"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!" I told him off. Jerk! "Hey. But if everyone is down for the count, then Class A keeps a 1-0 lead!"

"I'm afraid not, Ashido," said Yaomomo, back from the nurse, 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?" I demanded. What'd we missed?

"Let me tell you…" Yaomomo said quietly.

According to her, Ojiro's battle was interrupted by Honenuki showing up. And Honenuki had dived underneath 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!"

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."

League of Villains Hideout

"First the Yakuza, now the liberation army...all these retro freaks are trying to make a comeback. Is this cuz of that book that came out a little while back? Are you trying to ride that wave straight to the headlines?" asked Shigaraki.

"How well-informed you are! But no, it's the other way around. We Created the wave."

"WEll good for you!" snapped Twice. "Now where's Giran? Adn waddaya want? You better not've touched a hair on that wonderful man's head!"

"Oh, he's here. Alive of course. And we seek to liberate all meta humans! WE will tear down the existing framework andrebuild this world asa place where people are free to be themselves and use their abilities as they see fit."

"I don't see any reason we should oppose that," said Compress.

"Are we gonna lend these guys the League's rep just like with the Yakuza?" asked Toga.

Shigaraki said, "How about you liberate our broker and then ring me again. I'm busy now. Once I'm done with my business here I'll listen to you and your merry band of revolutionaries."

"That could very well come back to bite us," said Compress.

"Take a break and hear me out, why don't you? Because first of all we will not liberate our hostage. From him we've come to learn how tight-knit you people are. Your broker is an impressive man, someone who takes a lot of pride in his work. Someone able to sink into the shadows, always sure to evade the attention of the authorities and heroes. Too bad for you he was unprepared for an attack from those same sahdows. I commend him for deleting his client lists before we got to him, and whe nwe started severing fingers, the man not only refused to give up, he wouldn't even cry out in pain!"

A new voice added, "As for that client data he deleted, we've finally recovered it."

"I commend his resistence, though it was futile! Because you see, we liberation warriors have prepared long and hard over many generations for this! WE've bided our time and spread our roots far and wide! A merry band of revolutionaries you say? I'm no fan of such jokes. There are 116,516 of our fellow liberation warriors lying in wait ready to rise to action! I would be loath to make such a self-depricating comment, League of Villains!"

"This guy's gotta be bluffing!" said Spinner.

"Hm, it seems you're in Niigata? Perhaps deep in the mountains?"

Twice tossed the phone away, but the voice said, "Too late, I'm afraid! We have a lock on you via satellite imaging. Wherever you run, we'll have eyes on the notorious League of villains! Endeavor, Hawks, Edgeshot, Mirko, Crust, all those heroes would be upon you with just one little calll to the authorities!"

"So generous, giving us advance warning. What doyou really want?"

"Destro must be the one to lead this revolution, and your name has gotten too big. Your destruction at our hands will signal the second advent of the liberation army! Consider those fingers as proof of our resolve. No need to draw matters otu, right? We will fight to liberate the metas of this world, so make your way to Deika city in Aichi prefecture! That is, if you hope to see poor Giran freed! Stand against us and be destroyed or do nothing and be captured by heroes! The chose is yours, Tomura Shigaraki!