"IT'S TIME FOR THE SEMI-FINAL, ARE YOU REAADDDDYYYY?!?!?!?!?" Mic Screeched, our competitors have fought their way all the way to the end, let's see who will compete in the Grand final."

Izuku stood ready, gazing across he saw Todoroki's hair shading his eyes, his body trembling in anger. 'Well I think you're right Rauru, looks like I'll be in for it.' Rauru replied, 'Good luck Izuku, I believe in you.'

"Begin"

The hairs on Izuku's arms stood on end as goosebumps broke our across his body. The crackle of ice hit his ears moments before the wave did, his vision was completely enveloped by whiteness and then by utter darkness as Ascend kicked in. Izuku felt the weightlessness flow through his body as he began to rise upward.

He continued to kick his way upwards, he was unsure of time passing but it felt like an age, before long he was struggling to hold his breath. The old fear of drowning resurfaced however this time he would be stranded midway through a block of ice and suffocate. He began clawing faster and faster upwards, racing to get a lungful of air.

Finally bright sunlight his head, he was momentarily blinded but the breath in had never tasted so sweet. As his body emerged he realised he was hidden by one of the spikes of the iceberg. Focusing back onto the match Izuku summoned some fans, a construct head and some frost emitters.

Sticking them together he used the heads to control the fans to fly towards his target, having made one he used Autobuild to construct three more.

Todoroki stood shivering slightly as he calmed himself, "Sorry Midoriya, but I win." He waited a moment longer before looking over at Midnight, "Are you going to announce the match?"

Midnight cocked an eyebrow and smirked back at the dual-haired teen, "The match isn't over yet." Todoroki cocked his head confused statement, a sound slowly reached his ears, a rush of wind and a slight hum. Jumping back into a fighting stance he took in a group of flying constructs with glowing green eyes staring straight at him.

The constructs closed the distance to the teen and began spraying a gout of cryogenic air, Todoroki cursed as he made a wall to his left and launched a spike into one of the fliers on the left. With this distraction another of the drones was able to spray Todoroki's back with the freezing cloud.

Todoroki fell forward launching another enormous spear to decimate the drone, the repeated ice attacks and the freezing clouds were getting to him though. His body was already slowing down, his right hand and foot felt like they were on fire.

Having caught his breath from summoning all those components Midoriya got to work on plan B. He snapped off an icicle and then used a laser to shear off a chunk of ice four metres across. He fuzed the parts together, as always amazed by the physics defying nature of fuze as he easily hefted the ton of ice. He summoned the metal shield he had used in the earlier round fuzing the lazer to the front.

Now equipped he slid down the iceberg. He watched as Todoroki, now shivering, hunched over and with parts of his body visibly covered in ice, finished off the last of the drones with a much smaller spear of ice. The spear separated the fans from the construct. It hit the ground and shattered into the familiar green sparks.

With a leap and war cry Izuku leaped toward Todoroki with an overhead swing. Todoroki's eyes shot open, Izuku with a giant block of ice eclipsed the sun above him, with a roar his entire left side ignited. Izuku commited to his swing could do nothing as his Ice club was melted down to nothing. The frost covering his right side evaporated.

The temperature differential caused a shockwave which launched both boys backwards. Izuku crashed back into the iceberg behind him, while Todoroki rocketed back towards the edge stopping just in time as he anchored himself with his ice.

"DAMN IT MIDORIYA! I SWORE I WOULD NEVER USE HIS POWER."

Izuku picked himself back up, his hair covered his eyes as he shook with rage, "SHUT UP TODOROKI, I came to UA to be Number one, so I will beat everyone at their best. You've been holding back this whole time." Todoroki shocked by his own outburst was flabbergasted by the usually polite Izuku's.

"What's the name of your quirk?"

Todoroki was thoroughly confused by the apparent non-sequiter, "Half hot, Half Cold" he replied wondering where this was going.

"What's Endeavour's quirk called?"

Todoroki sneered at the mention of his father but replied anyway, "Hellfire".

"IT'S A DIFFERENT QUIRK! ONLY YOU HAVE YOUR POWER, ONLY YOU CAN CHOSE HOW TO USE IT. DO YOU EVEN WANT TO BE A HERO?", Midoriya screamed at Todoroki.

