman, beet red from embarrassment.
"Okay, okay!" Izuku took in a huge gulp of air as his lungs were finally released from the woman's grip, "So, you must be the Izuku Midoriya that Asahi talks about so much." She said, once again embarrassing her daughter. "Anyway, I'm her mother, Keiko, the girl you rescued is Aoi, her little sister. I'm so sorry for the trouble we got separated in the crowd and I'm just so glad it was my daughter's boyfriend who found her!" Izuku found himself turning atomic red hearing this, barely keeping his composure, Asahi was no better looking ready to commit matricide.
"W-Well it's really no p-problem, I just so h-happened to run into h-her. Plus, i-its a h-hero's duty, r-right?" He said, trying to ignore the mistake of the two's relationship.
"Well seeing as you don't have any company, would you like to walk with us?" Keiko asked, catching the two teens off guard.
"N-No no, Mrs Saki, I wouldn't want to intrude!" Izuku said, trying to escape any further awkwardness, but this woman was as relentless as her daughter.
"Nonsense! And please, call me Keiko." Seeing no way to break free of this without being rude, Izuku finally agreed to the woman's demands. "Wonderful! Asahi, be a dear and introduce him to the family." Keiko ordered as they once again began to wander the stalls, the speed at which Izuku had been abducted was astounding.
"W-Well this is my little brother Kei," Asahi said, pointing to a boy around nine or ten with similar hair to Keiko, but instead having bright pink eyes. Next Asahi pointed at a woman with purple hair and pink eyes, she seemed to be a little bit older than Asahi and was the tallest girl in the family, "This is Rin, my older sister.". Finally, she pointed to a large man who was around 6ft with fiery pink hair and eyes to match it, the hostility terminating from his form seemed to completely bypass Asahi, "And this is my Dad, Hiroshi.".
"N-Nice to m-meet you all," Izuku stammered, getting differing responses from each family member.
"Are you really my sister's boyfriend? Because you don't seem like her type, apart from your bod." Rin asked catching Izuku off guard with the personal question.
"W-We're just friends," Izuku explained, hopefully quenching the girl's curiosity.
"Hmm, it's just she's always talking about you. And whenever she thinks she's alone she-" Rin was cut off by a very embarrassed Asahi, who tried to change the topic.
"Hey, Kei, Izuku might be able to help you with the quirk problems you've been having cuz he's a geek on that stuff," Ashai said, forcefully shoving Izuku toward the boy as she began to scold her sister quietly.
"S-So, what seems to be the problem?" Izuku asked as casually as he could in this situation.
"Oh, well my quirk is called Silly String, it allows me to create string made from a strong material from my body and manipulate it, but no matter what I can't get it to go further than two meters from me, so it's practically useless for hero work. Do you have any ideas to make it work better?" The young boy asked Izuku, who adopted a quizzical look before getting an idea.
"Maybe you're looking at it wrong. Instead of trying to increase your reach, increase your control. If you can make constructs using the string, you may be able to make weapons like claws or a hammer." He suggested, watching Kei's eyes light up with a newfound understanding of his quirk.
"I... never thought of it like that. Thanks, man!" He said as he immediately began to experiment with his quirk, finding he could make long claw-like appendages, although they were shaky. "Wow! Do you have any other ideas?" The boy asked, clearly excited to play with his quirk.
"Well, if you got enough control, you may be able to make things like armour and lockpicks and basically anything you could imagine along as it stayed within two meters of you," Izuku said rubbing his chin.
"How did you become so smart?" The Kei asked, clearly beginning to idolize the older boy.
"Well, my quirk is similar," Izuku said, summoning Black Body and cycling through some basic shapes he could make, "It's how I made my wings in the Obstacle Race.".
"Hey, Midoriya, can we chat." A new voice said to the boy's right, turning Izuku saw Todoroki.
"Sure," Izuku replied, saying his goodbyes to the Saki family and following Todoroki to the place he wanted to chat, "So what do you want to talk about?".
"I want you to go all out next round, not the stupid shit you've been doing up to now." The heterochromatic boy bluntly stated, his serious expression piercing Izuku's soul.
"M-May I ask why?" Izuku meekly asked, his composure slowly crumbling under Todoroki's intense gaze.
"It's because Endevour's watching, and I want to show him I don't need his quirk to become number one." He said catching Izuku off guard. "The man is obsessed with beating All Might, and once he realized he wouldn't be able to do so he settled on having his offspring do so instead. And he married my mother just to have the most powerful child he could, which was me." The boy explained, clenching his fists in rage, "This wasn't a happy marriage, however, and once my mother snapped, he had her shipped off to a mental hospital. So I must prove that I don't need his power to be the best.".
"But it's not his power, it's yours." Izuku simply said, silencing Todoroki, "Take it from someone who's Inherited seventeen quirks, your lineage doesn't control you, or your quirk. You need to decide if you want to go all out because if you don't, I will beat you." And with that, Izuku left Todoroki in silence.
