A/N: There wasn't much I could change in this chapter so it's pretty much summarizing and introducing a minor OC that gets last place in the race... the next chapter should be fun though as it will really go off the rails.

Chapter 16: The Sports Festival is Here!

As they days went on, none of the team members were sure if they could help Izuku in small ways besides hanging out with him during lunch.

Though thankfully a couple days before the sports festival Shoto did have an idea to bring him out his funk for that afternoon and it wouldn't make Izuku feel guilty about interrupting his training…

As it involved his training…

"Midoriya…" said Shoto before he could leave, "I wanted to talk about your idea…"

"What really?" asked Izuku surprised.

"I'm having some problems I was hoping that you had more ideas." Said Shoto.

"Wait idea?" asked Ochaco joining the conversation.

"Well I came up with a bunch of ideas for his quirk." Said Izuku.

"Most of them are very good." Said Shoto.

"When did you talk about that?" asked Katsuki.

"When I stopped Bill in his dreams…" said Izuku, "We talked a lot just whatever…"

Shoto nodded in agreement not wanting to go into details what they talk about for obvious reasons.

"You just talked?" asked Ochaco, "And you didn't do any weird dream things?"

"Weird dream things?" asked Izuku confused.

"Wait… you didn't figure it out? You can do weird dreams things after you stop Cipher." Said Ochaco.

Izuku, Shoto and Katsuki all stared at her and realized.

"We were lucid dreaming…" said Shoto.

After getting him form training, Izuku asked the Pines about this.

"Wait… you didn't know about that?" asked Dipper.

"No…" said Izuku.

"Dipper learned about it the first time we fought Bill." Said Mabel.

Izuku was told that the first time was when Gideon summoned him to steal something from Stan's mind.

He also asked why Dipper even made a deal with Bill even though they had already met and were enemies.

Dipper's answer was a combination of sleep deprivation and desperation.

All he knew that what Dipper wanted was a long story and that they would tell them one day.

While it was a nice day and gave a brief reprieve from Izuku's depression, it was just that, a brief reprieve.

Durring training Izuku helped out with ideas for Shoto as well as figuring out ways to use his fire without making it seem like his father.

But he got everything pretty quickly, so Izuku went back to thinking he might burden them.

Thankfully that point the Sports Festival was only a few days away, meaning that afterwards as soon as they could address his problems and help him through it.

And those few days went by quickly.

And thankfully it was the day for the Sports Festival, with the entire class getting ready.

Izuku sighed as he forced to go the Opening Ceremony along with participating in the Recreational Games.

"How many puppets do you have?" asked Sero as Izuku's puppet for the day was the UA gym uniform.

"A lot… Mabel makes them for me…" said Izuku.

"Hey… Deku are you going to be okay?" asked Ochaco.

"Yeah… Dipper and Mabel are going to be watching the first rounds with me. "said Izuku.

"That's good." Sighed Ochaco who was worried that Izuku would be alone during at least the first round.

"I'm fine…" said Izuku, "Really."

"Something I can't wait for when the Sports Festival is over… him constantly trying to reassure everyone that he's fine." Said Jiro.

Of course everyone in class knew about his depression and was worried about him. Word had quickly spread about the while thing that trying to help him before the Sports Festival would just make things just as bad.

"I know right." Sighed Kaminari.

"Hey what about the rest of the Pines?" asked Kirishima.

"Oh Ford is watching with the staff and Stan is watching at home." Said Izuku.

"You know… I just realized something, why don't we Stan around?" asked Tsuyu.

"Oh the staff doesn't like having around most of the time…" Izuku said somewhat nervously.

"Why?" asked Hagakure.

"I don't think we want the answers to that." Said Tokoyami while Koda nodded.

They had their own traumatizing stories when it came to USJ after all.

Mostly Koda, but still.

"That's not important right now… it's almost time to head into the stadium." Said Tenya.

Everyone knew it was time, Present Mic announced them all of course drawing attention to the class, then again due to the fact that they were the ones to fight off a villain attack of course they were the ones to gain attention.

