"ALL THE FIGHTERS'RE DOWN FOR THE COUNT! BUT THEY'RE NOTTECHNICALLY OUT OF THE GAME UNTIL THEY'RE THROWN IN PRISON! HOW'LL THIS PLAY OUT!? IIDA'S STILL CONSCIOUS, BUT HE'S GOING NOWHERE FAST! IT APPEARS THAT KAIBARA'S HUMBLE RESISTANCE HAS LEFT A MARK! OUR SPINNING BOY DID ALL HE COULD TO SLOW DOWN HIS JAILER JUST BEFORE BEING THROWN IN THE SLAMMER! WELL DONE KAIBARA! YOU'RE THE REAL MVP!"
"This Biased commentating ain't getting any better, Vlad Sensei!" shouted Mina. "Hey. But if everyone is down for the count, then Class A keeps a 1-0 lead!"
"I'm afraid not, Ashido," Yaomomo corrected her, as Monooma burst out laughing.
"Have you been too distracted by the bombastic battle to notice what else was going on? While Tetsutetsu and Todoroki's intense fight unfolded…"
Shoji and Tsunotori's fight had changed tacts.
"Shoji and Pony! I thought she was all tied up with Ojiro's tail! Where's Ojiro?" Cried Mina.
"Let me tell you…" Yaomomo said quietly.
A few moments prior, Ojiro's battle was interrupted by Honenuki's arrival. And that Honenuki had delved beneath the softened ground to release Tsunotori from Ojiro's grip.
"This is too much!" He'd cried, spinning around in an attempt to throw Honenuki away.
"That did it, Ojiro!" Shoji cried, reaching out to seize Ojiro and Tsunotori and pull them out of Honenuki's grasp.
"You…" Tsunotori shouted. "Run on ahead, Honenuki!" Her horns blasted out from the softened ground and skewered Ojiro in the tail.
"Skewer me alll you like, I'm not letting G-"
"Fine by me if you don't let go! Quad horn power will send you straight to jail!"
"Again, fighters are still in the game as long as they're outside of the cage!" Said Sensei. "By the same token, once they're locked up its over! It doesn't matter how they're thrown in there! Will the binding hold long enough? The score is now 1-1!"
Ojiro had been thrown into prison. Tsunotori had flown into the field where Todoroki, Tetsutetsu and Honenuki lay and lifted them all up from the ground with her horns. Iida was pinned under the smokestack and this left only Shoji and Tsunotori. She seized Todorroki and flew high up in the air while her horns carried TEtsutetsu and Honenuki with her.
"Sorry, Tentacole! I can't bear the thought of leading my team to defeat!"
"TWENTY MINUTES HAVE ELAPSED! MATCH 3 IS OVER! THE SCORE STANDS AT 1 TO 1! ITS' A DRAW!"
Dammit, really? A draw? After all that hard work, everything we did to win, and that's all we get? You gotta be kidding me.
"They were just stalling, no fair!" Cried Kaminari.
"In real life, fleeing and waiting for rescue services is a perfectly reasonable strategy," Shishida reprimanded them.
"Iida…" Uraraka murmured. "You must feel so frustrated!"
"IN LIGHT OF THE MULTIPLE KNOCKOUTS, EVALUATION WILL COME LATER, JUST LIKE WITH MATCH 2! MATCH 4 FIGHTERS, PREPARE YOURSELVES."
Bakugou, Sero, Sato and me exchanged looks. It was time. It was our turn.
Everything's tied up. Which means its all on us. If we lose...Class A can't win.
"Now listen, minions..."
"Yikes! You're seriously suggesting that!?" I asked Bakugou.
"That sorta strategy?" said Sato. "No way, man."
"Did I stutter?"
Is this really gonna work? If we follow Bakugou's plan...will we win? Will we be ok?