"HELLO EVERYONE, AND WELCOME TO ROUND TWO OF THE 1v1 BATTLES! FOR OUR FIRST BATTLE WE HAVE ASAHI SAKI AND FUMIKAGE TOKOYAMI!" Mic announced the crowd went wild as the two competitors walked up to the stage, raring to battle. Kayama raised her whip and cracked it in the air, signifying the beginning of the first match.
Asahi began with a barrage of attacks aimed towards the bird-headed boy, who summoned Dark Shadow as protection against the pinkette's attack, deflecting them back. "Shit!" Asahi murmured as a rebounding marble skimmed past her face, leaving a nasty gash on the girl's cheek, "I need to weaken Dark Shadow,". Sliding under a swipe from the shadowy beast, Asahi formed her plan based on her basic knowledge of Dark Shadow.
"I've got it!" She cried as she vaulted over Dark Shadow's leg sweep and began to sprint around the field rapidly, producing marbles. These weren't her ordinary marbles however, these marbles were designed to be as reflective as possible, limiting Dark Shadow's movements to certain parts of the arena. Slowly but surely, her plan took effect as the creature's movements were much more restricted and she had trapped him in one spot.
"I've got you now!" She shouted as she aimed a dropkick at the boy's gut in an attempt to push him out of the ring, however, her plans were thwarted as Dark Shadow emerged once again to deliver a blow to her legs, sending her careening off course towards the ring edge. Thinking fast, Asahi let out a soccer-ball-sized marble at high speed towards Tokoyami's chest, making contact and sending him sprawling backwards out of the ring just before the pinkette reached the edge of the arena.
"FUMIKAGE TOKOYAMI IS OUT OF BOUNDS, ASAHI SAKI WINS!" Mic cheered over the speakers as the crowd roared with excitement, Izuku only watched in awe at Asahi's problem-solving skill, to Eijiro's dismay.
"Come on, man. Don't get seduced!" Eijiro cried a little too loudly.
"W-What?! I've not been seduced! She's my f-friend!" Izuku argued in protest, mostly to lose the glares he was getting.
"Could Shoto Todoroki and Izuku Midoriya please make their way to the prep room? Thank you." Aizawa monotonously requested over the intercom.
Izuku's mind was racing as his thoughts were focused on analyzing any possible piece of information that could help him in his upcoming fight, which wasn't much. Todoroki was a complete null in his 1A battle compendium, only ever needing one Glacier to finish the job, 'Wait! Maybe that's it! Make him tire himself out using his ice!' Izuku triumphantly thought as he strode down the tunnel.
"EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR OUR TWO CONTENDERS, SHOTO TODOROKI AND IZUKU MIDORIYA!" Izuku exited the tunnel to see the smiling faces of the crowd, hearing the different people shouting in support of him or Todoroki. Looking over the arena, Izuku saw Todoroki also exit his tunnel, shooting the greenette a frosty glare as he made eye contact.
"You two know the rules by now, don't be a dick if you lose." Midnight explained as she raised her whip into the air, "Ready, Set, GO!" She chanted as she cracked her whip above the two's heads. Immediately, Todoroki sent out an ice attack from his right side, which Izuku barely dodged, pumping his enhancement up to 3X as he made touch down with the ground.
"Can't get me that easily," Izuku taunted as he stuck to the left of the boy, avoiding his ice attacks the best he can; Todoroki had a harder time directing his ice to the left. As Izuku approached him, Todoroki took drastic measures, shooting a massive Ice Wall up between the two to block the boy, "Whoa!" Izuku shouted as he skidded to a halt in the face of the wall.
Placing his hand up against the wall, Izuku quickly activate Vibration to shatter the wall, but it was too late, Todoroki had already prepared for the boy's arrival, instantly sending two Ice Pillars hurtling towards Izuku. Twisting and contorting his body, Izuku managed to dodge the first attack, but the second pillar clipped his forearm, encasing it in a thick layer of ice.
Seeing Todoroki begin to skate towards him in his trapped state, Izuku decided to just bite down on his shirt as he used Hardening to slice off his encased forearm. Izuku then began to use one of his new techniques, activating Orbit, he began to strengthen the power of attraction higher and higher by increasing the field's density, until a small black flicker began to spark inside of it.
This flicker began to grow and grow until it was the size of a soccer ball, instead of a flicker it was now a solid black spherical mass. "ERASER DID YOUR STUDENT JUST MAKE WHAT I THINK HE DID?!" Mic shouted, enthusiasm dripping from his voice.
"I think so!" Aizawa shouted in a rare moment of excitement from the man.
"Planetary Style: Blackhole!" Izuku cried from the arena, which could be heard by the entire audience. The stage began to deform as all the ice Todoroki had created was easily demolished by the cosmic disaster, Todoroki only barely managed to hang on himself. After a few moments, Izuku released the power from the giant mental strain, but this didn't mean he was inactive.