Those words rang through Todoroki's head, 'Do you still want to be a hero? You can be anything.' His mother's words echoed Midoriya's. Izuku was not too kind however using Todoroki's distraction to grab up all the loose ice chunks, sticking them together until he had a ball of ice half the size of Todoroki's initial attack. He threw the ball at Todoroki.

"Thank you Midoriya I had forgotten. I hope you don't regret it".

Todoroki launched a stream of fire into the ball of ice pushing it back as it fell towards him. His inexperience with his fire was his downfall however as it took every ounce of his focus to stop the ice.

"I dont regret it at all", Izuku held a pair of his cannons, the barrels lit up before erupting with explosive projectiles. One he aimed behind Todoroki to shatter his defensive wall while he launched the other into the floor at his feet. Todoroki could do nothing as he was thrown backwards, tucking into a ball to protect his head as he impacted with the ground outside the ring.

"Winner, Izuku Midoriya"

Waiting in the exit tunnel for his match, Bakugo leaned against the wall with a cocky grin.

"Nice speech nerd. If you didn't do it then I would've. I'll see you in the final."

Izuku gave him a fistbump as he went out to face Kendo.

"Welcome our penultimate combatants, to the left we have the fiery teen who gives new meaning to the term, Katsuki Bakugo against the kung-fu master looking to smack him down a peg, Itsuka Kendo"

"Yes, Crush him for 1-B prove our superiority. Mwahahahahahahaa", A voice cackled from the student stands.

"BEGIN"

Both teens sprinted forwards, Kendo enlarging her hands to squish Bakugo in a clap. With his escape to either side closed off, Bakugo leapt into the air using his hands to launch his body into a rocket dropkick. Kendo couldn't react in time as his feet struck against her chest, tanking the hit she instead swung down in a enormous hammer blow.

Bakugo shot backwards narrowly missing the fists while simultaneously launching an explosion from his feet. Kendo was catapulted into the air, her trajectory was aimed out of the ring, with a great show of dexterity she flipped in mid air and swung with her huge hands blowing herself back. She crashed hard to the concrete still within the ring.

"Hell Yeah Ponytail, Bring it! AP SHOT: AUTO-CANNON."

Bakugo kneeled into a firing position as he released a torrent of projectiles towards Kendo. Under the deluge of fire Kendo did her best to bob and weave between shots, trying to outlast the barrage. She was just slightly to slow when evading one of the shots, it clipped her side burning through her shirt and leaving a nasty red welt that trickled blood down her leg.

Shocked by the pain of the hit she was too slow to continue her evasion, seeing a dozen more projectiles flying towards her she enlarged her hands and hunkered down.

"FORT KNUCKS" She screamed as the projectiles hammered into her knuckles.

Bakugo finally ended his barrage, smoke covered the other end of the arena entirely. The smoke slowly blew away revealing two giant hands interlaced together, every inch of the surface was red or black and blood flowed freely down from a dozen gashes.

Much slower then before the hands reverted to their normal size, Kendo stood ready, clenching her teeth as she forced her hands to ball back into fists. A tear dropped from the outside of each eye as she took a deep shuddering breath and steadied herself back into her stance.

"Is that all you've got?"

"Not bad Kendo, but this is over. You deserve a big finish." Having said his piece, Bakugo flew into the air. Not willing to just let him do whatever he wanted, Kendo scraped up some of the shattered concrete surrounding her and hurled it into the sky.

Bakugo blocked the incoming shards with an explosion that spun his body rapidly in the air, he continued firing rapid explosions from his hands and feet. He altered his trajectory and began spiralling down at Kendo, "HOWITSER IMPACT". The was a defeaning boom and a blinding flash, that left everyone watching insensate for thirty seconds.

When everyone's senses returned Bakugo stood alone in the destroyed ring, his shirt sleeves and pant legs disintegrated to nothing. Kendo was wedged in the side of the arena, her hands still enlarged to defend against the blast. Gradually they collapsed to their regular size, as Kendo slumped out of the body shaped impression she had left in the wall behind her.

"Winner Katsuki Bakugo"