Several members of Class 1-B seemed a bit jealous at the introduction.

OF course the other courses were introduced as well. And soon enough

"And now giving the Student Pledge is Katsuki Bakugo!" called out Midnight who was being the referee for the Sports Festival.

In the Teacher's Box a few of the teachers were confused.

"Wait shouldn't it be Midoriya?" asked a teacher who wore a gas mask and had a cowboy theme name Snipe.

"Izuku backed out after his encounter with Bill at the USJ." Said Ford.

"He hasn't been doing well." Said Power Loader.

"Everyone's worried about him." Sighed Ford.

All Might sighed when he heard that, and it was then he knew he had to tell them that day.

On the on the field many students were confused.

"Wait… why Bakugo?" asked Ochaco.

"Well he got second place… and…" said Izuku.

"Oh…" said Ochaco.

"Because you're not participating…" said Tenya.

Izuku made sure that his puppet nodded.

"Wait did I hear correctly that the student that got the top score in the entrance exam isn't participating?" asked a blonde boy from Class 1-B.

All those from Class 1-A looked at the boy.

"Well that's really sad. But I guess at the same time he must think that he's so much better than the rest of us that he thinks he doesn't need the exposure." Said the boy.

Class 1-A besides Izuku and Katsuki as he was going to stage all glared at the boy.

"Look man… there's something going on in that class!" said the silver boy who was among the crowd on that day.

"You mean that ghost…" said the blonde boy.

However before more could be said Katsuki approached the microphone.

"Okay… I heard some stuff about the sports Festival, I wanted to say this… if you think you can get into the Hero Course this way… then I'm going to kick your ass." Said Katsuki.

Everyone stared at Katsuki confused.

Those in Class 1-A that heard the speech that Bill gave knew where he was coming from and it was his way to reassure Izuku that everything was going to be fine…

But it was still the execution…

The rest of Class 1-A knew that whatever Bill said to him was similar to what the Lavender Haired boy said and knew that's why he made such a speech.

But still that didn't mean he should have made a speech like that.

Those like the Lavender haired boy who were hoping to get into the Hero Course just glared at him.

The rest of them (Class 1-B, Support, Business and the people in General Education who went to the school because it was a good school) just either stared at him in confusion or shrugged it off thinking he had weird issues.

He did but that's neither here nor there.

Izuku just didn't know how to react.

"You know he said that for you." Pointed out Shoto.

"I know… but now everyone hates him…" said Izuku.

No… only the fraction that wanted to be in the hero course.

"I'm going to the stands." Said Izuku, "Good luck everyone!" said Izuku knowing he really should leave.

He flew towards the Class 1-A box.

"Wait… the stop student who passed the entrance exam is the floating puppet?" asked the blonde boy, "No wonder why he dropped out."

"Monoma…" sighed a red haired girl face palming, "Just stop…"

The boy named Monoma stopped and they paid attention to what Midnight was saying as she announced the first event.

In the Class 1-A box, both Dipper and Mabel were reacting to the speech, Dipper was face palming while Mabel was laughing hysterically.

That was when Izuku got there.

"Sorry about Kacchan…" sighed Izuku.

Mabel pouted and flicked his forehead.

"Ow…" said Izuku.

"Why are you even apologizing!" said Mabel, "He made that speech to reassure you that they're not going to kick you out…"

"But…" said Izuku.

She flicked him again.

"Stop it!" cried Izuku.

"No!" yelled Mabel.

Dipper sighed.

"It's an Obstacle Course Race." Said Dipper getting them to stop.

"An obstacle course race?" asked Izuku.

Indeed it was, and the rules were simple, anything goes as long as they kept on track.

Soon enough the race began. The first obstacle was really the tunnel leaving the stadium. As it was too narrow.

However enough people got through, mostly. Shoto froze the ground, though many in the class managed to get past the ice.

"WHOOOO! Go Shoto!" cheered Mabel.

"Hey… is doing that thing you trained…" said Dipper.

"He'll probably save that for later." Said Izuku.