Boosting up to his max Kinectic Stockpile and Gear 10, Izuku zoomed towards the dual-haired boy, giving him no time to react and causing him to subconsciously activate his left side. Izuku flipped backwards before landing a few meters away from his opponent, who was glaring daggers at him, "Stop half-assing this Todoroki! Use your full power!" He cried as he once again launched himself at the boy.
Using an ice wall Todoroki tried to shield himself from Izuku's wrath, but the boy easily smashed through it as if the ice was paper mache, "You won't win with only your ice!". The ice user then sent a flurry of icicles flying at the boy, and these did manage to skim his flesh, leaving him with a few slash wounds, "How will you become Number 1 when you can't give 100%?" Izuku once again tried pleading with the boy to use his full strength, to no avail.
"What would your Mom think?" This got a reaction from the boy, lighting up like a fireplace.
"You don't get to talk about her!" Todoroki growled as even more ice came crashing towards Izuku, but he wasn't done.
"She wouldn't want you to reject yourself like this!" He cried as he continued dodging these attacks, upping his Gear to 20 to keep up.
"SHUT UP!" He continued throwing any attack he could at poor Izuku, even unconsciously including some of his fire in the attacks, "You don't know anything!".
"I know enough!" Izuku continued as he tried to dodge attack after attack, getting several burns in the process, "It's your quirk Todoroki, not his!". This statement seemed to snap something in the boy as his left side fully went ablaze as if a wall of flame had encased him. Izuku only watched on as he saw Todoroki's grinning face through the tornado of fire.
"I'm not gonna half-ass this anymore! Come at me!" Todoroki's competitive energy easily jumped to Izuku, who immediately charged up all his enhancement quirks to the max using Kinetic Store. He immediately shot up to an impressive 8ft 2, even larger than All Might's muscle form, as electricity shot from his body at the sheer energy his body was emitting, even healing his arm fully with Smoke while he was at it.
Todoroki was no slouch either, however, as he began to form a flurry of giant ice pillars which he shot towards Izuku at astounding speeds, as well as shooting a massive flame torrent at the boy. Izuku jetted forwards at incomprehensible speeds, causing a huge boom in his wake and atomizing the floor he was standing on, grabbing onto Todoroki's left side, which was spewing flames so hot they melted his gloves completely and launched the boy towards the edge of the ring.
Todoroki quickly fired out a stilt of ice to catch himself before he left the border but Izuku was having other plans, reeling back a fist to deal the winning blow. Seeing this, Todoroki also prepared an attack, shooting a giant jet of fire at the greenette. "Midnight! We need to stop this before one of them dies!" Cementos cried, firing out a stream of cement to put between the boys with Midnight releasing her gas to put them to sleep.
"Thank you, Midoriya," Todoroki said before both of the teens released their attacks, completely demolishing Cementos's walls and causing a giant explosion once they collided with the superheated air. The area around the arena was filled with a thick cloud of dust, leaving the entire stadium in silence as they waited to see the victor.
As the dust settled, a huge figure could be seen at the edge of the stage, barely hanging on while the other was smashed into a wall on the other side of the pitch. Letting the grime settle even further, a green tuft of hair could be seen sticking out from the huge figure, which was now shrinking back down to the far smaller form of Izuku.
"AFTER A LONG BATTLE, IZUKU MIDORIYA IS THE VICTOR!" Mic cried as the crowd erupted with cheers for the very naked Izuku, which became even more apparent as the dust settled even further, especially to a keen-eyed pinkette.
"Could we please have medical transport for both contestants, please?" Aizawa spoke over the intercom, only for four robots to wizz in and whisk away the boys to Recovery Girl.
Quirk Glossary
inheritance (Fused With Quirk Viewer): U Rank: 0: 100%
Gearshift: Gear 10: A Rank: 0: 10%
Emission: B Rank: 1: 24%
Slime-o-kinesis: C Rank: 1: 89%
Float Impact: C Rank: 0: 100%
Shadow Clone: B Rank: 0: 100%
Kinetic Stockpile:4.73X: A Rank: 1: 46.9%
Sixth Sense: 64 meters: C Rank: 3: 76%
Shocker: 34%: C Rank: 1: 34%
Orbit: B Rank: 1: 100%
Smoke: C Rank: 2: 97%
Titanification: A Rank: 1: 20%
Hardening: 57%: C Rank: 0: 57%
Black Body: A Rank: 0: 56%
Vibration: B Rank: 1: 34%
Skin Shot: F Rank: 0
Muscle up: 0.1X: B Rank: 2: 20%
Unknown: ? Rank: ?: ?%
So that is all for this chapter and I hope you enjoyed! As you saw, I have changed up the cannon a bit because I felt like being adventurous, so Izuku will be facing two more opponents. If you have any complaints, ideas, or just input, please put it in the comments and I will make sure to incorporate it if it fits with the story properly. Until next chapter, goodbye!