This earlier it was pretty much anyone's race, however it was soon enough during a brief period when Mineta had first place they had discovered the first real obstacle.

The entrance exam robots. Including the Zero Pointers.

"Too back you didn't do that Izu." Said Mabel, "You could have checked if you could possess them!"

"I think they might be too big." Said Izuku.

"He right." Said Dipper.

Shoto was the first one to get passed however freezing one of the Zero Pointers.

While it was off center causing it to collapse.

"Man that was cold!" said Mabel.

She lifted her hands.

"No…" said Dipper.

"Oh come on if was Pacifica you would have laughed." Said Mabel.

"Mabel!" yelled Dipper blushing.

Izuku just laughed a little at their antics.

However the robot did crush two students… thankfully it was Kirishima and the silver haired boy named Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu… no really… but his Quirk was extremally similar to Kirishima's so he survived.

"Wait his name is Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu?" asked Mabel as Present Mic did bring up his name during the race, "Did his parents hate him?"

"The characters that make up his are different." Said Dipper.

"But it's still Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu…" said Mabel.

Dipper was about to say something but then realized.

"Okay you have a point." Said Dipper.

As it continued the students got to the next obstacle.

A giant canyon that was dubbed the drop. Surprisingly it was Hatsume who managed to show off with her inventions.

"She's the crazy hyper active one?" asked Mabel, "Isn't she?"

"She is." Confirmed Dipper.

"Oh yeah… there's always a crazy hyperactive one in support course." Said Izuku.

"Yeah…" said Dipper.

However soon enough it got to the last part of the course.

Which was a mine field.

Thankfully the mines were just flashy and not deadly. Just a puff of smoke and sending someone into the air almost comically.

This was also the site of something going on. Katsuki who was mostly airborne during the event decided to fight Shoto.

"Look even if we agree on taking down anyone who thinks they can take Deku's place, we still need to show off! And you're the one to take out." Said Katsuki.

"Is this even the best place?" asked Shoto who agreed with him.

Katsuki just grinned and threw a punch.

In the stands…

"Katsuki… and Shoto are fighting a battle in the middle of the minefield." Said Dipper face palming.

"You'd think they would wait until they were out of there." Said Mabel.

As they fought they noticed that others were getting close.

Shoto once again froze the ground. And run on ahead, leading Katsuki I behind.

It was race between the two of them.

Each one getting a head of the other briefly and as they got closer to the finish line Katsuki let loose an explosion that propelled him before Shoto could cross the finish line.

"ALL RIGHT! AND THE WINNER IS…. KATSUKI BAKUGO!" yelled Present Mic.

Shoto ended up getting second place.

With the other filling in, with Tenya lamenting that he only got 5th despite being a speedster and it being a race.

In the Class 1-A box Izuku sighed that his friends got pretty high.

As it turned out the top 42 would get into the next round, everyone in the hero course made it in… with Hatsume, the lavender haired boy and a girl with dark green hair, glasses and hair tied into braids getting the 42nd spot and looking very confused that she made it in.

"All right! To those who got the top 42 spots." Said Midnight, "You're going to the next round which will be!"

And it was quickly announced the Cavalry Battle.

"All right! Let's explain the rules." Said Midnight.

As she explained the rules (with a few form Class 1-A saying some of them outload). That it would have teams of 2 to 4 people. And depending on their placement in the race they would be assigned points which would be ranked by those in what order they came in. The points would be on a headband and the "Rider" would wear. And each point would be in intervals of Five (with last place getting 5, the next getting 10 and so now) that is until first place… which was unfortunately 10,000,000 points.

When this was annoyed everyone practically glared at Katsuki.

"Mother fucker!" yelled Kacchan.

In the Class 1-A stand, Izuku sighed for his friend.

"Hey Izuku… it's a good thing you dropped out… because I have the feeling if you were in the race you would have won." Said Mabel.

Izuku didn't know how it respond to that.

However one thing was clear that the next match wasn't going to be easy… especially for Katsuki.

Next Time: IT's time for the Cavalry Battle, who will be part of which team? Who will come out on top? What will happen? Find out next time!